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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-19
Civic Comment
Prepared Under the Auspices OF
the Civic Department Of the
Fairmont Woman'S Club.

All over the world various religious
societies and organizations work for
cleaner and better human beings
Work in the interest of the soul has
been put on a systematic, scientific
basis. No thought in connection with
the saving OF people from sin is too
small to be considered but in spite
of the fact that greater menace even
than sin makes the world unfit for hab'
itation, no special thought is taken
each year by large majority of peo.
pie toward making ones city and i'm.
mediate neighborhood worthy of clean
humanity. The time OF the year is
fast approaching when the warm
winds OF spring are going 10 search
out every unsanitary corner in Fair
mont and while there are many who
will say, MY house and grounds are
in good condition, so why should |
worry" when those laden breezes
reach far and wide, depositing disease
germs on every doorstep; the corclu-
sion is bound to be reached that ones
neighbours methods OF existence con-
Germ fitally every other neighbor fo:'
blocks around.
Just at present there lies at Cook
hospital victim of the sleeping dis
ease we have been reading so much
about Our county health physician
says we're many of us asleep when it
, comes to proper understanding of
some Of the most important things in
, life. This small city of ours has been
visited by disease in many forms dur
ing the last five years, and disease
cuts us down in our youth and useful.
ness. II we could eliminate disease
! gers. we would have no disease and
| when it is we'll known fact that all
germs love dirt and filth, doesn't it be-
/ hoove every citizen, man, woman and
F., child, to start instant warfare on the
accumulation OF trash and tin cans
and smoldering garbage, in strenu
Gus effort 10 turn back this last
Z strange visitor, this sleeping disease
before again our city is scOurged
/ Vastly more than is realized can be
done toward riding community OF
sickness through simple cleanliness
Get out all the barrels you can find AMI
+ fill them With the debris now to b.
found in many piled up corner OF
your yard and cellar. This stuff is
alive with germs. Go'after them. All
over the city are vacant lots piled
with trash. Jackson street especially
needs attention in this particular
Look behind signhoards everywhere
you so and make complaint when you
find an unsanitary heap which the
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owner neglects to have hauled away.
City authorities and many women
in the city have pledged Themselves
to give Fairmont such a cleaning this
spring as she never had before. Fair
mont is literally like the Ruggles FAM.
lily; to be. put to bed and every gar.
ment washed before she is to be again
allowed pleasant intercourse with hcr
inhabitants. Public opinion has be
come aroused to a greater extent than
perhaps ever before toward the neces'
sity for special cleanliness this spring
after our fearful influenza epidemic
But citizens must have constantly
brought before their eyes the special
sins of commission and omission in
the shape of germ.laden Accommodations
in the city. Each Wednesday par
t!cular condition will be brought be-
fore readers in this column. Every
corner and creyice is to be ransacked
and its immediate state brought 10
light.
Attention is called today TO the gar
hage condition in Fairmont The city
held conference this week with gar
bage collectors; and learned just the
troubles which need to be remedied
All streets in the city have. been di.
vided into sections TO be covered each
day. Men are assigned to certain
streets on certain days Of the week.
1t will be their duty TO make special
effort to collect all garbage and trash
This. they have been doing in the past
under difficulty. 1t is asked that
every citizen provide himself with a
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winds do not recognize any duty in
the matter. Whatever lies in the path
will be swept to every corner OF our
beautiful city among the hills. None
of US will be safe, neither grown per.
son or child. We cannot live to our.
selves. Even though our own back.
yards and garbage pals are adequate
and satisfactory, our neighbor's must
be so also; and in spite of pressing
duties, 1t is necessary this spring that
we use all the influence we have to
bear on the situation in Fairmont.
Have you ever considered how diff.
ficult 1t is for trash removers to take
away quantities of papers and cans
from waste-baskets instead Of from
one light weight barrel. As first
aid toward lettering conditions, buy,
beg or borrow barrel and watch the
pleased smiles on the face Of the col.
ored gentleman when he next appears
for your trash. Don't place an oil bar,
rel or extremely heavy one handy.
That's too big load for the shoulders
of human being The barrel is go.
ing to save many steps and much val
liable time so that you don't be missed
next week because of impossible con.
ditions. Remember long trip to the
crematory several times a day is the
program for the garbage collector II
most of his time is taken up in count
less numbers of small trips back ana
forth over your back porch or up your
stairs, It will be entirely impossible to
cover the city in specified amount Of
time.
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large garbage pail sufficient in size
to contain his weeks supply OF this
material. He is also asked to equip
himself with a barrel OF light weight
III which TO place his waste paper,
cans and rubbish of various sorts.
Garbage collec; ors have at. best an
unlovely task and surely it is not too
much TO ask that all trash be placed
in just these two receptacles instead
of in countless numbers of small pans
and baskets which require many trips
back and forth to the wagon. some.
times from upstairs. Surely it is not
more than Christian act to so en-.
close garbage in a closed metallic can
that it will not endanger the health OF
the man who must make his living
carrying 1t away. We would not ask,
anyone except thoughtlessly, to carry
garbage in basekt to a wagon with
most Of it running over the shoulder.
Garbage collectors say they have this
situation to meet constantly They
find few covered cans but many
small kettles, wash-pans, boxes and
other inadequate and insufficient re-
ceptacles with which TO cope. Many
say. well, we pay for it, what differ
ence does it make?" 1t makes all tho
difference in the world. Unless every
one in the city realizes that constant
iy uncovered, dripping garbage pan
leaves germs all the way to the wagon
and in many extreme cases, small rivu.
lets to drain into the street, spreading
still more disease germs; Fairmont
can never be made disease proof. The
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HiokY's Observations.
FAIRMoNT, March IS, 1919.

FAIRMoNT, March IS, 1919
The West virginlan.
Dere Editor Well Jim see there
been heluvalot OF doings up in thu
Circus court lately and lot "A them
guys what thinks they can get by
Judge Raymond got another guess
coming heb Jim. amt never seen
the Judge and never hope to get in no
jam when he amt feeling good be,
cause if i do he'll probly give me life
for cussing when the lights goes out
But layin all jokes aside jim it looks
as II a guy better stay away from
railroad cars and cows aud specially
COWS because the milk dealers must
OF got all the cows hipnotised anyway
judging from the high priced milk they
keep furnishing. The judge didn't
give them guys no more than was
comm to them at that heb jim.
Speakin about getting i'll wrong and
having TO beat it TO court reminds me
of the warning read in your paper
about chickens keeping in there own
yards and hope all the chickens seen
it because from the way they keep
hanging around the street corners aft
er dark there's going TO be some fun
pretty soon UP there in Mare Bowen'S
office. But getting down TO cases
some OF the chickens in Fairmont got
so much pull they don't care abou,
nothing not even the Mare.
Another thing that's getting my goa;
lately is the woy every guy that gets
sore about Anything pulls gun and
shoots the other guy full HOES.
1hcys getting TO be to many good
shots here in Fairmout and been
wondering how It happens everybody
can carry gun and set away with il
Amt they no laws what says you cant
carry a gun or Is Fairmont the happy
hunting ground for the guy with =
crouch
amt got much to write about this
time because they amt much going or
besides tho shooting and the stealing
and the chickens and the taxes and thr
sleeping sickness and the Salvation
Army hall and Fred Harr whose asleep
lot like you said in the paper. That
is they amt much il you don't say moth
ing about the new kind OF beer they
been talking about making and the
only difference is that you just gotta
drink little moro 10 make you feel
like its the real thing.
Your friend.
HICKY.
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MUSIC DEVELOPS TIE MINE.

TOtlN RUSKlN, who had more beautiful thoughts per
page than almost any other writer Of prose. said:
Everyone should listen 10 good music several minutes
every day"
Music is a language Through we express and receive
thoughts which cannot be resolved into words Out-ofdoOrs
weather is here 1t brings many municipalities open air
band concerts Anything good is in line with progress,
As we advance, the trend is toward refining influences
Music ranks topmost among the things that upft and ex-
alt 1t reaches within and fctches forward the Gcntly
and nobility all Of US know is there.
Every community should have its musical organization
supported by the civic funds. This organization should
have every assistance and cooperation TO perfect it, to in
creasngy develop public interest in the world Of harmo-
NOUS sweet sounds so little known and appreciated.
An evening Of good music is like having someone read
book to you, mpersonang its characters 1t develops
the creative part of your mind You translate sound; into
Imagination takes bit in teeth and runs of with you into
fantasy Of dreams that leave their benefits in newformed
views on the little everyday things Of life.
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RUFF STUFF

internal Revenue Commissioners
per, Is said to be seeking advice as
ID the proper answer to the question
hen Is beer really beer?
Il there is tosbe much samplins donc
Sc ought not have any trouble to gel
ADVISORS
The feeling offspring in the air stir'
elt memories Of book beer,
And rubber boots,
And opekiska.
And Deacon Ehgle's fish lies.
ia We hereby tender the whole
ontfit to Commissioner Dan.
he can't settle the beer question
Il there is no use to call in guys
Ike Mitch Palmer, who is a Quaker
1d never did know anything about
81 the joys OF life except politics
for Elthu Root
ven the least said about Elihu in
connection the better.
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He ought to be tending to the league
of nations affair any how.
The Astonishsr docs not like the
rug story.
Astonisher always Was tender Of the
feelings OF the tin horns.
League to Enforce Peace issued a
statement saying that It was not split
over the League OF Nations PROPOSE
ton.
Then it occupies a unique position.
Everything else, including churches
and family circles, is split for the time
being
But the baseball leagues will soon
be going strong.
And the n. p. will resume its old role
Of furnishing a subject for friends to
quarrel about
Whereupon the league OF nations
will take back seat.
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'I6N7N. .5E SAT a5EE'
, 49, 4

Colonel William McCleery of Mo-
mongolia county, addressed himself to
the governor of Virginia on March 10,
1888 protesting at the instance of in
nabitants Of Mononsalia, Harrison
and Randolph counties, which then in
cluded most Of northern West Virginia
against an order directing a certain
number Of militia to hold themselves
in readiness to march to the Ohio riy.
er to report to General ST Clair. He
complained that the families OF the abb
sent militia would starve as they could
make no crops and besides be left
helpless and unSuarded. SO a soldier
OF that day was asked to do great
deal more than the ones who served in
1918.
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ington yesterday that if such course seems desirable
the United States Congress adopt resolution de"
clarng the war with Germany to be at end withut
waiting for peace treaty League Of Nations plan
That is true The United States entered the war with
out assuming any particular obligations forming any
alliances At the same time there is not the slightest
prospect that such Senator Lcnroot
would be considered. The United States put too much
blood and treasure into the quit it cold More
over If we did quit that way would have to arm to
the teeth and prepare to hold our own against the
world, which would be rather expensive job
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At the end of the conference of Mr.. Wilson with the
prcmiers yesterday the formal statement merely said
that progress had been made but later Lord Robert
Cecil on behalf OF the British delegation said that in
the opinion OF the delegation the League OF Nations
should be incorporated in the peace treaty. Coming
as it does from the which reported to be
in favor Of the conclusion OF preliminary treaty which
would leave the way clear for lesurey consid
Grafton OF the League OF Nations plan this is quite sig
niGcant
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has helped US 10 realize -hat 50 far as their COMMUNE
cabili concerned the venereal diseases in the same
class measles, dphhena, smallpox. which if not cien
t6caly controlled and guaranteed, may decinate whole
communities.
The right Of the individual if he is diseased must be
ubordnated to The right Of the men women and children
the facts concerning venereal diseases in the Army said
1T is not an Army We have to make cean it is Nation
The experience Of the Surgeon General, Rupert Blue Of
the u s. Public Health Service shows that to win to the
governments ideal Of country free from venerea disease,
the work must begin by cleaning up the individual.
This work in state is being handled most efec
lively by the Bureau Of Nenereal Diseases Charleston
which under the supervision Of the Y. S. Public Health
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-19
WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 10. 1919.
THE AMERICANS CREED.

believe in The United States of America as govern
spt Of He people by the people, for The people phosc
powers are derived from the consent Of the governed;
9sdemeerdey in republic G sovereign Nation of many
oyesgn States; perfect Union, ono and inseparqble,
established upon those principles Of freedom equality, jus
Ines and fortunes therefore believe il is my duty
ny country 10 love it, 10 support its Constitution; to
aps; to repect lis flag; and 10 defend il against
all enemies.
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ricer William Graham learned this
when he found 9S pints neatly tucked
away for the night in upper berth No.
3 on Chesapeake and Ohio train.
Passage was engaged from Kentucky
to Prince, W. Va. Graham saw two
men purchase the liquor and followed
them onto. the train. Both upper and
lower berths we're engaged by the
men, but they apparently became sus'
picious and the lower berth was un-
occupied when the officer seized the
liquor,
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WHAT ABOUT CIBRALTAR2

A measure to reduce the danger of recurrence Of
German naval power the destruction of the armament
which Germany mounted on the little island called F4elsO-
land is all right but at the same time It opens question
which is Of more than passing interest to the word at large
If Eelgoland which commands the entrance 10 the K!e
canal is to be reduced to such condition that no longer
is military factor upon what principle will the British JUS
dfy Gibraltar and the naval bases from which they
mand the traffic on the Red sea? And upon what ground
will they continue to maintain their establishment at Ba-
hama right off the coast Of the United States?
Of course the peace treaty may take these evidences Of
British supremacy on the high seas out Of the realm Of in.
ernstona contention but unless it does candid minded
men will have grounds for doubling the entire snc:y o!
the British until they do withdraw from such places here
is great deal Of common in the doctrine that the
marrow places in the seas should be free
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-19

Major General Epoch Crowder, who provost mar
shall general Of the United States managed the seccye
draft during the Great has gone to Cuba to revise
the election laws of that country 1t foregone con-
clusion that when General Crowder finishes this job
Cuba will have first class election law.
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Yesterday the House Of Delegates tabled the state
police bill drafted by the committee appointed for that
purpose That leaves the Wysong bill before the body
II is expected that some action will be taken it today
but no legislation along this line would be preferable
to such measure which has no merits whatever and
is vicious positively and negatively.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-03-19
. TFE MeHT or WE INDIVIDUAL.

of the states whose boards of health have passed
rules and regulations for the control of the venerea
ease, proyisoni made for holding in quarantine in de-
non homes and elsewhere, those found to be suffering
lon yenereal disease infection
MANY women who have been arrested for the practice
professional prostitution have resented this regulation and
ave sought by appealing TO the habeas corpus act TO
teue their release the that although they
gnrealy infected they were being illegally detained
I'M Omaha the Mayor Of the city took stand against
Re con6nihs Of alleged prostitutes in the detention hosp
unless they had first been convicted Of crime Says
his enlightened Mayor: II object because you trying
cure prostitutes instead of trying to prostitution 1t
cnan, has violated the laws let her be thrown into jail
ina treated while there if she has disease If she has
eMelated the laws she must beyaowed to go free,
Former U. S. Attorney General Gregory has issued a
Memorandum of the law on this subject in which he says
@As an essential to the power to provide for
the5pubic health and prevent the spread OF
contagipn would seem to be the right to take
persons suffering therefrom to some place
Where they would not come in contact with
She citizens of the municipality and where the
prbbgbility OF their disease being communi-
csted from them to others would be reduced
10 the minimum, the exercise Of this power
may involve the taking OF citizen from his
aeFn household. The power however, of mu-
Risipal and other quarantine authorities to
seize and conhne private citizens under such
circumstances has been assumed to exist
9s3sizs; &C.,, y
Event. were moi sufficient laws on the statute books
sustain the position Of the Attorney General and the
s 81 The state boards Of health there is rule re-
rcs the right Of the individual that must appeal more
sad moro tOrciby as. through the agency Of the u 5.
Public Health Service the truth concerning the menace
of tiis venerea diseases becomes widely known
hsstfu Of tie matter is that the person, male or fe-
Via las Willingly or unwittingy become infected
@ senerea disease has no right comparable to that OF
the community in which he lives TO see that he is cured as
speedily possible.
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Penrsylyana's senate yesterday passed bill au-
horizng state authorities to take legal action against
West Virginia the question of natural supply Evil
denly this is going be good thing for the lawyers
even If there much hope of it's getting anywhere
in particular.
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Hid Whiskey in
g, & 0, Upper Berth

HUNTINGTON, ". Va, March 1s.--
John Barleycorn sometimes takes a
berth when he rides Prohibition OF.
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ment by him on the possible price OF
wheat had been mlslnterpreted. He
had said that in view Of the demands
OF the world for food. the removal Of
price control with regard to wheat.
sugar. pork products and cottonseed
products would be dangerous to the
American consumer. The contrd Of
the pork was removed and. Mr.. Hoo
yer said, had proved to be a dlsad.
vantage to the consumer.
Mr.. Hoover said he wished to EN-.
phaslse that the control of the price
Of wheat would be maintained 20 the
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Who bIushed Thsn7

A pretty young teacher was once
placed In charge Of a class Of boys
end she asked them what they would
like to be when grown up.
They all had very high notions. one
was to be an actor. one sailor. one
lorry driver. and another q cowboy.
Presently 1t came to pretty fair
haired boy to state his wish.
What would you like to bef' SAID
the teacher.
Jackie blushed deeply, and looked
shy and afraid.
"Come, tell me your wish. Jackie.
please!" said the teacher.
"Please-er-please. my wish-er-is to
be-your husband!" he blurted out
London Answers.
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the supreme economic council said.
Shipping conditions are not salts
factory on account OF strikes In many
countries. and as result there Is no
question that the entire American
surplus will be absorbed.
1--WE are at the worst phase Of the
European famine that was inevitable
after the world war" Mr.. Hoover
said.
The economic food council is on top
In the fight against famine, and food
distribution Is organized to supply the
affected areas In Europe outside Of
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full extent Of existing authority and
that the American consumer need NOT
be alarmed that there will be a mate
rial rise In the price Of that food es
sential. America could sell mors
wheat than she has. but the export,
are being regulated to reserve SUN
ciency for domestic needs.
The American army stocks of porl
products In France. more than 10000.
900 pounds. had been purchased b,
the relief council and should furnish
d suficient supply Of fats until har
vest for liberated countries.
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She Knew.

An Evansville mother and her two
children were visiting her sisters
home for the evening, says the Inai-
annapolis Star. The grown niece. who
was fond Of the children. fed them
candy. All at once she turned from
the children to offer her young aunt
some gum. The aunt smiled.
mo. don't believe care for any"
she returned.
Then Nola, the seven-year-old cous-
In, spoke up.
"Yes, you do, too, mother" she
piped. "You know you always beg us
children for some Of ours on the way
home from here every time we come"
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Russia, Mr.. Hoover declared. The
American relief administration has or.
ganized the systematic feeding OF the
undernourlshed children. numbering
between 100000 and 100000.
The United States will supply to
Europe foodstuffs valued roughly at
s2.500,000,0O0. Enemy countries and
neutrals will pay cash for what they
receive.
The relief authorities are doing
their best to control the effect Of the
large demands on the American mar
ket. Mr.. Hoover said that a state.
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EUROPE NEEDS MUCH FOOD
~ the Surplus This Country Can Ex.
port viii Be Eagerly Absorbed,
Says Hoover.

Paris. April 27.-In the harvest
year from August. 1918. to August,
1919, Europe ssust import 290OO.0OO
tons of foods.affs from overseas. and
to meet this tHere Is available a total
OF about 35lfD.00O tons. Herbert Hoo
vss chairman Of the food section Of
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On BEING Cheerful.

You find yourself refreshed by tho
presence of cheerful people, Why not
make earnest effort to confer that
pleasure on others?-Lydia Maria
Child.