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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
.NO-ACCIDENTDR|VE
Of R.&D.R.R. GOES.
.TOlNON0NGBH DIV..

Information was received in Fair.
mont today that the Monongah divi-
sion of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road had COPIED first prize in the
no-accident campaign. The word was
received here in a wire from B. q.
Holverstott, assistant superintendent
Of the Monongah division, to Ernest
Bartlett, trainmaster at the local sta
ton. Details Of the campaign which
extended from June 8 to August 81
inclusive. Efforts will be made to
rank first in the campaign for the
months of September, October and
November which is now on. 1t Is
with a great deal Of pride that the
local B. & o. railroad employees learn
that through their efforts as well as
those on other sections Of the diyi-
sion the Monongah ranked first OF all
those Of the eastern hnes-o the Bal
tlmore and Ohio system. The Mo-
nongah division is regarded TO be one
Of the most difficult divisions to rail-
road and this reflects much credit
upon G. w. Van Horn, Grafton, SUPER
intendent, and his efficient staff Of
officers and employees in general Mr..
Van Horn has been frequently con-
graduated by coal operators in the
Fa1rmont region upon coal movement
recently. For weeks the Monongah
division had been leading and the
news that it was a winner was not
unexpected.
Stanley Ennis, Baltimore, general
manager of the eastern lines of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, arrived
in Grafton this morning on train 8,
and was expected to arrive here on
train 43 from Grafton, but did not
come 1t is believed that he will Wis
1t Fairmont either today or tomorrow
although definite information as to
his itinerary is lacking.
Two coke cars became derailed on
the Mopongahela Railway at Tall
bots siding, near townsville, Monon-
gailia county, last evening at $3.50
O'Clock on the lFairmont coal train.
and passengers on train so did not
arrive in Fairmont until 1880 this
morning. The track was torn up for
fifty feet. The Fairmont wreckers
responded and relaid the track and.
replaced the coke cars.
]. r. Mcdonald, Of Clarksburg, al
brakeman, stepped off car at Robey
mines along the short line Of the b.
& o. railroad last evening at Ill
o'clock and ruptured vein in one
of his feet, He will be incapacitated
for some time.
Captain H. NJ Crawford Browns
vile, Pa, supervisor az the Mononga.
hela Railway, was in Fairmont yes
terday.
Dining car service on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad between Fairmout
md pittsburgh has been quite popu'
lar, according to travelling folks. They
oil praise the service given by w, i
Detwiler, the steward, Of Fairmont
He runs on trains So and 20 over the
F. M. & p. branch.
J.. M. Scott, general superintendent
OF the West Virginia district of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, passed
through Fairmont on train Sc today.
He is bound for Grafton to meet Cen
eral Manager s. Ennis.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Grade School Students
Are Going Right UP

A very large percentage Of the
students who finished the eighth
grades of the schools Of Fairmont In
dependent school district entered
High school this year. The percen-
tage is the largest on record and is
most gratifying to school officials.
Out Of the 100 pupils that complet-
ed the grade work 81 5-10 per cent
entered the high school. Of this
number 80 $40 entered the Fairmont
High school and five percent else
where. OF the few who completed
the grade work and did not enter
school one went to work In q local
mercantile establishment, one went to
Arizona to reside, Another is III at
this time and expects to enter school
upon his recovery, and one did not
enter whose reason for doing so has
not been ascertained.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
THREE MEN STABBED.
IN cleveland RIOT
(By Associated Press)

CLEVELAND, Sept. 24-Three
men were stabbed, two probably fatal
ly, and tw others were badly beaten
near the entrance of the American
Steel and Wire Company, Newburg
plant, this morning in the first sert-
Gus local disorder of the steel strike.
The trouble broke oft when street
car stopped near the plant to let off
men bound for work at the mills.
Among those who got off the car
were three negroes. Strike sympa-
thizers sought totstop them from go
ing to work, according to the police,
and two OF the negroes drew knives.
"A general fight ensued in which
many men Of the vicinity Of the plant
Joined. When the police reached the
scene they found three men had been
stabbed, probably fatally,
The negroes returned to the street
car for shelter. The car was pur-
sued by hundreds Of strikers and was
bombarded with bricks and stones
and the three men were seized and
beaten. Police rescued two of them
and the third escaped.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Property Salesto
Muto Bros Illegal

The Supreme Court has refused the
appeal In the Muto. case This de-
cision will be OF special Interest &c
East siders who held Indignation
meetings several months ago because
Frank Amos sold property % the
three Muto brothers, Iteiians Abou'
40 neighbors comp aimed saying thai
according 70 the deed given BY the
Land Company which disposed Of the
property in the first place no land
in certain location could be sold
to Hlngarians, Polanders 81 Italians
The case finally came before the Cir
cult Court. This court decided that
the provisions Of the deed were con-
trary to the 18th amendment of tie
United States and against ihe tfe9lj
beweep Italy and this country. THE
Supreme court to which an appea.
was taken refused me appeal which
means that the decision 81 the Cir
cult Court hold good:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Superintendent Of
Schools to Meet Here

A conference for city, county and
district superintendents Of schools viii
be held in this city on the afternoon
and evening Of Wednesday, November
26. The call for the convention was
issued by Morris P. shawkey Of the
State department Of schools OF
Charleston who will be present on this
occasion. Approximately 200 super
intendents will be present for this con-
ference which prob ably win be held in
the Faifniont hotel though no arrange
ments have been made as yet In this
regard. gal
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Carnegie Company Reports That Men
Are Returning to Work at
Some Of Their Plants
NEVBURG THE SCENE OF SERIOUS RI0IINR
Shooting Clubbing and stabbng Feature Disorders 81
Last Night and Today With Danger Of,
Clashes Imminent.

the unions, who reiterated his as SER
ton Of yesterday that the Strike was
spreading.
The situation around Chicago ~
more definite than that in the Penn
sylyanai region. A majority Of the
mills are closed down and those
which are stih operating are doing
so with reduced forces.
The threatened sympathetic striist
of the Lake Seanlen seemed nearei
as the result Of the refusal 81 the
crews of eleven ore freightars @
dock their vessels.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Farrell is Quiet
Today After Riot.

FARRELL, Pa, Sept. 24-Al-
though all was quiet here to-day fol-
lowing last nights outbreak in which
one man was killed and several per-
sons were injured the situation was
tense.
State police and large number Of
deputy sheriffs were patrolling the
streets within the riot zone.
Among the armed deputy saeriffs
put on the streets were about fifty ne
groes. Their presence has aroused a
feeling of the foreign element and
race rioting is now feared.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
(Bu Associated Prcss)

CHARLESTON, Sept. 24-Don
Chain, deputy sheriff Of Logan coun-
ty, here to make the arrest Of a man
wanted for trial in Logan county was
shot and seriously wounded here to-
day in the offices Of the headquarters
Of district No. IL, United Mine Work
ers of America, by vice president Pc
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
.0HIl STEEL PLANTS
COMPLETELY
Victory Of Unions IS
Lutte in THAI
State
(Bu Associated Peso

Nv associated l2feSs
YOUNGSTOWN, Sept "a With
every steel plant in the Mahoning
Valley closed down and extreme quiet
prevailing, attention here today was
directed to the meeting Of ths ma
tional strike committee il Pitts
burgh
Besides considering plans TOR fin
ancing the strike the committee IS
expected 70 take action on matters
of vital interest 70 local concerns,
particularly to the relations between
the American Federation d abor
union of unskilled men aud the Am
algamated Association Of mon and
Tin Workers.
COLUMBUS, Sept. "a. tie third
day Of the nation wide steel strike
found ohio's three great steel cen
ters at Youngstown, Cleveland and
Steubenville completely para ysed
Union leaders claim that more than
$4,000 steel workers are out of work
in Ohio because Of the strike
Cleveland reported the fifst riot
ing of the strike there. Four men
were stabbed, two probably fatall &
and two others were badly beaten ~
the entrances of the American Steel
and Wire Company plant 81 Newburs
No trouble Of any kind was re-
ported in the Youngstown or steu-
benvtlle districts. Children were
reported about the entrances 10 the
mills at youngstown where picket
ing is said to have been dispensed
with for the most part
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24

Reports from all steel centers today
recorded little change in the align
ment of the opposing forces Of the
labor unions and the steel companies
In the Mahoning valley Of Ohio the
strikers success is complete.
In the Pittsburgh district the Car.
negie Steel Company announced to-
day that the situation looked good anc
backed up its statement with claims
that men are returning to work in
considerable numbers. AS usua.
these claims were stoutly denied by
William q. Foster, chief Of staff for
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Situation unchanged.
in Chicago District

CHICAGO, Sept. 24-While leaders
of the striking steel workers in the
Chicago district and heads of steel
mills each claimed gains there ap.
peared little change today in the mum.
Der of plants in operation. A major.
ity of the mills were closed and prac
tically every one in operation WORKED
with reduced force.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
LOGAN DEPUTY SHOT IN J
MINE WORKERS OFFICES
Vice President Perry Of United Mine Workers. District
Seventeen, Fatally Wounds Deputy Sheriff
Armed With Warrants

try Of the Mine Workers organization.
chaftn who was shot over the heart,
was taken to a local hospital where it
is said his condition is critical. Petry
was arrested and taken before JUS
ttce of the peace where he gave ponC
IN TIL: sl:l Of $12 00e f"r his appear.
ance before the Grand Jury.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Trotsky Looks for
BoIshevism in U. s,

STOCKHOLM Sept. 24.-Leon
Trotsky the Bolsheyist minister
speaking at Petrograd recently gave
q detailed program Of Bolsheyik mil
itary operations saying among other
things: at IS not IN Finland or Es-
thonia that the immense world COM
bat against capitalism can be fought
but In America and England and above
an IN the far east.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
less DISORDER IN STEEL CENTERS TODAY
AriaI Patrol to
Assist Policemen
in Youngstown
(Bu Associated Press

YOUNGSTOWN, Sept. "a. - An
arial patrol of the Youngstown
strike district was started today by
the Youngstown police department.
Arial photographs will be taken of
activities about the big plants and
turned over to the police depart
ment'>
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
Oh, Listen Here!
D. ADAM 9. LANE.

Apprehension the Bard's
Appeal to the public For
Tales about Townfolk.
He invites the fellows Who
Know things On
Other fellows, to give Up;
And thus ndbly And
Generously assist This
sclntillator to Continue
To Sparkle
With customary Literary
Effulgence.
Lawsy!
You kDoW. wnen 1
Saw that Was
Struck all of A
Heap.
It seemed so Charged
With dire Possibilities.
Thinks !,
I'll Just try That
Out a little, to See
Exactly How
Potehtly Explosive
It might prove. So
l sapntered Round
The Watson building And
BASED up alongside Mr..
George Debolt, and |
Said:
To know Any
Nifty, little funny Story
About some one That
Would wake Up
The town, If l
Asked folks to Listen Here"
Mr.. Debolt's round Blue
Eyes began to Twinkle
And he Replied:
adam, 1 know One
On Smith Hood that Would
Make the courthouse CULVER!
You see-"and Then
Suddenly he Ceased,
And / looked Round
And there Stood
Hood, and he Was
Looking at Mr.. Debolt With,
What might be Termed
A Crescendo Mandatory
Manner.
Came
Large
Silence.
Then-with a Sort
OF facial Finale,
Mr.. Hood passed On
And we both Loosened
Our belts and Breathed
Deeply.
Maybe you would Better
Not tell that One"
said, and Mr. Debolt
Replied that he Was
Thinking just exactly That
Very Thought!
Perhaps you know One
On someone Else, u
Suggested.
He pondered, and Then
Stroked his chin And
Chuckled-r
"Did you ever Hear
About the time George
Alexander and Glenn Barns
Went ?'-and Then
Again Silence!
Some one raped loudly
On the Bank
window, and there Were
Barns and Hood, Both
Wearing genuine Beveled
Edge Maxim silencer
Expressions.
Barns held a Telephone.
In one Hand,
And in less Than
Three minutes Eighteen
OF the city's Prominent
Personalities
Passed US With
Lowering Men.
You know, we both Felt
Queer!
! said, "are those All
People you have Something
On, Mr.. Debolt?'
"All," quoth he Succinctly.
/ looked at Him
Consumed with Envy.
He looked at Me
With Compassion and Said
Never mind, Adam, It's
Worse to know and Not
Dast to Tell,
Than it is to Not
Never know Nothing"
Law Me!
Professor a little Soft
Music, whilst l Recite
"The faults Of Our
Brothers we write Upon
The Sands"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
WANTED

BOY, over 16 years. to work in
Bindery Chance to learn trade.
+ ses d s o'NeilI, Fairmont Print
ag Company.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-24
THE WE THER

Fair ana continued cool tonight
Thusday fair ana warmer
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-18

independence, is swallowed up in the
Prussian system revived to the utmost.
Repairing such blunders is impossible
now, but their effect can be countered by
applying the one available antidote--the
treaty in all its comprehensive details.
BY that instrument alone can the sudden
ending of the war nearly year ago be
justified as a safeguard of civilization.
Above ALL it is imperative to realize
without sehtimentalism or shilly-shally-
ing that the spirit of a nation which
offended every law Of humanity cannot be
transformed merely by few pen strokes.
The moral regeneration of Germany will
be matter of years. Until that is con-
vincingly displayed the Prussian mind
will respond only to scrupulously exact
ing pressure.
BY the blockade, by the occupation Of
the Rhine territory and by other means,
deriving their authority from the treaty,
the Entente can still disrupt secret
armies and sweep out machinegun
caches. Hesitation at this time, when
the victorious nations are swiftly de-
mobilizing, would be fatal
The war will be won when all the terms
of the treaty are fully carried out-and
not until then.
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PROGRESS AT WASHINGTON

WHAT the employers group in the
W labor conference seems to fear is
not collective bargaining, but the posi-
BILE misuse of that principle.
Collective bargaining of trades unions
for legitimate end under the direction
of Mr.. Gompers is one thing. Concerted
action by powerful and reckless groups
under the influence of men like Mr.. Fos-
ter is something else.
Neither side in the present discussion
can even feel assured that the principle
of collective bargaining will always be
applied in the interest of labor, since the
frankly avowed purpose of the radical
labor leaders is not economic, but politi-
cal. Reassurances and compromises will
be necessary on both sides before the
central issue of the discussion can be
disposed of. But there are signs to indi-
cate that the collective will and purpose
of the various groups will be equal to
the extraordinary task.
Hope of such an outcome and hope for
better times in the United States is
heightened by the spectacle presented on
the floor of the conference room. John
d. Rockefeller, Jr,, H. c. B. Endicott,
Paul D. Fiess and A. A. Landon, capi-
talists and industrial organizers, who
represent the normal business mind of
the country, found common ground
with John Spargo Socialist, and Frank
Morrison and other representatives of
the Federation Of Labor, to argue power
fully and appeal for principles advocated
by the trades unionists. 1t would be
difficult to imagine better manifesto
ton of the democratic spirit in action.
Confusion is pretty thick in America.
But it is a surface phenomenon, 1t will
not last
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-18
UNTO CAESAR

+ Ell a great politician or a sprig of
~ royalty come to town. let any old Off
cial of any old totterng kingdom an
nounce himself, and the Mayor will dust
off his silk hat, put flags on the police
boats and hasten forth to meet the distn-
guished visitor and offer him the freedom
of the city. If you are fleeing revolu-
zionist they will be almost sure to give
you police escort to Independence Hail.
But the administration will not be
satisfied if you do not come in an au-
thentic odor Of politics. Scientists, in
ventors and literary men of the first rank
come and go unnoticed. Commander Read
and the officers and men of the NC-4
would have had to wander about the city
alone and take their meals in restaurants
if a few of the clubs had not hastily
arranged to be kind to them. The Mayor
sent note TO the Vine street pier to tell
Commander Read that the city was his.
That was all. Sir Arthur Whtten Brown,
who, like Commander Read, is to be
credited with one of the most magnifi-
cent achievements in human history, has
just come and gone without official
honors. Yet in the first nonstop trans
atlantic flight he dared as greatly as Co.
lumbus did
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-18
AN ARTISTIC SAFEGUARD

THE appointment at last OF state art
commission to pass on memorials and
monuments savors little of the "Alice
in Wonderland policy of sentence first,
verdict afterward.'
The commonwealth in its time has
been sentenced to commemorative art"
which must assuredly meet with the com
missions disfavor. What is done in this
line, however, is usually very substan
tally done. as Berlin must mournfully
realize as she views her "% .egesa)lee."
But if the commission is powerIess to
rectify past errors, it can at least serve
TIE future in safeguarding it against
stone and bro;ze monstrositics. An new
memorials will be subjected to Il rigid
jury test, concerned not only with the
object itself, but with its fitness to the
given environment.
The art commissioners, for example,
may prove a salutary check on the exc
cution of the will of the well-meaning
but misguided Philadelphia who planned
to line the State House pavement with
->RJQzen or so statues of Revolutionary
aeris es. And there will be many other
9l'casions on which the principles of re-
iistraint and discretion may be advan-
8tageously applied.
The Pennsylvania commission. author
lied by the act of 1919, has cultural po-
tentialities of real value. The pity of it
is that such body was not formed long
ago
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-18
PoLITIcIANETTES? NO!

MFRS. BLANKENBURG brought up
49, live issue when she told convention
Of clubwomen at Scranton that women in
politics are likely to be judged by their
dress, particularly in the future, when
equal suffrage has sent members of the
sex yariously called gentle, unquiet, mys-
terious, the weaker or the stronger, to
Congress and the Legislatures.
The woman who once helped to run
Philadelphia sounded what old-fashioned
party men loved to call "a note of warn
ing" Fripperies@ and the triumphs of
maddened poet-milliners, she told her as
sociates, will be of little use in the field
of politics.
That conviction is not new. Senator
Ham Lewis might have told the Pennsyl
vania clubwomen as much out of his own
experience. The public is appreciative
Of the graces. But it doesn't enthuse
>syer a senator who apes the Italian sun
skts. In word, it doesn't like extremes.
II distrusts the extravagant. Mr.. Bryan
was the antithesis of an arrowcollarkid.
And man who wears the sort of hat
that made Nebraska famous can never go
far or high in politics. The Bryan hat
was reminiscent of Populism The coun-
try feared it. Senator Vardaman, of
Mississippi, was fond of similar mil
linery topping his long hair, and there
was sigh of relief Up and down the
country when he was recently defeated
Senator Maud on CongresYwoman
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-18

/ BERNARD BARUCH has followed
- President Wilson and Samuel Com
pers to bed. Like Mr.. Wilson and Mr..
Gompers, Mr.. Baruch is the victim of
overwork.
These men aren't talking about a siX-
hour day and tive-day week.
In peace, as in war, the nature of the
casualties shows where the greatest
efforts are being made.
Senator Reed, Senator Sherman and
Senator johnson and their colleagues
still appear in robust health
Life always was easy for the people
who sit in the galleries and make re
marks.
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THE SENTINEL.
TT STOOD against the air,

TT STOOD against the air,
A cypress tree,
Rooted in watered earth
And white eternity.
And light sang in the Sky
crown of fire,
Weaving the windy air
To her desire.
slender cypress tree
That laughed at flame,
And white eternity
To prove it's claim.
Edward j, O'Brien, in the New Witness.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

Answers TO Yesterdays Quiz
/. William G.. McAdoo is President vii.
SON s SON in law
2. The poem conspicuously displayed in
virtually all the civil war national
cemeteries throughout the United
States is Theodore O'Hara's ''The
Bivouac OF the Dead
g. In Europe the tall buttercup and the
globe amaranth are called bachelors
buttons. In the United States the
orange milkwort and the blue eyed
grass are called by that name.
T. A sexagenarian is person between
fifty nine and seventy years old,
6. Canton is the largest city in China.
T. The surname Wemyss is pronounced in
England as though it were spelled
''Weems.
s. A scapegoat was originally goat al
lowed to escape when the Jewish chief
priest had laid the sins of the people
upon it. The word came to describe u
person bearing blame due to Others
and it is used in that sense in Levitt
icus.
g. Claudius is the name CT the king in
Hamlet.
10 A viola is kind of large alto or,
tenor violin. 1t is smaller than a
cello, but il is the largest modsra
strirsed instru.acnt j eia Il gSs ..l,l..
= II "
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-18

Japan is ready to spend large sum on
aviation in order to put herself on level
with other great powers. This is a good
reason for the United States doing like
wise For the matter of aviation has no
relation to the game of seesaw with armies
and navies. Every airship built has com
mercial as well as military possibilities.
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N.us Erom the urehln

One Of the most amusing things we know
is to hear our approaching three year old
Urchin say Chatting Dish" He hasn't the
slightest idea what it means, but he knows
that it always gets laugh when he says it.
The other evening we were ladling out some
apple sauce to him, from large bowl he
hadn't seen before. He looked at il mo-
ment and then said That's Shaffna
Dishr' We burst out laughing and he was
enormously pleased al ihs success Of bis