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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07

JUNEAU, Alaska, May 7.-Western
Alaska wants to outlaw its oldest
friend, the wolf.strain dog,
A bill which would effect this and
substitute as burden bearer the gentle
reindeer Is now before the territorial
legislature here.
1t is the coming of white children
to this far wilderness-the conversion
Of the sourdough into family man
that is responsible for this changed
attitude toward the shaggy trail run
ner
Within the past few years many
Children have been Scared and MAIN
ed, and a number killed, out in the
Nushagak country, by savage husky
and malamute,
The result has been the develop.
ment of a furious hatred by white faith
ers and mothers toward the rowing
packs of half tanned dogs ranging the
western villages,
AS long as the men of this lonely
district lived and worked and battled
alone with the brutes that were mild
one minute and raventng killers the
next, this dog.saVagery was stolidly
accepted.
The unattached sourdough could
cope with his team though he too,
was often slashed and mauled.
But now conditions are changing
and either the wolf dog must go or
the children be subjected to constant
menace.
Because the average Alaskan is
deeply sentimental, and because the
history of the North has been writ
ten with sledge and dog-a will, how
ever, meet with considerable resist
ance.
Difficulty in getting reindeer into
regions where the dog is still a neces'
sary beast of burden also may be ex-
pected to delay its adoption.
And the natives, though they treat
their dogs heartlessly, will not readily
relinuuish the half wild packs to which
they and their children are attached.
1t is only q question of time, how
ever, until the wolf-strain dogs must
move on, out to the last edge of the
Arctic silence with the half tanned
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
FAIRYIEM.

Mrs. Barnes, Of FaiEmont was 4
Weekend guest Of her mother, Mra.
Mary Moore,
Frank McGay was visiting relatives
at Barrackville Saturday.
Mr.. Elias Austin was q business Yisi-
tor at Fairmont Saturday.
The Senior class Of the high school
gave a pie social Saturday night
Miss Eeamsp, Of Fairmont enter
tanned the graduating class Of the
high school by taking them to the
Choral Society Friday night. Mrs.
Andy Warner chaperoned them,
MI. and Mrs. Jas, 3. Sutton, Misses
Vreda and Fern Hamilton, Mrs. VIM.
Lynett and son, Ralph, attended the
circus st<Fairmont Thursday.
Mrs. G. o. Wit and Mrs. W. H. Kuntz
were at Fairmnnt shopping Friday.
]. A, Smith has returned from .
business visit at Pittsburgh,
Mrs. Guy Smith, Of Fairmont was q
weekend guest of her mother, Mrs.
Martha Mathers.
The Tom Thum wedding will be Civ
en- In the First NJ, 3. church Friday
night at 8 O'Clock, May11. Over a hun
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07

Frlend-"so you allowed that con-
ductor on one of your own cars to
jostle and talk back to you alE he
pleased! Why didn't you tell him who
you we're? That would hive settled
him" President Of Traction Company
yes; and it would have settled me.
BE might have told the other passen-
gers."-Puck.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07

The funeral Of Peter Tush. who vas
killed in sSmines at Monongah sew
Grad days ,ag0S vas held yesterday at
1880 O'Clock from st. Jeseph's church
and services W9re conducted by Rev,
Father Mortorana. The funeral was
largely attended by friends Of the de-
ceased many Of whom who trayersed
the entire distance from the church
to Holy Gross cemetery on foot In.
terment was ,madeAby Undertaken R. L.
Cunningham.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
Egyptian Wheat.

Egypt in the most ancient times was
celebrated for its wheat. The best
quality was all bearded. The wheat
was put into the ground in winter and
some time after the barley. In the
Egyptian plaques of hail the barley
suffered, but the wheat had not ap-
peared, and so escaped injury.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
No Pleasure In That.

Darling" he cried, "the firm is go
Ing to give me a Is per cent raise to
help us to meet the general rise in
prices" "oh," she replied, "If we've
got to use it for that, what's the good
Of it? Why couldn't we have had 1t
for some of the things we haven't been
able to affordP-Judge.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
III. Medern Baby.

Now IN oeulist has discovered that
baby's white raiment INJURIES his VI
sion. They've taken away his cradle
and his old.tlme remedies and his
fairy stories, and now they want to
pinch his snowy pinafore.- Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
ma VA LonG EneuaIl

Henry, aged Eve had been sent to
q store to purchase pair Of stockings.
FHow long do you want themT asked
the clerk. II don't want to borrow
them,s replied Henry. Il wantem to
keep"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
Rna6nn on fhn Farm.

Upon most modern farms may be
found interesting books, magazines
and the daily paper, wherein the past
the ancient almanac and a few other
more or misunderstanding books were
g hand.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07
For Mental Digestion.

LADY, let me sell you Q packags q
cerebellumblskits," said the grccef
''You will End them unsurpassed g Z
brain nourtsher. In fact I can truth
fully recommend them as food 81
thought"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-07

men they have served, and who, like
themselves, cannot iibe with advancing
civilization.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
Busy Preventing Blindness.

North Carolina has been listed by
the National Committee for the Pre-
vention of Blindness as one of the
states of the Union most active in the
work of blindness prevention. At the
last meeting of the general assembly a
law was passed requiring all phyhi-
clans and midWives to use the prophy-
Tactic treatment, a one per cent solu-
ton of silver nitrate, against inf1am-
nation of the eyes of infants within
two hours after birth and to make
record of such use.
The law further provides that
opthalmia neonatorum or babies sore
eyes, is a reportable disease, and as a
still further safeguard as regards this
disease, the law provides that all mid
wives practicing in the state register,
without fee, their names and addresses
with the secretary of the state board
of health on or before the first day of
July, 1917, in order that the prophy-
Tactic solution and necessary instruc-
tions may be furnished them. Provi-
sion was made whereby the state
board OF health shall furnish this pre-
ventive solution and the necessary in
structions for using it free to physi-
clans and midwives.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
Soy Beans Good as Steak.

Mr.. c. B. Williams, chief of the di-
vision of agronomy, states that there
is a a great increase this year in the
acreage devoted to soy beans in the
state. This is as it should be, and
our people should see to it that some
of these beans are saved at the end
of the season for food purposes.
Soy beans are much richer in pro-
tein than lima beans or sirloin steak,
in fact they contain practically double
the amount of protein contained by
these two staple food products. The
soy beans contain about the same
amount Of fat or Oil that is contained
in sirloin steak, and more than ten
times the amount of this constituent
than is contained in lima beans. The
fuel value of soy beans as a food
product is slightly higher than sirloin
steak and lima beans. DR.. w. A.
Evans, president of the American Pub
lie Health Association, has stated that
for men who are engaged in hard
manual labor, where they burn up a
lot of their tissues in the effort, will
find soy beans as suitable as steak as
a fuel.
Because of the possibilities in the
use of the soy bean as a food product,
the following recipes is given for the
information of those who are interest
ed in the more extended use Of this
rich nutritious food product when
properly handled:
Soak the beans in a 10 per cent.
common salt solution over night.
Then drain off the salt water and
roast the beans in an oven or a peanut
rooster.
In roasting exercise great care that
the beans are not scorched, as this
would impart a bitter taste to the
beans. Watch from time to time,
and when the cotyledons begin to turn
brown remove from the oven.
Other recipes can be obtained by
writing to C. B. Williams, Extension
Division, A. & E., Raleigh, N. c.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
Some Increase Necessary.

In concluding the presentation Of
the case for North Carolina carriers in
their petition for increased freight
rates, applicable to interstate traffic,
it was agreed by the railroad officials
and the shippers present that some
increase is necessary and that the in
creas in the intrastate rates be on
the same percentage basis that the in
terstate commerce commission adopts
for the interstate petition now pend
ing.
There was a further agreement that
the matter of adopting a new basis
rate schedule such as the proposed
Georgia schedule submitted by the
railroad companies be deferred and
that the question be further thrashed
out in a hearing July S before the cor
poration commission.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
MOST DETERMINED EFFORT YET
TO PROMOTE CLUB WORK.
EXPECT 500 TO ATTEND.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doines and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo-
pie, Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Raleigh.

Fully 500 members of the boys agri-
cultural clubs of the state a~reexpect-
ed here for the boys and girls short
course in agriculture to be given at
at the A. and E. College from August
81 to "a.
Plans are under way by the office
of agriculture club work to make one
of the most determined efforts yet
made by the Extension Service to in
struct, entertain and inspire the
youthful farmers who will attend this
meeting.
Last August over $50 members of
the agricultural clubs visited the col
Iege for the short course, and it is
estimated that over 500 will be on
hand this year. A special effort will
be made to show the Importance of
food and feed production to the ones
who will come, and the course of in
struction will be along these lines.
The only charge will be the cost
charge Of the three meals for the four
days and the reduced transportation
CLldl &c.,. IlUOUlo VIII OC Au1oASo
free by the college.
The Corn Club enrolment is contin-
uing to grow says A. K. Robertson,
corn club agent. The county agents
over the state are responding almost
daily with additional names of young
boys who desire to assist in the pro-
duction of more food crops. Recently
County Agent Morris, of Granville
county, sent in IA names for the corn
club, bringing the county enrolment
showing as this county is one that is
devoted almost entirely to tobacco pro-
duction. Caswell county is another
where tobacco is the main crop, yet it
also has a splendid enrolment of 70
members growing corn, peas and
beans. County Agent Graeber, Of
Mecklenburg, and Proffitt, of Ruther-
ford, both have good enrollments and
write that the members are all hard
at work and that the prospect for
their crops are fine.
Stanly county continues to lead in
the corn club work, with a total en-
rollment of 1876 boys and as many
acres of corn. In this county Mr.. S.
]. Lewis is getting good results with
his boys aswell as with his adult CO.
operator.
Mr.. J. E. Moses, of the Pig Club
work, has just received a letter from
one of his enthusiastic pig club men,
bers telling of the profits Of pig rails
ing.
81 have sold two more pigs" says
the boy, David Worth, who lives in
Wake county, "for 81 apiece, which
is s14, and the same man brought a
SOW here to be served. The fee was
$3.50 and 81 for feed. When all put
together it will be S18 more in the
bank. Don't tell me hat there isn't
any money in the hog business be-
cause I know it is"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
Solve Labor Problem in State.

The county demonstration agents in
North Carolina will be used for the
purpose Of bringing the farmer and
the laborer together and solving the
serious labor situation which con-
fronts the state. The clearing house
for all such information will be the
office of farm management of the
Agricultural Extension Service at
West Raleigh.
The North Carolina State Food Con-
servation Commission in cooperation
with the State Agricultural Extension
Service has arranged or the farm
demonstration agents in their respec-
tive counties to ascertain from farm
ers their need of additional labor IN
producing food and other crops. Also
for recording labor available for such
PURPOSES, and to bring farmer and la
bore together.
If the farmer wants extra help he
should communicate the fact to the
demonstration agents with a statement
as to the length of time the help IS
wanted, the purpose for which 1t is
to be used and the wages he is willing
to or expects to pay. Parties desiring
work on farms should notify the dem
onstration agent stating when they
will be ready to begin work; what
kind of work they can do, for how long
a period they wish employment and
what wages they expect.
In counties having demonstration
agents requests for labor needed and
for work or employment wanted
should be sent directly to the office
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06

Life Extension Work Popular.
The first months report of the life
extension work now going on in Ala
nance county shows that such health
work is not only what the people need
but what they want. Since DR.. A. J.
Ellington started the work about a
month ago in this county, two weeks
of the time having been given to lee
ture work and organizing, he has
given examinations to 225 people,
and now has on file the names of Is
more applicants. He gives on an aver
age fifteen examinations daily, the
patients being near middle age.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06

of farm management, West Raleigh
from where the effort will be made to
put farmer and prospective laborer in
touch.
By taking up this work neither the
demonstration agents in the respect
i've counties nor the state farm man
agement man guarantees to get labor
for the farmer nor employment for the
laborer but they do agree to use their
best efforts in these lines.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
National Guard Officers Promoted.

NATIONAL 1udfC oIiCGfS HFOmOreQ.
DR.. ]. A. Bangle of Charlotte was
commissioned by the %adjutant gen.
erals department of the North Caro-
lima National Guard as first lieutenant
in the Medical Corps and assigned to
the command of the sanitary detach-
ment of the Coast Artillery. He sue
ceeds DR.. J. R. Ashe of Chrlotte, re-
signed.
DR.. W. P. Mckay has been COM
mlssioned as a first lieutenant. Medi-
cal Corps, and will be assigned to
service later.
]. F. Williams, Jr., Raleigh, has
been promoted from sergeant to Sec
ond lieutenant Company B, Third Regi-
ment, to succeed Lieutenant Parrich,
promoted to first lieutenant.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-06-06
New Cheese Factory.

Despite the fact that the factories
are paying nearly twice as much this
year for the milk as they did last,
cheese factories are apparently thriv-
ing in Western North Carolina, a char
ter having been granted by the secre-
tary of state to the Silver Stone Co
Operative Cheese factory at Villas In
Watauga county. Last year the fac
tories in Watauga county paid a fat
rate Of 10 cents per gallon for whole
milk used in the manufacture of full
cream cheese. This season they are
paying 20 cents per gallon for milk.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-02
ASAvlNG PROPOSITION

The purpose of the Liberty loan is not to stimulate
the saving habit among the people. Its purpose is to
raise money with which the government may prosecute
the war. That end must be accomplished regardless of
the effect on the business habits fsthe people. We are
dealing in imperatives. The emergency is here, and it
must be met.
But the various expedients adopted by the govern
ment will have their influence on popular habits, and it
is worth while to take these into account. 1t will be sur
pr1sing If, as one of the results of the borrowing of money
from the people by the government there is not created
the habit of thrift where that habit did not exist before.
We have been known as a spendthrift nation. The war
will go quite a distance toward making us a saving ma
ton.
The purchase of a Liberty bond is an investment.
II 10 an investment at a fair rate of interest in the best
security available in the world today. But it is idle to
talk Of investment to the man who has nothing and can
obtain nothing to invest. Before investment there must
be accumulation, and accumulation is foreign to the hah-
its Of a very large number Of our people. We may UNI
derstand the philosophy Of thrift, but we are not given
to the practice of thrift. We spend as we go.
The patriotic impulse to come to the aid Of the gov
eminent has caused many an American to save the price
OF a bond who had never in his life saved that amount
Of actual money before. Bonds may be marketed. They
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-02
THIS ONE THING FIRST

The war is the supreme thing before the world
today. Everything else In relatively insignificant In
the ordinary activities of life we will proceed as usual
duties in the war. Whatever does interfere must be re-
moved from the way. We cannot fight this war in our
spare time. We cannot give it such time and attention
as we can spare from other things. War is Just now
the business of the American people. We must work
at it twenty-four hours every day, and as many days.
or years, as 1t takes to finish the job properly.
Perhaps some of us may not like some Of our as
we may have doubts and suspicious as to the purposes of
some of the others. We may not approve Of some Of the
acts Of our government. We may believe that our people
should have been kept off the sea, or We may believe
that the United States should have gone to war when
Belgium was invaded. All that Is of comparatively little
moment. 1t will serve for discussion when conversation
flags. but whatever our decisions on these points. they
cannot change the fact that we are today active parti-
sans in the greatest war ever waged, that we are en-
listed for the whole of the war, and that we are pledged,
in letter and in honor, to put forth every effort to win,
and not to quit until we have won.
The specific incidents that led to the war are Of little
concern just now, except from a historical standpoint
AS the situation is now the democratic spirit of the world
is arrayed against forces which would destroy democracy
There can be no faltering and no compromise in such
a conflict. The cost in men and In money must not be
counted. For, if the forces Of autocracy win, conditions
will surely be established that win make this world no
fit place for free men to live in.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-02
The Last Hours
Of Edith Cavell's Life

Aug. 16-Quietly arrested and
taken to prison Of st. GILES.
Sept 1o-Amertcan legation,
kept in ignorance of arrest, takes
steps for defense.
Sept. 12-Permission for counsel
to SEQ her refused.
Oct. Trial begins.
Oct. 8-Trial ends.
Oct. 9-Legatio1 makes plea for
Oct. 1O-American petition to see
Miss Cavell again refused.
Oct. 11-Miss Cavell's W pas
tor denied admittance to her cell.
s D. m.-Sentence pronounced in
cell.
$50 =, m.-American legation
told sentence was not yet pronounce
ed.
D. m.-Chief Of German polit-
ical department refuses to leave
disreputable theater to receive ap-
peal for clemency.
10:30-He returns to department
and sneers at pleas of American
and Spanish ministers.
MISUNDERSTANDING governor de-
clines to stay execution.
Oct. 12-Her last hour.
Her pastor hastily summoned.
Miss Cavell partakes Of holy COM
munion. Kneels In prayer. Clergy
man commanded to leave. German
military chaplain takes his place.
Soldiers lead her from cell. Firing
squad awaits her. Their bullets
tear through her body. German
chaplain buries her In prison yard.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-02
CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS

The sponsors for the st. Paul meeting Of; protest the
proceedings 1t which have aroused SO much unfavorable
comment throughout the country are trying to shelter
themselves behind the resolutions which were adopted
at that meeting.
Convention resolutions. like party platforms, are of
importance only when they mean somethins. The St
Paul resolutions, which arc longer than tho moral law.
have no meaning other thsn as they indicate 4 purpose
suise the real purpose Of the meeting and distract at-
tention from the spirit In which Its proceedings were
conducted.
The st. Paul meeting was not q de1iberattve aasm-
blaeo. It wa called for q particular purpose. Ito pro-
gram was carefully arranged. II speakers were caro-
fully chosen. There was no debate, and there was NO
intent that there should Be any debate. There II no harm
in all this. Many public nnsetinss whict-are altogether
praisworthy are called for purposes other than that Of
elaboration. But when that II the plan 1t Is absurd to
point to resolutions adopted as indicative Of the spirit
Of the meeting when the resolutions are not in harmony
with the spirit Of the meeting Itself.
The resolutions adopted At st. Paul wsrs carefully
prepared beforehand by a committee selected for that
purpose BY the management Of the meeting. They were
not discussed on the floor except in a causual way, and
such declarations do when their purpose is to reduce to
written form that which has developed a. the spirit of
the gathering. The audience adopted the resolutions
because they wore presented from the platform az the
right sort Of stun. Any other resolutions SO presented
would have been adopted In the same manner. Tho meet
ing itself Is to be gagged by the character Of the mon
who were chosen an It's chief speakers, and by the rscep-
ton given to their remarks. &