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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-24

1t is announced that an international committee Of
bankers. consisting Of ten Americans five Englishmen
and five Freedmen has been formed for the purpose
getting reliable information regarding the financial
lines of that country This Is Of job than the
bankers probably suspect for no even in Mexico
knows the real facts However. 1t is to be hoped that
the committee will be successful for when 1t is deter
mined what conditions are plans for rebuilding Mexico
that have possibility Of working out may be made.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-24

"You will pull down the long walls, quit all
the cities you are possessed Of and keep within
the bounds Of Attica. On these conditions you
shall have peace, provided you pay what is
reasonable, and restore the exiles. AS for the
number Of ships you are to keep. you must
comply with the orders we shall give you.''
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-24

A few weeks went By. And It seems they had the same
trouble about armices those days that we have now.
Lycande sent the Athenians message warning them that
they had violated the terms Of their capulaton for their
ing them was passed. and that since they had broken the
first articles. they must expect new ones form the war cou-
ell.
Which shows that armsices then as now require amend
ment. A good reliable amtce like clock and needs
winding.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-24
NOT ALL OUR HISTORY IS NEW.

\X/E think we are making history. Maybe we are
w But not all Of it is as new as some Of US imagine
Taking a. glance through Plutarch's Lives, we find
between Sparta and Athens Lycandcr was the Marshal
Foch Of the Sparans and he handed the Athenians an
amisdce TO sign. It read:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-24
Wednesday, Feb. 2e.
Thursday, Feb. 81

Basketball Fairinont Y. M. q. A.
vs. Wesleyan College d, Fatr1nont
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saturday, March

Basketball Fairmont High rs.
Grafton q Fairmnnt.
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Tuesday Feb. rs.

on Coal company.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27

make an effectual disturbance. The organized
labor the world over that has not been striking
or threatening to strike appears to be exception
al. 1t is fairly epidemic, and unless it subsidies
reaction from that also is inevitable.
Getting more stable condition through a
decrease in industrial activity and an increase in
idle hands is>a costly process that every inteli-
gent person wants to avoid, but an epidemic of
strikes will finally force such reaction
Developments in the last few days seem to in
dictate that trend against the calling of strikes
has set in. Labor leaders themselves are begin
ming to see that the welfare of labor is init
mately connected with continued operation of the
plants as is the welfare of capital. And the pub
lic usually the greatest sufferer from a strike,
is making it's opposition felt in no uncertain
terms.
\ American common sense has kept this coun-
try from many disasters in the past. 1t seems
that it is beginning to assert itself with renewed
potency in the solution of our industrial problem.
American methods sound in principle and
practice Their application to the industrial
problem will bring restoration of industrial
peace and prosperity in which all of us will
share.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
One of H. P. Dawson Secrets Out

Do you have as sensible an attitude toward
your present duties? Or are you promising your
self that, while you are not now exertng your
self to the limit you will make the world sit up
and take notice some fine day by and by? Is
what you are doing now calculated to fit you for
and lead you to higher place? Or do you feel
that your job is not important enough to demand
your maximum effort? H. P. Dawson, the fore
most Morgan & Company partner, once told a
writer for Forbes Magazine, when he asked him
how he succeeded in making such phenomenal
progress that from the first day that he entered
country bank he regarded his job as the most
important job in the world, to him. When he was
made bookkeeper, then keeping his books right
became the most important job in creation. AL
ways, too, he coached the fellow lower down how
to succeed him and then sought to master the job
ahead of him. But Mr.. Dawson didn't do the
thing in hand half-heartedly, flatterng himself
that by and by he would have position worthy
of his utmost endeavors. He did his level best
as he went along.
The moral would appear to be simply this
Get on friendly terms with your station in life
fill your place to the limit of your capacity, be
cheerful over it-and the future will shape itself
all right for YOU
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
Everybody on the lob Now

Now is the time for all good Americans to get
busy. This is not the time to sit down and rest.
Conditions everywhere in this land show that the
man who loves his country ought to be working
on his job might and main.
The world needs goods in unprecedented
quantity. Our own land is suffering from lack
of sufficient cloth. coal, steel and the thousands
of articles that enter into our household econo-
mics and our business enterprises.
We cannot accomplish this by merely assert
ing that it must be done or ought to be done. We
must set an example. Let thousands of men get
the idea of increased production and we will
speedily solve the problem. So long
tent ourselves with reading statistics showing
how woefuy our production has fallen off, no in
creased output Will overcome the deficiency.
Action must be the watchword.
Every idle hour, every day devoted to strike.
means so many hours of productive labor wasted
and irrevocably beyond recall. This is not theo-
retical statement but an actual fact that leaders
of labor themselves admit. All of us are begin
ming to see that we are victims of the same con-
dition, and that the only way out is by catching
up with the demand for goods through increased
production.
The people of the old world astonished
at the way in which wound up the war What
was the quality of our boys and our army organi-
cation that enabled US to complete the JOB in
record time? The answer is unbounded energy.
The doughboys put energy into the job In a
military sense they did what we now must do in
an economic and industrial .way-speed up the
work.
Boundless push and energy that knows no
rest brings results. The American spirit of en-
ergy has accomplished wonderful things in the
past. If all of us will now apply this national
energy to the task of the day, the production of
our industries will soon enable us to the
deficit of goods that today worry and un-
rest
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
Reactions

For more than two years here and more than
four years in Europe the most restless and ener-
getic part of the human marched in lock
step-submitting to discipline and RECOMMENDATION
such as mankind broadly speaking, had had no
experience of BEFORE says the Saturday Evening
Post.
"A natural reaction came. When the weight
was removed the spring recoiled proportionately
to the compression. Loosely speaking nobody
wanted to listen to Authority, nobody wanted to
be bound by anything, everybody wanted to
shout, tip something over, cut loose and-espe-
cially--go on strike 1t was natural reaction.
Even if there had been no particular disgust with
Authority, because it was helpless to save the
world from an utterly stupid war and because of
its muddles peace, there would still have been a
good deal of the same turbulence.
1T affects organized wage labor particularly
because that is near the center of gravity of the
human mass and is in peculiarly good position to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
FOREIGNERS IN THE STRIKE

From the Munce Press
A TTENTION is being called to the fact that the
"A orders for the steel workers TO strike sent
- A out different languages and that the ma
orty strikers foreignb persons and largely
unnaturazed They declared to be alien in speech,
n thought and action Many Americans are among them,
Of course through Of circumstances and because
they realize the extent to which this strike
go in producing want misery and in fostering
Americanism.
President Wilson. very belatedly. began urging the
employer employed hold off their strike until
the conclusion October industrial
conditions. nevertheless he did this thing
Doubtless they that in
merely has given ordered be given, whatever was
asked without question and the strikers had the right
10 suppose way other he would arrange
give them what they wish in this matter when they
discovered that able do this Immediately,
they blandy forgot all the favors he had done them in
the past and boldly dsregarded his for time
And SO there begun this struggle whose end none
can except that anybody predict that usual
the public from it while the two factions
contending.
One of the leaders, the head organizer of these
men, is said to have identified with the l. W. W.
both America and Europe and yesterdfJ he boldly an
that of an organizer, h, is not steel worker and will
go from this piece of business the next kind OF agta
ton of the same kind that Develops as the pre-
ent strike comes He declared to be thorough
" and it is believed that of the loyal
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
CUT THIS OUT
IL Is WORTH MONEY

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27

the royal Wanderer at the court of
King Alcinous and Queen Arete and
the tale of his adventures since leav-
ing Calypso's isle. The King is moved
and promises to help the stranger on
his way. A feast is held; the court
bard sings of Troy-the stranger
weeps; the King presses him to tell
him story. 1t was a wondrous tale he
had to tell the like of which was never
heard before or since. Beginning with
the fall Of Troy, he had made his
course to Thrace, to the Lotus-eaters,
to the land of the Cyclops, when be-
fell the adventure with Polyphemus,
whose one eye he put out; next the
trying experience with the perverse
winds of Aeolus, with the Laestrygon-
ians, and with the enchantress Gree,
, rho turned med her 7 Visitors into swine
which set the fashion for Virgil and
for Dante and all the others who have
essayed that great adventure. The
Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and
other adventures brought the tale up
10 Calypso once more.
AlcinOus and the Phaeacians sent
Odysseus on his way to his home at
Ithaca. But his old enemy Poseidon
turned the ship to stone, and the wan
derer reached home alone, in the guise
of an old beggar-man, where he arrived
as his son Telemachus was returning
from his travels.
Then began the thrilling tale of the
wiles and guiles to win his own from
the suitors who had taken his place,
the harbor of refuge with faithful old
Eumaeus, the swine-herd, the recogni-
ton by Telemachus, the death of the
true old dog Argos on sight of his long
absent master, the interview with
Penelope. the recognition by his old
nurse who knows him by a scar upon
his leg, the final great trial of strength
between the old beggar-man and the
! suitors; they cannot even bend the
famous bow Of Eurytus; he, however,
| strings it with ease and sends an ar
row singing through the holes of
twelve battle-axes, set up one behind
another.
At that instant the beggar-man
/ throws off his disguise and with Tele
machus and only two faithful followers
Stays the evil suitors, wins back his
true wife who has waited patiently all
these long years, and hastens to greet
his old father Laertes.
Impossible romance I dare say. Yet
one of the most human stories ever
| told
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1.-THE Aeneid," by Virgil, as con
densed by Professor William Fenwicl
Harris, will be printed Monday.
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worth while? Is there a reward for
such struggle?
Knock the dust from the cover of
your old family Bible and read Matt.
6; 1884 and believe.
A Suggested Program.
Three hymns of the christian life:
report of the information committee,
society business; a hymn sung by a
male quartette, some especially vigor-
Gus hymn; Scripture reading; leaders
remarks; prayer by the president:
general participation; the pastors five
| minutes; sentence prayers; benedic-
ton.
To think about-What weakness
have We overcome? How did we do It?
How can We develop an all-round char
acter? What are we training for? II
you want a debate-resolved that
physical training is more important
than mental development.
Points for purposeful prayers
Thank God, first, for the opportunity
of physical, mental and spiritual de-
velopment: for the training that is Of
for a will power that makes possible
the highest development of all our
faculties.
Ask God-First, for help in develop
! ing our powers; second, to help our
crippled soldiers and sailors develop
their MANNED bodies that they may be
useful and happy citizens; third, TO
| help us to put behind us lusts, false
ambition, pride and selfishness that We
may know true humility.
| Next topic-"Our relations to others.
| toward world brotherhood. Luke 10;
| 1851; conservation meeting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
WORSE THAN FUTILE

From the Kansas City Times.
The revolt against giving England six votes to
Americas in the assembly of the
Nations merely touches the fringe of the
The fundamental trouble is in trying stage
civilization to bind nations of all ages and
morals in rigid orga nization.
l. won't work!
1t is than futile to bring the United
International organization where it vote
while Liberia Bolivia Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Hedaz
Panama and Siam each has vote. 1t is than
futile to attempt to FORM in the council of the lea
joint committee of nine to regulate the affairs
world 1t is than futile to attempt pledge this
government to subject the Monroe Doctrine
tudes of European intervention.
1t is than futile do things they
would involve the country in all the quarres Europe
and Asia, else would in the position of breaking
its word and repudating its obligations
With amendments and reservations the league can
lie made harmless for evil But the frank and straight
forward hing to do would be to reject altogether
the words of the senate committee foreign relations:
The United States the of peace best
she has served it in the past, and do
liberty and civilization throughout the world by proceed
ng along the paths she has always followed and by
permitting herself to be etered by the dictates
nations immersed apd enanged in all the brois and
conflicts of Europe"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
Masonic Calendar

Monday, Sept 29-Richmond Com
mandery No. s Knight Templars. So
cial evening for the members and
their families. to 1870 p. m. All So
journing members and their families
are welcome.
Tuesday, Sept. 30-Richmond Lodge
No. 1876 F. G A. NJ. called meeting.
Work in Fellow. Craft degree, n. J..
Haas, w. M.
Wednesday. Oct. webb Lodge
No. "a F. & A. M. called meeting. Work
in Master Mason degree. beginning 3
o'clock. Supper $50. Clarence w.
Foreman, w NJ.
Thursday, Oct.\ 2-Wayne Council
No. 10. R. & S. NJ. stated assembly
and work Light refreshments.
Friday, Oct. 3-King Solomon
chapter, No. 4, r. A. NJ, called con-
vocation. Work in Royal Arch degree.
Saturday. Oct 4-Loval Chapter No.
40 O f s. Stated meeting
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and noble women, so the Odyssey is
the first great novel of adventure
in strange parts, Of miscreants tn
warted and brought to justice by the
hero who in the end comes to his
own and rescues the true Wife who
bides at home and waits the trium-
plant return of him who shall free
her from the trials that beset her.
The Greeks started the modern
world going. AS with Icarus they
thought Of the flying man. with Aga
memnon of wireless biography in the
message he sent leaping across the
sea from Troy to Argos in the flames
upon the hill-tops, and with Odysseus
of the motion-picture in the vision of
al past men and women who fitted
before his eyes on his trip to the low
er world. SO, too. they introduced US
to practically every form Of human
expression. The prose-romance came
late in their development. The novel
and the short story as they knew
them for centuries were embodied in
the Iliad and Odyssey.
Whether one poet wrote the Had
and the odyssey has been a question
that has busted many thousands of
minds. The perfect form in which
they have come down to US proves
clearly that many centuries contri-
buted to the perfecting of the literary
style in which they are written. The
discussions over the "Homeric Prob
lem" have laid the basis for literary
and biblical criticism in modern
scholarship.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
Wanted-2OO Live Wires.

" duIGu-LOU Law w lISS
To attend the banquet at the Grace
Methodist Episcopal church, Wednes-
day, October 8. at GAS p. m. Get
tickets from the president Of your
society. At 7:45, the biggest, best and
most enthusiastic Young Peoples
rally that Richmond has ever witness
ed will be in full swing. Everybody,
young and old, is invited. DR.. o. T.
Deevers, man that knows young
peoples work and makes his hearers
want to know more about it, is eX-
pected to speak to us. Don't fail to
hear him.
Collect all the old clothes in your
neighborhood and take them to the
rally. The chilly blasts are about due,
and there are needy people that can
make good use of those clothes that
you will fatten moths on.
Don't forget the expert training
class that will be started next month.
Line up for members.
A special invitation is extended to
! the young people of the Lutheran
churches to attend the banquet and
rally.
Motto-For Christ and Church.
Topic for September %: The Chris
tian Athlete and His Training"
| Cor. =; 1927.
Hints for the Leader.
Practically every part of our physi-
cal body is strengthened by use. II
! for any reason We remain without eX-
ercise for several weeks, the muscles
! become flabby and useless. The rules
that apply to the physical, do in most
cases, apply to the moral, mental and
! spiritual 1t can then be readily
seen that to be without exercise in
any faculty is to put it out of working
order.
No chain is stronger than its weak
est link. To be lacking in any point,
is to invite disaster there. That is
the reason a baseball player who finds
it difficult to hit ball. practices bat
ting. 1t does not matter how clever
ly he can throw, or how expert he has
become at catching, if he cannot hit
a ball, he's a poor ball player
Now the question is, how can we
train ourselves so as to be Christian
athlete? The answer is simple, but
in fairness we must admit that the
putting of the answer into practice is
much harder, and determination is A
necessary requirement. The lusts anC
questionable desires of our bodies
must be beaten into submission, and
their places should be substituted with
Christian thought and real humility
toward God.
Ambition, when it is for self glory
or exaltation is unworthy of ony true
Christian; it therefore, should be
crushed in infancy.
Pride, which preceedeth destruction
should not be allowed to steal in anC
inhabit your body, 1t means your
downfall.
Selfishness. which is the root of all
evil, is the most common and universal
of all our weaknesses. 1t probably is
and in my opinion it is, the founda
ton of most sins. 1t creeps in under
= such a heading as: Do Others Before
They Do You, which is a damnablt
parody on the beautiful command: d.
unto others as you would have them d.
unto you.
In short. the training of the Chris
tian athlete, is the fight waged against
the weaknesses of the flesh. Is i
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27

WEEKEND THOUGHTS

will to us
noble feeling
unfolding or
sweeening
a a while thing, do
build atmosphere OF
spired life
thing mistakes. But they
learn
o from
world it is worth
There always before be much
Nothing greay-n IS
has said first hundred HARDEST" night
things look different than they did in the morning
No-don't talk
Is a
cess.
to n al may and
glad-to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
COLE CO. TO EXPAND.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 27.-Officials
of the Cole Motor Car Company, have
completed plans for an enlargement OF
their present factory site at Washing
ton and Davidson streets to more than
twice its present size in order TO &C
commodate a greatly increased prOduC-
ton of passenger cars beginning with
1920
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
Memories Of Old DAYS
In This Paper Ten Years
AGO Today

The last sessions of The Indiana
Yearly Meeting of Friends for 1909
We're held at the East Main Street
church.
Practically all of the local merchants
announced that they would have a
float in the Fall Festival parade.
The formal opening of the fall and
winter terms of the local Y. M. c. A
was held.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
Young Peoples
Union

This space will be devoted to the
advancement of Young Peoples So
cieties of this county, and will be
devoted to lesson helps. interesting
news, and everything pertaining to
young peoples work.
MottO-For Christ and The Church.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
What Other Editors Saw

Americans among strikers awakening to the fact
that he and several other leaders like him their
hearts the disruption of the government serving
of their political rather than the
benefit of the workingmen they profess represent
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
WHY LIMIT 1T TO SUFFRAGE?

BrInin CHAM Age Herald.
Anti-suffragsts point to Chicago horrible ex-
ample what will happen town where women are
allowed to vote.
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Condensed Classics of Famous Authors
HOMER
III.

1t the charm Iiad
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WHO MENTIONED "NATioNAL HoNoR?"


In the matter of buying back American citizens held
by Mexican bandits Uncle Sam perhaps that the
first hundred the hardest.
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where DID HE STUDY ARITHMETIC?


cynical critic writes to suggest that Mr. Wilson
against government by minority except in league
where vote is only equal to six.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-27
DON'T HEAR ANY LOUD WEEPING

Chicago News.
General Ludendorffs postmortem report on German
Imperialism reveals clearly that nobody ought TO
mourn the deceased