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The Pioneer "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S FIGHT MAINTAIN, UNAWEL BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY-GAIN" READING MAY JOIN SAVE YOUR RAGS THE WESTERN MD. SAYS DEPARTMENT ESTABLISH&D 1882 Rockefellers Buying the Former and Will Unite It With the Latter. There is interest in the rumor that the strength of the Reading railroad stock in the New York market was caused by buying by the Rockefellers. It was said they desired the control the Reading so as to join up the road with the W. M. which they already control, and from one of the most complete coal roads in the East; such a juncture would not be difficult, as the two roads are practically together; no fwfrom the Cherry Run extension to the W. M., which meets the Reading at Shippensburg. It was said it might not be difficult for the Rockefellers to secure control as the recent additions to the board of the B. & O. have been direct Standard Oil interests. This has always been regarded, as somewhat significant, especially so since the Rockefellers have put so much money into the W. M. and more recently into the Consolidation Coal Company. The bringing of the roads together it was argued would open up new market for the coal from the fields of the Consolidation Company. This plan was scouted in W. M. circles. No such arrangements were under way, it was said. The W. M. and the Reading had friendly relations with each other and it was not clear, it was contended, why the Rockefellers should find it necessary to own a large block of Reading stock to further their coal developments. PRESIDENT WILSON TO ADDRESS CLERGY PRESIDENT WILSON TO ADDRESS CLERGY Matters of Large Importance Coming Before Baltimore M. E. Church Conference. Church matters of great importance will be considered at the Baltimore conference of the Methodist church including dioceses in Maryland, the District, Virginia and West Virginia which will convene in Washington March 28. Daily sessions will be held for at least a week and until business is disposed of. More than 300 clergy men will be in attendance. The most important questions to be considered are the proposed reunion of the northern and southern branches of the church and the raising of money for the enlargement of the pension fund for retired clergy men and the widows of clergymen President Wilson will address the conference the evening of March 31, his address being a tribute to Bishon Ashbury, the pioneer Methodist bishop in the United States. The conference will observe the centennial of Bishop Ashbury on the day of the President's address. The program of the conference will include a reception to the delegates the evening of March 28, with Bishop Cranston presiding: the ordination of new ministers, Sunday, April 2, and an address from Billy Sunday April 3. Foundry church, of which the Rev. W. R. Wedderspoon is pastor, has been making arrangements for months for the entertainment of the visiting clergymen. *STEEL PLANT TRANSFERRED Morris Corporation Taken Over by W. H. Schott, of Chicago. Frederick, Md.—Control of the Morris Iros and Steel Corporation, which has a large foundry in Frederick, has passed over to W. H. Schott, of Chicago. The plant is now in process of reorganization along plans which will, it is said, within a period of two or three years provide employment for 1,000 laborers. The actual transfer of the plant will not occur until June 5, when the present company will be merged into a corporation to be known as the Maryland Iron and Steel Company. Because of a Serious Shortage of Raw Material for Paper Manu- From the department of commerce, Washington, has come the request to a number of local people for co-operation in getting individuals and firms in the city and vicinity to save rags and paper. The circular sent out says in part—that the attention of the department of commerce is called, by the president of a large manufacturing company, to the fact that there is a serious shortage of raw material for the manufacture of paper, including rags and old papers. He argues that the department should make it known that the collecting and saving of such would greatly better existing conditions. It is thought that a little attention to the saving of rags and old papers will mean genuine relief to the paper industry and a diminishing drain upon sources of supply of raw materials. FATHER ALLARD TELLS OF CHURCH'S HISTORY FATHER ALLARD TELLS OF CHURCH'S HISTORY Says That Church Organized by Christ is Here Today—Interest in Mission Still Continues. "The Church" was the subject of Father Allard's sermon last night at St. Joseph's church. The great interest felt in the mission was manifested both by the large attendance, and the close attention given the speaker. Rev. Father McKeefry conducted the services, offering evening prayer, and giving benediction of the blessed sacrament. Father Allard in his sermon said: That Christ came on earth not only to teach the people of His own country and day, but He wished to convey to all men till the end of time, the same doctrines that He Himself had taught. That this might be accomplished He founded a church to go down through the centuries and teach for Him. He promised that He would be with that church till the end of time. Therefore two things follow; that church which Christ founded is in the world today, has been in the world ever since He founded it and must continue to exist till the end of time. Furthermore, if it has been appointed to teach for Him, it must teach as He taught, i.e. with authority, giving certainty, and teaching a doctrine of unity. The Catholic church exactly fulfills these conditions, both by her continuous history for nineteen hundred years, and by her mode of teaching. The sermon tonight will be on "The Infallibility of the Pope." SOMNAMBULIST ATTACKS MAN Cuts Throat of Sleeping Friend, it is Alleged. Charleston, W. Va.—George Grose is in a critical condition here from wounds in his throat, said to have been inflicted with a knife by William Conaway while the latter was walking in his sleep. Conaway has been arrested. Grose was cut while asleep in bed. Both he and Conaway declare they know of no reason for the attack, as they were the best of friends. Conaway conducts a boarding house at which Grose was a boarder. Conaway, who is a somnambulist, says he has no recollection of the cutting. HUGHES' OPINIONS The Evening Post insists that it is unnecessary for Justice Hughes to express his opinions about the political issues of the day; that "if he is nominated at Chicago it will not be because of anything which he says or fails to say on such subjects, but because his party turns to him as the best man for the emergency." That was the attitude assumed by Judge Parker previous to his nomination for President in 1904. The Judge sat on the bench of the Court of Appeal of New York and maintained a judicial dignity that would have deflected a 42 centimetre shell. All attempts to obtain from him a confession of political faith proved unsuccessful. The Democratic National Convention nevertheless nominated him "as the best man for the emergency," and the rest of the painful story is fully related in the election returns of 1904. The Republican party this year is match in the position of the Democratic party twelve years ago. It has no real taste and no real principles. The organization is in the hands of reactionaries and the rank and file are restless. The Republican party is bedevilled by Rooseveltism as the Democratic party was then bedevilled by Bryanism, and while it may be unnecessary for Justice Hughes to have any political opinions before he is nominated, the lack of them will be apparent enough after the convention, as it proved in the case of Judge Parker. War has played havoc with the old political issues. The country is dealing with new conditions dreamed of even four years ago. Some of the questions growing out of these new conditions will affect the destiny of the Republic for fifty years or longer. We can think of nothing more ridiculous than for a great party to nominate a candidate for President whose political opinions are a confidential secret, known only to himself and a few intimate friends. On the Democratic side there is no doubt or mystery. President Wilson has done his work in the fiercest political light that has beaten down upon any occupant of the White House since Lincoln. He has been subjected to a pitiless publicity and a searching criticism such as few Presidents have ever withstood. There is no uncertainty about his record or his achievements. Men may agree with him or disagree with him; but they know what he has done, what he has left undone and what he has refused to do. They know, the principles he has acted on and they are in no doubt as to the motive behind his deeds. If Justice Hughes is to be President Wilson's opponent, the country will insist on knowing as much about him as it knows about his great antagonist. It is true that Justice Hughes cannot with propriety and respect for his high office discuss politics while he remains on the bench of the United States Supreme Court; but if he wishes to be the Republican candidate for President he can resign from the bench and become an avowed aspirant for the nomination. Otherwise he can make it unmistakably clear that he is not the man for this "emergency" and that the convention must seek elsewhere.—New York World. ANSWERED CALL TO OLD HOME IN KENTUCKY Pleased with the idea of once again looking upon her native heath, the Blue Grass state, yesterday evening on B. & O. train No. 1, Mrs. Flossie Bates, accompanied by ner two little daughters, Edith and Ruth, left via Cincinnati for Somerset, Kentucky, where she will join her husband Mr. S. H. Bates, who three weeks ago accepted a position on the daily at that place. The family remained here for a little season, the children in school, while Mr. Bates made arrangements for a home. Many friends wish them a safe journey and a happy life in the Southland. At a meeting last night by the Voters League at the Y. M. C. A., it was decided to appoint two members in each ward to distribute the pledges and secure signers. The W. C. T. U. will also have a representative in the wards to assist in the work. The members of the executive committee are Lee M. Bender, chairman: C. G. Grove, C. B. Kisner, D. W. Cline, O. O. Osborne, J. B. Heck and T. L. Dunn. Press. BENEFITS FROM GOOD ROADS GREAT BENEFITS FROM GOOD ROADS GREAT All the People Gain—City Men and Farmers Share Allike. The entire surplus production of the farm and many of the products of the forest and mine must first be hauled over our country roads to the shipping point. The office of public roads estimates the cost of this hauling at not less than $500,000 annually. It further estimates that improved roads would reduce this cost one half: which would result in a saving of $250,000 annually. Indirect Gain to All People. While this gain of $250,000 would be a direct benefit to the farmer, the lumberman and the mine owner, it would be an indirect gain to the ensusurjo sujurado on the end of our products to the shipping point is as much a factor in distribution as is carrying it from the shipping point to the consumer. The people are quick to recognize that any increase in freight rates means an increase in the price of commodities, but have failed to realize that the cost of hauling to the railway station is equally a factor in their cost and hence in the cost of living. Freight rates have been reduced since 1837 nearly 90 per cent, but using that time there has been practically no reduction in the cost of highway transportation. The reason for this is that railroads have been constructed and operated from the standpoint of paying interest and dividends, which has forced systematic and economic management; whereas our highways, because of our failure to appreciate their economic importance, have been neglected and the limited amount of work expended upon them has been unsystematic, uneconomical and without satisfactory returns. An indirect benefit of no small consequences accrues hereby to the resident of the city in the delivery of the products on the farm and truck garden direct from producer to consumer. This means not only more palatable food, but food that is more sanitary as well. The inaccessibility of the country school for several months of the year due to impassable roads is one of the great drawbacks to country life. Another drawback is the small school district supported by a few farmers and with a small number of children and a small assessed valuation from which to collect taxes for its support. This results in a low salaried teacher, conducting a poor school with poorer surroundings. Consolidated school. The solution of this problem lies in the consolidated rural school, specializing in the agricultural branches which will give the pupil an insight into the problems of the farm and inspire them with the wonderful opportunity for the improvement of farm life, financially, socially and mentally. Better roads will mean more consolidated schools and larger units of consolidation which will give more funds and greater school facilities or will mean access to the city schools without leaving the farm. Again, the farmer will receive a direct benefit from good roads in the increase of social and religious advantages. The lack of these is felt most keenly by the wife and children and is often the determining factor in the decision of the boy and the girl to leave the farm. This is traceably directly to road conditions which general keep them at home for several months during the winter and spring, and can be overcome only through improving the roads so that the country church and the city enchantments are accessible at all seasons. Both educationally and socially the farmer would receive the greatest direct advantage from road improvement, but it must be remembered that no one class of our citizens can improve themselves financially, educationally, socially or religiously without indirectly benefiting every other class of our citizens. This is doubly true of the farmer. People have lived without the merchant, manufacturer or banker and could do so again. Department of Archives Benefit to City Residents Consolidated School Dependence Upon Farmer. but the failure of the farmer to produce his annual crop would mean starvation. A partial failure would mean higher prices and unsatisfied hunger for some. As population increases we must have a constantly increasing food supply. Adding to the educational and social advantages of farm life means more attractive farms, more farmers, greater efficiency, as well as more permanency in production, a larger and hence a cheaper food supply. Improved Surroundings. One idea of the tangible benefits to the farmer already enumerated there are others not so evident. As a man tears down the old house and builds in its place a modern one, not that he will make money by the transaction, but that he will add to the comfort, the pleasure and satisfaction of himself and his family, so will he for the same and advocate and stand ready to pay his share of the cost of a better road. The better road and the automobile combined with the modern house, the telephone and the free delivery of mail, the consolidated school, the resuscitated country church, will make the farm house an attractive place for the boy and the girl, for the father and mother. This combination will not only check the farm to city movement, but will make the "back to the farm movement" a practical possibility. BOOKS HAVE ABOUT BEEN DISTRIBUTED With the Exception of Two Precincts All Registrars Have Been Supplied. The registration books have about been distributed among the various registrars in the county. This morning only two precincts had not been called for but it was expected that they would be delivered today. In case of a special election in the Second district, the statue stipulates that the old registration shall be used. This being true a special registration will not be necessary. BOND ISSUE IS AGAIN DISCUSSED BOND ISSUE IS AGAIN DISCUSSED By the Opequon District Good Roads Association at Swan Pond Last Night. The Opequon District Good Roads Association, at a regular meeting held last night at Swan Pond, took up the question of how to increase the road fund without raising the levy or a bond house. The question was pretty thoroughly discussed and many excellent suggestions offered, but no action was taken. At the next meeting, which will be held at the Mt. Airy school house, the matter will be given further consideration, and some definite plan may be adopted. The attendance was not very large owing to the inclement weather, and the officials urge every farmer to be present at the next meeting. Friday evening, March 24. HON.W.T.GEORGE COES TO HOSPITAL HON.W.T.GEORGE COES TO HOSPITAL Prominent Philippi Man Hurries to Baltimore to Receive Treatment From Specialists. In an effort to save his life, W. Taylor George, of Philippi, former speaker of the West Virginia house of delegates, and prominent Republican politician, passed through the city last night en route to Baltimore, where he will receive treatment from specialists. Mr. George has been mentioned as a candidate for the nomination for congress from the Second district, but his illness may prevent him from entering the race. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. K. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Beaver 800, and Bell 'Phone 00K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, MARCH 25 1916 A certain sky-pilot wants to know if we "believe in the existence of a God." If we didn't, there are a few to whom we are and have been kind and for his Son's sake are trying to love that we would despatch. "America for Americans" should be the slogan of all black and white citizens of this country. When such a motto is lived up to it will be a great stride toward solidarity and economic independence on the part of the subjects of Uncle Sam. Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland Gazette, is opposed to the nomination of Hon. Theodore E. Burton as a presidential nominee. He bases his opinion of Mr. Burton from the fact that during a period of almost a quarter of a century in Congress and the United States Senate he was invariably found in an unmindful attitude toward the black man and any and everything that tended to his uplift. The Pioneer Press has no special liking for ex-Senator Burton of O., or Governor Brumbaugh, as president or vice presidential timber, but it has both in unmeasured terms for men like Foraker, Milholland, Root and others; and along with them, lit trots out the Hon. Elmer J. Burkett of Linclon Nebraska. If a good man selected be slaughtered as was the case in 1912, may God secrete him in a burning bush as His "dark horse," if not president, by all means for vice president. Born and endowed like Lincoln this crucial age needs him. Before the war the northern part of the Methodist Episcopal Church thought enough of the colored brother to withdraw from the southern element and helped fight to free him. For fifty years white bishops have governed their conferences—themselves drawing the color line. If the Negroes in slavery were good enough to cause them to split and leave the southern side, why, fifty years thereafter under the teaching of white bishops are they not good enough to unite with them? Can you get as much reward by deserting them half slaves in these shooting, burning, lynching, disfranchising, jimcrowing and peonage days, that you would by staying with and taking them before the bar of God as your injured wards? Phil H. Brown, the well known and energetic Kentucky newspaper man, has been elected as one of the "Blue Grass" state's delegates to the National Republican Convention which meets in Chicago June next. Score one for Kentucky, the commonwealth which possesses that grand old man, 'Marse Henry Watterson, and we wish it were possible to say to the world that West Virginia would do as well by her colored constituency as has her neighbor. Well there is some consolation in the thought that possibly it won't always be thus as regards political recognition, or to be absolutely correct, it should have read non-recognition. That's what we get in West Virginia, and we are going to continue on that line until we will do otherwise. Some wise man has said, "he who would be free, must himself strike the first blow," and that applies, figuratively speaking, to the political fortunes of the Negroes in the little "Mountain State." Is it next to robbery? A poor hard working woman with an army of children to feed, clothe and shelter; and before dying, was helpless for weeks—owing the doctor, for food and medicine—leaving as her only legacy love for the little ones and a cheap insurance policy for a $150.00. Of this the undertaker got $96.00 and the seven children the rest, leaving the doctor and grocer nothing. Twenty or twenty-five dollars would have buried her decently. Another thing, "friends" (?) of this class of the dead ride to the cemetery at the expense of the policy on the corpse. Is that in reality true friendship? If sincere, would they not walk to see friends buried? When a boy to our knowledge, the coffin was hauled to the graveyard in a wagon covered with a fine coverlet woven at home, followed by all in that community, and that in solemnity, and pity 'tis that our graft fashion will not go back to that "good old way," for it is better to do so and pay the dead's contracted obligations, than for such a custom to make the honest, helpful living distrustful. PROUD OF YOU. Hon. Archibald H.Grimke, Prof. Kelly Miller, Prof. George William Cook, Mr. Whitfield McKinley, Mrs. Rosetta R. Lawson, and Ex-Assistant District Attorney James H. Cobb, crowned themselves with eternal glory by attending the hearing before the Congressional Committee on the District of Columbia, where they defended manhood rights, and fought jimcrow cars and anti-intermarriage. They went there as manly men, masters of the subjects and handled them as Jesus did His before the doctors and wise men. Pity that those of the South of the Committee who refused to hear them because they were "niggers and mongrels"—as one Southerner said, had not been there, for they, when out and together no doubt would have exclaimed "didn't our hearts burn within? "What brainy Negroes," &c. Grimke hails from that learned stock of South Carolina, one of whom on a certain occasion in an impassioned appeal exclaimed! "What is my country but an honest judiciary and its halls temples of the most High," and he and they convinced the chairman of that committee and others, that it is our desire to help make and live in and under just such a government. What a glory for men to live with and among men like those above named. Kelly Miller is terse, logical, forceful and as convincing in argument as he is in all classes of mathematics. George William Cook can be found in the forefront of any battle for human rights and he is a power to be reckoned with. He jumped right into deep water and kept his head clear and far above the surges and breakers in profound reason—good for you our little Pepin. Mr. McKinley is known as a business man and real estate agent in the District, but on the above occasion he waxed so warm in his defense of human rights, that everybody had to "sit up and take notice." James H. Cobb, the well known disciple of Blackstone, is a favortie with Washingtonians, and in the colloquy between the colored people and the committee his power of reasoning and almost matchless presentation of facts acclaimed him more a man of the hour than ever. From time immemorial, the part that woman has played in all auspicious affairs is a matter of history, and in this instance, Mrs. Lawson's defense of her sex and the colored people at large was a masterpiece of eloquence which carried conviction with it and convinced all who heard her that she is a person of rare tact. EDITORIAL CLIPPINGS The president of the United German Societies says the teutonic vote favors Justice Hughes, which may be one reason why he is so shy.—Indianapolis Star. Reported the Kaiser will sell some of his castles, following the distressing liquidation of his castles in Spain.—Wall Street Journal. As a politician Senator Lodge must find it difficult at times to recognize Henry Cabot Lodge the historian.—New York World. Since it takes the United States army five days to get ready to begin to prepare to pursue a band of 1000 Mexican bandits, what would be the time necessary for the armed forces of this country to meet an invading army of a first-class foreign Power?—Chicago News. If the world could begin over again, in the year 1913, with Senator Lodge and his friends in power, one might find out whether all these dreadful things that have happened could have happened, which Mr. Lodge thinks would not have happened.—Springfield Republican. They are getting up a directory of criminals in New York. What's the matter with the regular city directory?—Washington Herald. Senator Fall, who wants 100,000 Americans to go into Mexico at once to catch Villa, would probably hunt sparrows with a Krupp cannon.—Florida Times-Union. Senator Cummins' victory in the Presidential primary in Minnesota might look important if it were not that his victory was over Henry D. Easterbrook and William Grant Webster.—Kansas City Star. Our experience also may be an aye-opener to some who have found fault with the Mexican government for not squashing revolutionists promptly.—Indianapolis Star. In deprecating the Governor's liability to appoint Tom Taggert to the United States Senate, it is necessary to forget Beiles Penrose, if we keep our face straight.—Rochester Herald. ALLIES BUY MANY HORSES AND MULES 678,443 of Them, Worth $131,914,000, Were Purchased Last Year. The United States shipped 678,443 horses and mules worth $131,914,000 to Europe for the allied armies in the last year and a half, according to export figures assembled yesterday in the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. During the whole of 1813 only a few more than 30,000 horses and mules went to Europe from the United States, but three months after hostilities began they were going at the rate of 30,000 a month. The steady flow reached its height last October, when 56,000 were shipped. Despite a diminished supply of price of farm animals has dropped considerably within the last few months, which is explained by the statement that only the best horses left the country, lowering the general standard, and also by the increased use of gas engines and automobiles. The average price January 1, 1916, was $101.60, compared with $109.15 a HARMAN CANDIDATE TO FILL VACANCY IN CONGRESS CAUSED BY DEATH OF W. G. BROWN Continuing an aggressive campaign, which was started several weeks ago, Hon. J. William Harman, of Parsons, candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in the Second Distinct, announces that he will be a candidate also to fill the vacancy, caused by the death of Congressman "Junior" Brown. Mr. Harman, who is a native of Pendleton county, practiced law for a season at Petersburg, in Grant county, and for the past several years has been located at Parsons, Tucker county, where he has built a very lucrative practice, having received liberally of corporation legal business. He served as mayor of Parsons; has been president of the First National bank there, and is identified with considerable business interests. From boyhood, born in the Republican faith, he has been an ardent and active party worker, and has frequently been before this favorably considered for Congress and other Republican nominations. In 1912 he was one of the Republican electors-at-large, and has been making campaign speeches since 1892. SUPREME COURT REVERSES CIRCUIT COURT IN CASE OF M. E. DAWSON VS. JOHN A. PHILLIPS, OF MORGAN COUNTY INFORMATION TODAY FROM CHARLESTON STATES THAT PRESIDENT OF THE MORGAN COUNTY COURT IS NOT REMOVED FROM OFFICE—CHARGES WERE FILED TWO YEARS AGO, ALLEGING THAT MR. PHILLIPS WAS GUILTY OF OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT—CASE HAS ATTRACTED WIDE ATTENTION. A telegram was received here this morning from Charleston, which stated that the supreme court had reversed the decision of Judge J. M. Woods in the case of B. E. Dawson et al., vs. John A. Phillips. This proceeding was instituted by Mr. Dawson and several other citizens of Morgan county to remove Mr. Phillips from his office as a member of the county court of Morgan county for official misconduct. Mr. Phillips was elected a member of the Morgan county court in November, 1910, for a term of six years, and his term will expire December 31, 1916. About two years ago Mr. Dawson and other citizens of Morgan county preferred charges against Mr. Phillips, alleging that while a member of the court he was interested in certain contracts with Morgan county and sold various supplies to the county at greatly excessive prices. The circuit court, by an order, passed these charges to be filed and discharged the clerk of the court to issue a summons containing a copy of those requiring Mr. Phillips to appear in answer. When Mr. Phillips became a mem- year ago and $109.14 in 1914. The average price of animals supplied to the allies was upward of $200. Ordinarily the rate of increase in horses and mules is about 1 per cent a year, but last year the European demand caused the supply to diminish by about 35,000 animals. The department of agriculture on January 1 estimated the number of farm animals in the United States at 25,000,000. A census bureau estimate puts the number in cities at 3,500,000. PRETTY WIDOW WILL Widow of "Junior" Brown Will Fall Hirr to Five Million Dollars. The late Congressman William Gay Brown, Jr., of Kingwood, left a fortune valued at from between $3,500, 000 and $5,000,000 according to the New York Telegraph which prints an interesting account of the fact that his wife, who was Izeta Jewell, of the American stage, will inherit the bulk of the vast estate. While it was known that Mr. Brown was very wealthy, there were few people who knew the exact extent of his holdings for the reason that they were widely scattered. He owned and operated a very fine ranch in the state of Montana, valued at, he was once heard to remark, $2,000,000. Other holdings also, of great value were had in the east and in West Virginia. Those who recall the New York debut of Izeta Jewell as leading woman with Otis Skinner in "Your Humble Servant," at the Garrick theatre in February, 1910, will be surprised to learn that by the death of her husband, Congressman William G. Brown, Jr., of West Virginia, which occurred in Washington late Thursday night, the former actress will inherit his fortune of between $3,500,000 and $5,000,000. ber of the court he was interested in the firm of J. H. Phillips Sons. Their business transactions extended all over Morgan county, and they had often furnished coal, lumber and other supplies to the county. Mr. Phillips and his brother, D. H. Phillips, dissolved their partnership so far as there might be any dealings with Morgan county. The case was heard at Berkeley Springs, and later the arguments were made before Judge Woods here, who sustained the charges, but granted a stay of judgment until an appeal could be taken to the supreme court. Immediately following the decision of the circuit court an appeal was taken, and on Tuesday, March 14, the supreme court heard the arguments. The opinion has not been received, but it is expected within a few days. This case has attracted wide attention, and the action of the state's Attorney was represented by Attorney H. W. Bayer, of Berkeley Springs, and Howard H. Hemert, and Mr. Phillips by District Stuart W. Walker and for- dale E. Boyd Faulkner. ```markdown ``` So Mrs. Mary Kite Decided to Leave , This Cruel World and Go Far Having determined to leave this cruel world, Mrs. Mary Kite, who boarded with a family in Winchester village, Sunday night took a bottle of carbolic acid and drank of its contents, not sufficiently, however, to accomplish her purpose, and is now in the City Hospital, and will likely re-cover. The young lady, it appears, came to this city several weeks ago from Harrisonburg, Va., and secured employment in a local factory, where she had been working until just recently, when she became sick and remained at her boarding house. 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MAYOR IS INCLUDED Council Adopts Motion Ordering Police To Clear Out Drinking Clubs Within Thirty Days—Nearly 1,000 Drunkards Arrested During 1915 In This Model Prohibition City According to prohibitionists, the best regulated city in the United States is Rockford (Ill.). Here is the latest news from Rockford, as told by the Rockford Register Gazette: Alderman Emmet F. Wilson had his war paint on straight at the Monday night session of the city council. Fired with zeal by the remarks of Attorney R. K. Welsh at the temperance mass meet at the First Lutheran church on the subject of liquor in club rooms, his sympathy stirred by tales of poverty and neglect as a result of liquor drinking by local husbands and fathers and boiling over with righteous indignation at the apparent apathy of the administration authorities, Alderman Wilson voiced his protest against the situation in the following resolution: Red Hot Resolution. "Whereas, There is a general violation of the liquor ordinance throughout the city; and Whereas, This violation is apparently more open and flagrant in places commonly known and operated as clubs, therefore, be it "Resolved, By the adoption of this resolution that this council hereby demands that the mayor, the police department, and the legal department clean up the abominable situation which exists in this city within thirty days from date, by simply endorsing the present splendid and supreme court sustained ordinance. If after thirty days from date, said ordinance is not rigidly enforced, the council hereby agrees to refuse to vote any more salary to the above mentioned departments until such time as said mentioned ordinance is duly enforced, hereby causing the dispensing of liquors in any manner whatever in said clubs to cease." The resolution carried by a vote of 13 to 2. Chief Bargren presented the annual report of the police department. He said: "In the past year this department has done more work in suppressing the liquor traffic than ever before and as a consequence has brought sixty-one liquor violations to justice. To do this considerable money had to be spent and extra men had to be brought into service. Ralda Are Plentiful. "In past years a raid could be made with three officers, but at the present time in order to make a raid successfully it requires from eight to ten officers. I sincerely believe that if the council will appropriate sufficient money to this department for suppressing the liquor traffic the city of Rockford can be rid entirely of blind pigs and bootleggers. "The arrests for 1915 total 2,902 as against some 2,300 for the year previous. The list includes five murderers, thirty burglars, five forgers, nineteen gamblers, one perjurer, one embezzler, two rapists, four pick pockets, twenty-seven abandoners of wife or children, eighty charged with larceny and eight guilty of unlicious mischief. "There were 602 plain drunks garnored during the year and close to 300 additional drunks with "disorderly" or other charge booked against them." EMPTY TIN CANS Who would have thought that the tin can is a menace to the public health? The expert malaria investigators of the United States Public Health Service have found, however, that discarded tin cans containing rain water are breeding places for the mosquito which is the sole agent in spreading malaria. A hole in the bottom of the empty can might have resulted in the saving of a human life. Certainly it would have as- EPIDEMIC OF IMMORALITY AMONG TOPEKA'S SMALL- EST DAUGHTERS Jitney Busses and Motor Cycles Blamed In Many Cases. Wee, Painted, Flashily Drensed Maldons Part Streets at Night, With Inevitable Result Governor Arthur Capper, of Kansas, on many occasions has called attention to his state as a glorious example of a prohibition community. Prohibition in Kansas, he said, has done what the Anti-Saloon League claims it will do everywhere—reduce immorality to almost unnoticeable minimum. Governor Capper also has focused the spotlight of publicity on the youth of Kansas. Kansas girls and boys, in his disquisitions, were compared to adolescent angels. Answers Governor Capper. But an answer to Governor Capper is given by the Topeka Daily Capital, published in the city where he guides the Kansan ship of state. The Anti-Saloon clip sheet of the Methodist Episcopal Church is also published there. The Topeka Capital says: There is an epidemic of immorality among the young people of Topeka. This is the declaration of Robert Garver, assistant county attorney. As former judge of the court of Topeka, and with his experience as an assistant county attorney, his knowledge of conditions covers several years. Garver blames the jitney and the motorcycle for the downfall of many of the young girls, but the real trouble, in his opinion, goes farther. Mothers and fathers are to blame. "Walk down Kansas avenue any night," said Garver recently, "and you will see young girls 14 to 16 years old, powdered and painted and dressed to attract attention, simply displaying themselves and looking for an invitation to be picked up by some boy or man with an automobile or a motorcycle. Jitney drivers get much of the blame. See How They're Dressed. "But what is the matter with these ents? Can not bother them so much as anyone else how these children are dressed? And why do they not know where their daughters are at night or what they are doing? But instead of knowing, they are just letting their daughters run. It is time they were waking up. "It uses to be that crosscutting growing out of imoral acts of evil with young girls were an exception. They was not one such case in months at a time. Now there are five pending, all of which developed in the last two months, and there are several men which have been brought to my knowledge personally, but in which no official action has been taken. "It is time that something be done in Topeka, for something is radically wrong somewhere. Too Late! Too Late! "We, in the course of a boy's office can not take provision for injuries. We can only act when it is too late—when the harry already has been done. Such cases usually are brought to light by the city's welfare workers. But welfare workers, courts of law and prosecuting attorneys do not get at the root of the evil. "The stories these mothers and the girls themselves tell are almost unbelievable. It is hard to believe that such young girls have such experience and it is doubly hard to understand how mothers can be so blind to a daughter's actions." sisted in preventing a debilitating illness. Empty tin cans have no business about the premises anyway, but if we must so decorate our back yards, let's see to it that the can has a hole in the bottom. SALESMAN WANTED to lock after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address The Lincoln Oil Co., Cleveland, O. HUNDREDS OF TINY INFANTS KILLED BY RELATIVES' NEGLECT State Registrar Says Many Deaths Might Have Been Prevented If Parents Had Not Been Careless—Dirt,Disease and Destitution Is Said To Be the Cause of It Although the Topeka State Journal announces that the census report shows Kansas lost 18,404 population in the last five years, despite the fact that there were 40,000 births in the same period, Governor Capper insists that many citizens from other states are going to Kansas to live because of its ideal conditions. Opponents of Capper suggest that the following from the Daily Capital of Topeka may in part explain the falling off among the Kansas population: Thirteen hundred short coffins that should not have been necessary were used last year in Kansas, according to J. W. V. Deacon, state registrar of vital statistics. Ignorant and Careless. That many babies under one year of age died in Kansas through someone else's ignorance or carelessness. The infant mortality in Kansas for 1915 was 2,598, according to a statement compiled yesterday by Deacon. Half of these deaths, Deacon says, were uncalled for, unnecessary, and could have been prevented. "Fully 50 per cent of the infant deaths in Kansas were preventable," said Deacon, gazing thoughtfully at the table of dry-looking statistics in front of him. "Dirt, contamination, and disease caused these 2,596 babies to quit the fight for life. Ignorance caused the death of fully half of them." A gratifying instance of the 1915 report is that the number of baby lives wanted from infant food is on the decoxa e. There were only 332 deaths, last year from digestive diseases—caused by immune malk or other food—compared to 441 in 1914, a reduction of 25 per cent. Other cases are peculiar to infant years of 31 and 36 months, less than in the years of 31 and 36 months. The annual total record of the babies last December, according to the con's report. There were 49 infant deaths from birth and malaria in 1915, compared to 290 in 1914. The infant mortality rate for the state shows a slight reduction, 7 per cent for 1915, compared to 7.5 per cent in 1914, and 8.8 per cent in 1913. The infant mortality rate is found by comparing the number of deaths under one year to the number of births, and the more complete reports possible may account in part for the reduction in the infant mortality rate, board of health officials state. ROASTS "DRY" LEADERS. 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