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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

Of place. In addition, the ties which are now
being established to bind together more closely
and more enduringly the allied nations of the
earth under the common flag of decency and
civilization would lose much of their strength
il they were woven from traditional rah-rah
celebrations. All of the nations which will
]oin America on that day are nations which
have suffered more than America has in the
present conflict; and their spirit will not be one
Of merrymaking. The war is an inexpressibly
serious matter, fraught with terrible potential
ties either for good or for bad, according to
which of the alliances triumphs.
Public celebrations do express in a forceful
fashion public sentiments, and as such they are
desirable upon such occasions as the Fourth of
July. 1t would be proper and fitting for this
community to have such demonstration; but
lack of time now practically makes it impossi-
bic. The absence of any public affair, does not
1hean, however, that the people cannot celebrate
in proper fashion individually the day. The
more seriously and personally and quickly the
PEOPLE here make the war matter of personal
responsibility, the sooner will it end because
the more effective will the national war efforts
become.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

horses, passed ghe correspondents
izyoschik on the Riverside Drive OF
Vologda. Seated in the carriage was
an deliberately uniformed young man,
his right arm, Russian fashion, Gasp
ing the waist of very pretty girl.
Our sailor friend; out for an air
ing, with his lady love
While the 'fbourgeoisie" are under.
going a taste of what the proletriat
had, the Vologda representatives OF
the latter are ruling with firm,
quiet hand. There have ben no riots
or disorders here as in Petrograd and
Moscow The soviets just took con-
troll, that was all
They are free and untrammeled
lords of all they survey. Most of
them have stepped into the official
places without changing their work
mems blouses Their "sobrinias" or
meetings, are fervent with crafory
and theories and they are learning
politics and all its quips and quirks.
Those of the embassy colonies here
who have attended the "sobmnias'' de-
clare they have been impressed most
by their earnestness.
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RUSSIAN EVENTS
MAKE NEW LEADERS
COMMON MILITARY MEN ELE-
WAITED SUDDENLY TO POSI-
TIONS OF IMPORTANCE.
dBy the Associated Press.


Vologda, Russia, July 2.-The top
sy-turvy change which has taken
pace in Russian life with the advent
of the rule OF the Bolsheviki is gra-
phically shown by the situation in the
Governors pa ace here, where the
foreign embassies, including that of
the United States, have made their
headquarters since leaving Perograd.
In that palace, where now sits the
VoiogGa government soviet there is
a sailor who is in command of an i'm
portan military postE-once held by a
general. Two months ago the sailor
wore his open-throated blouse and
belled trousers and was unshaven. A
month ago the correspondent saw him,
this time in trim, light grey uniform,
with Slick, shining high boots.
Yesterday, carriage, with two fine
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02
CELEBRATING THE FOURTH.

Locally plans for the Fourth are not
Throughout the nation a great effort is being
made to have the celebrations this year char
acterized by the participation of the allied ma
tions in the demonstrations effort, in other
words, to make it ali allied Fourth of July
rather than strictly American affair Wash
ington is to stage a spectacle which promises to
be the greatest in point Of size and effective
ness that the capital has ever seen.
In line with celebrations Of the past, the
Fourth would not be properly observed if there
were not lot of shooting of fireworks and
other spectacular features Perhaps the pres
ence of war in the land would urge to the same
type of celebration But if we Judge Alright the
preliminary plans for the larger affairs, we be-
lieve we see in them a tone of soemnity and
seriousness which mark a real departure from
our tradition. In an atmosphere which is
charged with the gesps of the dying, and with
The consciousness that the counterpart of our
peace here is war lover there and with the
unacceptable conviction that this is not the
time for vain Boosting but rathr for grim and
determined, though silent effort to push the
war work, shouting and joy-nlaIing seem out
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02
FLACARDING THREsHING MACHINES.

AS an instance of the detail which gets atten-
ton in a Government campaign, we read yes
terday of the issuance to threshing- machine
owners and operators Food Administration
cards which are to be nailed to the threshers
n positions where the pitchers of sheaves will
see them, and observe the request pitch care
fully, heads first the placard asks. From a
single sheaf of wheat not much is lost, to be
sure; but after man has pitched all day, and
has lost dozen grains, perhaps, from every
single one that he has pitched, the total mounts
70 q considerable SIZE
in the effort to save at the source to PRE-
SERVE every grain of eat-because that
IS the same as increasing the production,--the
Food Administration has seen fit to go to the
trouble to put these suggestions in the hands
OF men whose opportunity it is either to waste
much wheat or much. We believe the idea
will have salutary effect: certainly it will catch
the eye of the pitcher because he is not accus-
toned to seeing billboard before him.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02
MAY BRING COLONY OF
FOREIGNERS TO COUNTY

Theodore F. Imbach, local fruit
man, who last week was appointed as.
sistant to s. ate immigration Agent
Popp. of Charleston, returned Satur-
day from trip through New Jersey
and Long Island, where he obtained
information concerning colonies of
foreigners who are to locate in other
states, and who, according to many,
can be secured for West Virginia.
MIR. Popp and Mr.. Imbach have
practically located "a colony to be es-
tablished near Charleston, and 1t is
probable that number of other
cities can secure one if they try.
Martinsburg may make an attempt to
secure one, providing suitable loch-
ton in the county could be had.
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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1918.
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THE WIRE
SERVICES.

What has been urged consistently in peace
times by an active minority but which has not
been accorded Government recognition partly
because it did not have certain popular sup
port and partly because it was an extremely
new move has been and is being put into force
through the exigencies of war today Months
ago the United States Government, as a means
of self-protection and in an effort to establish
generally in the country coordinated action
and national efficiency when efficiency was not
only desirable but absolutely necessary, took
control of the railroads. Reports made after a
brief period of Government operation showed
plainly enough that the assumption of control
was being justified in every sense: the railroads
were paying for themselves-with general in
crease in rates. to be sure-the original sche-
dule OF passenger traffic was sustained to more
respectable degree, and the people began to feel
that this phase Of war work-essential beyond
all expression-would not be tempered with by
individual conmercialists.
The announcement yesterday that the Presi-
dent had thrown his influence behind the legiss
lation pending before Congress to give the
President power to take control of the tele-
phone and telegraph systems Of the country is
another move in the same direction It has
been felt inevitable for some weeks, partly be
cause Government control and operation of rail
roads were working out SO successfully and
partly because the only safe hands in which to
have these necessities of war are those which
are directing the war itself. The wire systems
Of the country are vital to the prosecution of
the war; the Government will not permit of
any tampering with the systems because it
cannot afford to do it.
Just how far this Government operation viii
extend it is impossible to say at this time
Certainly it may be assumed with safety that
it will be extended wherever the civilian or
corporation direction does not rer er the high
est efficiency. We suspect that the threatened
strike the Western Union had much to do
with bringing the Government control of the
wire systems to a head Such an attitude as
that of the Western Union men is designed to
excite popular disfavor, and it may even lead
to ugly suspicious.
Wherever the Governments hands must
reach in the interest of a vigorous and entirely
co-ordinated effort to push the war work. the
people will gladly give support. That it may
reach to control of articles of food would be no
great surprise to US. With the consciousness
that we should stop at nothing for the war, we,
as people, will reconcile ourselves to most any
sort of decent Government regulation.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02
A COMMUNITY NURSE.

The Community Club announces that it has
decided to continue its support of "a community
nurse for Martinsburg, after considering the
possibility of abandoning it. It's decision is a
wise one, we feel sure, and one which ought to
enlist the hearty support of the people, Money
spent in such way is the best of social insur-
ance.
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gas for them if they have them down
to the message placarded every
where, do not waste a single scrap
of paper, it is too valuable in
France The whole policy is the
strictest economy with ourselves and
the greatest generosity to our armies
and dependents"
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

nomination for State Senator and re-
spectfully solicit the support and in
fuence of all Democratic voters at
the Primary Electin to be held on All
gust the sixth.
If MILTON BURR.
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RETURN TO WHEELING.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Winter
meyer have returned to Wheeling af-
ter spending a few days here. They
were accompanied home by Miss
Gladys Zimmerman, their niece.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

AS nearly as can be figured out, the return
Journey over the swollen Piave took on the pro-
portions Of hunger dive
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

A Pennsylvania Judge has ruled that there is
10 outlet for henpecked husband. What's the
matter with the western front?
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

We expect to hear of Won Kuehlnann being
sunk without trace.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

The Administration knew what it was about
when it sent Leonard Wood to the real fighting
front in Kansas
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

To the Voters of West Virginia:
| respectfully announce my candi
'dacy for the Democratic nominatio
for United States Senator, subject
the primary election Of August 6
1913
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

iEOPLE who are taking The World
nowadays frequently comment
s,-.-s upon the accuracy of our War
News and the promptness with which we
get all the latest dispatches from the front.
The World is the only newspaper in east
ern West Virginia which is entitled to re-
ceve Associated Press Reports. Unques-
tionably the Associated Press is the great
est News Gathering Agency in the whole
world and any newspaper carrying it's de-
spatches is rated as leader in it's COM
munity.
Every day we carry news which appears
with very slight additions in the Washing
ton and Baltimore papers the following
morning.
If you want the news at the very earliest
possible moment subscribe for The World
today.
It will be delivered to your home by
carrier for ten cents week.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-02

CLARENCE w. WATSON.
IS 20
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-03

evening when we were in New York together.
In Beverly Chew's library. Harry asked Mr..
Chew some question about the eccentrcities
of the title-pages of the first edition of Mil
toms Paradise Lost. Mr.. Chew began roll
lns off the photographed data like the ripe
scholar that he Is when suggested to Harry
that he had better make note Of what Mr..
Chew was saying. He replied, II should
only lose the paper while II get II in my
head will put 1t where it can't be lost that
Is" he added "as long as I keep my head"
vTTHILE in London Harry spent most of
w his time with that great bookseller. the
second to bear the name of Quarltch. who
knew all the great book collectors the world
over. and who once told me that he knew
no man Of his years who had the knowledge
and taste of Harry Widener. so many of
your great American collectors refer to books
In terms Of steel rails: with Harry it Is a
genuine and all-absorbing passion. and he
is so entirely devoid Of aside and affectation"
In this he but echoed what q friend once said
to me at Lynnewood Hall, where we were
spending the day: 'The marvel Is that
Harry is entirely unspoiled by his for
tune"
Harry was constant attendant at the
auction rooms At Sotheby's in London; at
Anderson's in New York, or wherever else
good books were going. He CHANGED to be
In London when the first part Of the Huth
library was being disposed of, and he was
anxious to get back to New York in time
to attend the Hoe sale. where he hoped to
secure some books.
Alas! Harry had bought his last book
1t was an excessively rare copy Of Baccns
Essaies. the edition Of 1898. Quaritch had
secured 1t for him at the Huth sale, and as
he dropped In to say good-by and give his
Anal instructions for the disposition of his
purchases he said, II think II. take that
little Bacon with me In my pocket. and IL
/ am shipwrecked it will go with me-" And
l know that 1t was SO. In all the history of
book collecting this is the most touching
story
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even in the elections. Everybody with a
theory, whether he be "for" an open Sun
day or closed one, 'f3r" prohibition or
against It, "for' suffrage or for tho Vic
torian ideal of women-in.the-home, does his
best to confuse the mind of the country by
attempts to tie his cause up tightly with
the war.
The militant suffragists have been the
greatest offenders in this regard. The
prohibitionists have very frankly tried to
shoulder a way to dominance by taking
advantage of the anxieties and sentiments
of the war. For the time such logical ar.
gument as may be made for or against
a new principle in governmental procedure
Is abandoned
In many minds the war seems to have
the aspect of band wagon.
Everybody wants to get aboard.
No one seems content with anything
less than a national amendment.
Emotional legislation was popular in
England for a time after the war broke
out. The country has paid for some of it.
And it has yet to pay for the rest. An
issue so great that it can be met only by
amending the Constitution of the United
States certainly is great enough to de-
mand the calm reasoning that is possible
only in time of peace.
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THE FARMERS AT HOME

THE Philadelphia County Far, which
= opened at Byberry yesterday, hardly
ranks above the agricultural fairs Of
other counties in the State. 1t is some
times said to be anything but an agri-
cultural fair, and many a joke has been
cracked about the Philadelphia farmers.
Yet we believe that the agricultural
products of this county compare favorably
in quality and volume with those of any
other county of similar area in the whole
Commonwealth. There is so much farm
land here that we have a different sys.
tenn for assessing it from that used in
fixing the taxable value of other real
estate, and it is taxed at lower rate. Ac-
cording to the last report of the Con-
troller. the farm lands were assessed At
$lS,309 900, a pretty tidy sum to be in
vested in agricultural lands in a metro
politan county.
A large part of this land is in the five
northern wards, embracing 6654 square
miles of the total 129 square miles in the
city; but this district contains less than
one-tenth Of the total population.
The time will come when this can no
longer be called an agricultural county.
but it has not yet arrived
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ARCTIC CURIOSITIES

NNHE skins of fauna, the withered speci.
l. mems of flora, the charts of ocean cur
rents. which Vilhjamur Stefansson brings
back from the North Frigid Zone will
doubtless be placed in museums. The
explorer himself will dwell outside. He
intends to lecture. and, be it said to his
credit for the Red Cross.
1t is possible that at least some of those
who attend his course" will go in a spirit
of curiosity. The feeling will be justified
Stefansson departed for the Arctic wastes
in 1918. The world blew up a year later
and some millions of persons decided that
with all it's faults. civilization cropping for
an ideal of liberty was worth saving.
Perhaps one evening as he sat down 10
his meal Of walrus steak tidings of what
was happening in lower latitudes reached
the Polar wanderer. Perhaps they didn't
But in any event the charm of his distan:
quest prevailed for five years.
A Marian, new-lighted on this busy
planet, is suggested by the return of Cap,
tain Stefansson. Exempt from even the
remotest ripple of the struggle through
which the same elements OF humanity
seek emancipation, he reports the dscov.
cry of Prince Patrick Island. whose popu-
lation, befittng It's temperature. is zero
II some of us hunting the road to Berlin
can spare night off glimpse of the
finder OF new bit of Arctic turf might
be interesting. for reasons quite apart
from science"
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IN 4 SCHOOL CHAPEL

THE clear young voices rise and soar:
L "oh, pray,
Pray for the peace Of Jerusalem: they
Shall prosper that love thee" Yet each
boys heart
Harbors the hope that he may have a part
In war-the roar of guns, the roll VI
drums
Before this anthemed peace he prays for
comes.
But in the quiet gallery above,
Where eyes grown dim look down on those
they love,
The prayer for peace rings true; although
in truth
Worse things than death can come to
eager youth.
But nothing worse can come to age than
knowing
That it is safe, and boys are going, going,
Are going forth to war till all wars cease:
The old, so safe and lonely, pray for peace.
Alice Duer Miller. in wings Of TIN
Night"
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Poland, the IndestructibIe

A thrill goes around the world at the mes
sage of the ia Polish officers and soldiers to
their countrymen, asking to die rather than
that their cause be in the slightest compro-
missed. Here are Polish idealism and nobil-
ity at their highest. These brave men, facing
the gallows have, as had our own Nathan
Hale. but one thought-their country.
That country has no existence on the maps
today But 1t does exist, beautiful and real
and eternal, In the hearts Of Poles every
where. II is coming into its own again as
certainly as right will prevail. The III i'm.
prisoned officers and men in Hungary are
but uttering the will and thought Of ali their
countrymen.
The nations that know how 10 die WIN
never die.-New York Tribune.
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Profteering in France

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger
Sir-The Paris Figaro contains the follow
ing account Of the way they treat profiteers
in France:
1t was given recently by the Mayor of q
little town of the Department of Mayenne.
Four American soldiers were obliged to
pay a grocer an exorbitant price for vari-
GUS supplies. They complained to the
Mayor Of the locality, who advised them
TO insist on bill in future
They returned to the grocer's the fol-
lowing dsy; he charged them twelve
francs for a can of lobster six francs for
box of sardines, twelve francs for a
eozen eggs
When this was reported to the Mayor
and the bill produced the grocer was
sentenced to pay fine Of 500 francs and
his store WAS closed for a month.
Good work l.. T. PENNINGTON.
Philadelphia, August 27.
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The Origin of "Bolsheyik"

A pamphlet published some time ago
Moscow by Doctor Charusbin instructs y
the origin of this word. alas! too fam
which it was wrongly believed had spS
up like weed from the Russian chaos,
In 1908, at the second conference ofs
Russian Social Democratic party, at ths-
ment when methods which were to direoae
revolutionary activity were under discubn.
a difference arose and the matter waput
to vote. There was naturally a maaty
tbolchinstvo) and a minority (menchinlo).
The two groups have since then been flee
the Bosheviks and the Mensheviks.
1t is this majority party Of 1908. Of nicl
a minority Is making such a sad spSaol'
of itself today-Le Figaro.
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The Peril
of Drugs

Senator Frelinghuy-
The Peril sen has asked the
of Drugs Senate to appoint a
commission to inquire
into the extent of the drug habit and recon-
mend the best method of regulating the sale
of habit-forming drugs. 1t is estimated that
at least million persons habtual drug
users Many of them are in the prohibition
districts of the South where soda fountain
drinks containing caffein are sold in large
quantities Now that there is possibility
that the whole nation may become dry"
it is important that the Government be pre-
pared to deal with an evil greater than alco-
hol. Alcohol is bad enough. but it does not
destroy men and women SO quickly as the
habit-forming drugs, nor does it ever get so
firm a hold on its victims.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-03

Word comes from the Mayors vacation
resort that the new recreation board will be
Smith and not Ware board, but that
Gudehus will be appointed to take charge
of the Fairgrounds. Perhaps there are some
innocents who will think that there is as
much difference between a Ware and a Smith
board as between six dozen dozen and half
a dozen dozen.
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tE MAYOR AS A REsCUER


towneport that the Mayor plunged into
s,ohtKelaware to rescue a drowning man
course affirmed and denied and reaf
s,aratit
81 farhere seems to be some question
III Pc authenticity and credibility.
" OBS no doubt, however, about the
~, eport that the Mayor has done
rescue a city which is over its
Theieep financial waters and sinking
% nra Every month.
BORNE ssrs the Mayor tried to save was
.bis cflp when he was pulled from the
tnued
yven
assds still hope for the city. Who
Mese to its rescue?