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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-08-24
SCHOOL BOARDS
ACT ON LEV|ES
ALL ESTIMATES ARE ADOPTED
COMPLAINTS IN SOME DIS
TRICrS ovE1RULED.
Tr1adslphia Board Lets Pavtng Con-
trace-Albsrt Emmerth,
Contractor.

At a special meeting "f tie hoard OF
education OF Triadelphta district held
last evening. the Tr!adciphia district
High school. let the contract for the lay
inE OF approximately $500 square feet
OF concrete walk IN front Of the High
school building and adjoining the new
walk at the Greenwood cemetery. 10
Albert Emmer;h. we'll known paving
contractor.
Mr. Emmerth was present At the
meeting and following the ooards &C
ton told Thorn he would Immediately
get busy and try and have the sidewalk
completed before winter sets In proHid-
Ing that no Is able 10 GET tho necessary
material and IA borers TO do tho work.
The board at the Same t!me took up
the tax levy which they estimated on
August 9Th and after discussing II for
some Little time, taking up and con
sder!ng several complaints which had
been sen, IN by some Of the citizens In
that dlstr:c, they decided TO let 1t be the
same as was estimated. This Is VIZ
or the same as last year.
Sevcra, other routine matters such as
tho payment OF bills were disposed Of
before they adjourned. All members
Of tho board were present.
Richie.
specia, session OF the Ritch!e coun-
try school board was held last evening
at their regular meeting place at when
time they took up and laid the tax levy
OF sl05 which was estimated At a
meeting held on Tuesday. August 9tn'
This levy 10 an increase Of 10 cents
over last years levy but such was done
on account of tho raising the 81 aries OF
a number OF the teachers. Several other
routine matters were disposed or
Liberty.
Tho board OF education or Lioer'|
country district met IN special session
last evening at which time they laid
.le levy of SIS" which had been esN-
mated at meeting held two weeks
ego. This levy Is litne higher IMAM
what ,he taxpayers had TO pay last
y.ar, bu: this was due 10 the fact tha'
som. improvements are to be MADE 10
aom. Of the school buildings In TINS
district In ;he very near future. nom
Ing further was taken up AT thIs lit"o'
Washington.
Instead Of meeting last evening. the
washlnCton country district or po"ru
NJ education met Monday evening al
ths Fulton school building. AT whs''
tins they laid the levy OF Wv whlch
VA, estimated two weeks ago. This lev!
/, 10 cents less than last years se'eral
other minor school matters were oiH-
posed Of ut this time. All members
OF tho board were present.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-08-24
DOCODA DISMISSED

loo Dogoda, OF Elm Grove. was given
| hearing before Squire Charles j.
Goldenberg on a charge OF having IN his
possession . large quantity OF wet
goods when his place was searched
ono time ago. Attorney S. o. Boyce,
'epresentiaE Joe Dogoda- said that Joe
Mas only boarding at this place and
m. tho wet goods were mono Of his
nrorer,y. In view OF this tact the case
VAS dismissed.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-08-24
UNION DISTRICT
LEVY IS ADOPTED

The board OF education Of Union dis
trict Marshall county public schools
met last evening At the Union high
school whero he tax levy was laid for
the fiscal year ending June 10th. 1892
After little debating and cons!dera tion.
a. was decided 70 adopt tho levy which
was set at tho last meeting which Is ive
per cent lower than that OF last year.
Tho following include the expenditures
for which tho levy was made:
Elementary grade fund .......3 .l5
Elementary ,eacherE fund. 40
High school maintenance fund. is
High school teachers fund. -. rs
Bond fund ................. .0S
Total .................. 800
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-08-24
Street Car Hits Cow;
Animal Badly Crippled

street car traffic on tho Panhandle
sion OF the Wheeling Traction COM
any was delayed twenty-five minutes
-s;erday afternoon about 1850 o'clock
hen the express car operating between
;.r;lhHnyille and this city struck COW
= S,op IS.
TIE cow. valuable HoIsteln. was
badly crippled The rear trucks OF the
.xuress car were thrown off tho track.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

notes of the foreign nations held bv
our government, into the securities
OF the financial, commercial and in
dustrial enterprises of the foreign
peoples, to be held and owned by
our people as individuals.
The proposal is a most interesting
one. A permanent foreign invest
ment by America of fifteen billions
would put this country in a strong
position. 1t would not be against
foreign interests which could rea-
sonably hope for reinvestment of
interest payments, and thus secure
IN their own lands the continual
activity of the capital power of
America. This country for 100
years found it desirable to have the
securities of its companies owned
abroad.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Alliances and World Unions

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait ex-
presses general aspiration when
she says that she hopes that dis
armament will be achieved. But her
suggestion of taking Americas "six
teen new battleships into the ocean
and blowing them up in one grand
explosion" is not exactly happy. The
language is reckless and calculated
to stir up opposition.
But mere deplorings do not get us
far-do not give much practical aid
in establishing real pacifsm. If
necessity to have at hand means of
defense exists, or is thought to exist
by vast majority of persons, it is
not possible to destroy the bleak
truth by lamentations. To serve the
cause of peace more must be done
than to bewail conditions.
Take the present state Of the world.
1t would seem plain that the only
effective way to serve peace is
through the action Of those possessed
of power Power is now with three
particular nations. Yet when it is
proposed that they shall get together
and exercise their power the reply is
heard that they are not to be trust
ed. 1t is said that it is not safe to
lodge such responsibility with select
ed nations-that nothing less than
mankind as a whole can be relied on
to be just But, unfortunately, man
kind as a whole lacks applicable
force, and it is not likely to be
equipped with it in the near future.
Great effort has been made to open
paciist minds to the non seqaiturs
Of their usual arguments. 1t cannot
be said much success has attended
these efforts. In the present instance.
with respect to naval disarmament.
pacifists view with suspicion ar
rangements based on alliance rather
than on world union principles. The
internationalist and the nationalist
get together in opposition to ALI
snces, and nothing is achieved for
peace
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
An Engineering Topic

When professional men convene
they usually talk shop. But Mr.. l..
w. Wallace, secretary of the Ameri-
can Engineering Council, chose to
address the Chicago meeting of the
American Engineering Society on
changes in clothing styles
Mr.. Wallace did not speak as a
sartorial expert, nor yet as a moral
list. He brought fine raiment into
the domain of economics and told the
engineers of the huge losses occa-
stoned by tickle fashion. Waste,
waste, waste was the burden of his
complaint With every alteration in
the mode of gowns, hats, shoes and
what not it appears that industry is
disIocated. Lack Of standardization
causes infinite readjustments in man
ufacture, playing havoc with normal
output. For example: Twenty five
per cent reduction in production pos
sibility occurred in every mems
ready-made clothing plant that
adopted a slight style change in the
cut of the lapel of The coat
Doubtless Mr.. Wallace is right as
to the facts, which he obtained as
vice-chairman Of a committee on
waste appointed by Herbert Hoover.
But what's to be done about it? Mr..
Wallace is unable to put his finger on
the power behind the throne of style.
This mysterious dictator with a COL
lective personality has never yet
been given a local habitation and a
name. From wherever derived, the
dictates Of capricious fashion are not
likely to be overruled by thousand
committees of investigation-not so
long as most women and most men
have the craving expressed by the
lady who said to Emerson that "the
sense of being perfectly well dressed
gives feeling Of inward tranquility
which religion is powerless to be-
stow"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Early American Pugilism

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If Monsieur Georges Carpen-
tier had read the description of prize
fighting in America 200 years ago as
written by one of his countrymen he
might not have had the hardihood to
venture across the sea
The following account by Monsieur
Bayard in French Memories of Eigh-
teenth Century America may prove of
interest. The athletes use fists and
teeth; they pluck out each others eyes,
and this is how 1t is done: The cham
pions approach each other, delivering
without warning heavy blows of the
fist; they entwine their forefngers in
their enemy's hair; then. stiffenine
their thumbs, apply them to the cor
ners of the eyes and make them pop
out, amid cheers from ferocious cir
Gle urging them on. Woe to the care
less wight who allows his finger or
thumb to get caught, for they will be
bitten by his adversaryl Every market
day we saw crowds form round drunk
EN- athletes whom the code of honor
forced TO box. Frightened women fed
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Better Road Control

The other day at the National
Traffic Conference at Yale Univer-
slty 1t was stated authoritatively
that while American losses in battle
or from wounds during the World
War were about $4,000 lives, in the
same period of nineteen months no
fewer than $1,000 persons, $4,000 of
them school children, were killed on
the highways of the United States.
The blame for this slaughter was
charged by William P. Emo, who
made the report to the conference,
chiefly against inefficient rules for
traffic control, or inefficient admin
istration of them. Stress was espe-
cially laid upon the lack of uni
formity in regulations. A bewil-
dering and mischievous lack of rea-
sonable conformity characterizes our
whole system of traffic management.
There is no general adequate as
surance of the competence of drivers
OF motor vehicles. In six states no
examinations to determine such COM
petence are required, in three exam
nations are Optional" and in nine
employed chauffeurs only are ex-
amined, and in but five do there ap-
pear to be efficient and compulsory
examinations Of all drivers, includ-
ing owners of cars as we'll as their
employees.
The same diversity exists in the
age requirements for holders of
licenses to drive, one state only re-
quiring chauffeurs to be twenty-one
years old, while several states grant
licenses to children of fourteen.
Speed rules and other regulations
vary in like manner, and so do the
endorsements of them, the methods
of marking roads with signs for di-
rection or for warning, and, in fact,
practically every other feature of
the case save one. The only uni
forlnity is in the incessant and
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
The Troops on the Rhine

In opposing the Fish resolution to
withdraw American forces from the
Rhine the Loyal Legion has taken a
wise stand.
America, in entering the war be-
came a partner-Mr Wilson pre-
ferred to call it an "associate'-of
the Allies. And although partner
ship implies rights it also implies
obligations. In the present case one
of these is to see the war through
and the war is not seen through until
its results are accepted. The armis-
tice came on November II, 1918, but
the enemy is only just beginning to
meet in one important respect the
terms laid upon her. What would
be thought of court which rendered
a decision and then took no interest
in enforcing its decree?
Our troops on the Rhine are the
visible reminder to the German peo.
pie that we were partners with the
Allies in winning tee war. Their
premature withdrawal would en-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Dearth of Tenements
Combination of Causes Bringing
Building to a StandstilI
tn +La EJ;+o. : TIL ~,

Combination of Causes Bringing
Building to StandshlI
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning the dearth of tene-
ment houses, I would say that the day
for the construction of tenement
houses, as far as Manhattan is con-
cerned, Is past. In the ten years 1908
to 1918 the owners of tenement prom
critics lost, in many cases, the accumu-
lated savings of lifetime, large loans
and easy money having caused over
production of tenements during this
period, so that rents fell to abnormallv
low figures, and the owner could not
collect enough money to meet his in
terest, taxes and upkeep.
Now, when fair return on such tvpe
Of property would be welcome, and also
encourage production, the politicians
step in, responding to the public clamor
to hold down the price of rents, and
enact law antagonistic to the law of
natural economies.
We have now a combination of high
land value, high cost of building, rapid
increase of assessments and tax rate,
high interest rates on mortgage, high
general upkeep costs Especially coal.
liability, rent and heavy fire insurance
covering, as required by law, on ac-
count of increased replacement cost in
case of fire. and the utter disregard by
many tenants of justice in their deal
ings with the landlord.
How, with this combination together
with activities of the various citv de-
partments, goaded on by the tenants, to
make trouble for the owner by asking
for all sorts of unnecessary things)-
how, l ask, can any one be foolhardy
enough to go into a sure losing game
and produce tenement property?
1t can't be done. The poorer class of
people will have to move to the suburbs
on cheap land. building on the coopera
tive plan. NATHAN L. OTTINGER.
New York, May %, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29

from these barbarous pastimes learned
from the English. Generally a bruiser
(breaker of bones) is judge for the
combatants, and compels the observ-
ance sf the rules. You see him march
ing gravely round the circle and ad-
dressing the two champions with an
air Of authority. 1t is ne who gives
the signal for combat or applause.
"The imbecile crowd has more re-
specs for his orders than they would
have for & magistrate, After the COM
bat the friends of the winner sur
round him, and shake his hands; while
others with lemons stop the blood
whion flows from his nostrils. This
parsonage receives their attentions and
praise with the studied solemnity of q
theatrical hero" READER.
North Adams, Mass, May 27, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Applied Idealisrn

ldealism of the word is beautiful.
Mankind would not be without it. 1t
feeds the spirit. Dreams and visions
are inspiring. The shining goal and
the glittering spires of better days
are always to be pointed to.
But ideahsm of the deed is also
worthy of honor Its wings may not
lift far upward. 1t modestly flies
low. But its victories have a blessed
reality about them.
Checking conditions as they now
are in the international realm with
what they were three months ago
there seems no reason for the ideal
lists of America to feel cast down. A
settlement of the Preparations ques-
ton, whose unsettlement left so
many things doubtful, has been
reached. The United States, which
stood aloof from the world counseIs,
is now once more an active partici-
pant therein. Early in March there
was no sight that the Geneva league
could or would do anything in behalf
of disarmament, or that, if it tried,
attention would be paid to it. Now,
with unanimous Senatorial approval
secured in advance, the White House
is likely soon to summon a confer
ence to concert disarmament meas
ures.
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes are able to point to solid
achievements that do not support the
charge that they favor selfish
hermit policy and are Indifferent
to creating foundations of peace.
The bow that shot these arrows is
broken. A notable change of meth
cd has occurred, but not at the ex-
pense of the worlds great cause.
There has been definite, tangible
progress - applied idealism, even
though for the time being little has
been said about noble objectives and
sublime programs.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Congress and the Budget

1t is fashionable in some quarters
to lay most sins of commission and
mossion at Washington on the
shoulders of Congress. That was
the constant attitude of the defend
ers of the last Administration 1t
remains their attitude. In the mat
ter Of budget reform these apollo
glsts want to put Congress in the
role of the villain who is to be re-
strained from undoing the economies
planned by frugal executive de-
partment heads. Says The New
York Times: "The misdeeds of Con-
gress have reinforced budget reform
more than millions of words of
theorists"
Nothing could be more absurdly
unfair than the intimation that Con
gress has been reckless in defeat
nj gthe good intentions of the de-
partment estimators and is now to
be wisely handcuffed by budget leg
islation. The reformation to be
brought about by a budget law is
one within the executive branch.
Congress hasn't been the spender.
1t has stood heroically between the
taxpayer and the mad wasters in
the bureaus and departments.
The last Congress, being obliged
to act on eight appropriation bills
which failed in the preceding Con-
gress, cut them $1,685, 100000 be-
low the Treasury estimates. At the
next session the Treasury estimates
were reduced by S1,474,O 900.
At the third session they were cut
81 ,453, 100000, including the reduc-
ton made in the naval appropria-
ton bill, which passed only one
house. In vie wof these facts, why
should the budget act be grotesque-
ly described as medicine" forced
on reluctant Congress?
The Times rebuked the House
for passing a deficiency bill the
other day. But the deficiencies
which it took care of were caused
by overdrafts on the Treasury by
some of Mr.. Wilson's fragrant
spenders. 1t also censured the Sen
ate for increasing the total carried
in the naval appropriation bill. But
it conveniently forgot that the
naval bill as it passed the House
was about $500, 100000 below the
Daniels estimates, and that even
with the Senate's addition, fl they
ever become law, the bill will rep
resent a saving of at least $780,
100000 on Mr. Daniels's demands.
In the absence of a genuine ad-
ministrative budget Congress has
been doing the salutary work of a
budget commission. 1t has saved the
country $4,600,000,00O in the last
three years. Why not give it the
credit it so richly deserves?
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Has Germany Won2
An Australian Surrey of Her advantageous Position
(Frona The Sydney BuIIetjn)

AT present Germany is the richest
country in Europe; in fact, it is prob
ably as rich as all the rest of Europe
put together. It's factories are wholly
intact while those of Belgium, North
ern France (the industrial part Of
France), Northern Italy (the indus
trial section of italy,, and of Poland
and Russia are ruin. And they are
freshly equipped with machinery
stolen from the occupied countries,
which machinery the Allies are recov-
ering by slow installments, The Huns
coal mines are intact, while those Of
France and Belgium, which the re.
tiring Hun wrecked with explosives,
won't be in good order again fo1
years.
In fact, the war left Germany far
richer by comparison with the states
which won the victory than it was in
1914. 1t has no ruinously expensive
feet and army to keep up, and it
doesn't feel the need of them, for the
forbearance of the members of the
League cf Nations protects it. 1t has
no longer a collection of wholly un-
profitable colonies to finance. It's man
hood is able to devote itself to money
getting, while other races. which have
the peace of the world to maintain, are
standing about in worn and faded uni
forms and humping the white> mans
burden.
Britain, which escaped devastation.
is the only industrial rival that Ger
many has left in Europe, and Britain
england, Scotland and Walesl is very
small compared with the German re
public, in both area and resources ;. Ire
land, where the chronic civil war is,
is no asset, but a liability.
The Hun conviction is that the
misguided soft-heartedness of the AL
lies, which he regards as sheer i'm
becility, won't allow them to collect
their dues by the means he used to
employ himself and the only meaus he
understands. They don't take hostages.
make the inhabitants of the occupied
territory do compulsory labor in de-
fault of cash, shoot highly placed local
officials against a wall at daybreak
when assaults are committed on for
eign residents, or give notice that,
whenever an instalment of the in
demnity is overdue, a city will be
burned as Louvain was.
The pride and JOY of the Hun in his
own military machine was based on the
fact that it wore bic jack-boots and
trod with them hard. 1t might respect,
If not love, the Allies if they did the
same AS it is, they are regarded as a
futile lot.
Taxation in Germany is only frac-
tion of that which crushes France and
Britain and Italy and Serbia to the
dust. The Honorable Hun Treasurer
processes, with his tongue in his cheek,
that the republic (vastly larger than
the British Isles, wholly undamaged
and nearly free of defense expenditure
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
(Fro1n The Smart Set

From The Smart SetI
FFHIS night when I so wearily
Climb up the stairs to sleep.
Shall gather magic in its wake,
Stand with the shadow days that maks
Remembrance gentle, for the sake
Of what it has to keep.
The heaviness that is my mind,
The awkward things I do,
VIII all be lost-but l shall know
An orange moon was tipping low,
And that I stood TO watch it go,
While far train whistle blew.
And shall see across the years
Held in a misty light,
A window and the moon and ne.
So young! l shall sigh pleasantly,
And never, never think TO be
Old as l am tonight!
HORTENSE FLExNEE
New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Remember Socrates
Masculine Critics Informed Why He
Drank the Cup of Hemlock

Masculine Critics Informed Why He
Drank the Cup Of Hemlock
Ts the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: There is much idle criticism re-
garding short skirts, furs in summer.
lip-sticks, rouge, powder, etc. The men
who are indulging in this dangerous
pastime should read up on what hap
pened to Socrates 1900 years ago.
Socrates mas the reputation of being
the wisest man Greece ever produced,
and he lived to be over seventy years
old before his fellow-citizens became
fully aware Of just what sort of man
he was. Then, one day at the close of
a course of lectures he was delivering,
he told his audience that there were
only two serious obstacles in the path
way Of mans happiness. One was ig
norance and the other was listening to
advice given by any woman. Women"
he declared, "resemble a tree called
Edelfa, which is the fairest tree to
behold and see that may be, but within
it is full of venom" (This, by the way,
is the first accurate description of
vampire that we have.)
On this occasion many Athenians
went home and told their wives that,
according to Socrates, they were no
better than Edelfa trees. The next
morning all Athens was in an uproar.
Several of the neighbors ran in and
told Xanthippe what her husband had
said about her, and she poured a busket
Of dirty soapsuds over his head as he
was leaving the house TO go to the pub
lie garden where he was wont to hold
forth. Before he could go back and
change his clothes the minions of the
law served warrant on him, and he
was hailed letore the magistrates and
charged with corrupting the youth of
Athens.
The prosecuting attorney maintained
that the state would go to wrack and
ruin if the young man were once con-
vinced that their mothers, sisters and
other female relatives were no better
than Edelda trees. AS Socrates could
not set up any defense, he was con-
demned to death. He might have es-
capped this extreme penalty had he been
willing to retract his words, but he had
sense enough to know that Xanthippe
and the other women of Athens would
make life intolerabIe for him, so he
cheerfully drank off his cup of hemlock.
We see from this that while there
was no woman suffrage around 400
B. c. the weaker sex $50 called knew
how to assert Itself, and it seems al
most superfuous to caution fiippant
college professors and other highbrows
that hell hacl no fury like woman on
the war path. r. S. ROWLAND
South Jacksonville. Fla, May "a, 1921.