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ailment. Hundreds Of diseases that
we now know enough about to con-
troll swept like plaques over communi-
ties. Stomach operations were given
without ether. The suffering was
horrible. Before the day Of Lister
infections were rampant. The patient
who survived an operation had then
to take his chances with gangrene
and the casualties were large and ap-
palling. The greatest progress of the
world has been in proionging life
Formerly men and women died on the
very threshold of maturity. Today
they live to have silver threads among
the gold. The good old days were not
so good if we consider the devasta.
tions resulting from smallpox, cholera.
yellow fever. bubonic plague and other
epidemic diseases, which are now COM
pletely or largely under control"
X X *
How can we begin to save human
life-cut down our enormous annual
wastage of human life?" I asked.
"a most careful investigation has
shown that if cities and towns will
spend $3.50 per capita through well
trained local administrators of public
health, following approved methods,
an immeasurable Improvement in
the public health will follow. To-
day billions of dollars are lost annu-
ally to the people of the United States
through illness and premature death.
Through the expenditure of the small
est fraction of this sum billions can be
saved.
AS soon as human beings begin to
exercise the same kind Of solicitous
care with their bodies that they do
with their automobiles and turn them
i'll periodically to be overhauled, then
people will begin to live longer and
happier. The greatest amount of dis.
ease gets in its best licks undetected.
You can't fight disease by letting it
creep up on you and take you an.
aWares. Put sentry of health over
your body-a periodic examination of
your body. When you take the family
sedan to the garage hereafter for its
Midwinter examination, take your own
body over to its garage for the same
kind of treatment
fCopyright. 1877
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The Story the Week Has Told

Dancing Girls" and THE Two Qui.
Throwers" ("Discobuli'). The Villa
Suburbana also gave up the remains
or library. consisting of 1903 papyri,
In asbetter or worse state of preserva-
ton. Unfortunately it turned out that
the library consisted mostly of third
rate authors of the Epicurean school,
and the world was no Great gamer by
It's discovery. There is ground for
hope that the new excavations will
uncover antiquities not less precious
than those already brought to light.
Let us hope for a worthwhile library.
to include, say, the works of Menander
and Plato Comieus and the lost books
Of Livy.
X X
The Little Entente.-The dispatches
indicate that very little was accom-
plished at the recent conference of the
foreign ministers of Czechoslovakia,
Rumania and Jugoslavia, which took
place recently at a little health resort
in Czechoslovakia. Apparently the
Jugoslav representative failed to get
the lineup he hoped for on the All.
banlan question; similarly as to the
Rumanian representative in respect of
policy toward Russia, Mussolnis ma
neuvers had thrown them all out of
their reckoning in respect of Hun
gary, and recrudescence of the Aus.
TRAN. AnschlusS movement had them
bewildered. Or so the dispatches say;
no doubt on the basis of somewhat
meager authentic information.
X * X
United States.-The inundated area
of Louisiana was greatly increased
during the past week. more particu-
larly in the parishes of Avoyelles, ST.
Landry and st. Martin. west of the
Atchafalaya River, region famous for
cotton, sugar cane and rice, and for
Longfellow's Arcadians. There seems
good hope of keeping intact the dikes
on the east bank of the Atchafalaya,
SO saving the parishes between them
and the Mississippi from disaster.
The safety Of New Orleans seems to
be assured by the diversion of water
through the numerous crevasses up
stream.
Our foreign trade balance for the
first four months of the current cal
endar year was favorable to the tune
OF $192.032 900, as against an unfavor-
corresponding period of 1926. Elk. |
ports are increasing, but decrease of
imports Is even more notable.
II y \ y
Tire International Economic Con.
ference.--The International Economic |
Conference under the auspices of the |
League of Nations. which opened on |
May 4, will end this week. The pre-
liminary speechmaking, as reported |
by the press, was In general rather |
perfunctory and superficial. the out |
standing speech being that OF the |
Soviet delegate, who gave a really |
wonderful exhibition of the art of |
talking through ones hat. OF gen
uine significance. however. was the /
advocacy by Japanese delegate OF /
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abolition of discriminatory treat
ment in transportation and naviga-
tlon and opening of coastwise trade
10 the commerce of the world"
The importance of this proposal is
seen with reference, say, to the
Panama Canal; it's full realization
would involve abolition of restrictions
on employment of Orientals in mer.
camille marines throughout the world.
1t seems unlikely that this proposal
got far in committee; but the airing
thereof sufficiently indicates that the
principle of world economic solidarity,
like the principle of self-dctermination
however beneficent in a millennial
view, has explosive properties likely to
prove, Shall we say, disconcerting.
The committee phase of the confer.
ence was to be over yesterday; to be
followed by concluding plenary ses-
sions. Very little information of the
proceedings in committee has leaked
out. BY next week we should know
whether or not the conference has
proved itself genuinely creative
whether (Which is the height of our
hopes it has substantially developed
the right approach to the transcend.
emily important problem of interna.
tional economic cooperation.
y X * X
The Naval Conference.-The Japa-
nese government will send a delegation
of % persons to the tri-power (the
United States, Britain, Japan confer
ence which will open at Geneva on
June 20, to discuss further restriction
of naval armaments. The delegation
will be headed by the very distin-
guished Admiral Viscount Saito,
governor general of Korea, known for
the liberality of his views. Viscount
will be member. The British dele
cation will include w. c. Bridgeman,
first lord of the admiralty. Hugh M.
Gibson, Minister to Switzerland and
Ambassador designate to Belgium, will!
head our delegation.
" " X *
Miscellaneous. President Dom.
mergue and Premier BRAND of France
made a visit of state to London in
the course of the week. by way of
marking the twenty-fifth anniversary
or the conclusion of the entente
cordiale. one of the most important
agreements in human annals. Their
SlltCt enliiihCAL ny thC SouIL was mag
their welcome by the country
most genuinely cordial. Oxford con-
ferred honorary degrees on both.
Opinions differ as to the number and
earnestness OF the ''unreconstructed"
In Montenegro. Is there still Monte.
negrin question or has it passed into
the limbo of lost causes, never again
to trouble the chancellories?
The Polish government declared
Cancelled the list of Communist candi-
dates for the warsaw municipal elec-
tions of today. .Sand lodged several of |
he candidates In JAIL Results of re.
cent municipal elections In other |
Polish t0AnS ave not been satisfac.
tory to thh gQvernment.
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If they realized that they have a
capital value Of more than $4,000 If
they are boys and $4,000 il they are
girls, and that the capital lost through
out the country through this easily
preventable infant mortality reaches
the astounding figure Of more than
$3.50, 600 900 q year. Every year more
than $4,000 young men and women be-
tween 25 and % years Of age die from
entirely preventable causes. Their
value, having in mind their net future
earnings, is about $3.50, 100000 year.
We have a tremendous annual vast
age of life in America"
X x x
But we have been making progress
in extending the length OF the average
persons life, haven't we?' | asked.
Very much So answered DR..
Dublin. In the days of the Roman
Empire the average life of Roman
lady was about p years. In America
alone we have advanced the length
of the average human life IS years in
the last 100 years and years in the
last 25.'
What is the length of the average
human life in America today?" /
asked.
'F'ifty eight years." replied DR..
Dublin.
We'll, then. calculating from cur
present rate Of progress in extending
the average human life, by the year
2000 we ought to be living ~ more
years on the average and by the year
5000 we should be centenarians on the
average"
"Just minute" broke in DR..
Dublin. you are assuming that the
life of the average human being is
capable Of indefinite extension. That
is not true. At our present stage Of
it will only be possible to
advance the average life to a maxi
mum Of IS years.
But it seems TO me that since we
have made such marvellous progress
in almost blotting out such terrible
Evening star., 1927-05-22
BY HENRY w. BUM

| HE. following is brief SUM
mary Of the most important
news of the world for the
l. seven days NEEDED, May 2l:
Great Britain.--I mentioned last
week the raid by Scotland YARD ofn-
cials and London police on the oftices,
in Soviet House, London. OF the
Soviet Trade Delegation and ARGOS
Limited. which latter organization Is
the sole selling and purchasing agent
in Great Britain for the Union OF
Socialist Soviet Republics" The
search, which lasted four days, had
for ostensible object recovery of an
important British state document
which had disappeared and which
Scotland Yard believed Ton evidence
iustifying a search.warranD to have
found its way to Soviet House. The
strong rooms had to be forced and
proved to be nearly as massive as
the Bank Of England's vaults.
On Monday. the 10th, Sir William
Joynson- Hicks, the home secretary. in
formed the Commons that the lost
document had not been found, but
stated that documents seized might
bear on the matter" tof the missing
document) and that on Thursday after
completion of examination of those
documents, he would make further
statement. On Thursday he told the
Commons that his promised further
statement must be deferred to the
coming Tuesday, intimating that the
seized documents contain matter OF
such grave import as to call for most
minute examination and for cabinet
deliberations prior to their general
revelation.
The Soviet government has sent
note of protest TO London, which
asserts that 1.-The principle of i'm
munity of trade delegations and
representatives OF the Soviet Union
was embodied in the fifth article Of
the Anglo Russian trade agreement of
1921" and that 1.-The violent irruption
Of police into the premises Of the trade
delegation and the acts they coQlmftted
there were a fragrant violation" of
that article. "The absolutely uncalled
for raid on q government institution
of another state. apart from the ques-
tion of treaty rights belonging to 1t.
is a most serious and hostile act, with
out doubt jeopardizing the further
preservation of relations between the
interested states, with all the conse
quences without doubt" those rela-
lions are Jeoparulzedt out Brltlsn
government spokesman told a labor
questioner In the Commons that
neither the personnel nor the premises
of the Russian trade delegation enjoy
diplomatic immunity. Yet. non,
immunity conceded. and granting no
end of Russian provocation justifying
drastic action. the British government
would be IN an unhappy position
should ii turn out that the seized
documents are not very definitely and
substantially compromising. One
awaits Sir Williams Tuesday state
ment with extraordinary curiosity.
There il In the Russian note q de.
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lghtful touch of peculiarly Muscovite
inso!enca to the effect that the
Soviet's interior development is based
upon a definite economic plan and this
plan cannot be allowed to be jeopar-
died by British domestic political con-
siderations." The Soviet government
, reserves the right to make claims for
violation by the British government of
the trade agreement, for the insult
offered thereby and for material losses
growing out of the raid"
1t seems that. as the police forced
their way into one of the Soviet house
Offices, q Russian official was burning
some papers in CRATE; the lost docu-
ment may or may not have been one
of those papers.
X X Il
Cermany.-On Friday, May 13, there
was O. frightful crash on the Berlin
Stock Exchange, an inevitable result
of monstrously extravagant specula'
ton since the beginning of 1926: with
in that period prices of active shares
had advanced as much as ESQ per cent.
The speculators had drained the banks
to the point of very serious reduction
of the funds available to industry and
agriculture. Therefore, at the instance
of the president Of the Reichsbank,
the greater commercial banks (Which,
10 their credit, had for some time past
indicated the unWholesome character
of the boom in stocks) announced
drastic restrictions Of credits to spec.
ulative account. Whence the episode
that will long be remembered as Ber-
Inns "black Friday"
The general result therefrom will
be beneficiai--economic miasma re.
moved.
The Reichstag has voted, 323 to Al
1880 deputies absenting themselves), ex-
tension by two years of operation OF
the claw for the defense of the re-
public" with retention of the clause
forbidding return Of the ex-kaiser to
Germany.
Haly.-Resumptio of excavation OF
Hercuianeum has begun under gov.
ernment auspices. Important excava-
ton work was done between 1888 and
1880. but thereafter Pompeii, where
the conditions for work were SO much
easier, practically monopolized archie
illogical funds and effort, and excava-
tion at Herculaneum has been in
significant since the eighteenth CEN
turv. The eighteenth century efforts
exposed theater, basilica. forum ana
a. few houses and the villa of a
great Roman family tthe so-called
villa Suburbanal. From the city
proper a number Of marble and bronze
statues were recovered and (more i'm
portantl some mural paintings of
great beauty, of which the best pre-
served and most famous Is the "Leto
Niooe.'' Still. more important treas
ures were uncovered in the Villa
Suburbana, including number of
tions of lost Greek masterpieces, and
now housed in the magnificent Naples
Museum. Among them are the re-
posing ''Hern1es.' the Drunken
silenus." the Sleeping Faunus,' the
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Italy to Aid Films

Institution of a chair for film tech. y
nique and film chemistry is being IS
planned by the universities of both Il
Turin and Naples. This is for the pur,
pose of aiding in the development Of 'S
the Italian Aim industry. eAsb
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Authorities Of Nagasaki, Japan, are
seeking means TO prevent suicides by
jumping into the boiling crater of the
volcano Asotake. no less than so per-
sons having ended their lives there In
the past year. p
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Rhine Question Raised.

But the program for French fortifi-
cation raises at once the whole ques-
ton of the Rhine frontier Under the
treaty of Versailles ting Germans are
forbidden to construct any fortifica.
tons or maintain any. troops west of
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~ HE following is a brief sum
mary OF the most important
news Of the world for the
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THE PERMANCY OF PEACE

Nine years ago on November
Ii an armitice was signed that
brought relief to a war torn
world. The word "arlnistice" is
a common noun. The dictionary
defines it as "a temporary ces-
sation of hostilities by mutual
agreement; a truce"
But since that memorable &C.
casion there has been a tend
ency to call the armistice that
was signed THE Armistice. The
task for the world now is to
keep the word spelled with a
sar{ital "a" So long as that
can be done The Armistice will
remain a definite mark in the
worlds progress.
On the other hand, if The Ar
mistice is to be thought of as
stop in that one war it will not
necessarily signify that peace
is to be made permanent for
the future.
Great forces are at work to
make Armistice Day historic
event to celebrate not only the
peace that was, but the peace
that is to be. Armed force is be-
coming more unpopular because
mental and heart forces are be-
coming stronger. Diplomacy is
taking on common sense in
place of mere artful form.
World communication and the
diffusion of knowledge is re-
placing ignorance and selfish
arrogance. Professional war
producers are feeling the silent
but powerful rebuke of the mas
ses, and European cabinets are
giving way to the voices of the
people who must bear the i'm
plements of war and shoulder
the burdens of the CONSEQUENT
reconstruction.
In short, people are finding
themselves and human sympa-
thy is becoming more univer-
sal. Let every loyal citizen help
to make the armistice that was
signed on November II THE
Armistice that will bind the
world to a doctrine of perma-
nent peace.
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A Valuable Book

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that the historian spent ncaculabe of and
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AMONG VIRGINIA
COUNTIES


Twenty-seven counties in Vir
glnia have more than seventy
percent of all of the farms with
in their borders located on un-
Improved dirt roads. Fifty-five
counties have more than sixty
per cent of all of their farms
located on unimproved dirt
roads, and seventy-four count
les in the State have fifty per
cent or more of their farms sim
ilarlv situated.
These figures come to light
as the result of an investigat-
ion made in the University of
VIRGINIA Institute for Research
in the Cocial Sciences. Thew
we're complied as one of several
hundred items in "a Statistical
Study of Virginia" now conplet
nd and in press. This study is
the first to be completed of sew
eral problems into which inten
slve research is being made.
The data on which this table
IS based are derived from the
United States Census of Agri-
culture for 1925. While it is
fortunately true that much pro-
press has been made in the i'm
nrovement of State and even
country roads in Virginia, these
are the latest figures available,
and it is doubtful whether the
relative ranks among the count
les given have been greatly
changed since January 1, 1925.
The classification of farm
roads as made by he Census en-
umerator was in answer to the
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1927-10-27
Where ARE We
HEAGED FOR?

Where are the citizens of
Dickinson County headed for
N the coming election? Where
are you as as a voter of Dicken-
sen County headed for? One
might well say, from all eviden-
:es, that we are headed for the
rocks. But, the majority rules
and surely. there is time to turn
mother way.
Where should we be headed
FOR regardless of party creeds?
A corps of officers for this
county who will make it a bet
5er and safer place in which to
i've. How can we have this, if
we elect officers who aid and a.
oct crime? Does any honest
nan have q chance with a man
who will do his utmost with
money and fraud? Yes and No.
Yes, he has a chance if the cit
liens are headed the right way
and No if they are going in the
opposite direction.
Parents, what if your school
teachers were elected in the
same manner as these County
officers? How many of you
would want a teacher who
would buy votes, abet crime and
delve in vice, to instruct your
children? Not one. Then are
che county offices not as import
ant? For they, too, have influ-
once over your children.
II this pace is kellt up what
will the coming generation do
in order to be an office holder
There is 10 fixed limit. This
generation has cut the pattern
and they (the coming general
lon) like a seamstress will only
add a few touches. What viii
those touches be? No doubt.
but they will sink them deeper
IN the world of crime. When
are we going to stamp this out :?
Now is the time if ever.
Who wants a county officer
who will say to the outlaw. won
scratch my back and I'll scratch
yours" In other words. eff Won
will help elect me I'll let YOU
Violate the law and get by with
When we go to the polls on
election day let us go without
party prejudice, petty differ
ences and frivolous ideas. and
last but not least vote for the
man who will help blot out this
evil. One who is law abiding
citizen and one who would give
Justice regardless of any AFT
iations. ii1
Remember the majority of
the citizens elect the county
officers and that the majority
OF the county's citizens are iud-
ged by the officers they elect
A SubScriber
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