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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-02-11
Farm Club Meetings

Farmers Meeting at Belington,
Saturday Feb. 13 at $50 at Gamers
Store. The purpose of this meeting
is to consider the establishment of
branch Warehouse at Belington for
the Farmers. Every farmer living
in and near this Community should
be present and help put this project
across.
Union, Monday Feb. Is, at 7 o'clock
Liberty, Tuesday Feb. 16 at 7
o'clock
Stringtown, Wednesday Feb. II at
7 O'Clock.
Ebenezer, Friday Feb. 10 at 7
O'clock.
Charles Eib who attends West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan was home over the
week end
The First National Bank of Phil
ippi has started a Thrift CAMPAIGN
FOR the young. See their advertise
ment this week
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-02-11

Mrs. j. e. Keyser has returned
from Fairmont, where she was a
guest of relatives, for several days.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-02-11

Farm Women's Club Meetings.
Valley River, Monday, Feb Is, at
O'Clock. IL.
Stringtown, Wednesday Feb II at
1870 o'clock.
Kasson, Thursday Feb. IS at 30
o'clock.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-02-11
Bring Your
Financial Troubles
To the Bank

BUSINESS MEN have long since learned to
take advantage of our modern business methods
THEY keep their checking accounts with us.
IN OUR EFFORTS in helping the success
of their business enterprises they realize that the
community and the bank, well as themselves,
benefited.
EVERY CONSIDERATION to the interest
of every customer along legitimate lines has
personal attention.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BELINGTON
"The Bank of Service"
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1926-02-11

Mr.. Huffman of the CLarksburg
Exchange was in town to-
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
Sure Justice i'm Britain
Lowers HOmicides

To the Editor of The Star:
The latest volume of judicial sta
tistics of England and Wales has
just been received, and few facts
may be of interest in connection
with the efforts in the United States
to reduce the crime Of murder.
The statistics state that homicides
and infanticides in England and
Wales have not exceeded $50 in any
year for the last half century The
homicideS alone We're 100 in each of
the years 1928 and 1924, with popu-
lation about two-f1fths of ours.
The cause of this low homicide
rate appears in the prompt justice
of impartial trials. There is no sec
ond degree or other escape for MUIR
derers from hanging unless they are
acquitted by the jury, or after trial
and sentence receive the prerogative
of mercy by the Kings sending
them to penal servitude for life.
In 1924, the latest year tabulated,
AZ persons were tried for murder, IA
were sentenced to death, II were
found insane, and II were acquitted
OF the IA sentenced, 1 success
fully appealed on grounds of man
slaughter and 3 received the pre-
negative of mercy after the sentence,
rather than leniency before or dur
ing trial as in our country. Ten
were hanged.
We think this record is worthy
the attention of the American peo-
pie, who could have success in pre-
venting murder If they would.
EBEN w. BURNSTEAD,
Director Civic Welfare Alliance,
Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

Of Washington. The story is that
latter experiencing many vicissitudes
over long period Of time the tobacco
growing industry in the Okanagan
Valley would appear to be getting
under way auspiciously."
Tobacco grows in a wide range Of
climate. Soon after the discovery Of
America by Columbus and the spread
Of the smoking and snuffing fashion
or habit in Europe the commercial
growing Of tobacco was entered on in
Spain. Italy, France and Holland, and
later its cultivation was carried on
IN England. Ireland, Scotland and
Germany. The building up of large
tobacco plantations in the West Indies
and the North American colonies
brought about the decline Of tobacco
growing in Europe. The farmers of
that part Of the world seemed to find
That it was cheaper to use their land
FOR other crops and to import tobacco
from America and later from south
eastern Europe and Asia.
With the spread of the tobacco
habit and the increasing of the popu.
lation of the world, the growing of
tobacco has pressed to the North. and
1t Is known to all Americans that good
smoking tobacco, especially for cigars.
is grown in Pennsylvania. West vir.
gin1a, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
wisconsin and other States. 1t NAV
no1 De as sweet, cheerful and friendly
TOBACCO as that grown in the South.
and 1t may not be so gentle and com.
1orting as tobacco grown in our Poto.
mac country, but it is rolled into good
smokes. Those Connecticut plants
give Off leaves which have become IA .
nous as cigar wrappers.
Iopacco culture is carried on in
parts OF eastern Canada and the news
story says. with the brighter nros'
poets facing the Canadian tobacco in.
dustry today, there is every indication
u thriving industry being built nm
In the okanagan Valley"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
An Unfortunate Controversy.

Dissension between Capt. Rene
Fonck, French war ace. and Capt.
Homer Berry. United States Army
Reserve flyerfi threatens to prevent the
nonstop flight from New York to
Paris early next month. Soon after
the attempt to link the two cities was
proposed, the Argonauts, Inc, back
erS Of the trip, announced that Lieut..
A. 2. Snoddy, Z. S. N, was to be the
navigator and Capt. Berry the CO. pilot
with Capt. Fonck. A few days ago
the giant Sikorsky plane to be used
on the voyage was completed. 1t was
taken up on test flights by Igor
Sikorsky, the designer; Capt. Fonck
and Lieut.. Snoddy. 1t now develops
that Capt. Fonck. who asserts that
he is in complete command of the ex-
petition, believes that Capt. Berry is
not necessary to the success Of the
trip and will use the space which was
to have been occupied by Berry for
additional gasoline. Capt. Berry, in
a heated rejoinder. charges that he is
being squeezed out" of the expedi-
ton. of which he was one of the or
ganizers and backersfand states that
he will resort to the courts If neces-
sary to insure his participation or
prevent the flight II he is not restored.
It would be unfortunate If friction
should cause the hating of the flight.
Elaborate preparations have been
made and a large capital invested.
1t would seem that prompt action is
necessary on the part of the Ar
gonauts to clear the atmosphere and
to insure the organization of a har-
monious hand of flyers to make the
attempt, which will need every ad-
vantage If it is to be a success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
Gertrude Ederle to Rest.

Having conquered the English
Channel, Gertrude Ederle has COL
lapsed in an attempt to swim the tide
of popularity on her return to this
country. She has been ordered to
bed by her physician, who says that
she is completely tired out by the
emotional excitement Of the last few
days incident to her homecoming.
It is not strange that this young
woman has been overwhelmed by the
adulation of the welcoming multi
tudes. She has been under a con-
tinuous strain for many weeks. In
fact, she has been in constant train
ing for two years and the swim itself
imposed a severe strain upon her. 1t
is surprising. indeed, that she was
not put to bed for A week after her
achievement. She appears, however,
not to have taken any protracted rest
on the other side and practically from
the moment of her landing on the
British shore she has been in the pub
lie eye receiving acclamations, the
center Of concentrated attention.
This young woman was in the
water nearly fifteen hours. It is
probably realized by only few peo-
pie, those who have done long dis
lance swimming, what such q period
Of muscular eXertion demands of the
human system. The strain of un.
ceasing movement against resistance
in a treacherous, unstable element
was intense. "Trudie" had to keep
her arms and legs going in rhythmic
movements with practically no inter
mission during all of that time. An
unframed person, or even one with
considerable athletic training, cannot
maintain q continuous muscular move.
ment for a very long time. Let any
soft pad and so through the motions
of swimming without remission for
one hour. The air offers little resist
ance, nothing like the water of the
turbulent English Channel Fatigue
will come within the sixty minutes.
Added to the necessity for constant
movement against resistance Is in
the case of a Channel swimmer the
need to maintain fiotation. There
must be no relaxation. Subconsciously
the swimmer is fighting the sea to
keep from sinking. In the case Of a
trained swimmer this becomes auto
matte, but 1t involves a strain never
theless.
So there Is no reason to wonder
that Gertrude Ederle has now re.
Taxed and is in need Of complete rest.
Nature must be repaid for the great
effort. The marvel really is that the
girl has kept her health so we'll and
has borne so admirably the test of
home coming as a heroine,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
Northern Tobacco.

British Columbia is taking to the
growing Of tobacco and farmers in
the Okanagan Valley seem to be do
ing well with 1t and selling it at a
good price. British Columbia lies be-
tween the forty.ninth and sixtieth de-
grees of latitude and the country be-
tween the coast grange and the Pa
cific is not so cold in Winter as one
might think from its northerly situa-
ton. In the interior the Winters are
all that could be expected of them
The valley of the Lake and River
Okanagan is in the south middle in
terror and extends from the border of
the State of Washington about 200
miles north. The Okanagan River
avs from the district Of Yale. in
British Columbia, down into the State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

number of Texans condoned and
supported this evasion of the law as
was indicated by the votes cast for
Mrs. Ferguson in the two primaries.
For every vote cast for her was a
vote for the continuance of the man
who had been found guilty of NAL
feasance and declared disqualified
ever after to hold office in the State.
Mrs. Ferguson herself is a worthy
woman. She has proved herself to
be in fact an exceptional woman in
her bearing in office during the try
ing two years Of her first candidacy
and her tenure. She occupied diff.
cult position and maintained it with
dignity. The mistakes made by her
husband in administration and in
campaigning were not her own, but
she did not evade responsibility for
them. Nevertheless, her role has
been one that offends the sense of
political propriety. Sentiment for a
loyal wife has fortunately not pre-
vailed over respect for the spirit Of
the law in this final test of the judg-
ment Of the Texas Democrats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

American newspapers and does not
hesitate to talk Of love, Of etiquette
OF marriage, Of clothes and OF the
many details of busy woman's life.
concludes the Union.
mo mere hanging about the aristo
cratic estates of Long Island for
Marie" declares the Kansas City
Journal, with later sailing back home
To tell from the view afforded what
America looks like. We have been
done by Old World ROYALTY in that
fashion, and we don't like it. News
that Marie of RumaIfia will make her
visit to us a circle tour fills us with
enthusiasm. We shall fill Marie with
true understanding Of what a. great
country this is. sha'n't we. folks, one
and all? Missouri cobpipes and mules
and big red pples-imagine her tO%
at the revelation awaiting her when
she comes to this great empire or the
Middle West! Kansas wheat and corr
and political powwowing-won't they
open those royal eyes over In Sun
! fl0werdom? Oklahoma oil and Arkansas
| cotton and Texas steers: Kentucky
race horses and Tennessee tobacco,
| Colorado's mountain peaks and nus
Ting hotel help: Nevadas dust storms
| and divorce mills-well. the imagina
| ton of her majesty will be fairly
| staggered in taking all of 1t In"
X
Having waited many years to visit
! these shores" says the New Havei
| Register. "she is quite determined t.
make up for lost time. She wishes
| her itinerary to include every one o.
! the AZ States and all Of the important
| cities of Canada. The way in which
! she attacks the business OF sight
seeing in America Is characteristic.
| She Is noted for her energy as well
| as her beauty. Once started on al
undertaking she wants to see Il
through. 1t is related that when. dur
| ing the war, one of her generals eX
! planned that he had surrendered L.
save the lives of her subjects, she
roundly berated the man with the adj
monition that he should have fought
until his last man had fallen. Queen
Marie will not surrender to the terri
torial magnitude OF North America
She will not sail back across the Al
lantic until she has ssrr every
State and city, and all the country
is at her feet"
A welcome to "the most advertised
and the best advertised monarch OIL
! the earth" is extended by the Sacra-
mento Union, which advises that she
| should ask the Crown Prince OF
Sweden for the itinerary of his tour
of the United States" The Roanoke
| Times feels that Eve are a most
democratic people, wa Americans. and
our devotion TO republican principles
| takes the form Of almost snobbish
adulation whenever European royalty
| is in. our midst" and believes that the
| Queen will be quite the rage in the
| social circles of Washington. New
York and other large cities"
| The Charleston Evening Post com
/ nents on the fact that "she has
bobbed her hair, in preparation. she
states, for the American visit and II;
order to be quite in the fashion OF
the country" with tFe statement. ~
bobbed-haired Queen will be some
thing of novelty. and if any royal
lady knows her business and has the
personality to back 1t up. Marie Of
Rumania Is that one"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
Fergusonism Loses in Texas.

Texas Democrats have finally re-
jected Mrs. Ferguson as a candidate
for reelection as governor. On Sat
,Irday in the run-off primary. made
necessary by the failure of Attorney
General Moody TO obtain a full ma
iority in the first test, she was de-
cisively beaten. the vote being nearly
two to one for her opponent. There
Is no possibility of a protest or con-
test, and thus the nomination, which
Is equivalent TO an election, is settled
and the woman governor steps out of
the picture. perhaps before the ex-
piration of her term.
The election of Mrs. Ferguson as
governor was a sad mistake in the
first place. She was not actually a
candidate in her own right. Her hus-
hand had been ousted from the Office
on charges Of venality and she was
put up by him and his friends as a
"vindication" candidate. There had
been somewhat of a reaction in favor
Of Ferguson after his impeachment
aI1u OuSlctB WulCu IellueIcu MIN III
eligible to hold office. A three cornered
fight in the primaries, moreover. led
10 her nomination-just such a fight
as was conducted recently in the first
primary OF 1926.
AS governor" Mrs. Ferguson has
been no more than flgurehead. Her
husband has sat at a desk in the
statehouse and conducted business.
He has been governor in fact. al
though all papers have been signed
hy his wife. He has made all public
statements for her. either preparing
them for her signature for publica-
ton or uttering them himself. During
the two campaigns this year he has
occupied the stump and made her
speeches.
Thus the spectacle has been pre-
Rented OF an ousted and legally ineli-
gible official of the State actually
conducting the Office lin his wife's
hame." Tho wonder is that so large
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
Kenmore Was Not the
Home of Nelly GUSTS
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star:
Please permit me to call your atten-
ton to the statement in the article
on old homes in Virginia, which APP
peared in The Star of the 28th instant,
to the effect that Kenmore was the
home Of George Washington's sister
Betty and the famed beauty, Nelly
Custis." 1t is true that Washington's
sister Betty, who married Fielding
Lewis, lived at Kenmore, and it was
also the youthful home of Lawrence
Lewis, who married Nelly GUSTS at
Mount Vernon in 1893. Nelly had lived
at Mount Vernon as the adopted
daughter of Washington for a num-
Der Of years and after her marriage
to Lawrence Lewis they continued to
live at Mount Vernon till Mrs. Wash
ington's death, then went to Western
View, Culpeper County, for a brief
stay, and then, about 1903. went to
live at Woodlawn Mansion, Fairfax
County. They lived there for nearly
40 years. After Maj. Lewis death his
widow spent her last years at Audley,
in Clarke County, Va.
ANNIE r. HUNTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
German Imperialism.


Any idea that the monarchist spirit
in Germany is ebbing must be modi-
fled by the spectacle presented yes
terday at Nuremberg, where 10000
soldiers of the wartime armies goose
stepped past a reviewing stand oc-
cupied by representatives Of royalty,
including Crown Prince Rupprecht
Of Bavaria and Prince Oscar of Prus-
STA. Rupprecht, as the representative
Of the WittelSbach dynasty of Ba-
Naria, wore the uniform and carried
he baton of field marshal of the
German Empire. Numerous other
princes and military veterans of the
old regime, in the full dress regi-
inpntalS of 1914, surrounded these two
,cions of German royalty. As these
notables drove through the streets to
reach the point of review they We're
wildly cheered by crowds estimated
at a quarter of q million. The whole
affair was a demonstration of royalist
sentiment and was staged obviously
TO offset u republican demonstration
III the same city a short time ago.
All of those who took part are OPP
posed to the republic and Germany's
entry into the League of Nations. 1t
is related in one of the dispatches
that the tailors of Nuremberg have
been working overtime for several
he nr
the monarchistic military societies
and duplicates of the pre-war uni
forms.
A significant feature of the occasion
was the delivery of messages of greet
ing Prince Oscar brought the greet
;ngs of his brothers, the former I'm
perial Crown Prince and Eitel Fried
rich, and urged that the new gen
Grafton be taught loyalty to the
fatherland. Field Marshal Macken-
sen, present as envoy for the eX-
Kaiser, voicing the will Of His All
Highest Master, His Imperial Males
", the Emperor declared that the
spirit Of the old army must be carried
on by the new.
Several times since the debacle Of
1918 the German monarchists have
undertaken to revive the imperial
regime. They have been defeated on
each occasion. Plainly the dominant
spirit In Germany is for the republic.
But that monarchism Is still live
sentiment and is being nurtured as
sfduously and persistently by the sup
porters of the old regime is evident.
Yesterdays demonstration at Nurem-
berg was palpably an appeal to the
old loyalty of the people of Bavaria.
1t was a carefully staged spectacular
affair, calculated to arouse the i'm
perialistic emotion of a people fond
of display and proud of the achieve
ments of the old regime. No other
conclusion is possible than that the
purpose eventually to seek the res
toration of that regime, whether un-
der William Hohenzollern or another
IS Of no particular moment, is being
held definitely by the leaders Of the
monarchist party In Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

Templeton Jones' pipe was feeling
poorly. as the country newspapers
used to say about Grandmother
Hicks.
Only there was a difference. Mrs
Hicks always felt Ill, whereas the
pipe Of M. Templeton Jones merely
took spells at it.
Jones sometimes wondered If it
wouldn't be best to issue bulletins
about his pipe, in the manner of the
Dig physicians attending great pa
tents.
How is your pipe today. Jones?'
became such a common question that
the owner of the smoking implement
became slightly bored. Jones was one
Of those happy men who can get a
kick out of anything
He not only got what pleasure there
is in pipe smoking, from the smoking
itself, but he enjoyed going back over
the race history of man, becoming
interested in what millions of men
had found necessary to their daily
living.
Brands of tobacco, formerly only
fancy packages in a window or or
the desk of some associate, suddenly
developed into something real. Vir
ginia, perique, Turkish, Burley-
these became matters for specu
latiOn.
After smoking q pipe for a couple
Of months, Jones could tell by merely
smelling the outside of a packet OF
tobacco whether he was going tc
like it or not.
The trouble was he could never tel
what his pipe would think about the
new tobacco he crammed into it.
A pipe is as temperamental as ar
opera star, Jones discovered. One day
the precious cake" the result of as
siduous smoking, is as sweet as 8
nut, the next it smelleth to high
heaven.
II Jones had issued bulletins, as
he threatened, they would have rur
something along this order:
"S a.m.-Pipe resting easy. Cake
in satisfactory condition, with odol
of cottage pudding"
40 Authorization of pipe still
satisfactory. A consultation of ex
perts pronounced it's lining properly
carboniferous."
"Noon-A slight uneasiness of the
cake developed shortly before noon
but nothing to cause any particular
comment. A filling of the old re
liable Fl Mixture seemed to cause the
respiration of the patient to become
more placid"
"2 p.m.-The vague premonitions
Of uneasiness mentioned in our pre-
vious bulletin have become more
pronounced, following two-hour
rest, but the prognosis is good. After
consultation it was decided to try a
different mixture"
"3 p.m.-I Mixture tried with little
success. Patient still i'll at ease, with
premonitory symptoms of halitosts
developing"
$50 p.m.-Symptoms previously
mentioned developing rapidly. Ema
nations from pipe not regarded with
favor by friends, especially friend
wife. No cause for ALARM"
"a p.m.-Pipe now suffering from
we'll developed case of odortferous
ness. Situation acute
J; x X X
The best behaved pipes will develop
these streaks of evil smelling, for nc
apparent reason In the world. Jear
Moot is responsible for much. II
would seem. Jean is the French
gentleman after whom the tribe Nico
tiana was namely
Pipes that at dawn smell like
violets, at eventide positively stink
to be quite plain about it. So much
nicotine, and no More, q pipe will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
Sen. Ingalls, Remark on
FOot.and.MOuth Disease
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO INC EultUf OF lue CIAFs
A little humor Is always relishable,
so here goes! This mornings press
kilograms include one saying that a
Denmark doctor has discovered the
source Of the "foot-andmouth" dis
ease, SO fatal to cattle. 1t is said
the disease originates in the foot, but
from licking the afflicted member the
disease is carried to the mouth. Dur
ing consideration once of a bill in
the Senate Hon. John J. ingalls,, SEN
ator from Kansas, had the floor"
This "foot-and-mouth" disease of the
cattle was the topic. The Senator, a
Republican, said the trouble reminded
him of the Democratic party-it never
opened its mouth without putting its
foot in it. : JOHN E. RASTALL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

In contemplating the prospects Of
another theatrical season. the NAV
soer may as we'll try to reconcile him.
self to the theory that language is
AFTER all, only a vehicle of Thought
ana that Anglo-Saxon monosvllah,es
nitherto regarded as significant Of I'LL.
breeding are asserting social indie.
pendence and intruding into polite
society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-30

Tenants appeared to come and go
without rental restrictions on the
Phillips farm in New Jersey. What
the place apparently needed was ain
hctive and alert landlady.