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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
Stream Pollution.

Elsewhere in this issue, Scotland
G. Highland, superintendent OF the
Clarksburg Water Works and Sewer
age Board, sets forth the urgent ne
cessfty for state supervision and con-
troll Of the streams from which water
supplies are obtained for domestic
consumption.
Mr.. Highland takes the ground that
this supervision should be undertake
en- by the state board of health and
suggests, among other things, that
the board should be empowered TO
create q bureau of sanitary engineer
ing. The most important point he
makes, however, is that there is not
only urgent need but rapidly grow
ing demand that the Legislature which
meets this winttr should give the
subject prompt attention and take
action on 1t.
There Is room for debate as to
whether this scheme is the most adj
yisable, that is, whether the state
board Of health or an entirely separ-
ate body should have charge of
stream supervision, chiefly owing to
the fact that the state health board
already has had additional duties and
labors saddled- upon 1t. Still, there
would not be much difference one way
or the other SO long as the author
ity was given. While the state board
of health is probably better fitted to
look after the work and could do 1t
all right If proper provision were
made for 1t the possibility of any
Conflict Of authority between differ
,ent boards should be avoided at the
outset. This can be very easily set
tied by the legislature. The main
point is that the supervision should
be undertaken by the state at once in
such manner as. to give definite and
immediate results.
The fact that such supervision is
greatly needed, as has been EDITORIAL
~ set forth In the Telegram, is dem
onstrated no more impressively than
by present conditions along he West
Fork river, into which sewage by the
hundred thousand barrels is daily
dumped by practically all the cities,
towns and hamlets along its course,
including the entire sewerage dispos-
al OF the West Virginia Hospital for
the Insane on the upper part Of the
stream at Weston; and from which
every city, village and hamlet along
its course obtains practically all its
drinnfng water, the most of which
undergoes no publication. 1t Is a
wonder the people OF this section are
alive!
Aside possibly from the enactment
of a municipal code, there is no sub
ject demanding more urgtnt attention
from the forthcoming legislature than
the question OF stream pollution and
the Telegram knows :. e,-esents a
large body of people in this section
IN expressing the hope that the Sub
ject Will be given due confederation.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
COMING EVENTS
IN CI.ARKsBURG


Thursday. Friday end Saturday,
November 10, 20, 21.@"The Final Set
tlement," presented by the Barrett
Players, Palace theater.
Week OF November 23-Mae La
Porte Stock Company, evenings, Rob-
inson Grand theater.
Monday, Tuesday and "Wednesday,
November %, "a, 25.-''Forty-five Min
utes from Broadway presented by
the Barrett Players, Palace theater.
Wednesday, November 25-Thans-
giving dance, given by thirty Club,
evening.
|. Wednesday. December 2.-''The
FREELY, evening. Robinson Grand
theater.
Saturday. December 5.-"Damaged
Goods, evening, Robinson Grand
theater.
Thursday. December 1O.-Seil
oBr.ens Minstrels, evening, Robin
son Grand theater.
Saturday. December 12.-"The
Quaker Girl", evening Robinson
Grand theater.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
Generai Wothersnoon,s w,rn,,,

General Wotherspoon's Warming
General Wotherspoon. the retiring
chief of staff, is right: the United
States is Without adequate military
resources to defend the Philinnines
the Panama canal, Alaska and
Hawail, not to speak of the forty.
elgnt states. OF available infantry,
cavalry and field artillery wearing
me uniform Of the regular army we
nave not many more men than would
constitute. one corps of European
troops. With the addition of the
coast artillery, says the New York
sun, we might assemble two corps.
as we define corps in the United
States, but in the event OF war with
great power, Asiatic or European.
the coast artillery would have its
own indispensable work to do. When
the militia is included in our military
resources 1t must be with the admis-
sion that none of the regiments is as
well trained as organizations of the
regular army and that most Of the
militia is conspicuously inferior.
When the cry of war used to be
raised periodically in Europe from
the Rnsso-Turlsish campaign of 1877
down to the recent Balkan convul-
sion, and war of any magnitude new
er followed the alarm. our pacificists
argued that 1t was illogical to sup
pose that the United States would
ever have to be prepared for capital
war. But continental Europe is now
"a cockpit. and Japan, our rival in
the Pacific that Inundated Russia
lin 1905. is Mt war too. The Mace of
the pacificists is at the rear now.
Preparedness for war is thrust upon
us. General Wotherspoon recon,
nlepds that the regular army be in
creased to EOS 1000 and that first
line reserve OF .293.500 men and a
second line of 100000 be provided
for. Whether Congress can be pre-
vailed on to heed the warning and
take the counsel seriously may be
doubted, we fear, but that the United
States would have sore need OF such
resources in fully and partially
trained men In the event of war with
y first class power. which must no
longer be decried. is manifest. The
next time we have to fight we shall
not be',able to middle through.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21

legislature should enact a munici-
! The Bluefeld Telegraph has the
following in connection with the
city charter of It's city:
There Is a useless law suit in
every useless word OF statute, and
every loose, sloppy phrase plays the
part OF a typhoid carrier is one Of
the remarks which former President
Taft made In his actress to the
american Bar Ass idation several
days ago.
That Is the Daily Telegraph's idea
OF any change in the present charter,
OF any new charter that may be
prepared. The way to get good
charter Is to subject 1t to every crit
icism before 1t is adopted. and make
Its provisions clear and plain. There
are a number Of things In the pres
ent charter suggested by Bluefield's
own experience that should remain
there and be added to by the eSfoer-
fence since this charter was adopted.
To make proper and suitable code
for the conduct and government OF
the city the greatest care should BIZ
exercised and the new document dis
cussed clause by clause before our
representatives are asked to present
At to the legislature for its adopt
ion" n 8
AS previously noted Fairmont and
Charleston are among the cities in
the state which are dissatisfied with
their charters. They concluded that
they had to have improvement along
this line and they were misled into
forms of commission plan Of gov
eminent with the result that they
are now paying the price. indeed,
paying 1t dearly. In truth, the
new-fangled charters merely pro-
yided berths for photographers at
fat salaries and there are no EVIL
dences of improved efficiency in pub
lie service.
For instance, the charter in force
at Fairmont now, a commission char
ter. increased salaries $4,000 a
year. with nothing in public accom-
plishment to show for 1t. A com
parison there shows that public i'm
.provements decreased in the year to
the extent of more than $4,000. or
in other words. the people Of Fair
mont paid $4,000 more than the
year before under the old charter to
get $4,000 less work done. This!
shows that the commission form OF
government makes the people pay
at both ends. The Fairmont exper-
fence shows that the principal fea-
ture Of commission form of govern
ment is to draw big salaries.
That the salary grabber fares we'll
under commission form Of govern
ment is not based alone on what has
taken place at Fairmont. StrikinglyI
similar conditions prevail in Char
lesion. where the salary payroll has
been increased $4,000 a year.
General dissatisfaction exists in|
these two cities with the operation
of their city commission charters and
only those who are enjoying the
benefits Of largely Increased salaries
want these charters retained
These experiences ought to be-
sufficient persuasion with the legis-
lature that municipal code is theI
correct thing and not fad charters
with high-sounding names.
y
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21

Two thousand Mexicans have fall
len in battles, is headline in the
Fairmont Times. The article dis
closes that they have fallen within
the last tifty-one days and all IN a
single section of the country. The
Lord only knows what a vast number
may have fallen in battles elsewhere
In Mexico. All this has taken place
since Bryan announced that watch
full waiting" had brought peace in
Mexico. He seems to have been
playing the foodwinking game then
as he has been all his life.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
TEE DAILY
n Owe LIE T T g
t..t:.:.....s..'..t...s
AT THE BALL.

Noah Webster had just finished the
long, laborious task of writing the
dictionary. AS the story opens, he
is being entertained at sumptuous,
not to say lavish, reception given in
his, honor by Mrs. Ponsonby-Gargle.
The Pons6nby-G argle home was
brightly lighted with the latest thing
in gas Illumination. The decorations
consisted of Skinschelbuds and but
ternut plants, lending the scene al
most an Oriental favor.
AS buzzing crowd Of admirers
surrounded the great photographer.
couples floated in and out of the
rooms to the strains OF 'The Merry
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
NEW EPIDEMIC
NOT CONTAGIOUS
THROUGH MEAT
Public Should Not Merry Over
Foot and Mouth Disease
from This Source.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Nov. 2 L..
According to the specialists Of the
department Of agriculture people
even in states quarantined for the.
foot-and-mouth disease need have no
fear of eating meat, provided they
cook it thoroughly. The foot-and-
mouth disease is not easily commun-
icated to human beings through food,
although milk from a diseased COW
might transmit the disease to a hui
man being. In the case of milk,
however, pasteurization will render it.
entirely safe. Human beings who do
get the disease commonly get 1t from
direct contact with sick animal. 1t
is wisest, therefore, for people to,
keep away from all animals having.
the disease. unless they are properly
provided with rubber gloves, coats
and boots, and these are Thoroughly
disinfected after each visit to the
animals.
In the case of meat, as in the case
of milk, it must be remembered that
all Herds which actually show the
disease are quarantined, and neither
milk nor meat from the sick animals
|Ndu p6 OOLusl. w RC1r lCCAL VI tuG
meat used in this country is pro.
duced in the nearly 9UO- federally in
spected slaughtering and packing es-
Establishments located in $40 cities. In
these establishments no animal is
slaughtered until 1t has passed an
ante-mortem inspection and also a
most rigid post-mortem inspection by
"a veterinarian at time of slaughter.
After slaughter Its meat cannot leave
the ablishment until 1t has been
carefully examined and stamped ~.
s.. inspected and passed" In all
these establishments no animal show
ing any symptoms whatever Of foot
and-mouth disease is allowed to go to
slaughter, and no meat which, on
post-mortem inspection, shows any
suspicious symptoms Of this COM
plant can be shipped out Of the es-
Enlistment. All meat suspected of
coming from an animal suffering with
this complaint is sent, under govern
ment seal, to the tanks to be rendered
into fertilizer. The federal inspection
stamp on meat, therefore, means that
it is entirely safe.
The federal government, however,
ndo uO. JuIASQlSIlOu iOICA IOCHt
slaughter houses which do not ship
meat outside of the state in which It.
is slaughtered. II, however, meat
from such an animal did escape from
one of these local slaughter houses,
which are purely under state or mu-
nicipal control, all danger of its
communicating the disease to human
beings would be removed when 1t is
thoroughly cooked and sterilized.
Those who are located near an infect
ed region and wish to be absolutely
certain OF the safety OF their meat
should cook 1t thoroughly.
The disease when contracted by
adults is not at all a serious illness.
1t commonly takes the form OF
slight fever sores In the mouth and a |
slight eruption on the fingers. In
the case Of small or sichly children,
it may take more serious form, es-
peciaily IL complicated by other ILL
nesses.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 81. 1914.
An Eyening Echo.

Gentleness is love in society; it is
love holding intercourse with those
around it: 1t is that cordially Of
aspect and that soul of speech which
assures us that kind and earnest
hearts may still be met with here
below; 1t is that quiet influence
which, like the scented flame OF an
alabaster lamp, fills many a home
with light and warmth and fragrance
altogetier.-THE REV. j. HAAlIL-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
Some Object Lessons.

Another recruit to the list of West
Virginia cities which are dissatisfied
with their charters is Bluefie1d,
which fact again emphasizes the
contention the Telegram has con-
sIstently made long time that the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21
DEBT CASE
Comes Up again in Richmond
for More Evidence to Be
Taken in It.

HUNTINGTON, .Noy. 21-Judge
John H. Holt. chief counsel for West
Virginia In the Virginia debt case,
has gone to Richmond. where some
additional testimony Is to be pre-
sented by the attorneys for the state
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21

Of Virginia. This testimony will be
taken In the form OF dispositions for
submission to the master in chan
Gerry, Others members OF the West
Virginia counsel, including Attorney
General Lilly, and members Of the
West Virginia debt Commission, will
also be present. i;s
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21

Cambridge University. within the
last few weeks, has contributed 1000
officers to the British army.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-21

Telephone your order for The
Sunday Telegram and your regnlar
newsboy will deliver It early Sunday
morning, November 80. Call Bell
phone 2S3-R or Home phone 1871
today sure.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-08-24

fectionate glance at his youngest and
favorite son. He drew out the three
checks and passed them around.
Zone word more" he spoke, as
their recipients arose to get them
cashed as quickly as possible.
There's something else. See here,
boys, my experience teaches me that
there's nothing so steadies a young
man as getting married. Now then,
to the first one of you who takes a
wife will give $4,000, to the second
$4,000, to the third, $4,000 and to the
last, $1,000. By the way" he added,
a suggestive twinkle in his merry
eye, "Pm thinking you won't have to
look far to fn6 the prettiest heiress
in the country right nigh to hand"
Each one of the three knew whom
he meant-Miss Dalia Bliss; not a
mile away. 1t was said she was to
have half a million in her own right.
1t was strange, but each one of the
trio departed determined to call upon
the young lady in question and see
how the land lay.
Two mornings later Claud met
Henry and Monty. He informed them
that he had called upon Miss Bliss the
evening previous. Her father had
been greatly interested in his long
talk about the law. And Dalia seem
ed so interested she scarcely spoke.
Poor dear she had been so bored at
the grandiloquent efflorescence of
the dignifed guest that she had al
most gone to sleep in his presence.
Then Monty in undress military
uniform went to see the heiress. He
came home twirling his silk mus
taches and self complacently satisfied
that all he had to do was to propose.
to the charming heiress to be prompt
ly accepted.
Henry's turn followed. He fancied
he was irresistible and languidly in
formed his brothers that he believed
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-08-24

"Humph" calculated Claudius.
sourly an hour later, 7
"She has rejected a vast honor, y
declared Montgomery, bristling furi-
ously. -
"The mink" said the nettled
Claud, most family. i
Miss Bliss had been dreadfully en-
barrassed at being taken by storm by
three impetuous suitors. Then she
had told them in her pretty, artless
way that she was already engaged.
1.-The mink" said the nettled
Claud.
Making sport of US all!'' growled
Montgomery. r,
81 should have come earlier on the
scene" isped Henry. 49,
About three O'Clock that afternoon
Jack, plain, simple, transformations
Jack to the end of the chapter, di-
recting some men in parking road
way running through the estate,
looking over in the direction of the
Bliss home had noted a blue ribbon
fluttering from one of its windows.
He quietly left the direction of the
workmen to one of their number. In
a few minutes Jack had gained the
hedge separating the two estates.
Soon Dalia appeared. Certainly
Jack was her friend, that she should
signal him and now make a conf1dant
of him, and pour into the willing ears
the story of her. persecution by three
great over-grown boys! al
"And such nice brothers of yours
they are" she told Jack.
What a terrible escape they have
had in evading the wiles of a young
lady who is not. duly awed by their
grandeur and importance" smiled
Jack. ..
1t was the next morning that the
three city brothers were ready to de-
part. They were just completing
breakfast when Jack made the re-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-01
May Refund Millions

Washington, June 23.-Seventeen
railway companies, constituting trans
continental freight routes, are liable
under the decision of the supreme
court of the United States. in the So
called inter-mountain cases for many
millions of dollars in reparation on
shipments made since the institution
Of the cases.
The precise amount involved in
claims already filed with the inter
state commerce commission has not
been estimated, but it approXimates
$4,000, 900. One batch of claims
alone filed by a single attorney ag-
gregates more than $4,000, 900. Scores
of cases, involving amounts ranging
from a few hundred dollars to hun
dreds of thousands, have been filed
by individual shippers and by COM
mercial and shippers organizations
acting for their members.
Neither in the original order of the
commission, o in the decision of
the supreme court, was the question
Of reparation to shippers discussed.
From time to time, however, in the
last two years, petitions setting up
claims for PREPARATION have been sub
mitted to the commission. All of
them have been held up pending final
determination Of several cases
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-01
Home Made Refriqerators

Pierre Lord. an American of French
ancestry, has just found that an or
binary red clay flower pot can be
made use of to keep water, butter
and other things at refrigerator tenn
peratures in tropical climates or the
hottest of August days.
While an ordinary flower pot will
do. any sort of clay jars. porous YES
sells or common unglaZed earthen-
ware pots and receptacles may an
swer.
All you need to do is to moisten a
rag or bag cloth with strong salt
water and keep it over the top of the
flower pot. The ends should dip down
into a soup dish or basin on which the
flower pot stands. This draining dish
must be kept full of water all the
time. A dark, cool pantry, just where
you would keep an ice cooler or a re-
frigerator, is a good place to keep
the clay jar or pot.
Another way described by c. F.
Saunders is to wrap a layer of burlap
around a porous jar. The water or
: butter OF what not is put in the jar
and it is exposed to a current of air
say, on a dark window sill with win
dow open and shutters closed.
The water inside the porous pot
perspires it's way in a microscopic
moisture through to the outer surface.
The ragbag or burlap maintains such
a slow rate of evaporation that the
pot is kept cold and this cools the
contents.
This use of flower pots to make ice
water can be made valuable not only
to every home and boarding house in
the land but in times of ice famine on
trains. in deserts, on the baseball
field and in the pantries and kitchens
OF hotels and other places.
A simple little laboratory expert.
ment really confirms the principle be-
hind those practical discoveries. If
you take an ordinary bath thermome-
ter and cover it with a moist cloth
all you need do to show how the mer-
curry will fall is to fan it, blow gently
upon it or stand it at a window crack.
The mercury will begin to fall just as
it does in January AS you blow the
! evaporation of the moisture in the
clotii goes on and this cools the Their.
mometCr.-New York Sun.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-07-01
LOWER e PRICES

For ten days there has been a drop
each day in the Duluth and Minnea.
polls quotations for wheat, which gov
ern the price in Montana, says the
Helena Record. The quotation at
Minneapolis yesterday on September
wheat was STA cents, which means
that if the Montana grower sells his
crop now in the making for delivery
in September he would get about 60
cents a bushel for it. The Duluth
quotations were a little higher.
The high quotation yesterday at
Minneapolis on Montana hard wheat
was S7A cents; ten days g the high
price was 9O% cents on the same mar
ket. This drop Of three cents a BUSH
ell is due to the fact that wheat from
the southwestern states is being har-
vested, and the yield will be very
large. A dispatch from Kansas City,
under date Of June Is, was to the eff
feet that wheat cutting vas general in
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tex
as, although rains have interfered
with harvesting in Kansas and Okla
homa. In the Kaw valley of Kansas,
more than 25 per cent Of the crop
has been cut. Oklahoma has started
it's first new wheat to market. SAM
pies received at Kansas City show the
grain to be of fine quality and good
color.
Harvesting returns from Kansas
are up to general expectations, yields
averaging about % bushels to the
acre. Oklahoma and Missouri also
report a good average yield.
At the midsummer meeting of the
Wichita Board OF Trade it was the
consensus of opinion among the mill
ers, bankers, grain dealers and rail
road men that Kansas would raise
above $50, O00. 900 bushels of wheat.
All anticipated an average production
of more than 20 bushels per acre for
the state.