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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-28

SCHOOL BANQUET
Daily Railroad Shipments and
Railroad Fuel Still at
Low Figures.

Indications point to The banquet
Of the mining extension classes OF
Northern West Virginia being a
great success here on May IL. 1t
will be held in the Y. NJ. c. A. at
Z o'clock in the evening, and a
fine menu will be served by the
Ladies Auxiliary OF Heintzelman
post Of the American Legion. Be-
tween rs and 100 covers are ex-
pecetd to be laid.
Adam Crawford, Fairmont, in
structor Of Ave of the six classes in
Northern West Virginia. who is
handling the tickets, reports that
SIS haYe been paid up already and
the Fairmont class has not yet
been solicited because the tickets
did not come from the printer in
time for last Friday nights class
session. There are seven of
these from Carolina; 10 from
Clarksburg; six from Mt. Clare;
nine from Morgantown: IA from
Shinnston and one from Fair
mont.
Attendance records In the class
es this week show a slight gain
over the previous week, proving
that the work is being received
with interest UP until the last.
There were ten present at Mt.
Glare or a gain of two over the
previous week; twenty-three at
Clarksburg, gain of one over the
previous week and ten at Caro-
lima. gain o. one over the pre-
vious week.
This week Mr.. Crawford tistrib-
uted copies of the West Virginia
mining laws TO the class. Copies
were received through the cour-
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tesy Of the Jamison Coke & Coal
Co., which happened to have an
oversupply at their Offices and do
mated them.
Eastern Manager
Announcement has been made
by the Elk River Coal & Lumber
Co., Dundon. W. Va, j. C. Bradley
president, OF the appointment OF
L. NJ. Humrichousc as eastern
sales manager with Offices at 2025
and 2026 Land Title Building.
Philadelphia. The company has
also announced that hereafter the
Dundon 10y sulphur gas coal will
be sold direct, instead of through
Ernest Law & Co.. as heretofore.
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in the Logan county jail following
his arrest.
A roundshouldered, tired little
man, with kindly blue eyes, soft
voice and an almost sanity manner
that's Mr.. Wilburn.
Not word OF complaint against
anybody has passed his lips.
His Experiences
Mr.. Wilburn told mo his story
here in the Charles Town Jail,
81 am As years DID, he said, land
was born in the mountains Of Ten
essee. I received a common school
education and at 16 | was convert.
ed to Christ and Joined the Baptist
Church.
THE ambition OF my life was to
become minister. but we were
very poor. so went TO work in the
coal mines to earn living while I
studied.
u was miner and student for
nine years before was ordained a
minister. That was 90 years ago,
u saw that my field OF useful
ness lay with my own people in the
mining camps. But they were too
poor TO maintain their churches 90
| went on working In the mines to
support my family while preach
ed.
Family Prayer Daily
~ am the father OF five sons and
three daughters and never has
there passed day at our home
that we haven't had our family
prayers.
Five years ago became pastor
Of the Baptist Church at Blair,
Logan county. At the same time
got job as track-layer in a union
mine. My three sous also worked
in this mine.
II was put in solitaory confinc-
all the trouble there. In Septembe
! went hack to my old bone in
tennessee to conduct a series OF
revival services and 1t was not un.
til January that | learned that the
Logan County grand Jury had In.
dtctod me for alleged participat ton
In the battle OF Blair Mountain
Il Immediately wrote Sheriff Don
Chafin that would come back IL
no wanted me, but. not hearing
from him, continued my revival
meetings. When ! returned to To-
gan County in March was dun.
founded to learn that was under
Indictment for murder and treason
II was Jailed at Logan: My tw0
sons. John is, and Frank 1G, mad
been in jail without bond since
December 81. A third SON Isaac,
had been In jail but was admittcu
to bond.
1.-THE authorities offered me
many inducements to turn states
evidence and testify against the
miners but | spurned their offers.
II wa sput In solitary confira-
mont in the Logan jail on March
IA and remained in solitary COZ
finement until Saturday, April %,
when | was handcuffed to another
miner and brought to Charles
Town.
Hungry In Prison
I'm the Logan jail I was denied
all communication VITA my sons
or other persons and was not pcr
mitted any exercise excep. what I
was able to get in my narrw,
twelve foot cell.
"My breakfasts consisted OF a
BIT OF rice or hominy, a slice Of
b:ead and cup OF coffee. For din
me- ana supper they gave Mo a
piece c: corn brea1 and some
beans.
"From March "A to April 20 in
the Logan County Jail l lest twent
pounds"
Rev. wilburn's most treasured
possession in Jail is a package o
letters from a number OF Baptls
preachers assuring him Of their
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sympathy and confidence in bis in

sympathy and confidence in his In
nocence.
81 haven't the remotest idea why
l should be connected with the kill.
ing Of any man." tho little man
said sadly. why, in all my life
Two never had as much as an I'M
friendly argument with any mas.
My whole life has been spent
preaching love and peace.
"But right will prevail. | pray
for those that are prosecuting me
and as soon as | am free shall
hurry back to my wife and chill
dren and resume my preaching"
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7 Utmost care was Is
y ercised in the selec-
ton Of Bingham Dresses
for Summer now being
featured at these very
reasonable PRICES. The
present showing is linn
tied but each garment is
one of genuine beconi-
ingness and excellent
quality. The most want
ed colors in plaid and
check patterns are toIbe
had.
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LAUREL POINT
Mrs. Rachel Polling Dead.


Mrs. Rachel Polling, 81 Year,
old. died at the homo Of her
brother, J. a. Mercer. Monday
evening. Mrs. Polling was taken
suddenly i'll last Saturday even
ing. and on Sunday night was
stricken with paralysis. she was a
member Of the NJ. L. Church hero.
Her husband preceded her to the
grave about eighteen years ago.
She is survived by four brothers
and two sisters.
Personals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clife Radcliffe
and son, of Westover, were the
guests OF friends here Sunday.
Glenn Henry spent the week
end at Wyatt with his vito and
daughter, who are visiting Mrs.
llcnry's mother, Mrs. Fannie
Berry.
Miss Nola and Dewitt Satter-
field spent few days here with
their sister last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Henry and
Mrs. George Snider were visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Martin, Of
Westover. a few days ago. Mrs.
Martin has been seriously Ill for
some time.
Mrs. Daisey Henry is visiting at
the home Of her brother, James L.
Martin.
Miss Blake Austin, OF Morgan
town, spent the weekend here
with relatives.
Mrs. Stella Henry and son left
Saturday to spend several days
with her parents. MIR. and Mrs.
Charles Satterheld. Of Rivesville.
Mrs. a. X. Miller spoke at the
NJ. +. Church last Sunday in the
interests of foreign missions.
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n RE you one o. re isrtu.
"A nate persons who have
learned that Il pays very
we'll to walk Che few steps
down Jefferson 70 eur shop
In the Falrmont Hetels HuiIa-
mat
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ACCUSED
OFTREASONINAID
Miners WITNESS
Kept in Solitary Confinement
More Than a Month and
Then Handcuffed.
BY c. c. LYON

CHARLES TOWN, W. Va,
April 27.-counsel for the hunreds
OF West Virginia miners on trial
here for alleged treason and muir
der in connection with their armed
March to Logan county last Aug
ust are only waiting a chance to
put the Rev. John E. Wilburn, for
five years pastor OF the Baptist
church at Blair. Logan county, on
the stand as their star witness.
Rev. Wilburn himself has been
held without bail. he was brought
in handouts 10 Charles iowa
from Logan. He is now in Jail
here.
In court he is the center et all
eyes.
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\ 7 any time one comes into this
\ conveniently situated shop one
finds beautifully assorted stocks of
fine quality Women's Wearing APP
parel. Add to that fact the present
low prices, represented by the conces-
sion Of Is per cent or one-fourth re-
duction, and this then stands for as
the pre-eminent sale of the season.
The handsomest, most fashionable
and correct Spring Suits, Wraps,
Dresses, Hats, Skirts and many other
items Of dress are included in the
sweeping reduction Of a fourth.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
CONN. REC0UPS LOSS
OF LIQUOR Licenses

The state of Connecticut is not suf-
fering any loss in revenue because OF
the elimination of the states share
from the fees paid for liquor licenses
in former years.
A state tax OH admissions to NOV
ing picture exhibitions has been in
force since September l, 1921. The
total amount of this tax returned to
the state treasurer up to May |, 1922,
was $294,65954. The period covered
by this receipt is eight months. For
the nine months period during which
fees from liquor licenses were received
by the state during 1919, the receipts
from that source were $324,235.28. If
the average monthly movie picture
fees for an additional month were
added to the total received from the
picture theaters, making this a nine
month instead of an eight month pc
Rod, the total would exceed the old
receipts from liquor licenses with the
additional benefit that there would
be no stain of misery, crime or death
on the latest levy.
This new source of revenue is affect
ing not only the state but the federal
governments receipts from the state
of Connecticut. Collections from this
source reported through the Office of
the collector OF internal revenue in
Hartford average over a million dol
lars a month, including excise taxes
on non-alcoholic beverages. this lat
ter, however, furnishing but small
percentage of the total
With enforcement of Prohibition
bringing in two and half times the
cost of enforcement and with new
revenues more than replacing the
amounts received from licenses in for
mer days, it looks as if the old argu-
ment of the vets that the government
can not pay its bills without subsidies
from bar-rooms, breweries and distil-
leres, is about as dead as the rest of
their fallacies.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
india EMPLOYS VARIOUS
TEMPERANCE Methods
Bombay Government Reduces
Liquor Ration Fifty Per Cent
Each Year
U. P. FAVOR LOCAL OPTION
Localities Banning Liquor Re-
quired to Find Other Sources
of Revenue

=. The Pioneer. Gwalior, India, issue
of May 81, quotes The Times, of In
dia, as follows:
"Thcir different methods of dealing
with the drink question are an inter
esting feature OF a new style provin-
cial government in India. The Bonn
bay government are about to embark
on a policy of direct restriction OF
liquor consumption by rationing the
presidency and reducing the ration
by so per cent every year. This If
followed to its logical conclusion will
lead to Prohibition in twenty years.
"The United Provinces government
have definitely turned down Prohibit
ton but have adopted as their policy
the progressive realization of the
principle of local option For this
purpose there will be in each urban
area a Licensing Board containing two
members of the municipality and elect
ing its own chairman; and in each
rural area an advisory committee.
But local option will not fully be exsr-
cised until the electorate has been
widened so as to include the drink
ing classes, and where locality opts
against the sale of liquor in its midst
it will be necessary to find some
methods by which the loss of revenue
consequent on the use OF option falls
solely on the local body that exer-
cises it,
Both governments have adopted
policies that must lead to total extinc-
ton of the liquor traffic if the people
desire it. Both governments have cut
the ground from under the feet of
those who have hitherto complained
that government encouraged drinking
for the sake of the revenue derived
from it. Temperance reformers must
now persuade people to use their
power at the voting booths to express
their teetotal convictions and their
approval of alternative ways of raising
money for government purposes
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
LIQUOR, NARCOTIC DRUGS
TAKEN FROM JAPANESE STR

Federal Prohibition Director James
A. Linville of Oregon has reported
to Commissioner Haynes that on re-
ceiving information that large guam
It'll of liquor and narcotics had been
removed from the Japanese steamer
Belgium Maru," he instituted an in
vestigation which resulted in the ar
rest of John Roberts (alias Dave
Lightner) and D. H. Williamson, al
legged old offenders; |. Z. Clays, for
mer policeman; w. F. Harden, former
policeman; A. Z. Brown, and several
Japanese. Director Linville related
the circumstances as follows:
Lightner and Brown with letters OF
Introduction written in Japanese, in
duced a Japanese by the name OF IRA
to introduce them to the ships stew
ard. whereupon arrangements Mere
made to purchase 81 cases of liquor, 81
ounces of cocaine and nine and a half
pounds OF smoking opium for the sum
OF six thousand dollars. Later the
ship was moved to Prescott, Washing
ton, where after the liquor and mar
cotics were placed on boat some
of the men represented themselves to
be customs officers, driving the lap
anese back to the ship, and made way
with the liquor and drugs avoiding
payment of the agreed price OF six
thousand dollars. One of the Japan
csc in a confession to the Japanese
consul at Portland stated that the
liquor and drugs were brought to this
country for smuggling purposes. All
are held before the federal grand jury.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
GOPHER WOMEN ORGANIZE
ANTI-LAWBREAKERS LEAGUE

Minnesota women, and especially
those of ST. Paul, are taking the lead
in the organization of a Woman's
Committee of the Anti-Lawbreaking
League, with the purpose OF enforc-
ing the Prohibition law. Their plan is
to have organized in each state COM
n1iftec Of three members at large and
a representative from ten organiza-
tions of women who shall adopt for
immediate action a program of educa-
ton and agitation for law enforce
ment.
Organizations affiliated in the Min
nesota Committee are the Cooperative
Alliance, the League of Women Not-
ers, the Federation of Women's Clubs,
the Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teachers Council, the w. c. T. u,
the Woman's Republican Club, the
Woman's Democratic Club, the Com
munity Council, and the League OF
Protestant Churches. The committee
has outlined a definite line OF work
through churches, schools, Sunday
schools, moving pictures, city, county
and state officials, for the prevention
of disrespect or ridicule leveled at the
Prohibition law and reporting known
violations of the law The committee
plans also to place in public places
placards with noble sentiments Of
Lincoln, Roosevelt, and other great
men concerning law observance and to
send circular letters to women asking
them to pledge themselves in their So
c;al life to strict conformity with the
1aw.-The Woman Citizen, March Is,
1922.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
NEW YORK SENATOR SAYS
DRY LAW BENEFITS DISGRACE

United States Senator Wadsworth
of New York, earnest champion for
the restoration of the liquor traffic,
speaking in Buffalo the other day said:
Conditions arising from the en-
actment of the Volstead law are
a disgrace to the country. | be-
leve there will soon be a very
material modification OF the act.
Popular feeling will demand it.
Here is clearly an instance of where
the wish is father to the thought.
Evidently the New York Senator has
not scanned the statistics OF his state
which show a remarkable decrease in
deaths from all causes since the advent
of Prohibition. He probably has not
seen the reports showing an increase
in the number of savings accounts and
the amount of these individual ac-
counts in the banks; or having seen
these evidences of the benefits of Pro-
hibition, does the Senator believe that
the conditions which make people
healthier, happier, more prosperous,
and more efficient, are disgrace to
the country?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
BUSINESS, SOCIAL CLUBS,
RALLY TO 18TH AMENDMENT

Commissioner Haynes says that it is
significant that civic and commercial
organizations throughout the country
such as Chambers OF Commerce
Boards of Trade, Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs, as we'll as influential business
men, individually and collectively
sensing endangered constitutional gov
eminent are rallying in vigorous sup
port of the Eighteenth Amendment.
In response to an invitation from
the Baltimore City Club, Commits
sioner Haynes addressed the members
of that organization at a luncheon
May 20 at which time he discussed the
active and helpful part business and
professional men are taking in con-
structive law enforcement.
He cited the example of Michigan
lumber companies which have had
their own men appointed deputy sher-
ifs at the companies own expense to
assist in dry law enforcement; leading
business men of Massachusetts, Ar
kansas and other states who have vol
unteered to assist without pay; others
who are loaning the use of their auto
mobiles to aid in pursuit of violators;
influential members of prominent
clubs in Chicago, Detroit and other
large cities who are cooperating; &C
ton of Pittsburg civic organizations
in backing enforcement; and various
other instances.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
cOMR. LEACH new YORK
CITY EXPLAINS STATEMENT
Allegation Prohibition Cost N. Y.
Two Million First Year, In
ferential, Not Actual
BENEFITS OFFSET COSTS
Decreased Fights, Brawls, Disor.
ders, Vagrancy, Poverty and
Drunkenness

New York American Issue ir1-reply
to inquiries from people outside the
state concerning the reported state
ment of Deputy Police Commissioner
Leach of New York City that the
one years activity of the police in the
metropolis in aid of the enforcement
of Prohibition, cost the city tax payers
million dollars, makes the follow
ing explanation:
Commissioner Leach figures this
expense at the rate of $1,000 per year
for 500 policemen specially assigned
to enforcement duty. In the first
place New York City pays those po-
licemcn anyhow so it wasn't an addi-
tional salary but a transfer Of duties.
Then, though there may have been in
the beginning 500 officers assigned to
enforcement work, that situation was
not continued. Police and federal CO.
operation has so changed conditions
that the special assignment of the 500
has not been true for long time, ac-
cording to our information, the most
of the work now being done by the
police in regular course. And as a
handsome return on all that they have
helped to do to suppress liquor SELL
Ing, the police and the city have
reaped an astonishing diminution in
brawls. fights, disorder, vagrancy, pow
erty, drunkenness and all the other
sorts of disagreeable results which
used to grow so lushly from the
flushing bazaars.
"a city election occurred last fall
after the most arduous six months of
the enforcement, the first half year of
it. The city administration which had
been doing the enforcing did not seem
to suffer much because Of its activity
in that line. IT was retained in power
by more than half million majority.
1.-THE million dollars cost statement
is only a piece of bunk put out by
those accustomed to that diet"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
FIVE Ky. DISTILLERIES
CLOSED BY DRY AGENTS

John B. Appleby, zone dry chief for
New York and New Jersey, announced
on May 10 that acting on information
received at federal Prohibition head
quarters, five distilleries in Kentucky
will be closed soon. He said that in
formation shows that there have been
three cases in which a conspiracy to
defraud the government through the
obtaining of liquor on forged with
drawal permits has been going on.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
OHIO B BANK DEPOSITS
INCREASE $25,21e,2o5

The Isl state and private
banks of Ohio reporting to the
State Superintendent of Banks
and Banking under call of
March 10 show an aggregate in
crease in deposits on that date
of $25,2lo,205 over the previous
report made December 81, 1921.
OF this splendid gain $780,
600 was made in savings &C
counts.
This is a remarkable showing
considering general business
conditions.
Who will say that Prohibition
did not figure largely in these
gains? Many dollars arc now
going to savings accounts
which formerly were worse than
wasted over saloon bars.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
ENGLISH PEOPLE STUDY
THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM

The Temperance Collegiate Asso-
citation of England will hold its annual
examination for registered students on
March 20 at various English towns
These examinations are the culmina-
ton of correspondence courses on
various phases of the alcohol problem
The courses are followed principally
by people outside of college who want
to know this problem thoroughly.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
WOMAN POLITICIAN SEEKS
TO BREAK INTO NOTORIETY

Miss Elizabeth Marbury, Demo-
cratic committee woman of New York
is out with a new slogan, wines for
Women" She was brought to the
front in an effort to entangle Lady
Astor in a debate on Prohibition but
Lady Aston very wisely declined to
lend any of her popularity to publicity
for the wet cause. Miss Marbury has
issued a statement that caps the eli
max of distortion of womanly senti-
ment, saying:
The women of the country were
the first to demand Prohibition.
They will be the first to demand
its repeal. The mothers of the
country wiped out the saloon.
They will wipe out the Eighteenth
Amendment which has taken the
saloon from the corner and
smeared it over every dance hall,
restaurant and roadhouse in the
country.
This twaddle is reminiscent of the
late Phoebe Couzzens who was hired
by the brewers association to lend
her womanhood and her tongue. and
pen to vilify Prohibition and to advo-
cate wine and beer. Later decrepid
and penniless, she was left TO die in a
ST. Louis lodging house, denouncing
the brewers for ingratitude and un-
faithfulness
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
EXCISE RECEIPTS FOR VARIOUS PROVINCES,
india, SHOWED INCREASE UP Till 1921
Average of Eighteen Per Cent
Province; Slump Thought Be Due to NonCoopera-
ton Movement

the National Missionary Council of
Bengal sends
lowing table for the British
provinces India number of The table shows large
of
closed there falling off each Mr. Anderson
remarkable falling the
move ant legislative action"
The head of this movement "Mahama M X Gndh
serving "sedi
India Most his
also been sentenced of Imprisonment
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
FILIPINOS CLOSE SALOONS
DISQUALIFICATION DAYS

A law has been passed by the Phil
ippine Legislature, says Manila dis
patch of April 20, which requires that
saloons and p rivate clubs be closed
on registration and election days.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1922-06-02
CELEBRATED ITALIAN STARTS
FIGHT ON WITHDRAWING

Commentators Giacomo Boni, cele-
brated excavator of the Forum and
the Pa1atine, says an Associated Press
dispatch carrying Rome dateline of
March S, has initiated a campaign
against the growth of wine-drinking
among the workers in Italy, conse-
quent on the great increase of their
wages which are from six to eight
times what they were before the war.