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Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

their pitiful earnings all through the
year in order to make this trip and
receive the blessing of Russian priests
In Jerusalem.
When they reach the Via Dolorosa
or Road of Sorrows, that threads its
way like white ribbon between the
city bulwarks and the dusty hlllssof the
Mount of Olives, they pause and Shout
their hosannas, for was 1t not over
this very road which Christ passed on
his way to Gethsemane?
While Holy week with its ,holy fire
and other big celebrations is mem
orable, occasion to them, frequently
the one event of their lifetime, 1t is
the visit to the River Jordan that is
marked ON the calendar Of their days
ever thereafter. While the men are
being baptized in the holy waters, the
women roll their skirts to their knees,
remove their shoes and stockings and
wade in the mud along the Shore, ea-
ger for contact with the river which
is bound to wash away their sins.
When all the men have been i'm
mersed the women take their turn the
Russian priests officiating the same as
for the men folk.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
CONSOLIDATION
OF ROADS ASKED
STOCKHOLDERS OF RAILROADS
WOULD MERGE ALL TRANS
PoRTATloN LINES.
ASK U. S. SUPERVISION
PLANS TO SOLVE OPERATION Ex.
PENsEs AND ADJUST RAIL
PROBLEMS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Washington, March 21.-Co-ordlna-
tion of the facilities and service of
the railroads under strict government
supervision is proposed by the nation
al association of owners of railway
securities as a way out of the trans
pOrtation crisis.
The plan has been submitted to
Chairman Cummins of the Senate in.
terstate commerce committee, and S
Davies Warfield, president of the as
socation, announced representatives
of his organization would appear
later before the committee.
Mr.. Warfield says that the plan will
save millions of dollars annually, in.
crease facilities and service and lower
fares and rates. He adds that Amerl-
can transportation has outgrown its
present system and warns that the
railways must recognize that only
drastic measures will save them from
being swallowed up in the demoraliza'
tion that government operation and
after-war adjustment has brought"
"Unless intensive economical meth
ods in administration are adopted" he
continues, there is no alternative but
government operation, followed by
government ownership, although the
country has given evidence of being
opposed to it,"
The proposed plan is supplemental
to provisions of the transportation act
permitting regional consolidation of
physical properties by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The proposed coordination would be
brought about through a national rail-
way service, to be organized by an act
of Congress, and which also would be
an agency to purchase equipment to
be furnished the railways without
profit.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
who would constitute the service divi-
sion. This division would have super
vision and initiatory and regulatory
powers TO be exercised through ths
board of the national railway service.
The board would be composed of
forty members, subdivided into two di-
vlsions-finance and administrative
and railway officials of twenty mem
bers each.
Subordinate to the board would be
four group railway boards, one in each
of the four rate erritorles-eastern,
southern, western and mOuntain-Paci-
fic Each board would have seven
members, five to be selected by the
railways and two from the shippers.
The twenty railway officials serv-
ing on these four boards would serve
as the railway officials division of
the national board
Cooperating with the group board
would be ten committees, each select
ed from the railways Of each group.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
=, In Conclusion.

dat hoss was so Slow" glowered
Rastus over the remains of the unfor-
tunate equine that had just lost a
race over a railroad crossing, 'he was
so slow dey amt no hoss In de world
go slower.
de Judgment day and st. Pc
terll say, All yo' dead men come
forth Den dey'll all come forth. Den
he'll say, All yo' dead ladies come
forth Finly he'll say, All yo' dead
horses come forth
"And jes' fo' spite dat hoss he'll
come fifth !''-American Legion Week
ly.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Whitman Sought by Collectors.

Walt Whitman's manuscripts and
first editions are now bringing high re-
turns to the rare book dealers. Ga
briel Wells, the dealer in fine books,
has sold the manuscript of the poem,
"'After All Not to Create Only" for
$500. The latter half of the poem is
written on the reverse side of the sta
tionery of the United States treasury
department, in which Whitman was a
clerk at the time. Commenting upon
the value of first editions of Leaves Of
Grass" Mr.. Wells says that they have
doubled in value during the last five
years.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
CLEANSED FROM
SIN in JORDAN
Thousands of Russian Pilgrims
Battle in the River at
Eastertide.

Jews are not the only people who
regard the Holy city as their Mecca.
Every year little before Easter a
long line of Russian pilgrims may be
seen tramping their way from Jaffa,
where they left their steamer, bound
for Jerusalem. During Holy week the
city is filed to overfiowing with these
peasants who participate in the vari-
GUS ceremonies, afterward travelling
to the River Jordan to bathe In its
cleansing waters in the firm belief
that they will be washed Of their sins.
1t is curious sight to watch these
pilgrims from the time they leave the
boat at Jaffa until they finally reach
the Holy city. Young men and women,
old men and women have boarded
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

had occasion to take It again as have
been so well. / have q six room fiat
and do all my work. My two sisters
are taking the Compound upon my rec
ommendation and you may publish my
letter. It is the gospel truth and l will
write to any one who wants personal
letter. Mrs, E. H. HAYDoCK, 1924
st. Lawrence Avenue, Chicago Illinois.
Because Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound saved Mrs. Haydock
from an operation we cannot claim that
all operations may be avoided by it,
but many women have escaped oper-
sations by the timely use Of this old fash
ioned root and herb medicine.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Freed From
Torture
EafOnic Cleared His
Unset Stomach

"The people who have seen. me suf-
fer tortures from neuralgia brought on
by an upset stomach now see me per-
fectly sound and well-absolutely due
to Eatonic," writes r. Long.
Profit by Mr.. Longs experience, keep
your stomach in healthy condition,
fresh and cool, and avoid the ailments
that come from an acid condition.
Eatonic brings relief, by taking up and
carrying out the excess acidity and
gases-does 1t quickly. Take an Eatonic
after eating and see how wonderfully
1t helps you. Big box costs8only q
trife with your druggists guarantee.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Debs Calls of Pickets.

Atlanta, Ga.-Eugene V. Debs, So
cialist leader, has halted the plans OF
Socialists to picket the White House
in an effort to attract attention to
their demands that he be released
from the Atlanta federal penitentiary,
his attorney, Samuel NJ. Castleton, an
nounced here. A nationwide cam
paign to obtain Debs' release will be
undertaken, however, the attorney
said.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Dawson AntIeIpatLnu Rush.

Dawson, Y. T.-Dawson is antlcipat-
Ing the busiest season in many years,
with the first indication of the spring
rush to the gold and silver fields of
the valley. Many Of the old timers, un-
able to secure work outside, are re-
turning and many newcomers are ar
irving on the stages and even on foot.
Work has been started on a machine
shop, where fifty men will be EN-
ployed turning out dredgcs for the up
per dominion, Gold Run creek and the
Kondike valley.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
''CoId In the Head,'

10 an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh
Those subject to frequent ''colds in the
head" will find that the use OF HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the
System, cleanse the Blood and render
them less liable to colds. Repeated at
tacksr of Acute Catarrh may lead to
Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is
taken internally and acts through the
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys-
tenn, thus reducing the Inflammation and
restoring normal conditions.
All Druggists Circulars free.
f. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

.t is lucky to receive an unexpected
gift of an Eastern egg.
1t is bad luck to paint a cross OF
Easter eggs and good luck to pain.
flowers on them.
A tiny lamb or rabbit presented
you on Easter Sunday insures you
good luck for the rest Of the year.
1t is said to insure luck for the rest
of the year If you wear a sprig of
green on your clothes on Easter day.
If you were born on Easter day, you
are the luckiest child Of all and In
addition you brought good luck to your
parents.
The custom Of wearing a new bon,
net on Easter day began in England
centuries back, as it was. supposed to
bring good luck.
1t brings good luck to a house, II
is said, If friend brings an infant
into the house for the first time on
Easter morning.
1t is an Irish superstition that the
sun dances for joy on Easter morn.
"It gave three skips just as it came
over the hill, for l saw 1t with my
own eyes," said an Irish woman.
Did you ever wonder at the origin
of the .egg-rolling custom on Easter
day? 1t used to be practlced with
the idea that the farm lands over
which the eggs were rolled would ne
sure to yield abundantly at harvest
time.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
lmmovable Eez.

The director Of indigenous arts in
Fee, Morocco, told me that he had re-
Gently come upon a book written in
the fourteenth century and describing
Fez ass IT was at that time. The direc-
tor compared the statements in the
book, item for item, with Fez as 1t is
today-and found the book to be per-
fectly up-to-date. Reprint it and it
would pass very well as a modern ac-
count of present-day Fez. The people
of Fez are still doing things just as
they did them in medieval times
Willard Price in Christian Herald.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
uns and Downs.

A New York publisher was discuss
ing the brilliant and daring Margot AS
quith, the British ex-premier's wife,
II once heard Mrs. Asquith," he
Said describe a great lady5killer at a
London iinner-party.
"'He told me- she said, that he
played women exactly as you play fish.
Only, he added, III the one case you
angle to make them rise, and in the
other to make them fall'"
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Turks and Ducks.

Janet, a four-year-old, was getting
up one morning recently when she
fired this question at her mother:
Where is my old sweater, mother"
why, you sent it to the little
Armenians," said her mother.e
swell, why don't they send it back?
Didn't the ducks kill all the Armen-
ians?" came back Janet.
She had heard about the Turkish
outrages in the near east, but evil
IDENTIFY thought the Turks were
species Of barnyard fowl, which in
her youthful mind easily became con-
fused with the duck.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Int EXPLOSION In Detroit.

Detroit, Mich.-Two men were per-
haps fatally wounded and fourteen
others injured by an explosion of a
quantity of supposed T N T in the rear
Of a store here. Felix Jakulouskl had
taken five-gallon can from the store
and poured the contents on the ground
He is believed to have touched a
match to it. He was blown thirty feet.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Blazing Rats Set Fire.

Rockdale, Texas. - Ablaze from
flames caused by an exploded gasoline
tank, rats ran from the barn of II. G.
Sanders, farmer, and dashed into a
cotton storage warehouse containing
ten bales of cotton, setting 1t afire.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
TumuIty to Practice Law.

Observation-Disclosures of part
nership between Joseph p. Tumulty
secretary to former President Wilson,
and Representative Randolph Perkins
Of New Jersey has been formed for the
general practice of law in New Jersey.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

STORIES AND FACTS OF ALASKA-Infor-
nation OF ALASKA'S vast resources. of gold
mines, farming, valleys reindeer and fox
farming, hunting and trapping, oil and coal
fields; wages paid to men and women and
cost of living. Government railroad nearly
completed guide into and all through
ALASKA. The different routes, cost of
round trip; stories of life in the mines and
on farm. Large book. rs Illustrations This
book will be mailed to you, price $3.50 COD
You see the book before paying for it, L. ].
FRANKLIN, 1880 w. Congress ST., Chicago.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

naQ IOur OOcCOrS DuC
none of them did me
any good. They all
said ! would have to
have an operation.
A druggist s wife
toldme to take Lydie
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound end
i took % bottles,
never missing a dose
and attheendof that
time / was perfectly
well. II have never
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

two bottles of the medicine / was eli.
tirely we'll 1t is surely fine. miss
B. G. LEINHARDT, 772 Seneca st.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
contains no alcohol or narcotic. Sold
by all druggists In liquid or tablets
Send 10c to Dr. Pierce's Invalids'
Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. for trial pkg.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
cutleura for PimpIy Faces.

To remove pimples and blackheads
smear them with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash Off In five minutes with Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water. Once clear
keep your skin clear by using them for
daily toilet purposes. Don't fail to in
clude Cuticnra Talcum.-Adv.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
A Mistake.

sour pretty neighbor must be very
much in love with her husband. j
heard her the other day say she was
going to do her best to make her Bill
ly's life happy"
"Billy's not her husband; he's her
poodle" ,7
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
Provided for Cats BY win.

Cats and education shared the con-
cern of the tegtator in the will of Abba
Goold Woolson, lecturer and edcuator,
which was filed for probate at Port
land, Maine, The will creates fund
for the care OF sick and disabled cats,
one specification being that such care
shall include the combing of the hair
of coon kittens, breed of felines
famous In Maine.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
MRS. HAYDOCK
SAVED FROM
AN OPERATION
Followed Advice of Her
Druggists Wife and Took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Chicago, ILL.," was in bed with
female. trouble and Inflammation and
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

The time we save by hasty decisions
is lost in undoing the harm accom-
pIished thereby.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25
ASPIRIN.
Name ''Bayer" on Genuine

Warning! Unless you see the name
"Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin epre-
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer
package for Colds, Headache, Neural
gia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache,
Lumbago aad for Pain. Handy tin
boxes of Gwelve Bayer Tablets of AS
pirin cost: few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoaceticacidester of Salicycacid.-
Adv.
Taiban Valley news., 1921-03-25

Leavenworth, Kans.-T
was all rundown from q
complication of diseases.
My next door neighbor rec
commended DR.. Pierce's Fa-
v-orite Prescription be-
cause she had taken it
with fine results. / decided
- 49, "A .l oek1 4o1-,s
The Washington herald., 1921-07-31
Most Enjoyable.
ORD NORTHcLIFFE had tn

ORD NORTHCLIFFE had the time of his
IL young, sweet life during his visit in Wash
ngton. In London all that occurred here would
have' been but part of days activities But this
was the first time he had been in action in this
country; it had the novelty of new stage and a
new audience in the pit close to the stage That he
thoroughly enjoyed the two-day engagement with
four performances goes with the saying.
AS the last seven years since August, 1914 have
gone with him, this not major affair and, save
as His Majesty, King George, was made to appear
involved it was with him, usual. 1t could hardly
be compared to those days when he criticised Lord
Kitchener, the idol of the British and forced the use
of explosive shells, over shrapnel, and a remodel
ling of artillery offense and defense. 1t was but
an episode compared to his dethronement of Asquith
and exaltation of Lloyd George But it had its
unique features.
That Lord Northclife ever made public any
conversation with the King, trained newspaper
man will for minute credit. Unless with the dis
tinct permission of His Majesty, this would be so
gross betrayal Of confidence, that not even a cub
reporter would be guilty of it. What the King may
say never comes second-handed. If Lloyd George
had been familiar with the hard and fast rules of
the press he is with statecraft, he would not
have made the charge.
That orders from London Northclife was
socially snubbed here by the British representatives
is not their fault. 1t was something in which they
had part other than of agency The act was that
of Downing Street. The United States is accused
of "shrtseeve' diplomacy, but it has reached
such proportions of baseness. No American official
declined TO meet his lordship and really it would
not have been half interesting, and but repeti-
tion to have been entertained at British Embassy
1t all broke the monotony of what otherwise
would have been routine and there is nothing more
dstssteful and rksome to newspaper man than
routine. 1t s-when real news breaks when sensa-
tion or near-sensation flashes the horizon that
he becomes alert, is happy, thrills with the zest of
his vocation and takes plunge into real bliss So
it with Lord Northclife. He may have cabled
his thanks to his home government for making this
quite the most congenial to his temperament of his
twenty-odd visits to National Capital.
The Washington herald., 1921-07-31
Pellagra.

WHEAT is pelagra? No one knows What
w is its origin? AS to this expert opinion
differs. 1t is held by the result of un-
wholesome contaminated food; by others as
caused by badly balanced food ration; by others
as coming from overcrowding and bad sanitation or
filth 1t is said to be infectious and not infectious
An experiment, however, in one of the worst CEN
ters of this disease, reduced the number of cases
from scores to one, by installing sewerage sys-
tenn and general cleanliness.
That such disease should increase in such
summer as this, is not surprising. Conditions have
been such as to accentuate whatever ailments NAV
come from dirt poor food, lack of food variety and
insantary habits This is what has occurred in the
South, but the condition has been greatly exag-
gerated and the misnamed.
1t made corking good story of the sensational
Order to tell that 100000 people of the South were
starving and that the resultant death rate was 10
per cent 1t was as charming horror as could we'll
have been conceived. The President promptly
ordered an Investigation and relief. The Southern
States authorities promptly issued statements in
denial An increase in pellagra cases is admitted
but that it is beyond State care and control is
denied.
From out of the haze of assertion and con-
tradicton however, pokes the plain fact that there
is no adequate excuse for any pellagra save the
occasional 1t is preventable according to the
elusive demonstration. No one could seriously be-
lieve it was result of starvation So widespread
condition of actual hunger would not be possible
anywhere in this country.
But the investigation should be made and should
be made conclusive There is sufficient cause in
this day for the persistence of any disease that has
its origin in bad sanitation. The States all have
the power to prevent this. In the Northern woods
smapox-another disease of filth orgin-was as
regular in its appearance spring, until the health
authorities cleaned up the lumber camps and the
mining camps. Now it is as rare as it formerly
was common.
Sanitation is not only the best and surest of
disease preventives, but it changes the whole atti-
tude of people. 1t brings alertness industry self
respect initiative thrift and sefreliance 1t changes
the mental attitude, and foresight will insure against
hunger with any people whose habits are cleanly
whose surroundings are wholesome and whose COM
munities have adequate sanitary protection
The Washington herald., 1921-07-31

cation of iterates with more or less thoroughness
Some have undertaken it systematically and with
a definite program which would serve model
But usually this is in States where there is least
need.
The condition is national The remedy must
be the same. The present Bureau of Education is
wholly inadequate to the demand which does1 not
require special appropriations, but special guidance
There should be careful survey made in each
State by localities and industries Upon this should
/be based a program according to localities for a
system of Amercanization through continuation
schools and night schools The practical working
models are now in operation and known.
Complete publicity of conditions will induce the
States to- adopt any needed legislation. Probably
the only national legislation needed beyond creating
the department is to have naturalization upon lit
eracy test now required in localities and equal
at least to sixth grade school requirements. The
foreigner who has to work for citizenship appre-
ciates it. When he she to citizenship from
illiteracy by having gained working knowledge
of our language and institutions they come with a
new vision and pride of attainment. More
over, this requirement of itself would bring in the
States system of night schools in every day school
district with vocational training well as class
work, resulting in far higher labor efficiency and
greater earning ability
The Washington herald., 1921-07-31

asked the conductor for Is cents
worth of tickets and nc gave me
81. After the strike / rode from
the gate at Washington Barracks
to Ninth and G. streets with the car
loaded and there was only 65 cents
rung- up. Another assaulted "A lady
in broad daylight at Mount Rainier.
They were all alike.
Now one or two more points that
seems to have been lost sight of
The Public Utility Commission set
the rate of faare for the street cars
in 1920. Not long ago 1 saw in the
papers that they had notified the
company that they had been charg-
ing too much fare since either
March or November, 1920. Now.
again. the G. T. road will carry you
from the Georgetown car barns to
the Navy Yard or Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge for one fare, over
five miles. II will carry you from
Chevy Chase Circle to any point in
the city, or about seven miles. for
one fare. Has the W. II. e. +. a
longer haul? Mr.. Ham complains of
his long haul yet he charges one
fare from Mount Rainier to River
dale, supposed to be 2k miles; one
" AtIA bf
supposed to be az miles, six miles
from Mount Rainier to Berwyn for
double the fare that the c. T. will
carry you seven miles. 1t is lSA
miles from the old B. & o. r. r.
depot to Laurel From Mount Rain
ier TO Laurel approximately fifteen
miles with six zones. or IS cents
fare. How about it. Mr.. Ham?
Now just a few questions: Where
does it appear in the Constitution
of the United States that the gov
ernment shall guarantee any one
certain percent on money invest
ed? Why should the public riding
on the W. r. & E. pay more than
those riding on the c. T, as some
have suggested? Why should we
pay to keep up a railroad that in
my opinion is mismanaged as the
W. r. & z. Is and whose officers
apparently do not know any more
about running than I do about be-
ing an envoy to China?
1 think we had better tell Mr..
Ham what Mr.. Bergdoll told Mayor
Campbell. There is lots more 1
would like to say but fear I have
taken up too much space now.
HARRY S. CRAWFORD.
Box 402 Riverdale.