The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-23

~ announced experiment Of ten
weal thy, Chicago club women In tax
ing into their homes the women OF
the streets IN an endeaNor to return
them TO society physically and NOR
ally strong has aroused q world OF
partment would have charge of such
public works as the Alaskan railway,
the vast reclamation projects of the
West, rivers and harbore, public
buildings fad possibly the Panama
Every day or two the.I. G. c., the
same being the Interstate Commerce
Com mission, administers heroic
dose of madicine to the various ex-.
i Of life In their financial bodies. When
the government went into the express
business. via parcels post, it all but
put the private concerns out Of BUSH
ness Thfswas more than the govern
ment desired to do and. It has been
keeping the commission busy trying
to save the express concerns from the
scrap heap The commission Keeps a.
rfveted eye on the Figures sof the ex-
press companies and when they
show signs OF .sagging. it steps up.
there. softess up a rev oppressive
rules, and does other things ealulat.
/ ed to sEave of dissolution. Most OF
the ruling made last week by the
commission have been In regard TO
the express business and aimed to
give strength to that welI-nigh-fagg-
out Industry While Uncle Sam
does the bulk OF the express business
of the country, there is. a certain
class Of it that he doesn't do and
Isn't, by any means. prepared to
take on. Hence his anxiety to keep
||tne private concerns going. HIS
mission is finding It mans
sized job to do that very thing. toe.
TIE fellow who built the ocean too
close to the shore about which there
ling done these many years was no re-
,llation OF the postmaster at Simpson,
.lW. Va. who built his post office and
general store TOO far from the hen
coop that paeE for Simpsons Union
station. Tlls ernn1ent has called
his attention lack OF foresight;
There is q yular international
on file already and this case Dlos
.Ifafr to become justly celebrated.
] The nome team being away and
1.-THE poor downtown clerks at the =.
Id. %. having nothing else to do that
AFTERNOON. accidentally discovered
,Ithat the post Office and depot at
Simpson were not In as close juxta-
position as required by rule NO.
lI47938 of the postal regulations anu
the brilliant idea stmered tnr S,tl;a
1.-The solid concrete that II. by little
.Imanouvering these two stately
|edffices, the pride and glory of Simp-
son and the centers around which the
natives mundane activities revolvt*
could be brought closer together, II
would save the government Few
.Ikopecks for handling the mail bags
from the station to the post ONCE. 90 o
-Ithey dictated few reams on tne
subject. the brilliant gist OF wn1cn
was that the postmaster should move
hts store down closer to the depot.
The p. NJ. and S. K countered with
ia suggestion that the station be put
lon a wheelbarrow and moved up
adjoining his store. His letter read
like he was peeved. and the CLERKS
wrote back, quite fused. How dare
'|he be so rude! Old p. N. and s. 4.
replied with letter that was siz-
IslinR with some of the choicest
lSfmpsones that any native Simp has
allowed to slip out of his system since
Hast years big revival in the Baptist
|church. At the same time. he hand
led In his resignation.
4 Now. a postmaster can be fired,
Land he is allowed to die like other
people. But he can't resign unless
1.-The government is willing, and then
|he isn't quit of the job until his sue
lessor is appointed and qualified.
being such a rude sort Of fellow
loufte unbearable, rude. YOU know
.Iso hastily unaccom modating that ne
refused to move his store building
! across the lot and let the railroad
Istation lean against 1.-THE p. Q. ID.
ldeskman here decided to rid the
service of such a rD'everse person.
iSo they ordered an EXAMINATION held
Ito get a successor. But nobody came
lilo take the examination. Either no
lone wants the job or the simple folk
5,of simpson have hard and fast
agreement to boycott the govern
ment. Another examination has oEen
4 ordered for the % of this month.
land a plointlve appeal has been Is
sued for volunteers. In the mean
time. Major Nicely is urging the of1-
c,als to retreat from their position,
allow the union station and the gen
eral store to remain divorced. retain
the mail messenger service between
the two and recommission the pres
ient postmaster.
At the last count the United
States national bank notes in circula-