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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26
SHOWS HIS INDEPENDENCE.

If Geo. NJ. Lilly would say to the
public some of the things he is re;
ported 10 have said to the county
court he would add very much to his
popularity. MI. Lilly has manifested
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26

H o.
I'd and the constituent companies or
iered to compete, one with the 9th
ers. But now it is proposed to go
further and say you must compete in
4 fair aud ladylilte manner. If there
Is reason for the commission 10 sus-
pect you Of unfair, competition" it
may suppress you, entirely. This is
very similar to, die attitude, 81: the
fond mother, who. when her daugh-
ter-asked permission 10 go swimming
responded: asJ 4
b Efs FfI4F 9ssBs
."1Yes, my darling daughter
Hang your clothes on hickory. limb,
But dontSgo nearlthe water!!$5
( The fact, Isl Gompetittohiis warjaud
war Is 'nossupday school AFFAIR and
you can solve,it or ciyilize:jt by pass.
Ing laws saying that hereafter in
battle soldiers can shoot their enc
mics in the legs only. t,.,,ti{
In this country ,we.Eorbld business
combinations discourage and spro-
hibit cooperation. Germany forbids
competition and subsidies business
combinations. Result: Germany.
carrying an enormous handicap, is
beating us in the worlds markets,
gradually freezing us out in many
places. But Germany's policy Is dic4
tated by. practical business expert
b y. 2
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26

a great deal Of independence since he
has been on the court and has made
himself many friends thereby. lie
'.an throwplenty of lightionlthc good
roads delaySit is said. III
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26

otac6nrse Beall and .Depue should
be expected to reiider patriotic and
loyal service to The senatorial COM
tine this fall. THEY received sncli
rare consideration at the hands ii
niese influences Yesterday. -, Park
ersDarg Dlspatcit News. 3 J
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26

Yes. but, by the way, what has
become o. .the wool grower? Inns
ports taken into consideration, It
would APPEAR that theyRyElad Mi
moyed, shecp and baggage,s TO Az.
gentihe Australia, New Zealand and
elseslters clarksburs Telegram.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26
psYoHoIoa1cAI DEPRESSION PR 8 81

That big thirty-flve million dollar
failure in New York is another evil
denee OF the present Psychological
depression" Those big dry goods
firms in New York are not really IN
debt to the tune of $35, 100000, by
Wilson reasoning, they only think
so and as soon as they come TO real
lie theirsmlstake everything will he
all right. They are merely suffering
from brain storm and rushed into
court for a receiyership!' 1t is to
laugh. - Grafton Sentinel.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26

ence and judgment; ours by politi-
cians, consumed by a thirst for office
and popular applause.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26
WHEELING CHOSEN

(, PARKERSBURG. June 20. ~ New
.,fficcrs were elected yesterday after.
loon by the WestSvirglnia Christian
Indeayor Union at the. close Of Its
wnntietha annual .nnnrentinn. nss fnl.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26
ANoT,.HER LITTLE !, pRoBIEM.

tFrom the Atchfson EGIobe.)
As another little problem for to.
day. we inanire.Yhy a man @ill.wurk
hatser for sport than; for DALI. SIT
pend ? IL tIki
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26
HER EVOLUTION.

sFrom the Louisville Cour.cr4Jonrt
nal. ,
This:year's sweet girl graduate Is
next years gay debntantc and til,
tired honsekseper of year after next.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26
lows:

lows:
rresident-Louis Z. Black. clarts-
burg. n
Svice President virgil Butcher.
isarkersbarg. e2'.. z. :
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs,
Bertha Mckinney, iBurnsyiIie.
Rccording Secretary ena Rut,
tencutter, Clarksburg =
Treasurer ~ j. q 2 ekson, Jane
Lew. : z.
Worlds Vice President4D. j. A.
G. Bond, Salem. ~.
+ superintendent of .Departmehts
sJunior Work - Nell ". Layman,
tFatimon-. Stg.'' rs
sschristian citizenship H. Lucas.
Wheeling ~
Mission Work ~ Rosa ls I'm, Mar
ltinsburg.
Wheeling was scsse:t i rs next
years meeting place, tho cate TO be
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-06-26

60 'WehlleLh3 annuuI c0nNehtlon as 10
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
THE GEORGIAN has protest.

THE GEORGIAN has protest.
ed the opinion of the At
torney General of the
United States which asserts that
the subsection of the tariff that
allows a per cent discount on
imports in American vessels is in
operativ
The proviso forbade such a
construction of the subsection as
would abrogate or impair exist
ing trade treaties The proviso
was added only after the State
Departments expert on treaties,
Mr.. John Bassett Moore. had in
a written opinion quoted articles
from treaties, showing their scope.
This opinion was made a SEN
ate document The bearing of
treaties. in advance of action by
Congress, was impressively de-
fined. The Attorney Generals
contention is that Congress did
not know VIII, it was doing in
enacting this subsection.
The Georgian contends that the
sequence of events clearly estab-
fishes that Congress not only
clearly understood what it was
doing, but that it understood that
imports in certain foreign vessels
would be entitled to the discount
of the duty that imports in Amer
lean vessels enjoyed.
The GeorLian has contended
that importers would find redress
through the courts. A Washing
ton dispatch in a New York news
paper, which is bitterly opposed
to this subsection and to any re-
vival of American shipping, thus
confirms The Georgian's conten-
tons:
Treasury officials were dis
turhed by the litigation in New
York and Eoston over the en-.
forcement of the per cent diff
ferentiaI in the tariff in favor of
imports carried in American bot
toms, which extends also to ships
Of certain nations by reason Of
the American treaty obligations
with them"
This was precisely The Geor-
CLANS contention. 1t was inevi-
table that importers should seek
redress at the hands of the courts
for the non enforcement of the
subsection. The dispatch in uues-
ton further states:
Although the Department of
Justice, through Attorney General
McReynoIds, has ruled against
the enforcement of the differen-
tial as being Impractical, of ap-
p'ication, it is understood that
customs brokers and lawyers be-
lieve they can have a good case
against the Government in the
enforcement of the differentiai.
and THEY Are TAKING ALL
MANNER OF CASES ON A
CONTINGENT BASIS, believing
thoroughly they will win"
The Attorney General merely
sought delay, hoping the subsec-
ton might be repealed. We do
not say that his opinion wa.
written in the interest If foreign
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
The Scientific Art=R0ad of the Future

TT has been observed, with wit
and truth, that Uncle Sam"
without a Panama Canal, Is
like householder hat has to run
around the block to chase
tramp out of the back yard"
And certain it is that it is as
difficult for a city, State or ma
ton to run itself without owning
its thoroughfares, common roads
and railroads, as it would be for
a hotel, department store or Of
flee building to run itself with
out owning its passageways,
stairways and elevators.-Al-
bert Kimsey Owen.
Logan Waller Page, director Of
the United States Office of Pub
lie Roads, says: Nations are as
strong or as weak as their roads
are great or Insignificant"
The Roman road system was
wonderful. Every conquered
province was traversed in all di-
rections with connecting roads.
or the narrow paths. three to
six feet wide, found in conquered
Gaul, no less than 10000 miles are
said to have been improved In
Britain the road improvement is
estimated to have been at least
$500 miles. Across the Alps,
through Gaul to Spain, Austria,
and the regions of the Danube,
led the great military roads.
Nor were the countries beyond
the seas ignored. Straight to the
waters edge led the road from
Rome, and then on the shore be-
yond was the continuation. Eng
land, Sicily, Africa and even Asia,
all bear witness of the wonderful
energy which strove to bind firm
ly every member of the great
empire into living whole.
Nor was this energy directed
exclusively toward imperial prog
ress and the building of roads for
the movement of legions, or to
satiate an empire with the lux
uries of remote countries. II not
at first, at least later in her de
velopment, Rome saw in her roads
value other than military for, in
the reign Of Augustus, there was
a seemingly well-devised system
of crossroads leading to and con-
Meeting villages and even farms
with the great military roads.
The roads were no longer exclu-
sively military, but were also
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
Attorney Generals Blow to Shipping
The dispatch says further.

The dispatch says further:
the judgments against III.
Government for the return As d.
ties equal to the differentiaI. i. !,
believed, will be heavy. and N.
TREASURY OFFICIALS. wuo
THEMSELVES BELIEVE THE
IMPORTERS WILL WIN ON
THEIR APPEAL, fear tina. ~.
Treasury must face a deficit rath
er than point with pride to , ,,.
plus"
Inc last quoted sentence WAS
WRITTEN WITH INTENT To
DECEIVE; its purpose /. to ~.
ate a prejudice against the ns-
cent discount subsection, 60 .s -
prevent the upbuilding Of Am.r4.
can shipping foreign trad.
treasury experts estimated , ,r.
Mus Of s1s.ooo,ooo from tn. new
tariff II all Of last years su,,s
BILE imports were admitted with .
b per cent reduction of tn. dptv
the reduction in revenue could NOT
have reached s11.0oo,ooo. proh,.
bly, not rs per cent of our dut,ah,.
imports will enjoy the discour.
BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT
ENOUGH AMERICAN SHIPS
AVAILABLE NOR ENoJ1cu
SHIPS OF NATIONS WHOSE
TREATIES WITH US ENTJTrE
THEIR IMPORTS TOTHE DIS
COUNT TO CARRY 25 PEP
CENT OF OUR DUTIABLE I'M.
PORTS. The dispatch concludes.
Relief could como by the re.
peal by Congress OF tho S per cen,
differentiaI."
Relief can also come by termi-
mating all existing trade treaties
The Georgian advises their termI-
nation. That is the relief thai
Mr.. Underwood approves of: i,
ought to be the relief the Prest-
dent will favor; it is the kind of
relief that WILL HELP AMERI-
CAN SHIPPING; 1T IS THE
KIND OF RELIEF THAT FOR.
EIGN SHIPS DO NOT WANT.
The Georgian believes that the
great era of American shipping
revival has been entered upon.
Oscar w. Underwood has nj
oneered it. Will he infuse still
more virility and force into it
through the termination Of all
existing trade treaties? When i'm
ports in foreign vessels begin TO
enjoy the per cent discount
then, The Georgian has always
believed, the people will loudly
demand the termination Of
treaties that give them such ben
efits, so that the benefits will be
confined to American vessels only
The Georgian feels some pride
in the support it has unwaver-
ingly given to this, the most i'm
portant section of the entire tariff
The Georgian and Representative
Underwood believe in going for
ward-not backward-in the re-
Mobilization of American shipping
in foreign trade. Public sentiment
ought to carry the Congress and
the President in their forward
progress, BECAUSE THAT is
WHAT ALL TIE PEOPLE
WANT!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1914. J

filling the domestic needs of the
farmers. Albert Kimsey Owen,
of Baldwinsville, n. Y, one Of the
great altruistic, brainy men OF
the age, is bending all his abili-
ties to the establishment of four
thousand four hundred and fifty
miles of good roads in America.
His idea is uplifting and in
spring; and it is to be hoped
that President Wilson, to whom
the matter has been presented,
will see its great value to Amer
lea, industrially, socially and
morally.
Because it means employment
for the unemployed. homes for
the homeless and clea nliness for
the unclean.
Here is a brief summary of Mr..
Owens gigantic and beautiful
idea
Scientific art roads or auto
highways are to be grand, magnifi-
cent. multiway boulevards along
which tn people are to be at
tracted with order and system to
readjust themselves, their homes,
farms, factories. banks. villages,
schools lecture halls and amuse-
ments.
While the width of the right
of way will be one mile, the width
of an auto highway proper will
p be but 1,430 feet, and will con-
sist IF one cement or brick paved
road twenty feet wide. on which
roller skaters will glide up and
down and across ways.
This roller skate road will be
the middle road of ten roads, five
on side, in order that the five
different classes of vehicles now
in use will not only be confined
each class to its particular and
exclusive road. but that each class
VIII go out on a road on one side
of the roller-skate road and come
back on the other side of the roll
er-skate road. Taking one side
the arrangement is to be as fol-
lows:
One cement road, fifteen feet
wide. with three steel-plate, brick
or other improved ways for mo-
tor and other cycles: one cement
road twenty feet wide, with two
steel plate, brick or other i'm
proved ways for automobiles that
viii no. run more than 20 miles
an hour; one cement road TWEEN
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12
Henry Ford's Plan and Its Great Value
By WILLIS J. ABBOTT

rank with the foremost in the
country.
The Ford Company begins its
program of profit sharing with
an act of absolute justice. 1t fixes
the hours of a days work at
eight, instead of nine, and as its
factories are in continuous opera
ton, works three shifts daily. Mr..
Ford expresses pleasure that this
system enables him to give en-
ployment to several thousand
more men.
But it does more. 1t advances
the movement for a general eight
hour day prodigiously. The Ford
motor works will be pointed to as
an example by advocates of eight
hour the world over and their ar
gument will be vastly strength
ened.
The next step is one of pure
generosity-as business ethics
now stand. To fix five dollars as
the minimum wage for any en-
ployee over % years of age is an
act OF arbitrary benevolence Po-
litical economists and hard head
ed business men will tell you that
men are worth what you can get
them for in the open market, con-
trolled by the memorable law of
supply and demand-no more.
Henry Ford evidently never
studied political economy, and,
excellent business man though he
is, does not think a hard heart
the necessary accompaniment of
hard head.
Magnificently imperial is the
announcement that $40, 900. 900 has
been fixed upon as the sum that
will be divided during the com
ing year among the Ford en-
ployees. Payments from this
sum are TO be made in the pay
envelopes semi monthly. The in
estimable superiority of this sys-
tenn over the common practice OF
profit sharing corporations which
keep their employees in doubt
twelve months as to their share
OF the profits is obvious.
Thrift is most encouraged by
a precise knowledge of what one
has and what one may fairly
hope to save. The Ford system
will distinctly develop thrift.
This magnifcently generous ac-
ton on the part OF this company
will enable it to take its pick of
employees in every branch of the
industry in which 1t is engaged
To that extent its generosity will
be profitable.
To the employees the advan-
tages of a shorter wc.S day. high
er wages and share in the prof
its are too obvious to need expla-
nation.
What is worth while is to poin,
out the great good Z this ac-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

tion portendsr to Detroit and to
the industrial world as a whole.
Detroit is pre- eminently the au-
tomobie city. Great as are the
Ford works, there are others
there hardly overshadowed. The
standard set by Ford must be
closely measured up to by the
others if they desire to keep their
high-grade employees. Any revi-
sion of wages in that field must
necessarily be a revision upward.
The eight-hour rule can not long
be observed in one great factory
and ignored in the factories Of its
rivals.
No possible expenditures OF
great>~p profits by a corporation
could be so advantageous to- a
city as their distribution among
a great multitude of employees.
The Ford Company is about to
double the purchasing power OF
thousands of its employees, and
greatly increase it for many
thousands more. What this will
mean to the business community
of Detroit and of the other cities
in which Ford branches are To-
Gated is apparent.
1t is fortunate for the business
interests of the whole nation that
this pre- eminent manufacturing
concern has taken this step at
just this time. Could there be a
more positive answer to the
croakers who are dismally pre-
dieting hard times, and advising
every man to lock up his, dollars
where they can't be lost-or be
useful
The Ford Company deals with
the average man. The motor
cars it makes are bought by peo-
pie to whom the expenditure OF a
few hundred dollars is an event,
and a car highly priced posses
sion not to be discarded for a
whim of fashion. Its customers
are precisely those who first
would feel the pinch Of hard
times, lessened employment.
slackened industry and falling
wages.
knowing this, and undoubtedly
not deaf to the dismal forebod-
ings of pessimists, Henry Ford
announces a policy which will
give employment to one-third
more workers, which enormously
increases regular wages and con-
fidently assures employees share
in prodigious profits to be earned
in 1914.
The business community owes
Henry Ford an inestimable debt
AS for Detroit-well, no wonder
her people declare it "a place
where life is worth living" if liv-
ing there has developed a charac-
ter so rich in practical generosity
and business astuteness as his.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

MO visitor to Detroit is per
N mitted long to stroll it.
spacious streets, or to fire.
quent hotel corridors, clubs or
other places where men congre-
gate without hearing much about
Henry Ford. The story of the
swift and sudden rise to enor-
nous wealth, and the essential
simplicity and modesty OF this CO.
lossus of roadsters is topic
upon which the Detroiter can ever
wax eloquent.
You are told of his bank ac-
counts so plethoric in ready cash
that the banks themselves hest
tate to take them, dreading the
sudden withdrawal of such large
amounts.
You hear of the lawyer who
unwillingly took a block of stock
for his fee for drawing a few le-
gal papers in the Ford Company's
early days, and now enjoys an in
come of $4,000 a year from that
reluctant investment
In a passing limousine you OBJ
serve a highly prosperous looking
gentleman, and are assured that
twenty years ago he was a $500
a year bookkeeper who. deaf to
his wife's prudent protests, put
all his little savings into Ford's
infant concern and now reckons
his daily income at about the
same figure as his former annual
wage.
IL YOU drive about the city
where life is worth living" as De-
troiters modestly describe their
home, YOU will be shown the huge
Ford motor works. covering city
blocks and still a-building, and
you will hear of the $4,000 men
employed in this great edifice Of
concrete, steel and glass.
But on the fashionable streets
Of the city, or at Crosse Pointe
where palatial residences look
across velvety lawns to the blue
waters of Lake st. Clair, you will
look in vain for any modern cas-
tie housing this modest captain
of industry out in a wholly I'M
fashionable suburb. selected by
him because there was the farm
on which he lived in boyhood
days, he has built his home. sur
rounding II with broad acres on
which he installs animals of va
rious kinds-domestica and
wild-for the one hobby hitherto
enjoyed by Henry Ford has been
the study of animal life. un-
derstand that in pursuance of
this interest he is active in a
movement to give To Detroit a
geological garden which shall
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

shipowners, now intrenched in
a monopoly of our foreign carry
ing-rot at all, We merely say
that if foreign shipowners could
themselves have written the opin-
ion they could not have devised
a way to better protect their in
terests, and to discourage Ameri-
can shipping revival than the way
4 the Attorney General has adopt
ed. The dispatch further says:
"Of course, the importers have
nothing to lose and everything to
gain; hence they are ready to lis
ten to the lawyers and begin the
litigation"
Experts in customs law are not
wasting time in fruitless litiga-
ton. They know, of course. that
the courts will order the full en-
forcement of the subsection. The
dispatch further continues:
Moreover, II need not 90 far
only to the Customs Court of Ap-
peal--and lawyers believe from
what they understand to be tho
temper of the judges on the court
AND FROM THE HISTORY OF
THE COURTS PAST DECI-
SlONS that it WILL DECLARE
IN FAVOR c. THE ENFORCE
MENT of the per cent differen-
tiaI."
The courts, be 1t remembered,
will not seek to obstruct the en-
forcement of the law-quite the
contrary! Therein they differ
from the Department of Justice
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-12

ty feet wide, with two steel-plate'
brick or other improved ways, for
fast automobiles; one cement
road twenty feet wide, with TWO
steel tracks, one for electric cars
for passengers and one for cleo
trio cars for freights; and one &C.
ment road twenty feet wide, with
two steel-plate, brick or other
improved ways, for carts, wagons
and carriages.
Altogether, an auto highway
proper consists of eleven roads
two zones, each 80 feet wide, for
water, gas and oil pipes; for
tubes for drainage, wires and ca
bles, and tubes for pneumatic and
other services; six zones, each loV
feet wide, for factories, public
buildings and dwellings; two
park zones, each twenty feet
wide; four lawn and flower zones
each twenty, feet wide; sixteen
shade tree zones, each ten feet
wides and twelve footways, eacn
ten feet wide. The remainder OF
the area included in the mile
wide right of way will be occu-
pied by farms, orchards, forests
stock ranges, etc.
Auto highways stand for the
combination of roads, rails, tracks
ways and paths: roads for Wag-
ons, rails for electric cars, steel
plate tracks for fast automobiles
cement ways for slow automo-
biles, cement ways for cycles
cement ways for roller skaters
and cement and brick paths LOT
pedestrians.
In all there are eleven thoI
oughfares. The cement way lo'
roller skaters is in the middle an"
is twenty feet wide. on II SHAT
ers can move both ways.
The construction of these roaoS'
the settling of the workers o"
their farms and in their own ga
den homes, and the building y
many varied and inter sustainlnis
industries along these roads VIZ
give so many new ana uI't
opportunities and will so Id!s
the standard of opportuh'H
thought and living of the Amer
can people that there viii ne
greater demand for all klnns w.
better things, grown and mani
featured, than existing farms an
factories will be able TO supply