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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
Fire Chief ctin
|Buildin gs in Fairmont

The chief Of the IRE department,
o. ]. Watkins, will begin today in
specting all public buildings and
apartments Of three stories or more
to see whether orInot they ocme un-
der the Are escape law. All! ldings
not properly provided with fire es-
icapes will be listed and a certain time
allowed for owners to put them in
proper shape: The penalty for fail
ureytosdo so amounts to from 800
to $500 for each week the work is not
done. Wherever ten persons orimore
are employed the build ding VIII he in-
spected. It is said several buildings
will be compelled to improve frees,
cape facilities. l'
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
SIX DOLLAR OIL
IS NOV N SIGHT
But Producers Are Holding
Back for Still Higher
Prices.

fi,. tBy ASSOCIATED Pressl
PITTSBURGH, March six dol
lar oil was almost in sight today when
the seep Purchasing agency announc-
ed an advance In price Of Pennsyl-
vania crude of is cents a barrel to
$3.50. cabell grade also was advanc-
ed Is cents to $3.67.
Independent refners, 1t was report
ed, were still offering bonuses above
the posted prices, but very little oil
was being sold. Producers, it was
the prevailing opinion, were waiting
for still higher prices. which they e1.
pect to develop aMrch 16, when the
seep company's plan to cupt of sup
plies from the Independent refiners
will becoem effective.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
FEW CHANGES HERE
ON THE RAILROADS
Express Companies Will
Continue to be Operat-
ed As a Unit

Passing Of government control of
railroads into private hands made a
number of changes in the local rail.
road situation although no radical in.
were observed.
As to the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road system no cnapge was made 9th.
d Baitl Bil lm66fe, 6
3ll6 had been rsasuf ef 81 the United
States Railr5ad nistration, is
treasurer of the 3, & o.s system and
money from the ticket office will 30
Into the corporation funds directly
through him No changes were made
in the operating ~ ans other forces as
yet ~ I
Freight conditions witis be conduct.
ed here under the same arrangements
as under federal control at least for
the Hresent, except that both the b. &
o. and Monongahela railroads will
givetpriyate accounts from today on.
Money received for accounts prior to
March 1 will go into the federal fund.
No changes are made here in regard
to the express company. The bust.
ness will continue to be done, under
the name Of the United States Rail.
way Express company and according
to Anformation received there will be
put one express company in each city.
It ia said that high officials believe
that u, will be beneficial to continue
this Arrangement as It is said that ex.
press matter is more easily handled
and with greater dispatch. Accounts
commencing today were kept under
the! corporations private fund.
Commencing today John .Coyne,
Brownsville, Pa, who had been assist.
ant supervisor, began his work here
as road supervisor of the Monongahela
railroad. He Will cover the West Vir.
ginia district, which will extend from
Fairmont to Masontown, Pa. He viii
occupy rooms SO at the Monongahela
railroad station. n. NJ. Crawford,
Brownsville, Pa, supervisor, will have
charge OF the Pennsylvania district Of
the road. Mr.. Coyne will remove his
effects to Fairmont soon. He report.
ed for duty here. today. John Collins,
formerly of the supervisors office, Will
be Mr.. Coyne's chief clerk at Fair.
mont.
The ticket account at the Mononsa.
hela railroad will commence today Co
pass into the hands Of T. H. B. Nc.
Knight, Pittsburgh, the treasurer of
the Monongahela railroad. The P. g;
L. 2: revenues will be forwarded to
w NJ. Doulin, Pittsburgh, the treas.
uter Of the. company, who had former.
lys been the federal treasurer of lines
ins and about Pittsburgh.
J. B. Yohe, Pittsburgh, federal man.
ager, has assumed hi sduties as gen.
eral manager Of. the P. & L. H. lines.
Mr.: Yohe's letter of appreciation to
employees for4the service rendered I'M.
der him as federal manager Is as fol.
lows: Effective with the termination
OF federal control my official relation.
ship with You as federal manager will
cease wish 10 take this occasion to
express to you my thanks and appre.
citation for, your splendid support and
cooperation" rs z,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
Public Service Commission
Will Sit in This
City.
CITY DIRECTORS MEET
They are Considering the
Purchase of Another
Ford Truck.

April 13 is the date which the Pub
lie Service Comission has set for a
public hearing to be held in this city
before the commission in regard tc
the proposed water rate raise which
the Board of Directors Of Fairmont
has petitioned the commission to al
law.
This was announced this morning
at the regular weekly meeting of the
board and to this end the. Board
authorized Water Director ]. Clyde
Morris to go to Charleston to post
himself in regard to the. details of the
hearing. Mr.. Morris. will leave for
Charleston tomorrow. f,
The Board this morning considered
the purchase of new Ford motor
truck to be used in the sanitary de.
partment. NJ. Keenan,, representing
the Central Garage, agents for the
Ford cars, made the city a PROPOSE
ton and It was laid over for further
investigation. The oBard believes a:
this time that the purchase Of new
truck would materially reduce the up.
keep to the equipment now. owned BY
the city which Is considerable.
on nv ne a'peare cres.tha
etwesn him and lie 6Bafd relative fo
the paving OF Mofgant6wh ayenue,
This VAS also tabled for further In
'vestiEatton.
"a letter was read from F. D. Fem
hagen representing vice president
James NJ. Boyle OF the West Virginia
Metal Products company In which he
inquired into an agreement supposed
TO exist between the city and the
lMonongahela railroad relative to the
OF a wooden bridge over
Winfield street, formerly the Speed
way, with a concrete structure, same
TO! 4be finished by August, 1920. The
bridge crosses the tracks of the rail
road company. This mater was ta-
bled for further Investigation. The
contract Is believed to have been made
between the railroad company and the
Prfcketts creek branch of the B. & N,
railroad, now. the Monongahela rail-
road. The Board wfll at once iooa
into the matter as asked by Mr.. Fem
hagen. X n ~
City Engineer s.. B, Miller and d.
rector of streets w. E.. Arnett were
authorized by the Board to make fur.
ther investigation into some mine
openings that might prove to be a
menace to the city and to report later
Mr. Arnett reported that Harvey Shaii
had agreed; to- at once close up the
mint portal near his property on
Washington street beyond Quincy
which opening was ordered closed By
the Board at its meetiog held last
sMotday. ( g: u !,
\ Mr.. Araett was advised TO take up
the matter Of securiog Stag to besused
1T buildiag the approach to the river
bridge which the B. and O. railroad
company will begin in the near IN.
ture. The Board is desirous that ey,
;erything be in readiness for this work
80 that 1t can be done with all dis
patch. y ~ 5
building permit was granted to
ID M. Boyer to erect a dwelling on +
street to be a frame and Ito cost
1920. y,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
3, & O. Employees Are.
Using New Pass es S

Employees of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad today started to receive
their passes from the corporation.
Prior to this they carried United
States Railroad administration passes
for several years. ;,s;.5.f :.
EdgarT. Brown, formerly division
engineer on the Monongah' division OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
accepted a positio mas chief engineer
OF the Morgantown and Wheeling
railroad. He entered upon those du-
ties today. ~
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
BIZ own to Speak On
State iary

AT the Y. N. g: a. on Tuesday even.
ing the Boys IIi.Y club win hold ban.
quet. Fifty boys are expected4to at
tend. Z 3
NJ. Z, Brown, cashier sofe the Fair
mont State bank, warden OF the state
penitentiary at Noun ndsFilie; under For
mer Governor Glasschck, viii SPEAK
to the lhoys. He will tell OF his expert.
ences at the penitentiary with prison
|ers. sosB y
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
HARD COAL MINERS
FRAME new SCALE
1t Will be Presented at Meet.
ing Soon to Be
Held. $.


EAbELPHfxii. Feb. Fzs. = Dc.
naa1ds for d go per cent. increase in
wages forscontract miners, $500 a day
raise for day men, and q six-hour day
and fiye-day week for. men paid by the
day or month, will be- presented to the
anthracite coal operators In New York
on March by the union representa-
tives of the hard coal diggers. These
demands were formulated at asconven-
stion Of the anthracite miners in
Wilkes.B Barre, last August and ratified
by the national convention OF the Uni.
ted 4 Nine ,@ssWorkers Of America in
Cleveland In September.
The conference OF operators and
mine workers next month. Will endeav-
or to negotiate a new agreement to
take the place of the contract now In
force. 4 y. x. ~. 80.
+ The present general wage agree.
ment covering the anthracite indus.
try! was entered into in May, 1916, for
four years ending March 81 this year.
Because Of war fcondi itions. wages have
been since readjusted by supplemental
agreements between the miners and
operators.
About 10 900 mine workers will be
affected by the new contractsf 70 be- ne
gotiated. The miners; scale commit
tee which will meet the operators will
bescomposed OF the fficers and sexecu-
tive board members 3os the three dis.
tricts comprising the anthracite fields,
the three internatio tional board members
In the hard coal regions and three
mine workers from each district. No
announcement has been made as to
the number of men who will represent
the coal mine owners. 1t Is expected.
however, that after the demands are
formally presented. and views are ex.
changed between. the two sides, small
Subcommittee will be named to carry
on the actual negotiations.
When in final form the agreement
will bel presented to the full committed
for adoption. aIn the case OF the min.
|ers, the agreement will have to 20
back tosa convention Of the mine
workers for ratffication. u x
Whether the mine workersswill re.
main at work. IL an agreement Is moi
reached by March "a. WIN depend
Largely, 1t Is said, on howFstrenuously
the operators oppose the demands. No
Opinion has thus far been given by
either side as to the outcome of the
negotiations. The opinion was ex.
pressed, however, that the negptia:
tions probably would mot be taken up
seriously until the bitumiious wage
scale has BEEN agreed upon. y 8;
The demapds Of the mine workers
are sfollows: So Z ! s /.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
WILllAM KELLEY DIES.

William kelley, aged SO, died Sat.
lurday at his home ut Chiefton after a
three months illness. He Is survived
by his wife and five children. The
family moved to .Chiefton from
iWaynesburg recently. The funeral Is
in charge. of Undertaken R. L. Gun,
ningham. IA !, ,s7s;s
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
EN!iianka Ho1ne After
III Trip Down State

ALBERT Msnka, who was formerly
come ected with the United Mine
Workers Eof sfnerica as an interha-
tiona1 Organizer. Is home from trip
through the iower part OF the state.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
|P0DRGAR.SUPP[Y
TONNAGE
0|FFEBRUARYaERE
Dropped Almost 5000 Cars
Over, January-Better
Than Last Feb.
Cars ARE RE: RAE TODAY
Best Showing on B. & o.
Railroad Since Last
January. J
Cars ARE F|AE TODAY

During the month Of February the
Pa airnaOnt region loaded 1888 cars OF
coal and oke-l9. .127 cars or s56 $50
tons pf coal and 212. cars of coke de.
spite the miserable. car supply. The
total regional loadir,, this month
Was bSD6 cars short OF January Of
MS year but the total loading on
me Mpnpngah division of the Balti
more O. Ohio railroad was 1924 cars
more than In February, 1919, whel,
me lnii2 following the war and the
struggle With the railroads to beat
down the price of coal, were keenly
telt n the Fairmont region.
Mines along the Monongah division
pf the Baltimore & Ohio railroad dur
February loaded 72s,0e0 tons OF
CA 1850 cars) There were 212
cars of coke loaded on the division
Hlso. Coke loading on the division
baas picked up greatly during the pas
thirty daxss There were eighty-twc
cars more OF coke loaded in February
than there WAS in January.
0pefations along the Monongahels
railroad in West Virginia last month
loaded 1857 cars of coal, which Is 60
cars stronger than the total in Jan
dr.
3ts sossaeg psryyess fgkl g,l
lows: &oalS loaded cash on the rB tS&
q. railtoad IL, ,40S cars coal loaded
b west on tie B. & o. railroad, 2229
cars coke loaded east on the 3. 3
o. laiiroad S3 cars coke loaded west
Oh the 81 g o. railroad, 124 cars;
Curtis Bay shipments, 100 cars; Mich.
iEan Point Shipments, 392 cars, Ohio
point shipments, 74S cars; miscellan
eops points shipments, 1000 cars
railroad fuel loading, 1914 cars; load
a sby wagon mines on the Monongaf
d{tision OF the B. & o. railroad, 20
cas- More Plentiful.
PriTate ownership on the Baltimore
K Ohio railroad started with 1440
cars on the 6onongah division today
which Is the best car supply expert
enced since way back In January.
While an acute car shortage is pre-
[|cted later as result OF the shift
(rom Eovkfnment ownership to priv
ave minds At thus far has not devel.
optd, M mines were idle today, al.
Though the mines had ordered 172s
: c2r1. Today's early placement was
ood atf 1880 and there should be q
bis produetion today. Operators wer'
a a better m,mor than they have beer
Tor many weeks and this may also
Ne said of the miners as they are
eager for work.
Today the cars on the Monongah .di
<saion are classified as follows: opet
1344; coke ~; n. .e.lc. X, 81; NJ. "
r.. Ii Cars left over from the pre-
Nious day Were SO.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
STEEL TRUST IS
UPHELD BY COURT
Government Loses Fight to
Dissolve the Big Com
bination.
tBy Associated Pressl

wAsHifSGeToS, HoiS,S March 1.-THE su.
lpreme court today upheld the forma.
tion Of the United States Steel cor
poration and subsidiary combinations
in the iron and steel industries.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01

sDAuessERTX EuNERAis PLANS j.
ms funeral 4 Of Waiter Claude
VIII take place tomorrow,
atter1 ocn at four o' clock 'at the RES
idence on aIofganto town avenue.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-01
.B[0ODSHED N milan.
.F)LL0WED. BY STRIKE
Collision Between a Crowd
and Police Occurred
Sunday. .
lrpv AssocIated Pressl

MILAN. March las a result Of a
collision between ascrowd and the po-
lice here yesterday In which the Off
GERS fired on the mob and two ciy;S-
ians were mortally wounded general
strike was declared at midnight
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
THE EASIEST WAY
By DR.. Frank Crane

by LII. FRANK OTdIlE
An inmate Of state prison writes me that
he is to take part in debate on the subject:
Resolved, That America is hypocritical and
Americans profiteers and that America is for
the capitalists only" He wants me to give
him some ideas upon the subject.
To ordinary, sane minds of course the
very statement of the question is absurd.
The majority of Americans are not hypo-
critics, profiteers, nor capitalists. Neither are
they saints and Sunday Scool superintend-
ents.
Tey are human beings.
AS such they win run good and bad, the
same as the average scope of human beings
in any other country. Perhaps little better.
There are two kinds of statements which
you may we'll doubt. One kind is the state
ment that any group of people are all good;
the other, that they are all bad.
The poison element of the resolution that
is to be debated in the state prison, however,
is the intimation that the hypocrites and
profiteers are typical in America That such
persons do exist is beyond doubt. But they
are exceptions and not the rule.
The average American is honest and wants
to do the fair thing. Precisely as the aver
age woman everywhere is decent
The small mind when it gets over-heated
The man who has been betrayed by woman
thinks all women treacherous II he has been
swindled by church member, he jump to
the conclusion that all church members are
rascals. If he has been browbeaten by an
employer, he concludes that all employers are
tyrants. If he has been overcharged by gro
GER, he assumes that all grocers are thieves.
This is not logic. 1t is a mild and COM
mon form of insanity.
Another statement in the resolution is that
America is for the capitalist only. The alb
surdity of this of course, is apparent to the
average person.
For those who are below the average, it
may be stated that the thing called Capital
ISM is a good deal of a bugaboo.
II The capital of the United States is not
owned by few rich men. 1t is made up of
the savings OF very many men In moderate
circumstances.
Capital is a blessing. Without it there
could be no civilization. The object of thrift
is to make capital. The aim of every working
man should be to become a capitalist. Who
eyer has saved dollar and put it in the saw
ings bank is a capitalist.
Every healthy man is able to earn more
than he consumes. If he saves his surplus
and makes it work for him he is capitalist
And it is this surplus that makes the prosper
ity of the country. Those in charge of the
finances of great business sometimes do
wrong; but, a rule, they are quite as
straight, as honset and as public-minded as
the man who works for three dollars day.
Perhaps more SO. For their position and
their responsibilities enable them to see bet
ter the advantages of cooperation.
In conclusion, it may be stated that in all
probability the inmates of the state prison
| are very much like the people of the outside.
Some are bad and some are good.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
The Admirable Work of the
Frisco Convention.

LII in all, the San Francisco conven-
II ton has written one of the most
admirable and suspicious chapters
In Americas political history. It has pro-
duced platform that meets the issues of
the time squarely and with the outlook of
liberal craftsmanship. 1t has chosen candi-
dates worthy of such principles and fitted
to muster the country's forces of progress
and construction.
Where the Republicans evaded and
floundered, the Democrats have come
straight to grips with those questions of
national and international moment on
which the futures chief interests will
turn. Where the party of Penrose and
Harding looks back to dead past, hoping
to revive old privileges and plutocracies,
the party Of Cox and Franklin Roosevelt
looks to the living present with it's mighty
problems and mighty inspirations. In the
platform made at Chicago there is next
to nothing to enlist the loyalty of forward
thinking men, because there was next to
nothing Of human sympathy and vision in
the minds of them who designed it, But
the platform which comes from San Fran
cisco has the ring of heart-born declara-
ton whose promises made to be
kept.
AS for the nominees, the contract is
equally striking. Senator Harding, as the
country we'll knows, is Of the Old Guard,
Republicans and pillar Of the particular
group that has proved most obstructive in
the present Congress. Moreover, If we may
take the freely expressed judgment Of his
own party's leaders, he is without dis
tinctive ability, a good-natured gentleman
who can be depended upon to take advice.
Governor James M. Cox, on the contrary, is
one of the great dynamic personalities of
the time, a man with a record of high serv-
ice and a spirit Of Americanism at its ener-
getic best, liberal in the sanest sense of
that term, an unfailing friend of the rank
and file, an answering upholder of law and
order Likewise his associate on the ticket,
Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, has proved his
rare administrative capacity as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and his power as a
constructive thinker He will appeal both to
the conservative East and to the progress
sive West, and make the Democratic ticket
doubly worth voting.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
TO STOP WASTE
RV Ii. Addington Bruce
Dy IT. 3uuIIISlUl OIuCC
~ lightly accused of being a waste

~ lightly accused of being a wasteful
X pople, we shall forever be a wasteful
people until those of us who are par
ents make it point to educate our children
in thrift.
This was the thought that flashed into my
mind when 1 happened to glance out of a
back window early the other morning.
Standing, upside down, on the little stretch
of grass I call my lawn was child's veloci-
pede. 1t had evidently been there all night
in a pouring rain.
1t belonged to some one Of the numerous
small boys in the neighborhood. Just to
which one it belonged / do not even now
know. But I do know that it's little owner
could not have received the training in thrift
that his parents should have given him.
And I very much fear that unless some
body else---or the dire hand of poverty-be-
gins soon to impress certain important truths
on him he will grow to be a typical waster
when he reaches adult life.
For that matter, to be sure, poverty itself
might not suffice to teach him thrift
know, and you know, not few poor people
who are notorious MASTERS.
No. There must be, in the homes Of we'll
TODD and poor alike, specific education
against wastefulness if wastefulness is ever
to be abolished. The sooner parents who cali
themselves patriotic appreciate this and zeal
ously give their children the needed educa-
zion the better for the children ard for the
land their parents profess to love-
The small boy who left his velocipede to
the destructive action of an all-night down
pour is only one of an alarmingly large num-
Der Of similar juvenile wasters-both boys
and girls.
You see them everywhere, thoughtlessly
running their clothes, their books, their play
things. Their motto seems to be, There is
plenty more where this came from. Unre-
buking parents unwittingly confirm them in
this belief.
Were they taught that thoughtlessless
brings penalties, that destruction of their be-
Iongings means personal loss to them, they
might at first feel hugely aggrisyed. They
probably would.
But the habit of thrift-the supremely in
valuable habit of thrift-would little by little
become as truly part of them as the habit
of waste is otherwise sure to become. In the
end they would be tremendous gamers.
AS in the end would be the nation, now
so previously afflicted by the Wasteful ways
of myriads Of its people who in their own
childhood were infected with the baneful
"P1enty more idea.
Copyright, 1920, by The Associated News
papers.)