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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26
SYMBOL OF FRENCH PRoWEss
Martial Bird Placed in Prominent
Positien on Pont de kehl, Over
the River Rhine.

Gallo cock now adorns the Pont
de Kehl on the Rhine at Strasbourg
where but only the other day sat erect
the griffin Of Baden, symbolizing the
iron heel upon Alsace. The idea Of
the setting up Of the Gallo cock was
that Of the French general, Cerncsson,
the first officer In charge of the engi-
neers in freed Strasbourg. The
scheme was put before General
Hirschauer and was immediately
adopted. The sculptor chosen TO carve
the emblematic bird was the Alsatinn
Schultz. Since the peace treaty gave
France possession of the entire length
Of the Rhine bridges, the Gallo cock
in bronze has been placed alOft on the
right bank Of the Rhine. 1t has an
air, that bird, the mir of the king OF
the barnyard Justify Growing at dnwn.
1t may be mailing peace, but the cock
is naturally martial bird and this
particular one with its eye fixed on
Germany certainly commands respect,
1t had been the intention to use the
bronze OF a kaiser statue In the cast
ing of the Pont de Kehl cock, but the
statue Of William I before the palace
In Strasb0urg was found to belle it's
appearance and to be merely compo.
Sition
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26
Farming by Machinery in Australia

AS yet agriculture in Australia has
MOI reached American standards IN
many districts. The advance in wages,
however, is showing the necessity of
rcSortinS more freely to machinery.
y is stated that more th9o $50 motor
tractors have been sold TO farmers in
The eastern part OF the Rivcrina, Il fer.
lie district on the southern border Of
New South Wales. Apart from the
aspect Of labor, buyers declare thot
there is " real economy In the use of
the tractors. A single machine will
do the work Of ten horses, and, more
over, will do 1t well when the ground
is so hard that hors" teams would he
able to dc little more than scratch II.
OF late fodder has been very dear
End this Is another reason for favor
Ing machine blowing. The tractors
are nlsO used for cutting chaff and
wood, and for dragging grain to mar.
kCt.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26
Fuel Yield Of Irish Boos.

The joint council Of the executive
professions in Ireland recently nGopt-
ed the following resolution: "That the
bogs Of Ireland are estimated to have
an area Of 100000 acres, and to CON
tain the equivalent Of over 1900 COO.
600 tons Of coal; that the land Is the
basis of agricultural output, and fuel
the basis Of industrial output, and that
therefore determined effort should
be made, as part Of the policy Of Irish
reconstruction, TO determine whether
or not (n) this 1900, 900 acres Is avail.
able for agriculture, and (b) this 81
600 100000 tons OF coal equivalent Ia
available as fuel in competition with,
or substitution for, coal"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26
For Better Education.

The honors for literacy must, alas.
go to Germany, where the illiteracy
percentage Is far less than one! Eng
land follows close behind. But in tho
United States nearly 6 per cent Of the
people can neither read nor write cur
language. This sounds bad, but 1t
really isn't when you consider our
heavy immigration.
Educational burenus throughout tho
country are constantly lettering CON
ditions, for greater literacy means
greater labor production. In many
counties travelling libraries are sent
out--wagons fitted up with book
shelves.
But careful education Of the chill
dren is the most important branch OF
all, and so many cities provide con-
aveyances for crippled children to so to
school In.
When we consider that India and
Egypt are over 90 per cent Illiterate,
our fast decreasing six looks very.
small.--Popular Science Monthly.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26

"Our doubts are traitors. making ns
lose what we often might win by fear
Ing to attempt" she quoted.
John looked at her In surpr:sc.
why. that's Shatcspeare-a quora.
ton you never got from me either"
he exclaimed.
Somehow that seemed to have
knocked the wind out of his sails. for
he did not finish what he had begun.
Ihe next day Jean left for the East,
AT the station John held her hand
until the time for the train to depart
arrived. He did not think it his RICH,
to Inquire where she was going: she
had not thought it necessary Ia tell
him. "Goodby. little girl. and don't
forget to study the classics" he told
her. As the train shot out Of sight
John looked after 1t longingly. He had
sacrificed his only chance for happi-
ness at the altar OF learning. for he
had restrained himself from propos.
Ing to Jean because 1t would have
meant the end to his plans for uni
versity course. What fool he had
been! Right there he made a resolve,
and telegram that was waiting him
back ut the camp decided definitely
Tor him. Come home. need YOU"
and 1t was signed Father"
For two weeks John STAYED Mt the
bedside Of his father. without any 9TH
er thought but the sick man before
him. At last the crisis was reached and
the danger passed. From then on John
devoted himself to the farn,-the great
big stretch of Gods country that called
out to him for cultivation and respond
cd so nobly to his efforts. Jean was
not forgotten. 1t was for her he was
working. Some day, somehow. he
would find her again and bring her to
home OF great prosperity, he told
The Christmas holidays brought
Johns sister Flora home from college
with gucst-her teacher Of English
and literature. John had displayed no
Interest in the expected arrival. but
when Florn brought some one to him
and he looked into two big. familiar
eyes and saw familiar smiling, blush
Ing face, he was almost swept off his
feet with surprise.
"Jean!' he cried in surprise.
John" she echoed his tone.
Explanations did not come until az
ter supper when they were alone in the
library. She had found John with head
in his hands.
Il was fool" he condemned him
self severely. II might have known
that your education was far superior
to mine. Why. you We're 4 university
graduate. while I was just common
public school teacher; should never
have left the farm
IF you had not YOU would never
have met me-"
And what good has ii done NE
just made NE miserable Oh, my les |
son has been severe one; ] have |
learned it we'll"
And / have learned lesson, too |
"A wonderful lesson, the most won
derful lesson in life"
There was something In her tone |
that brought his heart to q quicker |
beat. He looked up eagerly "What ]
do you menn?'' he Inutterea |
weakly.
"Oh, John, are you going to make me |
say 1t. say what You started to say that
night on the lnke-that night that
had TO spoil it?" She. was
almost In his arms; there was won
derful expression Oh his face. He
gathered her up In one great hug.
Right there he discovered how use.
less language IL
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26
A Pest.

80 you enjoyed your vacation2"
IT certainly did. In fact, ] had the
time Of my life"
GOOD Here comes n man l don't
want you to meet. He would spoil
your disposition"
"Why?"
'He has worked for the same firm
for twenty-five years and II Is bis
proud boast that he has never missed
n day."--Birminghsm Age-Herald.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26

Norway II to have two new greas
steel works. largely to supply plates
Tor ship building.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
THE PRESIDENTS YARD
DIV NIKSAH

The White House grounds, in which Presl-
dent Wilson spends several hOuds every fair
day during his convalescence are beautiful
now with the austere loneliness OF late fall.
The seventeen acres of gently slOping lawn
are still green and fecked here and there
with tn last brown leaves. Some of the trees
still retain their foliage, soft brown and dull
COPPER instead of the flaming October colors
Then there are the evergreens and bushes OF
bright red berries.
Perhaps the grounds look most lovely in
hanging at the White House entrance casts
a lemon-colored glow, which gives unreal
and misunderstanding effect seen in the, fad
ing daylight. The dull masses of foliage
framing the cleaning light of the house, the
purple dusk of the autumn evening simplify
ing and softening the lines make picture
of almost mysterious charm.
Mr.. Reeves, the foreman of the White
House gardeners, takes his work much to
heart He has been there many years, and
knows the various preferences of the presi-
dents and their ladies in the matter of flow
ers and trees.
Mr. Wilson has planted elm in the
grounds" he says, "as also did Mr.. Hayes"
What did Mr.. Taft plant?" he was asked.
WELL of course you know I'm not sup
posed to give out any official information
but don't recall that Mr.. Taft planted any
thing. Colonel Roosevelt though-he plant
ed two trees Fern leaf beeches they were"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
IT is Timely Rev. Thomas B. Gregory

in their audacious impudence are openly de-
flying us; defying our love for the country
we have made great; denying our VeneraCloh
for our country's glorious institutions; DEFY
ing the solemn announcements OF our high
est courts; actually laughing at the voice
which proclaims the majesty OF the people.
Yes it is time-time to strike this I'M
American thing, this INDECENT and unreason-
ing thing with both hands and with all our
might.
We have endured it long enough. Patience
baC ceased to be a virtue Any further pa
thence would be crime
The hour for action has struck. The day
of reckoning is at hand. The time has come
when if should be determined, once Tor all.
whether or not we are people, whether or
not we have a governments government
that is to be respected.
If democratic representative government
as established by our fofefathers on TINS
continent is failure, let us know it; and
if it is not failure in the name OF Goa
and the people, let us know it,
If Russian Bolshevism with it's jungle NOR
atty and pig-sty society, its negatlon OF the
spirit. it's cold-blo0ded degradation of wom-
an, it's destruction of the home and OF all
the purifying and uplifting influences that
the true home has ever stood for--if this
crazy dirty, monstrous thing is better than
the good old American way Of doing things,
we'll and good; but if it is not, if it is, on the
other hand, an infamous thing, that would
certainly cause the brute beasts to blush for
shame if they could reason then let us have
given it it squietus at once.
Now! now! witOhut another days delay,
let the monster be laid low forever
Copyright, 1919
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
THE CONSPICUlTY OF THE
RAMBUNCTIOUS
= BY DR.. Frank Crane

boil on the neck may weigh an ounce
yet it gets more attention than the other two
hundred pounds or so of flesh.
One sore finger causes more care than the
nine that are all right
The short cut to notOriety is by way of
being a nuisance.
Get out on the street and yell and imme-
diately a crowd will collect; go along and
behave yourself and nobody will notice you.
One mad dog exciteS the whole populace;
meanwhile the 20 unmad dogs go around
hunting negligible bones.
Let any lady aweary of being undstin-
guiShed, walk abroad in trousers and blow a
horn, and she will straightway have her fill
of mention.
Let the poor parSon, tired of saving sinners
in obScurity, stand on his head in the pulpit,
sprinkle few cuSS words at the church So
cable, or elope with his neighbours wife, and
he will at last his name and face on the
front page.
In your village are hundred houses, mute
and ingloriOuS, also unwept, unhOnored and
unSung; but start a scandal in one of them,
and it will loom from the common mass as if
a WOOlWOrth building.
Newspapers are necessary 1t is we'll to
know what's going on But the most i'm
pOrtant things that go do not get printed.
Just the loud things.
The burglar, the murderer, the BoShevk the
windoWSmaSher and Soap-box apostle, really
don't amount to much They have little to
do with the communal life. They are warts on
the body polite.
Newspapers feature what is unusual But
what is unusual is not typicay true. If it were,
it would be usual.
Fools, it has been observed, admire the
extraordinary; wise men, the ordinay And we
are mostly fools.
The amazing, Influential, vital and worth
while history of the people does not get itself
written.
When you are in Paris and read of a riot on
the harbOr front in New York. you fancy the
whole metropolis is in uproar; really the
millions of the city knew nothing of the af-
fair except through the papers, and were busy
selling goods and peeling potatoes as usual
| venture to say that even now in Russia
where suppose everybody to be shaking in
are sowing and reaping, loving and quarreling
about as they did under the car.
We hear a deal about the revolt of labor
Yet there are only a few million labor union
members, and not all of them on strike while
the most of the hundred million unorganized
workers are plugging along in peace.
Cheer up! Any mornings issue of the news
paper would indicate are on the verge
of revolution. But the newspaper features
the blatherSkte If it told of all the sober
conscientious and decent workers that are going
along minding their business it would require
10000 pages of fine type.
And you wouldn't read it.
Copyright, 1910, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
THE TIME HAS COME WHEN WE MUST
CRUSH DISLOYAL FORCES THAT
DEFY AMERICA

~ VERY morning, for more than forty
II years. at exactly five minutes to hVe,
IL Lampe servant of the greatest OF
modern philosophers, Emmanuel Kant, en-
tered his masters bedroom and pronounced
Just three words, Els ist zeit-'1T is TIME
and five minutes later the Sage of Koenlgs-
berg up and at work.
AS an American, with many generations
of American ancestry behind me, | raise my
humble voice to declare to my fellow Ameri-
cans that it is time for UNCLE SAM to
arise from his slumbers and get to work.
There is time for everything-a time to
slumber and time to wake up, time to
be good-natured and time to be internally
mad; and the time for the latter alternative
is sQuarely upon us.
There is no doubt about it. It is time to
throttle the impudent and ungrateful men, if
men they can be called, who are trying to
destroy uS-trying to overthrow the best and
most generous government EARTH and to
uproot the finest institutions that have so
bar been worked out by the political wisdom
of mankind.
Seventy years ago one of the greatest Eng
lishmen then living, Ind true friend to this
country uttered these remarkable words
will come in the EARLY PART OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY, and as the vandals
swept down on Rome so WILL A VAST
HORDE SWEEP DOWN ON AMERICA"
Today Macaulay's words are being full
filled to the letter The horde is sweeping
down upon us. They are here in force, and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Hans was speaking about the high price of
cabbage in his town. "KebbegeS is awful high
dis year," he said "Me and mine wife puts
up SEVEN eight, nire barrels of Sauerkraut efery
too much"
''Bu7 you put up some Sauerkraut, didn't you,
HanS?" questioned a friend.
ooh, yes, two or dree barrelS-iuSt to half
in de house in case of sickness"
Leoncavalo possessed fund of human
which once landed him in an awkward predca-
ment Visiting incognito a provincial theater,
where "Pagliacci" was billed, he found the
stall on his left occupied by music lover
ance, and who as the curtain fell remarked to
his neighbor:
"What maSterful pece!"
The composer, being in the vein for joke,
remarked Nothing of the kind. Speaking as
a professional musician, | can assure you that
the opera is one mass of plagarSmS. The
cavatina is practically all Beroz. The opening
duet is taken from Gounod. The finale sounds
like a bad imitation of one of Verd'S finaleS,
and SO on from beginning to end"
They were crossing to rance and the ship
pitched and tossed about in an unusually bad
storm. Most of the passengers had sought
refuge below, but little Miss SturgeS, an elderly
the gale increased in fury, a chivalrouS ply
Sician from the ladyS home town came on deck
to her
pardon me, Miss Sturges but it seemed to
me you might be in some trouble? Can |
help you? Have you chosen your life pre-
Seryer?"
ooh, DOCTOR cried the maiden lady, with a
gurgle of joy, as she tumbed into his arms,
chow Sweetly and rOmanticaly you have ex-
pressed it,"
Germany can argue and fuss, but she'll get
practically nothing off the peace treaty" The
speaker was Representative Stevenson. eyes,"
he went on, "Germany'S declarations are as
futile as the Interruptions of the widow This
widow, her black-edged handkerchief to her
eyes, sat listening to her late husbands funeral
sermon. And the dear departed said the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05

The city council of Tacoma, Wash, has
agreed to let the twenty-five alleged l. w. W.,
who are on hunger strike in the city Jail,
starve if they desire, following report from
Assistant City Attorney Frank Carnahan
that the city could not be held responsible.
The prisoners will not eat, and they also
have refused to talk with their jailers. While
the strikers have refused to state the cause
of their refusal to eat, it was understood that
they were protesting against being detained
in the city jail. They had asked to be trans
ferred to the county jail, where additional
alleged I. w. W. were held, but this was re-
fused because the cells were full.
A chest of Roman coins, buried in the face
of invasion every hundred years since 500
years A. D., is now providing comforts for
refugees around the little French village Of
Charmes in the Aisne district. The chest,
containing the wealth of an ancient Roman
nobleman, was dug up recently near the ruins
of the chateau of Major Titus Leroux, Char
mes, head of one of the oldest families of
France. 1t is the last heirloom Of the aged
officer and his wife, and they have willingly
cast it into the Red Cross fund to aid the peo-
pie of their district
For what is said TO be the first time in his
tory the likeness of a musician has appeared
on postage stamp. 1t is that of Ignace Pad.
erewski. president of the Polish republic, on
new issue of Polish stamps
DR.. Theobald Won Bethmann Hollweg, the
former imperial chancellor of Germany has
gone to Lausanne, Switzerland. DR.. Won Beth
mann Hollweg intends to sojourn at Geneva
for long time, the newspapers say
The Filipino people have established the
stable government demanded by congress as
the prerequisite for the granting of~their in
dependence in the opinion of Governor Gen
eral Harrison of the Philippines, who in his
annual report reiterated the hope that "early
independence will be conceded" Every
American soldier could have been withdrawn
from the islands during the war, Governor
Harrison said, and the United States could
have depended on the Filipino people "to
defend the American interests and the pres
tige of the American flag in the archipelago"
In England air traffic has developed to the
point where they have bulletin boards
announcing the daily arrival and departure
of arplanes with goods and passengers.
The governments alarm over the manner
in which the process of selling out Germany
continues has finally forced it to enact tenn
porary measures which are calculated to
put a radical check exports while definite
legislation is in course of preparation. Pro-
visions already adopted call for imprisonment
for the export of commodities which affect
the vital needs of the nation and Of other
things of which Germany is being gradually
stripped as a result of the low value OF her
money There is also to be more rigid iron
tier control on exports. The MOTEL keepers
are debating measures for the levying OF a
fax ON foreigners who not only overflow
inc the hotels, but are suspected or living
cheaper than natives, in view of the preml-
UNI commanded on foreign money spent by
them.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05
The Presidents Message
Ind The Duty Of Congress

7 is a significant commentary on Congress
that the larger part of the Presidents
&Aessage to that body simply reiter-
ates recommendations which he made to the
preceding session and which are of an alto
gether nonpartisan well as imperative ma
ture. The peace treaty and the railroad ques-
ton he reserves for separate and later mes
sages. The matters which he presents
though singly less momentous than those two
vast issues, make up body of problems that
deeply affect the nations business and also
its vital human interests
Every tax payer in the land (and that
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-05

iA-0O
n the ken of the conservationists. This
time it is the ground-out and sup
posedy juiceless sugar cane stalk that IS
fOund to harbor mines of unguesSed suS-
tanancp These stalks, says the Valdosta
Times. summing the conclusions of recent in
vestigation 'can be converted into the best
kind of stock food by cutting them up in
shredders or running them through mill
The product it seems possesses as much or
more saccharine matter than corn stalks
(similarly treated), and has fibre that is
good for stock when 1t is ground ana maze
palatabe for them.
Progress has consisted largely of just such
discoveries and utiliZations-material prog
ress, we mean; and ethical advancement IS
we'll has been Influenced in the same Wcy
What Shakespeare calls gathering honey of
the weed" and making moral of the devil
himself" is a peculiarly vital process in civ
ilizatiOn. 1t is moot many years since some
benefactor showed us that cotton seed, even
to the bulls, were rich in food value Prior
to that it was a troublous problem how to
get rid of them. Gin houses frequently
were built over running water in order that
the bothersome by-product might be t1oated
away But now large industries are main
tanned by this once discarded trash" and
millions upon millions of wealth are added
thereby to the income of southern farmers.
For this and for hundreds of similar dis
coveries and conservations, we are indebted
let us remember, to the scientist and to the
college or university which fosters the spirit
of inquiry and service; for this is truly the
scientists conquering sword To the extent
that the South supports such institutions.
thereby developing insight and resourceful-
ness, to that extent will she wax prosperous
and strong. For lack of knowledge and
training, we waste vast sums of treasure and
overlook opportunities yaster still. The
great conservator, the great discoverer. the
great producer is education.