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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
FRIDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 21, 1917.
TURNING POINT COMING.

the war conference of business men at Atlantic Civ
"A yesterday Alba B. johnson, president of the great
Baldwin Locomotive works, of Philadelphia, de-
uouneed the Sherman Antitrust law, which he declared
prevents business from rendering effective aid to the
government in the prosecution of the war He declared
that the government has realized the inherent evil in the
Sherman act and has been forced to conduct its business
upon reasonable profit basis.
IN the past the Sherman law has been vigorously attack
ed and not too much say that care for the public
interest not the motive that inspired its enemiec But
conditions changing rapidly and the sounded by
Mr. Johnson going to be heard with increasing frequency
from now And it will not do to attempt to silence it
by saying that big business is returning to its old tricks.
Il is commonplace among lawyers that the Sherman
law IS nothing than ancient common law turned
into federal statute 1t is founded upon the belief held
for hundreds of years by AngoSaxon urss and econo
mlsts that free competition the best safeguard for the
public But in actual practice there is no such thing as
free competition, and it beginning to be felt that better
results would be obtained through combination up to the
limit of economic safety plus commission control.
That view is bound to make rapid progress in public
favor if, probable, the struggle for trade
after the ends becomes matter of national rather than
of individual effort Some preparation has been made for
that state of affairs by the bill in Congress to permit
combination in export trade. But that does not go far
enough, quite likely soon to find out. To meet
the competition of the German care it will be necessary
to permit combination at home for the manufacture Of goods
exported And that would involve the abandonment of
the basic principles of presen. business fabric. Mani
fesly the time when business men could make money IN
this country by simply drifting is rapidly drawing
close, if indeed it has already passed We dislike and
reprehend the German political structure and the German
way of making but everything points in the direction
Of enforced adoption of the German plan Of intensive
training for business for without it we will not be able to
weather he changes which are coming.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

Washington or elsewhere working
night and day without compensation
or salary, putting the same genius
and management into this great en-
terprise that has brought them ire
mendous success in their respective
lines.
But all this will take money, SO
much money that one loses his con-
ception of wealth in repeating the fig
ures. The government must have this
money. 1t will have 1t. 1t proposes
to conseript part OF it in the form
OF taxation. To conscript all Of II, as
the Socialists and others suggest.
would be killing the proverbial goose
Tor 1t would destroy enterprise anS
initiative, disarrange the Industrial
machinery and bring chaos.
so the government will again ask
the people to loan 1t some of their
money to be paid back with interest
And what for? To clothe. feed
and equip those boys that have lust
gone out from the homes all over this
land. To build ships to carry the sup
plies and equipment and to pay them
and care for them. The total annual
income Of all the people Of this coun-
try is thirty-eight billions of dollars.
The government will ned a third of
that bewilderlng sum the first year.
for millions are going into camps and
other preparations that will not be
repeated.
"Those bonds, or very large per-
centage of them, ought to go into the
homes of farmers and wage earners.
The taxes ought to come out of the
big incomes and from the well-to-do.
To make an investor of the
wage-earner. especially in govern
ment bonds, does several beneficial
things.
First, It inculcates the spirit of
thrift. Second, it gives him a feeling
of personal proprietorship in the gov
eminent. The bankers, working
through their customers as mission
aries, can reach out into the mines
and mills and make thousands of in
vestors where none existed before.
Educate the men who are spending
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

AS parade 1t was scarcely worthy of the name but
no street spectacle for generation at least aroused
more poignant emotions in the spectators. Whoever it
was who first thought of having the Civil war veterans
act as an escort of honor had real inspiration.
gray headed little party turned of the bridge and start
ed down Cleveland avenue followed by the young
with packages under left and baggage in right
hand there was little burst of applause that was
ALL 1t will not be explain in this town again
that there are emotions too deep to find expression in
cheers In the crowd that lined the streets many who
had no ties whatever for the bravely smiling Thirty
wept openly 1t was all very simple and sincere and
neighborly. And those who it will be better men
and women for the experience When it is remembered
that similar taking place throughout the
Length and breath of the land begins
what tremendous thing it is this going war the
American people-for that is what it amounts -
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
GOVERNOR STARTS
NEXT LOAN BALL
Calls for Two Hundred
Thousand Subscribers n
West Virginia.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, Sept. 21.-Calling on the bank
ers of West Virginia to see that the
next Liberty Loan shall be oversub-
scribed in this state as the first one
was, Governor John ]. Cornwell,
speaking here today at the morning
session of the twenty-fourth annual
meeting Of the West Virginia Bank
ers' Association, declared the state
should have two hundred thousand
subscribers to the loan instead of the
twenty thousand who took up the first
issue.
when we start to place West Yir-
ginia's allotment of the next issue of
Liberty bonds, are you going to sit
back in your Offices and let some one
else do it? Are you going to say,
bought and sold my share of the first
issue? Or are you going to do as
many of you did some months ago.
take off your coats and work like
oyersubscribed? I hope you will do
the latter. 1 believe you will do 1t.
I know you should do it.
THE war must be won. We did not
want it. We stayed out OF it until
Germany concluded we were towards,
unwilling to defend the rights Of our
citizens and our national honor, but
we are in it deep enough and the
magnitude of the task precludes our
getting even slight conception Of
the gigantic preparations being made
upon the land and upon the sea.
1--WE started with a shoe-string.
Hypnotized with chautauqua elo-
quence and pacificist pratings. we ig-
nored or denounced the advice Of
Colonel Roosevelt and other men who
saw with equal vision the necessity of
early preparedness for eventualities.
Even since we were set upon by the
war-crazed Kaiser and his serpents of
the sea, we have sat quietly back and
allowed the LaFollettes and the Cores
to block the wheels of legislation and
prevent the prompt action the crisis
demaIded.
But the country is getting ready
for the Job, getting ready faster and
with greater efficiency than much
smaller tasks we're ever done before,
because we have the bitter experience
of England and France to guide US
and because most of the work has
been entrusted to hundreds Of the
best business men Of the country. To
men of large affairs who have sent
their sons into the army, then volun-
teered their services and are at
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
MeADoo'S AMBITIONS,

IRON Washington come rumors that Secretary Nc
I Adoo will seek the Govemorship of New York next
year as steppins-stone to the Presidency in 1920.
Guess again. So long Mr.. McAdoo can hold in his
hands all the power of disposition of the billions which
Congress has been voting and will continue to VOTE he need
political preferment which he is projecting
He knows game worth two of that. Morevor, he is
not unmndfu of history. In 1882 the Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr. FOger ran for Governor of New York;
and the resentment of the at what they thought an
attempt of the administration interfere with local politics
produced Grover Cevelands electon-though New York
was President Arthurs state-and the campaign of
1884 was the sequel.
We are inclined to think that if Mr. McAdoo tries for
the Presidency in 1920, he will use the toehold which he
now has at Washington. rather than Try to get another one
at Albany.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

West virgnas First is to be broken up into machine
commands II guesses based upon what has already
taken place at Camp Shelby are worth anything That
is not altogether surprising If the state had full
brigade there might have been hope of holding
organization intact But 1t is all in the service of the
nation. If the ard the officers of the First it
in them they will shine just as brilliantly In the new
field they would If they presenting full regl-
mental front
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

cards will make that an excuse Tor
lacking up the prices some more?
Did you shed a few tears on the
streets last night?
Or, (if you are OF the male persuas.
ion) did you have the presence o:
mind to comfort some pretty girl who
was crying?
Opportunities like that are few and
far between.
But it does sort o. take the bloom
of when they sniffle.
octobas g Is to be Liberty day is
1T?
Doesn't take prophet to tell where
q lot Of Christmas money win 90 this
fNo".4 #.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

Thanks to the hospital which they got only
relative few of the victims of recent outbreak of
polomyets ip this county will need extensive after
treatment But those who will need ought to be pac-
ed under the of the Fairmont hospital where pre-
paratons to be made to supervise their cure 1t is
the states duty to take of these little victims of
the Of the disease at the time when there is
prospect of restoring them to full usefulness as self sus
tanning members of society, and Dr. L. N. Yost is ent-
tied to publ gratitude for the interest he II
ing that the state brought to realization OF this
duty.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
Martha Peal Snyder
Dies Near Davis Ridge

Miss Martha Pearl synder, aged 20
years, died yesterday at $3.50 o'clock
at her home near Davis Ridge after q
long illness from a complication Of
diseases. She was a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. E. NJ. Snyder and a sister nr
Mrs. W L. Brand and the Misses Beu.
lab and Julia Snyder of this city.
Funeral services viii be held on Sun.
day afternoon and interment will be
made in the Davis Ridge cemetery by
Undertaken Musgrave and Son.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
READING MATTER FOR SOLDIERS.

the post office they say the people of this city are
"A not responding to the appeal for periodical reading
matter for the boys in the trenches in France in the
way they should.
Quite number of the more popular weeklies and month
lies carrying notice which says that if the reader
after he has finished with his copy will place one cent
stamp the and hand to some employee of the
reaches soldier in France. AT the post Office periodicals.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
RUFF STUFF

Water isn't the only thing that is
wasted In this town.
Guys who ought to be at work In
stead Of posing on the curbs waste
q lot Of hot air.
II It is permissible to say that hot
air Is wasted.
Keep your eye skinned for the good
conduct cards on the grocery stors
wan.
Maybe you'll see 'en and maybe you
won't
HoaaeE 9. ~ 80 Ass Set white
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

their wages to buy a bond not only
as patriotic act. but as q guarantees
against future want. Loan him the
money and arrange monthly pay
ments. Loan 1t, II you have to Dor.
row to do it. You and your institu-
ton will not only be performing q
patriotic act. but you will have made
a futurI bank customer and you will
above rendered a great service to your
fellow men.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

Warrington covered itself with glory by the whole
souled which it bid goodbye to the from the
count district who went to Camp yesterday. That
the oil town would dc something worthy of the occasion
to have been expected for the first quota was given
send of that up to yesterday the notable in
this section of the state Mannngton Red fund
also out of all proportion the the town.
and there other things that attest the fact the
people there enthusiastically loyal eager to
do all they help shoulder the nations burdens
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
ATTEND EIINERAI

Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. jenkins and o.
F. Jenkins were in Morgantown yes
terday where they attended the fu-
neral services over the body Of ]. j.
Jenkins, father of the Messrs. Jenkins
whose death occurred several days
ago. Rev. A. c. Blake conducted the
funeral services from the family resi-
dence on Beechurst avenue and was
assisted by Rev. G. N. Jarrett.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

State Health department has put the
kibosh on baby shows.
AS T. R. would say IT, three cheers.
Ira Smiths band has had an honest
to goodness job.
And it covered itself with glory.
Reflected glory!
Just the same theer are hopes for
it.
Must be building better iails in the
south.
Mob that wanted to lynch a moke In
= North Carolina town yesterday
could not get e him
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
BITS OF
STATE NEWS

Silage is big money saver in West
Virginia, according to a bulletin that
is being sent out by the agricultural
extension department of West Vir.
ginia university. AS an example The
case OF 80 Braxton county farmers is
cited. They fed 80 head OF beef cat
tie 1875 days on silage and made them
gain $50 pounds each at a saving OF
$126 for each farmer over the feeding
methods previously used.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21
SHORT AND sNAPPY

The starspangled banner has just celebrated its 1o3d
birthday However. let take that as an ind!ca-
ton of decreptude-Chareston Leader.
If all the high fiers" would only enlist there would
be no shortage in the aviation corps-Wheelng Regis
ter.
The Hungarian Premier is for peace and no annexa-
tons II Austria and Germany in 1914 had been for
peace and no annexations there would have been no
war Oh, for the good old days of 1914, first half
Charleston Mail.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

The outlook for the Smock peach
season, which is now on in the big
peach section, is the largest since
1896. as already the entire crop has
been sold in advance of $3.50 a bush.
ell, says the Martinsburg Journal. The
Cumberland exchange is 1000 bushels
in arrears in their orders and special
arrangements are being made by the
managers, E. Blain Pancake and J. C.
McKown, of Paw Paw, to supply the
unprecedented demand. Beginning
October /, the yellow and white open.
stone Clings peach will be placed on
the market at about S1.5O bushel.
1t is believed the net sales Will aggre.
gate Sl.O00,OOO.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

The result of the resumption the British offensive
in Flanders brings into relief the relative merits
opposing forces the west front. The Germans are
reacting way which suggests that they regard gains
by the foe as inevitable.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

Mrs. John West and daughter Mrs.
Maude Bager and children have gone
to Brownsville, Pa, to visit the for
mer,s daughter, Mrs. Ross GOODNIGHT.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

IT. you DON'T GET YOUR PAPER CALL
WESTERN UNION"
Subscribers on cur carrier routes falling to get
The West Virgia!an any evening should call IVES.
TERN UNION state the fact and give name and
residence and messenger will deliver paper to
your door at once. There Is no charge to the sub.
scrtber for this service. The West Vrginlan plans
to render to its subscribers the newspaper de-
livery service possible and this Is part the plan.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

The peculiar affliction that seems 10
follow the boys of the family of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Mcdonald, who now
reside on the Will Schadd farm on the
Charles Town road just outside of
Martinsburg was again manifested
when Arlington Mcdonald, aged 10.
stumped his toe on corn stalk fell and
badly. fractured his left thigh. The
little sufferer was hurried by DR.. H.
G. Tonkin in the latter's car to the
City Hospital, where he is now unleT
treatment. A year or so ago the same
lad was run over by wagon, sus
tanning a broken hip. 1t will be re-
called that his 1S-year-old brother ut.
tracted widespread attention last yeat
when he broke an arm and a leg while
tossing up an apple in the interviewer
Mill yards. He was playing at the
time and twisted an ankle, breaking
the leg and swapping a bone in his
arm in the fall. Both children have
very soft bones and the 1S-year-old
boy has suffered a fracture for every
year OF his life.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-21

E. N. zern, who has been professor
of mining engineering at the university
at Morgantown for several years, has
resigned to acceptIthe editorial man
agement of the mining catalogue of
the Keystone Publishing company
of Pittsburg, and Professor and Mrs.
Zern and children will leave in few
days for Pittsburg where they rlaa
to reside. W. B. Plank of the United
States bureau of mines Of Pittsburg
has been selected to take the place Ct
Professor Zern and will be here III a
short time to take up the work of the
department of mining.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-06-07
COLORADO STATE NEWS

! place near Byron is producing be
| Gas from the same well forces the
/ oil out thus doing away with the need
OF pump for the present.
Information from the extensive fruit
district extending southwark from Du,
range counties to indicate an i'm.
mense and first-class yield.
Horace BONNIE, for three years
chauffeur at Greeley, has successfully
passed the examination and enlisted
as an aviator in the service of the
government.
Cooperation OF freight shippers with
the railroads in aid OF car conserva.
ton is urged by the Denver subcom-
mittcc of the American Railway AS.
sociation's special committee on ma,
tional defense
One hundred Veterans OF Foreign
Wars in Denver dedicated the recent
ly erected monument to the heroes OF
foreign wars at Paramount cemetery.
The monument. fifty feet high, repre-
scnts soldier ready for action.
A guard will be stationed at the
grave of Buffalo Bill until the monu-
ment in his honor IL raised on Look.
out mountain. Night and day force
OF police will be maintained to pre-
vent curio and memento seekers from
committing acts OF vandalism.
Colorado apple growers are rejoic
ing over news from Washington that
tie United States government through
food administrator Hoover, has listed
apples and pears as food produc,
and not as luxury. This means that
the SG,O0O,OOO apple and pear crop
produced in Colorado will find a
ready market.
Mrs. c. l.. Palmer of Golden was
the victim OF the only automobile &C
cident which attended the gathering
of thousands of motor cars on the
Lookout mountain road for the Buff
falo Bill memorial ceremonies. accord
ing to police reports. Mrs. Palmer,
who was passenger in the car or
Charles Risden, lost three fingers
when G. b. Gardner of Wheat Ridge
backed his machine against the Ris-
den car
On confession of error by the attor-
ney general, two OF Colorados famous
murder cases Were reversed by Su-
preme Court decisions. The action of
the court practically releases John II.
Lawson, charged with Staying John
Nimmo in 1914. The other man who
was convicted Of murder during the
trouble in the southern Colorado coal
fields was Louis Zancannelli, who was
accused of staying detective hired
by coal company. Zancannelli's case
was reversed because the attorney
general confessed errors.
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-06-07
Minor Mention.

Nearly $4,000 registered in Denver
At Colorado Springs 1850 registered
Over 300 city lots at Montrose ar
now planted In gardens.
John r. Lawson has accepted a pc.
sition as labor agent for a mining
| company.
Several cases OF scarlet fever al
Sugar City. San Juan towns are fun
OF measles.
The union miners of Fremont coun.
~ are arranging to hold celebration
on July ath.
In burning outbulding belonging
to G. NJ Hall of Florence, $50 young
chickens persisted.
People at Rye put in a good part Of
Memorial Day in hard work improving
the cemetery there.
The boilcrmakers and helpers en-
ploycd at Florence have gone on
strike and quit work.
Reports show that Colorado's crops
are in good condition except being
delayed by cool weather.
Ore shipments from the Silverron
camp during the first twcnty.one DAYS
of May totalcd l2l cars.
The Masons had charge OF the bur
ial Of Col W, f. Cody CBuffalo Bid
on Lookout Mountain on Sunday.
Two carloads of highgrade ore have
been taken out Of the new strike in
the Doctor mine, Gunnisop county.
Patriotism and order marked regis
tration day in Colorado. when 100000
young men enrolled for sclcctivc sory.
ice.
\ company is being organized at
Las Animas for the purpose of build
ing an alfalfa meal mill at Melina
station.
The labor shortage In Colorado Is
becoming acute in all lines OF indus
try and will be intensified when con
scription goes into effect.
More than 5000 pounds of dandelion
plants were dug up by boys and girls
OF Grand Junction and brought to city
hall in prize contest of extermina.
ton.
Canon City was the second town
In the state to meet its apportion-
ment in the raising OF the Y. NJ. C. A..
war fund. Longmont was first and
went considerably over the amount
that il pledged.
The Garbutt property on Breeze
hill continues TO be one OF the heav-
lest producers In the Leadville district
with an output of $50 tons daily. part
OF which is being extracted through
the hex No. . shaft.
The oil well on the Edward Jones
The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-06-07
Western

The brotherhood OF Locomotive I'm.
Eineers has subscribed FOR $500 900 OF
Liberty Loan bonds
Theodore Roosevelt will riyr IN Ed.
dress at Loucoln. Ncb., on Amer.
Canism' Thursday. June II. the clos.
ing day OF the Nebraska somi-con.
tenninl celebration.
4 nationwide search for Lloyd Kcct
tho ii.monthS.old boy kidnapped from
his parents home At Springfield. Mo.
was begun Pictures OF the child
have been sent to all parts OF the
country by his father
orders have been given by Lorenzo
Scpulycdu. director general OF public
charity In Mexico. to all institutions
under his charge directing that all
lands belonging TO such Institutions
suitable Tor agriculture b. cultivated
and the products be- devoted TO the
support of the institutions
IIcrbcr, 5 llockin Of Detroit, Mich
who with thirty.night others was
convicted In the Federal Court at In,
dlnnapolis Ind, on q charge OF con
spiracy 10 transport explosives Illegal
IT, was released from the federal pen,
itoutIary at Loavonworth. Kan IIc
entered the prison Jan 80 1919