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The Washington times., 1919-03-12
P|CKSHERLEY,
EK-SOLON, TO
RUNFINANCES
Of RAILROADS

Appointment Of Swagar Sherley-
retiring chairman of the House App
propriations Committee. as director
of finance for the Railroad Admins
tration, was announced today by Di-
rector General Hines. Sherley will
take charge of the work about April
L He succeeds John shelton Will
ltams, whose resignation Was accepted
hy Hines, Monday.
Sheriey's work as chairman OF the
House Appropriations Committee dur
ing the recent hearings IN railroad
measures, drew much favorable com
ment from Mr.. Hines. who was before
the committee four times.
Sherley is, now in Louisville, KY
rncuperating a breakdown coca
stoned by heavy work in the closing
days Of Congress.
Must Meet Crisis.
Mr. SherIey viii have charge OF The
railroad finance during the critical
period brought about by the failure
Of Congress to appropriate for the
operation of the lines. He will prob
ably be called upon to carry out one
OF the plans outlined by Director
Hines yesterday TO railroad officials,
The executives are said to be favor
abIe to Mr.. Hines proposal TO finance
the roads by Government warrants.
Administration officials today were
greatly encouraged at the outlook.
Hines conferred with representatives
OF the Treasury Department and War
Finance Corporation on points affect
ing the limitations and conditions On
the warrants. All legal obstacles
kave been evaded, it was said
Object to Warrants.
Treasury officials may yet object 10
permitting use Of the warrants, since
they would give the roads practically
q free hand in borrowing. It has
been the Treasury's urgent request
that railroad borrowings be do=e
elsewhere than on the open market,
because of the effect such would
likely have with the opening Of the
Victory loan campaign only SIX
HWeeks away. Whether this objection
SE1ll be sufficient to cause a change
Isa plans, or whether the Treasury
Representatives will insist the loan
campaign will be imperiled by utiliz-
tng the notes, officials would not ven
ture q guess. The consensus of opin-
lon was that the warrant plan was a
happy way out Of q serious predica-
menC"
The Washington times., 1919-03-12

The naR WhO pays a. IResms taB IL
DuttiRR the pay IatO patriot. Hsss
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
THE WHEAT CROP DISAP-
POINTING.

Estimates made early in the season
harvest, of the yield of the 1918
wheat crop, proved to be inaccurate,
and long way over the actual yield
Not only the yield but the quality,
was not first class. In fact, as one
authority state-perhaps over stat
edit was the worst failure we've
had for many years"
Various reasons have been guessed
for the disappointment, one is, poor
seed sown. Another, too large an
acreage attempted. Another, q poor
grade of fertilizer or too small a
quantity used per acre. Another still,
too much rain in early spring, fore
ing an over growth of straw. Just
which or how many of these causes
contributed to the disappointment,
cannot, of course, be given with GER
tainty. The government guarantee of
a high price stimulated large out put
and no doubt many farmers did not
take necessary care in preparation of
land for wheat. They had to hurry
Large acreage meant large expendi-
lures for fertilizers-too large if
every acre was to have an adequate
supply-and the result was putting
on two acres about what one acre
should have had. Poorly selected
seed is prolific source of failure in
yields in any crop, and may have, in
the hurry, and large amount of seed
required, helped in bringing about
the failure
What is the lesson? Now, that
there is no longer an emergency,
though still a need for flour, the
farmers should not attempt large
or abnormal acreage for next years
crop. Forty bushels grown on one
acre is far preferable to fifty bus
hels grown on two acres.
World food conditions in 1920 can
not be foretold now, but it is GER
tain, says the Department of Agri-
culture, that there will continue to
be demand for all we can grow, and
farmers should avoid speculative,
plunges in unbalanced productions
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
PROHIBITION AND THE UN-
EMPLOYED.

An argument, and at the time
seemed n strong one, when prohibition
and the liquor traffic was first
sprung, was that large number of
people would be thrown out of en-
ployment, and great suffering and
direst results would inevitably follow.
Some of the arguments made then
provoke smile now. We recall that
in the fights made in Pocahontas and
Bluefield, (and the same in all the
towns and cties) the actual numbel
of liquor dealers and employees was
given, and pictured this crowd of
folks and their families, as walking
the streets, begging bread. Look
too" said the wet orator, "at the
vast amount of property that will be
practically destroyed if the liquor
houses are closed. Pocahontas and
Bluefield, and all the cities, will pa
bankrupt. The Prohibitionists arc
fools and fanatics" And so, the raw.
ing went on. What has happened .
Just what the prohibtionists said
would happen.
The houses used for dispensing
liquor are now used for profitable
and respectable business. The saloon
keepers have found other jobs more
agreeable and respectable.
Mr. nnnsrnvre, U. S. Director of
the Employment service, is placing
about $4,000 men every day in good
jobs, says: eve have not had q
single application for a job from a
bartender" That is, from a man who
wanted job as bartender.
Not only statewide but nationwide
and worldwide prohibition will still
improve matters, particularly among
what we are pleased to call, the la
boring classes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
News or North Tazcwell.

j. d. Peery is business visitor to
Gary this week.
j. II Harris and wife. of Gary,
spent the week end with Mrs Harris
sister, Mrs. j. ID. Peery.
Mrs. Lena Mccall reported as
getting on nicely and it is hoped by
her many frineds that she will soon
be out.
Earl Ircson will leave on the 22nd
for Staunton to resume his studies
Stuart f. Whitley left last Thurs
day for Peoria, H., where he will
take course in watch repairing.
Mrs. Anderson, of Russell County,
SIN IA N SIN pun I'm 5ua!s!A S!
CT, this week.
School opened here last Monday
with Miss Miller rs principal, with
about 80 on the roll.
Mrs. Lucy Dickinson is back Mt the
wire in the absence of operator
Whit.
Capt. Jack w. Written, acting as
chaperonc went to Cedar Bluff Mon
day to cut corn for brother j. II.
Mcclure, who is in the sanatorium at
Catawba. The following members of
the order of Knights of Pythias par
ticpated: Charles Pat Iarman, j. ID.
CLEARWATER, David C. Pecry, r. C.
Peery, Nye Britts, j. o. Sayers, l..
t. Mcclure, j. ID. Peery, Paul P.
Britts,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
From A Former Resident.
Dear Mr.. Leslie.


Dear Mr.. Leslie.
w. j. gave me n check to send to
you as he gets in after the postof-
flee is closed, so | will have to "fess"
up. don't remember where l put that
check, so | am sending you check
of my Every own" as | want it to
go off in this mail. And, now, the
first time | get mad at him | will
remind him of the fact that he owes
me S1.50. You of course hear of the
woman having these good Johns
Well, Mine happened to be n "good
will" so | am sure Of my $1.50 back,
and maybe another so cents for in
terest
suppose, Mr.. Leslie, you know
about the Editors home they are try
ing to put thru here in Bedford. If
understand right, it is home for the
editors on taking vacations and a
regular rest resort The name of the
place is Jeter, once n girls collega,
(that is the building.) And it is ru-
| rrored that number of editors and
their wives are to have convention
if that is what it might be called. Any
way, my two daughters, Beatrice and
Allie Gray, who are stenographers
and bookkeepers, did some stenog-
raphic work for the business, and
they understood the company to say
that number of editors and their
wives from different states, or diff
erent places in Virginia were COM
ing and you'd probably be in Bed
ford several days. If you and Mrs.
Leslie are among the number we
want you to make your home with aus
while here.
| suppose you remember me, (Ethel
Williams) as one of your pupils
when you taught in the old high
| school building.
One little teacher I remember /
loved very dearly, was Mrs. Bland,
the very sweetest silvery haired old
lady. l often wonder if she is still
living. | spent the night with your
daughter, Nancy, when school closed
and shall never forget how Mrs.
Bland entertained us children with
beautiful stories.
Sincerely,
MRS. w. j. SUTHERLAND.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19

pieces, and much lower prices in I'll
lines will develop from now on.
But the rent profiteer shows no
signs of budging.
The nation, owing to stoppage OF
building operations in the war period
is short more than 100000 dwell
ings. Owners of tenements, flats and
apartment houses in the cities flood
ed with applicants have taken adj
vantage of the situation to advance
rents over and over again.
Hundreds of instances have been
furnished of owners Of certain class
charging 25 or more per cent rentals
to tenants than more humane prop
erty owners of nearby dwellings, OF
the same character.
Thus far nothing has been done by
Notion, state or city to bring correc.
tiom of these evils. They are potent
elements of unrest. Without correc-
ton in taxation. wrong living costs
can not be brought down to the leve
that is possible and just.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
Teachers Pay.

Teachers Pay.
IL teachers were but fairies,
Living in field or fell,
And needed not to eat or dress,
Or heed the dinner bell;
If they could wave fairy wand,
And so turn work to play,
Why, then / think the teachers
Gould do without their pay.
They teach some twenty subjects,
Police the grounds and hall;
They're bankers, Red Cross agents
Health chorister, one and all;
They're faithful to their duties.
l wonder what you'd say,
If they'd neglect your children
AS you neglect their pay.
Bookkeeping's recreation,
A pretty little game,
AT which they play quite often,
Beside the midnight flame;
And then they say their prayers,
When not too tired to pray,
And ask the Lord for strength t.
teach
And toll another day.
If humans were but human
Ihey'd ply the golden rule
And pay these weary teachers
And prize the public school;
They're kind to aged horses,
They turn them out to hay,
But teachers must teach on and on
Though worn and bent and gray
Not all your gold and treasures
Could ever half repay
The patience and the care they give
Your children day by day.
Then grudge them not an honest
wage,
TITS all too light toll,
They are the molders of the mind,
The sculptors of the mind,
The sculptors of the soul.
S. A. NOWSE, in Newport News
Daily Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
WHEAT GRADED DOWN.

The charge, that the new wheat
crop is being graded down so as ia
bring large discounts to the govern.
ment, is not true, says bulletin Just
out from the United States Depart.
ment. Any farmer not getting a
square deal has the right to appeal
to the Grain Corporation.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19

Magazine, which gives picture of
the tower. The total height of the
tower as planned is 2,1O0 it., with
an observation platform 100 TT. in
diameter at the 200O-ft. level, sur
mounted by four powerful lanterns,
indicating by their colors, the points
of the compass to all aerial nayiga-
tors within a 4O-mile radius AT tho
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19

1,5OOO-ft., 1,oOO-ft., and SCOTT. levels
respectively ore a trophy hall, a res
taurant, and an amusement hall. AT
the base monolithic structure, 100
#. high and 300 #. square, contains
free assembly rooms on the ground
floor, and vast convention hall 35
fit. above, seating $4,000.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
Plan Worlds Highest Tower For
Memorial.

A monumental tower of steel, more
than twice as high as the worlds
loftlest present structure, the Eiffel
Tower, is proposed by leading citi-
zens of Pittsburg for memorial to
the soldiers of that district, accord
ing to the October Popular Mechanics
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
Cost Of Living Coming Down Slowly
&But Surely.

The cost Of living is coming down
and the effect is already discernable
IN the, business world. Food prices
have dropped within the past few
weeks, according to statistical agen-
cies, and the price of clothing has
also tnmbled in the wholesale mar
kets. The cotton market has gone to
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-19
Fine Stock Farm in Northern Virginia

the east, ~ ' '"ihe's III
guy good land cheap in Fairfax and Counties
Mote the following bargains
finest Blue
station $50 fenced Runnnp wafer IN ev f;i
T'O Pei "eie'
slS acres fine land Splendid modern
GOOD tena house and utbudngs finest timber 1S0
acres best bottom land Well school
hag fS and railroad ID miles from Washington s2 Oo
road school and churches Price terms Land is
I acres finest and grain land woven wire
on locust and steel posts Buildings
doing fine business. Price $4,000 " ~ anu "i' DUH
nave plenty good small
ing Ninety Dollars ecelaot
Dig Ones eight to twelve hundred acres. " '
you ar really In the market for
Piaces "thout delay Write to expect YOU
Herndon, " '' fE11 < "a 81 Ale,
Evening star., 1919-04-20
PLANS FOR COUNTRY CLUB.
Proposed to Amalgamate Sporting
Interests Centering at Warrenton

WARRENTON, Va, April 19.-It is
proposed to establish a country club
in the neighborhood of Warrenton.
with a view of amaIgamating the
sporting interests THAT have been CEN
tered here for many years.
This club is to be the Headquarters
fer the arrangement of horse shows.
fiat races. steeplechases and every
thing relating to the Improvement of
domestic and farm animals. and for
the establishment of a golf course.
tennis courts, trap shooting and other
sports. and to provide a comfortably
equipped clubhouse for the intel
lectual, educational and social benefit
of the community and it's visitors.
The buildings are to be so equipped
that the guests can live there, under
the usual manaeemet appurtenant to
such club. The proposed arrange
nentS include a restaurant a ball
room. kennels. quarters for the hunt
horses and hunt servants, and the
union of the Warrentcn and Casanova
hunts under master or huntsman ap-
pointed by the club.
Arrangements are in process of COM
pletion under which a company will
purchase one of several desirable prop
critics, and will lease sufficient ground
to the club for the aforementioned
purposes. together with the house and
buildings and other improvements
necessary for such a club. Before the
purchase can be completed it is neces-
sary that sufficient heads of families
or single persons should indicate that
they are willing to join such a club
when and If established.
The initiation fee is at present fixed
at 800 and the annual dues are $50.
1t is proposed Immediately to obtain
the signatures of 200 persons on these
terms. After this number is secured
the initiation fee will be raised. The
committee in charge of the preliminary
steps of the formation of the club is
as follows: f. Nelson Fell, chairman;
Gen. B. D. Spilman, vice chairman;
Mitchell Harrison, treasurer; R. r
Barrett, Harry Edmonds, C. H. Smith,
Mrs. r. r. Barrett, Mrs. King Stone,
Mrs. E. B. King, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Maddux,
Mrs. w. F. Wilbur, Mrs. G. L. Fletcher.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
PRIVATE AUTOS ASKED
FOR WALTER REED BOYS
Needed to Garry Soldier-Patients
to Theater, Mount Vernon and
Other Places.

An earnest appeal is made by Capt.
recreational activities of the Red
Cross at Walter Reed Hospital, for
volunteers to tender use of their
automobiles for three special pur-
poses. 1t has been found impossible
to secure the necessary cars for the
transportation Of the wounded SOL
dier patients to downtown entertain
ments, on the weekly excursion to
Mount Vernon and the transportation
of the equipment and the talent from
keith's each week to and from the
hospital.
Each week. through the courtesy of
Manager Robbins, the headliners of
the bill playing at Keith's are select
ed for matinee at Sis o'clock in the
Red Cross House. The equipment and
performers must be transported both
ways quickly. Closed cars are needed
for this service.
Every Thursday cars sufficient to
carry 100 men to Mount Vernon are
wanted. The Red Cross can arrange
to secure cars sufficient to care for
half Of these. On every Wednesday
Keith's. Cars are wanted-closed
cars-to Transport the wounded SOL
diers to the theater and back to the
hospital Then there are special oc-
casions. as was the case last week.
when invitations for 1000 men were
sent to the hosDhtal on short notice.
By extra effortS through the use Of
Army trucks. ambulances, cars from
the motor truck service and the Red
Cross motor truck service and some
private cars. these men were han
died. Now that the base ball season
has opened here-150 Of the bows
being guests yesterday at the onon-
ing game and probably 800 more will
be at today's Game-motor service is
badly needed for this.
Capt. Mccall Lanham. who can be
reached through Columbia 914O, will
greatly appreciate 1t II owners Of pri-
vate cars. or others, would volunteer
use of their cars.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
D. C. Woman's Liberty Loan
Committee to Start Taking
Subscriptions Tomorrow

The headquarters of the District
woman's liberty loan committee at
|121S F street northwest will be open
to receive subscriptions to the victory
loan tomorrow morning at $3.50 o'clock,
and will remain open until $50 pm.
It will keep those hours of opening
and closing throughout the three
weeks campaign. Mrs. Ralph Waldo
Emerson will be'in charge Of the sales.
This announcement was made by Mrs.
Wesley Martin Stoner. chairman of
the women's committee.
Mrs. John Lord O'Brian, chairman
of the committee on hotels, gave the
names of a number of prominent
Washington women who have pledged
themselves to assist her, The sub
committees formed to solicit bonds in
the various hotels will have as their
chairmen: New Willard, Mrs. Victor
Kaufman and Miss Denys; Washing
ton, Mrs. William Davis, Mrs. Char
lotte Eldridge, Mrs. Bruce Claggett:
Shoreham, Mrs. Jouett Shouse; Lafay-
Mrs. Walter Schoellkopf: Powhatan.
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs. Clarence
Woolley; Ebbitt, Miss Katharine I.
Miss Padden has also offered her
services as a speaker for the woman's
committee. She has recently returned
from France, where she worked for
the relief of the men in the trenches
for more than two years. She wears,
among other honors, the French croix
de guerre. for service she rendered
near the fighting lines.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
PEACH CROP LITTLE HURT.

BALTIMORE, April Ex-senator Or
lando Harrison of Berlin, Worcester
county, the largest peach grower in
Maryland and whose orchards on the
eastern shore are said to- be the
largest in the country, has made a
thorough examination of his trees and
says there has been but little damage
done by the cold weather to the peach
crop, and he thinks that. barring the
June drop, we will have an exception
al peach year this season. He also
says that pear plum and apple trees
have not been injured and that these
crops should be very heavy. He said
he expects to ship at least 200 cars Of
pea ches and that If the June drop is
not severe, the shipment might run UP
to a very much larger number Of cars.
Evening star., 1919-04-20

lead the chicks to infested places.
In extreme cases the chicks may be
kept confined on a board floor fog
several weeks while they gain
strength and powers of resistance. -
Affected chickens may be treated
successfully by inserting a feather
with the blade stripped from tho
quill. with the exception of a small
tuft at the end, well down into tn"
windpipe, then twisted carefully and
withdrawn. bringing with it some
of the worms. This must be repeated
until practically all are removed.
but with this treatment there is dam
ger of injuring the lungs or the
lining of the windpipe. Another old
fashioned method of extracting the
worms. one that I saw used thirty
five years ago, is to double stiff
horsehair then twist it between the
fingers until there is left a little
loop at one end; this is gently pushed
down in the windpipe and manipu-
. lated in the same way as the feather!
These methods are very tedious and
require too much time and labor.
plan sometimes used with sue
cess is to place the sick chicks to
gether in a box, cover the top with
burlap and sift through this air
Stacked lime. The dust causes the
chicks 40 sneeZe or cough violently.
thereby forcing out the worms.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
CARING FOR THE HOME FLOCK
H.
Poultry specnlst College, COLLEGE Park

is caused. which unduly stimulates
the secretion of mucour. The effect Of
this. with the presence of the worms
in the trachea. obstructs the breath
ing and the chick usually dies of suf-
location, though it may also die from
loss of blood. which the worms suck
from the chicks body.
The worms are found in pairs, the
male and female are so intimately
joined together that the bodies must
be torn in order to separate them.
The male is only one-fifth of an inch
long, while the female measures about
one-half an inch in length and con-
tains thousands of eggs. These eggs
are deposited only upon the rupture
or decay of the body of the worm.
Sometimes this occurs within the
windpipe and. as warmth and mois-
ture are present, which is all that
is required to hatch the eggs and
grow the worm. the eggs hatch and
the worms develop. Sometimes the
chicks in their effort to rid them :
selves of the obstruction within the
air passages cough out the worms.
which are then available food and
are picked up as fast as discovered.
When the worms are swallowed
some Of them are torn in the diges-
tive tract the eggs hatch there. and
1t is supposed that the young worms
work their way through to the air
passages and thence to the windpipe.
or it may be that some of the worms
and eggs pass on through the body of
the chick and are voided with the
feces, and are in turn eaten by other
or the same chicks.
We also have reason to believe-in
facts We know-that the eggs of the
gap worn are found in the earth
worm, and they may possibly be in
other worms and insects which are
picked up by the chicks and so fur
nfshes further means of infestation.
1t can therefore be seen how easily
the disease may be spread and car
ried over from year to year, and how
difficult it is to control. If taken in
time before the soil becomes contami-
mated gaps may be prevented by
moving chicks to new ground each
successive year. using the same loca-
tion for the coops only once in three
or four years, and by observing the
right principles of sanitation, keeping
the coops reasonably clean. cleaning
and disinfecting all places where the
chickens or old stock congregate, par
ticularly in hot weather in fence cor
ners under trees and brushes. The
ground on which the coops are set and
the surrounding soil should be well
sprinkled with air Stacked lime at
the end of the season and then either
spaded or plowed.
But unfortunately the available and
! convenient places on many of our
farms have long since become more
or less contaminated and the subur-
ban dweller usually has so little land
to choose from that other methods OF
control must be used.
ence that the ravages of the disease
! may be materially lessened if We
| keep the hen and chicks confined to
the Slated pen in front of the brood
coop. Sides of boards or of small
| meshed poultry wire must be placed
around the pen to keep the chicks
and hens inclosed. And if the her
is confined throughout the day, as
| advised in a previous article, there
will be less danger, as she cannot