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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Department of Archives. The "HERE SH ESTABLISHED 1882. BRITISH EXPERT LAUDS RAILROADS OF UNITED STATES ells Congress Committee Thal They Lead World. O GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Would Mean Political Control and Loss of Efficiency-Declares That Crisis Confronts Country on Account of Transportation Situation-Lowest Freight Rates to Be Found In United States. Washington, May 14.—That the Unit- States is face to face with a serious isis in its commercial affairs, due to the conditions by which its transportan system is confronted, was the opinion expressed by W. M. Acworth, Englnd's leading authority on railways, before the Newlands joint committee interstate commerce at a special session held here to enable the committee to hear his views before his derlure for London this week. Two ops are necessary, according to Mr. iworth, to avert this crisis and to ave the threatening railroad problem infronting the country. The first is to allow the railroads to large freight rates sufficient to meet the great advance in operating exenses which is taking place and to table them to command the credit necessary to provide the extensions and improvements needed to meet the owing demands of business. The secd is to do away with the multiple conflicting systems of regulation at now hamper railway operation and to provide one centralized regulatory agency with such local subdivisions as may be necessary. Mr. Acworth's views on the transportation situation in the United States are expressed in answer to questions members of the committee, who asked him to apply his knowledge of away conditions throughout the world and of the experience of other entries with government ownership the present problem before the Unit-States. The fundamental factor in the situon is very simple," said Mr. Acrth. "It lies in the fact that you not get three-quarters of a cent's rth of work done for less than threearters of a cent, no matter whether agency performing it is a governit or private enterprise. Freight es must advance when the cost of forming the service advances as is doing at present, just as the price bread or meat or any other comdity increases with increased cost production." n answer to a question Mr. Acrorth said that he thought American light rates had been at much too low level for several years past, that they I reached this low point during theod of cutthroat competition among roads and had since been held re by regulating bodies. Unless rewere afforded to the carriers very emptly, he said, the result would a tremendous loss to the people of whole country through insufficien of transportation facilities. weakness of Government Ownership in the subject of government owner of railways Mr. Acworth said: It is impossible to obtain satisfactory results on government railways a democratic state unless the mankind is cut loose from direct politic control. Neither Australia nor other country with a democrat-constitution—perhaps an exception hit to be made of Switzerland—has succeeded in maintaining a permanent erance. In France, in Belgium, in Italy, parliamentary interference never been abandoned for a moment. The facts show that government inference has meant running the railways not for the benefit of the people large, but to satisfy local and section and even personal interests. russia, Mr. Acworth said, was the example of an efficient govern- ment railway system, and he pointed out that military considerations were treated as of paramount importance in the Prussian railway system. While American freight rates had been reduced nearly 40 per cent in thirty years, rates in Prussia were nearly as high as at the beginning of the period. While the charge for moving a ton of freight one mile in the United States was a trifle over three-quarters of a cent, the rate in Prussia was 1.41 cents. As illustrating the difference in rates between government and private roads Mr. Acworth compared the railways of New South Wales, Australia, with those of Texas. While the amount of traffic to each mile of line was about the same in both cases, he pointed out, the Texas railways performed for the public four times as much service as the government owned roads of New South Wales. The charge in Texas for hauling a ton of freight one mile was less than 1 cent, while in the Australian state it was well over 2 cents. "American railways lead the world," said Mr. Acworth. "Nowadays when men in any other part of the world want to know how to run a railway they come to the United States and study your railways here. The American railways are entirely the result of private enterprise, and I think they go a long way toward proving the case against government ownership." PRISONER SAWS WAY TO FREEDOM Fellow Giving His Name as Jonce Uuses Saw on Bar₅ at County Jail and Gets Away. A jail delivery about noon today stirred up considerable excitement. Casey Jones used a saw and gained his freedom. As quickly as it became known to Mr. Miller, jailer, Sheriff Miller was notified and with a posse started in prusuit. Jones, who had been sentenced to 3 years in the penitentiary for forgery, is still at large. Jim Denny, who robbed Tessie Crist, 'in attempting to escape, was fired upon, and failed in his efforts to get away. As the officials had not deturned to the jail at 4 o'clock no definite information could be gained. MILL AND ENGINE ARE BADLY BURNED Mesars. Fuss and Johnson, near Little Georgetown, Sustain Heavy Loss by Fire. The saw mill owned by G. W. Fuss, and an engine belonging to John Kitchen were considerably damaged by fire yesterday morning. Mr. Fuss, who owns a large tract of timber at Cannon Hill, had been working there for sereval days sawing lumber and crossties. Yesterday morning Roy Kitchen, who had been assisting his father, went to start a fire in the engine. As he approached the place he discovered the lumber, engine and crosses on fire. Help was immediately summoned and the blaze extinguished. It is believed that sparks from the engine during the night are responsible. The loss is estimated at several hundred dollars. SHOEMAKER GETS FOUR- YEAR TERM FOR MURDER. GATE CITY, Va., May 17.—John W. Stapleton, who on November 21 last, shot John Shoemaker dead at Nickelsville, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to a term of four years in the penitentiary. A circumstance mitigating the sentence was the fact that at the time of shooting Shoemaker, though unarmed, made a mo ```markdown ``` NEW COUNTY AGENT SUGGESTION MADE TAKES UP THE WORK FOR BIG AFFAIR Heny Dorsey Has Arrived in the City and is Now on the Job Among the Farmers. Henry Dorsey, new county agent, arrived in the city yesterday afternoon and has assumed his duties. Mr. Dorsey is a stranger in the county, but desires that all farmers and other persons interested in the work to visit his office and get acquainted, as he says he wants to know everybody. Mr. Dorsey has been a student at Cornell University, and left his work there to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Branson, who was called to the colors. MAY DESTROY JERUSALEM. How much wanton destructiveness the Turks are capable of is uncertain, but it can hardly exceed that of their German allies. Fears are expressed that as the British approach the city the Turks will destroy Jerusalem. There have been predictions that they would blow up St. Sophia if compelled to evacuate Constantinople. Neither would be markedly worse than the penchant of the Germans for shelling cathedrals, and not even the Huns whom the Kaiser held up to German soldiers going to China as the models on which they should shape their conduct could outdo the wanton destructiveness of the Germans in the section of France from which they have effected a "strategic retreat." The rumored destruction of Jerusalem is reported by way of Rome to be a measure "to which the Turks have gained the consent of Germany." But the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem is the most sacred spot left to the Turks since the Arabs captured Mecca and Medina, and while the commander at Adrianople announced that he would destroy every private and public building in the city before he would surrender it to the Bulgarians, he did nothing of the sort. CAPTAIN S. B. AYER LEAVES THE CITY CAPTAIN S. B. AYER LEAVES THE CITY U. S. Internal Revenue Man Returns to His Home at Graffton to Accept New Position. Captain S. B. Ayer, who has been in the government service for several years at the Hannis distillery, today retired rom the service and went to his home in Gafton. Since the manufacture of intoxicating liquors has been forbidden in this state, many men have been dropped from the government pay roll as their services were not required, or they could not command much of a salary because of the scarcity of work. For many years Captain Ayer has been indicted with the work and was regarded as one of the most efficient men employed. He stated before leaving the city that he had a position in his home city, and would enter upon his duties when he reached there. to Cumberland Mr. Butts, since entering the service of the railroad company, has proven a faithful and efficient employee and is well thought of by the company's officials. His many friends will be glad to learn of his promotion. MANAGER OF THE MUNICIPAL SHALE & BRICK COMPANY STARTS MOVEMENT. AGREES TO HEAD LIST WITH $50 AND RAISE $500 MORE FROM OUTSIDE PEOPLE. SUGGESTION GOOD ONE AND CITIZENS SHOULD TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. The suggestion has been made that Martinsburg have a great patriotic demonstration on July 4, and that the citizens begin at once to prepare for it. Those who offer the suggestion are willing to start the subscription list with a nice sum, and will raise ten times that amount from outside people it is decided to have the demonstration. The World is in receipt of a letter from F. Vernon Aler, president and general manager of the Municipal Shale Brick & Block Company, in which he suggests that the citizens get together and arrange for an affair that will be a credit to the city. The letter says: An idea has just occurred that at this particular time, when our greatest of all Presidents needs the absolute and undivided support of all our people generally; when the right kind of encouragement along the industrial, manufacturing and agricultural lines will count; that we could do nothing better than start at once, immediately, a great boost for an old-fashioned, patriotic Fourth of July celebration. Commence now, call a meeting at once, create all possible enthusiasm, invite all our neighboring people and organizations, have a great trades display, fire works at night, and something along the line of the Spirit of 1776. This will help everybody and our country. The writer is giving to Uncle Sam two of the best boys to be found anywhere, and the "old gent" is also ready on the shortest notice. Get busy, and let us do something. This company herewith commences a subscription list with $50, and obligates itself to raise $100 more from outside people, towards this end, for lots of fire works, and the kind of a Fourth of July that will help our Country and our people. Are you on the job? We are. Then get busy. Very truly yours. Municipal Shale Brick & Block Co. By F. Vernon Aler, Pres. & Gen'l Mgr. STRAW HAT TIME IS HERE AT LAST Season for Wearing New Head Gear Arrives as Temperature Goes Up. The season for the straw hat is here. According to fashion's edict, yesterday ushered in the time for wearing, new light lids. Heavy felt hats and derbies are now out of place. Although a trifle cool for the debut of the 1917 straw lid, some few have already made their appearance and more will come out as the days grow warmer. There has been a perceptible rise in the temperature since Sunday. Seasonable temperatures are predicted for the week, which makes all the more brighter the outlook for the new straw hat. --- SHELVIN'S WIDOW WILL SOON MARRY SHELVIN'S WIDOW WILL SOON MARRY Engagement to H. M. Russell, New York Broker, Announced at Minneapolis. Announcement was made yesterday in Minneapolis of the engagement of Mrs. Elizabeth Shearer Shelvin, of New York and Minneapolis, to Marshall H. Russell, a Wall street broker and son of James B. Russell, banker and capitalist of Winchester, Va. They probably will be married in June. Mrs. Shelvin is the widow of "Tom" Shelvin, noted Yale football star, who died two years ago, leaving her an immense estate, including more than $1,000,000,000 life insurance. She is 27 years old and belongs to an old Louisville family. Mr. Russell is a graduate of the University of Virginia. His brother, James L. Russell, is assistant superintendent of the Roosevelt Hospital. His sister, Miss Mary Elisa Russell, married Gardner Willard. Brown of the Central Steamship Company, New York. Berlin—Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the Imperial German Chancellor, in one of the mast vigorous and plain spoken speeches he has made before the Reichstag since the beginning of the war, bluntly refused to enter into a discussion of Germany's peace aims as demanded in interpellations by the Conservatives and Socialists. The Chancellor asserted that these called for the Government's specific peace programme, the announcement of which at the present time not only would be premature, but which it would be difficult to formulate and also of no practical service to the nation at the present situation. A significant feature of the session was the introduction into their remarks by Philip Schneidmann, the Social democratic leader, and George Ledehour, the Independent Socialist, of references to a possible revolution in Germany. Herr Schneidmann intimated that if the British and French renounced the idea of annexation and Germany insisted annexing territory there would be a revolution—This resulted in indignant repudiation by a large section of the House, and Herr Schneidmann hastened to say it had not gone so far as that yet. FIGHT WITH A U-BOAT HAS A DESTROYER American Flotilla, on Way Abroad, Meets German Underwater Boat, Says Announcement. QUEENSTOWN. May 18.—A squadron of American torpedoboat destroyers has safely crossed the Atlantic and is patrolling the seas in war service. The American navy's actual entry into the war zone has already been productive of a brush between a destroyer and a German underwater boat, according to an announcement by the British Admiralty, but the result of it has not been made public. The destroyer squadron arrived in Queenstown after an uneventful voyage across the Atlantic, but almost immediately after a formal exchange of greetings with the British naval officers put to sea again or the hard work that is before it. THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice, Martinsburg, West Virginia as second-class matter. One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .75 Three Months ..... .50 Issues every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 369.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. No muzzle for the press. Been free too long to tolerate it. In our next issue editor Mitchell and the city he has done so much to make great, shall have our attention. Mr. Harry Burleigh received the Spingarn medal last Wednesday night in the Congregational Church Washington, D. C., where a cultured crowd had gathered to witness it. Prohibition Commissioner Walter Hallanan is construing the recent "dry" amendment in a liberal way. This is the attitude for him to assume, because there is no need of overdoing anything. There is only one way to effectively handle the whiskey question, and that is to educate the youth of our land up to the harmfulness of it when improperly handled. Commissioner Hallanan being a former newspaper man, it is not surprising to those who know him that he is interpreting the law as laid down by the legislature in a manner that shows he has some regard for the right of the citizen. The English, like the American Nation, is refusing to enlist any more colored men for military duty, saying that the units of which they are composed, are full, and that they don't want any more soldiers of varied hues now. Passing strange it is to note the antics of the "superior whites" of part of God's domains, and some of these days they are going to come to a full realization of their absolutely pernicious attitude, and if it isn't too late, they may be able to partly atone for their persecution of one of the kindiest, most faithful and highly intelligent races on the face of the globe. The coupon on the selective draft registration cards, reading thusly, "If of African descent tear off this coruer," should be an insult to many colored Americans. Because some of us are a little darker tinted than "white people" is no sign that our descendants were Africans. On the other hand, millions of us are descendants of the "white race," and can trace our lineage back three and four hundred years to that very source. Because a man is a little darker in hue than his so-called "white brother," is no more of a sign that he is of "African descent" than that the average "pale-face" is of English, Australian or Russian descent. Then again, in many instances the "colored brother is not the descendant of any "whites" at all, yet he is the truest type of an American, because he can trace his ancestry to the Red Man, the pioneer settler of this country. Away with prejudice, and let the heterogeneous mass of the "land of the free and home of the brave" band together for common good, because ere long there is going to be little, --- if any attention paid to the color of one's skin. The mind is going to be the measure of the individual. Now that the English are in a death-grapple with the common foe, the Irishmen are crying out for equal and exact justice as a partial reward for their undaunted bravery and fervent fealty to King George. Let the Americans of color take the cue from the Irish, and insist upon a like condition attaching to their status from every possible standpoint in this country. Justice has become the slogan of Dr. Francis J. Grimke, Hons. Archibald Grimke, John Mitchell, Harry Smith, W. P. Dabney, T. Thomas Fortune, Profs. George William Cook, William Pickens, DuBois, Greener and numberless other scholars, editors and public men and now let the rank and file of the race in every nook and corner of these broad and grand United States take up the all important cry for human rights, and use every fair means at their command to see that it is heeded and acted upon. One Congressman, Tinkham, from Massachusetts, has gone so far as to present a memorial to President Woodrow Wilson in behalf of our rights, so now let us all heave together, showing no dereliction of duty at any point along the line, and see what measure of success we can meet with in attaining the right to live and enjoy ourselves in peace and happiness wherever Uncle Sam has domain, be it in backwoods Mississippi or cultured Massachusetts. RAILROADS WILL SEND MEN ABROAD All Will Give Up Employes From the Various Departments to Man Trains in France. To aid France in manning her railroads and keep her trains carrying supplies to the army, the different railroads of the country are arranging to send several of their employees abroad. The Pennsylvania has announced that it will spare 318 employes from the various departments, and as other roads fall in line it is believed that sufficient number can be secured to give France the relief she so badly needs. So far it is not known what the B. & O. and C. V. roads will do, but it is expected that they will also permit a large number of their men to leave the service and enlist in the work helping France. SOUTH IS FACING LABOR PROBLEM 308,749 Negroes Quit South to Find Work in the North. Estimates that 308,749 negroes have quit the south within the last eight months to see kemployment in the north have been compiled at Richmond by the Colored Citizens' Patriotic League. It is said most of the negroes went to munitions plants and 73,000 went to Pennsylvania alone. The departure of negroes has raised such a labor problem in the south that employers are alarmed, and the federal department of labor has been investigating. ENGINE ROBBED OF Tuesday night some miscreant stole the brass oil-cups and whistle from the power drilling apparatus which Road Supervisor W. S Myers had set in place along the Martinsburg road, near Shepherdstown. The drill had just been set up that day, Mr. Myers intending to quarry out stone for road purposes. JAPANESE BOATS LOOKING FOR SUBS Large Flotilla Arrives at Marseilles in Search of German Submarines. PARIS, May 18. According to a report reaching here today a large number of Japanese gunboats have reached Marseilles to hunt for German submarines. The appearance of this flotilla of submarine chasers created considerable excitement here, and the War Council hailed the news with delight, believing that ere long the sea will be rid of the under-water crafts. Chairman Hawley, of the Senate finance committee yesterday offered the general appropriation bill. It is similar to the one offered by the Republicans at the last special session. Senator Carter, of Tyler county, introduced a bill for military training in public schools. Senator Rosenbloom was defeated again in his effort to have the resolution requiring that every bill should be accompanied by a statement showing at whose instance the bill was drafted and that it had the approval of the Defense Council or the governor before being presented. Delegate Bouchelle, of Kanawha, offered in the House a bill authorizing the governor to create a department of rural police. N. & W. BRAKEMAN KILLED YESTERDAY William A. Kline, of Lurav. Va. Shepherdstown. Wiilliam A. Kline, of Luray, Va., a brakeman on the N. & W. Railroad was instantly killed yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock when he was struck on the head by a box which was standing on a switch at the entrance to the Morgan's Grove Fair grounds near Shepherdstown Mr. Kline who was one of the crew on local freight No. 72, enroute to Hagerstown, was leaning out between the engine and tender looking back on the train. He did not see the box car standing on the siding and no one saw it hit him, but T. J. Clingan, of Hagerstown, who was the engineer heard the thud from the blow anl looking out the side of the cab saw Kline lying down between the tracks with blood gushing from his mouth. The train was hastily stopped and the crew rushed back only to find the unfortunate man dead. His body was placed aboard the train and taken to Hagerstown, where it was prepared for burial. This morning it was sent to Luray for burial. He was 45 years old, and is survived by his widow and four children. FAMOUS MEN WHO WENT BROKE Being "broke" is a nexceptionally through which some of the greatest men in history have had to pass. Men who have swayed millions, ruled continents, commanded mighty armies have not always been blessed with money. Hard cash was the one thing which in his early days Napoleon could not lay hands on, and the same may be said of Marshal Soult, who, long before he became Duke of Dalmatia, was often without a penny. Nor was his great comrade-at-arms, the heroic Ney, and better off when in his youth he donned the uniform of a private soldier. We do not know for certain whether Columbus ever carried his coat to the pawnshop, but the miseries of a dungeon were certainly not the only ones who tried his heart, his pocket often being empty. Owing to poverty Dickens knew hardships as a boy, and Dumas, the author of "Monte Cristo," died a dependent. It was old Sam Johnson of dictionary fame—was it not?—who once wore boots so full of holes that they freely admitted the pebbles. Burns died with hardly a copper in the house, his last hours tortured with the thought of a paltry debt he could not pay, while among the musical geniuses who have suffered most severely at the hands of Dame Fortune a conspicuous place must be accorded to Mozart and Hayden, both of whom at one period of their lives were on the verge of starvation. Though in their early manhood Wellington and Disraeli were both gravely handicapped by debt, neither of these great men ever suffered anything like the privations that President Lincoln and President Garfield did. Most men can at least declare there were four walls around them when they were born into the world but even this poor Lincoln hardly could boast. Gen. Grant is known in history, of course, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern armies in the civil war and eventually as President of the United States, but it may not be equally widely known that, in spite of the great office he so ably filled, he died with hardly a copper in his possession. Those who are pressed for want of "the needful" may well derive comfort from the fact that Archibald Forbes, the foremost war correspondent of his day, once found himself in Fleet street with only a helppenny in all the world. YOU MUST REGISTER WHEN CALLED UPON WITHOUT EXCUSES GOVERNMENT WILL ACCEPT NO APOLOGY AND WILL ATTACH A HEAVY PENALTY EVERY MAN FROM 21 TO 31 MUST PRESENT HIMSELF OR WILL HAVE TO. THOSE REFUSING TO APPEAR WILL BE TAKEN BY FORCE The U. S. War Department wishes to impress upon the people that there is only one day for registration. All males between the designated ages of 21 to 31 must register on the day set. The fact that 5 days were allowed for the placing of the necessary blank forms in the hands of registrars appears to have mislead some head-line writers. One day only—the day fixed in the president's proclamation—will be devoted to registration. It should be clearly understood that no male resident of the United States between the designated ages is excused from registration unless he is already in the military or Laval service of the United States; that is, a member of the regular army or navy, the marine corps, or that part of the National Guard now actually in the Federal service. It is useless to ask registrars to excuse any one from registration. The registrar has no such power. No one can suspend the law requiring all to register. It is important that all should understand the significance of registration and it is hoped that the day will be approached in the spirit with which the government has appointed it. Democracy is its essence. No one can absent himself, nor can the well-to-do man hire another to represent him on the occasion. The country's manhood will present itself on this day and by so doing will say in effect: "Here am I. Take me." Not only has the individual citizenry of the country made remarkable response to the registration call, but the states through their official heads have indicated such zeal that there is great rivalry among some of the commonwealths for the honor of making the first complete registration returns. Many questions are asked concerning the registration of traveling men and other absentees. On the sixth day after the date of the president's proclamation any one subject to registration who expects to be absent from his home on registration day should go to the clerk of the county where he may be staying. The absentee will be told how to register and a registration card will be filled out. This card must be mailed by the absentee so as to reach the registrar or his home precinct by registration day. The clerk to whom the absentee applies is not empowered to issue the absentee a registration certificate. This is issued by the registrar of his home precinct. Persons too sick to present themselves for registration must send a competent person to the County Clerk on the sixth day after the date of the president's proclamation. The clerk will give instructions for registration. DURING NEXT TWO YEARS STATE WILL SPEND BIG AMOUNT APPROPRIATION BILL PASSED BY SENATE—STRICT PARTY LINES DRAWN. KUMP VOTES FOR IT TO MAKE IT EFFECTIVE FROM DATE OF PASSAGE. NEW STATE HOUSE PLANNED AND VIRGINIA DEBT QUESTION DEBATED. CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 18. An appropriation bill carrying approximately $4,569,000 for the year beginning July 1 was passed by the Senate yesterday under suspension of rules. Strict party lines were drawn, the Republicans voting for it and the Democrats against it. On the motion to make the bill take effect from passage, Senator Kump, Democrat, voted aye. The notable changes in the bill as it came from the Finance Committee were the elimination of an item of $40,000 for the purchase of property adjoining the state property on Capital street and the reduction of the appropriation for the Health Department from $100,000 to $60,000 for the two years. Injured Clerk to Get $1,000. Reading Clerk Leonard, of the House of Delegates, injured last winter when he fell from a window in his office, is given $1,000. The item of $5,000 for each year for the valuation of railroad property was placed in the bill. Its elimination would have meant the disposal of the services of former Gov. A. B. White, who represents the state in the ascertainment of the railroad valuations by the Federal government. The sum of $14,000 was inserted for a sewerage disposal system for the Weston State Hospital and $10,000 for St. Joseph's Hospital, Parkersburg. In the House the greater portion of the sorenoon and afternoon sessions were taken up with consideration of the budget law amendment to the Constitution. The Democratic side was bitterly divided on the question, but it rallied at an early afternoon caucus and returned to the chamber, called up the resolution for Monday, reconsidered the vote by which the Smith amendment was adopted yesterday morning and then made the resolution a special order for Monday at 11 o'clock. The Smith amendment injected the Virginia debt question by name in the proposed amendment to the Constitution. In offering his amendment in the morning Delegate Smith, Democrat, of Pleasants county, said that he was not a repudiationist, as charged, but insisted the resolution as drafted conveyed the opinion that this state owed Virginia a sum of money. Delegate Hall, the aged Wetzel representative, who has been a member of a number of commissions on behalf of West Virginia, took strong issuance on certain sections of the resolution. He declared it was giving to the governor greater power than was accredited to the Emperor of Germany. President Goodykoontz presented resolution asking that the governor appoint a commission to examine grounds on the elevations overlooking Charleston as a site for a new Capitol. It will be taken up today. PAY $5 AND COSTS Mr. and Mrs. G¥orge Brown, of Se- curity, Plead \ uilty to Assault Charge and Pay Up. Upon complaint of Virgie Martia, Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, of Se- curity, were arrested yesterday ou the charge of assault. They were brought before Justice Wolf where they entered pleas of guilty and paid « fine of $5 and costs each. Cumberland to Get Rebate and Bet- ter Supply by July 1, is Agreement. Representatives of the West Vir- ginia and Maryland Gas Company, at the special session of the city coun- cil at Cumberland yesterday, called to revoke the gas company’s franchise, Promised that by July 1 there would be an adequate supply of the product for domestic use. ‘The company is now spending $75,000 repairing pipe lines and at least a three-year supply ‘is contemplated. The proposed ordinance to revoke the franchise was laid on the table until July ‘l, following the submis- sion of a proposition from the gas company, which includes a rebate of 40 per cent from Mareh 20 until the bills that will be rendered June 15. James Piper, attorney of Baltimore, stated that until the company is able to furnish an adequate supply of gas there will be no attempt to put an increase of rates into etfect. NEW MARRIAGE LAW IS NOW EFFECTIVE The new marriage law passed by the West Virginia legislatue is now in effect, and those contemplating marriage should familiarize them: Selves with it. The following are the principal provisions: “No man shall marry his mother. grandmother, stepmother, __ sister, daughter, grandlaughter, half. sister, aunt, son’s wife, wife’s daughter or her granddaughter or step-daughter, first cousin, double cousin, or wife or his brother's or sister’s son. If any man has heretofore married his brother's widow, uncle's widow, first cousin or double cousin, such mar riage is hereby declarel legal and valid and exempt from penalties pre scribed by former laws. “No woman shall marry her father, grandfather, stepfather, brother, son, grandson, half brother, uncle, daugh. fter’s husband, husband's son, or his grandson or stepson, brother's son, sister's son, first cousin, double cous in or husband's or her brother's ot sister's daughter.” THE ROOSEVELT DIVISION. The conference committee has again agreed on an Army Bill, this time with a provision for the so-called Roosevelt division. The provision is not mandatory, however. ‘The staff has carefully worked out its plans for raising, equipping and transporting, armies under the selec tive draft system, and its decision in regard to the Roosevelt division should be final. The division has no existence except on paper. It is stuf: ed with politicians who are seeking Viimissions which could not be ob- tained through the regular military ‘iannels. It presents ail the vices of he old volunteer method that produc: led so much confusion and incompet. lency in the Civil War, and the only excuse for it is that Roosevelt in. sists upon going to war with a priv. te army. We are not impressed by the popu: ar clamor that has been raised in his behalf. This is not a Wild West Show war, and if the General Staff elieves that the division ought to go into the wastebasket, into the waste-basket it should go. ‘This war must be fought by the best military brains in the country. The President has been trying to keep politics out of it, and we hope he will continue to keep politics out of it. On July 1, This Year, State Will Have 141,600 Men Available for Service. According to a statement issued to- day by Director Sam L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, there are estimated to be in the United States at the present time in round numbers, 19,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive. This number represents very nearly 10 per cent of the esti- mated population of the country— between 103,000,000 and 104,000,000. On July 1, this year, West Virginia will have 141,600 available men. Suggestion is Made That Business Firms Advertise War Bonds on Thsir Envelonas. Nichard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers Record, recently sug: wested to Secretary McAdoo that all business houses in the country be invited to print in red on their en- velopes and letter heads some sux: gestion in regard to the purchase of Liberty bonds. ‘The Manufacturers Record is carrying on every envelope and every letterhead, printed in red the following: “To save itself and civilization, our country is in the world’s greatest way The utmost power of men and mone alone can give us victory. Without money, armios and navies will be hely less. Have you subscribed to the Lil erty Loan? If not, buy a bend t day.” OBSCURES THE SUN Entire Cumberland Valley Filled With Smoke—Much Valuable Lumber Burned. The sun has been obscured two days by smoke from forest fires. It ap- pears as if it were viewed through a smoked glass. Big fires are raging on North and South mountains. Hundreds of acres of valuable timber are burning. Hun dreds of people are fighting the flames. At Tonoloway and Sidclins Hill, west of Hancock, and near Fox- ville and Buena Vista Springs, the loss will be heavy. ‘The entire Cum berland Valley is filled with smoke. Prohibitionists Being Won Over to Dooming Whiskey and Leaving Light Drinke Alone. WASHINGTON, May 18.—There are a dozen different bills drawn in the senate and the house waiting until the whiskey section of the revenue bill is reached. Every one of these contem plates ending the making of fiery 1 quor during the war. There is dispute and debate over the manner of its accomplishment, but it is as certain there will be a prompt end to the manufacturing of whiskey, brandy, rum and gin as that the congressmen will drasw their sal- aries. The house group of prohibitionists, who have up to this time stood ont for rbsolute elimination of every sort of alcoholic liquor, are’ wavering. There is in course of preparation an amendment to the revenue bill which has the approval of several of these, and it makes no provision for the de- struction of light wine and beer in- dustries. n ! WILL BE IMPROVED Asphalt to be Applied by® fiachine to Miles of Road on this ‘ile of the River, The directors of the Ma: and Williamsport ‘Turnpike Co.) have decided to permanently (opr the pike from the tall gate the north end of Martinsburg Maryland border, The worl started*in a short wile The roadbe? will be du, facing asphalt, obtained fromthe Cn ted States Asphalt Refinin pany, applied by speeisl a The road, at the conelvsion improvements, will be the 1 1 history and a pleasure for to use. MANY TRAINS WILL Comprehensive Instructions issvied by Special War Board in Control of Railways. At a meeting held yesterday in New York comprehensive instructions wer, issued by the special war board in control of the operation of alk rail ways in the United States, putting them on a war basis. ‘The result will be widespread curtailment in train service In this section the Western Mary land is the first to announce the dis continuance of trains, ad the Bo & ©. is expected to make a similar an nouneement in a few days. BASEBALL MAY BE CURTAILED BY WAR ‘That the baseball situation tn ihe American Association is causine the officers of that organization as well is other minor leagues considerab!o wor Ty, has become known in New York as the result of the visit of President T. J. Vickey to that city. The Ameri. can Association managers have he'd several secret conferences with proi- inent baseball authoritics, including President Tener of the + Nationa! league, and President Barrow of the Taternational league. None of the conferees would ‘is: cuss the meeting, but it was learned that conditions in several of tc mi nor leagues were far from ulesne tory and that the possibility of dis ination’ for the period of te Thee been considercd PILL CALL. GUARDS PAL GRU BURR IY THDEE eretique Ts EERPA 8. ail let tae) The First Gees July 43, Neve July 25 and Last August 25—-West Jirginia not Known. The West Virginia National Guard is to he recruited 10 6499. ‘Fhe cone bmned Ohio-West Virginia force will tetel 23,090. ‘This is 5,900 short of the full war strength of a vi 1 T: f ¥ Runt of the utr $ to i embled in ca mn ts in ih instaliment TY f ses aviv 42. the next July 2 and the les Aurust 25. The Pen vania G fsmen 49 on July 15. Vhnen the WwW Viveiaia militia will ¢ is not DR. FAHRNEY, HAGERSTOWN, MD. Chronic Diseases Only. Anemia, Appendicitis, Arterioselerosis (Hardening of Arteries), Nethima, Bilions- ness, Bladder Disorder, Pood Disorder, Catarsh, Constipation, — Crs. imption, Diabetes, Dropsy, Drowsiness, Gallstones, Gastritis, Ueadache, Heart Disease, Eidi gestion, Nervousnoss, Nenralyia, Rhen- matisin, Rundown Condition, Seiatiea, SInezish Liver, Skin Diseases, Stomach ‘Trouble, Luberculosis, Consultation Free. EE SST pe : SMe wR A OCR siGii. ce TROUBLE | Mr. “orion Holcomb, ¢: Nancy, i, says: “For quite aloo. aile T suffered with stomach trouble. | would , have ns and a heavy feeling after my meals, a most a d blo taste imimy mouth, HW 1 efe anything with t Vor nrense, Pivculd spit iiup., EP began to have oy regular sick veacache. Thad used piits and tablets, but Sy after a course of these, i would be constipated. It just aid seemed to fear my stomach all_up. | found they were a no good at al! for my trouble. 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RET ADEA iARiCHuls GLGMSTPHTUTER ER e eiie cc ssor cee st so gs rans esi ak setts etetcnrccsiecuse ne AR A AA INCOME TAK BILL | “S PASSTB TODAY Tas iii was passed today “by the H by © vote of 123 to 54, The ie ure tesns that all persons who paid income taxes in 1916 will pay. on more in 1917. It is estimate el cit ths new revenue measure rise this year $108,000,000, Phe bil was hard fought by Cons ressmen Manning and Cannon, Af ler approving that feature of the Dill, the House took up the excess profite question. 2 W. VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE FIGHTING FOR HER EXISTENCE Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Must Be Raised By June 6th, Two Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Secured Buckhannon, W. Va., May 16th. In twenty-one days West Virginia Wesleyan College located here must finish her gigantic campaign for endowment. To date two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars have been definitely pledged. Two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars yet remain to be raised. This, in a nutshell, is the proposition that faces the little band of workers that is prosecuting the work in this great movement. Five hundred thousand dollars is the total that Wesleyan has set herself to raise. This amount is absolutely essential to the continuation of the great work that this great institution has been doing for the past thirty years. It can be said emphatically that if this movement fails West Virginia Wesleyan will have but two courses open to her; one, to close her doors entirely, the other, to attempt to do nothing more than preparatory work equivalent to that the first class high schools of the state are doing. To be forced to pursue either of these courses would be an everlasting blot on the record of West Virginia Methodism and a disgrace to the state. However, a perusal of the statements given below will convince all that this is the true situation. Wesleyan College has had an annual net loss on operating expenses of seven thousand dollars for a number of years past. There is an accumulated indebtedness that is pressing for payment, which with the expenses of the present campaign, repairs and improvements on the buildings and grounds that are absolutely imperative, and other incidental expenses that require the immediate expenditure of one hundred thousand dollars in order that the College may be placed on a basis of solvency. The college has a permanent endowment of about one hundred thousand dollars at this time. Of the five hundred thousand that is to be raised, one hundred thousand is to be used in meeting the indebtedness and other expenses as indicated above, and the remaining four hundred thousand is to be added to the one hundred thousand of existing endowment. This will give the College gross endowment funds of five hundred thousand dollars, the revenue from which will amount to about twenty-five thousands of dollars in income annually. Inasmuch, however, as one hundred thousand of it has been available for a number of years back, there will be a gross increase in the income of the college amounting to twenty thousand dollars annually if the present campaign is successful. It is proposed to utilize this twenty thousand in the following manner: Seven thousand, of course, will be needed to meet the annual deficit that for years has existed in the operation of the college. The teachers at Wesleyan are notoriously poorly paid. The majority of them receive hardly one-half the amount paid to teachers in other colleges which do work of no higher grade than that done at Wesleyan. It is absolutely essential, then, if these teachers are to be retained and if improvements in the teaching force are to be made, that eventually ten thousand dollars more be spent each year on the teaching staff. Under existing salaries it is absolutely impossible for the teachers to remain at their posts. These two items, then, call for seventeen thousand of the twenty thousand additional dollars of revenue the college will receive if the campaign is successful. It is becoming more and more apparent to all educators that if Wesleyan is to continue to serve the best interests of her constituency she must offer more courses, agriculture being the one most likely to be included in the curriculum. This would call for an expenditure of fully the three thousand annual annually for the salary of teachers and equipment for instruction in this department, so that there can be no reasonable claim that Weston is asking too much, or that she is asking more than is absolutely essential. In fact, she cannot survive without this aid and the decision must be made before June 6th. Contributions are coming in from every source, but they must be multiplied if the campaign is to succeed. The life of the College absolutely depends upon it. BOILERMAKER BUTTS GIVEN PROMOTION Local Man Made Foreman of Motive Power Department at the B. & O. Shops. A. C. Butts, for a number of years a boilermaker at the B. & O. shops, yesterday was promoted to foreman in the motive power department and entered upon his new duties at once. He succeeds Foreman Cremoble, who has been transferred THE COAL SITUATION If the operators can supply the Government with steam coal for the price of $2.95 a ton at the mouth of the pit there is no evident reason why the industries of the country and other users should be required to pay nearly 50 per cent more for the same. Appeals to economic laws in justification of the exhortions practiced by producers of coal are mere subterfuges when these laws are not permitted to operate freely. Genuinely competitive conditions do not exist when there is, on one hand, an abnormal demand (resulting partly from speculation and partly from hysteria) and, on the other hand, a supply artificially reduced or withheld from the market by manipulation. When competition fails the recourse to regulation becomes unavoidable. HOW GRAIN PRICES ARE MANIPULATED. Dollar wheat when practically all grain farmers have wheat to sell; $5 wheat, perhaps, after all or nearly all the wheat has passed out of the hands of the farms and has not yet reached the consumers. These are deductions made by the Louisville Courier Journal in commenting on the recent statement made by the food expert Herbert C. Hoover on the prices of flour. Mr. Hoover says: American farmers did not get more than average of $1.30 for wheat last year; that the crop has not been consumed and will last until the next crop is harvested; that Government control is necessary to prevent $20 Hour between now and July, as a repletion of moderate prices for wheat at the mill and exhorbitant prices for flour at the grocery store. Mr. Hoover's statement will be convincing to those who have observed the regularity with which buyers of wheat get the price down at harvest time, acquire the wheat and get the price up after the grain has left the farm. In 1914 many American farmers counted upo usselling $2 wheat in 1915. Their hopes were disappointed, but wheat climbed high during the autumn of 1915 and remained high until the approach of the next harvest. As the harvest came in sight the trick of the speculators was repeated and again the American farmer sold wheat at and around $1 in the summer of 1916. The buyers got the crop in their hands —only an occasional Well-to-do farmer holding his crop for high prices—and up kited the prices. As long as there were farmers holding wheat the price did not become spectacular. The occasional farmer who stored his wheat felt that he had made a killing when he, left it go at $2. Wheat has since gone to $3. Mr. Hoover predicts that it will go to $5, if uncontrolled, between now and July 10. In meantime tween ow and July. In the meantime passeimistic reports as to the crop shortage this year are being used for all they are worth as price raisers. It seems altogether probable that the crop shortage is overestimated. That often is the case. If the impression of a serious shortage can be maintained until the last of June, when wheat is in the shock in part of the producing area, the wheat now in bins and the flour in the mills and in the hands of jobbers and grocers can be marketed at prices ruinous to the con- sumer. The surprising discovery that there is a much larger crop than had been forecast would be highly serviceable to the buyers in their annual effort to put the price of wheat down at harvest time and get the crop out of the weak hands of financially ill-prepared farmers and into the strong hands of interests able to hold its until next May. Again, the farmer would sell wheat low and the consumer would buy it high. It would surprise the public greatly if the farmers should sell their wheat during the summer of 1917 at prices anything like the present quotations. It would not surprise anybody if speculators, uncontrolled, should shoot the price of the 1917 crop to $5 between July 1917, and May, 1918. SPECIAL TERM TO HELP PRISONERS Extra Grand Jury Called for Next Monday to Relieve Congestion at the Jail. Owing, it is said, to the congested condition of the Winchester jail, filled with prisoners either a waiting trial or indictment, a special grand jury has been summoned in the corporation for next Monday May 21 to hear the coses and to relieve the congested condition of the ail. Bootleggers, burglars and persons charged with other crimes are awaiting trial there, the regular grand jury does not meet until the July term in consequence of which the prisoners would be compelled to wait a month longer at the expense of the state before being indicted. They are just as anxious to have the radical of indictment over with, as the state is to be relieved of feeding them in idleness, hence the proposition to have a special grand jury summoned meets with approbation all around. BIG PEACH CROP SAYS AN EXPERT Mr. Jacques Predicts the Largest Field Ever Known in the Cumberland Valley. There will be peaches in such abundance this year, according to early reports, that some other crops will blush with shame. Lancelot Jacques, well-known fruit grower at Smithsburg brings this encouraging news that the peach crop, judging from present indications will be the largest ever grown in the Cumberland Valley. As to prices, Mr. Jacques believes the growers will realize well from their crop, as reports come of the practical failure of the peach crops in Ohio and Georgia. He cited as an illustration of the immensity of the peach crop that Aaron Newcomer, a large orchardist at Midvale, will have 100,000 bushels of peaches in his orchard this year, while all orchards, he finds are loaded. Mr. Newcomer is trying a new dusting process of arsenate of lead, lime and sulphur on his trees for brown rot and scab this year with wonderful effect. J. Kieffer Funk, a well-known apple man, estimates that the apple crop this year will not be as large as last year. 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