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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
WAR FUND OF 100000 APPRO
PRIATED BY CHRISTIAN
CHURCH CONVENTION

Rev. A. F. Stahl, who Is attending
the annual convention of the Chris
tian Church of the United States and
Canada, now in session at Kansas
City, Mo-, writes home that 100000
was appropriated as war emergency
fund to assist in religious work at the
various army cantonments by the
Church Missionary Board. Over 10,-
900 delegates are in attendance at the
which closes next We'd
nesday, October 81.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
COMMITTED SUICIDE

Word was received here yesterday
that Mr.. Stonewall ]. McNutt, former
ly Of Cottageville, Lewis county, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Moline,
ILL.,, on Wednesday afternoon. His
remains arrived here last night on G..
& o. train No. 4 and were taken to
Cottageville this morning. The fun
eral was held from Ebenezer Church
this morning. with interment in Ebe-
nezer cemtery.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
MAYSLICK RESIDENCE DESTROY.
ED BY FIRE

The residence of MIR. John Van
Camp, at Mayslick, better known as
the old Myall home, was totally de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning
about II o'clock. Mr.. and Mrs. Van
Camp were in Carlisle on business
when the fire occurred and there was
no one in the house at the time of the
fire. Neighbors did all that was pos
sible to save the building but the fire
had gained too much headway. The
cause of the fire is unknown, but it
is thought that burning coal may
have fallen from crate. The build
ing was insured for $1,000.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Relatives and friends of Barry Rem
aker, who is serving two-year SEN
tence In the penitentiary for burning
the Renaker turkey pens at Lewis
burg over year ago, are meeting
with much success In securing sigma
lures to q petition for his pardon.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
SPECIAL REGISTRATION DAYS

II you did not register ON the regu.
lar registration day, you can do 50
either Monday, Tuesday or Wednes.
day Of next week at the County
Clerks Office. This will be your only
chance. Come Monday Is possible
something may happen to prevent you
coming later.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CONCLAvE

Special Conclave of Maysville Com
mandery No. 10 X. T. will be held this
evening at o'clock for the confer
ence of the Templar degree. All Sir
Knights are urged to come.
r. A. CARR. E. C.
P. G. Smoot, Secretary.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Mr.. william M. Brown and Miss
Margaret Hutton, both OF Fleming
county. were married here Wednesday
afternoon by DR.. John Barbour, at
the First Presbyterian Church par
sonage.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
HAVE YOU BOUGHT A BOND YET

The total sale Of Liberty bonds in
Mason county up until press time this
morning is $271,600, which leaves
s117,750 yet to be raised within the
next two days. II you have not bought
bond yet, come across and do your
share.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
GEM TO REOPEN NEXT WEEK

The Gem Theater is making plans
to reopen to the public next Thursday,
November /. A new organ is to be in
stalled within the next few days. This
instrument is said to be the finest
ever in this city.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
NEW LOAN TO FRANCE

Washington, October 25-Another
loan of $2O,00O,OOO was made to
France today bringing total credits
extended by the United States to al
lied countries to $2,S26, 100000.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Mr.. Perry Thomas Of Tulsa, Okla,
and Mr.. Frank Thomas Of Joplin. Mo-,
are here TO attend the funeral Of their
father. the late J. O. Thomas.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Regular weekly meeting of Lime
stone Lodge No. 36 X. of p. tonight
All members are urged to attend.
Visiting brothers invited.
G. E. DIETRICH, C. c.
B. II. Greenlee. K. of r. and s.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Preaching at the German Lutheran
Church Sunday morning at 1O:30
o'clock by Rev. Pilch.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
WANTED

To buy, second hand Phaeton Bug
gy or Depot Wagon, must be in good
condition, and good make. Address
the Ledger Office.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

The womans Club viii meet this
Afternoon at 2:30 o'clock to sew Tor
the Red Cross. All interested ere
urged 10 come and help.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Don't forget the Donation Party at
the First District School this even-
ing at o'clock.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26
WANTED

Young man of experience to work
in New York Store. Apply to 8.
Straus, Proprietor.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-10-26

Butter fat 46 cents a pound at the
Maysville Model Creamery this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
College Men

Theodore Vail in American Magazinel
The young man entering life must not
be impatient He must accumulate ex-
perience. he must learn the duties of
his position by the actual doing before
he has any value to his employer
The reason so many college boys fail
is that they are full of theories: they
think they know 1t all. A college course
Is good thing. an excellent thing, but
1t must be given to the right kind Of
youth. Quite1a number of the highest
positions are filed by men who went
through college but who had no false
notions as to what was required of them
when they entered business. No man is
worth anything until he has gone into
the heat of the battle and had his
theories subordinated to practice.
The son of rich parents is handi-
capped In his youth. He gets no ex-
perience of doing things, and no OPP
portunity to benefit from hard knocks
such as come the other fellows way.
When a boy comes to ask me to put
him through college l tell him II would
be the worst thing that could happen
to him. l say: You would not only
have burden of debt on your should
ers when you finished college, but you
would have the additional burden of
getting experience-and 1t is pretty
hard to get experience and earn money
at the same time. You can earn money
only after you have had experience"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
THOSE MUNITIONS BIDS

TINE offer of the English firm to
furnish shells for the United
States Navy at a figure far below
the lowest bid of any American manu-
facturer points a number of lessons
which the country might well pause to
consider.
In the first place, it is evident that
no more English shell contracts will
be placed in the United States and
that the golden stream which has been
pouring for months into the laps of
American munition makers has been
damned at its source. The offer of an
English firm to sell us shells at figures
below those of domestic concerns also
illustrates not only that England's s
where they are able to care for all
Britain's needs in this respect, and to
make up the deficiencies of French
and Russian factories, as we'll as to
provide the Belgians with the ammu-
milton they require. This also shows
how splendidly the English have re-
sponded to the call for mobilization of
poses and how little the English have
been hampered in their shipping facili
ties for all the German submarine
warfare.
But biggest and most important of
all for this country is the lesson that
may be read into the ability of Eng
land to undersell the United States in
open competition even during the un
certainties and stress of war. The fact
well illustrates the point raised by Re-
pubHcans ever since the war started
that unless American industry and
american workmen are given the pro-
lection of adequate tariff duties the
end of the war will witness such q
panic here as the world has never
seen.
At the very best the reaction from
the abnormalities of war to the nor
malities of peace is bound to be dis
tressing, but with our markets left
open to the same kind of attack that
had Frustrated them at the beginning
or the war and with long pent up
European industry hungry for a for
eign market and willing to sell at
prices we cannot touch, the only thing
that can save us from the suffering of
idle millions is the prompt erection of
n tariff wall high enough TO keen the
commercial invaders on their own side
of the water.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
Inspected to Death
New York Sun.l

LNSW 1OTk sun.
In his message to the general as
sembly the outgoing governor OF Ohio.
Mr.. Willis. said something:
My brief experience as n State off,
cial has convinced me that Ohio is
overofficered and overinspected and that
the people and business of Ohio are be-
ing inspected to death"
Every Governor of almost every State,
every Mayor of almost every city,
knows at or before the end of his first
term that the truth which Frank
Bartlette Willis has spoken so frank
ly about Ohio is applicable to almost
every government in America. Pay
rolls sag under the overgrown list of
superfluous employees. The people and
their property are inspected from a
dozen sides for evils which. il they
really exist, are not remedied as a re-
suit OF the inspection.
A Governor and a Mayor who would
enter on term of Office with an OBJ
session for eliminating the ridiculous
and the extravagant would come out
with glory. but how the tax eaters
would hate him?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
By BRIGGS

periodical intelligence and criticism
was absolutely essential to properly
secure the liberties of q democracy
Have conditions so changed that it
would to-day be better to discourage
all nationally circulated newspapers
and periodicals and make the local
newspaper the sole and supreme pur-
veyor of all news on all subjects and
from all sources, local and foreign?
Not the least unfortunate result of
such legislation would be its effect
upon scientific. professional and other
class publications. Such periodicals
are financially impossible unless ma
tlonally circulated. Some of the most
important of these periodicals are to-
day circulated at loss, by persons in
terested in the promotion of the
sciences that they represent. To ma
terially increase the operating ex-
pense of circulating such periodicals,
not only by quadrupling, on an aver
age, the postage rate, but by making
necessary the employment of addi-
tional help to carefully divide the
widely scattered circulation into eight
different zone" packages, would in
some cases, be absolutely prohibitive.
The small additional revenue which
the government would gain by this
amendment would hardly compensate
for the loss of such important con-
tributions to science and learning.
The amendment should be defeated.
If the rate must be raised let tie in
crease be shared equally by all publ
cations, and borne equally by all sec
tions. Above all, let us keep the nerve
centers of intelligence freely open to
the farthest reaches of the body
polite, that there may be throughout
all the members no impairment of
that responsiveness toward every i'm
portant issue, social, scientific or
political, which only a thoroughly in
formed public sentiment can make
possible.-A. II. r., in Central Law
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
CORVALLIS always was an unluckv
name in English army circles.
HIGH PRICE OF LOBSTER
TINE Philadelphia Evening Ledg,

TNHE Philadelphia Evening Ledger
i mourns over the fact that lob-
ster has advanced in price to s5
cents a pound. Just why a news
paper writer should worry about the
price of lobster we are at a loss to
understand, unless newspaper writing
is much more lucrative OCCUPATION
in Philadelphia than it is in Harris
burg. Most of the time we can he
found right up in the front seats
among the sob squad when food prices
begin to soar, our handkerchief
soaked with tears and our souIs
STEPPED in bitter thoughts. hut
when 1t comes to lobster wbv
we should worry" let 'er rim
knock off the lid and make the
SKY the limit. High-priced Holsters
nave no terrors for us. We can't
aford 'em even when the market 10
at rock bottom. Here's where VIC
have one laugh at the food barons
anyhow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
TAX ON THE DISSEMINATION OF
INTELLIGENCE

Congress could DO nothing that
to pass the pending Randall amend
ment TO the post office appropriation
bill providing for a graduated second
class postage rate.
BY this amendment It Is proposed
to make the rate of postage on ma
tionally circulated newspapers and
periodicals one cent a pound for
distance less than 800 miles; two
cents a pound for 800 miles or over;
three cents a pound for 800 miles or
over; four cents pound for 1000
miles or over; five cents a pound for
l, 100 miles or over; and six cents u
pound for ], 800 miles or over.
Thus, current news and intelligence
furnished to the people by newspa-
pers and periodicals is to be taxed
and therefore will presumably be re-
tarded in proportion to the distance
that separates the subscribers from
the usual centers OF publication. For
there are natural distribution pionts
for the circulation of intelligence, as
there are natural markets or centers
of distribution for cotton, oranges,
iron ore. wheat, etc, and it is we'll
known tkat recent rulings of the In
terstate Commerce Commission have
tended to lower the rates on such
commodities in proportion to the dis
tance from the natural market in or
der to facilitate a wider distribution.
Surely nothing is more important to
any nation than the free circulation
of intelligence, even into the remotest
corners of the country, and to ham,
per, impede or tax that distribution
in favor of one section and against
another is more ineXcusable with re-
spect to this particular commodity
than to any other.
Daniel Webster, who was largely re-
sponsible for creating the second-class
postage rate, declared that the widest
dissemination of newspaper and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
tions from organizations in Philadel-

tions from organizations in Philadel-
phia.
Considerable interest was aroused
here to-day by the conference held
yesterday at Pittsburgh in the interest
OF Statewide prohibition as some Of
the participants had been men hith-
erto identified with the local option
campaign, but who are now for prohi-
bition. The general course of some OF
those who have been fighting rum,
notably certain officials of the Anti
Saloon League, has been objected to in
various parts of the State and the new
movement is said to be formed solely
Tor the purpose of demanding State
wide prohibition and working for it
regardless of who may be Governor
or Speaker. A State convention will
be held in Pittsburgh on February s.
Officials of the Prohibition State
committee are getting ready to pre-
sent some strictly prohibition legisla-
ton during the coming session and
there Will be conferences here before
long at which plans will be laid.
1t is understood that two or three
members of the House have been
making inquiries as to how to phrase
resolutions to submit prohibition
amendments to the constitution and
that such measures will undoubtedly
make their appearance in the House
The Anti-Saloon League. which
will have local option bill this ses-
sion. will probably wait until the COM
mittees are named by Speaker Bald
win before announcing who will be
In charge of their bill. Last session
George w. Williams was in charge
but whether he will act with the
league this session or not is not stated
Mr.. Williams is staunch local op-
ZIONIST.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06

tomary length. But we have new
demonstration of what constitutes a
compromise In the Democratic mind
which the Speaker possesses.
It Is the same kind of eompro-
mise that President Wilson has all
along been making with Germany In
the submarine Issue and which he
made with the railroad brotherheods
on the Adamson law,
This kind of compromise consists
In letting the other fellow have his
own way. It is about the only exhibi-
ton which Champ Clark has ever
given of having traits in common with
Woodrow Wilson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
THE SMELL OF "BILED DINNERS

NOLLEGE boys are mighty finicky
" these days. There's the Whar-
ton school chaps of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. at Philadel-
phia, for instance, who have just
made public complaint because the
smell of New England billed dinners
occasionally floats through their class
rooms from a nearby food dispensary.
Now If 1t had been that the students
couldn't work for thinking of how
delicious billed dinners" taste. one
might understand. But, no; they pro-
test because they do not like the
odors. Think of it, men! The smell
of n New England billed dinner, dis
tasteful and disagreeable when in
hailed about the fag-end of q busy
after an early breakfast!
Why it's preposterousl
Perhaps it may not be amiss. to
suggest that the Wharton school boys
of Philadelphia send the smells-ac-
companied by the dinners, of course
to the Wharton school lads in Har-
risburg. Complaints? Not on your
life; vote of thanks, or we miss our
guess.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. o. r. Altman, of Uniontown,
has been elected president of the
Fayette County Medical Society.
Congressman j. Hampton Moore,
who is objecting to special aid for
farmers and none for manufacturers,
represents the big manufacturing dis
trict of Philadelphia.
DR.. F. w. Wright, prominent
Fayette county educator. will become
a State educational official in Massa-
chusetts
A. A. Shoemaker. well known
here, has been elected to head the
school directors of Montgomery
county
Senator p. c. Knox will spend the
winter in southern States with occa-
sional visits to Valley Forge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
New England Farmer Prospers

With fresh eggs selling at 65 cents a
dozen, potatoes marketed by grange
organizations at record prices, and
small community manufa cturing made
possible by the gasoline engine, winter
on New England farms is not the un-
productive period it was a quarter of a
century ago. Agents for player pianos
and motor cars are probably finding
Maine as rich a field in these days as
Monitor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Mexican Border

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I send you the enclosed clipping,
which il you care to publish, do so.
Yours truly,
]. e. RUTHERFORD,
The devil in hell, they say, was chained,
And there a thousand years remained
He never complained, nor did he groan.
But decided to start a little hell of his
own.
So he asked the Lord il He had any on
hand
Left over when He made this land
The Lord said. "Yes. I've plenty handy,
But 1 left it all down on the Rio
Grande-
In fact, old boy. the truck is so poor
1 don't think it could be used as hell
any more
The devil examined It closely and well
And concluded the country was too dry
for hell.
But the Lord. to get it off of His hands,
Promised the devil He'd water the
AS He had some water that was of no
use,
Regular. bog holes. and smelled like the
deuce.
so the trade was made ana the deed
was given,
And the Lord went back to His home
in Heaven.
And the devil said 1t was all he needed
To start new hell, and then he pro-
ceeded.
He scattered tarantulas along the roads.
Put thorns on the cactus, and horns on
the toads.
He mixed up the sands with millions of
ants,
So those who sat down needed half
soles on their pants,
He heightened the horns of the Texas
steer.
And put an addition to the jack-rab-
bits ear.
He quickened the step of the bronco
steed
And poisoned the feet of the centipede:
He put juajalota in all the lakes
And under the rocks hid rattlesnakes,
The wild boar roams through the chap
arral.
And it's damned poor place he's got for
hell.
(Juajalota is a venomous pest known
as = water dogl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
CHAMPS DOG ARo1r~n

NHAMP CLARK opened Conpress
~ with a thump of the gavel and
published interview declar-
ing that this was to be a working
winter for Representatives and that
there would be no long holiday recess
as practical demonstration of the
Democratic devotion to public busi-
ness.
Floor Leader Kitchin informed the
newspapers that the Christmas re-
cess would take place about as usual.
Speaker Clark then intimated that
there might be a compromise on the
subject
There was.
Congress recessed on Friday, De-
cen.ber %. to reconvene Tuesday.
January 2-the recess hei,.-7 of GUS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06

The allies having entered into a cru
Eaoe against the made in Germany"
phrase seem to be carrying It even N
the peace propaganda.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06

At any rate. the stock market has
been responsive to the Presidents
peace overtures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06

We hope the forming of a BILLY"
Sunday Corporation will not be follow
ed by an effort to organize a soul-sav-
ing trust.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
DAIRY INSPECTION

NOMMENTING on an editorial ap.
~ pearing in these columns. a
farmer, who does not give his
name, writes:
You ask us to bow gracefully to
the inevitable" and accept State
dairy inspection. but will you, in
the city, bow gracefully and ac-
cept an increase in the price of
milk? The farmers as a rule do
not, object to dairy inspection. as
spection being carried on by mex
perienced agents of the State. after
the manner of some work of a SINH
unreasonable and unwarranted
manner by boys just out of college
who know no more about the prac-
teal side of farming than the
farmer does about running a steel
mill.
State or Federal inspection of farms
is written on the books of prospective
legislation. 1t is certain to come in
one form or another. Conscientious,
painstaking farmers must be subject
to il because other less careful farmers
have been selling dirty. disease-con-
The farmers are not able to correct
this condition. The people have no
resort but to governmental super
vision. AS to the form dairy inspec-
ton shall take, that is largely up to
the farmers. They can see to it that
the law is framed so as to work upon
them no undue hardship. They can,
and should. see to it that the work of
inspection be done by men of expert
ence. Mine inspection, for example,
which is under State supervision. is
required to be done only by expert
enced men who must undergo a severe
examination as to their practical and
working knowledge of coal mining. 1t
should not be difficult to put some
such clause into whatsoever milk n
spection bill shall be enacted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-06
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has one OF the
largest bread outputs of any city
of 100000 population in the land?