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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-02
a TRIMM. Err.

Usually atrimmerr is an epithet Of
disparagement when applied to poll.
tictaa, but there are exceptions. For
one: The Senate at Washington, In a
hurry to make up lost time, with
heavy appropriation bills to get out
Of the way and little time for close
scrutiny Of items, asks the distin.
gufshed Ohio senator, Burton, about to
retire voluntarily to private life next
week, to trim the rivers and harbors
bill 20 his liking, and the Senate as a
whole will stand for It. There is no
known instance Of equal confidence
expressed In q fellow member, not to
speak Of that member being OF ,ue
minority side. Senator Burton will
be Q great loss. In the House years
ago he had the name Of being the
most efficient legislator, as Senator
Flatt, of Connecticut, had in the Sen.
ate. Senator Burton for many years
WAS chairman OF the House rivers and
harbors committee, is a specialist on
this subject, and nobody doubts his
integrity and patriotism. He will trim
the bin good and plenty. House
Leader Underwood, who goes to the
Senate ne8t3week, made the statement
on the floor OF the House the other
day that q deficit of As million dollars
threatens the Treasury, that this de.
ficit Is not due to decline in revenues
but 10 due to extrayagant and un.
necessary House appropriations, that
the Democratic ma ority is respon.
sible, and that Il the appropriations
are not trimmed there would be no
escaping the censures OF tho country.
Path the House leader and the House
chairman OF the Appropriations com.
mittee have openly denounced the
House for the extravaganza. But
Senator Burton BY trimming the lar.
pors bill may save the Treasury from
the threatened deficit.
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ToDAY's BIRTHDAY PARTY.
BY o. TcrcEce.
. Demsrsl!.es Music, Says

Carl. so Today.
DR.. William Crane Carl, perhaps
the most distinguished OF American
organlsts was born in Bloomfield, n.
j., just half century ago today. DR..
Carl was in Europe at the outbreak OF
the war, and was thus able to observe
at first hand the effect OF armed con.
fiict upon the art to which he has
devoted his life. Almost in moment
musical Europe was demoralized. and
martial music prevailed over oil other
expressions of the harmonic art. The
eminent organist was In Switzerland
when hostilities commenced. and was
four weeks getting to Paris.
Although the little mountain repub.
lie was not devolved in the war, the
mobilization for the protection of Its
boundaries resulted in an immediate
ban on music. "As soon as the mobili.
cation was effected" said Or. Carl,
music In the parks. cafes, boats and
even in the churches was sup.
pressed
In France and Germany the roar OF
cannon drowned out all the sweet
VI pehGG. AZ Day
said DR.. Carl, when the curtains
closed on the first act of 'Parsifal,'
the day the troops we're called, the
artists, stage hands and all who were
eligible for military service, includ.
ing Siefried Wagner, made a dash to
respond, and the audience was forced
to leave without the completion Of the
opera"
In France DR.. Carl found all the
opera houses closed and music, ex.
cent that OF the military bands, under
the official ban. In Switzerland DR..
Carl met NJ. Maurice Kutferath,. the
director OF grand opera in Brussels,
where many stars, including Melba,
scored their first successes. In all
the countries at war a majority Of the
leading musicians, including organ.
lists. pianlsts and singers. were sent
to the front, and In England DR.. Carl
found that many prominent musical
leaders had volunteered, although the
art had not suffered SO severely as
on the continent.
DR.. Carl was pupil OF Alexandra
Guilmant in Paris, and on his return
to America opened the Guilmant Mu.
sic School in New York. He has
made many organ tours Of Europe
and America, including a trip to the
Klondtke during the gold rush, being
the first concert organist to play SO
far north. DIR. Carl was one OF the
founders of the American Guild OF
organists, and has long been rscogi
niEed as among the greatest Of mod
ern organists.
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TODAY we CELEBRATE.
St. Chad the Patron Of All Cold Water
Bathers,

The love Of Ensiishmen and their
American cousins for the stimulating
cold water plunge and the refreshing
shower bath and the geld tub may
be said to have originated in the pc.
eullar religious rites of st. Chad,
whose festival is celebrated today.
st. Chad-sometimes called Ceadda-
lived In the seventh century. He in.
troduced Christianity among the East
Saxons, and had his seat at Lichfeld,
then tiny village. st. Chad con.
stantly urged the liberal use OF water,
internally and externally, and the
fame OF his so-called miraculous cures
CT the sick by what would now be
called "hydrotherapy" spread through.
out the land and attracted multi.
tude Of pilgrims.
Lichfield contains many memorials
OF st. Chad, chief Of which is st.
Chad's Well. spring OF pure, cold
water, in which the saint was accus.
toned 10 stand, naked, while at
prayer. 1t was long believed that this
spring had miraculous healing power,
and as late as 1902 celebrated ply.
siclan,' Sir John Fioyer, published a
list OF diseases, including majority
OF all the Ills human flesh is heir to,
which yielded TO frequent immersion
In st. Chad's Well. Later Sir John
set up rival establishment, having
become convinced that 1t was bathing
In cold water rather than the inter.
vention of st. Chad which worked so
many cures. His cure" became very
popular, and, as he said, prevailed
over the prejudices OF the common
people. who usually despise all cheap
and common remedies. which have or.
dinarily tho greatest effect"
st. Chad came to be considered
the patron of all bathing places and
OF medicinal springs. In London st.
Chad's Well. a medicinal spring, was
long one OF the favorite spas Of the
metropolis. Many famous men at.
tributed their good health and long.
evity to drinking OF It's waters, which
were sold at a half.penny a glass. st.
Chad himself lived to a ripe old age,
and to the last took his daily plunge
into cold water.
To certain extent modern medical
science has confirmed st. Chad's be.
lief In the efficacy OF the external ap.
plicntion of cold water. The morn.
Ing plunge into cold water is highly
recommended for its tonic effect to
those vigorous enough to enjoy q
speedy reaction. For the delicate
and weak, however, st. Chad's recipe
for longevity is not desirable.
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State Editors.
THE BREWERS soLIcITupE.

One would think that the chief
party IN interest in the tax question
in West Virginia is the property.hold-
er. 1t Is therefore with some surprise
that We learn that the question is OF
more concern to the brewer who
dives in the adjoining state. The
Year Book" OF the United States
Brewers Association has Just come
to our hands along with a postcard
begging that we acknowledge its re
ceips and send forwardla marked copy
containing any reference to 1t which
may appear in our columns.
In a preliminary survey of the vol.
ume, under the heading West yir.
ginia," We find this paragraph:
THE Governor has announced that
there is shortage OF over $4,000 in
the State treasury and unless new re.
sources are created, the. deficit will
be over Sl,25o,oe0 by the end of the
year"
The paragraph is significant OF the
attitude Of solicitude on the part Of
the brewing industry" for the vel.
fare of the people of the state. The
Brewers Association OF the United
States would hate like sixty to see the
state put In any financial hole, and
while the book is silent on the sub.
ject, after reading the above, we as
sumo authority for the statement that
the brewers would willingly liquidate
our entire Indebtedness and save US
from the impending increase In the
deficit. They won't tell us that only
one dollar in every twenty taken from
the people would be turned over to
the state to help meet that deficit, and
that what they would give to the peo-
pie for the other nineteen Is worse
than nothing. Their entire solicitude
is for the waning exchequer.
The book came along Just IN time
to confirm what Governor Hatfield
said In an interview in Sundays
news, to-wit: ut would probably not
be displeas!ng to certain interests.
once powerful In West Virginia, but
now outlawed, to take advantage of
this situation tthe shortage OF re.
venuel ss 81
The post card acknowledging re.
ceipt has gone forward, and the morn.
ing mail carries The News to the
United States Brewers Association,
No. so, Union Square. New York;
duly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES News.
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spid more powerful than that Of the
Germans. Russia has more degraded
working class, economically speaking.
poorly paid and poorly organized and
more inefficient, than the correspond.
Ing class in other countries. And
besides. prohibit ion Is more easily en-.
forctble in Russia than inlmorei liberal
countries. For these reasons the
benefit from strict prohibition will be
more startling In Russia than In most
other countries. Atthat, such a state.
ment as that OF Lloyd.G George is a
powerful argument In behalf OF abol.
ishing the characteristic curse OF
civilization.
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the great fundamental duty OF the
franchise! = Huntington Heraid-pis.
Current Comment.
THE y WOMAN! VIC ER,s PIT:
rAMr e. a r -fis- u

i, LANCE. ~ =
A painful showing OF the underpaid
conditions OF unskilled female labor
Is made by the statistics included by
Mrs. Frederick Nathan In her report
as President OF the Consumers
League. Out OF 5000 women and
girl employees in the city, 5000 re-
celye less than $3.50 a week during
the busy season. Fifty.three per cent.
Of those in large department stores
earn less than IS d week, while OF
a total OF 104 900 wage-earners investi.
gated, one.eighth receives less than
IS and one.third less than 81 a week.
In the paper:box factories women
make only Sc a week.
These are not living wages In any
true sense Of the term, and from the
point OF view Of the woman workers
relations to society they are wretched-
~ INADEQUATE. But the trouble Is not
merely that the wages are SO small.
The productive capacity of the girls
and women who receive them is equal.
ly small. These are the wages OF
workers who on a commercial basis
are worth no more to their employers.
the wages OF those who, generally
speaking, are unskilled and incompe-
tent for any really productive labor
and who perforce engage in the occu-
pations which pay least because they
are ct for no other. This class Of
workers, while learning their duties,
are more liability than an asset to
their employers.
They constitute the great mass Of
raw industrial material for the de.
velopment and training OF which no
facilities exist. To establish a mini.
mum wage for such workers is one
thing, but IL they are to receive exact
social Justice they must be provided
with the training and inspired with
tho ambition to make their work of
moro value and OF increasing value.
Society should itself provide some
means OF making them competent, and
not merely look to their employers
to do so.-New York World.
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"A coNeREssMAN,s TROUBLES.

&
1t IS very questionable whether the
appointment OF postmasters is la
mlity or an asset to Congressman.
Congressman Nicely has evidently had
his share Of trouble in making selec.
tons in his district. He ran into a
hornets nest at Wheeling, collided
with buzz saw at Warrington and
offended one OF the editors of the
Times, who Is said to have been ali
applicant for the place at Fairmont.
Now Moundsyille is the bone Of con-
tention, as about twenty Deserving
Democratse want to handle the mail
81 the Mound City and Of course he
cannot give all tof them the job. IL
he picks q winner he will have the
other 10 on his back with their wives,
aunts and cousins clawiug his hair
You see the Marshall county Demo.
Gratis are not very much accustomed
TO holding a fat political job. They
usually elect Republicans over there
and when q nice Juicy plum, like the
post office Job, Is to he given away
there Is more or less political ruction
along the Ohio.
The astute congressman has be.
come so accustomed to lodging the
tariff issue and the high cost of living
calamity that he has about decided to
practice the art Of sidestepping on
the MoundsYilliansiwho are now claim.
ing his undivided attention. He
places three sultimntums at their dis.
poEal. One Is that he will name the
best man if all the others viii agree
to support him. a fair proposition
and good political plan for Mr.. Nicely
II they would stick. But will they go
into such pact and II they do will
they stand by the decis!on?. The
other is that the 20 hold Democratic
Caucus and nominate man out OF
The long list Of aspirants, another
plan equally fair to Mr.. Nicely, but
which will prove very disappointing
TO the 10 who might be left in the dis.
cards. 10 neither Of these plans are
suitable he says Iiet the people say"
Hold q primary election. he suggests.
and let the Democratic rotars and
patrons OF the TSffice decide by their
votes. This Is certainly most Demo.
cratic way to settle such a question
md II Il works out alright why not
submit the appointments heretofore
made at Warrington, Fairmont and
Wheeling to the Earbitrament OF the
ballot2 onSwith the post office pri.
nnaryl
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A GOOD sUeessTIoN.

The Wheeling Intelligencer very
wisely suggests that the automobile
tax should be revised and that cars
should be taxed in proportion to their
size and damage they do to the roads
and streets. Why should the owner
of Ford car pay as much TO run
over the roads as heavy truck or
one of the mighty touring cars. Do
they not damage the roads in pro-
portion to their weight and speed.
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LITTLE Boobies PA
BY William Il. Kirk.

Thare was awful smart gentle,
man oayer. to our house the other
mite. He name was Willyum Olsen.
He is the boss OF the publlck skool
Fairgrounds & all he has to do Is go
out & find out what is the best place
for the kids to play.
had a friend who was member
Of the board Of educashun onst, sed
Ma. He was was graduate Of Yale,
too, sed Ma. & II thare is ennything
In the wurld that luy It is a college
graduate, sed Ma. Doant You feel
that way. too. Mr.. Olsen.
I-dcant know that ] do, sed Mister
Olsen, beekaus newer loved a col
lege graduate. ] am paying not at
tenshun to college graduates now bee
Klaus / all my attenshun to being dee.
voted to littel boys, the kids Of witch
that kids like yure kid Is. always
figger sed Mister Olsen that II We
cud talk care Of kids that size the col.
lege graduates will talk care OF them.
selves the best that any college grad.
juate can talk care OF hisself. !
newer saw one so doant know, sed
Mister Olsen.
Well, sed Pa, woant say too much
about this queshun of children getting
educated in public Fairgrounds or in
public skoois, beekaus wen was a
little kid thare wasent much In the
line OF public Fairgrounds. The only
Fairgrounds that we had was rite out
In the open air behind the oald red
barn. & It was as free as the air We
are breething now. OF course, 1t wss
In a small town WHARF things Is al
ways free but you may be sure 1t
was sum playground, & you may also
be sure that | was always the cham.
peen at eyyry one OF the sports the
boys INDUCED In.
knew that last was cumming, sed
Ma. was sure you were going to fig.
ger sumthing crate in. the playground
of yure childhood that you are des-
cribing. It Is too bad that Jessie
Willard wasent brot up In yure
neighborhood SO that YOU cud have
licked him on top of all yure other
achievements that you say you had
as a champeen. You musent mind
him, Mister Olson, sed Ma, he Is all
the time going on that way.
And you musent mind my wife, sed
Pa to his trend. She Is all the time
contra-dicting me.
newer contra-dickted you In my
life. sed a.
Yes you did, sed Pa.
No I dident, sed Ma, q l amt going
to start wen am SO oald. ~
But you dc. argue with me, sed Pa.
] newer argue with you in my life,
sed Ma. q
Well you have argued with me, sed
Pa.
Newer, sed Ma, I wud die as soon
as argue with you. 5l,
No you wud not, Pa sed. YOU wud
not like to die until you got In one,
moar argiment-
Yes ] wud9you impossibel husband.
sed Ma. 2
: Children, children. sed Mister Oh.
sen. i am interested in play grounds
& not In prize fites.
That was nice Of Mister Olsen bee.
Klaus It stopped the fife, but he has
moar rite to be happy than I have bee
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EVERY DAY NOW.

The Charleston Gazette has added
another pleasure to the joys of living
by coming out seven days OF the week.
The Gazette is not in accord with our
political views. 1t is horribly Demo,
cratic, but withal 1t is fair and is
never afraid to give the other side q
hearing: From q Democratic stand.
point the Gazette has no superiors in
the state. 1t is ably edited. scream,
ingly headed, POLITICALLY inclined, and
humanity interesting.
May the Gazette and its gifted editor
long live to see the political error OF
their way.
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KNOWS HIS BUSINESS

Governor Hatfield intimates very
strongly in recent interview that
powerful interests, now outlawed in
this state" are meddling in the iegis,
latlve work and are attempting to
block revenue measures to meet the
deficit in the treasury and to main.
tain the state Institutions. The liquor
interests are never asleep. An edi-
torial published elsewhere in todays
paper from the Parkersburg News
tends to prove that the Governor
knows what he Is talking about.
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Klaus he cud talk his coat q Hat q go
hoam but have to bsiwith Pa q d
all the time.
FIRST THINGS.
First Balloon.

q
The frat attempt to navigate theEair
In balloon was made sl3l years ago
today, March 2,17s4, when Blanchard
the French aeronaut, made an ascent
from Paris in a balloon to which he
had addsd wings and a rudder! The
ascent was made in safety, but the
wings proved useless and the big bag
refused to respond to the rudder
Many later attempts were made to
produce a steerable balloon, but II re.
NAMED for Santos Dumont, Count
Zeppelin and other modern Inventors
to create practical dirigible balloons.
About tho time OF Blanchard's futils
attempt to make his balloon answer
to a rudded, Horace Walpole wrote q
letter in which he expressed doubt as
to whether either dirigible balloons or
submarines would ever prove practi.
cal. He said: However, II the pro.
ject be ever brought to perfection
tthough apprehendi Il willlbe added.
like the ship that was to live under
water and never came up againt, II
will have a different fate from other
discoveries, whose inventors are not
known. Mr.. Blanchart's trip to Calls
puts me in mind Of pryden,s indian
Emperor"
What divine monsters, o ye gods, ore
these,
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AsToNJsHINcl

Editor Smith, Of the F'airmont
Times. which newspaper Is the per.
sonal organ Of Senator Watson. issre.
ported TO have said that the present
lefitlature and Its work viii cause d
reversal Of form. politically, two years
hence. An astonishing prophet Is the
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Feirmont rage. NOT two years hence.
nor four years hence, nor ten years
hence, nor In the time Of any genera.
ton which can eonjure up IN memory
the shame and disgrace OF 1911 win
the state thus reverse itself. Par:
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Tss NE CAT.

Use Ne Cat the Pluto Indian out
law has been too much for the para
graphers. Several of them have es.
sayed to poke fun at him and his
trisylable name but they have all been
lost along the trail.
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YOUTHS CHARM.

The old dust shan drive from the
deserts.
The rocks be outwornE by the!s sea;
But the Child is the heart OF Forever,
And youth Is q charm that sets free.
We shall ipeddleS our berries and bios
SONS. s, &
And ., barter our bonds and our
But it's love that shall buy US the sum.
And youth has iite's gold in her
We shall struggle with problems and
systems.
And figure estate and demesne,
But the heart OF the Child Is our April,
And the meadows ot'youth are still
green.
When we've worn in the grooves OF
our labor,
And fretted our term on the stage.
We shall look at love leading with
laughter
The bowman who aims at Old Age.
The mountain shall drift to the level,
The planets to cinders blow by;
But still on the sleeps Of the morning,
Shall the lips Of the Little Ones cry.
For what are the dust and the Gin
ders,
The burned-out convulslons Of time,
To the Joy that is spring made i'm:
mortal
In a, heart that is laughter and
rhyme.
No. never to dread the swift ages,
Nor care for the years as they roll;
There's child in the last of the tenn.
pies,
There is love for the loneliest soul.
With our petty affairs and our Gus.
! toms,
Our habit of going about
Attaching Importance to trifles-
When the hills with green Youth
are ashout-
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Up to the time a man is so he
knows two or three stories. After he
is 60 he knows only one.
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A GOOD LOOK.

The editor of the Charleston Gazette
was long time seeing the first robin
but he got took a good look when he
saw him.
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Sim Heekle's notion of the ideal
condition Is to be too sick to work
and well enough to come down town.
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Eph Wiley, who was reared on one,
says the most difficult thing to under
stand is why farm hand sings.
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It is also we'll to remember that the
sewer. is one OF the byproducts Of
civilization.
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The chances are that If you are hav.
ing a particularly good time you wont
make much money.
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Vienna builds tenements for IT'S
poor. Each building Is supplied with
a cooperative store for the benefit of
the tenants.
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The supreme moment of satisfac.
tion in a woman's life is attained
when she takes her corset off.
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This is not free country, but. with
three or four exceptions, it is as FREQ
as any.
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What divine monsters, o,yelgods. are
these,
That float in air. and ny upon the
seas?f"
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DRUDcERY.
We may Sc. It down as a ue..

We may set It down as a great
truth TIA. the sense Of monotony
and drudsey 10 ou work senet-
ally shows that we have come to
put our emphasis IN he wrong
place; hat we have become con.
eetned more in getting our work
done and Of our hands than IN
The way we are doing il. Change
The emphasis 10 the latter and he
situa6on will be mastered, The
sense Of drudsey will vanish. and
the Life and the workwilf have an.
other aspeci.-Simon.
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the WOMEN are about TO appeal to
the men OF West Virginia. The sub.
ject OF their appeal lies at the root
Of free representative government. 1t
is suffrage. Government, as It ar.
fects the people OF q representative
community, rests upon suffrage. It
will be neither better nor worse than
the animating spirit OF the voters.
The voters have the whole thing In
their hands. The men OF West viz:
GINA can contirrn a noticeable ten.
detcy toward cleaner politics and
higher POLITICAL ideals by. inviting their
women to Join them in the exercise OF