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FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1919.
THE FARMERS STRIKE.
This seems to ho the era of strikes,
strikes of uli kinds and in all activ?
ities..
There arc two classes who have
not struck and not likely lo do so.
One is the merchants, the other, the
farmers.
The merchants have no occasion to
strike. They are getting on pretty
well. If an article of food or merch?
andise increases in price the merchanl
just makes up the increase on his
goods, and passes it up to the eon
sumer. Another class is the farmer.
He never "strikes" except at hard
work. For two years he has had the
price of his wheat guaranteed, and
corn and hogs have advanced along
with wheat, and the farmer is gett?
ing along very well, thank yon. He
is riding now in automobiles, and his
wife and daughters are wearing fine
clothes including tooth-pick, peg-heel?
ed shoes. The cattle men have some
cause to strike, just now, and hold
their cattle for better prices, if such
a thing were possible. Strikes shorten
production and increase juices.
What would he more appalling than
a farmers general strike'.' To refuse
to sow and cultivate would mean fa?
mine and starvation, of course, and
such sorrow as the world never ex?
perienced. The farmer grumbles and
growls but stays on the job and feeds
the world, wins wars and keeps the
worlds machinery humming. He is
not as contended as his situation justi?
fies or as much so as be should be.
Nevertheless, he goes ahead, from
year to year, and feeds and clothes
the world. No strikes for him, than!,
goodness!
If he should close his granaries
for even a short time who can esti?
mate the calamity that would fol
low? And the world is coming to rec?
ognize bis worth, lie "is coming into
his own" has already arrived. It fol?
lows, that cooperation with the farm
er should be the chief aim of all busi?
ness concerns, and of every man what?
soever.
THE "CONQUERING HERO."
General John J. Pershing reachi d
the shores of his native land a few
days ago, the proud hero of the great
war, and commander of the finest
army that ever fought.
He was justly acclaimed ami ap?
plauded and welcomed by enthusi?
astic multitudes in the Metropolis of
the nation. After two years as com?
mander of America's great army in |
France, he comes home to receive the)
"well done, good and faithful scr- j
vant" from a grateful people. II,
fought a good fight. All Kurope join<
with America in according praise to
the leader whose fearless army skill?
fully maneuvered, turned the tide und
freed Kurope.
However, "lest we forget," it should
be said, that behind him and in front
of him was marshalled the braves!
and strongest army that was ever,
mobilized on a battle field. Amid the
parade, music and great speeches and j
all, the "dough-hoy" should not lie
overlooked or forgotten. Great armies'
make great leaders. The greatest
leaders are powerless with out n
great army of true soldiers behind
the guns.
THE SCHOOL BOOK BLUNDER. j
- I
Did somebody blunder or what?
When school Opened here on Monday '
morning there wasn't a school book J
in town. The Virginia Book Company
had the contract, we believe, but for !
some reason the books failed to reach '
town until yesterday. The teacher: '
managed lo hold the children to?
gether as best they could. The books
came on yesterday, but the entire
week was practically lost, due to
somobodys failure to have the bool B
ready for the opening.
No doubt the delay was unavoid?
able, but it was awkward and regret
able, all the same.
LaCLEDE MISSOURI.
Despatches state that General Per?
shing will leave Washington today
or just as soon as he can get away,
for a visit to his native state, Missouri.
The papers state that he intends visit?
ing Jefferson City, the Capitol, Kan?
sas City and other places of note in
the stute. Not so. Nothing of thi?
kind. The objective of his visit is
LaClcdc, his boyhood home. It's a
ong cry from France, Washington
?and New York, to the little town in
the Missouri hills. Naturally, nftei
I all the excitement attending his home
I coming, the glare and glitter, the
Bcrcam of whistles and blare of
I trumpets, his mind turns toward his
, home town. The little village, too
I small to find a place on the map,
unknown?even unheard of or heard
? of for the first time as Pcrshings
j birth place. It is the best and most
! beloved town on earth, no doubt to
John Pcrshing. If a man doesn't long
land love to go back to his boyhoou
'home it is pretty generally true thai
he was not kind and true as a boy. It
is complimentary to the man and to
his old homefolks its well, that be
loves to go back and that they givi
him welcome when he goes.
Speed and Efficiency
(Iticllinond Virginian.)
With every puropsc for which they
convened them elves accomplished,
the members of the general assembly
who b it ihe cnpitol after lycnty-threc
davs of bard labor are justly entitl?
ed to the thanks of the entire state
for their conscientious endeavor and
notable achievements. The Virginia
Good Itoads' Association, whose ef?
forts brought about the special ses?
sion, announced through its acknow?
ledged reprcsetntivc in thes enate that
the results were satisfactory in every
way and that no request of the asso?
ciation hud gone unheeded.
The federal aid for the state high?
way system has been met, the high-]
way department enlarged and re- j
organized, and the way cleared for
the greeat mad building program
which will place Virginia on aa equal
fooling with her neighbors whose
progressivencss has been a constant
source of discomfiture in the past. j
Although the upper house has been
repeatedly "twitted" (to use the seil-l
ate expression) for its dilatory tnc-i
ties, the amount of work accomplished
within the short, space of twenty
Ihr.lays probably establishes a re-!
cord for quick action. The senate has
not been niisly, every move has been
carefully considered ami fully debat?
ed, btil the time consumed in speeches
was more than olTsel by the repeated
night sessions of that body and the
more important committees,
The house has been repeatedly com?
plimented for disposing of mailers
while the senate was thinking about
them, but the fact remains that prac?
tically all the constructive legisla?
tion passed by the two bodies was
conceived and matured in the senate.
In particular does this refer to lie
senate finance committee. where,
every tax measure adopted was plan?
ned and worked out. To this committee
is due Ihe distribution of the (ax bur-'
den over a variety of subjects rather
than concentrating on the general
property tax.
Itolll bodies have worked out and
faithfully, many lliembl IT being en?
gaged during the greater part of Ihe
session fur from twelve to sixteen
hours per day. Passage of Ihe toads'
bills by no means constitutes the
whole of the legislative achievements. I
Other notable mcasurcspasscd on at
the special session include the anti?
trust bill and the cold storage bill,'
both emergency measures designed to
relieve Ihe steadily increasing pres?
sure on die distracted consumer.
Scores of bills of local importance
have been passed, many of them be.
ing of a most prosing nature although
not of general interest. An enormous
amount of real work has been done
ami every mmber can well be proud
of having assisted in doing in slight?
ly more than three weeks what would
eonst'ttlte a formidable last; at a
regular scsison of sixty days.
.tiny tails To Agree In The Trial til
Hall Ami Is Discharged.
Mantissas, Va., Sept. !!.?While six
men insisting oh acquittal and the
other six on a light sentence, the case
<-f Prohibition Inspector William ('.
Hall. trial for killing two boot-:
loggers al Fisher's Hill last March,'
resulted Monday afternoon in a hung
jury and December -J;i set as the date
ft r the new trial.
Judge Ii rent discharged the jury at
:> o'clock, just twenty-one hours af?
ter the ease had been submitted. In?
spector Hall was released on renewal
of the $10,000 bail furnished by .1.
Sidney Peter.-, Prohibition Commis?
sioner, and I.. (). Wcndcnburg, coun?
sel for the defense.
Tile hung jury did not come as a
surprise to anyone acquainted with
the situation, as the report was cur?
rent early in the day that a portion
of the jurors weruset on a verdict of
manslaughter, f irst intimations that
lie jury was hopelessly disagreed
lather surprising to Attorney I.. O.
VVendenburg and others of the de?
fense, who were firmly convinced
that an early ucquittul wouhl result.
Inspector Hall was the fust of the
four prohibition officers to stand tral
for the murder of I.. I). Hudson and
Raymond Shuckleford, who were kill?
ed on ihe night of March 2(1 in Shen
andoah county while bringing 2-10
quarts of whiskey into the state from
llaltimorc.
The officers, Hall, Sweet, Dunlcvy
and Sullivan, Who stopped the auto?
mobile in which Hudson and Shackle
ford were bringing the whiskey south,
blocked the road with (heir car when
Ihey had learned positively (hat (ho
whiskoy-ladcned vehicle was headed
for them. The liquor car stopped
when the obstacle was seen, when one
of the officers called out to Shackle
ford that he was under arrest. Shack
leford is said to have reversed his
car. then shot forward with increased
speed, narrowly averting a collision
with the enr of the prohibition de?
partment.
Hall sprang to the running board as
the machine dashed past and was
fired on immediately by Shackleford,
one of the bullets passing through his
coat, Hall returned (he fire, when
young Hudson seized him around the
neck ami bit him on the head with a
full quart of whiskey. The other mem- ?
hers of tin' probibtt:on department1
opened fire on the fleeing ear, think-'
ing Hail hail been shot, and the car
I crashed into a ditch.
I Shackleford was found to bo dying
and Hudson fataily wounded. The
younger bootlegger died in a Win-;
i Chester hospital on the day following
and the four officers were arrested for.
the murder of the two men. Judges
Sims and Prcntis, of the supreme!
court of appeals, fixed the'r bail at
$1(1,1)0(1 each and Commissioner Pet?
ers and Attorney Wendcnhurg fur?
nishing security. I
Shnckleford's misfortune in having
but one leg and Hudson's youth, be?
ing but eighteen ycears og age, has
been capitnllized both prior to the
trial and by (hep roseciltion in ap?
peals to the jury. Hudson referred to
as "that helpless boy" stood six feet
in height and tipped the scales at
1X0 while evidence introduced by the
defense would indicate that Shackle?
ford was not indulging in this maiden
splurge of crime.
Experts or Theorists?
Which?
The packing industry is intri?
cate, complex?far more so than
the railroads or the telegraph.
Every day multiplying needs
of society increase its problems
and multiplying responsibilities
demand more of it.
Highly trained experts, spec?
ialists of years' experience,
thinkers and creative men, de?
vote their lives, their energies,
their activities, to solving the
problems of the packing industry
and meeting its widening duties.
Swift & Company is not a few
dozen packing plants, a few
hundred branch houses, a few
thousand refrigerator cars, and
a few million dollars of capi?
tal, but an organization of such
men. It is the experience, in?
telligence, initiative and activity
which operates this physical
equipment.
Can this intelligence, this ex?
perience, this initiative and cre?
ative effort which handles this
business at a profit of only a
fraction of a cent per pound from
all sources, be fostered through
the intervention of political
theorists, however pure their
purposes? Or be replaced by
legislation ? Does Congress really
think that it can?
Let us send you a Swift "Dollar".
It will interest you.
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Pcrshing Leaves Shade Of Kcgrot.
I'aria, Sept. 8.?General Pcrshing's
departure for America is regarded by
writers for the Paris press as mark?
ing the definite termination of allied
efforts.
Although the papers here general?
ly lay stress oil the last message of
the American commander in chief in
which he expressed the .'.ssuranee that
common action on tic battlefield has
cemented forever the bonds of union
between Franco ami the United
Slates it is evident from the tone of
the editorials that little hope is felt
that Prance can count on the same
active aid in time of peace as was
given her bv America in thes tress
of war.
Pertinnx, writing in l.'Kcho do
Paris, says:
"With the departure of General
Perilling, following the recent depar?
ture of field Marsball Ilaig, tin mili?
tary unity of the western powers is
again weakened. A short time after
the armistice the economic unity
practically disappeared. As for po?
litical unity, the results of the peace
conference debates seriously endan?
gered it.
"Once the object of an alliance is
accomplished, the union of nations
must necessarily diminish. Each na?
tion strikes out into new fields, often
blindly without remembering that it
was unity which won the victory.
This tendency is notable especially in
lOltgland and America, whose pjcoplc
have not been subject to centuries of
danger and who naturally do not ap
preciatec the peril which the conti?
nent constantly faces.
"Some Americans and British pro?
claim that the military and commer?
cial power of Germany is broken and
that therefore the watchword must
be 'splendid isolation of good busi?
ness.'
"Others have dreamed of a Mossi
anic reform ol the Universe, and oh-'
serving that Europe declines to fol j
low them in this path, are inclined]
to nbondon Europe ns accursed. |
"Nevertheless the econom'c danger!
which succeeds the military peril calls!
for even closer unity.
Easy To Pb ase.
Farmer?"so you're an oxnnricnced
milker, hey. Now, which side UV a
cow do you set on when von milk
her?"
Applicant for job?"On, I ain't a
bit partickler, if the cow ain't!"
Itadidcal Knee Leadership.
(Lynchburg News.)
Or. Motnn, who succeeds Booker
Washington as head ofthe TuskcgCC
Institute, is frankly bewildered. Ho
reeogniy.es the presence of a general
ivgro frame of mind with respect to
the whites which both startles and
confuses him. "I have? never known
th" colored people to have a more in
tense feeling towards the white peo
lir.ln than ill. present." he recently de?
clared, "and I have never known a
till" when there was less reason. I
never knew a t:me when the white
nei.nle of the south?not only the
leading white people, but the aver?
age white man?were more anxious
limn at present ti> I?' nbsolutcly fair
and just to the negro. This is also
true of the north. There never was n
time when the south, and the north,
too, saw more clearly the value of the
negro as an economic factor in in?
dustrial operations. I never know a
time who: southern white people felt
more chagrttctl and humiliated at the
awful crime of lynching then they do
today, and 1 never Knew a time when
they were more determined to put
down mob rule, whether aimed at
black or white, than now. We, north
and south, should make up our minds
that there is room enough, there is
opportunity enough for colored and
white to w?lk peacefully and marmo
niuosly here in America, each living
Iiis life unhampered by any net of
any untoward atitude of the athcr,
and I hope that our leaders in every
community, white and black, will get
together and smotb out matters that
are misunderstood, so that America
can teach the World that black people
and white people can live peacefully
and harmoniously in our great coun?
try."
If Dr. Moton would lake Ib.- time
to probe deeply into the problem
which be confesses total inab'lity to
solve, WC are ?piite sure that he would
find the reason in the intemperate
ncss, and radicalism, and the utter
reckesness which chnractorikofl the
negro leadership, especially in the
north. There is Dubais, for example,
a colored race agitator of the north,
?who has for years been employing his
time both in the negro press and upon
the platform, with a view of stirring
up and putting into action the very
?worst impulses which animate the
heart of bis race?preaching doctrine
"which can never be seriously enter?
tained bv the great masses of the
whites who are concerned in the pre?
servation of Anglo-Saxon civilization
?but. nevertheless feeding the f'ros
of hopeless aspirations on the part of
the colored population and of implac?
able antagonism towards the whites
-all of which has hue recent.lv cul?
minated in blond race riots in Wash?
ington and Chicago. Dubois, unhappi?
ly, types a class of negroe orators and
writers to which the vast majority of
American negroes lend a more eager
and attentive bearing than to such
conservative, wise, and constructive
lenders as Dr. Melon. As long as this
condition continues?as long as thfe
Duboiscs are preferred bv the colorco
ncoplcs over the Melons?there
seems to be but little hone for an
early and sensible disposition of the
race question.
A REMARKABLE CONFESSION.
West Graham, Va. Sept. 5.
The PcntCSCOStal Union Meeting is
moving along nicely and have large
crowds every night. This is the third
annual session for Graham and many
sire wondering when it will close. It
has been reported that it will close
abont Sept. 20. Some of the most
strikingly confessions have taken
pfaeS in these meetings. WAile the
meetmp; was going on near Spring
vine' Mr. Asbevry was at the altar
(Seeking the Lord and all at once he
cried out, 'comp hcnr Charley", Whore
is Charley Wills? Il<- has something
against me, and by that t'me he had
his pocket bpok in his hand, and rose
from the altar, rushed hack through
the crowd where Mr. Wills was and
confessed he had till Oil a dollar out
of a letter Mr. Wills had given him
to mail as an ordqr for whiskey about
fourteen years ago. After the con
f".'sion Mr. Asberry made an earnest
appeal for sinners to come to the
a it nr. where he had found grace U
help in t'me of need. 1 Johnl-9: "If
we confess our s::>s he is grateful
to forgive us our sins and cleanse U;
from all unricheousness. I.. L. WV.N'X.
Kuilied Hearts.
The ruined wheat fields lying in the
sun
Wil smile again e'er many seasons
pass;
The crooning breeze will swav the
I'.oldcu grass
The way it did before a blazing gun
Mowed down the meadow poppies in
red heaps;
And battered villages will rise am v.
And homes will stand where mi ?
time gardens grew;
And in dim forests, where an admy
sleeps.
The little birds will sing their even
The way tbed did before a blasting
rain
Of shrapnel cut the'r tiny nests in
twain;
For France will rise triumphant'.
through her wrongs.
Yes, France will grow once more in
faith and pave
Her tortured roads again with
stoias of life.
Her songs will rise once more
above the,strife
But what about the hearts that gave?
and gave?
?Margaret K. Stuifst^r, i:i World
Outlook.
Tangled Up.
"What is your son's wall: in life?"
"He is a sea captain, who runs
from here to New York."
MARYLAND I-"AKMS.
132 n< ? < ? good land in Cecil county,
Md. I ! mil" to school, > I -2 miles to
station und good markets. Nice stone
I and frame house, wat'-r in house and
j barn bank barn with silo.
For immediate sale, will include all
farming implements, l! horses, I acres
in tomatoes, 2 acre.', potatoes, 20 acres
corn ii ton hay and 100 bushels wheat
in barn. Have in p.cres plowed ncow
for wheat. I'osession in .'10 days from
?Inte of sale. It, F. BUNDY, North
East, Maryland.
FARM BARGAINS,
"ti 1-2 acres on state pike, .'! miles
frmo town of 1000 populnt'on, (! room
house ami cellar, well and cistern at
door, nod poultry house, 2 barns 1
24x30, new 2-30x30 in fair condition,
land rolling enough to drain, 0 a
small limber fairly well fenced. Price
$0000. Cowl terms.
20? acres :i miles from good town
on R. route, nenr sehol, 7 room house,
and ciliar welt ami cistern, smoke
house, bank barn I 1x44 anil crib, good
orchard, plena y stock water, some
timber, land getllly lolling, fairly
well fenced, good stoc'v and grain
farm $10 "00. Terms.
82 acres near town and school, fi
room house well and cistern, all nec?
essary outbuildings, good bain, some
timber, plenty of water, well fenced.
$5000. Terms.
?tl acres on pike near village ami
school, Ii rum house and cellar, good
I barn am! double cribs, good orchard,
I some timber, 20 :n res good bottom
j land, fairly well fenced. $3200.
I I.Vt'i acres on good pike 2 miles
j from town of 1000 population, school
l at corner of farm, S room house an !
basement, smoke house, well and cis
! tern, in f;rst class condition, a beau
! tiful location, barn 48x00 70 ton silo,
double cribs and granary. $2000 worth
of good timber, running water for
I stock, well fenced, in first class con?
dition, land very productive, [nice
right.
213 acres 1 1-2 miles from railroad
station, on It. route, 7 room house and
cellar, well and c'sten, poultdy house
12x30, 2 bans one 30x48 other 40x00,
; SO Ion silo at each bam, well fenced,
j some timber, in high state of culti
I vation. $'.?0 per acre. Write for latest
list. C. W. PURCELL, I
1 Winchester, Ohio. I
Every kind- -Everywhere
"WE GETTHE M?NEYAND SO DO YOU"
THE BRITTS MERCANTILE AGENCY
RoaNOKE..Virginia
j Fine Stock Farm in Northern Virginia
I Ntur Baltimore und Wsahlngton, the best markets in'
j the vast.
Puj good land cheap in Fairfax and Loudoun Counties,
i Notj tlio following bargains in strictly firct class Stock Farms,
i : !in acn i finest Blue Grass land, located one mile from railroad
T Btuliou :;('.() acres clear. Weil fenced. Running water in every field.
I Ten room house. Good buildings . Price S'.K) per acre. Reasonable
J terms.
t 318 acres fine lm:d. Splendid bouse with modern improvements,
I Good feiitua house and outbuildings. 100 acres finest timber. 130
? ucres best bottom land. Well fenced and watered, near school,
church, und railroad. 18 miles from Wushington, D. C. Price $21,000.
illi .eres good grass land Pair buildings. Convenient to rail?
road, school ami churches. Price iJIS,000. Good terms. Land is
level, smooth, and casil yworked.
22U acres finest grass und grain land. Fenced with woven wire
on locust mid steel pus: . Buildings are nil new and :\ro large and
well r.rraugetl. W lb this property goes a small store und mill, both
doing a fin ? business. Price $14,000.
Have p!i nty of good small farms, fit) to 200 acres, at prices rang?
ing from i ifiy to Ninety Dollars per acre. Also have a few ecellent
big ones, right to iw> Ivo hundred acres.
If you ar really in the market for a farm come and look at these
places without delay. Write or wire me when to expect you.
R. N. WRENN, REAL ESTATE,
llerndnn. Va. !? 5 'It.
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HOME HOTEL FOR YOUNG WOMEN
OPENS OCTOBER Ist, 1919
DAN RIVER COTTON MILLS, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA
JJjfOUNG WOMEN, from sixteen to thirty-five years old,
Z<, who come to work for the Dan River Cotton Millr,. ,-:t
Schoolficld Virginia, not only make bolter wages tlu.n do
any of the teachers in the secondary schools of the State,
but they are provided in ! lylton Hall with a boarding place
that combines with all modern hotel conveniences, the very
unusual eocial, recreational and educational advantages of
the up-to-date boarding school.
A girl who wishes to better her conditio:! financially
under the very best living conditions will find here.-, i oppor?
tunity unexcelled in the whole country, for nothin : l.r.s been
loft out of the pian to make certain the advantage* of a
delightful home, in an environment that is uplifting.1 l. -
spirational to a very high degree.
For detailed informution write to
MISS HAITIM HYLTON. S, perintenJent Well ,ro De.oarlm
Box 2 sc. SGIOOLFIELD. VA.
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