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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIDED BY GAIN" Department of Archives. The "HERE SHALL THE ESTABLISHED 1882. MAR FIRST FROST OF SEASON FALLS IN BERKELEY CO. THERMOMETER DROPS TO 32 DEGREES AND HIGHLANDS AND VALLEYS ARE COVERED WITH WHITE, THOUGH NO DAMAGE TO CROPS IS NOTICEABLE—WEATHER REPORT POMISES RISE IN TEMPERATURE BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. The frost warnings sent broadcast throughout the eastern section of this country by the U. S. Weather Bureau were well founded, as a few hours of time proved. In Berkeley county and the entire Shenandoah Valley section, a white frost tell on hill and in valley, and also in the mountain regions in some places. At the Martinsburg government station conducted by Mr. George W. Van Metre, the thermometer early this morning registered at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. From reports gathered from many points the frost does not seem to have done any perceptible damage, even to such delicate vegetables as the tomato. Today the government weather reports indicate rising temperature by tomorrow afternoon, and agriculturists and fruit growers generally feel that the danger period of the first real cold snap is past. This cool spell, it is hoped, will be followed by the usual mild autumn weather of this section for a month or more now until corn and vegetable crops can be harvested and the apple crop gotten in storage. SINKING SHIPS WITHOUT A TRACE. It was extremely hard to believe the accounts of the alleged artocities committed by the German invading army in Belgium in the early days of the war. It would have been hard to believe such tales of any Christian nation; yes, even of the terrible Turk who is noted for his cruelty, yet as the war has progressed there has been no let up by Germany of her warfare of frightfulness. In fact, it has grown steadily, which forces one to admit that the German mind seems so constituted as to consider no crime too terrible to commit in behalf of the Fatherland. review of the war shows the Germans guilty of the murder of Belgian women and children, of slavery forced on French women prisoners,erial attacks on on military towns,inking of the Luisitania, deportation of Belgian workmen, murder of Edith Cavell and Capt. Fryatt, ruthless submarine warfare, sinking of hospital ships, water well poisoning on western front, compelling French prisoners to work on firing line, and aerial attacks on French, English and American hospitals. Germany being capable of committing such crimes seemingly without one pang of regret, is it any wonder that four-fifths of the world has taken up arms against her? Regardless of who started the war or how it was started is there a single human left, who professes to be a Christian, a law-abiding citizen and a believer in justice to all, that can still conscieniously support the German cause in the face of such actions? But that is not all. Germany even with such a long list of crimes would go further if she could. This is brought out in the notes of Charge d' Affairs Luxburg, of Buenos Aires, sent through the Sweden foreign fhee to Stockholm and THREE ALLEGED "BAD MEN" TAKEN THREE ALLEGED "BAD MEN" TAKEN MEN WHO DEFIED VIRGINIA AUTHORITIES CAPTURED AT OTTAWA, OHIO. HARRISONBURG, Va., Sept. 11. Three members of the gang which defied Sheriff W. D. Stoner and a pose of citizens two months ago in the mountains of Shenandoah county have been arrested at Ottawa, Ohio. They will be brought back to Virginia for trial at Woodstock. Walter Paul Neff and two others whose names were not given in the telegram announcing the arrests are the men held for the Virginia authorities. The men were carrying two revolvers each when arrested. The trouble started at New Market when Sheriff Stoner attempted to arrest Mike Neff, brother of Paul, for jumping a ball bond. Friends of Neff interfered, and the officers were beaten. The men then secured arms and ammunition, and after intrenching themselves in the mountains defied the posses sent out to effect their capture. About 120 shots were exchanged. DRAFTING THE DOCTORS If there shall be no exemption of medical students from the draft for service in the ranks of the national army, the supply of trained men for service with the ambulances and in the medical corps of the battlefield is likely to be imperilled should the war continue for any length of time. And—what is equally important for consideration—if the present rate of enlistment from the medical profession in the army service and its auxiliaries shall be supplemented by a non-selective draft, the necessary medical and surgical service of the home communities will be impaired, if not actually imperilled—Philadelphia Bulletin. THEORY THAT DON'T WORK A great social truth was enunciated by the janitor of a New York apartment house, who had lost his job he explained, by his wife's jealousy of the elevator girls he had employed, and was being sued by her for non-support. "Girls are girls," said this shrewd observer, "and you have to pay more attention to them than you do to men." The theory that women who go into business should be treated "just like men" is held by many, especially by the women themaelves. It is an excellent theory but it does not always work.—Philadelphia Ledger. A WAY TO DODGE TROUBLE A WAY TO DODGE TROUBLE. The Observer would take occasion to renew its suggestion that in the offer of Cuba to furnish training grounds the War Department has at hand a ready solution to the problem of the training of negro troops. When there are so many other available locations for the training of negro troops, and locations even more desirable, it is a false and dangerous policy for the War Department to insist on forcing these negro troops on a citizenship that does not want them, and where, even if they are not objected to, their very presence would surely be provocative of friction and race rioting.—Charlotte Observer. thence to Berlin, wherein it was advised that if any more Argentine vessels were sunk, that they should be sent down "without leaving a trace." That Germany for once was somewhat humane and did not follow Count Luxburg's advice may have been because she did not have the opportunity, or considered the game not worth the candle, inasmuch as practically all of Argentina's vessels are quite small, in which case the sinking of one or several would have meant little, if anything, to Germany and might have brought another enemy into the war.—Wheeling Register. CASE RESTS ON SWEDEN TO MAKE THE NEXT MOVE OFFICIALS NEW SIGNIFICANCE ON ATTACKS ON AMERICAN TRANSPORTS. RIVALS "SCRAP OF PAPER" AND MAY EXPLAIN "ELIMINATING" PASSENGERS AND CREWS — MAY EXPLAIN LEAKS OF INFORMATION TO THE U-BOATS WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. While awaiting with interest news as to how the people of Sweden will view the international perfidy of those in charge of the foreign policy of their government, Seretary Lansing has rested his case squarely on the evidence of the Count Luxburg (elegrams. It is Sweden's next move. Officially, neither the United States nor the entente governments have asked what this move is to be, trusting first to the sense of honor of the Swedish people to appreciate what the situation calls for. Secretary Lansing yesterday declined to say whether the Luxburg telegrams were sent in German or Swedish code. Whitever code used it was made the official Swedish code for the occasion it was explained. Developments of the Day. The salient developments of the day here were the following: Intimations from the State Department that the Swedish people must not be prematurely judged for the faults of the government or to be more specific, the faults of officials sacrificing of neutrality in the interest of the Wilhelmtrasse. Definite statements that the United States government does not regard the question of whether or not the Stockholm foreign office knew the contents of the Luxburg telegrams as having any bearing on the international breach of faith in forwarding them to Berlin. [Recognitin at the State Department of the possibility that Swedish official sources may have been used to convey information to German Uboa's concerning the arrival of American desroyer forces and the transports of the Pershing expeditin in European waters. News Leaks to Germans. It is known here that the Germans by some mysterious means obtained advance information about the first destroyers sent to Europe and mined one of the harbors in the hope of blowing them up. It has likewise been practically established that German submarines had advance information of the route which the first contingents of Preshing's transports would probably take. No one here has yet been able to establish how this information was obtained. The proof of duplicity between the German and Swedish foreign office lends color to the belief that this informatin. Like the Luxburg telegrams, may have been part of "the official business" of the foreign office at Stockholm. Inquiry as to whether Swedish cipher messages have been passed by British and French censors from all points on the American continent develops the fact that they have been permitted to go forward. The implied guarantee of the Swedish government as to their neutral contents, has been recognized, it is explained, in minor instances of delay here has been prompt protests against the so- called holding-up of official government business. Guilty in U-Boat Campaigns Particular importance was attached at the state department and in diplomatic circles yesterday to the authoritative statement that the question of whether the Swedish foreign office knew the contents of the dispatches was "immaterial." Assuming that the contents were known, the officials in Stockholm were guilty of transmitting to Berlin specific information for the destruction of shipping by German U-boats. Assuming that the contents were not known, these officials were guilty of transmitting to Berlin information which might have been oven more detrimental to the interests of Germany's enemies. In the latter case Germany is given a blank check by the Swedish foreign office to be filed out in whatever manner desired. It might have been minute directions to U-boat American transports. Grave Breach of Neutrality It might have been anything so far as the Swedish foreign office was concerned. The breach of neutrality in permitting Germany to have carte blanche for the transmission of secret cipher messages is perhaps more serious than in permitting the specific Count Luxburg telegrams to go through to Berlin. From the viewpoint of recognized international procedure the Swedish government's offense is against Argentina and against Great Britain. The fact that Great Britain owns the cables makes it technically as well as otherwise an offense for the Swedish government to use the guarantee of its national honor as a means of getting secret German war measures by the censor. But of course, the real major offense consists in acting virtually as a secret ally of Germany while proposing neutrality. This offense which is charged up to the government are not the Swedish people is against a country with which Germany is at war, including the United States. Rivals Scrap of Paper. Indications are that the expression "spurious versenkt," used in the Count Luxburg telegrams will rival "scrap of paper" in typifying German war policies. Diplomates yesterday recalled various instances where reports have come from the war zone concerning apparently inexplicable barbarity on the part of U-boat commanders. It has been reported that lifeboats were fired on; that survivors struggling in the water were made targets for guns from the submarines, and that in some instances the U-boat commanders have taken the crews from lifeboats aboard the submarine, demolished the lifeboats and then submerged, leaving survivors to the mercy of the seas, with no apparent help in sight. Was this in pursuance to orders that certain ships must be "spurios versenkt?" This is a question seriously discussed here yesterday. The reports undoubtedly, it is explained, fit in with the Count Luxburg advice to sink vessels without leaving any trace of them, which means, of course, that even passengers, members of the crew and lifeboats must be eliminated. MISS JENNIE SMITH COMING MISS JENNIE SMITH COMING NOTED (RAILROAD EVANGELIST WILL SPEAK AT FIRST M. E. CHURCH WEDNESDAY. Miss Jonnie Smith, the noted rail- --- ess. BY GAIN" 36. NO. 128. 8. GAME OF "WAITING" BY W. VA. COAL MEN MAY PRESENT WELL-BACKED CLAIMS THAT PRICE FIXED IS TOO LOW. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—It is hoped here that conditions in connection with the efforts of the government to regulate the price and supply of coal will soon settle down so the coal producers, dealers and consumers may all know on what basis coal is to be handled hereafter. While prices to the producer at the mine have been fixed, no price has yet been established for the dealer or the consumer. It is not certain that the prices already fixed for the producer will be allowed to stand, for at the time the price was established it was stated that it was subject to change. West Virginia coal operators are understood to be only waiting the opportunity to present evidence to show that the price fixed for their mines is too low. Fuel Administrator Garfield is preparing to hear such evidence, from various sections but has requested that no immediate effort be made to get it before him, before the organization of his office is complete. West Virginia coal operators, it is stated here, have no desire to hamper the government in any way in its prosecution of the war but they have an honest difference of opinion from the President as to what should be considered a reasonable price for their product. They do not want to see West Virginia's greatest industry crippled and will make an effort to present their side of the case with a view to a possible change of prices. In the meantime it has been determined to appoint one state fuel administrator for each state. This man is not to be connected in any way with the coal mining industry. Several names have been suggested for the position in West Virginia, but the formal announcement of his appointment will be the first information as to who may be selected. That the coal situation in West Virginia is greatly in need of some action which will put an end to uncertainties is shown by the telegram sent a few days ago by Governor Cornwell, of West Virginia, to the War Department asking that one regiment of the West Virginia national guard be left in the state for use in case of a theratened coal strike. It is not known whether this will be done. CLOSE SCHOOLS EARLY IN DAY THAT PUPILS MAY HAVE TIME TO WORK, IS ADVICE OF SUPT. SHAWKEY. Boards of education throughout the state are advised by State Superintendent of Schools, M. P. Shawkey to establish an early opening and closing hour for the schools in their district, in order that the pupils can work in the afternoons. However, it is imperative, he adds, that our educational system be not neglected, and he urges that all the schools redouble their efforts to give the boys and girls of the state a thorough education. road evangelist, will speak at the First M. E. church on Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. She has a large number of friends in this city that will be pleased to hear her. The pastor of the First church urges his congregation to attend this meeting. 元富工業 — Gage Watered at Postofice, Martinsburg, West Virginia as scoond-class matter. ————____ Subecription Rates: CE ODO! LORR occ cave eecieeneenree S160 Bix Moutis ...........0.c0. 08s TB Three Months ........0...65 50 eS Iesae avéry Saturday by J. R. Clif. ford, Kditor and Ownor. Drawer 869..........Bell Phone 1015 —— SATURDAY, SEPT 15, 1917 In the death of Hon, Harry S Cummings, of Baltimore, that city, the colored race and the State of Maryland lost a character who has occupied a unique place in Ameri- can history for upwards of quarter of acentury. This was so because of his occupancy of a seat in Balti- mores City Council during a long period in which position he reflect ed credit upon the people with whom he was identified, and invar iably retained the confidence and respect of his white Colleayues in the Council. It might prove au incentive to some aspiring young Negroes for them to be told that Councilman Cummings funcral was attended by Mayor Preston and the Council in a body, the flag on the City Hall flew at half-mast, the Council adjourned out of respect to him, and one or more Courts held brief sessions on the day his funeral was held. The McDowell ‘Times, of Key- stone, West’ Virginia, is asking that a colored man be appointed to a place in the Work men’s Compensa- tion Department. Itis but fit and proper that the ‘Times makes this demand, because the appointment of one colored man to a place in ‘this department would be but scant recognition to arace of people who compose twenty-eight — thousand of the electorate of this State. It is an established fact that 99 per cent of these votes go to the Re- publican party, and that organiza- tion should see to it that its black contingent be fairly dealt’ with as regards a proper apportionment of efficeholding. The Negro every- where is tiring of doing all the voting, and none of the office-hold- ing, and those of the ‘‘Little Mountain State’’ are going to be- come no exception to this new rule that they-have inaugurated for their political benefit. So keep up the fight, Messrs. Whittico and Hill, of the Times, and your broth- er Clifford, of the Pioneer Press, willrender you all the assistance he possibly can. The War Department, through its gentlemanly and erudite Secre- tary, Hon. Newton Diehl Baker, has put its stamp of official approv- alon an expressed determination to train Negroes for the New Na- tional Army at every cantonment which is located in the South. It isthe only logical conclusion to teach, and especially is this so when our government is waging a war for ‘‘ World Freedom and Dem- ecracy.’’ To be consistent, there should be no distinctions of any kind, anywhere in the United States that Uncle Sam has domain. Later, we learn that our friend, the Secretary of war has changed Bis mind and decreed there shall de separate training camps for Uncle #am’s loyal Negro soldiers and that they shall not be allowed to go in the South for training We are curious to know why so suddenly changed? Was itin con pliance of the Houston Daily Post's order that Negro troops should | kept out of the South and ‘thos that have been ordered to Southern points must be sent elsewher- otherwise appalling conscqucn are inevitable?" Tt further says: "The war de partment must understand that and understand it quickly. Secretary Baker must quickly understand that Houston or Columbia is not Cleve land, Ohio, where social equality is somewhat of a fixed clement. of racial relations, where Negro teach ers teach white children, and all that sort of thing, And that kind of condition is not voing: to be set up in the South, either in peace or war,”' Being an insult to the Sceretary of War unless he considers the source; a dastardly threat to the government in its crucial condition and an outrage upon a class of peo ple who has never cursed this coun try witha traitor, why not suppres: his paper along with the other not halfas rank and rotten? West Virginia Negro Masonry for thirty odd years has been a burn ing disgrace. ‘The worst’ clement of men have shamed and disgraced our honest men who have done their best to save so noble an order. We have seen its officers drunk at Grand Lodge meetings. Once tae Treasurer took off his coat and walked the streets of Keystone swearing with the foulest oaths, that he “could whip any s—= of a b—— in the town.’? “At another Grand Lodge meeting, an. officer who was to respond to the welcome address of the Major, was so drunk that he had to be carried to a room in the hall to Jay and sleep off his stupor. A’ certain click made it their business to try to live on the funds of the Grand Lodge, and stole hundreds of dollars. ‘To clect officers of their ilk was their game, and to do so, most all the time was spent to that end. ‘The Grand Lodge has been earricd to all the inconvenient places possible to keep the klick in power—even once taking it to Moorefield, where they had to go by stage from Keyser 42 miles. Nearly thirty years avo one of the keenest of rascals stole and squandered $107.50 and never paid it back. An insurance plot was disgracefully attached to ma- sonry and hundreds and hundreds of dollars gobbled uy by the ring. However, a change, thank heavens took root two years ago in Parkers- burg, when men of honor, who love the order kept their solemn vows triumphed, and passed a resolution that instituted ro ation in office, They fought it hard but died in thei: own dark deeds. There will be no more sham elections. ‘Mhere will be no more grouping, clicking and tricking time away at future Grand Lodges. The only man to be added to the official body will be the pur- suviant—an appointee of the Grand Master, but Alfred E. Goodwyn, of Bluefield being Deputy Grand Mas ter took the chair and has honored it, because he is Glean and honor able. A better Grand Master lias never filled that place, and Negro Masonry is destiied to go onward and upward under the new regime, To destroy what was done at Clarkrsburg last year—rotation in office as the whites do—the dying recalcitrants lobbied and bickered together until the evening of the closing day's session, with no busi ness done on account of it. Not withstanding the clever people of Clarksburg prepared the finest re- ception ever given the Grand Lodge, and spent nearly a hundred dollars to do it, and turned out gowned in their best to greet us, we were kept up until 1 o'cieck in the morning, with the delicacies of the season unused, the cost falling on Mr. Thomas, and not one of the scores seen who turned out to greet us. Our Troe Axp Taus. ane grected, Gotng froin here to Tams our objective point on the 4th Inst., and getting there at dusk with no dinner and having no time to w ish on get thing towat, had ts he rishe Into court, where we r itatiied til atter Pt o'cloek--and < one of the sisters said, “brougl the bacon back.’ : Tams is the finest mining tewn we ever saw The place is nam after the owner and i anager of this wonderful plait. Mr.‘Tams is from Staunton, Va. Ife has thousands of men working for him The plant's store and main buildings are in the center, South of these buildings the whites live, and North the color d, Both classes have identically the same conveniences Two Young Men's Christian Asso ciation buildings with pool tables and all kinds of amusements, with other more refined quarters for those who prefer other sources of amuse- ments. Hach class has avery large bath house with hot and cold water an shower baths. Fully fifty. or more men ean bathe ata time. You ean’: see the ceiling of those massive bath heuses for the suspended clothes which the workinen take off befor going to work, Coming from work they are con celled to repair to th bath houses, batae, put oon clean clothes, and suspend their workin ones to be donned in the moraine for work. Tach has a large theater, and all kinds of choice and instructive plays goon, Splendid school honses and teachers bless Tams. Fine churches, and two masonic lodges. Mr. Tams, offers and gives prizes to those who keep the cleanest yards and houses, and have the best: gar- dens. Persons going there and not living cleanly, get orders to go and they go. Our stopping place was at Mr. and Mrs. Cropps. Finer people we never met. They own a horse, cow hogs and have a plenty of every thing. Grand Master Goodwyn declared the hams he ewed were the sweetest and best he ever ate 1 objected not. His, aud all other houses, if the inmates desire are lighted by electricity. Sometime was spent with the teachers and children in the school house to ourdelight. ‘They are ca- pablo, energetic and doing splendid work. Miss Josephine D. Cham- bers-Cannady is principal, assisted by Miss Vivene Selllers Walker and | Miss Stella M. Channel. We met Imany fine people at ‘Tams, chief among whom is Mr. Mance Da- mus, the trusted care-taker and cook for Mr. Tams. Tf we had more men like hin, our pathways would be far less rough and thorny. TLeav- ing here Charleston was our first stopping place. Here we put up at the Windsor Hotel, not only a credit to this state, but our people the country over. Everything is kept neat and clean, and Mr. itush is nature's gentieman. Charleston 1idwiaaHile Orug store adliere west a groupe of cultured pen, the spice and life of uplift on any continent Gilmer, Ex-State Librarian. We wert accompanied to Institute by Mr. ‘IT. Edward Hill, editor of the McDowell Times. He is aclers in the office of Seevetary of States We called on Mri C. HE. James, and stayed with him tili acter ? P.M. Heis tie man the date Hor Seymore “dwards intioduccd ¢ Theodore Roosevelt ae Charleston's lending wien. w quarter million dollars. Wwe it that every race loving aaa who goes there by all means should go tohis place of business. Mr. Hd- wards told Mr. Roosevelt he was worth a quarter of a million dollars and we believe it. His buildinye j the boot business camipped affair we ever saw. He hus five Howard Uni versity menand other help work. for hit, He isa wiltul cold bloo smurderer of prejudice, in God's name join his army. He is Charles ton’s leading wholesale merchant and his color cuts no fixure. Our time was limited at Parkers burg, but as many of our friends as was possible to see, were scen. James Edmonson is on the firing line with Mr. James and is doing a big business in the mercantile line, and is up to date in’ progressive ideas. erm pln pre OUIL GUALUEN Gs Vaprove the Csndilion by Li and Properly Inoculated Grecn Manure Crone. GS0D TILTH {8 INVALUABLE. Application of Lime Upon Heavy Sails Mathes Them Less Sticky, More Easily Cultivaicd, More Porous—Green Ma- rure Crops Are of Inestimable Value as Substitutes For Farmyard Ma- nure, of Which a Scarcity Exists, Good (ile fs am expression atten Aoby Ciemies aid espestaent stae wi Works Lia generat way the ler qeenns a soll which is ensily clone which is icitow, friable pd falls info tne particles when plow. Por enttivaiod. ‘The experiment sta an worker nerees with the farnie vetadds that i must contain plas si dime aid humus, Aco tion of soll Hike (he one show: bioveeaph Ne. 1 is a proposition Poodle, Tow can a plant be : » evow on a soil Tike that : the hebor charges? Wire ai rook ina field cannot remeve lis Gov pick. a shovel and a Q oes uses a stick of dy- OS boss seth ean be worked peoulatoa with the roller and har. what owt colo sa much energy Hoan peeticntie: of Pine will help Dd the trick and ald in other ways at heosnmo tine? Apotentions of lime ea chenvy osoits make them less ky, niere ermatly, more friable, wre esetly enltivated, aud water ss Uhroh them move rapidiy as Sroault ef ineres ol porosity, een Mangas fnersace Supply of Humes. Onte as important i bring'ne a sett tooin tith is the matter of orcanie mietter, which ina state of desompost ton gives rise to humus, ‘Phese is ne. better way to balid up a soil fy hin than by adding farmyard mancre, be em) Tt contains, hestdes plant food, innumerable baeterin, Unfortunately there is net eno manure te go aromnd in these days of intensive farm. ing and antemobiles, ‘There are two svonps oF green manure erops, known as “nitvoven gatherers” and “nitrogen consimors.” or Temmainous crops on the one hand and nen-tesuminons erops on the cher, Tt is easily understood then thet a crop of the first, the “nitro: gen gathering group, ig most bencti- cial ‘There are imany crops of thts group which may be used. For su. Incr soy horns and cowpeas, as shown in photographs Nos, 2 and 2, are of in- estimable valne for turning under, es pecially in warm climates where hot stimmers prevail, and likewise erim- son clover and hairy or winter vetch are suitable for winter use if care is taken fo plant thom earleso that a cood start is made before winter, Manure was stated to have a partic. tlar advantace beeause it added bac teria fo the soil, Legumes have a pare Hicular advantage heeause certain bace teria work with tiem and take nitro- gen from thi air and atoro tt tn nealing 4 the roots @f th "Yuis nitro. ob @1 by bacterin aud plants Goan Whe the ezon is plowed une *ftds tere to « ted in the soil With the orocnce furnished by the rovis and tous of the plants, Legumincus Crops Should Be tnecu- : lated. It se s ated diferent: tc a 1 Wihon senate. atin her « ced ta be Gre custom to tiie soi i fold Whieh had syoscn the hoes 1 own evidences of bacteria by noduts« on the roots of the plants and spread at on the new field on a dark day when the stm would not kil the bacteria, Mut today (his method has heen super: edo almost enitre'y by the use ‘of. eommeveial euttzves, In other words, (he buctevia are isolated and placed in bowWes full of vetatin tor then to Hive A Such cultures are inexpensive, and all the farmer bas to do is to put the veatonts of the bottle on the seed ina mnanner described on cach bottle, Cultivation and Plant Food Are Just as Important, Coming back to the question of tith, lime and green mtunres are soil amend, ments, ‘Phey.are the most important factors in making a hard, lumpy suil, suchas shown inthe photéraph, expa he of yoda coitivarion and erop nae Auetion by anetiowhus the goii, increas: ine its water holding eajaediy and cre ating conditions faverahts for the de. velopment ef all kee: ot heveticial bacteria, but it oats be rome: ered that the best resutts are obtained only when proper methods of titinge and tb. eral amounts ef plant food are used. 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Comfortable tenant house with running water. Address S. care Pioneer Press. 10 BUILD SHIPS AT COST PRICE Bethlehem Ship Will Make Offer to Uncle Sam. BIRSON 16TH NAVY SHELLS No Chance For Profit In Them Under Present Tests, Grace Says—Possible Explanation of the Prices Made by an English Firm Which Bids Under All American Manufacturers. Speaking recently before the Terraplin Club of Philadelphia, Eugene G. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Company, said in part: In a peculiar sense Bethlehem Steel serves the American people. For example, though we have been able to obtain in Europe almost any price, we have adhered, in our charges to the United States Government, to the basis of prices established before the war began. We agreed—if the Government would abandon its plans for a Federal plant—to make armor for our Navy at any price the Government itself might consider jair. Our ordinance plants are at the disposal of the nation at a fair operating cost, plus a small margin, thus saving the Government investment and depreciation. One of the special needs of the new navy is sixteen-inch guns—guns sixty feet long and capable of hurting a 2000 pound shell with such power and accuracy as to hit a 50 foot square target fifteen miles away. We have undertaken voluntarily to construct, at a cost of $1,500,000, a plant fitted to build sixteen-inch guns. Under no conceivable circumstances an orders which we may receive for this plant pay even a fair return on the investment. Considerable comment has been made on the fact that a British manufacturer recently bid less than American manufacturers for sixteen and fourteen-inch shells for the navy. I am unable to state the basis upon which the English bid was made. It should be remembered, however, that this bid was for a specific shell, samples of which are being sent over for test—a test not yet made. Two years ago we took an order for 400 fourteen-inch armor piercing shells at a contract price of $70,000, to be delivered within a certain time or we had to pay a large penalty. The only specifications for making these shells are that they shall be if a certain size and must piercer armor-plate at a certain velocity on impact. It is impossible to foretell the exact conditions of the tests. We had made large quantities of shells in the past which had been accepted, but in placing this particular order the department altered the angle at which we tested shells must pierce armor-plate. The result, however, has been absolute inability on our part to produce in any quantity, shells which will meet these novel tests. In fact, we know of no process of projectile-making through which it is possible to produce in quantities much which will conform to the requirements. The result is that up to now on that contract of $768,000, we have put into actual operating expense $447,881, and have been penalized for non-delivery $435,744, a total of $943,625, with no receipts whatever. Such was the experience in the light of which we were called upon recently to bid for sixteen-inch shells. We bid on these shells at approximately the same rate per pound as that of a fourteen-inch shell contract of one year ago upon which the Government awarded contracts. We have not the slightest idea what profit there will be in the making of these shells. We do not know that there will be any. There is no certainty that it would be possible for us to deliver a shell to meet the test. For officers in the Navy to assume that any bid made under such conditions is "exorbitant" is utterly unfair. We bid on the new battles-cruisers sums which Navy department experts after examination of our books, found would yield a profit of less than ten per cent. We agreed to assume risks for increased costs of materials and labor, that made it possible that these contracts might yield no profit whatever. The costs run beyond the amount appropriated by Congress on the basis of the cost estimates made a year ago. And because shipbuilders could not alter the inexorable cost facts and reduce bids to early estimates of the Navy Department, the prices are called "exorbitant." It would be a real advantage to be relieved of this naval construction. The profit from it cannot possibly amount to much, and the responsibility is enormous. We have determined to make this offer to the American Government. "If you will build two of the battle cruisers in Government navy yards we will build the other two at the ascertained cost of building the ships in the Government yards, without addlnt expense or commissions of any kind. We will also contract to have our ships ready for service ahead of the Government ships." It Leaves Riches in the Soil Which Can't Be Bought. LIME CAN HELP THIS ACTION Lime Up to the "Limiting Factor," Not Beyond—After This Help Out With Manure and Phosphates—Is Only In That Way You Can Get the Best Returns For the Cash Investment. Some men are dead lucky. They just sit tight, doing nothing in particular to get along, when a plum falls into their lips out of a clear sky. People suddenly begin to take a liking to some corner of a town. Nobody knows why. Old red letterers leave the houses that were always good enough for them, before, for houses with modern improvements in the new section. So real estate becomes the land-poor get rich and the property of the thrifty of former dumps, runs down. New railroad branches are spreading over the country and cheap farms become valuable, because the get-away for general crops or smaller and orchard specialties is easy. No extra horses and wagons have to be kept for long hands and the children have a better chance for good schools. Most of us get the so-by from fortune and it's natural to get sour, especially over the good luck of those who have a war deserved it. But what's the user to cultivate a billious habit only, rather every day's work grow thicker. All very to "fearfulness Societies" to account for the "grow Thought" and the "grow of love." The trouble with them is that they just talk and never give a practical idea. The seed of a tree of things that bring it home, and which do not even. Look out at the wind that frozen plowed field, the churning and cracking of the soil, the working and the plowing food for next season's crops. It is the whirl with its churned soil and weather that crack and loosen the soil particles for new supporter or fertilizer crops. We can figure the value of the uppaid amount of frost and throw in fellows and costs, for it is what keeps a small amount of plant food available in the soil to rubble about twelve or more bushels of wheat, your aforesaid year. Do not from this principal cost of plowing food seeds and what is left, say the value of of the bushels per acre, is your uncarned increment. Well, it is not much and then everybody gets it, so what is the use? Just this, that you can build this hook of winter action for fishing more fertility out of the soil, with our sense, and that is something everybody has not got. Just see! No, no washable cover off your hands to cool water. How much good does rebbling do toward getting them clean? But, use soap or put ammonia in the water. How about it then? Not, that is chemical in then, it gets dirt loose. And chemical action gets plant food loose. Ammonia would do it, Ive would do it, but this cost too much. For price and results there is only lime, and the uncarned increase from the ash that mind you, they will only eat out the plant food that is ready for dilution. It may not make more than a liter more lime than the right amount may force a larger one, but you will it does not pay. That is where other plant food comes in, to give a better play, for your harvest. Lure up to professors call the "limit that you not beyond. Then help out more nature and phosphates. Then and only then will the e costly additions give you the best return for the cash investment. That is profit. What a weather and common sense give you all of nature's uncarned increase and that plus profit spoils prosperity. BENEFITS OF FARM LOAN ACT Waya in Which the New System Aids Farmer in Financing His Farm. By reason of the facilities created by the National Farm Act, which was passed last summer, it will be easier in the future for a farmer to secure money to purchase a farm or to motivate the public to do the work and in will be easier also for the public to lessen the amount of production in farm, leading to a recent publication of the partorial of *Agriculture (Purposes) Bulletin No.25* entitled "How the rural farm learns the Act Benefits the Farmer." The Federal land borders expenditure under this rule will remain ongoing at no time. It is expected to lead to more to farmers on its land. The interest compenses the cost per cent than 6 per cent, but more than 1 per cent above the rate paid on the board sold by the banks. If the per cent bonds should be issued, the interest into channeling on them will be at per cent cost. There will be an interest share for beginners. The funds will be made for per cent of the profits from 5 to 30 years, thus doing away with the trouble and expense of frequent renewals. The payment of a certain part of the principal amount is paid monthly, with the interest, will be repaid. The total payment, including the interest, will be the same for each month, and will be just a little more so that the entire principal will be paid off at the end of the period. The annual payment thus required to pay off a loan of $1,600, with interest at 5 per cent, in 20 years, is $6,242. Widowed Birds The married life of most birds could be taken for a model by members of the human family. For instance, the stall, dandelion and honeysuckle could never match but one pair with his own nature would be on the market. If birds in wild were so common with human beings, they would never matter in the countryside and those on the farm would be more important than those on the street. While birds in urban areas are more common, they are not as important as those on the street. It Should Have a Purpose in Education or Early Childhood. We shall not be able to perform in music in this country, nor in Hungary, until we are able to conduct a training in the art of music and not at an essential juncture in the collection of music. ```markdown ``` world and over a very foolish and trivial society rattling, common rumbling, mailed armour because Russia wanted to show her love for the little Four inside the curtain of Europe's politics and see the game of chess that is being played. 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J1.—The largest single tax bill in the history of the United States was passed by the Senate late last night, 69 to 4, when the final vole was taken on the war tax revenue bill, The four neg: ative voles were cast by Senators Borah, Gronna, Latoliette and Nor- ris, all Republicans, This great bill carries a total of approximately $2,400,000,000 as com pared with $1,867,870,000 proposed in the Dill that passed the House May 23 last. ‘This total is in addition to the $1,300,000,000, revenue raised by existing law ‘The legislation has been pending in Congress four months und one day. Today the revenue bill will be sent over to the Jouse, In order to ex pedite action the Senate disagreed to the House amendments, insisted upon its own and requested a conference, The conferees appointed were Sena tors Simmons, Stone, Williams, Pen- rose and Lodge. Awailing the Senate in the — final struggle over war fiscal policies is the $11,500,000,000 credits vill, which Passed the House unanimously and upon which work will begin today by the Senate finance committee. Division of the Taxes. Of the $2,400,000,000 new taxes provided in the tax bill for the dur- ation of the war, $$42,200,000 is to be taken from the Incomes, Corpor- ate and individual, and $1,060,000,000 from war profits, Most of the re. mainder is levied on liquor, tobacco and public utilities. In last night's clean-up, tho prin cipal eleventh-hour actions of — the Senate were elimination of all provi- sions for taxing publishers ‘and in. creasing sccond class periodical post: age rato and all consumption taxes on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa, tho jatter reducing the bill $86,000,000, The Senate also struck out the clause proposing repeal of the “draw: back,” or re-export, allowance given sugar refiners and defeated proposals to add inheritance taxes, Free Letters for Soldiers. The only postage features left in the bill are provisions for free trans- portation of letters from Amerioan soldiers abroad and for a cent stamp tax on parcel pst packages, raising about $4,000,000, ‘The consumption taxes, of 1-2 cent @ pound on sugar, 2 cents on coffee, 5 cents on tea, 3 cents on cocoa and from 1 to 2 cents a gallon on mo- jasses went out by overwhelming ma- jorities. A final vote on Senator Broussard’s motion to eliminate them all was 52 to 28, W. G. WILSON, A PROMINENT BANKER OF ELKINS, IN RAN- DOLPH COUNTY '$ SUCCESSFULLY FARMING ALSO AND SEES A GREAT FUTURE AHEAD IN THIS FIELD—YIELD OF AGRICULTU- RAL CROPS INCREASED TEN- FOLD IN TEN YEARS, That the people of Randolph county, one of the highlan* sections of West Virginia, are reclaiming the *oil from the barren condition that followed neglect while attention was given to natural resources, and mak- ing therein Jarge agricultural acre. ave that is yielding bist and protit able crops, is the story given to a World reporter by W. Go Wilson, cashier of the Davis ‘Trust Company, ‘one of the powersul financial inetitu tions of the state at Elkins. ‘The history of Randolph county. to #0 back for halr a century, is one of & people Who turned the fields to krass—bluegrass being a crop of nat- ural growth——and the more thrifty people depended on yrazing cattle very largely as a business, cropping the soil only enongh for family need and for forage for the herds. Later the railroads came and many turned ‘heir attention to Iumbering and other lines of industrial pursuit that came in the train of this develop ment, and the farms were almost for gotten, and let run down. But, as Mr. Wilsoa puts it, within the past ten years there has been a turnings to the soil, with wonderful results, and today the people are be ining to fully realize that whatever immediate reat wealth is offered in the natural résotrees of timber and coal, these are bur temporary, while a few inches of the earth's surface offers a wealth that is enduring, Ac cordingly vast areas of the rich, black loam bottom lands, heavy from ex cessive moisture, ave been drained and today are producing as bis erop of oals, wheat and corn as exy he grown anywhere in the casters arri- cultural ares, In his own farming efforts, whien are incidental tg banking, Mr. Wilson says Ne is able to grow 80 bushels of corn to the acre troy, the old White Cap variety. ‘The oats yield in the county is heavy. and many shave brought their individual wheat [yield up to 40 bushels per acre. His potato, rye and buckwheat erops are ftlso grown in Randolph county ITALY PAYS HER DEBT. Ut was at Italy's darkest hour that Brussiloft early in June inaugurated his famous offensive in Galacia, —\s Brussilofs Russians pounded on an¢ on towaml Lemberg and the Car. pathians, Austria was compelled 0 abandon her one great offensive ef fort against Italy and devote her en tire energy to facing the danger in the east. All the occupied — Italian territory was abamloned, and — the Austians retired to the line of their Alpine defenses which they had oe. cupied before the drive. Kussia had saved Italy, And now Italy is re paying her debt. At the time of Russia’s greatest weakness aly is striking her hardest blows, Cleve- land Plain Dealer, sinatra Queers s 1M THE FARM FLOGK Chicks and Laying Hens Need Them to Supplement Grain and Forage Ration. That oyster shells are important in poultry rations is shown very clearly in experiments conducted at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell mniversity. In these experi- ments the production of exgs was ma- terially increased when oyster shells were used in conjunction with Me reg ular Cornell ration, composed of the following: Cornmeal, 800 pounds: wheat middlings, 300 pounds: wheat tran, 150 pounds; alfalfa meal, 50 pounds; oil- meal, 50 pounds; meat scrap, 250 pounds; salt, 1 pound. Grit and char, coal were also furnished to the birds of this pen. In tesis somewhat similar, but with young birds, the New Jersey Experi- ment Station shows that oyster shells with meat and bone are far superior as sources of phosphorie acid: and lime than other purely mineral substances used to stpply the sme ingredients, In these fests the mortality. and gain in weight of the birds polit ont vory clearly Chat lime and plecphorts netd are best supMticd fo growing ehicks fa the form of oyster shells and live. Goneraliy speaking, oyster shells are invaluable fo the poulteyman and should be kept pefore the birds con- stantly in quantity and ina clean ro: ceptacle. Substitntes of various kinds have been tried, iat nothing has been found to take the place of oyster shells, LIME RAISES POTATO YIELDS. It Will Not Increase Scab if Properly Applied Following Digging. It is generally conccded among po tato growers that lime should be used upon potato ground at least onee in three or four years. Yields are in creased, and the soil is kept fi that fine, mellow condition which makes a 1867 HOWARD UNIVERSITY 1917 | Stephen M. Newman, A. M., D. D., President, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENC. ES A. B. AND B. S. COURSES TEACHERS COLLEGE A. Band B.S. Courses in Hduca- tion SCHOOL OF MANUEL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES B.S. Courses in Engineering. Home Keonomies, Manual Arts CONSERVAIORY OF MUSIC Mus. B. Courses. ACADEMY Two Preparatory Courses: —Class ical, Scientific. COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Secretarial Course, Accounting General Course LIBRARY TRAINING CLASS PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY I. D, Courses, Diplomatic Course SCHOOL OF MEDICINE M. D, Courses in Medicine, D, D. S. Courses in Dentistry, Phar. D. Courses in Pharme-y, SCHOOL OF LAW LL. B. Courses. For catalogue, address Howard University, Washington. D. C. Heep soil possible, Dut unfortunately scab, a seriong potato disease whieh lives in the soil is henetiied by lime. Do not be misted by the idet that lime causes scab, becuse quite the opposite is trae, but it docs create a eonditien faverable to the development of the disease organisias in (he soil, There is therefore an advatitage on the one side aia a detriment on the other, anid the question is hew the beneficial results of fouine may be ob tained and the harmful effects avoided This may be dese with comparative stlevess hy applying the Hime at the rate of about 1.060 pounds to the acre im mediately after harvestins potatoes and before planting wheat or clover, o¢ whatever the retiution requires. ‘Phis allows a period of two or Hiroe years before potatoes are grown asain on the same grennd. Davies this interval the development of scab is mmdoubtodly checked by the acids of decay of or sanie matter furuished by the stubble of the intervening crops, so that Hite if any sreater in, ury tay be expected from the ravages of tie disease. Other crops grown in Che rotation are materially benetited by lime, espe- cially plants of the lexime family, alfalfa, clovers aad the like, and, fur thermore, soils badly i:fested with wire worms and white grubs are ridded of these pests ina marked degree, Cut Brush and Briers Cut of the Pas- ture Lot. The value of pasitire lands is not ap. preciated as it siowid be, and too many receive less attention than deserved. Every farm possesses what is known as the pasture lot. Some of the lots Possess (ie finest character” of soil, good dealiuese and good turfs, but are allowed to svow tip tito a field of briers and bushes with litfle care or atten tion whieh they ave deserving of and for which they would pay handsome retutns, It is good practice to cut all briers and bushes during July, August and September. Uf they ave not numerous they need not be carried off: if they are numerous they should he burned after they have dried. ‘The point is to besin cutting them out every year before they become numcrous. and then the work of cach following year 14 small and the pasture area much increased. Safeguarding Investors. | Full publicity is required of the condition of the company which offers {ts securities for fale. The law re- stricts promotion Jxpense to ten per cent of the par yodue of stock. 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GIVE NOW! = gaCaacenncakeiacad rnadtisaukddadddnckcddcaancdl doses of Black-Dranght.” Seventy years of suceessfal use Nas made Thedford’s Black-Dranght standard, household remedy, Every, member, of every family, at times, need the help that Black-Draught cas give in cleansing the system an@ re lieving the troubfes that come from constipation, indigestion, lazy Lver, etc. You cannot keep well unless your stomach, ver and bowels are in good Working order. Keep them that way, Try Black-Dranght. It acts promptly, gently and in » natural way. If yor feel sluggish, take a dose tonight. You will feel fresh tomorrow. Price 25c. a package—One cent a dose All druggists. Za es BRINGING IN BOOZE. There was a time, perhaps, when brining fire-water into the state ‘might have been listed as a “light oc- ‘cupation.” That was when the label ‘on the suitcase was sufficient protec- ‘on against the arm of the law; un- less one was caught selling the joy juice. That day has now passed; and ‘the person who takes a chance on bringing liquor into the state, even to ne extent of one quart a month is running a big risk of spending some time behind the bars and of paying a big fine. Federal and state end county and city authorities are on the trail of the booze merchant, and ev- ery effort is being made to make the state dry in fact, as well as in theory. Particularly active are the federal au- thorities and they have a longer range to work on, for the federal law pro- vides that no liquor at all shall be brought into the state, and therefore the man who falls into the clutches of the federal agents is “up against it” no matter how small the amount of liquor he may be bringing into the state, Daily the campaign to make the state really dry becomes more and more severe, There {s just one way to play safe and that is to go away when you want a drink, and not attempt to bring any liquor into the state. No matter who you are or what you are, if you get caught with the goods, you are “it”; and there is no getting ‘away from the punishment for the vio- lation of the prohibition laws, You may think that you are rather foxy and you may get away with the stunt of bringing booze into the state for a long time, but sooner or later you will get caught and you will real- ize to your sorrow that you are not a6 smart as you had figured you were. A word to the wise {8 sufficient. The man who flirts with the provi- sions of the dry law, either state or national, is running a chance of being severely punished. Safety First. Do not attempt to bring any booze into the state—Pairmat Times,