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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-11
COAL WASTE

The proposal of Interstate Com
MERGE Commissioner Robert w.
Wooley, in the Annals Of the
American Academy Of Political and
Social Science, that raw bitumin-
Gus coal be cooked, and the bypro-
ducts saved and put to use is OF
decided interest in view Of the
demonstrated failure of antismoke
devices and legislation greatly to
reduce the smoke evil In the soft
coal cities Of America. Abolition of
smoke and Of the labor Of handling
coal constitutes a feature of the pro-
posal which covers far wider
ground, but if it should prove prac-
teal to bring to an end the use Of
soft coal as 1t comes from the mines
and new and brighter aspect of life
would develop in all of the cities
and towns now using such fuel, and
incalculable increase Of property
values would result.
Commissioner Woolley, who con-
Quoted an inquiry into fuel econo.
my ; as one of the problems OF
transportation during the war.
quotes the authors of bulletin up
on the energy resources of the Unit
ed States prepared for the Smith
sonian Institute as saying the ulti-
mate possibilities Of the process nc
recommends range beyond the
grasp of the Imagination" Among
these possibilities are:
First:-IncreasinG of available
coal supply from 30 to 50 per cent
through the use of low grade ores
now regarded as of negligible value.
Second:-All coal used by rail
roads, save anthracite which Is
cooked by nature can be cooked from
the sale of the byproducts, making
the coke practically net.
Third:-Vast culm banks, long
regarded as waste, may be mixed
with high volatile Goals of the an
thraete region and coled at banks
or mines near industrial centers OF
the North and Fast.
Fourth BY eoking all bitumin-
Gus coal, worth $2,142.000.000 at the
mines, by figures Of 1918 production
there would be produced $2G22.866.-
TOO worth ef coke. $2,213, Gao coo
WORTH Of byprodue $. a saving Of ma.
ural resources wasted by present
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-11

his fellow beings?" For any one,
no matter how placed 10 assume
that refusal TO accept his decisions
establishes blackness Of heart is to
reveal a narrow arrogance which is
rare in human annals.
Amusement Is not lessened by
recalling that this utterance is from
the same man who said prior to our
entry that he did not know what
the war was about. Truly he did
not know. Seemingly he never
learned. He never was really cured
Of his "peace-without,victory" idea
only kept silent with respect to
1t for a time. Here is the source
OF his error. The President is so
constituted as not to perceive that
hope of future peace was slight If
record were not made that would
deter other would-be conquerors.
The net effect Of the Presidents
diplomacy, in both its secret and
its public aspects, is to bring
almost to extinction the high hopes
the world entertained eighteen
months ago. His activities at Paris
and since have relighted the fires
of the Old jealousies and discords.
He says he does not like the old or
der, but he has perpetuated it. He
disclaims against balances OF pow
er, but he has contributed to Great
ing a condition that make such bal
ances practically inevitable.
II is not as crusader for peace
that there is world objection to the
President, but as fomenter of bad
feeling, and thus Of New
York Tribune Rep1.
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nal (Dem.)
is TURKISH QUESTION
OUR BuSINESS2

There is a fine indignation In the
breasts of many people and societ-
les in the United States over the
announcement that Constantinople
may be left in the hands of the
Turks. Even those reserved people
who protested against American
interference in the affairs of Eu-
rope" are interfering to the limits
of their command of language. This
matter is no business or some bust.
ness Of the United States. In either
case it seems reasonable to suggest
that the United States people
should mind their business.
But the interest which intelligent
people in New York or Washington
take in this decision indicates that
the affairs of Europe are fatters of
concern to the United States. It is
in fact of as much important at
Washington as at London whether
the Turk is driven out of CONSTANT
nople, and whether the remaining
Armenians are butchered. II the
Senate asserts the contrary the
senate DEGREES that the United
States shall become a diplomatic
slacker.-Vancouve Province,
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GE RIM ANY
PAYING UP

Germany, in spite Of the impress
sion to the contrary, has shown IA.
Their good speed in the matter of be
ginning her payments for the crime
of the World War in compliance
with the treaty conditions.
The Saar mines, worth one bill
Lion marks, have been turned over
to France Enterprises liquidated
abroad and surrendered amount to
l2,00a,000,000 marks; state proper
ties turned over TO the Allies in tho
surrendered regions amount to IS
100000 marks; Germany's' CONNER.
eial fleet surrendered is valued at
S,250e00000 marks; Germany has
furnished coal to France since the
signing of the treaty valued at 24O,
100000 marks; machinery has been
turned over valued at 150,000.010.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1920-03-11

Perhaps Mr.. Bryan will need a
dry plank at San Francisco to en-.
able him to swim out Of the con
bention.-Columbi Record.
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
IS MAN IMMORTAL?
Continued From First Two Columns. }

old skin. You do not know just
what that pattern is, and so
your brain plays no part in the
operation.
"The entities live forever. You
cannot destroy them, just the
same as you cannot destroy mat
ter. You can change the form Of
matter; but of gold, iron, sui
phur, oxygen and so On, there
was the same quantity ia ex-
istencc in the beginning of this
world as there is today. We are
simply working the same supply
over and over again. True, we
change the combinations OF
these clements, but we have not
changed the relative quantities o.
each of the elements with which
we started. So with the life
entities, we cannot destroy them:
They are being used over and
over again, in different forms, to
be sure, but they arc always
the same entities.
"Now we come TO the matter
of personality. The reason why
YOU are Lescarboura and am
Edison is because We have diff
ferent swarms or groups or
whatever YOU wish to call them,
of entities. After eightv-two re-
markable SURGICAL operations the
medical world has conclusively
proved that the seat Of our per-
sonality is in that part OF the
brain known as the fold Of
Broca. Now II Is reasonable to
suppose that the directing en-
titles arc located in that part Of
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
One Spot Where Democracy and
Citizenship Are Absent
By BILL PRICE.

Millions of and women in democratic America
troop to the polls today TO register democracy choice Of
its rulers There will be only spot In this republic
where men and women not permitted this right
That spot is the District of Columbia the Capital of
that great nation the people really rule when they assert
themselves.
How few OF the enfranchsed who exercise their greatest
of their fellow and women in their own Capital are
less Americans than the inhabitants of Hawaii Porto Rico
the Philippines, Alaska!
To enjoy the right of suffrage, to realize democratic
freedom, many thousands of District residents maintain
voting residences in the States they FROM and return
to their former homes at considerable expense to deposit
their ballots If they enjoyed this privilege in Washington
As NE think of this deprivation of rights today, let US
renew the kht in Congress for Anericasation and
ranchiseent Let us get ready to 60 the top for
cause dear TO US ALL
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
.JAZz.

JAZZ.
Did any of these jazz critics hear
the nine-piece jazs orchestra that
played for the ball at Catholic Uni
versity? The boys were CLAUDE
NICHOLS. ivory ticker: TOMMY
HOPWOOD. jazz violinist;
LEFTY" TOwNE. southpaw banjoist;
KID DUFFY. slip horn artist;
SAILOR GIBSON. jazz cornet: MOUSE
LEWIS. skin pounder: JOHNNIE
ODONNELL, Kid Sax himself. also
playing a mean clarinet: WILLIAMS.
pipe artist, and F1X-EM VAN LOOCk,
doing tricks with his sax. Believe me.
there never will be any combination
to touch thcn. Among those present
was HORKE VINO. A FOUNDER.
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
q 5nEARD RDanSEEnA
THE HAPPY RETURN

Back with you again. folks a pleasure greater than the
vacation, which . most enjoyable
/ missed
Anyhow. had q good time. The "Spare
named him. delivered the goods and Joined mh the
fullest extent He thinks I've always thoughyou fin
lot Of cheer world you
Of column admittedly without the world No
wonder write affeconatey the
your heads busy thinking of choice things for IT,
You'll continue make the best and the best the
world because contributes happness dspes
lonesome and the
distressed. What finer thing do? For after
the sunshine brighten you sought
to carry il o another?
thousands of and happy you preach
the
golden It's the other fellow good you
do is beyond BILL.
The Washington times., 1920-11-02

our bodies. These entities, as Q
closely-knit ensemble, give Us
our mental impressions and our
personality.
81 have already said that what
we call death is simply the de-
parture of the entities from our
body. The whole question to my
way Of thinking Is what happens
to the master entities-those To-
Gated in the fold Of Broca. 1t is
fair to assume that the other en-
titles, those which have been do
ing purely routine work in our
body, disband and 60 off In vari-
Gus directions. seeking new work
to do. But how about those which
have been directing things in our
,body-those which are Lescar-
boura. Edison, Meadowcroft and
so on? Do they remain together
as an ensemble or do they also
break up and go about the uni
verse seeking new tasks as in
dividuals and MT as a collective
body2 IL they break up and set
out as individual entities, then 7
very much fear that our person.
atty does not survive. While the
life entities live forever thus Civ
ING US the eternal life which many
Of US hnpe fcr. this means little TO
YOU rnd me If, when We come to
'hat stpge known as death our
personality simply breaks. up into
separate units, which soon combine
with others to form new struc-
lures.
81 do hope that our personality
survives"
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
Is HE ENGAGEDs
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAN:
l have known a man for several years, and
have been going out with him quite often for
about one year. Now. Miss Fairfax, like this
man very much, and he has asked me to mar
ry him. but in about three or four years from
now. We are both quite young, and am per-
fectly willing to wait that long. He wants to
wait, because he wants to go into business for
himself and save UP to buy home. etc. Now
for the present he wants to caN two or three
times a week. He will not think Of getting
engaged. not that he hasn't the money to buy
ring, but he said he doesn't believe in en-
gagements at any time. My parents like him
also and they would gladly consent to our
engagement, but as said he thinks other
wise q. i.
Your letter is somewhat puzzlng You say
this man has asked you to marry him, and yet
he doesn't want to become engaged A, strange
circumstance. indeed! 1t would seem as though
he were engaged without knowing IL.
What he probably means Is that he doesn't
want anyone else to know of engagement
existing between you. or course, this Is n ques-
ton for Just you two to settle.
Three four years Is not long 10 wait for
the man you Iove--your life partner--especisl-
ly since you arc both young and his reason for
waiting so worthy a one.
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
MIR. B. Baer
Election Day.

This nation needs a conservati of natural
holidays. Halloween. the day OF pecans and
almonds. was allowed to step in and out W thout
candidate having been elected to the high
and dizzy office OF President.
Miller the peanut politician, is after the
goobernatorial honors.
Halloween and Election Day should have
been hyphenated and all the porch shillabers
nominated with the same nutcracker. A goober
is peanut Don't count the ballots. Count
the shells.
the candidates. The King OF Greece was bitten
by ring-taied baboon. He passed out and
they gave his crown to Paul.
The monkey should have grabbed that crown.
He won it in a fair fight
Some day the Society for the Printing of the
Truth on Tombstones will triumph The dowager
chmpanzees of royalty will be. recognized and
the monarchics of Europe compelled to pay
eight cocoanuts alimony to the Darwinian
theory.
On that day il will be dangerous for a candi-
date to stray off the porch. His party viii have
20 pay two dollars ransom to bail him out or
the public pound or nominate another candi-
date pro tenn.
rabbit in the dayt me. Mr.. Cox claims that his
opponent is an hereditary Republican. Both
parties grab their campaign funds at low tide
when the mud Is thckest and accuse each other
of having written their platforms In the full Of
the moon In this tender and fragile setting
the women are about to cast Their first vote
The men have run the country for 1f4 years
In that time they have won six wars and an in
come tax. After 144 years of alternate East
and Democratic famine, IA years of Republican
plepty and drought, the ladies' are about to
bring disorder out OF chaos by casting their
first vote in tho interest ~ good government
and other Grimm fairy tales.
II may do some good. But II is the consensus
Of b ased opinion that Daniel would never have
lived to tell the story II those lions had been
squirrels.
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
Is Man Immortal!
That Discussion Comes as Blessed Relief From the
League of Nations.

AL the League Of Nations nonsense by todays voting
viii be put safely and permanently In its little grave
Harding will be elected and Cox defeated 80 why not
Election Day discuss what is considerably important
than the name Of any candidate. THE nM0RTALlTY OF
NAN AND WHAT Is GOING TO HAPPEN TO HIM
WHEN He GETS THROUGH WITH THIS LITTLE
LEASE OF LIFE and the particular body, residence Of
his soul which he dresses he in the latest fash
ion, and feeds on the best Of food
Edison revived the immortality discussion by his efforts
to invent physical apparatus that will enable the soul
or spirit outside the body, to express ITSELF
Mr. Edison will not succeed with his physical apparatus
and barring miracles which not to happen In day.
barring also sincerely deceived fraudulent mediums there
win be talking by spirits outside Of bodies Force can
act ONLY THROUGH MATTER
Mr.. Edison's effort to supply a talking machine for
the spirits like somebody eses effort to ascertain the
and after DEATH valuable because they mako THINK
Of immortality, and make realize the Importance Of the
ONE great thing that we possess ETERNAL LIFE that
end that began that will take us forever
through universe that is unlimited through time, with
out beginning or end
The beginning of the discussion on immortality, ir
which we invite readers to join begins properl
with Mr. Edisons views You will notice that Mr. Edison
while he is making experiments retains his common sense
He does not say that THERE ARE spirits in another world
trying to talk but he says there any such he
will give them instrument delicate that their feeble
spirit breath much magnhed will be able to make their
existence clear.
First read some of Mr. Edison's common After
that write what you think and read you choose, the
observations that shall offer for your consideration
What follows is taken from an interview with Mr..
Edison written by Mr.. Lescarboura:
The Washington times., 1920-11-02

BELLADONNA wants to know If
H and s would like to print her
photograph. She says she's the
"only one in captivity" 1t takes lots
to amuse these bugs.
BELLA says this old limerick al
ways tickles her:
There was young girl from Pawtuckct
Had hustle as big ss y bucket;
She filled II with oats
And . tough billy goat
Came up behind her and took il.
drink a toast to /. NJ. TELLINYC.
He's clever. GENE.
The Washington times., 1920-11-02

mented with one substance after
another without ever becoming
discouraged in his search for the
filament Of the first successful in
candescent electric lamp, SO he has
searched and reasoned and built
up q structure which represents
his theories of what is life.
IL believe that life, like matter,
is indestructible," began Mr.. Edi-
son, in outlining his theory of life
and death. "There has always
been q certain amount Of life on
this world and there will always
be the same amount. You cannot
create life; you cannot destroy
life; you cannot multiply life.
II believe our bodies are COM
posed of myriads and myriads of
infintiesimal entities, each in it.
self a unit of life, which band to-
gether to build man. We have
taken it for granted that each Of
US is a unit. We think of a cat,
an elephant, a horse, a fish and
so on as units. / am convinced
that such thinking is basically
wrong. All these things appear to
be units only for the reason that
the life entities of which I speak
are far too small to be detected
even with the ultra microscope.
"The question has been raised
that II these life entities are so
small, they cannot be large enough
to include q collection Of organs
capable Of carrying on the tasks
which / am about to mention. Yet
why not? There is no limit to the
smailness Of things, just as there is
no limit as to the largeness. The
electron theory gives us a reply
which is wholly satisfactory. /
have had the matter roughly calcu-
lated and have at hand the data of
the calculation. | am sure that n
highly organized entity, consisting
Of millions of electrons vet still re-.
manning too small to be visible
through any existing microscope,
is possible.
There are many indications
that we human beings act as a
community rather than as units.
That is why l believe that each
Of US comprises millions upon
millions of entities, and that our
body and our mind represent
the vote or the voice, whichever
you wish to call it, of our en-
titles.
"Now let's see why we must
be composed Of life's entities.
Supposing you take q finger
print Of your thumb, in the con-
ventional manner of the police
records. Then burn your thumb
sufficiently to destroy the skin.
Do you know that after the new
skin has formed the finger print
Of your recovered thumb will be
precisely the same as the first
one! Yes, absolutely the same,
even down to the last line and
irregulority. I tried IL to make
sure. Here is a mystery which
has remained unanswered until
now.
"Of course. you say IL is ns.
ture. But what is nature! That
seems TO me to be such an evas-
i've reply. II means nothing. It is
just q subterfuge-a convenient
way Of shutting off further ques-
tioning by merely giving an
empty word for an answer. I
have never been satisfied with
that word nature Now my an
swer is that tho skin didn't han
pen to grow that way by acci-
dent. Someone had to plan the
new growth and to supervise IL
to make certain that it would
conform In every way with the
The Washington times., 1920-11-02
FROM The PUBLIC
TO the Editor of The Times

To the Editor OF The Times:
RHSs to m@d WHAT @ oS
babies they too are dying hundred ID, times ,u
of 1s 'hsrs the .
rss. to !" to and think
about 70; our orEsnzsrs Of forSGn funds 81
hs 1 fors n s
Of countless thousands suffering from the most
obnoxious Of all diseases .on,,,. 81. ,,ns.
for ten years, and have visited every health
in rSs the G rs uS aHs
spends some time in such places ,s especially the
about the hundreds OF poor unfortunates who
Journey across the continent With scarsely % more
to effect e quick cure: Penniisss and in they
60 bad S.snr 70 " no bed to
sass @sso yo%
by the profession in Belgium and France. AZ
usual the profession here treated the informa-
OF Columbia. declared he had discovered a
specific. The report will, no doubt. pass un-
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES:
Instead OF seven OF the months in a year being
81 days long four 80 days long and one IS days
. hours. As minutes and As seconds, it seems to
me it would be better IL each and every one of
the twelve months were 30 days, 10 hours, 20
minutes and seconds long. January would
then end at 20 minutes. seconds past 10 a. M.
what Ia now the 31st day or January. Feb
ruary would end at 0 minutes. 20 seconds past
} D. m, on what is now the I'd day of March.
March would end at 3S minutes, "a seconds past
1 a m. what is now the I'd day OF April.
April would end at minutes, 2S second past L.
p. m., on what Is now the I'd day of May. May
would end at 80 minutes, 80 seconds past 10
p. m.. on what Is now the LIST day OF June. June
would end at minutes, 36 seconds past a. m..
on what is now the I'd day of July. July Would
end "a minutes, 40 seconds past Z p. m. on what
is now the list day Of August. August would
end at . minutes, "a seconds past q a. m.
what Is now the 1st day OF September. Septem
Der would end at - minutes. As seconds past
y. m. on what is now the 1st day OF October.
October would end at I minute, 50 seconds past
3 a. M on what Is now the LIST day of Novem-
ber November would end at 10 minutes, Sc
seconds past p. m. on what is now the LIST
day of December. December would end as
usual, at IL o'clock midnight on the 3lst day
Of December. JOHN ANSCHUTz-
To the Editor of Tho Times.
Will you kindly tell me what right. If any
the Public Utilities Commission would have 10
enable the Washing cton Gas Light Company to
pay a.dividend OF per cent annually? Is not
q corporation organized on chance, or sup
position, that II will make money? 1f II fails,
what right has any legal body TO make prices
that will enable II to do 7 have seen
published figures that the said company paid
IL per cent last year, and IL is hard to UNDER
stand why II Is not satisfied