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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-22
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Ohio State is without the gnIlan,
playing OF Pete S.inchcomb, grad.
uated. and the great passing Of
"Flogc" Workman. Ineligible
But Johnny STUART. SreI: all.
round man for duaTte5nack. has
como M from freshman ranks
along with Bonny Petc0tf. q pMns,
ing 9l2.pound tackle.
Butch PiXlev. atar guard Of 1919,
lie eligible again this fall.
Coach, Alonzo S'age grand old
man OF football, had q bad run OF
luck last fall. Il he can set by
without building rp HOSPITAL list
with his men he'll be In the run
ming,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-22

The'Girls, team plays a tpicked
nine at South Side park at $50
this evening. "A large crowd Is ext
bected to witness the game
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-22

The Bsptists OF the Monongab
church league are, booked for .
game with the Doctors at South
Side park tomorrow evening.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-22
,H0F lHEY'
. STAND.
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
New York. Z: ST. Louis. 1.
Brooklyn. o; Cincinnati, 9.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-22
Mlehiaan.

Michigan,
AZ Michigan Coach Yost had a
bunch ot.tIshtcrs last year. They're
more dangerous than ever now. ANY
team that Is coached BIZ Hurry
Up" yost is title contender,
Wisconsin will be without the
services Of Red" Watson, an All
Western end last year. (
In addition to the veterans
Snndt, DaHey. Elliot, Barr and WI
llanls, they have heavy aggrega
ton Of linemen.
II was Wisconsin that SPILLED the
heans last year and trampIed ovel
Illinois,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-22
Sport Chatter

2Monongah won from Morgan.
town yesterday, 40
Everson defeated Boothsyille,
2.1.
shlnnston lost to Fairmont and
Cleveland, 40. Brentwood was in
fine form and was never In
trouble.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Finds Old Boston Aristocratic
And Being English A Virtue

mahogany and ancient china, but he did
not ask me in, as would have done
modern American. Instead, he talked
guardedly. He even advised what
should see in Boston and he rec
commended nothing that did not lie be-
tween the Massachusetts Hospital and Cop
ley Square; there was nothing else.
When l told him that | was going to
the Middle West he seemed tempted not
to reply Then. hesitating, You will find
it strange" He would not explain any
more. He did not want to bury the Middle
West but he could not praise it. He re-
vealed that he had never been west of
Ohio, but he had paids visits to England,
Italy and France.
| was able to imagine the life of these
surviving Anglo-Americans, whose visit
list spreads only mile, excepting cousins
at Lexington; who still drink tea; who
say Boston" and not "Bawston;" who
keep their paneled door tight locked, and
behind it live persistently in lavender and
dimity; who have an account with book
seller in Piccadilly; who receive letters
edged with an inch OF black when a
French marquis dies: whose sons go to
daughter OF a dean, see their incomes
shrink, and live on, disdainful and forgot
ten, under the shadow of an academic wall,
and are gentlemen to the end.
For indeed, as | came to understand
better the great Irish city which hides
under the old English reputation of Bos-
ton, I cannot help feeling, and l feel it
without undue regret, that the remaining
representatives of the period of organdy,
port wine, and square dances are mile
stones on the road which leads back
ward /" in a country where no man
and no woman seem to run the risk of
ever being turned into a pillar of salt
Charming, courtly, and cultured, these aris-
tocrats seem to be only shadows They
are the end, and upon their graves can be
inscribed as a parody of Kosciuszko the
words. "Finis Bostonia"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
w. L. GEORGE,
In HdybeTS Mdgdcinc.

One has the impression of aloof aris-
tocracy in what remains OF Old Boston,
and the impression is all the stronger,
owing to the invisibility OF the iuhab
ltants. One can stand in Louisburg Square,
and not face appears at the windows
ate the bread OF Bostonians, and so
may not speak of them, but one stranger,
| may mention and do not forget. He
came out OF his house one morning and
stood upon the steps for a moment, look
ing to the right and left. AS he did not
seem to know where he wanted to go,
felt at once that he must be an aristocrat.
He was about 50, we'll groomed, with
rather delicate features, and he carried
small brown paper parcel which seemed
to embarrsss him.
When he perceived me he flung me
look of such dislike that l wondered
whether he might not be English. And
SO we stood for a moment, l looking at
him.. after all, cat can look at Bos-
tonisn aristocrat. Then l asked him my
way, being lost, as usual, and his glance
revealed a still greater repulsion. He was
quite unlike the ordinary American l had
been meeting, who goes out of his way
to show you yours, who takes your arm,
draws plans, almost offers to pay your
carfare.
While he hesitated l explained that l
was stranger in Boston, and change
came over his features oh" he said,
doubtfully, "are you Englsh?" On my
saying "Yes," the change grew more
marked and l perceived that it was a
virtue to be English. We talked a little
and, as if guided by an instinct, l spoke
of a recent visit to Sussex town where
the grass grows between the cobbles of
the street. The aristocrat then gave me a
smile. Following upon a compliment ad-
dressed to his house. he opened the door
and showed me his hall, which is paneled
in oak and delicately furnished with old
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Behind the Back
Of the Historian
P. A. o.

George Washington is the only person
l ever heard of who always told the
truth" remarked Justice Darling in the
hearing of a case at the Old Bailey in
London. AS a matter of fact, the Man
chester Guardian says, this claim for un-
swerving veracity was originally made on
behalf of one of the judges own country
men, the eldest son of James Beattie,, who
died at the age of 22
The author of The Minstrel soothed
his grief by writing biography of his son,
in which appeared the story of the cherry
tree and many other instances of young
Beattie's faultless demeanor .-
When Washington died an American
bookseller named Mason L. Weems thought
that a biography of the first President,
written in popular style, would be profit
able venture, and determined to write one.
Little was known of Washington's boy
hood, so Weems evolved much of this
portion of his hero's life from his own
imagination and from books he had read
The cherry tree and little hatchet incident
was taken almost verbatim from DR.. Beat
ties account of his son, which was pub
lished eight years before Washington's
death.
Other things credited to Washington
were equally untrustworthy; for example,
the assertion that in his younger days he
had thrown a silver dollar across the Po-
tomac at Mount Vernon-a feat which is
manifestly impossible.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Italy's Record.

Fiume has recalled public attention to
Italy. Since the war, Italy has been
largely forgotten. She has not asked for
outside help. She has sent out no appeals.
She has cared for her own people. She
has fed and clothed them and provided
them work. She has had serious internal
troubles, but has known her own people.
and has solved them.
In a vast part of her north and north
eastern country beyond the Piave, the
destruction was comparable to that of
Flanders and Northern France. Italy has
had this enormous problem of reparation.
According to recent reports those cities
have been restored in every instance to at
least 20 per cent and in many as much
as 60 per cent This same systematic re-
storation has extended to the rural dis
tricts
Nor did any country suffer more in pro-
portion, financially and in man power.
Never rich, her gold reserves were largely
in German hands and were withdrawn after
she declared war against Austria and be-
fore Germany was included.
Her war front was 42o miles long and
her losses as great as those of her allies in
proportion to the number engaged. 1t was
AhoAJ tAot ANLSaNSN EhuSAAIa ohA PHt
out of the war, forthcoming Germanys
defeat.
Altogether her record is admirable. 1t
has spots of selhshness, but Americans are
hardly in a position to criticise this fact.
She has, perhaps, seemed hoggish; what
other country has not?
But she has not whined she has not
posed she has not stood in the way of
combined settlement. She has even helped
Austrisns, has shared food with them and
has done much else since, as during the
world and to recall her ancient glories.
The Siamese Legation is protesting
against buying Maryland automobile
license. Shakel brother.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
A Transportation Desert.

The late increases in railroad freight
rates added to the war increases under
government control have made trans
portation desert of all that part of the
United States known as the Middle West
and Northwest
This arid region thirsting for transporta-
ton, stretches from middle Indiana to the
west boundaries of Colorado In all that
territory rail rates have become so nearly
prohibitive as to threaten to dry up the
activities of industry.
1t has been found, for instance. that it
is cheaper to ship copper from as far in
land as Montana to New Jersey by way
of the Panama Canal than by rail. SINH
larly, it is cheaper to ship Washington tim
Der by way of the canal to the East coast
and thence as far inland as Indiana.
This, too, is regardless of the time fac
tor. Before the rail rate increase such
shipments by the water route were con-
fined to the products of the Coast States
They started no further inland than that
and were carried no further inland
But the Panama Canal brings not even
its partial relief to the producers of the
huge territory included in the present arid
transportation region. The grain and cat
tie raisers of the Missouri Valley and of
Mississippi as far south as the Ohio, and
the Southwest to the Rio Grande cannot
use this water route.
They have to use the through railroads
regardless of cost, or pay the several
handling charges of the now limited Great
Lakes and rail route, with the increased
water carrying rates. So, also, do their
mineral and other products.
1t is fact not fully realized that the
great ore bodies of iron, lead, zinc, silver,
and copper, as we'll as lumber are in the
Middle West and Northwest. If used as
ore in the East, they are subject to the
present high transportation tariffs. IL
These conditions will explain to the peo-
pie of the East why seventeen States are
now united in the Great Lakes-St. Law
rence-Tidewater movement 1t is their
only possible source of relief from the
present intolerable transportation situa-
ton.
A few interests in the East may fight
to hold a present economic advantage.
These States are fighting for it for their
economic lives. Only, as they see it, by
the opening Of the St. Lawrence to ocean
traffic will it be possible for them to sur
vive, let alone grow.
With them it is not theory, but con-
dition. 1t is useless to argue that this
waterway would not be used in view of
the doubling in the year of the Panama
Canal traffic, and the distance this reaches
inland in its origin and destination
They know it will be used They know
it is feasible. They know the cost will
not be excessive. 1t is a battle for life,
and no quarter is asked or will be given
in such struggle against selfshness.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Hands and Feet In Fiction.

One recalls various instances when other
aspects of the body impress both author
and reader as more pregnant with revela-
ton than physiognomy. 1t was not Trix
Esmond's head but her feet, that made
havoc with Henry Esmonds heart, feet
that we can see twinkling down the pol
ished stair, in their scarlet stockings and
white shoes, scarlet Stockings with silver
clocks.
Feet a wee pair, "a baby's, bare and
buoyant, remembered from a magazine
poem, dance in my fancy by means OF the
magic phrase, "unpityingly sweet" One
recalls many feet in fiction, feet brutal or
groping or tripping, but always feet in
formed by spirit, and from many a book
one recollects hands equally fraught with
meaning Which to Browning connoted
more of her character, as he gazed at his
wife in the FIRE glow, that great brow" or
the "spirit-small hand propping it," Which
holds US more, the Ancient Mariners gilt
tering eye" or his skinny hand?
Could any terms express better the
ethereal pathos of Iseult of Brittany, her
selfless tending of a stranger knight, fever
tossed, and her yearning widowhood bereft
even of memories, than her epithet "Iseult
of the snow white hands?"-From "Thc
View Vertical and Other Essays" by Wini-
fred Kirkland. (Houghton, Mifflin.)
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
THE SUNKEN CITY.

Ghtters no scale or any I'm
Between these blind bassltic walls.
The broad weed waves about within
The water of the pillsred halls.
And here the old crustaceans
Crawl patiently across the sand
With twisting eyes that turn askance,
And ugly pincers expand.
Lights essence in the gloomy sea
Through opal strained and emerald
Tinges the spread snemone,
And pearls of milk and rings of gold.
But in this wstery depth no more
Shall sunlight break the sunken dusk.
Nor vsgrant beam of stars explore
The secrets Of the city's husk.
And when the climbing tentacles
OF some sleep swimming octopus
Disturb ruined temples bells
And set the deep sea clamorous.
The ships that ride league above
Hear not those drowned chimes, nor
know
,Thst'where their great propellers move
Atlantis lies league below
Edward Dawson in the Outlook
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

permanent residents of Washington, serv-
ing without pay, could be named as a
council.
Congress having freed itself in this way
of the Washington incubus, and having
removed the possibility of local representa-
tives in Congress concerning themselves as
national legislators, merely with local af-
fairs, would come to the question of ma
tional franchise for the District, in a
wholly different state of mind.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Capital Crowded
With Statuary
Quantity Undeniable But
Quality Dubious,
Is Verdict

Washington is dense with statue and
sculpture
The approved guidebooks proclaim it;
the panoramic gaze from the sightseeing
Juggernaut verifes the proclamation and
the picture postcards that go back home by
mail or hand doubiy corroborate the pro-
nunciamento.
The which, various contemplative minds,
Slngly and in league of art admit to be
true The quantity is undeniable; the
quality is dubious, declare local and ma
tional critics and connoisseurs. The fell
lows initiate of the bronze cast and the
marble chiselling view with alarm many
specimens to which the cicerones of the
motor busses point with pride
The main issue between the clan of
cognoscenti in public sculpture and the
layman, here as in every other American
CRY, heS between perception and accept
ance. That work which forms the center
OF government or municipal reservation,
square, quadrangle or circle, may agonize
the informed, while filling the mere tax
payer with sentiment of satisfaction in
completion.
1t will doubtless require the corrosive
and dIsIntegrative action of several decades
before washington commences to speak
through its bronzes and marbles the
eloquent. in its Federal and city architec-
ture, in the main. In other words, verdi
girls must bite more deeply into several
atrocities in metal and family pride in
several eponymous statues must yield to
the demands of art before the unworthy
pieces are eradicated.
The equestrian statue Of Andrew lack
son, in Lafayette Square, at present affords
nesting place for numerous families of
that teathered scourge, the English spar
row. Let that suffice for its preservation
at least until the bipeds build otherwheres.
Clark Mills labored at his homemade
forge and casting block to produce
= dashing representation Of the fiery Demo
crat; yet with all his candid desire to
father masterpiece he produced only
work to be contemncd-as hereby fu-
ture and perhaps fretf9l generation.
Farragut stands in impossible immobility
above the square dedicated to his name
Did that silly person ever fight through
Mobile Bay?" soliloquizes the peripatetic
observer. The figure with the eternallv-
unpoised spyglass is about as reminiscent
of the gallant commodore who clutched the
rigging OF the Hartford and damned the
torpedoes as are Sunday school tabieaux
Of the originals;
The fountain by Mrs. Harry, Payne
Whitney which has supplanted in Dupont
Circle the grotesque statue of THE Ad-
miral" is an encouraging departure. The
three seminudes supporting the great
fountain bowl, all in Carrara marble, are
inspiring in their beauty. None could fail
to ask whom the piece commentaries and
none would be liable to forget the name
of Dupont, made imperishable in such
wise.
In days to be, comes the comforting
surety, Washington's park statuary will
mold itself with the art ideals, implicit and
explicit, Of its founders and preceptors.
And the concrete lions shall cease to
writhe DER Connecticut avenue bridge
and the colossal bison be tumbled from
their supereminence on the Q street struc
ture.
p o
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Mark Tried:to
Borrow From ANDY

None of my friends hailed my retirement
from business more warmly than Mark
Twain. l received from him the following
note, at time when the newspapers were
talking much about my wealth.
Dear Sir and Friend: You seem to be
prosperous these days. Could you lend an
admirer a dollar and half to buy hymn
book with? God will bless you if You do;
I feel it, know it. So will /. If there
should be other applications this one not
to count Yours, MARK
"P. S.-Don't send the hymn-book, send
the money. ] want to make the selection
myself" Andrew Carnegie in His Auto
biography.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

With what fear and trembling, the poor
wretch who stayed away from home for six
days must have dragged his feet to his
apartment and the waiting spanking. He
is now in a hospital in highly nervous"
condition. Wives should take warning
from this story and spare the rod, even
though deserved
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

The Siamese Legation is protesting
against buying a Maryland automobile
license. Shakel brother
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
SUNDAY, JANUARY IS, 1ea1.

In idle wishes fools supineiy stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds
way.
George Crabbe.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

Male Penn students will learn to cook.
The fair co-eds will probably develop fear
full brushes" on the rah-rah chef who
makes the best divinity fudge.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
Ordered Copy of Paper
Delivered at Grave

Shortly before his death last week Sam
Radges, an eccentric citizen of Topeka,
Kans., contracted with the Topeka Capital
for the delivery of copy of that paper at
his grave every morning for the next
twenty years. The burial took place last
Friday afternoon and the performance of
the contract began the next morning. In
cidentally, delicate problem confronts the
circulation department. The papers are
delivered long before daylight, and the
route, which includes the cemetery wherein
reposes the body of Mr.. Radges, is COW.
cred by young negro carrier. The route
next to it, however, is in charge of a white
boy named Emory Kittrell, IA years old.
and responsibility for the delivery of Mr..
Radges' paper or time has been placed
upon him for the present. A picture of
the boy delivering the first paper Saturday
morning appeared in the Capital, and
seems to indicate that the delivery was
made after daylight.
81 could not face my family with stolen
money" wrote conscience-stricken burg
lar as he returned $780, Evidently, he had,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-15
UNLOCKS THE DOOR
TO PERFECT HEALTH
A Wilmington Man Made
Long Journey in Order to
Buy Plant Juice.

The best TO Judge the benefit of any
thing is 60 take tc word OF some one
who has been benefited by It. There Is
no theory about the benefit derived
from Plant Juice, the famous herbal
stomach medicine, in case of this KIND,
for one has the benefit o. some one prac-
teal experience.
Take, for Instance, the statement re-
Gently ,nade bv MIR. Thomas J Kelly.
Of No. $40 East Eleventh street. who
said
Il think it'nO more than right that !
should give this public statement 70 tell
what wonderful benefit ! had from your
Plant Juice. | had suffered with rheu-
matism for years , my stomach was IN
bad condition and had indigestion so
had that | could scarcely keep any
solid food down rs ii would sour and
cause great quantities OF gas to form,
always had a bad taste IN my mouth, was
conStipated. had headaches, heartburn,
my kldnevs and bladder were out OF
order and | was 80 nervous that | could
not sleep Many day | would bc laid
up IN bed rs | had such cramps IN my
limbs | could not walk ] had taken
manv different medicines and treat
mcnts but never found anything TO give
me relief until / started to take your
Plant Iuiccand to show YOU how much
| thlnk of Plant Juice, ! made the trip
from Philadelphia to Wilmington "a get
4 bottle Plant Juice has completely
relieved my rheumatism and | am now
able "a sleep the night through, am not
coust .pated, and my stomach Is in such
good condition that can eat anything
want without the slightest distress after
wards; DO not have any trouble with
my bladder or kidneys | ann glad 10 en-
dOrse Plant juice Is the greatest of All
medicines
The Plant luicc Man Is ut The Miller
Drug Storc 494 406 Market street
where he is daily meeting the local public
and Introducing and explaining the
merits of this remedy
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-15
.n.cErTloN- rs COMING.
English Production WIN HIVE fre-
miere at Queen Next Week.

The Wilmington premiere of De-
ception.@ the colorful romance ot
medieval English court life. viii be
given at the Queen Theatre all of next
week. Deception" is the romance oil
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. u Is
English history more strange and
more fascinating in its telling than
fiction Tere is real story told SO
that intelligent r~~.le can enjoy IT,
Here is sturdy evidence that the
screen is for adults as well as children.
Here is a work that holds the alert IN
terest almost continuously. despite the
fact that it is historical. Many people
shy at the historical i'm entertainment
fearing that they may be bored or that
they may accidentally be educated;
but they need not avoid Deception
unless they object to n real story OF
real people. Rich. colorful. dramatic.
Deception" is photoplay for those
who want genuine realism. II Is
graphically enacted in an atmosphere
and against a background that is
faultlessly perfect in it's recreation
of the England of the sixteenth cen
tury. Even Westminster Abbey has
been transplanted for the screen and