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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
THE SHADOW BEFORE.

Remember that story which flashed
across the cables some weeks ago
about an American sentry having been
killed by a German night patrol?
Evidently they surprised and over
powered him. They might Just as east.
ly have taken him prisoner. But they
didn't.
They cut his throat from ear to ear!
Not pretty story; not story com.
mending the much vaunted German
kultur; not story calculated to In.
spire confidence in the kaiser's close
ly following peace proposals.
But intensely Illuminating!
1t was notice, served in the German
way, of, what our boys In khaki may
expect.
1t was an early intimation of what
the gore-maddened Hun may be ex-
pected to do If he ever puts his nailed
heel and his mailed fist upon Ameri.
can shores.
And in the usual Prussian way it
was done in the dark!
God help America If we fail to bring
every resource to bear in winning this
war.
And God help you and yours If you
fail to do your part.
Buy Liberty Bond before it is too
late.
We MUST strafe the Hun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
LET'S HAVE A SHOWDOWN

= Columbus, Feb. 25. - Telephone,
traction, light and heat corporations
should turn their cards face up.
They are quasi public institutions
and wheD they are secretive-as other
kinds OF corporations properly may be
they create suspicion in the public
mind. of which demagogues take ad
vantage to secure local Office. and II
elected make good their promises to
reduce .,ervice rates, although the peo-
pie want service continuously reliable
rather than cheap.
rate which was fair when fixed for
a term of years one or five years ago
Is ruinous now, for coal, which is the
largest cost item for. traction, factory-
power and electric lighting hNs
doubled in cost, while copper, used for
transmitting power and dialogues has
trebled in cost and the average wage
has increased so per cent.
The American public surely is will.
ing to give any corporation which will
take. it into confidence, rate that will
furnish money enough for expenses,
betterments and interest on capital.
The state provides a public utilities
commission to which confession can
be made.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
THE VALUE OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
COMMISSIONS.

Has the regulation of utilities by
the commissions been successful?
Yes, in that it has cut out rebates;
1t has cut out discrimination; 1t has
cut out unreasonably high rates; 1t
has prevented, almost throughout the
United States now, the duplication of
public utilities and the waste that
comes from it. 1t has given the pub
lie an opportunity to appeal to an au-
thoritative tribunal. whenever they
felt that they were not getting a
square deal, and 1t has made the COM
panies realize what their real obliga.
ton is to the public.
If the state public utilities commits
sion had the power to adjust rates
from time to time to the needs of the
service, equitable regulation would be
maintained to the great advantage to
the consumer.
Unfortunately city and village coun-
ellis by ordinance frequently fix the in
come of the service Companies arbi-
trarily for long periods of years. with
out effort to learn the companies
necessities and without reference to
the burdens placed upon them by the
state utilities commission.
An inadequate return for the serv.
Ice makes good service impossible
The loud demand always is for good
seryice.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07

lie Of the actual standing and con-
dition and earnings and properties of
the utilities. is bringing about a bet
ter feeling. There is no more reason
why the public should quarrel with its
utility than why the hand should
quarrel with the foot. We cannot get
along without them. They cannot get
along without US. Then why should
we quarrel? Take away the electric
light systems and tomorrow night
every city and village and hamlet in
the land would be in darkness.
1.-THE legislature or the city council
may impede for time, but ultimately
the eternal law of right and wrong
and of justice will make the wrong
doer pay for his own wrong. You can
not get something for nothing by leg
islation. The same is true with the
utility and the public.
"If the public, by controlling the ad-
ministrative or legislative bodies Sc
cures rate less than the utility can
afford to furnish it's service for, what
will it do? Just what human nature
always does. 1t will furnish just such
service as it can afford at that rate.
1t will suffer its plant or it's enter
prise to depreciate. 1t will furnish
inadequate service and. perchance the
community persists in that course, ul-
timately withdraw from the field, and
the utility has lost its property and
the public its service. Neither can
afford to do that We need the utility,
the utility needs us.
"The average man wants only what
is fair and right. The trouble is that
they are SO easily deceived by some
glib tongued fellow who filings out halt
digested facts and figures. The aver.
age man wants to be right. o. have
abundant faith in human nature, and
when we go wrong usually it is be-
cause we do not know. Down yondeI
in Columbus there is a statue of the
immortal Mckinley, and chiseled in
the stone foundation are these words
LET us ever remember that our in
terests lie in concord and not discord
That our eternal imminence rests not
in the victories Of war but in the vic
tories Of peace"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
DON'T WASTE GAS
MOTHER EARTH QUIT MAKING 1T
MANY YEARS AGO.

Columbus. Feb. PA strange sit
uation has developed in the natural
gas industry in this state. A situa.
ton that is exceedingly serious.
There are several natural gas com.
panies in Ohio that today can only
furnish 60 per cent of the amount OF
gas calculated upon when their fran,
chise was secured Inasmuch as most
rates under franchise limitations were
fixed ON basis Of quantity of con.
sumption. it follows that a decrease OF
40 per cent in the amount of produc.
ton available means a corresponding
cut in calculated profits. Natural gas
at 35 or 40 cents as compared with
artificial gas at $1.25 gives an idea of
the average difference in the cost OF
production. Natural gas is twice as
hot as the artificial kind.
just what the gas using communi.
ties are going to discover as remedy
for the condition which is now here
and getting worse is great problem
DO NOT WASTE THE GAS.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
WE'D, COURT LATER
Armenians Choose Girl First,
Take Chance on Love.
American Principal Of School In Tur-
key Receives Letter Requesting
Any One of Three.

Armenian marriages are always ar
ranged, the question of love not en-
tering, writes Hester Donaldson Jenk-
ins in World Outlook. I remember
when the principal of an American
school said to one Of her teachers
who was contemplating matrimony:
Il hate to have you go, but should
not mind so much If you loved him."
that the Armenian drew herself up
Indignantly; she would not be so I'M
maidenly as to love man before mar
riage.
An Armenian man generally picks
out his own wife, one whom he has
seen and approved. But he does not
court her; instead he goes to her pa
rents and makes very careful Inquiries
as to her health, disposition and
housewifery, after which he bargains
keen!y for her dot. Without a dot
an Armenian girl may scarcely marry.
The american principal of school
for Armenian girls in Turkey received
great maay applications for wives
from the Armenian men Of the neigh
which read something like this:
"Your Nobleness.
"Mademoiselle: I wish to marry
one Of the girls in your school. VIII
you get me little Aznif, her of the
curly braids and strong eyebrows? Or
If you cannot obtain her for me, then
will take Marian, with the big, black
eyes and the shining teeth; or If
cannot have her, 1 wish Zarroohee,
with the straight features and white
skin. But do not offer me any other,
for love only these three"
In the same school occurred the
unique experience Of Schnorrig. Dix
ran had come to her father and bar
gained for her. When she was told
of her impending marriage she was
sulky and sad, for She had read Eng
lish books and did not wish to be
sold to husband like bale Of rugs.
But she left school and let her mother
prepare her trousseau. At the formal
betrothal she and Dikan met for the
first time When the priest put the
question whether she was willing to
be betrothed to this man she shocked
all the relatives assembled In festive
array by bold "No."
The priest argued with her. and the
irate father would probably have
forced her by pushing her head for
ward had not Dikan declared that he
liked her spirit and would not have
her forced to take him. So the party
broke up in tears and lamentations.
But the two young people met each
other good deal that winter, natu-
rally taking an interest In each other,
so the story ends with happy mar
riage after q real American courtship.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07

inelastic regulatory laws. born In
other years. and under vastly different
conditions are responsible for the In.
Justice now suffered by public serv.
ice concerns.
"If the law of 1900 had arbitrarily
fixed the price of shoes and the con-
ditions of 1918 had caused an increase
in the price of leather of three or four
hundred per cent 1t would obviously
result IN the bankruptcy of all shoe
manufacturers unless the law were re-
pealed and the price list changed"
"Old laws that fixed gas rates, for In.
stance, are now handicapping every
effort on the part of public officials
to save utilities concerns from finan-
cial disaster and the public they serve
from the greater disaster which must
of necessity follow their abandon
ment.
"This Is one Of the serious questions
before the American public today"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
WORK, SAVE, FIGHT.

These are the three cardinal re-
.Quisites of the present condition Of
world menace. They are the sur
mounting beatitudes of our chaotic
times. We will ignore them only at
our peril. We will shirk them only
at an overwhelming cost. We must do
not only one, but all to win. And win
I'VE must.
To lose this conflict with the kaiser's
hosts; to bend the knee in submission
to the will of the Prussian autocracy;
to accept peace terms dictated by the
war lords Of Germany, would be to
trail in the dust the highest hopes
of Democracy. 1t would mark the
Waterloo Of Liberty. 1t might spell
the end.
America wants no autocratic dom.
ination at this late day. The United
States has led the way in world en-.
nghtenment and the sowing of the
seeds Of freedom too long ever to sub.
NIT to tyranny. And German victory
would mean that.
So we must work to the utmost in
our respective lines that the normal
production may be maintained and our
material needs may be met fully and
promptly.
We must save, economize, curtail
that home consumption may be re
duced and our individual resources be
kept to their normal standard.
For in doing both we will have more
to offer our government, directly and
indirectly; through personal sacrifice
and investment in war securities.
And we can trust our boys at the
front to do their share of the fighting
the spirit of freedom will inspire to
that.
Work, save, fight and WIN.
s. That's our program.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
Ee GoUernor Campbell
On Public Service

Colunabus, Feb 25.-Ex-Governor
James e. Campbell, speaking of the
conditions from which public service
corporations now are suffering, said:
"The power to regulate gas, tele.
phone, electric light or street railway
company in the interest of the public,
involves also the obligation to protect
the company and those who have in
vested their brains and their money
in its development
"a statement along these lines made
by a member Of the Public Utilities
Commission Ohio was called to my
attention and it struck me as signif-
cant of the changed and changing at
titude of officials toward public cor
porations 1t also struck me as q
very sensible observation.
Price increase in raw materials
which compel corresponding advances
for the finished manufactured pro-
ducts, leaves the public service cor.
poration naked and helpless. The
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
ARE YOU PAYING FOR UNBURNED
CAST
Natural gas men are odd.

Natural gas men are odd.
1t is unusual for producers to strive
to lessen the consumption of the com.
modify they sell by teaching custom.
ers to use less of it. The ordinary In
stinct Of business prompts to effort
to increase output, but these operators
who sell gas, which comes out of the
ground into their pipes under its own
power, are teaching homo owners to
use less gas by telling them how to
reduce the quantity paid for. without
reducing the heat secured. by reciting
the following facts:
FLAMES at the side of a vessel
waste gas.
"a noisy fire is wasting gas.
"The most effective flame from the
common burner in heaters-with tho
usual two-ounce pressure-is blue and
four inches high.
"In a yellow fringe are atoms OF
gas escaping unconsumed.
Watch the damper! Perfect com.
bustion Of gas depends upon giving 1t
the amount of air it needs for chemi-
cal union.
"Clean out the screen, mixer and
vent in light burners frequently. Burn.
ers for heating should be cleaned by
boiling with soap or washing Soda"
Possibly, the natural gas men are
insisting upon economical use of it be-
cause no more gas can be formed in
Mother Earth's bowels and they wish
to postpone the day when the supply
is exhausted and their plants are old
iron, buried. One Ohio distributing
plant pays taxes on $90.000.000.
These distributing systems. when
natural gas fails. might be used for
artificial gas. but Ohio does not pro-
duce gas making coal, and, too, arti-
fetal gas is but half as hot at twice
the cost.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07


terials advanced, in some cases moro
than hundred per cent. The utility
can not pass the increased cost ON to
the customer as can the merchant or
the manufacturer, and many of them
are operating at loss or reducing
the efficiency of their service. In
cases where the rates are not fixed
they are constantly applying to the
Commission for increases, which. in
most instances, are vigorously resist
ed by the consumers.
c"All of these applications for increas-
es are carefully examined by the Com
mission and only such advances are
allowed as seem to be imperative.
1T is not to the best interest of
either the public or the utility that
rates be fixed which will bankrupt the
company or compel it to furnish a
poor service.
1--WE are doing the best we can to
deal with this difficult question in
these troublesome 'r..es, and we be-
lieve that if the puDlic knew all the
facts, there would be less criticism.
take it the public wants to be fair;
but do not want to be imposed upon. "
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
WILL OTHER SYSTEMS BE
WRECKED?

The federal government found tho
railroads starving and took them over.
In every section of the land today the
gas and electric and telephone and
electric railway lines are starving.
They are financially anemic, eco
nomically pale; they can't sell bonds
nor stock to keep. up their equipment
because they can't make money at
current rates in sufficient quantity
to make their stocks and bonds at
tractive purchases.
Literally thousands of public utility
corporations today are facing bank.
ruptcy. Propositions looking toward
their relief have been made and the
Bolsheviki are protesting.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
REGULATING THE
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Excerpts From an Address Of
Hon. Beecher W. Walter
mire, Public Utilities Com
missioner of Ohio.

Speaking to the graduating class Of
the Y. nj. c. A. Law School Of Cincin-
natl, Mr.. Waltermire said:
Now, unfortunately, there is feel
ing Of hostility in almost every COM
munity between the public and the
utility. 1t ought not to be SO. There
ought to be the utmost harmony be-
tween the two. Somehow the public
have got it into their heads that every
utility is attempting to extort some
thing from them. Now 1t ought not to
be SO, and believe that the public
regulation of utilities, the making pub.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
Foundlna of MOSCOW.

1t was on the site of the Kremlin,
now the center of the city, that Mos
COW was founded by Yuri Dolgoruki,
Prince of Kiev in 1147, although his
torians believe village existed on the
heights above the River MoslSov even
before the advent of Dolgoruki. With
In century the new village entered
into the turmoil of Slavic wars then
raging.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
The Real Reason.

An Illinois woman wanted divorce
because her husband snored anf talked
in his sleep. He's probably one tf those
exasperating husbands who tllks in
his sleep just enough to arouse hei
curiosity, but not enough to tell her
where he has been
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
How Butchers sharpened Knives.

In the sepulchers at Thebes, Egypt,
butchers are represented as sharpening
their knives on round bar of metal at
tached to their aprons, which from Its
blue color is supposed to be iron.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07
Suggestive Title.

"China From Within" a new book
advertised, may have been written by
one of those old-tine sidc-show takers
who ate cups and saucers and dinner
plates for the edihcatlon of gaping
crowd Of yokels.--Seattle fcst-IntellI-
gencer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07

One county In Iowa has more tele-
phones than all of rural Germany.
with its state-owned. stagnated, un-
enterprising telephone system.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07

Almost the entire signal corps OF
the army was taken from the experts
Of the telephone companies; othsrs
must be educated to I'LL their places.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-03-07

A lot Of psssImisslc prophets are
soreIy disappointed that the last
Liberty Loan failed to "bust the
banks"
Evening journal., 1918-07-12
SPECIALISTS.

7 AIDES AND GENTLEMEN OF Will
IL mington. II you are suffering with any
ailments such as rheumatism, paralytic
lameness, diabetes, stomach trouble. etc,
where medical aid has failed, Madam Bro
hammer wants TO see you. l will not ac-
cept cases cannot cure. No. 700 w. Eighth
street. may13-1yr
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LIFE AND CHARACTER READING.
JULY 70.

.
There are no kinder, more generous
natures in the. entire Zodiac than those
born on this date with Venus as the
governing planet and Cancer as the
birthsign.
II placed in conditions Of dscord
and hatred these sensitive natures will
be sadly depressed but give them sun
shine and a sincere appreciating love
and they expand to great success in
any line Of work which they choose.
There is a stubborn will, keen busi-
ness ability. caution in speculation and
persistency in effort.
The black oynx is chosen as the
birthstone.
The Want Ads will bring the atten-
tion Of hundreds of articles lost.
Evening journal., 1918-07-12

vXYANTED-AUTOMO MECHANIC.
w Apply Motor Service, Inc, Eleventh
and Orange SITS 1yl1-St-
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DENTISTS.
REMOVAL NOTICE

REMONAL NOllCE
DR.. N. DAVIS. DENTIST,
formerly Of No. COS Market st. has re-
moved to his new location, NO. 615 MAR
KET ST. DR.. Il. Davis. dentist, formerly
No. 716 Market St., win also be located at
the same address, where they Will be
pleased to meet their many friends.
june24-1yr
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FOR GOVERNMENT WORK

Women from is TO IS years Of
age. Clean, desirable work; good
pay; good conditions. Apply Labor
Bureau, Rockford Gate, Joseph Ban
croft & Sons Co. julyit-3t
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STORAGE.

FAULKNER STORAGE HOUSE, 610
IL Walnut street Private rooms for
household goods at reasonable price.
Phone 3243-W. Junel9-1yr.
DRIvATE ROOMS FOR STORAGE OF
Il furniture and light articles. Also
rooms for heavy articles, Apply Delmar-
via Baking Co. No. IL Z. Fourth street.
june1S-1m
Evening journal., 1918-07-12
SIGN PAINTING.

DAISED LETTER, BRASS AND
IL bronze signs. See Albert Bucher, the
sign man, No. 713 Shipley St. Phone
1oS5-W mayzo-lyr'
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INSTRUCTIONS.
OPToMETRIsT.
TAXI AND AUTO TO HIRE.

ToURING CAR TO HIRE DAY OR
j. night, and like an echo. we are at
your service Phone $40 or 34O6-J.
june11-1yr.
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DETECTIVE AGENCY.

WHEN YOU NEED DETECTIVE SER
w vice. see Balascio Detective Agency,
No. 5l5 Market ST. Evidence secured In d.
yorce, criminal and legal cases. Phone
221S-W. apr10-1yr
Evening journal., 1918-07-12
PUBLIC SALE.


~-T SATURDAY JULY Is.
M f~x&>Y 20 head Of horses 10
Al " head from Chester. Pa.
.EAHU - head from Pennsyl-
vania, 20 head from Phiia-
delphia. 40 private horses. Wagons and
harness. Lot Of pigs and chickens. Con-
tents Of a store. consisting Of agate and
tinware Lot Of new horse collars Goods
Of all kinds. Lot Of goods to sell.
1y1-2t WM. II. KLAIR.
pUBL1c sALE-THE PROPERTY FOR
Il merly OF Delaware Glue Company, Mt
Newport. Delaware, win be sold at public
auction, 70 the highest and best bidder, at
the County Court House, at Wilmington,
Delaware, on July 20, 1918, at 10 O'clock
A. NJ. Two-thirds Of the purchase price
may remain on first mortgage at per cent.
This property, together with buildings.
contains four acres Of land on the Chris
tiana river, and can readily be converted
for manufacturing purposes
For further particulars, write or phone
Newport National Bank, Newport Della
ware, OF Sylvester d. Townsend, Jr.. WI
mington, Delaware
June2i- 20 2s jy2-5-9-12-16-10-2s.
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PUBLIC sTENOGRAPHER.

STENOGRAPHIC WORK
During your stenographer's vacation, have
work done by public stenographer. Lobby,
Hotel DUPONT June2o-1yr.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICE.


EIRST PROGRESSIVE SPIRITUAL
Il lists Church. No. DOG West street. sun
day evening services Messages by Mrs
De Laney. Skeptics invited. All welcome
jy12-2t
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HELP wANTED-MALE.

TO SERVE AFTER
" noon papers: must be over 10 years
cid. Apply No. S15 Shipley st. jyi1-3t.
Evening journal., 1918-07-12

TWO SALEsMEN; ALSO MIDDLE
\ aged man for inside work. Address
M-es, Evening journal once. jyi2-2t
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u-ED CARS FOR SALE Az

U-ED CARS FOR SALE AT
BARGAIN PRICES.
Model 40 Buick, 6-cylinder, Spas
senger machine, 1915. in perfect condition,
Model s5 1918 Buick. 5-passenger
$3.50
1--1917 studebaker. 7-passenger car. Good
mechanical condition, $500
1-19l7 Briscoe, 5-passenger car Electric
lights and starter Overhauled and in good
shape. Good tires, one extra, 5000
1-1010 Maxwell Roadster Newly painted
and overhauled. Lights and starter, good
shape, $3.50.
1-1917 Maxwell Touring. 5-passenger.
Good condition, $3.50.
1-1916 Ford Roadster. Good mechanical
order. S275.
1-1a14 Ford Touring. $2T5.
1-1010 Model So. Overland 5-passenger
car. $3.50.
CENTRAL GARAGE,
Telephone No. 81. Elkton, Nd.
jy11-3t
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TF YOU WANT YOUR SINK, CELLAR
Il and cesepool cleaned. phone Kelter.
Bell 511S. Fourth and West SITS. may1-1yr