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The Pioneer "HERE GOAL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINAIN, KNOWLED BY INDEPENDENCE AND UNBROUGED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882. There are times when it is impossible for a correspondent to see his story; when to see it would mean to lose it. "A report which reached Salonica today indicates that the American flag has been torn down and insulted at Monastir by Bulgarian soldiers." Later events proved the story as I sent it, was true in every detail, but some weeks later I received, in my usual batch of anonymous correspondence, a letter from the United States "A Bulgar Girl," in which I was severely criticised for having sent such a story without having myself witnessed the incident. "You war correspondents are always telling us what somebody else has seen and did you. Why don't you go out and see things yourselves?" wrote "A Bulgar Girl." Her question was a fair one. But in the instance to which she referred, no correspondent would have tried to break through the strong line of her Bulgarian brothers' advance to attempt to witness an incidents that has already happened. There was a little coffee house at Monastir, where a few of us spent our evenings in those days of November, 1915, when the Bulgars were just about to pounce on that quaint and ancient city and we were just about to leave it. The door opened late one night, and when the blast of fresh air had blown away the fog of Servian tobacco smoke, we saw a group of travel-stained men and wo- UNITED PRESS MAN TELLS HOW HE GOT MANY WAR STORIES IS THE EVENING WORLD'S CORRESPONDENT ON THE BATTLE FRONT. BROKE THROUGH LINES OF THE BULCARS EN ROUTE TO SALONICA. MANY INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT EXPERIENCES ON THE BATTLE FIELDS Do you remember the story William G. Shepherd cabled to The World through the United Press from Salonica, telling how the oncoming Bulgars looted the Red Cross station at Monastir and trampled the stars and stripes underfoot? And haven't you sometimes wondered how Shepherd got that story and so many others before any opposition correspondent or newspaper knew about them? Shepherd tells the detailed history of that story and a lot of other interesting things about his experiences on the European battlefields in Everybody's magazine for February, which will be published tomorrow; and here it is: A young man of the vague nationality of the Levant came into my room one winter day in Salonica, wildeyed and covered with mud and the marks of Macedonian travel. "The Bulgars have got Monastir," he said, "but I broke through their lines, and I have been traveling on foot five days to reach Salonica. When they came into town they broke into the American Red Cross store room, toore down the American flag, and drew a sword on the American Red Cross men in charge, and made them turn over a lot of Red Cross flour to them." The story was a long and exciting one, but I had known him in Monastir, and knew that I could believe him. Therefore I put the story of the attack on the cable, and Americans were reading it within a few hours. I introduced my story by saying: Department of Archives he BE SOALL THE PRE 1882. MART DALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, men file in through the entrance, their faces strained but smiling. "We come from Ushkub," one of the travelers explained. "We have come by horse and on foot. The roads are lined with horrors, and it is only by God's grace that we are here. All the folk in Servia are fleeing from the Bulgars." Up to the north of us, a hundred miles, say, we learned men, women, and children were dying from exposure and hunger, and such horrors were occurring as the world had not known for many centuries. Up there somewhere in the ruck we knew there was an American newspaper man who had been seeing it all. Would he scoop us? Ought we to go and see the thing, with our own eyes? I telegraphed the story of the travelers to Athens, where it was put on the cables for the United States. This was the first story that reached the outside world of the Gethesemane through which the Servian nation was passing. Then I went to bed to think it out. The next morning we went out of the city along the road to see if more refugees from Servia were coming. We met them, a small group, tired at most to exhaustion, hungry, dirty, and sleepy, after twenty days of hardin. They were too worried or too h at reaching safety to talk into about what they had seen. He helped them to stir up the road back to Monk's hour later, we got their coffee house, after they etaed themselves with food and put the food in The London evening.ried seven-column headings of the Servian hegira me heard-of display or new land. I decided not to go into the tains. The coffee house at Monaster was the place for me. There I get a new story daily with all the est developments. Monastir, but of was the end of the telegraph line. "Always stick to the end of the cable," was one of Richard H. Davis maxims. "Somebody will ways come along to you with a NEWSPAPERS AND ELECTIONS Newspapers, their principles, help political and economic, are a great many times, like numerous people misunderstood and they, therefore come in for considerable unjust criticism. The Register experienced this during the recent campaign when it was criticised by well-meaning Democrats for accepting political advertising of a nature alleged to have been at that time detrimental to the Democratic cause. These gentlemen, sincere and much concerned, but no more so than the Register, in their efforts for party success, merely forgot that the Register is a newspaper first, and a party organ second, and thereby misunderstood its position in the community. The Register was not the only paper in the country criticised lightly for the same "offense." There were many others, but they, too, had been placed in a false light and their "mission on earth" or "object in life," which is, above all things, to give the news—and advertising is "news." for it informs the people as to what the advertiser has to say about that which he is advertising—had been misconstrued. No better illustration of The Regis ter's ideals in the way of legislation regulating the handling of political advertising, can be furnished than that given in the recommendations of Senator Reed, of Missouri, when he opened anent the new federal bill concerning campaign expenditures and contributions, now under considera tion in the United States seate. The bill, in part, provides: 9 BILL WILL OPEN PRIVATE ROADS BILL WILL OPEN PRIVATE ROADS Senator Ben Rosenbloom Backs Measure That Affects the Rights of Property. Before the senate committee on roads and navigation is a popping measure, labeled senate bill No. 78 which is attracting wide attention for miners, operators, manufacturers and employees, and while containing only one section proposes sweeping changes in the present law relating to the use of private property. The bill was introduced by senator Rosenbloom and has the support of many of the labor leaders of the state. It proposes that all roads or streets opened by landowners or lessees for the use of employees, and those having lawful business, with them shall be considered as public highways. If enacted into law the measure would open to the use of the public all highways leading to the newer mills and manufacturing establishments of the state. The text of the measure follows: "All roads and streets opened or got over grounds or lands owned by owners, lessees, assignes or occu- pers thereof, for the use of and for the purpose of impress and egress or customer servants or lessees or owner lessees, assignes or occu- pers of such grounds or lands, in go- to and from any mine, minin- ister, manufacturing or other estab- lment, works or enterprise, small to such employees, servants or los- eses and those having lawful busi- ness with them, be considered public high ways, and the said employees, servants and lessees and their families, and all those having lawful business with them, shall have the right to the free unmolested and unobstructed use of such roads and streets in the pursoi "BLUE SKY" LAWS CONSTITUTIONAL Supreme Court Reverses State Courts in Handing Down Opinion Today. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—The supreme court today reversed the state courts which held unconstitutional the "Blue Sky" laws of Ohio, Michigan and South Dakota. The cases were first heard in the state courts Justice McReynolds dissented from the opinion. "No person shall withdraw or threaten to withdraw his patronage or advertising from such publication for the purpose of incurring its attitude on political questions." It also adds that if any advertiser so does or threatens, he is subject to a $10,000 fine and two years' imprisonment. Furthermore, any newspaper which accepts the advertisement allows the elements of one party not accept all the equivalent advertisements of another parties, under the same penalty. Press. VIRGINIA DEBT LOOMS UP BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE THIS IS THE MOST PERPLEXING SUBJECT NOW BEFORE THE LAWMAKERS. SOME MEMBERS, FAVOR OUTRIGHT REPUDIATION, SAYING DEBT CAN'T BE COLLECTED. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 22, becoming up as the most important subject awaiting the consideration of the legislature, the Virginia debt question is giving the state's lawmaking body serious concern. The special message of Governor thatself dealing with the subject submitted to the secrete last Thursday and the house Friday, has served to bring the question to the front, where it probably will remain until acted upon in some way. So far there has been no crystallization of sentiment among the solons for any one plan. Widely divergent views are entertained by the members of the legislature as to the proper course to pursue and it probably will require some time to evolve a plan of meeting the question. the bond is growing in the legal determination that predicts a compromise can be obtained between the state and the certificate holders, especially when the letter realize that the people of the state are very averse to paying a sum two-thirds of which represents interest on a debt only determined after 50 years of doubt. If the judgment could be compromised as $5, 40,000 or thereabouts, it is regarded as possible that the legislature might be willing to provide for liquidation on that basis. As long as the opinion prevails, as it does, that West Virginia has an equitable part in Virginia's unlimited assets the claim for which West Virginia has been unable to prosecute as Gosenapor Hatfield points out, the legislature will not be inclined to suction a settlement of the judgment on its present basis without further effort as suggested by Governor Hatfield; that is, by authorizing the court for this sale to ask for a rehearing before the Supreme Court on the question of interest and also to ask for a retraining order against Virginia until such a time as West Virginia might be authorized to sue in the Court of Claims for her proportion of the funds derived from the sale of funds in the northwest territory ceded by Virginia to the Federal Government, or without an effort toward making a compromise Hatfield Against Repudiation. The Governor, in his message, un- convincingly opposed repudiation, ra- keting the position that the state can cannot afford to do that. In that posi- tion of course, he differs with judge Freese and Judge Brown, of Wood who hold to the view that the Su- rance Court cannot force payment. The question is raised by the Gover- nor and by others whether a bood Repudiation, outright repudiation finds favor among only a compulsively few in the lawmaking body although it is understood that some who advocate such a course of action are preening to circulate a petition pledging the slippers to end court such a program. It is doubtful "weave" it such a movement would mean much bendway, because even those who are inclined to favor repudiation will be slow to commit them actions in such a course. Looking to Comfortise." NO.46 issue to liquidate the debt claim would be permissable under the present constitution without first submitting the bond issue to a vote of the people of the state. It has been proposed by Senator Roenbloom that bonds be issued by the state, secured by a water power franchise or franchise; for a term of years. That finds some favor in case the state should be called upon to settle for the amount as last fixed by the United States Supreme Court. Owing to the extreme importance of the debt claim it will be one of the last subjects which will be disposed of by the legislature. MAKING PROGRESS WITH RAILROAD Winchester Line Expected to Be In Operation By Next September. Despite the wintry weather that has been prevailing for some time, work is progressing rapidly on the construction of the Winchester and Western railroad, extending from Winchester to Wardonville, Hardy county, W. Va. Five miles of grading was completed Saturday, and work on another section will be begun Monday morning, President William B. Corwell, of the Lost City Lumber Company, by which the road was undertaken and financed, says that the line will be in operation by September 1 next. The railroad will enter Winchester over the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, tapping the latter about one mile south of the town. The railroad company has purchased a large three-story brick building in the business section of Winchester, which will be remodeled and used as general offices. HENRY GRADY WEBB WILL BE BROUGHT HERE FOR TRIAL BURG FROM KANSAS CITY. WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED AT. TENDING A MEDICAL SCHOOL UNDER ALIAS OF SMITH. UNDER ALIAS OF SMITH. REPORT IS HE WILL BE BROUGHT HERE AT NEXT TERM OF FED- ERAL COURT FOR TRIAL. Henry Grady Webb, alleged to be one of the bandits who held up and robbed B. & O. train No. 1 of $100, 600 in unsigned currency near Central Station, October 8, 1915, is confined in the Wood county jail, at Parkersburg, having arrived there Saturday morning on E. & O. train No. 2, accompanied by Deputy Uni- tited States Marshal Wheeler and Post- office Inspectors Lemon and Cham- bers, from Kansas City, where he was arrested while attending a. med- ical college in that city under the alias of Smith. Webb, it is understood, will be held at Parkersburg until the term of court convenes here. Special guards have been placed around him as was done with the others arrested in connection with the affair. One armed guard watches him during the day and another at night. It is reported that Webb as he stepped from the train and was met by officers at Parkersburg seemed very calm and looking about him quoted a verse about the weather. He appeared very nonchalant and joked with the officers who had him in charge. The Pioneer Press Entered at Postoffice, Martinsburg West Virginia at second-class matter One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869. Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY JAN. 27. 1917. We give the fullest credit to the Dudley Baptist Church for refusing, by a practically unanimous vote, to accept the resignation of its pastor. The "rule or rulu" is the destruction of any church, and if Dr. Martyn had done nothing else than eliminate this feature, he is deserving of a niche in our local Hall of Fame. --- As carried on, the Mann slave act is as black a curse as can be found on the statute books. And the absurdity of men sent to Congress to legislate for the voters to confess that—"No member would dare to offer an amendment." We are never going to be a happy nation until the voters combine, and compel men aspiring for Congress to pledge themselves to please and obey the electorate." Now that our Legislature is in session it can endear itself to all decent people by amending the pistol toting law. Maryland only sends her pistol victims to jail for 60 days. West Virginia sends hers for six months at hard labor. As the law stands, it makes it easy for thugs to rob, for they, inspite of the law carry pistols and decent people in obedience to law go without them. Decent citizens should be allowed to carry pistols, but thugs and loafers should not. DR. MARTYN RESIGNS: At the regular business meeting of the Dudley Baptist Church, held last Monday evening, Rev. F. F. Martyn tendered his resignation as pastor. He gave as his reason his desire to retire from the active ministry and return to private lifg. The church, by a practically unanimous vote, refused to accept the resignation and expressed its fuller confidence in their pastor and in his ability and worth as a preacher and leader. Dr. Martyn insisted that the resignation be accepted, to go into effect at once; but again the church refused to release him under the three months' notice, hoping that meantime some pressure may be brought to bear to lead him to reconsider. LESSON FROM THE REVIVAL It is a good thing for the community that the revival is ended. Were no other result produced, it has taught three important lessons. It has shown the self-confessed weakness of a ministry that has to send off for an evangelist to come and deliver so many dollars worth of gospel message, which the local ministry is specifically hired and paid for to deliver. It has emphasized the wicked want of economy in paying out a hundred dollars of the people's hard earned money to sweating, ranting preachers, while the home churches are strained to pay their honest debts and keep up the salaries of their almost useless pastors. And it has pointed out the absurdity of trying to save the worldly who are groping in the dark, when "the righteous" do not let their light shine--because they have no light to shine. SOME NEEDS. The needs of colored Martinsburg loom up largely before us. We see them as scarcely ever before—tinctly, vividly, sadly. After much consideration, two feelings are very strong upon us. One is a deeper conviction than ever before of the serious defences of the Martinsburg Negro in the aggregate; that is, as a whole people. The other feeling is a desire and a renewed determination to bend our every effort, personally and through the Pioneer Press, to lift Negro Martinsburg from the principalship of a bastard-father principal, to a high-toned race-oving Christian gentleman—an absolute need in this city and state. First an worst is the lack of unity. In this we seem to be the butt of ridicule everywhere. Then comes the lack of pride, which keeps us low in the social, commercial and religious scale. Then there is the lack of federation, especially in religious and civic work. As a consequence, we not only make no progress, but we are losing the ground we held. But we have not space to enumerate; we want only to say this: the months lying ahead are going to be trying months for us. Much, if not all, depends upon ourselves whether another year finds us isolated as well as segregated, beyond the respect and confidence of the white people, racially torn asunder, our churches struggling, gasping, dying, and darkness before us. We are no pessimist—no calamity howler. We only read the signs of the times. We sound a warning here and now. The signs are very clear. Negroes of Martinsburg, we have got to come together in spirit and in union, until we are one - one in inspiration, one in determination, one in consummation. And if you mean right, the Pioneer Press will be with you. ```markdown ``` THE LOST AND SAVED We have been repeatedly accused of every moral sin from infidelity or hypocrisy. If to believe in a good, just God, and in sinful souls that God longs to bring back into harmony with Himself—if that is infidelity, we plead guilty. If to hate a dirty ministry and a corrupt, commercialized church, and conscientiously work for purity—if that is hypocrisy, we are chief of the hypocrites. But with all our crimes, we have never dared presume to say who of our fellow men were lost and who saved. We believe that the province of God alone. We question the right of the hired evangelist to come here and line up a number of children and publicly announce them "saved" on his mere "I say so." We challenge his impudence in expressing his sorrow and offering his prayer for the "lost" who would not accept his invitation to a money getting jackleg religion. Frankly, we had rather take our chance before the Judgment Bar of the Almighty with the man of the world who lives consistent with his worldliness, than with the man of the church who lives inconsistent with his profession. We do not and cannot understand the ways of providence: but we have serious doubts whether that innocent child would be lost whom the paid evangelist spits and "hollers" to save, and that scandal-monger will be saved whom he holds up as an example to the lost. NATIONAL HEALTH WEEK. The National Negro Business League is about to send out its annual call for the observance of "Health Week." It is expected that every pastor of a colored church in America will read the call to his congregation and urge upon his people the observance of the suggestions offered by the National Committee. We hope that no poster in this city will fail to certify its social obligation. Saeed Almineen. For if there is any one thing God Almighty requires of His children it is Health. "What I know not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?" "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God." "You reasonable service." the Lord, or who shall serve in it holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart." Cleanliness is not only next to, but equal with, godliness. And cleanliness can only result from observing the fundamental laws of health. Most of us realize the importance of personal cleanliness clean clothes and clean bodies. But equally important are our surroundings. People are largely the product of their environment. Those who live in the midst of dirt will be dirty—physically or morally—or both. Adversely, those whose surroundings are clean will be clean, even though they may be poor. Poverty is no excuse for dirt or disease. Hence the emphasis while the National Health Committee upon the cleaning up of our surroundings. Therefore, we supplement the call of the League, an urge every Negro resident to owe. Health Week by a general clean up of person, house, grounds and surroundings. The result will be two of first, health. Every individual and garbage pile is a one-cure disease; and of those particular kinds of disease which are present to the Negro, several resuscitations. Then, let us get ready to c up. Not only will it bring in epidemic of health; not only... I make us self-respecting; but it w ecommand and direct the respect on white neighbors. And thus will e effectively answered their stock argument that neighborhoods rp down and property depreciates with the invasion of Negro residents. So, down with Dirt, the tyrant Up with King Health, rightful hea to the throne! Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tonic FOR SALE BY M. DRUGISTS F4 Those in This Country Send Over $2,000,000 to Japan in Ten TOKIO, Jan. 24.- Japanese emigrants in America remitted $2,216 into their homeland during the first lawaii sent $80,1454 and those in Canada $827,056. American accounts for 1913 together amounted total of $5,481,000, 100. According to a statement issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Do- sports commerce, of the Department Commerce, this exceeds the total by $1,923,000,000 and the total for 1913 by $2,997,000,000. The reports for December are announces is $521,000,000, which exceeds the previous high monthly total by $5 000,000. The December average for the five years previous was $268,000, 000. imports in 1916 aggregated 2,390 million dollars, also a record total. For 1915 the total was 1,779 million and 1912, the previous record year 1,618 million December imports were valued at 205 million dollars, indicating a continuation of the recovery which set in during September last following the sharp decline from the large total of 246 million for June. The December, 1915, total was 172 million and the December average from 1911 to 1915, inclusive, 153 million dollars. The year's export balance was 3. 1989 million dollars, as compared with 1. 776 million for 1915 and 2. 456 for the five year period from 1910 to 1914, inclusive. The December favorable trade balance was 316 million dollars, compared with 187 million for December, 1915, and 131 million for December, 1914. The net inward gold movement for a year was 530 million dollars, also new record. It compares with a net inward gold movement of 421 million in 1915 and a net outward gold movement of 165 million in 1914. Gold imports in 1915 aggregated 682 and 57 million in 1918. The exporting gold exports were 156 million, 31 million, and 223 million, respectively. December gold imports are the largest for any month of the year being 158 million, as reported in December, 1918, and then in December, 1919. D. D. exports accounted to 25 million in high point for December, and 191 thousand dollars for December, 1919. Of the monthly exports 711,111 and international for the year, 51,000 were the exportation shown in the member imports of the previous ear. RYAN APPROVES MOVE FOR PEACE the Great Commoner Is Opposed to Any Entangling Alliances. MADISION, Wis., Jan. 24.—"The president's message is a wonderfully frequent appeal to the nations at war." William Jennings Bryan said in an interview here. "In so far as the president's message suggests terms of agreement, it is entirely sound and reflects what I believe to be an almost unanimous sentiment. "But I dissent entirely from the proposition that this nation should join in a movement to effect peace in Europe. "If I know the sentiment of the American people, it is inconceivable that they should be willing to put the American army and navy at the command of an international council which would necessarily be controlled by European nations, and allow that council to decide for us when we would go to war. "I have more faith in our people to help them by example than I have in our country to help them by indorsing the European plan of relying upon forces and terrorism." "In the President's appeal to them, he resents the philosophy of brotherhood and cooperation and this is inconsistent with the proposition that it be backed up by a larger display of force. In other words the President has sown wheat and tares together. I hope that the Senate will approve of the wheat and reject the tares." DOE GULLY MAN IS HELD ON CHARGE Shipaway and Louis Mealous Given Hearing By Commissioner Downs Today. Before United States Commissioner Harry A. Downs this morning W. T. Shipaway and Louis Mealous, both patients of Doe Gully, Morgan county were given a hearing on the charge of having broken the seal and en- tered a railroad car near their homes several days ago, from which they are said to have stolen a barrel of red lead. After hearing the evidence Commissioner Downs held Shipaway for the term of Federal court to be held at the office in May, and had him retrailed to fall in default of a bond of 31.00%, while Mealons, who is only 17 years of age, was released, he earlier proven that he only assisted in rolling the barrel down a hill, and did not enter the car. and is unseen to having carriage, the red lead in sacks from the barrel to a house nearby, but said that it was dark and he and Shipaway thought it was flour. The evidence revealed the fact that Shipaway is an old hand at the business, having previously entered a car at the same place and carried away 50 pounds of sugar and much coffee. The two were arrested last night by H. S. Marshall E. W. Athey and B. & O. Detectives H. D. Schmidt and B. L. Prince, of Cumberland, and brought to the county jail here, where Shipaway will be held until taken to Wheeling. ALL FACTORIES ARE STOPPED BY FLOOD Thousands Are Thrown Out of Work in the Allegheny and Monongahela Sections. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 24.—Thousands of mon have been thrown out of work and nearly all big industrial plants have ceased operation as a result of one of the biggest floods in years sweeping down the Allegheny and Ohio states, wrecking heavy damage. The loss is heaviest in the Turtle Creek and along the Allegheny and where hundreds of families occult low territory were driven in or ground. Keesport a water shortage is the entrenched. It became necessary to shut down the water works on account of the rising flood, and the supply is almost exhausted. The flood has been somewhat checked by the cold wave, which arrived last night, and today the danger is almost over. The men thrown out of employment at the big mills have been put to work removing the debris. UNCLE SAM WIL BUILD PAPER HOUSE Bid for Paper This Year is a Million Dollars More Than it Was a Year Ago. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — Hit where it hurts most—in the pocketbook—Uncle Sam will probably build himself a million dollar paper manufacturing plant. The bid for paper this year was a million dollars more than a year ago. POTOMAC RIVER IS FAR ABOVE NORMAL Due to Heavy Rains River Is Rising —Ice Goes Out Without Doing Anly Damage. The Potomac river at various places has been steadily rising and is now six feet above normal, and continually rising, due to the heavy rains and melting snow. Near Marlowe a large amount of ice has been washed to the banks. A large ice gorge above Dam No. 5 broke yesterday and passed Williamsport without any damage. Mr. Dewey Fox, of Bardane, W. was a pleasant caller at the less office Friday. Miss Caroline Duvall, of Frederik, Md., is visiting her sister Mrs. H. Norwood, at 516 W. Martin Greet. Rev. Mr. Summerville, newspaper man and revivalist, is holding orth at Mt. Zion M. E. Church this week. We understand he is a very effective speaker. SALES MEN WANTED to solicit orders for lubricating oils, reases and paints Salary or Commission. Address THE HARVEY DIL CO., Cleveland, O. Mr. James J. Thompson, well known chef and former restaurant proprietor in Berkeley, here for a few days, having come greet to join his family who luckily escaped with the lives when the big fire occurred in Berkeley Springs the first of last week. Mr. Thompson looks well, shows he has been enjoying some of the unprecedented prosperity that all progressive Americans are now incident to and informs us that he is holding down a very lucrative position as chef in the "Senate," one of the most famous hotels in Pennsylvania which is located in Harrisonburg. PROHIBITIONISTS IN ENGLAND WANT NO LIQUOR AT ALL BRITISH "DRY" PARTY WON'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL IT IS NATION-WIDE. WANT TO SEE THE WHOLE COUN TRY ON THE OLD-TIME "WATER WAGON." PROHIBITION ADVOCATES POINT TO RUSSIA AS A FINE LONDON, Jan. 24, (by mail.)—British prohibitionists won't be satisfied until the entire nation boards the water-wagon for the duration of the war and the demobilization period. The gradual paring-down of "open" hours for drinking is not enough; they want absolute prohibition of all liquor and a ban on its manufacture. Here are some of the striking comparisons advertized by the Sterngth $ o^{\circ} $ Britain Movement, demanding abolition of drink: During the war enough grain has been used in liquor manufacture to make two billion quarters loaves of bread. Breweries and distilleries use enough sugar to supply the army. Though Germany has sunk 2,300,000 tons of British shipping, the liquor industry uses 1,800,000 measurement tons a year to import raw materials. The Board of Trade withdrew large numbers of skilled men from the army to carry on ship construction, but the liquor traffic could release enough artisans to make 800,000 tons in six months. Coal shortage compelled the withdrawal of 11,000 miners from the army to resume mining while liquor manufacturer consumes the output of 6,000 miners. The government passed the workers' customary holidays but loss of time directly traceable to alcohol equals a three-month vacation by the entire nation. Prohibition people never tire of pointing to Russia as an example of what the water wagon can do. They joined in the general outcry against the Asquith cabinet, daily demanding that the ministers resign and place the conduct of the war in more efficient hands and are now preparing to go before the people in the parliamentary elections, if cabinet ac- tion does not remove the alleged menace. In an election the liquor matter would indirectly become a referendum as the people would be asked to elect or defeat candidates according to their advocacy of prohibition or opposition to it. NEW YORK WORLD ASKS PRESIDENT ABOUT CIVIL WAR WANTS TO KNOW IF "PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY" BROUGHT THAT WAR TO CONCLUSION. SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, BUT IMPOSED NO CONQUERERS' TERMS UPON THE VANQUISH-ER, SAYS THE WORLD. NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Was "peace without victory" the conclusion of the civil war? the New York World, a strong administration supporter declared in interpreting this phase of President Wilson's senate speech, which has aroused much criticism in the entente countries. Foreign editorial comment asserted with emphasis that Lincoln would not have listened to Wilson's proposal. "The North completely crashed the military power of the Southern Confederacy," the World's editorial said. "It made an end of slavery and secession, but imposed no conquerers' term upon the vanquished. The Southern leaders were restored to full citizenship without pains of penalties. "Peace without victory," the World further declares "places no limitations on the extent or completeness of military occupations, but emphatically affirms that the terms of peace are not to be dictated by the success of such opportunes." Wants Debate Hurried. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. (By Charl J. Bender.)—Declaring that the resident's address to the senate was the "most important ever made by an executive of the United States," Senator Cummins immediately, when the senate convened today, demanded action at once on the resolution, calling for a debate on the speech next Monday. On the other hand Senator Sherman, in a bitter denunciation of the President's address, declared it to be a "stump speech from the throne and forestalling public opinion in an attempt to make the senate accept any treaty he might make." GIVING OLDER MEN A CHANCE. Fifteen large employers of labor in Chicago have decided to stop discriminating against men because of their age. In other words, they have "thrown down the bars," and in future will give men an opportunity of making good, regardless of how long they have been here on earth. And it ought to cause great rejoicing. Years ago it was hard for a young man to get a job. He was discriminated against because of his youth. Men of experience were desired, men who were getting along well in years. Then came a change, and young men were sought. The rules were positive; only men under a certain age were employed, and the age was unreasonably young. Men of 35 or 40 were "turned down," and men of 40 or 50 could not even get a respectful hearing at the employment office. But again the pendulum is swinging toward the men of years. Thus Chicago employers claim it will greatly relieve the labor situation to give older men a chance, now that there is such a demand for labor. But they go even farther than that, and claim that the older men are actually worth more. In many instances, than younger or men. In other words, they have come to the conclusion that many a man has been denied the right to make a living because of his years when, if he had been given a chance, he could have earned something for himself and much for his employers. Dayton (Ohio) News. INCOLN'S BIRTHDAY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 The anniversary of the birth of braham Lincoln will be observed in the schools of West Virginia, Mon- day, February 12. So far as possible a uniform program will be used. The department of schools has suggested a program, made out by J. F. Marsh and J. L. Ramsey, of the department, which has been sent to principals and teachers. EIGHT-HOUR BILL IS FAR-REACHING EIGHT-HOUR BILL IS FAR-REACHING Bill, if Passed, Would Have Much Effect on Employment of Labor CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 24. Regulating the number of hours women shall be employed in certain occupations, House Hill No. 32, which has been pending in the committee on labor since January 16, when it was introduced by Weiss, of Ohio county, prohibits any female from being employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, public lodging house, apartment house, hospital, place of amusement or restaurant, telephone, or telegraph establishment or office or by any express or transportation company in the state, more than eight hours during any one day or more than forty-eight hours in any one week. A penalty for the infraction of the law as proposed, if not less than $25 nor more than $50, or imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or both, is imposed by the bill in question. Along somewhat similar lines but broader in its scope, is Senate Bill No 43, introduced by Senator Godbey and now pending before the senate committee on railroads. The Godbey bill prohibits the working of any person male or female, for more than eight hours in any mine, mill, quarry, factory, printing establishment, manufacturing or mercantile establishment, or in the operation of any steam or electric railroad or any telegraph or telephone lines or exchanges or in the operation of any coke works or upon any pipe lines or in the operating force of any public service corporation or in the public service of any municipality. It is provided that the act shall not apply to or in any way affect labor or service by the year, month or week, nor is the act to apply to farm labor. The fine imposed for violation of the act as proposed is fixed at from $50 to $500 and each day's violation is fixed as a separate offense. SCHWAB CUTS BIG 'MELON' IN PROFITS Earnings of Corporation Last Year Amounted to $61,717, 329. NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—One of the largest melons ever divided by an in- dustrial corporation was announced yesterday when the directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation increas- ed the common stock dividend from 7 1-2 per cent to 10 per cent quarter- ly, or at the rate of 40 per cent annually as compared with 20 per cent annually heretofore, recommended a 200 per cent common stock dividend or bonus, and also offered the com- mon stockholders the right to sub- scribe to $15,000,000 new stock at pos- on the basis of share for share of presen- tent holdings. This action was made possible by a proposed increase of the common stock from $15,000,000 to $60,000,000. The plan regarding the new stock is to be submitted to shareholders at a special meeting February 14. Inasmuch as Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the corporation, and his friends are believed to control the present stock issue, it is virtually assured that the proposition as a whole will be approved. $61,717,329 Earned Earnings of the Borthchem Steel Corporation for the year 1916 amounted to $61,717,329. Deducting interest charges of $3,772,575 and charging off $14,350,785 to depreciation and depletion, the aggregate net addition to the surplus is $43,593,968, making a total surplus on December 31, 1916, of $69,370,198. Orders on hand at the beginning of the present year amounted to approximately $193,500,000, exceeding those of a year ago by about $18,000,000. BODY IS TAKEN FROM SIX INCHES OF WATER Kesner's Neck Was Broken When Autmobile Tumbled Over Into New Creek. The body of Perry Kesner, 26 year old, son of M. S. Kesner, who was drowned Monday afternoon in New Creek, two miles from Keyser, when his automobile dashed over the embankment into the stream, was re covered yesterday morning. It was found that Kesner's neck was broken. The body lay in about six in ches of water. Kesner, who was a son of M. S. Kesner, Alaska, W. Va was an employee of the Pullman gr rage, Keyser. He lost control of the machine which swerved on the lea road and pitched over the embank ment. WOMAN NAMED CLERK OF SENATE COMMITTEE The Foreign Relations Committee Thinks a Woman Can Keep a Secret. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Can a woman keep a secret? The Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate thinks so. The committee has chosen for the first time in history a woman as the clerk of the committee. This is an important post. Her name is Miss Jessie L. Simpson business woman extra ordinary. Her nomination carries with it the privilege of the floor of the Senate enjoyed by but one other woman in history, Miss Léona Wells, clerk of the military committee. Miss Simpson was nominated for the slickship by Chairman Stone and received the unanimous vote of the committee, of which she has been acting clerk for six months. AGRICULTURAL NEWS FROM FARM BUREAU County Agent Branson Calls the People's Attention to Extension School, Etc. President--L. D. VanMetre. Secretary--J. H. Sperow. Treasurer--E. L. Henshaw. County Agent--D. P. Branson. An Extension School of four days will be held at Shopherdstown, beginning January 29. Messrs Auchtert, Stemple and Cave, all specialists along their lines, will be the instructors. All farmers and any others who may desire to attend are urged to be present with their note books by 9 a. m. Those of you who attended last year remember what a treat you had so get busy and bring your neighbors along this time in order that they may too hear some of the good things. Don't forget the extension school which will be held in the city hall, Northinsburg, beginning March 6, and lasting four days. The county agent spent Mondow with the president, I. D. VanMetre visiting a few of the farmers living in the Kearneysville and Vancevosville section. The state agent, Nat T. Frame, arrived in town, Wednesday morning and will spend the remainder of the week with the county agent visiting different section of the county. The regular monthly meeting of the Farm Bureau will be held in the county agent's office at 1.30 p. m. Saturday, February 3. All who are interested in the buying of clover seed and fertilizer for spring use are urged to be present and to be able to give their order at that time. Some other important business will also be taken up. The Vancelesville Club will meet Wednesday evening, January 21. All members of the club are urged to be present as there is to be some important business transacted. The county agent is a stranger in the county and would be glad to have you call in his office on any Saturday. If you see him in your section or the county, whistle to him and have him stop for he is anxious to know where you live. Any suggestions which you may have to offer for the betterment of farm conditions will be greatly appreciated by him. PEOPLE SHOULD READ HEALTH BULLETINS And Follow Their Advice There Would Be Less Sickness and Fewer Deaths. Health department officials express the belief that if more persons read the health bulletin and heeded them, that there would be a decided reduc- tion in doctor bills, less illness and fewer deaths. Some of the injuncti- tions contained in a recent bulletin are as follows: "Don't overeat, don't drink intoxicants; sleep with your window open; bathe every day; always wash your mouth before eating; keep your mouth in good condition; take a walk every day; don't worry over things you can't help; leave patent medicines alone. Have children begin following thees rules and don't overlook them yourselves." WAR HAS INJURED ITALY VERY MUCH Report Shows That Present European Horror Has Put Big Dent in Pocketbook. By JOHN H. HEARLEL (United Press Staff, Correspondent) (United Press Staff Correspondent) ROME, Italy, Jan. 24.—(By mail) — The budget reports for Italy's two years of war today shows that in the financial year 1918-16 Italy spent $2, 125,000, of which $652,000,000 were for ordinary and $1,473,000,000 for war expenses. Ordinarily there would have been a surplus of $92,000,000. The war ministry accounted for $1,398,000. Needy families of soldiers received $88, 000,000 of this amount. The ministry of marine spent $75,000,000. Other items directly due to the war included $51,000,000 for issuing and paying interest on three war loans; $4,200,000 for transportation and helping immigrants to repatriate; $1,400,000 to place the Italian Red Sea colony in a state of defense and $1,200,000 for the fishermen of the Adriatic coast. The 1915-16 budget closed with a deficit of $152,500,000. In 1916-17 the army budget was increased by $900,000,000 and the navy by $63,000,000. The payment of interest on war loans amounted to $57,000,000; $4,400,000 went toward repatriated Italians; $1,000,000 toward strengthening further the Red Sea colony; $900,000 to the fishermen; $300,000 to war orphans. The total expense was $1,796,400,000 and the deficit, $652,400,000. The general economic conditions may be considered almost as good. Probably, much less distress has been caused by the war in Italy than in other belligerent countries. Since the war's beginning Italians have worked more, produced more and saved more than ever before. The population's thriftiness and toll are proven by the fact that, while the savings banks had $1,519,000,000 on deposit on June 30, 1914, the present deposits considerably exceed $1,600,000,000. This, in spite of the higher cost of living and the war loans, which tax absorbed millions of dollars of small savings. Besides, the remittances from emigrants have almost ceased, as there are now only 35,000 emigrants abroad, compared with 380,000 in 1913. The 1916 imports exceeded exports by $664,400,000. FEW PERSONS SU9CEPTIBLE TO INFANTILE PARALYSIS Dr. H. B. Wood, of the state department of health, is authority for the declaration that very few persons are susceptibly to infantile paralysis, but that the ravages of the malady are not confined to children by any means. Every case that has been reported to the department is kept on a chart which shows that by taking immediate steps to stop the travelling of children that the disorder is always kept confined to a small area. BABY LION, ROASTED A DELICIOUS MEAL Uncle of T. R. and 17 Guests Partake of Unusual Dinner in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—S. M. Roosevelt, uncle of the colonel, and seventeen guests partook Saturday night at the Beaux Arts of a dinner at which the piece de resistance was supplied by a baby lion, roasted whole. Mr. Roosevelt and his guests, among them Ben All Haggin, the artist, pronounced the lion, quarters, chops, saddle and rack, to be delicious, and obtained considerable satisfaction apparently out of the fact that a dish so unusual had been part of their meal. Mr. Roosevelt suggested that Andre Bustanoby serve something entirely original in the way of food. Mr. Bustanoby bought himself the baby lion, which misguided friends had sent his nephew, Andre Darodivich, for a Christmas present. The lion was growing at an alarming rate and developing a penchant for rugs, draperies and cushions. His appetite, even as Mr. Roosevelt was speaking, was being satisfied with a rug whose coloring had taken his fancy. So Mr. Bustanoby suggested baby lion. COLONEL M'GRAW'S TRIAL MARCH 15 Grafton Man Must Answer to Felony Charge of Misappropriating Funds. The trial of Col. John T. McGraw of Grafton, upon a felony indictment charging misappropriation of funds of the Grafton Bank, which was transferred from the Taylor County Circuit Court, was set for trial in the court at Elkins at the end of the docket, which probably will be about March 15. This case has attracted wide interest and was transferred to Randolph county following three days spent last October in an effort to select a jury to try the case. The bond of Colonel McGraw, who was for many years Democratic National Committeeman from West Virginia, was fixed at $15,000. PARCEL POST NOW FOUR YEARS OLD Officials of This Department of Postal Service Proud of Record Made. Just four years have elapsed since the parcel post law, after prolonged controversy and debate, went into effect on January 1, 1913. From the beginning the service was liberally patronized by the public, and the volumes of business justified the department in making important reductions in the postage rates on August 15, 1913, and again on January 1, 1914 At the present time, it is said by officials, the number of parcels handled in the mails is three times as great at the commencement of the service and the weight of the parcel mail be increased sevenfold. Many difficulties quite naturally, have been encountered in adjusting the facilities of the service to the proper conduct of the parcel post business. New methods of distribution and delivery have been devised in order that this merchant disc mail might be handled quickly and safely and without retarding the progress of the other classes of mail Experts of the Post Office Department who have charge of this line of work, and who are justly proud of their success, say that the benefits of the parcel post to the public are self evident; but they also point out that it has benefited the postal service at the same time. The increasing volume of the mail has necessitated, as the increasing revenue justified, service improvements all along the line. The effect on the personnel of the service has been marked. Postmasters and other employees have been imbued with a new spirit and are now trying to improve their own efficiency and the effectiveness of the service. In addition to the exhibits that are held in various parts of the country as the state fairs, the postmasters in very many cities have enlisted the co-operation of boards of trade and chambers of commerce, and by their personal efforts and by circulating their patrons have induced a more intelligent and effective use of the mails. MAMMOTH DEPOSITS OF LIMESTONE ARE BEING DEVELOPED PITTSBURGH LIMESTONE COMPANY ADDING TO BERKELEY'S RECORD THIS YEAR. BIGGEST CLIFF FORMATION OF KIND IN WORLD BEING CUT AWAY. "SUN AND MOON SPRINGS" AND "INDIAN CHURCH" WILL DISAPPEAR. Developments on a most extensive scale that are adding to Berkeley county's record in her tammops limestone industry, are being pushed forward with finance and energy by the Pittsburgh Limestone Company. Superintendent John F. Wagner, at Falling Waters. At this period some two hundred men are employed, and the wage scale was increased three times within the past twelve months so that some of the workers are making around $100 per month. The quarries of the Pittsburgh Limestone Company, on the Williamsport, Nesle and Martinsburg railway, which were opened about two years ago in the big cliffs that tower 160 feet above the Potomac, and are recorded by geologists as the largest formation of the kind in the world, are being gradually removed as the powers of man and machinery are put in force. The site is one of historic interest and rich in Indian lore, with the "Sun and Moon Springs" which have since the days of the earliest settlers been a famous camping place, and the "Indian church," a natural room formation of large capacity among the crags, which bears evidence of use by the red men. These will soon be destroyed with the work of removing the limestone deposits. 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How exasperating for the bootlegger! WHY DOESN'T HE TACKLE CALIFORNIA? [Indianapolis Star.] Why should Billy Sunday want to spend so much time in Massachusetts and Illinois, when those states went for Hughes anyway? JUST ONE GUESS Mr. Bryan announces that now he is going to turn his energies to prohibition. Any guesses as to the name of the next Prohibition candidate for President? TO BE SUNG IN ANY DRY. STATE. [Luke Melake, Cincinnati Enquirer] Here's to the man whose grip s stocked when he hits your place, And who gives you a short From an almost full quart. Dilly Sunday denies that he is thinking of retiring and says he will preach as long as he has a voice and his legs are strong enough to hold him up. No matter whether anybody drops the coin in the basket or not, oh? YES, HOW ABOUT THAT? [Louisville Courier-Journal] The "Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals," says Congress, will prohibit the distribution of liquor advertisements through the United States trails. How about prohibiting the advertisements or all foot which might be "some man's poison?" SOMETHING WRONG There is something wrong in prohibition town when drinking men can obtain booze with regularity. Somebody is to blame for dispensing it and peddling it, and while most people know its source but few can prove it.—Charles City (Ia.) Press. WIRGINHA BREKS PROHIBITION LAW Nine Are Charged With Boot- legging in One Town town Virginia went "dry" November 1. That the new measure fails to prevent bootlegging is shown in the following dispatch from Alexandria, Va., to the Washington Post: Nino persons, charged with infractions of different sections of the Virginia prohibition law, were arraigned in the police court November 13. Sarah Pinkney and Henry Williams, and W. M. Lee, who claims Fairfax county as his home, were held for the action of the grand jury. Brown and Sarah Pinkney confessed that they had purchased liquor in Washington and brought it to this city. 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