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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
Two Things the Food Con-
troll Bill Does For the
Farmer.
WILL VOTE ON BILL TODAY
Gives Broad Government
Control Over Many Things
4 Called Necessities.
tRx Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Aug. s. Final &C.
ton before night on the administration
food control legislation was forecast
when the Senate convened today.
ADOPTION OF conference reports on
the food control bill and the bill pro-
viding for food survey and stimula
ton of production virtually was as
sured. Both reports already have been
adopted by the House.
Debate in the Senate today proceed
ed under agreement 10 take final vote
on the food control bill at 4 o'clock.
Only a few Senators we're scheduled to
speak before the vote,
The bill establishes during the war,
broad government control over foods,
feeds, fuel, fuel oils, natural gas, fer
hllzer and its ingredients, tools. uten-
Bils and equipment required for the
actual production Of all such pro-
ducts, designated "necessarles."
In establishing government control,
The bill authorizes the President to
enter into any voluntary arrange
ments, create or use any agency or
agencies, to accept services OF any
person without compensation, to CO.
operate with any agency or person, to
utilize any department or agency of
the government, and to coordinate
their activities.
In pursuance of such authorization,
President Wilson plans to appoint
Herbert c. Hoover food adminiStra-
tor. Control of other necessaries
named may be accomplished through
other agencies. The House provision
for an Individual food administrator
was enacted only after the President
had prevailed upon the Senate and
House conferees to eliminate a Senate
amendment, inserted by two over
whelming votes of SO to 10 and 60 to
90, proposing a Board Of Food OF
three subject to Senate confirmation.
Comprehensive powers are given In
the bill, passed as war measure, to
assure adequate supply and equitable
distribution of the named necessaries,
to facilitate their movement; to pre-
vent, locally and generally, scarcity,
monopoly, boarding, Injurious specu-
lation, manipulation or private con-
troll affecting supply, distribution and
movement. go,
other provisions Of the bill fix a
minimum price for wheat beginning
next year at not less than So per
standard bushel; provide for coal and
coke price, fixing. Communicating
and government operation of faCto-
ries and mines producing necessaries;
for government purchase, sale and
reuuiations of various necessaries,
and for federal licensing of agencies
producing and handling them.
The bill appropriates for fund OF
$50 900, 900 to be used in its admin
lstration and S10,0OO,OO0 for federal
purchase and sale at cost OF fertil-
lzer.
The prohibition provisions, a
compromise for "bone dry" prohibi-
ton proposed by the House, prohibit
manufacture and importation or dis
titled liquors for beverages during
the war, authorizes the President to
suspend manufacture of malt, fer
mented and vinous liquors or to limit
their alcoholic content and author
ICES and directs" the President, in his
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
City Water Will
Be Given a Test

Water Commissioner Ira Smith Is
today preparing specimens Of Fair.
mont water to send to Morgantown,
During the hot summer months the
State requires that the water be tested
in Morgantown at the University oc.
casionally.
The water is being put up careful.
ly in little bottles, four specimens
or the local water being sent. One
specimen is from the river at the
pump station, another from the pump
station after treatment Of the water
from the river with liquid chlorine,
one from the reservoir and another
from the city spiggots,
Several days ago the city water
was tested by the City Health Officer
Chescney Ramage and foud to be in
excellent condition.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS
CAN GARDEN SASS
Tomorrow They Will Try
Their Prentice Hand
on Sauer Kraut.

Beans and beets were canned this
morning by the girls Of the High
school canning clubs in the most up
to date and scientific manner at the
High school building under the direc.
ton Of the instructor, Miss Estelle
Hamilton. A large number Of the
women Of the city affiliated with the
National Women's Defense League
were present and witnessed the dem.
onstration.
Sauer Kraut will be canned tonor.
row morning and large turn out Of
the women Of the city is anticipated
owing to the fact that there is a great
demand from the women of the city
to learn this art. Cabbage has been
grown in abundance in this city and
vicinity during the summer and
great quantities of it will be saved
through the canning method.
Tomorrow morning at $3.50 the dem.
onstrations of Sauer Kraut will be
held.
Next week on Wednesday and
Thursday corn and tomatoes will be
canned and these demonstrations
win bring to a close the canning
season for the clubs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
Jackson st, Argument
Cost Ten Spot Each

Lud Burris, who is in charge Of a
pool room on Jackson street and King
Peary, both colored, were before
Mayor Bowen this morning charged
with disorderly conduct on jackson
street. They were arrested yesterday
evening by Policeman Digman.
Burris claims that Peary owes him
five dollars and refused to pay, using
a string Of cuss words a yard long
when he was asked for the money.
Peary went to the outside Of the pool
room and dared Burris to come out.
Burris accepted the challenge and
seized a cue. Peary knew what was
going to happen and broke the 100
yard record getting up the street
Mayor Bowen fined Burris $40 for
attempting to take the law in his own
hands while Peary had to work over a
ten spot for using profane Language
and drawing on the fight.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
governors ACCEPT
ILLINOIS INVITATION.
Conference on Coal Prices
Will be Held August
Is.
tBy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Aug. S-PraCtically all OF
the Governors of sixteen states from
Pennsylvania to Kansas had respond
ed faVorably today to an invitation ex'
tended yesterday by the Illinois Coun'
Gil Of Defense to attend conference
in Chicago August 16 for the purpose
Of bringing about a uniform regulation
Of the price Of coal.
While the state Council Of Defense
recommended to Governor Frank o
Lowden seizure OF coal mines in Hi
nois for the period Of the war as q
means Of reducing prices, the hope
was expressed that the states Of the
central west will join in urging Con
gress to enact law that will confer
full and sweeping power Of contro
over coal prices and distribution in az
administrative body of the Fedora
government which would have the ma
chinery to give instant relief.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
.G0STSFIVE. TO SPEED
ON FAIRNONT AVE.
Two Men Who Tried 1t Have
Paid Up in Past Two
Days.

Three traffic violators have been
fined since yesterdays regular nine
o'clock court. Among them WIS +. B,
Piyo: Who paid five dollac !tnn for
speeding.
This morning Gus Stanhagen was
before the Mayor charged with max,
ing over IS miles an hour out Fairmont
avenue. He was caught and summon,
ed to appear yesterday afternoon by
Policeman Ward. He admitted the
charges and was fined S..
The case charging Harry Snyder
with passing a standing street car
came up this morning. Witnesses in
the case we're S. Ray Holbert, Thomas
E. Cook and Thomas A. Waite. Sny
der had passed the car but only after
hesitating to see il any passengers
were getting on or off, Getting nc
signal from those in charge of the
car and being in hurry he slowly
passed the standing car He was civ
en- the minimum fine Of one dollar
which he paid.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
DeSaulIes Murder
Was Premeditated

MINEOLA, NJ Y, Aug. 8.-By way or
outlining the prosecution of Mrs. Blanca
DeSaulIes, in jail here for killing her
divorced husband, John L. Desaulles,
District Attorney Charles R. Weeks
made a statement here today in which
he said murder had been carefully
planned.
II the murder was not premeditated
why did Mrs. DeSaulles go to her for
mer husbands home carrying 3 re.
yolver, asked the district attorney.
"That the woman carried the Weap-
on for protection is not true as she
was accompanied by the taxi driver
and maid. The crime was not an tm'
pulse of the moment, but was arTang.
cd. Her only motive in the VISIT was
to shoot the man.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
NEW YORK GIRL IS GOING TOJON
RUSSLA'S REGIMENT OF DEATH
Declares Women Have the
Same RighttO Fight as
Men.
By IDAH MeLoNE GIBSON.

NEW YORK, Aug San American
girl is going to Russia to join the Rus
sian women's Regiment Of Death"
She is Frances Clifford, 81, an artist
well known among New York's colony
of writer's and painters.
She met me at the top Of the two
fligns of stairs over the stable in
Greenwish village, where she has her
studio. 1t was very hot, and the odor
of horses as well as art permeated the
atmosphere. She lisa small blond girl
with great blue eyes that look into
yours so earnestly that you feel she
has thought great deal on the subject
uf now she should Dc her bit in max
ing The world safe for peace, as she in
sists
She had evidently just moved into
this studio, and we sat among the de-
bris OF household furniture and talked
over the Russian situation, of which
she has evidently been a deep student.
"Why do you want to go to Russia to
flght?" l asked.
Because" she answered. II shall be
fighting for peace, and ultimate peace
will come through Russia. BY fighting
by the side of those brave women |
shal. be fighting not to make the world
safe for democracy, as it is called, but
to make the world safe for PEACE"
do you think wOman's place is in
the fighting line?" ! asked.
"Why not?" she answered Shall
not women as we'll as men make the
world safe for the children that come
after?"
THAT is just the point, What will
be tba effect CT their children if wo.
men take an aclIve part in war?'
"NoLe," she said. Before and after
bearing children, woman Is capable
of military duty. Women have demon.
strated they can endure physical hard
ships as we'll as men, They are quite
as brave when facing any danger OF the
body or SOUL"
why don't you try to go in some
capacity for American 1 asked.
Because l do not consider America
is helping the coming of peace; to me,
the only way that peace can come is
through Russia"
AS she said this, her great blue eyes
became suffused with tears, but they
did not fall. 1t wa: then l asked her,
how old she was. And she answered.:
"Twenty.oue."
Aren't you rather young to decide
this question for yourself in this way?"
She looked at me in surprise.
THE American army" she said, DIS "
taking many boys Of II; IS and 10,
and they begin to draft them at 81, 1t
has been always said that girl Is
older at that age thana boy. 1t seems
to me that that answers your ques.
tion."
Miss Gifford's childish appearance Is
contradiCted by her brilliant mind. In
her blue linen mildly suit, with its
white linen cellar and cuffs and her
bobbed hair she looked like a high
school girl, But she speaks with the
authority and poise Of "a woman of 30.
She will probably be in the Russian
ranks in October, as she has made all
arraL gemeAts To that end.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
Wet Candidate Wins
Virginia Primary
SUCCESS OF WEsTMoRELAND DA
Wis is BLOW AT THE DRY
FORCES IN THAT STATE.
CRv Associated Pressl

RICHMOND, Aug S.-Returns from
yesterdays Democratic gubernatOrial
primary continue to indicate the nomi-
nation Of Westmoreland Davis, Lou
doun county farmer and lawyer, who
can Independently and in opposition to
J. Taylor Elyson, Democratic organiza-
tion candidate.
Davis is opposed to the prohibition
constitutional amendment and his
chance is regarded as a blow at prohi.
bition forces which made the state dry
last November.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
Princeton Man is
Killed in France
tBy Associated Press)

PARIS, Aug. s. - John Newlin, Of
Whitford, Pa, an American signal
corps member who was seriously
wounded by shell at his post August
8, died in hospital at the front August
fifth.
Newlin who was reporting to the
Paris edition of the New York Herald,
was a member Of section % that left
Paris less than q month ago. He was
a Princeton student and was the sec
ond man in that university to be killed
in service within Q week.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
A Giveaway.

Johnny-Si8, can 1 stay up little
longer? 1 want OF see you and Mr..
Green play cards.
Mr.. Green-But we are not going
to play cards,
Johnny-0h, yes, you are, for 1
heard ma tell sis that everything de-
pended on the way she played her
cards tonight-Boston Transcript.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
INTO THEF FINISH.

WELLINGTON, N. o., Aug. S.-Amid
the greatest enthusiasm the New zea'
land parliament adopted resolution
in favor of Carrying out the war until
Germany has been vanquished."
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
WHEAT PRICES ARE GUARANTEED:
fERT|L|ZERAT GOVERNMENT COST
Demands That
Germans Haze
Peoples Govt
CBy Associated PressJ

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 8.-Phlllipp
schIderemann, Socialist member
of the German reichstag in a
speech delivered at Manneim Bat.
en- before 5000 people demanded
in the interest Of peace the speedy
substitution for the present gov
eminent OF Chancellor MiChaelis,
a government really representing
the will Of the German people.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
THE WEATHER

Probably showers tonIst: and o.
morrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
Waste in Milk Service

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Four wagons deliver milk in the build
ing where live; four wagons come to collect
bottles, and four collectors get the cash week
ly. Why not divide the city into sections and
allow only one dealer to operate in a section
Inspection and regulation could standardze
the milk aud the service so that there would
be no choice or no reason for prefer-ing
one dealer over another.
The present way of distributing milk is 50
crude, unbusnesslike and wasteful that it
ought to bring the blush of shame to the
cheeks of the managers of the various milk
concerns here, and if they haven't the fore
sight and initiative TO get together ard
adopt an economical system, the city ought
to find way to make them do so.
OF course there are objections and OBJ
stacles, but in the public interest they can
all be overcome. +, W. ANDERSON.
New York, Aug. ., 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
Dunkirk, n. Y, Aug. 2, 1917.
Help Wanted for Belgians

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I appeal once more to the generous
American public for the Belgian Red Cross
hospital at La Panne. In spite of the handi-
caps under which they labor, the Belgians
have created, eight miles from the front,
hospital so fine that it is the model for others
Tho great laboratory for diagnosis and re-
search is built with the money raised IN
America by Nine. Marie Depsge prior to her
fatal voyage on the Lusitania. her grave Is
on the dunes near this great ambulance Gre
ated by the genius of her husband, DR.. An
tome Depage.
have lust returned from La Panne and am
filed with admiration for the work done
there. This dangerous location, frequently
bornbarded by enemy aeroplanes, was dellb-
erately chosen to give the most desperately
wounded men the benefit Of fully equipped
hospital at once, without the fatal delays and
atrocious jolting of the hospital trains. They
are brought to the reception pavilion straight
from the trenches. After operation and
dressing they remain there one night and
gain new strength before being even moved
across the road to the wards In consequence
the mortality is very low.
The Belgians have lost their country and
have not the resources that others have. La
Panne needs many things-surgical dressings
rubber equipment, clothing for the evacues,
etc. ! am in constant touch with the hos
pital, and appeal to the friends Of Belgium
for money with which to send them what they
need. All drafts sent me will be promptly
acknowledged. / can give as reference A. b.
Hepburn, vice-president of the Chase National
Bank, New York; George McAneny, former
Borough President Of Manhattan, 10 East
Forty-scventh Street, New York, and Mrs,
Mary Hatch Willard, chairman of the Ma
tonal Surgical Dressings Committee OF
America, 81 West Thirty-ninth Street, New
York. During the last two years, while was
in New York, many friends Of Belgium helped
me TO forward supplies to La Panne. Now
tina. am nearer by three thousand miles,
can act TO better advantage if those who ad-
mire the Belgians, as l do, and cherish the
memory Of Nine. Depage, will continue to
supply me with the necessary money.
MISS MARTHA r. WHITE.
9 Rue Agar, Paris, 10th ART, France, June 26
1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
Dividends for the Red Cross

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | wish to write word of protest re-
garding the practice that is being adopted by
some Of the business corporations Of declar-
ing dividends with the request or suggestion
that the stockholders give up these dividends
in behalf of the Red Cross. Having no per-
sonal interest in the matter, l can write dis
passicnately.
There arc many small stockholders who can
Ill afford to 90 without the little contribution
TO modest income, especially in these times,
and certainly with some Of these the pressure
Of opinion would result in their so doing.
There is a coercion of opinion that is as much
coercion in effect as is that of physical force;
and there is also an embarrassment of re-
fusal, especially in what concerns charity,
that induces consent against judgment or de-
sire.
In such a situation I should prefer TO re-
ceive my dividends, even if l turned them
right over personally TO the Red Cross-and
this not Just for credit. But there is more of
real human enjoyment in giving than in
giving up in order that some one else may
give.
While recognizing the great financial needs
ton is asking for donations to pour in on
rather an extravagant scale. There is al
ways danger, in the handling of enormous
sums of other peoples money, that there will
be carelessness and waste, to say the least.
This is particularly true of the American
temperament and tendency. Even in spend
ing ones own money one is more likely to
waste dollar with fifty in ones pocket than
with only five therein, and the history Of
handling other peoples money is seldom that
Of the dollars value received for the dollar
spent
So / believe that dividends should be de-
clared without suggestion to their dis
posal, and that those interested in contribu-
tions TO the Red Cross should keep to the
usual form of public or personal appeal.
NJ ID. ELIOT.
Eastern Point, Gloucester, Mass, Aug. q,
1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
lreland's Besetting Sin"
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: l cannot help reading with very keen
interest letter written by Charles Noel
Douglas in The Tribune on "Ireland's Be-
setting Sin," which is both disrespectful and
insulting to the Irish race.
We don't have to rack our brains very
much to understand what he means. Per-
haps Charles N. Douglas would like to know
that can give him the names of two per-
sons who put two decanters of TT out Of
sight yesterday in one forenoon Several
others, too, if necessary, and they were not
from the "owld sod" either.
Now, want to draw Charles n. Douglass
attention to another letter written by him
one day last week which in part told of a
Limerick mans trouble in Clare. Having
been a resident of that county for seventeen
years, can give him few facts about such
things as moonlighting and cattle driving.
have seen both, must admit, but only where
the owner was either landgrabber or an
emergency man, and, being considered unde-
sirable in the community was safer as far
away from Glare as he possibly could get.
A CLARE GIRL,
And daughter of Sim Feiner.
Alexandria Bay, n. Y, July %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06

circulation have come to regard an abb
surdly cheap postal rate as one of the
"raw materials" of their industry.
The House is entitled to credit fer rails
ing second class mail rates and for estab-
fishing a zone system of charges, payment
to be proportionate to the length of the
haul. The Senate committee has restored
the second class subsidy and tried to palli-
ate its surrender by imposing a special
discriminatory profits tax on publishers,
whether or not they benefit from the cheap
second class long haul. This is merely
oxcusing one wrong by doing another. We
hope that the Senate will have the courage
to defy the postal subsidists and to restore
the House rates on second class matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-06
Red Cross Arrogance
Fair Play Asked for Independent
Relief Societies

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In his letter Of August l DR.. Morton
Prince has voiced the opinions OF many thou-
sands of patriotic Americans whose interest
should be enlisted In Red Cross activities in
stead of being antagonized by the autocratic,
prussian-like methods which the Red Cross
has very unwisely assumed unto itself.
For the past two years have been a men,
bor If several war relief societies, not any
If them belonging to the Red Cross, for the
simple reason that the Red Cross was doing
absolutely nothing TO relieve the terrible war
condit!ons-at least among the Entente Allles
in the cities in which lived.
At the rebirth of the Red Cross last June
in common with many others | joined that
organization, expecting that harmony and CO.
operation would be the treatment that the
other war relief societies would receive. On
the contrary, the only idea of the Red Cross
upon the subject was to absorb and controi
every other possible patriotic effort.
With famboyant banners and posters they
assume that the only philsnthropic effort be-
ing made for this war-stricken planet worth
considering belongs to the Red oross-iii
face of the fact that for two solid years
when many of these new promoters OF the
Red Cross were appealed to for interest a9a
assistance in carrying out some humane WORK
for Belgium, France, Poland, TIA y or for our
own Americans, who by thousands were serV-
ing on the battle fronts, they showed the
most astonishing indifference
Of the magnificent accomplishments Oh the
National Surgical Dressings Committee can
sneak from personal knowledge and expert
ence Does President Wilson or Mr.. Tart
think for a moment that American human
nature is so akin to that Of the German sol.
dier that Mrs. Willard and the thousands OF
American women who have worked under her
splendid organization are going to submit TO
being ordered to drop all previous assocla-
tons and come under new and-in some
cases-unwise and incompetent leaders, or
else do nothing? Such arrogance on the part
of the Red Cross during these tragic months
ia q great national blunder, when all patriotic
effort, all impulse to give or be OF service
toward the suffering or wounded or dyihg
should be sought, encouraged and coordinated.
Harmony, coordination, cooperation should
be the spirit of the Red Cross-no other
methods will be tolerated. It is an outrage
upon common sense, our American ideals OF
fair play, individual freedom OF cholce' TO
expect submission TO the Red Cross IN us
presen. methods Of dealing with all the other
sevepty-four sister war relief associations.
JUSTICE.
DunLirk " Y Aug e 1917.