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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
SANTA SHALL COME.

santa shall come for the little ones
Never you mind, my dear!
Santa shall come for the children he
loves
That nestle beside us here.
Santa shall come, though the battle
rings,
And the plains and the trenches run
red,
For Santa is made for the living that
laugh
AS we'll as the dying and dead.
Santa shall come for the curly TOP
And the little rosy check,
lie shall come down when the eyelids
drop
And faces are all so meek
Santa shall come through the cannon
crash
For above them the stars shall repeat
The songs that the angels THAT holv
night
In Bethlehem made so sweet
Santa shall rome for the little ones
Never you fear. my own!
lie hath his place in the human heart
And all the world is his throne
And whether the battles be brief or
long
IL lie shall help us from grief and tears
10 turn for while where the bcubles
smile
And the spirit of Christmas Cheers.
Santa shall come for the sleepy eyes,
And come for the bright eyes sake.
overth seas where the pudding lies
And the island of jelly cake.
Santa Shall come that the dear ones
yet
May be happy in spite of war.
Ana all shall remember, and none
may forget,
However the guns may roar.
-Bentz.own Bard.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
GERMANY'S PLEDGES TO
AMERICA.

No. July s, 1915).- "The Imperi-
al Government repeats assurances
that American ships will net be hind
cred in the prosecution of legitimate
shipping, and the lives Of American
citizens on neutral vasse;s sail not
be placed in jeopardy"
No 2 (Septcmber l, 1879 film
ers will net be sunk By OR submarines
without warning and without safe
ty of the lives of non-coI:batants,
provided that the liners do not Try to
escape or offer resistance"
No. (Oc'orber 5, 1879 .-"Ti:e or
ders issued by his Majesty the EN-
peror to the commanders of the Ger
man submarines. lave been
made so stringent that The recur-
rene of incidents similar to the Arabic
case is considered out of the ques-
ton"
No. MAY A, 1916).-"In accord
ance with the general practice of visit
and search and destruction of mer-
chant vessels aecognized by inter
national law. such vessels, both with
in and without the area declared as
naval war zone, shall not be sunk
without warning and without saving
human lives, hnless these ships at
tmpt to escape or offer resistance"
All Of Them Ruthlessly Broken
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
THRIFT STAMPS AS A CHRIST.
MAS PRESENT.

Will it not be well to make at least
part of our usual Christmas pres
ents this year consist of Thrift
Stamps?
Instead of giving the boy and girls
a lot of presents not needed per-
haps, and of little or no real val
ue, we suggest that 1T least Il part
of the expenditures consist of Thrift
Stamps. Explain what they mean,
and start the child on course of pa
triotic saving and giving. 1t may be
of untold benefit to the boy and girl
besides accommodating thousands for
the war fund.
During the months of December
and January the $500 stamps cost
S4.12. the price increases one cent
Il month. Next December, the $500
stamps will cost $4.23, and so on up
to January /. 1923, when the $500
stamp will cost SAT-. So it appears
the sooner we buy the lcsst the cost
AT the end of five years war savings
certificates will be redeemed by the
Government. Each war certificate be-
ing worth 500. Now, this seems to
be plain enough.
We are asked to hurry up and buy
these stamps, as the money will be
needed at once. The amount of two
billions is expected as the result of
tins stamp sale. Note specially. The
single 25-cent stamps do not bear
interest. Nothing under IL $500 war
certificate bears interest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
MORE HOGS, WHEAT AND CORN
NEXT YEAR.

The big drive made last year for
increased products on the farm con-
WINGED the farmer that they can do
the stunt when they try, and the pric-
es received were encouraging and sat-
isfactory. Still larger outputs" is the
slogan for 1918. Prices entirely salts
factory and highly remunerative, are
practically guaranteed by the govern
ment, whether the war ends or not.
More corn and meat will be needed
next year, and the need will increase
as the war continues and for several
years after peace is declared. To re-
build the broken and ruined farms of
Belgium and France and other bat
tlefields will take years to bring up.
The United States is the granarv of
the world. The farmers of this sec
ton will make an extra effort again
TO grow more corn and make more
pork than last year. They can and
they must, and right now is the time
10 begin. Conserve the pigs for next
year and start the plow as soons as
possible
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
LABOR AGENT FOR VIRGINIA.

Ewing Lawson, of Tazewell, who
has just been appointed farm labor
agent in Virginia by the Federal Gov
eminent, will work in cooperation
with the State ad County Agricrltrr-
al Councils of Safety, the State Coun-
Gil of Defense, the farm and home de-
monstration agents, the members of
the Farmers Union. and the Food
Administrator. He will have his Of
flee in Richmond. with B. C. Moorlaw,
director of the Bureau of Markets,
and will study the problem of farm
labor shortage in all sections of the
State. Similar agents have been ap-
pointed in all States and Mr.. Lawson
will keep in touch with en- CROUCH
the Washington office. One of his
first tasks will be to try to t,ivise
some means by which idle men in the
cities and towns can be brought in
touch with the farmers who are in
need of help.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
SPURIOUS MARRIAGES AND
OTHER NOTICES.

Some smart, INSCRIPTIONS party
has "put one over" on the news cdl-
tor of this paper again. Last week
n notice of the marriage of Miss Bes-
sic Bourne to Il Mr.. Asbury, near
Grafton, appeared in this paper. The
letter containing the notice was well
written, evidently feminine hand,
and signed "Joserfcnc" Bourne.
Monday Mr.. Jos. Nj. Bourne, father
of Miss Bessie Bourne, of Grafton,
one of the editors friends of long
standing, came to the office and de-
manded the authority for the publ
cation, denounced the writer as SLAM
dcrer and liar and inserted Il card
to that effect, which appears else
where in this paper over his sigma
ture. The original letter YVES pro-
duced and Mr.. Bourne, who of course
knows everybody in his community,
pronounced the signature fictitious.
No "Joserfene" Bourne, he said, lives
in that community. This is the second
time the Clinch Valley News has been
hoo-dooed into publishing spurious
marriage notice, and remarkable to
say, both times by writer from the
same postofiice, Grafton. 1t is to be
hoped that the party guilty of this in
justice, both to this paper and to Miss
Bourne, may be discovered and justly
rebuked for their tomfollery and dew
ilishness. Hereafter, this paper will
know what it is doing when a mar
riagc notice is sent from Grafton or
anywhere else. Grafton is rot the only
community afflicted with jeolous II
cnvious people, who, to "get even,"
strike a blow in the dark from be-
hind, too cowardly to come out in the
open, but skulk under disguise.
Such folks are sometimes too ignor-
ant to appreciate the crime they arc
committing, but think only to prac-
tice "a joke" In any event, they are
an evil in any community and should
be hunted down and suppressed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
* EEP YOUR CAKE AND EAT
IT, TOO.


We state the fact Of the War Saw
ingS Stamps in this homcly, familiar
way. hoping TO attract the attention
of the casual reader, also the chill
dren. In buying war stamps we spend
our money and keep it. too us we
did in buying Liberty Bonds. Uncle
Sam needs money to equip the SOL
diers who are fighting for us, and
those others who will fight but does
not ask us to "'give," but 1oan" the
money, and at any time we want it
back he will hand it to us with good
interest. The stamps sci! for 20 cents.
The larger stamps are $500. When
you have bought rs many as sixteen
OF the 25c stamps you can exchange
them for $500 stamp, and COM
mcnce over again.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
PROHIBITION AND THE MINERS

The Manufacturers Record of Bal
timore has asked the opinion of all
the chief coal operators in the coun-
try as to how the liquor traffic affects
the business, and as to national pro-
hibltion, particularly during the war.
The Record says, cditorially, that
national prohibition would save two
or three billion dollars now spent for
drink. In response to an inquiry,
Mr.. George w. st Clair. speaking
for the Jewell Ridge Coal Corpora
ton says:
GLOW many men in The United
States are devoting All of their time
making liquors? How many devotinr
all OF their time selling it? j Judge
about 10000 If they were all re-
quircd to stop making and selling
whiskey and to go to work i'm the
coal mines they would produce on
an average 10 tons Of coal ner man
each working day. There arc about
23O working days in the var. They
would produce 200 600 tons of coal
Il day for 23O days which would make
40,ooo,0O0 tons i'll a year. DR.. Garfield
has stated that we are $4,000 900 tons
short of what is needed.
The average loss, Of all men work
ing III Southern coal mines where
whlskey is sold, is about 10 per cent.
OF their efficiency, in my Judgment.
Some men do not drini.; some more
than others; to prevent The manu-
iacture and sale of II entirely would
add at least 10 per cent more to the
present production.
'The number of men is twenty-five
times, as great as Mr.. st. Cla's csti-
mate, says the editor Of the Manu-
fGcturcr's Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21

And also wears military cross
And is the youngest major in the
British army
Well, The major is some kid
He is at Dayton now teaching aerial
gunnery 10 the flying cadets at
Wright aviation field Among the
many excellent Endorsements he has
received of his aerial gunnery is one
from the Germans themselves, who
have placed price on his head.
The boy major who hes accounted
for AZ Germans-in five months
looks like any nice boy. He is very
blond and wears Il little mustache, and
but for his uniform, one might say
he was new inferno at hospital,
or perhaps popular lad in the jun
ior class ut II college.
Methods He Uses.
Major Bishop, it seems, likes to
have things come his way, so to speak.
whats the use of going hunting
for Huns when you can get them to
come to your" he figures.
So, having heard that the Germans
had a price on his head he painted
his airplane red. white and blue so
that all Germans might know him
when they saw him.,
They would come at him in flocks,
which was what Bishop wanted them
to do.
The more Huns that came up, the
more Huns go down, is his motto.
But once they chased him 100 miles
inf tl,,t
been his finish, if night hadn't come
on so that he was able to fly back to
the British lines under cover of dark
ness.
Other aviators fly only on orders.
But the major has rowing commits
sion. He may go up at any time he
feels like it. And he feels like it Of
sometimes three or four times
a day, especially when the weather is
good
| Being Il modest young man, he
, doesn't wear the Victoria Cross that
King George pinned on him, but here
is how he got it. One day when the
Huns weren't coming on him, as is
their want when they see his red
white and blue machine, he went hunt
: ing for 'em.
Shooting straight is as important
as good flying in our game. he says
"The machine gun on an airplane
is STATIONARY. When you go after ar
-enemy you aim your airplane after
him."
You ask him if fellow ever gets
scared up there.
Usually one is too busy to think OF
being scared" he replies.
Yes, Major w. A. Bishop, V. C. d
S. C. NJ, % years old, is some kid.
P. S.-The initials stand for "Vic
toria Cross" distinguished Service
Order" and Military Cross" He i.
one of two Englishmen who won tn,
right to put these letters after his
name.
The other one is dead.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
JAMES CANI'ER.

The jury from farewell county
summoned to try james Carter at
Abingdon, as an accomplice murderer
of Mrs. Maudc Wilson, in April, 1915
for which crime his brother was con-
victed and electrocutcd, found IL YER
dict of guilty Of murder in the first
degree, and he was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life. This YVES james
Canter's sixth trial the jury in each
case failing to agree. Canter was of
fered q three-ycar sentence in the
penitentiary as compromise before
the trial. but declined it, saying he
would rather go to he electric chair
than to the pen for crime which he
did not commit His brother con-
fessed to the crime and said his
brother James had nothing to do with
1t. 1t is said that of the sixty men
who composed the juries in the first
hive trials, only ten of them were in
favor of acquittal.
T.. The Tazewell jury which convicted
Canter was composed of the follow
ing named citizens: A. NJ. Stinson.
foreman; 0. w. Daley, j. p. Holmes,
Fred Gillespie. II. L. Thompson, ]. I.
Hit, c. II. Fields, Jos. G. Barns, J. r.
Necessary, Hugh Humphrey, j. l..
Martin, and d.. Ed. Mcclure. The
jury was out about 80 minutes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
AVIATION HAS LOST IT'S
ROMANCE.

Attentive readers of The war news
news must have noticed that The dis
patches describing the work of the
aviators on the various fronts no long
er deal to any extent as in tie past
with single combats, man to man. This
means that AERIAL warfare, like that
on land, has developed in on unexpect-
ed direction and is fast losing it's pic
turcsque and romantic features.
The fliers, nowadays, do compare
lively little of the solitary hunting for
solitary antagonists thaat gave them
fame aas "aces." Instead, they work
in carefully organizated groups. the
members Of which are expected to
show, not independence and initia-
tive, but the ability to carry out with
exactness plans infinitely laid out for
them by superors who never quit the
ground.
Each member of the group has an
assigned part and place in it's opera
tions, and usually they are divided,
some flying at q great height. some at
moderate one. and the rest up only
few hundred feew. In other words
they have "fanks," just as do terres-
trial fighters, but the TANKS are up
and down not at right and left. They
must be guarded none the less on that
account and sometimes they are
turned" with the familiar disastrous
results.
Aviation has become Service
like another and it's principle is CO.
operation. Thence will come military
result but not much, or AZ any rate
not so much, of fame for individual
| aviators.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
THE REASON FOR COAL SCARE
ITY.

There has been shortage oc Goa.
and people in the cities have suffer
ed. Who is to blame?
From reports certainly the coal op-
orators are not to blame. II is to
their interest to get out coal and sell
1t. 1t is to the interest of the rail
roads to haul it. Tho war situation
seems to be the trouble. According
to published reports more than So
00O loaded cars are standing on the
sidings on the Norfolk and Western,
and Chesapeake and Ohio systems.
On river barges great deal cannot
he moved on account of low water
or ice. The call for cars for transpor-
tatlon of war and army supplies and
soldiers, has overtaXed the capacity
OF the roads. That is about the size
OF 1T. Some confusion has resulted.
all of which will be smoothed out
soon
Another cause for coal shortage is
the increased demand for coal from
the factories throughout the country
VINO are on war contracts. Many of
the large plants have quadrupled the
output Of munitions. One instance
IN particular is the Bethlehem Steel
Company. In 1915 over 5000 tons
day was used, in 1916 $4,000 tons
day; and in 1917 they wanted 40
600 tons day, and got 10000 tons.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
ROUMANIA'S FALL is NOT HER
FAULT.

Neither Indignation nor surprise
should greet the announcement that
Roumania will participate in the
truce arranged between Russia and
the central allies. Isolated rom all
help, occupying position left open
to attack on both TANKS and in the
rear by Russia's suspension of bel
ligerency, the Roumanian army. COM
parative,y small in number. through
well appointed and mistaken in
morale, had no alternative to abso-
lutte destruction except to ubmit to
such terms of armistice as the Tcu-
ems. might conccde. Deprived Of all
support. cut off from all suppl es,
subject to development by ovcrwhelm-
ing forces and with no line of retreat.
open, there was nothing left for their
commanders to do but save their gal
liant men from usclcss sacrifice.
Their cor:se WIS compulsory, involv-
ling neither treachery nor cowardice.
and in taking it officers and men have
displayed 10 such groveling spirit as
has been manifest by the Russian SOL
diers-no eager determination with
Tie dcspoi!crs CT their country-no
craven welcome of cessation of
dangers and .privation-but such
manly and dignificd compliance with
an memorable decree Of fate as was
exhibited by Lees veterans at APP
pomatox. In proportion as Russian
trcachery and poltroonery should be
despised, the misfortune of Roumania
should attract sympathy. The DELHI
path of duty and of honor cntailed on
the other step blasting to their
hopes and bitter TO their pride.
Among the debts hat the b: stard
democracy of Russia will owe to the
nations it has betrayed when Right
shall triumph over Purssian Might,
not the least will be the delivery Of
a gallant people TO mercy of re-
foe.-Norfolk Virginian
Pilot.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
NOT "a POTATO WAR"

MIR. Roosevelt says "this is not a
potato war but "blood war" He
meant that men as we'll as food and
money must win the war. We must
have great army of men. 1t takes
men to conquer men. But, behind
these men must be money and bread.
Bullets and biscuits are both neces-
sary. Some of our people seem not
yet to have appreciated the fact that
this country is at war-actually in
1T, and the biggest war, too, ever wag-
ed ON earth So far it hasn't cost some
of the people ore cent or one mo-
ments sacrifice. These "slackers"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
THE TAKING OF JERUSALEM.
lNeW York World

Since the news from the Battle of
the Marine treasured an imperllcd civ
lization, no event of the world war
has had such power to stir tie minds
of men as the announcement that the
/, British had taken Jerusalem.
On the military side alone it crowns
no mean achievement. Less than two
years ago the Turks MANAGED the
Sucz Canal, the great artery of traffic
with the east. Keeping peace with
the Bagdad campaign, they have been
driven back 300 miles, losing men and
guns that may be sorely needed later
in Aleppo. Since Jerusalem was sur
rounded. the final catastrophe of the
Turk have been almost Sedan, sur
passing in effect upon the war even
the fall of Badgdad.
Memorable will be the instant polit-
zeal consequence of the victory. The
Arab tribes will rejoice in their deliv-
GRANGE from the hated Turk. The let
ter of Secretary Balfour to Lord Roth
schild, in manifest provision of this
breat event, stating officially that His
MaJesty's Government view with favor
the establishment i'll Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, !"
has been for five weeks debated in
every Jewish family, and The taking of
Zion will be to millions of them cleo
trifying news.
And to. the innumerable hosts of
Christendom no less There is no ma
ton that has not, by actual presence
upon the soil of Palestine of it's
pilgrims and its morosteries, or at
the very least by countless passages
in its rituals, it's literature, even it's
homely proverbs, the closest associ-
atoms with what Mohammcdcn, Jew
and Chistian alike is Holy Lend and
the Holy City. In this Germany and
Austria Hungary are no exceptions.
This Holy Land, this Holy City,
have been for nearly TOO years in the
solvenly keeping of the Turk For
more than 1000 years, with inter
walls brief and few, they have been
held by Moclems of one or anotrer
warning sect; and their long chorn-
ice; of plumber ed pilgrimages, vene-
rated men and women tortured and
massacrcd, villages put to the sword
At last the land so constantly in the
thoughts of all civilized nations is to
have decent government 1t i; fantas-
tic to suppose that this feeling of
gratiiicatlon may be. if not outspoken
at least in secret shared by dcvout
Germans, Austrians and Magyars?
For the Entente Ali.cs-and in this
aspiration is it too much to hope that
all Russia may be included ?-the fall
of Jerusalem, which is it fact its rise
to freedom. will be an Immense in
ccntive to further effort. The "civil
and religious rights" which Mr. Bal
four pledged to the Holy Land are
all that the Entente desires for those
held in bondage elsewhere, TO the
Turk, to the Magyar. to the German
Why should not this boon even be as
pired to by the lowry stationed in
Germany itself?
For centuries the cry of Jerusalem
IN bondage for delivcrance has given
to every enslavcd race or submerged
class the very language of its suppui-
cations for help. The answered pray
er for ages should inspiration to press
onward for the deliverance also of
democracy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
YOUTHFUL MAJOR GETS AT GEE
MANS.
A special from Davto, On;o s,,

A special from Dayton Ohio, saws:
Major w. A. Bishop, V. C. ID. S. O
Nj. g., British army, is some kid.
1t Is not customary to speak thus
OF major in the British army but
when you stop to consider that the
major is only % years old and about
5 feet 5 tall
And has had ITO battles in the air
And has shot down AZ Hun air.
planes
And has battled single-manded with
Tour enemy airplanes, and wrecked
three of them
And has been wounded only one
And mas been presented to the king
OF England who pinned Victoria
Cross on him
And has, in addition, been honored
with the distinguished service order
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21

There are great many mot yet"
people in this country. Asked if they
nave bought war certificates, given
to the Y. M. c. A, Red Cross, paid
their subscription. they answer, "Not
yet" The mot yet" and the mot
now crowd are slackers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
TWO OLD PROVERBS THAT ARE
TIMELY JUST NOW.

"The hardest work an Industrious
farmer can do is nothirg-tae lard
est thing for him to dodge is success
Some wives can throw more out the
back door with a teaspoon than their
husbands can bring in with a scoop
shovel at the front door"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21
CONVICT LABOR DURING THE
WAR.

A conference at Washington is said
to be considering the question of
thc employment Of convict labor dur
ing the war. Why not? There is no
good rcason why the convicts and all
Jail birds and everybody in iast;tu-
tons able to work should not be put
at it. The objection to prison labor
generally do not apply in war time
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21

a certain pastor in a western civ
is said to have upbraided certain
members Of his congregation for
bringing their knitting, to church. A
daily paper in the city, justified the
women on the ground that they need
ed some such diversion to keep them
awake during the service,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-12-21

In order to save fuel it KS been
suggested that heat be reduced in
street ears, churches ard picture
shows. Exactly, let it be done. The
heat in the places named is so great
these days that all doors and win
dows have to be thrown open.