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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
EFFICIENT WAR WORK.

There seems to be some disposition to think that the
war work can be put upon efficiency basis in Mar
ion county by going at it peoemeal No business
nan would be guilty Of entertaining such absurd theory
with regard to his own affairs and it beyond this news
paper why should be accepted for the war work Not
10 put too fine point on It, we have not yet got down
10 bed rock in Marion county. and not yet backing
Up the army in France in whole hearted fashion IT this IS
majority opinion. which we doubt
If we were on bed rock we would have permanent
organization doing war work all the time. Between drives
for funds the workers could be spreading intelligence re-
rardng the war and educating public opinion. stimulating
he production Of food, helping the Red Gro" to make
Is Home Service department all that it ought to be.' and
doing many other things which will help to make the sup
port Of the war in Marion county thoroughly dependable
md efficient and at the same time SyStemaZe the de-
ais that the burden will fall as lightly possible.
Raising money is not the whole thing 1t may Turn out
before the end Of next year that is Of the least I'm.
Dortant things The people already have been educated
% he necessity Of giving 1t may not be 50 easy to make
hem understand that they must make other Saerhees that
are more onerous than handing out money. In Washington
county, Ohio and in many other places which have thrown
themselves wholly into the task they have war work bodies
which are pledged to do any kind OF war work and they
have the system so completely worked out that almost any
lind Of a campaign be started on an hours notice
Under the practice which seems to be most IN FAVOR mere
valuable time will be lost in merely getting campaigns start
3D. 1t is pleaded for this if we have been correctly IN
formed that this is in the interest Of economy. hat Is
heer nonsense There an immense amount Of war work
10 be done during the next Two years Let no one be 50
Blind or foolish as to believe that there is not And the
way we are about to go about it is the most wasefu and
expensive that could be devised In addition it exposes US
% the danger that something will come along which we
cannot negotiate successfully with defective and nsxpeEt
Orranizaton. Then we will be Inundated before the
Ghole state
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
THE JUNE DRAFT.

zen Of military age will not be the only ones with
V keen interest in the details Of the June draft which,
it is said at the headquarters Of General Crowder,
will be at least 100000 men and may be as many as
100000 more if the training camps be made to shell
ter that many
The thing that gives this draft more general interest than
recent ones have had the fact that will be the FIRST one
made on the basis Of Class One strength All others have
Been made on a population basi; and the public will os
anxious to know how the two systems compare
War department estimates are to the effect that now thai
the men who have become q since the first registration
have been drawn into the military pool there will be nc
necessity to raise the age limit for the draft 1t expected
also that new reservoir Of man power will be tapped
when the bill which will permit volunteering above the ag,
Of 40 becomes law.
Nevertheless there viii be considerable anxiety until i
is known how the new system gong to work. Although
Hsy will 70 in at the bottom Of the lists the parents Of tn
yousg men who will register next Wednesday will wan
to know what their prospects Of beng called this year are
and while estimates based upon the June showing will no
be conclusive they will give an mixing
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo has demanded a
retracon from Chairman Claude Kitchin Of the House
Ways and Means committee who declared that the ad-
mnistration's demand for legislation at
this time the result of the influence Of publishers
lobby working against the enforcement Of the sys-
TEN Of postal rates The country will watch the out
Of this squabble inside the Democratic ranks with
considerable interest There is hope that the people
Kchins North Carolina district will construe II as
hint that would be good thing to keep him at home
when the elections take place in November Kitchin
Of the southern Boshevk who has reached posi-
ton Of great influence in the House by Of the
vicious seniority system and be has been doing his best
to keep alive sectonasm since the war started
would be public blessing II he could be bowled out
completely Inundated that his influence In the House
and In the Democratic caucus were destroyed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
RUFF STUFF

Bet many a guy is wondering today
how he would look with a full beard.
Well, there is one thing about this
new schedule OF the BARRIERS.
With government control making
poor men Of coal operators and ice
manufacturers, barbOs and plumbers
will I'LL in the gaps in the plute class.
Wonder II the drug stores and the
hardware merchants have taken ad.
vantage Of the situation to add a little
something to the price Of safety ra.
zors?
Lamp In the papers that a psychic
phenomenon from Denmark will visit
our fair city.
We do not know what that is. but
maybe he can tell US when the war is
going TO end and who will win in the
West Virginia primaries.
Well, the Teuts have again reached
the Marine.
And that is where their luck turn.
ed four years ago.
Certainly would be queer II they
would find Fate sitting on the banks
ready to hand them a good swift wal.
lop now.
Hin the Hun would have to conclude
that the old saw about lightning new.
or striking twice in the same spot is
as big a lie as science ong ago proved
It TO be:
The fate Of the museum seems TO
have been settled all right.
But what has become Of the Won.
ans Rest Room matter?
At all events now that the price OF
shaveS has Jumped up to 20 cents the
county court ought TO raise the rent
on the barber shop.
But maybe free shaves for the court
house crowd is part Of the bargain.
In that event the advance In the
price Of scrapes will not be known
about the court house for a long time.
Good bye, Old South Side Bridge.
No more items IN the papers about
q new board placed upon your ex.
pansive bosom.
No more Whopping bills for repairs.
You certainly WIN b missed q
come QuartoTA
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
What People Say
and Some Side Remarks

Edward n. Hurley, chairman Of the
United States shipping board, told coal
operators in session at Philadelphia
this week:
I'm my judgment fifty per cent.
Of the inetficiencies Of coal pro-
duction are due 10 poor manage
ment."
He argued that to get the efficiency
necessary to win the war a spirit Of
cooperation between executives and
miners must obtain. >
Wade Coffman, who was in charge
Of the second Red Cross War Fund
campaign in Harrison county, said yes
terday:
Il wish every drive had the
sympathy Of the people generally
like the Red Cross. Getting mon
ey 10" that organization Is like TAX
ing candy from a child
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
BAD COLORED MAN
Shoots AN OFFICER
Walter Richardson, Former
ly Under Arrest Here,
Kills Penna. Trooper

Ohio officers are searching high and
low for Walter Richardson, q negro,
formerly Of Viropa, Harrison county,
who shot and killed John F. Dargus,
a member Of the Pennsylvania State
constabulary at struthers, O., near
Youngstown, yesterday. The Penn.
sylvania went TO arrest Richardson,
who barracaded himself in a house.
After shooting Dargus he escaped.
Richardson aud Claude Neil, also col.
ored, formerly Of Monongah, this
county, were implicated in killing ana
robbing a foreigner IN Pennsylvania.
The same men were arrested here
on a charge Of holding up Tom Har.
den at his store in Monongah. The
case was tried in a Justices court, but
a positive Identification could not be
made and the men we're dismissed.
They are described here as being
bad niggers"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

The British General stat describes the situation in
the Marne valley which the Germans in their push
southwark have again reached anxious one. That
seems to be very good word to The main German
reserve to remain back Of the position to the east
Of Amiens where if Foch used up too many Of his own
reserves to stop the drive in the general direction Of
Paris they might be able to through and separate the
French and British armies So while the situation in
Champaign is very anxious. the big military problem is
somewhere else. and the commander in chief Of the
Allied forces is not permitting himself to be lured away
from It to pay attention to a side show.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

II has been said and not denied that Daniel Willard
was deliberately dropped by the Railroad administra-
ton from control Of the Baltimore and Ohio system.
Now comes the announcement that Arthur ". Thomp-
son, vice president In charge of traffic under the
old management has been made federal director Of that
system and It will be hard to resist the feeling that
some one has been giving bad advice to the director
general It is to be hoped that has been strongly i'm
pressed upon Mr. Thompson that the fundamental re-
quEemen for successful and satisfactory adminstra-
ton Of bis new responsibilities is square deal all
around.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

Here old Samson just a-hittn' down the pike!
Used call him Uncle Sam but call him what you like,
He's got punch in either FIST that's 1T a spike
Yes, it's true he patronized lady arber shop,
Where Dlah tried scalp him. taking Of the top
But after ALL happens what she really did him
Was give him what might call Just hghn
hair amt srenth and and Llah put wise
Fer since he's lost his wool can't pulled eyes,
Speakn' his eyes you know they blind
this haircut operation proved him nothing kind
So now he sees the Temple Of Autocracy next door
And its two imposin' pillars rotten
One Of them pillars bears the sign OF Military Might
And the other pillars label is Divine Imperial Right,
when Uncle Sammy pulls pillars thunder
He'll step little lively SOS he won't get ketched in under
That's why Sammy trained gettn strike
You used to call Uncle but call him you like
He looks like old man Samson, just ahin down pike
Copyright, 1918 N E. Az
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
OLD DIVISIONS FORGOTTEN.

THE Republican Club Of New York City, which can
celled the membership Of Theodore Roosevelt IN
1912 and took his picture down from the walls, has
recently put the picture back and notified the Colonel that
he has been reelected to membership The Colonel has
lcespted with expressions Of appreciation and cooperation
The incident but typical Of what has been going on all
ver the country not merely the big city clubs but in the
mall organizations and the crossroads gatherings The
sd divisions have been forgotten.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
FEDERAL DIRECT0RS
FOR BIO. and P.R.R.
A. W. Thompson and Elisha
Lee Will Have Charge
of These Roads.

WASHINGTON, June /. - Elisha
Lee, acting vice president in charge
Of the operation Of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and A. " Thompson, vice
president and traffic and commercial
development OF the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, have been appointed
Federal directors Of the lines east OF
Pittsburgh OF those railroads. respec-
lively. according TO an announcement
issued yesterday by Charles H. Mark
ham, regional director OF the railroads
in the Allegheny region.
The Jurisdiction OF Mr. Lee will EN-
brace the directly operated lines east
OF Pittsburgh, Erie and Buffalo in.
GLIDING the main and branch lines Of
( the Pennsylvania railroad proper, the
West Jersey and Seashore railroads,
and the New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk railroads He will also have
| Jurisdiction over the Pennsylvania ter
minals in New York. Philadelphia,
baltimore and Pittsburgh Mr. Thomp-
sons jurisdiction will embrace the
main lines and branches OF the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad east OF Park
ersburg, W. Va, and Pittsburgh, in
/ GLIDING the terminals in those cities
and seaboard. They will continue in
their present headquarters and will as
sumo charge today. The portions OF
the lines not mentioned will remain in
charge Of A. II. Smith. regional direc-
tor Of the Eastern region.
Sameul Rea and Daniel Willard.
presidents of the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore and Ohio railroads, re.
spectively, will remain in charge Of
the corporate affairs Of those com.
panies.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

The sinking By German Uboats Of the President Lin
coln former German liner which has been in service
as troop transport Is the most important success Of
the Germans against the American foe which they have
yet scored The President Lincoln was huge ship and
could carry many troops Her loss will perepbly slow
up the movement Of the army to Europe for a time.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
Annual Sermon at
RiVesVille Sunday

In the Rivesville High school audi
forum tomorrow afternoon Bt 2:46
o'clock the annual commencement
sermon will be preached by Rev. H.
D. Clark, pastor OF the Methodist
Episcopal church, Warrington.
The following program will be ren'
deTed: Holy. Holy. Holy, Chorus and
Audience; Invocation. Rev. J. b
YOak. u. 3. Church, South: Work FOL
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

81 soa ond DER p5oeo, CIV n jhs hops thal bo,T tam,
nay b mais foT &s Goyman people q, q whole Tie
United Slal9 i Iolennly pledged not b undertake b
grind down DE German peope but i worthy Of nols N
ibis connection hat neither he French nor the British have
ever gwen 70 much q hint Of how hey expected the
peace conference to end beyond the demand Great Brit
ain for knock out which for pOeyS 'ake the government
has tried to discourage as much as possible lest lead to
political difficulties At home.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
Rev, DR.. H. G. Howard
Is Now in Wheeling

Dr. Harry c. Howard formerly pas.
tor Of the First Methodist Episcopal
church and who for the past two years
has been pastor Of the Methodist
Church at Buckhannon has been trans
terred by the conference Of the de-
nomination from that charge 10 Wheel
ing where be will become pastor Of
the Thompson street n. e. church.
The Thompson street church e one
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
Relief from, Eczema

Don't worry about eczema o. clhe.
skin troubles You can have ! clear
healthy skin BY using q little SemO
obtained at any drug store for S5c q
extra large bottle at 500.
Zemo generally removes pimples, black
heads blotcheS eczema, and TingW0rm
and makes the skin clear and healthy
Zem0 Is a clean, penetrating, aniisepff
liquid, neither sticky nor greasy and Stain
nothing. It Is easily applied and costs 4
mere tTife for each application. Il 8
always dependable.
Che E ". Rose Co. Cleveland q
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

An Arrest With Neutrality-suspicious.
Dunkin was arrested yesterday eve
ming by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
officer, Shurtleff, for being drunk. Al
court this morning be was fined 8
plus 50 extra for the extra officer.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

When the Germans reached the Marne they were
within IS miles of Paris. Well, they within a
stones throw Of YpreS the other day and every one
remembers how close they got to verdun, but they
actually got into either place And at that Paris
would not be Of nearly much to them the chan
mel ports
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
Copyright, 1918, n. f. Az

the Night is Coming, High School
Chorus; Scripture Reading, Rev. ]. B.
Yoak; music, selected; sermon, Rev
H. D. Clark. NJ. E. Church, Manning
ton; Savior Again TO Thy Dear Name,
High School Chorus; America" aud.
fence
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

OF the largest and most innuO Riai
churches in the West virginia con.
ference. Dr. Howari will take ID IN
new duties as soon az he can Sevei
his connection with the BuckhannoT
church.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
MGy Circulation

The circulation of The West virginian
for the month Of May, 1918 was as
follows:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

Plant little quarters and watch them grow from thrift
stamps into war stamps and finally into Liberty bonds
Wheeling News.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

Announcements Of drafee lists have lost some of the
novelty for the public, but not for the draftees-Con-
nellsville Courier
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

June !, lsla
Ready-With Store Full of Fascinating
Summertime Apparel!

This is the time to get new vacation clothes for
pleasure events-for garden work. for travel for bus
mess, ETC. Our display is pleasing in quality and
variety in the individual treatment in colors and
designs Only small expenditure is necessary to do
the magic of changed appearance and real comfort for
our 2erngs are in each and every instance reasona-
bly, priced
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
SHORT AND SNAPPY

II some folks wear wooden shoes they will be wood
on both euds-Uniontown Evening Genius
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01

Practically ell Of this circulation into Faiont ana
Marion County homes the natural Geld for the Famont
merohan6
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-01
Reliable Advertising
Here is Extra Value!
Such PettiCOatS
As These At
Only $685.

Realizing that to
many, many women,
nothing can take the
place of the Silk Petit
coate, we have put forth
every effort to offer our
patrons what will con-
stitute without question
of doubt, the biggest
and best petticOat value
in Fairmont. We urge
you to see, inspect this
Incompatible value -
made of excellent quail
ity silk taf'eta, with the
snug fit, adjustable band
-ruffles in both plated
and futed effects, that
disbands any thought
Of fullness. All the lead
ing shades, grey, green,
rose, khaki, changeahle
black, etc. And only
$685..
The record., 1918-05-16
HIS JOB TO BANDAGE
WOUNDED HOUSES
American Boss Carpenter Putting
French Villages Back on
The Map.

It was a monotonous stretch o. ugly
trench. wire entangienents. gaping
she'll holes. accented by the blackened
skeleton of shell killed forests silhouet-
ted against a dull. hopeless sky.
This had once been beautiful rolling
land like our own Ohio and Indiana
rich in grain fields, orchards and gar
Hens. Now il was Notwithstanding
could live there-seemingly nothing
did
We had come on some rising ground,
and as we climbed we reached the
brow OF the slope, and of a sudden 1t
seemed that some giant had suddenly
twisted the old world under our feet
and we were back home, for of sud.
den the sounds of life came up to US
out of a huStling center of industry.
, That satisfying chug of an honest ham,
mer head sinking willing nail into
sound wood, and before US was a pam
Drama of new building. with piles OF
clean lumber stacked here and there,
and the framing Of many new build
inGs told where the wood was going.
Then we heard the voice of a man
who talked real United States"-tell-
ing u other carpenters what to do
out in this foreign land thousands of
miles from home.
We inquired of the boss as to who
he was. and with true sense of hu.
NOR he said 81 am a Red Cross nurse.
My job is bandaging wounded houses"
Putting Villages Back on Map.
This was once French village" he
went OIL TO say, lin the center of fine
sugar beet country. We are living
now on the site of the sugar MILL" he
said, pointing to long, low barracks,
which plainly had been recently built
I'VE are working for the American
FED CroSs-putting villages back on the
map. In four more weeks we'll be out
of here and on our way to the next
ruin, for there are many villages that
need us. We go from place to place.
always finding that our lumber has
reached there first, so we can get right
10 work. clean up and move on again."
Ii is just like pioneering, this re-
building work of our Red Cross--only
more important-more important be-
cause ii is vital to the winning of the
war that these people come back to
their soil and plant new crops-for fu-
ture years OF war or peace
And so TIE tide of war sweeps back
from whence it came, a Red Cross
army follows close behind in uniforms
Of oreralls, armed with Yankee ham,
ners and nails to coax back the found
'ings that have been brushed into
squaIid helplessness in the south and
EAST
They are coming back home now,
Just a few days behind these carpen-
ters-back to the beet fields. the gar
liens and the farms. Soon they will be
feeding themselves and thousands of
| others.
The record., 1918-05-16
liver DIDN'T ACT y
N"S u G'S0 SA~sS risp,I
DIGESTION WAS bad
Says IS year Old Kentucky Lady Who Tells How She Was RExe5
After Few Doses Of BlackCraught. &2 %

Meadorsville, Ky.-Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbotham, Of this town, says: CAT
my age, which is 65, the liver does
not act so we'll as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out OF
fix. I was constipated, my liver
tltD't act. My digestion was bad, and
il took 50 little TO upset ne. lily a2-
petite was gone. I was very weak.
! decided I would give Black
DTaught thorough trial as knew it
was highly recommended for this
trouble. began taking it. felt
better after few doses. My appetite
improved and I became stronger. My
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble wac soon righte;l with a few
The record., 1918-05-16
White PLAGUE KILLS
MORE GiEN THAN BULLETS

II seems longer, but If was less than
iour years ago that the nations had
not yet started in, to wipe each other
off the map and that the only times
when one heard of the Red Cross were
times of flood or disaster and at
Christmas time, when the peaceful lit.
tie Red Cross tuberculosis seals made
their annual appearance
Perhaps. in fact, it was the long, ar.
dent tight i'll America against the White
Plague which. in spite of the war's
enormous new demands, is responsible
the especial interest being taken by
The American Red Cross in Frances
irightful struggle against consumption.
This Scourge seems to mark the
trench fighter for its own. 1t kills
more men than do bullets and poison
gas combined. Until the American
French government to start It's drive
against tuberculosis it looked as if,
even with a victory over the Hun.
France might eventually be conquered
by this dradlier foe.
Already things are looking brighter.
The Red Cross has taken over old hos.
pitfalls and built new ones. More than
800 tuberculosis dispensaries are to be
opened throughout the country, and
Red Cross doctors and nurses-scores
Of them-are devOting themselves ex,
rlnsively to this fight, doing over there
exactly the same kind of work which
is financed in America by the little
Christmas seals. 1t is one of the WAYS
~ which by our contributions to the
Red Cross America can repay her debt
TO France.
The record., 1918-05-16
CARDINAL GIBBONS
MESSAGE

There Is in these times Dcrft-
able ocean Of S0rrO10 and suffer-
ing engulJin9. millions Of souls,
md society tcith the member
ship and resources ~ the Red
Cross, GCtnGted us it is by Chris
tiGn p1incipteS, can best under
take the tremendous burden OF
extending intelligent ana efficient
relief. In particular | approve
OF the Red Gross GctiUitteS as
then are directed tOWGrdS sup
porting the courage and caring
for the Injuries OF or young SOL
diers and SGilOTo. 10 is nty earn
est hope that oil Of our people
m;H cheerfulty and generously CO.
operate nih the Red Cross com
mittce in their efforts tOUdrds
redping the fullest measure OF
charity that it may be possible
for the society to attain.
JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS,
Archbishop OF Baltimore.