Thursday, January 22, 1925
The number of words found in old English literature does not exceed 30,000, while the new dictionaries today have listed more than 400,000, mostly of foreign origin. It is strange to note, however, that most authors use mainly English words. Shakespeare used 90 percent, and the English Bible contains 94 percent.
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The attorney general and Secretary Davis, as members of the commission authorized to select a site for a federal reformatory for women, plan to inspect a proffered site at Alderson this week. The commission, which also includes Secretary Work, is understood to have narrowed its probable selection to a choice between the Alderson site and one at Delphi, Indiana.
JUDGE MCCLINTIC ON CHILD LABOR
Judge McClintic’s charge to the Federal Court is always good reading. His observations to the jury now sitting on child labor are sound and important just at this time when our legislature is soon to consider the matter of a constitutional amendment which will allow the Federal Government to control the employment of children.
Child idleness and not child labor is the cause of juvenile delinquency, Judge George W. McClintic declared yesterday morning in his charge to the special grand jury called to investigate liquor, narcotics and postal law violations…
Idleness among children results in more law violations than employment for them, the judge said in declaring that reformers who speak of the “horrors” of child labor ignore the greater horror of child idleness.
“Child labor might ruin its tens or hundreds physically,” he said. “Child idleness ruins physically and morally its thousands and tens of thousands…
“During the three years and six months I have been on this bench, between 250 and 300 boys and girls in their teens have been brought into this court for crimes which were the product of idleness and the lack of care of their parents. …
“Sometimes their fathers come to me and say that they cannot do anything with their boy, and that he is too young to work. A boy admitted his crimes and said he could not get work and drifted into stealing. He asked to be sent to an institution where he could learn a trade…
“Any labor is dignified and honest, and children should be trained to see this. Labor keeps the body, mind and conscience in a healthy condition, developing the physical, mental and moral being. It is idleness that is destructive, not labor…
“Parents want the school or the government to raise their children. It is not the duty of the schoolteacher to raise the children. This duty lies at home.”
DIED
Henry W. Payne died in a hospital at Lexington, Virginia, Saturday, January 17, 1925. Two weeks before, he had taken a half bottle of bichloride of mercury tablets with suicidal intent. His age was 49 years. He was a native of Pocahontas County, but for the past twelve years or more he had been a resident of Clifton Forge. On Tuesday, his body was buried in Mt. View Cemetery in Marlinton. The service was conducted from the home of Mrs. H. S. Rucker, by Rev. J. H. Billingsley, of the Methodist Church. Mr. Payne is survived by his wife and his aged mother.
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Mrs. Mary Margaret McLaughlin, widow of the late Andrew M. McLaughlin, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. P. Arbuck-le, at Maxwelton, Green- brier county, January 15, 1925. Her age was 78 years, having been born October 5, 1846. The funeral was from the Maxwelton church, conducted by Rev. G. W. Nickell of the Frankford Pres- byterian church. The pall bearers were her six nephews, J. A. McLaughlin, E. F. McLaughlin, Mitchell D. McLaughlin, Andrew Price, Dr. Ligon Price and Calvin W. Price.
Mrs. McLaughlin was the last of the large family of the late James Atley Price and Margaret Poage Price.
She became the wife of the late Andrew McLaughlin and she did him good all the days of his life, and the heart of her husband did safely trust in her…
She began her married life in a countryside devasted by war. It was her lot to suffer the trials and disappointments incident to a long life in this world, much of it during a hard period of our country’s history. The effect of it all was to ripen and strengthen and deepen a naturally sweet disposition and develop strong abiding faith in God…
No children ever had a better mother, and they arise and call her blessed.
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On Friday evening, January 16, Peter H. Warwick, one of the oldest and best-known citizens of Pocahontas county, died at the home of his son, Jesse Warwick, at Cass.
Born at Greenbank, November 3, 1839, his age was 85 years…
Mr. Warwick served in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier. He volunteered April 1, 1861, and was a member of Captain Arbogast Company, Fourth Brigade, Third Division, Stonewall Jackson Corps.
In conversation about his experience during the war, he invariably gave expression of high appreciation and love for the great Christian general, Stonewall Jackson.
He was wounded June 9, 1862, in the Battle of Port Republic. He reentered the service February 14, 1964, and served until the close of the war…
The funeral was conducted at the M. E. Church South at Greenbank. Our community has lost a Christian nobleman, a man who was great in the affections of his sons and of their families, great in the love and esteem of his many friends and neighbors, but above all, great because he was rich toward God in character, in life and in service…
