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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
NEWSPAPER EDITOR
JOINS DEVIL Dogs
Marine Corps Gets New Recruit From
Ranks of the Patriotic
Fourth Estate"

John r Borum. associate editor OF
the Accomac News. Onancock, Va.
has enlisted in the marine corps, and
left last night for the training camp.
MIR. Borum is also part owner of the
Accomac News and has been connect
ed with that paper for some time He
Is we'll known in Accomac and sur
rounding counties
Others enlisting with the sea SOL
diers were L. B. Fuller. of West
Point, who was a student of V. NJ. l.
during last school year. and also at
tended the Plattsburg training camp,
w. r, Dean, of South HILL former in
spector for the Adams and Southern
Express companies of this city, A. j
Beck, of Martinsville, travelling sales
man for r. J. Reynolds Tobacco com
pany; ] o. Wiseman, of Ansted, w
Va.
The marine corps is In need OF
statesmen for duty as clerks in the ex-
changes at Paris Island, s. c. The
local recruiting station has authority
to accent twelve such statesmen and
transfer them to Paris Island. These
men will be enrolled in the marine
corps reserve. class four. Further in
formation may be had by applying al
the local devil dog" recruiting sta
ton.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
FAIR PREMIUMS TO BE GIVEN
IN WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

Harrisorhurg, Va, July 25-The
cataioeue and premium list for the
great Rockingham county fair in be
ing mailed out by Manager Andrew
Bell 10 prospective exhibitors and en-
frapts.
The catalog presents a vary neat and
attractive appearance aud the pre-
minms offered within it's covers are
larger by several hundred dollars than
those ever offered by the management
~ the Rockingham fair
The race program is especially at
tractiVe. the purses for the racing
events totaling more than $4,000.
while the premiums offered for diff
terent showings OF nigh grade live
stock are very attractive
novel idea will be adopted by the
fair management this year In that they
will pay all of the premiums other
than race pursea in war savings and
thrift stamps. thus not only giving
the exhibitors Ftheir money already
invested for them in interest hearing
certificates, but greatly assisting the
government In the successful conduct
OF the war.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
THE FIRST MILEPosT.

The government has laid it's hands
upon the rails of the country: swift
", silently, the vast administrative
machinery of the second largest In
dustry of the United States Is chang
ing it's form; the tasks, the salaries,
the very lives of hundreds of thou
sands of railroad men are being seri-
ously affected; questions WITHOUT
number rise to the lips of every OBJ
server, questions, many OF which no
one can now answer. so novel and
unprecedented is the situation which
the war emergency has called into
being.
Miracle--or catastrophe? Success
or failure? The great enigma! The
railroads in their historic. peace
time structure were found inadequate
as an Industrial weapon of war.
Came the government fiat Two mill
lion railroad employees were affected.
A historic evolution was interrupted
thou shalt net'ever night became
thou shalt: laws higher than those
on the statute books were invoked
and the impossible was done.
Done it was, too. with hearty good
will. 1t is a war measure. The fight
ing spirit of the American people
has furnished the magic power for
carrying it out. Now have they to
wonder at and examine what they
have done
AS for the future. that must be al
lowed to take care of itself. Who
can tell what the American people
will want to do with the railroads
when 1t is no longer a question of
making every sacrifice In order to win
the war?
Just now we will do we'll to Gull
tivate President Wilson's philosophy
of the open mind Today the war q
the thing.--Richard n. Waterman in
the nations Business for August.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26

we hear and read much about the
harvesting Of crops, and tho unusual
demand for labor nj that period Of
1he wear. In fact. the great major
.tv Of people iusthe cities have the
fdea that the major part OF farra
work IL the harvest The truth of
the business Ia that tho same force
With some exceptions that can pillow
the land and cultivate a Virginia cron
ran harvest 1t Rarely. in Iced does
. grain farmer call unon Ills neigh
hor or enplov extra help To get In
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
MAPP FOR CONGRESS
Z Eastern Shore feraId-)

Eastern Shore HeFaId.1
Aa Our readers know. during the
month Of August a primary election
ia To ho held in the first congress
stonaI district for the purpose of
nominating candidate to take the
place Of Hon. w. A. Jones, who so
long. and well represented the dis
trtct MIR. Bland was elected for the
unexpired term, and the coming pri-
mary is to nominate q man for tho
regular term we have ne. word 10
saw against Mr.. Bland, nor against
any Of the men who aspire TO the
honor of representing this district in
congress. They are all good, clean
men--men Of force. character ana
ability
We do wish. however, 70 present
the claims Of Hon. G. Walter Mapp.
If the voters of the district knew
Senator Mann as we know him, we
are persuaded that they would all
suprort him Tie is one Of the strong
men of the state. His character Is
hcynnd reprnach. hts ability Ia un-
questioned For two terms he has
ecrVed the commonwealth as state
senator. In the very beginning of hir
career as senator he forged to the
front. ami SO well did he lead the
{+aroparano forras that he soon won
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
DOVER ASSOCIATION
CONCLUDES SESSION
Fine Reports on Sunday school Work
and Able Speeches Are
Made
NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED.
One of the Striking Features OF the
Days Session Was the Patriotic Ad-
drcss nj DR.. Mcdaniel, of Rich
mond.


With the morning session yesterday
there came To close the l35th an
-. wit. 90,
- 1A' 81 '''-''N VI '''0 ~
soe1atlon AT Ne" BfioBe baP1S'
church, IN Henrico county
Ae.ar +t-u can,l,,s,or ~ +ha devo-
'i"il@i SNef N'9tS '"''>" TX" ~ wv
{. Davis, the chart OF the western sec
ton Of tbs churches was called, when
disclosed "a year Of remarkable growth,
as the ron call proceeded and the
pastors responded with their reports.
There was exhibited in the responses
spirit of vitality and evidence or
progress that were peculiarly gratfy-
ing 10 all The members OF the as
sociation present
Especially pleasing was The report
OF Rev. l.. ". Sudaith, Of Emma rs
church. on Sunday school and hihie
I board Probably net before IN the
history of the ASSOCIATION have these
/ functions made a better showing as
! disclosed by the report Many in
stances q remarkable deNetophlen'
were cited to demonstrate the actlVi-
! ties Of these branches of the work Of
| she church within the bounds of the
association. Earnest appeal was
made 70 every school for the co-opera
/ t}ou Of every member,
/ one ~ the special features Of the
DAYS session was the address of Rev.
/ Or George W Mcdaniel. pastor OF
/ the First church. whose subject was
"Dur VOWS Somewhere In France
/ The address was a thrilling discourse.
#apueallne to the patriotic spirit Of the
men and women at homo to resolve
upnn the greatcst sacrifice 10 sustain
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
FALLING SLATE CLOSES
OPENING TO coat NINE

Norton, Va, July 25.--This morning
great excitement prevailed when II
was reported that some slate had
cAVed In at the Huettel mines and shut
In some miners Captain Bartle, OF
the Clnch Valley Rifles. wis notified
and with some men of the home guard
company reported for duty to assist In
any way they could. It was found
thar some slate had fallen between
the entrance to the mine and where
the men were working. shutting up
the passage way 1t took only "A short
time TO remove the slate so that men
could pass back and forth, but no coal
was brought out during the day. r.
T. Williams, who is in charge of the
government mine rescue work with
office here, was among the first to ar
rive on the scene and was ready to
render aid.
The men who were closed up in the
mine were none the worse for their ex-
perience, as Il was only a short time
before there was an opening made,
They continued with their work.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
orE K1rLTUR- TRUCKER GETS HIS.

strives or las striven 10 extenuafe
or excuse snch crimes against
humanity ~ the rape of Belgium.
fht. sinking of the Lusitanla, and
the German policy of assaSsina-
zion nv submarines: who seeks or
has sought to SOW discussion
among our allies or now socks to
capitalize ny election ia public
office the latent treason whose
total humiliation Is the most
pressing need of tho hour.
Wild cheers greeted the reading OF
the resolution. Even the Hearst fol-
lowers had to support It TO retain any
standing at all with that very deter
mined crowd Of loyal Democrats,
though they knew It meant tbs end
Of their chiefs ambitions tn that par
ticular direction. Everybody knew
exactly what the resolution meant,
knew who was described nv its terms
voted for It with enthusiasm.
II was a good days work, New
York and the nation are safar there
by. And Hearst Is now free TO devote
a lot more ttrne re his frenzied (and
recently. efforts to prove that he is
really an Notwithstanding which
will require a lot Of evidence.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
ALL LETTERS ARE spY.pRooFED.

<.ompared with methods employed
~ the other nations forming the al
lied group in the prevention and
avoidance Of spy messages and let
tiers getting through TO enemy terri
tory. that which has been established
BY the United States government is be
yond all question a very effective eys-
tenn.
One of the most common activities
Of any work in the transmission OF tn
formation from the areas Of war
across the lines to the enemy Hun
dreas OF methods are practiced in the
carrying out Of these trehcherons en-
terprasez. Same tyne Of code ex-
change is the usual plan. and these
codes are 70 cleverly conceived and
sktilfuIly executed that without the
greatest caution. many OF them would
escape detection. What may other
wiae be a friendly or affeetionate in
uusry addressed 20 some prisoner I'm
the enemy camp; could convey the
story Of the contemplated movement
] Of an army T1le simple words Of All
dress and conclusion, the use OF alb
breyiatiouE. a blot or incorrect pune
I tuation, or the use of any weli-knowr
!, phrase may carry a specified code
meaning. Besides transparent inks
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26

and concealment under stamps and
the glued parts Of envelopes afford
hiding for elandestine news
The government has committed the
transmission Of all letters and mes
saEes to the American Red Cross for
enemy territory. OF course. The gov
eminent recognizes the humanitarian
objects O. the Red Cross In It's work
Of forwarding these messages to SOL
dier prisoners. but the necessity for
great vigilance on tho part OF the or
eanization TO prevent the. delivery Of
spy messages ia accentuated.
The methods in force are tntensively
thorough. No letter or written mes
sage of any kind is permitted 10 pass
in its original finish. The letter Is
FIRST carefully dIrcsted and reduced
Every expression is paranhrased and
every word synonymized In fact. the
letter is written entirely anew on pa
per that is without suspicion and re
fncloaed In different covering.
About three thousand Of these let
ters arc handled every day and the
fact that q complete and safe system
I Of censorship avoids the slightest pos
sihlHty Of successful treachery. alec
/ permits OF quicker delivery and
scarcely. in any case. a serious delay
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-26
Girl Tripiets Graduate

Quakertown. Pa. July 25-HatfieId
High school, Montgomery county
claims the distinction OF being the
only high school in the country to
graduate a class in which there were
triplets. The girls. sixteen years oil
age. are daughters of Mr. and Mrs
z. K. Swartley. 1t is difficult to tell
the girls apart.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23

ISSUED by Food Administrator
ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 23.-Dr An
drew M. Soule, federal food admins
trotor for Georgia, announced on his
returned from Washington that there
IL to be an Immediately renewed &C
tivity in the Home Card Pledge Cam
paign" in this state. Not in the line
of big drive, as was the case when
the campaign was inaugurated, but a
consistent, systematic statewide move
ment to add to the cooperation Of the
housewives already enlisted under the
pledge cards, to keep in touch with
the work of the government in its eff
forts to meet world food demands those
who are already enlisted.
Already the lecture program OF the
pledge card division of the Georgia or
ganization has been begun, and from
time to time will be carried into cities
and towns and school houses with q
view of educating the women of Geor-
gia in purposes and conservation in
the kitchen.
IL order that conditions which the
people of Georgia are called upon to
aid in meeting the food administra-
ton viii shortly issue q new home
card carrying a frank, straight, un-
derstandable message from Herbert
C. Hoover which puts the situation
squarely before members of the food
administration. This, DR.. Soule says,
Is one of the most clear-cut presenta-
lions he has seen.
You Gre thus taken into the conf
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23
Guthrie Now a Knight.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-American
friends of Connop Guthrie. the repre-
sentative in the United States of the
British Ministry of shipping, have just
learned that a knighthood has been
conferred on him in recognition OF his
work here. He has been made a
knight under commander of the or
der of the British empire and hence
forth will add the prefix "Sir" to his
name. Sir Cannop has made his
Headquarters in this city whence he
has controlled all the British and
some of the entente allied tonnoge
employed in the transportation OF sup
niles TO the war zone. This has
brought him in close contact with
large business interests of America
At the beginning of the war ne went
&, France with the Grenadier Guards
was wounded at Neuve Chappelle and
incapacitated for further military ser
vice. retiring with the rank of cap
tain. Afterward he was attached to
the British admiralty service in Lon
don.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23
PRICE OF BRAN FIXED
NOT OVER S26.35 TON

ATLANTA, Ga. Jan. 23.-Announce-
nent made by the federal food admin
istration from DR.. A. M. Soule's Office
is that farmers of the country should
tie able TO buy bran at the mill door in
bulk at not exceeding $26.35 per ton,
where the average price of wheat at
the mill is $205 per pushed. This an
nouncement is one of the most import
ant in the matter of purchase made
by the administration.
The figures are based on new rul-
ing of the milling division of the Unit
ed States food administration. This
ruling advised mills that Temporal
rly and until a definite regulation is
issued maximu mdifferential on food
in mixed car lots or less than car lot
shipments should be so cents per ton
over car lot basil"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23

dence Of Mr.. Hoover, which is your due
as a member. He is not offering you
ADVICE, but giving you facts of the food
situation, believing that you have the
courage to face the truth and adjust
your household new war sacrifices.
The message gives you the facts,
the directions on the old food card and
the new directions tell you what to
90. The new card asks for a prokless
Saturday, a wheatless meal each day,
az well as one wheatless day each
week, a meatless meal each day as
we'll as nj atless Tuesday and re-
dction Of sugar to monthly allow
ance of three pounds per person.
More than ten million families have
pledged themselves to help make the
food 90 around-this pledge, unless
we interpret patriotism as mere lip
loyalty and insincere affection, is a
pledge to service as real as that Of
the soldier. The pledge card is not
mere scrap of paper, but the pledge
of the American women to stand by
the declaration of war.
Any person in the United States who
buys more foodstuff than he customari-
lY keeps at home in peace time is de-
feating the food Administrations its
purpose to secure a just distribution
OF food and in It's great endeavors to
reduce prices. The boarding Of food
is not only unnecessary, as the gov
el nment Is protecting the food supply
of our people, but 1t Is selfish and is
cause of high prices.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23
He 4RO In AM[ RlCUS
H0w Bad Backs Have Been Made
StrOng-kidney Ills Corrected.

All over Americas you hear it.
Doan's Kidney Pills are keeping up
the good work. Amerlcus people are
telling about it-telling of bad backs
made sound again. You can believe
the testimony of voir own towns peo-
pie They tell it for the benefit of
you who are suffering. If you back
aches, if you feel lame, sore and mis-
cradle, If the kidneys act too fire.
quently, or passages. are painful,
scanty or passages are painful.
scanty and off color, use Doan's Kid
ney Pills, the remedy that has helped
Sc many of your friends and neigh
bors. Follow this Americas citizens
advice and give Doan's chance to do
the same for you.
Olin johnson, chief OF police, 232
Jackson street, says: My back be-
comes very lame at times; no doubt
the trouble is brought on by being on
my feet so much. l have found 1 can
depend on Doans Kidney Pills, which
1 set at the Howell Pharmacy, to
bring me quick relief. They are a
fine medicine, and deserve much
praise"
Price 6Oc at ali dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for 4 kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same tfat
Chief Johnson had Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfghs. Buffalo. N. Y. adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23
LEON TROTsKY AN
ESCAPED CONVICT
HIS NAME WAS FORMERLY BRON.
STEIN, AND HE WAS ONCE I'M.
PRISONED IN SIBERIA-FRIENDS
SAY HE is ANTI.KAISER.

NEW YORK, JAN 23.-In talks with
friends il this city several months ago,
Trotsky, Russia's minister Of foreign
affairs, revealed incidents of his ca
reer that we're new to those familiar
with his life One of these relates to
the change of lis name, from Leon
BroDbtein, his real name, to Leon Trot-
sky. under which name he has sud
denly become world figure.
This shift c: names was the out
growth of conditions that seemed des-
tined to make an end of Russia's pres
ent minister of foreign affairs in his
early activities as a social revolu-
lion st.
Ae president of the first Council Of
Workmen's Delegates at Petrograd in
1905 Trotsky, then Bronstein, fell I'M.
der the ban of the Russian govern
ment, was arrested, tried, convicted
and exiled for life to Siberia.
Among the political prisoners in the
penal colony to which the future
leader of the Bolsheviki was con-
demned to hard work in the mines,
he was markedly the authorities as
dangerous" and was guarded night
and dav
Bron. tein is tall, broad shouldered
ant square jawed, with black hair
and Keen HAZEL eyes, set wide apart.
In almost every physical detail he
was % exact counterpart of the jail
er under whose whip he worked and
under whose guard he slept This
jailer's name was Trotsky.
The striking resemblance of pris-
oner and keeper was unconsidered
amid the hardships of penal slav-
cry by all save Brbnstein, whose alert
mind saw in it his one opportunity
for an scape 1t took Bronstein near
ly two years to perfect his plans. To
attempt escape without q passport 80
forget a. to receive the Russian po-
lice would be to court certain failure,
30 to this task of forgery the prisoner
devote every energy
Months passed before friends sue
ceeded in smuggling to him small
camera with which he managed to
take a picture of the unsuspecting
Trotelkv without this picture the
forged passport would have been use
less.
Half year then slipred by before
tie chance for escape came, and al
that time Bronstein devoted to the
task of perfecting his resemblance to
T,otskv He has told his friends how
he studie1 every expression of the
ieiler's face and made them his own;
how he trained his hair and beard and
schooled his every walk and motion
to rerfect the counterfeit.
When he finally escaped in a coat
UtIOHSiIB W DAS hCCpCAY nc woo NAAS
COUNTERPART of Trotsky. and In the
weeks of danger that followed as he
cautiously made his awy toward the
Russian frontier, he again and again
encountered friends of the real
Trotskv, who welcomed him without
C suspicion. Crossing the frontier
to safety, Bronstein adopted as his
own the name that had been his saliva
ton.
These facts are vouched for by
Thomas SETTER, former editor Of
The Masses, and other socialists Of
this city, who heard the story from
Trotsky's own lips. In the eyes of
his American friends Russia's minis
ter of foreign affairs is as strongly
anti-kaiser as he IS anti-war.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23

Only One "BROMO QUININE"
To get the genuine. call for full name
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look
for signature of E. W. GROVE. Cures
a, Cole in One Day. soc. adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23
EX.VICR PRESIDENT WILL
SPEAK TO SAVANNAHIANS

SAVANNAH, Ga, Jan. 2S.-Chas.
VI. Fairbanks, former vice-president
OF the United States, will be speaker
at the Rotary club al its next regular
meeting. On February the Rotari-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23
Piles Cured in 9 to IA Days.

Druggists refund money If PAzO
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching,
Blind, Bleeding Protruding Piles.
First application gives relief. soc
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-23

ana will have Ladies' Night" when
they will listen to suffrage speech
by Mrs. Forbes Robertson Hale.
Newark post., 1918-12-25
Pershing Arrives
in Wilmington

John j. Pershing arrived in Will
mington on September 13, it was
learned recently, not as commander
in chief of the American Expedition
ary Forces, but as a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William j. Murine, No. 719 Un-
ion street
The parents of baby Murine are
such ardent admirers of General Per-
shing that they felt it their duty and
most fitting that they should name
their young son after him. Later
General Pershing was apprised of the
fact and sent the mother letter, dat
ed November N25, which read as fol-
lows:
"Dear Mrs. Mulrine:--l nave re.
ceived your letter of October %, ad-
vising me that you have done me the
honor of comforting my name upor
your little son.
Please accept my very best wishes
for my little namesake. l hope yol
will always have reason to be as prout
| of him as you are now.
"Sincerely yours,
"JOHN J. PERSHING."