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The Washington times., 1919-05-19

LJERE is THE MARVELLOUS FACT-a fact
i i that gives cause for pride in this humanity
of which each one of us is part. E1en IN its
darkest kOur the 00Orrla has ne0er 0nce Imgohew
han to snstk.
From every corner of it, from papers and maya
zines in every land and language, there has
piercing through the blackness the blessed CLEAN of
mirth.
Mingled with the somber undertone of suffering
the tinke of fresh laughter still has lived Men have
thrown themselves at death, with gladness their
lips; and other men with heavy hearts have hidden
their grieving underneath smile,
1t will be inspiring chapter in the history of the
war-ths miraculous power Of men to lift their load
of bitterness with mrth
1t was the secret that carried Lincoln serene
through trials that would have crushed another man.
it is a secret that the million LITERARY DIGEST
readers have discovered and that other millions Of
thoughtful men and women Of America ought to
learn.
No single group of men provides the humor that
keeps the twinkle in the eyes of these million
and women. Their laughter springs from the four
Of the earh-from papers and periodicals Of
The Washington times., 1919-05-19

and worldwide view that they can not gain from any
other single periodical
You may recognize these million DIGEST read
ers; the mark of their distinction is plain upon them
They are the men and women in every company who
are the best informed to whose opinion the other
members give always first consideration.
You may know them by their breadth Of under
standing and you may know them also by the twin
kle in their eyes. 1~
They have weighed the world, with all it's prob
lens and discussions in their hands, and knowing all
its responsibilities they still have kept the good
Of Lincolns strength-the fine capacity to laugh
Why not join this chosen company today-this
very hour? Why not share with them the distinction
of being much better posted than the average of
men; of being citizen of the new world, familiar
with all its changing phases?
And why not learn with them, also, the JOY that
comes to those who start each new week with twin
king eyes, because they carry with them the laugh
ter of the world.
The path to this companionship is easy; it runs
out from every corner newsstand. Stop now, while
you think of it, at the next street corner; drop sin
gle dime, and pick up THE LITERARY DIGEST.
The Washington times., 1919-05-19
The Twinkle in Two Million Eyes

they knew that those who worked the hardest
have the least time in which to dread.
From forty million homes the sons and
brothers and fathers have gone out to fight; and
they who stayed behind have known that mil
lions of them never could return 1t has been
for every land a long dark night of bitterness.
The Washington times., 1919-05-19

FOR four long years the men and women of
the world have gone about their daily tasks
weighed down with fear
Men have hated the summons of the teIe-
phone, the message of the telegram; women
have worked with double intensity, first from a
consuming eagerness to win, and also because
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-25
NOTHING EQUAL
TO- WENTWORTH
in HOT WEATHER
Il Gives RestfuI sieenAA lids Digestion,
steadIes the Nervei sImo
Up Strength

A tonic that does this when mid
summer heats lays its heatF burdens
upon hum Unity is thete1A times its
cost Thet NGESsworth lifts these bur-
den1 IS ptoyen by a mass 81 signed
Statements still on file. -,
II thq reader Is skepdcal IL can
verify Nerv-W nsth, claims without run.
6palet viii refund his dollar If the
bNnefits promised b not ftilow a trial
according to dtectionsK This offer
go4P In every lngle MEBIWorth ad-
yer serept Could rlSthing more full.
~ pipve the faith ipServ-WoJth Yaich
its mixers possess?
NelT-worth q family tdhic khich
does 1pod sDd good only. ACon1bosed
Of vegdkahle Ingredients It foa1slb rich
benefitA Upon the system and leaves
not trace OF harm behind. It is thu.
" family tonic, blessing equally the
nervous cbil5. the worn-out veteran
and men and women OF all ages.
Your dollar back II Nerv-worth does
not benefit you Cranes drug store
BellB Nery-Worth In Fairmont.
Noighboring agents: 81. ]. Matthews
& Co., Warrington; W. p. Moran.
Fnrmington; y J. Yost, Fairyiew:
Windsor Drug Co. ana the HonaIrar
F1nrmncJs Monnngnhs Johnson,s
Pharmacy. Shinnston. Grant Graham.
Rolingtons W. o. Davis .PhIlippi,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-25
Grain and Produce

CHICAGO. June 25.-Acute weak.
ness in the corn market yesterday re-
suited largely from general belief
that bullish effect Of peace had been
well discounted In advance. After
a fall Of about &c from Mondays top
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-25

the rig for No. 6 on the James E.
Brown farm has been completed.
Koontz & Osborne have the rig COM
pleted for test on the ]. NJ. Bird
heirs farm.
In Warrington district, Marion
county. the Anchor OIL conpany's No.
2 on the G. w. Beatty farm is pump
ing 10 barrels day. In Union dis.
trIct, Wood county, the Economy on
company's test on the Daniel Gribble
farm Is light pumper.
In Southwest district. Doddridge
county, ]. 2. Tarinor has rig mate
rial on the ground for a test on tbs
Elriira Leggett farm. In New Milton
district Maxwell & Stout are building
a rig on theNJ, B. Maxwell farm. In
Clay district, Wetzel county, the Phil
adelphia company is drilling tests on
the J. D. Furbee and r. L. Merriner
farms. On Anna Msriah creek, Sher.
idan district. Calhoun county, N. =.
Crowley & Co. hare started test on
the Worthy Slater farm.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-25
Oil and Gas.

On Tanners creek, pekalb district.
Gilmer county, w. Va, the, South Penn
OIL company's second test on the
French Hardman farm has been shut
in awaiting the completion Of add
tional tankage. It was flowing 10
barrels an hour. Tho rig for No. 8
on the same farm has been completed
and the Continental OIL aud Gas COM
pany has rigs up for tests on the G..
B. Howell and W. F. Weaver farms.
In Sherman district, Calhoun county,
the Hope Natural Gas company has
started tests on the Isaac Harshman
and 2. B. Bennett farms.
On Jordan's creek, Big Sandy dis.
trict, Kanawha county, the South
Penn OIL company has rigs up for No.
4 and a test on the Nancy Green and
w. P. White farms and has started a
second test on the America Deal farm.
The Ohio Fuel Oil company is drilling
No. 8. The rigs for Nos. 4 and Z have
been completed on the William Nick.
OILS farm. The United Fuel Gas com
pany has started a second test on
the William Cobb farm. The rigs for
Nos. and4 have been completed and
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-25
Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH. June 25. = On the
Pittsburgh exchange there was fall
ing Off In activity in oil and gas
shares, and in few instances prices
closed lower. but the losses were not
large. Pittsburgh Oil and Gas de-
clined from 16N TO 16 on the market
ing of little less than 5000 shares.
Riverside Eastern OIL closed unchang.
ed, but Western common declined
from 231s to %. Union Natural Gas
was 81 higher at 1874.
American Window Glass Machine
common was strong, advancing to
and closing at 90, while the preferred
sold unchanged at SO. Small lots of
y. s. Glass sold at 357s to 36. Brew
ing stocks were active and higher,
buying being based upon news from
Harrisburg OF the passage by the
Senate OF the Ramsey bill permitting
the manufacture and sale OF 2.75 per
cent. beer. The largest buying was
In Pittsburgh common, which ad.
vanced to 91a and closed at the best.
National Fire PROBING was firm
and closed fractionally higher, while
American Sewer Pipe closed u lower
at 24hs The Westinghouse stocks
were dull, Air Brake selling un-
changed at 1874 and Electric closing
Is lower at 561s. after selling at 561s.
Liberty bonds were moderately ac-
tive and averaged slightly lower.
Cnra ~,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-25
FARMS FOR SALE
LEGAL NOTICES
I6GAL HOIlCGS
The P0sIIc SERVICE COMMITS.
SION OF WEST VIRGINIA.
CAPITOL BUILDING

The F0sIIc SERVICE COMMITS.
SION OF WEST VIRGINIA.
CAPITOL BUILDING
CHARLESTON.
A meeting Of THE PUBLIC SER.
VICE COMMISSION OF WEST VIZ.
GINA. held on the 7th day OF June,
A. D., 1919.
CASE NO. 1914.
CITY OF FAIRMoNT-Water Depart
ment.
Application to change water rates.
Whereas application has this day
been filed by the City Of Fairmont, for
authority to change It's water rates, It
is ordered that leave be granted to
any pe interested to file objection
thereto before tie Commission at any
time OF pr befere the 9th day OF July,
1918, al thi8 matter be set down for
hearingSat meeting of the Commits.
sion to he held at its offices in the
Capitol tilding In the City of
Charlestd9 on said 9Th day of July.
19l9, at two o'clock ap. M, At which
time any yone may appear And make
such objed Jon thereto Is may be
deemed proAer.
1t is furth\r ordered that the appi-
cant publish cop, OF this order once
each week for bee consecutive weeks
In two newspe Ter of opposite politics,
II such then bA and OF general circu.
iation In t|e coul ty or counties affect
ed by tAf propoh led change in rates:
and saif appltcait shall also mail to
or serY on each pt its consumers AZ.
fected fby the PROPOSED change In
rates at least ten d US prior to said 9Th
day OF July, 1919, written notice in
the form prescribed by the Commits
sion. showing that 4 has applied to
The Public Service Commission for
authority to change its rates. the rates
proposed to be charged and the time
and place of suck hearing; making
due return thereof to this Commission.
A Copy =. :.
Teste:
III R. B. BERNHEIM,
e-1szo-7-2. Secretary.
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YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM 1T

IOO VNN. SEI NWhI FHOW IT
The need for one OF Deitz's Suits OF
Genuine Mohair, Palm Beach or Cool
Cloth is being felt by every man. But
you feel better the minute you get In.
to one. The only unfelt thing is tho
low price Of $3.50 land upwarij., See
these dandy suits at Dai:z's Leader
Shop. 21s-221 Madison st.-Adv.
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NANCE. OIL AND GAS
New York

NEW YORK, June 25.-Elimina-
ton Of the war as an uncertain facter
and limitations that local banks are
discouraging further operations for
the rise pending rnid-year settlements
provided the short interest with am
munition for renewed attacks on tie
stock market yesterday.
Mondays ielated rise Of call money
10 8 per cent--a few loans being
made at 10 after the markets close
directed fresh attention to the large
disbursements 70 be made in the few
remaining days OF the month.
Call loans opened at 6 per cent,
that quotation ruling until the final
hour, when 0 per cent was paid for all
industrial collateral. Rumors at
midday when the list was most UNI
settled, that interior banks were cali
ing loans here lacked confirmation.
Motors, oils, shippings and other
recent speculative fayorites bore tie
brunt Of the setback, General Motors,
Studebaker, Texas Company, Mexican
Petroleum. Royal Dutch, Sinclair, At
lantic Gulf and American Interna-
tional suffering extreme reyersals of
az to 81 points.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
PALMER AND THE PACKERS

ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER an
"A nounced to a conference on the cost
of living in Albany that he was amazed
when he read the evidence against the
five big packers which is to be submitted
to Chicago grand jury. He said that
"when it is laid before the jury the wrath
of the American people will compel a
verdict of conviction, for the story will
pmaze America as it amazed me-"
So much of it as Mr.. Palmer disclosed
Indicates that the five packers control the
distribution of rs per cent of the meat
consumed and 40 per cent of the meat
substitutes. This may be true, but it is
not enough to secure conviction under
any existing laws. 1t will be necessary
first to prove that there is a conspiracy
among the five packers to fix prices and
regulate distribution. Without that the
suit will fall fiat.
But if Mr.. Palmer is talking merely to
cover up the inability of the government
to do anything materially to relieve the
people it will appear before long. In the
words of the President, it is case for the
attorney general to "put up or shut up"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19

IIPs trumped.up coup d'etat which re.
suited IN the French poets Punishment
from France.
II was the American Presidents re-
gard for the limitations of his power
that restrained him provisioning Fort
Sumter, because to do so would have
placed the blame of starting the Civil
War upon the North. The Star Of the
West turned back from Charleston har-
Dor with her mission unfulflled.
The emancipation proclamation was a
war measure, inapplicable in unrebel-
ious states. The America of Lincoln has
indeed quite the reverse of sympathy for
the acts of the feverish and defiant
D'Annunzio.
1t is noticeable that he summons no
figure from his own nations history.
That cannot be because of ignorance Of
the tale of the tragic vanity of Cola di
Rienzi
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19

THE New Jersey Board Of Public Utili-
4 ties announces that the zone-farc
trolley system is an experiment. In that
case, and assuming that it was on trial
before the public, popular judgment has
unquestionably been found against it.
Even for these uneasy times the situa
tion across the Delaware is phenomenal.
Lawlessness, of course, cannot be justi-
fed. On the other hand, neither can the
operation of a public utility on lines di-
rectly opposed to public sentiment,
The trolley company over the river has
right to take the most vigorous steps
to preserve order. At the same time it is
incumbent upon it to realize the full sig
nifcance of the name under which it is
chartered-PuPlic Service Corporation.
Methods that beget riotng and anarchy
cloud that title.
An organization which confesses to the
possibility of bankruptcy surely cannot
afford to make costly "experiments.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
THE ROOT OF THE MATTER

THAT the Boston police strike should
= be discussed during the celebration of
the anniversary of the adoption of the
federal constitution was inevitable. That
strike was a blow at the democratic rep
resentative institutions set up by the
constitution.
Elihu Root, at the New York celebra-
ton, paid his respects to the Boston
policemen when he reminded his au-
dience that every officer, legislative, judi
cial, executive or military, is the servant
of all the people and that when any group
of men who have taken an oath to main
tain order and suppress crime refuse to
perform their duty unless permitted to
affiliate themselves with an organization
containing possibly per cent of the
population, they are attempting to set up
the rule of the per cent over the remain
ing 81 per cent. This is not democracy,
but Trotskyism.
This nation will never consent TO any
thing of this kind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
THE DEMOCRATIC sHRINkAoE

TlHE shrinkage of Democratic votes in
Tuesdays primaries signifies sane
Interpretation of municipal politics. So
far as the issues were directly involved,
national party lines were meaningless.
The tariff, Americas foreign policy,
government ownership, are questions un-
related to the choice of a Mayor for the
city of Philadelphia. The theme which
interested Republicans and the missing
Democrats alike was the termination or
continuance of contractor rule.
It is no wonder, therefore, that Mr..
Wescott, chosen by Il majority of the
$4,000 Democratic voters as a mayoralty
candidate, cuts an obscure figure. At
last local politics are being governed by
strictly local considerations.
\ This is healthy and sensible change.
Perhaps some day the parties here will
cease trading on national names. Unoffi-
cially, the nomenclature was without
subterfuge this time. 1t was a case of
pro-Vare or anti-Vare.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM;
LATEST STYLE

0H, IT'S lovely to feel as you sail on the
That the ocean is yours in it's entiretee,
That wherever you happen to hit on the
strand,
That spot is the same as your own native
land!
Oh, it may be the border of Timbuckteroo,
The haunt Of the knickknack, the knot and
the gnu,
Where Igloots and Izziuks don't give
darn.
But wherever it is, you will feel you're at
home,
And will just settle down, never after to
roam;
You will gas with the Madagascarians free,
Or pat Patagonians plump on the knee.
And your brethren, whoever they are, all
will grin,
And the cosmos will turn to and start in
to spin,
Till the metes and the bounds Of these
United States
Are quite lost in a blur that your soul
elevates.
Yes, whoever they are they will give the
high sign,
And you'll sniff at the breeze and absorb it
like wine,
And the stars in their courses will cluster
and group
Whilst all of you join in a world anthem
whoop.
Maurice Morris, in the New York Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
A PEACE CONFERENCE AT HOME

THE men whom the President has Sc
lected as representatives of the public
to confer with representatives of labor,
agriculture and banking are not quite so
representative as they should have been.
We do not wish to be hypercritical, but
it seems as if a man seeking conferees
with expert knowledge would have
| chosen several from this state, one of the
! greatest industrial states in the Union.
But unless Ebert H. Gary, of the United
States Steel Corporation, can be called
representative of Pennsylvania this
state has been overlooked entirely. 1t is
possible that the President may revise
his list and include some Pennsylvanians
before the conference finally meets in
Washington on October 6.
The purpose of the conference is for
the discussion of the labor situation in
the country and the possibility of formu-
lating plans for the development of a
new relationship between capital and
labor"
This is a worthy object. Men have
been talking about the relations between
capital and labor for many generations
anu ihNC IIOI ySI dIllNSu az dlly ClGdl
ideas about what constitutes either labor
or capital. With all the discussion, there
is disposition to assume that there is
no industrial conflict save between the
employers and the employed, and that if
this conflict could be settled all would be
peaceful.
But at bottom the war is not between
what are loosely called capital and labor.
1t is a war between conflicting selfish in
terests. The employe demands high pay
and shorter working day. The en-
ployer seeks to get labor at such a price
as will leave margin of profit for him.
He wants the margin to be as big as pos
sible. But this conflict of interest is only
part of the greater war that is going
on. The employers are fighting one an
other for the market in which to sell
their goods, and they are continually
troubled by the warfare going on in their
own factories and shops. There is the
same conflict of interest between COM
peting employers that there is between
the employers and the employees.
Then union labor is continually at war
with nonunion labor. The unions seek to
organize all the workers in as many
trades as possible in order to secure a
monopoly of the labor and to be able to
dictate to the employers the terms on
which it will work. And the nonunon
workers are selling their labor in the
best market they can find, regardless of
the wishes of the unions. There is COM
petition here between two groups of
labor with conflicting selfish interests.
The task of developing a new relation
ship between capital and labor is not
quite so simple as it might seem at first
blush. The President, who has given
some thought to the subject, is, of course,
aware of this, but he is calling the con-
ference in the hope that he can do some
thing to create the feeling that there
should be community of interest be-
tween employer and employed instead of
a conflict of selfish desires. The con-
ference deserves the good wishes of all
friends Of industrial peace.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19

own ward. the Twenty-sixth, majority
Of 1900 was assured in advance to any
Organization man. But the Twenty
sixth gave Judge Patterson only 1900
votes over Congressman Moore.
1t was general reaction of public
opinion that turned the political tide in
Philadelphia. Even to Varieties Vareism
had become intolerable. The city's way
is clear to the sort of government that
makes other communities clean and con-
tent and prosperous.
Let's 90
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
What Do You KnOtU?
QUIZ

1. What novel first brought Gabrielle
D'Annunzio to international notice?
2. What is the highest altitude ever reached
by man on the earth's surface?
g. Who attained it?
A. What is a marmot?
5. What is Cardinal Mercier's first name?
6. At what age did the poet Keats die?
z. Which is the largest of the Philippine
Islands?
s. What is the cofferdam of a ship?
o. Who is director general of the Pan
American Union?
10. In what weight do twelve ounces make
pound?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
Answers to Yesterdays. Quiz

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. Napoleon surrendered himself to the
British in 1916.
2. The Emden was the most successful of
the German commerce raiders in the
war.
8. Dion Boucicault wrote the comedy,
London Assurance"
4. The notorious French politician Call
laux has just been released from prison
on account of i'll health.
8. Sir Edward Burne- Jones was a cele-
brated English painter of the pre-
Raphaelite school. His dates are 1888
1898.
6. The largest river flowing into Che Pacific
on the American continent is the
Yukon. .
Z. The Dipper is the constellation of the
Great Bear.
s. Faience earthenware, porcelain of all
kinds The name is derived from
Faenza, an Italian town where the
ware was made.
0. StSgian darkness means that of the
lower regions. Stygian is the adjective
made from Styx, the river of the clas-
steal Hades,
10. Herbert G. Hoover was born in West
Branch, Iowa, in 1874,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
"A POETS MISTAKEN CHAMPIONS

ABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO appeals to
~ the France of Hugo, the England of
Milton and the America of Lincoln to
il tify his seizure of Fiume in the name
Of Italy. The invocation is melodramatic
and, like most melodrama, it is far more
showy than truthful
Milton was not of our times and it is
futile tax on the Imagination to pic
fure his handling Of the Croatian crisis.
But the attitude of the modern Hugo and
Lincoln upon open defiances of the law
is strikingly registered.
II was his adherence of Napoleon
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19

The community banquet to be given
Lieutenant Commander Alfred c. Read in
Atlantic City will be attended by ladies.
This may be partly due to the growing
strength of women in political affairs and
partly to the passing of John Barleycorn
as a supplementary guest of honor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19

Farmers are seeking a larger repre-
sentation at the federal industrial con-
gress. Labor has been given larger rep
resentation, though it raised hell gen
erally," complains the chairman of the
National Board of Farm Organizations,
"while agriculture has been loyal" While
stating the fact it may also be that the
gentleman has recited the reason.