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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
BIBLICAL DRAMAS.

dramas, one Creation" the the other other
the "Thc Fall" They tower high at
the start of human history as great
dramatic types representing the Sc
cret OF mans life. 1t is when that
which is drama is taken for prosaic
that trouble follows.
The drama of Creation"
The curtain rises with God as the
eternal power, and with matter al
ready in existence. Then the stupen-
dous drama cross the stage in seven
mighty acts called days" "Day" is
used simply as natural unit of
which events are measured and dis
tributed. Its modern equivalent is
Act" 1t has nothing chronological
in view. 1t looks at things as an
observer would, classifie them as the
eye sees them, and one by one
ascribes them all to the will and
word of God. The intention is not to
time the process, as with all other
dramas, the method to set great
sections of the history in rapid
succession of "Acts." 1t has nothing
TO do with geology; it is theology.
1t reveals God as the source of all.
1t endows man with his true dignity.
enfranchises him in Code universe
by setting him forth all the highest
product of the earths creation. 1t
is this that lifts Genesis immea-
surably above the Chaldean tradition
Of creation, which are unSpil'itual
and polythastic. 1t is divine moral
.aie, not a scientific memoir.
The Drama of the Fall"
The races of the earth are one
family, brotherhood Temptation
and moral evil have met and infected
all men. The "Edcn" crisis is uni
versall true-the best case of man
kind. Adams is the Original" the
typical experience and sin. And as it
was with the infant race of man, so
IT is with every child and youth; he
finds himself in garden of choice.
1t is conscience that feels itself
naked" and makes apron excuses
and fig-leaf pretenses. At the cool
of the day, at tn evening hour Of
worship and meditation, when God
walks in His garden seeking human
fellowship, the guilty heart hides
from Him. Then sin casts it's dark,
blighting hue on labor and child
birth, on thorns and thisties, and
even death.
Inc flaming sword" ut the gate
OF the garden is set not to keep men
out, but to preserve it undcfiled, to
keep the holy home secure for the
Gods holiness is the keeper of the
universe from devastation. And when
Paradise Lost" gives place to
Paradise Regained" the new way
of life must lead through recovered
redeemed goodness. But why did
God not keep the serpent out of the
garden altogether? A being that
could not possibly 60 wrong could
have no moral character, temptation,
not sin, appear to be necessary
stage in the production of moral
character.
Dick Norman.
Tazewell County Jail, August 9Th.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
COUNTRY WEEKLIES TO CON
SERVE PAPER.

A special dispatch to the New York
Times from Washington, says:
Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of
the War Industries Board, announc-
cd today that the plan of the conser-
walton of news print paper had been
extended to include country weeklics.
The plan as formulated by the
War committee of the country weekly
publishers and accepted by the War
Industries Board through Thos. f.
Donnelley, Chief of the Pulp and
Paper section, contemplatcs saving
of Is per cent in the use of news
print paper in the industry as a
whole. 1t provided for reduction
of 20 per cent of all publication
space in excess of eight pages.
The official announcement reads i'm
part:
"No publisher may continue sub
tions after three months after date
of expiration, unless subscriptions
are renewed and paid for.
"No publisher may give free cop
les of his paper, except for actual
service rendered; except to camp IL
braries and huts or cantecns of or
ganizations recognized by the gov
eminent, such as the Red Cross, Y.
NJ. G. A. or K. of c., except the Ii
brary of Congress, and other libra
res which will agree to bind for per
manent keeping.
"No publisher shall give free cop
les to advertisers, except not more
than one copy each for checking pur-
poses
"No publisher shall accept the re-
turn Of unsold copies from news
dealers.
"No publisher shall print extra
copies, for stimulating advertising,
or subscriptions, or for any use 9th
err than those specified in these rcgu-
lations, except not to exceed per
cent of his circulation with mini
mum Of the copies.
"No publisher shall send free cop
les in exchange for other publications
except to such other publications as
are printed within the county, or
within radius of forty miles from
his point of publication.
"No publisher shall sell his publica
ton at an exceedingly low or nom-
nal subscription price.
"No publisher shall Offer premiums
with his publication unless a price
is put upon the premium for sale
separately and the combined price is
at least IS per cent of the sum of the
individual prices.
"No publisher shall conduct voting
or other contests for the purpose of
obtaining subscriptions.
"No publisher may use holiday,
industrial or other special editions.
"a sworn statement will be requir-
cd from each publisher on Nov. 1 as
% how many of these rules have been
put into effect by him, and what re-
suits IN the matter of reducing pa
per consumption have been obtained.'
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
A SYMPHONY COCKTAIL.

Dinner was little late. A guest
asked the hostess to play something.
Seating herself at the piano, she ex-
ccutcd bit of Debussy. She finish
ed, but there was still an interval of
waiting to be bridged. In the grim
silence she turned to an old gentle
man on her right and asked:
Would you like sonata before
dinner"
The aged one gave a start of sur
prise and pleasure, "Why, yes, thank
you,' he exclaimed. 81 had couple
on my way here, but l think | could
stand another"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

Too bad that such dirtinction as
Henry Ford, Thomas a. Edison, John
Burroughs, and Mr.. Firestone should
pass thru town incog., preventing our
people the pleasure of seeing them
and showing them some special at
tention. True greatness, we are told
is always modest and unassuming
Another distinguished American
perhaps two, could not have passed
thru without being heraldcd and
Ee:.rd. All the same it was "too bad
that we did not know beforehand OF
the visit Of the "Big -Four"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
lNEXCUSABLE WASTE OF PA
PER.

Judging from the number and size
OF sheets of paper which reach this;
office daily from the War Department
and its various and sundry auxilia-
ries, nine-tenths of which goes neces-
sarily into the waste basket, thsre is
an enormous amount of paper vast
ed-absolutely uselessly sent out. No
wonder the mails are clogged. Al
tie same time an order is issued that
weekly papers must cut down fifteen
per cent their consumption of white
paper. Would it rot be wise to begin
the cut at the top?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
PLAN TO CUT DOWN MORE IN
DUSTRlES.

Washington, August 22.-Thc fact
that there is IL shortage in war worl,
OF ,O00,0O0 unski!led laborers ana
that the reserve of unskiled laborcrs
is exhausted developed today ut Il
conference of field agents of the fed
cral employment service Further
curtailmcnt of noncssential produc-
ton is planned to release men Tor
war work.
The labor shortage is so serious
that completion of number of i'm
portant war projects for the army
and navy is being delayed, it was
stated ut the conference The field
agents decided that the only way in
which the needed laborers could be
obtained was to take them from non
essential industry
"The time has come for the entire
nation to realize that business IA us
ual is not longer possible" Nathan
y. Smythe, Assistant Director of the
Employment Service, told the CON
ference. IF we are to end the war
quickly the production of luxuries
and non-esscntials in this country
must come to an end. 1t is cues
ton of winning the war quickly or
having it draggdc on indefinitely.
Manufacturers must give up the
creation of needless goods, workers
must be willing to change from non
essential to war production even at a
hardship to themselves, the public at
large must stop buying luxurcs and
thereby make the problem of curtail-
ing nonesscntial easier"
An indication of how the non-es-
sentials may be combcd was given
today when the Community Labor
Board of the District of Columbia
announced list of twcnty-fo elias
scs of work regarded as non-cssen
tial. Employers in these classes are
called upon Voluntarily to release
their unskilled labor for war work.
Community boards are being organ
,zed throughout the country by the
Department of labor, and they are to
work in close cooperation with local
draft boards.
Following are the industries which
the District Board, the first to make
an announcement, has listed as non.
essential:
Automobile industry accc.sor:cs
drivers of pleasure cars, cleaning, re-
pairing and delivery of pleasure cars.
sightseeing cars, automobile trucks
other than those hauling fuel or do
ing Government work, teaming other
than delivery of products for war
work, bath and barber shop attend
ants, bowling, billiard and pool room,
bottlers and bottle supplies, candy
manufacturers, cigars and tobacco,
cleaners and dyers, clothing, confcc-
TONERS and delicatesscn establish
rnents, buffers and contractors not
engaged in erection of structures for
war work, dancing academies, mer-
csntile stores, florists, fruit stands.
junk dealers, livery and sales stables,
rawn-brokers, peanut vendors, shoe
shining shops, window cleaners, soft
drink establishments, soda fountain
supplies,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
DOCTORING A DOCTOR.

A medical journal vouches for
this story: A distinguished surgeon,
while making his rounds through q
hospital, YVES momentarily dazed
when wounded soldier inquired
querulously: "Say, doctor, when one
doctor doctors another doctor, does
the doctor doing the doctoring doc
tor the other doctor like the doctor
wants to be doctored, or does the
doctor doing the dctoring doctor the
doctor Ike the doctor doing the doc
toring wants to doctor him ?"-Out-
look.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

untold sacrifices of the soldiers, the
business men, the women of England
and France.
"Why, then, should we complain
Why should we protest that our bus
mess is ruined? Why should we be-
wall lessened profits, cavil at high
prices. Inconvenience, hard condi-
tons? Why should we rage at the di-
sastcr that ovcrtakes our business?
OUR business! Let me tell you
something more of what our bust
ness means in England and France
as | have seen it. talked with
business executives, past their prime,
men so old and weary that they
would be glad to stop bit and rest
before they die. Yet they carry on.
They, like those famed old DICTIONARIES
of France, have no time to die
They battle with conditions which in
Il month, IL week, Il day, may sweep
everything out of existence. saw Il
great shipbulder, Il fine old Briton,
ut his work-all three Of his sons
gone. At his side stood the grand
father, now in his eightieth year, do
ing what he could. talked to Il bar
berthe sole survivor of four broth
crs. was chauireurcd by Il one
time British capitnlist-it was his
own car-and one of his legs, SOL
dicr's reward, was made in the Unit
ed States.
These business men overseas, our
Allies, are war weary. The strain is
great, the enemy strong. Bitter is
their lot. But do they protest? DO
they despair? No! Grimly they car
ny on. Again and again they send
their sons to the battlefront. Their
daughters-thcy see them rise at six
IN the morning to search the casual
ty lists for the name of brother or
sweetheart, then depart for IL long
days work in factory, field or office
They themselves-evcn their nirhts
ARE not given them for rest. When
evening comes they report for spe-
cial duties. In the British capital
10000 of thcm--bnnkcra, lawyers.
lords and sirs, the shopkeepera of
London. men too old, too crippled, to
sick to serve ut the front-police
the darkcncd city streets.
81 was in London when sons of
these men gave their lives to plug up
the neck OF Zccbrugge harbor. felt
then. as ! know now, that by that he
rolc decd they defended not only the
Thames and coast of Kent, but the
harbors of Boston, New York. Charl-
cston. Those lads over there stand
on guard before our mills, our stores,
our homes. Their spirit-their will
to win ut any COSTS emulated by
their business elders mt home.
OUR business? OUR profits :?
OUR lives? Good God, will we never
open our eyes to see the truth? Can
we ever repay the debt we owe? The
time has come for us, the COM
mcrcial men of this country, to re-
licvc our French and British Allies
overseas of their appalling burden.
Their soldiers are now our soldiers.
as truly us if they wore our uniform;
and our boys are theirs Business ov-
err there, too, is American business.
1t is fighting the battle that will save
US, along with the people of Eng
land and France from destruction. A
British or French plant wiped out is
an American plant wiped out. A
French town bombed is an American
town bombed. Blood drawn there.
we bleed also. We arc one allied peo-
pie IN this fight. And united we stand
ON both sides of the sea"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

The MeXicans have broken loose
again, this time OH the border, at
Nogales, Arizona. The clash between
Americans and Mcxicans seems to
have been started by ii rowing band
of MeXicans. One American officer
was killed and Il number of soldiers
wounded. Casualties on the Mexican
side were reported as perhaps near
100 No serious outcome is antici-
pated by the Government ut Wash
ington.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE.
lRichmond NirrininnN


At this distance, little can we know
of the destruction that war has
wrought across the seas. We hive
read much, and the pen of the al list
has portrayed bits of desolation here
and there, but we can never know, so
far away, the sorrow and distress
that has come to that other half Of
the wOrid-afflicted and tortured bv
the trials of war.
T.. II. Meredith, member of the
American mission to Great Britain
and France, gives powerful recital
of what he saw, with his comments.
in recent issue OF Nations Bust
ness:
"ln England and France have
seen things which ! wish could he
burned into the conscience Of every
business man in the United States. /
have seen factories in ruins, office
buildings blown to bits, commercial
districts, miles in extent, lying de-
serted and silent, grass growing in
the streets like places of the dead
everything that years, perhaps hun
dreds of years of patient industry
had built up and passed on rs her
itage to father and son-all vanished.
1--WE in American have known moth
ing like this. We CAN know nothing
like it. Thanks to our Allies, these
experiences will be kept from us.
That factory of yours in New Eng
land, that mine of your neghbor's in
Michigan, that farm l own in Iowa
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

Federal Judge Mayer, distinguish
ed jurist of New York State, has de-
cided that the sinking of the Lusita-
mia by German submarine was an
act of piracy, and that any claims
that may result from the tragedy
must be settled at the peace table
with Germany as the defendant. 1t
has been fully established that the
big passenger vessel carried neither
ammunition nor guns for the Allies
on the Hateful April Z, 1917, when
nearly 1900 men, women and chill
dren went TO their death without
warning.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

Here is u question for the officials,
If the weekly papers reduce their
subscription lists, many Of them not
now large, how can the country peo-
pie, thousands of whom get no paper
except the country weekly, be reach
ed with the propaganda of the mum
erous war activities? Is it moSe i'm
portant to reach the people with war
demands than to save Il few ions OF
cheap paper? Now, tell us that.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
THINGS RUMANIA KNOWS

Rumania knows now exactly how
an ink spot feels when the blotting
paper is. applied, says Chicago
paper. And also how the cat felt
when she stepped upon blob Of
sawdust floating on the mill pond,
under the mistaken idea thaa it was
a bOard.-Rochester POET Exnress
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
IRON RAIL MIGHT HELP

Just put an iron foot-rail around
the Thrift Stamp counter and see
how many men will naturally take
an attitude of restful speculation be-
fore it, and buy for the crowd be-
fore they discover the difference
Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

The negroes are clamoring for a
solution of the "racc problem; the
srffragists for recognition; the pro-
hibltionists to be heard Better 81
ience, for the time being anyway, all
these clamorers, and everybody pitch
in and help win the war.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

a man in Arizona is Strengthening
500 ostriches for market The breast
meat may be alright, but please don't
help us TO the neck
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

The "work or fight" order is in
tended to apply to all of us-men of
all classes and professions. Many
men are working not az all-others
not half the time. All of them eat
three square meals day, however,
without choking,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

mo man whistles when he is blue
or in the dumps. The small boy wills
ties through sheer exuberancc Of spir-
it"-Roanoke Times. True, unless
he's passing graveyard or haunt
cd" house at night.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
Radford State Normal

the o1srs Gssrs9 tor the training for the Primary Gradas
Arts Manual Arts; and Other branches Free State scholarships
ter nn s0sS New hopnoof buildings artasion
rsGTsalons swimming pool in Administration building -!
boskiet OF write
JOHN PRESTON MCCONNELL. President
(7-19-St EAST RADF0Pn WA
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30

Buy War Savings Stamps today
and tomorrow Next week they will
cost 20 cents premium instead Of l9c.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-30
Regular Fall Germ

WIZ besn Monday and Tuesday September 2s Regular
eated duties also Civil Service you have ever thoupbt "r
taking up thie line OF work is certainly time
We BIGGER AND BETI Err AK for free conv NJ onr
new catalOg just cut. ~ ~ Jul
SUMMIT CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE,
A. H. DANGERFIELD, President 80
jul. 19St il.
The sun., 1918-07-28
ARMY BILL OF Is
BILLIONS FORECAST
Representative Kahn So Pre-
diets in Address.

CLEVELAND, July 27.--An eighteen
billion dollar army bill for 19l9-l920,
to meet the vast increase in the mill
tary establishment proposed by the
war Department was forecast by
Representative Kahn of California
ranking minority member OF the House
Military Committee. in an address here
to-day before the League OF Republican
Clubs.
This means additional Liberty
bonds" Representative Kahn said, at
means additional taxation. 1t means
II 1t means anything. that the Ameri-
can people must be prepared to give
their all. II need be, Perhaps the time
will come when every individual in the
United States will have to content him
self with the barest necessities Of life
and surrender everything he possesses
or earns beyond those bare necessities tc
aid his Government.
I'VE have not begun to make sacri.
fees in these United States. We dc
not yet know the pinch OF hunger.
hope and pray we may never know
It, but we will be better prepared foi
possible eventualities II We begin now
the practice of self-denial."
The sun., 1918-07-28
DISEASES SWEEP
OVER GERMANY
Many Special Hospitals Being
Erected to Care for
Patients.
SOLDIERS ARE STRICKEN
Typhus Caused by Infected
Milk and Malaria Brought
From Balkans.
SOLDIERS ARE STRICKEN
Special cable Despdtch TO THE Sen.
Copurinht. 1913: oil riohts reserred.

PARIS, July 27.--The state OF health
in Germany appears to have become a
source OF worry to the Imperial Gov
ernment. German newspapers for
several days have exhibited a marked
soberness over the news regarding sani-
tary conditions prevailing throughout:
the empire. some reports apparently
having escaped the censor with certain
very clear statements relative 10 the
numerous epidemics now raging in
nearly every large city.
The Nc1te ZllrChe Zcitun1 announced
recently that the German censor had
forbidden the publication OF any news
Of the progress OF the Epidemic, which
at first was mistaken for Spanish in
tiuenza, but which the Swiss press, be-
cause of the ravaglng effects upon the
Berlin population. declares to be much
more serious. The public hospitals in
Berlin already are overtaxed in caring
for the legions of wounded soldiers ar
r!v!ng from the western front, but they
have had to make room for thousands
who fell in the streets from the dis
ease. Scores of deaths are reported
each day in the army, and the army
doctors also declare the condition OF
the troops. particularly those in the
interior, to be alarming. The number
Of deaths among them is far from being
Insignificant
The Lokal An-ciDer learns that typhus
cases in many sections OF Berlin and
the surrounding country have been at
tributed by the local authorities to the
consumption of infected milk. AS re-
suit the Minister Of the Interior has
addressed note to the Berlin munic-
ipal government and the police. order
ing that dealers stop selling unpas-
teurized milk, under threat OF a heavy
penalty. and ordering that where 1t
Is impossible to obtain sterilized milk
none shall be drunk.
The Strdssburger Post also learns
that the epidemic OF malaria raging In
certain parts OF the country. especially
in Baden, was caused by germs brought
to Germany by soldiers returning from
the Balkans. In the Black Forest and
Baden the local government has created
special sanitartums to care for the
thousands who have been stricken.
The sun., 1918-07-28
Use bombs and Bayonets.
"You Send the Smokes;
Then Leave 1t to Us"

WRITING to SUN Tobacco
Fund contributor, Corporal
j. l.. Mitchell, Company l., 50Sth
Engineers, says:
"You will never know what
comfort the tobacco you sent
has been to me. ] wish to thank
you very much.
"We are Over Here and, to the
Kaiser's way of thinking, we are
very much here.
eve Buddies are Strengthening
things out here pretty well, so
just send us something to smoke
once in a while and we-but
you just leave it to US"
Raymond Hitchcock is to be
one of the entertainers at THE
SUN fund party on Paradise
Roof, Reisenweber's, Tuesday
night. See page /, Section 7.
WARNING! THE SUN TO-
BACCO FUND has no connection
with any other fund, organiza-
ton or publication. 1t employs
no agents or solicitors.