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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-21
a. NEW DAYS 40
By CONDO

above here. The buns he.
gin 10 riEo gradually between the
two rivers and four miles brought
US to the north fork up which We
travelled and encampod On its
banks In good grass.
This morning James said he
was better We made bed in
the wagon with all our blankets
and placed him in 1t. and this
evening hc appears to much boz
ter though he is very weak. We
have been giving him such medi-
cine as we thought hest, physI-
cians being scarce upon the plains.
We passed through Il prairie
dog town today which covered
about 200 acres Of ground. These
dogs are about the size OF hulf
grown cat and have head IKE
squirrel and feet like mules.
They live under the ground, dig
ging holes about three feet in
depth and throwing out Il large
quantity vi dirt. Tho houses are
built from five to six feet apart
and in some places farther. When
man approaches their hiding
places they come 10 the door and
begin barking and II he comes
TO close they descend into the
ground and hide themselves,
The day was line for travelling.
Sunday, Mny 20, 1852.
Thirty miles were Travelled 10.
day by starting at a. mr. and not
camping until 8 p. m. We fol-
lowed up the river bottom four
teen miles to where the road en-
tiers kunyon and ascends the
bluffs, which come to the river
banks and are some $50 feet
above the level OF the water. We
Travelled sixteen miles over the
bluffs without wood, water or q
spear Of grass. The road while
ascending follows the kanyon for
two miles in a south direction but
upon reaching the summit 1t
changes and runs northwest. The
summit Of the bluffs Is a level
plain.
We reached the river bottom
late in the evening and found the
grass very short.
We suffered very much for tho
want OF water as we had neglect
ed to MI our kegs before reaching
the river. ! came to a small pond
that had some water in 1t which
had bcen standing since the last
rain and as ! had no cup along
with me took my old hat which
answered a very good purpose.
drank II twice full and fortunate
ly 1t did not have any serious
effect upon nc.
This was the warmest day We
have had on the plains. We pass
ed several wagons today.
There was a gentleman buried
near by this evening.
Monday, May 81, 1852.
We have travelled eighteen
miles today. We started at ia.
m. and camped at 1880 p. m. We
travelled up the river bottom, &C.
casIonally crossing over a low
bluff. The road was sandy, al.
though the country is fertile, and
the grass good. We saw quite a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-21

One thousand teachers in attendance at the
Monongahea Round Table IN Clarksburg. This
newspaper cannot comment the personnel Of the
teaching forces from the other counties included
in the district, but 1t certainly vouch for the
alert. wide awake splendid teaching body that
attends from Marion County. 1t is impressive
thing TO see thousand teachers assembled to-
gether and TO realize that in these active minds
lies almost wholly the power that transmits to the
oucomtnG generation the morals, measures, and
standards by which the destinics OF the Upper
Monongahela Valley will be controlled in the
future.
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~ think we need one" sara the

a think we need one" satd the
officer.
Indeed. we do" declared the
Maid, because the matter is get
ting serious"
Very serious?"
Eyes. indeed" asserted the
Maid. why they had to call off
u meeting Of the Coaches Emerl-
tus Club this week on account OF
the water supply"
"pow Gomez"
well ,yor ses the boys had
planned TO have big celebration
in honor of the Pitt victory and
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"but erhaps some Of my friends
might want a drink the same as
the friends Of the prohibition o.
flcer."
ITO tell the truth about the
matter" said tho Maid. they Dc
clded to lock 1t up until Thank
givlng and take It down to Nor
gantown for the W. & ]. game.
They have fairly good water in
Morgantown. you know"
who has the key to the lock-
err"
you get out" said the Maid.
~ wouldn't even tell Tom Ford
that"
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
WILBUR HARRIS vEAcH.


SOUTH CHARLESTON. Oct. 90.
-[Editor, The West virginlan. J.
The anti.third term tradition doe:
not apply to the Legislature. In.
deed 1t is generally considered that
two good terms deserve another
and that no small part OF a mans
Legislative equipment is any eX.
perience that he may have had.
Hon. Wilbur Harris Veach OF
Pennington has been a mighty
busy man all of his life. But usual.
ly the buster a man is the moru
time he can find To be OF service
to his fellows. He entered the
merchantile business at the age
of 81, after attending the common
schools and the Fairmont Normal
and has seen his business grow and
expand. until it is now the leading
department store OF Pennington
He owns valuable real estate IN
that city. is q director of the Bank
OF Pennington and has many other
interests. But he has not permit
ted his business activities to en-,
gross all his time and energy. He
is an active worker In the Methu,
dist Church, u past chancellor o;
the X. of P. lodge. has served az
president of the board of educa.
ton, several terms as city coun.
Gilman. has been postmaster and
has served two terms in the House.
His hobbies are reading and walk
tng-a combination hard to beat,
giving opportunity for the acquisi.
ton Of knowledge and OF reflec.
tion. He is married and is a base.
ball fan. and also votes like Gov.
ernor Morgan at general elections,
PRESLEY ]. MORRIS, Jr.
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they had got in good supply OF
home brew, Gordon Gin, rye
whisky and wool Alcohol; but
when somebody brought in a pit
Choir of water 1t was so filthy that
the boys were afraid TO drink 1t.
They couldn't very we'll drink tina
brand Of liquor that Is being put
out now without a chaser. so they
had to call the party off,"
What did they do with the
liQuor?" asked Swiger.
Now. listen," said the Maid.
You are sanitary officer and not
prohibition officer"
That's albright" said swige1,
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Renal Bey narrowaIy escaped death in an auto
mobile accident yesterday press reports record, II
the accident had happened few weeks ago and
the Turkish leader passed out In the mishap lot
Of horrible history would never have been record
ed. The removal OF a single human being is ap.
pareuty such simple matter for the Almighty
that a worried public sometimes wonders why Hs
withholds His hand.
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money but it win be a final cost IL properly done
and the citizens will benefit by it throughout gem
eratiOus. FaIrmOnt has never hesitated at any
gate that led onward to better and bigger things,
certainly a pure water supply should be the last
gate to be refused. The water is bad-rotten-
but the city can have pure, dne, healthy water
whenever the people will It. and there You are!
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Friday May rs, 1852.

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1AE MAID
ON THE COURTHOUSE

NC must get a filtration plan.
Tor fairDont Just as soon as pos.
.stble. said tne Maid on the
Courthouse this morntnE TO SAM.
tary Officer SwiEer as he came uF
The Main Drag.
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When aDsWer:n. adrerti.ensnt4
please say you saw 1t In The wssI
VirgtriSn.
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Astronomers say there are no
sounds on the moon. This may
prove an ursound observation,
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Since skirts are longer figures
are lying again.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
The Knot of the Turk

~ all the knots in this much entangled
planet none just now seems quite SO
unyielding as that of the Turks and
the Near East. month has passed since the
Allies proposal to investigate Turkish atroci-
ties in that region, but nothing has been
done. Whether this be owing to the anxiety
OF France and Britain lest Moslem fires be
started in their colonial possessions, or to
differences between themselves touching
modes of procedure, the delay is anything
but wholesome in it's influence on the half
sullen, half defiant Turks of Asia Minor,
where Mustafa Renal and his nationalist
followers still hold sway. Indeed, the KEN
alist government is reported, not officially,
but by dependable correspondents, as being
now opposed to the acceptance of an Allied
Investigating commission. For this reason
it may have been that the French proposed
a commission of neutrals, but no further
steps in that direction have been taken.
Meanwhile the Greeks are preparing to
resume their war, which sagged after its
vigorous beginning. If they could put a
speedy end to Turkish insolence in Anatolia,
the problem would be at least simpler than
now, and nigh be solved without hazard to
the Moslem interests of the larger Powers.
But tagging, indecisive campaign will be
worse than nothing in that it will intensity
Turkish feeling against Christians and yet
vouchsafe them no protection.
Yet, matters cannot go on thus indefi-
nitely. Constantinople, as well as the straits.
is now under Allied control, there being but
a shadow to the Sultan's power, who, accord
ing to a news dispatch Of the day, offers to
sell to a British warehouse syndicate his
great Tcheragan palace on the shore of the
Bosporus for the sum of two million dollars,
so close to bankruptcy is his treasury. Tur-
Key in Europe is a farce today, though it
might we'll become menace tomorrow; and
the Turk in Asia still makes the massacre
Of helpless peoples pastime. Is it not in
cumbent upon civilization to act, and act de-
cisively, in self-defense?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
DOROTHY DIX TALKS-HUSBAND OR CHILDREN

with a host of women. 1t takes away their
perspective on life, and wrecks their sense
of values. They cannot see any turthef
than the cradle and they cannot understand
how they can have any interest or duty
paramount to those of motherhood.
Above ALL they cannot understand that
while many women are all mother, very
few men are all father. Vast numbers of.
women absolutely sink themselves in their
children, and have no thought or desire
beyond them, but while most men love their
children, and willing to sacrifice them
selves to their children to reasonable de-
gree, they still want life of their own.
They want the pleasures, and amusements'
and companionship to which they have been
accustomed, and do not find the spectacle
of a sleeping infant an exciting diversion
for the whole evening. They like to hear
their babies goo-goo, and then pass on to
more Intellectual conversation.
The average man does not relish hav-
ing his nose put out of joint by pink
faced creature with no nose at all. He
resents having to take back seat in the
house he supports, and when he finds that
his wife is too much occupied with the
absorbing rites of baby worship to chum
with him any more, he is very apt to
drift back to the old haunts and old pleas
ures Of his bachelorhood. Thus it happens
that while mother is holding baby's hand
WnlEG IL sleeps, some OCn6r woman is ire
quently holding fathers hand, and in innu-
merable divorce cases if the real eo-respon-
dent was cited it would be some chubby
infant who could be proved to have alien
ated the wife's affection from her husband.
| OF course woman's duty to her chill
dren is great, but she also has great duty
to the man she marries, and she not only
has no right to put her children before him,
but she does a foolish thing for herself
| when she does it. For the time will come
when her children must, of necessity, leave
her, and then she is forlorn and lionel,
indeed If she has permitted them to sc
absorb her interests and thoughts that she
has nothing in common with her husband
In twenty-one or two years at the most
and they go by like the flash of an eye
children are grown, and set about their
own business Of life. Then woman's house
| is left unto her desolate unless she and
her husband are comrades, and they are
never that If she has preferred her children
before him, and given to them all her
thoughts and interests.
| The woman who makes a fetish of
motherhood does we'll to think of this be-
fore she absorbs herself in her children.
She also does we'll to remember that neg
lected husbands turn out just as badly as
neglected children, and that while you can
your children in your absence, there is no
trustworthy lady whom you can engage to
look after your husband. That is a job
you have to attend to yourself
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15

walk along it. Imagine this plank be placed
above an abyss and you would Ind it impos-
sible to walk on this bridge, because your
imagination would oppose itself 20 your will
You would wish to, but you would not be
able to. One always speaks of educating the
will, but it seems more important to me to
know how to guide our imagination.
Imagination Alone Suffers
TO the patients who come to his clinic at
Nancy from all parts of Europe, the profess
sor, gives the following advice
DO not say that you are suffering. 1t is
not true. You imagine that you are suffer-
ing. 1t is your imagination alone that suf-
fers. Close the eyes and repeat with me,
with all the strength of the will: Il am bet
teri am better am better And pres
emily you will see that you are really feeling
better. Believe in your health, and you will
be half cured.''
While Professor Coue's cures have attract
ed the most attention because of their spec
tacular nature, he is by no means the only
prominent champion Of auto-suggestion.
Gradually, the entire medical profession
seems to be espousing the idea in one form
or another. Opthalmologists tell u.s. for in
stance, that defective eyesight is caused by
defective imagination; the new school of per
sonal hygienists declare that pessimism is
the greatest enemy to health, while the
Freudians trace all CTR modern completes to
disorders of the juvenile imagination. All
advocate auto-sug5es ion as a cure
Worry, which is a. form of negative cuto-
suggestion, can be cured only by positive sug-
gestion, they say. "Iorbid fears and doubts
about common happenings grow immensely
by process of suggestion and auto-sugges-
tion," declares one medical authority, until
they tend to obsess the whole personality.
For worry CT this kind, nothing less tt an
systematic course of mental training Of some
kind, aided by self-sL3gestion, will effect
radical cure. OF course, when persons af-
fricted by the worry hab.. get run down, they
get all the more involved in the tangle of
their doubling thoughts
Thus, Pollyana has received the unquali-
fled Endorsement of science All the "Keep
smiling" propaganda which has ragged flu
riously throughout the land in recent years
has had pathological significance. All the
popular demand for gilded romance and glad
books as opposed to bitter realism must have
been based upon the public's unconscious de-
sire to keep it's imagination cheerful and free
from contamination.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
THE PARALYSIS OF FAITH
By DR.. Frank Crane

Faith may be either a tonic or paralysis.
The gist of faith is perhaps the conviction
of success.
When man believes in a deity, heaven
or guardian angels, he believes that they are
his diety, his heaven and his guardian an
gels. When he believes in hell it is always
for the other fellow
A sense of confidence that one is not going
to fail is very definite assistance to clear
the brain, buck up courage and empower the
arm. Just as fear OF failure loosens the
sinews and dissolves the spirit.
AS to faith, however, viewing it entirely
from it's practical side and its influence upon
human conduct, it is of much more import
ance ohw one believes than what one believes.
Even faith in a rabbits foot is cheering to
the believer.
1t is relatively only a small part of the
world that concerns itself about the actually
Of the objects of its belief. The great mass
of the rid is concerned molly in faith qua
faith.
You are mot going to shake the average
man from his belief by proving to him that
the thing he believes in is not true. You
will accomplish your purpose much better by
showing him that ais faith will not work, or
that few others share it.
He probably never Srrived at his conviction
by process of reasoning, and no process of
reasoning is going to "rench him from it.
Faith, as conviction of being favorite
Of the gods, is probably str onger in heather
dom than in Christendom The confidence
Hottento has in his mud idol is more adamant
than the religious C, nviction of any college
professor.
The reason of this is that the Hottentot's
faith is a pleasant paralysis. The more en-
tirely it relieves him from all thought and
worry the more he clings to it.
Some years ago, when French scientific
society was Investigating the hygenic condi-
tions Of Asia Minor, the Pacha of Damascus
dealt as follows with the inquiries put to
him:
@. What is the death rate per thousand
in Damascus?
A. 1t is the will Of Allah that all must die.
Some die old, some die young.
Q. What is the annual number of births?
A. We do not know. Allah alone can
say.
At the close of a examination, which con-
tinued in this tone, the Pacha took occasion
to exhort his queEtioners as follows:
"And now, my Lamb of the w est,'' he said,
"cease your questioning, which can do no
good either to you or to anyone else. Man
should not meddj' with matters which con-
Germ Allah alone"
This is good illustration of the narcotic
sort of faith which keeps men children. The
kind of faith that makes for progress, growth
and vigor needs constant effort and is slim
illus to struggle, and not a comfortable
opiate.
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
Mr.. McCorn,;ck's Faux Pas

r N singularly saturn1ne mood IL must
have been that Senator Medill McCor-
mick, chairman of the Republican Sena-
torial campaign committee, gave utterance
to this: Persons might vote for woman
for superintendent of schools or for the town
council or for other little jobs like that; but
when it comes to the Senate of the United
States they simply will not do 1t. [ don't
believe that even the women will vote for
Mrs. Olesen for Senator"
If the Republican organization could have
been so fortunate as to secure Mrs Olesen
as their nominee in the Minnesota Senatorial
contest, Mr.. Mccormick would have seen
the issue more clearly and less dolsefully.
But that gifted and popular woman, whose
shafts of wit are as terrifying to the reaction
airy politician as they are relishing to the
public rank and file, happens to be Dem
ocrat; wherefore, it becomes uncomfortable
to savants of the G. o. P. that woman
should ever stand amongst the togaed.
That a Newberry should reach that exalted
station by way of corruption funds and
should be kept there by votes Of the Repub-
lican majority does not strike them as sur
prising or un-American. But a woman, a
woman in the United States Senate! The
mere suggestion sends shivers to their oligar-
chic marrow That he, himself, is superbly
fitted for Senatorial dignities Mr.. Mccormick
will, of course, admit But where or when,
he inferentially asks, was ever woman born
to compare with his supernal wisdom?
AS is usual with those whom the saving
sense of humor has deserted, this most
potent, grave and reverend signior" is play
ing rather a sorry part as chairman of a
campaign committee. He would do we'll to
remember what his distinguished Republican
colleague, Senator Kenyon, now on the fed
eral bench, remarked when the vote of vindi-
cation for Newberry was announced: "The
dignity of the Senate can never be lowered
after this" But might it not be raised by
the addition of a competent and womanly
| woman?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-15
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FULKERSON.


"There" said Andrew throwing his paper
down. "My Summer is ruined"
"What's the matter now?" asked Imogene.
"Have they closed the baseball parka
"No,' replied he, 'ft'S that fool board OF
health in New York, They have prohibited
the vendors of Coney Island putting pink in
the lemonade. They have refused to allow. them
to cook sausage out in the open and they have
put the kibosh on the five-cent Hamburger steak
with onions.
"How is anyone going to have any fun at
Coney Island, nows
''Why, who would want that lemonade made of
ctric acid, analine dye and lemon peelings from
a pie factory if it was not pink
"Who, ask you, would buy wieniewurstif
he could not see it writhing in its death agonies
in front of his eyes?
"Where, oh, where, is the man who would
think of ordering five-cent Hamburger steak
if the delicious odor of the onions did not come
floating across the street mingled with the odors
of the gasoline from the ten-cent jitneyS the
odors of the greatest wild animal show on earth
and making it all blend that will stir the lag
gard olfactory nerves more than the rarest per-
fume of Araby.
"COney island WltnOu[ IT'S PINK AeIHOndue IL
like circus without an elephant.
"Coney Island sans hot sausage is like the
play of Hamlet with not ham in sight.
"Coney Island without its Hamburger Ia
onion is like pie without cheese; like hot cakes
with no maple syrup, like head waiter with
out dinner jacket like bulldog without
collar and like a steak without gravy.
Gust imagine man who does not read news
! papers going to Coney Island and not knowing
the new law. He would wander around as
nervous as one-eyed dog in butcher shop.
"Who wants to ride the junp-the-umps if he
cannot do it with Frankfurter in one handi
"Who wants to come home from Coney Island
without smell of onions n his breath to prove
to the public that he has been there?
"Who wants to drink denatured lemonade
without the true blush of the school girls cheek
for color?
"One by one the institutions have loved so
! long fall by the wayside.
! "One by one the ruthless hand of modernism
has laid waste and destroyed the spots loved
| in childhood
"On and ever marches the ironshod Steed of
science which walks over tenderest memories
and trampleS htem underfoot as the Roman war
horses tramped the cucumber vines of the
er-er-guyS they conquered.
"Next thing we know pure food people will
make us roast our peanuts in a germ proof
rooster and the society for the prevention OF
useless noise will take the whistle off the
rooaster, and we can never find a peanut man.
81 am going to live on and endure my misery.
however, till they take the red, white and blue
off the barber shops, and then am going to
| quit the game for good"
eff these Things will keep you from pretend
| ing go to Coney Island every summer can
stand them," said Imogene
"Did you say pretend?'" asked Andrew.
She looked him straight in the eyes and
! Sobbed He gazed back for moment and then
his eyes fell and he whiStled foolishly.
| Copyright, 1922, by 21St Century Press Inc.)