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A PATRIOTIC RESPONSE

A PATRIOTIC RESPONSE
In these perilous times OF world
var, national labor unrest. with ma
tipnal prohibition imminent and leg
a1lative enactments Of most radical
md far-reaching character following
ene after the other in quick success
slon. the average citizen, who is stay
ing at home and trying to attend to
Nh own little affairs. is finding it
bard to determine Just what is what.
Today he reads that Premier Lloyd
George declares in the British House
e Commons that Great Britain has
HI been ~ well stocked with food
slncs the beginning Of the war as at
Dressnt; and the next day. news dis
patches quote Herbert Hoover. U. s.
tbed administrator. as saying that
tAs result Of the war will depend up
n Americas making supreme ef-
Dort to relieve the great world
vide shortage in food"
Today all Germany Is reported to
- ON the verge Of revolution. owing
b internal economic situations. To-
sorrow we are assured that she is in
me shape economically. with nine
nillion fighting men, plenty Of food
and united civilian population.
The public must learn to judge tel
sgraphic news items with due allow
ance for the source from which they
come.
But we must not lose sight of the
real fact that the world Is threat
ened with a serious food shortage;
and also Of the further fact that Just
to the extent that France and the
British Isles can draw on Americas
food reserves, to that extent can she
spare from our home populations,
fighter sand workers for the trenches
and munitions factories.
Every pound Of assistance Amer
lea can throw into the allied blow
against Teutonic aggression is weak
ened very materially because Of the
distance from which It must come.
That weakening is increased because
OF the great shortage Of water trans
portation facilities. For this reason
every man devoted to war work In
France or England can accomplish
more than a man OF equal ability In
America.
Thus 1t Is that America can help
the great cause Of the allies best by
helping our allies in their real needs
and their greatest need is an aug
mented and dependable food supply.
Mr.. Hoover's position is anything
but a sinecure. He must put into
effect regulations that are revolu-
tionary in American life. He must
increase food production by inducing
present day agriculturists to increase
their output by better methods and
larger paintings, He must work out
a plan OF substituting the use OF
foods OF which we have an abundant
supply in the place Of those Of which
the supply is limited. He must fight
against the tendency to upset ouI
home economic conditions due to the
vastly increased foreign demands
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-17
HOLD UP PROMOTION
FOR PI,O-GERMAN TALK

WASHINGTON. d. c.. Aug. H.
Pending an investigation into alleged
pro-German utterances, the senate
military affairs committee has post
poned action upon the nomination Of
Colonel Carl ReIchmann, recently
nominated TO be brigadler-general
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-17
DAILY PEAR MARKET
nrnnNT Telegraphed to tho
HHkI Grants Pass Fruit
M UNI Association.

Thirty cars Of Bartletts were sold
infNew York today at average price
Of S2.Ss. Boston market. $500;
Chicago S2.90.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-17
HOGS TOUCH RECORD
PRICE EAST AND WEST
CHICAGO. Aug. l7--iiogs reached
$3.50 per hundredweight on the
market here today which Is +5c
above yesterdays price.

PORTLAND. Ore. Aug. IL Hogs
advanced on this market today 10
$500 per hundredweight. probably
the record for the coast.
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Born in Germany, but An American to the Core

Chicago Tribune printed its Letters column COM
preaching
mecansm Among responses following from
an American 0 Island born in Germany:
6-Edior Tribune 1.-The letter u
Tribune published is 10 be
representing generally
vaporngs isolated and distorted mind
I'VE and citizens OF the Ceo
them 1.-The German peoplesl And
German Take choice The
that it we'll
themselves by that hated apeo
Crown Prince Again
him from recent and personal
fellow
beyond question the best haa
Ian n
At the outbreak Of the
that
would damnae treason
into my mousse
teach love
of bbarans which their er
asham 10 confess that he light Of day
Iummels apology for
truth be found German
published diplomast German
government churches German newspapers
n Germany,
poize Bern
German minus his thin veneer Of kuu
will dyaying with
action especially coupled Of the German
American
M. sTEPHANY,
Str Reduction der vossichen zeung
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Ripping Rhymes
AT A SUMMER RESORT.
BY WALT MASON

This Is the playground OF the land.
where l have pitched my tent; and
tourists throng on every hand, on
wholesome pleasure bent. They climb
the hills and fish the streams and in
the caverns play. and | can hear their
whoops and screams throughout the
livelong day. There lives near me a
sad-eyed seer, who views the joyous
throng, and wipes away bitter tear
and signs both loud and long. Have
they no hearts," the seer exclaims;
what are they laughing for? Have
all those eiddy men and danes for
gotten we're at war? They balance
on a mountains brink. and jeer at
those below; oh. tell me, do they
never think of war and all its woe?
They chase the fleeing mountain
sheep as though they had no care;
oh, tell me, do they never weep for
war and its despair" "Oh graybeard
seer" l make reply. there's time
enough to weep. so let them scale the
mountains high. and chase the goats
and sheep. There's always time
enough for tears. a place for those
who whine; and l grow sick OF
grouchy seers who always call for
brine. OF sobs and sorrow grow
sick, of SWIVEL and Of sniff, so pray
excuse me if ! kick your person down
this cliff"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
AS TO COAL AND IRON

:: Mr.. George C. Mcintosh, speaking
for the West Virginia coal operators,
snakes a bitter complaint concerning
rhe proposal Of the United States
government to establish q minimum
price for coal and practically, If
necessary, to commander the coal
mines. While West Virginians gen.
serally will sympathize with plea
: for the prosperity Of the coal IN.
seustry, it Is proper to point out a
Stnis-statemeut or misunderstanding
ion the part OF Mr.. Mcintosh.
i The iron and steel industry, to
which Mr.. Mcintosh refers. is not
.bcing left free" to charge extortion-
:ate prices. A very large percentage
of the iron and steel being manufac-
stcred in the United States today is
ssoing. to the United States govern
'Eent at q price from forty to fifty
per cent lower than ordinary market
prices, and the indications are that
tie great bulk Of the iron and steel
sp:oducts will be sold at prices more
yC- less arbitrarily fixed by the author
jt:es at Washington. II Mr.. Mcintosh
shad looked about for an effective
Secmparison, he might have referred
10 the fact that the great cotton In
dusty Of the South has nowhere and
in no manner felt the regulating hand
: Of federal authority.
(. West Virginia coal and West Vir-
Ginia iron stand on about the same
!. basis before the authorities at Wash
ington.
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THE WHITE CROSS

Any movement that seeks to Tighten
the expense Of government is Of gen,
eral utility. and that seems to be the
purpose OF an association known as
the White Cross which is appeal
ing to the public favor The organ
ization has been brought into exist,
ence by a body Of st. Louis women
and has for It's object the education
and care OF those soldiers who may
come back from Europe crippled in
such a way that they are unable to
follow the trade which they were
engaged in before the war.
A similar organization has been
established in England, to which the
people Of that country have already
subscribed over $30.OO0,OOo The
moral support, at least, Of the gov,
eminent should be given to the organ
ization in this country, which is TAX.
ing up the work for our own soldiers
II it Is not done by public subscrip.
ton, as proposed. an enormous ex
pense will necessarily devoire upon
the government in caring for its
cripples at the close OF the war.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
ConStantine's Message
To the German Kaiser

LONDON, Aug. 20.-An Athens des-
patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany says that among the diplomatic
documents found in Athens since the
change In government Is despatch OF
former king Constantine written a day
after the war began in response TO
message from Emperor William VINO
proposed Greece should RANGE herself
on the side Of the Central powers. Con-
stantine said in his reply:
The emperor we'll knows my person
al sympathies. as we'll as my political
opinions attract me TO his side. Never
theless it is impossible for me to I'M
derstand In what manner I could be use
full 10 him in mobilizing my army. Tho
Mediterranean Is at the mercy OF the
United fleets Of England and France,
which could destroy our navy and me1-
chant marine. occupy our Islands and
above all prevent concentration Of my
army, which could be effected only by
sea, in the absence Of railway communi-
cations. Without II being in our pow
err to be useful in any particular. we
would be wiped off the map. am
necessarily Of the opinion that neutral
ity Is imposed upon u.s.
Gottlieb Won JaEow. then German for
eign secretary. replied to Constantine
that Emperor William would under
stand the necessity of maintaining neu-
trality for the present. He advised
Constantine to reach an understanding
with Sofia and Constantinople.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
!. A PROPOSED ECONOMY

- The Dry Goods Economist urges as
IA war measure the discontinuance OF
ssthe use of the use Of mourning garos.
1.-The subject is not a very pleasant
Zone to discuss. but the time is not dis
Giant when mourning may be in very
Sgreat demand in the United States,
s$if ordinary customs are followed.
& The general use of mourning means
s-ot course the disuse OF other wearing
:sapparel, laying it aside where 1t is
sIikely to become moth eaten and for
gotten. Exactly what saving would
Come from discontinuance Of mourn
sing costumes, it is difficult to say.
!. Daily it becomes more and more
apparent that many Of the things to
(which We have become accustomed
sSnust be changed. Many Of the
thinE3 that We have used we viii
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ABOUT WAR TAXES


taxation profits d.
harm than good.
Find higher depreciation Of
expenditure than before
that plant construction is required If ron steel tin plate
making making kindred indus
produce what the needs. machines
operation New plants created whole
1915 and the of 1917
would satisfactory
his which
high Eventually tremendous depreciation
upon good Samaritan will along and bear
Il q profits
manufacturing 1916
construction. improvements
efficiency
idle
boarded based
industry.
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WANTS TO SAVE THE
ALCOHOL FOR u. S.

HUNTINGTON. W. Va, Aug. 90
F. ". Mccullough, United States dis
trict attorney, announced here today
he would present to the Federal SEC
rotary Of Agriculture a proposal for his
department TO take over all confiscated
liquor. and. after having it redistiiled,
devote the reclaimed alcohol to the
manufacture Of munitions. Thousands
of gallons of liquor have been de-
stroyed by prohibition officers within
the last few weeks. Mr. Mccullough
said, which might have been redistilio d
and put to the benefit Of the govern
ment.
Mr.. Mccullough will endeavor 10 Ell
list the support of State Prohibition
Oficer Hallanan for his proposal.
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FALL IN.

What will you lack. sonny. what will
you lack
When the girls line up the street.
Shouting their love TO the lads come
back
From the foe they rushed 10 beat7
Will you send a strangled cheer to the
sky
And grin till your cheeks are red?
But what will you lack when your mate
goes by
With a girl who cuts YOU dead?
Where will yon look. sonny. where
will you look
When your children yet TO be
Clamor to learn OF the part you took
In the war that kept men freeo
Will you say II was nouGht 70 you il
France
Stood up TO her foe or bunkedo
But where will you look when they
give the glance
That tells you they know you
funked:
How will you fare. sonny. how will
In the far-ofr winter night.
When You sit by the fire in an old
mans chair
And your neighbors talk Of the fight?
VIII you stink away. as 1t were from a
blow,
Your old head shamed and bent?
Or say. Il was not with the first to go.
But I went. thank God. VENT"
Why do they call. sonny. why do they
call
For men who brave and strong?
Is 1t naught 10 you II your country
fall.
And right Is shamed by wrong
Is it football still and the picture show.
The bar and the betting odds.
When your. brothers stand to the
tyrants blow
And couRtry's call Is Gods?
Harold Besie In Boston Transcript.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
GRAIN SPECULATION

I Grain men Of Chicago gathered
! IN Washington on Monday last to
consult with Mr.. Hoover. While they
. were absent from the Chicago grain
. pit, the price Of wheat dropped from
: Sis to $2.o4 bushel. 1t is prob
. able that there was more than an
. accident in this. Speculation has had
. as much to do with the enormous
: advances In the prices Of food prod
ucts as supply and demand. When
supply and demand are just bal
! anced. or when demand may slightly
exceed the supply, it does not take a
. great deal OF restriction or with
! drawaI Of supplies and keeping them
Of the market, to make an artificial
. scarcity. 1t does not take a great
, deal Of effort on the part OF few
. men controlling large lines. to create
.. a panic among buyers and force
J prices to an e1orbitant figure.
, -, Just this kind Of thing has been
. the business Of grain spectators Of
, Chicago during the past year. They
have made enormous fortunes out of
: it, but the day Of their harvest Is
i past. The strong arm Of Uncle Sam
. has reached out and put at least a
. temporary check upon their actiT-
tiles. A power has been created that
win make such speculation danger
Gus in the future, and with prison
doors opening before them, the men
who undertake it will be foolhardy.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
Compensation Awards.

Compensation was awarded today In
lump sum Of s254.90 by Compensation
Commissioner Lee OFT 70 o. E. Cyrus of
Csredo, an cmploye or the Basic
Products company Of Kenora- for an
infected wound OF the eye.
New subscribers to the fund were ap-
proved today as follows:
Logan Welding and Machine shop at
Logan: West Virginia Sanitary Plumb
ing company. Huntington; Mineral on
company, Clarksburg; George B. Wills &
CO.. Inc. contractors, New York City:
I.oup Creek Rottling company Of Mac
Donald: Darby Coal company, Fairmont;
Fort Pitt Coal company. Clarksburg;
Pine Ridge Coal company. Charleston;
McClcrnan Coal company. Grafton; Key
ser Woodworking company. Reyser;
Ford & White, lumber. Holley; Fairmont
Wall Plaster company Fairmont: Chris
nan Foundry company, Morgantown,
Royal Steam Laundry, Biueneld.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
CAPITAL NEWS

CHARLESTON. W. Va. Aug. 40
Charters were issued today by the sec
rotary Of state to the following corpora
lions:
Morgantown Press company OF MOT
gantown. to operate in Morgan district
MononEalia county. printing; capita
stock $1,000: incorporators, Charles A
Henderson. E. W. Henry, CnaTles
Hickman. Ralph L. Hess. NJ. L. Brown
Virgil A. Brown and s. T. Glasscock. al
Of Morgantown.
Talbott-Crawford Coat company. Phil
iopi, to operate in Philippi Independent
distr!cth Barbour county; capital stocs
$4,000: incorporators. B. E. Snyder, Nd
c. Talbot, A. s. Hawkins. A. G. Merrill
and G. B. Ramsey. all Of Philippi
Helen Run Coal company OF Clarks-
burg; to operate mines In Marion
county; capital stock $4,000; incorpora-
tors. f, l.. Speaker, E. ]. Francois, V. E
Cooke, D. J. Carter and Harry W. Sheets
all Of Clarksburg.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
VIII Provide Cars.

The Pennsylvania lines west Of Pitts
burgh. today filed with the public serr-
I've commission AN order agreeing to
give coal operators doing team track
loading business their allotment OF coal
cars provided they are loaded within
q hours after they have been received.
This Is the first railroad in West Ftr-
ginia TO agree TO furnish coal cars In
stead of box cars to the team track
operators. For many months the public
service commission has been besieged
with complaints from coal companies
asking that tho railr Dads be compelled
10 furnish coal cars instead of box cars
for the team track mines. The Penn
sylvanin lines Will provide box cars
en- the same basis as II does Ia the
tipple mines. according to he mine ca
pacity. according to the notice received
today,
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
TRANSFER OF CATTLE.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 90
Transfer Of thousands OF head OF cat
tie from the dry sections OF Texas and
other southwestern States TO grazing
lands OF southern States east OF inc
Mississippi will be one OF the nrst
tasks undertaken by a Joint commlt-
tee appointed to-day by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture and the 1000 ao'
ministratton
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of Ireland have never acquiesced. and
they have never relinquished their
claim 10 separate nationality. Our
great Franklin in the second Continen.
ltal congress, few months before the
Declaration Of independence. proposed
that Ireland join with the thirteen col
ionieS, and no real American can dis
sent from the claim that Ireland is
as much entitled to the fullest free
dom and that her people are entitled
To work out their own redemption as
adequately and completely as the peo-
pile of Poland the people Of Greece.
1.-THE people of Serbia, the people of
Belgium-and may God save and pros.
per them all.
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learn to do without This war is
going to be the great and all absorb,
ing factor in the lives of the Amer.
lean people during the next twelve
months, and possibly for a longer
time. To win 1t we must be prepared
to make sacrifices Of personal con-
venience and personal taste.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21
NOTICE.

Persons desiring to call Tho
inteIIiGsncer editorial rooms are
Informed that members Of the
star are on duty constantly from
7 o'clock In the evening until s
o'clock In the morning, and that
inability to secure connection with
The InteIIIoencer office can only
be due to inefficient telephone
Service. Always demand getting
connection when you desire Il, and
do not be put on with the opera
tors statement that the telephone
10 not being answered.
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GET AN EARLY START.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2o..-The annual
sale If Red Cross Christmas seals fer
tho benefit Of the anti-tuherculosis
movement in the United States will be
gin about Sovenn Der - and continue 70
January ! il was announced here today
by the National Association for the
Study and Prevention OF Tuberculosis.
The campaign Will sock to raise at least
81, n00. 200 or more than double the re-
turns OF any previous year.
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pAruIs 70 UIA1L8S9oN

CHARLESTON, II. Va. Aug. "
1osenbu, DANIELS. secretary Of the navy.
viii be the principal speaker at a
ground-breakins ceremony IN connsc-
zion with the beginning OF the eonstrac.
ton Of the government arrnor plate and
nroiectile plants at South Charleston.
August 80. it was announced here To-Day.
The secretary will he accompanied 70
Charleston by Mrs. Daniels. Other navai
officials have been invited to attend the
ceremony.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21

According 70 the reports fled with
the state auditor. there are in tho "ta'e
Of Ohio $4,000 more horses. 100000 more
cattle. 10000 more sheep. and 900
more hogs. In 1917 than there were IN
1915. If the figures do not lie Ohio is
doing her share in developing The farm
products Of the nation.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21

The revenue bill now under consld-
Grafton In the Senate proposes 4 tax
as high as so per cent. on excess war
profits. excluding ESQ per cent. Of nor
NAL profits. La Toilette and other rx-
tremists are making a fight TO raise
this rate. Such a rise may be tsry
dangerous thing. A fifty per cent. tax
Is almost conflscatory. in the sense that
It removes all stimulus 10 special effort.
or to extraordinary outlay.
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Typhoid at Logan.

Reports 70 the state health depart
ment show m increase In typhoid fever
in Logan, Boone. Fnyette and Raleigh
county. mostly around the coal mining
camps. State Health Commissioner
Jcpson advised coal operators to have
company physicians give the typhoid
serum trcatmcnt,ltn their employees at
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21

The British have won another bril-
liant victory. and gained another acre
and a half Of she'll torn French soil.
Uncle Sam will find good deal left for
him TO do in Europe. and he cannot get
at the job any too soon.
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Tive ParoIed.

Governor Cornwell today issued pa
roles to Ave prisoners in the state pcnf-
Tertiary, each Of whom has served over
two years Of an indetermtnate sentence
Of two to ten years. The men paroled
are John Bremen. Hal Christian. James
Carpenter, Henry Campbell and o. c.
Moore
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Gnrnnlnint Ia Filed.

The Bordcrland Coal company ot
Mingo county. today filed an informal
complaint with the public service com
mission. demanding that the United Fue
Gas company be- compelled TO serve gas
10 rs or 10 houses in Bnrdcrland.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21

Let the good citizens Of Wheeling
turn out en- masse tonight to do honor
to the Wheeling boys. who will soon
go forth to fight for the country.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21

Tho first American flag for the
United States Navy WAS flung to the
breeze by John Paul Jones. the first
American naval officer to engage for
eign foe. This flag had hut IL stars
on 1t and It flew AT the topmast Of tho
good ship Ranger.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-08-21

According TO official bulletin Of the
New York City subway. II has carried
2,9l5,20o.2oa passengers In the last 10
years, with the loss Of only one life. :