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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-18
NOW ASK COAL
PR|l)R|I[5 70
TIDE At BALI.
New England People Aban-
don Movement For En-
barge.

WASHINGTON, June IS. - With
New England consumers Of coal Just
about one day from the poor house"
a delegation from the New England
states yesterday requested the Inter.
state Commerce commission 10 grant
a system Of prioritis for coal a the
Chesapeake Bay tidewater. With such
a ruling and the assistance OF the
Shipping Board in the granting OF
ships for the movement Of this coal
TO destination, the New England men
said they believed the acute shortage
might be relieved.
In the delegation which conferred
with Commissioners Clark. Aitcheson
and others on the commission were
Representatives Rogers, Of Massachu:
sets; Lieutenant.GOye.ror Cox, o!
the same state; Lieutenant Governor
wilson, OF Connecticut, and James j.
Starrow, former fuel commissioner
for the New England district, ara
others.
For the time being the proposal for
an embargo on coal as method OF
relieving the famine has been abarl,
doned, though Mr.. Rogers. who acted
as spokesman for the delegation, en-
phasized that he was favorable to the
embargo.
Hope that the fuel famine in New
England can be relieved and further
serious difficulties ayerted through
use Of the railroad transportation
system has virtually been abandoned.
Il was declared. The roads are doing
everything in their power TO cope with
the difficulties, but the demand from
the entire country, and the fact that
the railroad congestion has not been
ironed out as yet, practically eilmii
mates the possibility Of further and
immediate relief from the railroads.
AT the same time It was shown &c
the commissioners that the transpor-
tation Of coal by water has become
practically a nullity. Formerly at leas.
30 per cent. Of the coal which went
into New England was carried by wa
ter. but gradually this water.6orne
commerce has diminished until not
more than 10 per cent. Of the coal ar
riyes in this manner. Through an op-
portunity to develop the water'borne
commerce TO the extent that formerly
prevailed lies the key to the situa-
ton, 1t was declared.
The commission showed the great,
est sympathy with the proposals ano
Il was indicated that the prior1tles
would be granted in case the Shipping
BOARD could cooperate to move the
coal once 1t reached the ChesapeaEe
tidewater. And at the Shipping Board
Il was assured that every assistance
possible would be given.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-18
Live Wires
Cause Three
Bad Accidents
Victims are in Fairmont
Hospital at the Same
Time.

There are now three patients at
Fairmont hospital who may dies from
severe electrical burns. All Of the
accidents have been separate and
have occurred in the lats four weeks,
in each case due to carelessness and
might have been avoided. They in
clude:
Meadowbrook both arms severed at
the shoulder when touching mine
wire; will probably die.
Fletcher Williams. Of Enterprise,
severely been when connecting up
high tension; is recovering slowly.
but has not regained mentality. he
was injured about two weeks ago.
Mrs. Martin Debosky, Of Monongah:
severely burned when taking hold OF
live wire yesterday evening; is still
living and there is slight hope OF re-
covery.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-18
Two A1restsin
EWel Murder Case

NEW YORK, June 1S.-The first
legal detention in the mysterious case
of the murder Of Jos. B. Elwell,
sportsman and whist expert, who was
stot to death in his home here last
Friday was forecast here today. by
the district attorney. Efforts will be
made to have Marie Larsen and Ed
ward Rhodes, chauffeur Of the dead
man, held BY the court as material
Witnesses.
Assistant District Attorney Joyce
said: Rhodes the chauffeur and Mrs.
Larsen the housekeeper will be taken
to the court Of general session to be
detained formally as witnesses.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-18
Third Party Move
ments Would be
Great Evil
HAS SEEN HARDING /
And is Sure He VIII Not bs
Controlled by .
Group.
rRv associated Prcssl

Dl AEcVNAhANA . e---A II'
WASHINGTON, June B-Endor
ing The actio nof the Republican Na
t;onal S convention Herbert Hoover n
a letter to friends made pubic to1Ay5
alder he had conferred with SenasoE
Harding, the Republican presloe enIis...
nominee, called upon all clemens q
lie marty 10 support the national uc4f
ct al the polls, Z.
part Of the Chicago platform = sccls
structiye and progressive and tnAp
snothins prevents the cQmpromis
nlanEs on labor, from being given &
forward looking interpret etation. =. (
He added, however, that some
things, including a ree9f MIA! a!iol q
our election expenditures ald the pEi.
maries are not Adequately deeaL
with ~. !. IL - 1,' s
he continued, 'than the development
OF several party organizations 1egEe5
senting the complexion Of SEeIy
sToun In the country II We Should
ZONE come to tAty position We B1o6le y
entirely ruled by log rolling mincrlnes
or sterile political coalitions s e
Mr.. Hoover declared It was: t1e
dnty Of those Republicans Who lol9
more definite views 70 endeaTog y
hiring them TO a realization within !ne
party itself as the issues on which
' Iii the Republican party Is not tc
be irreyocabiy split" deelaEed;
Hoover. 81 cannot conceive that Sen
ator Harding will for one moment sub
mil the administrative side ot tn9
government TO the domination d any
o. ME' Hoover in this connection sald
that Senator Harding had stated e
MIN that the views Of both the col
seryatiye and progressive side Of t1s
party would be fully Represented ~
the administration and that he repre-
sented no particular group
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Bridge Only Six
Weeks Behind Time

SIX cars Of gravel was received
from Wheeling last evening by the
John F. Casey Construction Company
for the new bridge. The work Of re-
moving the forms to the middle arch
Is now or and the hosting apparatus
is kept busy. 1t IS expected that this
work shall have proceeded far enough
to permit concreting during the first
week Of July.
Despite ali Of the railroad deaps
end scarcity Of materials the f.ver
job is Just six weeks behind zine,
which is very fine considering all of
he handicaps that contractors have
these days.
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WASHINGTON, June T.-!1 q
statement yesterday ]. D. A. MOT,
row, vicepresident Of the National
Coal Association, voices a protest OF
bituminous coal operators against an
embargo on the export Of soft coal
which some interests, principally IN
the New England states, have urged
the Government to put into effect. In
the statement Mr.. Morrow says:
Certain interests are urging ina.
an embargo be laid by the United
States Government on the overseas
export Of bituminous coal. for the al
legged purpose Of Increasing the sup,
ply available for American use and
Confined on page st1.)
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DEATH oE ROY HuEFMAN.

Roy Huffman. aged %, son Of Zed
Huffman, Of Mt Harmony, died at
about noon today at his home after
an illness with a, complication Of. dis
eases. The body was prepared for
burial BY Undertakers Carpenter and
Ford. No funeral arrangements have
haen made. :. -
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Ohio Democrats Are
Leaving for Frisco
rHy AssocIatcd Prossll

DAYTON, Ohio. June lS.-Demo7
crats from all sections Of Ohio assem-
bled here today preparatory to Lea
ing on special trains tomorrow for tne
Democratic convention at San Fran
cisco. Sixteen carloads OF delegat
and supporters Of Governor Coz I9k
the Democratic presidential nomil
alton will make up the party.
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BANK OFFERS REWARD. i

PITTSBURGH. June ia reN.lg
Of 5000 was today offered b III
First National bank Of FinleyviIle ~
the arrest and conviction Of the ~
men who on May "a robbed the ban
II also was announced that the ma,
fet value Of the bonds stolen ~
s125,oQ0.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-18
Four Small Parties
May be Combined
[By Associated Pressl

CHICAGO, June ia combtna-
ton Of four optical groups in one
party to contest the fall election with
the Republican and Democrats was
predicted today by officials Of the La
Dor party Of the United States, which
will hold its national convention here
July II, II and l3.
The Committee Of 4S and Single
Tax party, which will hold conyen-
tons here at the same time, and the
Nom Partisan League Of the north
vets will join the third porty move
ment, these officials predicted.
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CONTINUE
SCARCE |N REGION
FOR COAL LOADING
Car Supply is Short on B. &
o., Monongahela and
Western Md.

Empties are scarce again in the
Fairmont region tooay. Seyenty-one
mines are idle on the Monongah divis-
ion Of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road because Of the car shortage. The
supply Of emptes on the Monongahela
railway in West Virginia is. limited to
assigned cars, but the Western Mary
land spurs have a fifty per cent run.
On the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road there are 794 empties and the
early morning placement is 624. The
cars are classified as follows: Open,
644; coke, 80; n. e. c. K, seven; N.
v. T., 30. There were SO cars left
over from the previous day. The
mines today ordered 1,704 Of, which
number % were for coke loading.
Along the Monongahela railway to-
day there were IS empties placed in
the West Virginia district. These
are all assigned cars, there being l9
Canadian Pacific and IS New York
Central cars. The cars placed in the
Pennsylvania district today total 10S.
There are no cars in sight for Satur-
day except fuel cars, there being 80
New York Central cars included,
which Of course are assigned.
On the Helen's Run and Wyatt
Binsamon branches Of the Western
Maryland railroad today there were
81 empties.
Shipments Tied Up.
Curtis Bay continues to be tied up
tight BY existing embargoes. Port
Reading is still open wide, but It is
believed that by the close Of Saturday
it will also be clamped shut. While
shipments are being made to Port
Richmond on permits 1t Is believed
that because Of the limited tonnage
OF this pier that 1t soon will be en-
bargoed. The coal going to Pier Is,
Central Of New Jersey, Is not so heavy
because of a short haul charge. II
apparently Is just a matter of time
before all Of the piers will be closed
Market Tightens.
For time yesterday when 1t was
a question where coal would be ship
ned to because Of the embargo on
Curtis Bay and requirements for per
mits 10 certain other points, the mar.
ket softened and the price dorpped
from 81 to S1.5O. However, the mar
ket has stiffened again today and II Is
holding firm, coming back from tfty
to sixty cents over Thursdays low
Forcing Lake Shipments.
It is APPARENT that the emDargoes
Continued on page two)
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Detroit is Now
FourthCiym
Population
Passed St. Louis, Boston,
Cleveland aad Pittsburg
in Past Ten Years.
rgy Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-Detroit
with a numerical increase and rate Oh
growth larger than Chicago and sec
ond only to New York is now the
fourth city Of the country. displac-
ing 81. Louis. Boston, Cleveland. and
Pittsburgh all Of which we're larger
10 years ago.
Detroit's population is 973,7S9. an
increase Of 527,9T3 or 1884 per cent.
The population OF Cleveland. also
announced today. is 726,SS6, an in
crease Of 2S6,l7s or AL per cent
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Robbers Get $4,000
In Cleveland Bank
nv Aecoclafe8 Presgl

CLEVELAND, June 1S.- Three men
TODAY held up the First National bsne
al Chadrin Falls, a suburb, secure
$4,000 and escaped In an autcsAo
bile.
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GEO. V.PERK|NSD|ES
N A SAN|TAR|UN
Insurance Man and Finan.
cier Helped to Reform
Big Business.

NEW YORK, June IS. II Geo. W.
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nancier, died this
morning in the
Stamford Hall
Sanitar rum, al
STAMFORD, Conn.
1t b e C a N e
known June II
that Mr.. Perkins
had suffered a
nervous break
uOWA. AlAs 1 Ca
kins was taken to
Stamford 10 days
ago, when his son
announced that
the change was
made to give his
faith er q gooa
rest.
mi AZ a.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-23
important 10 Wothers
SOMETHING TO WORK WITH
Young Man Perfectly Willing to Prac-
tice Economy If Old Gentleman
Would Supply Materials.

There is a weIl-known banker
whose only son does not, his father
contends, appreciate the value Of q
dollar by about 80 cents. A short time
ago the youth approached the old gen.
tleman with a request for a consider.
able sum in addition to his regular al
lOwance.
"Look here, my boy" the father
said severely. "You do not seem to
realize that you spend great deal of
money-throw it away, in fact. Don't
you think it about time that you be-
gan to economic a bit?"
''Yes, l do, father" the young man
responded earnestly. been thinking
just that-fine thing, economy; pro-
vide against rainy day, and all that
sort of rot. I'd love to start right In
economizing, but can't, because l
haven't cent to economic. If you'll
just pass over that thousand, how.
ever, will begin. right awayl"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-23
WAS GONE BEYOND RECALL
Headgear for Which Young Wife Had
Pinned Adorned Head of One
More Fortunate.

EVERY day for a week." the young
wife said wistfully, 1--WE gone down
to look at a hat in show window
a wonderful hat, Tom; the kind of
hat woman dreams of but sees only
once in years. OF course, knew that
l could not hope to buy it, as 1t was
far more expensive than we could af-
ford. The price was"
perhaps we could manage it, dear,
if you wish it so much" Tom inter-
rupted fondly. Business has been a
little better the last month. / have
two new contracts for large apartment
houses. How much is the haiti"
"That is dear Of yon, Tom," she
responded with grateful smile,
though her eyes grew sad, but it is
too late. Our cook happened to pass
the store. saw her wearing it home"
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jobs in cooking Cooking is mans
job and woman's place is the parlor."
AS a matter of fact, there probably
are highly paid chefs today VINO feel
just that way about 1t.
The situation was getting to the
point where there was no place for
the women in the working world to
go but out. There are even some eX-
tremists who believe that the care Of
children should be taken out of the
home and away from the mothers
hands
1T is here the clinging vine gets
into the picture" said Miss Laughlin.
"She developed as a dollhouse plant,
because there was nothing much for
her to do. Industry had been moved
| from the home. WOman's place was
still in the home, but there was moth
ing for her to do. Often the mothers
of these idle girls were responsible for
their parasitism, because they had had
to work so very hard themselves that
their ideal for their daughters was q
condition which would make 1t pos
sible for them to do nothing harder
| than sit ON a cushion and sew fine
seam.
"But the swing backward toward
primitive standards, when woman was
a worker, to the cave man period, If
you choose, made a long sweep during
the war Women had been seeping
into the professions and businesses
before that time, but their progress
had been almost imperceptible.
"Thus old-timc efficiency, inherited
from their Industrious grandmothers,
no doubt, asserted itself with their new
wartime jobs. Employers were salts
fled and clients made happy. SO the
women are staying with their new
work"
According to Miss Laughlin. there
isn't anything disastrous in the situa-
ton. She believes that there is plenty
of work to be done for both men and
women in Industrial and professional
lines.
efficiency and work are not mat
tiers Of SEX" Is her dictum.
Miss Laughlin Is far from the Gave
woman" in looks, but she is endowed
with vigor of mind and spirit which
would do her cave grandmothers
credit. Miss Laughlin practices low
in San Francisco. She was born in
New England. Her college education
was secured at Wellesley and she was
graduated in law from Cornell uni
versity, one Of two women in her class.
Later Miss Laughlin went to Colo
RADIO, where she was active in politics,
women having been granted the right
to vote in that state while she was
in college A number Of years ago
Miss Laughlin went to San Francisco
and there she has built up large law
practice. At first her clients were
nearly all women. But the war added
men to the list. And these men, who
went to her first because their former
counsel had gone to war, have found
the woman lawyer so competent that
they retained her even when the mon
returned to their Offices.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-23

nave seen in our great war the way in
which men and women naturally lined
up on the primitive basis. The men
OF the nations, in this country, Eng
land, France and the others, went into
military service. The women took up
the Industries.
Nov the surprise attendant upon
the news that women were working
In munition factories, were running
streetcars and doing mems work in
offices wouldn't have been so great,
perhaps, if we had all remembered a
little more of our pre-history."
Miss Laughlin reminds us that in
his account of primitive races the late
Otis T. Mason, curator of ethnOlogy
in the United States National Museum,
points out some Of the industries which
began as woman's work. He says:
''The slain deer lying before her cave
or brush shelter or wigwam She
strikes off a sharp flake of flint for
knife BY that act she becomes the
first cutler
Will ILLS MILF BIC NGll CLuAiJ AC
moves the skin, little dreaming that
thereby she is making herself the
patron saint Of all subsequent
butchers.
'She rolls up the hide, then dresses
1t with brains, smokes it, curries it,
breaks it with implements Of stone
and bone until she makes her reputa-
ton as the first currier and tanner
"With needle of bone and thread of
sinew and scissors Of flint she cuts
and makes the clothing for her lord
and family; no sign is over the door,
but within dwells the first tailor and
dressmaker.
"From leather especially prepared
she cuts and makes moccasins for her
husband, thereby beginning the shoe
industry.
"She was toymaker for her chill
dren, modiste, milliner, upholsterer,
wall decorator for her family.
"She was at first and is now the
universal cook. From the grasses
around her cabin she constructs the
floor mat, the mattress, the screen, the
wallet, the sail.
"She is the mother of all spinners
weavers, upholsterers, sailmakers."
Again he says:
$40 the field she goes with the
basket or wallet strapped across her
forehead. By the sweat of her face
she earns her bread and becomes the
first pack animal"
"Home again with her grain or
acorns, she thrashed and ground them
into flour or bran, thereby mothering
the thrashing industry and the mill
ing. Where it was impossible to find
caves or natural shelter for her family
she designed and built the first wig
vans and forerunners f houses, thus
being the first architect.
"AlI the peaceful arts of today"
continues the account, "were once
woman's peculiar province. Along
lines of industrialism she was pio-
neer, inventor, author and originator"
AS conditions became more settled
for primitive tribes, men gave up their
warfare and entered women's indus
tries. Gradually they look nearly all
Of them. AS work was taken from
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-23
the four walls of he home

the four walls of he home
| it became mans work.
"NoW homework is diminishing to
such an extent that many women, if
they are to work at all, must go to
the office or the factory" said Miss
Laughlin.
SIN the beginnings of the profess
sions women did not make much of
showing. They practiced medicine
in the actual care of the sick. But
medicine, as a profession. was linked
in primitive times with tribal leader
ship and with priestcraft to such an
extent that it belonged almost entirely
to men.
ut has been only in the last few
years that women were admitted to
our medical schools of any standing.
And the few women physicians before
the war had little or no real practice.
Take it in our own time, out in some
neighborhood where there is no doctor.
If some one is i'll or a baby comes, do
we send for a man? Certainly not ;
it's woman who is called in to help.
1.-THE law? There isn't mother,
never has been mother, who didn't,
at times, have to act as judge and
| jury in the disputes of her children.
Father may be the court of appeals,
| but she is on the bench all day.
Every day a mother has to decide and
act according to her decisions. And
woe unto her if she is an unjust judge.
"In the New England town where
I was brought up" continued Miss
Laughlin, "the progress of modern in
vention did not touch US for a long
time. The industrial revolution, which
took from the home so much Of It's
drudgery, had not reached there when
1 was a little girl.
"We made our own soap, our own
| candles, cured our own meats, and
wove the cloth for our clothes. That
is, the women did this work.
"Every man who is working in an
electric light plant is doing the work
that was once done by women-mak-
ing the lights. Every man who is
working in a weaving mill is doing
the work formerly done by women.
Every man working in a soap fac
tory is doing work formerly done by
women.
"The great canning factories, plants
for preserving food, even some Of the
work of the meat packing industries,
are built upon work that was formerly
5o0o 1ryOYaoT
"In the Philippine islands, where the
basis of the family system was the
matriarch, the mother was head Of
the family. She handled all the funds
and budgeted her household. In Eu-
rope, among the small shopkeepers espe-
cially, women are the cashiers of the
family and Of the business"
Cooking, homemaking and dress
making are still done in the homes
all over the country to such an extent
that they are still considered wOmen's
work, Miss Laughlin pointed out. But
with community housekeeping and
community kitchens and ready-made
clothes, the day may come when the
men in charge of the machines that
make the home go round will say:
Imagine those women applying for
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-07-23
Something Missed.

"Do you remember the first balloon
you ever saw"
"Quite WE'LL" replied the elderly
gentleman. "Those were the happy
days, but I've always felt that fate
cheated me out of thrill that was
my due"
"How so?"
81 never saw helper get tangled
in the balloon ropes and so soaring
toward the sky, suspended by one leg,
while the blood of 5000 spectators at
the country fair froze in their veins
with horror. Birmingham Age-HerS
aid.