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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-09-27
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Your brother, SAM.
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
July the Hottest
Month
August Is Often a Close Sec
ond With Extreme Heat
Throughout the northern hemisphere

Throughout the northern hemisphere
July is recognized as the warmest
month of the year, though August is
often close second and has many
days of extreme heat. This heated
term in July continues, notwithstand-
ing the sun has begun it's course OF re-
cession from the Tropic of Cancer.
July was originally the fifth month
of the Roman year and for that reason
bore the name "Quintilis." In the
Alban calendar 1t had SO days. Romu-
lus reduced it to 81 and Nrfma to 30
days. SO it stood for several centuries.
It was restored to 81 days by julius
Caesar who felt a personal interest
in Quintilis, as it was his birth month
After the death of Caesar, who had
largely reformed the calendar, Mark
Anthony changed the name to July in
honor of the. family of Caesar. 1t is
said ''this month was selected for this
distinction when the sun was most po-
tent to denote that julius was the en-
peror Of the world and therefore the
appropriate leader Of one-half OF the
year"
The Saxons called July the "hay
month";" because the hay was usually
moved in that month. They also call
ed 1t the ''mead or meadow month"
from the meads being then in bloom.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Yankeesin GermanyAreFed
How Prisoners Of War Are Caredfor by u Red Cross Agents
Eatl Eat Eatl


That's what every captured reaches
which capt are sent
Germany
prisoner port
constitute the
Bandenbug camp ABOUT
20 miles Berlin.
from its prison
parcels supplies comforts such as SOAP
towels
anything put
handshake the committee nanus over u
sofre "eas
wohed by man VINO mas JUS
of thin soup Whn ny
the well fed the committee snoos 10
first question.
Smoker? 49,,
another Red Cross package containing ne
cigarettes, and tobacco
addressed to the prisoners
facts which it communicates
name to the st OF
Red Cross WeA
pounds fruit vegetables sugar. con
the prisoner wears
supplied Smokers receive regular
tobacco. - -.
These shipments which the Red Cross has
Germany
60 Americans months Il
anything being
In Abbott director
prisoners captured men not to attempt 70
parcels.
But do prisoners these Red Cross hpmensY Is
frequently -.
American Red Cross
of is sent livery
package fol receipt signed by the prisoner .
acknowledge package an immediate INQUIRY y
miscarrd lieu Oross,
the shipment
prisoners Tuche In charge Oh
hundred
feed any weekly shipments from
Berne
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Observations of American
Soldiers on Gentle Art of
Bombing Hospitals by Huns

The Hun has bombed hospitals, off
and on, all during the war. Hitherto
he has covered it up by complaining
that the houses Of mercy were placed
too close to the front, near military
centers which are perfectly fair game,
and that any strafing Of the helpless
was quite incidental and, therefore, in
a sense, regrettable. But his recent
attack in force with more than 20 air
planes upon plainly marked group of
hospital buildings far behind the Brit
ish lines-the raid having obviously
that objective-far surpasses all his
previous performances of frightful-
ness.
The Hun no longer apologies. He
no longer pleads military necessity
as excuse for his slaughter of the
helpless. He glories in his guilt.
Fatuous people who still believe, in
the face of such proof as this, that a
negotiated peace with '1iberal' Ger
many is within the range Of probable
ity ought to be led quietly by the hand
and placed in retreat for the feeble
minded. There is only one way to
deal with the Hun. Thank God we
have learned that way THE Stars
and Stripes, Official paper of the A. z.
f..
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
High Prices in Germany
Are Forcing Every Family
Into a Pauperized State.

The organ Of the German Traue
Union Of Miners, according TO the
Zurich correspondence of New YORK
Post. gives the following figures OF
the prices Of some articles necessary
for those who want to marry and es-
tablish their own household: An or
binary bed, whose cost in peace times,
including mattresses and bedding, was
200 marks maximum, now costs l'loo
marks. A simple gas stove for work
mans family, which before the war
cost 70 marks, is now 800 marks. A
plain chair Of inferior quality, which
before the war cost PA marks, costs
now at least 25. A linen sheet, for
which one used to pay marks, costs
LOS marks, and Is only obtainable with
a special written permit OF the gov
eminent. A ready-made working suit,
which cost before the war about 10
marks, costs now so marks, and a Sun
day suit for worlmen. for which one
paid formerly 40 marks, costs now 250
The Bergarbeiterzeitung, In which
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Big Increase in the Maple
Sugar and Sirup Production
In 1918 Over Previous Year

The maple sugar crop Of 1918 in the
Ii states, which include nearly all the
producing region, was 13,27O,9OO
pounds, and the strip production was
1906, 200 gallons, according to the gov
eminent market report. The total Oh
sugar and strip, counting one gallon
of strip as equivalent to eight pounds
Of sugar, would be 52,512,500 pounds
of sugar. The production in 1917 was
10,S38650 pounds of sugar and 4,2S6,-
100 gallons of sirup, both being equiv
alent to 1921, 400 pounds of sugar.
The Is states covered by this report
produced about 80 per cent of the to-
tai maple sugar and strip in the CEN
sus year 1909.
The principal region of production
extends from northwestern Ohio
through New York to Vermont and in
cludes parts Of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vania. Outside of this region there
is also production of Importance in
the mountain country beginning with
the southern counties of Pennsylvania
and extending through western Mary
land into scattered localities in West
Virginia; also in parts Of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Indiana.
The increased demand and higher
prices for maple sugar and strip help
ed to cause larger number or
trees to be tapped in 1918 than in
1917 or avon in 1000 A total of 49,
29S, 200 trees were tapped in 1913, OF
which 15,616,O00, or 81 per cent, were
in the four states of Vermont, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Weather conditions in the northern
part of the sugar region, namely. in
New England, New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan, were favorable.
There were cold nights alternating
with warmer days.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
GIRLS RAISING
POULTRY
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Poultry raising is excellent work
for the girls in the home. 1t affords
exercise in the open, allows an OPP
portunity for the girls to earn spend
ing money and train their minds IN
animal husbandry and the economy OF
production.
Poultry raising under the supervi-
sion Of some girls is very profitable.
With all the facilities for raising
fowls that may be found on most
farms the girls have opportunities for
building up a pleasant and profitable
industry.
One of the faults of our economic
system of farming is that it does not
afford adequate opportunity for the
girls to become efficient, self-support-
Ing and independent when this be-
comes necessary. BY giving the girls
q chance with poultry they may earn
enough to support themselves if nee
essary, even pay their way through
college.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Snakes are Food Savers and
Harmless Varieties Destroy
Many Grain-Eating Rodents.

Snakes are a valuable asset and
there should be a campaign against
killing them, writes Gayne T. X. Nor
ton in American Forestry Maya
zine. The article goes on to show
what the snake does for food conser-
walton by way Of killing rodents and
insects, the greatest enemies to grain
that man knows. The public has be-
come acquainted with snakes as never
before, writes Mr.. Norton, because OF
the thousands who have been engaged
in the campaign for war gardens that
has been conducted by the national
emergency food garden commission.
"With this summer the millions of
war gardens have given the snake
popular interest. Tremendously in
creased tillage has brought people and
snakes together.
"Unless much education work is
done the humber of snakes that will
be killed next year by the well-mean-
ing but misinformed gardeners will be
very large. Our snakes are national
asset worth many millions Of dollars
and should be conserved. The relation
it bears to successful crops is i'm
portant-more important than even
the average farmer realizes.
Reptiles are not enemies. They
never attack unless in self defense. Of
our 151 species, but IL are poisonous
two species Of Flaps, coral snake, and
Is species of Crotaline snakes, the cop
perhead and moccasin, the dwarf and
typical rattlesnakes. On the other
hand the help rendered is valuable.
The pests destroyed each year, espe-
cially the rodents that injure crops
and communicate diseases, roll up q
large balance Of good service in their
favor.
Rodents are destroyers Of farm
products, cause loss by fire through
gnawing matches and insulation from
electric wires, and Of human life
through germ carrying, particularly
the bubonic plague. They also destroy
eggs, young poultry, squads and pig
cons, birds and young rabbits, pigs
and lambs. A loss to husbandry not
estimated in figures, but realized as
extensive, is due to the killing of fruit
trees by girdling or other injuries to
the bark by species Of wild rodents.
AS destructive agency the rodents
have no rival.
"The gross ignorance regarding our
snakes causes slaughter Of all things
that wear scales and crawl. Farmers
should protect and breed the harmless
snakes rather than kill them. Many
European countries have protective
legislation"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Startling Defects Develop
in Rigorous Aviation Tests
for Air Service in Army


That a startling percentage of men,
now being accepted for air service
have hidden physical weaknesses that
may prove their undoing is indicated
by new scientific tests that have been
made on large number of newly en-
listed airmen, says John Arson Ford
In Popular Mechanics Magazine. These
tests, which reveal so much of vital
import for our armies, have been made
by Chicago specialist, Capt. Charles
Moore Robertson Of the Medical Re-
serve corps, who has fitted up for the
purpose cabinet In which each fiier-
to-be was placed and subjected to at
mospheric conditions identical, SO far
as pressure is concerned, with those
obtaining in flying, the air being rare
fed by means of powerful pump.
Each man was examined both before
and after being confined in the cabinet,
each examination consisting in taking
the blood pressure, ascertaining the
muscle tone by measuring the dura-
ton of one nerve impulse with dyna-
mometer and stop watch, and in re-
volving the subject in pivoted chair.
The records show that the first ex-
aniinations gave no indication Of the
condition that would exist after the
flight" over rs per cent Of the men
proving unfit, according to these tests.
For this reason it is strongly contended
that a most serious mistake is being
made in accepting men for air service
merely on the basis of a physical ex-
animation made without taking into
account the effect Of sudden changes of
air pressure.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
NA.. hle4~sao
War Is Work, Despite Views
Many May Have of Conflict

The glory of war stands out when
you think Of war, not as romance or
duty or sacrifice or idea, but as work.
Bill and Tommy and Jean and Hans Ia
the trenches may curse at the diplo-
mats who have brought them into the
mess, grumble at the officers who lead
them into death traps, at the commits
sariat that underfeeds them, at the or
derlies who come too late with their
stretchers and morphine; but that Is
precisely the same way In which man
responds to his employer, his fore
man, and his grocer and butcher, in
peace time. Few Of us, in the normal
life, relish the particular Job set for
us, but the job as whole Is something
which will net admit of question. Sup
pose we do ask the men in the trenches
why they are fighting and they can,
not tell us why. What then? They
are fighting because for the time be.
ing war Is work.-Atlantic.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Each Hen Should Produce
Ten Dozen Eggs Per Year.

The average novince can reasonably
axpect to get an average Of at least
ten dozen eggs per hen per year from
his small flock in the back yard. On
the basis of two hens to each member
of the family, according to the depart
ment of agriculture this will give 70
dozen eggs in a year to each person,
which amount is about halfway be-
tween the general average of farm and
city consumption. No back yard poul-
try keeper should be satisfied with less
than this. Every back yard poultry
keeper should try to get as much more
as possible.
TO provide an egg day for each
person. two hens would have to lay
1873 eggs each per year. This is by no
means an impossible average for small
hocks. 1t is perhaps not too much TO
say that in cases where the person at
tending the flock is practically ION
the job" all the time, that is, in posi-
zion to look after the wants of the
birds three or more times day, an
.average~of better than 13 dozen eggs
per hen can easily be secured, If the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
War Trenches, One of the
Most Ancient War Devices

The trench, consisting Of a protec-
tive ditch with or without defensive
earth work in front, is one of the most
obvious devices Of warfare and doubt
less one Of the most ancient. 1t Is
mentioned in the Bible several times
and we are told that when David pur-
sued Saul and overlook him encamp-
ed, "Saul lay sleeping within the trench
and his spear stuck in the ground at
his bolster" Shakespeare knew the
military use Of trenches. In the play
OF "Coriolanus," laid in the time Of
ancient Rome, he speaks of the enemy
following us to our trenches" and
again Of "our party to their trenches
driven" These and other quotations
that could be given show that trenches
are by no means a modern device. The
fighters of old knew how to dig them
selves in. The modern trench is mere
" an Improvement and elaboration OF
an old device.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
How to Select Ideal Camp
Site for a Summer Outing

When you make your camp, pick out
q rise of ground where there is good
drainage, and where the trees are not
too thick, for good circulation of air
is important, says Boys Life, the Boy
Scouts Magazine. Avoid large soft
wood trees such as cottonwood, poplar
aud soft maple, as theslimbs break off
easily in a storm and big branch
might come crashing down on your
tent and seriously injure the occupants.
Good campers do not pitch their tents
directly under large oak, elm, ash or
hard naples, as those trees are most
frequently struck by lightning. Avoid
rank grass, for that is sign Of excess
siye moisture. Never pitch camp in
narrow ravines or gullies, for frequent
ly in sudden storms they carry small
torrents of water which would flood
your camp.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
All Poultry and Egg Dealers
Required to Have License

Country store poultry dealers are
required to have licenses no matter
how small their dealings in eggs and
poultry, the food administration an
nounces. The presidents proclama-
ton Of May IA requiring licensing Of
operators of poultry and egg pack
ing plants" has been misunderstood
by many small dealers, it is declared.
Under the classification, anyone who
sells poultry or eggs in any other
way than at retail to the consumer,
regardless of the amount of business
done, must be licensed. And most
small dealers do sell to commission
men from time to time. In order to
comply with the law they must fill
out blanks obtained from the United
States food administration and have
licenses issued.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22

A certain small town, seven miles
from somewhere else, as the crow flies,
boosted only two physicians, Doctor
Smith and Doctor Brown. There was
considerable rivalry between the two
knights Of the pill and powder and
when Doctor Smith received a very
urgent call from young farmer about
four miles in the country, he left an
Office full Of patients, cranked up what
has to be cranked up and was off.
When he arrived at the farmers
house he found that three-year-old
farmer" had cut his finger. The doc
tor was chagrined when he saw the
serious nature of the accident. He
thought Of the office full Of patients he
had left and had visions of them walk
ing in single file to the Office of Doctor
Brown.
ut was very, very silly of you to call
me on this case," he said somewhat
testify, to the farmers wife.
81 know it was, but Doctor Brown
was out"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
Killed HELPING Save His Ship.

During an attack on an American
vessel by a German submarine Allen
Seth Edwards, seaman of the United
States navy, made the supreme sacri-
fee in the service of his country. On
March 81 the steamship Chincha, with
a navy armed guard aboard, was at
tackled by an undersea craft. The u
boat was sighted by lookouts in the
crows nest and opened fire almost i'm
mediately. The Chincha returned the
fire. The enemy's fourth shot struck
the vessel aft, killing Edwards and
two men of the merchant crew. The
fire was kept up by the navy men and
the submarine submerged. She was
of large type with two five-inch guns.
Thirty shots were fired at the Chincha,
which had similar experience In jan
uary. Edwards, who lost his life, was
from Augusta, Ca, where his father
Newton Edwards, resides.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-08-22
REALLY NO SECRET
Power to Charm Lies in Forget.
fuIneSS of Self.
Women Who Fascinate Have Simply
Developed the Art or Power of
Putting Others "on Good
Terms With Themselves"


A vivacious woman writer seeking
the secret of feminine fascination,
finds it in the art or power some wom-
en- have of charming others by putting
them, as a bluff Britisher phrased it,
ION ripping good terms with them
selves" Is not this a characteristic
of almost all those persons, men and
women, whom we like the best and en-
joy the most? Do they not, either by
artifice or by instinct, endeavor to
make the people they meet feel that
they amount to something, know some
thing, have some excellence, attrac-
tiveness or interesting qualities, and
thus put them on pleasant terms with
themselves. The persons who are
least adept at this or least inclined to
try it are the self-centered, self-impor-
tant people completely absorbed In
their own affairs and not wise or we'll
bred In little worlds of which they are
the centers, and may be said in GER
tain sense to revolve about them
selves.
This is a characteristic brought up
from lower forms of life from which
we are ancestrally derived and only In
part outgrown. For most animals the
only concerns of the least Importance
are those which directly affect them
selves. They are egocentric. The
things that touch them make up their
world and they have no interests out
side Of that. More than any other AMI
NAL the dog can sink his personality
so to speak, subordinate himself ana
make his masters interests his own.
Only infrequent individuals of other
species can or will do this. Hence dogs
as a rule are more companionable for
man. than any other living creatures
below him In the evolutionary scale.
But to return to human beings, Jo-
sephine was the most beloved ana
charming woman in France because
she took genuine and kindly interest
in the affairs of all with whom she
came in touch. She was outgoing, in
elusive in her sympathies and thus
counteracted antagonism created by
Napoleon, who was self-centered to an
extraordinary degree. Not to multiply
examples, does not experience teach
ali observant people that in selfless-
ness lies the secret of charm? Are not
the loyable people those whose love
goes out spontaneously, or appears to?
Is not egocentricity, entire absorption
in themselves, Characteristic held in
common by most of the people VINO
get on ones nerves? Kind hearts are
more than coronets, said Tennyson.
More attractive, therefore, than
beauty or the brilliancy and glitter OF
intellectually is the drawing power of
kindly consideration for others. Fas-
cination is born of the heart, not of the
mind; and whether instructive or ac-
CURED, would seem to be the art of
entering into the lives Of others and
putting them, as the Englishman said,
on good terms with themselves.-Roc
ester Post-Express.