Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-09
Wednesday, Mayo, 1906.

"S" Si"it, anyways mas Deen ana
probably always will be. When
Benz. Franklin was the first Post.
master General, he mad TO reprov.
some of the officials and postmasters
under him for reckless extravaganza.
1t not actual dishonesty in handling
the S32, 200 that it took 10 run the
department the first year.
But with all this there are a 10,
OF honest men now working for the
government who do big things for
the country at large and get no
profit and but little reputation out
of it. The Reclamation Service is
a case in point. That Service which
is well known to everyone of the
west, now has work under way for
the reclamation by irrigation of
1900, 900 acres of land. 1t will
ultimately reclaim 10000, 600 with
the water supply now in sgiht.
The land under all these irrigation
projects jumps from nothing an acre
to.fitty or 500 an acre as soon a.
the project is "leclared. But the
engineers, and there are hundreds
of them engaged in the work, are
prohibited by law from making any.
thing out of this appreciation in
values. And there has not yet been
a breath of scandal about the service
The Department of Agriculture
has had Its scandals, but there are
plenty of honest scientists there
who each year add millions TO the
value of the farm products of the
country and get no personal profit
out of it. The Bureau of Plant
Industry has recently completed
some work on providing a long
staple cotton, almost AS valuable as
Sea Island, that can be grown on
the uplands; and in few years this
Will almost double the value of the
American cotton crop. Yet the
men who did the work made nothing
out of it and will not.
Now the Bureau of Public Roads.
which officially has nothing to do
with crops, discovered incidentally
the value of a fertilizer for tobacco
made from finely ground granite.
This simply means opening up an
Inexbaustible supply of fertilizer
a.. So a ton that we have heretofore
had to import from Germany at
800 "A ton, for there was ~ potash
fertilizer to be had in this country.
II was a case III which II the man
had resigned from the service and
kept his process a secret, be could
have cleaned up millions. But he did
not, and you may call it stupidity or
altru1sm whichever you choose.
There are plenty of other cases
that point TO more than mere honesty
on the part of government workers.
OF course they ought to be honest,
though they are not paid extrava-
CANT salaries for beng so. But a
consideration of this sort of thing
IS refreshing and suggests that
perhaps there is some good left in
humanity after all.
The Republican convention of
Cabell county which met at Hun
tington last Saturday afternoon to
select delegates to the Senatorial
convention was harmonious gather
ing of representative party men.
Hon. J l.. Caldwell was chairman
and .. j. Wilkinson secretary.
The delegates were instructed to
support j. ID. Porter, Of Lincoln
county, for State Senator. The
convention also adopted resolutions
endorsing Hon. S. y. Elkins, for
United States Senator and Hon.
James A. Hughes for Congress.
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ADMIRAL DEITRICH's German
squadron is TO be held up a week
while the dewey" (dry dock)
goes through the Suez Canal. The
Admiral must think that man Dewey