davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-02-27
Rev. D. Parrish, Ungrateful.

Kew. ID. Parish, Ot Md. City
is ungratsful to the old ministers
OF this district, who are dead and
gone, died in the belief that he
would be loyal TO the association
over which he had been elevated
by their suffrage. Rev. Allison,
more thanany one minister used his
influence to have him elected and
kept as Moderator for several years
until he was embarrassed at the
association by the brethren. He
made his threat that he would split
the association. and every since
that time he has worked hard to
carry out that threat, and is now
passing out circulars IS a willing
tool OF the men whose only aim is
to rule or rain. know OF your
work, know OF your work. know OF
the misrepresentation to men with
whom you meet. You have re-
pudiated your own work in order
to besmear the good nume and
work OF your col. b 9re:s.
/
! You have proven untrue and nn,,
kind TO the men who ..ade vou
You are noS trle to the brethren
What you arc Chairman OF the
Livingston Institute and the breth-
rem should remove you at the mex,
meeting for Cause, especially for
trying TO spread the rumos that the
money OF the Livingston Institute
has beeo misapp. opriated by Row
lett and McCrary. You fail to tell
the people that under your admin
istration that One Hundred dollars
were misplaced. and that he in
stituted law suit trying to recov-
er it and employed a lawyer or
or said you employed Atty Chas
Rice, OF Nd. City, not only did
this require more money, bat that,
the suit was stopped with receig-
ing the money. Why don't you
be fair and tell the truth about the
matter. Why did you sop the
lawsuit? Tell the people.
Tell them how much money has
been misappropriated under my
administration. Tell them when
you were moderator that you did
not have money for the expenses
of the association. Tell them that
in three years, that the association
is out OF debt. and have money in
the treasury and One Hundred
dollars in the Poor church treasu-
ry, over Thousand dollars 10 the
Bank, educational money. Ii you
did not believe the swotn state
ment OF the cashier Of the Bank.
when you and Rev. Davis. were 10
our town few weeks ago looking
after the interest OF association,
when you intimated that the peo-
pie thought there was something
wrong. when we asked you as
president to go to the bank and
find ont for yourself, what made
you say you were not looking after
that, but yon thought We shonld
remove it from the hank and loan
il TO individuals at higher rate OF
interest. When -geoosea 10
leave it TO the association why did
you object and say that they did
nor have anything TO do with il. II
Iyou are such watch dog oi the
peoples interest? Tell these pes :
pie why. and tell them you are an
worthy OF the trust imposed and
tliss yos wish to blackep the re-
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-02-27

NNVs IEs k' DU "
Member of the National Bap-
tist Publishing Board, Nash
vile, Tenn, who was declar-
ed recently by the Chancery
Court, TO be one of the origi-
nal Board members
He has been selected a del
egate to National S. S. Cong
rass nazf Juns "a Japan, A
9sod scIection
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1920-02-27
Walkers S Indigestian Cure

Rev. ]. b. McCrary is agent foI
Dr. Walkers Sure cure for Indi-
gestion and Dyspepsia. soc and
.sIoo bottles $I.Io by mail
We can cheeriulIy recommend It.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29

policy.
In spite of naval blockades in the
! Baltic and Black Seas and of Ice at
Archangel and of the great risks
assumed in dealing with a people
practically outlawed, considerable
interchange of commodities has
been going on through neutral coun
tries. Premier Nitti's recognition
Of the material considerations to be
gained has not obscured his apprec-
iation of the moral and social ad
vantages likely to ensue in coun-
tries where Bolshevism is still a
temptation, but Mr.. Lloyd George
and M Millerfand have been infS-
enced chiefly by the probabilities
If anybody Is to trade with Soviet
Russia. they represent peoples who
will insist upon being in the front
rank. The United States alone
seems to be indifferent to this most
important sftuation.--New York
World DEM.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
A Medal For
The Mule.

The quartermaster general of the
army has given an account of the
American army mule in his recent
annual report, which, it is thought,
cannot fail to move the people to
hold tenderer sentiments toward
this interesting animal.
However, it may be that sentiment
has been more tender than suppos-
ed from the comments usually made
on the mule and ali the laughs and
jokes that have him for a starting
point. We do, indeed. often COM
plain about his stubborness as il it
were meanness, and yet we have new
er been without a submerged adj
miration for it, as often justified by
the facts and as an exhibition of
firmness and solidity of character.
And the kick of the mule is famous.
1t has been the theme of thou
sand stories, some of them as won
derful as anything in the Arabian
Nights" But this kick, we all
know, has been greatly multiplied
and exaggerated to suit mirthful
propensities, and, as in the case Of
his stubbornness. so in the case of
his kick, we often surprise con-
cealed state Of admiration in our
minds, even when the kick Is with
out comprehensive cause. The re-
suits of 1t are so marvellous, some
times, and the fact Of it such an
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
Press Censorship
In Japan.

The greater the misrule of the gov
eminent the more numerous are
press embargoes. The last Cabinet
prohibited all mention in the press
CT the rice riots which constituted
the greatest blot or the governments
escutcheon, but the downfall { the
Cabinet on that Issue could not be
prevented. At the time when the
present Cabinet was formed it APP
reared that tina authorities had a
more proper notion OF the freedom OF
speech, bat during the eighteen
months it has continued in office
many mistakes have been made, aud
iress embargoas have greatly in
eas5G OF late The embargoes
which stand good at the present mo
rent number 70 less than 3S, OF
which II refer to Korean affairs. and
these figures do not include all the
embargoes issued by the police and
udlcial authorities in connection
with the search or examination OF
criminals, they have all been issued
by administrative offices. AS to 10
leau affairs, almost everything is Ia
hooed, and the Japanese are thus
blindfolded as TO the situation in Ko
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
BANDITS VICTIM
LAID TO REST

Sandy Spring. Nd. April %
From all parts Of Montgomery
county Wednesday men and wom-I
en- came in great numbers to attend
the funeral Of Francis NJ. Halo
well, director of the First National
Bank, who was shot and killed by
bandits who robbed the institution
Monday afternoon. The crowd war
the greatest that Sandy Springs
has ever seen. Not a third Of them
could get into the little Quaker
meeting house here.
In accordance with the Quaker
custom, the services were simple.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Frank j.
O'Hannan, a Protestant Episcopal
clergyman and several members OF
the little Quaker congregation eulo.
gized Mr.. Hallowell.
Up until last night no trace Of the
bandits had been unearthed. The
murderers secured a 96-hour start
in the officers.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
Trading With
Russia.

The refusal of the Western Powers,
concurred In by the United States, to
countenance commercial relations
with Soviet Russia, yielded little in
January at the London Conference.
where ii was agreed that there might
be traffic with the cooperative socie-
ties, and now at San Reno 1t is aban-
doned altogether. On the invitation
of the Supreme Council Soviet dele.
cation will be received for the pur-
pose OF developing trade between
Russia and the Allied Powers. With
that question disposed of, diplomatic
recognition cannot be far away.
For the adoption of this policy
credit must be given TO Premier Nit
ii. More clearly than most states
men he has seen from the first that
Intercourse with Russia was desira-
Bic not only to restore it productive
capacity and give Western Europe
needed supplies, but, as he says,
TO show the world what mess Le-
lin and Trotsky have made" On
his motion Italy was certain to do
as he had suggested, and it was the
/ imminence of this Independent &C
tlon that brought Great Britain and
France into accord, though Wash
ington Is still without definite
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29

exhibition of spirit in this stolid
beast that We cannot wholly con-
denim it.
Not one of us but will be glad
that the quartermaster general has
spoken out So appreciatively of the
American mule, and what he did to
secure the victory in the war. And
we take with favor the suggestion
that the species should be decorat-
ed with medal for the record Of
those many thousand individuals of
it. which showed that they could
strive and press forward and en-
due and die like the best human
soldier. The quartermaster general
only summarizes the report that
came from the field while the con-
f1ict was raging. We all knew what
the American soldier would do over
there. We were as confident about
the American mule. He did not dis
appoint us. He did not fail, it is
true, to exhibit on occasion his &c
centricitles and peculiarities, but
he never failed his human compan-
ions at critical time. We at once
feel the pride Of the quartermaster
general communicated to ourselves
as he describes the appearance of
the American mule as compared
with that of the French or Spanish
mule. Both OF these were prevail.
ingly smaller, the Spanish mule Of
ten showed in his stunted growth
and scrawny frame the effect of
under-nourishment. But the Ameri-
can mule was outstanding, Of i'm
pressive proportion and OF a full
ness of skin that showed he had
been no stranger to oats and hay
a product, too, that reflected credit
on his dam, the American farm
mare, and was no dishonor to his
sire.
It is said the army loves the mule
and perhaps the general sentiment
toward him has been more like af-
lection than was imagined.-Omaha
World Herald Ond)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29

/ Trust law the Supreme Court has
again nearly split even, the vote
being 4 to 3, or exactly the same as
that which was recently cast In IA
vor of the United States Steel Cor
poration, which the government
sought to have dissolved. In view of
the fact that the Court consists OF
nine members, 1t thus appears that
a minority Of the Justices are de-
Gliding most important issues-a fact
which depriyes these judgments of
much Of the moral weight which
the decree Of our highest tribunal
should carry. The death or resigna-
ton Of a single member might
bring in a new Justice, who, in sim
liar cases, could cast vote that
would lead to a complete reversal
OF the courts position. Under such
circumstances it cannot be claim
ed that the law is laid down dein-
itely and is settled FOR all time.
So far as the consumer Of anthra-
cite is concerned there Is no reason
to suppose that the decision segre-
eating the coal properties Of the
Reading from the railroad will be
OF any practical value. This separa.
ton has already been accomplish
ed by the Lackawanpa, the Penn
sylVania, the Delaware e. Hudson
and other anthracite concerns, but
the grip of each upon the coal In
terests naturally allied with it has
not been materially shaken. In ap-
pearance, but not in realty, there
is change, and the corporations
comply with the letter Of the law.
Possibly this is all that could be
expected.
From another point Of view the
decision may be regarded as graft
flying evidence that the Supreme
Court is no longer open to the old
charge that it shows bias in fay
or of great corporations. That ac-
cusation has not been true for
many years. The Court was never
SO open to liberalizing influence as
it is today. This last decision, even
though it may not be of great prac.
teal importance, is added proof Of
the freedom of the Court from any
prejudice in favor of corporate in
terests as against popular rights
Philadelphia Record (Dem)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29

lation should be used and abused by
the government at its own convent
ence. 1t may even be said that 1t is
those authorities who endanger
peace and order. The Home Minis
ter is nominally responsible for the
control OF speech, but 1t is petty po-
lice officials who do the actual task
1t is but natural that such men
should have no adequate understand
ing of the spirit of the times, and it
is astounding how inefficient Is the
manner in which censorship is exer-
cised. Very often even the officials
in charge themselves cannot define
the scope Of an embargo issued.
The fact that numerous press en-
bargoes have been issued regarding
Korean affairs, Siberia, and other dip
lomatic questions Is an irrefutable ev.
idence OF the maladministration of
the government. We must express
our dissatisfaction with the present
government not only for its failure to
amend the Press Law but for its
abuse OF the law to cover its blum
ders.-Ashai, Tokyo.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
Perhaps Mars Doesn't
Want To Talk TO Us.

DR.. Frederick Millener has stop
ped listening for signals from Mars,
dismantled the receiving antennae,
which covered twenty-five square
miles. and announced that Mars did
not send wireless waves to the earth
In the period in which he was alert
to hear them.
Cynics will treat this as evidence
that there are no beings on Mars
comparable to human beings, and
that if reasoning creatures live
there they have not reached that
plane OF accomplishment which we
OF the earth have attained.
Those who like to believe that
Mars Is inhabited by race Of SUI
per-engineers, however, will not be
frightened from their theory by the
failure Of this attempt to ring up
the red planet.
They will say that the Martians
may have been too busy TO send us
signals at the moment when DR..
Millener was In the listening posts;
that the Marian wireless operators
may have been on strike; that the
Marian electrical generators may
have broken down: that ethereal
conditions may have been such that
the impulses could not get through;
that malicious interference by jeal-
GUS planets not invited to the con-
versation may have made commun-
ication impossible.
Obviously the fact that because
the Martians were not calling at
the time DR.. Millener was receiving
does not prove that there are no
Martians, any more than it proves
that there Is no DR.. Mlllener
Moreover, there is another aspect
OF this attempted linking up of Mars
and the earth. How do we know
that the Martians are not definitely
set against having any traffic with
us? 1t Is conceivable that Mars has
observed the conduct of this world
for the last six years with constant
ly growing disapproyal, and has fin
ally decided that we are not fit as
sociates for its people. A. dignifed
statesman may say to his followers:
Those workings are a rough,
savage, brawling lot, who manifest
ly cannot teach us anything, and
from association with whom we
should derive no benefit OF any kind
Do not respond to their advances.
Pay no attention to their signals.
Ignore them electrically as you ig.
more an undesirable socially. If
they want to have traffic with us
let thom go out and get reputa-
ton
This is a humiliating possibility,
one which all good mon will vince
to think about. Yet we must face
it bravely. If the Martians don't
want to greet us cordially there is
no interplanetary League to force
them TO amend their ways.-Tho
Sun and New York Herald (Ind)
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
Hazards OF
Journalism.

The good old days of whipping the
editor when you disagree with his
opinions has fallen into disuse in
most parts of the United States, but
in some of our neighbors to the south
it persists In a somewhat aggravated
form. In the fair and fourishing city
of MonteVideo, great and prosperous,
there is journal. FL Pals, which
seems to be exceptionally provocative
in its comments upon eminent states
men. One of its two directors, DR..
Washington Betran, was some time
ago slain by the hand of ex-President
Battle y Ordonex, who had taken of
tense at some criticism of his public
career; and the same bellicose states.
man lately wounded Senator Aguirre.
one of the proprietors of the paper.
The surviving editor, DR.. Rodriguez
Larreta, was not deferred by The fate
OF his colleague. Last week DR.. Bait
hasar Brum, President of Uruguay,
delivered an address on inter-Ameri-
can relations which stirred Or. Lar
reta to take his pen in hand. His OBJ.
Servations got under the skin of the
administration so successfully that
the Presidents brother promptly
sent him challenge. DR.. Larreta re-.
tected 1t with scorn; the President
is not physically incapacitated nor en-.
feebled by age, he protested; let him
do his own fighting. The President
took him at his word and the seconds
met the next day.
Thereupon. it would appear, sober
second thought came over DIR. Lar.
reta. Suppose the President proved
to be as good a shot as his predeCas-
sor office; the two would meet in the
cool Of the morning and in a few min
utes the President would go calmly
back to breakfast in the presidential
palace while the editors friends
would mourn him. But that would be
the fortune of war. If, however, the
editor werea better shot than the
President, the police would catch him
before he could get out of town. SO
he decided that he would fight the
Chief Executive only on foreign terri
tory.
This appears to be have been too
much for DIR. Brum. The President
cannot be expected to take the boat
for Buenos Aires every time he Is of
| Tended by editorial criticism; and as
the dispute now stands the President
insists that he fight In his home town
or not at all. To the Anglo-Saxon
mentality 1t would seem that this
conclusion ought to save everybody's
honor; and the newspaper, which has
been thorn In the side of the admin
istration, will not have to suspend
through lack of an editor. The Uru-
guayans are a cultured and progress
sive people, eminently able to attend
to their own affairs, but it would
seem to the outsider that in no coun-
try today is there such a surplus Of
able statesmen or competent critics
that we can afford an increase in the
mortality rate of these classes.-New
York Times Qnd. Dem).
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29

Intelligencer. T.
A New Jersey girl who asked
$4,000 for the loss of mans lovet
was awarded six cents. This jury
should be allowed to fix prices on
oodstuffs.-Buffaio Courier. e.
Still, there's no denying we need
whole lot more daylight on q lou
of things.-Pittsburg Dispatch. e
Attorney General Palmer says.
that prices are falling-So Is Lon.
don Bridge.-yirginian Pilot and
Norfolk Landmark.
San Reno for many generations
has been the ideal resort for con-
sumptives. We. hope tht statesmen
of the enetente had other reasons
for meeting there.-Wheeing Intel
ligencer.
The marching through Georgia
was bit rough for Mr.. Palmer
Johnstown Daily Democrat.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS

Mars is probably signalling us to
get our prices down out of her way.
Burlington Vt, Daily News.
Figures don't lie now as they did
IN the days when the ladies wore
many petticoats,-Durham Sun.
If Colonel Proctor would use
more soap and less ivory in the
Wood campaign the generals chan.
ces might float better.-Minneapo.
lis Tribune.
A good many newspapers are dis.
covering that when they said Will
liam Jennings Bryan was a back
number in politics it was typogra-
phical error for come-backer.-
Philadelphia North American.
"Good lines" said the Lady in
the Row Behind, ARE desirable in
an author, but absolutely essential
in a leading lady,"-Seattle Post
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
Daily Editorial Digest
Washington Feature Service
DAVID LAWRENCE President



annoss scored for his taces
Globe dnd). thus
ss Sse s con the 9 @s ne ] n1 @
safe and able nnia . Ireland an. the rest
Of the British pn an asG nd 5 8 e G na @
ianSne rushn away hypocrea and insncero
d se9hnhs re stsrod n TACT inc for ~
at the of good Amcanm to avoid movements calculated to
difficulties home without medg with the domestic prob
BY the Ps @s p s1S "s
A @ n he @ 5 6a 4ssosn no s1s
mighty good the suggestion of Sir Auckland that
which ADDS that III the re9as OF Inc n fg ht y h
should be atente ponered by mded americans and not
sympathy Braeboro t etormer nd9
ad penn so 5
o sS' % taste and the Springfield Union ''' considers not with
question from side only and
difference opinion if not concerning the
sondness of the diplomats advice at least IN It's pfaccaoy niue
g era s4 aid IT P %ouI De Ih naPps T " " ~ "
A' Though to stand may
not live Ireland and wise eoq oeo TG afs Or ns
sympathy outside world reach n far
that there is much
tsPo5 S e" o SCI nave Ss oa for and after Referring
Isaeas mat SIR Aans rgerenS IN @ ndeed the Fort
sylt are ot calculated 10 WIN appr9s @ atador HAS "stnro
o a mos remarkable bunder." -.
RESPONSIBLE their inability
4 With more restraint the New York nd) expresses
little less than cu since
Irish will hardly applaud
tacng the subject before he had fairly set foot on our
possible that England could do better
by outside antagon
intellectual possibility which
This viewpoint
Dem which is that
the Ambassador leaving the gangplan made mis-
really pulled boner
{ 3 certain started something
Gedd words already spoken but rather
o Courier
British Ambassador las big JOB
many
the United States and Great Britain TO reesab
Nashville Tennessen Una
Enghspng countries in days
Springfield Dem be-
beyond
the pressing needs Of the hour
unique phase of the new ENJOYS
Wouldbe diplomatic repesen
canbes until the President has opened the
them
Philadelphia Public Ledger nd
Gedde signiH
is
ambassadors aocrats keep their
for auto ears"
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29

rea. Ii is no wonder that Korean
rule should be growing worse.
The greatest defect OF the existing
Press Law is that the authorities are
empowered to take punitive meas
ures under the abstract and elastic
phrase FOR the { -urbance OF peace
and order II stipulation is due
70 the autecratic spirit OF the bureau
Gratis. and is irrefragably at variance
with tho spirit OF constitutionalism
which respects freedom of speech. 1t
Is very dangerous that such stipu-
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
GASLESS SIX HOURS

The bursting Of a receiving tanK
of the Hagerstown Gas Company
Tuesday morning caused shutting
off gas over the entire city for
about six hours. Housewives de-
pending upon gas for cooking and
industrial plants using gas.fo fuel
were greatly Inconvenience by the
accident.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-04-29
The Reading
Decision.

1t is most unfortunate that In its
decision supporting the govern.
ments charges against the Reading
Company and affiliated corporations
for alleged violation of the Anti.