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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-11-09
WAR TALKS
BY UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
Number Three

She said n glrl spoke 10 me would
blush to my hair roots. Wen, ! re-
minded her OF the time your father
frst came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so guess that will
hold her Tor a WHILE"
Continuing Uncle Dan saldi "You
want to talk more about the war, do
your Well. war methods have under
gone many changes and they are still
changing. No two wars are fought
alike. In early times, the weapons were
stones clubs, spears, bows and arrows,
swords, etc. In this kind Of warfare
victory was with the strong right arm.
Men OF enormous size aud strength
were the great warriors. The inyen'
ton OF gunpowder. however. has
changed all this. II has enabled men
10 Kill one another nj considerable
distance, and do II wholesale. The
war, as we know II now, Is comblnn'
tlon Of chemicals. machinery, maihe'
NAUTICAL calculations and highly trained
men. Just think Of iti Airpanes,
submarines, nrmored tanks, or cater
pillars, poison rases, and curtains Of
Are are al used for the FIRST time in
this war; and they are destructive be-
yond anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kali
ser md Ids allies ARE simply devllsh
lie must answer In history TO the Kill
ing OF thousands OF Innocent women
md children. lie has broken every
international law and every rule Of
warfare; he has bombnrded hospitals
and undcfcnded cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands Of mercy he has de-
stroyed cathedrnls and priceless treas
ures Of art that can never be replaced I;
he has made slaves OF his prisoners;
he has tried TO get us Into war with
Japan: his emmlssaries have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our forests. lie knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take OF this blood-thlrsty tyrnnt
Is That he Is crazy.
zone thing Is certain" continued I'm
Gle Dan, with great emphasis, "Our
liberty the snfcty Of our homes md
our country, and The security Of the
world demand tho speedy and abso.
Lutte overthrow Of the knlscr and
crushing out once and forever the
reign of Prussinn brutality
"IIow about the German people"
snld Billie.
rncle nnn rcnllcd: "The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
prosperous aud contcnicd. They hive
been irickcd into war nnd mndo 10
suffer lho fortunes of the damned
they have been cruelty and Systematic
ally deceived God grant Tint the real
facts may efi 90 mem, ana u u''g w.
Lord help the Kaiser ]
"Of course the allies VIII wln'' saiu
Nus Graham.
aprobohly So said Uncle Dan. "But
n we are 10 win. we must go the limit.
We must check heawful destruction to
sblnnlne by the German submarines,
or we may not be nblc 10 get food and
, ' ~ ,,, uu, V a,so nn, hundreds Of
nesi we mus w." no,, prs mn,lons of
,louss , n In PI ~ ~ ha,,io line
hrste'ass so'u'ers III 'ie JAZZ ",
Food Il the first consideration, un'
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1917-11-09

vulcanlzlng done, latest system,
tubes and castings. All work Fuaran-
teed, Second hand castings bought
and sold. Give Us a trial and be con-
vInced as tothe merits Of our work
Snyder vulanIzIng Plant
s. y. Corner Square.
Have your shampooIng done
use the best shampoo. Note results
Price reduced to iSe'
MRS. D. ANDERSON,
PAsus SSe.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-22

bridge parties, and horseback riding
continue to BIO popular at Maple Shade
Inn.
Mrs. Robert C. Graham and Mrs. II.
Makley ire heading the knitting con-
tingcnt on the spacious veranda each
morning. all Of whom are working for
tho sailors aboard the Raleigh and Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. Robert Graham is chairman OF
the Red Cross ball. which will take
place In the ballroom at Maple Shade
Inn August 1.
Mrs. Graham will be assisted by tho
Following young women in tho uniform
or Red Cross nurses:
Mary Crolinger, Margaret Lands.
Pierce Lyon. Mary Moore. Sara Moore,
Loving Langhon. Lettte Trolinger, Mar.
sarct Jarden, Irene Hunter. Ruth
LanShon. Anna Belle Chaplin, Mabel
swift and Mary Kcister.
Among the recent arrivals are: Mrs.
Gtioert carp. Miss Beatrice carp and
Dir. Stocton carp. of Norfolk, Va; Mr..
and Mrs. e. Shore. OF Winston Salem.
n. C.; Page Hogan, Edenton, N c.:
Mrs. j; w. Cole, Norfolk, Va; Mr., and
Mrs. J. r.. Martin. Chicago, ILL.,: Miss
Mabel Swift. Richmond. Va; L. F.. Egg
gers. Cincinnati. Ohio; Mr. and Mira.
a. +. Saunders, Baltimore. Md; D. D.
Armstrong. Richmond, Va; James
Wood. Edenton. N. c.; J. II. Jones. Jr..
Richmond. Va: c. L. Stahl. Lynchburr.
Va: %. a. Hawkins, Atlanta. Ca. r
+. Hill, New York: w. II. Reid. Irx.
inEton. Ky, and Mr.. Parsons and Mr.
Joyce, or Washington, D. c.
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chiefly in tho accomplishing of this

chiefly In tho accomplishing OF this
great work.
Archer Anderson, accompanied by
his niece. Miss Fannie Anderson Hob
son. arrived from Richmond on We'd
ncsday to join Mrs Anderson and Miss
entine's cottage. Mrs. A. p. Borlnnd.
of Augusta, Ca, Is with them.
Miss Nell Rennolds is with Miss Do
recn Fitzgerald at Hawley Cottage.
where Miss Katherine Scales spent last
week.
Thomas B. Scott and Thomas B. Scott,
Jr.. who spent few days In WASH
ington. returned to their cottage on
Thursday.
Miss Marjorie Glasgow has joined
her mother. Mrs. Arthur Graham Glas-
gov. at their cottage.
DR.. Joseph A. White is passing a
few days with his sister-in-law, Mrs.
William II. White OF Richmond, who
is accompanied by Miss Eloise NJ. Hin
ton.
Mrs. Jonathan ID. Potts. of Richmond.
and notable among other Richmond So
journers of the week are Garrett b.
Wall. who passed the Weekend with
Mrs. Wall. and William Chase Morton
T. r. Thompson stopped over n few
days here. en- route to Richmond.
Miss Lois Stabo Cate gave the largest
tea dansant of the season at the Casino
on Tuesday for c. Roberts Coke. OF
New York. who has Joined the younger
set for tho week. Among those present
were Misses Doreen Fitzgerald Grace
White, Mary and Marjorie Cowan.
Edith G. Marshall, Martha Sherwood
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-22
caster in Ashland until fall. when
they will take apartment in Rich

caster in Ashland until fall. when
they will take an apartment in Rich
mond.
Miss Vera Palmer is the guest OF
friends at Virginia Beach this week.
Miss Virginia Howison. who has been
visiting Miss Sara Hughes In Ash
land. is now visiting Mrs. Nat Ian
caster.
Miss Mary Sizcr Fuller has left to
spend the remainder of the SUNNI er
season in tho North.
Miss l. Grace Phillips is visiting
relatives in Lynchburg.
Miss Janet Wyatt will leave Monday
for visit to Raleigh. n. C.
Mrs. Davidson and her daughter are
the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
koiner. on Grove Avenue.
Miss Laura Taylor. of 247 South
Laurel Street. ia spending ten days at
Black Mountain. y. c., where she is
attending conference of the Y. w.
{. A.
Miss Margaret Taylor Is spending
some time with her aunt. Mrs. B. Nc
Alwce, in Newport News.
Miss Beatrice Taylor will leave this
week for ten days stay at Summer
Rest.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-22

, and Olive Kahlo. tho Misses Hilah c.
and Mercer French and Miss Gwen
dolyn King; Thomas B. Scott, Jr., Fred
and James Scott. H. S. Lorentzen, Of
ST. Louis; Charles P. White. H. L
Schmidt and George Kahlo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H Sothern,
who have passed a delightful two
months at tho Grcenbrier. started on
Wednesday for Now York. where they
Will make arrangements for tho winter.
Mr.. SotherD. who was taken very i'll
In Chicago during the spring, Is In ex-
ccllent health now.
Notable arrivals at tho springs this
week are Mr.. and Mrs. H. Snowden
Marshall, of New York, and Mrs. John
Middleton. OF New York and Washing
ton who are passing a fortnight at Pat
terson cottage; Mrs J. Willis Dalsell
and Mrs. j. Dalzell Mckee, who mo-
tored from Pittsburgh; Mr.. and Mrs.
Il. p Boyd and family and DR.. and Mrs.
Aistcdes Mestra, OF Havana. Cuba.
White Sulphur boasts q corner In
law this week. with the arrival from
Washington OF Chief Justice Seth
Shepard and Mrs. Shepard. Judge Henry
l.. Priest and Mrs. Priest. of st. Louis.
and Judge Kurnal r. Babbitt. fire.
quent visitor at the Greenbrier from
New York.
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CROCKETT SPRINGS

Especial to the Times-Dispatch]
CROCKETT SPRINGS. VA, July 81.
Tho first of the weekly subscription
card parties was given this week. Five
games enjoyed by the players. The
prizes at auction were won by Miss
Lottie Barnwell Of Roanoke, and James
Thomas, of Roanoke
Miss Anna Michael. of Roanoke. Va,
Is among the recent arrivals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert F. Huske. of
Roanoke. and their four children mo-
tored here on Saturday and will re-
main here for a stay of some length.
Mrs. II. st. L. Coppie. of Washing
ton, D. c., who has spent several sum-
mers at Crockett Springs, Is a mem
Der OF the summer colony this season:
Another familiar name on the hotel
register this week is that of John r.
King. of Indianapolis. Ind
Arrivals from Portsmouth, Va. are
Mrs. L. Schmick and her young daugh-
ter. Alice Bette Schmick.
Mrs. Charles &. Lindsey, OF Roanoke
Va. who has spent the last six weeks
at the Springs. left on Sunday for
visit to her mother, Mrs. George Huff
Mrs. ]. A. Brown. of Martinsville.
Va. and her little daughter. Mary. are
the guests OF Miss Ethel Thomas. at
Beechwood cottage.
Miss Virginia Michael, of Roanoke,
who has spent the last two weeks at
this resort. left for her home prior TO
A trip to North Carolina. where she
goes as a delegate from the Y. w
c. A.
j. b. Davis. of Baltimore. Md. spent
day here with his friend, A. NJ. Bright,
OF Williamsburg. Va
Miss Matte Chick, Miss MAYA chicb
T.. X Chick. Miss Janey and Jesse
James. OF Roanoke, motored here for
supper on Tuesday.
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SWEET CHRLYBEATE SPRINGS
Especial to Tho imes-Dispatch.l

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.1
SWEET CHALTBEATE. VA. July 81.
I'm the midst of many pleasures at
Sweet Chalybeate the urgent need Of
our country Is not overlooked. The
guests already here and those arriving
daily are much interested in the news
that two instructors will be sent
shortly from Washington to teach these
patriotic women preparation of surgi-
cal dressings. The pleasures of golf,
tennis. riding and swimming vie in
popularity with the making OF hoods
and sweaters for our boys at the front.
Mr.. Cavanaugh. of the White Sui
phur, motored over Sunday for a short
stay. His guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
J. T. Hines. Mr.. and Mrs. Hank. Mrs.
Clarke and Miss Margaret Preston, of
New York.
Miss Madeline Hix. Of Norfolk, was
hostess at delightful chafing- dish
party on Monday evening. Miss HiX's
guests were: Misses Frances Eakle.
Lucy and Frances HiS and Mary Leigh.
OF Norfolk: Billie O'Brien, Archie Wat
son. of New York; Hunter Eakle and
Preston Hix. OF Norfolk.
w. A Bowles. of stanton. Va,
accompanied by Miss Sarah Robertson
and Miss Marie Bowles, arrived on
Tuesday by motor, and will spend sew
eral weeks.
On Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. Stockton
Cooke. Misses Katherine and Julia
Cooke and Stockton Cooke. Jr.. Of Shelf
field, Ala. arrived and Will spend the
rest of the summer.
Mrs. William Moore. of indianapolis,
was hostess at bridge on Wednesday
evening. The highest scores were
made by Mrs Henry Offenhauser. Of
Texarkana. Ark; James Hume. Of Nor
folk. and Mr.. O'Brien. of New York.
Lieutenant Hoffman. U. S. A.. en-
tertained at dinner on Wednesday even
ing. Mrs. McVay and Miss McVay. of
Huntington. w. Va; Miss Holtzman, of
Luray. Va. and Mrs. Outen were his
guests.
Among the new arrivals are: Mr.. and
Mrs j. Fl. Lyman, Misses Eloise and
Annie Lyman. Miss Charlotte Inglesby.
of Savannah, Ga: Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Koch and family. OF Philadelphia: the
Misses Thalhimer and Miss Lena Blum,
of Richmond; Mrs. J. H. Hume and
James Hume. Of Norfolk, Va; z. p.
Browning. Miss Lucy Browning. Z. P.
Browning. Jr. Francis p. Browning.
Mrs. Ross Owens, of Maysville, Ky:
Mrs. S. r. Livingstone and family. Mrs.
Charles Grecnbaum. of Richmond: Lee
Ruckner. OF Baltimore. Md; r. G. Nc
CURE. of CovinGton, Va; Major Robert
3. Grubbs, U. s. A., and Mrs. Grubbs,
II. c. Anderson. of Clifton Forge. Va:
Mrs. A. j. Wilkinson and Miss Geneura
Wilkinson. of Huntington, w. Va.
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SUMMER COLONY BUSY
ON RED CROSS WORK
Richmond People at White Sulphur
Springs Active in Launching
Relief Enterprises.
NoTABLEs DOING THEIR BIT
Prominent Vacationists Manifest
Great Spirit in Combining Recrea-
ton With Patriotic Labor-Attrac-
tive Dansant-NIotor Parties.
Especial to The Tlmes-pispatch I

Especial to The Tlmes-Dispatch.l
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. w. VA.
July 2l.-The opening of the work
rooms for the Red Cross Is notable
feature of the weeks activities at
White Sulphur Springs. and the entire
summer colony. despite their arduous
efforts during the winter, have entered
upon the rolling Of bandages and other
duties with great spirit. branch of
the Red Cross was not established this
season. as the work done here will be
credited to the Greenbricr County
"hit," at Lcwisburg. Mrs. James r.
Thomas, Of Charleston, W. Va. has
been active In launching the enterprise,
and Richmond sojourners are figuring
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IN AND OUT OF rowy

Mr. and Mrs. c. NJ. Chichester, tn.
latter formerly Miss Roberta Kvie
fiea SAINTS. have returned from their
wedding trip.
Dir. and Mrs. William Lancaster VIII,
nave returned from their honeymoon.
will be with Mr.. and Mrs Nj 49,
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MAPLE SHADE INN

Especial to Tho Times DispatchJ
PULASKI, VA. July 21.-While war
activities are occupying the attention
of society girls and matrons. dancing,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17

gentleman, Little gentleman! Little
gentleman"
The Infatuated outlaw turned upon
them with blows and more tar, which
gave George Bassett his opportunity,
and later seriously impaired the purity
of his fame. Feeling himself hopeless
~ tarred, he dipped both hands repeat
eddy into the caldron and applied his
gatherings to Penrod.
of the LAGOON group complicated by
an extra figure-frantic splutterings
and chokings: strange cries and stran-
ger words issued from this tangle;
hands dipped lavishly into the mex
haustible reservoir of tar. with more
and more picturesque results. The call
dron had been elevated upon bricks
and was not perfectly balanced. and
under a heavy impact of the strug-
Cling group it lurched and went partly
over. pouring forth a Stygian tide
which formed a deep pool in the gutter.
1t was the fate of Master Roderick
Bits, an exclusive and immaculate per-
son, to make his appearance upon the
chaotic scene at this juncture. All in
the cool of white "sailor suit" he
turned aside from the path Of duty and
paused to hop with joy upon the side
walk. A repeated epithet, continuously
half painted, half squawked, caught his
ear. and he took it up excitedly. not
knowing why.
Little gentleman" shouted Roder-
ick. jumping up and down in childish
glee. Little gentleman! Little gen.
tIeman! Lit
A frightful figure tore itself free
from the group, encircled this inno-
cent bystander with a black arm and
hurled him headlong. Full-length and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17

When Marjorie and Mitchy-Mitch got
their breath, they used it vocally, and
seldom. have more penetrating sounds
issued from human threats. Coinci-
dentally. Marjorie, quite baresark. laid
hands upon the largest stick within
reach and fell upon Penrod with blind
fury. He had the presence of mind to
flee, ana they went round and round
the caldron, while Mitchy-Mitc feebly
endeavored to follow-his appearance,
in this pursuit, being pathetically like
that of a bug tished out of an ink
well, alive but discouraged.
Attracted by the riot, Samuel Will
1iams made his appearance, vaulting
fence, and was INN ediately followed
by little Maurice Levy and Georgia
Bassett. They started incredulously at
the extraordinary spectacle before
them.
Little gen-til-mun" shrieked Mar
jorie, with wild stroke that landed
full upon Periods tarry cap.
"Ooch"' bleated Penrod.
Its Penrod!" shouted Sam Williams,
recognizing him by the voice.
"Penrod Schofield!" exclaimed George
Bassett, the best boy in town, what
does this mean" That was Georges
style, and had helped to win him his
title.
Marjorie leaned. painting upon her
sobbed; II called him a lul-littIe-oh-
gentleman, that's-oh-all. And oh
oh-oh, lul-look at my du-d dress. Lul-
look at Observation-Disclosures
Unexpectedly. she smote again-with
results-and then, Selling the undis-
tinguishable hand of Mitchy- Mitch, ran
wailing homeward down the street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17

she got there, his voice was too hoarse
to be recognizable.
Mr.. Schofelds version of things was
that Penrod was insane. Hes a stark,
raving lunatic!" declared the father,
descending to the library from a before
dinner interview with the outlaw, that
evening. do you know why he says
all that awfulness happened?"
Ssh! Yes: he told us about it." said
several hundred times. I should guess,
though 1 didn't count. He's got it
fixed in his head, an we couldn't get it
out. All we could do was to put him
in the closet. He'd have gone out again
after those boys il we hadn't. I don't
know what to make of him."
Hes mystery to me-" said her hus-
band. and he refuses to explain why
he objects to being called little gentle
man. Says he'd do the same thing
and worse-if anybody dared to call
him that again. He said If the Presi-
dent of the United States called him
that he'd try to whip him. How long
did you have him locked up in the
closet?"
Ssh" said Mrs. Schofield, warningly.
About two hours; but I don't think it
softened his spirit at all, because when
I took him to the BARRIERS to get his
hair clipped again on account of the
Levy were there for the same reason,
and they Just whispered, Little gentle
mainland Penrod began fighting with
them right before me, and 1t was really
all the barber and l could do to drag
him away from them. The barber was
very kind about 1t. but Penrod-"
Il tell you he's lunatic."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17
First Woman to Be Member of Federal Commission

commission will be on health. and Dr.
u. s. Warner of the United States pub
lie health service has been detailed by
Surg. Gen. Rupert Blue to assist the
commission. We are making extensive
use Of the health service and in CO.
operation with it we expect to make a
survey in all places where government
employees are working in order to re-
duce accidents and i'll health.
1.-The effort of the commission is to
conserve tho national health and to
conserve the funds Of the government
and of the governments employees"
X x
Mrs Axtell brings trained experience
to her new federal post. She has sat
in state legislature and served on state
boards for the past ten years. AS
member of the Washington state lesis-
lature in 1910 she was conspicuous for
efforts which resulted in the passage of
law establishing a minimum wage
for women in that state.
Under that law the government
established commission to investigate
what was the lowest wage on which it
was possible for a woman to live Ap-
pointed Il member OF that commission,
Mrs. Axtell Investigated the conditions
of employees of hundreds of mercantile
establishments, and her report was
largely responsible for the passage Of
the act setting the minimum wage for
women at $40 week for an eisht-hour
day.
Before she came to Washington as
resident Mrs. Axtell was known in a
social capacity in the capital. for she
formerly visited the city as the guest
of her brother. Dr.. Frederick A. Cleve-
land, chairman Of the economy and eff
ficiency commission under President
Taft. Good government is the hobby of
the first woman to be appointed a fed
eral commissioner. and she has written
and spoken widely upon that subject.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-17
PL ATlfUM AS A WAR METAL

STA, though some is found in association
with gold in the Republic of Colum bla,
Rorneo, Australia, Alaska. British Co
lumbia and in Douglass county, ore,
and Butte, Trinity and Del Norte coun-
ties. in California. 1t was recently an
nounced that the chief chemist OF the
Burnhart laboratories of Denver had
found platinum in the auriferous sands
of the Iron Hill placer. at Como, Col;
1t was also said that there is no DOUBT
that platinum occurs in other locall-
ties in Colorado, as. for instance, IN
the black sands of Clear creek. Little
attention has been given to platinum
in Colorado, it was said. because the
gold finds have completely hidden Inc
Importance of many other rare metals.
and also because the average pros
pector is unable to recognize the pc
culiar ores carrying platinum.
Platinum is so called because, on IT'S
discovery in South America. 1t was
called "platina," which is the Spanish
diminutive for plata" or silver, and
the Spanish speaking discoveries gave
it that name because of its resem-
blance to silver. Some miners, nndlng
this metal so often in auriferous SANDS
or otherwise in association with gold
have called it white gold" The great
mass of platinum on which the world
has come to depend is produced IN the
gold-washing and gold-mining districts
OF the Ural mountains. where II was
discovered in gold washings in lS-2.