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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." ESTABLISHED 1882. SING SING CALLED A TORTURE HOUSE Medieval Barbarities Tame by Comparison. MEN CRIPPLED FOR LIFE. Governor's Investigator Asserts That Colls Drip With Moisture and Are Infested With Vermin—Morals the Worst Feature—Graft and Waste Alleged—Colonel Scott Flayed. Albany.—"Stories of torture of prisoners in the middle ages sound like descriptions of luxuries in comparison to the tales that have been told me of the lives that some of the prisoners in Sing Sing live." This indictment of New York state's oldest penal institution is embodied in the report made by George W. Blake of New York, a special commissioner appointed by Governor Sulzer to investigate prison affairs. The worst feature—that dealing with the morals of the convicts—Mr. Blake says cannot be discussed in a public document, but should be called to the immediate attention of those competent to deal with the situation. The investigator describes conditions as "trightful." The prison cells, he says, are dark, small, damp, filthy and infested with vermin. In them men contract rheumatism and go out crippled for life. Into none of the cells on the lower tiers has a ray of sunshine entered for eighty years. The report opens with a bitter attack on Warden Kennedy and on Colonel Joseph F. Scott, who was removed as superintendent of state prisons by Governor Sulzer after he had refused to appoint Charles F. Ratigan warden of PETER M. BURGESS Auburn prison. Colonel Scott was appointed superintendent of prisons after a successful administration, covering more than ten years, of the affairs of the Elimira reformatory. He was considered one of the foremost penologists in the country. President Taft summoned Colonel Scott to Washington to preside over the international conference on prison reform held there two years ago. Mr. Blake in his report as sails Colonel Scott bitterly and says fatly that he has done nothing to earn his reputation. Mr. Blake asserts that because of influence exerted by men well known in various walks of life money has been wrung from persons seeking clemency for prisoners, but in some cases the favors bought were "not delivered." The commissary department of the prison, according to Mr. Blake, "is run along incompetent if not dishonest lines. There is criminal carelessness if not downright grafting. Signs that this quilts on the back of a frightened por cupline." John S. Kennedy, warden of Sing Sing, is charged by Mr. Blake with having violated the law. "He has permitted the creation and continuance of unbusinesslike methods," says the report, "and has caused the state to lose thousands of dollars in a way that points directly to graft. He has made no attempt to protect the inmates from disease and vice nor any effort to produce better conditions in this prison." Mr. Blake says he was told stories amply corroborated, of such frightful character as to appeal to the most unfeeling person. The cells on the ground floor, he says, drip with moisture, so that the inmates in many cases have become victims of chronic rheumatic Many pages of the report are devoted to a criticism of the industrial department of the prison. Mr. Blake says that there has been a constant decrease in the profits, which have dropped from $76,740 in the first six months of 1910 to $30,052 in the first six months of 1912. In the course of his investigation of the commissary department of the prison Mr. Blake says that, according to the records, 469 pounds of beef went to Warden Kennedy's table during the month of March. Commenting generelly on the conduct of this department of the prison, Mr. Blake says he found enormous waste, while the prisoner as a rule, were underfed. SCIENTISTS NEARING LIFE'S BORDERLAND Tests Tend to Show a State This Side of Death. Baltimore—Recent investigations in the laboratories of the Johns Hopkins Medical school seem to indicate a state intermediate between life and death, since life in many organisms may be suspended by freezing in liquid air and by other processes and then may be resuscitated. Bacteria, the lowest plant organisms, have enormous powers of resisting death. Bacteria of various diseases are seen in the laboratory frozen in liquid air at a temperature of 360 degrees F. There are instances of the lives of frogs, rats, snails and fish being suspended by this freezing process, yet on being "thawed out" after several weeks they receive. These animals are perfectly normal when placed in a refrigerating jar filled with liquid air at a certain temperature. After a short time the animals appear lifeless. A month later they are removed and on being massaged show signs of life, often reviving completely. Recently successful efforts were made in the medical school to revive the apparently dead heart of an animal. As explained by Dr. Alexis Carrel, who recently lectured before the student body here, in about five cases out of ten the heart of a chicken took on renewed energy several hours after death. Immediately after death the heart was frozen and preserved. A few hours later it was resuscitated by massage. TELEPHONE BREEDS INSANITY German Alienist Says "Central" Drives Men to Madness. Berlin.—Remarkable evidence as to the effect of the telephone upon the minds of people using it was given in a trial here. Dr. Strauch, a commissioner in lunacy, said that even phlegmatic men might have their mental balance upset by exasperation at getting no reply from "central." He mentioned the case of one of his own patients, a well known doctor, who became completely insane through telephone exasperation. Dr. Pacechter, another witness, asserted that he could bring evidence to show that government telephone girls had been permitted by the inspectors to utilize one of the big exchanges for the reception of their dances. One anamusement of the girls of this exchange was to look up all subscribers having the same name, to connect all of them, ring them all up and laugh loudly at the result. EXTEND TIME ON UNDERWOOD BILL Secretary Redfield Confere With Senator Simmons of Finance Committee Wool Rates Likely to Become Effective Nov. 1—Other Sections of Measure to Become Law Jan. 1, 1914. Washington.—The fixing of specific dates when certain features of the Underwood tariff bill shall become operative is being urged with such persistence as to presage success. It is desired to have the schedule comprising wool and manufactured articles thereof go into effect Nov. 1, leaving other sections of the measure to become a law Jan. 1, 1914. The general impression prevails that President Wilson favors this extension of time. The chief reason for such belief arises from the fact that Secretary Redfield of the commerce department recently held a long conference with Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, on the proposition. Although Mr. Redfield is largely interested in manufacturing enterprises, it is not regarded as possible that he would advance a change of such significance and importance without the consent and approval of his chief. The argument used by Secretary Redfield was that those engaged in many lines of industry demand a fixed date when the tariff bill should go into operation. They desire to adjust their business affairs in advance and be pre [Image of a man with a beard and mustache, wearing a suit and a bow tie. The background is plain white. There is no text or additional details in the image.]] ® by Pach Bros. SECRETARY WILLIAM C. REDFIELD. pared for the change. This is especially true of those manufacturing wool products. Great masses of petitions have been coming in from those conducting woolen business in all parts of the country praying that Schedule K be made effective Nov. 1. They urge an immediate announcement by congress of such intention. They explain that this is absolutely essential in order that contracts may be made on that basis and raw materials purchased with that understanding. Of almost equal importance was the suggestion brought to Senator Simmons by Secretary Redfield that the levy on incomes be laid only on those accruing after July 1, 1913, and not beginning with Jan. 1 of this year. This would defer the gathering of an income tax for six months. The plan is advanced that an amount to tax income accruing after June 1913, might be regarded as retroactive legislation and be pronounced unconstitutional by the Departments of Archives, Oak Burnett, W. Va. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED MAY 24, 1913. VO Winfred T. Denison, assistant attorney general, and James F. Curtis, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of customs, are the authors of an amendment of farreaching importance. It had been previously laid before Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee. It has the indorsement of the attorney general and the secretary of the treasury. There is a possibility that it may be approved by the finance committee and presented in the senate before debate begins. Under the proposed amendment the secretary of the treasury would be given authority to proclaim the dutiable value of any merchandise as finally decided by the appraisers in case of no appeal to be the dutiable value. But whenever in the judgment of the secretary it is practicable to make a general schedule of dutiable values he may from time to time proclaim such values, publish them to take effect in no case less than fifteen days after publication, and "in the absence of such announcement proclamation shall take effect at the close of such fifteenth day, and such proclamation shall continue in effect until revoked or modified by the secretary upon sixty days' notice." Such proclaimed values by the secretary would be used in lieu of foreign market values, thereby steadying the customs case as derived from an ad valorem system. SHE BEAT HER WAY ACROSS CONTINENT To Join Flance Pretty Flood Survivor "Hoboes" It. Venice, Cal.—Miss Ethel Johnston, a beautiful young woman from Dayton, arrived here in begrimed and torn boy's costume to join her fiance. Miss Johnston and J. L. Ferry had been sweethearts in Dayton. The youth moved west a short time ago, the better to prepare a home for his sweetheart, and was beginning to see the silver lined cloud when the flood swept down upon Dayton. Miss Johnston was making her home with her aunt in that city and suffered the loss of her only relative as well as her home. She cut her hair short, donned boy's clothing and struck out with but a few dollars for the coast. She traveled almost the entire distance on freight trains, in empty box cars, on flat cars, brake beams and bumpers, only occasionally being able to obtain the comfort of the speedy blind baggage car. Once, when she was discovered riding a brake beam, she was taken into the engine and made to stoke to earn her passage. She reached Venice almost famished, but happy. She did not stop to change her toilet, but as soon as she learned the Perry residence run all the way there and threw herself into her fiancée's arms. Perry and his mother have provided the girl with feminine attire, and the couple will go to San Francisco to be married. TO TRY FLIGHT TO ENGLAND. Aero Yacht to Start by July 1, Says Boston Official. Savannah, Ga. - A Batson aero yatch will start by July 1 for a flight across the Atlantic ocean, according to the statement made here by a representative of the company. It is the purpose of the Batson interests to fly from Savannah to New York with a letter from Mayor Richard J. Davant to Mayor William J. Gaynor. Then the trip will be extended to Washington, where, with a letter from President Wilson to King George, the start on the transatlantic flight will be attempted. Captain M. A. Batson, U. S. A., rei tured, is the Inventor and designer of the new air craft. His officers express confidence of winning the prize of 1000 offered by Lord Neal and through the London Daily Mail for the first transatlantic flight. supreme court ess. BY GAIN." L. 32. NO. 12 HUERTA ACCUSED OF HIGH TREASON Formal Charges Made by Former Mexican Congressman. PENALTY MAY BE DEATH. H. Barron, Former Madero Agent, Forwards Document to Mexican House of Representatives From New York City Citing Grounds For Articles of Impeachment. New York.—Charges of rebellion and treason, of usurpation of functions and violence against prisoners have been preferred against General Victoriano Huerta, provisional president of Mexico, by Heriberto Barron, who was commercial agent at New York for General Francisco Madero, constitutional president of Mexico, who was assassinated on the night of Feb. 22, this year, when on the way, as Huerta's prisoner, from the national palace to a prison on the outskirts of the capital. Senator Barron, formerly a member of the Mexican congress from the ```markdown ``` GENERAL VICTORIANO HUERTA. stato of Chihuahua, is now a resident of this city. His charges have been forwarded to the City of Mexico, and they will be laid before the house of representatives there. Accompanying the charges is a petition urging that General Huerta be impeached and subjected to the penalty for his alleged crimes, which is death under the constitution of Mexico. There are three separate counts in Senor Barron's complaint, and petition, and each count is supported by quotations from the Mexican constitution and from the code of military law. General Huerta. It is alleged, was a traitor from the time General Felix Diaz got out of prison, making no effective use whatsover of his troops, finally sacrificing them in an impossible attack on the Diaz forces, after which he deprived President, Modern of the loyal troops guarding the palace, substituting for them the traitorous soldiers of General Blanquet. Then, says Senator Barron, there were several secret conferences between General Huerta and the American ambassador, Henry Lane Wilson. One of these conferences, it is averred, was on Feb. 17, the very day before Huerta and Blanquet came out in open revolt and ordered the imprisonment and detention in the national palace of President Madero, Vice President Jose M. Pino Suarez, several members of the cabinet, the governor of the federal district and Congressman Gustavo Madero, a brother of the president. The code of military law is quoted to show that General Huerta was guilty of rebellion and treason in that he withdrew from the alliance of the government under his command to the imprisonment and arrest. The Mexican military force provides Contributed on Second Page. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as second Class Matter Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. TIPS. BY W. G. TIPS. An American tourist to England gives his experience of the extent of tipping at the big hotels. He went into the lavatory to wash before lunch, but seeing a notice on the mirror:—Please tip the basin after using it," he rushed from the room, muttering, "No! I'll go dirty first." After he lunched, he tipped the head waiter, the waiter's two helpers, the man who gave him his hat and gloves, and the man who whistled for a toxicab, and when ready to start, he noticed a page boy running up to the window. "And what do you want?" he asked savagely. "A few coppers, Sir, accordin' to the usual custom, Sir." "Why, what did you do?" "If you please, Sir, I saw you get into the cab." BREAKING IT GENTLY. A lady who had a fine brood of chickens had occasion to go out on some business, and left the household in charge of her little sons. Before her return a thunderstorm came on. The youngster forgot about the chickens, and was dismayed when he found that half of them had been drowned, and was afraid of the wrath to come, but determined to make a clean breast of it. "Mamma," he said cautiously, six of the chickens are dead." "Deadl oried the mother—Sixl how did they die?" "I think—I think they died happy," he said, * * BOSS AND SERVANT. Boss—"That's a pretty ancient looking coat you are wearing." Servant—"Yea sir," I got it with my last pay." QUALIFIED. Father—"Well, my son, you have now got your commission and are prepared to join your regiment and fight for the glory of our country. Do you think you have the necessary qualification?" Young Officer—"Well, I should think so. I am the champion long distance runner of the club." "Now," said the pert salesman, after the lady had made some purchase, "Can't you think of something else that I could show you?" "Yes, replied the lady, "but I don't believe you have it." "Well, what is it?" "More courtey." A REAL HAIR RESTORER. "A man dropped a wig and a boy picked it up and handed it to him. "To thank you my boy" said the man, "You are the first genuine hair restorer I have ever seen." OUTE. On a day when the rise in the price of bread took effect a little girl entered a baker's shop, and placing a nickel on the counter asked for a loaf. "Another penny, my dear please," said the baker. "Has it rose, then?" asked the girl. "Yes, my dear, bread went up this morning." "Well, then, give me one of your terday's." The Boston Globe recently contained the following article from the pen of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, famed the world over as the greatest actress of modern times. An event has just occurred in St. Louis which has filled me with satisfaction, because I think that the ostracism in which the blacks are held by the whites is edious. A colored woman who is the President of a colored woman's club, wished to go into the Hotel X in order to take part in the women's suffrage conference; but the proprietor energetically refused to admit the black woman. She thereupon appealed to all the suffragettes in her club, and 500 white suffragettes joining them, they demanded that the owner of the hotel should admit the black woman. Suffragettes Stand Up For Their Principles. One must approve the conduct of those suffragettes. They have shown that all women are bound together by common interests. They have demonstrated that their doctrines are supported by their actions. It is said that the President of the club of colored women is a very intelligent woman. Extraordinary For Nation To Wish To Exclude An Active Race. It is, however, extraordinary that in a new republic of quite a young nation one should wish to exclude an entire race. White American Women Ferociously Color Projudiced. I am united in friendship with interesting women who are good, gentle and kind; yet who become ferocious when any one mentions the Negro race. Indeed, this hatred is so great among many society women that the force of its animosity will affect the colored race to the third and fourth generation. Casa Of The Daughter Of The "Black Venus" of France. My niece Saryta, now dead, wished to open a house for fashionable wear in New York, and asked me to help her. I gave her 109 francs. She made all her purchases in Paris, and engaged as her assistant a very pretty young woman, whose mother need to be known in Paris by the name of "The Black Venus." She was not black, but her dark complexion was very accentuated. It was known that her great grandmother was the Countess do. Delva, a superb colored woman who had married a white settler in Jamaica. But this young woman who had been selected by my niece to assist her did not resemble in the least a Negro, but it appears that Americans never mistake certain signs. Noticed Color Rz Finger Nails And Noticed Color By Finger Nails And Refused to Buy Hate. My niece opened a magnificent, and spacious millinery apartment, full of Paris hats. People came in crowds on the opening day, but my niece noticed that the people whispered together while pointing to her associate, Mme. de la Piedra. She wanted to know what was the matter. Then one of the young American girls, who was a friend of curt, came up to Saryta and said, "Your associate has Negro blood in her. I see it by her finger nails. Nobody will come back to you." And in effect, no one returned unless it was my niece, who was back in Paris two months after her departure from it. I had lost 125,000 francs; but I was more revolted by the display of injustice than by the loss of the money. Sarsh Bernhardt. San Quentin, Cal.—With the time at his disposal in the last eleven months of his seven year term for burglary, E J. 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BLIND MAN'S MEMORY FEAT Recalls Friend's Voice After Twenty- two Years. Vancouver, Wash. — The ability of Fred Lester, recently stricken blind, to recognize by his voice a man whom he had not heard speak for twenty-two years was demonstrated here. Having lived in the city for so many years, Mr. Lester goes about by use of a cane. His eyes look normal. When standing at Fifth and Main streets he was addressed by G. W. Holder, who had come to Vancouver for a short visit after being away twenty-two years. He asked Mr. Lester if the car went past a certain point, and when Mr. Lester had answered the question he added, "And, Mr. Holder, I am pleased to greet you." It was not until then that Mr. Holder recognized his friend of long ago. DUFFY BRIDERY CASE WILL COME UP NEXT Former Inspector Sweeney to Face Graft Charges. New York.—District Attorney Whitman now plans to put Sergeant Peter J. Duffy on trial next. Duffy, who is alleged to have collected graft for Sweeney when he was in command of the Sixth police inspection district, is under indictment for bribery, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of fifteen years. It is the district attorney's intention to move for Duffy's trial immediately. The district attorney, after Duffy's trial, expects to put Sweeney on trial for grafting and after him the other three convict inspectors. The grand jury is soon to take up the question of graft collected in the Tenderloin by an inspector who formerly ruled there, much after the manner that Sweeney, Hussy, Murtha and Thompson ruled in Harlem. This inspector not only profited through winking at violations of the law on the part of disorderly houses, gambling houses and saloons, but he shared in the profit of all "snide" gambling games where everything was fixed for the victim to be fleeced. This inspector is also said to have shared in the huge sums of money that wire tapper swindlers obtained from out of town men, and in his investigation of this inspector District Attorney Whitman has come across fresh evidence against a high police official whose chief sources of illegitimate revenue are the wire tappers and the fortune tellers who are permitted to evade the law. WANTS A "SANEISH" WIFE. Lonely Man Also Says She Must Be Fairly Young. Los Angeles.—"Wanted, a wife. Candidates must furnish proof that they are of sanoish origin and must be less than twenty-five years of age." Those were the specifications contained in a letter received by the county clerk from a man in Redding, Cal. The lonely man's modesty withheld his name, signing only his initials. The letter was turned over to the marriage license bureau, where all candidates may apply. Diversive Therapeutic Presentations in Primary Care George Hampton, alias T. E. York, wanted here on a charge of forgery, in his custody he took what he believed to be adequate measures to prevent his prisoner's escape. Wilson removed Hampton's wooden leg before boarding the train and shipped it to Chicago by express. Five Legged Colt. Julletta, Ida. — Harve Southwick, a farmer of the Cream Ridge district, has a Percheron colt with five legs. The fifth leg is joined to the left front foot at the ankle, then branching into a perfect foot. AGED VETERAN A WOMAN. Boldiers' Home Inmate Posed Fifty Years as a Man. Quincy, Ill.-The sex of Albert D. J. Cushier, civil war veteran and an inmate of the Soldiers and Sailors' home here, has just been revealed by Colonel J. O. Anderson, superintendent of the home, to be feminine. The woman, whose real name will probably never be known, served three years in the Union army during the civil war. She was mustered out of the service in 1865 and a few years later was placed on the government pension roll. She entered the soldiers' home two years ago, and at that time her sex was known only to Colonel Anderson, who promised not to reveal her secret. A short time ago she was adjudged insane, and as a result she was committed to the state hospital Revelation of her sex was made two years ago in Livingston county, Ill., where she was employed by ex-Senator I. M. Lish as chauffeur. It is said by the ex-senator that one day his machine would not run and the chauffeur crawled under the car. While she was tampering with the mechanism the engine started suddenly, and the wheels of the car passed over her, breaking her right leg. When the chauffeur was taken to a hospital it was discovered that she was a woman. CANCER STUDY AT HARVARD A Special Investigation of the Effect of Radium to Be Made. Cambridge, Mass. - The effect of radium in the treatment of cancer is to be made the subject of a special investigation under the direction of Dr. William Duhne at the Harvard medical school. For the present the experiments will be conducted in the Collis P. Huntington building, but as soon as possible a special building is to be constructed adjoining the medical school and devoted entirely to the work of radium investigation. Dr. Duun has studied in the laboratory of Mme. Curle, the discoverer of radium, and has been in touch also with the work of the Radium institute in London. The investigation is to be made under the supervision of the cancer commission of Harvard. Dr. E. E Tyzzee, director of the commission says that a group of investigators is being assembled to attack the problem of cancer treatment from various points of view. WILL WED ONLY THE SOUND Montolale Pastor Will Insist on a Certificate of Good Health. Montclair, N. J.-The Rev. Henry E. Jackson, pastor of the Christian Union Congregational church here, has anounced he will perform no more marriages without a certificate signed by the physician of the bride to be that the intended bridegroom is in perfect health. At the coming annual meeting of Unity church the members will vote on the question as to whether the pastor, Rev. Edgar S. Weirs, shall perform the marriage ceremony without having first obtained from each of the contracting parties a medical certificate that they are physically sound. The eugenics movement in Montclair is attracting considerable attention, interest in the subject having been aroused by recent addresses of Dr. Henry Smith Williams, Professor H. E Jordan of the University of Virginia Dean Sumner of Chicago and Clifford Roe, also of Chicago. CLARENCE DARROW "BROKE." Labor Unions Asked to Raise Fund For McNamaraa' Lawyer. Chicago.--Clarence S. Darrow surprised the Chicago Federation of Labor at a meeting here by walking in and taking a seat. He was given a rousing reception and addressed the federation on the child labor question. Later it developed that Darrow's fortune of $150,000 had been swallowed up in his two trials. A letter was read from President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners calling on all union organizations to go forward. WEST VIRGINIA'S BIRTHDAY JUNE 20 IS THE DATE AND A STATE-WIDE CELEBRATION IS PLANNED. The Little Mountain State Will Celebrate in the Month of Roses—Every Community Is Expected To Observe the Golden Jubilee In Some Fitting Mannar. (Special.)—There will soon be considerable activity in every city, town, village and hamlet in West Virginia in preparing plans for observing the 50th anniversary of the admission of the Little Mountain state to the Union. There is no reason to believe that our citizens will be less patriotic than those of other communities in the state, and as soon as the call is announced for a mass meeting here to take some definite action there will probably be a hearty response. As is well known, the date of West Virginia's birthday party is June 20, and an effort will be made to declare a legal holiday for that occasion. The publicity bureau of the Semi-Centennial Commission has been active for the past 30 days in sending out literature informing West Virginians of the desirability of making the golden jubilee a matter of state-wide observance. The idea has met with favor everywhere, and hearty letters of response have been received endorsing the plan and offering earnest co-operation and assistance towards making the event a success. It is impossible in the short time at the command of the Semi-Centennial Commission to personally reply to every one who has sent a West Virginia birthday post card in response to letters sent out, and this paper is requested to thank those in our community for their interest and the promptitude with which they have indicated an interest in the approaching anniversary and a desire to assist. A meeting will undoubtedly be called here in a few days, notice of which will be given in our columns. It is to be hoped that there will be a big turn out and that our people will give as good an account of themselves as any other in the state. The state-wide observance of so important an epoch in our history is a tribute that will not only appeal to and arouse the pride and patriotism of our people, but will be looked upon as a rare privilege that will call for a spontaneous and hearty response throughout the commonwealth. There will be no apathy here, and our columns will be open to the Semi-Centennial Commission in their worthy and patriotic endeavors and to our readers who have suggestions to offer as to what form the celebration shall take in our home town. Let us get busy and show our neighbors that we are ever ready to take an active part in matters pertaining to the stimulation of state pride. Success to West Virginia's Birthday Party, June 201. Let's make our participation a noteworthy one. PROFESSOR A HUMAN DYNAMO Thumb-Nall Sketoh of the State Superintendent of Free Schools. "Good morning! Is Professor Shawkey busy?" "Professor Shawkey is always busy." The above question was addressed to an attractive stenographer in one of the offices of the Department of Free Schools in the Capitol building, and the reply came back from aforesaid young lady with the rapidity of a Gatling gun. There was nothing in the tone of voice to indicate to the visitor that he has asked foolish Question No. 4-11-44, but he has since learned that all who are acquainted with the State Superintendent of Free Schools never ask "Is Professor Shawkey busy?" He is one of the human dynamos of the state's public servants. He is magnetic, forceful, and quick to think and to act. There is a orrispness in his speech; his sentences are well turned, yet he is not at all pedantic. He is a man of tremondous energy and a glutton for work. He is intensely interested in his department, and is a leader—not a trailer. Those who are in a position to speak with authority have paid handsome tribute to Prof. Shawkey is an educator of the advanced school. As a member of the Committee on Celebration, Schools, etc., of the Semi-Centennial Commission, he is proving an able assistant. He is doing all that he can to bring about the hearty cooperation of teachers and pupils in the forthcoming anniversary, June 20, which will be generally observed throughout the state. SECRETARY OF STATE A BOOSTER Hon. Stuart F. Reed Has Secret Process For Securing Publicity For West Virginia. West Virginia's Golden Jubilee year will indeed be a memorable one in the state's history. More people are reading about her marvelous resources and opportunities than ever before. Secretary of State Reed has utilized every available nook and corner in the commercial literature of America this year to tell a graphic story and paint a vivid word picture of his native state. He has a chapter in Polk's well known directories, published at Pittsburg. In the Railway Shippers' HON. STUART F. REED, Secretary of State and Vice Chairman West Virginia Semi-Centennial Commission. Guide, published at Chicago, he presents an elaborately illustrated article on West Virginia. The American Newspaper Directory (New York) comes out in 1913 with a new story of the Little Mountain State. He has furnished a chapter on the state's opportunities to accompany the literature sent abroad to the leading consulates of the world. At the beginning of the year the Manufacturers' Record (Baltimore) printed an article accompanied by a map prepared by the Secretary of State that attracted wide attention. That Mr. Reed has been able by some peculiar diplomacy to get all these good things printed and distributed without any cost whatever to the state is an achievement worthy of special mention. Decorate! Hang out some bunting on June 20 and display the stars and stripes. Make it a gala day. Celebrate in a manner that a fiftieth anniversary calls for. Everybody is invited to West Virginia's Birthday Party, June 20. And everybody is requested to bring as many friends as possible. FLAGS FOR 8,000 8CHOOLS WILL Be Distributed to Commemorate States 50th Anniversary June 20. Several years ago the legislature adopted a design for a West Virginia state flag but on account of its difficult color scheme it was not possible to have the flags made at reasonable prices. Secretary of State Reed has at last succeeded in solving the problem and under his direction a beautiful flag has been evolved, having all the emblems and colors originally designated but arranged so as to make the lithographing and color printing possible at a minimum cost. Eight thousand of these state flags will be delivered about June first and distributed among the eight thousand schools in the state. Up to this time very few people have even seen the state flag or have any well defined idea as to what it is like. It was therefore a most happy conception of the Semi-Centennial Commission to place one in every school house in West Virginia. She Says We're Much Too Blender A Russian princess who is now in Washington has created a commotion in social circles by criticising the American women for being much too thin. "American women of good breeding are slender to the point of emaciation," says the princess. "They hurry too much that they reason. Everywhere you see the princess, whether she is going shopping, visiting or elsewhere, she is moving fast as if she did not have a second to lose." The princess doesn't seem to realize that just now the one aim of the American women is the ```markdown ``` For Thirty Years THE PIONEER PRESS Has been the leader in this State and Nation for the grand and noble fight that is being waged for the amelioration of the condition of the Negro. The PIONEER PRESS was never known to lag or trifle in any matter where the interest of the race was involved. For this characteristic, THE PRESS should have the unswerving support and encouragement of Negroes everywhere. 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