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The Washington herald., 1919-08-23
Woodmen TO Have Outing.

hold their annual excursion next
Wednesday at Chesapeake Beach. An
elaborate program of athletic events
and other features has been arranged.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-23
Foods That Are Stored

The Surplus Egg Production of March, April May and June
The Surplus Butter Production of May June and July.
The Surplus Beef from Range Cattle as Marketed the FALL
The Surplus Pork Production Most of 1t To Be Cured.)
Unless the surplus of the production available for gradual dis
ubution there is bound be scarcity.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard H. Turner
left Friday on a trip through the
Great Lakes to visit relatives in De-
troit
The Washington herald., 1919-08-23

Douglas c. Baskerville is visiting
his old home in Norfolk
The Washington herald., 1919-08-23

Messenger George F Henry is
spending two weeks at his old home
in Virginia.
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-03-09

all the
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The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-03-09

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this profit making opportunity of decade when the oil
and dividend checks begin to bringing
beyond the hopes of the most enthusiastic at the
time and shares are mounting on the Oil Exchange you
will wish you too were sharing in the profits
The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1919-03-09

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takers People simply refused believe seemed too good be true
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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-17

Mt. Holly Springs, Pa, by the death
and funeral Of her cousin, the late
Frank Gloss. The funeral was held
there this afternoon.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1919-11-17
ATTENDED FUNERAL

Mrs Elizabeth Townsend Of
North Queen street was called to
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New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
AT ter-War Prosperity

The transactions of brokers in Wall
Street in the last year of the Civil War,
ended June 80, 1865, reached a total
of $4,000, 100000, according to The New
York Tribune of October ID of that
year. Each of nine firms carried on
business in excess of 100000 900.
Gamblers passed from one board to an
other until midnight "like pack of
bowling dervishes." 1t was mot busi-
ness" said The Neao York Herald; at
was frenzy. The tales of the petrole-
UNI princes had set people crazy" The
contractors Of the war and the men
made rich by oil, said The PHILADELPHIA
Ledger, were indulging in so ostenta-
tious display of their wealth that it
tended to unsettle all the usual ideas
about money won by industry ga
spirit of gambling" was "rife in the
land" The glitter of jewelry at the
opera created amazement. One lady
"displayed enough precious stones to
furnish out jewellers window in
Broadway"
The parallel is very curious. Trading
on the Stock Exchange is the greatest
in its history There have just been
more than forty-fve successive days in
which more than a million shares were
traded in, surprising the previous rec
ord of forty-four established in the
great speculation of 1901. The feature
OF this speculation has been the trading
in oil shares. And, according to a re-
cent item appearing on our business
page, erich oil promoters and specu
lators from the oil camps of the South
west have been heavy buyers of dia-
monds in recent weeks, and their pur-
chases have been partly responsible for
clearing the local market of the extra
large-sized stones"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Unlimited Objective

Secretary Baker has told the true story
of General Billiards. famous remark
about "limited objectives." Bul!ard was
directed by a French superior officer to
specify in an assault order the limits of
the advance. He first said he didn't
know how to translate the instructions
into English. Then he left out the re-
strictions altogether, explaining that the
men wouldn't understand them.
The Bullard theory was that if the
going was good the men would keep on.
he didn't want to restrain their ardor.
Ills comment epitomized the spirit in
which our expeditionary army fought.
1t is paralleled by the comment (prob
ably mythicaD of another American
commander, south of the Marne on July
10. The French were retiring under or
ders TO let the Germans progress some
distance south Of the river, thereby
weakening their position inside the
Aisne- Marine salient. But the American
officer said: eve shall stay here Our
men haven't learned how to retreat"
The French had learned when and
how to retire and when and how to limit
their obJectives in attack. Their knowl-
edge had been bought in the school of
costly experience. For in the first two
years of the war the French had lost
thousands of lives by advancing beyond
their supports and being caught in
pockets. They he'd become seasoned and
wary. realizing that what was done on
one small part Of any front must har-
monize with what was being done or ,.,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Presidents Good Luck

President Wilson has piece Of good
luck. He has had the good fortune to
be viciously assailed by Dudley Field
Malone, whose oratorical temperament
has assumed complete charge Of his vocal
organs, and the attack has been guttu-
rally applauded
If the belaborment continues, if the
President is assailed by persons who ex-
press the views of ferocious German pro-
fessors, we soon may hear the words,
eve love him for the enemies he has
made"
The things said by Mr.. Malone and
those who appeared on the platform with
him are no more important than similar
mouthings in the past. They make no
stronger appeals than hitherto The
farrago of nonsense is no more effective
as camoufage than before.
Justice for Germany! Justice for the
sovieteers! Sympathy for Martens, who
maintains luxurious quarters on some
bodys money and busies himself as an
other Bernstorff! Strange, indeed, is it
that men with sympathies so tender
never show an enhanced pulse beat and
are cold and fishy of eye when justice
for Belgium, for France, for Serbia, for
Italy, for any Of the victims of the Kali
sers soldiers or Of Lenine's firing
squads is asked.
The names of Franklin and Martens
were linked by the perfervid young ora
tor. So Franklin went to France and
sought to overturn French institutions
How wise old Benjamin would have
laughed with Vergennes over the charge!
Poor Richard would have amended his
saying, "1t is hard for an empty bag to
stand upright" by adding, Especially if
it is a wind bag"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Berger Case

Henry F. Cochems, Victor l.. Berger's
counsel, says that the House of Repre-
sentatives has no authority to prevent
his clients taking the oath Of office, in
asmuch as the latter holds certificate
from the Secretary of State of Wis
consin showing that he was lawfully
elected
The Secretary Of States certificate
would be mandatory on clerk Of the
house of enc Congress making up the
ron OF Rcprescntatives-elect to another.
But the Constitution says that each
house OF Congress shall be the Judge
oi the elections, returns and qualifica-
tionS OF it's own members. It is there
tore reasonable TO hold that the power
TO pass ON the qualifications Of a mem
ter whoge name has been entered on the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Take Off the Horns!
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The reckless automobile driver of
to-day is the careless driver of yester-
day, and his carelessness was generally
due to placing too much confidence in the
warning device attached to his car. A
large percentage of automobile operators
are "horn drivers" They pay more at
tention to their horns than to their brakes
and only a thousand miracles day pre-
vent thousand additional accidents. The
traffic laws have not solved the problem
relating to these people. They go along
toot their horns and become highly in
dignant if pedestrians fail to clear out of
the way promptly.
I believe that in the majority of cases
the sounding of an automobile horn is
prima facie evidence that the car is be-
yond the control of the operator-and he
is taking that means of warning all within
hearing distance of his predicament And
yet, after an accident, his first defence
is, 81 sounded my horn!"
The only way properly to safeguard both
drivers and pedestrians is to abolish all
warning devices from automobiles Ask any
operator what he would do if he were sud
denly bereft of his horn, and his reply
will be: "1'd drive more carefully" We
certainly need more careful driving, and
that's the quickest and simplest way to
get it. JOSEPH G. LAWLER.
North Pelham, N. Y, June 10, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14

roll may be exercised before he takes
the oath as we'll as after he takes 1t.
Precedent for such action exists in
the case Of a Mormon member elected
from Utah some fifteen or twenty years
ago He was not allowed to qualify be-
cause he admitted practising plural mar
riage. Berger has not been permitted to
qualify because he IS unGer sentence for
violating the espionage act.
To say that the House has no right
to exclude him before he takes the oath
is like saying that man who is in Jail
cannot be put there, He Is marooned,
awaiting decision in his case by a spe
cial Committee on Elections. The pro-
cedure is normal and orderly. 1t is the
duty of the House to purge itself Of
Berger's presence as quickly as possible
if it believes that he lacks the qualifca
tions required Of Federal legislator.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Germany at the Bar

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The spirit and attitude of Ger
many as expressed by her representatives
at the peace conference l believe are and
ought to be resented by every person of
we'll balanced mind throughout the world
They are both arrogant and insulting. The
thoughts, intent and acts of Germany I'M
mediately prior to and during this horrible
war have been criminal to the uttermost
Germany has entirely forfeited all right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
because of her purposes and conduct in
bringing on and wagng this war. Every
person in Germany in any degree primarily
responsible for such purposes and conduct
deserves the death penalty, because he or
she is guilty not merely of one but Of
many murders committed with the utmost
brutality and with malice aforethourht.
This is super murder in the first degree.
These are the ndisputable and unalterable
facts, and Germany should be made to
know and to feel them.
Therefore Germany cannot reasonably be
heard before the peace conference to speak
of her rights. She has absolutely none.
of true repentance, to beg for mercy. Ger
many should have been required to come
before the peace conference as a convicted
criminal, for the purpose of receiving
sentence to the death penalty, and such
sentence should have been actually pro-
nounced, in order to compel Germany to
understand her true status. Afterward the
sentence should have been committed to
imprisonment for an indefinite term. to
be terminated whenever Germany should
bring forth fruits meet and sufficient for
repentance. AS to what must constitute
such fruits should have been issued to
germany IN the form of a general order
from the existing league of nations, to be
executed by civil authorities if possible.
otherwise by military power, responsible. of
course, to the league. The terms of this
general order need not have differed very
much in substance from those of the pro-
posed peace treaty, but they could and
should have been very, very much briefer,
both as to form and time of issue.
If the peace conference had proceeded in
the aforesaid manner it would have saved
itself from the humiliation of listening to
the rant of Rantzau it would have avoided
the exhausting, clumsy and unnecessary
proceedings in negotiating and ratifying
treaty of peace with Germany, and what
is of far greater Importance, it would have
eliminated any possibility of introducing
to the conference proposal to make Ger
many member of the league of nations a
proposal which, in the light of the fore
going facts, is astounding and prepos
ferrous in the extreme. I unable to
understand how any sane person with
knowledge of the facts can do otherwise
than protest with the utmost emphasis
against the entertainment of such pro-
posal by the peace conference.
FREMONT L. PUGSLEY.
Melrose Highlands, Mass, June 6, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
tempted on many other similar small

tempted on many other similar small
fronts.
But General Bullard accurately voiced
the feeling of the new and eager Ameri-
can army. It was willing to go any,
where so long as the going was practi-
cable. And it did keep on in spite Of all
obstacles. The Battle of the Argonne,
which broke the back of the German de-
fence in France, was won by persistence
in despising odds and overcoming limita-
tions. The objective there was not linn
tied. 1t was nothing less than Sedan
and the severing Of the German group
of armies in Belgium from the German
group of armies in Lorraine.
We should have fought that battle in
1919 more scientifically and probably
with smaller losses. But broader expert
ence was replaced by will and boundless
courage. The expeditionary army tri-
umphed because it had the heart for un-
limited objectives and its mind firmly
fixed on the passage Of the Rhine.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Man Who Did His Duty
y eU loris Tribune


Foreign Press Bureau
When the freedom of st. Andrews was
conferred upon Field Marshal Sir Douglas
Haig he made speech in which he re-
ferred to the duty of giving work to ex-
soldiers. AS reported by 'The Manchester
Guardian" Sir Douglas said:
1T has been brought to my notice re-
Gently that there is feeling abroad in
some quarters that it is dangerous to en-
ploy discharged soldiers because they have
become addicted to deeds of violence and
might possibly, in moments of excitement
resentment, use violence against their
employers. LLaughter.J l feel very strong
ly that no man has a right to express such
opinions, and that they are gross sander
upon the most gallant army that any ma
tion has had the good fortune to possess
Cheers.
Il earnestly trust that no employer will
allow himself to be Influenced by con-
sideratons unworthy, by spirit so
ungenerous, so british, and. in fact
really ridiculous. Renewed cheers |
cannot believe that it will influence snany,
and I hope that all who now carry on their
profession, trade or business, as free men
in free land, will remember to whom it
is that they the very fact that they
can do So Cheers To my mind. if
there is any choice at all among candidates
for any particular position, preference
should always be shown, other things being
equal to the man who did his duty to his
country in tho war"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
The Poor's Real Enemies
(From The Philadelphia Public ledger


Many social Ishmaelites and rabid
pariahs, militant against the whole struct-
ure of society to-day, proceed on the false
assumption that the world refuses to the
poor their right to life, liberty and hap
piness. Those who would rob a poor man
of his chances, those who would take
bread from the mouths of his family, are
the very ones who fight against all forms
of law and order, who seek to- tear down
the slowly upbuilt and stabilized scheme
of the social organism.
Let us clearly recognize the real enc
mics of society. These enemies are the
ones who would entirely sweep away all
that mankind in thoughtful concert has
achieved by untold centuries of painful
travail. They would not merely set back
the hands of the clock, but destroy all
sense of time and all zeal for progress.
They have learned nothing in the school
of experience; they do not know that his
tory has repeatedly shown the folly of
supposing that anarchy is happiness.
The real robbers of the weak and the
unfortunate are these miscreants who pre-
tend to be the only true friends of the
undertrodden, and who use that masquerade
for their own predatory ends as an outlaw
plumbers mail car or robs a stage.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Saving What We Mean

The Foreign Relations Committee of
the Senate has taken from the Knox
resolution Section 5.
This was as follows:
Section s. That, finally, it shall be the
declared policy of our government, IN or
der to meet fully and fairly our obliga-
tions to ourselves and to the world, that
the freedom and peace of Europe being
again threatened by any power or combi
nation of powers the United States will
regard such a situation with grave con-
cern as a menace to its own peace and
freedom will consult with other powers
affected with view to devisng means
for the removal OF such menace, and will,
the necessity arising in the future, carry
out the same complete accord and CO.
operation with our chief CO. -belligerents
for the defence of civilization"
An unfortunate elision. Are we to
understand it is not to be the policy of
the United States to consult with other
powers should a condition arise menac-
ing to our own peace and that of the
world? The conclusion, of course, does
not absolutely follow. But the impress
sion created by the elimination is likely
70 be that this country purposes to scut-
tie to the cove of aloofness from interest
IN that part of the world business which
is its business.
The strength of the Senate position
mas been IN its declared willingness to
face facts and to state purposes clearly.
II we do not regret entry into the pres
ent war and intend to enter another Of
The same kind should it come, why not
openly say so?
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14
Americanizing the Schools

On Thursday, in examinations IN the
high schools, the following questions
were asked:
(a) Who are the Russian Bolshevik1
and what are their chief aims
(b) Do you believe the following prin-
cinles TO be in accord with or in oppo-
sition to these aims:
/. Rule by the majority.
g Progress under law.
3. The right of each person to the
product of mis- efforts.
a. Encouragement of individual in
itiative.
Give in each case the reason for your
belief.)
Here. in summary, are searching IN
ouiries. By inference they are avouched
the essentials of American democracy.
The Department of Education is to be
CONGRATULATED on bringing into brief
FORM practically the whole matter.
The perverted or confused may squirm
and assert information about Bolshevlsm
is Incomplete Even so, why object to
StlmulaJlnE UNlliS ldiei III viz A""A
principles? No, the excuses are not
plausible-are put forward by those who
realize that Bolshevism, both in theory
and in practice, opposes the rule of the
majority, progress under law, the right
Of each person to the fruit of his labor
and the encouragement of individual
initiative.
The four principles should be carved
over every school door; they should be
craven on the very forehead of Liberty's
atatue. They express settled truths-no
more open to debate than that murder
is a crime. The person does not want
circulation of the blood who would stop
the heart, or favor trolleys who would
forbid power houses. Equally insincere
is he who praises democracy and de-
fends or apologies for Bolshevism
The methods to be employed to as
certain the majoritys will, or the laws
10 be enacted-these things are open to
debate. But not deeper things. Thus
the enlightened liberalism of proposals
looking to suppressing form of treason
far more dangerous than that of CIV
ing aid and comfort to an avowed ma
tional enemy.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-14

T\HERE are many indications that
Admiral Kolchak's present offensive
has already produced a big effect not
only in the adjoining territories, but in
Moscow itself In q recent army order
Trotzky declared that the fate of the world
was being decided in the Urals; at the
same time stringent orders are being given
to stiffen the rules for mobilization in
soviet Russia.
The truth Is that not only are Admiral
perior to the Red Army in the field but
In the districts through which they are ad-
vanclng and In the districts threatened
by their advance there are constant risings
on the part of the peasant population.
While Bolshevism has overrun large part
of the Ukraine and Is stretching out its
hands to Central Europe, those parts of
Eastern Russia which have already expert
enced its horrors are endeavoring to shake
themselves free and are welcoming the
assistance coming from Siberia.
Red Armys Rererses
The official military bulletins Of the
soviet government still en6eavor to mini
mize the reverses sustained by the Red
Army on the eastern f-ort, but 1t Is clear
that the truth Is already becoming known
in Moscow. 1t Is this which explains
Lenine's renewed attempts to win over to
his side different groups from among So
cialist opponents, looking for support
among those policitians who have already
compromised themselves 80 far that they
have little to hope for in case Of an ad-
vance by Admiral Kolchak in the direction
Of Moscow.
The Socialist groups opposed to the Boil
sheviki are so numerous and 80 divided
that it would not be difficult for so astute
a politician as Lenine to find some who
would support him. And so far he has
been successful Both among the Left
Mensheviki and one group of the Social
Revolutionaries he has found few poll
ticians who, in return for certain favors
have expressed their. readiness to unite
with the soviet government against foreign
intervention or against Admiral Kolchak
and General Denikine. After much delay,
and only under pressure of Admiral Ko-
chak's offensive, this group of Social Revo-
lutionaries in Moscow has been allowed to
the name of the old party organ, "Djelo
Naroda" (The Cause of the People,.
Peasants Waiting
In the issue of this paper for March 25
there is leading article which throws a
good deal of light upon the actual situation
on the eastern front and the way it is
being interpreted by these Social Revo-
iutionary friends, but critics, OF the soviet
government. "The pressure of Kolchak's
armies" it writes, con the eastern front is
strengthening and becoming menacing 1t
is all the more threatening because in the
provinces near the front the peasants are
waiting for Kolchak; they are placing their
hopes upon him and expecting him
with impatence. Such an attitude on the
part of the people transfers itself in a
thousand ways to the Red Army, and breaks
its morale"