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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-12-08
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MEETING TONIGHT
Principals Will Gather at
I, Y. NJ. G. A. for al Con-
ference.

The meeting Of the Principals c,
the grammar schools at the Y. NJ. G!
A., which was scheduled igor last
night was postponed and win be held
this evening. e,
No important changes in the bowl;
Ing league were made by the captains
OF the teams yesterday, and all are
enthusiastic over the standing OF their
teams. The schedule Is only half com:
pleted and the tail:end teams still
have o chance to win. slN
Tonight the Dentists meet the At
torneys In the Professional League,
and the Has:Beens roll the Jeffs Id
the High School League.
Yesterdayss results were:
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Mlners obIee. "a 6 como. Mine.

CHARLESTON WA, Dec. S.
Trouble Is being experienced in the
operation Of the Boomer Mine, in
which % miners lost their lives last
week. The mine resumed operations
Monday, hui, only IN part. But few Of
,tiie miners reported for duty.
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Of daily attendance: Boys "a; girls, IS.
Pupils neither absentSnor tardy are,
Mabel Anderson, Irene Carey, vada
Straight. Frank Anderson, Lloyd Coma.
way. Kenneth Sullivan, Freida
Straight, Rosa Wilson and Paul
Straight. Visits to patrons, s. Charles
a. Holland, teacher =
Pupils enrolled in sixth grade: Boys,
II; girls, 10. total, 81. Average daily
attendance: Boys 80; girls, 9s. Pupils
neither absent nor ,tardy: Helen Clay
ton, Flossie Cramer, Mabel Ice, Nellie
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Ridgway, Kenneth Barrackman. HOW.
ard Hays. Dana Rice, Joseph Ice, Car.
roll Michael, Lee Straight and Ray.
mond Tenant. Number OF visits 10
parents. 10 Hazel v. Roberts, teacher.
Pupils enrolled in fourth and NTH
grades. Boys i16 girls, IL. total, !, go! lAv.
erage daily attendance, 2SSPerl cent. sof
daily attendance: Boys 90 girls SO.
Those neither absent nor tardy: sLo.
rene Carey. Edith Russell, katharine
Cramer, Anna Shimskey, Mary Shin.
skey. Pearl MI ller, Harold Steele. Ken.
meth Russell, John Ice, Dale Ridgway
and 20ryille Gump. Visits to patrons,
49, Teacher, Blanche 4 Lawson.
Pupils enrolled in second and third
grades: Boys, %: girls, IS; totalsIi5:
Average daily attendance, a.. Per
cent Of daily attendance: Boys, Sc;
girls, 95.s Those neither tardy not alb:
sent: Geraldine Cook, Virginia Ice,
Marie Swaney. Mary Cramer. Sophie
kazanski, Helen Kzananski, Leslie
Straight Virginia Wisman, Joseph
Hughes, Nick Shimski, Clyde Tooth.
man and Edwin Tenant. Visits to
parents, 6. Grace Ribinson. teacher!
Pupils enrolled in first grad e BOYS
%; girls, 80 total go. Average daily
attendance, 81. Per! cent. of daily at.
tendance, boys go; girls. 90. Those
neither tardy. nor absent; yJohniLanner,
Fay Shackelford. James Tenant,
Harold Pitzer. Frank Humrada, John
Humrada, Andy Lest, Steve r idgwav.
Olive Michael, Thelma Brand, Edith
Toothman, Verna Gump, Burris Nep:
tune, Anna Cook, Anna Coshoyich,
May Shackleford. Margaret lTilets,
Leda Chapman. Leila Brooks, RUBY
Donaldson. Gertrude NJ. Conway,
teacher. - ~ Z n,
cayenne Graded School. y
Pupils enrolled insupper room: Boys,
49, girls. II; total, 49,; Average daily
attendance, 81. Per cent. OF daily at.
tendance: Boys, 81; girls, 81. Pupils
who we're neither absent nor tardy:
Boys. 81; girls, 81. Pupils who were
neither absent nor tarly: Everett Ro.
gers, Paul Maze, George Snider, Karl
Nestor. Joe Nicholich, Glenn Davis.
Paul Wallace, !; Lew. Wallace, Mary Sea.
ton, Edith Brown, Davinna Fleming,
GaSelle Rogers, Ruth Snider and Ivy
Maze, Visits to parents, 6. George G.
Barbe, teacher. ~ m
Pupils in intermediate room: Boys
1s; girls, q; total. sS.fAverage daily.
attendance. 2l.a Per, cent. Of daily at.
tendance, SO. Those neither absent nor
tardy: Bernard Whiteman. Paul Davis.
Lonnie Clouse, Harold Nestori L, Tony
Clouse. Delbert .Wilemiller, Wanita
Rogers, Evelyn Rice, Pauline Miller
and Evelyn H.ssey: Visits to patrons,
y. Visits from patrons. Z. Irma Coma:
way, teacher.
Pupils enrolled in primary room:
Boys 90; girls. :stotal, 80. Average
daily attendance, 3os Per cent. OF daily
attendance; Boys, %; girls, s4 Nai.
1 i
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This afternoon two games were
played by the Junior A basketball
league. Army VS.. Harvard; Navy VS..
Yale. The high school asketball team
is working hard In practice to prepare
fortheir first game December IS with
Clarksburg High School.
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sther5 absent nor tardy; Gladss Davis,
Rosa elouse, Mary Hunt. Helen White
man, Martha Eddy. Euniee Iriplett,
Jesse Hall, John Rice, Harold Davis,
Humes Rogers Wayne Brown Teddy
Govern. Edison filler and George
tNestor. Visits to parents. 5 visits
from parents 4. Ruth Phillips, teach,
NE White Rock seheei. s 4
Pupils enrolled: Boys II girls; Is ;
.totalA2S Average daily sttspdapee, %.
Those who were neither bsept nor
tardy are: Ruth Ours, Mary LELAND,
Doris Wilson. Hugh Clellspd, Fred
Glellaud, Frank Carpenter and Rehert
Carpenter. Visits TO parents, 81. Hadden
81 Rhodes. teacher. 4
Il. Pine Grove seheeI. n a
3 Pupils enrolled: Boys, 50 n girls, Q !;
total ,ssl3.s Per cent, Of daily attendance,
Boys, lss; girls, ii Sc: sThose neither abi
isent,nor tardy: Ethel Freeland liDferel
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Inset, Gully Wilson, forward on Seat
tie team and ono of the fastest play
.ers in Pacific Coast Assn.
fans paying devotion TO the game,
promoters are now principally con.
ccrncd in developing young players
of promising calibre to step into the
shoes Of hockey champions who have
reached their zenith. ~ y
4 So racking is the game that the ay.
.erage professional goes stale after the
age Off 80. Probably no sport makes
so terrific a drain on vitality. The
average age OF tue speedy Metropol.
itans of Seattle, for instance, is %
years. Hockey&is the game of youth,
demanding all the pep and wild dis:
regard OF consequences that youth
alone can contribute.
The growing popularity Of the
game has already resulted in plans to
create an Eastern international assoc.
iation, as soon as the war ends, in.
GLIDING New York, Boston, Montreal,
Quebec, Toronto and other cities In
that section.
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fasten upon his victim. His
mind runs that way. Things
like that appeal to him more
than anything else. His activ-
tiles along those channels seem
more easy and congenial, and If
confederates in the propagation
of poison are desired be can find
them among his former associ-
ates in similar experiences.
There is nothing too mean for
a slapderer to do. There are
no words too strong to use in de
scribing him. If a murderer
should hang seven feet, the
slanderer should drop 700-or
be buried alive, face downward,
so that the more he scratches
the further away from decent
people and the nearer 70 his
father, the devil, he will get
Edgefeld Chronicle.
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There are many people in this
country who are slowly coming
to the conclusion that Germany
will win in the war in Europe,
aud such a contingency would
bring the United Stats face to
face with a very grave problem
There are strong indications that
Germany, in the event of vic
tory, will demand q tremendous
indemnity from this country for
what she will term damages to
her cause by our selling of war
munitions to the allies. And in
such a case the United States
would have to fight or pay.
The people who advocate nation
al preparedness would naturally
do much Of the fighting, but
would the advocates of ''peace
at any price, do the paying if
we had nothing with which to
fight? Don't leave the thinking
to your neighbor, brother. Do
a little of it yourself and give
your congressman the benefit of
your opinions.
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GET A Flag.

In this day of agitation on the
subject of national preparedness
one of the simplest and most
practical steps to take would be
for each family to keep an Amer
ican flag where the children can
see it from day to day.
Then teach the children that
the flag of their country means
more to them than life itself,
that 1t must be handled with
care, and looked up to and rev.
cred as the symbol OF liberty
and the champion of right. jus.
tice and humanity.
It is difficult to instill ideas of
patriotism into the heads of pres
Fent day adults who have bee n
reared in an atmosphere of grow
ing indifference, but ours will
be a better nation fifty years
hence if we Of today but per.
form even a fraction of our duty
to our offspring and to our coun.
try.
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L0OK IN THE GLASS.

If you feel grouchy and out of
sorts and the world seems warp
ed and twisted from all view,
points, look in the glass. Your
own reflection will ,et you think
ing and wondering if perhaps it
is not you instead of the world
that is warped.
When something goes wrong
and you feel like cussing or
kicking the cat there is nothing
quite ef6cacious as looking in
the glass. You see yourself as
you are and not as perhaps you
think you are. All of your hard
lines and your i'll humor are, re-
Hected by the faithful glass, and
the moment a heeting smile be-
gins to creepove your face the
glass viii magnify it and glorify
| it until in but a short time you
will be forgetting entirely your
i'll humor and Will be smiling
from the pure JOY of living.
Look in the glass.
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sATTIEsHIp WEEK IN CHARLESTON.

Charleston, Nov. with the
early days of November has
come great activity on the part
| of the local organization, co op-
Grating with the organization at
Washington, to prepare Char
Ileston as the hostess city of the
Southern Commercial Congress,
the Atlantic battleship feet and
thousands of visitors from all
parts of South Carolina and the
South. Almost daily, at the pres
ent time, there is a meeting of
one of the efficient committees
of the local organization and the
via with which these committees
have taken hold is in itself an
assurance Of the successful ses-
sion which the purposes and
aims of the Congress justifes.
Celebrating the victories of so
years of peace in the United
States, the seventh annual con-
vention of the Congress ih Char
|leston will be addressed on Is
big vital subjects by more than
hall a hundred of the ablest and
most widely known men of today
from all parts of this and foreign
countries. In conjunction with
the session, which will be called
to order December 1S and which
will continue through December
II, the woma'ns auxiliary of the
congress will hold it's annual
convention here, as will many
other co operating organizations
Reading the program of en-
tertainment for the throngs that
will besiege the old city will be
the great Atlantic battle fleet.
An army and navy parade will
be a notable feature of the
amusement program, and those
who witness it will have some
thing to remember long. Sailors
from the battleships anchored
in the harbor, regulars from the
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Bale Of Cotton Fired In Every Big Shot.

Charles E. Chidsey, of Pascagou!a,
Miss, under date of October %, writes
the following TO the Manufacturers
Record.
Recent correspondence in the New
York Sun gives doleful account OF the
conditions in Germany dus to food shor
tage These statements give US an in
sight into the conditions in Germany
today. and they justify the position l
have taken 10 the Manufacturers Rec
ord ths. Germany, 10 order to carry on
her war successfully must do it by in-
yading the enemy's territory.
Long before this war began it was
well known in Germany that she in a
prolonged war could not sustain her.
self, and her only hope OF SUCCESS
would be in rapidly crushing France
and collecting large indemnity and at
the same time secure an uninterrupted
outlet to the sea by which she could re
ceive supplies Of food and the material
for munitions of war.
In 1912 Herr Won Bunker published
work, THE Feeding of Our Popula-
ton With Our Own Products" (''Die
Ernahrung unsres Volkes aus elger
Produktion, 'D in which be mode the
following statement.
"Germany's armaments by land and
sea and her Industrial and commercial
development are pointless and hopeless
from the national standpoit except up
on the basis of Germany's national
ability to feed her own population"
Since 1885 the consumption OF wheat
and spelJ in Germany has risen from
l40 pounds per head of population 10
abou 200 pounds, barley from l20
pounds to It's pounds, oats from 200
pounds 10 $50 pounds, and in short,
Germany in 1914 was obliged to import
annually from. 100000 to 100000
tons of breadstuff for her own consump-
tion.
We are told with much eloquence by
II pro-German press tha. if Germans
c, OF have a full ration a day, they
i be satisfied with half one, or one
eighth of a ration, if need be, and then
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SLANDER.

Murder in the first degree sew.
eral times magnifed and inten-
sifed-Shat's SANDER.
The meanest devil on earth is
the slander devil, be he man or
be she a woman. One who
would attempt to betray the rep.
utation of another in the hands
and mouths OF h.s fellow sinners
alights himself with rAaanias.
Judas Iscariot and Satan him.
self. No lower character, no
more contemplate, scurrilous
reprehensible, incorrigible cur
walks the earth than the mur-
derer of ones good name. No
words are written, printed or
"cussea" that are strong enough
to characterize his diabolism.
The chief earmark of the
slanderer is his predisposition
to the very thing he accuses his
victim of. this is practically the
invariable rule. Be the sland.
erer professional, official or pri.
vate in life, he has somewhere
in the dark closet of his own
miserable existence the very
skeleton that he endeavors to
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JUST PLAIN CHEAP SKATES.

When war broke out thousands
of American citizens found them
selves suddenly stranded in Eu.
rope because of inability to real
ize on their lines of credit, and
were unable to get out of the
war zones.
They set up a mighty howl
and eyentuallythe United States
government advanced to them
the funds necessary to get them
back to America. In each case
the government exacted from
the tourists a written agreement
to pay back to the government
the sums advanced.
Since. then the treasury de-
partment has used every honor
able means known to collect the
money thus loaned it's citizens
abroad. Some of this has been
repaid, but much of it has not,
and now the government has
been forced to the extremity Of
publishing in the press of the
country the names and address.
fes of the dead beats.
Whenever you see such a list
just remember that they borrow
ed from Uncle Sam the funds
necessary to pull them out of
the jaws of death and now are
not honorable enough to repay
the loans.
Catalogue them IN your mind
as deadbeats CT the first water,
just plain and unadulterated
cheap skates.
That's all they are, even if
some of them are high in com
mercial circles, pillars Of the
church, and even ministers of
the gospel.
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powder is used.

powder is used.
We. of course, do not know now
much cotton Germany uses IN the man-
ufacture of her munitions, but we have
ST. en- it stated that she consumes from
S00, 900 to 100000 bales a year, aud
judging by the above statement by Maj
O'Hearn these figures are not exag-
gerated. From the facts above cited
we may obtain an inkling of the plan
of the entente allies in holding their
lines and patiently waiting for the day
when TIE German machine, worn and
weary and exhausted fur wan50f SuH
ciemi !,nd. will crumb!e heaeatE The
blows II Jolfre and Gar Nicholas rs
pe2oies crum5le beneath sledge ham
mer welded BY giant.
We have observed Of iats that some
! Of The proG~r;nau pape at home ans!
abroad are aga n soaring ':n the W:n4S
OF prop. ecy and telling us upon w:."t
terms the kaiser viii grans pace and
6xius the place where The kaiser will
eat his Christmas dinner Last year il
was Paris, this year it will be at Con-
stantinople. They also with noble ell
oauence say that Germany is uacon-
auerable, and that she will endure aod
by wearing out her opponents force
them to accept peace on her terms.
Last year these papers were quite
busy carving up France and dislnem-
bering the British empire, and This
year they say Germany will retain
what sne has conquered and accept g.
big war indemnity.
The vaccinations Of the newspapers
call to mind a copy Of the last news
paper issued during the seige OF Ficks-
burg, and it was printed on scrap Of
wallpaper because there was no other
paper in the city In his leader the
editor with magnifcenre brcs!thed
/ forth defiance to the foe, and never
would the streets OF the city be dehled
by the footsteps of the foeman. In the
lower right-hand corner was this sent
ence: General Graut at the head OF
his victorious army triumphantly en-
tered the city this morning"
1t is related OF an American sea dog
twas it Bainbridge?l whose vessel was
once engaged in combat with sloop
of war and a brig. His first lieutenant
came to him and said:
THE eremy's sIoop OF war has struck
her coIors. Shall l order the band TO
play Yankee Doodie?"
Has the brig struck yet?" the cap
tain dryly asked.
mo, sir"
Then wait until she does"
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WHEELS AND COMMUNITIES.

Wnen a spoke III a-Wneel Is
broken that wheel is weakened
and only of partial or slight val
ne to the rest of the vehicle.
The vehicle itself is of no great
er value than it's weakest spot,
the broken wheel. It's useful.
ness will not be restored until
the wheel is repaired and placed
on a par with the other wheels.
Then it is again ready to assume
it's proper functions in the
scheme of life.
And as it is with the whee!
and the wagon, so it is with the
citizen and the community. The
latter is only as strong as the
loyalty of the former. The CON
munity will advance only in &C
cordance with the loyalty and
progressiveness of its people.
The man who forgets his home
merchants and sends his money
to outside sources is the broker
wheel of his own community. Rt
is the weak spot that retards tht
growth of all, thatproduces con
mercial stagnation, that creates
local hard times and reduces the
community that shelters him ane
the people who feed him to the
level of a hand to mouth exist
tence.
| We don't want any broke,
wheels in this community, w
ldon't want any useless vehicles
or commercial disintegration, o.
hand to mouth existence, w
don't want any poverty or dis
tress.
But we do want prosperity
land progressiveness, and happi
ness and contentment, and full
|lardens and dinner pals, and WI
can have them if each one of u.
will do our duty to the town il
which we live, and trade with
home people, and keep our owr
money in our own community.
| We want to ':keep prosperity
lin this town." and we can only
do it by trading where we live
| Personally, we intend to :prac
tice what we preach in this re
Ispect. for the good of the com
munity. for your good, and fol
our own good, and we woulc
dearly love to see you trailing
fright along by our side, and We
are quite expecting to see yor
doing it because we don't think
we are one whit more loyal tc
this town than you are.
Come along, brother. Wher
we all pull in the same harness
we make a mighty strong team
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fight on lntil her adversaries are co1-
quered. That is very heroic, but neith
er heroics nor eloquence can alter facts.
A locomotive must have plentiful sup
ply of coal or it will not make steam,
and without sufficient supply of steam
it will not do the ork that is required
of it The human machine is a loco
motive that requires a plentiful supply
of coal in the shape of good, wholesome
food. or else there will be physical
and mental breakdown.
Then, again, we are tod that the
em barge on cotton, while i"jurinS the
South, does Germany no harm. Is size
does not need cotton IN any quantities
for the making of munitions of war.
| Let US see.
10 the Smithsonian annual report
for 1914, published August 1915, there
is an article b. Major Edward P. D.
Hearn Of the ordnance department. OF
the Unite States army, on explosives,
aud, speaking of cotton and its use in
the making of explosives. he says:
"As already pointed out, a great ad-
vance in power of firearms was made
when smokeless powders came into gen
eral use. MANY different kinds OF such
powders have been manufactured and
more or less extensively used, but al
Of them have practically disappeared
from military use except two, the kinds
commonly designated as nitrocelIulose
powders and nitroglycerine powders,
respectively. Thus nitrocellulose type
is used by the United States army and
navy, by the French army and navy,
and by the German army, whereas nj
troglycerine is used by the British
army and navy and by the German
navy.
"NitroceIlulose powders, the manu-
facture of which will be described more
in detail later, are essentially compos'
ed Of nitrocellulose or guu-cotton dis
solved in mixture of ether or alcohol,
then compressed into horny mass,
formed into grains of suitable size and
dried until nearly all the solvent has
been extracted. The principal ingred
lent of nitroglycerine powder is also
guncotJon, the other important ingred'
lent being nitroglycerine. this varying
from 20 TO so per cent. Guncotton,
technically known nitrocellulose. is
therefore, the principal ingredient o.
all military powders, and It's manufae'
ture is, for that reason, OF special 10
terest." The italics are ours.
Then, again. he tells KS: The
charge for one proiectiie Of 16-inch
gun, weighing 2,4OO pounds, is 666,o
pounds of guncotton, which is put in
six sections OF about Ill pounds each
In short, every time a 16-inch gun /:
fred bale of cotton is consumed, and
it matters not what particular kind o.
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WIEN BORROWING IS. GOOD.

Reading good books is a COM
mendable trait in any person.
Borrowing them is equally com.
mendable when you are not in
position to buy, provided you
are as prompt in returning as
you are in borrowing.
But many people are excel:
lent borrowers and damnable re-
turner's. They borrow every
thing and return nothing, until
in time they become known as
chronics and are Stunned as re-
ligiously as the hornet or the
bumblebee.
rs Any right minded citizen
would be only too willing to dis
seminate knowledge and add to
the pleasure of his brothers if
he could only feel that his book
would find its way back to his
own shelves without his having
to resort to a constable and a
search warrant.
Most borrowing pests" really
do not realize that they are such,
and would Indignantly and sim
cerely protest any such accusa-
ton if made to them. And yet
their persistent forgetfulness in
returning borrowed a rite | e s
hangs the odious title of 'spest"
upon them so tightly it is almost
impossible to throw it off.
IF you borrow today and re.
turD to morrow, you will always
be able to borrow again the next
day.
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Methodist chs.ch.

Sunday School 1880 a. m. MIR. Jos.
Sprott. uperintenden5.
Public worship, 1870 a. m, and 7:30
p. N.
Epworth League, 1870 p. n.
Prayermeeting, Thursday 4:30 P. m.
TRINITY:-Sunday school every
Sunday at 800 p. N. Mr.. A. NJ. White
superintendent Public worship on
the 2od and 4th Sundays at 400 p. m.
conducted by the pastor.
The public is cordially invited TO all
sery'c"S
G. +. WATSON,
Pastor