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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-16
PARIS BRIG HORROR
TOLD BY A. {. F. MEN
Veterans Tell House Committee
1 of "Hard-BoiIed" Smiths
Methods
MEN BEATEN AND ROBBED

I Washington, July 18.-Six American
young men who had gone to war to
help destroy autocracy and its military
. brutalities yesterday told what hap
pened to them when they unluckily came
into contact with the provost marshal
/ guard of the American expeditionary
force. It was a tale of horrors. offered
as Testimony in the continuation of n
hearing before a House subcommittee
investigating War Department expen-
ditures.
High lights developed were that off
cers had sort Of gentlemcn's agree
ment to deal mildly with those of their
number who got into trouble and faced
court martial trial; and that the War
Department may not generally be de-
pended upon to investigate fully in
enlisted men are victims, nor to punish
severely In such cases where officers
are offenders.
Just before the hearing was resumed
the War Department issued state
ment to the effect that tho chief of staff
has ordered that hereafter the com
manding general of territorial depart
ments will refrain from further exercise
of the power. to order execution of n
record of trial involving execution of
such sentence Is to be transmitted to
the President for his action.
"In view of changed conditions the
commanding general of the American
expeditionary force also will refer such
cases to the President.
Witnesses. who said they were vic
tins of official brutality. were Sidney
Kemp and Charles Goldberg, of New
! I'll in
Long Island; Alvin Bates. of Brook =
lyn; A. II. Mandelberg. Of Baltimore,
and George L., Pallitto. of Newark,
lizard Boiled' Smith Again
All had gone through the provost
! marshal mill in the Paris district. Gold .
J had been robbed. None was guilty OF
2 serious breach of military regulations,
None was given n hearing with oppor
z tunity to clear any possible misunder
Z standing.
First Lieutenant 'TIard Boiled
9 Smith, $50 far as brought out in testi
i mony he had no other first name) was
Y cited rs the evil genius of the system
: Charles Goldberg. formerly corpora
: in Company G. 30Sth Infantry, brigadec
Z with the British. was wounded in thu
: head at Arras and taken to hospita
I at Rouen. When he recovered he
2 started from Rouen to st. Afghan, vif
I Paris. Ee missed the train and fiv,
I minutes later was arrested and takeI
: to Hotel st. Anne.
Z Goldberg said: "When l refused t.
! surrender my belt and money, the guart
hit me with his fist and knocked ou
: a tooth. dumped at him to fight back
! He pulled black jack and hit me ovel
1 the head. Then he beat me on the arms
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-16

seguenza di scioperi 81 scno veri6cati
oggi in varie citta' dell'Italia.
A Lucera otto persone sono rimaste
uccise ct trenta fertile. Vicino Ge-
nova due anarchici furono uccisi durante
un confitto con carabinieri.
II conflitto con gil anarchici e. ay-
vcnuto Sestri Ponente, quattro mi
glia da Geneva. Durante il confitto
furono arrestati quattro pericolosi
anarchici.
10 sciopero generate e. state dich Ia r.
ratio Caltanissetta, in Stella. II
popclo ha marciato lungo le vie gri-
dando: "Viva soviet ~ e fernando
negozianti di viveri di altri generi a
ridurre prezz del 80 per cento.
Lon. Nitti ha, oggi. dichiarato ALA
Camera che il Governo italiano hn
preso ample misure per assicurarC
lordine pubblico. in vista del minac
ciato sciopero generate attraverso il
pacSe.
lie truppe-egli ha dctto-sono state
distribute in lutte le citta' villaggi
sono provvedute di provviste baste
voli per oltre 4S ore, qualora doves
sero restare tagliate fuori dalla lore
base.
II Presidente del Consiglio del Min
istri ha, inoltre, dichiarato che II
Italia non vi e. ragione di sciopert
generate. II governo non vuole spargi
mento di sangue percio' fara' de
tutto per prevenire che cio' avvenga
lie linee telegrafiche radio -telegra
fche sono state assicurate in lutte |,
parti del Regno, anche in case di dis
ordini.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-16
SHIP EXPLOSION KILLS II

Gas Causes Fatal Blast on British
Tanker at Cardiff
Cardiff. Wales, July 16.--CRy 4. PD
Twelve persons We're killed in the
explosion on board the British tank
steamer Roseleaf here yesterday. The
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-16

Vote for zone Big Union"
Winnipeg, Man. July 16.-(By A..
P.)-The Winnipeg Trades and Labor
Council voted almost unanimously in
favor of the lone big union"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-16

explosion was caused by an accumula
tion of gas.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
Says Herman Johnson
Wants to Be Promoted

The Tyler Star-News in a recenl
issue printed the following item of po-
litical news which is of state wide in
terest:
at is expected that Editor Herman
G. Johnson, of the Elkins Daily Inter-
Mountain, will seek the Republican
nomination for secretary of state on
the Republican ticket and that his an
nouncement will shortly appear.
"Mr. Johnson is at present one OF
the senators from the Thirteenth dis
trict and is a strong and popular young
man. He is an active and consisteht
Republican but in no sense an often
sive partisan and Is held in high es-
TEEN by Democrats Of his section be-
cause Of his courtesy and fairness. His
party services through his newspapers
and personal work have endeared him
to his fellow Republicans.
"The candidacy OF Editor johnson
will be a formidable one in the pri-
mary and should he win there he will
bring to the election qualities and quail
ifications for the office of secretary
Of state that win insure his own cleo
ton and add strength generally to
the whole ticket"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
DAYBRooK.

Larney F. Moore, of GAINESVILLE, o.,
are visiting friends and relatives near
Daybrook. Mr.. Moore recently pur-
chased a fran of 160 acres near Bell
Center.
Five autos carrying 80 passengers
left Daybrook this morning, going to
Bellofuntain, Ohio. Clark Ammons
and wife of this place, are among the
passengers. They are going to buy a
farm in Ohio. The advice of Horace
Greeley 10 just as applicable today to
middle aged men as 1t was to young
men in Greeley's time.
Mrs. Nora Wade is building new
house in our village. 1t is modern
eight-room frame building.
George Mccoy is working at or
near Thomas in Calhoun county for
the Hope Gas company.
Martin L. Mccoy and Shannon viii.
son made sale of their personal
property last Friday and departed to-
day for Blue Creek. where they will
have charge of drilling for the Ohio
Fuel company.
There was an all day meeting at
the Christian church at Fairview yes
terday. The Daybrook church and
Sunday school attended the services
there.
Coverdill C. Williams and wife. of
Fort Morgan, Col, are here visiting
relatives. Mr.. Williams is employed
by the Union Pacific railroad, which
runs through his home town.
G. I. Conner and family, of Bell
Center, Ohio, are visiting friends in
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
THE SAME BALKANS.

JUDGING BY the dispatches which come from that Sec
j ton of the world, the great which has had such
profound effect everywhere else does not seem to have
made the slightest change in the Balkans and that noun
famous region be quite as ready to breed new
ever
If what Paris hears about it may be relied upon both
Rumania and Serbia aming for new war over the
division of some of the spos of the old even before
the peace terms settled 1t bit dishearening but
there this much about it that is comforting Rumana
and Serbia do fly at each others threats, there not much
danger that they will involve any other countries 1t might
of course involve other of the Balkan countries but there
is not the remo:et danger that would all Europe a6re
again.
Moreover the peace negotiations have gone TO the point
where may be possible for the great powers to unite in
sort Of pressure which will compel the two little coun-
tries to settle Their troubles in SIZE less costly manner And
it all is warning that there is danger in further delay of
complete settlement of the peace terms. When peace
actually is accomplished some of the little countries may
feel that they have been treated less generously than they
hoped would be the case but they will know that it will
not do any good trouble for then the nssator of
the trouble will have the weight of all the principal powers
against it.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

German journalists and statesmen are not to be
question but that will not prevent them from hitting
upon the truth occasionally, and when the financial
editor OF the Berlin Tageba after pointing the lack
of assistance in commercial way which being
ceived from this country said yesterday, without
reason do the glances of economic leaders turn
toward the east he said something ought
little anxiety in this country While politicians delay
action in the senate the treaty the Germans
of necessity 1esuming their connections in the
which may eventually enable them to again endanger
the of the world. After filling page after page
of the Congressional Record with criticism of delay
Paris senators guilty of delay that is ten times
more dangerous and absolutely without justification
The country getting out of patience with such state
OF affairs and with good reason too.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
RyFF STUFF

woodrow's statement regarding
railroad wages made last night
IS the best evidence SO far pro,
auced that he is not now q candidate
for third term.
a And for that reason the Brother.
hoods are not going TO have the walk
over this time they had in 1916.
They'll have. to prove their case.
Speaking Of politics
How would it do after the Dem
mics raise that $5,000,000 campaign
fund to confiscate it as part compen-
aation for the millions DENNY in
comDetents in office wasted while the
country IS at war?
Labeled talcun powder lot OF stuff
for the use the Mexican army was
shipped to Mexico last week accord
Ing to secret service reports.
II talcum powder 81 explosive
there are lot of flapDers In this
town whose mere presence upon the
ptreet constitutes public menace.
Administration is going to wait I'M
til conditions are normal before max,
Ing any changes in wages, the papers
say.
Whether that is all right or not de-
ponds upon the Interpretation you
place upon the word normal.
II 1t keeps up much longer the
hellraisin that has been going on fol-
the past five years viii seem ike
the normal thing
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

Practically every who was on the inside of things
in Germany is writing about the outbreak of the war
and the 1t conducted The latest to enter the
lists of those making revelations is Prince Bue
low, who however appears not to have offered any
PLANTATION for his apparent alooness after his failure
to keep Italy out of the struggle lot of this writing
is being done because the writers need the and
there is ready market, and not much of it is frank
enough to make it worth much permanent contrbu-
tons history but 1t will all be help to the real his
torans of the period who day will set to work
pairing the various statements with each other
alyzing them.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
a7 IMPOSSIBLE POSITION. 7i7E7zIE
DREsIDENT VIII SONS r.ou.., fla, ..sl.u.r,

PRESIDENT WILSON'S request that settlement
ofwase demands be postponed until normal economic
conditions restored may pass muster philosophical
solution of the whole involved problem but it is apt to
strike people who are directly interested with feelings that
amount to dismay
even bad No one in danger of starving to death and
probably are more need of cutting down in extrav-
agance and waste than we are of higher wages but is
absurd to call upon the public to adopt waiting policy
The people entitled some positive action looking
to improvement in the conditions that face them If
cannot have further wage increases until there have been
investigations 10 determine Jus. where such policy lead
to stop pro6teenng wasteu methods and the aoutng of
practically Ill laws regulating distribution and sale of
tia commodities.
Until these things are done idle to talk abou. wait
ing until normal conditions return. and MIR. Wilson and
congress might as well recognize this now as later
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
MAKING FOOD COST MORE.

NE of the prime factors the high cost of living is
the high of food. And one of the prime factors
in the high cost of food Ito the consume) is the high cost
Of producing mat food And of the prime factors in
The high cost Of producing food the high cost of land
Production cost the sum expended for farm labor fer
hzer seed machinery depreciation and interest on invest
ment Included IN the latter is the interest charge on the
lands value. When farm land is SIC the acre. the con-
sumner must pay prices which will net the land owner say
about six dollars interest charge acre When the value
of that same land rses $500 the consumer must pay an
price which will cover an interest charge of $50
-per acre.
Pnee boosting of farm lands never was as ardenty in
dulged within the past or three years. Land
pecuators (and farmers themselves thick among hem)
fat turning land. sending one farm through sew
sra different hands year. each resale increasing the
land price and making necessary to charge more for
food produced on the inflated value land.
Out of the millions of examples here one in Iowa. the
champion farm lane boom state at present.
Carroll County,. E. Griffith sold his farm
two years ago to G. L. Miller for $3.50 an acre.
r. Miller sold the same land to j. c. Barry for
2l0 an acre. Barry sold it to L. e. Klein for
20 the acre. Klein sold it for 1885 acre,
II dithen 1t was sold to Max Neppel for 1910 an
lcre; to George Langenfeld for 1915 an acre.
IA lis waiting for someone who will offer $3.50.
$ In Boone county 400 farms have been sold
since the beginning of this year In day
!. slooo00O worth of Cass county farmands
changed hands.
Dealers m famlands getting richer every minute
amers wealthcr-on paper-in that they have land
valued highly. but which will produce any greater
or better crops.
Consumers of food must pay more for what they eat
Speculation in land would be stopped, single believe
by the torfeng to the government of the uneaned ncre
ment or what SPECTATORS call profit Take the profit
out of land speculation and you write the death warrant
of that form of speculation, single takers insist.
M 1t IS the adding of the land SPECTATORS profit to the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

Anyhow some of these guys do moi
care what normal means so they gel
their raises right away.
They need the money before the
automobile touring season ends.
And in order to prepare for hard
winter by laying in a couple of fur
coats.
The packers say they are not res.
ponsfble for the high cost of living.
Mebby not; but it is a fact that the
price of steaks seems to keep about
one jump in advance for the genera,
price movement.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
MS MOVING DAN.

Every DIFF is moving day with us,
We, are ready TO move your freight,
your household goods, pianos, safes,
machinery. And.let US remind you that
We do our work in the most satisfac-
torynannersandw with dispatch and at
most reasonable charges. Long dis.
esmoying by large auto vans,
Thomas Caruso. 221 Meredith ST
Phone 69S-J.-AdVs
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
TRUTHS AND
TRANESTIES
By tn Bard.

By tn Bard.
FANCY FALL FICTION.
Episode No. Two.
Unusual Undfne-

Unusual Undlne.
The neighbors could never under
stand it. Her best friends when they
thought Of it shook. their heads and
wondered. Undine was pretty. There
was no denying that. Great masses
OF dark chestnut hair framed a face
that was not beautiful, but pretty in a
wistful sort of way. And though she
was twenty-six she had never mar
ried. When she had graduated with
the Sam R. Nuzum class her suitors
could not be counted on the fingers OF
both hands. But she had never mar
ried.
Gradually one by one as the years
passed the SWANS had dropped away
when they found that 1t was useless to
lay siege to the heart of Undine. For
the past two years she had acted as
though she did not care whether man
was one Of the inhabitants OF the
earth.
The reason for this indifference she
kept locked close in her heart. She
had never found one who was her
IDEAL, and until HE came there was
nothing doing.
Undine sat on the veranda of their
pretty little Locust avenue home.
Her face was flushed and there was
an adorable softness in her eyes She
read the letter she held in her hand
a third time, and then, looking about
to see that no one was looking, kissed
1t. Her heart kept drumming over
and over again. Jack is coming. Jack
is coming. Jack is coming"
She and Jack had met but the week
before up the Valley river where they
both were spending a week end with
the Gilkesons. Now he had written
that he would be in town that even
ing and asked for u date, mentioning
trip to the Dixie. In Jack, Undine
had found her IDEAL and had given
him her heart He had, she believed,
fallen in love with her.
With a tripping step she ran to the
kitchen where her mother was at
work.
"undine," said her mother, father
has just phoned that he is sending out
five bushels of beans this evening.
You aud will have to string and break
dried"
The light died out from Undine's
eyes. But she was a remarkable girl
and never let her mother do the house
work unassisted.
Yes, mother" she said. And with
a heart that was near bursting she
took the letter from her bosom and
tore 1t into shreds and dropped the
fragments into the garbage can.
Parade RestI
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
TABLE FERNS

OF every kind - largo and small In
Bize-splendid in shape, can be SO.
lected at The Mountain City Floral
Shop. Always the best in flowers for
the table decorations. Flowers for'ths
sick-Stork bouquets-cersage-and
flowers for the only. girl" are here In
splendid assortment. Store. 2lS. Mon.
roe St Phone 6s8-J-Adv. w,.a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
GOOD sERviCE--1IJsi

Deliveries so prompt and pleasing
that you will never need to run short
Ice so pure and sanitary tlat you will
never want any other. These charac.
teristics have appealed to hundreds of
Fairmont families who now prefer
City Ice. Order 1t today by telephone.
Phone S9S or 1893. CITY Ice Co.-Adv.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

Though the whole world may seethe with revolutions
and strikes he Rev. Joel H. Metca tends strictly to
his knitting, and although he is vacation he has
discovered two comets with three days Somehow it is
comforting to know that both the universe and the
Rev. JOEL who has many to his credit, both
doing business just the as usual.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
THERE,LL COME ArlME

When youwilI want, a better Tire, thar
you have ever before used. Then, q
you are wise you viii come here fol
one OF the Gates Half.soled Tire.
which have been famous for years hui
were never Dragged about. Come In
today and learn all the details. Gate,
Halt-Sole Tire Service Station, ZIG
Jackson Street.-Ady.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

School days. School days.
Dear old scientific child training days
Zoology, meterology, and Post Impress
sionism,
Taught to the tune of a special deci.
plinarian.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
UNION

Union men are interested in union
made shoes. Each pair OF Barry
shoes made by T. D. Barry Co., OF
Brackton, Mass, has the union stamI
on 1t, All lasts and feathers. Buy
early for fall. A few pairs of OF.
tords at 20 percent discount. Smiths
Shoe Store, S27 Main St.-Ady.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

We are saving Eureka Vacuum
Cleaner for you. Don't wait for the
last day Of, the FREE trial period.
Phone right.now. Fairmont Electric
Service Co., 800 Monroe st. Phone
1926, Adv.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

Clyde S. Holt, postmaster at Fair
mont singled out by Hon. o. S. Nc
Kinney as an instance of Hoults gain
ing honors, said:
MY branch Of the family did
not cut the u out of Holt. 1t
was the other branch of the fam
lily that stuck "U'' in the name"
W. F. Hoult, of Illinois, jestingly
observed that the Hoults out that way
were pretty decent people:
I'VE have never had one cleo
ted to the legislature nor are
there any of them connected with
professions such as lawyers, doc
tors or preachers"
Rev. l.. A. McNemary of Bellview
predicted that the airship will figure
in affairs in a short time:
81 look for a fellow to leave
Washington to come and see his
girl at Hoult and then decide
for the pair to have dinner in
Pittsburgh. He will drop her off
here in the evening and return
home by air"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

Just call us on the phone, say 81
want to try the Eureka Vacuum
Cleaner" We will send it to you and
you may use it for 10 days FREE.
Do it now. Fairmont Electric Co.,
'309 Monroe ST. Phone 1926. ADV.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

actual or foodproducing value Of the fai, which results
IN cost Of food production higher than It should be- You
can't grow cheap food on land the value of which has
been doubled or trebled by speculation.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
this section. They drove through in a

this section. They drove through in a
Dodge.
Mrs. Sylvia Moore, who has been SO
i'll of typhoid fever the past Ave
weeks, is much improved at this writ
ing, we are glad to say.
There was reunion of the L. C.
Moore family held at the old home-
stead yesterday. There were present:
Louie Tenant. Of opekiska; Minnie
Tenant, of GAINESVILLE. Ohio: Larnie
Moore of Bell Center; o. c. Moore,
Arlie W. Moore, Minnie Dell Wilson
and okey w. Moore, children Of L. C.
Moore, now deceased. All ate dinner
together with their mother, Lucinda
Moore, who prepared the dinner.
H. G. Klinginsmith and Jesse L.
Ammons will harvest several thou
sand dollars worth Of ginseng this
fall. They have an acre under cover.
When is the County court Of Mar
ion county going to improve the mile
of road just north of Fairview which
we people living in Monongalia coun-
ty have to travel over to get to Fair-
view? 1t Is the very worst piece OF
road on earth and certainly should be
improved.
otha Williams is doing the thresh-
ing about here this year at seven
cents per bushel for wheat and Eve
cents for oats.
Several of our people will attend
the State Fair at Wheeling next week.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
What People Say
and Some Side Remarks

Senator w. S. Meredith emphasized
the characteristics which had made
the Hoults successful at the HOult
Reunion yesterday as industry, hon
esty and good will and declared that
such characteristics make
"a race better than kings,
with women who are queens and
sons that are princes, with peo-
pie as happy as birds"
Carl Dawson, the Montana wit
whose numbers are always great fea-
ture of the Hoult Reunion programs
sprang new one yesterday in con-
nection with the high cost of living
Dollars don't go as far as they
used to but they go good deal
faster"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26
Present ArnaI

The Girl In The Office said she was
at the Princess last night with Goat
Ridgely and he said he believed in a
man standing up for his vested rights
and she thought that was so sensible
for men must suffer so in their hot
coats in the summer.
Ground Armsl
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-08-26

Mary bought a pair of hose
They cost enough the goodness knows.
She said, II believe I'll take a chance
Although it's sheer extravaganza"