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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-25

Secretary OF the Navy Daniels has
commended members Of the armed
guard OF the American steamship
Tyler, sunk by a German submarine
on May l. for their bravery in stand
ing by their guns until the ship was
badly damaged. Boatswain's Mate
Claude H. Ryan, with four men of the
gun crew was killed. Mate Ryan was
WixOkestet boy and q nephew of
Mr.. Tom Ryan, the Charles Town
butaher
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-25
HarpGTS Ferry News.

DAISIES and clover the great fields
cover,
And fill the winds with their sweet
perfume.
The ladies. of the Bolivar NJ. E
church serve ice cream on Mr.. G.
Lucketts lawn every Saturday evening
Miss Lettie Fitzhugh en-route to
her home at Beachly, Pa, stopped to
see her old friends here. She had been
with her mother visiting an aunt near
Warrenton, Va.
Mr.. Ben Echols has bought the
house next to the home of the late
Mrs. A. NJ Sponseller. Mrs. Mary
E. Leamont retains the late home OF
her mother and Mr.. S. Staub purchas-
ed the house occupied by Raymond
Snyder and sisters.
Chas. Elliott Lane, Architect, OF
Using Hua College, Picking, China, has
completed a group of buildings fol-
that College. He wrote to his grand
mother, Mrs. F. A. Chambers, under
date of May the 9th, that he was at
Toxic, japan, on business, had dinet
with Bishop and Mrs. McKim and was
going the next day to visit Bishop
Tucker Of the Protestant Episcopa
church
Mrs Richard Sylvester and daugh
ter Lara, are at their cottage on Boil
var Heights.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-25

To the Republican Fdsn
County,
lam a candidate for "
nomination for CongI's ~
Congressional Dlstrict 2
ia, subject to the P1 .s.l ]
be held August 6, l's
meet many Of you p'F
the primary. Hovey \ u
licit the votes Of al R'
August 9th. 4.
Respectfully M
pbilinni. w. Va.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1918-06-25

;. LEE PHILLIPS, Cashier.
June 25-3t.
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n DE
Henpecked Austria.

6 A USTRIA denies that she has be.
come the vassal of Germany.
Bahw
The speaker was Col. Roscoe Conk-
ling.
Austria is a good deal like Peck,
Henry Peck" he went on.
"'No man living would dare to call
me henpeckedr Peck shouted one
evening over his third beer.
"'Ha, ha! Why notr his companions
laughed.
Because, If he did, said Peck. 'rd.
tell my wife on him." 30
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one-third Of an acre. The roof is high
overhead, and it looks like barn. 1t
was formerly used as q drillroom for
soldiers, and was once noted as be.
ing the largest dance hall south OF
New York. 1t Is now filled with hum
desks. The air is loaded with the
noise of typewriters and other clerical
machines. and one Is reminded Of
great cotton mill. It is here that the
checks are sent out to the families
Of our soldiers and sailors. The work
goes on day and night and the rush Is
such that at times they are working
on Sundays. At the closeI Of one Sum-
day night, it was found that moro
than 100000 checks had gone out. The
ordinary capacity Of the establish
money goes out. in a continuous
stream. or I might say in thousands
of streams. for the checks move forth
by every mail train and to every part
Of the Union.
found the same activity in the
Elk's Hall, where they are daily ham
ding more than II 900 applications for
life insurance, and also in the old
Emergency Hospital which, has been
taken over for another branch Of the
Bureau Of War Risk Insurance. There
be gathered together under one roof
and the fireproof building;6n the site
Of the Arlington Hotel will be about
right for this purpose. The pension
business of the government has as its
quarters the largest brick building OF
the world. and that required for war
risk insurance will, I venture be
FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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Our Pacifist Navy.

NOVELIST sYDNOR HARRISON 10
now in the Navy. and has par
ticlpated in the destruction of num-
Der of submarines. Mr.. Harrison at
tended Greenwich Village tea the
other afternoon. and short-haired
lady in sandals and q sage-green
djibbah said to him, rs she took
light from his cigarette:
II hate war! I am a pacifist."
"Well." chuckled Mr.. Harrison.
"you might call me paciflst, too,
na'am, for spread oil on the trou-
bl0d waters"
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The Work of Two WV. c. A. Secretaries in France

as much more as they earn. ihey e
average from $1.60 to $3.50 per Gay;
I know few who go as hagm az s oUt
of this they have to pay y per dozen
for eggs, $500 per pound for putter
and so on. Bourges Of normally So.ooO
population, has 10000 people living
In 1t without q new DulIoihg having
been erected"
marveled at the beautiful Ameri.
can girl, of wealth and tender up
bringing, buried alive in that sordid
pyrotechnic, with the toughest lot Of
munitionettes of France.
Frenchwomen warned her she could
not succeed; THAT king o. Gov sonl ro, net
that they would break at the fprnitr rrsG
her to never leave the place without
locking it up. not a mipute%. But the
girl from Iowa says. quite SIMPLY: II
have never had sheet or paper
lost the slightest object" The woman
superintendent warned her particu-
larly against a certain woman from
st. I4azare, with an awful record"
Livery day. in her two hours OF repose,
this woman was at the foyer. Finally
The dangerous party, looking up with
grateful eyes, replied: Because 1t is
SO quiet"
Others marveled at the hardness Of
the life. Among them the first, you
may be sure. were watchful head Sec
serpents. harmless as doves and
great deal more usefuD.
Miss Alice Woolley. from Pough-.
keepsie, N. T., was running. In the
beautiful town of Tours. foyer Tor
smart. neat. enthusiastic shop girls
had Joined her French club In three
weeks.
In Tours all is sweetness and light.
The Y. w. c. A. has an elegant hostess
house, a signal corps women's club
(Which was a. foremost tourist hotel
island, and Miss Caroline Dow In per-
son, with notable star, vitality
counted on by our Army departments.
Tours Is full Of shops, flowers and
Americans.
"Come over to Macedonia and help
U.S." signaled Miss Woolley. with
sweet hypocrisy, from this prosperity
to the lonely Iowa girl, growing thin,
at last, in her sad cantonne ment.
They found q girl secretary to sub.
stitute. quite easily. In the Y. W. G. A.
They say GO" and she goeth; Come"
and she cometh. The new girl will
stick just as cheerily as Helen. and
that is Just the "hic," as the French
say, because. bad as the spot is, Helen
made that foyer and, of course, she
loves it.
Already she talks of returning. Miss
Woolley devises daily pretexts to keep
her, feed her up at the hostess house
and prolong the dip into little re-
fnement and ease which Y. w. G. A.
counsels decree for the saving of their
secretaries
Flowers and fig trees Of Capua are
powerless!
These be girl apostles!
STERLING HELLO.
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Of the Bourxes PyrotecAnic.
Motmort. opened the foyers. a build
ing being given for each. They
cleaned Thorn out. painted the. inside
whte put up pretty ye MiDdo svsta Ina
fetched restful wicker furniture into
the cool shade Of it-plus plano. q
canary and q cat.
The canary died. Whence hangs q
tale.
'They have fights in the dormitors,"
Miss jackson admits. '"They beat
each other up. but never a word with
usl (the "us' Is Miss Porterde1d. two
miles distant). One thing touched mo.
Three very bad girls. against whom
every ono had warned me. heard mo
cause I thought a yellow singing bird
IN II = yellow cage was such a useful
These three st. Lazare girls had two
day6 permission. They went up to
rari1 They spent Sunday morning at
arrived. dusty from the train, they
spent three hours selecting the finest
singing canary In the biggest gilded
cage that money could buy. They did
not wait to enjoy their day in Paris.
but ate ct the railroad depot and
back to Bourges. carrying the bird
and cage on their laps in third-class
cars that sweltering August afternoon
and stuhfy night. It takes eleven
hours! And all because they were in
such hurry to hang up bird and cage
restroom. with card tagged to the
gilded bars: For Mademoiselle Miss"
Since March 10, 1918. she and Miss
Porterdeld have been out there. each
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What Uncle Sam Doing Wives and Children Fighting Men

If he dies his family would get $3.50
years thereafter. This twenty-year
payment Is one of the peculiarities Of
the policy. The amount 1t is insur-
death. but in equal monthly Install
ments for 240 months after death.
The installments are 1915 per $1,000
ana the average insurance policy SO
far applied for will give $46 per month
Tor twenty years to the wife, children
or relative Of the man insured should
he happen to die.
This insurance will be paid to the
man himself IL he Is totally or per-
manently disabled during the term of
his policy, no matter whether he is in
the service or not; and after the war
is over he can keep up the insurance
on the same terms for five years, or
he can convert 1t into other forms
Of life insurance arranged for by the
government.
In company with c. F. Nesbit, COM
missioner OF military and naval insur-
ance. went from building to building
looking into the processes above de-
scribed. The first visit was to the New
National Museum. which covers more
than two acres. It Is situated In the
Mall back Of the city market and north
of the Smithsonian Institution. ..Iany Of
the exhibits have been removed to make
way for the clerks. The great hall
back Of the vestibule has been clear
ed. and there are hundreds Of women
and men working within 1t. The room
covers perhaps half an acre, and the
only museum curiosity remaining is
the original flying machine with
which DIR. Langley experimental from
an island down the Potomac. thus
making the first demonstration of sue
cessful machine flight The little
"Aerdrome," as he called it, hangs
from the ceiling above fifty or sixty
ing machines which are clicking away.
Not far to the right of it they are
opening the mail, which comes in at
the rate Of over 1000 per hour and at
the left they are checking and filing
the claims Of the soldiers. 1t takes
more than 100 women to sort and dis
tribute the mail. There are clerical
machines of all kinds clipping away
and the red tape so common to gov
possible, been eliminated. In organ
izing the machine. the best Of the
United States bureau Of efficiency ex-
perts were called in.
Leaving this room ! went on to 9TH
ers on the first and second floors of
the meseum, finding clerks at work
everywhere. and thence was taken
down into the basement to see the
great audience hall with it's begin
ming Of files and other record equip
ment
Coming out Of the National Museum
we crossed the street to the city mar
ket, making our way among the
butchers and provision dealers to ar
iron stairway which took us to the
attic. We entered what seemed to be
a great factory. The room covers
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cneck represented money. part OF
which was taken from the pay Of a
mainder from the United States Treas
ury, as the share Of those who were
tarrying by the stuff having sent their
men abroad to fight for them.
Before I describe my visit to this
bureau and what 1t is now doing. let
ernment has ms made 0f for those sns VINO Who
tarry at home. The United States is
more liberal to its soldiers than any
other nation on earth. It pays the
highest wages that have ever been
known. The amount received by each
in giving II the government does not
absolve the man from his duty Of
taking care OF his family. 1t Is willing
to do Its share, but the man must do
his. It requires that SIS out Of every
months m naa pay go to the family. This
ment and II Is compulsory on the part
OF the soldier only in case no is mar
ried or has dependent children or
relatives who would otherwise be q
charge on the community.
\
Il
In addition to this SIS month tho
government adds an equal amount or
moro out Of the United States Treas
ury as its share az payment for
those who tarry at home. The amount
appropriated at the time the act was
passed was $141,000,0o0 and much
moro will be required before the war
is over. The government payments
vary according to the size and de-
pendence Of the family. II the soldier
has wife only. she gets half his pay
and SIS additional. receiving $50 q
month. II there is a wife and one
child the government adds SIS q
month. making the monthly payment
dren It adds $3.50 a month. and for
each additional child 1t adds IS more.
II there is no wife and two children
the children receive $3.50 from Uncle
Sam, in addition to the SIS Of their
fathers pay. If there Is no wife and
no wife and four children the chill
dren receive $40 with IS more per
month for each additional child.
The law has also provisions by
which II soldiers grandchildren or
parents or brothers or sisters are
half of his pay goes to them. the
government adding something like
$40 per parent and from IS to $50 for
the children. according as there be
one, two, three or four.
From this 1t will be seen that every
family that "tarries by the stuff" will
receive from $50 to $50 or more a
month, while its man Is away fight
ing our battles. At the present time
hundreds Of thousands Of families are
receiving such payments monthly
and this number Will! steadily Increase
as more soldiers go to the field.
In addition to these payments, the
law makes certain provisions II the
soldier dies or Is disabled during the
service. These are the same for men
Of all rank and are not based upon
the pay Of the soldier. The soldiers
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\
II do anything I can" continues
Helen. II have English classes four
nights a week. and after working
from 4 am. to pm. they come and
study their English. Two other nights
I have music and gymnasium classes.
The remaining night I, have a show OF
some kind. Every Saturday. have
managed something. Once 1t was
Dupre, the grand first tenor Of the
Opera Comique, because he Is mob
ilized at Bourges. Another time we
the Paris grand 3dpera. and his wife.
for he ia mobiliksdI in Bourges. too:
His wife Is Wonderful violinist ana
q woman of infinite charm. AS for
Roucher, that man can do anything:
When I have nothing else start
They delight to MAKE their own cos
tunes, and every one Of them is sure
that she has talent. Why not? Poor
things. they have seen the Depths
though young.
Il have two sewing machines and
ironing boards. They began by com,
ing to do their weeks ironing and
mending. Then got tubs. Now they
do their washing, too. It may not be
much" says the child of Iowa.
humbly, "but they have nothing with
out It. so they appreciate 1t and 1t
seems q lot. have not an enemy and
they call me 'Mademoiselle Miss That
Is how they address me post cards on
their vacation. and tho Bourges post
Office seems to. know. because get
them.
zone girl. only twenty-five, comes to
iron and sew. She has been married
four years to q husband. who has
been at the front every day since
mobilization. in 1914. He Is one of
those Chasseurs Alpins, called up from
Italy and thrown into the counter Of
fensive Of last February. Soon. he
was one of two only remaining in his
regiment. Transferred, he was flung
into the defense of Paris. Now he Is
chasing the boche. He still lives. She
has seven brothers In the army, two
of whom were killed the same week,
In last March. Her father died q vic
tim Of German invasion. and her
mother of starvation. Working at mu-
nitions, she is the only one of the
family who earns money. So she keeps
her baby in creche and sends cash
to her five remaining brothers"
The babies are war orphans. Many
have no fathers. Miss Jackson started
with one sweet little child. which Is
a darling" The mother began by leav-
ing 1t with her while she worked.
"A love of q three-year-old," she
says. II had an idea that my sister
in America, who cannot come to
France, might want to adopt it. She
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0psslal Cssrsspsa6saes q Ths Star.
ToURA France, October ~. 1s14
Y CANNOT be silent about =. W. q
4. secretaries.
! have called them girl apos.
tlss-ths whole bunch.
take back nothing. They do
not slip OF to danoes-though they
give them for others. They have no
high links at lunches-though they
serve food. Every kind Of American
girl In France works hard and needs.
TOR health. little recreation in her
leisure. Only. you see. the Y. w. G. A.
girl secretaries have no leisure.
It would be hard to find q more
touching picture than that of Miss
Helen Jackson, daughter of A. T..
Jackson of Tama, iowa, a girl brought
up In luxury and submerged, abso-
lutely. for nearly a year past. quite
alone. In the toughest lot Of French
munitionettes that were ever let loose
from the "women's prison" Of st. La
care. Paris. to I'LL shells (greatly to
their credtt) for the victory of the al.
lies. 1t 10 at the Carnot cantonnement
of the walled Pyrotechnie, three miles
outside the city OF Bourges-the gray
est, dirtiest, most desolate place you
ever saw. with not q spear OF grass.
Another z. ". g. A. girl secretary.
Miss Mary Porterheld. shares the dam
ger at the Bigarelles cantonnement.
but nearer the oity and OF better
S sas The Is run ); M. a. Mssn Hsa
drioks and Miss Mildred Nelson. They
have tho cheer Of big restaurant run
by the Pyrotechnie for its woman em-
ployes living In town. two fine 7. w.
G. A. gardens. two rest rooms. big
nasium. concert and entertainment
building. The lonesome work Of
Helen Jackson and Mary Porterneld
among the girls and women OF the
Pyrotechnie'e dangerous suburban
limit.
Eight thousand females are there,
charging shells and making powder.
It was seen from the first that they
would always be girls recruited from
all parts Of France, q large proportion
Of them former prisoners held by the
Germans in the early part of the war,
demoralixed or else terrorized and
melancholy. with a notable contingent
doors were thrown open. two years
ago. in the great need for munition
workers.
they live in this walled cantonne-
ment. sixty women to a barracks. and
a room. there is no nice. pretty. rest.
ful spot or view in that suburban
waste.
The z. W. G. A. ON Invitation Of the
French government, through Mlla do
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widow, II there are no children. will
receive $25 per month. A widow and
one child will get $35. and If there
Be- BE- two tT children the AMOUNT will be be
each additional child up to two. If
the soldier leaves child, but no
widow. the amount paid will be $40
and for two children, $50. while for
three children 1t will be $40 month
two Sore IF he moths sn Of tho
soldier be a widow she may receive
$40, but neither a widow nor a mother
shall have her pension continued after
remarriage. II the soldier becomes
disabled during the service he will
800 per month, the latter sum being
given only when he is permanently
bed-ridden. There are also compensa-
lions for injuries Of various kinds
received in battle or while in the
service.
Another important provision Of
Uncle Sans for those who "tarry by
the stun" is insuring the lives Of the
men in the service. Arrangements for
this have been made and they are car
ried out through this bureau Of naval
and military insurance. Already In the
neighborhood Of 100000 applications
for policies have been made and the
total amount Of insurance written to
average amount insured Is for $500
and it is estimated that more than
ninety out of every hundred men are
The object of the government war
insurance is to give the soldiers and
<snll 0GSo - tv,e,, k~Nfr 1l1y1~
broke out the chief life insurance COM
panies added 500 per $1,000 to the
ordinary rates on all war life insur-
ance. This meant that the man who
took out $1,000 policy would have to
pay as much as the man in private
life and 500 more per year. If he
took out $1,000 he would have to pay
the regular rate and an excess of $500
per year, and II $500. the average
amount which the government is CIV
$3.50.
This was manifestly impossible for
men receiving only $3.50 and upward
per year and so the government estab-
lished this war risk insurance bureau
to take care Of the situation. Accord
ing to its regulations the insurance
excess war rate charged by the life
insurance companies. These are lower
than the ordinary rates of those COM
panles and are SO arranged that after
the man has applied for insurance the
money for the premiums is. taken out
of his pay every month and he need not
worry about his policy lapsing from
his not keeping 1t up.
Moreover, the rates are exceedingly
low. Those Of the draft ages from
twenty-one to thirty-one are only from
IS to 10 cents per $1,000 per month
ca Iat enIr 1,,k
policy. which Is the highest sum pos
sible. he pays therefor only 81 per
month. If he takes out a $4,000
policy 1t costs him $3.50 per month and
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In Cn8r&o Oh H W. " a. 1OycF ~
Tours, France.
did. From that started eight or ten
girls at home. whom I have never
seen each supporting a girl baby. whom
their mamas leave at the foyer while
they work. They send Sc per month
per child. It makes me q lot OF extra
work to translate all the letters"
She seems to consider 1t no work,
all those babies crawling between her
feet.
where do you eat?" asked.
II have a little heating stove at the
foyer. one of those little round stoves
about knee-high, with q little round
top. ! have q woman, and she and
cook what we eat-toast, tea, jam
and eggs. The worst is to do with
out sugar for a month at time.
Nothing from the American Quarter
master Corps. can buy only what
French munition workers buy. !
know how they live. because I live
with all those babies?" I won
dered.
Stacks of them-but not the very
little ones. I'd be afraid to break
them. They are in the creche; I only
pay the sums. But when they're three
years old and more I'm not afraid of
them"
DO their mammas make much
money!"