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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-08
n. A. GARFIELD,

United States Fuel Administrator.
Copies Of it were sent out from tn,
local office o ithe Fuel Administra
ton with the following letter from
pan r. Lawson, the district represen
.atiye:
All Concerned: Your attention
Is directed 10 the circular enclOs.
ed. signed BY Or. Garfield, relative
to the payment Of bonuses to any
labor employed In and about the
mine.
This phase OF the question Is as
suming serious proportions in this
district and all shippers are ear
nestly requested TO furnish this
office Immediately with any infor-
nation they have relative to pay
ment OF bonuses by any mine in
this region. This practice must
be stopped Immediately or the Ia
Dor will become badly demOraliZ-
ed. and all shippers are warned
that in tho event conclusive evil
dence of the fact that they are
not following the spirit OF the
agreement will prompt this office
to report the matter Immediately
to Washington and action as out
lined by DR.. Garfield will be Ia
ken Immediately.
Very truly yours,
L. s. FUEL ADMINISTRATION.
D. r. Lawson, District Represen.
tative.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-08

PARIS, Aug. s.-The allied attack
on the AlbertMontdidler front today
apparently was unexpected by the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-08

Rlgot % Way-A right Of way was
flled yesterday afternoon at the office
of the county clerk by the South Penn
on company from Harriet Eakin. 1t
d for q tract Of 70 acres.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-08

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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
SEND YOUR TRAN NSPORTS, ;
W|LSO REPLYTO GEORGE
British Premier Says Plea for 120,-
900 Troops Brought Terse
Call for Boats.

Leeds, England, Dec. 9.-'I shall
never forget that morning when ! sent
n cable message to President Wilson,
telling him what the facts were and how
essential it was that we should get
American help at the spccdicst possible
rate, and inviting him TO send 100000
infantry and machine gunncrs to Europe,
said Premier Lloyd George in the course
of speech to 5000 persons here.
"The following day continued the
premier, there came n cablegram from
President Wilson, Send your ships
across and we will send the 100000
men
"1hcn | invited Sir Joseph Mckay,
the shipping controller, to Downing
street and said, Send every ship YOU
can They were all engaged IN essen
tial trades, because we were cut down
right to the bone There was nothing
that was not essential We said: This
is the time for taking risks.
I'VE ran risks with our food and we
ran risks with essential raw matcri-
ais We said; The thing to DO is to get
these men across at all hazard
America sent 100000 mon across,
and out Of that number 10000 were
carried by the British mercantile ma
rlnc The good old ships of Britain have
saved the liberty of the world many
times They saved it in the days of Qucen
Elizabeth; saved it in the days of Louis
NV; saved il in the days 81 Napoleon
and have saved it in the days Of Kaiser
Wilhelm II,
1T Is q change from December. 1916.
. change from the days when, at the
end Of the wear, we made our balance
sheet and found Germany had acquired
more allied territory than she had hc-
fore; that n new ally had fallen. and
that another ally was tottcring to the
fall and that Germany was advancing
ruthlessly along from conquest % con
quest
THAT was the story up to the end Of
December 1916. What i the story to-
day2 Every German submarine IS III
British port today The best battle
ships and cruisers and torpedo boats
Of Germany arc now. with lowered
flags. under the surveillance of British
seamen in British harbors
And the British army which has
fought 50 gallantly which has fought
with a heroiSm which the world has
never matched that army after months
Of fighting and II sUtf cring is today, at
this hour, marching across the Rhine
into Germany and into one Of the most
famous cities Of Germany
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
GOOD WAGES AND GOOD
HEALT co TOGETHER
Federal Vocational Director Finds
Well Paid Workers Produce
the Best Output.

Chicago, Dec. Good wages generally
mean good health according to Arthur +.
Holder, member OF the Federal Board for
Vocational Education The higher the
wage the better would be the health of
the employe and the greater his output,
he told the American Public Health Asso-
citation today in an address in which he
advocated an eight-hour day and in
creased wages.
Mr.. Holder proposed that the Federal
health agencies be concentrated into one
department, with a secretary Mt its hand
and that the secretary should be a mem
Der of the Presidents cabinet
Panics, said Mr. Holder, were brought
about more by inequitable distribution Of
wealth than by any other cause. He
quoted statistics TO show that in 1850 the
wage Garner obtained 23I cents Of every
dollars worth of value he created, but
that IN 1910 he got only 1612 cents. He
added.
sFormcrlv when the laborer got %
cents in wages foreach dollar Of his pro l.
uct. panica occurred about once in 20
years, as witness 1897, 1857, 1877 Since
real wages shrank TO i6 cents on the dol
lar, panics roll around more frequently as
the record shows 1884, 1894, 1907, 1914
Nothing influences our individual
health more than severe changes in our
economic life. During busy periods, work
ers arc literally rushed TO death During
panicky periods, the workers and en-
ployers spend large part Of their energy
frctting their lives away
Since the union cigarmakcrs adopted
the elght-hollr day in 1886, from II to -
years have been added to the average life
of the cigarmakers, he added Similar
experiences have been recorded by other
organized wage earncrs The workers
realize that health il their capital To
keep health or improve health means IN
creased power TO produce
The speaker then gave labor pro-
gram for health and safety which IN
cluded the following provisions:
Continued agitation for q shorter
work day TO a maximum of eight hours for
all manual toilers demand for a higher
minimum wage for all labor release from
work at least ono full day in seven.
elimination 81 the sweat-shop system. en-
foreoment Of Fgid child labor laws; aboli-
tlon Of night work by women and minors
equal pay for equal work regardless of
q
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
GUNMEN'S SPECIAL
IS BANG UP TRAIN
Chester Munition Crowd Hits 4.3O
Pennsy Express Like Race Riot
or Kansas Cyclone.

Eh-e-e-vow-w- Attaboy! Les gol
Yipp-ipp-p-vi-a-ahl Bangl Crack!
Zowie-yip-y lp-ylppy-Crash! /! wow
ow-ow-ow-w-w-w-w!
No. gentle reader, this is not "a quiet
day on Henry Ford's peace ship, nor
General Pershings commanches going
over the top" Neither Is it a Georgia race
riot nor Colorado coal strike. 1t Is
merely the embarking of the usual daily
crew at Chester on "The Gunmen's
Special" that is, the 4.30 northbound
PENNSYLVANIA express from Wilmington.
With the orderly procedure of STAN
pede of Texas Longhorns they come.
With the gentle consideration of a mining
camp lynching party and the breezy
good humor of a Kansas cyclone, the
''treat-em-rough-boys' fall on the quak-
ing awe struck cars.
With playful eagerness they storm the
doors six abreast. With merry laughter
they kick each other in the ''slats, pun
mel one another on the head, and gougc
and slug and sqlirm their way into the
cars With what joyous abandon they
race down the aisieS, sliding half their
length like Billy Watson" of the Broad
way Queens" How merrily they call out
their greetings, and what scintillating
''Cumon Pineapple, whattelyehdoin-
backthcrevchbigstiffi Soak i'm, Slim,
ychgottherefrst. Observation-Disclosures
nv Eyer liari What tell jeh think
We are?" ''Wow-ow-ow-w-w Yeah
ah-ah-h-h-hf' Smash" 'Zipl Boom
crack rip-p-p-p!'
Through the smoke of battle and of evil
"odored" pipes and cigarettes, into the
dim, long passage that smacks Of Paris
Commanche's retreat, or the menaclng,
bedruggcd gloom of a Chinatown dope
den, there pcnetrates, bclatedly, voice Of
soft and pleasing cadence, a gentle, so0th-
ing, consciliatory note, whispering family
through the din.
Gentlemen, gentlemen Please; | beg
IF YOU. do not smoke in herel This is a
ladies' coach, gentlemen. / ask you nice;
ask you pretty; please do not smok r
Bless is cart. It's the railroad cop"
"Hats off In church, boys, shrllls
high falsetto "Now don't YOU kid me.
Percy" sings another. "Cumon, light up,
he's gone" Say whydonjeh buy a
cigarette sumtine?" Lego myear I'll
bcatvehtehdeath, you--' sd :?
Frighted forms shrink and cover in
their seats as the hordes of invaders of the
conquered territory surge back and forth
leaving ruin and desolation and black dis
pair in their wake. Oh, tender women
caught in the quick rush OF this foul food
What messages to paralyzc the soul will
YOU not send hack to waiting husbands
and fathers and lovcrsl
Caught by the Munition Army. All
is lost, lost, lost.
Good bye, darling. better that you
should think me dead
Farewell, father. I've been held IN
hellish bondage been trapped on
The Gunmcn's Special "
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR JUBILEE.
Great Peace Celebration TO be Held in
philadelphia in September Next Year.

An international peace jubilee cele-
bration, held at Philadelphia in Septem-
ber, 1919, will be the tribute of the Knights
Tcmplar of the United States to every
man-and woman, too-of the country,
called to the colors during the world war
and who materially helped in bringing
peace and liberty to the oppressed peoples
of the old world
Hardly had the news been received Mt
Washington, on the morning of Noven-
Der II, that the peace arTnistice had been
signed when the Knights Templar in all
parts of the United States began To send
kilograms to DR. A. Howard Thomas
chairman of the Philadelphia committee,
which had been appointed nearly three
years ago to arrange for the thirty-fourth
tricnnial conclave of the Grand Encamp-
ment, inquiring whether the original
plans of the committee, to make it a
monster peace jubilee celebration, were
to be carried out.
Within a week of the signing of the
peace terms, Chairman Thomas was in
touch with NJ f. Sir Lee Stewart Smith,
grand master of the Grand Encampment,
knights Templar of the United States;
the officers Of the Grand Encampnent,
subordinate grand commanderies, repre-
St1biIN tt Oi the TO pidttS III tHt iillbfls
and with the members of the Phiadel-
phia committee, and the consensus of
opinion was that no effort should be
spared to make the 1919 triennial dem
onstrations the outspoken tribute Of
every Knight Tcmplar in the world in
honor-not only of the thousands of
Knights Templar who offered their lives
upon the battlehelds or upon the seas
h1Jt in honor of every ono who urorn thn
uniform of soldier or sailor. no matter
what might be his creed or his color. or
whether he was affiliated with Masonry
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
PRIVATE R. S. DARE
IN BOMB HOSPITAL
Wilmington Soldier Had Thrilling
Experience IN France, Causing
Loss of a Leg.

Private Robert 5. Dare. Of 4O6 Poplar
street, Just recovered his health, after the
loss Of one OF his legs, while serving In
France.
Dare is 26 wears old. Before the wa. he
was EMPLOYED as machinist at the Baker
machine works, II Wilmington. He enter
ed the service on March 4, as a private IN
the Medical Corps attached to Red Cross
Hospital No 107. He went to Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Georgia, and later to Allentown,
Pa, 10 finish his instruction. On May 10,
he sailed for France. Landing safely, he
was Immediately put to work n one of the
hospitals He was on the dav-shift,
assisting DR. Mccoy, the noted New
Thierry fighting occurred. On July Is
800 wounded were brought IN, and. of
course, all the hospital assistants were
working overtime Private Dare had just
finished an operation, when the Germans
started bombing the hospital They were
beaten of, but returned later. Just as
Private Dare was returning 10 work, after
having rested He was with two Others,
when d bomb struck FIVE feet from him.
instantly killing the others, and crushing
ms knee-Ioint. Being unable 10 arse, he
tied the wound up with his belt, TO alav
the escape Of blood, and lay there until
assistance came. 1T was found later that
if he had remained lying IN bed, he would
have been instantly killed; there was a
shrapnel hole foot wide IN the centre of
the bed He was kept in the hospital
where he had been serving, and his leg
arnputated later he was sent 10 an
other French hospital When his health
warranted, ne was sent home.
He landed In New York on the 29th
of September, and was taken 10 the
Walter Reed Hospital in Washington He
remained there until November 5, when
he received the 80 days, furiough, which
has Just expired.
He himself cabled that he had been
hurt, but that he would recover. He SAID
nothing about the loss Of his leg. He pre-
ferred carrying the news II person, when
he could let his parents see him perfectly
healthy. The news leaked out before
though, through mutual friends Mr.. and
Mrs. Dare feel that their son was, on the |
whole, very fortunate
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
HUN ARMY UKBEATEN;;
GERMANS STILL BOAST
Allies, Not Victors Through Fight
ing, General Einem Tells
Rhinelanders.

Amsterdam. Dec q-The mental atti-
tude IS evidently still widely prevalent in
Germany which persists j n regarding the
! German Army as unbeateu or at least
as vanQJnshed victors as a popular
paradOMcal German designation has 1t
Is exeInplIhed in the farewell proclamation
to the inhabitants Of the RlunelAnd issued
by General Won kInern IN evacuating the
RHINE provinces In this message. as
quoted in 3 Cohlenz dispatch to the Dus-
seldorf Nachdichten, General Won Einem
said
You desired 10 see the victorious army
which protected the fatherland for four
and one-half years against all It's enemies.
You wished TO see for yourselves whether
cur strength was broken and whether we
renamed true sons of German sires The
glorious reception given Us the display
OF flags the greeting extended are the
best evidence that Won are satisfied with
US and that We have not disappointed
yOuI expectations
We are proud Of this, and We thank
you Although unfort natc circumstances
brought the enemy into the land he is not
the victor IN battle Our hearts remain
true to you. and you belong To US. Re
man proud and German Remember the
good repute and honor Of the fatherland
AT Cologne and otner places tremen-
dous farewell receptions were gwen to
the departing troops, according 10 the
local newspapers, at which their "glO-
nous achievements" were recalled and
"DnotSchland uDer Allies sung. The
soldiers were smothercd with flowers and
gifts while the officers expressed TO the
peo pie the nope that they would meet
aga ~ soon.
Alx-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia, Dee. 9.
ms large Germany city Is not enthusi-
astic over the proposition Of occupationby
the Allies. The yoke Of martial law seem
lngly has CALLED the people and there have
been many signs Of fretfulncss
he pOpulace was shocked beyond
measure when the Belgians flst entered
the city and promulgated the ir0uclad
rule that civilians should leave the side
walks and uncover when Belgian officers
approached and that hostages should be
gwen Their dignity was 50 hurt that
they protested to the International Arrnis-
tice Commission
Learning from the commission that the
rules were exactly the same IS those Of
the Germans at the time Of the occupation
oi Brussels the people received an add- |
tional shock They consolcd themselves.
however, with the argument that the |
Belgians had brought the rules down upon |
themselves by firing upon the German
troops, whle Aix-la-Chapcllc never injured |
the Belgans.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
COMMUNITY CHORUS.
Director Barnhart Desires a Leave Of
Absence for Several Weeks.

If the executive committee in charge of
the local Community Sings acts favorably
upon suggestion made by Harry Barn
hart, director, Wilmington will be with
out its popular indoor song festivals for a
while this winter, or at least without the
services of Mr. Barnhart.
The directors request is that he be ex-
cused from service in Wilmington for at
least six weeks, to permit him to organize
chorus of 25 voices and band of 40
pieces, with which he wants to make a
tour of the principal cities OF the country
Whether the local sings would be con-
tinued by some other director during Mr..
Barnhart's absence has not been de-
termined. The question will be discussed
by the committee with Mr.. Barnhart to-
morrow
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
NEGRO SHOT IN CHASE.
Policeman Puts Bullet in Leg Of Sup
posed Chicken Thief.

After being shot in The leQ bv Police
man Johnson, during a chase IN which
the policeman emp'ied his revolver
after the fugitive. Walter !. Priqg. n
Negro, was locked up at the City Hall
police station, charged with the theft
Of chicken
Prigg, it is suspected. stole a prize
Leghorn chicken Saturday night nom
the estate OF John lle Carpenter, Penn
sylvania avenue and du Pont street
where he was employed as a gardener
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
PROTECTED BIRDS.
List of Those Which il is Unlawful 10
KILL

The Federal migratory bird treaty act
regulations prohibit through the United
States. the killing at any time Of the fol-
lowing birds.
Band-tailcd pigeon, common ground
doves and sealed doves, little brown. sand
bill and whooping cranes. wood duck,
swans; curlews, wilIet upland plovcr and
all shore birds Except the black-hellicd
and golden powers. Wilson snipe or jack
snipc. woodcock and the greater and lesser
yellowlcgs1; 3; bobolinks, cathirds. cbicadees,
cuckoos. fickers. fly-catchcrs, grossbeaks,
humminG birds. klnglets, martins. meadow
larks. nighthawks or b,Ilbats. nuthatchcs
orioles. robins. shrlkes. swallows, swifts,
tanagers. tItmlee. thrushes, vircos, warb-
lers. waxwlngs. whip poor-wllls, wood
pecl<ers and wrens. and all other pcrchlng
birds which feed entirely or chiefly on m
sects: and also auks, auklets, bittcrns,
lulmars, ganncts, grehes. gtllllemots, gull
horons, iaegcrs. looms. murrers, petrels,
pufhns, sheawaters and terms
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
Frankford Officer WEEDS.

in attractive military wedding of
interest to Delawareans was s0lemnzed
last Saturday in Philadelphia, when Miss
Elisabeth 6 McCalley, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Joseph O McCalley, Of No 34l4
North Twenty-sccond street. became the
bride of lieutenant Harry - Huxford.
II Frankford, DeI
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
DIR. MunhaII al Wesley Church.

Or j. w Munhal Of Philadelphia
preached OF Wesley Methodist Episcopal
Church yesterday morning on the Power
oi jesus Christ" and Rev u W. Wells
pastor Of the church, preached in the
evening, taking as his text, lord is it :"
Three conyersi ons followed the service
N the evening Revival services will
continue all week under tho direction Of
the pastor
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
MILLIONS USE 1T
TO STOP A COLD
"Pape's Cold Compound Ends
Severe Colds or Grippe in
Few Hours.
Relief comes instantly

IN7IFI tVHIEo WsLaULIV-
dose taken every two hours until
three doses are taken will end grippe
misery and break up a severe cold either
IN the head chest, body Or limbs.
II promptly opens clogged-up nostrlls
and arr passages in the head, stops nasty
dIscharge or nose running, relieves sick
headache, duliness, fcverishncss, sore
throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness
Don't stay stuffed-upl Quit blowing
and snuffling! Ease your throbbing head
Nothing else in the world gives such
prompt relief as 'Pape's Cold Compound. n
which costs only few cents at any drug
store. II acts without assistance, tastes
nice, causes no inconyc ycniencc BE sure
you get the genuine.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09

made of May apple aoes and ap
Tins will excite efficient bowel action At
from backacfe irritation of the bladder and
calls at
water brick dust deposit perhaps headache morning.
should obtain at the drug simple tablet
ACID and the toxic pons from the This called
tantiur1c) first by DR. Pierce
bladder and Kidneys it exIes these persons
To build the strength and
influenza there fewer of the white blood
blood corpusleske Ito in
tablets at sbres) herbal
served the greatest usefulness for the years namely,
f1erces Golden Medical Discovery, made wild
without alcohol, and sold in tablet or liquid form
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
The Products of 40 Famous
American Clothes Makers

including all the renowned nationally
you heard oa under roof think of
nlhcent variety this meansand then remember that Kosh
land method OF dealing the models
OF all these famous offers you clothes
at Just about half their regular prices Do you
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09

"How do you suppose the Kaiser
gets by with those weird explanations
OF defeat be makes to his people?.
That's easy He knows that the
Germans have no sense Of hunor 49,
Detroit Free Press.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09

lf Workmen and Soldiers arrest Hinden-
burg. hc might prove an alibi BIZ quoting
the Crown Prince, that the general was
only hgurchead but shooting Is swift
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
Visitors.

Knicker Why are your wife'g folks
coming to visit you?
Booker They think | want 10 have their
personal counsel.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09

New World will now include both bemis-
pberes, as IL should
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
After Influenza-W What Then?

After this Spanish influenza has suep.
the country almost ike the black death
did in Europe IN the Fourteenth Cen
uuy, after the storm has passed, we ara
confronted by the wrecks of men and
women who have been left IN
weakened condition, with paie faces and
feelings Of general Iasatode and weak
ness 1t IS fact to be b0ne N unnd
that the effort OF the part of nature To
throw off the poisons during the attack
of Spanish influenza results sometimes In
nephritis, or Inflammation of the kidneys.
In v1sw of the seriouEeB of thp dis
ease as = result of toxeniA, it most
essential that treatment be directed to
wards prompt elimination of the toxins
(poLsoxfsl from the body. This rresrsthat
the excretory organs the bowels, siCn
and kidneys sboosd be excited 10 their
best efforts to throw oif the pursuIss
Send TO the drug store and get castor oti.
or a pleasant laxative Sxh as Dr.. Pierce's
Pleasant purpatlya Pei;ets which are
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09

Perhaps reconstructed Europe NAV re-
qllrc much steel. hut our unrcconstructed
railroads VIII need more
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09
NOT FOR TAFT.
Ex-Presi dent Flady Refuses Any Base
ball Jobs.

New York, Dec. William n TAFT
announced here Saturday night, that he
had definitely decided to decline the offer
To become baseball commissioner to
succeed the present national committee.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-09

Rcrnc Dec President Wilson is
urged 10 do his utmost - have the peace
conference held at the earliest possible
date IN cahlegram sent t"aal 10 Wash
lngton by the Swiss Committee for Dur
able peace II is pointed out that pro
longation Of represent situation threatens
Europe with anarchy The cablegram
expresses thanks to Mr. Wilson for his
''noble-ninded Intervention for peac e