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FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
Character. Strength and Integrity
BY DR.. BERTHoLD A. BAER

Near the City of Neenah, in the State Of Wisconsin
on point of land separating the Fox River from Lake
Winnebago, stood an old giant elm, commonly called
"the old council tree"
It was under its spreading branches that the chiefs
of every tribe gathered TO hold their council OF and
later made treaties with the white men,
Tradition tells that treaties made under 'the old
council tree held to be nvoate never being broken
and the huge old EN- became known thru the great
Northwest emblem Of character, strength and
integrity.
| was reminded Of this story when recently l was
introduced to Mrs A after funeral service at The
Funeral Church. Broadway at 66th Street
81 have known Mr. Campbell the founder-proprietor
of this Institution, for than twenty-five years
please do not ask me how old am, she added, smingy
IL have seen his place grow from small institution
on Twenty-thrd Street. from where my grandmother was
buried to the splendid edifce at Broadway and 66th
Street from where my dear mother carried to her last
resting place
"And when my call shall come, too shall be buried
from Campbels Funeral Church-and | have been
careful enough to mention this in my last will"
"How similar are the old council tree and Frank f.
Campbell" thought Both have developed from a
small seed into large, powerful factor"
For no institution will endure without them. no
individual will stand the test of man and time unless he
possesses them, and family will trust their dear de-
parted from generation to generation to one man. unless
he is like the old em emblem of character strenq and
integrity
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his address or tell where he was en-
ployed Mr.. Frayne said the Techni-
cal Men. as an a. +. OF L. body,
would work with the City and County
Public Service Union.
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~ RECORDS BROKEN.

EPTENIBER imports broke all records in the history
81 American trade, being greater than those Of the
enolshigh record month Gully, 1919 by $92 100000
81 almost one-oth our total imports for the entire calen
aryear 1913 nine months of which under protective
% On the other hand, the average rate of duty on all
imports for the month of September last was the lowest
Iseorded tour ports, being something under FIVE and
gsn-tent per cent, and realizing but $4,000 in
ustos revenues; In the month of September, 9l3 the
al month under the protective tariff, we imported $l7 =
100000 worth Of foreign goods, which paid INTO the
federal treasury Of the United States nearly $4,000 OOO
The imports for September paid the rate of duty pre-
Ealing Under the protective regime OUT treasury would have
,eed nearly $85, 100000 from the Federal customs
ole instead Of about 80 per cent of that During
BE nine months Of the current year we have imported
49, 0O,000worh Of foreign products, and al The rate
ey ss now coming in the debit side Of our trade ledger
81, 000 100000 for 1919. while the credit side
NIL continue to shrink.
With but two exceptions there has been steady increase
ony our imports since the first Of the year, beginning
win SO 100000 in January and ending with over twice
Hal September On the other hand, exports for Septem-
Sci decreased $53,00000o compared with the month
preceding, and $685., 100000 compared with the record
month Of June, the total for September being $593 00O,-
0o0 "a Balance Of trade which ran $685., 100000 in
sa fsyoF last June, had dwinded to $l5S,0O0.o0O in
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September, he lowest figure for any month since July,
1911 Ihese tremendous imports are already affecting our
ore Of metal piled Up during DE val, ioI while ws re
exporng On credit basis our sxporis gold md
silver NOV freely used IN exchange ezeeede our nv
pors If tEoss metals BY 1000 900 for tbs eght
months Of this year The foreigner gels our gold and SILVER
to pay for his goods We sci bis paper and Is his M
tenton 10 take up that paper with his goods This Is eco
nomincaIIy permissible to limited extent but under con-
nns policy Of free trade it would mean feshe Of for
e goods in the American market which would oyerwhen
American industries. /,
In fact we see taking place at this moment, with an
eyer4satherng momentum what was taking place before
the war IN Europe began in 19l4, when, under the Dem,
ocrac policy Of free trade trade balance. which had
ben recording monthly average Of about $50, 00O0OO
our favor, tuned to $f9o00o00 against US in August
when war orders from abroad once turned the scale
in our favor
Today there's job for every man who will work but
radical labor is on the rampage, while Europe particularly
Germany, is getting down to brass tacks and Japan and
China are multiplying their sales in the American market
BY three times the prewar basis. At this rate will mol
be long before the scale Turns against us, and foreign com
petition will effect what capital is loah to employ lock-
out Taxes Of course cannot be squeezed from bankrupt
industries Certainly the tariff remains live issue, and as
the Democratic party remains hidebomd in its opposition
to the protective principle it will remain for the Republl-
can party controlling congress and the presidency to make
certain return TO The protective principle. .. 4
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TRUTHS AND
{ TRAN ESTES
BIZ tn, Bard.
" th' Bard

'Tenshun!
1 see by the papers this morning
that all classes were dismissed at the
University this morning in celebra=
ton Of the victory over Princeton sat7
utrday., That is q great scheme to get
the student body pulling top the team,
| also see in the paper that carranza
has announced that he does not want
to be President again. That settles
ii. There have been rumors whispered
about that Carranza did not enjoy the
best OF mental health. But there is
now no question but that be is q sane
man. TO decline the presidency OF
Mexico is the sanest thing man conld
do. Funny isn't 1t how LIE tuany folks
are always expected to &c. soma
Joke every time there is lue.tt-oG
the presidency Of Mexico, DID 70.
also notice in this mornings issue o.
our esteemed contemporary the nice,
regular little Monday morning resume
and prophecy concerning certain in
dustries of our fair city? It's funnter
than anything j could write in this
column.
Parade Rest
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.PDLPII REFEREMES
10 TIE ROLL CALL
Big Cards Referring to It
Were On Display in
Churches.

The Third Red Cross Roll Call was
mentioned enthusiastically in all OF
the churches Sunday night and may
be epmhasiEed again next Sunday
night as the drive proper in Fairmont
starts next Saturday and continues
over >AFmistice Day,
Rev. n. G. Stoetger, OF the First
Presbyterian church, spoke Of the Folf
cali at both morning and evening ser
vices. Rev. Arthur Gee, pastor OF the
Peoples Temple, who vas present at
the meeting at the Court house last
Thursday night, and therefore famtl-
lar with the plans, spoke earnestly at
the morning service. Mrs. II. s; Hoi-
lipgsworth, Of Des Moipes, Iowa, sec
rotary of the Board of Foreign MIS-
sions of the M. 2. church, made adj
dresses, at the First N. B. church
Sunday morning and at the Diamond
Street church at night in which the
roll call appeal was prominent. AT
the Highland Avenue church 1900 :
White made a splendid talk and Y
was arranged for workers to meet at-
ter Sunday school next Sunday and
take up the work Of SOLICITATION,
Monster cards bearing the words,
pJoin the American Red Cross-All
You Ned is a Heart and q Dollar"
we're displayed at the Presbyterian,
First Methodist and Peoples Temple.
These came from Washington and
will be used in lodges during the
week or in store windows.
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RUFF STUFF


the miners need cold weather to
FR they ought to pass vote Of
hanks for the weather man,
poEn at Morgantown they probably
nc beginning to believe that the team
sreally as good as Stansbury said 1t
fas before the Pitt game.
But ii certainly has learned a lot
bout the game since that more or
memorable contest.
hot air could be made to take the
,laes Of coal the length Of the coal
trike would not make much differ
When You come to think of IL
shristmas is not so very far away.
Better begin to do some solid think
nc about the annual shopping cAoFe.
Some one has invented an instru-
nent Which shows the percentage OF
lcpAsl II liquors
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ART AND BOOZE.

Joseph PENNELL the illustrator, says that without
alcoholic drink there will be no art or poetry in Amer
Three great American poets were drinkers and 10 excess
One Of themwas Edgar Allen Poe But all abstaned
for very long periods and did all their work during total
satSOof sobriety One of Poes friends once said of him.
"One drink with him waslike hitting fine Swiss watch
with hatchet" Another of this group said himself that
drink Of h,key made any man feel too good to do any
work.
Walt Whitman, and whom the wets may claim not to be
poet was drnker to moderate degree in early years,
but he was physical giant said that liquor had little
or no effect upon him. and that he cared nothing for it
A great American novelist and playwright quit drinking
at his 50 year, wrote his drink confession for national
magazine and has since done what all critics agree to be
his best work Edwin Booth, the actor, was periodical
drnker in his early career but like the three poets first
mentioned was incapable Of any mental concentration after
One drink of brandy.
Three great American architects were drinkers. One
was an epicurean drnker who brought physical mall
ady as the result of it and from which he died in the mid
die of very brilliant career The two others were PERIOD
ical drinkers One did his best and most-mpoant work
previous to his 32d year and before he became dker
The third was so unreliable in the matter Of his engage
mens that he could not practice his art independently but
remained in the employ Of other architects. While be per-
sonally designed many important buildings in this country
including one of the two most successful buildings OF the
Chicago Worlds Fair, yet he received full public.
credit for them. J,
We are Inclined to think that belief in drink an aid
to artistic production is eusion Its effect the quality
Of art is highly questionable and it has certainly added
nothing to the quantity of art.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
MoNTeoMERY ANNOUNCES.

cHARL ESTON, oct. SO-tEditor
The West Yirginianl-on Tuesday,
MAY 25, 1920, candidates will be chos-
en- at the primary in West Virginia,
for ma tional, state and county OFFICES.
included among the candidates will be
those TO. Governor. The nominees
on the respective tickets will then
enter into the campaign with all tho
energy and ability IN their power.
/ am a candidate for the Re9Ibli-
can nomination for governor and am
presenting my cause to the people
and expect to stay in till the votes
are counted.
the primary should be SO conducted
that the PARTY will be strengthened
and not weakened, thus assuring en-
trance into the campaign and general
election with a united front.
Conferees have met in and out of
the state fer the purpose Of selecting
a candidate for each office, but with
special reference to that of Governor
1t is regrettable to know that a little
group Of men are trying to narrow the
field by seeking to determine who
shall be permitted to place their
name on the Republican ballot.
ForgetfnI of their former actions
which caused defeat, they are pursu-
ing the same tactics, demonstrating
by their willfulness that they would
prefer to see the party Of Lincoln, Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt obscured in the
battle of ballots, than to witness the
defeat Of their "hand-picked" candi-
dates.
The Republican vote in the Pres
idential election was 14S,194 and it is
10 these that the bakers dozen have
the arrogance and impudence to die
tate. II is stupid thing which does
not discomfort me in the least, but
only strengthens the confidence OF
those who support me IN my ahllity
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What People . Say
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and soneside Remarks.

viii Phillips, who spent his boyhool
days in Fairmont, was down this weel
from Grafton, where he has lived TO
90 years, and commented upon what I
happening:
81 see the Old Fellows went out I
and shucked Will Pricket's corn.
That was the spirit thar was in
evidence around here in the oldenj
days-before the dollar was set
before everything else. When II
was young 1t was common for
neighbors to turn out and help
shuck the corn of one Of the mem
bers Of the community and it was
the rule to do it If there was need
of help as was the case with Bill
Prickett, who could not hire a man
for,1oYe or money"
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soME STATLSTICS.

IE u. S. Department Of Labor is responsible for
some statistics on the famiys cost Of living. A
budget for family suggested Included is some more
i s:s healthy advice on how long we should wear our
clothes
While ii appeav all right for the wife to wear her sum.
ne but one season, she should make her winter hat
Is for Two IS years Her winter coat should last
IL tres years Her winter dress two years. and her kid
gloves Two years, An umbrella should stay by her TOR
ree years Please bear in mind that these suggestions
.ornes from Uncle Sam, not from the editor.
Fhs husband ought to wear his Tanc9at SIX years. his
o prepare to laugh) he ought to carry the same UNI
three yeas Ever hear Of an umbrella that stuck
o man that long9
When Il comes 10 little boys the department is more lib
sfaI They are allowed three pairs of pants year
s 81 stockings each month and five pairs of shoes Be-
iide every little boy is permitted to have every pair Of
hoes repaired and resoled every year.
This is what we call rank favontism to little boys We'll
I'll Secretary Wilson is making this play to get himself in
old with the little boys. What cares he if ma has to
last winter hat7 Or if pa wears his OvercOat
81 The vintage of 1915?
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This guy seems to have been little
late in arriving.
Ten years ago he might have made
a fortune out of this.
Now he probably could not sell the
things even to the dusky merchants
on Jackson street.
OF course 1t might be useful to
druggists who want to know how much
booze some Of their popular remedies
contain.
All classes were called OF down at
the University today.
If they lose the w. & ]. game all
Morgantown probably will go into
mourning and the trains will not be
allowed to stop there.
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Plans for the trial of the eKaiser are nearing COM
pletion dispatches from Paris say, and Holland sooR
will be asked to surrender him to the Allies This will
bring to an issue one of the most interesting well
important legal points growing out of the great war and
the outcome Of it will be watched with particular in
terest in this country.
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to win. Surely the time has arrived
for the elimination Of factional strife
and party differences.
The slogan Of the Republican or
ganization from the national cpmmit-
teemal to precinct committeeman
should be hands Off" If the party
organization" discriminates between
candidates in the primary, 1t cannot
nope to unite the party in the cleo
titn. \
Let all who desire to enter the race
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GOING TO SIBERIA.

William K. schaefer, Jr, Of 209 New.
ton street, left at six O'Clock this morn
ing for CamplDix I'M New Jersey and
leaves there November lS for Siberia.
He has beep-in the service three years
and eleven months having entered
WIN he was but fifteen years of age
He was in France Yor 20 months and
II days.\ He has been. at Fairmont
on furlough visiting his father o:
the same name.
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Sugar is II cents pound and milk "a cents quart
in London Price conditions are pretty bad here, but
this shows that they might be worse. When you get
right down to an examination Of the facts the people of
this country are pretty well off.
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At this time last year the end of the warwas in sight,
but not many people realized the trouble which the re-
construction would bring u.s. But ew egetttng along
pretty we'll and in spite Of everything We probably will
be back to normal before another year slips around
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Thousands of people are dying daily of starvation IN
Petrograd, according to dispatches which coming
out of Russia The most remarkable thing about this
state Of affairs is that practically every one of these
deaths is unnecessary. This country for months has
stood ready to help the Russians if they would give
chance.
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Parade RestI
Mary says a healthy dam"
Will often give relief.
While soIace very rarely comes
When one gives way to grief,

Present ArmsI
The Girl In The office says she at.
tended church last evening with Irvine
Huntington and he told her he was q
confirmed monogamist and she was
very surprised for she thought that
every one who held that belief was
compelled to live in Utah,
Ground Arpns
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Today it Is expected the senate will fix upon date
for the final vote ON the peace treaty This will be
popular move The public is tired of the debate on this
question and now that It knows what is going happen
it wants the matter brought to an end.
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There is one gratifying side to the great coal strike,
and that is the good feeling the part of the strikers
There no show of bitterness and there is every
to believe that there will be no violence in this region
at least.
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Gloves were used as far hack as the
time Of the cave dwellers, but they
we're not worn by all classes Of peo-
pie until the sixteenth century
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Urbana, O., claims credit for orig.
mating the business tenn 20. K"
when a political banner leading, 1.-THE
People is OH Korrect, Twas displayed
in its streets during ythe campaign Of
1870.
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But the commissioners thought diff
ferently. Don't get excited" they
told the packers representatives. I'VE
have no orders and do not intend to
buy for three months"
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Then the British sent over a buying
commission to purchase meat for the
food control body and the packers
thought the time had come for "a tise
IN prices again.
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Those persons who have been ex=
perimentipg with some Of the late
popular home made drinks are reyis=
ing the adage to read Evil to him
who evil drinks"
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Natural raw gas is frozen to Sls de-
grees below zero to extract helIam, 4
non -intlammabls gas lighter than hy-
dFegea.
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From a short story-"Bill let out
string Of oatAs." They looked like
this we presume:
oaths
oaths
oaths
oaths
oaths
naths
oaths
oaths
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All Hands on DeckI
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH DRY
AND MARRIED.
After writing the above head TIL
Bard came to the realization that it
could not be done. He offers profuse,
apologies for raising false hopes.
Return to Quarters!
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be given agsquare deal, and when the
votes are counted, Z united RsPubii-
can party will give loyal support 20
the nominee, thereby ilsurtlg victory.
Respectfully yours
sAM'L. B. MONTGOMERY.
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MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 3, l919.
! INVERTEBRATES GREED.

upon Jiose PRINCIPLES Of Teed0m, eqlaE-
NJ iasfes, and humanity for phich american patriots
aerfced hel pc, and fortunes therefore believe i
no dty my country 10 love il; 10 support lis Consdu-
io; 10 obey is aps; to respect It's flag; and 70 defend
agdtn;t all enemies
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-26

became inevitable. They debated in
rival groups for the credit Of having
brought the miracle to pass.
Elder statesmen everywhere still are
obdurate. Mr.. Penrose and Mr.. Knox
view the progress of suffrage sentiment
in Washington and at Harrisburg with
woeful eyes. They are accepting the ex-
tension of the franchise about as the
Germans accept the terms of peace. They
will tell you that women will not know
what to do with the vote after they
get it.
Perhaps women will not know what to
do with the vote. In Chicago, for exam
Pile, they are charged with having voted
in supine and unthinking obedience to
their men and thus swung the city into
the control Of the powers of darkness.
But this represents no adequate indict-
ment of the cause as whole. Indeed, If
the first years of equal suffrage should
bring failure and confusion to the newly
enfranchised women no one need be sur
prsed. Women voters need practiced
leadership and they will have to have
time to develop it. They have shown no
disposition to form an independent
party and have thus revealed the instinct
of political wisdom. since independent
parties formed in the interest of one class
always fail for the simple reason that
all other factions unite against them on
general principles.
1t may be predicted that the feminine
vote will drift to one party or another,
but it is not likely ever to be as solidly
bound within party lines as mems votes
are. Women unquestionably have a
cause. They wish to have voice in re-
visng and administering the laws affect
ing them and their children.
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AN AID TO SPLIT TICKETS

THE purpose of the Woodward bill to
- provide for counting every ballot
which indicates clearly the intention of
the voter is good.
Heretofore when voter has marked in
the party square and made another mark
opposite the name of candidate of an
other party the ballot has not been
4 counted because the voter technically
voted for two candidates for the same
Office. 1t was clear, however, that the
voter intended to vote for all the candi-
dates in the party column save those for
which he had voted in another column.
Under the Woodward bill it will be
easy for an elector to split his ticket with
out having his ballot thrown out. Every
Independent favors such a law. Machine
politicians who are opposed to split tick
cts have always opposed such statute
. 1t has been charged that unscrupuious
ballot clerks when counting the votes
have surreptitiously made marks in va
rious squares on a ballot cast against
their party so that that ballot might be
thrown out as defective. The bill would
remove this temptation. 1t is in the in
terest Of honest and fair elections