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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-28
FOSTER MAY COME
TO WHEELING SUNDAY

The local steel strike leaders nro plan
ming to hold another of their big mass
meetings at tho Market Auditorium newt
Sunday afternoon, and plans are bciu :;
perfected TO bring W. Il. Foster. S"crc-
tary-treasurcr Of tho national committee"
Owing 10 a proposed meeting Of IN"
Pennsylvania Federated Trades ASSEM-
bly,. il may be impossible TO get Foster
for a speech in Wheeling. but If p, Ss,bG
he will speak hero on Sunday afternoon
and move on to Steubenvillc for mass
meeting there in tn" evening. Fostcr
Is probably the most talked OF man in
all abor today. He has been active in
labor organization work for tho past l.
years. Preparations arc being made for
accommodating over 5000 mon at the aud
itorium Sunday.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-28
How to Danish Wrinkles
and Crows Feet Quickly

II your face is disfSurcd with wrinkles
no matter what the cause. you can
quickly dispcl every line. even the most
obstinate. by using a simple. homemade
wash lotion. Merely dissolve an oun"f
of powdered saXoltc in a half pint witch
hazrl-ingrcdicntS found in any drug
store. Bathc the face in this. and
prcsto.--yuu scarcely believe your own
eyes when you look INTO your mirror and
b'hnld tho marvellous transformations.
Tho remarkable astInErnt action or
the Saxulitc so tiEht"nS the skin,
wrinkles arc literally pressed put. Best
Of all. this lotion also has aihcalthful
tonic action. which tends 10 strengthens
and tone mp the weakened Tissue. and
added benefit may bc expected with COR
tinurd use. Use this once day for
awhile; II cannot injur" tn" most deli
cate skin. The treatment itself lrav"G
no traC"---nu one EurSSrS the secret or
your increasing youthful appearance.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-28
SCOUT LEADERS
!: To STUDY WORK
KrELu SECRETARY HoLsINGER TO
:, GIVE FIRST INSTRUCTION
THIS EVENING.
CLASS Of rhtrty-fve Boy Scout Leaders
a to Competa Por National
az Certificates.

Boy Scout leaders and prospective
seout leaders Of this district have Or
sanized a class 70 be held at regular in
fsrvals. for the purpose Of training
themselves in scou;craft. that they may
Be able to show their boys how 10 be
real Boy Scouts. Tho class has at the
present time about thirty-tivc members.
III of whom are connected in some way
Eith the Boy Scout movement in Wheel
ipg and vicinity.
The first meeting OF the training
siass will be held this evening IN the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-28
SPECIALS
of Money .Saying Importance for Tuesday Shoppers
Table DamaSk-

Lot Of 70-inch Blcachcd Ia
bic Damask in handsome pat
terms, heavy quality, $50
kind; Tuesday spc- c. 10
cial, yard. -. C1.1C
-Saeond 1ooP
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-28
=.
Goods

Every drug store claims to
have the best drugs. We
do more than that--we give
YOU complete satisfaction by
supplying the very best
goods money will buy,
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-28
ANNIVERSARY SALE

The Forty-fourth Anniversary sale OF
Kline Bros. on Main street. closed yes
;erday. and il was pronounced the most
successful ever, not only In the number
OF people who visited the store. but in
the amount Of business done. Prizes
were awarded the successful purchasers
last evening. a complete list Of the win
ners is posted at the store.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
DID THE EXAMINERS EXAMINE?

MOYER and Colfesh have revealed
AVA enough of what went on in the North
Penn Bank to make every bank depositor
throughout the state wonder how it was
possible for a bankrupt institution to
deceive the examiners of the banking de-
partment and remain in business for
many months after its resources were vir-
tually exhausted.
The assets of the bank, according to
the statement made early in June, were
about S2,500,000. 1t is now said that it
has a shortage of S2,144,000. This short
age did not arise between early June and
the banking department.
What sort of examination was made
when the state examiners visited the
bank periodically? 1t was either very
superficial or the shortages were covered
up with almost incredible skill on the
books.
The truth must be discovered, no mat
ter who is hurt The crime of taking the
deposits of the innocent public and then
making way with them differs in no whit
from the crime of holding up man on
the street in the dark and ri1ing his
pockets. The banking method Of high
way robbery is little more complicated,
that is all.
Of the 100000 shortage, it is esti-
mated that about one-half may be recov-
cred. This leaves 81 100000 that has dis
appeared. It is up to the courts to prove
that the men who steal $1,000,OO0 are not
immune to punishment. The quicker the
punishment is inflicted the more whole
some the lesson will be.
But there is an explanation due from
examiners who obviously did not exam
inc, or they would have had some ink
lings of the looting.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
INSANE?

''Mr. Coles. who is employed in the
insane department of the state
Sheriff Ransley. in his outcry against
the committee of one hundred.
CHERIFF RANSLEY ought to be more
Oexplicit Does he refer to the Legis-
lature? Mr.. Coles was never employed
in the Legislature. There is no. other
department of the state government
which does not claim to be normally ra-
tional.
There are unofficial and sometimes
obscure groups which function mys-
teriously in a sort of dim relationship
with the government of Pennsylvania
after a manner that might justify the
suspicion of transient alterations.
Among these are the marching clubs.
Did Mr.. Coles ever work for a marching
club? Or did he hold job of some sort
with that other tragic group which moves
on the edge Of things at Harrisburg
waiting through the rolling years for
politicians to keep their promises and, by
keeping the Capitol personnel cheerful,
helps to mitigate the heavy burdens of
state
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

MORE quickly than was expected, the
A'A Supreme Court has sustained the de-
cision of the Superior Court that the men
convicted in the Fifth Ward Frog Hollow
case are not entitled to new trial. The
full bench hearing the case decided unani
mously that no errors had been made by
the lower court sufficient to justify upset
ting the verdict.
The convicted policemen should now be
fastened to jail to receive the punish
ment which is their due.
And they should be removed from the
police force without further delay.
Lieutenant Bennett, one of the con-
victs. has been allowed to wear his uni
form AMI perform his duties ever since
the original verdict, to the disgrace of
the whole police force of the city.
The decision of the Supreme Court
comes at an opportune moment, just when
the city is on the eve of mayoralty
campaign with its registration of voters
and primary elections. 1t means that
there is such thing as law which must
be respected even by political gangsters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
and then view the outbreaks at Washing
ton and Chicago without a pang of shame.


Mobs, white or black, that march shoot
ing in the streets are not concerned with
the race problem such as it is. They do
not represent one race or the other nor
is any shade of rational opinion response
Bile for their raids. They act upon an
impulse that is as old as the Jungle
hatred of order and a thirst for violence
that have nothing to do with right or
wrong. They reflect a motive that all
civilization has had to fight from the
darkness upward, for they move only in
ignorance, passion and cruelty. They
represent an element in life that is OPP
posed to all that is best and decent in
America or in civilization.
The police in Washington were ineffi-
cient. The police in Chicago were inefi-
cient. 1t is only by force, applied with
out mercy at the very beginning of mob
movement, that order and decency can be
maintained. The way to deal with mob
is to knock IL on the head before II gains
momentum. This we have not learned to
do in America.
knowledge that the riots were manifesto
tions of an abnormal mood that is not at
all characteristic of America.
We may profit if we learn by the ex-
perience of the last few weeks to view
the work of mobs elsewhere in similar
light.
1t may save US endless trouble.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
THE PEACEMAKER
pom his will he binds radiant chain,

Upon his will he binds a radiant chain,
- For Freedoms sake he is no longer free.
1t is his task, the slave of Liberty,
With his own blood to wipe away stain.
That pain may cease, he yields his flesh to
pain.
To Danish war, he must a warrior be.
He dwells il. night, eternal dawn to see,
And gladly dies abundant life to gain.
What matters Death, if Freedom be not
dead?
No flags are fair, if Freedoms flag be
furled.
Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful
tread
To meet the fires of He'll against him
hurled
And has for captain Him whose thorn :,
wreathed head
Smiles from the Cross upon a conquered
world.
Joyce Kilmer, in Poems, Letters and Es-
says
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
STILL ANOTHER ALLIANCE?

WHATEVER else may be said of the
W troubled governments in Europe, it
must be admitted that they know how to
keep up with the style.
Italy has asked for separate alliance
with France. A little while ago there
were belligerents in Italy who openly
threatened the French with future vio-
lence because of the Fiume decision. The
latest proffer from Rome may be but a
sign of returning friendship. But it
shows, too, that the rage for separate
alliances within the league of nations has
spread swiftly since Mr.. Wilson gave his
support to an independent Anglo-French
treaty.
In these columns yesterday we sug-
gested that the old diplomacy is becom-
ing new again. Confederation of that
theory comes from Prime Minister Nitti
even more quickly than we expected.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
AFTER RENT PRoFITEERS

THE internal revenue collector has been
4 reading to some purpose the news
paper reports of landlords who have been
demanding that their tenants move out
or buy the house at fancy price. Many
of the tenants have bought rather than
be turned into the street.
The collector is having the real estate
transfer books examined in the City Hall
to discover who has made profit in SELL
ing houses. He plans to compare the
evidence of profit which ne finds on rec
ord with the income-tax returns of the
various persons and so get after them If
they have not made an honest report Of
their winnings subject to tax.
This will be gratifying news to every
tenant who has been held up by
profteering landlord.
The real estate assessors ia a western
city are after the rent profteers in
similar way. They are asking every ten
ant whose rent has been raised to COM
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
As to M ustaches

THE other day we shaved off mustache
L that in its three-y year career had incurred
nothing but obloquy. 1t had never been ap-
preciated by any one but our seven month
old daughter. 1t had been source of dis
satisfaction to the one who had the best
right to complain, and we determined not to
let little thing like mustache come be-
tween us. And, finally, it had been referred
to in public prints as 'haywagon.
While going through the last sad rites we
began to think about mustaches in general,
mustaches in song and story and legend. The
incest and untidiest mustache in literature,
we trow, was that of Axel Heyst, the mel
ancholy Swede in Joseph Conrad's novel
Victory" OF Mr.. Heyst Conrad says ''his
smile lurked behind his mustache like
shy bird In thicket."
We have not time nor courage to 20 into
this matter with full candor, but it seems to
us that the lip whisker is on the toboggan
Charley Chaplin has razed his little nostri-
pads. Woodrow Wilson gave his drooper the
adieu many years ago because it was Knocked
by irreverent maidens at Bryn Mawr.
Every small boy yearns to raise a mus
tache at some time or other. In our own
case the yearning was intense when we were
about twelve. The passionate eagerness of
the young male to attain to the glory of
shaving is rarely appreciated. He usually
begins by surreptitiously borrowing his
fathers razor and shaving off some of the
golden down On his forearm. II discovered,
he is told not to do SO and that scraping off
the hairs will make them grow again thick
and bristly. Enchanted by this prospect, he
perseyeres. We ourself, long before we
reached our teens, industriously shayed a
patch on our arm for a long t'me, thinking
that perhaps in that way we would raise a
mustache in that unique place and become
the glory of the school.
The briefest biography of a mustache is
the following:
Raised
Unpraised iss
SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
THE CHAEFYNG DISH

the autograph it would have been sold for
perhaps sixty cents. Therefore, Joe's fist is
worth about $4.40 per signature at present
rates, and we hope he will write to us fire.
quently.
1t should be explained that the book had
been stolen from the desk of the gentleman
to whom Mr.. Hergesheimer had given it. We
were pleased to be able to pass it back to the
rlghtful owner. And not to seem too prodigal,
1t must also be said that we made such a
hullabaloo about the price of the autographed
book that the bookseller, in disgust at our
parsimony, gave it to us for nothing. This
was not because the book was not worth what
he asked for it, but because he was tired of
seeing us around
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

1. A hookah is pipe with a long, flexible
tube, smoke being drawn through
water in a vase to which the tube and
tobacco bowl are attached.
2. A glockenspiel is an instrument con
sisting of bells attuned to the diatonic
scale and played by keyboard attach
ment. 1t is also an organ stop of two
ranks.
3. Old Faithful is one of the individual
geysers in Yellowstone National Park,
with a jet reaching from 125 to 15o
feet.
4. Sir Roger de Coverley is the chief
character in the club protesting to
write the Spectator. He was
sketched by Steele and developed by
Addison.
8. The packers known as the Big Five are
Swift, Armour, Morris, Cudahy and
Wilson.
6. Henry Ward Beecher said ''The mys-
tery of history is an insoluble prob
lem."
Z. Anne Hathaway was the wife Of VIII
liam Shakespeare.
g. The state of Iowa is known as the
Hawkeye State, in allusion to famous
Indian chief at one time terror to
the settlers there.
g. Pail Mall, London, derives its name
from a game once played there aud
still played in out of the way corners
in Italy. The game got its name from
Palla, a ball, and Maglia, mallet
TO- The Germans destroyed Louyain August
20, 1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
TRESPASSERS OF THE AIR

WHEN a Judge 200 years ago ruled
'" that land owner held proprietor
ship from the center of the earth to the
skies above he exercised an Imagination
that embraced all future contingencies.
What was then considered largely a
figure of speech is now the solid basis
of an ordinance to be drafted in Chicago
to prohibit flying over the city.
The ordinance, direct outcome of the
loss of life following the destruction of
a dirigible balloon, will likely be followed
by similar ordinances all over the coun-
try
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
KING PENNY

THE Philadelphia mint is daily turning
l. out the wages of three million John
MES. Johnny, the Margery Daw poet tells
US, makes only a penny day because he
can work no faster. And with an out
put three million times as large the mint
is in the same fix as Johnny; for, working
as fast as it can, it is still 8O,000,O00 pen
nies behind the demand.
Wartime taxes did it. The trouble
began when a certain impecunious cuss
tried to borrow seven cents to buy a
nickels worth of chocolate. Then the
theatres and movie houses did their bit.
Time was>when the copper cent was no
better than the thirtieth part of nothing
at all. But mark the change the war has
brought about! Today the penny is king!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

municate with them, that they may use
the increased rental as the basis for an
increase in the assessed taxable value of
the property. They apparently think
that the man who adds $5 month to the
rent of house that has been let for $50
ought to turn over part of the money to
the city treasury in taxes. o..
The point raised is nice one and
worth commencing to the attention Of the
tax authorities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
What Do You Knotu?
QUIZ

QUIZ
/. How did Rotten Row, in Hyde Park,
London, get its name!
2. Who was Plato?
3. Who said "All free governments are
party governments?
4. What is euphony?
8. What AleIandrian grammarian was
known as Grammaticorum PrinceIt?
9. What is fuorine2 LA
7. What city is known as the Gate y
of the South?
s. What is the estimated populatio, Ne
Philadelphia?
0. What English dramatist wrote ~ X
Eyed Susan or, All in the Down
10. What celebrated group of.rocks is ki IN
as the Profile? ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
There are only o., 900 tons Of

There are only $4,000 tons of ice now
on hand, says the secretary of the ice con-
seryation committee of the Department Of
Health and Charities. Well, what the
householder gets for ten cents these days
isn't going to eat into that pile SO very,
very much.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
Literary Notes

We have never been able to see any one
eating baked onions without shudder, be-
cause they recall the ear aches OF our youth,
which were usually doctored with baked
onion poultice. But there are always COM
pensations. We first read Treasure Island
when we were about eight years old, and it
was given us to allay the pangs OF
misery in our ear. A faint fragrance of
roasted onion still adheres to that story
whenever we read it again.
Speaking of Treasure Island" Steve
Meader is writing a pirate story and is
going to spend his vacation at Stone Harbor
in order to get some oceanic local color In
the concluding chapters, But the real pirate
story that no one has yet written will have
a hotel hat check bandit as leading heavy.
1t may be indiscreet, but we can't resist
letting Joe Hergesheimer know how high his
autograph is rated among collectors. Not
long ago at a second hand bookstore we ran
across a copy of ''The Three Black Pennys,"
one of Joe's novels, which he had genially
inscribed to an editorial friend. We think
It will interest Joe to know that the book
seller was holding this volume as literary
rarity, at the price of five bones. Without
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

The former German emperor says he
put his whole soul into the church in Posen.
This is tough Oh the church in Posen, but
explains an evident lack in the kaiser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

The utility of the inquiry being con-
Quoted by the German National Assembly
concerning responsibility for the war will be
demonstrated only when punishment is metsd
out to the offenders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

For grace and poise nothing could ex-
ceed gesture of renunciation"-if Japan
can only be induced to make it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

Big as $12O, 900, 900 worth of food seems
it loses its Importance as market
breaker" among a hundred million people.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

Wireless communication has again been
established between America and Germany.
But being on speaking terms does not neces-
sarily mean any warm friendship
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

1t was dead against
Human Interest" the rules set down by
the Investigators of the
North Penn, but when woman touched the
heart of big cop he called the receiver and
spoke his mind, and the woman got the
Liberty Bond she was after. Yes, indeed !!
1t never fails.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

In spite of the declaration of some
misogamists that the marital state strongly
resembles things martial, one has to reverse
"it" to make il so.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

1t is at once a significant and heart
eniug sign of the times that Yanderlip and
Gompers play the same tune on the same
pipe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

Will the Entente powers be willing to
swap a Franco American treaty for frank
American treaty, one of our own framing?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

War is a brutal game, aud the con-
gressional investigation shows that it de-
yeloped lot Of brutes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

BY the time he meets all the senators,
the President may be pretty good mixer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

Most of the rioting in Chicago was
started by boys and young men. Youth
initiates more problems than it settles.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

One may sympathize with France 8
jumpy nerves without feeling called upon
TO administer a special treaty dose.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

The expectation of whisky following
prohibition suggests the story Of the woman
who felt that her jewelry was dragging her
to perdition, SO she gave it to her sister.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

Wonder if there isn't an I. W. W. agi-
tator concealed somewhere around Chicago? :?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

Common sense inocuation is the only
way Of staying the race-hysteria epidemic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

The machines having been attended to,
auto drivers should be equipped with safety
devices.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31
Presidenx Of the - Railroad.

She tainted as she finished the last part and
had hard time bringing her back .,t to life. life:
after that awful train wreck Its made wreck
out of already?' =, =
said and II you will permit me will take
YOU to your room and you can go to sleep for a
NO no" she said and stamping her foot on
the floor that made the floor sink an inch.
well then what is there left for US to do
before we get down TO serious busnessT' l said.
!Nothins only I have idea that this is not
true" ,,. o.. an. ,,,,u,.
forgetting that I was still stranger In
Il have some things you ought to see'" she
said and went after them
She returned shortly with tobacco poA
What In that your carrying7' asked.
'It was my sisters treasure box and says
"open my DEATH DO you thihh ~ 10 s'ie "
open?" .t,. ,oo orsar,
An rigfa open it," she said
" ''' (To be continued
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-31

The wise politician builds a protecting
wall with the bricks that are thrown at him.