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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
THE KAISER'S EASTER CELE-
BRATION.

The Kaiser promised the German
people and proclaimed to the world
sometime ago, so dispatches stated,
That he would eat his Easter dinner in
Paris in celebration not only of the
Resurrection but of his victory over
"our enemies" and his onward march
to world domination. Easter has pass
ed. The Kaiser is still some distance
from the goal and if dispatches arc
correct, with his back towards Paris.
He did, however, celebrate Easter in
Paris by killing "ffty-four women"
and n number of children and wound
ing many others. While these heart
stricken worshippcrs were in an East
or service in Paris, IL shell from the
long-range gun moro than fifty miles
away, fell upon the roof of the stone
church, without warming, smashing
the roof and crumbling the walls,
and burying the worshippers under
piles of debris. And this is the way
and manner of the Kaiser's cclcbra
ton Of Easter in Paris. Little diff
erence to him. For the past four
years he has been busy smashing
cathedrals and demolshng churches,
Strengthening women and children. He
has grown used to such work. The
smell Of blood seems to he MS sweet
incense in his nostriis. His Paris "cel-
ebration" of Easter will be only anoth-
en- memorial Of disgrace which will be
reared on the highways of history.
After all, perhaps he celebrated Eas-
ter morning in Paris in Il way most
becoming and BETTING his taste and
character. To have attempted II cele-
bration in the orthodox way would
have been for him incongruous and
blasphemous.
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FORWARD WITH GOD.
New York Times

(NeW DIX llmcS.l
Good Friday was celebrated by the
Germans with characteristic fercor
and force. From the beginnings of
the war mutilators or dcstroyers Of
the ecclesiastical monuments of me-
diaeval and Renaissance architecture,
happy fortune has given them their
savage jOQ, the long-range gun, Il
sucful instrument in their old prac-
tees. More satisfactory than mere
peppering of battered empty cathc-
drals, the distant organ Of Deutsch-
tum was able not only 10 smash an
cient stained glass windows in Il Par
is church, but to wound or kill II con-
siderable number of the congrega-
ton. Fifty-four women were slain, q
record" that makes beggarly the
number of deaths due to individual
Zeppelins and airplanes; and since
the injured and slaughtered were
mostly women and children, the per-
Torrance naturally recalls, even if
it exceeds, the goods works of the
assassins of the air.
One seems to see those pious, tender
souls, seeking help and consolation
while the fate of their country is he
ing decided ffty-odd miles away,
turning heavenward for th peace de-
MED on earth. Poor women, poor chill
dren! Whit are the last words they
heard? At what point did the Ger
man missionary of error break up
that immemorial service?
rnilifos ,,,tIa,~, hnon fooa,,,al
Stabant autem juXta crusem Jesu Ma
ter cjus. ct soror MATHIS ejus Maria
Cleophae ct Maria Magdalene.%
Was it amid the murmur of these
kind holy names, dear from infancy,
that these women and children came
to their death, ct militcs quidem
hacc fccerunt? Was ii when the
worshippera listened 10 the tale OF
that supreme agony:
Cum ergo accepissit Jesus acteum,
dixit. Conaummatum est" Eet in
climate capite traditit spiritum.'t
There may lie sacrificed in the midst
If that Sacrifice of the Mass, to the
savage German tribes, "barbaras ma.
tones" "gentes quae in sua vcritate
coniidunt," whose trust is in Schrecll-
lichkeit. a fine, hearty, "ccht
Deutsch" commemoration Of Good
Friday!
One by one in the Tenebrac of the
nations, light after light goes out.
Gloriously shall they be returned, the
resurrection of freedom follow its
crucifixiCn!
(NAnd these things the soldiers
did.
There stood near the cross of Je-
sus his mother and his mothers sis
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
AMERICA, MY COUNTRY.

by Jean X. Grondahl.)
America, my country, | come at thy
call;
plight thee my troth and give thee
my all;
In peace or in war I am wed to thy
veal
I'll carry thy flag thru the fire and
the steel.
Unsullied it floats DER our peace-lov-
ing race,
On sea nor on land shall it suffer dis
grace;
In reverence I knecl ut sweet liberty's
shrine:
America, my country, command, l am
thine!
America, my country, brave souls
gave thee birth
They yearned for haven of free
dom on earth;
And when thy proud flag to the winds
was unfurled,
There come to my shores the OPP
, pressed of the world
Thy milk and thy honey flow freely
Tor all
Who takes of thy bounty shall come
at thy call!
Who quaffs of thy hector of freedom
shall say:
America, my country, command,
obey.
America, my country, now come is
thy hour
The Lord of hosts counts on thy cour-
age and power;
humanity pleads for the strength of
Thy land,
Lest liberty perish on sea and on land
Thou gardian of freedom, thou keep
er Of right.
When liberty bleeds we may trust in
thy might:
Divine right Ct kings or our freedom
must fall
America. my country, come at thy
call!
CHORUS:
America, my country, answer thy
call,
That freedom may live and that
tyrants may fall;
l owe thee my all, and my all will I
l do and I die that America may live.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
THE NAVY UNDER ROOSEVELT

In Maine EX-Prcsident Roosevelt
IS quoted as saying: 81 ask you to
Judge everything tell you here by
what | did in the seven and half
years while l was President"
Colonel Roosevelt for sometime has
been trying to write himself back
ward into the past as the author of
preparedness. He is sometimes for
gctful himself, but others have men,
cries.
When the colonel was President the
great increase in foreign naval con-
structiOn began. In 1907 Germany laid
down four dreadnoughts, in 1908, 4
and continuing this policy, Germany
forced the United States navy into
third place, because inthesc years
our navy was restricted to the two
ship year program.
The Colonel has pointed with
pride" to his message in 1908 asking
for four battleships, but, although
ut that time he had unprecedented
control of congress, there was no ap-
piication of the big stick, and his adj
ministration was contented with the
restricted program for our navy,
passing this policy on TO his success
or. In fact. so imbucd was the colo
mel with the two-ship-a-year idea that
in his hand-picked Progressive plat
form of 1912 there was the follow
ing: "And us the bets means of pre-
serving peace, we pledge ourselves to
maintain for the present the policy of
building two battleships year"
Consequently the Colonel holds the
record of not only allowing our navy
to fall back into third place, but of
announcing his intention of keeping
it there-"as the best means of pre-
serving peace"
This contrast with the Colonel's
(rccent utterance does not need any
comment.
(Thomas G. Frothington. in the
New York Times)
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THE COLONEL DOWN EAST.
New York Timcs.)

Colonel Roosevelt has "a bully
time" in Maine. 1t is pleasure to
find him as hearty, emphatic, and
vigorous as ever. In his long speech
wherein many old notes and stops and
familiar balanced phrases recall the
characteristic Colonel. there is the
wonted wealth of courage. the moral
punch" to speak after the manner
of the wicked. The economic-politi-
cal eXcursus may he left to the flu
ture, considered, if we please. with
reference to its authors political flu
ture, if that tense is yet to be conju-
gated in that career of marvcls.
The Colonel continues one of his
habits that might we'll be amended
He harps on the past. He tries to
make particular the common Amer.
lean blind folly of umnrcparedness
1t would be just to let the statute
of limitations cover every good Am
erican now. Otherwise. some I'M
gracious caviler might ask lust what
MIR. Roosevelt did for preparedness
in his seven years and a half i'm the
White House. No, let bvgones he by
cones. Americans are in the war to
smash Germany, to get that "right
eous and lasting peace" which can be
had in no other way. We arc all with
the Colonel. we are all with Mr.. VIII
son, whom he quotes, for a victorious
peace. The Colonel lays down the
true doctrine of sunport of and oppo-
sition to the Administration as to the
conduct of the war. rue doctrine for
Democrats as much rs for Republi-
cans:
"This is the peoples war. 1t is
not the Presidents war. 1t is not Con-
gress's war. 1t is the war of the peo
pie of the United States for the hon
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conversation seek in every posi-
bic way to aivold it. The soldiers
on the European battle front who
every day face the grim fact in all
sorts of hideous forms are no ex-
ccption. They speak OF it empire
mlsticaily as going west" The Sal
walton Army leaders tell about
young Scotchman who few days
after he mad been happily converted
was struck by a bursting shell in
one of the recent battles in Flanders
and mortally wounded. "Done for?"
quericd surgeon who, passing by,
saw the captain Of the company bend
ing over the fallen l;d. "Yes," re-
Piled the officer; "he's gone west"
Something in the captains voice
seemed to arouse the fast waning life
of the dying soldier. His eyelids fiut-
tered, then opened, and, looking up
into the face of his captain, he said;
"Gone West! Yes, sir; but not done
for. 1t is only just beginning. l see
Him and-and mother" Just then
radiant smile lit up his wan coun-
tenance, and after brief moment
his tired head dropped back into the
| blood-stained mud of the trenches
and he was gone.
If the dying soldier was right there
is sublime significance in the sacri
flee which he and thousands like hin
have made and are making in the
cause of liberty. If he was mistake,
the universe is a failure and life is
hideous nightmare. The latter al
tentative is grotesquely unreasona
BILE. We cannot believe that the Go,
thus mocks us and puts us to per
manent intellectual confusion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
THE THIRD DRIVE NOW ON.


Virginiu's quota of the Third Lib
crty Loan Of three billion dollars, is
thirty million, the largest of either
of the States in the Fifth District,
except Maryland, which is thirty
eight million.
Tazewell county's quota has not
been stated ut this writing. Upon n
basis of 1-2 per cent of banking re-
sources, the couty's quota will be
somewhere in the ncighborhood Of
$3.50 900, not M large by half as the
county's quota on previous loans. The
State Mt large went "ovcr the top"
Notwithstanding there were twenty
four counties in the State where less
than one per cent of the pouation
subscribed to the loan. On the second
Liberty Loan Nirginia's apportion-
ment, maximum, was 10 millions.
subscription amounted to $50,S50, 800.
And so, the State will go over the
top again, as we are only asked for
the small amount Of 80 million this
time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05

or and welfare of America and of
mankind. 1t is the bounden duty of
the Republican party to support ev-
cry public servant, from the Presi-
dent down, in so far as he does pood
and sufficient work in waging the war
or helping. wage the war, and to on
pose him exactly to the extent of his
failure to do such work; for our
loyalty is to the people of the Unit
cd States and to every public SER
want IN exact accordance with the
way in which he serves the public. It
is the duty of the Republican party
To stand like Il rock against incfIi-
ciency, incompetence, hesitation and
delay no less than against any luke
warmncss in scrvin the common
cause OF our selves and our allies"
Labor, money, life, the people are
giving and to give. They have the
duty, and would be bad citizens as
well as unfaithful Representatives if
tncy didn't fulfil it, of blaming, of at
tacNihg the Administration or any
part, organ on agent, military or civil,
OF the Government that is or seems
to be incompetent or rcmiss in organ
lzlng victory. They are bad friends
of the administration, and, what is
infinitely more. of the country, who
defend the Administration indiscrim-
Inately, imputc evil mtivcs to those
who assail IL -: :s;.tnc an intol-
crably "Bya;:ntine" attitude. The adj.
minlstration itself is not wise if il
shrinks from the frankcst and even
the toughest cryticism The winning
OF the war is everything.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
SPROUT SEED AND GET EAR
LIER POTATOES.

"To speed up the spring potato
crop" says the Missouri College of
Agriculture, "home gardeners may
sprout the seed tubers before plant
ing. This results in quick growth
after planting, produces an earlier
rron. and also higher yield than is
obtained when ordinary seed are
planted. The seeds should be obtain
cd two or three weeks before plant
ing time. Only sound. healthy tu-
bers should be used. Spread out in
single layer on the floor of a hot
he'd. where they can receive full
light Often n fiat or shallow box can
be placed in n living room window,
where peck OF two of seed can be
sprouted. linda" the influence of the
warmth and light. the tubers start to
grow. turning n dull green, and send
ing out stubby sprouts from the eyes.
Vt the room is too wahm or poorly
lighted. these snrouts become long
ond slender. Such sprouts are like
w to he broken off in planting and
for this reason are not so desirable
ms short. stubbv sprouts.
"The seeds should be planted when
the sprouts are about one-half inch
Iona. Cut the tubcrs the usual way.
with one sprout on each piece. These
should he planted by hand. with the
sprout pointed upward. Plants from
sprouted seed reach the surface ten
DAYS earlier than from dormant seed
and grow off rapidly. A better stand
is generally secured from sprouted
seed, and more tubers are formed or
each plant. Southern Agriculturist
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
GERMAN WAR MACHINE HAS
ABOUT SPENT ITSELF.

An Associated Press Dispatch of
Tuesday says.
With the passing Of the thirteenth
day of the new battle of the Somme
there came interesting evidence that
the great German machine with which
il was intended to crush the allied
lines lad almost spent itself. Where
previously the Germans had thrown
men into the fray not counting the
orodiguous waste in killed or
wounded, Tuesday saw them decline
anywhere to give battle. On the con-
trary. in what little fighting occurred
the British and French troops took
the initiative. Thus it seems appar-
ent that with the reserve forces Of
tie entente virtually intact, and with
the added weight General Pcrshing's
troops will give, The turn i'm the tide
OF the battle is at hand.
While admittedly both the French
and British armies have suffered
rather severe casualties us they stood
to their task of impeding tie Ger
mans and making them pay an I'M
heard of price for every foot OF
ground gained, their reserves have
been conserved with the utmost care
behind Tie lines for the Hateful time
when the whitening fire Of the allied
gums and machine guns should have
so blighted the German hordcs as to
bring more equality in strength to
the fighting forces.
And all along the British aud the
L..
side their calculations that staunch
band of Americans, exceeding 100000
mon, who are fully trained and equip
ped and anNious to lend their aid in
the task of defeating the Germans.
Daily the German losses in men
killed or wounded continue to aug
mcnt as details are obtained from the
Germans prisoners. Some divisions
lost as high rs seventy per cent of
their electives.
The latest account of the fighting
from the various war cliancellerics
show no new important change in the
battle front Only minor operations
took place on that portion of the
front south of Arras held by the Brit
ish and little aside from artillery
duels occurred between the French
and the Germans on the lower end
of the line Although the Germans
have been bombarding British posi-
tons in Belgium, particularly at PAS
schcndaclc and along the Gocberg
ridfie northwest OF Ypres, there is no
indication rs yet than an infantry at
tack is contemplated.
In addition to continuation of
their bombardmcnt of Paris with Il
long range gun the Germans again
have cndcavored to drop bombs on
the French capital from airoplanes
Two squadrons of aircraft early OF
Tuesday morning attempted to reach
Paris, hut the French barragc held
them off.
Bad weather again is hindcring OPP
crations in the Italian theatre. Al
several points in the mountains Aus
tro- German troops endeavorcd to gair
advantages over the Italians but were
successfully driven back.
In Palestine the British forces
which penetrated Turkish territory
northeast of Jericho have success
fully carried out their objectiyes in
cutting the Hdjaz railway and>' have
now begun to retire to Essalt. A
large number Of prisoners and guns
machine guns and other war stores
have been taken by the British.
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headquarters 42nd Division,
March IA 1919
Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Co.,
30 Broad Street, New York.
April 2. 1e

April 2, 1918.
To the Stockholders of the Clinch
Valley Coal and Iron Company:
The annual meeting of the ST ck-
holders of the Clinch Valley Goal
and Iron Company for the electisi of
Directors and the transaction of Auch
other business as may be presci\ ted,
will be held at the office of the Chm
pany in Tazewcll, Tazewell coup ty,
Virginia, on Wednesday, May tst
1918, at four o'clock p. m.
L. II. SHAW, Secretary.
April. 5-dt.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
WHERE DO YOU STAND?

One year has passed since the
United States entered the world war
"a year the most strenuous and
memorable this country ever passed
through. We have have all had time
to think, to take stock, to decide,
and the question presses upon every
one of lis, "Wherc do you stand?"
The answer to this question decides
whether or not we are only part
American or whole American. There
is just as much room in the king
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05

Have you changed the time one
hour ahead? OF course you have,
and are no doubt well pleased with
the change. Everybody seems pleas
ed. One hour more in the morning
makes n great difference and an hour
extra in the afternoon is specially APP
prcciatcd.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
OVER THERE AND OVER HERE

We have sent some mon and women
Over there
Sent them with our prayers and tears
With the promise that the years
Would not find us in arrears
Over here
Now, we have some men and women
Over here
Who are languidly depending
On the other fellow sending
What those folks should now be
spending
Over there.
Are you numbered with these slack
crS
Over here?
Will you let it be your fault
That our splendid work should halt
While our money finds IL vault
Over here?
Every missionary toiling
Over there,
Is a substitute for you
Don't withhold his honest due,
Get little broader view
Over here.
Mrs. Clara Alden Pcttingill.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05

Three times within week the kai-
ser has thanked God for the victory
on the western front. His credit is
not very good and he is obliged to
make payments i'll advance.-Mobilc
Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
BILL BOWSER is NOW OUT OF
THE HOSPITAL.

The following letter has been re-
Gently received from VIM. J. Bows
er, addressed to his mother, Mrs.
John Bowser, at North Tazewcll:
With the American Expeditionary
Forces,
February &c, 1913.
Dear mother and all:
Today finds me trying 10 write yoti
few words. Am able to be out and
over to the Y. NJ. C. A. today, but
am awfully weak in the knees.
Well, must tell you about my joy
ride yesterday. | went out on a AZ
mile ride with another boy from the
same ward and you bet | enjoyed il
very much. The scenery was beau
tiful and the air fine. We are hay
ing regular spring weather here now
and you know when anyone has beer
in the house for almost three months
and gets out they enjoy the fresh air
Well, mother, | am ready to come
home now. | have seen enough
of France, it is o. k, but give me ole
Virginia for mine. Love and best
wishes to all. Yours lovingly,
BILL.
Headquarters 42nd Division,
March IA, 1918.
Mrs. John Bowser,
North Tazewell, Va.
My Dear Mrs. Bowser:
Your son, William J. Bowser, ha
recently been in the hospital l saw
him on the 18th inst, and l am yer,
glad to be able to tell you that h
seems to have entirely recovered an,
| expect he will be returned to dut,
within few days. Very truly yours
w. G. BATTLE.
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ster Mary, wife of Cleophus, and
Mary Magdalcne.)
C"When therefore Jesus had re
ccived the vinegar he said, 1t is fin
ished and bowed his head and gave
up his spirit
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INTER OR INTERN.

(John Kendrick Bangs in the New
York Times.)
My hat is Off to compositor Oh q
New York newspaper who is respon-
sible for the following:
But for the fact that---has
a wife ana baby who would be left
destitute. Mr.. Wallace said he would
nave to recommend intcrment for the
duration Of the war.
"lnternent' is good! How much
better it would be to inter German
traitors than to intern them. Let us
bury few as an experiment and see
how it works out in the end.
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GOING WEST.

Blackstone Courier).
People as a general rule dislike
the word DEATH" and in ordinary
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05

Over in France mud thrown up by
the gun shots makes serious wounds.
Over here there is mud-throwing, too
but fatalities due to 1t are rare.-Ex.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1918-11-12
Notas Ar1lericanas

no salian mas que durante Ell dia
para respirar aire y para que Sc
pudiese hacer la limpieza; en- al
gunos barcos era tan corta la dis
tancia entrc el sollado y Ia cubicr
"a, que no Sc podia estar de pie.
Habfa casos de asfixia y estos
anmentaron cuando Sc comenzo a
perseguir Ia trata; cosa que no di'
ce Mr.. Phillips, sino que la digc
yo, porque Sc 10 OF a i'm capitan
|negrero que tuve, no el honor, pc.
70 ST ell g1sto de conecer en- Liver
pool, hace la friolera de cuarenta
! y siete aiios, en- 1871. No recueri,,
81 era catalan o mallorquin; alto,
musculoso, tostado, de bigote girls
y conversation amena. Seg1n ei,
epenas aparecia 10 lejos una We
la, como podia ser un crucero in
sles, Sc encerraba a los negros en-
la bodega, para'que no fuesen des.
cubiertos; y como algunas veces la
vela sospechosa estaba a la vista,
todo ell dia hacia calor, habfa alg1-
mas defunciones.
-Creo-nc dijo tambien que &c
hizo las cosas al reves. ST en- lugar
de perseguir la trata y conservar
a esclavitud Sc hubiera comenzado
ior abolir la esclavitud, Ia trata 20
l.ubiera tenido razon de ser.
Inglaterra inicio Ia persecution
en- 1907, y sin embargo, hasta mu-
chos amos despues Cuba sigui6 re
oibiendo bozales; Los nltimos en-
1865. En- los Estados Unidos habia
tscsado la Importation bastante an
les, porque el mercado estaba suf-
eientemente provisto. En- Nueva
Inglaterra los negros no eran mas
lue el 2 por ciento de la pobla-
ci6n; SUI proportion era mayor en-
Nueva York, una de las colonias
con legislaci6n barbara, donde por
nna disposition de 17O5, Sc casti
Saba con pena de muerte a todo
esclavo de la ciudad y Ell condade
de Albany que fuese descubierto
viajando cuarenta millas al Nor
te de dicha ciudad. Pero en- Rhode
Island honor ella! LAS leyes
eran contrarlas la continuation
de la esclayitud, y las dos ciuaa
DIES aut6nomas de Providence y
Warwicn decretaron, va en- 1862, q