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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
MUST HAVE LIClsNSE TO CARRY
EXPLOSIVES,

Wast lngton, Nov. l2.-Any person
IN the United States found with cx-
plosives III his possession after No
vember 18th, and who does not have
iccn: issued - tho f. 'nr,I r,,,
ethm.n,S showing the purpose for
what tic explosives are to be used
VIII be at once arrested and fined nm
TO S5.Ou } or sent To prison one veor
If the circumstances warrant. the
person may be fined $4,000 and in nd
dition given the one year in prison.
Persons apprchended in plots To
blow up factories and bridges will
be turned over to the authorities for
prosecution under Federal or state
laws. Most states have especially So
we're punishmcnts for these crimes.
New York has an extreme penalty of
twenty-five years Imprisonment for
the placing OF dynamite with intent
to blow up property.
The law provides that every onc
who handles explosives must have n
license by the Bureau of Mines in
Washington. The seller of explosives
and the purchaser Of explosives must
also have licenses, these to be issued
generally by county clerks, or other
local officers in each county, and more
agents Will be designated if the coun-
ty is sufficiently large. to warrant it
III state has laws providing for II
system OF licensing persons manufuc-
turing, storing, selling or using OK
plosivcs, the state official authorized
to issue such state licensees shall bo
designated as federal licensing agents
and also city officials qualified to is
sue city explosives licenses will he
given authority to issue federal H.
censes. A federal license will not re-
lieve any person from securing Ii
ccnses required under state laws and
local ordinances.
In each state there will be appoint
ed state explosive inspector, who
will represent the Bureau of Mines
IN the administration of the law with
i'll the State.
Only citizens of the United States
or OF countries friendly to the Unit
cd States and the allies may SO OH
tain licenses.
Contractors, mining companies, and
quarrycn using large quantities OF cx
| plosivcs, which are handled by en-
| ployces, may issue explosives to their
employees only through those en-
, ployees holdig licenses, called II fore
mans license.
The purchaser of dynamite, in OBJ
tanning license, must state definite
" what the explosive is to he used
for and will be held responsible for
its use ms stated and the return of
any explosives that may he left over.
With tho strict enforcement of this
law, the Federal authorities hope to
prevent explosives falling into the
hands of cvilly-disposcd persons and
to put step To all further dynamite
plots.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16

of consciously breathing deeply while
at your distributing in full brcnths
that you feel around your belt, not
merely in the upper lung?
Have you over made it II point to
rest your eyes mt regular intervals
by turning them away from their
closeup work and looking into the
distance?
Have you over taken TIC timc To
stop and measure the immensely rn-
ugulng influence of anger, or worry.
or the feeling of being rushed?
Another ad final point in this: ncy-
or Continue work beyond the point of
reasonable fatigue.
"osso has proved That, w,.cn we be-
gin to feel tired, exactly tic same
work usca up far more crsrgy than
when we were fresh. With his cr-
gograph he measured with curves
and tracings the results CT Fitting II
iit'lc weight with finger so many
times"
Any one who could see q. occ Charts
showing how much mare energy was
required TO accomplish tie task
when the finger became tired. would
never again make the rnistnkc of
trying by forcing 60 do the task
from which the tired mind ard body
rebel.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
ASK ED by AMATEUR EXENlp-
TON BOARD.

These questions were asked by nm
exemption hoard Somewhere i'm the
United States" but understand il was
not the Ta2ewcll Exemption bonrd:
What ia your name?
what Is your full name?
what was your great grand faith
cr's full name?
What was his name when he was
MT full?
How great was your grandrath-
cr?
What would you like your name To
he?
What number would your house
number he il your house were num-
hcrcd?
We're you horn in the United
States?
In what other countries were you
born?
Are you II spy?
so. are you mncc-spy?
Have you ever attended (a) kinder
garton: OBJ Sunday School; (c) old
ladies home; (D clam-bakc?
DO you claim exemption?
Do you own any of the follow
ing, and if SO. how many: (a) meat
grinders; I'D ash siftcrs; (c) clcc-
trio fans; I'D bnby carriages?
Can you operate: (a) peanut ven
dcr's stand; (b) c0rsscrcw; (c) black
ing-brush; (d) spaghetti?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
GLAD TO TESTIFY
Says Watoga Lady, GAS To What
Cardui Has Done For Me, So
As To Hep Others"

Watoga, W. Va,-Mrs. S. w. Caldwell,
OF this town, says: "Whcn about Is years
OF age, suffered greatly =. Sometimes
would go a month or two, and had
terrible headache, backache, and bearing
down pains. and would just drag and
had no appetite. Then il would last
-. two weeks, and was so weakening,
and my health was awful.
My mother bought me bottle of
Cardui, and began 10 improve after
taking the first bottle, so kept it up till |
look three gained. and was well
and strong, and owe II all 10 Cardui.
| am married now and have 3 children
:. Have never had TO have a doctor for
female trouble, and just resort 10 Cardui
II need tonic. am glad TO testify 10
what il has done for me, so as to help
Others"
II you arcncrvoiis or weak, have head
aches, backaches, or any of the other
ailments SO common 10 women, why not
give Cardul a trial? Recommended by
many physicians. Ia use over 10 years.
Begin taking C3rdr tod. II may
be the very med. ,iuc ,ou need.
NC l3G
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
THE CAVE CHILDREN" OF
FRANCE.

During the bomhardment of the
Belgian and French towns. hundreds
of children, ragged, hungry. some of
them half imbecilc from shock, all
of them physically disordcrcd, began
to come into Paris on every train.
They were tagged like postoilicc pack
ages-for even the older ones were
too duzed to give II coherent account
of themselves.
After the older ones began to re-
cover Il little, they I'LL told the same
bitter, monotonOus stories.
Many of these children were in eel
lars, not for weeks, but for months,
without seeing the light Of day, with
their hunger never satisfied, their ear
drums splitting with racuous sounds;
the stenches enough TO poison what
red blood they had"
The first thing That was done with
these wits was to feed them. The
next was to wash and disinfect them
clip their hair to the skull. burn the
rags they were gearing, dress them
in clean clothes and install them in
beautiful chateau which was taken
over for the purpose by group of
Commtteen for the Protection of the
Even after many weeks of careful
feeding, rest and fresh air, many OF
the children were still too weak to
play. They would lie about in deck
chairs, languidly gazing out ut the
fields and woods, indifferent to what
went on about them.
AS moving, in its way, as this pic
ture Of bowildercd, passive suffering
is the heroism Of one French child
whose story RS. Anterior tells here.
In one of the little villages outside
of Paris, the only baker of the place
was called suddenly to the front. His
wife had died Il few weeks before. lie
left one child, little girl of about
twelve.
"This mans bakery had supplied
all tho bread in the village. Bread
making in France is n science-thc
work of the expert, not of casual
housewife. Consequently the whole
village was in despair. A Frenchman
will go without feat, but life without
bread is unthin!:able. No one thought
of the child.
"But the second day after mobili-
cation her shop window was piled
high with loaves, as usual. The inn
was supplied. This little girl worked
steadily and unaided at her task, I'M
til her father. n year later, returned,
minus leg, to give her assistance
of II sort.
"The business of the bakery was
nearly doubled during the time Foot
weary marching regiments, with no
time to stop for q meal, halted a
moment and bought the stock on hand.
But, with only few hours sleep,
the girl toiled on valiantly, and no
applicant for bread WAS turned away
empty-handed.
GLOW she kept up her childish
strength and courage, without Il mo-
ment's change in her routine and on
insufficient sleep, can only be explain
ed by the twin facts that she came
of hardly peasant stock, and, like all
French children. no matter how indi-
vidual, was too thoroughly imbued
with the discipline of the family to
shrk for n moment the particular
task that war had brought her"
This child has recently ben decorat-
ed by the French government,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
REST WHILE YOU WORK.

"Fancy what 1t would mean if.
where only ten muscles are required
and most people habitually use TWEEN
ty, they could learn to use only the
ten" says writer in the Contempt
rary Review.
Most Of the men and women of the
world, he points out, never organ
ize their physical and mental selves
so as to use the minimum Of -cncr-
gy. On every operation they pour
out far more strength than is needed.
The Greeks were masters of energy
saving. They studied the rct ~ Of
posture, endcavoring 20 deter - en-
actly what attitude OF Tie bcdv mndc
possible the largest amorn. &C worA
with the least effort Have you even
made any such study of your body in
relation to your job.
Have you ever practiced the habit
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16

In each OF these soldier was strum-
books and magazines; hundreds were
writing letters home. Behind the
raised counter at one end three or four
young men were busy passing out
notepaper and envelopes, selling
stamps and weighing parcels, which
the men were sending homo. One OF
the soldiers said to me as i stood In
the tent used chiefly by men from
Iowa: I'VE came all the way hero
from Des Moines, and we were mighty
lonely. Then we found this Y. NJ. c..
A. on the Job, and It's been q homo
and moro than home to us. 1t gave
US what we wanted when we needed
It most. Well never forget 1t. The
boys best friend Is the Y. NJ. c. A"
Fine, clean-cut, Outstanding Fellows.
How close those benches were pack
ed with mon. bending over the long
tables absorbed in their writing!
What an appeal to the sympathies
those great groups OF soldiers make!
Fine, clean-cut. outstanding fellows.
some OF thom mere boys, one thinks
Immediately OF the sacrifice they have
made Cor the rest OF us and how pre-
cious they are to some one back home.
Somewhere, In far off farm or village
or city street, there arc parents or
brothers or wives who. would give all
they possess for one glimpse of those
sunburned faces as you and see
them on their last night before going
across. And 1t was with throb OF
the heart that watched them. bent
over their letter paper, in one after
another OF those seven big tents.
These were the tents OF the Y. N. G,
A On that last night in America the
association was serving the soldiers
in the best of all ways-giving them
an opportunity to write home. On
previous nights they had enjoyed box.
ing bouts. movies, concerts, dramaticH
and @ dcor6 OF healthy entertainments
as we'll as religious meetings. But on
this lest night home ties were strong,
est. And perhaps that is the keynote
Of the splendid work the Y. M. c. A.
is doing among our men in uniform
keeping them in touch with homo.
Magic Wofds, with the colora."
lp these times there are somo let.
ters that mean moro to us than any
We have ever read 5efore. They are
written on sheets OF paper stamped
with the Stars and Stripes and the
rec triangle Of the Y. NJ. C. A.. and
they bear the magic words, with the
Cobra" There are many more than
a million such letters in the mails now
while yon read this. Perhaps one at
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR STARV.
CHILDREN

I'5UHH1y soVHOOI IImGS.J
a bite to eat will be most aD-
prcciated Christmas present to the
100000 children of Armenia and Syr-
in whose parents have been massa-
cred or died from starvation. Indeed
these children themselves are likely
to he dead before Christmas, 1918,
rolls around unless America sends
them food. In an effort to save them
the Sunday Schools of America are
being asked to raise mt least 81 ,000,-
600 at Christmas. Five dollars will
sustain II life for thirty days, and
500 for whole year. Tie Sunday
School War Council, cooperating
with tho committee for Armenian and
Syrian relief, addison Ave, New
York. has prepared the appeal to the
Sunday Schools.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16

orego coveted possessions or even uo-
tessities.) The work must 60 on. be-
sause thore Is no one thing that con-
tributes go much to the spirit and ef-
lciency OF the troops. Tho Y. NJ. c.
A. Is working night and day to help
he government win this WEI. AND
avery penny that is given to aid the
work IS a direct assistance to tho
Aealth, happiness and strength OF your
boy and mine.
Snapshots Of Kaleidoscope Work.
In oil the big cities In France whero
,ur men pass through in large num-
GERS. the Y. NJ. c. A Is operating
aostels, where they can got beds and
meals at a minimum cost. In London
the American Y. NJ. c. A. mas erected
largo building for our soldiers and a
clubhouse for American officers.
There are Y. NJ. c. A. dugouts right
behind the front line trenches. where
the soldiers can get hot drinks. crack.
ers and other comforts at all hours.
Over 1000 men who had been reject
ed on account of physical disability
have been able to get into the British
army by reason OF the physical work
OF the British Y. NJ. c. a.
A feet Of motor cars leaves the big
Y. NJ. c. A. headquarters In London at
midnight every night to pick up SOL
diers who are wandering about the
streets without any wholesome lodging
in which to spend the night These
cars are operated by Englishwomen
OF position and refinement, who report
that they never meet any discourtesy
at the hands OF the soldiers. The I'm.
portance Of this service can be esti.
mated by the fact that at least $4,000
soldiers are on leave In London every
week. Over half of these sleep in Y.
M. G. A beds every night
Entertainment on Vast Scale.
Tho Y. NJ. C: A. has erected a big
auditorium. seating 5000, in each OF
the big draft Campo, aud huge chautau,
qua tents. seating $500 In the otner
encampments. The association Is run.
ming % week entertainment circuit
among the camps and is paying 10
companies of entertainers, who are
itraYeling to 30 camps performing BIO
lore the men.
In each of the draft camps the Y.
Nj. G. A. has ten secretaries engaged
In educational work. The association
Is seeing to 1t that every man who
cannot speak English ia taught to do
so. In many Of the camps the asso.
citation has singing director, who ia
teaching the men to sing the popular
and martial airs that do so much to
keep up their spirits.
or Ga Y. NJ. c.. A. men at Camp
Dix only three are being paid full sal
aries. In oil the camps the majority
of the Y. M. c. A. men have left lucra.
tive positions 10 do this work simply
because It's appeal is irresistible to
any red bloodcd man. Harry Lauder
the famous Scotch singer and como.
dian, now on his farewell concert tour
in the United States. ia giving all his
spare time to the service of the asso.
citation and is singing TO the soldiers
at all the camps he can reach.
In one of the draft camps the Y. M
c. A. is supervising athletics on 100
playing fields. providing full athletic
equipment. Tho winners Of the inter.
regimental games will play the cham.
pions OF the other camps.
Ono Of the greatest services render
ed by the association Is the making
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out'of money orders by which the men
can send their pay home to their fam,
lies. In some OF the big camps the
Y. M. c. A. liz providing banking facil.
tiles for the men as we'll.
Do Your Bit With q Tenner.
This month (November) the Y. M
c. A. must raise S35, 100000 to carry
on Its work among our soldiers and
their allies until next July. or this
s35.o0o.Oo0 about s24.o00,O0O will be
spent on tho work with our own troops
or about $40 for every man in Uncle
Sans uniform. II everybody who has
received letters from soldiers and sail
ors were to contribute $40 the task
would be easy. Are your boys health
and happiness and clean soul worth
$40 to you? j
Your town mayor. your pastor, your
school superintendent will know who
is the treasurer OF the campaign com.
mittee In your county or town. Other.
wise sond n check ~ Nancy order To
Cleveland III. Dodge treasurer. 1874
East Twenty-eighth street. New York
city.
Only sacrifcini . 'rg nv millions @,
gtyers will mac 10 10 he roniip.
uanoe Of this snis; ~.,a a. N,nar,can
Ioldiers and f." ''''e" w. llllep
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
REV. ]. C. PEERY GOES TO NORTH
CAROLINA.
(Salem Times,Reglster.)

Rev. j; c. Peery has efficiently oc-
cupied the position of President of
Elizabeth College since its establish
ment here in Salem until the end of
the session here last summer when
he resigned. At the earnest solicit
tation of the board of directors Presi-
dent Peery consented to remain until
other arrangements could be made.
He has now accepted call to the
passionate Of the Lutheran church
at Hickory. N. c., and has assumed
the duties of same. It was on ac-
count of the health of Mrs. Peery,
which demanded a change that Mr..
Pcery felt constrained to give up the
presidency of Elizabeth College that
has SO materially prospered under
his active and able administration.
The family leaves many friends in
this community whose good wishes
follow them to their new home.
Prof. Paul Sieg, chairman of the
faculty, will direct the affairs of the
college until a new president is chos-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16

least Is on its way to you. Each one
Of our 16 environments. where the new
national army Is being trained. is
using more than million sheets Of
this paper every month. In the draft
army alone that means 100000 fila.
ments OF love every month reaching
out from the great encampment where
the men are being trained into tho
greatest army this nation has ever
dreamed and binding them to the
hearts at homo. Multiply that by
thinking OF all the other places where
Uncle Sam has mon with the flag-in
navy yards, on the high seas, In arse
nails and oflcers' training camps and
"Over There" In France. In all these
places mon arc writing homo. Those
unassuming little sheets of notepaper
gladden. millions Of hearts n day.
They transfer moro love from one
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16

part Of the world to another than sta.
pretty poor anyway when 1t comes to
reckoning in terms of love and human
tenderness. Let's put 1t this way:
That the Y. NJ. G. A. is the biggest ex
press company the world has eve,
seen, and the parcels It Is handling
are tho loves and devotions OF human
beings.
Worlds Best Loved Trademark
This war has made us think haro
and fast. Your boy or your neigh
boris boy or some boy YOU know anu
love has been called TO do his share
in the big job Of policing the world for
democracy and human liberty. Ia ii
any comfort to you to know that wher.
ever his duty may call him your boy
will nave a friend that will serve him
in body. mind and soul? Are you
glad to know that this friend will place
books and magazines at his disposal,
organize classes to teach him what.
cvor he wants to learn. give him a
pocket testament and invite him TO
join religious meetings OF the faith
that he was brought up in? Did you
realize that the association provides
athletic equipment for his favorite
games, teaches him games II he knows
none and holds concerts, lectures
movies, Bible classes. dramatic enter
tainments and every kind OF whole.
some amusement to keep him interest.
ed? Are you glad to know that this
friend will go with him overseas. help
to shield him from a score OF difficult,
and dangerous temptations and follow
him right UP 10 the front line trench
and beyond It? The last contact tho
soldier has with this life he loves so
we'll Is a cup OF tea given him by the
Y. M. c. A. free Just before he goes
over the top" 80 @ hand to hand strug.
gle with the enemy. And as he comes
tottering back from No Mans Land.
wounded. but strong enough and
plucky enough to keep on his feet,
even before his wounds are dressed
the Y. NJ. c. A. is waiting for MIN with
tea and sweet chocolate, the great com.
forts OF the man IN the trenches. Do
you wonder that the Red Triangle is
called the best loved trademark n
the world?" Ono soldier in France has
called 1t tho Last evidence that any:
body cares"
II every thinking citizen could SEQ
with his or her own eyes something
of the actual work being done for our
mon by tho association there would be
no question OF the Y. Nj c. A. having
to appeal to the public for money.
Rathor than let this essential work
fa.ter for an instant itch men would
sell their mnIn.cc-; r.anI N on ,nauld
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
WOODMEN'S AXE AND DEATHS
SCYTHE IN SYRIA.
Sunday School Times.)

"The cedars of Lebanon, whose
great wind-moved tops have waved in
Psalm and prophetic page, have at
last gone to feed Turkish locomo-
Syria and the Lebanon Of ell trace
of wood in order to run their railroad
at present deprived of European coal.
1t Is furthermore stated that from the
100000 to 100000 people have died
from disease, starvation and exile in
the province Of Lebanon alone, and
in Syria proper as many more. An
eye witness says that the only re-
naming signs of life are the SPAR
rows building their nests in the de-
populated houses.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-16
\ REASONABLY PRICED PROD.
UCT,

The food administration announces
that canned corn should be available
in large quantities to the consumer
this winter, as the total pack for
1917 will reach IL 100000 cases, the
largest since 1912. Canned corn may
therefore be placed on the house
wife's list of flood products at rea-
sonablc prices"
any lines of canned goods were
bought by dealers at low prices last
spring on future contracts. These
goods are now being delivered. If
dealers take only a reasonable mar
gin of profit on these goods-as many
of them have promised the govern
ment to do-the prices to the en-
sumner would be CORRESPONDENCE low