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The Pioneer 'HERE hlUu^ THE PRICKS,-THE PEOPLFV I- I ?. I. "I r VaI/>TAIK. INAVH- hV ) NEl l.i KNCE ANI> UNHRlBED BY GAIN" ESTABISHKD 1882. VTAKTINSBURG, W. VA., SATl'KD\V. OOTOBKIt 9. 1915. VOL. 34 SO. 31 Whakonsiitulss R a ^ f nn ** rv (T. ?s- C; ?' ? V <!t. "<L? 3 mrt In a New Jersey t >\vn, a (lav or two ago, a man was arrested for beting in the street, lie had no home and no money. Taken to tile police station, jit* said lie could read and write ten languages. I It appeared to think it was a very hard world which would deny a living to a man so highiv educated. It is very likelv that, despite Ins ability to write and speaK so luanv languages, this 111:111 was not educa ted at all, in ti 1 c* real sense ot the word education. 1 he only possible position for which the ability to speak and write many languages? and that abilitv alone could lit a man would be interpreter, and in a country where one language is almost universal very few interpreters are needed. \ 011 might add to this man's accomplishments, and still not add to his usefulness. lie might be familiar with all the classics, with the ancient and modern philoso phers, and still be unable to earn his living. And lie might, 011 the other hand, be barely able to read and write in one language and still prosper?perhaps make a fortune by the application of useful knowl edge. "More learning is far from wis dom. It does not necessarilv indi cate ability. And it is ability that counts in the fight for existence that every human being ought to make. You can stuff a boy with Latin and Oreek in a college?he can take all the prizes for languages and still be a cumberer of the earth when his course is finished. Unless education is complete, unless it develops the mind in every needful direction, it is not good education. The best service that any college can do is to awaken a thirst for knowledge, to take a student far enough along this or that path to interest him in following it. After that, if he has intelligence, he can go 011 his way, and reading and experience will teach him far more than he could learn from any pro fessor. '' The point that we make in this connection is, that the young edu cated men of the race must turn their education into real racial up liit, bv touching and elbowing his fellows at every angle and do those practical things worth while. C,et a job, stick to it and make of it what you want it to be. ?J. C. Lindsay, in Savannah Tribune. WE SUSI'KCT UK'S ONK OF OUR TRIJ5K. The recent retirement of the Rev. John Clifford from a London pastorate of fifty-seven years is an event worthy of comment far be yond the confines of the I'aptist Church to which he nominally be longs. The Christian Common wealth speaks of his amazing ener gy, his unsurpassable devotion, his larjse heartedness and breadth of mind, his championship of unpop ular causes, his readiness to help individuals and movements as be | ing the adequate explanations of j tlie gratitude of countless thous ands. At the farewell service Mr. I and Mrs. Lloyd Georpe sat on the platform. I)r. Clifford welcomed his successor,*" the Rev. S. W flushes, as coming to a home, not simply to a church but to a Broth erhood . TilK NFC, RO FRANKS. In my little stuntncr retreat in the Jersey Hills lam reached bv the horrified outcry against the murder ers who lynched Leo M . Frank, a w ii ite ()v( >tginn. i want to assure you and \ our renders that I am fully in accord \\ i' li all 11 lose who now condemn the (jeorgia 1110b law. I am some what more consistent than the prominent people who now express their indignation so vehemently against the lower element" of Georgia whose prejudices were in flamed by designing agitators. How about the inflamed passions in the thousands of cases where Negroes, men and women, were murdered by lynching mobs, gen erally even without the chance of a trial? And not only in Georgia, the home of Tom Watson, but in many other states? Are .Negroes not also human beings entitled to the lull benefits ot civilization? Why get excited only over the rrank case, and not equally over the many Negro ones? Why should the press not give as much space to the outrages against Negroes as it devotes to the Frank case? Is it a case of class psychology and race prejudice only? Perhaps Leo Frank, in his death, may serve the cause of social jus tice by calling attention to the real influences that stand back of the revolting injustice under which our colored brothers and sisters are suffering terribly.? Moses Oppen heimerinThe Crisis. 'twas f;yf;r thus. As told in our issue of last week, the hunt for the assailant of the Mt. Healthy girl brought no result, as everybody was looking for the Negro in the case thereby giving the white man a chance to escape. The search ended a few days ago. After the bloodhounds following the trail leaped upon a cot in the camp of some white man 'who had never admitted colored men, the lame excuse was made that possibly "the Negro" had slept in that cot while escaping the officers. A rumor became current that the Negro had been seen 011 the road several morn ings,eating tomatoes,-by the daugh ter of a rural mail carrier who was carrying mail for her father during his vacation. She was directed to sound the alarm if she saw the Negro again. The next morning, lo and behold, there sat the man under a tree eating tomatoes! She gave the alarm. 1 he guards and citizens in hot haste responded. They sur rounded and closed in on the Negro. Then the surprise came. Inst-ad of being a Negro, he was a dark white man. well known, had form erly been in business and had ac quired the habit recently of taking an early morning v. .ikand refresh ing himself upon tomatoes. That ended the search for the Negro." ? Cincinnati Union. The Power 0! The Submarine i The testimony oi science as to the j revolution that is going on in meth I ods * j f defense ill list i atos, in the following passages, the need oi [delay and caution before we rush i i: i. ? T-;v <-N | . s i \e a''.it futile policy o! c 11 i 11 _? :i c rvat a mvthat would hci'i'tfL i 1 o ?Ic lend ? ? U I se 1 \'e:?> only 'from 0.!U:ii:;i and Mix'.eo. ' in the , l?'!"!? *:i"i Mae;azi ? lot A ugl::-1 , lr . i : I < uick. in an a! tide enti tle i. ' ?The !' :.i: i? as u l'eacc 111:1;?.-i . ,-resects a: inie'iln that ;:l?i have wide conridei at'.on. lies ,vs: .\t the moment, sea power is fundi.?11 i ng just a> the galleys functioned at the battle oi Lepanto, for the last time. * The sul.)marine is the negation of sea power. It equalizes things between nations. It creates a universal stalemate at sea. It can sink any, other warship except another sub- ( maiine, which it can not sec nor follow. It can prevent the trans-j port of troops by water, thus put- , ting an end to conquests like many 1 of tljLosvLof the past. * * * It'j makes peace at sea the only prac- ! ticable thing. It makes real war I at sea impossible, literally so, just j as debating between a blind man and a deaf man is impossible, j These statements are somewhat an- | tieipatorv; they relate to the very; i near future when submarines will j be as plentiful off every defended : shore as moving buoys in every yacht harbor. The future history ) of the world will be far different! from what it would otherwise have j been because of the submarine, j The mastership of the seas has' passed from everv nation. Defense ! ' . t is made perfectly practicable against overseas expeditions everywhere, i Japan and Great Britain are forever safe from invasion once their sub- i marine forces are developed, but they are capable of being starved j by their enemies. We, of conti- i ner.tal position, are in better ca^e than ever before as against trans- ' marine foes, actual or potential. The submarine gives us only two j possible enemies on whom we can wage war-Canada and Mexico.! * " * It carries out over all the seas a stalemate a complete as that which exists in the trenches in France, a stalemate in which real battles are impossible, in which de structive war on commcice is raised 1 to the nth power, and in which \ world intercourse must be based on peace, or insofar abandoned as to make the very existence of the in sular commercial nations hazard - ; OtlS. Nikola Tcsla, in an interview in the New York Times of August 1 , j enlarges on the marvelous possibili ! ties of the near future. He says: W e can main lain pe^ce for our selves and help to maintain it for the world by adopting m< thodi radical ly different from those that have o signally failed in JCurope. Hither- i to it has been humanity's plan to! preserve peace by creating forces for j defense. But I am sure that the jl'nited States can 111> more toward s promoting the wot U1 s progress and insuring its own tran.|uility by ma king itself invulnerable than b\ ma king itself invincible. 1 * 1 We already have means at hands, not merely theoretical but demonstra l)le, and in a measure experimental ly proved, which, if consequential ly employed, would make it impos sible for any hostile force to imper i 1 our tran-juility. liven now"wireless eonti ol lioin J the shore ot ci.ewless, and therefoie I |o! duubly offensive vessels, ? s .i ?.?. ? sibilitv, thou eh with th< 11 a11 torn :tl | ie englm s. nutoniat ic M<*i :mj: :.e;n an ! automatic weapon^ they will 1 >?. ! well out at sea. It is my beliel Uu:t we 11i>111 << I install numerous wireless control! ing plants undei the command of com petcnt olhcers, and that to eaeli should be assigned anumbei of suit marine, surface and aerial craft. * 1 f we were p ro pei 1 y equipped with such devices of de fense, it is inconceivable that any battleship or other vessel ol an ene~ my ever could yet within the / one of action of these steel automatic craft, without incurring a lisk of annihil 11 i r > 11 amounting almost to certainty. And such a danger would never be braved." This testimony, together with Norman Angell's trenchant article in the August number of the "New Republic" on "A New Kind of Warfare," is to be commended to those who are now considering new and drastic methods of compulsory training of our boys. ? Lucia Ames Mead , in I'nity. TCRNS BLACK WHITK, Dr. J. W. King, of Bradford, Pcnna., told a number of his col leagues at a recent medical meeting how he turned a Negress' skin white as the result of an accident, lie treated a Colored woman lor lumbago by freezing one leg from the hip down to the ankle with other. "After a week or so.'' said Dr. King, "she returned to my of lice and said: " 'Doctor, the lumbago is gone, but I think I hall have to prosecute you for nii.Vj eatment. You've done more than you said you would .'' "The leg I had treated was per fectly white and is so today." Some of the othei doctors prest nt agreed that ether freezing had been known to remove the pigments in the skin, but they say Dr. King's case is unusual, nnr,k()wins111r;3111<>\<. Seattle, Wash. ? Only 45 years! of age, William A. Yrooman, reg imental 'jUartermaster sergeant of the 9th cavalry, retired on Septem ber 12 after thirty years continuous service, with pay amounting to j?/>7.50 per month. His entire ser vice was with the Ninth. Yrooman enlisted in 1S<S6 at I'uf falo, N. Y., when only K> years old. He served in th Indian cam paiyn oflS90-?N91 . was.it Santiago also the Philippine campaign of 1900-'02. He qualified in 1<S94 as distinguished marksmav. the high Things That fire Unsold Of the making of book* there is no end. 'Pons of them emerge daily from the laboring presses. What innumerable things they tell? Yet much more they leave untold. Thei e are t houghts men do not writedown, but hide them as then shame. Kvcivauthoi lias visions n"siieeoide i. '.ears unsaid, lmpes not I breathed. It his silent soul.should j 1 eeome vo< n! * w aat a I ?< >< >k The \\ *>rld is full < i va^t reti jecnees. There is the dark hall ot the iiiuoii, unlit, tinseen. Tlkie aic the crowded nivsteims of the nLiis. t >1 the ill we gt. t but tins points ol light. W hat is going on in those globes, many ot them eolossal beside onrs? No entertain ing correspondent has ever sent lis any news. \Yc and stellai lolk g:t/.e wonderinglv at each other, forever d nmb. Your duty looks at yon with snch eager eves. How he longs to grasp your meaning. And to ns he and all animaldom as a dailc pit. What do bees and birds think.'' Beneath the mirror surface of the ocean are more lives than in our air; between ns a shut door; all their business an impenetrable se cret. We human beings are enigmas to each other. Ivven in love's confes sional is a residue unspoken. There are things in you that you have never told a soul. You have had suggestions whispered to you by your inner self which you have hurriedly rejected, amazing im pulses you have promptly clamped down; you refuse to admit even to? yourself that you have had them. What beast hungers, what crime forces. what incoherent anarchists, what wild cries are there, happened down under the hatches of youi soul' Two that have lain side by side for years have each concealed in the heart, locked up in the mind's keep, weird, pale prisoners of mem ory that only pe<*? out through grated windows, ::i dreams oi in morbid moments, and ?hall die with them. We know but the stirlacos. of souls, but the symbols of things. .None of us was ever present-at the wedding of hydrogen and oxygen, or even saw an atom dance, or was ever present at the birth of consci - ence. The significant affairs of the world take place behind veils. l/.-t us be very loath to judge one another, and avoid harsh and hard estimates, for we know little ol what passes in the deeps of souls. jest qualification in the army Sergeant Yrooinan received his ? retirement papers at I>ouglass, | Arizona, where tlie Ninth is sta 'tioned, on Sept. 12, and the next | day he was escorted by tlie regi nif ntal band mid a large number of his eomrades when In took the , train for Cheyenne, where lie visi ted before coming on to Seattle, lie will make his future home in Seattle.