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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
FIGHTING THE DEVIL. WITH
FIRE.

The French and British have decid-
ed upon tit-for tat policy with Ger
many in regard to the air-raids made
by the Germans upon English towns.
This brutal policy of Germany has
been endured until patience has ceas-
ed to be virtue. Morally speaking
it is never permissible to do evil be-
cause somebody else does. "Overcome
evil with good" is the teaching of
Holy Writ. In this case it may be
good" to give Germany few dos
es OF her own prescription. When a
few doses have been administered,
and have had time to soak in, the real
true effects may be seen, and the pol
icy and practice stopped for selfish
reasons if from no higher motive, and
so, reprisal policy ON the part of
the French and British may be, after
all, merciful policy and be the
means of saving many lives. To fight
the devil with fire-give him an ov-
whelming dose of his own medicine.
would seem about the only way and
method to adopt likely to have any
effect upon his Satanic Majesty. And
even this is doubtful policy, for the
devil is accustomed to fire, and so is
his ally, Kiscr Bill.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
HOW THE WAR BECAME REAL
TO a LITTLE AMERICAN TOWN
New York Times.)

The war has been brought home to
our town.
We are not drowsy community,
hidden away in the hills and indiffer-
ent to world events. We are twenty
two miles from New York. We knew
what had happened that Godd Fri
day morning, one hour after Con
eress had acted But Flanders was
far away, The days passed and we
heard no hostile guns. No trains pass
ed our station carrying wounded
True, our Red Cross began to pre-
pare dressings and bandages. but it
was as though they prepared them
FOR strangers-certainly not for our
own young men. There was ma air of
detachment about it all.
Draft day didn't stir us much. Per-
haps, if our quaint local paner had
been printing a little list each week
headed. ."Killed in Action" we would
have felt the full force of what han
pened when Secretary Baker drew
No. 258 from the bowl. But we had
been reading of war for almost three
years and in all that time we had
not seen a wounded soldier Prob
ably not one of us had talked to a
man who had faced the German gun
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
WHERE HAS THE JOY OF WAR
GONE?

Men have always taken much ioy
in fighting, especially in other wars,
where there was probably real exhil-
aration in cavalry charges and hand
to-hand cOmbats. But the machine
gun and heavy artillery have done
away with any such satisfaction.
Where, then, is the enthusiasm
i'll which war was wont to thrive ?"
writes Lady Warwick in the Book
man. 1T has gone, | think, to two
classes-to those who make the mu-
nitions, and those who labor to mend
some of the evils that war enforces.
More than half the noncombatant
world looks after the making of
wounds. The residue seeks to heal
them
"Few people have any idea how the
passion for munitions has bitten into
the national life. In England there
are twelve vast munition areas where
day by day, the output increases, as
men, women. boys and girls acquire
greater facility. Even the school
school boy writes home to say that
the head-master has installed a lathe
and that the fellows are giving so
many hours a day to the national
service.
"At the end of 1916 the wealth of
the world stood reduced by twelve
thousand million pounds. Surely. in
the years to come when this mad
ness is past, people will ask them
selves: Is government that de-
rands such penalties for the price
OF its ambition to be allowed to per
sist?"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
HOW MEN BEHAVE UNDER THE
SHELL SHOCK.

Shell shock is the popular way OF
saying War-strain, and q man Suf-
ferlng from shell-shock can be de-
scilbed In common parlance as a man
who has lost his Senses" Some men
1t makes blind, some dumb, when not
thing is physically the matter with
the eyes or the vocal cords. 1t is q
form OF hysteria.
The most distressing symptoms
occur III those patients whose past
history shows that, far from pos
sesslng even the normal quota of tim
ldity they have been oted for their
'dare-develtry'," accol ding the Shell
Shock, computed by G. Elliot Smith
and L. III Pear. "Ihe seasoned regu-
lar officer as much as the Young,
green soldier displays precisely the
same symptoms. such men have been
IN the army for years. Their strength
OF mind and body has been demon
strated over and over again; yet at
iasG they have broken down.
"A non-commissioned officer went
through eleven months of the war.
lie was wounded twice, gassed twice,
buried under q house. Each time he
returned to the front. He was grant
ed i've days ordinary leave and start
ed Off, apparently in good health. At
ter reaching England, while waiting
for a train, he suddenly collapsed, be-
came unconscious and several months
afterward was the subject of sever
neurasthenia.
A seaman was brought into naval
hospital who could speak only whis-
per. While in the ammunition cham
per OF the big guns he suddenly lost
MS voice. After fourteen days lie re-
covered it.
A short time afterwards he reutnred
to the hospital with complete loss of
speech, Immediately after a naval
rattle in the North Sea. He was dis
charged with complete recovery of
his speech On returning to duty, as
soon as he stepped on board, his voice
was lost again for The third time:
and it never came back.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
Public Is Robbed.
A PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE.

In these days of high prices, it is
refreshing to find one article of ma
tionwide demand that will not cost
more than it id last year and yet will
De more e"aluable than il ever has
been.
The Youths Companion subscrip-
ton price. $500 will not be increased.
The 81 issues of 1918 will ne packed
full of the best stories Ivy the most
popular writer's. The Editorial page,
the Boys Page, Girls Page, Family
page, and all the departments will
bring a vast amount of cheer, good
entertainment and information for
every reader in the family circle.
BY special arrangement new sub
scribers for The Companion can also
have McCall's Magazine, the fashion
authority, for 1918, both publications
for only 1926.
This two-in-one-p price includes:
1. The Youths Companion-52 is
sues in 1918.
2. All remaining 1917 issues of The
Companion free
The Companion Home Calendar for
1918.
4. McCall's Magazine-12 fashions
numbers in 1918. All for only 1925.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION
Commonwealth Ave, Boston, Mass.
New subscriptions received at this
Office.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26

The Graham Daily News section of
the Blueicld Telegraph is given over
largely now to it's editors rantings
and rawlings over the gubernatorial
fight in Virginia. If one saw only the
Bluciield Telegraph and believed what
the Graham Daily News prints about
the situation it would appear that the
country is swarming to Muncy like
bees. When the truth is. that Mum
cy has no more chance of election
that Kent had some years ago-anI
we all know what happened to Will
lie Il.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
CALoMEL DYNAMITEs
A SLUGGISH LIVER
Crashes Into Your Bile, Making You
Sick and You Lose 4 Days
Work

Calomel salivates les mercury,
Calomsl acts like dynamite on slug
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachhy, con-
stipated and all knocked out, just go
to your druggist and get a so cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is harmless Vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful
and if it doesn't start your liver
and straighten you up better and
quicker than nasty calomel and with
out, making you sick, you just go
back and get your money.
If lou take calomel today, you'll
be sick and nauseated tomorrow; be-
sides, it may salivate you, while if
you take Dodson's Liver Tone, you
viii wake up f-eling great, full of am
bition and re; dy for work or play. It's
harmless, pleasant and safe to give
to children: they like it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE
MONEY?

Some one asks, what becomes of all
the money we are raising in Liberty
Bonds, loaning the Allies, etc.
1t will all be spent right at home,
OF practically all of it, anyway. AS
we understand it, the immense loans
made the Allies running into billions
is placed TO their credit here to pay
for goods, supplies. etc, needed for
the support of their armies. The bill
lions raised by sale of Liberty Bonds
will be spent to equip orr army and
of course spent here. After the close
of The war the Allies will owe the
United States immense sumg Of mon
cy. The United States is spending
little or no money abroad except
what our soldiers will spend there
out of their salaries.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26

-
And then we went down to see the
pictures of General Pershing's arrival
IN France. We saw ship riding in u
strange harbor with khaki-clad men
clustered about her rail-men like
those guarding our railroad bridge.
We saw Pershing land. We saw his
reception. We saw his progress thru
the streets of two French towns. We
saw the Stars and Stripes break from
the staff on top of French building
A yell broke loose in the darkened
theatre. Not youngsters now, but men
and women. The noise grew and grew
in volume. Our little moving-picture
house had never heard such an up
roar. The operator grew ratified,
and turned the picture too fast. The
pianist played "The Star Spangled
Banner" and missed many of the
notes. On our feet, we sang our an
them. The picture ended, but we sang
on. The boys were in France! We had
seen them.
That night / walked home behind
father and his son. The father was
one of the men who had declared that
! the war would end before we could
get into it. They walked very slowly,
too. Our thoughts were with-a shin
riding in strange harbor. "They're
really over there!" the boy said in
an awed voice.
The man nodded absently.
Pop, /" He cleared his throat to
rob it of it's huskiness. "Pop, | guess
it's up to me to CO."
The man put a hand on his Shout
der. In silence they walked on up the
street. The war has come home to us
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
STRAWS.
(The independently


One after another the brewing COM
panies proclaim with loud enconiums
the virtues of new cooling and re-
fresing drinks which they have begun
to manufacture. They are non-aIco-
holic, but attractive with the peculiar
flavor of hops. The enthusiasm with
which their makers launch them upon
the world suggests strong suspic-
ION IN the permanency of their use,
we congratulate the brewers on their
new project; it is interesting to spec
ulatc on what it means.
Brewers are not won't to fail in
worldly wisdom.
Can it be that they foresec an ap-
preaching time when they will be
forced by public opinion to take the
adder's sting out of their brewings ?
,Arethey hedging against the march
of prohif ;.ion?
Shall we soon see the brewers max
ing drink without the alcohol and the
distlllers making alcohol without the
Blows the wind that way?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
MAY HE WIN OUT.

The country is watching with inter-
est the fight for the mayoralty in
New York City. The fight is u hot
one. There are three candidates. May
or Mitchell, the present incumbent
is running as an Independent, on a
fusion ticket. Ex-President Taft, and
Hon. Elihu Root are supporting his
candidacy. Mayor Mitchell has Civ
Ell the great city fine adminstra-
ton and the hope is widely expressed
that the may win out in his fight
against Tammany Hall, Hearst, the
world, the flesh and the devil
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
IF YOU HAVN'T BOUGHT LIBER.
TY BONDS, READ THIS.

Here is little sermon on Liberty
Bonds. 1t is from DR.. G. L. Fallon,
Cincinnatian, now lieutenant in the
tlfty-third Infantry at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ga. A more inspiring thought
could scarcely be editor.
The letter appears in the Cincin-
natl Post and is as follows:
l am writing you today about what
l think is one of the greatest stories
of the war.
The regiments encamped here at
Chicamauga Park and TT, Oglethorpe
are made up mostly of recruits and
these recruits are Italians, Poles AMI
Russian Jews. Most of these soldiers
speak very little English and some
none. Each regiment conducts schools
of English.
These new Americans answered to
their adopted countries call to arms
and are rapidly being converted into
useful units to carry on the battle
OF democracy VS.. autocracy.
This week the various regiments
were addressed by Chattanooga men
on The subject of the Liberty Bands.
The result was that the soldiers
pledged more money in one day than
the city of Chattanooga did in a
week.
The Fifty-third regiment made a
1000 subscription. This has jumped
to S101 600. 1t is still climbing. The
Fifty-third is new regiment COM
posed of 1900 men. I believe it leads
every regiment in the United States
army in Liberty Bond purchases. 9th
cr regiments here are trying to out
do the Fifty-third One company of
100 men in another regiment sub
scribed $l2. 900 Officers subscrip-
tions are not added to those of the
pr.vates.
Can you conceive of greater pa
triotism,. greater loyalty?
Doesn't it cast shame upon any
civilian who can afford to, but has
not purchased bond? Does history
hold within her archives any such
record of liyalty?
Many men in the regiments sta
toned here are spending nearly half
Of their monthly pay for liberty
l wonder how the kaiser who sized
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
AT TWILIGHT.

Have you no other memories
That through the amber twilight
steal,
And linger with you angel-wise,
Your aching heart to soothe ant
heal?
they often come to me and linn
face | love by Time made dim.
So life-like are the hues, so clear
The vision to my inner sight,
Not only do | see her, hear
dear voice in the star-lit night;
ana sweeter seems its melody
Because It's heard alone by me.
o love supreme that breaks the wall
Between the living and the dead,
"n MAJ betide, my hope. my all,
Thy presence frees my soul Of
dread;
One hand with me, l feel it fond,
Thine other-with my dead belong
Samuel Minturn Peck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
THE WAR BROUGHT STILL CLOS.
Err TO US.

In the sinking of the American
transport ship, the Antilles by a Ger
man submarine, on Wednesday of
last week, three or four of those who
lost their lives were Americans, and
Southern men. The transport was re-
turning home. from foreign port
Sixty-sevcn of the crew went down
with the ship. The ship was convoy
ed by number of patrol boats, none
Of which, it seems. saw Inc subma-
iine which did the dastardly deed
And, SO, if any one has doubted OF
failed to realize that we are at war
with Germany here is new evidence
and convincing, on that point.
An American ship has been sunk
'ojthern American lives lost. If this
iJ-boat warfare is not met success
fully German U-boats may be expect
ed to bob up anywhere on our own
coasts.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
"Shall we be more tender
with our dollars than with
the lives OF our soHs?"
Buy n Liberty Bond TODAY.

There Is more Caturrh In this section OF
the country than all other diseases put
together. and until the last few years
was supposed TO be incurablc. For a
great many years doctors pronounced 1t
local disease and prescribed local reme-
dies, and by constantly falling to cure
with local treatment. pronounced II incur
able. Science has proven Catarrh to be O.
constitutional disease. and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by Il. j.
Cheney & Co, Toledo. Ohio. is the only
Constitutional cure on the market. 1t Is
taken internally. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case II fails TO cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address: +. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O..
Sold by DruggiBts. Use.
Take Halls Family riils for constipation.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
EVERY MARRIED COUPLE

and all who contemplate marriage should own
this complete book of Life-The "Common Sense
Medical Adviser" by X. v. Pierce, III. d. 1t
unfods the sccrets of married happiness so
often revealed too late. No book like It to DO
had at any price. 100S pn9es-bound In cloth.
Sold formerly for SLIGO. We only mention
few of the chapters here: The Mechanism
of Life History of Marriage, Advice for Mother
and Babe. Nervous Troubles. Sex. Hygiene. An
a;orny, Physiology, Medicine. etc.
Special Offer - For limited timo we will
send one copy for dimes To pny cost of wrap
ping and mailing, to any reader OF this paper,
Address GG3 hIain St. Buffalo, N. Y.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
THAT GOOD OLD JOKE.

They were discussing that Joke
about getting down off of an ele-
Flow do you get DOWN." asked the
Jokesmith for the fourth time.
"You climb down."
Wrong"
"You grease his sides and slide
Wrong"
Wrong"
down."
mo, not quite. You don't get down
oil of an elephant; you get it off OF
a goose"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
Mrs. Smith Recommends Chamber
lain'S Tablets.

81 have had more or less stomach
trouble for eight or ten years." says
Mrs. G. II. Smith, Beaverton, N. Y.
when suffering from attacks of in
digestion and heaviness after eating
one or two of Chamberlain's tablets
have always relieved me. I have al
ways found them pleasant laxative
These tablets tone up the stomach
and enable it to perform its functions
NATURALLY. If you are troubled with
indigestion, give them trial get
we'll and stay well.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
Women Have Their Troubles.

Not onyy middle-age women, but
younger ones, too, suffer from the
backache, pains in side, swollen an
kles, sore muscles, rheumatic pains
and kindred ailments without know
ing that these are most often the
result of deranged or overworked
kidneys. Foley Kidney pills are good
medicine for kidneys troubles. Sold
Everywhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
Prompt Action Averts Trouble.

A constipated condition not only
poinsons the blood stream, but quick
ly affects the liver and other or
gans, causing biliuosness, sick head
ache, sour stomach bloating, cts. Fo-
ley Cathartic Tablets are mild in ac-
ton. yet cleanse thoroughly, with no
cause nor ccstive after effects. Keep
bowels regular, stomach sweet, liver
active. Sold everywhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
up the Americans as monev mad and
too selfish to fight, regards this form
of Americanism?
U. S. TO SMASH ROBBER BREAD
PRICES.

Westinghouse standard loaf of
bread, made from a standard flour
by standard formula and sold at
standard price.
That is the recommendation OF the
special committee that has investi-
gated the bread situation for the food
administration.
Food administrator Hoover will ap-
prove the recommendations and will
enforce them by putting the baking
industry under license
The result will be placing on the
market OF a 22-ounce loaf to retail
at 10 cents.
The loaf will be baked with crease
in the middle SO it may be broken in
half-or elevn ounces-will retail for
nickel
Fair Profit Guaranteed.
Care was taken in determining the
size Of loaf and the price, to leave
a fair margin for bakers profits.
Flour will be supplied to all baker
les at standard price affected only
by the freight differential.
In determining the formula for the
mixing of bread elaborate tests were
| made with many formulas and combi-
nations.
AS conservative measure, the sale
, of hot bread will be forbidden. All
bread will be required to be IL hours
| old before placed on sale.
Public Is Robbed.
The committees report leaves no
doubt that the investigation convinc-
ed members bakers have been charg-
ing eXorbitant prices and reaping a
rich harvest.
In order to offer the consumer ev-
cry possible saving, the committee
| also recommends bakers to be requir-
ed to sell bread direct to persons call
ing at the bakery, and that the price
on such sales should approximate the
price to the retailer This, it is said,
would make the 22-ounce loaf at z,
or not more than cents at the bak-
cry, and the half loaf four cents.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
A MELODIOUS MEMORY.

fHcIc lilhL anu luI Oll lHuSlC
stealing down the vanished years
From the silver moonlit vastness oil
some Summer scented night.
Some it may have moved TO laughter,
some it may have moved to tears.
ineffable delight.
Sugar sweet the songs were mostly,
tales damsel lorn might tell;
Filled with cadence delightful, pleas
ant mournfulness long drawn;
Which the stars appreciated yes,
they must have liked it well,
For they didn't say they didn't and
they listened on and on.
There was little Husky Higgins, not
so very strong at that,
But he had bass that rumblcd just
like thunder in mine;
And that tenor from the corner of the
mouth of good old Fat
Well, it took the hurdles boldly, and
at least it sounded fine.
And the others of the chosen only
helped the game along,
Just two common sort of voices no
one ever Classics;
And the discordS were not counted,
for, no matter what the song,
There was always some place in it
where the four could harmonic.
If the base did skid & trifle, or if Fat
sang through his nose,
What was that to worry over while
such magic thrilled the air?
If an irate ncighbor Knocked it, if
another slyly rose,
hammered "Scat!" and thought it
humor-say, did anybody care?
Oh. Caruso's voice is mighty, and Nc
Cormack's tones are sweet,
Though you've got to pay to hear
them; they are worth the cash you
bring:
But there isn't any singing any more
that can compete
With the sort you perpetrated when
you thought that you could sing.
Charles c. Jones, in the New
York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
The Whole Neighborhood Knows

Mrs. Anna Pelxer, 1926 Jefferson
St, So. Omaha, Neb., writes: $40
ley's Honey and Tar cured my daught-
er of bad cold. My neighbor, Mrs.
Benson, cured herself and family by
Foley's Honey and Tar, and in fact
most everyone in our neighborhood
speaks highly of it as good remedy
for coughs and colds" Sold every
where
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
NO WONDER.

Colonel Starbuck, of the Bolton
Herald, was carried home in an am
6tulance the other day just after ask
ing the price of some country hams
that had been brought in to market.
The colonel is recovering on a diet
of barley soup and alfalfa potlicker.
now and then in his delirium repeat,
shopkeeper's reply, "Sixty Cents a
pound. lex.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
Makes Good in the NORTH.

A cough remedy must be good to
give satisfaction in northern states
variable weather. Bertram Bros, of
Green Bay, Wis, write: eve have
used Foley's Honey and Tar COM
pound and recommend it to anyone
who needs good, reliable cough and
cold remedy" Relieves Group, opens
air passages, eases strangling fight
10" breath. Sold everywhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
Cut This Quit is Worth Money

Cut This Quit is Worth Money,
DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip, enclose with &c to Foley G. Co.,
1885 Sheffield Ave, Chicago, Ill, Civ.
ing your na.nc and address clearly.
You will receive IN return a trial
package containing Foley's Honey G.
Tar Compond for coughs, colds and
Group; FOLEY Kidney pills and Fo-
ley Cathartic Tablets. Sold every
where.