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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-14
IHE DAsIIL
HORT ]. STORY
Starlight
y JESSE pouaLAes

You're an old mad, susy Law.
rencet and you might as we'll fncn
Dtte facti"
Susan Lawrence was staring in
10 the mirror above her wash bowl
and pitcher whom she made this
i barely audible remark. No ono
else was In the room. It was net
tho kind Of room that Mrs. Tupp.t
allowed her boarders 70 entertain
in. II they wished to have visitors,
she explained. they must have
them In the parlor. But Mrs. Tu2-
pits parlor-a rubber plant with
dusty leaves blocked the window,
and the chairs in ugly tapestry
creaked loudly when Susy sank in-
10 their depths.
She had had only ono visitor n
Mrs.. Tupplt's parlor. and be had
not come back.
, So now susy kept to her room
IN the evenings and could Sit IN
the straight chair beside the bu-
reau or on her own cot. Her COM
pany was limited to one colored
print on the wall and q. little row
OF books on the window ledge.
Now Eka Rad lust thrown her
book down on the cot and gone
over 70 stare at herself with crit
ical eyes. II was quito true. sile
did look like an old maid. Not a
hair OF her smooth brown head
escaped her hair net, and her
white blouse was SO Immediately
clean that Il was tlresome. Her
brown eyes had lost their sparklA
Ne was ncat-oh. wonderfully
neat-but that vas Ill.
What have you got to complain
of" Spsy went on hars!Iiy 70 tina
watehfnl reflection, you're indie
SSendent, your work isn't dis
agreeable and you're IN, New York
where you have all the advan.
tRges."
y But a little voice on the other
Side Of her mind interrupted. IF
You can afford EN-
She sat down suddenly on the
little cot. She remembered the
small town she had came from.
where any one could "afiord7 the
i cool evening afr, and Sic %lSte
stars. Where any one could afford
|. the walks through green hedge.
rows, TO daisy fields, and where
the air.. soft with Reinforcement
and honey-rlch with buckwheat
flowers was free air.
"oh, I'D like TO go back just
once and see tt" she whispered.
Her checks gloWed suddenly and
she caught her breas3. She made
a tumble Of handkerchiefs and
gloves and collars as she searched
out a time table. Tomorrow was
Friday and perhaps Mr.. Hopkins
would let her have the whole week
Mr.. Hopkins did. As susy wan.
dered up the village street to the
house with its Frenn Blinds and
old:fashionei r. on whNa
3 knew she conld have a room
for the night. ~. d. ..v peace
seemed TO low inio her very soul
Atter. she had dipped her face
into the sold spring water and anG-
wered all the questions OF Aunt
Name, as the village called her.
snsy wandered down the quiet
Street.
Dwas evening. A little breeze
played yagrautly with her brown
hair and in Q sudden longing for
} freedom she reached up and pulled
off the combining hair net. How
deliciously cool was the night
air; she turned back her long
sleeves SO that her smooth arms
were hare.
(here was not a single farm
house in sight, Just a long, gray
road with a white topped buck
wheat field on, one side and the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-14

MEDIUM BROWN HAIR looks
best Of all after a Golden Clint
Shampoo-Adv.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-14
Creamy Hard Sauce

1-2 cup butter.
l cup powdered sugar.
Ii cup thin cream.
10 teaspoon vanilla.
Work butter until creamy and
shiny like satin. Add sugar, grad
ually and beat until both arc
light and creamy. Add cream
a little at a time and continus
beetlng. Add vanilla and place
in a cold place.
This is very gold when brown
sugar is used in place OF the
white powdered sugar,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-14

You're an old mad. susy Law.
! renee and you might as we'll fncn
ktha faottIt
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
Dy1,an,Os of Democracy.

ITRIENDS of free discussion
that clarifier of truth. note
with pleasure the steady
growth of the open forum move
ment.
Begun, it seems only yesterday,
in Boston, there are now 107
forums in twenty-one States, each
a live center of public thinking
a dynamo of democracy.
Better yet, the majority are
self-sustaining-not by aid of a
few, but with the mites of the
many, whose numbers are grow
ing.
No limit can be put upon the
value in a community of a place
where orderly speech is free. \
Not until our nation is aeratcd
with such ferments of truth-seck-
ing shall we be secure against
invisible manipulation and the
blunders of ignorance.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
No Job For
Small Men
CHAIRMAN LASKER of the

CHAIRMAN LASKER of the
II United States Shipping
Board tried to bring order
into the chaos of the board by
hiring real steamship men to di-
rect the operations of the ships.
He paid two salaries of $35, 900
and several others of $11 900 and
over, small compared to what the
recipients would have earned in
private business. The results
have justified the expenditure
the men have gone far toward
salvaging the wreck the old Ship
ping Board has made in the Ma
ton s $4,OOO,0O0,OOO investment in
ships.
Now the House of Representa-
tives rejects a conference report
of Senate and House representa-
tives, permitting the board to
employ six officials at $4,000
each, two at $4,000 each, and one
at $4,000.
The Government cannot get
something for nothing, 1t cannot
have its enterprises managed by
men of ability when it will not
(1) pay those men salaries com
parable with what private enter
prises pay; (2) assure them per-
manency and promotion when
they make good.
Nothing is so expensive and
wasteful as incompetence in the
management of large business.
Testifying a few. days ago
Chairman Lasker said that his ex-
ecutives were being so hampered
by Congress that they were losing
all initiative or interest in their
work.
Restoring our merchant marine
to profit, efficiency and para
imountcy on the seas is herculean
task. 1t can and must be achieved,
but small men cannot do it.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. ls22, by Star Company.
BY X. C.. B.

Dear c. B.-If you had attained the age
Of twentysi1. a. l have, and after having
observed human nature from several angles OF
life. from the lowest to the highest, and as .
result had lost faith in the aforesaid human
nature II you had no one person. OF either sex.
whom you could call friend and sincerely
believe it, II everything in life that is beauti.
full. music, art nature, etc. had been clouded
by this less, and the only reason you had for
carrying on was your mother and your home.
II you were discouraged and as miserable
as l am. what would you do? LIS
Detroit, Mich.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
TW0 Great Republics

FUTURE historians will write about the United States
and attitude toward Russia with interest. In
France, great republic, millions Of peasants and
little working people lent their money to Russia: The
French government refuses to recognize Russia until
that debt is paid. -:
In other words the Republic of France demands justice
for the LITTLE people that lent their savings
In the United States little people, in any number,
bought Russian bonds But few very important RICH
people bought Russian bonds. This Government has a
great deal of sympathy for important rich peoplc-it
should have when they deserve it, of course-and this
Government demands that Russia reform itself In other
words that it pay few rich investors before it be
recognized.
If the Russian bonds in France had been bought only
by few enormously rich investors the French Republic
would not bother about it,
Just what this country would have done if the Rus.
sian securities had been bought by few millions Of
little nobodes let the average reader decide for himself
The fact is that Russia great country desperately
struggling to survive and establish ITSELF is opposed
checked and thwarted by two great republics, both
struggling to get back money stupidity lent to Czar
and his brutal government.
It is credtable to either Republic but Of the two
France makes the better showing
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
Stars and Stripes

On the first Of the month there Is no female
nor anything else more deadly than the mail.
They used to Judge a mans wealth by the
height OF his roof but now they Judge It by tho
depth OF his cellar.
japan, In speaking Of the evacuation OF Shan.
tung, seems TO place tho accent on the shan't
Babe Ruth doesn't know much about Latin,
but his motto is: Soc Et Tuum"
why does State stand at the head in
raising mules?" asks a Missouri editor. Easy
because II would be dangerous to stand at
the other end.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
A Look Backward and
FOrLDdrd.

AIRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN
N GAIT was once teased as
~ having an unfortunate name
for the leader of the feminist
movement. Perhaps" she an
swered, "but I got it from my
husband"
If it weren't for the men,
Now Mrs. Gait is quoted as
saying something more provok-
ing. She asserts that, if the vote
had been granted to women twen-
ty-five years ago, women's in
fluence would have so leavened
politics that there would have
been no war.
Perhaps. AT any rate, nothing
now prevents such complete CO.
operation between peace-loving
women and surviving cavemen as
10 assure, twenty-five years hence,
a world at peace and well on the
way toward becoming really
human.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
"Lack of
Moral Fiber''
RANK A. VANDERBILT, pleas

hANh "a. NANDEhlII pleas
ant American banking gen
tleman, was fired out of his
job by younger gentleman pos
sessing power by inheritance. The
younger one in turn was fired out
of the same job by too much ad-
vertising, in violation of certain
moral scruples Of the American
people.
Now Mr.. Vanderlip is at Genoa,
observing. He discovers that the
trouble over there is "Lloyd
Georges lack of moral fiber"
The average individual should
find humor in that statement.
If Mr.. Vanderlip had run the
finances of Great Britain for
many years, and had then run
the government of Great Britain
and of the whole of Europe-to
say nothing of the United States
--.as Lloyd George has done all
through the war and since, he
would know some things about
:.moral fiber" that he probably
still has to learn.
Lloyd George may break, be-
cause of international stupidity,
British indifference and ingrati-
tude.
But he will break as a we'll
made, finely tempered steel cable
breaks, when too great a load is
put upon it.
The human race has not pro
duced an ADLER man, a more gen.
uipe democrat, a more consist
emily intelligent statesman in a
hundred years. If Lloyd George 's
mother had not contributed him
to the earth's population, it is
quite probable that the Kaiser
and his six sons would be walking
in Piccadilly, side by side, in the
old fashion, instead of being
scattered as they are now.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
Goodbye, DandeliOn
By S. E. KISER.

THE dandelion used to be a pest;
1t came unwelcomsd early in the spring:
All through the land men did their level best
To dig up and destroy the pesky thing;
1t spoiled the lawns by crowding out the grass,
1t flourished where no useful plant
would grow,
But it's now about to pass
To the obselescent class,
In other words, it's ticketed to 20.
AROUND the vacant edges of the town,
"A Where the golden dandelion blooms and
spreads.
There are busy men and women bending down.
And plucking off the flattened' yellow
heads;
You can see them, with their baskets and
their sacks,
In search of places where the picking's
fine.
Making furious attacks,
As they move. with bended backs
Have you ever heard Of dandelon wine!
WHILE it wasn't Of the slightest earthly use,
w The dandelion flourished everywhere;
But it seems that there's mean kick in its
juice,
A crinkle that in fact, will curl your
hair;
Now prepare to see the dandelion slip,
It's golden bloom will cease to dot the
scene;
When thing is wanted-Zlp!
1t evades the graspers grip;
All the spotted fields will soon be turn
ing green.
ONCE the dandelion was a useless weed:
" We tried in vain to stop it's blooming
then;
Now that people think it serves pressing
need
1t will.never overrun the land again!
When it ceases to disfigure any lawn.
And refuses to. bedeck the vacant lot
When it finally is gone,
Let this inference be drawn:
Prohibition caused its disappearance
what?
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
Must the Wild
Birds Go?
THE friends of wild birds saw

THE friends of wild birds say
that draining swamps "men-
q aces migratory birds" That
may be, but draining swamps
does away with mosquitoes. And
if the birds must go with the
mosquitoes, then the birds must
go. An expert shows that one
hundred mosquitoes lay ten bill
lion trillion eggs from April to
September 15-the hundred and
their descendants presumably. If
the mosquitoes we're less incompe-
tent, more able to survive, they
would fill the air and men could
not breathe in the middle of the
summer. They implant poison,
malaria, yellow fever in mems
blood.
1t is too bad about the birds,
but eventually all life except hu-
man life will disappear from this
planet, everything from microbes
to elephants will 60. And the
sooner the better, probably.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
Bad for
Children
AFR. VINCENT ASTOR, very
nice, pleasant young man,

M nice, pleasant young man,
has very big yacht, the
Nourmahal, in which he can cross
the ocean. He has a miniature
Nourmahal, six feet long, run
by a blow torch"
In that toy he has an interest
ing control. And he plays with
1t, sending it out and making it
come back to him. The old Astor
that used to skin animals estab-
ished the fortune that bought the
big yacht for his descendant and
bought the little yacht. But what
did he leave for young Mr.. Astor
to do7 The two worst things you
can do for a child are first to
FLATTER it and second to leave
it RICH.
Since the first Astor what As
tor has done anything' All rich,
all forgotten as they die. Pleas
ant, well behaved nobodies. In
herited money is a curse that few
survive.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
The Cost of LdLeness
Other Things, Here and There.

M nAI QOes luleneSS cost tne WorlQf Men, Dusy
w killing each other in war; have since been idle in
millions. You notice that in Europe there
four millions idle only fewer than in the United States
alone.
According to the Genoa conference the ideness of
has already cost the world in lack of production
twenty thousand million dollars, almost enough to pay
the debt of the United States Besides five thou
sand millions have been paid out by governments to
the unemployed to keep them quiet: War is expensive,
while it lasts and after it ends.
Mr.. Insu, of the Chicago Commonwealth Edison Com
pany has the greatest electrical power outfit in the
world, than Niagara Falls Eight hundred thou
sand horsepower available That gigantic and is
Once elephant htched log in Asia seemed equally
gigantic.
Before long there will be power obtained direct from
the sum- by releasing atomic energy that will make
insults eight hundred plant look
like compared to locomotive
But Insu, if then alive, will probably try to be the
head of the biggest
Man remains about the same, but still bosses nature
and science.
Samuel Untermyer suggests that this country initiate
countries in Europe and compel accused of crime
to submit to examination and answer questions
witness against himself Here take the ground that
cannot be forced incrmnate himself, therefore
cdlHOI De IOrceu 10 testify against we even
man s wife from estfying against her husband
The change that Mr.. Untermyer suggests would be
radical And, anyhow, how you going to keep
compulsory witness from committing perjuryi
man who will steal million dollars from his
government in time wouldn't hesitate to lie about
it after the The old method to apply the
torture to witnesses when they innocent and
accused of nothing We have outgrown that.
Some bankers have warned this Government that it
must not recognize Russia until arrangement is
made to pay back fifty millions that the bankers lent
to the Russian Car.
The question s do those bankers the United States
Government If they do then pay the fifty millions by
all means, and let the world get back to business.
But this Government would allow it's foreign policy
to be dominated by few farmers innocent purchasers
of gold bricks Why make exceptions in favor of bankers
that bought the Cars gold bricks7
They might have known; a half dozen newspapers
including this one warned them before they bought the
Cars bonds that they wouldn't be worth paper and ink
The Cpmanns banking gentlemen Of Havana Cuba,
paid somebody in Washington than million dol
lars to get back property seized by the Alien Property
Custodian 1t will be very interesting to know in what
pocket that million finally landed. Perhaps Attorney
General Daughery will give the information eventually.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

IF A man had faith.
IN HIS own self.
THAT IT followed
then.
.s MUST have faith.
IN HIS fellow man.
BUT sisr of all.
I HAVE come to
know.
III go on.
AND LIVE my life.
so ! bring no pain.
OR BRING no grief.
TO ANYONE.
AND BEAR a little.
OF WHAT they have.
THAT I'LL have
friends.
AND I'LL sleep well.
AND worry non.
were you.
- START with
mother.
AND MAKE her
happy.
. .
AND SEE how II
works.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
IN chINA,a cLAss.

The United States ard China, It appears,
are the only sIgners OF the Disarmament
Treaty that have taken any steps toward dis.
arming. China also must have . Root and
a Hughes
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
TIE TEMPTING BARGAIN.

ITS pretty hard for most Of us to keep
from buying things we don't want, II the
sellers offer to throw in things We don't need.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

DEAR J. ]. s.
CAN remember.
A1TwENIY-TARes.
IKNew everything.
,Nesoso to know.
AND HAD seen
everything.
INEsoEo to see.
AND WAS very sure.
THAT This old
world.
WAS A terrible place.
AND OF course it
wasn't.
AND ANYWAY.
THERE WAS nothing
at all.
THAT ! could do.
TO iLisa it.
so / got some sense.
AND ACCEPTED it.
JUST As it was.
AND SOON found out.
THAT THE trouble
had been.
JUST WITH myself.
AND I also found.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

MOST OF 'em are hard
Avn working kewpies whose
only fun is fivvering on
weekend. They pack their
lunches into their cars, pack
their families in TO keep
lunches from rafting and
then sputter off hell-bent for
straw votes.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

CABBATH drivers all have
~ two cars. Their own.
And municipal ambulance.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
ONLY A FEW OF THAT KIND.
! THANK you.

man must be Of great Importance II peo-
pie miss him when he takes his vacation.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
SUNDAY
DRIVERS.
Copyright. 1882. BY Star Company.
BY BUGS" BAER.

SCNDAY and holiday col.
~ lision department is only
home industry working on
wartime production.
MOST business has throt.
AVA tied down to peace speed.
But Sunday Chautfeurs insist
on their weekly bumps.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

SCNDAf and holloay col
~ lision department is only
home industry working on
wartime production.
MOST business has throt.
AVA tied down TO peace speed.
But Sunday chautfeurs insist
on their weekly bumps.
SABBATH drivers all have
~ two cars. Their own.
And municipal ambulance.
MOST OF 'em are hard
AA working kewpies whose
only fun is flivvering on
weekend. They pack their
lunches into their cars, pack
their families in TO keep
lunches from rafting and
then sputter off hell-bent for
straw votes.
THEY figure that traffic
rules and regulations are
nothing but gypsy dream
books to be read only by su-
perstitious.
WHEN traffic cop waves
w his legal mitt. Sunday
driver waves back. He thinks
that law Is filtration.
IT II z r E are about six
thousand national acci.
dents on each Sunday, each
OF which could have been
avoided II collisions cost
more than 80 cents per gal.
lon.
60 many summonses are
~ issued each week.e
that each traffic cop has to
hire bookkeeper and bill
poster to slap legal poultices
on incorrigible cars.
SOME drivers think that
~ detour is. name Of road.
house, Stop.stop sign is new
municipal method of vast.
ing money, and police whis-
ties are to amuse babies and
children.
n ES ULT is that they
~ bump into each other
like dice rafting in cup.
They don't look where
they're driving, and IL they
did they couldn't steer there.
When they get excited they
twist steering WI . around
like commuter winding up
his watch.
HEADLESS HORSEMAN
was three-skulled Cor.
gon compared with holiday
gasoline Jockeys. After pop
gets nervous, nom makes
grab at her share of steering
wheel and eleven relatives
all snatch at loose levers.
Result is that one F. o. B.
chariot has more engineers
than entire Pennsylvania
railroad system and it's sub
sidlary organizations.
| MAKES us long for old
A hoss and buggy Sun.
days. when each rein WIS
steering wheel and hoss
could take his pick. And only
accident that occurred gen.
orally happened before start.
ing out, when grandpop's FIN.
ger was bitten trying to get
his false teeth out OF water
In glass.
MAKING GOOD AT LAST.
The man who can drink or
let II alone Is finally letting Il
alone.
Man went into a New
York book store and asked
for some raCy literature.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

THEY figure that traffic
= rules and regulations are
nothing but gypsy dream
books to be read only by su-
perstitious.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27
MAKING GOOD AT LAST

The man who can drink or
let II alone Is finally letting II
alone.
Man went into a New
York book store and asked
for some racy literature,
and they gave him Ben.
Hur."
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

WHEN traffic cop waves
w his legal mitt. Sunday
driver waves back. He thinks
that law Is filtration.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

COME drivers think that
~ detour is. name Of road.
house, Stop.stop sign is new
municipal method of vast
ing money, and police whis-
ties are to amuse babies and
children.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

n II r RE are about six
thousand national acci-
dents on each Sunday, each
OF which could have been
avoided II collisions cost
more than 80 cents per gal.
Ion.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

GO many summonses are
~ issued each week. end
that each traffic cop has to
hire bookkeeper and bill
poster to slap legal poultices
on incorrigible cars.
The Washington times., 1922-05-27

~ + S u LIT is that they
bump into each other
like dice rafting in cup.
They don't look where
they're driving, and IL they
did they couldn't steer there.
When they get excited they
twist steering wi ~ around
like commuter winding up
his watch.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-20
USE ALGEBRA TO FIX TARIFF
Senators Turn to Higher Mathematics
to Carry Out United States
Valuation.

Washington, jan 1S.-When you
were a youngster in the mesh of
high school curriculum you often won
dered what earthly use algebra would
or could be to you in after life. The
senate finance committee will furnish
one answer when it turns out the So
called permanent tariff bill Under
the plan tentatively agreed upon to
base duties ON the selling price in this
country of the imported article the I'M
known quantity *" would be met
where the imported goods had not
been freely sold in the United States,
and value on which to base a duty
would have to be found by algebraic
formula. There has been a suggestion
also that if world conditionss become
much more complicated the committee
n handling future tariff bills might
have to resort to trigOnometry or even
he succeeding grade of calculus.