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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-08-04
DISC RACE
To Civilization Are Living Quar-.
tiers and Food of British
Sailor, Says Doctor.
tsY AsseeIA1te eRrs.,

Wv AopSSiAIk0 pN6S0
LIVERPOOL. August 4-The liv-
ing quarters and food to which the
British merchant sailor is subjected
constitute disgrace to civilization,
to DR.. Herbert Williams,
medical officer of the port of London,
who spoke at the recent Sanitary
Congress here.
What would be said," declared
DR.. Williams, "if any sanitary au-
rthority ashore permitted to be in
habited a house of two rooms built
of fmpervious materials, each lighted
by three immovable windows seven
inches square, and each inhabited by
eight men with fourteen square feet
OF free space available for each man.
Furthermore, picture the room
heated by a cheap stove, usually
broken, with the chimney passing
through the only available ventflator..
Yet seamen live for many weeks I'M
der such conditions. 1t is an ac-
cepted fact that men living under
unhealthy conditions degenerate
physically and morally"
And other speakers declared the
feed on merchant ships to be unit
to eat and. with the vile and over
crowded forecastles, self-respecting
men were forced out Of the service.
The sending Of consumptive men to
sea with view to cure also increases
the dangers Of disease-breeding quar-
tiers.
DIR. Perrin Norris, the Australian
delegate, proposed to make the ques-
ton an international one, as the evil
is worldwide. Yet the British
standard Of marine fare. he said, is
the lowest Of any country.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-08-04
Cured OF Indieestion.

Mrs. Sadie P. Clawson, Indians, Pa, was
bothered with indigestion. GMy stomach
pained me night and day. she writes. Il
wo;i.d feel bloatcd and have headache and
belching after eating. I also suffered from
constipation. Ny daughter had uled Cham
berlain's Tablets snd they did her 20 much
good that she gave me q few doses Of them
and insisted on my trying them. They
helped me "a nothing else has done.n For
sale by all dealers. advertisement
Evening star., 1914-07-26
MAINE ICE NOT NEEDED.
Local Plants More Than Supply the
Demand.

According to report, the local ice max
ing plants are now turning out enough
ice to supply the local demand, even in
the hottest of summers, SO that there
is but little probability of it being neces-
sary to bring ice here in vessels from
Maine. Should one or two of the big
plants be put out of service by accident.
and have to remain idle for several
weeks, then the natural ice fields would
have to be called upon to make up a
deficit in the supply. From the present
outlook the local ice companies will be
able to meet all the heavy summer de-
mand and have ice to send to other ci-
ties not as we'll supplied with ice fac
tories as is Washington
1t has now been three years since ice
in any quantity has been brought here
in vessels, and since that time one of
the big ice storage houses on the river
Evening star., 1914-07-26
HOUSE WRANGLES0vER
WATER POWER MEASURE
Underwood Fights Bill Regulating
Rights of Companies Which
Get Franchises.

\ fight for stringent regulations Of wa
ter power companies which may receive
water power rights under the general
dam bill, now pending, was begun in the
House of Representatives. Representa-
tive Sherley of Kentucky presented an
amendment to the bill which would au-
thorize the Secretary Of War to pre-
scribe the amounts to be paid by power
companies receiving permits in return
for the power rights granted. The per-
mits would run for fifty years, the Sec
retary of War having power to rear
range the schedule of payments at the
end of twenty years and each ten years
thereafter.
Majority Leader Underwood opposed the
Evening star., 1914-07-26
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Complexion of Committees on
City Council to Be Changed.
DAMAGE SUIT THIS WEEK
Civil Service Examination for
Stenographer and Typewriter
Set for August Is.
Special Correspondence of Tie star.

Special Correspondence of The star.
| ALEXANDRIA. Va July .J-The new
council will be inducted into Office Sep
tember l next Immediately following
It's induction into office there will be i
formal organization with the election OF
both president and vice president and
| clerks for each branch.
The name of Howard W. Smith. mem
Der. from the second ward. has been men,
toned as candidate for the presidency.
In the board of aldermen the name OF
Henry X. Field. representative of the
third ward, has been mentioned as can
didate for president.
The present city council majority OF
whose members will not return in Sep
| tember. has adjourned for the summer.
| 1t is regarded as doubtful that they will
again be called together.
To Hear Damage Suit.
/! The suit of Anna E Zell. administrators,
! against the Washington and Old Domin-
ion Railway Company, is to be heard
Tuesday next before Judge ]. B. T.
Thornton, in the circuit court for Alex
andria county. The action is to recover
$4,000 damages for the death of her hus-
band, Ernest Zell.
Zeu, with William II. Peck was Killed
while crossing the tracks of the company,
September :. 1913, at Hume's crossing.
Announcement is made by the local
board of civil service examiners that the
! commission will hold an examination In
| this city August u for the position OF
stenographer and typewriter Each ap-
| plicant will be required to furnish a
photograph of himself on the day of the
| examination.
Preparations are being made by the
members of the Old Dominion Boat Club
| for its regatta Saturday afternoon.
To Give Organ Recital.
Following the open-air services on the
| lawn of Christ P E. Church tomorrow
night, an organ recital will be given in
the church by Prof. James E. Bagley Of
Washington.
| Rev. George Mosedale of Maryland will
Evening star., 1914-07-26
CHARGED WITH WATCH THEFT
Powell Accused by Man Who Bought
It for so Cents.

Richard Powell. colored. 1041 33d
street, will be arraigned in Police Court
tomorrow. to answer a charge of robbery.
He is accused of taking a watch and
chain from Clifton Whalen, a resident of
Tunlaw road. selling it for 80 cents.
When Policeman Scrivener arrested
Powell. yesterday. on suspicion that he
knew something of the robbery. the
prisoner had about convinced the police
man of his innocence. when another man
from Powell Powell. the police say,
then admitted having had the timepiece.
The complaint was entered as robbery.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

preach at both services tomorrow at
the Free Methodist Church. Wade
Mitchell will lead the Christian En-
deavor Society at the NJ. l.. Church at
the evening services.
Adjutant General W. W. Sale has re-
ceived notice from Gov. Stuart for tho
calling of an election to choose n major
for the I'd Battalion. LIST Regiment. Nir-
gnia Volunteers, in place of Maj. James
K. King. deceased. this city
The golden rule degree OF the order
will be conferred on a class of two cam
didates by Marley Encampmeut OF Odd
Fellows Monday night.
Rev. r. IL. Bartlett and family. who
have been visiting relatives here. have
returned to their home in Ellcrslic. Nd
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Sells Works Reforms.

THE year Mr.. Sells has been in office
has seen more substantial reform inaug-
urated and accomplished along lines of
protection of Indians. both adult and
minor, in Oklahoma than in all the
years preceding put together" declared
Mr.. Limbaugh today.
Mr.. Linebaugh pointed out that the
charges printed in a New York paper
YESTERDAY were the aftermath of a re-
port by Warren X. Moorehead. mem
ber of the board of Indian commission
ers. made last March on the deplora-
BILE conditions existing among the Indi-
ans of the state. Since that time as
serts Mr. Linebaugh, Commissioner
Sells by personal effort and through
the bureau of Indian affairs. has SO ham
died matters that the conditions alleged
in the reports of Mr.. Moorehead, Mr.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
DENIES INDIAN SERVICE
WILL SOON Be WRECKED
United States Attorney From Okla
homa Answers Charges of Miss
Kate Barnard.

Charges made yesterday by Miss Kate
Barnard. commissioner of charities and
corrections of the State of Oklahoma,
alleging that the wrecking of the federal
Iidian service in Oklahoma is about to
be consummated in the pending Indian
appropriation bill. We're characterized
this morning as bare assertions. with
out facts to prove them. by visiting
lawyers and officials of Oklahoma.
Miss Barnard further charged that in
the place of the present Indian officials
in Oklahoma. political lawyers" will be
appointed in their place. declaring that
the pending Indian appropriation bill
carries an item of $S5000 to replace ef-
Evening star., 1914-07-26

front has been torn down and at the
9th street wharf the machinery used in
unloading vessels has been taken away
and the ice runways from the vessels
to the storage house torn down. The
big fleet Of vessels that formerly
brought ice here made good business for
the merchants along the wharves and
the doing away with the bringing Of
natural ice to this city and the stop
page Of coal shipping i'll coastinS schoon-
ers has made the water front business
very dull There is at present no pros
poets of any other line of business start
ing to use vessels in place Of the de-
parted ice and coal trade.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
| fcient civil service employees by twenty

ficient civil service employees by twenty
nine political job hunters"
These charges are branded as bare
assertions" by the visiting officials from
the state. D. II. Linebaugh. United
States attorney for the eastern district
of Oklahoma, which includes all of what
was formerly the Indian Territory, is
among those branding Miss Barnard :
charges as bare assertions" He de-
clared that the attack by her took Nc
cognizance of the fact that the con-
dtions she alleges against the Indian ar
fairs of Oklahoma have been materially
remedied under the supervision of Com
missioner Cato Sells.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Funeral of Mrs. Callahan.

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary B. Cal
lahan. who died at the home of her son.
D. ]. Callahan, 1908 Euclid street north
west, Friday, are to be held tomorrow
at 9 o'clock at ST. Paul's Church. 18th
and V streets. where requiem mass is
to be sung. Pallbearers are to be n. II.
Shea, NJ. J. Keane, p. J. Nee. Col. John
T. Callahan, Z. B. Bowling and Mr..
Drain. Interment is to be in Mount
Olivet cemetery.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Mott and Miss Barnard no longer exist.
The new rules of procedure in probate
matters. correcting ancient evils. adopt
ed by the justices of the Supreme Court
of Oklahoma, went into effect July 10.
and are the work Of Commissioner Sells,
it is stated.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
Reports Theft of Watch

William y. Fisher. Seat Pleasant. Md.
complained to the police last night OF tho
loss of "A gold filled watch worth Sl:,.
His timepiece he stated. was stolen from
building at the Government 1iospital
for the Insane.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
amendment, declaring such plan would
make 1t almost impossible to obtain funds
to finance water power undertakings.
Defends Measure.

The amendment was defended by Rep
resentative Lenroot of Wisconsin,. who
said it would make effective regulation
which under the present form of the bill
would be futile. Other members spoke
in favor of the amendment. and senti-
ment in the House seemed generally TO
favor it. 1t will be decided tomorrow.
Clifford Pinchot. president of the Ma
tional Conservation Association, last
night issued a statement on the bill. He
declared it embodied "a direct reversal
of the conservation policy which both
President Roosevelt and President Taft
supportedand acted upon. and is direct
rebuff to the many patriotic men and
women who for the last decade have
fought the waterpower graebers."
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Swiss and Cam
brio Ernbroideries, in
a variety of widths.
for underwear and
dresses.
Evening star., 1914-07-26

1S-inch nov elites.
Cor fiouncing and
corset verS, in
blind and open pat
terms.
Evening star., 1914-07-26
SOC Yard Wide Loop Cloth.

all
emit
light blue
and America
Evening star., 1914-07-26

Women's 25c HiEh-grade
Silk Lisle Hose,
in black. white ~
and tan. extra /C
thin and COOL.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
THE DIFFERENCE.

AS travelled from the county site to
the remote corner of a county the 9th.
er day, ] saw men plowing and work
ing all the way along. | noted grad
ual decrease in farm interest through
out the journey of % miles. For the
first ten miles / saw great fields coy-
cred with winter crops of rye and
crimson clover. ] saw grazing over
these good grades and blooded cattle.
Broad fields of land were freshly brok.
en- for the coming crops. Here and
there | saw man running steam or
gasoline tractor and often saw sulky
plows pulled by four horses or mules.
/ saw great areas subsofled. and gull
lies were very few and far between.
| saw beautiful homes, good school
houses and churches, sleek horses and
sometimes the automobile. Everything
showed signs of prosperity.
After this ] saw only small patches
of rye as cover crops, no land scarcely
broken for next year. saw here and
there a fellow following a five-inch
turning plow and one mule, breaking
his land | saw no subsoiling, but
many gullies did see and broad acres
turned to waste or s"rest" as they call
ed it. saw cattle and hogs of type
that went with another generation. /
saw unpainted homes, poor barns, no
telephones. ] asked of the schools,
and | saw that they had great mum.
bers with few teachers, and no high
schools. Then | saw the reason for
the difference. The difference was
education.-Neely Bowen. in Progress
sive Farmer.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
LoUlSlANA'S lLLITERAcY.

The proportion of illiterates in the
United States is highest in Louisiana,
according to the findings of a special
House committee appointed to inves-
tigate the nations illiteracy.
"The distribution ranges from II per
1000 in Iowa to 29O per 1000 in Louis.
iana," runs the report The report
adds that the percentage is highest in
the South in the rural districts.
Of course, this apparent illiteracy in
Louisiana is due to the predominance
of the negro population, but this is not
always accredited in Louisianas be-
half. Moreover in the eyes of the
world the illiteracy of the Negro is not
regarded as an excusable circum,
stance, and Louisiana bears the oblo-
guy of it. Would it not be wiser to
make greater efforts to remove this
blemish, whatever the cause, on Lou.
isiana's fair name?
AS this statement will be widely cir
culated, it is to be regretted that equal.
ly wide circulation can not be given to
La bulletin of the University of Vir.
ginia, contemporaneously issued, in
which Louisiana is shown at the head
of the States of the South in increase
of appropriations for educational pur.
poses during the past dozen years.
Reviewing this bulletin the New
York Evening Post says:
"In 1900 virtually no Southern States
had State standards of high school re.
quirements or uniformity of secondary
school system. Georgia took the lead
with a system of State aid, inspection
and Standardization in 1903; Florida
followed in 1905; Virginia and South
Carolina in 1906; Alabama, North Car
olina and West Virginia in 1907 and
the remaining States in 1908 and 1909
But the most interesting fact is the
growth in number of the high schools
and the swelling of their funds. Be.
tween 1901 and 1910 only two Southern
States failed to raise their school ap
preparations 100 per cent; and Louisi
ana witnessed an increase of about
ESQ per cent, or from s1,2o0,o00 to
si,300,000."
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
WHY TRUSTS ARE FLouRisHiNG.

Chicago Public:
Senator Cummins of Iowa called at
tention in the Senate on January 29
to the rise in price of trust stocks
while "trust-busting" operations are
under way The rise is perfectly nat.
ural Anything which assures to trusts
a longer lease of predatory power must
necessarily have a favorable effect on
the value of their stocks. Since none
of the "trust-busting' plans involve
removal of underlying privileges from
trusts, investors in trust stocks are
quite justified in feeling confidence in
continuance of power to exact from
consumers all that the traffic will bear
1t is due Senator Cummins to say that
he is the only member of the Senate
who has made serious attempt, dur
ing the life of the present Congress,
to strike at trust privileges. He offer.
ed an amendment to the Underwood
bill, while pending, to place all trust
products on the free list. The adop.
tion OF that amendment would have
destroyed all tariff privileges, at least
But it was voted down by combina.
tion of Democrats and standpat Repub.
licans. Now nothing more serious
against the trusts is in prospect than
a lot of suits under the Sherman law
and enactment of additional laws to
regulate, to prohibit. to restrict and
to punish. Until the underlying privi.
leges are seriously attacked, trusts
will continue to flourish.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
LOUISIANA CHOSEN.
N. 0. States:

n. .. States.
Recent revelations before a congress
sional committee showed the dishon-
est methods employed to attract farm
ers of the northwest to Canada. AS
a result of these methods thousands
of families crossed into the Dominion
only to find that the glowing stories of
the Canadian agricultural Ell Dorado
weren't worth the paper they were
written on; and many of the emigrants
are returning to the United States.
These leveI-headed Dutch and Bohe-
mian farmers, of Nebraska and other
western states, profiting by the sorry
experience of the unlucky Canadian
pilgrims. decided to make personal in
vestigation into the opportunities Of
fered by other sections of the country.
They picked a committee of their most
representative members and sent them
on tour that embraced a dozen states.
The examination of conditions in each
state was exhaustive. The deliberate
conviction of the committee was that,
taking into consideration fertility of
soil, climate, variety of products, mar
ket, shipping facilities, central Louisi-
ana offers the best opportunity to the
western farmer.
Ten thousand acres of land have
been acquired in that vicinity and it
is now being subdiyided and sold to
members of the colony at $12 an acre.
Nineteen families, arriving in Decem-
Der, are now located on the land, build
ing homes and preparing for cultiva-
tion, thirty-nine more are coming next
week and eventually the whole one
hundred and fifty will establish them
selves on the trace.
These farmers comprise the class
which have done much to develop the
west and, bringing here their knowl-
edge and thrift, there is no reason why,
with richer soil and more genial
climate, they should not immensely
benefit their own condition while ere.
ating new wealth for the state.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
DR.. WILEY SUSTAINED.

The board OF food, and drug inspec-
ton in the Department of Agriculture,
which often was the center of attack
by DIR. Harvey w. Wiley, former chief
chemist, has been abolished by Secre-
tary Houston.
AT the Department of Agriculture ii
was said that the board has been abol.
ished in the interest of efficiency and
economy DR.. Carl Alsberg, who sue.
Iceeded Dr. Wiley as pure food chief
will decide the appeals that formerly
went to the board He will be assisted
by DR.. r. L. Emerson.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
WHEN ROADS ARE GOOD.

The automobile has been more of a
blessing TO the farmer than to any one
class of people With good roads and
an automobile, the farmer who lives
10 to 20 miles from a city, has all the
advantages of the city as well as the
advantage of living on the farm. With
the auto, the trip to the city does not
occupy more time than it does for the
city resident, living in the resident
section to walk, up town or to his
church. The farmer with the auto car
visit the city for recreation, amusement
or business. as the case may be. with
out much effort-Crowley Signal.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
TRUE INDEPENDENCE.

The new order will call upon us to
raise more of our living at home. And
this after all is the road to real pros
perity. AS it has been said: ut will
call for every farmer in the land to
eat bread from his own fields, to eat
meat from his own pastures disturbed
by no credit and ensiaved by no debt.
1t will permit him to sit among his
teeming orchards and gardens and
barnyards, pitching his crops in his
own wisdom and growing them in in
dependence, selling his surplus pro-
duce in his own time and in his chosen
market, and not at masters bidding,
getting his pay in cash and not in re-
ceipted mortgages that discharge his
debt but do not restore his freedom. y
Rice Belt Journal.
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
CHEAP BOARD.

The following is selected from the
Woodville Republican, not for its news
but its inspirational value West Fe-
liciana should have such school, CIV
ing opportunity to rural pupils:
"It would probably be interesting to
know about the cost of board at the
dormitory of the Agricultural High
School AS we have just finished the
first month, l am able to furnish that
information. For the month ending
to-day the average cost per pupil was
.$765. Two pupils were able to pay
their entire expenses by work and
several others paid part of their ex-
penses. We have had an abundance
of wholesome food
"We are beginning garden and ex-
pect to buy two cows and hope there
by to reduce the cost of board still
further. The eonveniences of the dor
mltory, electric lights, water works,
hot and cold water and steam heat
make dormitory life very pleasant.
The discipline is mild and gentle, but
firm and positive. We have four teach.
ers besides the matron who exercise a
close supervision over the pupils and
besides they are a great help to them
in the preparations of their lessons.
We shall be glad to correspond with
any prospective patron or pupil
Respectfully yours,
-. T. GRIFFIN,
Principal A. H. School and Manager
of Dormitory."
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
WHITE IMMIGRANTS.

Though he wishes it emphatically
stated he is not in the market as
labor agency, Secretary of Immigra-
ton Justin f. Denechaud declares 1t
will be we'll for Louisiana farmers to
get in touch with him if they are In
need of white farm help. This is taken
as a healthy indication of a foreign
influx that will be distinctly noticeable
this summer.
Swiss families are expected. Pros
porous Germans in the Republic of
Brazil are selling out their stock and
lands and moving to Louisiana, says
Mr.. Denechaud party of German
Russians are also on the way to this
state. One hundred families are the
conservative estimate from Chicago.
a real estate dealer in that city writes,
and they will be sent here in the
course of twelve months.
United States Government statis-
tics show that there is a shortage of
intelligent, white labor in this state.
The farmer must pay wages in
keeping with the hire he gets, and he
must remember that he must furnish
better quarters than to his negro help.
He must furnish clean, sanitary living
quarters.
''In a few parts OF the state. and I
am glad to say very few, there has
been force working against the set
tling of the newcomers. This is the
pride of race. snobbishness of the land
ed settlers who think their families
are the only people in the world. Then
this same community kicks because
they can't get immigrants to stay. The
remedy is easily found: treat the new
conner as you should treat neighbor."
The true Democrat., 1914-02-14
BROTHERHOOD.

John D. Barry, in Harper's Bazar)
Not to be different, Lord,
] ask, from those that fare
Beside me on life's way;
But that my spirit shall accord
With their great purpose, that my
share
Wholly may fulfill,
In thought and will,
And that the simple creed
OF all mems right
Within Thy sight,
may affirm
By word and deed.
o, save me from the blame
OF those who have forgot
Their brotherhood, and vaunt
Their birth or merit, and feel shame
For such as bear the common lot.
Make me, each day, to see,
If aught through me
Find favor in Thy ken,
'Tis but in part
The grace Thy heart
Pours richly on
My fellowmen.