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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-15
MOVING Here

llr. and Mrs. Russell satterfield
who have spent the winter in Morgan
town; will move soon to Mrs. e. F, Nor.
CAMS property on Maryland avenue.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
LIT PRUSSIA RAVE

TN Berlin the best peope"-which means the Prus-
sian military case-are fond OF sneering at Yankee
swine and calling Americans inefficient and cow
ardy.
One OF the easiest things in the world is TO call
names Any ignoramus can call another Also.
any blockhead do it.
When Woodrow Wilson went before Congress TO ask
for a declaration of war he uttered these words;
'The day has when America is privileged to
spend her blood her might for the principles that
gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she
has treasured"
That is the way Americans look at this and
they are going into it free men, fighting for cause
dear to all free men.
America is in the war because America believes in
liberty; believes in It enough to fight for IL,
Some day the Kaiser and his junSers will find that
out Meanwhile not worried by the Prussian
show OF contempt we merely determined to wipe
out forever the system that has bred It and that has
bred a thousand other automatic evils. America is
not greatly concerned with talk; but she is nightly
concerned with principles and with upholdng those
that are right
American character needs and wants no vindication
from Prussia; will vindicate itself to the satisfaction
of the world and the unendng delight Of posterity
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
TOYs. TOYMAKERs AND TARIFF.

a ITHOUGH the American people are now giving their
N first and most attention to problems grow
ing out OF war yet all the usual Of the gov
ernment are continuing, the ordinary business affairs
of the country proceeding and all the problems Of
peace stl confront
This is evidently recognized by the Aperican con-
sular representative in Yokohama Japan who con-
tinues to make reports upon commercial conditions
Though he is employed by administration that de-
cares that cost OF production is not tangible basis
for a tariff, he continues to report facts concerning
wages in the country to which he is assigned. For
instance, in a report the Japanese toy trade he
says:
"A skilled toy maker receives daily wage OF but
75 sen ca cents) overhead charges extremely
low because many of the toys are made in the homes
OF the workers"
From a total of s945OOO in 1872 Japan's toy ship
$S,sOS,OOO in 1916 the United States be-
ing the chief market for their SALE
The Thirteenth Census OF the United States O91O)
showed 226 establishments with capital aggregatng
about $65O000O engaged in making toys and games in
this country There over 5000 employees on the
payroll and mono of them working for 81 cents
a day by a long shot The American industry is
ried by small factories scattered throughout the
country employing from % to $50 hands, and the Dem
ocratc trust bugaboo was concerned with toys.
The greatest growth Of the industry during the
period 1S99-1912 under the Republican tariff policy
which period marked increase Of 125 per cent. in
the value of the toy output from $401OOOO in 1893
to S9OOOOOO in 1912 During this time there was a
gradual growth from a seasonal to a perennial in
dustry
"Our buslnes has been built up under the present
tariff rate" declared the president OF a Bridgeport
Conn., toy factory to the Ways and Means Committee,
in 1913. And the president OF New York concern
averred that q" could only have been done under the
shield OF a protective tariff"
Heretofore Austria, Germany, and Belgium have been
our chief competitors in the toy trade They have
been temporarily eliminated by the trade
rivals. Japan paying a still smaller wage, is reaping
the benefit
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
Am NOW 1T is aBEN.- GROVES.

MORE outside help has been pressed into service to
IVA save the rapidly waning fortunes of William G.
Taylor, who aspres to be the Republican candidate for
Mayor OF this city.
The most recent acquisition is Benjamin A. Groves,
OF Mill Creek hundred The understanding is that J..
Frank Alice Of Dover, the general manager of Mr.
Taylors campaign, decided several days ago, that
I'D" Davis. Of Milford and Magistrate Harry l.
Gillis Register OF Wills Isaac r. Brown and W.
Bowers OF this city, his present stan. could not put
Taylor over" the Republican voters Of Wilmington
on next Saturday The calling in of Groves followed
conference. He already is at work.
That makes three who are not residents and
payers Of the city Of Wilmington who are busy trying
to dictate to Wilmington Republicans with respect to
the Nayoralty nomination. They are
j. Frank Alice of Dover, formerly political manager
for J. Edward Addioks, and in the employ Of
man who is seeking to wreck the Republican party
I'D" Davis Of Milford who processes to be able
TO corral the railroad men in Wilmington and TO
swing their votes in any direction he desires.
BENJAMIN A. Groves, Of Kamensi, who was OF
Aees followers in the old Addcks days
In local Republican circles much indignation is felt
against Gis Brown and Bowers that they should
consent to the injection Of men from Dover Milford
and Kiamensi into what is essentially a Wilmington
political fight and further that three Wilmington
should be lost to public respect as to consent
TO be the political subordinates Of Alice Davis and
Groves.
Perhaps there is thing that has so hurt Mr.
Taylor in his campaign the public knowledge that
he is tied up politically with Alice Davis Groves
Many Wilmington Republicans who, the outset were
disposed favorably toward his candidacy have aban-
Evening journal., 1917-05-09

the war. It is the inevitable result OF
a policy which for years discouraged
investment in transportation systems.
and thus deprived them of the capital
they needed for new trackage, new
terminals, new equipment of every
kind. For years previous to 1914 rail-
road building in the United States
failed TO keep pace with the growth
Of population and commerce. Prosper
ity disclosed the shortage of facilities;
that shortage was created by cOndi-
tiOns antecedent to the prosperity
Inadequate railroads put a burden
on every individual in the country, on
capital on labor. on the city dweller
and the farmer. Lack of trackage and
lack of cars. insufficient terminals and
equipment strangle enterprise and
/ levy a toll on commerce incalculable
] in its total and oppressive in every
community in the land This effect OF
rates too low to meet the expenses
/ Of the carriers and to provide a rea-
sonable return to investors should be
| impressed on the Interstate Com
| merce Commissioners, for it is Of
paramount importance in the hearing
now in progress.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
Why They Do il
(From' the New York Tribunel.

starvation, then that slavery which
cost thousands of lives and will leave
permanent mark upon the health OF
at least one generation of French
women and children of the invaded
district
We have had German ruthlessness
designed to intimidate a population
for the period Of the war and for the
purposes OF the campaign, Dut l. IS
necessary to recognize that the pres
ent ruthlessness is directed TO tne
future, is designed permanently 70
weaken a nation whose conquest Dy
arms has been beyond the German
power in the present war. Germany
expects to bleed France as white as
possible in this war and to attack ner
again as soon as possible.
We are now in the presence OF one
Of the supreme atrocities OF human
history-the deliberate effort 10 ihuI-
der a nation, the effort to destroy lne
women and children, to oDllteIate
every piece of machinery incident 10
human life and industrial progress
We are seeing a ruthless sclentihe
barbarism writing its handiwork over
what was once the fairest corner Oh
/ Europe. ..
Every monument OF the French past
, within the German grasp or wlthlh lhe
roach of German artillery is being de-
stroyed. Every factory has been gut
ted of its machinery. every little de.
tail in the farm life of the peasant
turned into ruin. Everything that
could possibly contribute to destroy.
inc not the present but the future OF
, France has been done.
Let us recognize scientific barbar-
ism for what it is worth. Let us rec
ognize that there is for thls sperlt nc nc
answer save that of defeat; no peace
by negotiation now will protect the
world from a new recurrence of Ger
man invasion, and it is only when
there is set forth within the Germans
frontiers a lasting evidence OF whal
German methods lead to that we shall
have an assurance of no future repe
tition in the world of what we arc
now seeing.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09

There ought to be no mistake among
the American people as to the mean
ing of what the Germans have done
and are doing in Northern France
The devastation and destruction of
property and of lives are not Incl
dents Of war. They are not mainly di-
rected TO achieve certain strategic re-
suits. They are the ultimate express
sion of scientific barbarism and Of
savage calculation
The German professors, the German
publicists and the German soldiers
long ago warned us OF what they in
tended to do when once more German
armies entered France From Bern
hardi up or down the scale, as one
may care to express It, there was the
same declaration that France was so
to be dealt with that she should never
again cross the German path.
The German attack upon France has
failed TO destroy France. The German
invading armies are already retreat
ing, but the present policy of the Ger
man soldiers is 50 to destroy France
as to leave open a pathway for later
invasion and so to cripple France
that she may not be able to recover
her strength before Germany is again
ready to attack,
10 is not to the present but to the
future that the destruction in France
Is now directed The Germans are not
turning Northern France into a desert
merely or primarily to impede the ad
vance of victorious Allied armies
They are endeavoring to cripple
France for half century at the least
to prevent another such recovery from
war as France had IN 1870. They are
deliberately, methodically. Teutonical
ly laying waste the fields, destroying
the trees, dynamiting the mines
wrecking the canals, in the hope and
with the intent that France shall
never again recover.
The policy of determination Will
regard to the populations of the in
vaded districts has been carried for
ward from the beginning Of the in
vasion. At first we had murder, theI
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Vulgary Is the affectaton OF the manners of a class
TO which does not belong, and is in all
ranks. An authentic person WILL of course have his
own individual manners well those of hi order
-undess he becomes msanthrope. when he loses all
manners or a victim OF anthrophoba, when in his
terror is apt to affect all manners-John Davidson
.-.-.-.
Work never hurt anyone if it was only broad enough
and deep enough I'm its claims human nature Our
extremely long-lved men have always been very hard
workers. Is il any wonder that physician
gets impatient when people talk about the men and
women Of our generation doing much that they are
exhausting vitality? The trouble is they do not do
enough. Their interests few and superficial
that lot of energy that ought to be used In good
work is dissipated within themselves and does them
much greater harm than would any possible amount OF
work that they might try TO accomplish with thames
J. Walsh
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
With The PafagFaphers

Japanese doctor says it is possible for to
have inantile paralysis and not know IT, If must
have 1t that's the way want it-Dotro Free Press.
writer in the Chicago Herald undertakes to prove
that fish smell If he has any doubts on the sub
ject why doesn't he so Wall Street some hot
summer day?-Terre Haute Qnd) Star
The republic OF Panama has had its first bank failure
and feels that IL is cutting its teeth infant the
family of nations. The process wholly pleas
urabe, but it has to come--Brookyn Eagle
The way to get ahead is to edge ahead by an inch
and hold on to that inch until you can edge on an
ether The who is a dollar ahead OF his debts
is an independent critter.-Tarpon Springs ((Fla)
Leader.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09

lies have already considered how the
German threat against the chief cities
of Belgium shall be met when it shall
be made The problem is no easy one.
No human power today can say TO
the Huns what they shall or shall not
do with their conquered territory.
Their power to torture, ravish, muir
der and destroy is illimitable, and
thus far they have shown no inclina-
ton to use that power sparingly. But
the world cannot look on quiescent il
Ghent, Bruges or Brussels should be
exposed to the fate of the smaller
towns of France.
How avert it? BY threat of repri-
sails in the inevitable day Of allied
victory. BY pointing out the certainty
that Germany must pay for all the
material damage she is doing? BY fol.
lowing, as some have suggested. the
advancing French and British armies
with an army of German prisoners,
who shall be forced to rebuild the
towns their fellows have destroyed?
Futile or insufficient remedies all
The temptation to wreak upon Ger
many revenge in manner and degree
equal to the malicious injury she has
inflicted upon Belgium and France
will be great but it will be to the
eternal glory of the Allies IL it be
resisted in the hour of triumph. The
armies that are fighting for civiliza-
/ tion and democracy must not degrade
themselves with the methods of the
Huns. Better by far that solemn
notice shall now be served upon Ger
many that not only shall the loss she
inhicts on France and Belgium be paid
fer after the war despite her beggary
but that the military commanders
upon whom rests the responsibility
for these wanton Outrages shall be
hanged by their captors. not as enc
mics, but as incendaries, robbers
rapists and murderers.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
The Press Gag Folly
From tho New York Tribune).

comfort was disturbed or whose SEN
sibrities were outraged by its pub
lication.
All attempts to draw an amendment
to the espionage bill covering offences
of espionage in connection with pub
lications in newspapers have ended in
failure They have been more CON
cerned with muzzling free speech than
with stopping espionage. They have
aimed not so much at suppressing il
licit communication with the enemy
as at suppressing domestic criticism.
We do not believe that the espionage
bill can be made or should be made
vehicle for legislation abridging the
freedom of the press.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
Punish PEussian Vandalism
(From the New York SUM.

Retreating from Lens the Germans
set the torch to that hapless town,
which in times of peace housed 10000
people. 1t has gone the ruinous way
of st. Quentin, Noyon Peronne and
Bapaume. Church and cottage. official
buildings and private homes are alike
obliterated.
The avowed purpose of the Germans
is to leave those sections of France
and Belgium which they have held,
and from which they are to be driven
desolate areas of utter destruction. AS
the Roman cOnqueror did at Carthage,
they will leave no stone upon another
in the cities They will plough their
sites and SOW salt in their market
places. They will wreck mines with
explosives, girdle fruit trees plough
up vineyards and smash the peasants
treasured crockery. That sounds like
bathos, but no bit of malignant mis-
chief is too petty, no act of wholesale
vandalism too hugely destructive, to
appeal to the German lust for de-
struction.
lt is worth remembering that what
the Prussian has done to these little
villages and towns of France he is
capable of doing to Ghent, Antwerp
and Brussels if he shall be driven out
of Belgium.
It is idle to dismiss this shocking
possibility with the comfortable as
surance that no civilized nation would
be guilty of such barbarism. The
Prussians have ceased to be a civi
lized people. They are guilty of every
/ barbarism. That is why we are at wal
with them. They have cast off the thir
veneer OF civilization and culture, anC
are ravaging such portions of Europe
as they hold as If no such thing as the
laws of war or the dictates of com
mon humanity existed
Probably the counsellors Of our al
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
Editorial Opinion
STARVED RAILROADS sTARVE
COMMERCE OF COUNTRY

From the New York Sun.
In considering the pleas for in
creased freight rates made by the re
presentatives of the railroads, the In
terstate Commerce Commission must
bear constantly in mind the fact that
the public interest Oyershadows all
other interests, and it requires that
the common carriers shall be ade-
quately recompensed for the service
they render.
Starved railroads do not attract the
new capital without which the trans
portation system cannot be developed
and extended to meet the constantly
growing needs of trade and com
merce. The congestion that afiicts the
railroads today is not the result of
war in Europe, although it has been
emphasized and made conspicuous by
Evening journal., 1917-05-09
AMAN,S A MAN TODAY.

m ME was when it was quite the thing to call a
farmer a "hayseed"
He was also called rube heck, a greenie
But that time has gone. There any sense
in the use Of such words No man is at home in
others surroundings
But today the farmer ranks with the soldier the
nations first line defender The corn row ranks with
the first trench.
The farmer is not only useful person today but he
is also a hero.
So away with the patronzing attitude, the high and
lofty manner the sarcasm and derison
A mans these days. not only in Delaware but
in every State in the Union.
Evening journal., 1917-05-09

doned him and are lined up soldly behind Mayor
James F. Price.
The sentiment among Republicans generally is that
when Alice was called in to take charge OF Taylor's
campaign It was an affront to every sefrespecting
Republican in our city
Evening journal., 1917-05-09

Berlin papers say the United States is handing her
allies an empty egg she'll Wen, that's going to he
the trckest egg she'll Berlin heard Of
The Republican journal., 1917-02-22
GO-TO-SCHOOL WEEK.

All next week is Go to-Schocl week, when
parents and friends are urged to attend the
city schools at any session or hour they may
prefer The devotional exercises are from
80 to 8 35 a. m, the recess and the noon hour
the same in all the Schools Following is the
daily program:
Grade VIII. Monday Tuesday and We'd
nesday, writing; Thursday and Friday, com'l
geography and grammar; reading, spelling.
arithmetic and algebra during the morr ing
session; grammar. history and comI geogra
ply in the afternoon, with musical apprecia-
tion Thursday and Friday,
Grade VII. Reading Monday. Tuesday aid
Wednesday; physiology, Thursday and Friday:
arithmetic, grammar. spelling. music for class
A; spelling, arithmetic, penmanship, history
for class b. during the morning; history, geo
graphy, penmanshlp for class and music
geogra ply, grammar, reading for class in
the afternoon.
Grade vi Arithmetic. SPELLING language
history for class A and arithmetic, history
geography, writing, reading, music for class "A
and reading. writing, geography, music for
class E in the afternoon.
Peirce school, Grade V. Phonetic drill
arithmetic, music, writing, reading, geography
for class and phonetic drill. reading. music,
writing and history for class in the morn
ing. History, spelling, English for cIase A
and English, geography, arithmetic and spell
ing for class B in the afternoon.
Peirce school, Grade Nv. Reading, spelling,
writing, arithmetic and music for class A:
reading. writing. arithmetic. spelling and
music for class B in the morning. History,
hygiene, language, physical training. geogra-
ply. dictionary work, drawing. arithmetic for
class and language, physical training, read
ing, geography for class B in the afternoon.
Peirce school, Grade III, Spelling, phonetic
drill, reading. music, writing. arithmetic for
class A and spelling. music, writing, phonetic
drill, reading, arithmetic for class B in the
morning. Language, reading. drawing, arith
metic, geography for class and drawing,
noon.
Mcclellan school, Grade vi. Arithmetic,
word study, language, spelling. music for class
A and arithmetic, reading, language, spelling,
music for class In the morning. History,
geography, reading. writing for class and
history. geography, writing for class in the
afternoon
Mcclellan school, Grade v. Reading, arith-
metlc, music. writing, spelling in the morning
and language. geography and history in the
afternoon.
Mcclellan school, Grade w. Reading, Ian
guage. arithmetic. spelling in the morning
Dictionary work. writing, geo ,raphy and mu-
sic in the afternoon
Mcclellan school, Grade I'LL Music, reading,
writing and arithmetic in the morning. Mem
ory gems. language, number work, spelling
and reading in the afternoon.
The order of lessons in the two lower grades
in the Peirce and Mcclellan schools are prac-
tically the same, including phonetic drills.
reaOlnR, writing number work. etc.
The Republican journal., 1917-02-22
SECRET SOCIETIES.

Aurora Rebekah Lodge, No. 10, will have a
six o'clock supper at their meeting next Tues
day evening. after which the degree will be
conferred on class of candidates
Waldo Lodge. No. IL. l. o. o. F.. will confer
the initiatory degree at their regular meeting
tomorrow (Friday) evening. A degree staff
composed entirely of Past Grands will do the
work. All members of the Order are cordially
invited to be present.
The meeting of Primrose Chapter. o. E S..
last Friday evening was followed by a box
Inch in the banquet hail. Mrs. Percy E.
Greer, Mrs. Ralph D. Southworth. Mrs. Arthur
H. Morse, Mrs. Adrian c. Tuttie. Mrs. George
C. Trussell, the committee in charge, made
and served coffee. The boxes. after the id.n.
tiication msrka hsd been removed, were auc.
toned off by DR.. W L. west, and brought Is
cents and less. A social hour followed. At
the next meeting, March End. progression
program will be in charge of Mrs. Clarence Y.
Read.
The Republican journal., 1917-02-22
;. Of Ioday's Journal.

II Capt. j. o, Johnson. .Ooit
D'aln The War News in Brief, Co
usryy, ryy,,ddi lJ' Week Legislative n otes
to.scnITSbr ITSbnrches. News of Bella e.
D,oio's lI' Inferno
.,.+iye Notes. Settling Accounts
IeT Thg Thrift Campaign
,-f C4m1 Fire Girls Celebr ate
sss4srssry Recent D.aths. Sch.
AMY NJ law Lure of Big Cities.
n.rand for Action. Editorials. :.
I'f n the Oranges. -. Wedding
Neg' Men and Measures at Augu s.
6sliT7 T,s News Of Brooks. Persona l..
B,sse. RAp
IN, Nsws OF Belfast
.raduess. Probate Court. Wall
rev en3 Stocks. Three Words
s5,) 'saosm) How War is Ended
,sI Frank 5. Nickerson. Public
Jeog,b WORK Crushing a Nation.
5es'fr 'pfrrssideut's Flag. Flash and Roar
! 6uu7-
-.oors stockton Springs. The
, >-a, y, Books. County Correspon-
a.e gi-as Marriages. Deaths.
The Republican journal., 1917-02-22
DANrE'S INFERNO
Picturized at the Belfast Opera House
Feb. 26th. A Lecture with the Picture.

Feb. 26th. A Lecture with the Picture.
Next Monday there will be presented at the
Opera House very much talked Of picture
and one which has been accorded wonderful
reception in all parts of the country. It
perturbation of Dantes Inferno" ard gives
very vivid idea of the poets conception of the
region dominated by Satan. Inferno" is too
we'll known to need description in these col
umns but the picture play is a wonder full piece
of work and one feels when viewing it almost
as II he were actually making tour OF that
country to which so many people are invited
to 20 every day. With the picture comes a
lecturer who describes in most fascinating
manner the meaning of the picture and really
makes it almost personally conducted tour
through the region over which the old fellow
with the horns and cloven.hoofs holds sway. In
other cities the theatres have been packed
to view this unusual offering and it has created
wide spread discussion. The re is no reason to
believe that other conditions will prevail in
Belfast and therefore it will be we'll to go early
and avoid the rush. This supreme photo
drama will only be shJ Jwn in Belfast on Mon
day evening. Feb. 26th-two showings only, at
the usual hours. Positively the first time ever
shown with . brilliant lecturer.