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The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
A Young Democrat

Born. Jan. 25th. 10 the wife Of
Greenberry Pickett, a fine, big
boy.
DR.. Irvrn, the family physician
attending, weighed him and he
pulled the beam to fourteen and
one. half pounds.
Biggest thing TO its age ever
in this country =" exclaimed the
Doctor,
Certainly has put me toa lot
of watchful waiting" SAID the
daddx
Then they promptly named the
ysvsRg ai9a I. a$odrewlass ilso4E.'a
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Eye Sealded

Sam Grooms a pipe filter en-
ployed at the Pearsite Works,
suffered sestfe injury to his
right eye Tuesdsy moraing
While examining a valve, he
had occasion teSset underneath
it and look up, and a lot of scald-
ing water dropped into the eye.
The injury Is very painful, but
it is not thought that the sight
will BIS impaired.~
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Leasing For OH

Mr.. Joseph Mountz, of Hard
wlcks Creek, was in town ,Wednes.
day closing a deal for a lease of
his land for oil and gas drilling.
II is said that the two wells on
the Jesse Mckinney place are
paying MIR. Mckinney $50 day.
Mr.. Mruntz expects drilling ia
commence on hls place in about
a month.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Mrs. MiIfon Morehead

Mrs. Bertha MSrehead died last
Saturday at her bome near Pilot
View, after short illness with
pneumonia. She was the daugh.
ter of Mrs. s. KsWatts, of CLARK
county, and a grand daughter of
Benjamin Hall, bf Stanton. Be-
sides her husband she is survived
by three small children. The
remains were inFrrrd Sunday in
the family burytpg ground.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
"MaC" Has Big Eagle

j. w. Mcintosh, the efficient
bridge inspector for this division
of the l.. d NJ, is now the pos,
SCISSOR of a handsome big eagle!
The bird was shot in the wing by
IL farmar living near Maloney,
and afterward captured. 1T
measured "a trifle over fleet from
tip to tip, and is "A splendid spec.
linen. The bird attracted a great
deal of attention while passing
through a few days ago.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Votes For Women

Next Friday night, Feb. 4, the
school Literary societies will
have an interesting debate, the
subject being, "Resolved, that
Women Should be Allowed to
Vote" Those taking part IN the
debate are hunting up all avail
able information and the discus
sion promises to be Il good one.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
STANTON.
(By P. o. Derthick.)

d r. Clark left Sunday for a
business trip to Quicksand.
Lennie Grove, our depot agent
was i'll with the grip Sunday and
unable to attend his duties.
VIM. Scott was stricken with
paralysis Friday, but is some bet
ter now.
Milt Lvkins moved his family
last week to Quicksand, where
he is in the goods business.
Ben Creed arrived home from
Wisconsin last week after work.
ing there for several months.
Miss Margaret Mansfield is SER
iously i'll with grip and threaten
ed with pneumonia.
Messrs. Fred Blackburn, r. c..
Hall and DR.. Lemming attended
court at Winchester Monday.
Richard Grove left Friday for
Knnberlin Heights. Tenn. to re.
sumo his studies at the Bible
College there.
Mrs. T. G. Fuller and son, of
Lexington, and Mrs. Vic Fuller,
of Hazard, visited the family of
K. FL. Fuller during last week.
L.-vRussi.l, sqss-ef AR t:tid, Mrs.
Henry Morris, is quite i'll with
pneumonia. Mr.. Morris is Just
able to be out after long illness.
Rev. Mr.. Mcclure, who is at.
tending Kentucky Wesleyan Col.
lege at Winchester, preached at
Rosslyn Sunday,
Mrs. Anna Black burn, who is
keeping house for her son, Col
son and her sister. Minnie Con-
lee, at Rerea College, was home
over Sunday.
Prof, Hanley filed his regular
appointment at NADIA Sunday and
Prof. Richie preached a splendid
sermon at the Presbyterian church
here. .-.-
Misses Lille Boone, Gladys
WEIGH and Nora West have gone
to Richmond to attend State Nor.
nal. They expect to secure
State certificates. ..:
Mlrlin Knox, who fell out of a
tree some DAYS ago and sprained
his foot very badly, is able to be
around again with the aid of "A
cane.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Sunday, Jan. 80.

DuHidN, Ddh' cb. .-
Leader, $. T..Oarr; Subject, "The
Great Foreign Missionaries -
Scripture Lesson, Cor. 8-l6-22;
Song 1871 :Silent PRAYER, closing
with the Eord's Prayer in con-
cert; Unfolding Life, Thomas
Mouniz; A New Power in the
World. Mrs ]. p. Rlugo; Song,
Miss Kate Daniel; Rooted and
Ground in Love, w. T. Mcclure;
Permanent Fruit, Mrs. Z. ID.
Conlee; Cooperation in Prayer
) V. LARSON.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Good Attendance
At SUNDAY School

The great interest being taken
in the Sunday School at the
Christian church rs very crafty
ing to the leaders,. Last Sunday
there was total attendance of
1856, the largest on record. Two
classes, Mr.. b. F. Kineaid's and
Miss Hackworth's, tied for high
honors, With 81 members in each.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Buys Car of Hogs

ID. X Daniel bought car of
hogs in the county this week,
about 200 head being delivered
here Tuesday. The price paid
was g cents.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-01-27
Music Al School

Miss Jessie Stallard has opened
a music studio at the city school
aud has put in handsome new
piano. The instrument will be
used by the Litersry societies at
their meetings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To the Editor OF the Telegraph:
Dear Sir: I notice in The Patriot of
February 13 that 1t states the railroad
man almost receives twice as much
wages as the mechanic throughout the
United States. Now it appears that this
paper is picking a scab. Almost every
day you pick up that paper it has some.
thing to say about the railroaderS'
strike or wages. 1t does not say any
thing about the hours 1t puts in on the
road away from home, or its hardships.
l would like to have a committee from
this paper come and ride one car down
over the Hump, especially like Febru-
ary 13, when the cars were one sheet OF
ice, that the men going down over the
hill had to crawl on hands and knees
II he runs in or has an accident he gets
two weeks to thirty days in the pie
house without pay. l will forfeit one
months pay if this committee rides one
car without an accident. Now, if
brakeman has a mishap and runs in,
pany's, he is not excused. He must
serve his suspension and get a black
mark. And there is other trouble of
men who receive more money than the
brakeman. 1t is the man the company
has who made a mistake in railroading
or had not the nerve, to stand back
and try and get you into trouble and
make ii miserable. Now I think that
this paper should ease up a little and
not try and make the people believe
trouble. If you think the railroad man
has banquet every day or night, come
out and see us ride a cut, help to eat
cold supper and stop knocking about
the money he receives.
Yours for fair play,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
DIR. RAUNICK's REPORT

hR. RAUNICK'S annual report as
II health officer of Harrisburg. pre-
sented to Council yesterday, is SO
voluminous and so replete with prac-
tical suggestions for improvements
that it cannot be adequately reviewed
in brief space. The paper is full of
important recommendations all of
which should have the careful con-
sideration of Council.
Especially practical is Dr.. Raunictz's g
suggestion that the city and countv
join in the operation of the municipaI
hospital near the poorhouse and that
1t be used for other purposes than the
mere housing of an occasional small
pox patient
There is interest also in the sugges-
ton that better results might be at
tanned If Harrisburg collected it's own
garbage and ashes. instead of letting
out the work by contract. The CITY
operates its own water plant so eff
ciently and cleans its own streets so
we'll that there would seem to be little
chance of going wrong by adding a
municipal ash and garbage plant to
the city's official machinery. At any
rate, the thought is worth discussion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
THE MOVIES

LOUIS BREITINGER, chairman of
the State Board of Censors of Nov
ing Pictures, is of the opinion that
supervision of moving picture films in
the future will depend upon the atti-
tude of the manufacturers and the
brokers'. If they insist upon putting
out films which are Objectionable, the
law will close down upon them. If
they fall in line with enlightened pub
lie opinion the law will surround the
business with all the protection that
has been extended to the drama.
Mr.. Breitinger is right As he says
in his report, there can be no excuse
upon this earth for some of the stuff
being sent out any more than there
can be any reason for the horrors dis
played under the name of advertise
ments in front of some of the theaters.
This has been demonstrated in Harris
burg. One theater is showing moving
pictures to capacity houses, while an
other is barely filled in the evenings.
A glimpse at some of the canvases flut-
tering in the winds tells the story.
Exhibitors who accept censorhip and
give notice that they show only an
proved reels are the ones who will be
successful in the end. for, as Mr.. Brett
niger says, THE confidence of the
people gained by an oversight of films
will strengthen the industry. It will
bring substantial advantages both to
manufacturers and eyhihi+ors
The State Board has been laboring
to place the whole moving picture
business on a decent plane and has
been having some trouble doing it. IT
is up to the manufacturers, the brokers
and the exhibitors to help because they
have a business which is only COM
mencing to show its possibilities. II
they do not, more stringent laws are a
certainty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
TO FREE TOLL ROADS
Philadelphia Press. I :

The welcome news that the neces-
sary steps are being taken to rid the
territory near Philadelphia of two of
lts most harassing toll roads will fill
lne users OF those roads with rejoicing
me tax eXacted is heavy. on the
spring House and Quakertown road
Tor distance of sixteen miles seven
ty-seVen cents one way is charged.
Ihe road is the shortest highway be-
tween Philadelphia and Allentown.
yet its use is denied to many people
because of the excessive and oppres
siVe tax which it levies in the form of
tolls. - VI
The Lancaster Pike which parallels
tne Pennsylvania's main line out of
Philadelphia is another cormorant in
Toll eXactions, which State Highway
commissioner Cunningham desires to
make free. His present move in that
direction is for the portion of the
hlshway from City Line to Paoli This
Is within the Philadelphia suburban
9lstrlct. The city some time ago set
lree all the toll roads in Philadelphia
county. This falls short of the mark
unless the many toll roads in the
suburban areas around PhiIadelpbia
are set free. too.
All the toll roads in the State sbou1d
be made free as quickly as it can he
done. The State Highway Commits
sloner is right in selecting the roads
with the greatest travel and the
heaviest tolls to be made free first
Ihe Quakertown road and the Lam
caster Pike fall within this descrip-
uen and their relief from tolls will
CONFER the greatest good on the
greatest number.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
THE END OF DOMINATION

/ T<oO long have we submitted to
execute encroachment. We
! have witnessed the executive
appropriation of practically all our
prerogatives. so that even the janitors
and messengers of executives no
longer have respect for the House of
Representatives but, instead. appear
to have pitying contempt for what
they regard as harmless aggregation
of executive mollycoddles. How long
shall this condition continue? Shall
we assert ourself and again become
the virile. powerful legislative force
which we once were, or shall we con-
tinue to drag out the miserable exist
ence of a dwarfish, misshapen legis-
lative unit?"
This superheated language eman-
ated from Washington spontaneously
with the advent of the first cold snap
of the winter at the capital. From
a Republican rebellious against the
most recent demonstrations of 1.-The
New Freedom? Not at all. 1t was
Representative Clark. of Florida, who
dom which the White House had laid
upon Congress since President Wilson
set himself up as the sole source of
authority in all matters of both leg
islative and executive importance. He
was, to be sure, speaking in defense
of an ignoble purpose, for he was ar
guing for the superior merit of pork
as compared with preparedness-but
that does not change the essential
truthfulness of his declaration. The
fact is that the representatives of the
people at Washington have been over
lain, if that term is permissible, by
the dominating figure in the White
House. The fact is that individual en-
terprise and initiative on the part of
Senators and Representatives has been
stified by the hand of the President.
Sometimes pacifying with patron
age. sometimes crushing with club,
he has by one means or another sue
ceeded in making good his claim to
the possession of all the brains which
his party can boast of. Legislation
has come ready-made from his hand
and has been passed without question
only to find that it was absolutely un-
workable or utterly disastrous.
From Thomas Jefferson and the
fathers to Woodrow Wilson and "the
boys" has been long journey-and
if self-respecting Democrats in Con-
gress are now disposed to assert them
selves we wish them more courage
and more power to do so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17

London, Feb. II. 1t is expected
that the appointment of Lord CheIms-
ford as Viceroy of India, to succeed
Baron Hardings will shortly be Off
cially announced.
Frederic John Napier Thesiger.
third Baron Chelmsford. is AS wears
old. He is an oxford man (Magda-
len College) and aside from having
held several positions in the local gov
eminent of London - member of
school board, county councillor and
alderman-has been, since 1905. sue
cessively governor of Queensland and
New South Wales. In politics he is a
Unionist. He is Knight of Grace of
St John, Jerusalem, in England. and
Chancellor of the Order of st. Mi
chael and St. George.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
MIGHT BE WORSE
kansas City Star.

The great war we think of as bad as
bad can be. But we aren't quite right
When civilized Rome went to war, the
Rome of Cicero and Caesar and Angus
tus, ii expected large profits from the
sale of prisoners as slaves. All armies
that set out from Rome, we are told,
were accompanied by spectators who
bought up the captives as they were
put up at auction after 4 battle.
Caesar writes in the Gallo Wars
OF selling ffty-three thousand prison
ers after the capture of the Aduatuci.
After the war with the Cimbri ninety
thousand captives are reported by Livy
to have been sold. In the campaign of
Pydna the communities of Epirus sided
against Rome and one hundred and
fifty thousand of the inhabitants were
sold into slavery by the Roman general
on orders from the senate.
If no moral progress had been made
in the last nineteen hundred years the
Belgians and Poles would have been
sold as slaves by the conquering Ger
mans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17

1t ought not to be impossible for the
city TO operate its own system and
save enough money by the operation
TO run the whole health department.
especially since a privately ly-condhcted
business can earn handsome profit
doing the work.
As to Harrisburg's miserable show
ing in infant mortality that is dis
grace and shame. No time should
be lost in giving DIR. Raunick the
wherewithal to combat this condition,
and the quicker the better Not a
baby should be permitted to be sick,
needlessly. much less die for lack of
care. In this respect. the department
is undermanned; as it is, too, along
other lines of its activities. DR.. Rau-
nick is hard worker and devoted to
his office, but he needs help and needs
it badly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
THURSDAY EVENING. FEB. II.
Life is not to liUe merely, but to lire
l1eH.-SR JOHN LUBBOCK.
a STATE CLEARING HOUSE
HovERNOR BRUMBAUGHs sug,

NONERNOR BRUMBAUGHS sug-
NJ gestion to the men active in the
new Pennsylvania State Society
at their first meeting yesterday has not
only the merit of originality but of
good, hard common sense. The meet
ing yesterday was a round table gath
ering of the executive committee of
the society. the head of each depart
ment or commission being a member,
and it is the idea to have such a meet
ing once a month for discussion of
problems of administration and to pro-
mote a spirit of State pride and socia-
bility among the men charged with
responsible duties on Capitol Hill.
The Governor, who has been keenly
Interested in the society from the start,
yesterday pointed out how valuable it
could be to the Commonwealth if the
meetings be made the occasion of a
monthly interchange of ideas about
the government. the development of a
spirit of cooperation among the de-
partments and the elimination of
waste, lost motion and red tape.
Pennsylvania's state government
should become more and more like the
business center of a great corporation.
Men have written about that propo-
sition, have talked about it and
dreamed about it. The Governors
suggestion of discussing how admins
trative methods can be improved offers
a way to bring about better things
because there is no government under
the sun that can not be changed to the
advantage of the governed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
MANAGING THE CITY
The Town That Went Back
BY Frederic J. Haskin

CALEM, Mass, has the distinc-
y tion of being the only one, among
the four hundred which have
adopted commission government, to
revert to the old method. The reform
had stormy life of three years, end
ing in failure.
For it cannot be denied that COM
mission government has failed in Sa-
lem. If it failed in no other way, at
least it failed to convince a majority
of the people that it was an improve
ment over the old system. Inasmuch
as commission government has SEEM
ed good to the people of several hun
dred other cities, it follows that there
must be something peculiar in the Sa-
lem situation to account for it's un-
favorable reception here.
Salem is now a thriving manufac-
turing town of fifty thousand. 1t is
proud of its prosperity, but also of the
fact that it was founded in 1925. Fully
alive to the value of it's industries,
it is also conscious that its story is
almost an epitome of the nations his
tory; that it still contains the house
where one of the witch judges lived
in 1892; and the first Congregational
church to be established in America.
In word, Salem is rich in tradition;
it's ways are fixed by the habit and
custom of centuries. In such place.
anything which has the sanction of
long usage is sure to die hard, and
any reform is sure to hit a rocky
trail.
1t was tremendously encouraging to
government boosters when
Salem woke up and adopted the new
method of city management three
years ago.
We've broken into a good-sized
town in New England" they said.
Those folks aren't so slow as we
thought they were"
OF course, they are not as slow as
the West thinks them, but neither are
they as quick to accept a new idea
as the westerners. Salem adopted
government, but it did not
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
CRIPPLED PARIS
[Anna Murray Vail in the Atlantic
Monthly

MUHLHIN.J
Rest and change, but no respite frofh
the surrounding ever present shadow
Amputations, amputations, and ampu-
tations! Three youngsters in front of
the hotel yesterday with an orderly,
all on crutches; it must have been their
first walk out, from the way they went.
In the Rue de la Paix five in a row,
each with the left leg gone, trottinE
along at great rate and as CAV as
crickets, each evidently trying to out
walk the others. Out of the Cafe de
Paris came a splendid 6-foot youngster
with his mother in deep mourning; he
hoped into the front seat of big
limousine, declining help; three more.
soldiers they, saluted him as he passed
He wore three medals. On the terrace
of the Tuileries rows can be seen all
day in the sun; on the Champs Elysees.
everywhere everywhere. till one is
nearly suffocated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17

forget its hundred and one traditions
It accepted the change with a reser-
walton. Maybe it's a good thing; Wen
try it and see, but we're not sure, and
If 1T isn't all that's claimed for it, we'll
go back to the old form that we
know and understand" That was
about the attitude of the average Sa-
lemite
Salem was never very enthusiastic
about commission government, and the
opponents of the change never for a
minute gave up the idea of getting
back to the old plan. In most cities
that the interests that fought for the
old order had to give up for lack of
any following. They were more per-
sistent in Salem. They kept a follow
ing by criticism of the commission,
and before the new scheme had been
going long enough to either make good
or fail, along came a calamity that
gave the opposition it's chance. This
was the great Salem fire of two years
ago.
A confiagration that wipes out a
huge chunk of the business and resi-
dence portion of a town is calculated
to worry any set of city officials. Sup
pose you were mayor of q town of
$4,000, and you should wake up some
morning and find that half your town
had burned up. What would you do?
You don't know. Nobody knows un-
til something like that happens to
him. The new Salem commission did
it's best. 1t cared for the homeless,
fed the starving, cleaned up the
debris with which the city was litter
ed, and in other ways tried to turn
chaos into order.
The commission did a pretty good
job, but everything it did cost money.
The municipality, as well as the mer-
chants, manufacturers and home own
ers, had to bear an enormous expense.
Paving had to be relaid. Sewers had
to be reconstructed. Great numbers
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