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The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13
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Overshadowins an Uthsr accomplish
ments Of the American people under
the leadership of Food Administration
is the history Of wheat exports In the
past sixteen months. Our wheat e1-
port program proved conclusIvely to
the world that America was In this
war from start to finish and willing to
make any sacrifice that will hasten
victory or maintain the health and
strength of people overseas upon
whom rested the heaviest weight Of
our war.
Now that pressure on ocean tonnage
Is eased by the stopping of large move
ments Of troops to Europe, we may re-
lax our efforts to save wheat The ac-
cumulated surplus In Australia, Argen.
tine and other hitherto Inaccessible
markets will become available, and
probably no more than our normal sur.
plus will have to leave this country
We In America md the nations which
have won the world for freedom will
be enabled to eat their normal wheat
loaf at the common table of the peo
pies of democracy.
We entered the past crop year with
wheat supply which gave us only
20.0O0,000 bushels available for ex-
port. When the crop year ended we
had sent 141 100000 bushels of wheat
to Europe. The American people had
saved out of their normal consumption
l21,OO0,OO0 bushels.
A survey OF export figures shows
that the conservation Of flour brought
about by the wheatless meals, wheat.
less days, substitution in our Kitchens
and bakeries, enabled us to send to
our armies and the allies 33,0OO,0OO
barrels of white four-wheat figured
as flour. Had we exported only our
visible surplus, we would have been
able to ship less than $500, 900 barrels.
Before the LIST of December our sur
plus had gone overseas, and nm addi-
tional 36,O00,000 bushels had been TAX
en- from the stock reserved for home
consumption and added to the surplus
already shipped to the allies. 1t SEEM
ed hardly possible that we could bring
our total exports above 10G000,000
bushels by July l. But In January the
late Lord Rhonddn. then British Food
Controller. cabled that unless VIC
could send an additional 75,000,000
bushels he could not take RESPONSE
billty for assuring his people that they
would be fed. The American people
responded by sending s5,00o,000 bush
els OF wheat. saved from their home
consumption, between the first of the
year and the advent of the new crop.
BY October 10, 1918, we had already
shipped 85,06O,3o5 bushels since July
l. Absolutely the only limitation upon
our wheat exports since the latest har-
vest has been the scarcity of ocean
tonnage. II exports continue at the
present rate, by July l of next year
we will have sent more than 237, 800.
600 bushels to Europe.
Thus are we making good Americas
pledge that the bread rations of Allied
Europe shall be maintained.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13
LOCAL AND PERSONAL .

D. P. Hersperger has returned
from Arkansas where he has bunch
OF bees wintering. He states that
they are getting along well.
L. d. Kortez. of Pueblo, was here
this week on business. He has a
farm north of Olney Springs.
MIR. and Mrs. A. ]. Higginbottom.
OF New Albany, Kans., and their son.
A. C. Higginbottom. of Wickes. Ark.
are here, having been called to Ord
way in response to a message an
nouncing the death of their son, C.
w. Higginbottom-
w. o. Conklin. of Manzanola, is
here and has taken charge of the
local management of the Ordway
Trading Co. He has been farming
near Manzanola but was with the
Beatty Mercantile Co. for number of
years.
George Oliver has returned from
soldier duty to his old haunts in
Ordway and will again be found at
the Oliver Garage. George was mus
tered out of service a few days ago,
and while he did not get to go to
France he will be able to display
an honorable discharge from service.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

With world markets in which to
their plants running thru the year.
They can pay higher wages They
can give factory workers more work
each year.
The American factory worker lives
well. Give him more wages. and the
first expenditure he makes is at the
grocery store and :ne butcher shop
for more and better food.
So the American merchant marine
and world trade are about TO put
more dollars into our factories. and
many of those dollars will go to the
farmers for food.
Another interesting phase of world
trade for this country, when our mer-
chant maine is in operation, will be
the new insurance against hard times
do not believe that we shall ever
again have money panics-the federal
reserve system has stopped them.
1t has prevented several panics
since the European war began.
But there is always the possibility
mand for our factory goods.
Merchant Marines Will
Move Trade Limits.
With active merchant marine and
a healthy, growing world trade. how
ever, we shall be in = wholly differnt
position.
Now. that we are about to really
cause world trade with our own ships
and bankers, and statesmen, 1t will
be possible to discount hard times
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13
By EDWARD N. HURLEY

Chairman U. s. Shipping Board
Thousands Of farmers thru the
west remember the times in the
eighties and nineties when corn was
worth more to burn than to sell.
Our manufacturing output then
was roundly $3.50 per capita for the
whole population of the United Stat
es; that is, in 1890, the corn-burning
period.
The value of a farm in 1890 to
each farmer tilling the soil was $2,-
900. The value of products that each
factory worker made in 1890 was
$4,000. The average wages OF the
factory worker were $490 per year.
Then came the great industrial ex-
pansion, beginning about 1898. which
has paused only once or twice.
In 1914 nobody would have thought
of burning corn or any other farm
product, for farmers were prosper
Gus along with the factory workers.
BY that time we were making SPAS
worth Of good per capita, or $3O3O
per factory worker. The factory
workers wages had risen to $3.50
a year, and the result was clearly
shown in the value of farm which
was then $3400 for every person en-
gagged in tilling the soil.
think this shows pretty clearly
that the farmers market and his
prosperity are linked closely with our
industrial prosperity 1 have quoted
these figures because / believe 20
years from now the statisticians will
be able to compare :ae factory out
put and wages and farm values of
1893 with those of today and show
uerhaps even a more remarkable in
crease.
stand at Threshold
OF Greatest Prosperity.
We are now on fsie verge OF an
even greater Industrial advance than
in 1898; an extension of production
and commerce in VOID trade to the
American merchant marine and the
new banking laws and other recent
legislation which will help us to put
our ships on new trade routes all
over the globe.
As business man. the farmer has
both a direct and indirect interest in
these ships, besides his investment
as an American.
Direct benefits will come to him
thru direct sales of his products to
foreign countries, breeding animals
to South America. fruit and dairy
prouuctS u EuroPe anu oiio'' o"N'
the like.
Indeed, the farmer, thru his CO.
operative marketing organizations
and his government, can do much
directly to promote new world mark
cts.
But the indirect returns of the
American merchant marine to the
farmer will be even greater.
BY selling our factory goods
abroad, we can increase the output.
When you increase the output of
a factory. in most cases. you are able
to reduce cost Of production, and
also prices.
For increased output means that
people have steadier work and that
overhead expenses. such as rent, in
stirance, depreciation. ETC.. are spread
over a greater volume of business.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

The benefits of our food-saving
campaign that was vital factor In
the winning of the war were not all to
these we fed. We have at home new
appreciation Of food that will prevent
It ever being wasted again by those
that have come to understand the re-
ligIon of saving and the place that
food occupies In our new, worldwide
human relations.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Hello! Is this DR.. Swift" Yes. "
This is Mrs. Flipp ralking. l wish
you'd come over as soon as conven-
lent, doctor. The cuckoo in my par
lor clock has little throat trouble
and we are so afraid of the flew
Denver Field and Farm.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13
AN AMERICAN HABIT
THAT WAS EXPANDED.

Coming to the relief of the dis
tressed is not new sensation to us.
Having sent shiploads of food to tho
famine sufferers of India as offhand-
edly as the housewife hands out n cut
of the lonf to the wayfarer. It seemed
the most natural thing in the world TO
succor Belgium, to take on the feeding
of nation quite Informally.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Typewriter ribbons for any ma
chine can be secured at the New Era
Office. We carry the best brand
made, the kind which give satisfac-
ton
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Germany Is liv-
Ing up to arm.stice
agreement on tho re-
patriated inus $ o.
and here is shown
one OF the brightest
spots Of the war.
II shows n Bel
ginn consular agent
being allowed to
come back to his
homeland after
four years OF exile
and wandering in
Germany. This pic
ture Is new froLA
the Belgian German
border.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13
A Ship for Every Farmer
With Cargo Of Factory Gold
Chairman Hurley of u Shipping Board In Exclusive Story
Shows Cogs Which Turn Our Greatest Prosperity.
1HE ORDWAY NEW ERA

This article by Mr. Hurley deals with the afterwar phases
rapidly growing mercantile marine here Mr. Hur
hopes stimulate the interest of farmers in merchant
indicating ships and international trade of direct
Intelligent teamwork in restoring the
American flag the routes of the world, is the aim.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Do you remember when food con.
troll by voluntary action was deemed
q daring adventure In democracy
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Have your Christmas Cards print.
ed now, by the New Era. This is
the incest way In which you can re-
member your scores OF friends.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Out of empty Eranaries to draw 141..
OOO, 900 bushels for expOrt-the will OF
a free people accomplished that mar
vel.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

The test OF peace is to summon for
the healing OF nations devotion equal
to that given he rnel'~ ~ '"""
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

New Era Want Ads Bring Results.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

era Albums, Dress Silks,
Richardson Stamped Pillows
and Scarfs.
The Ordway new era., 1918-12-13

Kid Gloves, Plush Coats,
Handkerchiefs, Georgetta
Waists, CamisOles, BOudOir
Caps, .Cozy House Slippers,
Wool Sweaters, SILK Hose,
Table Linen, Mesh Bags,
Linen Napkins, Couch Cow
ers, Leather Hand Bags,
Embroidery Scissors, Velvet
Rugs, French Ivory, Decorat-
cd China Dishes, 1847 ROg-
ers Silver Ware, Coffee Per-
colators, Stationery, Perfum-
es, Fancy Tea Aprons, Serv-
ing Trays, Loose Leaf Cam
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-05
THE SOLDIERS CHANCES.

Great as the danger and large as the losses
i'll the aggregate, the individual soldier has
plenty Of chances of coming out of the war I'M
scathed, or at least not badly injured.
Based on the mortality statistics of the allied
armies, a soldiers chances are as follows
Twenty-Five chances of coming home to one
chance of being killed.
Forty-pine chances of recovering from
wounds to one chance of dying from them
One chance in 500 of losing limb
Will live five years longer because of physi-
cal training, is freer from disease in the. army
than In civil life, and has better medical care
at the front than at home
In other wars from 10 to Is men died from
disease to l from bullets; in this war / man
dies from disease to every 10 from bullets
For those OF our fighting men who do not
escape scatheless, the Government under the
soldier and sailor insurance law gives protec-
ton to the wounded and their dependents and
to the families and dependents of those who
make the supreme sacrifice for their country.
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STATE GIVES BIG
SUM TO WAR FUND
WEST VIRGINIA GOES LOVER THE
TOP" IN ANOTHER DRIVE -.
FOR MONEY,

West Virginia's contribution Ito the
Salvation Army's national war fund
the one weeks campaign fer which
was carried ON several months ago
was $33 ,e9503, it has been announc.
ed by John S. Darst, chairman of the
state campaign committee.
Three contributions to this fund
have been received in the last few
days, said Mr. Darst. The largest of
the three was a check for 81 900, rep
resenting the amount contributed by
the Guyan Coal Association, compos-
ed largely of coal operators doing
business in Logan county.
Other contributions were those of
the state insurance mems association
in session in the city last week, and
a citizen of Monongalia county, the
insurance men handing in $33, rails
ed by collection among the delegates
in attendance at the state meeting,
and The Monongalia county contribu-
tion coming through the mail
Practically every dollar Of the
more than $4,000 contributed by the
people of this state has already
reached the spot it was intended to
reach said MIR Darst "A very small
total was expended for telephone and
Geographic messages and Tor litera-
ture. This is the extent of the ex-
penses incurred.
81 desire to thank the people of
West Virginia for their generous re-
Spouse to this call to dollars and
duty, and to extend 10 them on be-
half of the Salvation Army as well as
an appreciation of their good work
in good cause. The states appor-
tionment was 100000, and from the
figures that have been given out it
will he seen that its people have
done in this as they have done in
every other war campaign carried
on in the state-gone over the top"
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lBy Che Associated Press

Washington, July 3.-EnMsting in
! the military services and the Red
Cross with an enthusiasm unsurpass-
ed by their white brethren and pour
ing out their treasure freely by sub
scriptions to the Liberty loans, the
indians are doing their share with q
fine courage which gives one more
illustration of the incapacity of the
German mind for computing the bond
between races when engaged in a
fight for freedom
Subscriptions by Indians to the
Liberty loans have totalled nearly
$13 ,000,0 600, according to figures com
piled by Cato Sells, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. That is a subscription
of about $40 per man for all Indians
in the United States Adults and
minors have been about equally rep
resented among the subscribers.
The number of Indians in the mill
tary services probably is more. than
5000. Mr.. Sells is having prepared
a complete record of their participa-
ton in the great war. About 2,200
of the total have been indexed and
classified, showing 1900 in the army,
300 in the navy and 100 in other mill
tary work. Their willingness to bear
their share of the hardships and dan
gers of military life is evidenced by
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lily allowances will be paid their families as if
they were in actual service while they are tax
ing the training, and every method known to
science will be used to .estore our wounded men
TO health and usefulness
This work has been delegated by Congress to
the Federal Board for Vocational Education
The board publishes at Washington monthly
bulletin, dealing with its work. called The Vo-
cational Summary, which will be sent free to
anyone upon request.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
%. E. Tracy,

%. E. Tracy,
VS.. In Equity.
Municipal Shale Brick & Block Com
pany. Corporation. etal
Office of Special Master Commissioner,
Martinsburg, w. Va, June 20, 1913
To all parties in interest in the above
entitled cause:
By a decree Of the District Court
Of the United States for the Northern
District Of West Virginia, entered in
the above entitled cause on the 10Th
day of May, 1918, the same was re-
ferred to me a. Special Master, pro
owned by said company with its
market value;
THGRDLThe debts against the said
company, which are liens upon its as
sets or any part thereof together with
their amounts and respective priori-
ties;
FOURnH-Afl unsecured contract
debts against the said company with
heir respective amounts;
haec vice, with instructions to ascer-
tain and report as follows:
FIRST-All the real estate owned
by the Municipal Shale Brick and
Block Company, aforesaid, together
with it's fee simple and annual rental
value;
SECOND-All the personal property
FIFTH-Any other matters deemed
pertinent by me or which any party
in interest may require ME specially
to state.
You will therefore take notice that
on Monday the 18th day of July, 1918,
at two O'clock P. NJ, at my Office in
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West
Virginia, will proceed to execute
said decree and if it be not complet-
ed on that day, | will adjourn the
same from time to time, at the same
place, until completed.
Given under my hand this goth day
of June. 1918.
P R. HARRISON,
Special Master Commissioner.
6 u %; 7 5 II
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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1918.
THE CASE OF THE NEWSPAPERS

People have become accustomed to paying an
ever increasing price for every sort of commo-
city, from pins and needles to threshing ma
chimes and automobiles, from sugar and salt to
oeefsteak and other rarer delicacies, and they
90 1t with an air of resignation that bespeaks
the willingness of all to accept condition
brought about largely by the war.
One notable exception, and so far as we know,
the single exception to this universal condition
Of affairs, is the price of local newspapers Long
ago the city papers doubled their selling price,
and from time to time they have increased adj
yertising rates to offset the steady advances
made IN the prices of newsprint paper, inks.
type metals and every other material necessary
to the publication of a newspaper Labor, too,
las steadily advanced; and the time has come
when the newspapers must increase rates if
they are to continue in business
Beginning July first the new second class
zone postal law went into effect, compelling
newspapers to pay heavy increase on papers
sent through the mails This burden, while
not overwhelming in itself, is an additional ex-
pense to list already difficult for the publish
ers to carry without some provision being made
to secure more income with which to offset it.
Common sense must convince one that operat-
ing expenses cannot continue to soar month af-
ter month without some remedy.
Never have newspapers of this county done
q nobler work than in the present struggle In
recent address Edward N. Hurley, chairman
Of the United States shipping board, declared
that one of the greatest factors in our progress
has been the wholesome support of the Ameri-
can press. ''The patriotic newspapers and
magazines of this country are indispensable
to victory" he said And yet, almost daily we
have the unpleasant experience of dealing with
persons who try to evade paying for news
paper after they have been absorbing the bene-
fits for months and years.
If faithful servant is worthy of fair treat
ment at the hands of the public, surely the
newspapers are in all fairness entitled to a liv-
ing wage 1t should be obvious to all fairmind-
ed persons that, beneath certain romance in
newsgathering and publication, the publishing
business is strictly a business proposition; and
as such it is entitled to the economic treatment
which the people accord every other public en-
terprise.
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MAN POWER.

We read much of man power these days:
human power is better term because it en-
rhasizes the fact that the women and children
also constitute great factor in this war; In
the final victory every man, woman and child
III America can and should have part
In comparing the man power of Germany
with that Of the United States it must be
borne in mind that much larger proportion of
the manual labor of the man power of the ma
ton is performed, is exerted by the German
women than by the women of America 1t is
said that in peace times the women constituted
~ per cent Of the agricultural and industrial
labor of Germany. They work in the fields, in
the factories, in the mines, at the very hardest
and most laborious tasks doing the work only
done by men in this country With great pro-
portion of the German men in the army it is
not improbable that women now constitute by
far the larger half of German manual labor.
The women of the United States are nobly
unselfshly manfully, one may say bearing
their share of the burdens of war; BY the
grace of God and the power and courage of
America the fate of the German women is not
and will never be theirs. But it will be with
their assistance and cooperation and their full
assumption of the burdnes and duties of the
day that the United States is to exert its full
power in Kidding the world of that ntolerable
German kultur which makes brute soldiers Of
the men and slaves Of the women.
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REHABILITATION OF OUR WOUNDED.

Perhaps none Of the various uses to which
the proceeds of the Liberty Loan are to be de-
voted appeals more strongly to the American
people than the rehabilitation and reeducation
Of our wounded men. To teach these men, to
train and fit them for useful and ganful occu-
patlons, when by reason of loss of sight or
limbs or other injuries they are rendered I'M
able to pursue ordinary vocations is a work in
which every American has heartfelt interest.
Compensation will be allowed them and fam
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-05

Joseph, John Gall and other Indian
leaders are in the United States
army.
Indian women, likewise, are doing
their share by aiding in Red Cross
work. Although complete yoca-
tional course of four years in nurs-
ing is of comparative recent introduc-
ton in the larger SCHOOLS in the res
ervations, six young women have been
accepted for hospital service abroad
and others are being prepared for
similar work. Indian school papers
carry attractive advertisements for
the Red Cross One reservation
boasts of a Red Cross banner in
every home. Saturday afternoons
are devoted by the women to sewing
for army hospitals and the boys give
up their holidays to gathering sphag
mum mess in the boys and marshes
for use in surgical pads and ambu-
lance pillows.
No Indian Units.
Separate units for Indians have
not been organized by the army be-
cause of the desire to have them rub
elbows with fellow citizens and be-
come better acquainted.
Wonderful and spontaneous fideli-
ty to the highest welfare of the ma
tom is the way Commissioner Sells
describes the response of the Indians
to his couniry's need
81 hail this growing manifestation
in Indian life as a sure basis for the
strong and trustworthy citizenship
to which our efforts are directed"
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IA nice home with seven acres of
land within one mile of city
S. S. F'ELKlER.
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medical Organizations in the world
having an enrolment of nearly @,
600 members.
DR. Hartman is well known in Mar
tinsburg, having visited here quite q
few times. He is a cousin of Messrs
E. Q. Horner and Robert Horner, Of
the county.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-05
SLIGHT FIRE AT HOME
OF MR.. n. r. SMITH

A fire which did damage to the ex-
tent of twenty dollars approximately
al the home Of Mr.. Harry F. Smith,
on Winchester Avenue. on Wednes-
day afternoon called out Ryneal
Hose Companies Nos. / and 8.
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DR.. HARTMAN PRESIDENT
OF NOTED ASSOCIATION

Word has been received here to
The effect that DR.. C. Willis Hart
man, Of Harrisburg, Pa, has been
selected as president of The Alumni
Association of the Hahenmann Medi-
cal College, Philadelphia, an honor
that was conferred upon him a few
days ago in the Quaker City
The society is one OF the largest
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FOR STATE SENATOR.

am a candidate for the Democratic
aominaFio ion for State Senator and re-
speetfully solicit the support and in
fiuence OF all Democratic voters at
the Primary Electin to be held on Au-
gust the sixth.
6 If MILTON BURR.