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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 FIRST OPINION ON MOTHER'S PENSION County Courts Must Pay for Dependents, Says England. FAIRMONT, W. Va., June 19. Walter R. Haggerty, prosecuting attorney of Marion county, received the first opinion from the attorney general's office on the mothers' pension act of the recent legislature. Attorney General England's reply in answer to queries sets forth that county courts must pay for such dependents residing in municipalities; that she may receive a maximum sum of $25 per month; that the ligature intended to repeal a former pension act, and that the county court's reduction of the levy in the municipality does not in any way keep them from paynot in any way keep them from paying the pensions. ttettta ofda 6&seao shre shrdeitata Mothers having two or more children under the age of 15 years can apply for pensions. B. & O. SUPT.WILL GO TO RUSSIA B. & O. SUPT.WILL GO TO RUSSIA Head of Railroad at Philadelphia Sec... cures Leave of Absence to Help .. Country. S. T. Cantrell, superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Philadelphia, Pa., has secured a leave of absence in order to tender his services to the government for railroad work in Russia and R. B. White, superintendent at Seymour, Ind., has been transferred to the Philadelphia division to fill the vacancy. R. B. Mann, superintendent at Flora, Ill., has been transferred to the Indiana division, succeedig Mr. White, and C. G. Stevens, train master at Flora, has been promoted to superintendent of the Illinois division. The changes are effective June 20. Mr. Stevens, the new superintendent at Flora, was born December 16, 1870, and entered the railroad service in August, 1885, as agent at Swimmer, Ill. During the flood which swept the territory between the Mississippi river and the Allegheny mountains, in the spring of 1913, Mr. Stevens was thought to have been lost while endeavoring to save a railroad bridge in his territory. A locomotive and several cars which he ran onto the bridge were swept away with the structure and Mr. Stevens, washed away by the swollen river, landed in a tree top several miles away and remained there until rescued. CONFECTIONER CHARGES WIEE CUMBERLAND, Md., June 19. Constantine S. Diamond, propietor of a confectionery here, has entered suit for partial divorce from his wife, Mrs. Margaret O. Diamond. He charges that his wife has delusions on witchcraft and has often threatened him. He asks that alimony Commensurate with his financial ability be awarded Mrs. Diamond. Several weeks ago Mrs. Diamond caused her husband's arrest at an early morning hour, claiming he attacked her with a razor, but he was released. The Diamonds lived in Baltimore nine years before coming to Cumberland. Department of Archives e Pi ALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 2. MARTINSBURG, A GERMAN SUSPECT CAUGHT IN VIRGINIA Arnold Henckel, Supposed Spy, Is in the Toils of the Law. DANVILLE, Va., June 19.—Arnold Henckel, an alien enemy and suspected of being a German spy, who cut his way to freedom from the Norfolk Jail early Saturday, was arrested here this morning after a chase lasting half an hour and in which at least 100 citizens, headed by four policemen, took part. Arrested on the street by a police officer to whom Henckel was pointed out by a railway man who came with the suspect on the train, the German threw a bundle he was carrying in the officer's face and made a dash for liberty. Citizens took up the trail through the business section of town and finally trapped him in the British Imperial Storage Warehouse. The officers combing the roomy place for him found him crouching in an empty hogshead. A search at the Courthouse, where the prisoner revealed his identity, showed that Henckel had two purses containing $59. Sewn in the seams of his coat were three fine steel hack-saw blades. He also carried a complete shaving outfit. Henckel fought in the second battle of Ypres as a lieutenant of the German army, and was captured at Dixmude and taken to an interment camp at Ireland. He escaped and shipped to America. The accused denies having connection with any espionage. He is 35 years old, unmarried, speaks three languages and has a German university degree. HAGERSTOWN TABLE WORKS GRANT EMPLOYEES INCREASE The Hagerstown Table Works has given a 10 per cent raise to employees. The raise, however, is subject to certain conditions, it being necessary for the men to work regularly in order to get the advantage of the 10 per cent offer. The offer is made to encourage the men to work regularly without laying off. 33D ANNUAL MEETING W. VA. BAR ASSOCIATION White Sulphur Springs, July Fifth and sixth. Programs are out for the thirty-third annual meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association. White Sulphur Springs, July 5 and 6, to continue for two days. Several members of the local bar have planned to participate in this to them important event and enjoy the outing in that popular mountain resort in Greenbriar county. Judge Joseph Sanders will open the convention with an address on "The Result of the Workmen's Compensation Law." Hon. Fred O. Blue will read a paper—Has the Legislature the Power to Restrict the Sale of the State's Natural Products Into Other States?" "Game and Wild Life in West Virginia." will be discussed by Hon. J. A. Viquensey. State Forest. Fish and Game Warden. Special subjects of technical importance will be discussed in number during the session by other leading members of the bar. Dr. Bruce Geyer sang "Columbia. the Gem of the Ocean." at the service. The doctor was never heard to better advantage. NEW COOPERATIVE STORE WILL OPEN NEW COOPERATIVE STORE WILL OPEN Doors Will be Thrown Open to the Public Saturday Morning and Business Started. The doors of the co-operative store, which will be operated in the Kirson building, directly opposite The World office on East Burke street, will be thrown open to the public, and business will be started at once. For several weeks the building has been undergoing many repairs and is now in first class condition. The lower floor will be the store, while the entire second floor will be the storage room. E. M. Luttrell will be the manager. curch, South, will hold its annual meeting in Trinity 'M. E. cLurch, South, beginning Friday morning at 9:30 and continuing through tuesday, Saturday and Sunday. Delegates are expected from the several societies of the district and they will be entertained by the local societies. Forenoon and afternoon there will be the usual business sessions and in the eventig at 8 o'clock there will be public meeting, including stercoptican views of children in non-christian lands, to which all are invited. REPORT READ TO CITY COUNCIL REPORT READ TO CITY COUNCIL Conditions Found by Business Men Told of in Report Read to the City Fathers. At a special meeting of the City Council last night the report of the committee from the Business Men's Association who investigated the conditions at the pants and systems of the Potomac Light & Power Company and of the Northern Virginia Power Company, was read by City Recorder John H. Zirkle. The council took no action and the matter will come up before them at the next meeting. The council authorized the mayor to sign a note in full settlement of damages to Margaret Harding and Hiram Pulpis who sued the city some time ago because their property on West Martin street were damaged by water. The full amount was $200. A permit was granted the owners of the Berkeley Garage to erect a gasoline pump on the sidewalk at their place of business and to have the tank on the fnside of the building. The ladies of the chapter will sell candy in the square during Comrey's Band concert on Thursday night. The stand will be located on the porch of Councilman Wiltshire and the public is asked to visit same. TO WAR ON HOG CHOLEBA IN WA HINGTON COUNTY Two meetings and one demonstration in the interest of hog cholera control will be held in Washington county this week. Dr. L. K. Atherton, of the United States Department of Agriculture, will have charge of the meetings. A meeting will be held Tuesday night at Beaver Creek, and on Thursday night Dr. Atherton will address the farmers at Ringgold. A demonstration to show method of inoculating hogs will be held on the farm of DR. CANTER IS ON FRENCH SOIL Reported Was With General Pershing's Party; in Mdical Reserve Corps. The very many friends of Dr. Nolan M. Canter, who was commissioned as First Lieutenant of the U. S., Medical Reserve Corps, and left here the middle of May, are glad to learn that he has arrived on French soil. While details of this trip are lacking, due to military censorship, and of course his exact whereabouts unknown it is a large relief to know that Lieutenant Canter has at least escaped the first horrors of European war, the German U-boat. He crossed the Atlantic with General Pershing and party. It will be remembered, in the practice of his profession, Dr. Canter had for about two years past, been pathologist and bacteriologist at the City Hospital, with recognized ability. He was also medical examiner for the Martinsburg Public Schools, and incidentally engaged in regular practice of the profession. WEST VIRGINIA PAYS NEARLY $2,000,000 TAX Individuals in the state and West Virginia corporations paid income taxes to the federal government during the fiscal year just closing of $1, 826,745. From the entire country corporations and individuals paid income taxes of $330,565,628. Of this total $170,000,000 was paid by corporations and individuals paid $160,000,000. New York as in former years led the list of states in the total payments, with a yield of $110,431,480. Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio followed in the order named, the latter state paying $19,892,000. The tax paid from Kentuckey were slightly lower than from West Virginia, the Kentuckey total running to $1,577,665. LUTHERAN BROTHERHOOD MEETS AT CHICAGO CHICAGO, IL., Jue 19.—More than 1,000 delegates sat down to a banquet at the opening of the Council of the Lutheran Brotherhood here last night. Dr. C. G. Huckert acted as master of ceremonies. Judge Townson, of the Circuit Court, and the Rev. J. F. Seibert delivered addresses of welcome to which K. L. Zimmerman responded; The Rev. Dr. H. M. Banneen, of Rockford, Ill., the Rev. Dr. Charles L. Fry, of Philadelphia, and Dr. W. A. Granville, of Gettysburg, also spoke. The Rev. Dr. E. K. Bell, of Baltimore, delivered the invocation. Every afternoon the Red Cross rooms are open for all who will come and help make articles for the use of the so'diers. This means you. There are a number of contribution boxes at the various banks, the postoffice, and other places where you may contribute your "bit." The smallest contribution will help. Part of the program to be rendered at the Apollo Theatre on Sunday afternoon will be from "The Evening Choral Song." rendered at the Baptist church recently, under direction of Mr. Leon H. Ware. These numbers will be an entertainment in themselves. A silver offering will be lifted. GERMANS EXCITED OVER DECLINE IN THE MARK Big Drop on Swiss and Dutch Exchanges Causes Apprehension. THE HAGUE. June 19.—The rapid fall of the German mark on the Swiss and Dutch Exchanges is causing grave apprehension in Germany, especially in connection with the German purchases of foodstuffs. The Frankfurtier Zeitung, the leading banking organ devotes a long inquiry to the causes of the decline of mark. This paper says that the favorite explanation is that America is throwing large quantities of German preferred shares of State or municipal securities on the market. "Up to the present," says the Zeitung "we have not been challenged to issue orders for the prevention of payments to America. It is therefore theoretically possible German holdings to sell to Lombard Trust and thus bring down the mark out." The American Government would probably not be greatly concerned over the increased cost of the war by the loss on exchange. On the other hand, no such disposition on the part of American holders has yet been notified to the German, or at least to the Berlin banks." The paper therefore believes that the American influence on the rate of exchange mainly consists in the indefinite appreciation in neutral countries of the effect of American intervention on war finance, and that there is no definite American financial offensive at present. EVERY READY MARINE. This is Marine Corps Week, and if at its conclusion all the recruits needed to fill the quota of 30,000 rank and file obtained, it will be set down as a memorable and proud week in the annals of this historic organization. For their own sakes and for the good of the country all of our citizens should join heartily in this fine effort. It is a patriotic duty and will be a fitting testimonial of the nation's gratitude for a branch of the navy that has never failed in the hour of danger. The Marine Corps may well be called historic. It was the first regular force established by the Continental Congress. It was authorized in 1775, and during the intervening years it has seen service ashore and abroad, in every quarter of the globe, and always with credit to the country and honor to itself. Its efficiency is a the lesson its readiness has elicited the bigest commendation at home, and its bearing discipline and fighting qualities have earned the warmest encomium of the foreign contingents with which it has served. The selection of a regiment of marines as a unit of Maj. General Pershing's overseas division testifies to the esteem in which the corps is held, and as this force will surely be increased recruits wishing to enter the campaign as soon as their intensive training permits will find a speedy realization of their hopes by joining at once. To a particular degree the newly enlisted will be associated with men and be commanded by officers whose experience in campaigning has been large and valuable and recent—and this surely is a consideration of high importance.—New York Herald. Lynchburg to Have Fair. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 19.—The Lynchburg fair will be held this year as usual. October 2 3 and 5.The Interstate Fair Association decided today, reversing former action in calling off the affair on wartime grounds. THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice, Martinsburg, West Virginia as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... .75 Three Months ..... .50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Factor and Owner. Drawer 369.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917 With our press out of commission and we but little better, tells why this issue is so late. We hope to soon overcome both. There is but little doubt but that the disastrous fire at the South quarry had an evil origin. The absolute necessity of every citizen is the conservation of food. A great, universal effort is being made to urge every minister in this country to preach on this subject on Sunday, July 1, 1917. It is to be so thoroughly worked up that the day will be known as "Food Saving Day." Let everybody talk it up as every editor will do his part editorially and in all other ways. We sueggest that you write to Hon. Herbert Hoover, Washington, D.C. It is a matter of vital importance that every body should own two or three pigs. It used to be so, why not now? People living in the mountains can have a dozen easier than a town or city person can keep one. Hogs, by nature, root to live and fatten in the fall on acorns &c. and such hogs are, as a rule, healthy. Cholera need not be dreaded for science is rapidly choking its life out as it did that of the yellow fever. The Hon. J. H. Stewart, Commissioner of Agriculture, has a fine plan on foot. He has selected a healthy place of rich and fertile land to be sold cheap to our people who will be helped and encouraged to farm it for themselves. The farmis can be yours on easy payments. We know Mr. Stewart well and admire him for his interest in humanity. By all means take advantage of it. Write him. We shall buy one, or stop this business and the practice of law, go on, and work our Grant Co., farm in order to do our "bit" in helping to feed the needy at home and abroad. Look out and be on guard, live and help others to live. Not a few who have money are trying to buy everything eatable in its growing state to hold for high prices; they are buying potatoes in the ground. Don't sell them or anything that your neighbors have not and need, and to them sell at reasonable prices. Unless this be done, you and they may suffer, for God, himself, only knows the woes we blindly confront. This war is hell; the devil started it, grinning all over his face that casterreligion was and is its basic foundation. It is a shameful fact that at least "70,000" Negroes, upon promises to do for them as no other president ever had—granted—voted for President Wilson. The first of his recognition of his gratitude was to make all colored clerks use separate toilets, cloak-rooms and eating places; his next kind act was to take from from every Negro office holder his job. He has been too busy to speak a word against lynching but to show his sincerity, he had slip torn off from registration papers to prove we sprang from. If a mi. And all has been done in the face of "Germany being a hundred years ahead of the world" and mastering the sea. With all of America's hatred heaped on us, our record in toil, war and peace conclusively proves that we love it more than Woodrow Wilson does. England started out in the same way, by refusing her colored subjects of Jamaica admission into the war, but now, scared to death, has changed and wants their help, and this country is doomed to do the same. While Germany honors her colored subjects, one of whom is the Kaiser's special band-master and advocates intermarriage, should she come here, for one, I shall not ask Mr. Wilson if I can fight for my country, but fight as I did in the bloody sixties. SOAP 7 CENTS A BAR. It is a complete fraud, sustained by a supreme test of rascality. Soap is made of all kinds of dead animals, worn-out poor and bony horses, cholera hogs, all kinds of dead cattle, dogs, rats and cats. Now, in these hard starving war times, is it not a fact with more than a million of our best horses shipped across the sea to the war zone, that soap-food is more plentiful than ever before? Then why should soap be higher? Fell confessed before he died that at 5 cents a cake he had robbed the poor and got rich. And as to its outrageous price the truthful answer can only be: we make and have the soap and the public must have it and this is the time to fill our pockets, and we defy prevention. Have the poor a remedy? Yes, make your own soap. We know a rich white woman who makes the finest kind of soap. Country people can put wood ashes into a barrel elevated a foot or more from the earth with a hole at the bottom in front to let the lye-water run out into a vessel. Put the lye into an iron kettle, and put into the lye the savings of meat, grease and rinses; start a fire under the kettle and one day's boiling will give you a fine batch of clean, healthy soap. Some prefer it soit, others like it hard; to make it so, all that is required is to put salt into it and let it stand over night. City people who can't get wood ashes can get a few cans of concentrated lye with as good results. We must combat the soap makers and force down their stealing prices. It is well to know that the highest perfumed soap is made of the worst material. We contend defiantly that, if we owned every cake of soap in America and sold every one at 3 cents a piece, we would have cleared million dollars over the cost. CO-OPERATIVE STORE OPENED HERE TODAY In the Kirson Building on East Burke Street-Will Stocked With Goods. --- Early this morning the new cooperative store was opened in the Kirson building. East Burke street, and business commenced. The store is under the management of Ellston M. Luttrell. The store is well stocked and the upper portion of the building is also filled with goods. The store was organized by the working people of the city and t has quite a large capital. $109,000,000 IN FIFTH DISTRICT Official Figures on Liberty Loan in This District Released Yesterday. The figures on the Liberty Loan in the fifth federal reserve district as given out yesterday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond are as follows: SENATE COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO COAL COST WASHINGTON. June 23. Inquiry into production prices and transportation of coal, steel, copper and other basic materials over which Government supervision may be proposed during the war was decided upon today by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Coal will be the first subject taken up next Tuesday. Chairman Newlands explained that at present legislation contemplates control of food, the committee will consider whether such control should be extended to coal, iron, steel and their products and other raw materials, as well as their transportation. SECURITY COMPANY DECLARES DIVIDEND Directors of the Security Cement & Lime Company have declared another dividend of 3 1-2 per cent on the preferred stock of the corporation. This is the third distribution authorized by the board of this class of stock within the past four months. The latest dividend to be had is payable July 7. ANARCHISTS IN RUSSIA CREATE REIGN OF TERROR PETROGRAD, June 23.—Taking advantage of the situation created by the revolution, anarchists established a reign of terror in the government of Tonsk, western Siberia, and martial law was proclaimed there today. More than 20 persons were killed by the outlaws and robbery became the common thing. More than 2,000 arrests have already been made. The regiment of women raised by Vera Buicbarkoff will leave for the front in about two weeks and will take over a portion of the fighting front in the Minsk sector. The members of the regiment range from 18 to 25 years in age and drill nine hours daily. Their regiment has been given the name of "the command of death." The women wear the regulation uniform and are armed with regulation arreements. Maryland ..... $37,018,750 District of Columbia ..... 19,261,400 West. Va. ..... 12,147,700 Virginia ..... 25,924,050 North Carolina ..... 9,413,900 South Carolina ..... 5,968,550 Total ..... $109,738,350 JEWS WANT TO HOLD THEIR Meeting in Baltimore on Wednesday In Which Local Jews Take Big Part. Martinburg Jewish people are much interested in the plan of the Jewish people of the world to return to Palestine and to re-establish there a Jewish country. The plan does not co-template Jews from America or many other countries returning there in any great numbers, but it does contemplate the Jews of Russia and other countries in which they have been persecuted going there and establishing a home, a country, and a flag: in fact, giving the Jews a nation the same as Belgium, Italy, Spain or any other nation. It is stated that the p'an of the peace conference, when the world Jews is to be represented at the war shall end and they will press that Palestine be allotted them for the reestablishment of the Jewish nation. BIG VICTORY FOR WOODEN SHIPS CHAIRMAN DENHAM WILL CARRY OUT FIRST PLANS DESPITE OPPOSITION GENERAL CUT IN STEEL PRICE FROM $95 to $56 A TON DENMAN FEARS FOR U. S. TROOP SHIPS AS THE SUBMARINE TOL LGROWS, AND ENGLAND URGES SHIPS. MARINE TOLL GROWS, AND ENGLAND URGES SHIPS. SINKINGS FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE. ed for ten ships with steel tentatively at $56 by Chairman Denman, of the shipping board yesterday, as against $95, agreed to by Col. Goethals and the steel makers recently, the controversy between the two on the ship building program apparently has not been ended. Chairman Denman called at the White House yesterday and had a long conference with President Wilson. Gen. Goethals also called, but the list of appointments proved to be filled until Friday. Meantime the controversy was discussed in Congress. After his conference with the President Chairman Denman said U-boat sinkings for the past week would average a total of 0,000,000 tons loss annually. Every ship possible, and that of every kind, must be built by the United States. Frightful U-Boat Toll. "The most serious thing," said important is the mounting of figures. The decrease in the sinkings they showed Germany had recalled for expected sailings of American ships on the increase. "Our conference had nothingences between myself and Gen. C. There is no real difference in vith thing but a smile between us. Wof merchant ships. The increased submarine ship Germany has her entire submarine evidence that the German governfor repairs during th month of Nto lie in wait for the American trying our troops to France. Ge shipping faster than it can be building plans of the United States. UNCLE SAM'S LATEST DIRIGIHE THE WATER SOMEWHERE IN THE gible skimming over the water water trip. This is an unusual photo as diri country. They may form a most va abroad and are especially valuable in he had nothing to do with herself and Gen. Goethals," Mr. difference in views. There is between us. We talked about submarine sinkings last entire submarine fleet in German government called the month of May so that the American transports were France. Germany is now it can be replaced unless the United States are greatly valuable in observing open "The most serious thing," said Denman, "and the most important is the mounting of figures on sinkings of British ships. The decrease in the sinkings the last two weeks in May evidently showed Germany had recalled her submarines to prepare them for expected sailings of American troop ships. Sinkings are again on the increase. "Our conference had nothing to do with the reported differences between myself and Gen. Goethals," Mr. Denman continued. "There is no real difference in views. There never has been anything but a smile between us. We talked about U-boats and need of merchant ships. The increased submarine sinkings last week indicate that Germany has her entire submarine fleet in action. There was evidence that the German government called in its undersea boats for repairs during th month of May so that they would be ready to lie in wait for the American transports when they began carrying our troops to France. Germany is now sinking merchant shipping faster than it can be replaced unless the present shipbuilding plans of the United States are greatly extended. THE BALLOON UNCLE SAM'S LATEST DIRIGIBLE ON HER MAIDEN TRIP OVER THE WATER SOMEWHERE IN THE U. S.—One of the latest types of dirigible skimming over the water wate ran dthrough the air on her maiden trip. This is an unusual photo as dirigibles are few and far between in this country. They may form a most valuable addition to the forces fighting abroad and are especially valuable in observing operations. DR. W. T. HENSHAW NOW "CAPTAIN" Appointed Surgeon in U. S. Army Reserve Corps, With High Rank. Dr. William T. Hesshaw has and Denman, "and the most im- ima- tions on sinkings of British ships, last two weeks in May evidently submarines to prepare them for troop ships. Sinkings are again into do with the reported differ- ethals," Mr. Denman continued. News. There never has been any- talked about U-boats and need sinkings last week indicate that the fleet in action. There was sent called in its undersea boats say so that they would be ready transports when they began car- many is now sinking merchant placed unless the present ships are greatly extended. E ON HER MAIDEN TRIP OVER. S.—One of the latest types of diri- can dthrough the air on her maiden males are few and far between in this table addition to the forces fighting observing operations. just received notice from the War Department of his appointment is the Surgeon's Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army, with the rank of Captain. He is so far as known, the first surgeon in West Virginia to be given this high rank in this corps. Dr. Henshaw has not been advised as to just when he will be called to report for his duties. CLOSING EVENT OF RED CROSS WEEK SUNDAY AFTERNOON LACRED CONCERT BY LOCAL TALENT AT THE APOLLO THEATRE AFFAIR WILL BE UNDER THE DI- RECTION OF LEON. H. WARE LEADING SINGERS OF THE CITY ARE ON THE PRO- GRAM. The closing event and one of the crowning features of Red Cross Week will be the sacred concert to be given in the Apollo Theatre, under the direction of Mr. Leon H. Ware, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Ware has been hard at work getting the program in shape, and the talent to be heard is some of the very best in Martinsburg or this section of the country. Martinsburg can truthfully boast of the high-class musical ability of many of her people and they will be heard to advantage in the numbers to be rendered. A glance at the following program will merit a packed house. There will be no charge o fadmission, but a silver offering will be lifted. Program. 1. Greger, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," Elizabeth Morrison Livers. 2. Rogers, "Lift Up Your Heads," anthem, chorus. 3. Randegger, "Save Me O God," Imo Thompson Ware. 4. Schnecker. "My Faith Looks Up to Thee," duet, Dr. Geyer and Mr. Ware. 5. Broome, "God That Madest Earth and Heaven," anthem, chorus. 6. T. B. Starr, "The King of Love," Harry M. Grove. 7. Shelley "Hark Hark My Soul," anthem, chorus. 8. Barnard, "The Plains of Peace," Leo. A. Livers. 9. Mendelssohn, "I Waited for the Lord," anthem, duet, Mrs. Ware, Dr. Geyer and chorus. 10. Bartlett "O, Lord be Merciful," Averill Miller Osborne. 11. Shelley, "The King of Love My Shepherd Is," mixed quartet, Mrs. Ware, soprano; Effie Johnson, alto; Harry M. Grove tenor; and Leon H. Ware, bass. 12. Barnes, "By the Rivers of Babylon," anthem, chorus. Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison Livers, accompanist. ```markdown ``` Used 40 Years CARDUI The Woman's Tonic Sold Everywhere NO STALE BREAD TO BE RETURNED Thousands of Baker Throughout Country Agree to Force Economy. WASHINGTON, June 23.—More than 22,000 bakers throughout the country have agreed with the Commercial Economy Board to begin on July 10 to refuse returns of stale bread from dealers. By thus compelling housewives to order for their needs and dealers to confine supplies to actual demand, enough waste will be eliminated to feed 200,000 persons besides releasing many employees for other necessary work. WHDELING, W. Va., June 23. Gamblers of this city are preparing to migrate to the Ohio side of the river after consulting lawyers and learning there is no possible loophole of escape for them under the vagrancy law, which classifies gamblers and propietors of gambling houses as vagrants. Under the law, which is now in effect, gamblers must go to work or to jail. The law provides that all persons between the ages of 16 and 60 must work at least 36 hours a week or be sentenced to jail for a term not exceeding 60 days for each offense and to pay a fine of not more than $100. The gamblers are moving to Martins Ferry, Bridgeport and Bellaire, Ohio. ASSURANCE TO PFACH GROWERS Given by U. S. Food Controller Hoover to Washington County Growers. HAGERSTOWIN, Md., June 25. Herbert C. Hoover, the United States Food controller in letter to County Farm Agent Thomas L. Smith here, promises that he will do all possible to see that the peach crop in Washington county is moved to market promptly. There has been much apprehension concerning the movement of the peach crop, which promises to be large. Most of it, it is said, will go to the Middle West, where the crop will be short although Baltimore and other Eastern cities will get large quantities. Mr. Hoover has taken up the matter with Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and chairman of the National Defense Committee, and suggested that a proper resolution of the problem of moving the crop be worked out and the shippers granted what they desire. Carl R. Gray, president of the Western Maryland Railway, has assured the fruit growers that the Western Maryland can handle its end of the business. CHARLESTON IN GRIP OF TYPHOID EPIDEMIC CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 23. An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging here. One hundred cases have been reported in the last two months and new cases are occurring at an average of five a day. Health authorities have issued warnings to boil all water and chlorine treatment is being given the water furnished by the city. Health officials are handicapped in fighting the disease because its origin is a mystery. The city's drinking water has been analyzed and been found free of typhoid fever germs. The federal health authorities have been appealed to and have sent experts here to make an investigation. For Red Cross Benefit. Tonight at the market house the Red Cross ladies will have on sale the cake and candy, which was left over from the lawn fete, which was he'd last night at the home of Mr. Charles Kilbourn. ANNUAL MEETING OF C. E. SOCIETY COPENHAGEN, June 23.—Assumption that the "survey of the Austrian public opinion on war aims," circulated by the Austrian Correspondence Bureau, represented the Austro-Hungarian Government's program of peace terms is confirmed by an article in the Lemberg Gazette, reproducing these conditions of the official program. State Convention Will Be Held in Martinsburg Last of Next Week. The West Virginia Christian Endeavor Union will convene in Martinsburg June 28, 29, 30, July 1st for its Annual Convention. Much care has been shown in selecting the personel of the program and the present outlook promises a splendid convention in every respect. The article, for which high authority is asserted, says that Serbia and Montenegro must find their future economic development in close association with Austria-Hungary. In other words it proposes a customs union. It holds that Loveen Mountain, in Montenegro, must be retained as the key of the Gulf of Cattaro, and that Albania must have autonomy under military and economic suzerainty of Austria-Hungary. Mr. Charles E. Evans, Field Secretary for the state of Kentucky, will be present during the entire session and will be in charge of all the conference work. Mr. Evans is well known to many of the Endeavors of the state having at one time performed some special field work for the Union. Discussing Rumania, the statement says that this question is for Austria-Hungary identical with the Danube problem, and arrangements must be made for a free, open Danube route not subject to the control of any foreign power. Finally, Austria-Hungary must have a better military frontier against Italy, more fully protecting Trieste and the Tyro. The out-of-state speakers will be Dr. John Brittan Clark, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., Rev. C. Morgan Comphers, Pastor of 1st M. P. church, Washington, D. C., Dr. August Polhman, Pastor of Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, and Congressman S. D. Fess, of Ohio. The music will be under the direction of Homer M. Welch of Grove City, Pa., and will be ably accompanied by Miss Marguerite McKinney of Burnsville, W. Va., Mr. Welch is Musical Director with the Dr. John S. Hamilton Evangelistic Party. ITALY'S GREATEST WAR NEED IS SHIPS; THE WAR MUST BE WON OR ALL WILL BE RUINED NEW YORK, June 23.—Speakers at the luncheon given at the Astor yesterday by the Merchants' Association to the members of the Italian War Commission declared that the countrymen of Columbus and the people of the land which Columbus opened to the world were united in a war which should result in the building of a new world. "a world," as Charles E. Hughes expressed it, "where law and justice are supreme." "We shall win the war," said the Mayor Mitchel, "and when the war is over I hope and believe that our victory will insure the permanency of a peace which will establish just relations among the nations of the earth and insure the tranquility of democratic nations in the future. Then will come what I hope we can look forward to as the golden period, a period of closer friendship between these allied nations banded together in this great The Convention Headquarters will be in the Christ Reformed Church, but sessions will be held in the st. John's Lutheran, Church of Christ and the First United Brethern. "A Representative from Every Society" is our s'ogan, and the names of all Relegates should be forwarded to Miss Estelle Hott, East King street, Martinsburg, W. Va. Any unpaid pledges should be sent promptly to Mr. J. G. Jackson, Treasurer, Jane Lew. MAYOR THOMPSON OF CHICAGO MAY BE IMPEACHED; HOSTILITY TO HUM BASED ON PRO-GERMANISM AND OPPOSITION TO LOAN CHICAGO, June 23.—Mayor William Hale Thompson was ignored as presiding officer of the Chicago City Council yesterday amid cries of "Impeachment!" "Turn him out!" Resolutions were passed empowering committee to take the necessary steps either to impeach the Mayor or get his enforced resignation from office. While the School Board situation was the pretext, the underlying cause of the hostility to Thompson is found in his pro-Germanism, his refusal to aid the Liberty Loan and his hostile attitude toward inviting the Balfour Commission to visit Chicago. TWO INJUNCTIONS GRANTED BY WOODS TWO INJUNCTIONS GRANTED BY WOODS Handis Down Decision in the Case of Datt Against Bohrer and Mentzer Against Mentzer. Judge J M Woods this morning granted an injunction in the case on Benton E Batt against Henrietta Bohrer, restraining the defendant from cutting timber on land owned by the plaintiff in Morgan county. Noll and Rodgers represented the plaintiff. WASHINGTON, June 23—A drastic anti-conspiracy provision was written into the Administration's Food Control bill by the House today. The new section was offered by Chairman Lever of the Committee of Agriculture, and was promptly adopted as an effective measure of reaching the food speculator and hoarder. The section reads: Sulge Woods also granted an injunction in the case of Charles Mentzer against Agnes Mentzer, a divorce case enjoining the defendast from damaging the property of the plaintiff. A motion for course and a insony fees was made and will be confirmed probably in a few days. Downey and Henson represent the plaintiff, and Noll and Rodgers the defendast. That any person who conspires, combines, agrees or arranges with any other person (a) to limit the facilities for transporting producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing, or dealing in any necessities, (b) to restrict the supply of any necessaries, (c) to restrict the distribution of any necessaries, (d) to prevent, limit, or lessen the manufacture or production of any necessaries, or (e) to enhance the price of any necessaries, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding $10,000 or be imprisoned for not more than two years or both. This modification of the bill was probably the most important of several made by the House yesterday. "SLACKER" WANTS TO JOIN NAVY --- DO YOUR OWN SHOPPING "Onyx" Hosiery Gives the BEST VALUE for Your Money Every Kind from Cotton to Silk, For Men, Women and Children Any Color and Style From 25c to $5.00 per pair Look for the Trade Mark! Sold by All Good Dealers. WHOLESALE Lord & Taylor NEW YORK Henry Wab Registered Here Today by Mayor Leiter and Would Fight for Country. Henry Wab, who was arrested here a few days ago and held for the action of the grand jury which convenes at the July term of Federal Court at Elkins, by United States Commissioner H. A. Downs on the charge of having failed to register June 5. today was registered by Mayor P. W. Leiter. Wab. who is from Chicago, Ill., told the authorities that he would like to join the navy and it is probable that District Attorney Stuart W. Walker will grant his request. en HOW SHALL WE ~ ' PAY FOR THE WAR? A Constructive Criticism on the House Revenue Bill, LOANS BETTER THAN TAXES MeVickar Professor of Political Econ- omy, Columbia University. On May 23, 1917, the House of Rep- resentatives passed an act “to provide revenue to defray war expeuses and for other purposes.” In the original bill ag presonted by the Committee of ‘Ways and Means, the udditional reve. nue to be derived was estimated at §1,- 810,420,000. ‘The amendment to the tn- come tax, which was tacked on to the bill during the discussion in the House, Was expected to yleld another $40,000, 000 or $50,008,000. In discussing the House bill, two problems arise: 1. How much should be ratsed by taxation? IL. In what manner should this sum be raised? '. How Much Should Be Ralsed by Taxation? ‘How was the figure of $1,800,000,000 arrived at? The answer ia 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 $6,600,- 000,000, of which $3,000,000,000 was to be allotted to the allies, and §3,600,- 000,000 was to be utilized for the do- mestic 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 theorles, each of which may be dismissed with scant courtesy. ‘The one is that all war ex- Penditures should be defrayed by loans, and the other {8 that all war expendt- tures should be defrayed by taxes. Each theory is untenable. It is indeed true that the burdens of the war should be borne by tho pres- ent 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 beat the burden of benefits that ought to be distributed at least over a decade within the seme sunera on. In the second place, when expendi- tures approach the gigantic sums of present-day warfare, the tax-only pol- icy would require more than the total surplus of social income. Were this @bsolutely necessary, the ensuing hay- oc in tho-economfe life of the communt- ty would have to be endured. But where the disasters are 60 great and at the same timeso unnecessary, the tax-only policy may be declared im- practicable. Secretary McAdoo had the right {n- stinct and highly commendable cour- age in deciding that a substantial por- tion, at least, of the revenues should be derived from taxation. But whon he hit upon the plan of 50-50 per cent, that is, of raising one-half of all do- mestic war expenditures by taxes, the question arises whether he did not go too far. The relative proportion of loans to taxes {s after all a purely business Proposition. Not to rely to a large ex- tent 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 @isarrange business, damp enthusiasm and restrict the spirit of enterprise at the very time when the opposite ts fheeded. 8. Excessive taxes on {ncomes will de plete the surplus available for invest- ments and interfere with the placing of the enormous loans which will be neces- wary in any event, 4 Excessive taxes on wealth will cause a serious diminution of the in- comes which are at present largely drawn upon for the support of educa- tional and philanthropic enterprises. Moreover, these sources of support ‘Would be dried up precisely at the time when the need would be greatest. 6. Excessive taxation at the rutset of the war will reduce the elasticity avail- able 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 expenditures. During the third yea: sho 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 rauck in the first year of the war as Great Britain did in the third year {t would suffice to rulse 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 maxi- mum. “In considering the apportionment of the extraordinary burden of taxes in war times certain scientific principles are definitely established: How Taxes Should Be Apportioned. (@) The burden of taxes must be spread us far as possible. over the whole community so as to cause each individual to share in the sacrifices ac- cording to his ability to pay and ac- cording to his share in the Government. (2) Taxes on consumption, which are necessurlly. borne by the community at large, should be imposed as far as pos- sible on articles of quasi-luxury rather thun on those of necessity. (@% Excises should be imposed as far as possible upon commodities in the hands of the final consumer rather than upon the articles which serve pri- marily as raw material for further production. (4) Taxes upon business should be imposed us fur as posstble upon net earnings rather than upon gross re- ceipts or capital invested. @) Taxes upon income which will necessurily 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 1s essential, however, not to make the income rate so excessive as to lead to evasion, administrative diMeultics, or to the more fundamental objections which have been urged above. (8) The excess profits which are due to the war constitute the most obvious and reasonable source of revenue dur- ing war times. But the principle upon which these war-profit taxes are laid must be equitable in theory and easily calculable in practice. The Proposed !hcome Tax. The additional income tax as passed by the House runs up to a rate of 60 per cent. This {s 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 facome tax to the maximum of 84 per cent., and that even now in the fourth year of the war the income tax does not excced 42% per cent. It could easily be siown that a tax with rates on moderate incomes sub- stantially less than in Great Britain, and on the larger incomes about as high, would yield only slightly less than tho’ $582,000,000 ortginally estimated in the House bill. It 4s to be hoped that the Senate will reduce the total rate on the highest in- comes to 84 per cent, or at most to 40 Per cent, and that at tho same time it ‘Will reduce the rate on the smaller in- comes derived from personal or profes- stonal earnings. If the war continues we shall have to depend more and more upon tho in- come tax. By imposing excessive rates noW we are not only endangering the future, but are inviting all manner of difficulties which oven Great Britain has been able to oscape. “Conclusion. The House bill contains other funda- mental defects which may be summed up as follows: (1) It pursues an erroneous principle in imposing retroactive taxes. (2) It selects an unjust and unwork- able criterion for the excess-profits tax. (8) It proceeds to an unheard-of height in the income tax. (4) It imposes unwarranted burdens upon the consumption of the commu- nity. (5) It 4s calculated to throw: business into confusion by levying taxes on gross receipts instead of upon commodities. | (G) It fails to make a proper use of stamp taxes. (7) It follows an unscientific .system in its flat rate on imports. , Yates on the higher incouies, 0 a Hot to exceed 34 per cent. A careful cal culation shows that an income tax of this Kind would yield some $450,000, 000 additional, (@ The tax on whisky and tobscer ought to remain approximately as it fs with a yleld of ghont 2.000.000, These three tases, tether with t) stamp tax at even the low rate of t Touse bill, and with an fimproved at tomobile tax, will yield over $1,250, 000,000, Which is the amount of mone thought desiral le. The above proxram would be in har mony with an approved selentifie sys tom. It will dy uway with almost al! of the complaints that are being urged against the present. It will refralr from taxing the consumption of the Poor. It will throw a far heavier burde: upon the rich, but will not go to th: extremes of co:fiscation. “It will of vate interference with business ar Will keep untinpaired the social pro duetivity of the community. It will establish a just balance be tween Jouns aud taxes and will not succumb to the danger of approaching elther the tax-only policy or the loan only poliey, Above all, it will keen a: undisturbed elastle margin, whic! must be mor and more heavily drawn upon as the war proceeds ENGLAND Is SPENDING MONEY IN THE U. g. NEW YORK, June t9.—Enslent i Spending between $50,000,000 and $60,000,005 cach week ii the United States for materials of all kinds. Lord Northe‘iffe said tonight in a statement upon his retnyn trom Washington, Northelitfe said that while in Washington he had “an in- teresting audience with the Presi- dent.” Northcliffe issued a statement saying “a good dea! is said about the loans to the nglish goverument, but we are spending it all here.” Remember the festival at Falling Waters on Saturday night, on the lawn of Mrs. J. % Stehley, and pay it a visit, Sandwiches and coffee, strawberries and cream and ice cream and cake wiil be served. 7 to nym. 1. ke SUUNMNUOUCNNSMANLGERR ET SELEGEUUTEUEEUEETLDS MILLIONS: fe 2 STARVING | a ee | gz sopeaam ex 2 INBIBLE STANDS - ae y f ei LGR: aN J 3 3 4 ZY a ¥ : : Lai AES ES : LZ ip4 By A \iy = 2 VSS 7: i 3 LE ge _ 2 BSRSGNS 5 2 _ pe : 2 2 = en res ee E ge Bo | Sisk : Sn FRB : ca : i ess “ey e z aes Aes, é sR TOE, | : Immediate help is neces- = = Sarytosave the remnants & = of peoples once happy and & = prosperous in Armenia, = : Syria, Caucasus, Persia, = : Egypt, Palestine, : : Christian America is = : calledupontoprovidebare = necessities for 2,144,000 = = homelessdependentpeople = = intheselands. 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