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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-16
BIC TOLL CUTS
On TELEPHONE
LINES COMING
UNIVERSAL MILE RATE
OF 6.25 MILLS IS MADE
New Rates Are to Become
Effective on Next
January 2lst.

WASHINGTON prc. lG.--SwecpInE
reductions IN long distances and toll tcl-
Gphun" ratrs:by tn" adoption of DaSir
chargr Of G.. mills a mile. airline mile
age and hair ih~. day rat" for night ser
wee up TO midnight md onc-i"urIh the
day rate after that hour were announced
today by Postmaster General Burl:Sou.
They bcrumc effective mex January Il.
The new rates were recommended IN
Tho first report Of tn" committee on
rate standardiZltIon. and Mr.. Eur!""otf s
state said the effect Is TO cuuaiiHe
tho toll and innE distance charges over
the country, "TrmuvinE diSpnr!t!es ana
preferences and providing n Sclcntiflc
basis for future rcducii ions cnntrmplat,-
I'd rs uHifice:lun Of telephone and t"ic-
gnph wires prncred"d.' ContinuInS'
the statement says:
Station to Station Rate.
"A station 10 station service is cStah-
lishsd such As now rNistS in the balance
ri the world that IS. when connection
IS established with u mans house or OIL
fIcr the opportunity 10 converse Is pro-
vidcd. and IN" station t" station rntr'
which is the basic rate. applies. md Is
payable wilrth"r thr particular person
desired responds "r not. This rate up
to twenty four miles is nj the rate nr
five. cents for six miles and for greater
distances five cents fer each eight miles,
nr about g.. cents Il mil. The distance
is computed by airlin" methods and not
by polo I'm" ar public highways. Thn
airline diStauC" arr commonly about ~"
miles whri tn" nth"r.: would run IL"
miles. II ls stated Ivy the cotnmittc"
that mr-" than sixty varieties of tn!i
rates have existed in the United states
UP 10 IA" present time. The elect Oh
this uniform or basis rate IN the station
10 station service is In reduce or hot
affect ah0u. seventy percent OF tHc
rates. though necessarily slightly rails
INK about thirty percent in thr process
of Standard
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north Of the bridEchcad Of Cologne up
to the Dutch frontier. This occupation
will b. announced by the high command
by giving six days notice"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-16
President Paes of Portugal, Slain By
Assassin, Who Is Lynched By Crowd

SCENE OF CRIME THE RAILROAD STATION In LlS-
BON, WHERE THE PRESIDENT WAS AWAITING
TRAIN-SENOR BARBOSA ASSUMES THE RElNS
OF GOVERNMENT
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Continued Oh fAKe ~)
The evening world., 1918-06-12
The Story in an Electric Light

OF one carbon rod to the top OF an
other, a short distance from the irst,
In bridging this space the current
does not follow a straight path, but
makes n curve or "arc," whence its
name. Tho carbons are not Enclosed
in a bulb from which the air has been
exhausted. consequently the carbon
rods gradually burn away. The light
is due TO the fact that the air be-
tween the tips opposes a high resist
ance 20 the passage OF the current,
so that the rods become intensely hot
at their tips. As the carbon slowly
burns. small particles are heated
white hot. thus producing light
In order to keep the light from the
arc uniform in strength, il is neces-
Isary TO keep the tips always the same
distance apart. This is practically
impossible, and. rs a result, the arc
does not produce light that Is well
adapted for reading OF other purposes
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Indoor Lighting.

-HIRTY-NINE years ago a num-
Der Of men we're at work on
L the idea OF an incandeseent
lamp, Thomas A. Edison solved the
problem, and TO him, in 1872 we're
granted the patents for what was
soon TO become a household necessity.
The incandescent lamp consists OF a
glass bulb from which the air has
been exhausted by pumps and chem
ical processes. and which contains a
fllament OF carbon or metal. This fill
ament opposes high resistance 10 the
passage OF an electrical current and,
consequently, is heated to incandes-
cence. The removal OF the oxygen
from the bulb prevents the filament
from burning mp.
In Edlson's first lamp the fllament
was OF bamboo fibre, and the next
development was the celluloid process
which IL stu used IN carbon and
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Arms" but wounded were coming in
from all directions. and We had to
keep going in and out. in turns, to the
cellar In which we did our dressing.
The gas Aept thiekening every minute.
~>.stasa!iy We quickly adjusted u
gas masks. But. as It was nifty feet
from one cellar 10 the other and we
dared not Fash lights TO pass over
the stone and mortar OF tho fallen
walls, We found II necessary TO re-
move our masks for moving as well
a. Cor the purpose OF tying up the
wounds in an acceptable manner.
Thus. by midnight. our eyes were
AZ rcd as uncooked beefsteak and
they felt as II they had been sand
pspsred. Our lungs on each ~respira-
ton felt as though they were gripped
" . closing wise. The gas masks
act by altering the inhaled air
through q chemical, which neutral
Tres the poisonous materials in the
gases. When We removed them we
had severe attacks OF coughing
watch were relieved only by breath
ing through the mouthpiece Of the
masks.
Hours dragged slowly by. Still
the whirr Of approaching shells and
tho soft thud OF their bursting con-
tinusd- Miseryf Never elsewhere
had we experienced anything akin 70
it-shs innamed eyes, the sufocation
In cur lungs. the knowledge that in
faiation OF SUFFICIENT OF the gas Would
put us into kingdom come"
Then Capt. Manlon adds. with per-
fsst simplicity: I'VE knew WI could
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TOO MUCH TO EXPECT.

We overheard on a C~ollinwood car tho
best excuse for o working that we
could ever have imagined. Tile It for
reference.
Ono fellow said. How do you Hike
your Job down at the MILF"
Il amt workin' there no more an
swered the other.
Got a better lob"
Nope, Amt got no lob"
What did YOU quit for?"
Well, / couldn't see no use In keepin'
on at Il. Niger It that II / did make
good they'd expect me to keen right on
maxim good, That's o much to expect
OF nybody this kinda weather. So
au1L -ClavslAnd Plain paslsE.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE IL, 1915
When Kinks Get Sticky
Drop Chips in the Kitty
For a New Kingless Deck
By Arthur ('Bugs'') Baer

1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (Ths New York Evening word)
w yHEN Emp Charles chinned to Knk Ferdinand that all kings
w should suck together like postage stamps in a fat mans vest
pocket he said something America wants to see the kings
Stick together like two porous plasters in July. When the kings get
sticky YOU are hep to the answer.
When kings get sticky we Immediately establish a bal for q new
deck.
The kings in the deck got sticky around lT76, with the result that
u revere hung up q mileage record that has never been equalled
since gasoline elbowed oats OF the touring menu. The old monarchicsl
deck "a tossed into the discard and we've been dealing with a demo
cratic pack Of cards ever since.
e EN- stick together. II the kngs get sticky enough they will
Sood nypaper after the war. Outside OF that they ire about az
usetui a IS a whipsocket in a Ford or a thirst in a dry State
Don only allow those kinks 10 stick together, but make en- stick
together. We need a new deck.
That's what " z are all chipping ito M ki,tv FOR
And that kitty is a big cat now.
Everybody knows that a cat a star at 4 king But this Il. going
to oe The hst time that a cat grabbed a king by the cas and shook
him for the drinks.
Let EN- grow al muolasinous as they want. When they RI. all
King sure does gum the deck. But when all four Of 81 get sticky 81,
ne TO bar the door. There Is the old Sultan OF Turkey Who is more
nsulin' than Sultan. He Is not 10 bad. but he Et sticky from ,tckiug
around with n other birds. Then comes Kink Ferdina nd, who claim,
TO 70 a dove among crows but when a guy buzzes around will a flo
.ma o glucose KINKS the law says they are all glued with the same
pFufh' Mex Is Emp Charles, who tried to do a getaway, but dis
Ner ma n e a all tanglefooted up with glue made In Germany.
When Emp Charles found that he a all stuck Cd he chIrped hat
the knks should stick together. And last, but not fewost, #, the old
jazzbo himself Bllhelm Der Couple. Emberor oder GIuenzoleru,
IN o dr Royal Paste Pot Dock of Won sickness and Der Father
of his nation. Only, s. far a > the lighting zone is concerned. Oar
Father u his nation seems % b. the Furthest OF his naton .
Let EN- stick together when the kings stick together thar, VII,
the deuces Vi wild. It's e ne ness yer there. And the onIy ;.
out II o ss the old sticky deck under the table, walk around WI,
chair seven times n tai a O rama
With a kingess deck.
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famine, even at the risk OF being
called a fool optimist.
or course we are, most OF US, fool
optimists in America. And 1t was pre-
cisely this quality which made
forefathers believe that m ming
better could be made OF us than tax
payers TO George III, and whien has
caused us to undertake 10 prove To
Germany that there are greater fcross
In the world than Force.
II IL what Is called fool optimism
which sent our soldiers Into BATH.
last week with Peoples IN their hel.
and which will always send
them laughing and cheering over III.
top. II was fool optimism which
halted our machine gunners at their
work OF preparations to watch a skv-
lark's head spin from the clouds "a
his hidden nest.
1t was fool optimism that took n.
farcical the scheme OF Germany [,
divert our battleships from Europ.
through a submarine a ON onr
coast.
1t is fool optimism, the one thin.
not accounted for In the C.r,n.n
plans. which for years and years ana
years could keep on paying war tara.
from an empty purse. could persist A
Viewing defeat as the prelude to VIC
tory and could bring US out o. 4.
whole bitter business with clear h.sa,
high hearts and more optimism.
In the opinion OF many heavy sn,ru.
OF his day. Abraham Lincoln wa.
fool optimist," and when thsy ,,,t.A
OF compromise. Of letting the .rrs,r
sisters 30 In peace Il trust no On, viu
be inspired TO ask me II I know VIII
was the author Of that phrase, Tan
coin kept on telliax funny stor,ss ma
saved the Union. Only tho fool on,,'
mist believes in war--war 10 m. -,
most-war without stint or limit .s
fool optimist remembers that bow.n.s
difficult the way. whatever the n-,s.
OF victory may be, we owe Il eou.,,,,
to tho dead and to the unborn 10 60
on. The fool optimist Knows 49,
compromise peace will mean th,t
dead have died in vain and tbs Sns
born must inherit the mlgdty tssk
put aside. We
So ] am proud 10 be q fool ont,,..-.
Are you omar A
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metslllzed lights. In the best modern
lamps the filament Is OF tungsten
metal, The use OF the latter was dis
covered in 1905. and the first tungsten
lamp made in America was produced
the next year. At first the fllaments
were composed OF several strands OF
wire, hut in 1910 a lamp with a con-
tinuous tungsten filament was in
vented. which gave a much more
brilliant light than any OF its prede-
cessors. This lamp is much more eff
client than the carbon light because
the tungsten ilament can be heated
to a higher temperature than the
present carbon filament without seri-
ously Weakening the bulb.
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j suppose everyone has some seprl-
chral friend who talks about the uh'-
versal food famine after the war. I
fancy everybody knows some timId
soul to whom every breeches-buoy on
the horizon Is a p%eriscope and who
gives to the tradition Of German
might a faith profounder than any
he has experienced since he ceased 10
believe in Santa Claus.
I have n friend who Is convinced
that the only way to meet the Ger
man menace Is for every person N
the United States TO keep a pig.
You don't keep him in the nat. OF
! course. The Board OF Health might
| object. You buy him for $40. board
him with a farmer, and when fall
comes get your reward in pork. How
much pork" / ~ventured to ask the
ingenious author OF this schsme. And
who decides whether you are TO be
paid in hams or chittelings?"
II shall get $40 worth OF pork"
came the brief and hostile reply, for
by this time I was in disgrace, as
always am, for asking too many
questions.
".At wholesale or retail prices7" I
pursued.
but this detail OF universal saliva
ton had been overlooked. And
could see myself having a row with
the farmer II Il were not adjusted. sc
[ did not fall In with the scheme. But
[ did not escape being called q foo
optimist.
Yet another woman to whom I re-
lated the novel theory that pig vii
win the war" merely began to hum
the refrain OF @ round game We nj
played as children:
The farmer and the pig,
The farmer and tho pig.
Heigh-oh a cherry-o!
The farmer and tho pig"
And she 10 q woman who knits in
~cessantly for soldiers, mover misses
Red Cross meeting or shuts her purs'
10 a war charity.
She felt as I dtd, I suppose. that thu
food shortage Is a problem for eSper
minds; that such minds are now en-
gagged upon II, and that the most tn
Individual can do Is 10 cooperate will
the Food Administrator In preventing
waste without broodinS v . tutur,
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a9NNNN ~ va "hNN ~
Amer instance OF stark heroism I'M
helped by thrill or glamour, than the
story OF Capt. Manion's night un-
der gas at Vimy shortly after the
taking OF ..'imy Ridge by IN. Ca
nadians.
The Germans having boen expelled
nrem vlmy, were trying 10 shell It TO
pieces. and nearly In the centre Of
their target practice were the two
cellars which Capt. Msnlon and his
sssistants used as living headquarters
and for a dressing station. The day
before he came on duty a shell-which
luckily did not e~xplode-fel souarely
m the middle OF one Of these cellars.
The frst night he spent there the
Germans launched a heavy gas attack,
and the gas, being heavier than the
air, promptly sank into the cellars
despite a wet blanket hung over the
entrance. Moreover. there were "
poisonous vapors abroad-the kind
that burns up the lung tissue and the
sort known as tear gas"
Had we been able 10 stay In the
oeliar and keep the blanket tightly
placed over the entrance, bur misery
would have been much less" Capt.
Manion writes IN "A Surgeon in
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that require constant use OF the eyes
The light, however, is very powerful
and for that reason il is much used
for street illumination,
Data from The Book Of Wonders b. per
mlssion Of Bureau d Industrial Education, Wash
lngtoon. ID. q.
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invariably the persons who accuse me OF fool optimism
are the same persons VINO used 10 tell me that III. honor
OF the country was lost because We were not in the wa,
the conflict unprepared."
IL you don't know any OF these lightning change but
perpetual cHtics-these expert turner's OF mental somer-
sauts-you are more fortunate IN your ACQUAINTANCE than
I am. For I number several OF them among the men and
women that I konw. They are all native American and
some OF them trace their ancestry to Colonial days. But
this heritage OF honor appears to have given them nothing
The evening world., 1918-06-12

Ianhdlhn Afmy MbuItAI NOTpHs
Capt. Msnion hurried to Europe at the beginning
Of the war and served first In a French chateau hos
pital, formerly the home of the Count de Bethune. I'M
der the direction OF the Ambulance Anglo-Frsnceise
Later he was medical officer TO a certain Canadian
battalion, the M. o." being stationed nearer the fir
ing line than any other member OF the medical corps.
The hrst dugout in which he set up his r~egimental
aid post was on a front being actively shelled and
about 200 yards from the front line.
The evening world., 1918-06-12
Street Lighting.

The electric arc Is the ordinary
form Of street light, and differs in
principle from the incandoscent ANN.
In the arc light a current OF cleo.
GIe!ty - made " Iesp from ths tn
The evening world., 1918-06-12
Under Gas Attack All Night
ArmyS Surgeons Carried On
Aiding Wounded in Cellar
Hor. Nearly SuEocated Most Of the Time, Once Working
Without Masks, They Stuck TO Post Until Morning,
Told by Capt. r. }. Manion, NJ c., in
"a Surgeon in Arms"
By Marguerite Mooers Marshall
"a Surgeon in Arms

II TOURS Of slow torture and the constant threat of an sgonizing
RI death-not in a dramatic charge over the top, but wesponess and
buried like a rat In a dark cenar-that is the o legend of this
vars herosms TO be found in the book OF a surgeon soldier called "A
Surgeon in Arms and written by Capt X. J Manion, NJ. c., OF the
The evening world., 1918-06-12
"War Optimists"
By Nixola G1eeley-Smith

Copyright. 1918. b. the P~s rubusans 20 IN. S,, Yu. Errlo, vo,,
A RE YOU a fool optimist about tho war?
~ I have been told so often that | am n that I nv, .e,mtn .
= = about m for companionship, y"
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born citizens would be Imprisoned, They are not diaOysl. in a sense. Th..
is they d 10 nt actually wish the disasters they foreten. But here Il, /.
serious question I'm my mind whether person. who go about prophesyinx
evil and repeating rumors made in Germany, and to that extent depressing
the public mood, are not Is dtsloyal a : the enemy spies who e about seek-
ing ammunition plants to destroy Not all the "deteatsts' ire In Franc.
ad Ittu
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In his book, which gives an unusually varied picture OF hostIltes, he
speaks glowingly OF the work Of stretcher bearers. avistors, officers and
Tommies, and modesly avoids autobiography. BY what he has seen,
however, ope understands what he has endured. And have read no
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-21
STORAGE LIMITS
FOR COAL NAMED
Ninety Days Supply Maximum
in North Dakota for Utilities
and Industries.

Because of the tremendously in
csreasing demand for coal for special
war purposes in the eastern part of
the country, and particularly inS the
navy and transport service. it is ne
cessary to draw more heavily on the
eastern coal fields than was original
ly contemplated announces Capt. l.
p Baker, federal fuel administrator
for North Dakota. At a meeting of
all state fuel <administrators east OF
the Mfssissippisand of minnesota and
North and South Dakota. held in
Washington, D. c., it was decided that
to accomplish the desired result 1t
would be necessary to limit the
amount of coal that industrial plants
would be allowed to accumulate and
to carry on hand, and to fix uniform
amount for each state.
The maximum limits Of storage in
Dictated for North and South Dakota,
Wisconsin and upper Mich
igan are 80 days for by-product and
gas plants. and Observation-Disclosures.
These limits are mandatory, and each
fuel administrator is expected to see
that the different classes Of consum'
ers are not allowed to exceed these
limits. At the same time the state
fuel administrator is given a certain
latitude for the exercise of his own
discretion in special cases. F.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-21

soldiers letters. as fact. Many Of
these are difficult, il not impossible
to trace to the source Of origin. Con-
sequently, We are asking editors to
rrefrain from publishing atrocity stor-
les, whether charged against, the en-
envy or against our allies, until facts
embraced in them shall have been
substantiated and officially made pub
lie by olr>gOvernment, or the govern
ment of one Of our allies.
"This is not inspired by desire to
suppress criticism Of Hun cruelty:
That Me has been guilty Of atrocities
has been clearly proven. The request
is designed to prevent vitiation Of
the-Gunimpeachable> case which has
been established against him by the
British Bryce report and the findings
of other official agencies which have
investigated instances of his cruelty.
Publication of charges of atrocities
that are not susceptible of proof would
enable bib to make a propaganda at
tack uDon-the prove.t cases. )
Furthermore, these atrocity stories
inspire our soldiers to commit acts
of reprisal which enable the enemy
to launch a counter cruelty prOpa-
ganda Publication of atrocities
charged against our allies affords
him similar opportunity. -
General Pershing, cogniZant of the
tiated charges of atrocities, took occa-
sion last July to cable a public mes
sage to the war department, denying
statements relative to the, atrocities
charged against the German army,
which were being made In speeches
delivered by sergeant who had been
returned from the expeditionary for
ces to participate in the Liberty Loan
campaign. - .~5
"Our request IS directed particular
ly against atrocity statements EN-
braced in soldiers letters, and we will
appreciate it, il you will cooperate
with usHby observing it,
!, In this connection, it is we'll to note
that there has been an error made in
the published story of the crucifixion
by Germans of an American soldier
named Sergeant A. B. Cole, Of East
Liverpool Ohio. = A circumstantial
account Of, the .atrocity has been print
ed, by the Salvation Army as related
by DR.. P. H. Howard, a member Of the
st. Louis chamDer Of commerce, who
visited France to gather first-hand In;
FORMATION about the war. Dr.. Howard
twas quoted as giving the story on
the authority OF Private A. c. Cole. a
brother of the victim, who found the
ycrucified soldier pinned with bayon-'
cts to a door.
TO an Inquiry from the war depart!
ment, DR.. Howard has replied that he
has Private A. G. Coles signed state
ment OF how he found his brother
+crucified by .Uhlans, battle of Ypres,
July 81, 49, But if the atrQcity was
committed in July, 1915, Sergeant Cole
was not a member of the American
expeditionary forces but was enlisted
probably by the Canadian army. -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-21
GRAIN CONCERNS
SUED BY STATE
Illegal Combination Charges in
z Suit Brought Against Ele- Z
vatOrs and Mills.

Charging illegal combination. the
state Of North Dakota has entered
suit against the Great Western Grain
Co., the, Powers Grain Co., the Occi
dent Elevator Co. and the Monarch
EeleXator Co.. foreign corporations
engaged in business in North Dakota
and at Minneapolis and Duluth. The
complaint alleges that all OF the de,
PENDANTS "unreasonably and arbitrar'
jly" fix their prices according to a
daily list issued by the Grain Bulletin
Of Minneapolis. which the state al.
leges is contrQlled4by the Minneapolis,
which the state alleges. is controlled
by the Minneapolis Chamber Of Com
merce- The complaint alleges that
through this practice $10,O00,O0O has
been, eXtorted from the farmers OF
the state at large, and damages are
claimed from the companies speclfical.
Unnamed as dewendants in the sum OF
100000. - n ~
The complaint sets forth that Octo.
Der 16 there was spread OF ~ IL
cents per bushel in the price paid for
wheat between ,Mandan and Duluth;
81 cents on barley. 81 to SO cents on
flax, and 20 cents for rye The freight
rate on the first cereal grains is ~
cents a bushel. On flax the tariff is
e IA cents per bushel. go
The state contends that this agree
ment and conspiracy restricts trade
and gives the defendants and other
elevators an unjust illegal and extor-
tfonate compensation for handling
grain that is 100 per cent more than
is reasonable" and it asks that the
defendants be enjoined from conduct
ing "such illegal pool and demands
that it account to the courts, for the
business done pursuant to such un.
derstanding" during the months OF
August, September and October, so
that the amount of damages suffered
through such alleged illegal practices
may be determined: