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Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05
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these ideas have sprung, and we have
triumphed. The world today, except
for a comparatively few reactionary
and communistic autocracies, is dem
ocratic, and we did it.
"a man who takes wife and
blesses the world with several infants
cannot go away and leave them on
the claim that there was no legal mar
riage.
"These infant democracies all have
political, social and economic prob
lens involving their neighbors that
are fraught with the most intense
friction. There are no natural bound
aries in Europe. Races are not COM
pact; they blend at every border. They
need railway communication and sea
outlets through their neighbors terri.
tory.
"Many Of these states must for the
next few years struggle almost for
bare bones to maintain their very
existence. Every one of them is GO
ing to do its best; to protect it's own
interests, even to the prejudice of itG
Aeighbors.
Governments Lack Experience.
eve in America should realize that
democracy, as a stable form Of govern.
ment as we know it, is possible only
with highly educated populations and
a large force of men who are capable
of government. Few of the men who
compose these governments have had
any actual experience at governing
and their populations are woefully IL
literate.
"rhey will require a generation Of
actual national life In peace to de-
velop free education and skill In gov
ernment.
"Unless these countries have a guild
Ing hand and referee in their Quarrels,
court Of appeals for their wrongs,
this Europe will go back to chaos.
II there is such an institution, rep
resenting the public opinion of the
world, and liable to exert its authority,
they will grow into stability. We can
not turn back now. ..
"There is another point which also
needs emphasis. World treaties hith-
erto have always been based on the
theory of a balance Of power. Strong,
er races have been set up to dominate
the weaker, partly with a view to
maintaining stability and to a greater
degree with a view to maintaining oc-
cupations and positions for the re-
dictionaries of the world.
"The balance of power is born of
armies and navies, aristocracies,
autocracies, and reactionaries general
ly, who can find employment and
domination in these institutions, and
treaties founded on this basis have
established stability after each great
war for a shorter or longer time but
never more than a generation.
America came forward with a new
idea, and we insisted upon Its injec-
ton into this peace conference. We
claimed that It was possible to set
up such a piece Of machinery with
such authority that the balance of
power could be abandoned as a relic
of the middle ages. We compelled an
entire construction Of this treaty and
every word and line in 1t to bend to
this idea.
Outside of the League Of Nations
the treaty itself has many deficiencies.
1t represents compromises between
many men and between many selfish
interests, and these very compromises
and deficiencies are multiplied by the
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05

Party leaders are busy making
campaign speeches, to be used over
the country next year on phono.
graph records. 1t will be probably
the monographs first appearance
III politics. but not the first appear
ance of a talking machine.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05

The last legislature passed a bill
reimbursing the saloon keepers in
Missouri for licenses which lapsed
on account of the prohibition law,
but failed to provide funds to pay
them. Many of them are now call
ing on the State auditor for the
money they expected to receive,
but as there is no money for that
purpose the ex.saloonkeepers will
be compelled to await the pleasure
of the next legislature.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05
Clarence, Mo.

The food hoarders don't like pub
licity. but they have certainly been
getting plenty of what they don't
like during the past few weeks. A.
gain we ask what would the COM
mon people do without the news
papers to fight their battles for them.
Without the press the people would
be at the mercy of those who get
their living by highway robbery.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05

many new nations that have entered
upon Its signature, and the very safety
Of the treaty itself lies In q court of
appeal for the remedy of wrongs in
the treaty.
Benefits Of the League.
"one thing is certain. There is no
body of human beings SO wise that
treaty could be made that would not
develop injustice and prove to have
been wrong in some particulars. AS
the covenant stands today there is
place at which redress can be found
and through which the goodwill of
the world can be enforced The very
machinery by which the treaty is to
be executed, and scores of points yet
to be solved, which have been referred
to the League of Nations as a method
Of securing more mature judgment in
less heated atmosphere, justifies the
creation of the League.
ITO abandon the covenant now
means that the treaty itself will col
lapse.
at would take the exposure of but
"a few documents at my hand to prove
that l had been the most reluctant Of
Americans to become involved in this
situation in Europe. But having gone
in with our eyes open and with a de-
termination to free ourselves and the
rest of the world from the dangers
that surrounded US, we cannot now
pull back from the job. 1t is no use
to hold q great revival and then go
away leaving a church for continued
services half done.
= 1--WE have succeeded in a most ex-
traordinary degree in imposing upon
Europe the complete conviction that
we are absolutely disinterested The
consequence is that there is scarcely
a man, woman or child who can read
in Europe that does not look to the
United States as the ultimate source
from which they must receive assur-
ances and guardianship in the liberties
which they have now secured after
so many generations of struggle.
"This is not problem Of protecting
the big nations, for the few that re-
main can well Look after themselves.
What we have done is to set up a
score of little demoCracies, and if the
American people could visualize their
handiwork they would insist with the
same determination that they did in
1917 that our government proceed"
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05

Those thieves who stole Billy
Sundays motor car seemed willing
to take chance on being called al
most anything.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-09-05

BY the way, what is delaying
those Ford cars that were going to
be so cheap as soon as Mr.. Ford got
all those other greedy stockholders
out of his company?
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GOOD Start.

OF many parentteacher organizations have started on
III their careers of usefulness with large membership
81 the one which took form at the Famont High school
Thursday evening. And in addition to the exceptionally
large membership the High school ASSOCIATION is parcu-
sry fortunate in its FIRST set of officers so it is practically
assured that it will start off vigorously.
Ii is fortunate that this is the case, for Famont has
been nesectng an opportunity in this particular. Parent.
teacher associations have been in successful operation all
over The country for long term Of years. and in many
places hey have been bond Of sympathy and cooperation
between parents and the teaching force which has made 1t
possible materially to raise the standard of the schools
Public school seNicce like many other things that are
bald for with money raised by taxation and are everybody
business all too frequently fails to receive the attention at
he hands ofthe>pubic that its Importance demands. For
atsy for the country the zeal and the ideals of the
teaching profession have always been high that this neg
not produced the direct evils which always gives
rse DIN municipal and county government, for instance,
ma negative way has been great handicap to the
children Of the country. for in their Indifference and gnor-
srce lie taxpayers sometimes unwilling to follow as
fast he development Of the educational facilities as the
school authorizes would like.
Eamont has been perhaps as liberal as the other towns
in this section of the country. but we are rap
y approaching period in our educational history when
snst take some rather long and expensive new steps.
q Be hoped that the High school parentteacher aso-
caion will bear this in mind as goes along and that II
y remember always the obligations it owes to the schools
and the children as well the obligations the teachers and
lheschool authorities owe to the public.
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''eralions know as well as those WHO are Tor outright
Is hon ID ist lhey cannol hope b
moi Sc ratified without CERTAIN reservations along funda-
mental American lines has known ever since The first
lest votes on te amendments were taken that the treaty
could not be rejected unless il were rejected by its friends
II Is passing strange that this knowledge 50 common the
outside has not penetrated to the cloak rooms Of the senate
and the senate Office building.
1t certainly does not seem at all events to have reached
the minds Of the Democrats for Hitchcock announces that
instead Of working out compromise policy in business
like manner he is going to keep on with the game Of pOt-
ical hide and seek while the country frets and fumes.
Now that Mr.. Wilson has announced that he is prepared
10 be reasonable and American about this treaty matter the
senate ought to Try to get INTO the same frame of mind
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charleston's city health officer has been removed
from office by the Public Health Council of West Yir-
gina. The physician who summartly separated
from his job asserts that the action of the Health coun
Gil was taken in the hope of getting control of the
health department of the state capital That may be
true without being much of an outrage the intention
is to show the rest of the state what may be done by
properly conducted municipal health department The
most significant immediate phase of the incident for the
state at large is the fact that the Public Health Council
has shown that it means to exercise the power to re-
move local health officials when their conduct is not
up to standard This power placed at the councils
disposal by the last legislature.
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THE STRIKE is OYER.

HE steel strike has practically disappeared from the
l public mind For all practical purposes it no longer
exists although the strike organization continues to main
tain that the mills badly crippled Without doubt
this attitude on the part Of the leaders preventing some
of the men from going back and that lends interest to an
incident of this week over at Wheeling
Over there men who worked in the mills Of the American
Sheet and Tin Plate company asked the Chamber Of Com
mece to appoint committee to visit some Of the steel
outside Of the Wheeling district to find out what the exact
condition is This request was complied with and com
ee consisting of representatives Of the chamber together
with four men from the local Of the Aagamated AssO-
citation of Iron and Steel Workers visited New Castle
where some of the largest sheet and tin plate mills in the
country are located The result of the visit is set forth III
the following excerpt from the report which was made to
the chamber:
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MORE. TREATY DELAYS.

course no one outside Of the inner circle knows ex.
actly what President Wilson said to Senator Hitch
cock about treaty reservations but if he said what he is
reported 70 have said then the program announced by Sen
aior Hitchcock does not square with the position of his
chief
for the Peace treaty that he would accept any
reservation that did not nuify the League of Nations
ehst That clears up all doubts about the position Of the
ersh this country whose personal prestige most deeply
involved IN the controversy over the ratification of the treaty
Ad Senator Hitchcock wanted to do so he could get
s saty ratified on that basis almost whenever he wishes
ID; fol the senators who are for burkng the treaty with
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UFF STUFF

;iPainer firm on coal strike."-
Headline
Mitch certainly is sticking it out in
rather incorporating manner.
First thing Acting President Lewis
knows he viii be merely the runner
up for stubbornness.
THOSE Teuts who are organizing
special i w. w. branches have their
nerveiwith them,
They evidently are counting a lot
on the well known tender heartedness
Of thelr foster Uncle Sam.
Butsome day he will swat EN- good
Uncle regular nephews and nieces
are BEGINNING to see that great mis-
iake was made during the war in moi
puttihs little more barbed wire in
the handling OF the Teut situation.
american mandate for Armenia
urge Headline.
About this time, as the old alma
macs used to say, the Drys all over the
country probably are beginning to feel
that what IS really needed Is q man
date Tor the sovereign state of Ohio.
Andthe loan Of a good Turk to run
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What People Say
and Some Side Remarks

Capt. Rolo ]. Conley who was
elected post commander Of the Heint-
zelman Post American Legion last
night, took occasion to say:
~ Will not be candidate for
public office while hold the po-
sition Of post commander nor will
I resign from the head OF this
post to become a candidate for
public office"
This action OF Capt. Conley is ex'
pected to set a precedent throughout
the state for its manly, upright,
straightforward, honest and in line
with the high principles upon which
the Legion is founded. The state
ment is particularly important as
Capt. Conley ts an attorney and has
always been active in politics.
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The governments wholesale round up of radicals
which began last night will give general satisfaction,
and it is to be hoped that it will be possible to deport
every one of those who not entitled to remain IN
this country No other country on earth would have
stood from aliens at time like this what the United
states has stood and the nacon of the government in
this particular without doubt has encouraged them to
go to- greater holiness Periodical combingsou would
have tendency to put all of them their good be-
havior.
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Rolo j. Conley, who last night elected COM
ander of Hentzelman Post of the American Legion is
veteran of two wars who devoted his time in the in
terva between them to activities in the West Virginia
National Guard He has therefore a complete under
standing of and sympathy for the problems Of the SOL
dier and doubtless will make most excellent leader
of the local organization The members of the post are
to be congratulated upon their choice Captain Coneys
acceptance gives the matter general public interest,"
because as the legion is strictly non-pocal he will be
out of politics for at least year. This will be regretted
by large number of Republicans who hoped that he
could be persuaded to run for office in 1920
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All Hands On Deck!

All Hands On Deck!
see by the paper this morning that
new philanthropist is in our midst
This party is none other than the
we'll known and rotund Reno Fleming.
Manager of Grand To Help Animals
To Stage" is the headline over the
story. David Belasco and other kind
ly theatrical producers have at vari
Gus times helped ambitious young meh
and women to the stage, but never be-
fore have we ever heard of person
helping animals to the stage. We are
curious to know just what animals
Mr.. Fleming intends to help What
would he do, we wonder, if an ambi-
tious pole cat would come to him with
tears in its soft brown eyes and i'm
plore him to help it to the stage
where its histrionic talents might be
developed. We are sEeptical of his
ability to train even the NEST ambitious
and talented pole cat inc . heroine
whose troubles would bT.2g ;ca:s %
our eyes and whose intriguC5 wau,d
keep US sitting on the edge OF oUr
seats. Neither can we conceive Of a
goat being coached as matinee idol,
although we have seen some who look
ed rather sheepish. Cats and pea
cocks and turkey gobblers should be
easier trained for their counterparts
are already to be seen on many stages.
However, we wish Mr.. Fleming all the
luck in the world and assure him that
| his efforts will be followed with thu
closest interest
Return to Quarters!
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Personal.

Albert Criss Of State street has been
indisposed the past few days.
Mrs. H. H Rose Of Guffy street is
confined to her homo by Illness.
Mrs. Char!es White and children. Of
Akron, o., are visiting her parents,
ir. and Mrs. c. ]. Jones in State st.
w. e. Means of State street is
visiting friends at Clarksburg.
Miss Meryl Preston teacher in the
Clarksburgh schools Is spending The
week end at her hone IN Haymoad
street.
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To North Carolina.

Roscoe Reeves, who recently re-
ceived his discharge from the army
and paid his father, j. W. Reeves a
short visit has accepted position in
government engineering and will be
located for some time IN North Carr
lima. Mr.. Reeves held similar po-
sition before going to France for
Service.
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Community Meeting
at Hiek1nan's Run

There viii be community meeting
at Hickman's run Sunday afternoon
with the purpose Of organizing a Sun
day school and community speakers
will be present to talk about the Red
Cross Roll Call. Capt. Eollo Conley
and Mrs. A., L. Lehman will be given
this assignment which was eagerly
nabbed up as that is looked upon as
one OF the most pleasant engagements
for Fairmont speakers.
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Your committee visited the Shenango and
New Castle works of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate company, going into every part OF
the mills and talking to the employees.
The published statement of the steel com
pany was to the effect that 6fty-nine (59) out
of sixty (6O) mills in these two plants were
operating, and your committee found this
statement to be correct by actual count one
mill being off for repairs.
The quality of the work was examined by
the four members of the committee who are
familiar with the steel industry, and pro-
nounced to be first class.
In the two plants the number of employees
totalled about 1000, and the workmen them
selves stated that practically all of these en-
ployes were those employed before the strike
was called
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CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank our neighbors
and friends, especially the members
of B. P. o. 3. for the kindness and
service shown US during the illness
and death Of our brother, D. M. Kid
der. We wish to thank. them also fo1
the beautiful floral tributes.
JOHN K1DDER & BRO.
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To RAYMOND Street.

Mr. and Mrs. A. H. sea'aon have
bought the ]. W. snowdeo property
in Raymond street and moved to
their new purchase this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stark purchased of
Ernest Morrison the property vacated
by Mr.. and Mrs. seamon In State
street.
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Return to Quarters!
EAST SIDE
-;-NEWS-:-
At First M. P. Church.

Another large crowd was in attend
ance at the revival services at the
,FhOs m. P. Church last evening
The subject of Rev. Lawsons message
was "a Balm in Gilead" and was
delivered with much power and feel
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oh, we'll, Ohio will still be as dry
as the rest Of the country and for the
same length of time.
The weather man certainly did his
best today to make the football fans
love him.
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TRy us AND
TRAVESIIEs4
By III Bard.

81 .G' Bard.

'Attenshun!
Fifteen Years From Today-From
the Files Of The Daily Free Press:
The fire department was called to
Havey's restaurant this morning
when great clouds Of what was sup
posed to. be white smoke was seen
pouring from the place. On inyestiga-
ton it was learned that a lady in the
restaurant had started her automatic
nose powdering machine and had been
unable to stop 1t. With considerable
difficulty the fire ladies rescued the
poor woman from the center Of Q dense
and suffocating cloud OF Djer Kiss.
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CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Order Of services for Sunday, No
vember 9, 1919: Bible school at 10000
a. m, Seymour McIntire, superintend-
ent; morning worship and sermon at
11:e0 o'clock. Evening sermon at
1880. Rev. ]. F. Ryan, Of Bethany col
lege, will preach both morning and
evening and a large audience should
greet this gifted speaker at each SER
vice.
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Samuel Gompers, the Grand Old Man of the American
labor movement wise responsible for any of the
radical eruptons and he is entitled to and doubtless
gets the entire sympathy of the fair minded public as
he struggles most Of the time unsuccessfully to get the
organization out of the troubles they have been plunged
into. I4iiIAiBltltli
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While airpIaning over the city last
night Dan Maurer, president of the
Automatic Egg Laying Machine COM
pany, came near losing valuable
watch. Mr.. Maurer was looping the
loop when his watch fell from his
pocket. Mr.. Maurer, being Of an in
ventive turn of mind, had been
thoughtful enough, however, to attach
a miniature parachute to all the arti-
Giles in his pockets and the watch was
saved when its individual parachute
opened.
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Recovering.

Robert Hudgins, who was operated
upon at Cook Hospital for appondi-
citis is recovering nicely. lie resides
in State Street.
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Present Arms!

Present Arms!
The Girl In The Office came in this
morning wearing a sad wan smile and
said she had bought tickets for SER
ies-of lectures on Buddhism and look
ed forward to enjoying them immense
ly for she was passionately fond of
FI,NUars
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Mr. and Mrs. Barrack are now visiting
relatives at Rowlesburg,
Improvln1.

Mrs. E. A. Crosse, Of Morgantown
avenue, who has beer i'll for several
days with appendicitis is slightly
improved.
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Esther Deylin and Alice Trosh, two
Wil%esbarre, Pa, girls, have accept
cd Jobs as hod carriers
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Sold Property.

MIR. and Mrs. John Barrack have
sold their property IN Barnes street to
Mr.. snider, who will reside there.
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Ground Arms!

Scores of Reds CorralIed" is head
line this morning. Scores Of Reds Col
Jared, would be better and for
che collar hemp is suggested.
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Peersde Restl

Mary says she knows a man
Whose method is un-nerVing.
|, He asks her for so many things,
Then proves himself deserving.
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There is a pack of playing cards in
the British museum said TO be more
than 1000 years old.
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and used with dishes placed in a
kitchen sink with employing a wish
pan.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-11-08

Approximately 75,0oO,o0O gallons
Of 1lolasses are rsed annually in the
manufacture OF foods
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That pretty efectually disposes of any claim that The
steel strike is still in existence.