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KorMnjr Shall b* IndlJIereut ? wh>ch Advances the Cau?e of Truth and Morality, or which Concerns the Welfare of the Community In which we Live. roLUME 57 LEWISBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8. 1922 NUMBER 12 HISTORIC EVEKT. ?||i, mandate made by the English ; nnu-iit. being in :i measure a |tx w it:i the Jewish leaders, that |\.\vn be permitted to return to i,- in. me land. has recently been litied i?> the Supreme Count- il of t. i.iM.nue of Nations. The ratifi ed t<x>k place on .Inly the 24, ?>2. The Jews consider this to be LTun itrxl iloeument of all his rv. They place it above the ,.\n i Charter. They claim that it a ^ i : 1 to the whole world of the mo.ti hinii end of this age. When i,tl> sisid: "And they shall fall by f i-iljir <>f the sword, and the\ ,,U i c Ird away captive into ail li.niM and Jerusalem shall be uliU'ii down of the Gentiles, until jtiaie> of the ('.entiles be fulfilled, dike 21:24) His words were lit illv fulfilled, and we find that the &-s have been scattered through t tin- world for centuries, without mine. and yet not losing their intily. The world war of 1914 d the rapture of Jerusalem by neral Allenby, an English (iener as a result of that war, marked a ge in the world's history of tre indous inportance. It meant the ithknell of tlie reign of the Gen ?s and the restoration of Israel th the throne of David. It also red the way for the return of the us to their homeland and the end the times of the Gentiles. God's ek must tick for Israel once more j we shall see some marvelous relojxnients in Palestine, both lunercially and politically. [n any event it is the fulfilling of out standing prophecy which is [inning to take place in our day j time. In common with' all great i nts in the world which when in:,' place, the people of the inil did not realize what was tispiring. Just so we to-day do lake note of what is taking re and we wonder wh'y the con (?n s of the world. We to-day are iiii in the greatest age of the ?hi. In the passing of time many' rs may go by before the events in- past ten years and the im In/e few years, bring forth their taije; but :i,iiiid the froth and fo> of to-day a greater day and a jit er age is being worked out. HARD COAL SETTLEMENT. ho antracite operators on last rilay in resolutions adopted by wlicie..; committee, accepted the Jmsals made by Senator Pepper Heed of Pennsylvania, to re~ the production of coal in the |d coal fields of Pennsylvania. In resolutions the operators agree txlcml the wage contract in force ch 31, 1922, to August 31, 1923. proposal had previously been pled in principle by the leaders Wu' mine workers. This, as in ^settlement in the soft coal fields, pis the same wages as were in t March 31, 1922, when the Rkc was called. In the soft coal the agreement entends to Mar. jl'J'23. In the hard coal field, as I'e stated, to August 31, 1923. A fr'encc of six months as to the of expiration of the contracts Bie two fields. (ilitary instructors reduced. an economy measure, the War p;irliiu?nt has ordered from active fiie more than fifty retired of ??f the army who have been jfli'ly as military instructors in universities, colleges, high and other educational in llions throughout the country, r"- Ihe number thus relieved is :|i:i Charles K. Dorily, retired, '"I'd at (Irccnbrier Military l ewishurg. \\\ Va. lie will his home at Huntington. J'. tired ollicers will he rcplac ''uimissioned personnel from t1' 'live list. Itelired officers on duly receive full pay, while only receive three-fourths pay l(' "ii inactive status and no al liices. NEW UNIVERSITY BUILDING. ' proposed new chemistry pii'H for West Virginia Univer f'?r which an appropriation of h;is already been made, one of the .most .modern in Anient and equipment in the ''>? It will accommodate more -."?Hi students, thus providing ('"'future growth and dcvclop P "i the Department of Chemis P,n 'he basis of its rapid growth under Professor Friend lu'k. The chemistry work in Diversity has become of great "?nice. There are now fourteen rK'-, of professional rank cm? p1' in the various departinents. I,,'i when two hearts beat as P' i> dillicult to tell which is the WEST VIRGINIA'S RECORD. ? West Virginia made one or the j best records made by any State in the Union during the period of the war. E. II. Growder, provost mar shal-general, wrote Governor J. J. (lorn well on June 5, 11)18, that West ; \ irginia had developed a higher \ percentage of lighting men than any : State in the I'nion Between (?."? and 21) per cent of all .men called pass ed the rigid physical examination. I This was the second highest record j in the country. Wc.>t Virginia furnished 777 . j men, heing twenty-lifth in the list of 18 states. Of these al l were killed j 'in action and 117 died of wounds (and disease. There 2,877 of our boys wounded in battle. I Our State was busy at home while | I her boys were at the front. Our i great natural resources ? coal, oil, natural gas and gasoline ? were great factors in the success of the war. While the man power was de creased, production was increased. This was largely brought about by Governor Corn well's attitude to ward the idlers. Every able-bodied man was listed and compelled to work or fight. West Virginia pass- J ed the first compulsory work law , I ever passed in the United States.] j Other States followed our example. I Under the efficient ledership of ex-Go.vernor W. A. MacCorkle and Robert L. Archer, the people of West Virginia bought Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps to the i amount of $200,319,280. Voluntary contributions to the war activities of the ,Rcd Gross, Y. M .G. A,. Salvation Army, etc., amounted to $2,439,101. This did not include thousands of hours spent by women in the State making surgical dress igs, sweaters and com .fort kits In the campaign funds for the Red Gross in May, 1918, West Virginia oversubscribed her quota by 202 per cent. I REDUCTION OF WAR DEBT. Comparatively few people realize how rapidly we are reducing our j j war debt, which reached its peak on ! August 31st. 1919? $2G, 590, 000,000. Before the borrowing for the World War, the greatest debt the United States Government bad incurred came in the course of the Civil War, .and it reached its record height in August, 1805 ? $2,381,500, 000. Only three years ago, with the national indebtedness more than 11 times as much as the Civil War bor- j rowings, it would have sccjucd j .scarcely credible that in the troub lous financial time of the post-war j period the nation would succeed in ?reducin gits obligations at the rate . of more than .$1,200,000,000 a year. This, however, is just what has j been done, the debt standing on 1 July 1st last at $22,963,000,000. At | th'is rate of reduction, it is obvious that the debt will be entirely ex tinguished in twenty-three years, or in 1945. As compared with this j Great Britain lias, in the three years since 1919, brought down her total debt from its ih'igh figure of slightly more than 8,000,000,000 pounds to 7.700,0,00,000 pounds. Thus while the United States Government was effecting a reduction of 13 1-2 per cent, in its debt, the British Govern ment in the same three years reduc ed its obligations by only I 1-10 per cent. Our current efforls compare, j too, very favorably with the extinc tion o ft he Civil War debt. Th'ree years after its peak was reached, i ihe reduction amounted to only $133,000,000, or 5 1-2 per coni. against our present reduction ? $3. 033,000.000. or 13 1-2 per cent. SHERIFFS TO MEET, The sheriffs of West Virginia will hold a convention in Charleston i sonic time in October, il has bet n j announced by Slier i II" William .1 . j jlfalficld of McDowell. President of j the Sheriff's Association of this : State. This gathering, planned at J the suggestion of Walter Hallanan, State Tnx Commissioner, was to j have been held the middle of Sep tember, but has been postponed be- j cause of the unusual labor condi- j lions. The primary object of the convention is to get all the county, executives together and study the | needs of the State along the lines I of law enforcement and the other duties of th'c sheriff. A stand against | radicalism of all .sorts will prob ably be taken at that time. A number of prominent men in the state's business and public life will be o Ihe program for addresses. During the extreme hot weather the latter pari of last week, many persons were over came by heat in Chicago and other cities in the United Stales. Some died of heat. The hottest weather of the season was- registered. THE WILD LIFE LEAGUE. It is lamentable but true that the > limiting frontiers of this country are nearly gone. Very few section* remain of which it can be said "No man lias set foot there." Slaughter , and unsportsmanlike methods are ; rapidly driving much of our remain ? ing game to the wall. Only united t elVorl can save what is left of our | wilderness and its denizens. Only a few more generations and at the ; present rate of destruction, our van- 1 i shiny hunting grounds, fishing ' streams ml forests wil be gone for- ; ever ? unless something is done. i Today every descent citizen is in ell'ect a game warden. Infrac- j lions of the game laws have been re- ? duced to so low a minimum in this j State that it is no exaggeration to ! say that would-be offenders are no . longer afraid of the local game j wardens but rather of their own neighbors. For example, the State of Ohio | contains one hundred and forty as- j sociations of sportsmen organized | to stimulate the protection of game , and to promote its increase. A^mong | these organizations it is noteworthy that all of the,m outside of the large cities ace composed entirely or I chiefly of farmers. The total mem bership of these game protective as sociations in Ohio is 200,000. The smaller, but .more glorious State of West Virginia, is at the be ginning of a similar ,m?racle through theicreation of the Wild Life League Every citizen with so much as a spark of interest in the conserva- 1 tion of the forests, lish, game and I other natural resources of this com- j nionwealth should join this organi zation and enthusiastically support its work. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS. With the sending out this season of fifty new missionaries by the Foreign Mission Hoard of the South ern Baptist Convention, 2.">0 new workers have been set to foreign fields during the 7."> Million Cam paign, or one-half the goal that was set in the number of workers to be provided during that .movement, it is nnticipated the remaining 2,~>0 will go out during the remainder of the Campaign period that will ex pire in lHcembor, 102-1 . The work ers going out this season will enter the fields of China, Japan, Africa, Palestine, Brazil, Argentina, Uru guay, Ch'ile and Mexico. In asmuch as the largest .mission ary effort of the demonstration is centered in the Orient, the larger portion of the workers sailed from Seattle September 2nd, for stations in China and Japan. The missionar ies for fields of other continents sail from New York on various lines and some of them will not depart until September 30th'. j RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION. Emigration from Ih'c United States now appears to quite olFset ( immigration into this eountry. If the 3 per cent limit upon immi grants is continued, the present de cade may show but a small increase in our pi _ jlation. In spite of this, the increased de |mand for food from consumers on a higher standard of living, plus the export demand if it is not throttled! by loo high a tarilF, should go far to I insure :i profitable market during ; I he ensuing twelve months and ; Ihereafier for all thai our farms ! produce. Evidently there is lo he no more admittance of foreigners by the millions, .\meiicans must breed ;md rear their own help, their own population. CONFERENCE AT FAiBMONT. The annual Western Virginia Conference of the Methodist episco pal Church, South is in session in , the new Billingsley Memorial i Church of the denomination,' a mag-' niliccnt structure, just completed at Fairmont, W. Va., The conference , opened on Sept. (>t li and will be in ! session six days. Bishop U. V. W. ! Darling, of Huntington will preside.; This includes all the territory of < the M E. Church, South, in West | Virginia, except a small portion in-| eluded in the Baltimore Conference and the extreme southern part of the Slate which is in Moulsteine Conference. It, also, includes east ern Kentucky. An application for authority to issue $12,558,000 in 6 Ms per cent prefercd stock, was Hied on the 2nd with the interstate commerce coin mission by the Chesapeake ?X Ohio Hailroad. The railroad proposes lo sell the new issue at par, the appli cation said, and to use the funds for making general additions and bcltiv mets to its lines. HOGS ANO SNAKES. Snaki -, ;iri' ri'|)i)rli'tl to be more j plentiful this year than ever before. ? According to the lliological Survey i ml Forest r> Service, the country lit- j erally is being overrun with poison- | ous reptiles. T!ie reason given for , tli is is not I lie scarcity of far-famed j antidotes but the disappearance of j the "razor 'back porker" and the; building of fences separating var ious plots of plowed land and ! estates. Time was. pot so long ago.! the Department of Agriculture an- j nounced. when the life of a snake I even the deadly rattler, was a short one. The hog reigned supreme in ' the forests. There were no fences, and his range was a wide one. Like all hogs, but .more particularly the 1 razor-back, his appetite was both immense and queer. His favorite dish was live rattler. And in his greed the territory over which he ranged was cleared of th'is most dangerous of American reptiles. For a long time scientists marvel ed at the ability of the hog to con quer a poisonous snake in a free-for I all , catch weights open combat. They couldn't figure what the rattler did with his deadly fangs while the hog made his attack. Experiments were conducted and it was learned that the hog made no effort to avoid the snake or his bite. His heavy h'ide and the thick coating of fat just beneath b-js no circulation. The snake struck, but it had no more ef fect than biting a tree. The poison did not enter the circulation of the [hog. The came State Fence Laws, com ipelling owners of property to keep tWeir swine from roaming at large. I The razor-back being after no fash ion a thoroughbred, was barred, and in his place came the lazy, stall fed. corn fattened lierkshires. At about this time field workers for the two (lovernment services . learned snakes were beginning to , increase in numbers. And within j [the last year, it is announced, that .they have become so dangerous that employees have been equipped with 'emergency kits, so frequently are it-he'v at' eked by rattlers. The kits .'consist of a tiny lancet to open the [fang punctures and permit free lllow of blood and a quantity of es pecially prepared permanganate of potassiivm. The same condition which ob tains in the East in connection with | the increase in snakes also is true of j the West and Southwest. DIGS HIS OWN 6RAVE. Harlow W. Willis, veteran water plumper for the city of Salem, has just dug his own grave. He has al so dug a grave for his wife. A trav- J eling man, who tried to sell him some supplies, told the veteran pumper that he would not he around for quite a while, as lie was going on a vacation. Then the man, who has worked 22 years for the city, with* only 1 1 days ofT duty, waved his hand toward the hill at the highest point in the Odd Fellows' cemetery and exclaimed: "I'll take my vacation when I die, I up there on the point!" Willis dug both' graves, lined the, m with cement and filled them tip with earth. When required it i will tiike only a short time to re move the filling. m ? ^ i m LEGION INVESTIGATING. Sensational exposure of war and post -war grafting and profiteering is If) he made public in a series of ar ticles prepared for the American Legion Weekly, the first of which wil lappear in it< issue of Seplem-j her <Sl!i. according to announcement made by the American I.egion. The articles are fruit for may weeks spent hy careful investigators dig ging into the olTiciol files :> t Wash ington and gathering information in various parts of the country, with a view of demanding prosecution of guilty men who made millions dur- ; ing ami since the war through crim inal practices imposed on the gov- , eminent, and suits for recovery of, their illgot gain. INJURY TO COTTON. Moll weevil, destroyer of potential j wealth in cotton, the bugaboo of the cotton grower, had a record year and did 'itself proud in the fields of the south' last year by preventing production of 0,277,000 bales of ; cotton which, with seed that would I have been ginned, was worth *f?10.-j .'1 11.000 based on farm prices of December 1, last Careful study of the damages estimated to cotton by the boll weevil has just been pre sented to the department of agricul ture which shows that during the 13 years, 1003-10, the hypothetical value of the prevented production of co'ton from all causes totalled ! *1 1 , 1 73, 550, 000. IMPORTANT TO DEMOCRATS. Democratic men and women will please note the ("ill published this week in tiie Independent, as well as. in :i 1 1 the other Democratic news papers of the State, by K. F. Dunlap, ' State Chairman, and Mrs. J. 1?. Mooreland, Associate State ('.hair- ! man, for a meeting of the Democrat-! ic Executive Committee and the \ Democratic Associate (Committee to be held at the Chancellor Hotel in j I'arkersburg on Saturday. Septem? ! her IMh. at 1 o'clock This is an im portant meeting and every one. cs- j pecially the candidates from (ireen-; hrier county should attend. This is' a real Democratic year and a year of i opportunity for the Deniocrtic party j The people of the I'nited States, as they never did before, are demand ing service. No party can long func tion in this country unless it does render service. The money power of this country in the campaign of 1920, got control of the Republican party as it never had before. Mo ney was put up to fool the people and they were fooled. It is now found that a party in power bound secretely to serve only a certain class of people h"as no place in a government as ours. Again we say this is a year of opportunity for the Democrats. A year in which they can go before the people with a solomn pledge of service to man kind ? all mankind, regardless of work or station. The fundamentals of our Constitution recognizes no classes or makes no distinctions. It is therefore, a service to all, with out fear or favor of any. Democ racy knows nothing but justice. Therefore, Democrats, awake to the opportunity, not for selfish victory to win in November, but go to work for a victory for service to all the people of our country without class distinction or favoritism of any kind in mind. This should he our ideal and our goal ? Victory for service: I'nivorsal service. HEAVY FIRE AT LOGAN. Fire early hist Sunday destroyed one large building in the town of Logan and badly damaged .several others nearby, with a total loss es timated at approximately a million dollars. The telephone exchange, which was in the building where the lire started was destroyed. The heaviest losses besides that to the telephone company were on the J White and Browning building, the] one destroyed, the Klk lodge, th'e j Logan Coal Operators Association and three stores and a number of otlices, all in that building. Howley F .White and Thomas K. Browning, owners of the building, set the loss on it at $100,000 while the Chesa peake and Potomac Telephone Co., expected its loss would be about $90,000. The cause of the fire is un known. A RECORD. Married the lirst time when 7-1 and the second ti,me when 78 after which the stork brought nine babies to his home is the record of James Henry Turner, Confederate veteran, 91 years old, who is an inmate of the soldiers home at Beauvoir, Miss. Mr. Turner's second wife died two vers ago. "I never went to a picnic nor dances nor parties, where there were girls, and grew up to be a typical old bachelor," the veteran said, "(.ills somehow failed to at trct me even after I was grown." lie joined the Church li years ago when he was NO. CHILD WELFARE COMMISSION, The West Virginia Child Welfare Commission met in Wheeling Tues day in the office of the Kxccutive Secretary, Miss I lei I ie L. lla/lett, to prepare program for their fall work and to consider the preparation of the recommendations which they are to make to the coining session of the Legislature. The Commission has for th'e last ten months been studying and considering the data assembled relative to the laws which are already on the statute books of West Virginia, and comparing theni with the laws effective in other States and the standards advocated by authorities in this work. In studying the laws of West Virginia it was very illuminating to find that West Virginia ranks very favorably with the laws effecting children and child welfare as compared with other progressive States. Mrs. L. K. McClung, of P.upcrt this county, is a member of this Com mission. Prisoners in Sing Sing have pe titioned the warden for electric fans. No wonder the prison is gett ing popular. BUSINESS BOY. An unusual example of thrift and industry is shown by the example of Norville Fraslier. a thirteen year old boy who saved his pennies, nickels and dunes instead of wast ing them on candy and other con fections. Norville is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Allen Fraslier, who moved from Fort (Jay, to Huntington a year or so ago. After a few years of saving [jen nies. Norville discovered that he had aeemnulated enough to start a small business of his own. lit* has erected a small grocery store and soft drink stand located near Ninth' Street and Washington avenue in West Huntington, near the boy's home. The little store was paid for and is being run with the money saved by young Norville. The business ad venture is proving a success as a re sult of the boy's close attention to his business. Another interesting fact is that one-tenth of Norville's profits are set aside as a tithing fund which he contributes to religious work. Norville is in the seventh grade at school and is especially adept in ^inall business affairs which have been entrusted to him. At the age of 13 he is well on the road toward success. The ability to save is what money is what young Frasher regards as one of the chief requisit es of a successful start in a business career. ? Wayne News. ^ ? ? ? jf THARP SURRENDERS. Quince Tharp. wanted for the murder of Sheriff Butler, of Allegh eny county, Virginia, surrendered to Sherill" W. ;1{. Woods, of Webster County. .Sunday night. He had been in hiding in the Puzzle hole neigh borhood. about six ?miles from Web ster Springs, since the middle of last week, when he escaped from a posse. Tharp was sullcring from severe wounds in his throat, inflict ed during the battle with the Vir ginia officers, and sent a note to Sherill' Woods that he would sur render to any otliccr of the law, on condition th:?t the reward of $?2,0()0 offered for his capture should be given to his wife. Immediately on receipt of the note, the sherill* set out to the place designated and the man was found at the home of his sister, Mrs. Dave Woods. He was turned over to Virginia authorities. Tharp is about 40 years old, mar ried. and lived in Webster county all his life until about one year ago, when he went to Virginia, where it is said, he was engaged in moon shining. EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN. There 'is now being conducted by the Presbyterians of West Virginia a campaign for funds for Christian Education. The goal is set at $1 , 100,01)0.00 to be divided among a number of needy schools. $300,000.00 of this goes to The Lewisburg Seminary and $100,000. to Davis-Stuart School. In a very 'short time you will be called on by the solicitors to invest something in educating the young people of West Virginia. The Bible is the text book in ;ill the schools helped. The success of the ell'orts | depends upon every citizen of Greenbrier county. Give them a fair hearing. The iollowing are the Greenbrier CtimmitU'e of the West Virginia I'resbyterian educational Campaign to raise One Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars: Geo. 1'. Alderson. !?' II Anschulz, i,l no. I Armstrong. S C Heard. Bev. I) A Beery, K I. IJcll. Mason Hell, B. M. Mell. M C Brackman. W li Bur [ delle, 1*' il Campbell, II W Comstock i Geo N Davis. Bev W II Duliose, .1 J ' Kchols, I *11 ii 1 Ilogsell, A M Hubbard, 'II 1' Hunter. .1 n ? ? B l.aing, .1 S Mc j Whorter. II B Moore, W K Nelson, ?S p Preston. S I, Price. Samuel Price, W F l-iichardson. B K Bobin j son, K W Sydensticker. B H I. Wood JUSTICE CLARKE RESIGNS. Besignation of Justice John II. Clarke, from the United States Su preme Court and the intention to point former Senator George II. Sutherland, of Utah, to succeed him, has been announced by President Harding. Justice Clarke's resigna tion will become effective Septem ber 18th. when he reaches the age of 05 years. A desire to serve his neighbors and some "causes" in ways which would not be possible while he was holding public ollice was given by Justice Clarke in j I letter to President Harding as the impelling reason for li'is leaving the bench. Justice Clarke was appoint ed by President Wilson and it is stated that he will enter a campaign j in behalf of the League of Nations. [He has always been a progressive.