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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 BAYONETS FACE CROWDS IN BIG SLACKERS' RIOT COAST ARTILLERYMEN OVER WHELMED BY INFURIATED MOB OF SYMPATHIZERS. HUNDREDS ARRESTED AT ANTI- CONSCRIPTION GATHERING IN NEW YORK. BIG MEETING HELD BY "PEO- , PLES' COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRACY AND PEACE." Rioting of thousands of persons at anti-conscription meetings last night marked the efforts of the police and soldiers to round up conscription slackers giving to the draft situation the most sinister tinge it has taken in New York City. Nearly 200 men were detained at two meetings last night because they couldn't how their registration cards. While the largest number—about 150—were detained at meeting of the Socialists of the Twenty-Sixth Assembly district. The meeting was rather tame, when it was noticed that so'diers, members of the Fifth Coast Artillery, were demanding cards of the men who were gong out one by one or n pars ormw going out one by one or in pairs from the hall, which was crowded almost to suffocation. This attracted the comment of the speakers and more persons started to leave. About thirty men who couldn't show cards had been pushed into a side room, when as if by one impulse the audience started to leave. The fifty or more soldiers tried in vain to stem the tide. But they couldn't stop the 2,000 persons inside whit hit the soldiers at the door in wedges and threw themselves outside, where 10,000 persons were gathered, hissing and cursing the soldiers. A hundred men would crowd in upon the squad, when the soldiers would turn about and drawing their bayonets dispersed the pursuers. The police appeared to regard the sold'res as somewhat overzealous and devoted themselves to trying to persuade the people to go home and let the matter rest. But the crowds would not go home. They were thoroughly aroused to a feeling of resentment against the soldiers and the screams of infuriated women did much to fan the ugly spirit of the gatherings. Martin-Tibbitts Wedding KEYSER, W. Va., June 16.—Lloyd Martin, Clarksburg, and Miss Virginia Tibbitts, Keyser, were married Thursday at the home of the bride by the Rev. A. N. Perryman, pastor of the Presbyterian church. The bride is the daughter of Arestes Tibbetts, a coal operator of this locality. She was a student this year at the West Virginia University, from which the groom graduated. Soldier on Furlough. Raymond Duke, a member of Company F, came from Fairmont today and is spending some time at his home here while on a brief furlough. Arthur Small, the young son of Victor Small. Hagerstown, was kicked on the head by a horse yesterday afternoon and probably fatally injured, his skull being fractured. $100,000,000 TO BE RAISED NEXT WEEK IN THE U.S. RED CROSS WILL ENDEAVOR TO GET HUGE SUM IN COUNTRY. MARTINSBURG CHAPTER WILL WORK HARD FOR THE CANADIAN SOLDIER WILL DELIVE RADDRESS AT LOCAL CHURCH. Commencing Monday the campaign of the American Red Cross to raise $100,000,000 in the United States will be on, continuing throughout the week, which has been set apart by President Wilson as Red Cross Week Martinsburg has been apportioned a large amount of money to be raised by the local chapter, and the ladies have been busy making arrangements and soliciting funds. They are glad to report that a number of very liberal donations have already been made and that they are looking for many more. Fact is, they expect a donation from every person, young and old, in Martinsburg, and to give all a chance a systematic house to house canvases by envelope will be made by a number of the ladies, assisted by the Boy Scouts. It will be the aim of Mr. Alex Parks, Jr., chairman of this work, that every house secures an envelope, and if by chance you do not get one, make it a point to see that you give something anyway. Send your contribution, no matter how small, to the Red Cross headquarters. The necessity of every one in Martinsburg contributing, as stated before, is to help finance the Red Cross liberally as to give it a chance to do the work of upbuilding and inspiring its allies while American soldiers are being mobilized and trained. In doing this you are not only rendering moral encouragement, but actual physical help to the fighting armies of Europe. As one member of the Red Cross said today: "We consider the order from the President to help raise this money our duty, and we will raise as much as possible in the time given. We consider that we are as much subject to orders in this respect as the soldier who will be sent to France." That is the spirit of many others and good work is sure to result. People of Martinsburg arise to this most stupendous call to aid suffering humanity. The occasion demands it. The Red Cross must raise money to care for the sick and wounded in this war. Many thousands of men who have been fighting for liberty lie dead or wounded. Millions of women and children are homeless and helpless. Hundreds of towns and villages have been destroyed, and disease and distress is rampant. Up to the present time this country has not suffered. While the countries across the sea have been pouring out their life blood, America has experienced a prosperity she has never known before. But America is now in this war, the most gigantic struggle in the history of the world, and must stand her share of the suffering they have endured. She must bear her burdens and do her part in the real way. And with the generosity and hearty co-operation of the people of this country she will again demonstrate her ability to handle a big task in a big way. The people of Martinsburg should feel indeed grateful that they are permitted to join in this great service of mankind. And just to impress you with the necessity of helping, your own son and brother may soon be going into battle. They will be going into battle thousands of miles from home in a land wasted by war, a land threatened with famine, a land smitten with disease. When they are wounded, as they surely will be in great numbers, are you going to allow them to suffer still more because you fail to contribute to the work of the Red Cross? If you wait it may be too late. Give now, and get in the work next week. Much has been arranged for the week whereby you may do your "bit." On Monday night in the Lutheran Church, Corporal R. D. Aget, a Canadian soldier, will describe the horrors of the war as he witnessed it while in the trenches of France. Corporal Aget is wounded and is in America recuperating, before returning to the front. Other noted speakers will be at this meeting, and a musical program is also being arranged in charge of Mr. H. M. Grove. A silver offering will be lifted. Wednesday night a benefit performance will be given at the Central Opera House, at which time the picture, "Mothers of France," will be shown in conjunction with the vaudeville show. Mine. Sarah Bernhardt is the star in the picture. Manager Irons promises to give all an opportunity of witnessing the performance that night. On Thursday night a benefit dance will be held at the residence of Mr. Charles Kilbourn, Winchester avenue, and it has been arranged by the auto squad to see that all who will attend be conveyed to that place. Many things will be on sale in conjunction with the dance. Saturday night the ladies of Falling Waters will hold a festival. They will serve sandwiches and coffee, ice cream and cake, strawberries and cream, beginning at 7 o'clock and continuing until midnight. Sunday afternoon a sacred concert will be given at the Apollo Theatre, at which a vocal and instrumental program will be rendered. A silver offering will be lifted at this entertainment. There will be much doing and you are urged to attend all these entertainments with a well-filled purse, and if you were ever before liberal this should be the time. Much is expected of you. Do your share and at the close of the week the ladies will feel that they were well rewarded for their efforts. Remember this is not charity. This is debt paying. Do your part. PUBLIC SQUARE IS WELL FILLED With Music Lovers at Initial Open Air Concert by Comrey's Con- cert Band. From 8 o'clock last night until 9:30) the Public Square was well filled with the music-loving public of Martinsburg, hearing a splendid concert by Comrey's concert band. The program was rendered with the usual ability of the artists, and the numbers were well appuded by the crowd especially the duet by Prof. Comrey and son, Lawrence. The people hope that Prof. Comrey will continue these concert. Mr. John Riner has returned home from Hagerstown, where he spent several days, having been called there by the illness and death of his brother, George Riner. SELECTION OF CLASS A ROADS Is the Great Importance Says A. D. Williams, Chairman of the State Road Commission. One of the most important steps in the development of the State of West Virginia is the establishment of Class A roads. The location of these roads will have bearing on the future road, agricultural and industria development. It is very important that every citizen of the State join hands with the Commission and the County Courts in getting the best locations, the cheapest routes, and the routes that will serve the most people all costs considered and be the easiest maintained. This proposition is of each magnitude as to demand and require the attention of every person and should have it because who ever is done now will be reflected in future years; if it is well done the reflection will be for good but if improperly done it will be a detriment. The demands on the Commission are very great and the cooperation of the loyal patriotic citizens of the State will be appreciated. The location of the Cass A Roads must be done with a patriotic spirit free from selfish interests. It must be done with an eye fixed singly upon the best interest of the State and its people as a whole. PAYS $64,000 FOR VA. FRUIT FARM Big Orchards Near Winchester Have Changed Ownership in the Deal. WINCHESTER, Va., June 16. — One of the biggest real estate deals that has been consummated in recent years in this section of the state was transacted yesterday between H. Clay de Grange, formerly of Frederick, and Robert M. Ford, when Mr. de Grange purchased the Ford property near this city. The consideration is stated as being $64,000. dt is the largest farm and apple orchard in Frederick county, Va. It contains 234 acres, with 144 acres in a high state of cultivation and 90 acres in different varieties of apples. The section that this farm is located in is considered one of the best fruit-growing localities in Virginia. Mr. de Grange is a member of the sales organization of the Ox Fibre Brush Factory, Frederick, with offices in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. de Grange was Miss Ensminger, Frederick, and owned many large apple orchards which she manages herself. In 1916 she sold 10,000 bushels of apples. She will continue in the fruit growing business. SEPTEMBER MORN NOV MILWAUKEE, June 16.—A youth walking into one of the recruiting offices downtown and volunteered. He had on his forearm a copy of "September Morn." He was rejected and went to an artist and had a bathing suit put on the figure and was then accepted. GRAVE REVOLT IS ON IN SPAIN Rumors Are Scattered Broadcast No Direct News Ominous. Ominous. LONDON, June 16.—The Daily Chronicle says there has been no direct news of events in Spain of a later date than Tuesday, and, in view of the uncertain political situation, vague rumors have gained currency as to the spread of the revolutionary movement in the country. British business firms with interests in Spain regard the situation as grave. The censorship is of the strictest character, and all business and trade communications are held up. Demands for reforms by military committees led to much trouble and directly produced the Cabinet crisis which, apparently ended Monday last when Senator Dato took office as Premier. The issue is one between the army and civil government of the country, and the signs of late have been that the effective power was slipping from the hands of the latter. FOOD ADMINISTRATION The law of supply and demand has broken down as a controller of prices. The entente powers are bidding against each other for America's own killing food reserves. It's a case of anyone: American and European fighting for his own interest without thought of the interest of the rest. The strong hand of the federal government is required and at once. America needs an intelligent, efficient, food administrator.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. NEED NO AWAKENING No harm can come from statements such as first of Congressman Fitzgerald, who fears that we must be shocked by a long list of casualties before we begin to realize the seriousness of the war. None the less it is a fact that a race beginning has been effected. There was reality enough about the registration And all who registered realized. They need no awakening. Nor can the buy-a-bond movement be whistled down the wind as a source of arousal. It has stirred and is stirring. It has taken hold.—The Brooklyn Eagle. "BONE DRY" LAW FOR VA. LIQUOR STORER. DANVILLE, Va., June 16.—O. E. Hatcher, president of the Danville Creamery, was convicted of storing liquor here this afternoon and sentenced to pay $70 fine and serve 30 days in jail. An appeal was noted. The other officers of the company were exonerated. Judge Frank P. Christian said from the bench that he though confiscation ofthe $5000 worth of liquor would meet the ends of justice and that if he were the governor he would relieve the defendant of the jail sentence. He also stated that hethought it was wrong to destroy the liquor and that it should be denatured and given to a hospital. The judge also said that if Hatcher had stored the liquor at his home he could not have been dealt with. THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice. Martinsburg West Virginia as second-class matter Subscriptlon Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .75 Three Months ..... .50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 369.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1917. The lateness of this issue was caused by our absence in attendance upon the Grand Lodge last week. To refuse colored men the right to enlist and fight for the flag is as poorly based in law as it is in logic. Greece is establishing a new government and Constantine has abdicated his throne and left his country. It's brutal butchery in the Germans with air machines to kill fifty London women and main hundreds of other people. Root and his party are busy reasoning with the Russians. If profound reason and logic can convince them, Root has the rare ability to do it. --- The laboring people of America are up in an endless war for the reduction of food prices—fight it to a finish. The cause is a worthy one. Russia has set an example to this country in allowing old "Nick" to vote and declaring that all citizens in good standing, except deaf and dumb persons should be allowed to vote. Counterfeit articles have the day now, and the genuine, meritorious proposition is being relegated to the rear so rapidly these days that it can hardly be seen with the naked eye. We understand that Dr. Joel E. Spingarn is in training at Plattsburg, New York. If this be so, no one need fear that he will not take pleasure in doing his "bit" for the elevation of his darker complexion brother along lines military To find a people as loyal, and who have done so much for this country, treated as we are, in vain will history be searched for a parallel. But it is plain as sunlight that this world war is going to make things in general better. If the ten or twelve million Colored Americans in this country would band together and act as one person, the progress made by them along all lines would be marvelous. Is it possible that we will ever see such a condition ensue? We hope so. Roosevelt says he is happy. He said' "I wanted to go to the war and the people wanted me to go, but now I am feeling fine. I kept my good health by having a very bad temper kept under control"—it must be an awful hard thing to do. A NOTABLE VICTORY FOR GOOL OF MASONRY. For the past thirty years at annual conventions, the supreme ambition of the ruling element has been the election of officers in Free Masonry of West Virginia, and all kinds of tricks, schemes and devilment have been used to accomplish it; and for thirty years we have opposed. At this Grand Sitting it died and was eternally buried. By a resolution passed last year, fathered by ye editor, the rotation in office became a law, and while the old gang came united to kill it, it turned out that they were toothless lions. They bellowed and bristled, but could not bite. It is a law, and by it, Deputy Grand Master A. E.' Goodwyn stepped into the Grand Master's chair, and every member, including the Grand Pursuivant made one step in advance toward the Grand Master's place. So hereafter, instead of cliques of ignorance and down right deviltry, coming to the Grand Lodge, grouping and promising strangers a little of everything and branding real men as rascals etc., we have sealed their mouths forever and masonry is destined to go on gloriously in the future. Three days were spent doing not one thing till after 7:30 P. M., and had we not stayed there till 2 A. M. and beat them, and prevented their old rotten method of election, not one other thing could have been done. We were nobly welcomed by the Mayor of Clarksburg, and the City Park was opened and given to us with a good game of baseball, etc., but the cliques were too busy to go. Thursday night Clarksburgers must have spent a hundred dollars to give us a royal banquet, and we were told that the hall was crowded by the elite gowned in their best, but it was impossible to do the needed three days work and get to the hall. Adjourning at 2 P. M., the tables groaned, covered with the richest viands of the season, with many gallons of ice cream untouched. Good people, ignorance caused it. It will never happen again. Hereafter our work can and will be done in time to see your sights, and attend all of your friendly offerings with greetings. Be thankful for the good of masonry, that after a thirty year struggle, we crushed the ugly curse and buried it so deep it will never be seen again. "After the storm a calm, After the bruise a balm, The ill brings good in the Lord's own time, And the sigh becomes a Praise." Fifty-two Negroes were lynched last year. What is going to be the final payment for the thousands of innocent Negroes lynched in this shamefully boasted christian country, called "the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Has the public forgotten what Abraham Lincoln said when asked "when will this war end? and his reply was: "not till every drop of blood drawn from the black man's back by the white man's lash shail have been repaid by the sword, so just is God?" And we believe it was done. Why have a Supreme Court to sit in judgment to correct the wrongs of our state courts as it does in all other matters and allow it to declare it has no jurisdiction over the states that lynch Negroes to stop it, and refers them back to the perpetrator's abode for remedy? Why then did this same court approve and uphold the law that made this country pay Italy a big indemnity for the murder of an alleged member of the "Maia" in Louisiana? Why didn't the same court refer it back to that state? "Some- thing rotten in Denmark." To us it seems ridiculous that the various race, and other groups that are laboring for the betterment of humanity should be at variance. The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People, The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and The Fellowship League, are all three organizations constituted with the idea in mind of ameliorating any untoward conditions that attach to our affairs in general. This being the case, why is there any need of friction among the various organizations and different public men? As we see it, our methods may differ, but our aims are the same. We are all going the same way, and if we must disagree on minor matters, let us get together on the essentials. Race solidarity, with the help of our brave and uncompromising white friends, is the medium through which we can surmount the barriers which stand in the way of our progress. Let us have peace among ourselves, and then we can conduct a withering fire upon the common enemy. HAWAIIAN SINGERS AND PLAYERS BIG FEATURE SUNDAY AT COMMUNITY CHAUTAUQUA---- "ALOHA OE." FAREWELL SONG OF QUEEN "LIL." "KA-LI-MA" WALTZ IN PROGRAM, RENDERED IN THE TRUE NATIVE MELODY. TONIGHT ROYAL BLUE HUSSARS (BAND AND MR. ROY, NOTED LYRIC TENOR. Thrilled with music, artistic conditions of the world's greatest composers, by Prof. Leon Weltman and his great Russian quartet, last night the big crowd at the Community Chautauqua, was in prime humor for the main feature of the evening an address by Dr. E. L. Williams, Chicago's noted "Fighting Parson." Dr. Williams told in his own way, with strong word illustrations, as only a man can, who has had his vast and varied experience, with the evils of a great city like Chicago, of the wickedness, the vice, the misery of the under world to which humanity in measurable percentage, regardless of birth station in life, drifts if subjected to the temptations, and especially urged the country-bred boy and girl to stay on the old farm. Tonight's feature will be the big double concert—the Royal Blue Hussars Band and Mr. Irving F. Joy, lyric tenor. John Kendrick Bangs, one of America's most versatile public speakers, will deliver a lecture entitled "Salubrites." The closing feature tomorrow night and one most popular, is a concert by Hawaiian singers and players. The natives of the faraway Pacific island will introduce musical specialties on the native instruments which will be familiar to the audience from phonograph records, music flowing in strange melody, the expression of deep heart-sentiment of the native Hawaiians. Among the numbers on their program will be "Aloha Oo," the farewell song of Lilahaukali, the deposed queen of Hawaii, and the three steel guitar pieces best known on the phonograph records; the "Khoala" March the "Ka-lima" Waliz and the "Hilo" March. The Marshburg Juniors want to face back today to battle that team in the opening of the season in the "wet" town. The locals are expected to present a strong lineup. Early in the spring there were rumors of an Austrian offensive in the Trentino. A successful invasion of Italy at this point would entangle Milan and perhaps Turin and Venice. The vigorous Italian offensive in the Carsa avenged this peril. But the military paralysis of Russia has released the Austrian forces formerly employed on the eastern front. Thus Genera Cadonna has been checked, and it is gritti an open question whether he can continue to hold his own against the increased odds. Perhaps he can; the Austrians have not yet accomplished as much as they hoped to accomplish. But it is clear that Italian resources would be strained to the utmost to meet a simultaneous attack in the Trentino. There is one of the victories for "liberty" that the radical revolutionists in Russia have won.—Philadelphia Ledger. Dog Attacks Woman. . HARRISONBURG, Va., June 15. While hoeing corn yesterday Mrs. Charles K. Hensloy, of McGaheysville, was attacked by a vicious dog and biten about the nuck and throat in eighteen places. The young woman had a desperate fight with the dog, finally overcoming him to the ground. Her husband arrived later and shot the dog. Its head was sent today to the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington for a rabies test. Colonel Perin Suicides. BALTIMORE, Md., June 16.—Lawrence Perin, a local society idol, son of Mrs. Nelson Perin and the late Nelson Perin, a Baltimore street railway magnate, and a colonel on the staff of former Gov. Hatfield, of West Virginia, episodes in whose life sometimes startled many persons on two continents, committed suicide yesterday in his room at the Belvedere Hotel by shooting himself through the head. Since he dropped out of the high light a few months ago, after he had deferred the efforts of his relatives to have him declared insane, Mr. Perin had been a patient at the Phipps psychiatric clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He left there last Wednesday and registered at the Belvedere. HARRISONBURG EDITOR WINS HARRISONBURG, Va., Juns 16.—H. W. Bertram, editor of the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record was awarded a verdict of $2,000 against R. B. Smythe, editor of the Daily Independent, by a jury here yesterday. The case aroused much interest. Governor Stuart designated Judge B. R. White, of Princess Anne county to sit for Judge T. X. Huas, who was indirectly interested in the case. The trial got so hot that the court and the lawyers requested both papers to cease printing the accounts of the proceedings. Anonymous letters have been written to some of the lawyers, and Judge White asked the jury if any sue billters had been received none had reached them. FREED ON ONE CHANGE: Pete Heck was given a hearing last night before Justice Wolf and was freed on one charge and found guilty on another. He was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Jan Richards, who stated that Heck had attempted to take his life, but was found not guilty. He was fined $5.60 for assault and battery. THE FARM CROPS IMPROV H. R. Sperow, a proseperous Berkeley county farmer of the Bedington section, was in Martinsburg today on business. He says the rains have caused wheat to take on a new growth, though the crop will be short. Meadows and pasturage are in good growing condition and the late hay crop promises to be about an average. The late planting of corn, especially, is showing well in average stand. TO SOLICIT FOR THE RED CROSS Many Local Young Ladies Will Assist in Work During Red Cross Week. The following young ladies will receive and solicit subscriptions and contributions to the Red Cross during the coming week at the court house, postoffice and places where Red Cross benefits are being given: Miss Frances Henshaw. Miss Anne Snodgrass. Miss Virginia Emmert. Miss Elizabeth Harper. Miss Mildred Crow. Mrs. A. A. Westrater. Mrs. Eleanor Grove. Miss Catherine Miller. Miss Mary Fiery. Miss Laura Shepherd. Miss Mary H. Durdette. Miss Elizabeth Payne. Miss Lee Bond. Miss Catherine Wever. Miss Elizabeth Wever. Miss Clara G. Thompson. Miss Virginia Thompson. Miss Lucille Henshaw. Miss Laura Henshaw. Miss Byrd Fiery. Miss Imogene Miller. Miss Mary E. McDonald. Miss Grace Bentz. Miss Louise Foreman. Miss Conie McKown. Miss Louise Geyer. Miss Ellie Daulita. Miss Gladys Skadden. Miss Frances Watson. Miss Frances Durdette. Mrs. Ad. Nicklas. DISMISSAL ORDER BY U. S. ASKED BY CONFEDERATES. WASHINGTON, June 16.—As a result of courses of Admiral A. O. Wright of Jacksonville, Pha., commander-in-chief of the Confederate Naval veterans, a movement has been started in Congress to remove from the records of a number of Confederate navy and army officers an order of dismissal from the United States forces, which was placed against the Southern Confederacy. Admiral Wright has pointed out to members of the House and the Senate that many officers of the Federal army and navy resigned and that their resignations were accepted, while others when they offered their resignations were dismissed. He says there is no just reason for this discrimination, and thinks Congress should adept a resolution directing that the descendants of these men, said orders of dismissal be changed to acceptance of resignations. Many of Admiral Wright, are now serving in the United States Army. Others have enlisted for the war with Germany. BIG GAME HUNTERS' FIRST CHOICE and Big enough for the biggest game of North America. STEVENS "High Power" Repeating Rifle No. 425. List Price .25-.30-.30-.22 and .35 calibers Use Rom. Auto-Loading Cartridges with copper primers SURE FINE NO BALKS NO ARMS Our "High Power" Rifles also furnished in fancy grades. Get your Dobber. Send for headsome, new Rifle Catalog. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY, © P. O. Box 5004 CINCOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS A business man was seen running around Hingerstown yesterday wanting to know where he could buy Liberty Bond buttons, observes the Hagarstown Mail. Local Notes. Mrs. Abraham Miller is a main at h home in this city after visit t her sister in Calgary. Miss Jain Mongu, of Charles Town, visited friends in our city during the post week. Mr. Joseph R. Carter will known West Hurke Street resident, is making some extensive research to his a ready valuable property. Mrs. Fannie Wilson, of New York, visited friends here and at Charlie Town recently. It goes almost without saying that they were glad to see her. Mr. Charles Marshall, owner, manager and director of Marshall's Orchestra, was a business and pleasure visitor to Hagerstown one afternoon recently. He reports an enjoyable trip. Mr. Henry N. Hopewell, one of our best known and most popular citizens, who recently purchased a fine Dodge Brothers touring car, is rapidly developing into an A1 driver of his machine. Mr. George Miller has returned home after an absence of several weeks in Siebert, Allegheny County, Maryland, where he did considerable painting and some general repairing for one of the more prominent citizens of that place. The following Martinsburg young ladies were members of the 1917 graduating class of Storer College: Misses, Olia Warrick, Hilda Hopewell, Brent Lee and Lena Fox. It is hoped the four of them may do great service for those with whom they come in contact who have not been as fortunate as they. We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to attend the graduation exercises of the Uniontown, (Pa.) High School, which occur Wednesday evening, June twentieth. Among the names of graduates who took the four year commercial course, we notice that of Miss Junious Annetta Burd. This brigal young lady has our congratulations. Mr. Kenneth Knode, a student at the University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, has returned home for the summer vacation and is at the house of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Knode, West King street. CUMBERLAND, Md., June 16. Former United States Senator George L. Wellington received a telegram last night advising him of the sudden death of his only brother, John Adam Wellington, aged 60, in New Orleans. He was a pharmacist and until a year ago, when he retired was manager of the New Orleans branch of a Baltimore drug company. SOLDIER TRIED FOR BOANOKE, Va., June 16.—In the general court-martial of the Second Virginia regiment now being held here the case of Private Frank Bowen, of Company K, for the killing of a supposed German spy is being heard. Bowen, while on guard duty at a bridge on a southern railway near Probit. Albermarie county, saw a form in the darkness and his command to halt was ignored until he fired several shots. He finally brought his man in and he appeared to be a foreigner with a decided German accent. While being held for the sergeant the man tried to escape and was shot dead by Bowen. No explanation of his presence around the bridge was ever found. No intimation of the findings of the court will be made public here. --- (BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Juen. 16.—Mayor E. E. Carter, who was shot and mortally wounded by Bessie Young, a 17-year-old girl, died at the St. Luke's hospital last night at 12 o'clock. It is understood he made a statement exonerating the girl. LIGHT ENGINES TO BE CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 16. While General Manager Paul Stevens if the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, refused today to state to the public service commission at a hearing on discontinuance of trains, why trains must be discontinued on railroads now, Governor John J. Cornwell in address at the Elks' flag day celebration, said four hundred light passenger engines would be sent to France to transport American troops and that th National council of defense had asked such curtailment of service. The governor urged the people to help bear the burden of the inconvenience. Prominent coal operators protested against cancellation of traffic on several branch lines, saying it would drive labor from the coal fields. TWO CONFEDERATE VETERANS ANSWER CALL TO BEYOND CHARLOTTSVILLE, June 16. John L. Utz, aged 81, a carriage builder here for 50 years, died today at his home on Second street. He was born at Slate Mills, Rappahannock county, Va., and married Miss Mary F. Wells, of Richmond, who survives. Mr. Utz entered the Confederate army as a member of the Culpepper Minute Men. Thirteenth Virginia infantry, but later joined a cavalry company. At Orange Courthouse he received two saber cuts about the head and spent several months in a Culpepper hospital. Sandy Gibson, aged 38, a leading farmer of the north side of the county, died yesterday at his home near Nortonsville, following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Gibson was born near Shafter and married Miss Jennie L. Eddins, of Standardsville, Greenville county. He was a soldier in the Confederate army. A spent ball struck him in the left arm, rendering it virtually useless. SOCIALISTS HELD ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE. CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 16. Making a voluntary appearance in the federal district court, Edwin Firth, Ben Greene, Henry Howes and Hilton Bias, indicted for conspiracy in seeking to prevent operation of the selective service law, were released on bonds for their appearance in court on June 2 for trial. Fifth, state secretary of the Specialist party, who is accused of being at the head o the conspiracy to defeat the operation of the registration act, was held under $5,000 bond. The three alleged confederates gave bonds in the sum of $1,000. Motions were made to quash the indictment, which was overruled by the court. A continuance was also asked for "confidential reasons." Used 40 Years CARDUI The Women's Tonic Sold Everywhere The body of Albert Hope, Flemington, W. Va., was found Thursday along the Baltimore and Ohio tracks near Oakland, Md., by the crew of a freight train. It is thought Hope had been struck by a passing train white trespassing or had fallen off a train. ```markdown ``` REV. STRIBLING MADE DOCTOR OF DIVINE At the Finals of Washington and Lee University a Few Days Ago. The Rev. Cias, at Norbyn, county of the Presbyterian church in Ersburg, Va., had constituted a line by the board of trustees, degree of Doctor of Divinity, but stribling is a native of Berkeley county, and some years ago before entering the ministry, he was an instructor in the Ghenandao Valley Academy, Winchester. He has many friends here. DR. OSBURN ASSIGNED TO DUTY IN NAVAL HOSPITAL Dr. J. Nelson Osburn, the popu ar young, eye specialist and baseball magnate, will leave shortly for Washington to be assigned to duty in his fine of surgical work at the United States Naval Hospital. Dr. Osburn has been notified that he has passed the examination for admission into the medical department of the United States army. He will hold the rank of a lieutenant. County Court Adjourns. After yesterday's session of the county court, that body adjourned until Monday morning when work will be resumed. ALL CHOIRS URGED TO Miss Fahrney to Wed. Invitations have been issued by Dr. and Mrs. D. P. Fahrney, Hagerstown, to the wedding of their daughter, Miss Amy Fahrney to Malco in Long, son of Mrs. D. Melvin Long, also of Hagerstown. FORTY ENROLL AT SUMMER SCHOOL AT SHEPHERD COLLEGE The summer term of Shepherd College State normal school opened a few days ago with an enrollment of forty, with quite a number yet to be added. The teachers for the term are Profs. W. M. Duke, A. D. Kenasmond and M. S. Elsa May Turner. Motors to Ridgway. State Agent Nat. T. Frames, who has been here for a few days, and Mr. Seal, who will succeed Henry Dorsley as county agent, motored to ride away tonight to mingle among the farmers. "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?" Michigan has gone dry—wanted to go dry after April 6, 1915. The hotels and barrooms have been evacuated with the queue. What are you going to do? To silence further interrogation the following alert has been posted in all Detroit hotels and offices. "Don't ask what we're going to do. What are you going to do?" (In italics) "Life Public Lecturer." First Response Excursion The first G. N. R. E. E. Excursion of the season will be run on May 29, June 21, July 24, August 26, and September 29. Arrival at 8:11 p.m. to the North 61st and South 62nd people 85.500 to Arthur Park in L. North more rooms 87.500 to have good for sixteen days. Southern Excursion stores will also be run on daily 5 and 5:30. August 2 16 and 27 (16 18:30) John Thomas. Bloomington. Md. find his right leg out of at the knee and the left foot mashed heel while attempting to steal a ride on a freight train at Bloomington. He was taken to the Hoffman Hospital at Keyser, W. Va. "Blue Sky" Department. This department, charged with the administration of the Blue Sky Law, has for its object the enforcement of laws as applied to horse riding. The horse is not a legal entity, but a person in wards, by virtue of all conventions (with a certain authority) to be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction on which he resides. Until a few years ago, all copies of like stocks considered this state out of those richest fields. Finally, about the year now the Auditor general delimit the question of prosecution for, although some are of the most urgent nature on the scene of the most violent and exposed many of the most vicious traitors. As a result ofAwareness public opinion, the legislature of 1949 passed in 1951 the Sharp law, which abolished the practice of the home of the accused, and immediately abolished it when practically no expense was on the state. This was over five years, two thousand apples were potted among blooming cottages, and securities in the amount of twenty-one million dollars and treasury was bequeathed of money came. Take care of occupation and land communities with cloth, county several foot under water were bound to give this State a wide border, the main area of this law. It was global, con- ferred, and in 1814, south by treasury, a legal promise, which was applied for the other states in conNECTION with this law, with the United States, which decided that thional, intertional, future con- tinue to take place, time to take thus the state, great expense, United States, peace a new law, objectional matter before our court, but which was deprived. 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But be present. I am named the comprehese will be disappointed from our attention at once. Speed your response today—and Review of Desiours, 30 Irving Pl. New York. Send me an email, otherwise, send by you. The HOW SHALL WE PAY FOR THE WAR? A Constructive Criticism on the House Revenue Bill. LOANS BETTER THAN TAXES Five Reasons Why Excessive Taxes at the Outset of War Are Disadvantageous—Great Britain Example Worthy of Emulation—How the Taxes Should Be Apportioned. By EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University. On May 23, 1917, the House of Representatives passed an act "to provide revenue to defray war expenses and for other purposes." In the original bill as presented by the Committee of Ways and Means, the additional revenue to be derived was estimated at $1,810,420,000. The amendment to the income tax, which was tacked on to the bill during the discussion in the House, was expected to yield another $40,000,000 or $50,000,000. In discussing the House bill, two problems arise: I. How much should be raised by taxation? II. In what manner should this sum be raised? I. How Much Should Be Raised by Taxation? How was the figure of $1,800,000,000 arrived at? The answer is simple. When the Secretary of the Treasury came to estimate the additional war expenses for the year 1917-18, he calculated that they would amount to some $6,000,-000,000, of which $3,000,000,000 was to be allotted to the allies, and $3,000,-000,000 was to be utilized for the domestic purposes. Thinking that it would be a fair proposition to divide this latter sum between loans and taxes, he concluded that the amount to be raised by taxes was $1,800,000,-000. There are two extreme theories, each of which may be dismissed with scant courtesy. The one is that all war expenditures should be defrayed by loans, and the other is that all war expenditures should be defrayed by taxes. Each theory is untenable. It is indeed true that the burdens of the war should be borne by the present rather than the future generation; but this does not mean that they should be borne by this year's taxation. Meeting all war expenses by taxation makes the taxpayers in one or two years bear the burden of benefits that ought to be distributed at least over a decade within the same generation. In the second place, when expenditures approach the gigantic sums of present-day warfare, the tax-only policy would require more than the total surplus of social income. Were this absolutely necessary, the ensuing havoc in the economic life of the community would have to be endured. But where the disasters are so great and at the same time so unnecessary, the tax-only policy may be declared impracticable. Secretary McAdoo had the right instinct and highly commendable courage in deciding that a substantial portion, at least, of the revenues should be derived from taxation. But when he hit upon the plan of 50-50 per cent., that is, of raising one-half of all domestic war expenditures by taxes, the question arises whether he did not go too far. The relative proportion of loans to taxes is after all a purely business proposition. Not to rely to a large extent on loans at the outset of a war is a mistake. Disadvantages of Excessive Taxes. The disadvantages of excessive taxes at the outset of the war are as follows: 1. Excessive taxes on consumption will cause popular resentment. 2. Excessive taxes on industry will disarrange business, damp enthusiasm and restrict the spirit of enterprise at the very time when the opposite is needed. 3. Excessive taxes on incomes will deplete the surplus available for investments and interfere with the placing of the enormous loans which will be necessary in any event. 4. Excessive taxes on wealth will cause a serious diminution of the incomes which are at present largely drawn upon for the support of educational and philanthropic enterprises. Moreover, these sources of support would be dried up precisely at the time when the need would be greatest. 5. Excessive taxation at the outset of the war will reduce the elasticity available for the increasing demands that are soon to come. Great Britain's Policy. Take Great Britain as an example. During the first year of the war she increased taxes only slightly, in order to keep industries going at top notch. During the second year she raised by new taxes only 9 per cent, of her war expenditures. During the third year she levied by additional taxes (over and above the pre-war level) only slightly more than 17 per cent, of her war expenses. If we should attempt to do as much in the first year of the war as Great Britain did in the third year it would suffice to raise by taxation $1,250,000,000. If, in order to be absolutely on the safe side, it seemed advisable to increase the sum to $1,500,000,000, this should, in our opinion, be the maximum. In considering the apportionment of the extraordinary burden of taxes in war times certain scientific principles are definitely established: How Taxes Should Be Apportioned. (1) The burden of taxes must be spread as far as possible over the whole community so as to cause each individual to share in the sacrifices according to his ability to pay and according to his share in the Government. (2) Taxes on consumption, which are necessarily borne by the community at large, should be imposed as far as possible on articles of quasi-luxury rather than on those of necessity. (3) Excises should be imposed as far as possible upon commodities in the hands of the final consumer rather than upon the articles which serve primarily as raw material for further production. (4) Taxes upon business should be imposed as far as possible upon net earnings rather than upon gross receipts or capital invested. (5) Taxes upon income which will necessarily be severe should be both differentiated and graduated. That is, there should be a distinction between earned and unearned incomes and there should be a higher rate upon the larger incomes. It is essential, however, not to make the income rate so excessive as to lead to evasion, administrative difficulties, or to the more fundamental objections which have been urged above. (6) The excess profits which are due to the war constitute the most oblous and reasonable source of revenue during war times. But the principle upon which these war-profit taxes are held must be equitable in theory and easily calculable in practice. The Proposed Income Tax. The additional income tax as passed by the House runs up to a rate of 60 per cent. This is a sum unheard of in the history of civilized society. It must be remembered that it was only after the first year of the war that Great Britain increased her income tax to the maximum of 34 per cent, and that even now in the fourth year of the war the income tax does not exceed 4212 per cent. It could easily be shown that a tax with rates on moderate incomes substantially less than in Great Britain, and on the larger incomes as high, would yield only slightly less than the $532,000,000 originally estimated in the House bill. It is to be hoped that the Senate will reduce the total rate on the highest incomes to 34 per cent, or at most to 40 per cent, and that at the same time it will reduce the rate on the smaller incomes derived from personal or professional earnings. If the war continues we shall have to depend more and more upon the income tax. By imposing excessive rates now we are not only endangering the future, but are inviting all manner of difficulties which even Great Britain has been able to escape. Conclusion. The House bill contains other fundamental defects which may be summed up as follows: (1) It pursues an erroneous principle in imposing retroactive taxes. (2) It selects an unjust and unworkable criterion for the excess-profits tax. (3) It proceeds to an unheard-of height in the income tax. (4) It imposes unwarranted burdens upon the consumption of the community. (5) It is calculated to throw business into confusion by levying taxes on gross receipts instead of upon commodities. (6) It fails to make a proper use of stamp taxes. (7) It follows an unscientific system in its flat rate on imports. (8) It includes a multiplicity of petty and unlicrative taxes, the vexatiousness of which is out of all proportion to the revenue they produce. * * * * * * * * * * * * * The fundamental lines on which the House bill should be modified are summed up herewith: (1) The amount of new taxation should be limited to $1,250,000,000—or at the outset to $1,500,000,000. To do more than this would be as unwise as it is unnecessary. To do even this would be to do more than has ever been done by any civilized Government in time of stress. (2) The excess profits tax based upon a sound system ought to yield about $500,000,000. (3) The income-tax schedule ought to be revised with a lowering of the rates on earned incomes below $10,000, and with an analogous lowering of the rates on the higher incomes, so as not to exceed 34 per cent. A careful calculation shows that an income tax of this kind would yield some $150,000, 900 additional. (4) The tax on whisky and tobacco ought to remain approximately as it is with a yield of about $250,000,000. These three taxes, with the stamp tax at even the low rate of the House bill, and with an improved automobile tax, will yield over $1,250, 000,000, which is the amount of money thought desirable. The above program would be in harmony with an approved scientific system. It will do away with almost all of the complaints that are being urged against the present. It will refrain from taxing the consumption of the poor. It will throw a far heavier burden upon the rich, but will not go to the extremes of confiscation. It will obviate interference with business and will keep unimpaired the social productivity of the community. It will establish a just balance between loans and taxes and will not succumb to the danger of approaching either the tax-only policy or the loan only policy. Above all, it will keep a undisturbed elastic margin, which must be more and more heavily drawn upon as the war proceeds. CREWS OF TORPEDOED SHIPS DIE OF STARVATION AT SEA LONDON, June 16. Two further instances of the inhumanity of German submarine methods have just been published. Ten members of the crew of the British steamer Karibi which was torpeded without warning, 230 miles from land on April 12 were picked up after 12 days in an open boat. For 7 days they had been without food and two of the survivors died after their rescue. Another boat with 21 men has not been heard from and it is feared it was lost with all on board. The British steamer Calthness was torpedoed without warning on April 19 while 240 miles from land. The captain and 20 men were drowned and the remainder of the crew were LIMESTONE FROM THIS Raymond S. Bassler, curator of paleontology, United States National Museum, Washington, located Thursday, along a highway near Flery's Station, several miles south of Hagerstown, a remarkable specimen of blue limestone weighing about 400 pounds. Arrangements were made to send the stone to Washington, where it will be dressed and placed in the National Museum. MEMBER AVIATION CORPS KILLED BY FALLING TREE CHARLOTTSVILLE, Va., June 16 A message received here today from San Antonio, Texas, told of the death of John Hayes Collett, a federal student at the University of Virginia. Collett was a member of a picnic party at Sanda Park, New Braunfels, Texas, all of whom were seated at a table beneath a giant pecan tree, when, without warning, a big limb fell, striking Collett on the head, crushing his skull. Collett and August G. Kimmerle left the university last month to join the Army Aviation Corps. They had about completed their preliminary training and expected to receive their commissions within a month. SOLDIER TRIED FOR ROANOKE, Va., June 16. In the general court-martial of the Second Virginia regiment now being held here the case of Private Frank Bowen, of Company K, for the killing of a supposed German spy is being heard. Bowen, while on guard duty at a bridge on a southern railway near Proffit, Albermarie county, saw a form in the darkness and his command to halt was ignored until he fired several shots. He finally brought his man in and he appeared to be a foreigner with a decided German accent. 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