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IN POLICE DOCK
Charles Fox May Under
stand Himself But No
One Else Can.

AT police court this morning Charles
Fox appeared before the mayor to an
swer to charge of loafing about the
B. & o. station last night. Fox was
either foxy or actually dumb for he
claimed by high signs of all sorts that
he could neither speak nor hear To
make matters worse when paper and
pencil were handed to Fox he wrote
with dash and flourish but his am
swers TO questions which the mayor
wrote down were entirely irrelevant.
Where the mayor wrote What is
your name and where do ySS come
from?" he answered Glass worker
no." When he was asked in writing
II he had any money he wrote: New
Martinsville and New York
All the time he smiled broadly and
worked his lips and hands, He ap-
peared to know the dumb hand ian
guage but when o. P. Mckinney vol
unteered to talk with the man, neither
could hit it off, Mckinney Saying he
couldn't comprehend the sort OF mo.
tions the fellow made. Both made d
great showing, Mckinney talking tho
sign language very well but Fox max
ing so many wild 1ourishes In the air.
touching his forehead and other parts
of his anatomy SO frequently and unin,
telligibly that not soul could get at
any of his meanings. Only when he
acted out one or two things was II
learned that he called himself glass
worker and had been in many cities.
The B. & o. officer claimed Fox
could talk and could hear and that he
had done both while IN jail at Graf
ton on the same charge but not being
able to get him to do either this morn.
ing he was placed back in jail TO wait
communication with Grafton before de
Gliding what to do with him.
George Nelson and Roy Black,
Pennsylvanians, were arrested yester.
day at the .Monongahela railroad sta
tion when the night train from Pitts.
burgh arrived. Their wives who came
with them were also arrested and all
four persons spent the night in JAN and
today were taken back to Brownsville,
Pa, by officers who came after them
from that place. The two couples are
said to be mixed up in a cutting affair
and are wanted at Brownsville to an
swer this charge.
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Investment Company Pro-
iects Great New str.uc-
ure for Main st.
STORES ANDOFFlGES TOO.
Plans Are Being Prepared
by Dreher, Churchman,
Paul and Ford.


Dreber, Churchman, Paul & Ford,
architects OF the Fairmont building
project, have been working for several
weeks on plans for a building to occu-
py the property of the Fairmont Build
ing ind Investment company at the
cotner Of Cleveland avenue and Main
street.
The building is 10 be seven stories
high above the street level. 1t will
contain stores on the front of the first
and second floors.
Four floors will be occupied by Of
fices and the upper floors by bachelor
apFrtments with all modern convent
endes and elevator service.
In therear portion Of the building on
the lower floors will be a modern the
htre with seating capacity of 1900
people, with entrances and exits
through the main lobby of the build
ing and on Cleveland avenue.
the theatre will be. managed by sue
cessful and experienced theatrical In.
terests and only the highest class at
fractions wil1sbe shown.
The rest of the building is arranged
for occupancy by local lodge Of some
fratetnal ord Stolge rooni
lounges, game rooms, dining rooms,
ladies' rooms, etc. The apartments
mentioned above would be managed
by this fraternity.
The building isFbeing designed not
only to serve its purposes efficiently
but also to uphold its position in the
general civic, development of Fair
mont as demanded by its importan>
location. =
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BIG THINGS ON FOR
INDUSTRIAL GIRLS
Family Party to be Held at
the Y. M c. A. To-
morrow Night.

Something great has been planned
for Industrial girls of the city in the
shape of family party at. the "
M. c. A. under auspices of the wo-
mans department tomorrow night.
All industries, each one called fam
lily will be represented including the
Owens Bottle Plant, the Midwest Box
factory, the Fairmont Box factory,
the Monongah Glass Company, Amer
ican Laundry Troy Laundry, WOOL
worth's store. McCrory's store and the
Haggerty Cigar Factory. The girl.
turned out well at the last meeting
and at that time made plans for the
organization OF an Industrial dub
here, and at tomorrow's meeting more
complete plans will be submitted and
the actual organization begun.
Prizes are going to be offered for
the first club organized and for the
industry with the largest club en-
rollment in proportion to the number
employed. The party tomorrow night
is mainly for organization purposes
so that the girls are intensely. inter-
ested, feeling the need for such club.
1t will meet Tuesday and Thursday
evening and the girls will have the
use OF the gymnasium and the pool
at these times.
Tomorrow evening an address will
be given by Miss Della Bane from
Clarksburg, an employe Of the Weir
ton Steel Plant and Miss ,Bane will
tell about the national industrial con-
vention at Washington which she at
tended as delegate last fall. Every
girl employed In. any of the industries
is cordially and earnestly invited to
he nra,aar+
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Eleven Restaurants
Are On Union List

Eleven city restaurants and eating
houses signed UP the proposed new
scale of wages OF the Culinary Work
ers' Union and averted a strike, which
would have been. effective at midnight
The restaurants that have signed un
are as follows: Watson Cafe. Har.
vey's Restaurant, Liberty Restaurant
Arcade Restaurant, Palace Restaurant
Carrico Hotel, Union House. Slzinner'a
Tavern, Roush and Ice. Webber G
Drummond and Edgar,s Restaurant.
The eight-hour day was effective
yesterday. Effort viii be made by thu
union to sign up the restaurants In tn,
outlying districts of the city.
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Original Position to be Re.
stated in Reply to In
quiry.
WILL Be C0LBY'S FIRST
New Secretary of State Will
Sign the Docu-
ment.
[By Associated Pressf

WASHINGTON, March 24 The
original position OF the American
government that the Turks should be
expelled from Europe is restated in
note to the Allied Supreme council
which has been prepared at the State
department and which will be trans
'mitted soon.
The note will bear the signature of
cambridge Colby, the new secretary
OF state, and will be the first diplo-
matte paper to be signed by him. The
communication is in reply to an In
quiry from the French sad British
governments as to this countryis
views on the Turkish settlement
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-24

MAY RESUME ITS
W0RKON MONDAY
President Lewis of the Mine
Workers Makes That
Suggestion.


WASHINGTON, March 24.-Sug-
gestion that the joint scale committee
of operators and mInefs OF the central
competitive Bituminous coal field meet
Mnoday in New York to draft a new
wage agreement was made in teie-
gram sent today by John L. Lewis,
president of the Nine Workers to
Thomas Brewster chairman OF the
operators scale committee.
The operators and miners were
asked by President Wilson yesterday
to convene the joint wage conference
as soon as possible so that the uncer-
tainity as to fuel supply might be end
ed. t the same time the president
said he expected tne majority report
OF the coal commission recommending
an average wage increase OF q per
cent be accepted as binding on both
the operators and miners.
The President, in resembling control
over prices, restored the fuel situation
SO far as bituminous is concerned to
the status existing prior to November
l, when the bituminous miners went
out in nationwide strike. The execu-
tive order, however, does not affect
the Tidewater Coal Exchange, which
was re.estab: :ished February 25 and
which controls export Of coal.
Majority Report High Points.
The general terms Of the two re.
ports previously had been published.
The decision of the majority-Henry
M. Robinson, representing the public,
and Rembrandt Peale, representing
the operators-is summarized as fol.
lows:
Unless otherwise ordered the terms
and conditions Of the Washington
agreement of 1917 continue.
The IA per cent. increase in wages
fixed by the fuel administration is
eliminated on March 81, and replaced
by this award (Which is on 27 per
cent. basis).
The agreements drafted under this
award are to take effect April 1, 1920,
and continue until March 81, 1922 Tin
other words, the miners do not get
their demand for termination of con.
tracts in the fall.
me mining prices Tor mining mine
run coal, pick and machine, are ad-
Nanced.24 cents.
All day labor and monthly men are
advanced 81 day, except trappers and
other boys, who are advanced SO cents
day.
Ali rates for yardage, dead work and
room turning are advanced 20 per
cent.
The fulfillment OF all joint and dis
trict agreements are to be guaranteed
by the officers Of the International or
ganization.
The six.hour day and the five-day
week are not granted; the eight-hour
day is retained.
The practice of car-pushing stands,
but with recommendations for care
full consideration Of ways and means
for the Introduction of ameliorating
practices.
A commission is set up for the Cen
trail competitive fields to handle ques.
tions of dffferentials in rate and Ger.
tain other matters.
II the recommendation OF the Presi.
dents industrial conference are adopt.
ed in regard to industrial tribunals and
boards of inquiry, this machinery is
to be put into. use in the coal indus.
Continued on page three.)
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WESEL. Germany, March 24-(By
way Berne)-Six thousand troops re-
inforced by armed countrymen had a
skirmish with Communist guards num-
bering about $4,000 near here last
night. Reports state 63 were killed
and upward of 100 wounded
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US. URGES TURKS BE EXPELLED FROM EUROPE
oh, Listep Here!
BY ADAM s. LANE.

Me, and Jimmy welton
And Ira Smith
And Cap Conley We're
All Sitting
In a Row
On Mr.. Comuntzis'
Reserved high Chairs
Yesterday at Noon
Time.
Ira, who Is
A man Of Few
Words,
Emerged from A
Profound two and One
Half Seconds
OF prolonged Silence
And Said:
There's a burned
,Lota funny Words
In the Papers 81
These days that Have
Marked tendency to Stall
Th' Comprehension"
"Aint it the TRUTH"
Responded Jimmy
With great Cheer
What are they, Ira?" He
Continued.
Can't say I've Noticed
EN-"
Ira laid down His
Knife and Withered
Welton with a Look.
Naturally" he Snorted.
"All you know Is
Smart things executed By
Marie Louise!"
Gentlemen" I Interposed.
Whats bothering You,
Smith," Inquired Conley.
'Well, said Ira,
FIR instance-what's A
Pogrom?"
"Missprint," offered Jimmy.
"Twas meant For
Program-wasn't It.
Adam?"
Must have been A
Jewish program, then," Said
Ira. 9TH Jews Seemed
Concerned in It.
Here's another-What
Is a So-vi-ette?"
French for Napkin"
Answered Conley, Who
Learned Lot
While he had a
Chance. -
Don'tNfit at All.
Pondered Ira obviously,
,Bnt'you otta Know,
"Missprint, probly," declared jim
Fellow meant Souvenir"
"Shut up"
Commanded Ira.
Then / took A V
Hand.
s's.I-"what I Want
To know is, what's A
Plebiscite?'
There was A
Long
Hard
Silence.
Then Smith said, 81
Gotta get Back
To the Office.
And Conley Said,
There's a fellow Waiting
For Me-"
And Jimmy Said
'"Adam, I'll bet You
A dollar that that Word
Is Missprint!"
Professor-do a Little
Citing on TIL Guitar.
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THE WEATHER

Showers probably tonight
and THURSDAY. Warm
e. tcnlght-
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LOYAL TROOPS HOLD.
OUT IN RUHR BASIN
Attempt of Revolutionists
to Deal With the Dutch
Fails.

COPENHAGEN, Mrch 24.-Forma-
ton of a new German cabinet is a
matter of only few hours and the
Independent Socialists are sure OF
getting several important portfolios,
according to kilograms from Berlin
this morning.
Gas, water and electric service has
not been resumed in Berlin and the
tramways are still idle as the Inde-
pendent Socialists have assumed a
waiting attitude. They are said to be
with the governments
soft methods towards traders. While
armed Spartacans are simply stood
against the wall.
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BUDERIsH-(Across the Rhine
from wesel)-S:30 A. NJ, March "a
The government troops from the SOU
thern part of the Ruhr district all OF
whom have been besieged in Wesel
since Monday night were still holding
the town safely late last night.
LONDON, March aA.-The MOSCOW
wireless station today sent oui dis
patch dated Berlin which declared
the revolutionists in the Ruhr district
tried to enter into negotiations with
the Dutch government but wers re-
PEELED. Holland refused to negotiate
1t is declared.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-26
YOU WOULDN'T Try
TO TAME A WILDCAT
Mr.. oodson Warns Against us Of
Treacherous, Dangerous
calomel.

Calomel salivates! It's mercury
Calomel acts like dynamite on slug
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, constructed
headachy and all knocked out. lust go
TO your druggists and get a bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents
which is a harmless vegetable substi.
tute for dangerous caiomel. Take a
spoonful and If it doesn't start your
liver and straighten you up better and
quicker than the nasty calomel and
without making you sick, you lust go
back and get your money.
II you take calomel today you'll he
sick and nauseated tomorrow: besides
it may saliyate you, willis if you take
Dodson's Liver Tone you viii wake mn
feeling great, full Of ambition and
ready for owrk or play. IT'S harmless
pleasant and safe to give the children:
they like 1t. Adv md
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EDITORIAL
PlCTURES-AND PICTURES

PICTURES-AND PICTURES
Wei dropped into a picture theater
the other evening enjoying thorough
ly the pictures. Sitting snugly in a
corner watching a well knownstar who
possesses the power to portray youth
innocence and simplicity of conduct,
We we're struck with the fact that our
people are at heart good people, and
that no matter what the experiences
OF lifemay do or have done to us we
really yove good things
True some pietures heralded as an
''unnlasking OF social sins" do draw a
crowd of mOrbidly curious people, but
such pictures. rarely survive a season.
At best all men and women and child
rem love purity Down at the bottom
Of all hearts is something indestruct.
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! ORDINANCE NO. 1913,
TOWN OF WELSH

| AN ORDINANCE acting upon the
petition of more than sixty per cent
/! of the property owners on Polk Street
between Russell Avenue and Rowson
Street, and more than sixty per cent
of the property owners on Rowson
Street from Polk Street to Adams
Street and of more than sixty per
lcent of the property owners on Palmer
Street from South Street to Hudspeth
Street, and of more than sixty per
cent of the property owners on Hud-
speth Street from Palmer Street to
Sarah Street and of more than sixty
| per cent of the property owners on
| Nichols Street from Adams Street to
Sarah Street, and Of more than sixty
per cent of the property owners on
Elm Street from Russell Avenue to
South Railroad Avenue, authorizing
| the graveling of each of said streets
to a width Of twelve (12l feet in the
center of each of said streets, within
specified distances, adopting plans
and specifications therefor calling for
bids therefor and providing how same
shall be paid,
Section l. Be it Ordained by the
Board of Trustees of the Town of
Welsh, La, that acting upon the pc
tition of mere than sixty per cent of
the property owners owning property
fronting on Polk Street, from its in
tersection with Russell Avenue to it's
intersection with Rowson Street for
the travelling of Polk Street upon
said section above described, to a
width of not less than twelve (12)
feet in the center and seven "a inches
in thickness, said street to be pre-
pared in the manner and said gravel
| to be put on as provided in said plans
and specifications of the Engineer OF
the Town of Welsh, same being now
on file with the Clerk of said Town
for inspection and examination, which
plans and specifications are hereby
adopted and approved by the Board of
Trustees.
Section 2. Be it further ordained
etc, That upon the petition Of the
owners of more than sixty per cent
iof the property fronting on Rowson
Street from its intersection with Polk
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-26

| ibIe is something which springs into
life and happiness at tle sight on the
screen of simple bit Of rural scenery,
the glimpse of kindly old face that
has mother" in it. ay lew of rugged
father, who stands four-squaTe with
fthe world-the love story of the young
people who are simply boy and girl.
innocent of indecency and ignorant of
that sort CT cultivated taste which
would like to know the inside of every
thing. just to see the slaughter house
lun red with immoral gore.
We're sick Of the eternal triangle
of the faithless husband and the ieal-
Gus wife, of the tough East Side gang
and the police raid, and so forth. But
we like to see the crowd foch to the
house where innocence is playing, and
where one instinctiyely feels that. all
around are people with clean and
wholesome thoughts, and human
hearts that need only a little better
chance in life to show how fine a
thing humanity would be if the field
of innocence and truth was the only
field they offered us to play in
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-26

The men who are directing the
great crusade in the state of Louis
lana are feeling very optimistic as the
result of the response of so many and
various sections of the state outside
OF Shreveport. to the appeal of the
two hundred homeless orphans who
have been denied the admission to the
Ruston Orphanage because of the fact
that the Institution is already crowd
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$lOO Reward. 500

the readers of this paper viii be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
oeen able to cure In all its stages and
that Is catarrh Catarrh being greatly
innuenced by constitutional Conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Eatarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur.
races OF the System thereby destroying
tne foundation OF the disease, giving the
pauent strength by building up the con-
sutution and assisting nature in doing its
Work. The propriefors have so much
faith In the curative powers OF Haii's
Gatarrh Medicine that they offer One
nunored DoHars for any case that Il fails
10 cure. Send for list Of tesfiTnorisis
Address F. ]. CHENEY q 70 Tnisdn
unio. Sold by all Druggist. &C..
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For District Attorney

The Rice Belt Journal is authorized
TO announce
go. GRIFFIN T. HAWKINS. Jr., -.
as a candidate for District Attorney
Of the Fifteenth judicial District com
posed Of the parishes of Allen, Beaure-
gard, CalCaSieu, Cameron, and Jeffer,
son Davis, subject to action of the
Democratic Primary to he held in
September 1920
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champions of the cause of the home
less kiddies of Louisiana.
Under the Arch of Protection" is
the motto of the orphanage at Rus
ton. Clean, heaIthful housing, kind
careful attention. green lawns, stately
trees beautiful flowers. fresh vege
tables, farm sanimals-what child does
not delight in such surroundings?
VIII you slam the door in the face
of a hungry child? The illiterate and
underfed child makes the degenerate
and criminal man.
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4inn. Hen Mrs. Hannah.

81 went into the hen house one
morning and found my favorite setter
dead got real mad. Went to the
store. bought some, RAT-SNAP and IN
a week got six dead rats. Every
oodv who raises poultry should keel
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CONE ACROSS

If you don't pay your bills what are
you?
Do YOU think that your presence is
greatly desired by the community? Do
you think that the people would be
sorry to meet your administrator?
Some of you do not pay your bills
because you cannot. You are not such
an obnoxious parsonage. Others of you
prefer personal pleasure to that of be-
ing square with the world. You are
contemplate Unless you are not like
the lady of color VINO could not pay her
meat bill because she had had her pic
tuTe taken. True, We meet you every
where. you people who owe anu intend
to owe, and spend delightful hours
with you but nevertheless the subject
of your Indebtedness intrudeS upon cur
pleasure constanaly.
People who take trips leaving be,
hind them bills which they never pay;
people who attend the theater at the
expence of others are really menace
and should be guarded against.
Perhaps the future will work out
some system of credit which the pre-
sent does not present.
But in the meantime pay your bills
and don't enjoy yourself at the other
fellows expense,
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Servant Girl Wouldn't Go In Cellar
FEARING Rats.

~oTIFI9 ndtS.
Mrs. Topper. Plainfield, N. ]. says
Rats were so bad in our cellar the
servant girl wouldn't 60 there. ]
bought some RAT-SNAP and it clean
ed all the rats out. RAT-SNAP de-
stroys rats and mice. Absolutely pre-.
vents odors. Comes in cake form, no
mixing Cats or dogs won't touch it.
Three sizes, 25c, Soc, S1.0O. Sold and
guaranteed by Miller Hardware &
Furniture Co., and Crescent Drug
Store. ADV.
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Having secured the services Of :
first-class horseshoer, am prepared
to DO horseshoeinG. Your patronage is
collected. Jos. Vllilea. May 224s
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-26

At the home of the brides grand.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. l.. Lawrence,
Taylor. Texas. Monday occurred the
marriage of Miss Beatrice Abbott to
Mr.. Lloyd Thomas The bride and
groom arrived in Welsh Wednesday
on No. 10 and will spend part of
their honeymoon here with friends.
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Who's Who in Big Orphanage Crusade

flowers their own possession, which
they will delight in keeping up and
making beautiful The committee
recognizing that the time to impose
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ed. At present there is only one
large building on the ground where
adolescent boys and girls are of neces-
sity housed in the same building.
1t is proposed with the money rails
ed to construct a number of cottage
homes where 20 to % orphans can
live happily with an attractive cul-
tured woman in charge There they
would all grow to feel that their little
group is really their family: the cot
tage their real home; the garden and
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For District Attorney

The Rice Belt Journal is authorized
to announce
JUDGE W. c. BRADEN
as a candidate for District Attorney
Of the Fifteenth Judicia. District Of
Louisiana, subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary
The Rice Belt Journal is authorized
10 announce
DAVID r. ROSENTHAL
as candidate for District Attorney
OF the Fifteenth Judicial District Of
Louisiana, subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-26

r KA od NAP Three si,.,
sd,oV' Sol Sold :, and guars mig
cent C. t,, Drug Store aid aid S sIiIsst
d Furniture Co.IAdT1' illef
on p gO5o Ant ut, BsxEtse!rminatq /
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-06-26

CONCRETE BLocKs-For concrete
blocks see A. VOTERS, Phone 1856.
Welsh. La. S1s-tfc
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The Rice Belt Journal is authorized