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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-05

cate coal men and the people he steel industry for M
stance. nd like them study their business to he very
bottom m all its aspects 50 that IN tm. the very best
posted coal authorities the world are actively IN the coal
producing business and not in the employ Of some govern
ment bureau holding pofessorp in some university
a. Is quite likely to be the case right now
President Farrell. of the United States Steel Corpora.
on has on number Of occasions gone before congressional
investigating committees and for days answered questions
about steel and the allied industries propounded by experts
without hesitation and without contng note or book
that OF course extreme case. Mr. Farrell has an
unusual emory. but the steel corporation has many men
who know all about the steel business not only in this cou-
Try but throughout the world 1t is quite possible that there
are steel who know much more about the larger as
poets of the coal trade than most coal men, The steel
business of the United States because of its close organ
izaton and its broad VISION able to hold its own any
where Now coal is just important as steel. but coal
men until recently made any attempt to get together
beginning has been made. but how far it will go depends
upon the way the individual operators support the coal Or
CARNATIONS.
If they at all wise every last operator will join the
local organizations and urge those bodies TO support the
district and national organizations in the employment of
sascians, scen.s and broad vsioned Len of affairs to
study the coal business and shape its future that will
not be in danger of being overwhelmed by the first surge
toward state capitalism that along and in the mean
tine stabilize the business that it can make money and
yet get along amcably with the public This will cost lots
y. but such ouays can be regarded as investments
upon which there will be rich returns.
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WEST VIRGINIA PATENTS.

AS reported by H. e. Dunlap, patent
lawyer, of Wheeling, w. Va, the Pat
ent Office records show the recent is
sue of the following patents to West
Virginia inventors: N. H. Foringer,
New Cumberland, pipe-cutter; ]. M.
Bussey, Bluecreek, feeder; l. G. Hicks
and G. l.. Summers, Huntington. hob
by.horse; c. E. Wood, st. Adams,
miter.box; ]. c. Blanton and D. ]. Sex
ton, Freeman, MISUNDERSTANDING ap'
paratus; H. L. Franklin and c. G.
Bragg, Huntington, oven-shelf; D. y
Miller. Wheeling, adjustable table;
Adolph Ransom, assignor Of IL to S.
Isaac, South Charleston, parachute.
Mr.. Dunlap also reports the recant
issue OF the following trademark reg
istrations: Banks Supply Co., Hunt
ington, rolled ready.to-lay roofing
made OF composition OF asphalt and
wood felt; Black & Walter. Hunting
ton, preparation for rheumatism ami
weak lungs; Hold C. Dunfee, Charles
ton, nursing.bottles.
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SOUTHWESTERN MINERS.

SOUTHWESTERN coal miners who a.: broke
- off negotiations with the Fuel administration and the
operators of that section of the country when they
found that the government firm in its determination that
the penalty clause be included in the wage SCALE may
cause the government and the country at large lot of
trouble but in the end they going to find that such tao
tics at time like the present are far from being popular
AT the government price operators make money
1t is o.; of the question for them pay wages The
government fully recognized this and made the horizontal
increase Of IS cents per that the miners could be paid
1t demanded =. return that the benecares of this
advance give bond that they will work faithfully 1t is
fair proposition any yc look at it. and the leaders
or the individual miners who think they can turn it down
quite likely to find that bic opinion which is pow
erful force in this country, is sodly against them.
This is not matter Of the relations Of the men TO the
employing corporations In it the individual miners are
directly in touch with tie government which nee e coal
for the preservation of the country If when they under
stand this clearly the in the southwestern field persist
in refusing to rec to the rsnay clause it will be fair to
suspect that there something wrong with either their hon.
esty their loyalty. or possibly with BOTH
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-05
RUFF STUFF

Four poker rooms were "raided' Sat.
urday night,
Apparently Assistant Chief Seaman
gave the assembled gamblers severe
talking to.
Isn't this city government the terri
blest thing!
How It must havo lacerated the feel
ings OF those tired business men to be
treated that way.
What's the use Of worrying about
what the Choimans did in Belgium
i when we have this kind of government
outrages right at our doors?
Morning Astonisher says the next
raid all found in the places will BIZ ar
rested.
But do not lose any sleep over that,
gentle readeee
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FAIRv1EW

Mrs VIM. w. Bowman entertained
In honor Of Mrs. Ward Dragon Thurs
day night.
Rev. Tyler, of Pennington was Wis
iting Rev. c. n. Coffman Friday.
Perry Wiley and Clerence Bennett
OF Fairmont were hunters here Friday
Mrs. Mary Green was at Fairmont
shopping Friday.
Mrs. Walter who has been visiting
her sister Mrs. G. L. Miller has return
ed to her home.
Frank Hogne and VIM. Knode Jr
OF the University, Morgantown, were
week end guests at home.
Mrs. Dora Lockhart Of Cataba was
week end guest of Russell Rice.
Claude Jarvis was a business visitor
at Fairmont Saturday.
Aurthur Reed Of Fairmont was a
business visitor here Saturday
Mrs. Claude Parker was at Fair
mont shopping Saturday.
Charlie Goodnight Of Fairmont was
a week end visitor here.
Sam Robey OF Fairmont was week
end guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Bow
man.
DR.. J. M. Moran>has returned from
Pittsburgh where he has been attend
ing Dental School.
The first Lecture Course given al
the High School this season will be
November Sth.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
"oUR CHRISTMAS clFrs."
(HY coNpo)

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Nov. g.
Editor The West Virginian. 1.-The
Christmas holidays are drawing nea..
Those with friends and relatives iii
the army and navy will, OF course, senc
presents to the boys, and they should
be forwarded early. But what about
the vast number OF people who do not
have kin in the camps and whose pres
ents will not so to the soldier boys:
VIII they follow the old custom of OK.
changing useless presents with rela.
tives and friends, giving what is not
needed merely in conformity with a
custom, useless and burdensome at tho
best?
Up in Buckhannon there was great
mass meeting on the 7th day of Oc.o.
Der under the auspices OF the local
chapter of the Red Cross which n I'm.
bers some nine hundred members. AT
that meeting the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, THAI it is the sens,
of this meeting that the people OF
West Virginia especially, and the
people of the entire country gen.
orally, should this year devote the
money usually expended for Christ
mas presents to the country's
cause by contributing The same %
the Red Cross, and that the Gov.
ernor of this STATE be requested to
place this suggestion before the
people of the state In the form of a
statement or proclamation, as he
may deem wise, and to do all no
reasonably can to present this nat.
ter to the country at large; and
that a copy Of this resolution. duly
signed by che chairman and secre.
tary of the Buckhannon, West
Virginia, Chapter of the American
Red Cross, be forwarded to the
Governor for his consideration"
Surely the Upshur idea is a noble
one and, in conformity with the re.
quest embodied IN the resolution, | ap.
peal to the people of the state to adopt
It. We should realize that this is no
time for useless and unnecessary ex-
penditures or for useless and unneees.
sary gifts. This Is a time that we mus.
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Next week the Red Cross begins membership cam
pagn which it is hoped will place the Fairmont chapter
we'll in the lead in this state The workers should re-
ceive cordial reception wherever they CO. Every
munity that intends tc do its full duty this must
have community organization to take care of a large
number Of civilian d that crop up fro time to time
and in Fairmont by common consent this lie has been
delegated to the Red Cross 1t is important therefore
that public SPIRITED citizen be represented upon
the membersh' rolls.
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MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER s. 1917
CONSERVING THE GAS.

MTNOUBILESS there will be some complaint IN the ter.
ntory served by the Gas department of the Monon.
sahela Valley Traction company over the decision
suspend IN the near future the supply of gas for COM
sumption under boilers OTTER ways where coal can be
used Just as well but who will be affected bv the
order Will be able to say that the new policy comes as
surprise As mater of fact the change has been lone
tune IN coming and all who are at all wide awake have
been prepared for it.
mere IS yet srea supply of natural gas in the earth
but has been apparent for several years that supply Is
not equal to the demand, aid in order that the domestic
may have natural gas for many years instead Of
1or out few years more it necessary 10 limit the uses
% winch gas Is put iii this territory. That is what the
1; company has set out do By beginning now
ana nsdiy maintaining the conservation schedules IRE is
prospect that there will be gas for use in the homes of Fair
mont and the surrounding territory long after the gas fields
surrounding us have been pumped dry and nearby cities are
entirely upon coal basis
gan to plan together and with the NJ " - company for
the day when this ould be to all n,ents and purposes
sasless territory. Some of tho lans are well CT the way
g fnhon now. and in time all of them will be worked
put IN way which will give Fairmont commandn, posi-
ton among the manufacturing cenes not only among the
cues OF this state but among those of this section Of the
country 1t is along that line that the Greater Fairmont
investment company doing some of the most important
OF its Development work.
30 although every thing that points to the approaching
of the gas partake of the nature Of munic-
pal calamity for most West Virginia cities here Their. reed
be no fears for the future If the consumers will cooperate
q fully as they with the plans that are being worked
put the going of gas in this field instead of marking the
beginning OF our decline industrial factor in the state
hili merely mark the opening of and better era
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The next" raid will be SO far n the
future that they will have to begin all
over again.
And yet there are people who won.
der why the public regards the city
government as a huge Joke.
Five years ago
allied army is at the gate Of Con.
stantinople and expect to force their
entrance in few dayr."
Some one must have pulled off war
while We were not looking.
Wonder il the Allied army ever
made good?
Winston Churchill please write.
The Lokal Anzieger, which is che OF
the Berlin camouflages for q news
paper, kids the American people over
the capture Of those boys in the train
ing trenches.
Did not know the Teuts had that
kind Of sense Of humoi.
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be willing 20 deny ourselves many
things. II necessary, to properly sup
port the Red Cross and the Y. II. G. A,
work for the physical. moral and
spiritual welfare Of our soldiers. !
most respectfully appeal to the press,
the pulpit and the public schools to EN-.
phasize the suggestion embraced In the
resolution quoted.
JOHN ]. CoRNwELL,
Governor.
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John Reeds Signs
Make Hit at Camp

Trench and Camp. the newspaper
printed at Camp Sheldon. Montgom'
cry, Ala. in recent issue contained
the following:
THE most artistic signs In the camp
are on display at tent 81. They are
the work OF physical director Jonn r.
Reed. The same gentleman is guilty
of being the finest soloist in the entire
Y. NJ. c. A. staff. His solo work al.
ways draws a crowd at tent 81. His
versatility with brush, and voice and
muscle. provides combination hard
to beat"
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FUTURE OF THE COAL TRADE.
3C,ATURDAY The West N;re;n;.n ,r;n,.J -, -,

& AlOKDAf The West Vrginian printed an opinion
~ on coal trade conditions by c. NJ ModerwelI. member
of the Coal Production committee of the Council Of
National Defense and Illinois coal producer who is
very well known among the coal men of this state in which
Mr. Moderve said that kie regulation seems hard right
how he has hopes that it will be the best thing that ever
happened for the coal trade in the end.
He might have go: bit further and said that whether
q is to prove benefit costly evil will depend almost
entirely upon the coal producers Of the country themselves
Il they tighten their organizations and study their bust
hess with what the future holds in store for them well in
mind It will be benefit If they do not do these things
il they proceed the theory that the old conditions. in
which men MANAGING donns properties treated each other
side of the fuel problem, are going to return after
the war. It is going to be an evil.
The coal trade If the country has passed de6nitvey to
new phase. That much government control has accom-
phed What this has not yet develop ID clearly and
here It'll time for the operators to mould conditions if
they go about in the right way. While the war is going
and The government keeps firm hand on the trade the
who have their money coal ought to be studying and
planning ey ought to emulate methods of the anthra-
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Editorial c Comment
on Current Subjects
THE MINERS PARr.
From the Raleigh Register:

From the Raleigh Register:
To the miner let me say that llo
stands where the farmer does; tue
work OF the world waits on him.
II he Stacks or fails armies ard
statesmen are helpless. he also is
enlisted in the great service army.
Thus spake President Wilson in EN-.
phasizing the miners part in winnins
the war, shortly after the U. 5. Ell,
tered 1t last April Since then his
Importance as factor in defeating
Germany has no wise diminished. Ca
the contrary 1t has perhaps increased
for our mines must not only supply, In.
creaser demands at home. but must
meet needs OF England. whose miners
the needs OF England. whose miners
are in the trenches. and of France,
whose best miners are in the hands
of Germany.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-05

Tomorrow elections will be held throughout the coun.
try bringing to end of the foulest campaigns
the generation has there are any issues
at stake they have been lost sight of in places and
personalities caumnies and lies have been the stock in
trade of the politicians West virginans may consider
themselves fortunate in the fact that an of year
in this state for that Of thing appears to be In the
air this year.
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But come to think of it they are act
ing up to the Prussian formula.
Which is to make the enemy mad all
the way through.
Well, they will find that in the little
old U. s. A. the folks will stay mad.
1t is taking them a long time to get
their mad up and it may take them
just as long to cool off.
And in the meantime they are no,
going to do much tanning for the Ger
man side OF any game, either on the
battlefield, the council table or IN the
busy marts Of the world,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-05

Study this report and see If there
is anything wrong in the schools Of the
city. On Friday night of this week
all the pastors, Sunday school officers
and teachers will be asked to meet in
the First NJ. E. church for discussion
Of the teacher. We want to make this
great meeting. A program will ap-
pear later in the week.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-05

Berlin reports of that raid American trench
reached this country time for publication in the
papers of Saturday The American report telling the
full story did not reach the public until this morning
Something will have to be done about that If the War
department wants to itself demonstration Of pub
lie wrath American news by way of the enemy
capital wont do.
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Leaders of the Catholic party in Italy reported
have let it become known at the Vatican that for the
moment at least attitude which might be considered
to run counter to the national aspirations would be
unwecome Thus has the Potsdam bunch put out Of
business the last friend the people had on the
outside.
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Doesn't Feaze EN-.

Canadian people are SO Injured to
the horrors OF war that they can look
upon the coming Of the Ia crosse sea.
son without batting an eye.
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The situation Italy still grave but Oh the west
front where the will be decided in spite all
manys efforts to force decision at other point.
the tide is still running strongly against the Teutons
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after three doctors said ] never would
stand up straight again. / was mid
wife for seven years and I recommended
the. Vegetable Compound to every wo-
man to, take before birth and after
wards, and they oil got along so nicely
that Il surely Is . godsend to suffering
women. If women wish to write to
me I viii be delighted to answer them. :"
Mrs. JENNIE MoYER, 342 E.North st..
Lima, Ohio
Women who suffer from displace.
ments, weakness, irregularities, ner-
vousness, backaehe, or besring-down
pains, need the tonic properties Of the
roots and herbs contained IN Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable COMPOUND.
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BROKEN Down
IN HEALTH
Woman Tells How SIS Worth
Of Pinkham's Compound
Made Her Well.
Lima, Ohio. -"Iwss all broken down
in health from o displacement. One of my

lady friends came to
see me and she ad-
vised me to COM
mence taking Lydia
q. Pfnkham's Veg
etable Compound
and to use Lydia E.
Pinkham's Sanative
Welsh. Ibegan TAX
Ing your remedies
and took IS. 00worth
and in two months
OSa a wall won,ap
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-05

Be patriotic. don't burn the bread or pancakes
kingwood Argus
W. j. Bryan says that he does not know how long the
war will last but that he knows the quickest way out
is straight observation-disclosures Republican.
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SHORT AND sNAPPY.

You hardly know girls when they get "all dress
ed up" And some girls hardly know you when they
get "all dressed up."-uniontown Evening Genius
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REPORT SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.
Ar Az Attand Dow
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-29
Try These for Supper

French ggs.-Remove the shells
from six hard cooked eggs. Cut the
eggs in quarters, arrange them on hot
dish and squeeze over the juice of one
half lemon. Melt one-third cupful of
butter, add one tablespoonful of flower,
stir over the fire, pour in slowly pint
of boiling milk, one tablespoonful of
chopped parsley, salt and pepper to
taste. Cook for five minutes and strain
over the eggs. Serve hot garnished
with parsley.
Novelty Salad.-Put into salad dish
two peeled apples chopped fine, add
layer of powdered sugar, layer of
chopped English walnut meats, two
sliced bananas, another layer of pow
dered sugar, two sliced oranges and the
strained juice of two lemons thickened
with granulated sugar. Chill thorough
ly before serving.
Maple Sponge. two cupfuls of
brown sugar and one-half cupful of
hot water to syrup. Soak one-half
package of granulated gelatine in one
and one-half cupfuls of cold water for
fifteen minutes, then add the hot syrup
and dissolve over the fire. Allow to
cool but not become cold, then whip in
the stiffiy beaten whites of two eggs
and one cupful of chopped English
walnut meats. Chill and serve with
a custard made of leftover yokes of
eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and
cupfuls Of milk. Marion Harris Neil,
in my Favorite Recipe" from The
Peoples Home Journal for May.
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tunately, the people have become so
poverty stricken as a result of the
Civil War and this disease that
many haven't the means of paying
even the small cost of their success
full treatment.
More than any Of US know, per-
haps, tuberculosis, both in the
North and in the South, rs respon-
sible for apparent laziness. In a
great number of instances l have
observed and wondered at what
seemed like laziness of friends and
acquaintances who later were found
to be suffering from tuberculosis.
Nowadays I question if lazy people
aren't almost invariably the victims
of some disease which. unknown to
themselves, their families, n d
friends, is slowly draining their en-
ergy and life away.
The moral is that people who are
unaccountably tired and listless
should be searched by competent
physician for possible obscure,
blood sucking disease.
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LAZINESS

Studious physicians are beginning
to question if laziness is ever nat
ural characteristic Of otherwise
healthy individuals. Too often they
have found it to be a symptom of
an obscure disease which is not
easy to recognize. Consider the
plight of the poor white trash" and
the '1azy good-for-nothing negroes
of the south for example.
Industrious and well-to-do people
Of the north and of the south, too,
for that matter, have looked upon
these people with what they have
thought to be well merited contempt.
turned that contempt into sympathy
and pity. BY their exact methods of
investigation they have established
the fact that millions of people are
the victims Of serious disease due
to infection by hookworm.
The hookworm attacks people
through the feet. Poor people in the
South, therefore, who because of
poverty go barefoot, are especially
liable to infection. Victims dis
charge the worms from their bow
els. The wretchedly insanitary
privies which characterize poverty
stricken neighborhoods make it pos
sible for generation after generation
of these worms to circulate from old
victims to new ones. We have, then,
another instance of an endless and
deadly chain of cause and effect.
The chief symptoms of the disease
are weakness, anemia and a tired,
listless feeling. Inasmuch as it is
estimated that at least third of the
southern population is infected, it is
easy to see how this disease, alone,
could have given the south the rep
utation of being the home of a lazy
and shiftless people. Fortunately,
cure has been found which is quite
certain, speedily and cheap. Unfor-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-29
PETITION

TO THE COUNTY BOARD OF THE COUNTY OF RUSK:
The petition the undersigned Board the OF
hOrnappe usk respectfully that the 3rd
April the annual town meeting of said the
bridge wholly within
said town. being the Twin Greeks between sections 33
and 81 Township Range West that at the time due
vision made for the payment by the said town Of Thornap
OF the proportion of the cost of constructing said bridge required
paid by the said that the total valuation of
said of Thornappe according the last assessment
cost of such bridge $4,000 which is than onetenh Of
said the said
Thornappe has voted to raise $4,000 to apply onehaf the
cost of such bridge
Wherefore petitioners pray appropriation to be
the County of Rusk of the s35O aid in the
construction of said bridge provided by law.
Dated this End day of May 1917,