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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08
HERE is MORE ABOUT
TUGCLE MURDER
STARTS ON PAGE ONE

held yesterday morning and was large
~ attended.
Besides his mother, Mr.. Tuggle is
survived by three sisters, one of whom,
Miss Irene is a nurse at the Pensa-
cola Hospital A second sister lives
at home and third is married and
lives at Miami
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08
GTLFILLAN SCOTT

GILFILLAN SCOTT
London College Professor Of Piano Tehnc and Classical
Concert Panist Teachers and Beginners
Regular Weekly Five Dollars month. AT pupils resi-
dence at studio
Phone 791 THE PIANO SHOP ~ q w. Garden
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08
LOAN TO COTTON
GROWERS PLANNED

WASHINGTON, July "A loan of
five million dollars to the staple cotton
cooperative association, representing
eleven hundred producers of cotton in
Mississippi was agreed upon by the
war finance corporation today The
money will be furnished to care for
225,000 bales of long staple cotton of
the 1921 crop. and viii serve to carry
it for export.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08
RETAIL PRICES
OF FOOD DROP
(Rv The AssocIated Pres.

WASHINGTON, July THE retail
cost of food decreased two per cent
in Manchester, N. H, and Rochester
N. Y, between May Is and June Is,
while prices in Birmingham, Ala, De-
troit and Jacksonville, dropped one per
cent, and in Richmond, Va, one-tenth
of one per cent, according to figures
made public today by the department
of labor
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08

Be sure and see the
Kiwanis- Rotary Baseball
Game at Maxent Park
Tuesday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08

Experiments are being conducted in
Australia with mountain ash as the
best native wood from which to make
pulp for newspaper.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-08

steps are bing taken in England to
establish a permanent British organi-
zation for developing cotton growing
within the empire.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26

and the spiritual, is cause enough to
&c TO church..
An hour in the church may not
be as fascinating to some as an hour
in the movies" but entertainment
is not the idea. 1t is far more than
that. The sermon may not grip us
like some great tragedy, but it in
spires thought and directs attention
to the eternal values, something
which we dare not lose sight Of
Going TO church at least once on
Sunday is a good habit. An exam
nation into churchgoing would
show that those who 60 to church
the oftenest are those who seem to
enjoy churchgoing the most.
AS a darwing card, however,
short sermons are likely to fail. 1t
is a confession that the subject is
not worth the effort A thing is
worth just as much as is in it, or
car be got out Of it. When there
is real good sermon, no one counts
the time, but what is one persons
opinion of good sermon is not
always anothers. If the Church has
q message, and that is what the
Church claims to have, then the mes
sage must be delivered not SO much
for the comfort or the whim of tho
listener, but according to the value
Of the message and the time neces-
sary to deliver it in proper man.
uer
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
BACK TO PARENTAL AUTHORITY

Pastors and church official bodies
complain today of thu small attend.
ances upon church services, and Wis
ual observation confirms the ground
for their statement. The fact will
he admitted. as will also be con.
ceded the unsatisfactory and dis
quieting tendency which it repre-
sents. In an age when every day
brings new inducements to turn
aside from the more serious consid-
erations in life and indulge the
cravings for pleasure and diversion,
the need Is for increased and deep
Of attention to religious things, rath-
er than for any decrease. And this
need for increased activity makes
The tend sncy towards disregard for
:harch matters all the more grave.
We ind this also generally con-
cedei: those persons who were
started early In life to go to church
have continued to GO Those who
have known from their youth The
solemn obligation of church duties,
who have never known anything but
lc take an active part in church
matters since their childhood, WAC
have started, under the care of their
parents, to be regular attendants
upon services anu lend their every
aid III the work of the church, who
lave been kept at it INCREASINGLY
aud with whom this work has be-
come second nature which cannot
be denied.-these people have kept
10 their faith. And on the other
hand those who have not been
taught in their youth that the
church, whose field is that OF the
soul and whose ministrations are to
that side of life which looks beyond
the temporal, has right. solemn
right, to some Of the time OF every
lndiyidual.-these persons when
grown to manhood and womSuhood
have not felt the solemnity OF their
obligation as have those who were
made early in life to understand the
reality OF this side of life. And
onr conclusion Is that much Of the
difficulty lies with the parents to-
day who have been persuaded. by
UuG COuSloeIdtlOH OE tuCtNST, u pSt-
nit their children to wander away
from these customs. to let more
worldly, more selfish. more personal
interests become dominant in their
lives. The life Of the older days
was perhaps somewhat austere and
exacting and cold; but none will
deny that it taught manhood and
womanhood whose firm foundations
il: the faith. whose dependability
based upon fundamental though
rugged honesty and straightforward,
ness, and whose sincerity. taught
through contact with the stern real.
tiles, has never beer questioned. To-
Jay we wonder whether the Far.
ents in some cases have not lost
some OF their authority over their
children; We wonder whittier their
children have not been permitted to
follow more fully than in days gone
~ the promptings of their own
minds to play and pleasure; ami we
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE
OF WEST VIRGINIA
IN NEWS OF TODAY

r. NJ. Lambie, chief of the de-
partment of mines of West Virginia
underwent an operation for appendi-
cltis at a hospital at Oak Hill and
is doing nicely according to recent
reports.
j. Walter Barnes, treasurer of the
state board Of control made an ad.
dress at the school for welfare
workers being held at the West
Virginia University ysummer school
at Morgantown. He reports that
there are thirty students taking the
welfare course and that it appears
that there are thirty students TAX
ing the welfare course and that it
appears to be doing splendid work
James H. Stewart, commissioner
o. agriculture for West Virginia, Is
spending few days at Craig Heal
ing Springs.
Prof. L. X. Cavins. OF the West
Virginia university set forth at a
meeting of the Morgantown Rotary
club the result of survey recently
made at Philippi schools and de-
clared that scientific methods of
judging school work had succeeded
the old plan, which was nothing but
opinion, often prejudiced The sur
vey at Philippi led the ISSUANCE Of
bonds for g. new school building so
must have satisfied the people there,
he pointed out.
c. Ewbank Tucker, L. L. B.. OF
Montgomery, pastor Of the John
Wesley Methodist church states
with due emphasis that he is still
pastor of that church and declares
that under the ecclesiastical juris-
prudence of the Methodist Episcopal
church no one has the power to re-
move the incumbent of a parish ex-
cept the appointing power. which is
the presiding bishop OF the confer
ence"
DR.. J. Layton Mauze, a Hunting
ton minister, has been elected to
the Federal Council Commission OF
the International Justice and Good
will organization, which is very im-
portant nationally.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
Knockabout
Notes
A BIG CROWD

- Sfe WV
The crowd which thronged the
downtown section ON Saturday
night was unusually large, and was
the subject Of general comment by
both city people who have occasion
to be on the street during the rush
hours of Saturday nights and among
the country people for many Of
whom Saturday night is the only
night which sees them in the city.
One result OF the crowding was the
obvious necessity OF moving
the market to some side street
where It will not interfere
with the traffic on the main thor
oughfares; this necessity which will
he met within a short time by the
City through the removal of the
stalls to Burke street. The resident
merchants along the streets draw
sufficient crowds on Saturday nights
to fill the streets comfortably; and
the addition OF the market, now that
the city has grown SO large, only
cutters up the professions on the
sidewalks. The market wagon peo-
pie are also inclined to run their
wagons or shafts out farther Into
the street than is safe and neces-
sary, and automobile traffic is some
time impeded and at all times dan
gerous The prevention Of parking
along the street Is a wise provision,
but it has not solved the problem
entirely. and it will not be solved
until the market Is removed.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26

wonder whether there has not been
lost in this fact something OF that
fine old devotion to the church and
its activities.
Back 10 paternal authority. There
is much hope in the thought. Back
&c the days when parents took their
children to Sunday School,-when
they did not send them, as many do
now, and when some of the children
got there and some do not, and some
come late though started in time.
Back to the days when children
thought of nothing but obeying
their parents implicitly until they
had gained sufficient maturity TO
make their own judgments safe.
Back to the days when parents, ap-
preciating more fully than their
children the necessity OF preparing
in the present for the life Of the
future, took their children in hand
and led them to the sanctuaries;
when the parents, notwithstanding
perhaps some objections from their
children, took them during the i'm
questionable aga Of youth to church
and instilled in thoir hearts and
minds the habit, justified even
though it be created by parental au.
thority, of going to church. Hot
days. excursions, picrics, golf, anto-
mobiles. weekend trips, swimming,
baseball and the hundred other
things which have arisen to divert
attention from church and its rights
are, after all, ridiculuusly trivial in
the face OF what observance of re-
ligious duties means; and the par
ents who permit themselves or their
children to be fooled in this respect
are playing with fire.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
NO PROTECTION FOR DECENT
CITIZENS.

lTToW nc wheeling management
Incidents happen almost every
day to emphasize the fact that re-
spectacle citizens have no adequate
means of protection against hold-up
men and other criminals. In this
state and several others the carry
ing of weapons Is forbidden. One
result is that respectable citizens
do not carry them. Thugs Of all
kinds know this and take advantage
OF it. When respectable law
abiding man Is attacked on the
street or along the highway he has
no means Of defense, but the thug
always has a revolver. The result
is that many crimes are committed
successfully and many decent men
killed
One of the most recent cases of
the kind is reported from New
York. Much silk is transported be-
tween Philadelphia and New York
by motor trucks, and the robbing
Of these trucks, according to the
New York Herald, has become a
regular business. So perilous have
conditions become that the trucks
have adopted the system Of travel
ing in large fleets, like the caravans
crossing the desert. But" says the
Herald, "the truck fleets are really
in more perilous case than were the
camel caravans. The desert cara
vans and the pioneer wagon trains
were heavily armed. The crews of
the Philadelphia-New York truck
fleets must go unarmed or violate
the law"
The Herald then proceeds to state
that the highwaymen even watch
these big truck fleets, and IL one
truck gets separated from the rest
by an accident the criminals swoop
down, hold up the crew and take
the silk. One man operating a truck
line has expressed his determine.
ton to protect himself, law or no
law, and If necessary to make every
one Of his drivers walking arsenal.
He says it would be cheaper to pay
fines for all of them every trip than
to lose one truckload Of silk.
This is an astonishing state of
affairs in the present stage Of our
civilization. States and cities can
not afford adequate protection to ev-
erybody, because it is impossible
for them to keep a force of officers
large enough. Being unable to pro-
tect their citizens, the states are
bound by every consideration of
common sense and public policy to
let them protect themselves. 1t
should be possible for reputable cit
liens to get permits to carry arms
without being compelled to give a
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26

to be some room for doubt.
The Intelligencer regrets, and be-
lieves that the entire press of West
Virginia regrets, that the attention
Of the newspapers was not called in
this matter before instead Of after
Lutz was hanged. This paper is
for capial punishment for first de-
gree murder, because 1t firmly be-
lieves that the murder rate cannot
he kept down in any other way but
it assuredly Is not for the execution
of any man whose homicide is less
than first degree.
According to Mr.. Holt, Lutz was
arrested as a bootlegger and search
ed without a warrant. Discovering
that the officer did not have war
rant, he refused to go any further
Then, Mr.. Holt says, the officer
struck him with his mace and Lutz
in the course Of the fight, shot the
officer dead. He also states that
when the case was taken to the
supreme court the second time, aft
er the court had once granted a
writ OF error, Lutz did not have
money to obtain copy Of the evil
6ence to present to the court and
that owing to this the supreme
court said, 1--WE reluctantly affirm
the judgment"
Why was all this kept from the
public while LutZ was in the peni-
Tertiary awaiting execution? This
paper and probably every other pa
per in West Virginia would have
given publicity to statements of this
sort at any time before Lutz was
hanged. The press is not thirsting
for blood, and is even more willing
to help save the innocent than to
help send the guilty to the gallows.
Early last week statewide publicity
for such statement might have
done some good. But it was given
to this paper Friday night, after
Lutz was dead, to be published Sat
urday morning.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
cHURcHGOING AND SERMONS.
From the Charleston Mail.)

Why go to church? Or, to put 1t
the other way, why not go to
church? This question has aroused
the interest Of some persons, and
one person in an exchange has at
tempted to answer it, partly. This
answer Is that "the spirit is willing
but the flesh is weak" The will of
the spirit is overcome by the weak.
Then this excuse is set up: IF
the ministers would deliver shorter
sermons and sometimes even short
err prayers, possibly more would at
tend, and at least those who do
would enjoy the service more"
Probably some sermons are too
long, but in these days long SER
mons ars rather the exception than
the rule. 1t Is true that we have
not the staying qualities Of some of
our ancestors, especially OF those
who listened to that sermon by one
OF the Puritan preachers who talked
for some twenty-four hours-if any
one ever heard that sermon all the
way through
The general run of sermons must
needs be more or less prosaic. That
thing which was good news" to the
early Christians may be just as good
today as then. but it has lost a
zest which can never return. At
the same time 1t should not be de,
void of interest. The average preach.
er who takes a months vacation ev.
cry year breaches about So sermons
in the course Of a year. All are
on the same general topic. In each
sermon there is bound TO be much
that one has heard before.
But does one 80 to church to be
Why do we read the
favorite books over and over again
Why does Shakespeare charm us
as much at three-score as when we
first made his acquaintance in high
school? Because Shakespeare is
Shakespeare, The "Old, Old Story"
also is never old Simply because
one feels the neel Of having the
mind withdrawn from the material
things Of earth toward the heavenly
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
Martinsbur@
In The Past
Taken from the s!Ies of The
IournaO,
TEN YEARS AGO.

TEN YEARS AGO.
Harry Lord narrowly escapes in.
jury, but John Remashe Is badly
hurt, when train No. strikes their
buggy at Flaggs Crossing.
Captain S. B. Aver. Of Grafton,
transferred to Hannis distillery as
guager.
William Fl. Balous. rs, dies at
pikeside.
FIVE YEARS AGO.
Baseball leaders plan Dollar Day
for Saturday. July 80.
Citizens Of boom hold second
meeting at Mason Schoolhouse and
demand that some action be taken
to give their children better edu-
cational facilities.
William E. Outcalt. 10. well
known citizen, dies at Middleway.
ONE YEAR AGO.
Farewell meeting held at Saliva.
ton Army headquarters in honor of
Brigadier Escott who is leaving dis.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
LOOK TO LEFT At CURB
AND CROSS STREET SAFELY

Nine-tenths of all accidents to
pedestrians on our streets would
never happen IL every person would
observe this one perfectly simple
rule:
when you start across the street
look to the left and when you reach
the middle of the street, look to the
right" Why? Because when you
start, all traffic is coming from your
left-and after you pass the center
it is coming from your right.
Why do people violate this rule?
Because they take a chance.
Because their minds are on
something else.
Because they are too young and
not responsible.
Because they don't know.
Because they don't care.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
Is The City Automobile Tax Legal
And Enforce able?
Martinsburg, w. Va,
July 25, 1921.


July 25, 1921.
To The Editor,
The Martinsburg Evening Journal,
Dear Sir:-There being a serious
doubt in the minds of a goodly num-
Der of our citizens as to the legal
ity and consequent ability of the
City to enforce payment of the city
automobile license tax due and
payable Aug. /, 1921, it seems prop
er that any light that can be thrown
on this matter at this time or any
discussion that will tend to throw
ON the City the burden Of proof of
this right to tax automobiles, is in
good form.
The great majority of the citizens
of any community are law abiding
but when it comes to arbitrary de-
mands upon them for payment of
cash, they are from Missouri, they
want to be shown.
Prior to 1919, the regular license
tax statute of our State carried an
automobile provision and what is
now generally considered as a state
automobile license, was definite
license tax then, but the Legislature
of 1919 dropped the automobile pro-
vision from the license tax statute
when Section / thereof was amend
ed and reenacted by Chapter 102 of
the Legislature of 1919. The same
provision was omitted from Chapter
109, acts Of the Legislature, 1921.
Section 80 of the present law
classes the fees paid to the state for
operation Of automobiles as 'Regi-
stration Fees" and the plates furn-
ished owners as Registration
Plates" NOT LICENSE PLATES.
1t is evident, therefore, that the
Legislature has definitely separated
the automobile provision from our
license tax statute and that our au-
tomobile registration fees are not
taxes imposed by the State, nor
have they been since 1919, and the
City's claim that our charter pro-
vides for tax on anything that the
State taxes, does not apply to auto
mobiles, nor did it Apply to license
fees collected last year.
In support of the contentious
MADE ABOVE, append hereto, let
ter received from Mr. c. f. Mccoy,
Chief, Automobile Bureau, State
Road Commission, also one received
from the same office by Mr.. Ira
Kyle and other letters can be pro-
cured from other citizens.
The citations of statutes above
referred to are from an opinion of
the Attorney-General under date Of
July II. 1921, copy Of which l
hold. Yours very truly
LEONARD l.. SCOTT.
Charleston. w Va.
July 13, 1921.
Mr.. Leonard L. Scott,
Martinsburg, w. Va.
Dear Sir:-In reply to your favor
Of the 18th inst, relative to the
City Council of Martinsburg requir-
ing owners of cars to take out city
license:
Under the Act of 1917, Chapter
66, Sections 1914, the City has the
right to impose a special tax on
commercial cars operated within
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
COMMUNICATION.

We invite communications
from our readers with the I'M
derstanding that they will be
published only when permission
Is given to publish the authors
name. No anonymous communi.
cations will be published In these
columns.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26
COMMENT over
west VIRGINIA
TOO LATE.

TOO LATE.
(Frcm the Wheeling intelIisencer.)
Jacob Lutz is dead. Ils has paid
the supreme penalty for the killing
of former Chief of Police Phillips,
of Grafton, and no human action,
legal or otherwise, can restore him
to life. Possibly this man was just
for sapital punishment for first de-
which this paper does not presume
to Judge. but in view of the state
ment given out by Attorney ]. How
ard Holt Tor publication the day
after the execution, there appears
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26

court some specific cause. The con-
stitution Of the United States says,
"the right Of the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed."
By their prohibitory laws, several
of the states appear to have infring-
ed this right seriously.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-26

CITY limits. Under the new Act 70
ing into effect January LIST. the At
torney General has ruled that .
municipality will not have the pow
er to impose special tax unless 1t
is stipulated in the City Charter.
Enclosed herewith is a copy of the
Attorney Generals letter relative to
the right OF cities to impose a spec
ial tax on vehicles. You will find
the letter self-explanatory.
Very truly yours.
G. e. MCCOY,
Chief Automobile Bureoa
State Road Commission.
Charleston, w. Va,
July IA, 1921.
Mr.. Ira F. Kyle,
935 North Queen ST.,
Martinsburg, w. Va
Dear Strive desire to acknowl-
edge receipt of your letter OF the
18th instant, in which you call our
attention to the different kinds Of
licenses required to be paid on mo-
tor vehicles In Berkeley County.
Your regular State license under
the 1917 Act is the only tax requir-
ed Of you operating a pleasure w.
hicle. II, however, II Is q taxi or
truck used commercially wholly
within its corporate limits. the mum
icipality can collect special privi--
lege tax for all such cars.
We are enclosing a recent opin.
ion Of the Attorney General relatiye
to this matter which is self explana.
tory. Yours very truly,
G. e. MCCOY,
Chief OF Automobile Bureau
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trfct.
E. G. Hibbs, county agent, G. A..
Smith and others of Brooke coun.
ty, W. Va, arrive here to spend
several days studying Berkeley
county orchards.
Azhar Temple No. 226, Dramatic
Order Knights OF Khorassan, pre-
pares for ceremonial on September
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s. Z. r. M.acGI.I.
Creator Of tns lian-Hegl:s :
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