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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-09-02
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
BALTIMORE, MD.
TO ALL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES:
August 81, 1915

The Locomotive Engineers Bakemn
poyed practically all the railroads the United acting
strike Monday support
demand for ehthw day and for time half
hours.
quite impossible arrange trains that
also well understood the strike demands
increase in wages.
The who the paid
they grant Company
alone about 100000 than double average
surplus Of safety the Company payment
during the past five years.
The involved this the
poyes the Baltimore and Ohio Company they
be granted would
estimate and then on would
of the entire paid all employees of the Company.
without justification and
ought granted nevertheless Company
Companies the whole con
arbitration agreed may
submit arbitration
they that carrying
less their demands granted regardless the
fellow employees and upon the genere public
has been desire make the Company
public and good good Company
the such greatest
e embarrassment have been in the whole greater part
Company upon the whole been
orally satisfactory should now be wiling
sides against Company entirely willing matters
including the eghthom shall be submitted
should
tualy place. certain that such any,
the strike order cannot expect that relations
with long record Of loyal and uninterrupted their credit
simply purpose making all concerned the
position this Company and its willingness aate dispute
should
place. depend wholly
make possible effort and possible operate
road perform public the expect
that will not
word "Dloval" sssES
DANIEL WILLARD President BIC
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M Talk

Sunday school contest-The Cen.
<I1I Chfistfan church Sunday school
Drd the Christian church Sunday
school Of C1arksburg have arranged q
Contest which will begin the second
Sunday 81 September. DR.. Mitchell
: ne pastor tof the local church will be.
GIN 4 series Of speclak sermons next
Nest Week at coionIaI-Hyatt and
Lenores miniature musical comedy
cpmpany have been secured for the
bill next week at the Colonial and
viii OPEN labor day with tabloid
Int h6ssneyer been seen in Fairmont
1ccordinE TO the advance notices.
Webb Class PIenIe-The R. T. Webb
Sunday SCHOOL class Of the M. e.
church, South win not meet Monday
eyeptns but will go to Traction Park
Monday afternoon for picnic. The
late Tor the class meeting will be an.
no,zneed later.
AZ Cock HospItaI-Mrs. Lutte Amos
u the East Side, underwent an opera.
ton Tor appendicitis today at Cook
hospital DIS. Carr and Howard do.
lnE the surgical work. Mrs. Travis Of
Mcrgantown, mother Of Mrs. Amos is
hare With her daughter.
R1bIielty Man to Leave-Exra Bal:
cllcwsky advertising manager of Har.
ri5pn Department store, has accepted
}, Hon with firm In Grand Rap.
lds, Mich, and will leave here Sunday
Tor that place.. Mr.. Balchowsky has
many friends in Fairmont who regret
70 see him leave but are glad to hear
5tnats he - rising In his profession.
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Sure Fire Stun.

Sure Fire Stuff.
Think your new play will go?"
Cant help but go. The leading
lady plays one act in pajamas." -
Kansas City Star.
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/ ling subjects and lots of support from
their church., Mr.. and Mrs. McVey
have wrought all these wonders and
are busily planning for more.
One Stove for 40
Two of the wonders accomplished
was conducting a sewing class of SO
with two sewing machines. and cook
ing class of 40 with one gas stove.
Mrs. Mcyey says she does not care to
attempt it again but admits that the
success of the first attempt was worth
the effort.
If anyone is charitably inclined at
the present moment he or she can, put
some money into the movement to
good advantage by increasing the
small library. Two hundred books
were obtained from the Library of
Hawaii and now every book is in cir
culatien.
But we must have a new building
if We are to expand and grow de-
clares McVey. I'VE are cooped up
now in the one structure and every
meeting, indoor game, class and con.
test is held within its doors and sell
dom is there room for more than one
thing at a time Even the library is
hidden away in closet at one end.
Riddles Need a New Building
The building for which | have al
ready drawn up plans wouldn't cost
very much but would be wonderful
addition and help to the child life of
our community | have saved money
already out of the yearly budget al
lotted me and if can raise the neces-
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pany movements and to do the man
ual of arms, and the afternoons to
more drill with more talks and with
special. emphasis on the preliminary
shooting practise, We lived according
to this program: - -.. .=:. 4
At 5:45 the first call was sounded
and at o'clock every man was stand
ing at attention in ranks and under
arms. This was reveille. The next
call came at $50 when we formed
without hats or equipment and march
ed down to the mess shacks which
were just off the east end of the COM
pany street - In the meantime the
tent orderly, the man picked out by
the corporal, picked up the tent and
put the rubbish pile out in front Of
the tent where the police" squad
could get it. ...... ...
The police squad is of special in
terest Each squad is assigned to police
duty in the order in which they stand
in the company. IT is the duty Of this
squad to police the street, to keep it
clean throughout the day, clean that
nice board floor tent in which the first
| lieutenant and the first sergeant. lived.
| S66 IIldI every Ol1SI ICul IllC SOlA-
pany was clean, get the mail, leave
a man on duty to guard camp while
| the men were in the field, and do
other. really disagreeable duties. ~=
/ Besides the squad which is assigned
to police duty, there are always those
men who had committed some breach
of discipline and we're given police
duty. They had to do the dirty work.
/ There were usually two or three OF
them every day. Police duty was as
l.signed for everything from dropping
! your gun, which was the. favorite ex'
| cuse for this kind of discipline, TO
laughing in the mess shacks before
given the order 10 take seats. Some
one in the company who sat near 10
me in the mess shack was given police
! duty when was talking one brisk
morning. Now, whether the officer
heard me or not do not know, but
the fellow who was spotted did not
protest, as rockies sometimes do, sc
| | guess he was talking too, althougl
L suppose it was me the officer heard
On another day / dropped my gun IL
the field and the first lieutenant tOoS
my name to fool me, which he did no,
90, for he did not put ii down, anC
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Joseph R. Harrington Tells Of Discipline
at Big Gathering Of Young Men Who
Believe in National Preparedness

impression. that we are not human,
but animals in any army, seems quite
general"
There was an inspection of feet
that morning. At s o'clock the call
to prepare for inspection was sound
ed and the captain followed by lieu
on the round of tents. II was
rainy and damp morning, but every
thing progressed as usual.
This was the usual Sunday morning
inspection, the only work of the day,
barring the meals; yes, they were
work, too, too often. Every tent was
put in spick and span condition, every
mattress doubled back on the half of
the cot farthest away from the door,
blankets folded Just so and laid on
top of the mattresses, and ali equip
ment except guns arranged in pre-
scribed ORDER on the other half of
the cots; everything from tent pegs
to bayonet as clean as could be and
all there. down to the tent ropes.
Perched on the mattresses on the
far end of the cot sat the man with
| full uniform on, and doing their best
to settle comfortably on that little
space without getting their feet on to
the floor of sand. for every mans
shoes and stockings had been removed
for this cursed inspection of feet IT,
The captain came around to my tent
about twenty minutes after the in
spection had started. We jumped into
position per prescription and above
description. He stuck his head into
I the tent and followed it with the res
of himself, all dressed up in his Sun
1 day best, and, l recall it very readily
said this, most pleasantly and as ia
from apologetically as he could: 81
any of you men have sore feet, blist
ers or c2Aouses report to the dis
pensary this morning This inspec
ton is called for in orders from regi
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l missed an opportunity to enjoy po-
lice duty. He usually stuck one of
the company goat" when he was
short of men for police duty.
To continue the program of the day.
we were called at $50 for breakfast.
We ate and got out OF the mess shacks
as fast as we could go and back to
the company street. At this time the
street was raked, and after the first
five days our PACKS rolled. We had
only two blankets, and since we had
tc use both OF them to sleep under
at night and had to carry one of them
in the packs which we always carried,
the packs had to be undone at night
and remade every morning. Ii you
got any time to wash you got it now.
for the next call did not come. until
1920. II =. -..-..... i: IL. -. +
The days work began at 1920. At
that time We marched out on the
drill field without equipment and
drilled until s. from eight to S:39
we we're given cal;sthenics. After a
few physical cocktails, as Capt.
Koehler chose to call some OF bis try
ing exercises, we FASTENED back to the
company street, had five or 10 min.
utes to get our equipment and arms
on and then left camp for the, morn
+ ing, to return. at 1880, usually hot
dirty and tired The noon mess call
came at II o'clock. ."... 49,. ....- !.
The afternoon work was lighter thar
that of the morning 1t began with
f formation at las and ended at $50
/ usually an hour or half hour earlier
depending on how we'll or how rapidly
we did the required work. AT this
1 stage of the game we got cleaned 10
! took shower bath or a dip in tht
Lake. for at $40 retreat was sounded
/ Then we we're dressed in our blouse:
: and spoofed up generally. Some
rtimes we went through the manual q
| arms at this time or heard directions
until retreat was sounded, when th'
whole camp stood at parade rest unit
| the call to colors, or The star
| Spangled Banner" was played, wher
everybody came to attention. AT
! another of those welcome mess calls
i.came. At about I the call for confer
/ cnce was sounded when there was ;
conference, and there usually was. A
1880 call to quarters was sounded ant
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brought to public notice to any extent
through the press although many in
diyiduals know and appreciate the
good work.
= The new man factory IS the Kali,
hi Union church playground and the
moulders of the dest'nies of the young
are Rev. and Mrs. Charles McVey and
their various assistants.
Was Soldier Five Years
When McVey came to Hawaii May
IL he found very little with which to
work for the boys and girls at the
church, but soldier in the army for
five years and smashing play on the
the University of Minnesota football
eleven instilled considerable of the
spirit necessary to meet difficulties
and obstacles more than half way and
to conquer them. He decided that the
coming men and women in that dis
trict should not go into their majority
woefully handicapped. and he started
to work for their salvation, not alone
from the pulpit but from the play
ground and field.
Backed by willing church trustees,
financed by voluntary contributions of
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by 10 taps were sounded and lights
we're out.
All of this every day. During the
second week, which we spent on the
range, We were aroused at 445 and
while we were not en- the range took
practise marches. On the hike we
call at night was made half an hour
earlier then.
We ate in mess shacks which were
Iong low shelters protected from some
flies by mosquito wire, but cage for
a great many more. We ate at great
long wooden tables which were at
about the height of our chins when
We were seated on the long benches
which served as chairs. We were
marched in there by one of the lieu
tenants and stood at attention, plan
ming at the same time to get what
there was in front of us quick before
it started down the table as soon as
the order Take seats" was given.
If table manners reflect upon one
4 hope they did not here Not that
everybody forgot his manners entire
ly, but because it became a necessity
TO do some hasty passing and long
stretching to get what there was TO
eat. The tin dishes must have had
something to do with the hasty start,
for as soon as the signal to start was
given everybody clambered into place
and there was a kitchen-like clang of
eating tools" as the mess sergeant
chose TO call them. The average
rookie was satisfied to take his share
and be decent, but there happened to
be amongst this democratic midst
others as we'll as gentlemen. have
in mind one fellow, we'll known to
cur table, who inevitably reached for
the dessert, usually bread or rice pud-
ding, as soon as the starting signal
was given, and before he sat down,
thus getting a tremendous helping
and a good start Well, the rest went
pretty rapidly, for we ate like man,
the brute" as was inspired TO write
! before
The food was good, but not dainty.
The meat was often a la shoe leather,
and a rookie sitting at the table
across from me put tack into his
mouth with some string beans one
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sv JosEPH R. HARRINGTON

(Jeseph r. harrington, Honolulu
boy, 10 attending the University OF Wis
eonsIn and during the summer SOL
diered" in the noted Plattsburg camp.
This 10 one OF series OF articles he
Is writing for the star5ulIetin).
MADISON, Wis, Oct. St was
the third Sunday tnas we had been
in the training camp at Plattsburg
and the Sunday before that Thurs
day afternoon when the rockies left
HEADQUARTERS with full equipment on
the much heralded hike of the last
week. The top" sergeant, rookie
himself, serving his second camp,
poked his megaphone out of the door
OF his nice board-floor tent and said
this:
Company A, heads OUT" in a clear
and irritatingly commanding voice
and then as We poked our heads out
like dogs in a dog show at the sound
of approaching grub, he said this:
There will de an inspection oil
feet this morning"
Whereupon ! was prompted to write
the following. which quote from ny
notebook as product Of contem
porary inspiration THAT there would
be an inspection Of feet is the an
nouncement and immediate inspira
ton which prompts the following.
have thought of II ever since | have
been here, but this brings ii hom'
more forcibly-that you are man, thu
brute, the animal, in the modern
army. And this is merely incidental
to the actual realization of the fact
that war is hell. A double hackneye,
; expression, but who ever said il bet
teri"
Briefly, these are my first impre:
sions .of Plattsburg. One of m
bunkies says he is impressed wit
how close to natural conditions W
come In our life in the army. Thi
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mental headquarters so we have to
do IT. .~... l..
That much and no more Our feet
were in good enough condition to al
low our staying away from the dis
pensaTy for foot treatment, but don't
blame the captain for not inspecting
them. And no man in the tent seemed
over enthusiastic about the inspection
for they all agreed after that little
speech of the captains that Captain
Beachem sure was a fine fellow.
The Sunday morning inspection was
but one of many and it was one of end
less occasions when we were arranged,
ready, or waiting, in some kind of mil
itary formation. Inspections, forma-
tions and parades were everlasting,
the curse of the work to the previous
ly free and undisciplined rookie, a
distressingly, time-wasting system to
the businessman rookie, but just what
appealed to the lover-of-ceremony,
brass-button rookie.
| was. more interested in seeing
what the officer was doing during
the inspections and parades. inter
ested in what he would say about the
cleanliness of my rifle, and in par
AIDES how we'll they looked and
marched. | was once told that my
rifle would never do" at an inspec
/ ton, but do not think turned white
| like number one in the rear rank OF
my squad when he was told that his
rifle. was not in proper condition. He
was the most, conscientious man in the
company and that is one reason !
concluded he would never make {
good soldier. ..*. - I, =
/ Then on the occasion of battalion
parades, nearly always turned my
eyes out of their sockets trying Il
watch the officers, to the side and il
front of the companies, without turn
ing my head; that is not TO say any
thing about the curse of curses il
parades-the fly-who has every ad
vantage over you, for you can't swa
without being noticed by everyone il
sight. ... ..... - ...
+ The story of our work and life a
Plattsburg is as much one of calls an
formations as of anything else. L
our first weeks work when we de
voted morning to drill. to learning tn
fundamentals. to march and carry on
. guns, to go through squad and con
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GIRLS And BOYS
gain MUCH FROM
MINISTER'S WORK
Energies Directed to Improve
ment of Young Folk Produc-
ina Evident Results

Take q few hundred offsprings OF
the nations OF the earth; endow them
with the characteristic, happy-go-
lucky irresponsibleness Of youth;
throw this motley crew into the great.
est. OF melting pots-the street; STIR
well with the paddle OF poverty or pa
rental absence or neglect; season this
human stew generously with the crap
game I'm the alley and The saloon
around the corner with the eyerfentic-
ing swinging door; flavor with the vi
ciousness Of older companions; then
turn ON the heat-Hawaii's shining
sun--and watch this strange concoc-
ton bubble.
What is the result? What boils
over the unprotecting edges OF the
grimy pot? What drops down into
the scorching flames OF hcentioHs-
ness, crime and remorse 10 shrivel into
the ashes OF the court and prison or
on TO the insane asylum. poorhouse or
grave? Why, the boys and girls OF
Hawaii or course. from any district
or home.
Prevention Versus Cure
What is the cure?
As one OF these same youngsters
would say, There amt no such ami
NAL" The reform schools fill and
overflow and the discharged inmates
come back, with worse crimes booked
against their youthful names; the iu-
venile judges brow grows wrinkled
with the worry OF his wards and still
their petty thievery, malicious injur-
ies and depredations 60 on.
But an ounce Of preventive Is
worth a pound OF cure. the old pro
verb goes, and sometimes the pound
increases more than Is times in avoir-
dupois.
Next question: What is the proven
tive?
Up Palama and Kalihi way. along
the route OF the Rapid Transit cars,
in plain view Of those who care to go
and TO see, is the preventive. II COM
pares faYorably with the barren re-
form school walls, the solemn court
gravel, the bars OF the jail-in nut
shell, with the fear of the law. Ha-
waiian boys and girls, like all Amer.
can children generafly. do not fear. al
least not the typical ones; they love
and respect and admire. And II the
latter traits can be developed In the
soul OF youth. there is the preventive,
the cure, the solution, all In one.
Much Publicity Given.
Paiama settlement and the Better
Vacation, movement at Kaiulani
school have ali been dwelt upon, not
only once but often by the Star-Bul-
letIn. Each has been remarkably sue
cessful in building the child from the
ground up and the heart out; each
has had the hearty support OF the
Star-Bulletin; the columns have al
ways been open to earnest workers in
these and other similar movements.
But far up Kalihi way, where the
winding avenue climbs closer to the
setting sun is concrete example Of
successful movement for the preser-
walton Of manhood and womanhood In
Hawaii which has not yet been
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charge of the boys and girls physical
cares and assisting McVey in athletic
activities are SeTgt. William Long and
Corp. Ernest Mcleod of Fort Shafter,
one of whom is on the playground in
care of the children every afternoon in
the week. ..--.*.-. g.
Daily Attendance Large H.. ~.>":.. H.
Miss Euniee Carter of the Y. w. C.
A. is in charge of physical direction
OF the girls work and finds that the
daily attendance of between $50 and
200 at the playground is easily half
girls. McVey says the attendance
would be FORTUNES st1sat number If
there were more room and more play
ground equipment. Another set SINH
lar to the handsome metallic appara-
tus which was selected and installed
by the new minister at an expense of
about $3.50 is needed right now, he
says. -. .~~r> - -
To appreciate just what is being
done at the Kalihi Union church every
afternoon and evening one must see
a typical weekly program there which
runs something like this: --.:> 49,. =.
Everybody is Busy 49,. e.. ..,.....
Monday afternoon, supervised play:
evening, Young. Mems Athletic Club.
Tuesday afternoon, girls sewing
class; evening, Japanese-English
school ... .-~... .....-.
Wednesday afternoon. Indian
scouts t4Ol; evening; Christian En-
deavor 500. - ..~--.. =: r.. g..
Thursday afternoon, camp fire girls
(40); evening, Young Women's Club.
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a personal private nature and mater
tally assisted, especially in the girls
work, by his wife, who bloomed to wo-
manhood in the Montana mountains
and took her higher education from
the state university. the McVeys eff
forts brought about thorough organ
ization of the boys and girls with the
best set of playground equipment in
Honolulu at their disposal.
Five Months Organization
In the short five-month period he
has. been here, McYey has ORGANIZED
two full troops of Boy Scouts of 20
each, which will soon be admitted to
the regular organization; has started
an auxiliary organization of those too
young to be scouts, known as the In
dian scouts; has established libra
ry, literary society, sewing and cook
ing classes for the girls and installed
a $1,000 apparatus for play.
In the accompanying pictures may
be seen the rings, climbing pole.
swinging ladder. horizontal bars, steel
swings, steel slide and sand pile. eX-
ira swings, see-saws, giant stride,
vaulting horse and baby swings which
are included in the new apparatus,
but many more beneficial recreations
such as all the indoor and outdoor
church are just as important and in
teresting. - 81.
Besides all this, there is an organ
lied baseball team and quarter mile
track nearly completed for races. In
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The boys and girls up Kalihi way
are similar to children all over the
earth; they present disturbing prob
lens under the most favorable cir
cumstances, but considered as whole
the wholesome influence of the activi-
ties, organizations and athletics of the
Kalihi Union Church playground are
apparent.
All Are Americans
Like other schools and Fairgrounds
in Honolulu there are the "57 yari-
eties," more or less, of nationalities
and race combinations and although
one might think that to handle the
youth of so many countries would be a
trying task, It has been found that
most OF the children are more Ameri-
can than anything else and that the
plans and systems of the mainland
schools are adaptable here. with some
notifications
In Kalihi there are many more
things to be done. McYey plans more
athletics for the girls and work in
oratory and drama: other clubs may
be organized from time to time; but
essential for all this is the new build
ing Whatever trials there may be for
Mr.. and Mrs. McVey in their new
work; whatever troubles may arise to
obstruct their otherwise smooth and
pleasant path, there Is always light
of hope shining ahead, through the
windows OF the proposed new home
for kiddies-for the manufacture of
manly men and true women.