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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20
MRS. GAIT AND THE PRESIDENT.

1t may be luck" or it may be
good judgment, " evidently one or
the other. However. in their me-
andcring Courtship Iarpcr's Ferry
the roCkIlbbed and viucclad bills,
earth garden spot fog health and
beauty was reached, and how natur-
al for Mrs. Gait, who in other G"ys
having been 50 graciOusly treated
and bountifuily fed at the Hill Top
House, owned and managed by Mr..
Thomas S. l.oVctt, a man born in
neither the dark nor light Of the
moon, and absolutely the best hotel
man III this state, and has the best
hotel and family help in the state,
to take the President there for a
sumptuous meal and they got it.
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fools OF the South, but read an
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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20

Please tell the if you endorse
wearing 1nourr,ing?' Absolutely
no. It's a relic of barbarisn. Wlv
should the bcreaved ones keep the
heart sad by constantly looking at
Grape worn by the loved oneso Is
it not pompous? Sincerity of grief
needs no show. Grape wearing is
foolish from every angle to be
viewed from. Our wife has her
decree to wear none unless she
thinks we've gone to the hell she
believes in, that we don't. If con
stantly worn by those who are SIN
cere, its bad on their minds and
bodies and develops the brain alb
normally. It's an outward sign.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20

Hand power was great thing in
its day: steam power took its place
and now, you may depend upon it
electricity is sure to step in indef-
nitely as steam did to silence hand
power. Possibly you may laugh to
scorn our idea of freedom from
drudgery, but, watch for the day
is here when drudgery will have
no power to make human slaves.
Electricity is as certain to change
things, as the preaching. of this
day gospel is to fall flat and let
the preachers be the mudslls upon
which their dcceivers are promised
to step into glory on them for,
until. science and religion meet and
mingle on Gods plans, no good
will come from the preaching of the
present day gospel.
Because steam was local, our con
gcsted conditions in great cities
were formed but now that the
light of electricity is shining so
brilliantly as to scatter it our CON
tention is it is as certain to supercedc
steam as steam shelved hand power.
Heretofore people Of thoughtful
minds moved where steam and wa
ter power prevailed, but now, that
electric power can be moved any
where. people the world over will
stay or go where it exists and that
will be everywhere.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20

Much ado is being raised because
a noted French surgeon EXTRACTED
a splinter from the heart of ser
gcant who was wounded while en-
gagged in defense Of his country
More than score Of years ago, DR..
Daniel II. Williams, an American
surgeon of great rcnOwn, sewcd I'D
a human heart that had been
pierced by a bullet, and the patient
after reasonable length of time,
FULLY recovered. Best Of all, DR..
Williams, who was one Of the first
surgeons in the world TO successful
treat human beings heart, is al
lied with the cOlorcd race, and is
proud Of the fact. Now we would
not detraCt from the French surgeon
in any sense Of the word but when
1t comes to successful surgical
treat1nento Of the heart, DR.. Williams
has him bested by a priority of
twenty years.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20

A half crazy white woman rejoiccs
that woman suffrage failed in Penn
sylvania, for the reason Negro wo-
men would have voted; and declares
had the Northern soldiers foreseen
such possibility, they would have
thrown down their arms. Bless
your shrive]lcd soul if it can be seen
a hundred thousand did that very
thing when they learned they were
lighting to free the slaves. Mark
this fact and mark it we'll, that had
it not been for the one fifth of a
million Negro soldiers the North
never would have whipped the
South: hence, truth establishes a
fact that the sensible world grants,
that had it not been for those brave
Negro soldiers, neither their free
dom nor the Union would have
been a lasting reality. Go away
back old sister, sit down and learn
facts and history.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1915.

Bad fellows, bad fellows can t
you please change your policieso
Germany 5 and England replies:
Didn mean to be bad dear old Tn
Gle Sam All right.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-11-20

Thompson and Thompson sup
ply of Fall goods is better than
ever. Added to it they have a first
class tailor and guarantee your
suits made to order. Truly they
are hustlers, and who could trea
you better. ]
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05
THE PRICE IN DOLLARS.

The war is costing England alone,
.St5,0OO,OOO a day Let us see what this
means by comparison. England is
spending as much every day as Iowa's
wheat crop, both spring and winter,
amounted to in the whole year of 1914
even with the bumper yield and the
splendid prices prevailing. England is
spending as much every day as the
barley rye, buckwheat, potato, sweet
potato. flaxseed and apple crops Of
Iowa amounted to all last year. Eng
land is spending as much every day
as the poultry raised in the entire
state of Iowa for an entire year is
worth; two and one-half times what
all the sheep, in the herds in all Iowa
are valued at. England alone, among
the six great nations involved in the
war, is spending this immense sum
equal to the production of the most
fertil fields of all the 217O44 farms of
Iowa for a whole year-in a single
day
But this does not tell the story. By
unanimous vote this week, the house
of commons of the British parliment
gave the new chancellor of the exche-
quer war credit to the amount of five
billion dollars. This is three times the
value of all the corn raised in the
United States in 1914; six times the
value of all the wheat raised in the
United States in 1914; ten times the
value Of all the oats raised in the
United States in 1914. Let US make
some other comparisons. This is more
than five times the aggregate of the
nterest-bearing. debt of the United
States. This one and one-half times
the total revenue Of all the railroads
in the United States-every mile of
track-both for freight and passen-
ger service, in the most prosperous
year of our history. This is twenty
five times the annual net earnings of
a great railroad system, like the
Burlington route. This is fifteen times
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05
THE EXTENT OF THE WAR.

1t is difficult if not impossible for
the average reader to realize the ex-
tent which the European war has
reached with the advent of Italy into
the hostilities, bringing the total unm-
ber of nations engaged in the mortal
combat up to ten. 1t is only when we
make few comparisons that an
inkling of the magnitude of the strug-
bic is obtained.
According to the last available fig
ures, the population of the European
nations now at each others throats is
five times that of the population of
the United States at the last federal
census. In other words, the life,
liberty and right of happiness of five
times as many people as there are
men, women and children in every
state and territory in oar own nation
alaska and Hawaii included) are at
stake in the herculean attempts which
the fighting millions of ten great
countries are making to MAIN and kill
one another. But even this comparis-
on does not bring the awfulness of
the struggle home to US. Let US look
at it from another viewpoint.
Take our own home state: Iowa.
Within the confines of its borders we
have something like two and quar-
Ter million people. We are great
state and = rich one. Yet the ma
tons now at war have enough people
IN them to make 200 states as popu-
lous as Iowa. Think of the heart
aches and misery, the suffering OF the
hundreds of millions in the lands
where war rumbles and pestilence
stalks and human blood runs red in
rivers.
We Of the United States know that
we are a great nation in the matter
Of area as well as in wealth and
achievements. We comprise millions
or square miles of territory; from
Maine to California, from Flarida to
Alaska, we reach out along far-flung
lines, until we are, indeed, an immense
empire. Yet the area Of the war field
o. Europe (taking the nations involv-
edJ is three and one-half times the
total area OF the United States. Here
are vast empires, so great the hu-
man mind cannot comprehend them
in which the fields are diverted from
the prosperity Of peace 10 the adver-
sity Of war; empires to equal which in
area would take three and one-half
tines the land over which the stars
81 stripes so proudly and nobly
wave.
i ct among all these fighting peo-
RE, on all these many million square
niea of land, there can be found few
Z. eny, who can tell why this whole
murder is going on.-Des Moinet
Capital.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

the amount which the Panama canal
that gigantic engineering feat which
weds the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans-has cost the United States
at last available reports. Yet Eng
land authorizing the expenditure of
this vast sum, in addition to that
which has heretofore been expended
and that which will hereafter be need
ed, is but one of the six great pow
ers engaged in the war the one with
the smallest number of men actually
under arms and with possibly the
smallest daily aggregate war expens-
es.
This is the price which England
alone is paying for the privilege of
allowing its great citizenship to be
murdered, says the Des Moines Cap
ital.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

be advancing in two directions-to
the north toward the Tyrol and to
the east toward Trieste on a more
narrow front. Whether or not she
intends to advance in strength in both
of these widely divergent direc-
tions may not be clear to the Ameri-
can reader for some weeks. To do
so would mean either much greater
strength on the part of Italy than
Austria can bring against her, or a
determination to take great chances.
Certainly she has not yet been OPP
posed by any considerable forcees and
probably will not be until Austrian
territory is in more serious danger
than at the present time.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05
RESULT OF SPECIAL ELECTION

Now for the election of a com
petent manager. The Herald has no
candidate and will not have one to
urge on the commissioners, but we
trust the commissioners will work to-
gether in selecting the right kind of
man. There should be no closed
door meetings between few or a
majority of the commissioners but
the five should get together like a
board of directors-the Duranvo Ex-
change for instance-and discuss the
requirements of the city and of a
manager and then try and see if the
proper man cannot be unanimously
elected.
The voters decided at the regular
election that they wanted new deal
and the election Tuesday voiced the
sentiments expressed by the elector-
ate two months previous. That Du-
rango contains men who are capable
of managing the city along progress
sive and economical lines no one will
question.
The commissioners will have the
selection of city clerk, treasurer and
police magistrate, the duties to be
looked after by one man. 1t should
be considered from the word go that
there is no sinecures under the new
administration. The man or men
drawing pay from the city must earn
fhait. -,
who can and will. 1t was because
Of excess help and expenditures
that brought about the change from
commissioner to the manager plan and
be placed in positions will realize
this. Make the city clerk, treasures
etc, understand that election is only
dependent on service. This is the
only way man holds position with
railroad, sInelter or other corpora
ton and with the pay certain, and
larger than commercial firms pay as
a rule, the commissioners should have
it understood that the ones they Sc
lect must make good. A majority
vote can remove the clerk but 1t Will
require four of the five commissioners
to remove the manager or the voters
can use the recall.
In closing, let us say to the COM
missioners that they are the ones
who will largely be held responsible
for the success of the manager sys-
tenn and they should work together
and share the responsibility. There
fore, we say, this is not time for
newspaper interference of dictation,
but needing the advice and confidence
of the general public. Politics should
cut no figure.
Bryan claims to be great pacifist
but he has never won any peace
prizes like the colonel, who now
wants to fight everybody in sight.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

DR.. w. l.. Rodman of Philadelphia,
the newly elected president of the
American Medical association, who de-
liyered his inaugural address at the
annual meeting of the association in
San Francisco, introduced his address
with reference to some of the evils
In the surgical profession. "ln every
community" he said, "men are operat-
ing who have no right to take human
life into their hands This does not
anplv TO the general practitioner, who,
n nm emergency and to the hest of his
ability. operates in an attempt to save
life but to those who, for gain, under
take that which should be done only
bv the skillfur surgeon. Surgery is a
snecial science. extra hazardous in its
nature. and hence the publis has a
rirbt TO demand Of the surgeon the
verv hiehcst physical, mental and
moral equipment
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

1t is estimated that the trip of the
Liberty Bell TO San Francisco will cost
S35, 900, but the Syracuse Post-Stand-
ard intimstes that not much Of this
sum will be used in the payment of
freight charges. OF course not. Most
of it win be Consumed in the purchase
of liquid refreshments with which to
irrigate the Philadelphia councilmen
who are serving as bodyguards, con-
cludes the Telluride journal.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

The political truce established in
ireland during the war is seriously en-
dangered because of the preferment
given the Ulster leaders in the new
coalition cabinet. Resolutions con-
demning the appointment of Carson
Bonar Law and f. f. Smith are be-
ing passed in all provinces in the
northern and Protestant end of the
island. Not only societies and politi-
cal organizations, but city and local
councils join in the protest.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Pennsylvania, that grand old state
about which so many people are con-
ceited because they were born there,
has 1000 licensed retail and 1000
Wholesale liquor dealers. Eight coun-
ties are dry. Prohibitionists take, con-
ISOLATION in the report that the total
number Of liquor dealers is 3 per cent
less than it was year ago.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

One hine we must say in favoc II
the Democratic tariff is that sulpndr-
ic acidc, paris green and strichnne
are on the free list so that if you
run oui of work, money and fricnds
you eur commit suicide cheaper than
ever-Chatanooga Reporter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05
The Germans are some fighters.

While not mixing in the campaign
the Herald is vitally interested in the
success Of the new administration and
will be free to criticise excessive ex-
penditures and lack of service for the
money paid. This must, or should be
a purely business administration.
This is what the people voted for.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Nobody viii have the termidity to
assert that the Democratic party has
not had a new idea in thirty years.
The political graveyard has too many
tombstones marking the final resting
places of some once notorious new
ideas of that party. And now there
are none so poor as to do them rever-
ence."
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Making a noise on the Fourth by
any other means than the explosion
of dangerous instruments does not
seem to suit many individuals. They
are growing less every Fourth, how
erev. A safe and sane Fourth is
most patriotic.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

The war has brought what might
be described as a trampless era to
England. Officials say there are
practically no young or middleaged
yagrants left.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

The United States secretary of war
has been given a degree of doctor of
laws which is more than his German
contemporary could be given, in the
light of recent events.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Before a mans married he pays
courteous attention to his fiancee's
wishes. That's gallantry After he's
married, he may do the same. But
then it's safety.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Eleven months of war finds every
body confident of ultimate success,
which makes it look like another
hard winter in Europe and environs.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Commemorating past generations
by killing or manning present gen
erations by shooting of dangerous fire
crackers is misguided sort of a
patriotism.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Whether your sympathies run that
way or not you cannot help but ad-
mire the management and execution
of the German army.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

People in small cities pattern a lot
of their fool notions from reading
about what goes on in the large
cities. Conventions and clubs ori-
einate from the idea that gets into the
head of some individual to Do Good
Because so many queer conventions
meet for so many queer purposes it
is not surprising that convention
was recently held in the Acamemy of
Medicine in New York City to pro-
test against legislation whose object
is to punish and prevent methods of
birth control. There were present
well known physicians, social work
ers, both men and women, and there
was much candor in the discussion.
The only pleas used for limiting and
preventing the bearing of children
had to do with economic aud hygenic
difficulties and burdens. The big
harvest of babies reaped by death,
the rapidly growing population of
mental and physical detectives of
many kinds, and the utter impover-
ishment of parents and children of
which so much is seen and calls for
public aid, this body of reformers
think this evil may be gotten rid of
very largely by discouraging child
bearing. There will be some impati-
ance with these suggestions. They are
likely to have the least influence
where they are the most needed, and
are more likely to be caught up and
as justifying sterility where
t is an unquestionable blight and
says the Atchison Globe.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05
It's a long way to Petrograd.

Sunday is accused Of plagiarism rel
alive to his sermons but there's no
danger of a similar attack on the
number of his conversions.
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05

Gear of all the Russias" may not
mean much if his armies do not take
a brace
Semi-weekly herald., 1915-07-05
TRADE BALANCE WILL
NOT HELP AMERICANS

The billion dollar trade balance
which Secretary Redfield is blowing
about is not going to be pro rated
among the people of the United
States. Don't forget that.
Mr.. Redfield sought to cheer up
the tagging spirits of the manufac-
turers of other than munitions of war
the taxpayers and the unemployed of
this country, by prophesying this
huge favorable trade balance at the
end of the present fiscal year, COM
sumation which he attributes to the
Democratic administration, denying
that war orders are responsible. But
no man will be beguiled by this fair
promise into discarding the many ag-
gravating economies, industrial and
domestic, which Democratic bard
times forced upon this nation.
A billion dollars is a juicy expires
sion which sweetens the tongue and
ticltles the ear, but if anyone imagines
that sum is to be cash addition tC
our recourses his Imagination lack;
the salt of reason. 1t will be a long
time before Europe will be able t.
paw US any such sum in gold.
Europe is paying for our exports
Of war munitions by establishing new
credits here. She is borrowing from
US the money necessary to pay fol
the goods which we are selling her
In some instances, American securi
ties are owned in Europe and are be
ing returned in payment. Both o.
these methods of payment will, o
course, strengthen the credit position
of the United States, and the end 0,
the war should find US finincially il
the vanguard of the nations of tn,
earths. But that will be due to th'
unfortunate necessities of European
nations, and not to the activities o
Secretary Redfield, Mr.. Underwood
and the rest of the free traders.
Nor will we long be able to hol,
the financial supremacy thus attained
under the Democratic triff policy a
a study Of the dwindling trade balan
ces in our favor prior to the outbreal
Of the European war will convinc
the most casual reader of our com
mercitl history. Only by return t.
republican fiscal principles can WI
hope to remain permanently in th'
front rank of commerce and finance
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-02-09
BREAK DOCTORS TRUST

TT is first
| stand until guilt is proved
found Or j.. Euoene
guilty
The advertising doctor appealed Yesterday the
anticipates
The law Of this unlike ignores
principle
that nnocencel"
may be
In the world he worst.
The interested vitality upholdlng principle
would be impossible ethical"
"unethoa
a
from police
BEFORE
tribunal guilty
affects
displeasue nsttutonal
Certainly 1t is bureaucratic and unAneriean.
which "ehca" societies
unhca doctors lies what they advertise but the
fact that they advertise at ALL
THE sTAE BELIEVES THAT THE LAW SHOULD BE CHANG
GIVING EVERY DOCTOR WHOSE LICENSE THE BOARD HAS
REVOKED RIGHT TO CONTINUE PRACTICE PENDING
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-02-09
ASKS FOR RECORD
MINIMUM WAGE

PHOENIX. Ariz.. Feb. e.-Mrs.
Rachel Berry. the only woman in
the lower house OF the Arizona leg
islature. is preparing today bill
making Il misdemesnor to employ
any woman for less than si2
week.
This includes domestic servants.
Any less amount. says Mrs. Ber-
~. is inadequate TO meet the neces-
sary cost OF living and to maintain
health and morality
II is expected that Mrs. Berry's
measure will pass. establishing
what is believed TO be the highest
minimum wage for women in the
United States
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-02-09
vILLA'SFORCES
NOW IN RETREAT
FROM CAPITAL

WASHINGTON. Feb. s.-The
Villista troops In Mexico have met
a series OF disastrous defeats. ac.
cording to dispatches received by
the constitutionalist agency here.
These declare Carranzista forces
have forced the villa supporters to
abandon Queretaro and that the
capture OF Monterey is expected
Villista forces which recently ad.
vanced against Mexico City are now
declared to be in retreat.
Carranza's representatives here
say the First Chief now controls
all the territory south of Aguas.
oalientcs and San Luis Potosi.
State department officials arc
still wrestling with the problem pre-.
sented by Villas announcement that
he had assumed the presidencs.
villa insists. however. that the
assumption is only temporary and
that he was compelled TO take ac-
ton because n was impossible for
"the sovereign convention to com
municate freely with the northern
states"