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g FINANCE.

Nhe United otaes ,a~.c yesterday Senator LaFOe
! said number of things during speech about the
finances Of the war which will be hailed with delight
By the people whose attention has been caught by the catch
phrase if men must be conscrpted wealth should be, too
He also said some other things in opposition to the pending
program which even earnest and patriotic students Of 6nan
tal problems would not want to take issue with. He was
pn especially firm ground when he contrasted the British
policy which raises much larger percentage Of the money
needed by the government through taxation. The feeling
Is growing England that heavy the tax burden has
been, it grave not to make it heavier from the
tart and pay larger proportion Of the cost Of the war
alt Of current funds.
But even if Senator LaFolletes motives in thus attack
INC the revenue bill were not under suspicion, may be
doubted that he would be able to make much Roadway
with the arguments he used yesterday, logical and well
founded though some Of them are, In providing the
finances for the war Congress has to think Of something
besides the mere financial problem. is all very we'll to
work out even such big undertaking in such way that
twill be given the approval of financial experts authorities
On economics and International bankers but it quite
another thing to make the hundred million people who
compose this nation cheerhLy adopt it, The government
would be powerless in month if did not have the
support the whole people, or what amounts to the whole
people
Doubtless the 6nanciers at Washington are fully aware
Of the lessons from the British experience but they are
ao aware that there feeling in this country that we
attempting to raise too large proportion of the cost of
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cepting the situation in a spirit Of pa.
triotism. Without protest the grain eS'
changes Of the country are co-operat.
ing with the government in its efforts
TO conserve food supplies and regulate
prices. This month they will cease to
deal in contracts for future delivery.
Steel makers, copper producers and
shIpDuilders have virtually surrender.
ed their interests to the government.
The shrinkage in dealings and the
trend Of prices on the stock exchange
reflect the growing belief in financial
circles that in modifying the countrys
resources against the enemy all
thought of profits on the scale witness.
ed last year before this country be.
came belligerent must be secondary.
All the Allies freely concede the i'm.
portance Of our participation in the
war. The sooner we can throw our full
weight of men, money and materials
into the balance, the sooner the con.
flict will be ended and peace restored.
Sacrifice OF a years profits would be
as nothing compared with the sacrifice
involved If the war should last three
years longer Therefore less and less
opposition will be encountered in the
movement 10 nationalize our industries
for the period of the war as the neces.
sity for such movement becomes more
fully appreciated.
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Editorial Comment
on Current Subjects
NArloNALIzINe INDUSTRY.
nm tbe pittsbureh Gazette.Times.

From the Pittsburgh Gazette'Ilmes'
Another important step in the nation
alization of industry will be taken THIS
week when the government announces
its policy for the regulation OF the coal
trade, The tentative agreement reach
ed some weeks ago with the opera
tors has not worked satisfactorily. AS
we pointed out last week, something
more than mere price.fixing Ia neces'
sary to stimulate output, which Is the
all.important consideration at the pres
ent time. The coke market may be
cited as an ILLUSTRATION. For spot de-
livery SIS to SIG ton is being paid
for furnace coke, and $40 is. quoted on
contract supplies. These prices COM
pare with SLIT a ton, the average OF
1914, and with $261, the average for
1912, the year of the pre'war boom IN
the steel trade. Despite the current
abnormal price and the improvement
in the car supply, 1t was estimated that
labor supply in the Connellsville re-
gion last week was less than 50 per
cent Of normal. The solution Of the
situation is the adoption of a plan that
will increase output, and this problem
has been under consideration by the
authorities at Washington, with the
assistance of operators and econom-
lists. Without doubt supply has been
curtailed by the uncertainty which has
existed as to the methods TO be adopted
by the government. Operators could
not feel safe in meeting the demands
of miners for increased wages as long
as they did not know what basis would
be enforced governing costs and this
stood In the way Of nego'
tiating new contracts. 1t has been
demonstrated in the case Of the coke
market that something more than the
price factor is involved in supply to
demand
Evidence 10 increasing that the bust |
less interests Of the country are &C.
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A 1s wreck
EFon ;Isss Years Suffering. 81.
cSYi Made Her WEI

Texas City, Tex.-In an interesting
statement, Mrs. G. H. Sci1ill, Of thistoWn,
says "For three years | sutieted untold
agony with my head. ! was unable "a
do any Of my work. d
/ just wanted 10 sleep all the time, { {,
thatTas the only ease / could get, when
was asleep. Ibecame nervous wreck
Just frem the awful suffering with my
head.
Twas so nervous that the least hoise
would make me jump out Of my bed. !
had no energy, and was unable 10 do
anything, My son, young boy, had to
do all my household duties.
Twas not able 10 do anything until |
took cardui. / took three bottles IN al,
and II surely cured me Of those awful
headaches. That has been three yeara
ago, and | know the cure is permanent,
for have never had any headache since
taking crdui. ..
Nothing relieved me until took carduI.
It did wonders for me-"
Try cardui for your troubles-made
from medicinal ingredients recommended
in medical books as being Of beneEitin
female troubles, and 20 yeaFs. Of use has
proven that the books are right. Begin
taking cadui today. Nc-l&
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Law is being discussed at Georgetown
and who knows but The Bacon
Shakespeare controversy will be
taken up in some other rural retreat
and settled in manner that will sat.
isfy both the friends OF Bacon and
the admirers Of Shakespeare?
The movements GS the tax.levying
boards indicate that the taxpayers
will be compelled to dive deper than
ever this year and yet "laS -alorm"
was the dream and delusiOn of the
pompus politician a few years since,
II all promised reforms were trans
crIbed on paper the number o. violat'
ed pledges-mere scraps Of paper
would reach gigantic proportions.
The advance IL the oil market
caused some comment. The probable
advance in the prices of gasoline will
induce a greater volume Of converse
ton.
Katydids are prophesying frost in
six week and confirmed ontimists are
predicting the fall Ct the German en-
pire at about the same time.
School teachers have made their To-
cations for the coming terms. Let US
hope the pupils feel as sure of their
benefits as the teachers do OF their
salaries. Soon the teachers will re-
celve instructions on How to deliver
SIS worth Of menal improvement per
month";" payment guaranteed. The
instructor shall have his reward also,
Some folks keep the wolf from the
door by saving while others by talking
That both classes succeed is not re.
markable. However. 1t must remain
for future and wiser generations 10
determine how editorial writer's and
country scribblers manage to keep
that animal from their premises.
Excuses for our own acts are always
numerous and sometimes good. For
instance, the man who was fined $40
for assaulting an acquaintance said
he considered it a bargain as the
plaintiff was always Dragging Of his
ancestors and never did days work
in his life.
After all, It must be admitted that
many of us are fortunate and fail to
realize 1t. We resemble the French
man who resided at Bayonne, New
Jersey. He asked for ticket to his
former home. When asked where that
was he replied, "verdun."
S. c. MUSGAVE.
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Gu VA y AZ ion ash IS Ithasalways beenh praciicg
il country 10 support wan viii borrowed money. Men.
ask Why this cannot Be done now - that business and lhs
country q whole instead Of being taxed to death VIII have
the stimulation Of generous profits Il IS hard to explain
that feeling away There not the time. for one thing
So the policy that has been adopted apparently to raise
as much money by taxation as was thought possible to
without creating serious divisions among the people over
the financial policy Of The war and trust that if the war lasts
so long that NO or even three tax bills have be passed
the public will understand the problem better when those
times come
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MOTHER argument for opening the proposed mu-
"A ncpal market right away and giving it thorough
going practical test is that if it builds up gradually
ID a natural wa it is much more likely to become part
Of the scheme of life Faimon than if lot Of farmers
and lot Of consumers arc pledged more less against
heir will 10 go into it.
ANY attempt to force this issue runs the danger of start
ing with the wrong people on both sides. As has been
said nany times before the amount of public money that
would be spent upon would not be large So why not
open the market and seewhat develop7 If doesn't grow
upon its own merits there will be plenty of time between
his and early summer Of next year to try to force it,
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fronts the Allies are not giving the
Central powers much leisure to think
about the pO0e's peace plans.
One by one the Fairmont delln.
quentB are being heard nom.
1t begins to look as II the city would
end with q record It can well be
proud Of.
Uncle Sam goes to war with The
hook worm"-Headline.
But even the hook worm had To
strike the first blow.
II the pickIngs this winter are 60.
Ing to be as slim inside the iron ring
as there is reason TO suspect they will
be the Thousands Of prisoners the
British, French and Italians have
taken this week are in rare luck.
Judging by the statement at police
eadquarters the day Of the dog that
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government,

Coal prices are fixed, with the eye to making the con-
sumer feel entirely satisfied matter how hard the
producer is hit, apparently but the price the public
must pay for steel, "copper" leaher-and cotton can go
on soaring till the that jumped over the moon is
left behind The explanation for this situation that
these commodities especially cotton had enough friends
Congress tOget them taken out of the BILL Coal which
one of the most important industries this country has
had 40 organization to take Of and every one
knows the result. We have begun this price control
business but we have begun it badly We should either
go the whole length abandon it entirely AS it
stands 1t is an outrage
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REASSURINc.

may found paraduxical but is fact that the an
nouncement that hook worm infection has been found
in recruits for The American armies is Of the most
reassung incidents connection with the assembling of the
military forces of the nation Hook worm itself is bad
enough but most of the time it rather obscure afcton
of the human race and the fact that the public health ser
vice promptly spotted when it tuned up among the leyies
Is proof that we have improved whole lot since this Re
public wS last at war
Since he Spanish war, IN which there was amount
Of typhoid and other sntee ailments large that it was
a national disgrace, American sanitananS cleaned up
Cuba and the Ishmus Of Panama and the japanese fought
their war with Russia and set new standards for army med
zeal service The world seems to have learned The lessons
taught in these three great undertakings very WELL Out.
side of Serbia after the collapse Of that county, and Of
course in the lands inside the Turkish empire there have
been no great epidemics during the three years of war;
Aside from wounds and their direct effects the greatest
mortality among the armies have been in the French ranks
from tuberculosis and it is reported that they even
getting that under CONTROL Disease longer the great
est foe commanders Of armies have to contend with
But because the medical side has always been the weak
est spot Of the military establishment of this country there
was doubt about how that department would function
with all the experience which has been piled up in the
past 10 years to draw upon. The great training camps
which are being erected all over the country when they
are completed and all occupied with soldiers will constitute
he greatest mobilization ever undertaken on hi, side Of
the Atlantic. There was nothing even during the Civil
war to eq them in the speed Of the concentration or tie
hugenes Of the camps Under our old standards the sick
ness, and even the death record would have been high
from the start But apparently the medical service is up
on its toes. Nothing going to get by to find Judgment
in the big camps. A healthy army to be the rule
That means that no matter how the actual lighting
the American forces are subjected there will be large
proportion Of the men to return There will be useless
deaths That ought to- and doubtless will prove comfort
ing to many mothers with sons in the service
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Mo1ongsh yestefdsy evening tor .
short While
i. IerS6ti, 81 Pittahureh. vaa N
MonohsAh yesterday evening asa busi'
ness tfAnSaetoF.
Herthel smith & among the local
callers that are IN Warrington today
taking the physical examination for
the draft army.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Gaskill and daugh'
tiers and Miss Anne Kenney, Of Fair.
mont, motored 10 Monongah yesterday
evening where they were calling on
friends,
Dick Talbot is among the local call
ers in Warrington today.
Dr.. Peter Noe, Jr., physician in
charge Of the Traction Park hospital,
was In Monongah for q short while
yesterday evening.
HerShel Hatfield, who has been
working at Wyatt for the past several
days, has returned to Monongah.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Charles Leiying we're
in Fairmont yesterday afternoon visit
ing friends.
]. Lee James was among the out of
town callers in Fairmont yesterday.
Homer Morris, Of near Monongah,
was in town yesterday afternoon en-
route to Fairmont to attend to busi-
ness.
Virgil Koon and father, George
Koon, Of near Monongah, motored to
Fairmont yesterday In the latter's
Packard.
Mrs. Lee N. sattsrield, who has
been camping at Valley Falls for the
past several weeks, was in Monongah
yesterday evening.
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MOnOngaHa Musings

This county's affairs are moving
along in a normal manner. Blackber.
ries have been captured nnd most Of
the meadows have surrendered their
prizes. Roasting ears are Oeing
swallowed up in victory and ere long
the potatoes will b. compelled to
surrender 70 tire hungry Americans.
The lecture at Lynch Chapel Fri
daylight was one Of Rev. Kings hest
efforts and It is a matter Of much
regret that such Intellectual treats
are So few and far bstwsen in rural
regions.
The constitationa.ity Of the Draft
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Governor Cornwell speaking to gathering Of bust
ness in Wheeling yesterday urged them to be pa
tent with public officials Now patience is most adj
mirable quality, but it can be overworked. public
that is patient with officials who never do their duty
merely makes trouble for itself The kind of patience
many inefficient and fabby public officials hope for is
the kind enoned in the sign which hung the piano
in a western dance hal-"Don't shoot the professor;
he is doing his damdes Who the public gets that
can agree with sentiments like that any government
will suit it and it invariably winds up with getting no
government
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RUFF STUFF

Come again, A Friend.
And bring the whole darned Friend
you are the kind of folks the Red
Cfots wants 70 get acquainted with.
Great Head.
e WaS the intention to ship it from
pitItburgh on the Valley Gem, but be.
eaute o. q fear that it would be de.
AVA i was taken from the boat and
ihipped on the Baltimore and Ohio"
And now it is certain to be delay.
Judging by the reports from all the
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from EroWnYille Monday nn
returned u to-day
Hugh Ban Of Guffey street has
been indisposed for a coupls 81
dayL
Mrs. A. 3. Stealey who has baen
suffering severely foN several days
with large carbunole on her neck
is much better
Mrs. Ora Doolittle Of Morgantown
avenue is a patient at Cooks HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Enos Parks is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Homer Hall at Camp Alta
wa for a few days.
Master Edmund Kenny who spent
the past week there returned home
today.
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Unless President Wilson acts with promptness that
is not at all characteristic with his administration his
scheme for coal price control will go to smash
panied by the curses of the He begins with
the wrong end in his price fixing and with the wrong
kind of coal Anthracite, which is the coal used for
household consumption over large area in the east
and is the only kind Of coal that be used for this
purpose in big cities like New York and Boston will be
advanced in price on the first of September although
it already outrageouSy high compared with the
figures for btuminous. Yet nothing at all has been
done about 1t. For extortionae prices in all kinds Of
coal last winter the mddemen and retailers we're to
blame But having fixed s:-themine price, which
apparently does take into consideration any of the
increases in the cost Of mining, the control of middle
men and retailers is left untouched 1t is to be 1.-The
next STEP By the time that next step is taken the real
culpris of the coal conspiracy in all probability will be
able to protect themselves completely as did the
whiskey men. Beyond doubt Mr. Wilson. has begun
the regulation of the coal trade in bungng manner
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Personals,

Miss Myrtle Powell Of Rosemont is
visiting Mrs. Meta Hammers in Col
umbia street.
Rev. Y. J. Turkelson Of clarksburg
was here for a few hours yesterday
while en- route to Morgantown to at
tend conference.
Mrs. Joseph has returned from
Grassy Run where she visited at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrse. Lee Vincent,
Kermis Goodnight motored here
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The Federal Trade commission yesterday solemnly
declare that the advance in the price of book paper
last year was excessive and unwarranted. It said as
much about the prices of news print six eight months
ago, bu: that has made no apprecable difference in
market conditions. What the Trade commission ought
to do is to investigate itself and see If cannot discover
way to get action.
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False Alarm.

Much excitement occurred In front
Of the police station yesterday after
noon when apparently gun was fired
and after Investigation learned that
the report was from a bursted tire on
a Ford standing in front Of the police
station belonging to DR.. ]. A. Riedy.
Personals.
H, Hustead, Of Fairmont, was in
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MONONGAH
vIsitino Here,

Mrs. Fred Shaver is in town visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Leiving and 9TH
err relatives Mrs. Shaver and family
have taken up residence in Letart, W.
Va. After a several days visit in Mo-
nOngah she will return to her home in
that town.
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\ BUYS Eorm.a.Truck.

C. SalNati and Max Bear have recent
" purchased a new Smith form-a-
truck, which will be used to haul coal
to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
from their new mines at Shinnston,
The fine truck was delivered at Mo.
nongah yesterday. The truck was yes.
terday evening loaded with crowd OF
jOymakers and the engine tested over
a few of the most typical West Vir.
glnia hills.
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EAST SIDE
- NEWS =
ooInn 10 AtInntln az.

Mr.. and Mrs. Garry Robinson and
daughter Miss Mildred leave tomor-
row evening for a couple Of weeks
stay at Atlantic City.
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From Cleveland.

Miss Winnie Bunner, daughter Of
Wager Bunner Of Burners Ridge who
has been IN Cleveland, o., the past
two years is visiting friends and re.
latives IN the city.
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To VIsIt Miss Berry.

Miss Mary Gilhart has gone to
Culpepper, Va, to visit Miss Barba.
ra Berry,
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gets caught without tag is short.
Profits from running a taxicab must
be large II that driver who has been
arrested and fined six times in two
months iS still ahead Of the game,
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IE YOU DON'T GET YOUR PAPER GALL
aWEsTERN uNIoN.n

Subscribers on our carrier routes failing TO get
The West Virginian any evening should call YVES.
TERN UNION" state the fact and give name and
residence and q messenger will deliver a paper to
your door ct once, There 10 no charge 70 the sub
OCEiboE for this service The West Virgtnian plans
% render to It's subscribers the best newspaper de-
livery service possible and this is part Of the plan
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-10-01

duced i2.7O7 pounds Of milk and i27i
pounds Of butterfat and returned a
profit Of si9i.ii, but this cow is among
the best and largest producers In the
association, and TO show the difference
between profitable and Improbable
cows the association had one that pro-
duced only li3i pounds OF milk and
1871 pounds Of butterfat, returning a
profit, after feed cost Of only S393i.
There are among the extremes Of the
association. but stlll there is room for
improvement. There isn't hardly one
farmer out of ten outside OF COW test
ing association members that know Just
what profit or less their diaries are
showing. and, more than that. Just
which ones that are giving the best re-
turns for the year. 10 isn't always the
cow that gives the bucket full FOR some
time and gradually goes down 10 a few
quarts a day until she is dry that Is
profitable, but II may be one that
doesn't start out with such a large
quantity. but plugs along moro evenly
through her lactation period that makes
the largest profits for the year. These
things are an determined I'm the asso-
citation work, by which members get