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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13
JEWISH CONGREGATION
ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT

A meeting of the congregation Of
the Jewish synagogue OF this city
Tas held last night Al the residence
OF NJ Cohen. on North Queen street
n which time the resignation Of
Philip Hack, AZ president Of the con
efegation was accepted Mr. Hack ex
poets to remove from the city. An
election to fill the vacancy resulted in
the selection Of NJ Cohen, who Will
Immediately assume the duties Of tho
cffice
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13
oARKEsVlLLE FESTIVAL,

The Darkesyille VI E Church VIII
hoHI festival on Saturday night
June Ii Chicken soup ana ace cream
u IL
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13
o-anted MarrIaae LIeense.

A marriage license Aaa been grasn
cd - Miss Bracie Daaham. daughte.
II VT and NJ Amos Durham 81
Shanghai and Mn Harry " Files
Of Jones Spring The wedding via
occ4- mere today
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13

MIS- RUN D5ummaHd daughter Or
Mr. and Mr. E4uara l. Dfummoad
ot Berkeley county and Mr. David ?.
Eppay1 also 2 resident q this coun-
- were married b. Rev d. va
lam Hesse. at Ms home east Of he
city "a Tuesday evening Thcy vii
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13
Journal Wants Ads get tenants.

Journal Want Ads get boarders
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13

Automobile Read The Want Ads
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13

Saturday Afternoon.

~ .H,#aHa.eD a0eaeuee. Ns
j 11HtsaH ia1 upeHtca
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-06-13

Boys Blouses. all sizes. in dar
35c value, for Saturday only
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06

Building stone made IN Germany
from blast furnace Stag and lime grows
harder as it ages.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
Views Desolation Wrought by
War on Flanders Battle
Front.
SOUL OF YPRES LIVES ON
Town, Which Has Been Through Two
Great hells and Many Lesser
Ones, Is Symbol of Tragedy
of Belgium.

Knoxville, Tenn.-How long will the
war last?
The best answer to this question
heard along the Flanders battle front
by Prof. George Herbert Clarke, who
has returned TO the chair of English
at the University of Tennessee, was
by South African, who remarked re-
tieCtively: well, sir, | can't rightly
say; but 1t looks to me as though this
ere war as settled down now into
sort of instichooshun"
Professor Clarke ventured to ask
the question all along the firing line.
How long is piece of string?" re-
torted an English statesman.
"A certain major did me the honor
to invite my own conjecture" Profess
sor Clarke says, land. still better,
agreed with it; but l found. for the
most part, the expected wide diver
sity of opinion"
Another interesting question arose
on board ship during Professor
Clarke's return from Europe: Is
ship safer than the trenches? Ger
tain Canadian officers on the boat ar
gued the negative of the question, but
the university professor was stanch
for the affirmative.
Less Danger in Trenches.
Canadian officers said that there
was less danger in trenches because
shells seldom struck the trenches, and
the shot usually went over the heads
IF the men. But Professor Clarke was
Of the opinion that there is less risk
in a ship on the ocean, even though
the kaiSer's sea sharks, submarines,
menace vessels, and should Il boat be
torpedoed, it would probably not be
long until passengers were bound for
Davy Jones locker, even if they were
in lifeboats or life savers.
The desolated town of Ypres was
visited by Professor Clarke while in
the war zone. The American imagi-
nation has been deeply touched by the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
"There,s a lime to Fight"

Miss Miriam, who will be seven
years old soon, knows that little girls
should not fight but she is not ''pacl-
fist" for all that. A few days ago she
was taken TO task by her mother for
engaging in a pugilistic encounter with
another little girl. "Well, mother"
she said, q don't know whether she
hit me first, but l know that if | hit
her she deserved it, for that child'a
mother never has brought her up prop
rrly."
On another occasion she complained
that small boy of her acquaintance
had kicked her, but admitted on being
pressed that she had not done much
first, "only pinched and slapped his
face u little" She was told to tell the
boys father, so the boy might be puma
ished. but to be sure and tell what She
had done. too. The father is still waitA
ing for the repOrt.-Indianapo News!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06

tragedy of Belgium" he says, "and,
with the exception of its brutal protag-
onists, all the world shares that pity.
"Ypres is It's symbol. The towns
body is denuded, dead. II has been
through two great hells and many les
ser ones, but its soul lives on, intact.
The town mayer impressed me as pre-
ciSely the type of man to govern Ypres
today. Ee is its military mayor, a
sort Of atherand-mother to Ypres,
a brave, broad shouldered Cornshman,
who has risen from the ranks, and
who administers the affairs of his
ruined borough with a pride and zeal
that are not short of beautiful. He is
not wholly obsessed by military val
ues; he does not wish the visitor to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06

miss the rare places of Ypres that are
still, in theiJ grim settling. more or
less visible.
The other day he helped a Bel.
gian to discover his little hoard of
francs that had been buried in the
town during the first bombardment.
He shows firm judgment and instant
sympathy as each is needed. If Ypres
is Belgium, he-EngliSh as he Isis
Ypres: brave, steady enduring and
confident. Looking up Whimsically at
shell that seemed to me to burst
uncomfOrtably near (but then, they
all sounded like thaD, he remarked {.
All, high explosive; l thought as
much. Perhaps you had better be
going now And we went with a sense
of abiding regard for this sturdy sol
der while deafening crash close by
announced that the British guns had
something urgent to say to the enemy
something that could not wait"
A Dantean Desolation.
The word SOmme similarly has eN
banded into a novel and grotesque
symbol, Professor ClarkS says. "FOl
the Somme is a Dantean desolation
extending mile beyond mile--a desc
lation of splintered tree trunks
stripped, woebegCne boughs, churned
up subsoils that look like plague spot
upon the corpse Of earth. l though,
Of Coleridge's 'rottlng sea- The adj
jeCtive is pale and ineffective here. /
thought of Browning'S Childe RO
land"
But there IS another side to tht
Somme picture: brisk movement at
the appropriate spots is not wanting
as there is distant train hauling it.
freight; German prisoners working the
roads; Tommy at his endless fatigue
jobs; guns volieying overhead; the
army service corps, carrying on" with
its never-ceasing string of numbering
lorries; and perhaps most completely
diverting of all, the momentary APP
pearance of a Kentucky mule on the
skyline, tossing his heels in an aban-
dOned ecstaCy.
Professor Clarke was connected with
the intelligence department of the
British war Office in the war zone.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
Education Not a Prerenuisite.

Charles Darwin was misfit child,
mistit youth, and a mistit in young
manhood. He failed miserably in mathH
ematics, the classics, and in theology,
He was an Indifferent student Of medi'
cine, yet when at last he was guided
into the paths of his natural capaci'
ties he soon became the foremost matt
uralist of his age and probably of any
age before or since.
Emerson was an educational misft,
and so We're FrOebel and General
Grant and the list of distinguished
men in all walks of life who We're mis-
fits in childhood might easily be e2
tended almost indefinitely. They provo
conclusively that much of what is coma
monty called education is not a prerea
quisite for success in life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
War Behind the Lines.

In the house of commons the state.
ment was made some time ago that 1t
needs a man and Il half behind the
Tine to keep one man in the trenches !;
and that is only at the front. How
many men. women and children at
home are needed to keep going the
man with the rifle and hand grenade
we can only conjecture, but if we say
ten civilians to every fighting man
we shall not aggerate.-SimOn
Strunsky in the Yale Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
TONNAGE NEEDS OF ARMY ABROAD

cord per day per hundred men, would
amount to 1880 cords. Owing to
scarcity of fuel part of this may have
to be brought to France.
With 100000 men, there will be APP
prOximately 100000 animals. At IA
pounds of hay day, there would be
required for six months over $4,000
900 pounds of hay, which must be i'm
ported and also 3G0,0O0,0OO pounds OF
oats. Rations will require S15.0O0,0 900
pounds. Ammunition will run into bill.
lions of pounds.
This freight calculation does not
consider what would be required in
building or rebuilding railroads or cam
tonments. The space required for store
housing at the base would be about as
follows: Rations, etc, 80 acres fuel,
$50 acres; forage, $50 acres; remount
depOts, go acres environments for cas-
ualS, ETC. 500 acres sick and wounded,
1000 acres; engineer, ordnance, and
signal corps, 1900 acres Allowing for
roads, Office buildings, barracks, etc..
-iit lOlul NOulu Dt uDOul O,UOO IGEpS.
Confusion in Figures.
Always there is considerable confu-
sion about shipping figures. There IS
no one on this side of the Atlantic, so
far as am able to find out. who can
tell precisely the difference between a
gross and a net ton. AS a matter Of
fact, net tonnage is not Il fixed term.
In referring to submarine Sinkings,
gross tons are always used, together
with the English reckoning of 2240
pounds to the ton. In a general way
cargo carrying space is figured in cubic
feet and then divided by 100 to get
gross tonnage. Displacement is quite
another matter. That kind of tonnage
means the weight of the ship itself, as
l understand it, although the word
suggests the weight of the water dis
placed by the ship. Those who follow
the submarine news should bear In
mind that tonnage given is gross and
that weight of cargo is not included.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
Over 200 Ships Will Be Required
Constantly to Supply the
American Force.
GREAT AREA FOR SEA BASE
Estimated That 100 Pounds of Freight
Per Man Per Day Must Be Un-
loaded at the Port Of De.
barkation.
CHARLES n. GRASTY.
New York Times.

London. - The American army in
France will need some transporting
Here are figures that are at least APP
proXimately correct.
1t is estimated that 100 pounds of
freight per man per day must be I'M
loaded at the port of debarkation
Therefore, when at the end of two
years, we have, say, one million men
in France, we must unload daily 100,
100000 pounds of freight, or $4,000
tons.
Three thousand tons can be I'M
loaded daily from a good-sized ship !;
hence Il ships at the Wharves, each of
them unloading 5000 tons will fill the
requirements. In the United States
II ships must be loading 10000 tons Il
day. This makes a total of "a ships
Mt the docks. Taking as Il basis a g.
600 ton dead weight ship, we see
that II ships must leave New York ev-
cry two days and II ships leave some
French port every two days in tran
sit with army freight. Assuming ten
days as the time of passage, there
would be TO ships $4,000 tons) en-
route to and from the United States,
which, added to the "a at the docks,
will make a total of 204 ships, assum-
ing no loss or delay.
Enormous Supplies Needed.
To indicate the quantities of GER
tain articles required, fuel for cooking
for six months, on a basis of half Il
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
PROFESSOR Tells OF Trench VISIT
: & tststs & Z 4 !ststs tststs q
lLLlTERATE INDIANS
ARE TAUGHT IN CAMP

San Antonio, TeX.-More than
four hundred enlisted men in
the National army at Camp
Travis can neither read. write
nor speak the English language,
and their military education
must be started from the ground
up" before they can be made to
understand just what all this
training of men means. They
are mostly Indians from the re-
mote and mountainous regions
of Oklahoma, and Mexicans
from country precincts of Tex
as. They are so distributed in
the various military units as to
be close to comrades who may
act as interpreters for them
while the army schoolmaSter Is
giving them their first lessons
in English and history, re-
enforced by geography. with the
war maps of the world in colors
and characters denotlng battles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
Another Sudnestion.

Il hope there won't be any shortage
of fuel"
$50 do l." returned Miss Cayenne
"If there is, am going to suggest that
baseball be played the year round. No
body seems to pay the slightest atten-
ton to the climate when he can stand
out in the street and watch Il score.
board"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
Every Woman Wants
Boom in African Trade.

"The wrist watch has done much
for our trade"
where is your trader"
ut is mainly in Africa. Formerly
we couldn't sell a native watch be-
cause he Wore no pockets TO carry
1t in"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06

He-Are you sentimental?
She-lt depends.
He-On what?
She-On the restaurant and the nm
ner-PaSSing Show.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
An Unfailinu Sian.

"My dear, this child is going to have
plenty of spirit in his voice."
"How can you tell that nOw?"
Because already it shows tend
ency to high bawls."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-12-06
Breaks the News.

Silence gives consent, but no girl
who consented ever kept silent long
about It.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24

Victoria Is an Australian state about
as large as the combined area Of New
York and Pennsylvania Like every
civilized country II faced the probem
OF fighting tuberculosis. Victoria PEG
pie, men and women, are really a part
Of government. and accustomed To solve
together the questions which affect the
state They realized that tuberculosis
was menace not alone 80 the state
but 10 commercial progress nv we'll
Therefore by a campaign of education
against the white plague aud the
necessary laws. with enforcing pro
visions, Victoria vanquished tnbercu-
1osis. II Is a consumpiioB.free state.
Louisiana may be- cleaned OF this
terrifying disease and be made as
hpaIthful and progressive as Ia Victoria.
but il must ase the same energetic
means and precautions The rules for
stamping ont consumption are simple
DO not spit in public places,
Use paper cups or napkins TO hold
the spit and burn these as soon IA
possible after using,
Keep the patient In the open air and
give nourishng food such as eggs and
milk.
Frequent baths and plenty Of res,
are essential
Consumption can be cured in many,
many cases, and il can be prevented
ia almost all, hut care aud scrupulons
cleanliness are the prime factors.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24
NOTICE.

The next examination OF applicants
for teachers certificates will be held
at "a. Franeisviiie. on March 20. 81, %
tShiteD, and March 20. 80, 3iteoloredI
The examination Of teachers upon
the books Of the Reading Course will
be held Saturday, March "a, lal7.
Attention Is called particularly to the
recent laws enacted upon the exami'
nation Of applicants for teachers GER.
tiilcates No longer are graduates OF
approved institutions exempted from
all subjects Of examination but the
Theory and AIT OF Teaching Either
they are exempt from all subjects upon
their diplomas or must earn teachers
certificates through examination upon
all subjects n, II. cRuMp.
Parish Superintendent
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24

10 the stomach and have so connection
IS hatnyer with rumiuation They are
Usually composed Of hair and particles
.uf food formed into balls bs the move
men, ot the walls of the stomach, and
.8rc frequently alluded to as hair.
halts bat they do little. CT no. harm
to III" animal 80 long az They remain
free. 81 loose. IA the stomach. aud do
uet ubstrucl the food IN Its passage
along The digestive canal
The beglaulugs Of these balls Is
generally some hair that the Gov has
swallowed after licking herself, and
Zee food mixing with the small wad Of
hair aud gradually increasing its size
HHlII ihf hall Is formed
When q cow has lost her cud. II
simply means that she has stopped
Illuminating. or bringing the food back
20 the mouth and IS one Of the first
indications tbat sks is not feeling com.
Portable az is sick "A soon as tbs
cause of her sHeaslness. OF trouble, Ii
discovered aud removed, she will CON.
mracr Illuminating again. which Is enc
at the FIRST and best signs that she Is
feeling hotter
Hearing these points In mind IL may
readily bo seen, not onp bow mueees.
Saty, hat ridiculous, Il IL to force a
piece 1T greasy dIshrag, or rusty bacon,
daer a sick eoW threat wlth the idea
of, artidclally providing the animal
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24
ELECTION NOTICE.

Iiy virtue Of the authority vested In
me "a Mayor of the Town OF Bayou
Sara. La. | hereby order an election 10
be held oH Monday. April 2, 1916, for
the purpose Of selecting the following
officers toswIt One mayor. one mar
shal and collector, one secretary. one
assessor. and Ave eounctlmen,
The following commissioners are
hereby appointed Ia serve az said elee,
ton 10 be- held AT tho city hall In
Bayou Sara, La, between the hours Of
7 a IA. and 6 ., m 4 r sweetman,
jake Kaufman. {. T.. Thibodaux.
tsignedl J II LOGAN. MAYOR
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24
SURPLUS LAND COULD &c MADE
PROFITABLE,

The average Louisiana farmer owns
or controls much more land than be
utlizes for ans practical purposes year
after year, and these surplus lands
generally speaking, could he made to
pay part of the expense of the farm
II they were properly fenced and con.
verted into pasturagc for the grazing
of live stock. according 10 G. e Nesom,
Live Stock Extension Service, Louis.
iana State University. While no accn.
rate data are available that would show
the carrying capacity Of all classes Of
pastufage, IL is certain that the better
pastures IN the alluyial sections Of The
State have q carrying capacity far In
excess OF the ordinary estimates OF
average land IN the southern states
9ae pasture of 20a aeFeg, consisting Of
heavy black land sod with bermuda
and white clover carried nearly two
head Of cattle TO the acre for nine or
ten months Of the years 1915 and 1915.
The only pastures one sees graged
doWh to where they are really In the
best condition are the small plats about
barns aud premises where the mules
and family milk cows have free access
Ia comparatively small areas,
The carrying capacity Of the eutoyer
pine and hin lands are, Of course, not
nearly so great II IL perhaps safe 60
say however, that the poorest OF our
pine hills and fats will carry one
mature animal for every five acres
without Improvement, though II 10 not
recommended that they be used In this
way, as all Of them can be greatly Inn
proved for pasture purposes by a small
expenditure for seeding with lespedega,
white aud burr clover, bermuda and
paspalum grasses, II In quite probable
that for at least q generation 10 eume
these pine lands are going 10 be more
useful for stock raising on an exten.
sive basis than for any other purpose,
and Rhen they have served their pur.
pose In this direction they sill be more
productive when cut up into small
farms, as they no doubt will be In due
course of time.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24
OLD BoSsS DOES NOT
LOSE Her CUB"

The GOV betongs to q class If animals
known as Rnmiuants, and a ruminat
ing animal is one In ahich the stomach
IL Sc constituted as to enable 1t tthe
anlinaI to return thp rough food from
the stomach To the mouth. after the
fret time ul swallow Ing for more per,
feet chewing before II If Hually seaI
lowed and dlgested la the irur digestive
part of the stomach
This process uf retaining thr lund Go
the month for tinaI chewing Is known
as rumination, and the animals which
do this are Classod as Illuminating ami
mails. or fuminauts Ia ahich the sheep
aud the goat belong as we'll as the CO.'S
The eud or lump which is seoa pass
ing up the neck of the coR when she Is
chewing the cud. therefore is ball
OF food. and not something which. II
she iases. has to be- replaced artl
fleially. as a great many cattle owners
still seem To think
Occasionally. when COW II opened
after death hallike structures arc
found In The pauneh, aud these W.
believe mas have given rise Ia the false
impression that lley represented the
COW . cud. OF cslds
These, however, are foreign bodies
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24
TAX MAIL ORDER HOUSES.
tBosalusa Enterprise J


The retail merchants Of the state
should organize In some manner and
present to the next legislature draft
bill for taxing mail order houses for
doing business In the state We under.
stand that IN some states such las Is
Ia force There is no good reason Why
a home merchant should be taxed fer
the support of hls government from the
town up and then b. forced to compete
with these larger concerns who have
their goods delivered to the door Of
their customers by parcel post and
cyadc our own town. township, county
and state taxes
We believe Ia competition IN trade,
bat II should be fair competition. The
merchant who Is taxed for the building
Of our roads the support OF our schools
and for the taking care OF our poor.
should not be- compelled to compete
with q concern that makes complete
eahyacc Of his customers and pays
no tax,
The home merchant BguFes a certain
per cent Of his business expense "a
taxes. WIS not compel onG state con
Germs to pay a tax OF certain per cent
on the amount OF business done In the
statc'
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-03-24
EvEavsooys pAf.

Take hint from the following clip
ped from an article In the Progressive
Farmer
with everybody trying TO sell the
same things, reminds me OF a trip |
once made ia the Island of Madeira !.
surely the most beautiful place on
earth, but the streets were full Of pigs,
/, looked as II every man. woman and
child were attached TO a pig. So !
went 10 Il shop to ask questions Are
all the pigs in the world turned loose
in Madeira this morning. | asked, oh,
no, the man said, It's Friday Yes,
said, I know. but | inquired about
pigs. not the day Of the week. Friday
IL pig day In Madeira and every one
who has a pig for sale brings IL To
market on that day Well. far be- IL
from me to upset the customs Of cen,
turtles, but | know II lived In Madeira
my little pig would go TO market bright
aud early Monday morning. II the
shock precipitatod a riot. Bat really
We do that way about raising yege.
tables. and then wonder why II doesn't
pay better.