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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-17

Too bad there has to be such a short bad stretch of road between Stratford and Nichols on the Nichols avenue road. Only for a stretch of a quarter of a mile the road would be O K
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-17

The sewer gang is busy near the
 Nichols avenue school Keep up the
 good work.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-17

The road gang gave another little scraping party Saturday on Wilcoxson avenue. WilcoXSon avenue is the next street running parallel to Wind sor avenue, one block nearer the cen ter of things, Paradise Green.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-17

The t'Rudder Club didn't meet Sat urday night Couldn't engage a nickle in the slot restaurant. Either that or else Stratford is safe and the ship has landed. If it has, a lot of people are still asleep in their hunks ard don't know it. Or still, maybe it is all bunk.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-17

Anyway, everybody got paid but the town managers. Honoring Hunters checks didn't exactly show any loss in the belief that perhaps he has a chance of sticking after all
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KINGS OF THE SOIL

#(INNE hundred boys, from more than half the
~ counties in West Virginia, now in Camp
#Stonewal jackson receiving training in farm prob
lens, good citizenship and other things that will
make them well rounded citizens and fine boosters
for West Virginia progress when they reach ma
sturty
when the opportunity comes again the number will
no doubtly be greatly Increased. The activities IN
the camp have varied, but they have been
4 useful activities and hour has been wasted
THE boys received practical training unoer
#an expert pruning trees, in mixing concrete and
n moulding the blocks, and they have visited
ghboring farms and received training in judg-
Sing hogs, sheep and cattle. They have had prac-
$SticaI illustration of draining methods, and have
4 been working with experts in soil experiments to
Improve the camp soil. These have been but a
few of the things taken up but it shows something
the scope the work which is Just now in its
infancy at Camp Stonewall Jackson.
s#s West Virginia is badly in need of farmers. The
s markets are crowded with high priced food that
should be raised within limits of the state in
~ stead of coming from hundreds of miles distant
The next fifteen years Will produce for this state
a splendid generation Of educated farmers. Men
who will waste time with inferior soil. in
what they able grow, and if their land
Is and what do remedy things. This soil can
produce and will be made produce, enough for
2its own population and generous surplus, The
II boys and girls in Camp Stonewall Jackson and
those belonging to agricultural clubs are going to
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.W1.ASFIING >TON NEWS.
- GOSSIP 2 azAaLEs szooxs sMlT4
pie must awaken and assert their

pie must awaken and assert their
rights
: The case of the Republican
members of Congress and Assis-
! tant Secretary OF the Treasury FL
mer Dover VS.. Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon. Commissioner
of Internal Revenue Blair and the
hold-over Democratic appointees
in key positions under the lat
ter is still unsettled on the Hard
ing administration docket Ce-
cause the press has soft-pedalled
on it for week or ten days is
no reason for anybody to cuddle
himself into the belief that it has
been dropped or that it is closed
incident 1t is very much alive,
! indeed, wherever the politicians
Of this regime gather, and in this
city they gather everywhere:
sometimes in the most unlocked
for places.
! Secretary Mellon is still stand
ing by Commissioner Blair, and
Blair is standing by his Democra-
tic subordinates. They are still
holding their own under continued
| heavy assaults. Talk in political
circles is that Mellon has said
| that if Blair is forced to resign,
/ he will hand in his resignation.
| too.
There was considerable specu-
/ lation today on the outcome One
man whose interest in the matter
is such as to cause him to keep
the closest kind of a tab on de-
velopments. predicted today that
| Blair will 60 When that hap
! pens he said, then West Vir-
ginia will go right back after this
! job with the same nominee that
| was turned down for Blair" He
| referred to Col. Joseph II. Nc
Dermott OF Morgantown.
The latter lost out to Blair, a
Republican from a state, belong
ing to the solid south. Politicians
said at that time that he won be-
cause of the fact that President
Harding was so impressed with
! the unparalleled majority he re-
| ceiyed that he had in the back of
/ his head the hope that under him,
at last, the solid south would be
! broken-a dream that every Re
| of William Mckinley seriously
dreamed and seriously believed
| that they might realize their
| dream. President Harding, it was
| said, believed that the appoint
ment of Blair would be a great
help in bringing the dream true.
I. remains to be seen what Blair
is doing to the Republican party
organization in the fairly reliable
Repu blican Northern States.
In the meantime, and from the
time of Mckinley to the ever
! present. the G. o. P. chieftains
point to the unquestioned fact
that the solid south is still doing
business at the old party stand
in the same old Democratic way.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE, rs, 1922.
WOMEN LINING UP FOR PRIMARIES

MTNTEREsTain the primaries is found to be very
I'll much alive among the women in the county 1t
by those who are feeling out the situation
various districts There is altogether diff
sfferent attitude among the in regard to the
ballot and their public duty voters, from that
found by organizers when the initia! work was
done proceeding the elections of two years
Two years ago the ballot placed quickly
81 and so Eun expectedy of the women
Y that organizers found many of them Indifferent
Fand tmid as to exercising their right. They
Il THE occasion remarkably well, however, and
theirwork in che campaign throughout the districts
WAS ably performed. It appears that the in
s#terest established two years has not lapsed
# and that the women are regarding the primaries
asF their chance establish the best material Of
tered tn cir party ranks for their support next
fall.
Vacancies in the school boards in every district
will occur, the anxious place
some of their bright, progressive strength upon
rs theselboards 1t is expected that the names of
NV omen will be offered in the primaries for school
boards for every district and the heartily
back of the idea. Leaders in districts
talking oyer the best women for the places and
announcements will follow shortly.
Women who have been acting as registrars are
finding fine spirit among those whom they have
y visited. Democratic and Republican women alike
Il are alert, wide awake, thinking about the candi-
dates, talking their merits and studying their
~ platforms. The women especially anxious
s. about the and dry Issue which politicians
would hush into silence for the time being There
no uestion where the women OF Marion County
sGstand upon this point, They are determined that
10 REPRESENTATIVE whom they send will ever
n assist to the will of the people upon this
issue -.
s5 Italooks like big primary vote in every county
precinct II the weather is fine there will hardly
n be "a Woman who will not find her to the polls
sometime during the day. 1t is a responsibility
eth at they feel they must shirk. All over the
Il county the feeling and talking the
same. The primary election is of profound i'm
zEportance to them, and they expect to be on hand
in dividual1y do their share place the best
where they can do the coed.
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mayor. said the policeman q You
are like lotta other people al
ways picking on a policeman, just
because he has a club and gun
and a blue coat
81 would tell 1t to the mayor"
said the man. but perchance the
mayor is like some policemen-you
cant tell them anything. But I'll
qualify that statement. Tom Fora
is all right-you can tell him any
thing. Why have seen him listen
to Sol Burka for an hour and
never crack a smile. That shows
self control, especially with Sol
telling stories about the writeups
he gets in the papers,
THAT Ford guy he's a regular
ladies man" complained the cop.
II might have known you would
have something nice to say about
him. -
Don't get Jealous cautioned
the maid, but rather emulate Mr..
Ford in gracious manners and
smiling countenance
I'll worse than emulate him.
replied the cop.
Before you CO. said the maid, :"
just to show that l am fair in all
things. want you to arrest DIR. L..
N. Yost and DR.. C.. C. Henry for
putting on that Highland fling at
the Country Club last night. 1t is
said to have been one of the most
terrible rerpsichorean efforts since
the days OF the Bunny Hug. 1t is
said to have been so terrible that
one of the doctors broke his
glasses trying to get under the
table.
law, Gwan, have Tom Ford ar
rest them" said the cop. HE
seems TO be the favorite OF the
harem.
"Harem seems hardly an ade-
quate word for the police station. -
replied the maid, ':but I'll take
your advice with more grace than
you took mine. Tom will be along
Jackson street in a few minutes.
I'll wave to him. and III bet he'll
doff his cap and say, good even
ing. Miss Quite warm tonight.
isn't it?' And by the way, you are
not the Rev. Icen Pritchard?"
Not by damn sight.
II thought as much-he does not
believe in swearing"
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through strikes they would soon
would willingly play a>losing game.
They use the strike as whip to
discipline the miners, and the
thugs and gunner as a lash for
the ship. Dynamite never won a
strike and we realize the fact.
Thugs and gunner resort to yio-
lence and 1awbreaking and we do
not consider ourselves in their
class.
We are striking for industrial
peace and order. which can only be
brought about through a living and
a saving wage to the worker. Our
answer to those who would incite
trouble is-We are law,abiding cfti-
zens and residents. We do not be-
lievc in destroying property or the
taking of lives which we cannot
return Our principle is to live
and let live. The thugs and gun
mems principles appear to be to
kill or jail that the may retain their
easy jobs with the privilege of tot
ing guns or other dangerous weap-
ons, and with the power to say who
shall travel the state and county
highways.
we often wonder what honest
old Abe" would say were he here
today to view the present gunner
system, in the land where he dedi-
Gated the best years of his life TO
prove that all men We're born. and
were to continue. to live free and
equal. We believe that he fully
comprehended this when he said.
while a man exists 1t is his duty
to improve not only his own con.
dition. but to assist in ameliorating
mankind" The strongest bond of
human sympathy, outside the fam
lily relations, should be one of unit
ing all working people of all ma.
tons. tongues and kindreds
A ROSEDALE MINER.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
THE RosEDALE SITUATION.

FAIRMONT, June 24.-(Editor,
The West Virginian.) = Several
things have been said about the
suspension of mining operations i'll
the Morgantown field by both the
operators and the miners. Some
things appear to have been done in
connection with the situation, but
that has been by the operators in
a majority of instances. Especial.
~ is this true of evictments. That
old saying, "All is fair in love or
war" appears to be true in the
case of evictments at Rosedale
mine No l. After succeeding in
the eviction of twenty-five miners.
proceedings were taken against 9th
er miners. Failing to evict the
miners lawfully. terroristic meth
DDS are now being used to force the
| babies out under Gods blue canopy
exposed to the elements Of nature.
Such actions encourage us to be-
lieve that we are not living in the
twentieth century, but that we have
been dreaming for few thousano
| years. Like the Seer of Patmos, ;"
We are having vision of that
which is to come to pass instead of
! living in this age of atrociousness.
| 1t looks to us as though the mine
| guards at Rosedale believe if they
don't get busy and make it appear
as though the Rosedale and other
union miners are trying to shoot
up the Rosedale camp, they will
+! lose their thugging jobs. They use
I very poor judgment, tor if any
4 union man was to do any promis-
I cuous shooting in the vicinity where
! the empty shells were found, he
would surely be taking unneces-
! sary risks. The guards appear to
be very blood-thirsty from the man.
! ner in which they speak TO some
!, of the miners wives, and the way
they vent their wrath upon the
i miners cows and horses, when they
! are not afraid of being kicked or
! horned.
To lay in bed at nights and lis.
ten to the sham battles and hear
butts of pistols rapping the porches
OF the Roseda1e camp reminds one
7, of the battles of Bunker Hill and
i Valley Forge.
i Are we going to have another
/ MiiIgc in Mouongalia County, and
(! how many honest workers who arc
i the foundation of civilized society
!: are going to be murdered or rail-
i coaded 10 prison through the acts
! oc unaccountable thugs and gun,
men who do not have the principles
OF good red-blooded Americans nor
show as much mercy as the MeXt
cans at the siege Of the Alimo?
The history of the struggle be
tween the operators and the miners
shows that the operators have al
ways been the aggressors. This is
usually done by misrerresenting
the issues involved. They preface
a strike by presenting their side
!. Eof the controversy through every
means of publicity possible. Wher
: the miners do present their side tc
| tthe public, IT is presented to {
| mind already prejudiced against
: them. An investigation by the pub
) Elic would disclose tho facts which
would completely change the att
eltude of the public towards the min
], sers. The operators have. and al
81 ways did hiSve. the. power 10 pre-
Event strikes If the operators los,
~ 49, Il sf5tL
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gave her the signal to go. OF:
course. this was not your fault. 1t
was the fault of a friend, of yours :.
He came to tai kwith you as you
sat in the little signal box. One
could not expect you to be- able to
keep up. conversation and watch
traffic on two streets at the same
time. So you just set q clear block
on Adams street until the CONVEX
sation. was over. I don't blame You
much. although you might have
asked your friend to move SO that
you could see Jefferson street.
Jaw, ten your story to the
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with twinkle in her eye. Its
too high up here for mosquitoes
and what not"
We'll spit it out continued the
gallant patrolman, tif YOU got a
mouthful you want to get outta
your system let's hear it,
80, sir, how kind OF you to give
la sympathetic ear to mere maid
such as /. l simply wanted to sa,
that have been noticing that the
traffic on Adams street gets all
the preference. The other day I
saw a woman wait fully five min
|utes on Jefferson street until you
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RUFF STUFF

w. J. Lavelle has written to the
Astonisher to say that he knows
no better medium to correct
human errors than the Astcnish-
er-
the name of Astonisher to Pana-
cea.
He says he is sorry to learn that
Mrs. Browns announcement
caused Bill Chiffon to have a
spasm of volcanic eruption.
Well admit that's sort of new
disease.
Possibly just the extreme from
sleeping sickness.
The Judson Baptist Sunday
school delegates voted at Clarks-
burg yesterday against the mon
key business down at Morgan
town. This gives Spangler ano-
Their little clipping for his scrap
book
We have the idea he started all
this foolishness just to get his
name in the paper.
Pittsburgh having won a double
header at Chicago, yesterday, it
will be all right to claim next
years pennant.
Mayor Conway wants a sane
Fourth, and so do we.
But no chance for us-we're
booked for picnic.
If Uncle Isaac" Just gets all
his nieces to vote for him-he's
elected.
Only thirty-eight couples mar
be a matrimonial strike.
Hard month on the rolling pin
business.
The former Kaiser is said to be
quite religious. He needs to be-
A few more affairs like the one
in Illinois and possibly Russia
won't care to recognize Uncle
Sam.
BY the by. we hope you left
your garden out in the rain last
night.
| New York reports the wettest
June. Meteor1ogically or Vol
steadically?
Rest is better cure than ad-
vice and easier to take.
Professor, Hotton says monkeys
| branched off from the human
your family tree tonight.
1t is said that after they are 1 s
years old, girls devote all their
! thoughts to getting a husband
And then look what some of 'em
get.
! Harry Greb is to fight Jack
| Dempsey in Pittsburgh on Labor
Day. it is reported. That will
take the place of the worlds
\ series planned in April.
1 Somebody stole uncle Joe
Cannon's flask in Washington
4 recently.
"Uncle Joe" says he can ge
. another flask, but the kind o
Z liquor he uses is getting scarce.
100000 Late Cabbage Plant
: Now Ready-headline. Sic 'em
! Jisgs.
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N DEF1ANCE OF Law

Tr would be grave mistake for railroad unions
i to call strike in the face of the decision OF
legally established tribunal, "a decision by which
they must abide long as they avail themselves
of the advantage of living in a land where law
and order must prevail and where public senti-
1nent is dead against any such transgresslon and
defiance.
Notwithstanding frequent assertions that the
American people showing tendency 10 look
with leniency upon lawlessness the fact remains
that the American people are the most law aolo-
ing of any in the world. They recognize as the
fundamental principle American institutions that
this is a government by law and not by men, and
that liberty depends absolutely upon the mainte-
nance and enforcement of law. This being true
there can be hope for ultimate success OF gen
eral railroad strike defiance of the decision OF
the Railroad Labor Board in the matter Of rail
road wages,
1t NAV be readily admitted that perhaps the
Railroad Labor Board in its decision did not reach
exact justice, for exact justice Is Impossible SO
long human infrmities continue. But y may
safely asserted that the decision or that BOARD
after due consideration of all the facts and cir
cumstances is a far nearer approach 10 1ustlce
than can be attained by other means or through
any other agency In the Reductions OF wages
which have ordered. there is just as much
probability that the cuts too small as that
they were too great. Undoubtedly members OF
the board did what they thought We right IN
an effort to award the railroad workers Just com
pensation with due regard to the cost OF living,
COMPENSATION paid in other lines of industry, the
character of the work and the abll1-y OF the IN
dustry that the Railroad Labor Board is a law
fully established tribunal of adjudication; 1t pro-
ceeded with it's work in lawful manner; 1t reach-
ed a decision which stands the exprec1ion OF the
will of the American people and that decision is
entitled to the respect as any other decision
by any other governmental tribunal
In an effort to substitute lawful procedure for
the force and violence of strike or a lockout ana
in an endeavor protect the interests OF all the
neople from conflicting interests OF employers
and employees, Congress passed the law when
provided for adjudication OF railroad disputes.
That the is not perfect OF its ADMINISTRATOR
perfect is quite likely but it is the best that mas
ever been accomplished for the genera! Weltare.
IT substitutes legal decisions based upon evidence
in the place of agreements forced by arbitrary
power on the one ha1d e:--cted under The threat
of distress and devastation the other Inc couh-
try is presented therefore, with the question
whether it will be governed by lawful procedure
or by mob rule. There be no question what
ever as to the position the great body OF amerl-
can people will take
A railroad strike may be called but II called
it will mark the beginning Of the end or the Or
ganizations responsible for defiance OF law ana
disregard of the public welfare
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The new building code ought to be on the 1oo
rieht now 1t is a thousand times easier to keep
our streets from being disfgured by buildings that
have no business certain locations than 1t Is TO
dislodge them after construction The latter is
practically impossible. Under the new code the
bridga anorosches should be kept clear from the
point where the bridge structure is started. IL
the new million dollar bridge should be built up
and lined buildings as far along Its length as
the river bank will permit. its beauty of line and
&c ,nasnifcient appearance will be ruined COM
pletely The city has two of the most beautiful
and splendid bridges to be seen anywhere. They
are the chief claims to civic. beauty IN Faarmont-
The city has all of the land extending Tor
acres and miles around upon which business and
trading activities be established, and there Is
no inst reason why the bridge approaches should
he ruined and commercialism allowed to cruclfy
beauty, to please selfish interests.
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The American Legion IS getting ready to oher
everybody a great time in Rayine Park, week alter
nay+ This NAV he little early begin to talk
about it. but public will need a little time 10
brace itself for the big occasion. AS for us we
will take our tickets straight to the merry-go-
round that thing with the air ships looks little
too frisky for
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Will ENTER HARVARD

ATLANTA. Ca. Jun 2s.-Robert
T. Jones of Atlanta, southern anna
teur golf champion, will enter Har-
ward this fall to take bachelor of
arts degree, which probably will
require two years, his father, Rob
ert P. Jones said today. Young
Jones was graduated from Georgia
Technical this spring.
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THE MAID ON
THE COURTHOUSE

Say, Mr.. Patrolman" said the
maid on the courthouse, looking
down from her perilous height" i
wish some OF you nice looking fell
lows would learn how to operate
those stopsand go signs"
;. N Aw, what's biting at you,' said
the patrolman politely.
s ~ Nothing, kind sir, she said
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Here and There
BY CLYDE II. EAST

CHARLESTON, W. Va, June
2S-Near the close of the last ses-
sion of the Legislature. while the
House was waiting for the final
report of the committee on en-
rolled bills, there being nothing
else to do, the members INDUCED
in speech-making, Speaker Keat-
ley calling on members at the sug-
gesttons of others. Delegate
George F. Grisinger of Fayette
called for Delegate J. Alfred Tay-
lor, also of Fayette, to explain
why it was that he consistently
persisted in voting mo" when the
other members of the Fayette
delegation voted aye" Mr. Tay-
lor's reasons Were too well known
to need further calculation, so he
said:
"Mr. Speaker, I sh~ll reply to
my colleague. the gentleman from
F'ayette by telling a story. a man,
somewhat of 'rounder' in his
day, shuffled off this mortal coil
and departed for that bourne from
whence no traveller returns. leav-
ing behind very beautiful mar
riageable daughter. y certain
young man of the community
sought nef mana III marriage, 10
which the young lady replied, Go
ask father Now the rest of the
story is told in verse:
"She knew that he knew that her
father was dead.
He knew of the life that her
father had led,
So he knew what the maiden
meant when she said:
Go a SIX Fa her -
Mr. Taylor resumed his seat. A
moment later the point went
home and the house roared with
laughter. Doctor Grissinger is
again a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for the house
while Mr.. Taylor is seeking the
Democratic nomination for con
gress.