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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31
LTzRAYS TO HOLD. ON

4k'hose citizens of Belington who in
vested their money in Liberty and
| Victory bonds back in 1916, II and Is
land who have been wise enough to
hold on to them, even whe it looked
Hike they stood to lose, now have
cause for jubilation. Every issue
Is now well above par, and what is
happening is just what sensible fin
ancial men of the country predicted
would happen. When the bonds were
first offered they were bought
Through patriotic motives, as an in
Ivestment. When they fell off from
par wise investors snapped them up
Eagerly, some laying the foundation
bought them at from Is to 20 cents
/ discount on the dollar. They knew
I that Liberty bonds would make good
land now they have.
Since the war there has been more
| or less trading in them. The fact
lthat they were on the market indi-
|cated that for some reason or another
their owners had to part with them
and until a few weeks ago they part
! ed with them at loss. But we know
| of some people around here who kept
them securely locked up, and re-
manned hopeful that sometime they
would be worth what they figured
! they would they bought them-and a
sensible investment. Today they real
ize that they have used good judg-
ment, for Liberty bonds are worth
more than 100 cents on the dollar.
The moral is never bet against
anything that Uncle Sam is back Of.
Hold to your U. S. bonds if you've
got any, and if you haven't try to
get hold of some They are now, and
they always will be, the safest and
best investment in the world.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31

Charleston, w. Va, July 14.-Babies,
1000 of them. with sturdy little bodies
protected from the dangers OF unwise
care. and all by correspondence!
This is the number of babies whose
mothers are being advised and guided
In the business Of motherhood through
a free correspondence course conduct
ed by the State Department OF Health
About go mothers and 5,4oO eaples
under one year now lose their llves
every wear in this state, and it is SAID
that many of them die from prevent
able causes.
Over 800 mothers have been referred
to the department for instruction py
physicians who cannot see their pa
tients often, as twp-thirds OF the
mothers of the state live In rurai
areas where doctors are scarce, some
counties of five and six hundred square
miles of territory having but four phy-
sieians. Explanation is made that the
letters are in no way Intended 70 take
the Mace of a DOCTORS care, but to give
Intelligent guidance.
Hundreds of letters of inquiry com.
ing to the department from mollers'
gradually developed the plan. Moth
ers wanted TO know what silver nitraie
drops were, what materials an expect,
ant mother should prepare, or wha'
foods were suitable for their growing
children. Questions Increased so ias'
that a series of letters were prepared
beginning with advice TO the expect
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31
Nenereal Disease Reduction
Aims To Bring Taxes Down
THIRTEEN CITIES HAVE TREATMENT cENTERs

ant mother and continuing until the
child reaches the age of six years.
Because the government is aiding IN
promoting the plan, no postage Is paid
on such letters sent out by the state
thus effecting saving of 5000 yearly
in postage.
Proof of the ralsed-by-mail babies Is
seen in the health department offices
where many pictures that have been
sent in by proud mothers are display
ed of the little ones who have had the
benefit of care that is guided by some
thing safer than instinct"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31
Raised By-Mail
Babies In State
Number 5000.

Charleston, W. Va, July 21.-Relief
IN the taxpayer of some of his burden
on upkeep of state homes for insane,
blind, crippled and otherwise defective,
is proposed to be brought about by
state health officials through reduction
of number Of patients confined therein.
Asylum and hospital records showing
that a large percentage of persons con-
fined in institutions of this type are
victims of the result Of disease, espe-
cially venereal disease, venereal treat
ment centers have been established in
thirteen West Virginia cities through
efforts of the State Department of
Health.
Clarksburg, Charleston, Huntington,
Wheeling, Redwood, Elkins, Bluetield,
Murtinsburg, Logan, Hinton, William
son. Parkersburg and Grafton are OPP
Grating clinics, and one is under con-
sideration for Fairmont. The state
furnishes the drugs for treatment, and
in most instances, the equipment
Records for 1923 show more clinics es
tablsled ~ West Virginia in proper
ton 70 population than any state in
the union.
These treatment centers only accept
persons unable 10 pay doctors fee, and
especially encourage expectant moth
ers to report for examination, syphilis
being the only known Unbeatable dis
ease,
Authorities have estimated that q
000,000 new cases of venereal infection
were added in 1923 to the already I'M
cured cases in the country. In West
Virginia, the clinics alone are treating
ever 600 persons a month, and this
number is estimated as being only a
portion of those who should be report
ing for treatment.
Health officials explain that the ma
ture Of these diseases is such that it is
possible to let them run until some
hopeless malady sets in, such as soft
ening Of the brain, heart or kidney dis
ease, rheumatism, paralysis, or many
other conditions which may result from
one or the other venereal diseases,
syphilis or gonorrhea.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31
TO LET

Pasture for any number up to 25
head yearlings or 2-year olds on
Laurel Mountain. Fine pasture,
plenty of pure water.
L. L. BENNETT
Belington, w. Va.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31
Cayln4s Of 4
Oanitary Sanl2
"Life is not to live, but
to be WE'LL"
Cheerfulness promotes

uCaith
Too little attention Is
paid to the posture of children whicn
If incorrect may affect digestion, cir
culation, respiration and growth.
Sleep is Natures repairman OF the
human machine.
Too many persons treat the PAIN IN
stead of the cause of the pain.
six times as many babies die in the
summer as during the winter, not be-
cause of the heat but unwise feedlng
and improper care.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31

A community that does not tolerate
vice district is protecting youth
from venereal disease.
Sickness usually comes to those who
spend TOO little time avoiding it.
The automobile crippled or bruised
over 100000 persons in rhe United
States last year
A states greatest gift to her citizens
Is provision for protection of health.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-07-31

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-05-15

Rockefeller and Uncle Sam are play
ing the part of big brother to West
Virginia by spending money to pro
mote plan which would save the
people in the rural districts from dy-
Ing with typhoid fever and other pre-
ventahle diseases.
The Rockefeller Foundation Is CIV
Ing $1,000 year toward tie opera
ton Of q county health plan with the
Idea of withdrawing when they have
proved that lives and money both can
be saved by its use
The U. S. Public Health Service Is
giving about one-fourth this amount
to the same cause, and the money Is
being spent in seven counties Of the
STATE which have shown sufficient in
terest to supply funds Of their own.
These seven counties each have q
full-tfme county health department.
which consists of health officer and
one or more public health nurses who
devote their ltire time to disease
prevention and health promotion in
the county. This county plan is the
outgrowth of experiments conducted
by national health authorities to Grad
icate hookwerm.
Health officials declare that 1t is
possible to make typhoid fever, diph-
iberia, venereal disease and other de-
stroyers Of human life become as ex-
tinct as yellow fever and plague II
they are attacked in an organized
manner.
The lowest death rate ever attained
by any city or state in the Union was
recorded last year in Ohio where the
county health plan is most fully de-
veleped. Akron, Ohio, which has had
full-time health department for six
years, holds the honor for the UNITED
States with death rate of only TO
per thousand persons, compared to a
rate of 11S for the country at large.
Less money is spent from the states
own funds in West Virginia to pre-
vent disease than amy state In the
Union except two.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-05-15
ELEVEN CITIES GET
VENEREAL DISEASE
TREATMENT CENTERS
STATE BUREAU SUPPLIES CLINICS
WITH PAMPHLETS PERTAIN
ING TO SOCIAL HYGIENE
When Persons Turn Their Backs Upon
Importance of Fighting These Dis.
eases, They Are Turning Away from
the 10000 Babies Blinded In the
United States Each Year, Says. the
Bureau.

Clinics for the treatment OF persons
suffering with syphilis or gonomhea
have been established in Clarksburg,
Charleston, Huntington, Wheeling,
Redwood, Elklns, Bluefeld Martins
burg, Logan, Hinton, and Williamson.
These clinics have been established
by the Bureau of Venereal Diseases of
the State Health Department CO.
operating with the local authorities,
and are intended to treat persons I'M
able to pay doctors fee, and to serve
as educational health centers for the
communities The state bureau sup
plies the clinics with pamphlets per-
tanning to social hygiene and disease,
and it is expected that through such
education, many persons who are re-
garding their malady lightly, will re-
port to private physici for treat
ment
Because practically all immoral
women have one or both diseases, they
are the greatest agents in the spread,
but the Bureau emphasizes that
great number of persons are infected
thnoccHLly anu IHdt dbcSe DISEASES
must be attacked in the open like
tuberculosis or cancer. When persons
turn their backs upon the question,
they are turning away from the TO-
900 babies who are blinded in the
United States every year, says the
Bureua, not mentioning the many 9th
or tragedies that are visited upon the
innocent through these infections.
The Bureau of Venereal Diseases,
Charleston, reports that some of the
clinics are treating as many as $50
different persons every month.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-05-15
COUNTRY LIFE CONFEREN CE
Talbot, May %, "a and rs


Friday 1880 p M.
! Devotional services-Rev. C. A. Pow
Why another Country Life Confer
ence-Mrs. Iva G. Gould
Report on things accomplished dur
ing year-A. G. Hathaway
Sermon-Rev. ]. E. Hanifan
Saturday 200 P. NJ.
Restoring the Communicates. Iva
C. Gould, Rev. J. E. Hanifan, 0.
D. Sands, Katharine Stump and
Rachel Mayo.
Saturday 7:30 P. M.
Devotional services Rev. G. A. Pow
Farm Women's Club Work Mrs.
Iva C. Gould
Health Talk-Miss Rachel Mayo
Sermon Rev. T. E. Hanifan
Sunday Morning
Sunday School as usual
Sermon Rev. J. E. Hanifan
Sunday 200 p M.
Fourth Club Work-Miss Katharine
Stump
What Can our Sunday Schools Do
Mr.. D. J. Taft
What are our Schools Worth-Mr.
D. p. Baughman
How the scoring goes-Mrs. Iva c.
Gould
Sunday 1880 P. NJ.
Devotional services Rev. G. A. Pow
ers
How Talbot Compares with other
Communities Mrs. Iva C. Gould
Plan of Work-Mr O. D. Sands
Sermon-Rev. j. E. Hanifan
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-05-15
BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS

Prices on concrete building blocks will be as fol-
lows at Factory
SXSXl6 Sand and cinder stripper Blocks .lSc
SXSX 10 Sand and cinder faced Blocks .2Octs
SXSX Is Sand and limestone siripper rs cts.
SXSX l6 Sand and limestone faced Blocks .27 cts.
Prices on fractional and odd sizes Blocks on re-
quest
Delivered Philippi 4 Cts per block extra Fair
mont double washed sand $2.S5 per ion al yard. Sc
curly cement The same as is being used in the new
Capital building al Charleston. Prices on request.
BUILDERS SUPPLY co.
Belingon, W. Va.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-05-15
HUMAN LIFE SAVED
BY HEALTH METHODS
ROCKEFELLER FOUND ATloN
GIVES $4,000 A YEAR TO w. VA.
FOR DISEASE PREVENTION

Federal Government Also Aiding In
Plan to Help Rural Districts to
Eradicate Typhoid Fever and Other
Preventable Diseases Efficient
County Health Plan Means Low
Death Rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
Subway Workers
Company Union To
Cut Their Wages
BY LUDWELL DENNY,

(Staff Correspondent Of the Fed. Press)
NEW YORK, April 23.-If you were
working "a hours a week for S34.44,
and the boss threatened a further 5
per cent cut, what would your union
do? Yes, you would strike. But un-
fortunately the subway station agents,
Interborough Rapid Transit Company,
New York, who are in that fix, can
not strike. They belong to company
union. So do the other $4,000 l. r. T.
workers, whose wages are to be cut
5 per cent.
OF course the company does not call
it an arbitrary cut. President Frank
Hedley simply writes a personal let
ter to the workers, claiming that the
stockholders are not making money
and therefore he invites "the brother
hood to come forward and reduce
their own wages.
Tho wages are to be cut, sal
aries-that is, above $4,000 a year
will remain the same. The workers
do not get Salaries" Motormen work
for ~ cents an hour Ga few up to So
cents, and guards get only AZ cents
(some up to SO cents). Most of them
have to work seven days a week, be-
cause the wage is so low. Nominally
they put in eight and half or nine
hours day, but So divided that it
amounts to a 12-hour day.
The brotherhood or company union
announces that it will consider the
cut at May meeting. But, as sew,
eral of the workers have said to the
Federated Press, 1--WE have no union;
what can we do but take what is given
'us?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24

globe, telling us that the DAILY
WORKER is the best paper ever pub
lished.
The letter. from Kemerovo, Kuz-
metz Basin, Siberia, says: my dear
comrades of the DAILY WORKER:
Just a few lines to let you know that
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Err. | could scarcely believe, after
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as to publish and maintain an interna-
tional paper such as the DAILY
WORKER. | assure you there never
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
INJUNCTION AXE is
NOT USED ON LAST
STRIKE PICKETS
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(COntlnued from page /
the West Virginia and Kentucky coal
mine fields. Undoubtedly he will have
much of interest to tell the garment
workers about the vicious injunctions
used against mine workers and their
means of defiance.
Lillian Herstine of the High School
Teachers Union gave the strikers a
most encouraging talk Tuesday after
TIE moving picture 1.-THE Boomerang"
had been shown.
The girls whose cases were up are:
Mama Peterson, Anna Solescheck,
Minnie Parrick, Sarah Wood, Frieda
Nitzbsrg, Fannie Bait, Dora Hoffman
Fannie Jacoby, Rose Ponitsky, Dora
Rubin, Jennie Leavitt, Rose Cohen,
Sarah Drive, Sophie Rosen Ada
Abrams, Ida kaufman, Leah Kotofsky,
Sylvia Kraus, Annie Cohen. Martha
Vantur, Mary Amato, Josephine Lee
che, Annie atz, Sarah Shop y Hr-
hccca Sharr. Marie Schimska, and
Ida Borhan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
REPUBLICANS
JUSTIFY THE
OILY LEASES
G. 0. P. Defends The
Teapot Steal.


WASHINGTON, April %
Republican members Of the SEN
ate oil committee today began
defense of the Sinclair and
Doheny lease before the COM
mittee.
With James 0. Lewis, Tulsa,
Okla, petroleum engineer, on
the stand, Senator Spencer,
Missouri, attempted to show
that without leasing, Teapot
Dome would have been drained
of oil by the adjoining Salt
Greek wells.
An expert" Testifies.
Lewis, Tulsa oil expert, who made
a study of the Teapot Dome for the
committee last fall, declared that
sixty or seventy per cent Of the Tea
pot Dome area was in danger of being
drained by the Salt Creek well and
the oil supply seriously impaired.
The value of Teapot Dome as
naval oil reserve has been found on
drilling to be much less than orig
inally expected by the bureau of
mines, Lewis said.
Oil engineers originally estimated
it contained approximately 1876 900 900
barrels of oil, now it appears there
is only something over 100000
barrels.
Lewis explained that 1900 or 1,4O0
acres under which oil was expected to
be found, gas was discovered.
In view Of the information we have
now believe leasing of the Teapot
Dome reserve was a wise and desir-
able thing" Lewis said.
A letter to the committee from Will
liam Wallace, Jr., today made further
explanation of the Sinclair oil stock
transactions of VIM. Boyce Thompson.
former finance committee chairman
of the republican national committee.
Thompson bought no stock while
Sinclair leases were under consider
alton at the department of the in
terror, Wallace, Thompson's counsel
wrote.
Former Secretary of the Navy
Daniels granted only two leases on
the naval oil reserves which were not
absolutely mandatory under the exist
ing laws, Commander H. A. Stuart,
in charge of the reserves under Dan
iels, declared in a letter read to the
senate oil committee. today Dg Senator
Walsh, Montana.
These two leases were made by
Daniels only upon recommendations
of his expert advisers to protect the
governments interests against estab-
lished drainage and water infltration
in the reserves, Stuart said.
Boston Pacific Gets Lease.
One lease was made to the Boston
Pacific Company, who obtained per-
mission to drill five wells, in reserve
No. 2, and the other was given the
Consolidated Mutual Company, on 100
acres Of land, also in reserve No. 2.
Stuart wrote.
There is no doubt whatever in
either Of these cases that delay in
drilling would have resulted in con-
tinual loss by drainage of water in
filtration" Stuart said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
BIG Pine TRUST,
LABOR'S ENEMY,
IS NOW ON GRILL
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CONTINUED from Page One)
well, the Supreme Court needs re-
forming" replied Brookhart. 81 hope
we will get somebody on the court
who knows what cooperative real
ly is"
Thompson said the case came up
when Harry M. Daugherty became
Attorney General
The Southern Pine Association,
Thompson said, worked up an own
your-own-home propaganda and then
Jumped" the price of lumber to the
consumer.
In the spring of 1921, Thompson
said that two attorneys from Column
bus, Ohio, conferred with Daugherty
about the government suit against
the Association.
Friendly With Daugherty.
"They seemed to be on friendly
terms with the Attorney General and
since that nothing has been done in
the case" said Thompson.
"Was John Todd, Daugherty's form
er law partner, one of those attor-
neys?" asked Wheeler.
II have heard that but could not
say positively" said Thompson.
Thompson said altho evidence of
violation of criminal laws by the
West Coast Association was present
ed to the department of justice that
he knew of, no action being brought.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
1000 GERMAN
BOSSES CHEER
ATTACK ON MARX
Great Anti-Labor Meet
Held In Berlin
BY LOUIS p. LocHNER
(staff Correspondent of the Fed. Pres:

AotalI Correspondents OF the Tcos TTcSSJ
BERLIN, April 23.-Berlin has
just been the scene of the most i'm
pressive gathering of big Industrial
lists ever held in Germany. Presided
over by Krupp's former general ma
mayer, Kurt Won Serge, 1000 mem
bers and delegates of the League of
German Industrials and Of the Ger
man Employers federation held a
joint meeting to tell labor where to
go off.
The hero of the day was Albert
Voegler, one of the largest heavy-in-
dustry men in Germany. This typi-
cal big boss asserted amid wild ap-
plause that Germany's salvation lies
chiefly in the defeat of Marxism, and
that all the faults after the revolu-
ton are explained when one re.
members that socialist influences
were at work in the government. He
promised the government that big
business would support it provided
it broke with all socialist theories.
He claimed credit for the big indus
trials for having periodically prevent
ed specialization Of industry, and plead
ed for intensification of production
which means abrogation Of the eight
hour day.
Warned About InteIIectuals
There was a note of concern thru
out his speech and that of several
others. The industrialists fear that
the intellectuals are becoming radi.
Called and that the middle classes
are becoming proletarianized. The
speakers pointed out the danger to
German industry, and pleaded that
more be done to tie up the intellec-
tuals and the middle classes with
the capitalists. The presiding officer
went to great pains to show that the
industrialists had helped the intellec.
tuals.
Another grave concern of the
big bosses is emigration Of highly
skilled workers. German skilled
labor is leaving the country in drov
es to do better elsewhere.
How MANY OF YOUR shop-nates rear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
The Puppet of Wall St. Said:

The finding Of experts which IS known the Dawes report
has recently been made and published
is gratifying understand that the allies looking upon
with full sympathy Germany expressed willingness
to cooperate in the execution of the plan.
appears every hope that the report
practical solution of the separations problem
Part plan contempates that considerable loan
should Germany for immediate pressing
needs including financing of bank trust that private
American capital will be willing participate advancing this
loan
Sound business exist why should participate in
financing Europe tho repeated
favor of advancing funds for
military purpose would benefit trade and and
we especially hope that provide larger market
agricultural production
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
VETS Busy In Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 3D.
The State Democratic Central Com
mitee went into executive session
here today to decide whether dele.
gates shall be sent to the national
convention instructed"
Followers Of Governor A. Smith OF
New York, for president movement.
were making an effort to elect wet
delegation pledged to support Smith.
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