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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

third, the purchasing power of the
American people has been so great
" enhanced by the prevailing pros
perity that they have been buying
larger amounts Of imported goods,
In other words, the protective policy
has not injured, but it has added
foreign nations in securing better
markets here, and that without I'M
due handicaps to American produc-
ers. Notwithstanding these facts,
our exports have increased $306,000,-
600 comparing the period October /,
1922, to April so 1923, with the cor
responding period under the Demo-
cratic tariff law, OF from $2,1l0,000-
600 to S2,al6,o00,000.
The Fordney MeCun,her tariff law
took over a year to perfect, but it
was so scientifically adjusted as to
be the lowest tariff law ever framed
consistent with the protective policy,
it protects our industries and agri-
culture, and it affords greater en-
enlargement to the exchange of COM
modities than any tariff law ever en-
acted. 1t has utterly stumped the
Democratic party, which is now
comhing the field for some other
political issue.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
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Gold In the Head

rs an acute attack of Nasal Catarsh.
Those subject 10 frequent colds a.
the head" will find that the use ef
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE viii
buiid up the System, cleanse the Blood
and rsnder them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh
may lead to Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is
taken Internally and acts through tae
Blood On the Mucous Surfaces Of the
lsyssaRs thus reducing the infamraa-
Nm Snd restoring normal conditions
An 6FuogfstS. Circulars free
p. y. 6nsaay D Co.. Feledo Ohio.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
BALANCE TURNS -
DEMOCRATS DUMFOuNDED

Washington, May 21.-(Special
correspondence - AS predicted by
the Republican Publicity Association
a month ago, the official trade
statistics show that the balance Of
international merchandise trade
turned against the United States in
March. The trade for March show
imports s4O2 100000 Department
estimated, exports $34s 100000
Checked upl, balance against us SOL
oOO, 600
The Association estimated that
imports for March would be about
1857, 10000 The estimate Of the
Department a month later, and with
most of the figures before it, in
creases this figure by less than 4
per cent. The Associations estimate
would have been closer to the final
figures had it taken as its basis the
average ad valorem Z tie of duty on
al Imports fos the entire period
September %, 1922, to February rs,
1928, but desiring not to over esti-
mate the organization erred slightly
on the side of conservatism by APP
plying to March imports the highest
monthly rate which had occurred UNI
der the new tariff namely, about 16
per cent.
And here the layman may be let
in OH little secret with respect to
forecasting imports: The Treasury
Department generally reports with
in two or three days after the end
of each month the customs revenues
received for the month just ended.
If those revenues are divided by the
average rate of duty for previous
months the value of total imports for
the month in question will be closely
Appropriated. That value is not
officially made public by the De-
partment of Commerce for some
weeks after the close of the month in
question due to the difficulty of
compiling and checking up reports
from the various ports of entry. For
example, the Treasury Department
reports April customs duties at sos
100000. The average ad valorem
prior to April, under the Fordney-Mc
Cumber law, has been something like
| Is per cent. Dividing that into the
customs revenues and we have $685.
500 900 as the estimate of imports
for April, which will probably be
found pretty close to the actual inn
ports when the official report is
made some time in June. This again
woul dindicate that the balance for
April was against US, since the De-
partment's estimate of exports is
$341 100000.
But there is little to worry about
with respect to this turning balance.
AS stated by the Association in its
advance reveiw of March trade, it is
due to three causes: first we are inn
porting greatly increased qualities of
crude products because our mills are
running at near capacity, most of
them prevented from full capacity
operation only by the scarcity of la
Dor; second, bhe domestic demand
for goods is so great that our pro-
ducers, in their endeavor to meet
home needs first, have either eased
up in the struggle for foreign mar
kets, or have found it increasingly
difficult to secure exportable surplus
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
$4,000 Paid Fer Bull.

West Chester Pa. Many high
prices were secured for sblooded
cattle at the sale of the National
Guernsey Breeders Association, held
at Devon. The highest priced animal
was bull, Langwater Valor for which
John G. Penny, of New York state,
paid $4,000. The next highest was a
cow, Jeanette, Of the Prairie, $4,000.
She was grand champion at the Ma
tional Dairy Show. Her new owner
is Mrs. Harry Haskell, Of Cossart,
this county.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
SOME FACTS ABOUT FORD
REPAIR

The four most frequent and ex-
pensive repairs are the result OF
Jumping, Jerking, Earring, Starting,
and Stopping. Practically all caus-
ed by GATHERING BANDS, and
can be prevented by correct trans
mission fabrication. Obtained with
FLEXO MOTOR OIL.
Sold at HOLBERT'S GARAGE
5-17-6t Pd. Belington
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
TO THE OUTGOING CLASS OF
BELINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

4
Have you who are being gradual
ed from high school this year given
thought to what the future holds in
store for you? Will you so out in
to the world as a high school gradu-
ate or as college man or woman?
Now is the time for you to decide
Have you given thought to the
prestige granted to the man or wo-
man who holds college degree?
The salaries paid them? Aside from
this have you considered the pleas
ures Of college life and the friend
ships formed?
You who are West virginians
could find no better place for your
work than at your own school, West
Virginia University Yes, your own
school because the state pays a
large sum of money each year to
educate it's boys and girls.
At no other school can you enter
without paying tuition. The tuition
for West Virginia boys and girls at
the University is paid by the state.
West Virginia University has
wrongly been called college. 1t is
not college, it is four colleges -
the College of Arts and Science, the
College of Engineering, the College
of Law and the College Of Agricul-
ture. Besides these there is the
School Of Medicine, the School OF
Music and the School of Pharmacy
These offer large field from
which to choose your life's work.
The College of Agriculture is COM
posed of the home economics de-
partment, the dairy department, the
horticulture department, the poultry
department animal husbandry and
farm management. There are ex-
tensive farms near Morgantown own
ed by the University on which these
subjects are made practical
The College of Engineering offers
mining, civil, electrical, chemical
and mechanical engineering. The
College of Arts and Science confers
two degrees, Bachelor Of Arts and
Bachelor Of Science. The College Of
Law, with its new building offers
one of the best law courses in the
United States.
The School of Medicine which is
to shortly become the College OF
Medicine is annually sending out mer
who will become West Virginia's
leading physicians and surgeons.
Are you willing to keep up with
the times or do you prefer to be Q
"has BEEN? What viii you say
when asked if you are a college
graduate?
West Virginia University is thu
one place where you can get thu
true Mountaineer spirit. When vol
sit with crowd of $4,000 on thu
Splinter stadium" of the University
Athletic Field and watch a man II
gold and blue jersey carry foot
ball over the line for victory over
Washington and Jefferson College
when YOU see the Mountaineer team
defeat Pitt after 10 years Of loss tx
them; when you see West Virginia's
team hailed as the undefeated eleven
accorded third place in eastern foot.
ball certainly then you are prout
that you are oneof them - Noun
taineer.
How about it, Seniors of Beligtor
High? We'll you feel that thrill
next fall = next Thanksgiving Day
West Virginia University is
good school and it is your school
Will you accept this chance for al
education which your state offer
you?
EVA WILSON, w. v. U '25
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Cow Bumps Train of Tracks.

Sarnia, Ont. A COW which
wandered from her pasture bumped a
Pere Marquette passenger train off the
tracks four miles from this city The
locomotive turned over, breaking the
leg Of David Burwell, engineer, and
slightly injuring Fireman Foster Be
sides the locomotive and tender, the
baggage car and one passenger coach
left the rails, but the passengers es-
capped with slight shaking up. The
COW was the only fatality.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
HERE AT LAST!

A BILLY" SUNDAY book---the
first and only one Of its kind full
of "pep" from cover to cover rich
" illustrated. a golden emporium
ity for agents. If you are live
wire and want to act as our agent
send $1.0o for sample copy and in
structions.
The Prudential Publishing Co.
5-24-3t Knoxville, Tenn.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
NEED CHAUTAUQUA
BELINCTON
JUNE 5 : Il
FOR SALE
ICE & WILSON

2 Lots Elliott Addition $50.
Lot Elliott Addition $50.
/ Lot Elliott Addition $50.
The above are well located, fine
garden and building lots.
Lot on B, & f. Pike assessed $50
fine building location close in. You
name the price.
l Lot on johnson Ave. side walk
100 # way Well located for only
$12500.
room modern house and lot
fronts Public School building $500.
100000 Cash, balance 2 and 3 years
s room house on Grim Ave-, fine,
just like new $4,000.
23 acre farm, dandy, IL miles
out, only $500.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Youths Get Long Terms For Murde

Youths Get Long Terms For Murder.
Scranton, Pa. Convicted of
murder in the second degree for
their part in holding up and shooting
Evan Parker at Dickson City short
time ago, Leonard Gllgallon, Joseph
Walls and John Robinson, of this
cityy and George Gentle, of New
York, ranging in years from 10 to 81,
were sentenced to long terms in the
Eastern Penitentiary by Judge Maxey.
Gentle and Gilgallon each received
from eighteen to twenty years. Robin
son from fifteen to eighteen, and
Wall from eleven to fifteen years
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

rs, and rs, consisting of 20, 10, 5, 10
and shares each, respectively, of
the Belington Industrial Company.
The proceeds arising from the sale
Of said stocks to be applied on the
loan to the said G. L. Rohrbough to
the said bank as aforesaid.
THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF BELINGTON
5-17-2t
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
FOR SALE

Three lots containing good four
room cottage, with three porches,
good well on back porch, out build
ings. Price reasonable. For fur
Their particulars inquire of,
DELLES TETER,
West Side, Belington, w. Va.
adv (4-26-3t)
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24
Minnesota VIII Elect U. S. Senator.

st. Paul. A special primary
and election was called by Governor
J. A. o. Preus to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the late United
States Senator Knute Nelson. Under
writ authorizing such a step the
governor set June IS for the primary
and July 16 as the date for the cleo
lion.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

A Paying Proposition to Families
Boys sixteen or over.
FAMILIES with two or more boys to
locate near Glass Works; steady
work, and an interest taken in the
right kind of people.
.TYGARTS VALLEY GLASS CO..
Phone 400 ! GRAFTON, w. VA.
5-10-3t
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

Cemetery cleanup Tuesday, May
29th for the Old Baptist Cemetery in
Right addition 1t is hoped all in
terested will come out to help
COMMITTEE
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

s1.5o - PROGRESSIVE = $3.50
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-24

81 so ~ PROGRESSIVE ~ $3.50
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
CLEANUP AND PAINT-UP JUNEAU.

There should be general support for the Clean up and Paint-up campaign that has been proposed by the City Council and endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce. Juneau will be filled with visitors from all parts of the country Many of them will be high officers of e Government, including, according present plans, the President of the United States. l. is very desireable that Juneau present pleasing appearance possible. It may great deal to the in the future if that appearance should favorably impress these visitors.
 Unsightly debris should be removed from vacant lots and back yards and alleys and all who do should paint the buildings that need it--and that many do need it is obvious
 Not only should the Cleanup and Paint-up cam pagn be supported for the purpose of pleasing the towns visitors but 1t should be done because will make living in Juneau agreeable and healthful.
 Let everybody aid in the good work.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
If 1t Fits


 A man feels like a bloated bond holder when he can afford Sunday suit and extra pair of shoes.
 You can't understand or please woman, but you can love her, ana that's all that is necessary.
 Our guess is that it would have been easier for old Diogenes to have found his honest man than girl who was pretty and didn't know it.
 Whenever you hear man speaking of a thing as "good business you can bet it is bad for the other follow. Explanations mover are easy to make, but the hardest are those you have to make to your wife.
 Home gardens would be more sue cessful if the weeds in them got as much attention as a pretty widows weeds got.
 Notwithstanding the fight the new women arc making for-whatever it is they arc fighting for-we'll bet Cupid and tho stork will last as long as the Cld world docs.
 The average kid will enjoy his meals more when they pass a law compelling parent to serve cake in stead of bread with the meals.
 We are willinE&to bet a weeks sal ary that the gir who can dance 60
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
IS TT NECESSARY TO BE EITHER?

George Brandes the Danish author, comments the United States of the attitude of sef-crti- cism of the American people and contrasts that to He declares that 1t would be impossible for people to get away with national self-critcism in Denmark and Norway and other countries in Europe like the thing Is done in the United States The Danish writer thinks Americans satisfied with any thing at homo at all.
 This comment causes 10 ask occasionally 'is 1t necessary for country people be habtually self-critcal, to be National pessimsts on the one hand to be National egotsts blow-hards on the cther?" Has MT. Brandes. measured the true value or leak of value, of thsi disposition in America to condemn everything that is? Is 1t fact that his abhorrence of the vanity he sees closer at home caused him to have exaggerated idea of the Of constant self-compaint?
 In the first place, however, MT. Brandes has mis- Judged American sentiment. He has mistaken loud voices of malconents for the real sentiment of the country. great deal of this is made by people who have come from Europe to this country and not liked what they have found More perhaps Is made by people who sec their only chance for political preferment through this system. However the great majority of Americans passing if indeed they have not already passed from the period of youthful oonce and boasting which will not see or if seeing De less than 100 per cent. perfect Americans are becoming broader as their country natures and they are quite ready to admit that there may be some thing elsewhere that is good or even better than something's at home.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
THE LEGIsLATuRE-AND THE SOLID
 THIRD

It Will take sometime to digest and pass upon the quahty or the work of the Sixth Alaska Legislature l VIII pc necessary to judge of it by experience wlth It before rendering final decisions. The dis ungushing feature of the session was the volume of work done and the industry the Legislature will not all be apparent from the long list of bills memorials resolutions, etc. passed A great deal of energy and time was expended in discussion of pro- posed legislation that failed Quite number of these proposals were radical and freak bills etc
 Perhaps the best work of the Legislature was done py those members who unreentingy fought these raoical and freaks proposals and did their best to hoiu uown the appropriations and the taxes-both of which arc too high by far In fact the Legislature was generous 10 the point of extravaganza in dis bursing the public The appropriations oupbt than they were. The result of this extravaganza in making appropriations was a marked advance in tax rates on the salmon packers and mines--an m necessary addition to their burden
 In the fight against freak legslaton and bisb am propriations and taxation most conspicuous ap,ona the members was the solid Third Division deleyat;o It stood at all times for sanity stability and an ightehed progress, and for business prncinas III handhng public funds and levying taxes If on poseu unreasonable regulation of business through taxation was against the schemes of politicians to get control of the Territorial machinery at the cost or responsibility in the government through inc diffusion of authority
 The fight conducted by the solid Third Div,,on delgeaton and Senators Aver and Hunt and Ron resentatyes Shepard who always stood like the rock or Gibraltar for sanity and comon sense Policy Daly, Raelson Keys and Johnston for the Foster iAteracy Bill will go down in Alaska history as a notable contest for Progressive legislation It is to
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
Mir. Mellon Proves Too Much.
(NeW York World.)


 Secretary Mellon finds that the March income tax collections alone the business of 1922 eeed by $70000 ,000 the collections of both income and excess-profts taxes for March last year the business of 1921. He notes that the larger collections have followed the repeal of the excess-profs taxes and reduction of the maximum surtax rate from 65 to 50 per cent, and he believes that the revenue result flows directly from the Congressional action. He accordingly his former recommendation of maximum surtax rate reduced to 25 per cent, which by the token would further improve busi- and enlarge taxable incomes all around.
 The argument is impressive. But if 1t is sound 1t is just strong for scaling down of rates to include the small incomes well as the big ones. The Secretary is especially solicitous for that fund of free capital constantly emerging from industry through investments. We should all be solicitous about it. But the Secretary think that only the savings of the very wealthy replensh this fund
 This is Tho rich not the only ones who save. The great body of income-tax payers are savers in their smaller way. But their sav- ings do not appear in the investment market with any individual ostentaton They appear through the savings-banks and the insurance companies and so on, and the aggregate is tremendous. Ask any bond market about it's comparative weight The reply will be that it far outweghs the investment savings Of all the millionaires of the country put together
 Why not, then, advise a cut in tax rates on small incomes well?
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
President and Alaska.
Philadelphia Public Ledger. ,

(PhiIadeIphia Public Ledger)
 Unraveling the twisted skein of Alaskan iuris- dicton, one of the objects of President Harding's trip to the northern Territory this summer Is not going to be the easiest thing in the world
 One member of the Government in discussing the various bureaus that involved in the admnstra- tion of affairs said that the situation was just as T the administration of the white bears were con- trolled by the War Department, the brown bears under the Jurisdiction of the Interior Department and the black bears governed by the Department of Agriculture
 Some of the problems that arise through tbis diversity of power prove just as embarrassing as II the Administration had all three varieties of bears by the tail. President Harding has let if he known that he is going to take some of the members or his Cabinet along with him to study the problem first hand.
 The suppositon is that Secretary Hoover Sec retary work and Secretary Wallace would be the tIiumVlrate accompanying the Chief Executive when the pilgrimage is made finally
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
The Pull.
(Ketchikan News.) Everyone knows that magic word.

Everyone knows that magic word
 Pull.
 It is the unworthy foeman to Push It is the slrangler or Ambition. It is the thief of Impulse
 Throw 1t away from you, friend whenever t presents its leprous self. Strike it down when it presents it's fawning face. Banish it from before you ere US leering lecherous lips frame the invitation that begins your decline down the scale to social political and industrial oblivion
 The Pull in our national life of endeavor is as great an enemy as dope-bad and hellish as that IS. The Pull insinuates itself in the good graces or the compaisant and the unususpecting and gains possession of the citadel of your self poise without warnings that come with narcotic evils. It has not the honor of a rattlesnake, which at least warns of It's impending strike.
 ihe word Pull is much used phrase in these days of mental indolence, in it's very it is the greatest menace.
 Beware of Pull and the man who uses if
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
Guide Offered to Harding.
(New York Worldly

President Harding, If he visits Alaska this sum mer will be guest there at stations of the Pres byter1an Board of Home Missions. Dr. John A. Mar quis, General Secretary, announced yesterday
 riloting the presidential party on the proposed tour of mission stations will be Dr. S. Hall Yourg ol Red Bank, N J.. pioneer missionary in Alaska
 Under the direction of Dr. Young the Presbyter- ian ran board covers the entire territory. working through tweny-two organized churches fourteen sta, tons and hospital at Point Barrow, known as the station nearest the North Pole
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08

Senator Chamberlin is one of the members of the last Legislature who will be a candidate for re-eec- ton, according to his friends who declare that he will be unable to withstand the pressure that is being brought to bear upon him to again. Senator Chamberln has served through two sessions of the Legislature and he has been straightforward and capable member
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08

the credit of the Legislature that fourteen of the twenty-four members supported this measure
 Senators Chamberlin and Dimond, and Representa- tiyes Foster, Murray. Price and Staser, who con sttuted the Third Division delegation, mentioned particularly not because there not others who stood as strongly they for sanity and good busi- ness sense, but because they made up complete Dvional delegation-the Solid Third"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
} Malof- E.E .Hun1e,

Major E. E. Hume, at present attached to the Medical Corps of the United States, has just been awarded his 2Sth war medal, the Distinguished Service Medal, for meritorious work in France. He has been decorated by England, France, Italy, Greece, Serbia, Po- land, Rumania and other Euro peap nations.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-08
ATTENTION WOMEN OF MOOSE
 HEART LEGION

Regular meeting of the Women of h-ooseheart Legion will be held this evening at Moose Hall. Every mem Der is requested to be present, as final arrangements are to be made for the funeral of Mrs. Stokes
 MRS. A. F. M'KINNON, adv. Secretary.