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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-17
sEAIMER RAinEp

MOBILE, Ala. Nov. l7.-The
NorWe, gan steamer Falkfell was
raided by federal, state and coun-
ty officers yesterday afternoon
and 100 quarts Of Scotch whiskey
seized, Six members Of the crew
we're arrested,and held.
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YUKON ERozEN OVER

DAWSON, Y. r.. Nov. 1.-THE
Yukon River was frozen over hero
today for the first time this sea-
son. For luteness Of ice this ties
the record date Of 1916, when
there was an equally retarded win
ter.
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AttendIna ConVentlon


P. A. Bartholow is In Charles
ton this week whore he Is attend.
ing the state convention OF FEEDER.
ated Labor being held at this city
Mr.. Bartholow went as a repres-
entatlve of his district.
With Miss Arnett
The members Of the True Blue
Sunday School class OF the. Rives-
Vile NJ. e. Church were entertain
ed by Miss Anna Arnett last
Tuesday evening at the home OF
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. C. G.
Arnett OF Orchard Hill. The pro-
gram Of the evening included So
cial hour, business session, de-
votonal exercises and the serving
OF refreshments.
Lecture Course Number
Among those who attended the
lecture course number given at the
Fairmont Normal School auditor
ium Monday evening were Mrs
H. NJ. Smith, Miss Mary Hannah,
Miss Okareda Ketterman. Miss
Lois Philips and Miss Jessie
Hawkins.
Visiting Sister
Charles Knight Is spending 4
Sew days in Baltimore as the
guest Of his sister. Mrs. Homer
Price, who is a hospital patient
in the Maryland city.
Paralysis Victim
John Hawkins OF High Lawn has
been i'll at his home since last
Tuesday evening when he was
stricken with acute kidney trouble,
Mr.. Hawkins Is resting easier at
this time.
Dinner Guests
Miss Maud Merr!field. Miss
Ethel Morris and Miss villa Nor
gan will be entertained as 6
o'clock dinner guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Amos Of
High Lawns, their daughter Miss
Emma Amos being hostess. this
evening.
Building Jail
Work on the new C ty jail was
begun yesterday. Contractors
Amos and Musgrave are building
the foundation.
Church Notes
The following services will be
observed in the Rlvesville NJ. f.
Church South, Sunday: Sunday
School at 9:45 a. M, Gee rye Rad
cliffe, superintendent: public wor-
ship and sermon at a. M, Ep-
worth League at p. M, preach
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The frightened eyes Of this s
year old boy has Just seen his
father. john Andrews, beat Ills
mother to death with section of
an iron bed. according to the story
told the Morristown IN. ~ police.
The boy is John Andrews, Jr., ore
Of eight children. Andrews denies
his sons statement.
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ter Weresth d gpes.s OF Aits rSettla
wis On Thtrsd9y
"A numb er ot Baxte r opte az
tended The box social given Y.
lRiyegyilie Thussday evening.
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BAXTER
Church Notes

Church Notes
A preaching service will be held
at the local church Sunday morn
ing at II o'clock. This service viii;
follow the Sunday school meet
ing.
At the class meeting held We'd
nesday evening at 1880 o'colck a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-11-17

vile High School gsye d rninstrei
show list Friday evening In the
high school Auditorium The fol-
lowing students took part in the
program: Grace Morris villa
Morgan, Mary Post, Leila Robey,
Vida Matheny, Maud Merrifield,
Ethel Morris, Sylvia Riggs, Mar
CARTE Collins, Lonnie Johnston and
Leonard Evans.
Surprise Party
Honoring Mrs. Cora Valentine
OF Pharoahs Run. whose recovery
from a recent illness pleased her
friends, surprise party was
given at her homo lag Saturday
evening. The amusements we're
games and music and refresh
menta were served the guests dnr-
ing the evening. Those present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clay
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Valen-
tine and children, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Rice. Mrs. Rachel Kutscher,
Mrs. Harry Tenant, Mrs. Goldie
Smith, Mrs. Anna Baker Susie
Tenant, Layerna Baker Grace
JONES Elsie Rice, Leila Straight,
Margaret Jones, Margaret Ten.
nant, Opal Wilson, Nora Baker
Lilly Rice, Leila Rutherford velma
Valentine. Ruby Valentine, James
Google, Russell Wilson. Harold
Clayton, Leonard Yost Virgil VAL
entlne, Ira Smith, Luther Smith
and Roy Valentino.
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decision was nj resartl 10
changing the tinie Of mee ting fh
the future the meeting win 3begin
ct 2 O'Clock IN order to give more
time to the lesson.
Personals
Mrs. David Allen was q busl.
ness visitor in Fairmont Tuesday.
A number Of people from hero
attended the funeral OF Mrs. Mel
issa Brock Of Grant Town Tues
day.
Mrs. Jess Gregory was a visi.
tor in Fairmout Monday.
Miss Ethel Wilson. visited at
Henshaw Wednesday.
Mrs. Ellis Wilson was a bust
ness visitor In Fairmont wednes-
day.
Mrs. L. c;Morrls and son Les.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Free Zones for she Port

A Senate amendment to the tariff
bill, II 1t is accepted In conference
committee, will bring TO realization
q project in which the ports of the
country have long been Interested,
but which has never before found
favor with tariff makers. The asso..
Citations Of q phrase have apparently
stood in the way. 'sFree ports"
smacked of free trade. A good idea
got bad name and uniustly suffered
the consequences.
So we never followed the excellent
example OF other countries in setting
off portions of our ports as areas
into which exports might come, and
in which they might be stored, ex-
hibited. broken up, refined, graded,
and even mixed with domestic goods,
and then be exported, all without in
reference by collector Of customs.
Such a warehousing in a guarded
area is great accommodation 60
foreign trade. 1t makes additional
business for port which happens
to be conveniently situated for stor-
age and reshipment. 1t had much to
do with the remarkable growth of
the port of Hamburg.
We have a drawback system by
which duties on imports rnanufac-
tured, refined or mixed with Arneri-
can goods for export are refunded
practically in full. We also have
government bonded warehouses in
which imported commodities may be
left for a time, duties being paid on
withdrawal for domestic consump-
ton. The Senate amendment merely
| carries this drawback and bonding
system to a logical conclusion. 1t
recognizes frankly the advantages of
encouraging export trade, developing
our ocean ports and creating addi-
tional cargo for our merchant ma
rine.
| Our trade and commercial bodies
have long been eager to see foreign
trade zones established here. Our
port is bi-state, and the Senate
amendment authorizes the allotment
of harbor trade zone to the New
Jersey section as well as to the New
York section. Each part will benefit
if the amendment goes through. 1t
| is maker of new business mod
ern implement in the building up of
world trade.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Locking the Barn In Time

The fact that after the baseball
scandal of 1919 a player is willing
to sell out his team is not particu.
larly encouraging to lovers of clean
baseball. What is encouraging is
the fact that in this instance the dis.
honesty was discovered before in
stead of after the theft had been
committed.
The attitude Of some of the man.
ayers after the exposure of the
White Sox rascality was not alto
gether altruistic. They were appar-
emily more eager to believe that the
public would forget all about it than
to take precautions against recur-
renee.
But very materially lessened at
tendance had salutary effect upon
the more callous among them
There has been no indication Of anv
scandal since that time up to the
present, and the first evidence Of
crookedness IN promptly detected,
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Standing From Under

Ingratitude, more strong than
traitors arms, has added to the
already overahundant sorrows of
William Randolph Hearst. Wisely
reading in AL Smiths candidacy for
the governorship a notification that
Mr.. Smith and no other would be
nominated for that office in Syracuse
in September, Mr.. Hearst put HIM
self out Of the race in which his
managers had sought 60 keep him.
He informed the newspapers that
he was not candidate for the gov
ernorship and would not be a cam
didate. But he admitted that he
would run for Senator if the Hon.
John F. Hylan would try to get the
Democratic nomination for Cover
nor. Did Mr.. Hylan leap into the
breach and save his benefactor? Did
he say that, although he wanted no
honors greater than those which
now swathe him, he would, because
Of what Mr.. Hearst had done for
him, consent to go to Syracuse and
take the nomination away from Mr..
Smith?
He did not. To the reporters who
Fastened to him as soon as they
heard that his candidacy was con-
dition precedent to Mr.. Hearst's ac-
ceptance of Senatorial nomination
he insisted that he wasn't candi-
date and couldn't be induced to be
candidate. siv
Thus the protege that Mr.. Hearst
imagined would be a stout staff
proved in the time of trial to be
merely a broken reed. Thus the
hand that he had filled with honors
shut in his face the only door by
which he could hope to get grace
fully out Of an extremely ambar-
RAISING position.
Mr.. Hylan is the one man in poll
tics to whom Mr.. Hearst has been
consistently kind for more than a
year or two at a stretch. He at
least should have stood by the editor
in his hour of need. Yet at the first
call for sacrifice he fled.
Can it be that the power and in
fiuence of Charles Francis Murphy
weigh more heavily with him than
the kindness and the praisessof Mr..
Hearst?
1t begins to look so.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18

In other words, under German mi.
10 per cent of the Alsstisns called
refused to serve, while under FrsneA
rule 80 per cent serve eagerly ssd
only 1 per cent are refractory.
Complaints from everywhere and
from every one" say the writers q
the manifesto. Mon DieuI yes. yhs.
is an evidence that the Alsatians srs
in truth French and not German. 70
complain is to exercise ths Ged-giva
privilege of free speech, ana ID
French exercise that privilege nd
less in Brittany or Provence than h
Alsace. The role Of the Germaa is 10
obey. The voice of Germany IL As
voice Of Treitschke-"Der stsas IA
Macht." The thought of Germsny d
that the individual is nothing tass
the rest of the world Is nothing; fass
Germany is all; in fact, @aher AlIes'
The thought of the Frenea Is shss
the powers of the government sv
derived from the consent Of the scs-
erned. They recognize the prineirlss
of freedom, equality, individasi as-
erty, and they are prompt to rssaa'
any interference with the exercise d
these virtues. Official Alsace--shs en-.
pioyees of the postofTice, Of tbs rail.
roads. of the municipalities--nsy b
and probably are less efficient thsa
the Official German public aervsfa
whom they replaced, but TIE Aiss-
tian sentiment Is ''better mar
curial or tenperamentsl Frsasa %.
cial that you can 'bawl cut thss
stolid. if efficient, German pnblie ssEs'
ant against whom no word Of critielsn
may be spoken
FRANcgLyN PARIS.
New York, Aug. Ia, 1872.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
What the Women Think

AT last the prohibition poll con-
Quoted by 'The Literary Digest"
has brought forth a surprise. The
first twenty thousand votes in the
special woman's poll show even
greater opposition to the present
laws than the regular poll. Forty
per cent of the women favored modi-
fcation, 2b.9 per cent favored repeal
of the prohibition amendment, and
only 34.1 per cent were for strict
enforcement, This compares with
400 per. cent moist, 2O.8 per cent
wet and 1873 per cent dry in the
regular poll.
To be sure this is only the result
Of small number of votes; but,
Judging from the previous returns
of "The Digest's" poll, there is every
probability that it foreshadows
the general sentiment among the
women.
1t had been expected even by the
vets that the women's votes would
swell the dry contingent. But does
this opposition to the present laws
mean that the women find the
abuses of prohibition worse than the
old conditions? Are the evils of raw
liquor and bad home brew as great
as those of the saloon? u
When these votes have been clas-
sified more in detail it will be easier
to form judgment upon their sig
nifcance. 1t has already been
shown in the general poll that there
are regional and class differences on
the liquor question. The cities and
industrial centers are for the most
part wetter than the country. The
factory workers are overwhelmingly
wet.
To charge propaganda or to ques-
ton the validity of the figures is
unfair. Whatever influence may be
brought to bear by certain un-
scrupulous partisans of the VETS
is probably Offset by equally un-
scrupulous partisans of the drys
and nloists. The poll may honestly
be considered as an accurate express
sion Of the general sentiment of the
country, and as such should dispel
many illusions.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
What Does Murphy Want?

It is almost the unanimous opiri-
ion of members of the New York
County Bar that Surrogate John p.
Cohalan has made an excellent rec
ord in his Office and that the inter
est Of the community would be best
served by his denomination. Mr..
Cohalan is q Democrat and was
designated by Tamnany Hall when
he was originally nominated.
Yet Charles F. Murphy, as head
Of the Democratic county organiza-
tion, has refused to give him an
other designation and will support
Corporation Counsel O'Brien for
the position.
Murphy's action followed the re-
fusal of Samuel Koenig, head of the
Republican organization, to desig-
nate Cohalan, although it was gem
orally expected, particularly by law
yers familiar with the Surrogate's Is
fitness for his Office, that both par
ties would unite to assure him a
second term.
Judge Cohalan is a Democrat, and
has always been a Democrat save
when on the bench, where he has
kept sedulously free from any politi-
cal bias. This is probably the reason
why he has not retained the friend
ship of Murphy, who has also refused
a denomination to Robert S. John
stone, another Democrat, who has
given good service on the General
Sessions bench, and who was also
recommended by the county law
yers' association.
For a number of years Murphy
bowed to the custom of considering
the bench non-partisan, uniting
with the Republicans in supporting
men whose records were above re
proach. This custom has apparently
interfered with his political system
for he has come more and more te
disregard it and to arrogate to him,
self the right to place whom hi
pleases on the bench.
It is unfortunate in this instanc,
that Mr.. Koenig did not avail him
self of the opportunity TO get behinc
Judge Cohalan and put his organiza
tion on record in favor Of efficienc,
on the bench without regard to poll
tics. A man who, in the opinion o.
the vast majority of the lawyers
practicing before him, is deserving
of reelection would surely be sup
ported by the voters.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
That Stylish White Egg

IL handsome is as handsome does,
the housekeeper should call the
bluff of the pearly egg that sells for
|6S cents when its true inwardness
is no better than that of Its brown
relative selling at 40 cents.
The government experts some
time ago turned science upside
down. and inside ONT and exhausted
the laboratcry's ingenuity to find
some difference between q brown
egg and white ONE. They failed.
But when the she'll was put under
the microscope 1t was found that
the white she'll was extremely
porous, whereas The brown she'll
was dense and compact. The latter
makes a perfect sanitary package,
serving the purpose shell should,
keeping out air and germs and
preventing spoilage.
So If there Ia any premium 1t
should be on the brown egg. The
thrifty, intellectual Yankee recog-
nizes that fact, and white eggs GO
begging in Boston town. Our
Quaker brother, out Of his virtue
and poise, is neutral. Philadelphia
takes either. But the New York
er apparently cannot look brown
egg in the face in the early
morning. Is it the brown taste of
the morning after that makes the
brown egg distasteful? Are we
more aesthetic than our neighbors
or only less frugal and more readily
taken In by a costly fad7
Here's to the stylish brown egg
of the autumn! We understand
that color is to stand high among
fashionable garments. Give the
brown-clad egg chance.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18

SAGE q population So per cent German
ir language, but this census included
100000 Germans having immigrated
inso Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, a
great many Of whom have since re-
turned to the Fatherland.
Statistics gathered under date of Oc-
tober Is, 1921, by the Department of
Public Instruction show that in Alsace
out of 1890 teachers in the primary
grades 2,25i are native Aisatians; that
the attendance in the secondary
schools, which was t1,512 in 1914,
when instruction was in German, had
grown to 13,423 in 1891, when instrue-
tion was in French. AT the University
of Strasbourg the 1914 enrolment of
1859 had grown to 2,176. Does this
showing indicate that the Alsatians
wish to continue speaking German or
that they are sending their children
in greater numbers to schools where
instruction is in French?
The most eloquent figures in refuta-
tion of the calumny that the Alsatians
seek to be free of French tyranny is
the fact that in 1872 $4,000 Alsatians
called for service in the German army
refused to serve; in 1879 there were
still 10,101 who did not respond to the
CALI In 1884 ALPS were still refrac-
tory to German military duty, and in
1889, eighteen years after the annexa-
tion of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany,
1883 remained mute to the call.
AS contrast to this consider the re-
suits obtained under French rule.
Since the signing of the Versailles
treaty France has called three classes
of Alsatians to the colors, 1919, 1920
and 1921, and for three years only
Alt Alsatians refused to serve.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Germany's Mark Panic

Berlin has a new mark panic.
The mark has now fallen in value
to less than mill. The stock and
other exchanges are naturally in a
state of wild excitement. The
Reich's currency can no longer be
used to purchase foreign gold or Sc
curities with which to pay Ger
many's reparation bill. And because
Germany cannot pay in specie or it's
banking equivalent the cry is raised
more stridently than ever that she
cannot pay at all.
But what reduced the value of
the mark to less than mill? 1t was
Germany's persistent currency de-
probation, her reckless issue of
paper money. She drove the mark
lower week by week. She tempted
foolish spectators abroad to buy
marks at large profit to the gov
ernment over the cost of printing
them. She paid part Of her repara-
tion at the expense of those for
eign spectators. She deliberately
planned to produce an appearance
Of national bankruptcy. Bank
ruptcy is imminent, so far as the
mechanisms of foreign exchange are
concerned. But it is much further
off than it was two years ago, SO far
as the material wealth and produc-
tive power of the nation go.
The German treasury may be
choked with thousands of bales of
almost interchangeable paper
money. The government may LOOK
poyerty-stricken, mainly because it
has long been spending more than
1t has been taking in and has failed
TO impose adequate taxation. But
the German people are rich and
prosperous. Their industry is In
full blast, their workers are Glad
to be kept busy. The real wealth
of Germany has not been touched
by q succession Of mark panics. It
Is there and would not no up in
smoke II the treasury made bonfire
Df all it's paper marks. This latest
panic is not 9 signal Of Gsxmany's
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18

and She offending player got Ed of.
Organized baseball is now d 3D.
gantic money-making industry, and
It will remain SO Just AZ long as
it Is clean and straight---no longer.
People will tolerate dishonesty in
horseracing now and than without
withdrawing their patronage. They
will flock to see prizefghts and
wrestling matches which they more
than suspect are sfixed' before they
pay for their seats. But they de-
naand honesty and sportsnsansiiip Of
their baseball heroes. Once the opin-
ion is formed that baseball is crooked
and that no post-season series 10
honestly fought out baseball as an
industry will be dead in America.
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Sniping at Alsace-L oraine
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You will be interested to learn
that the United States mails are heing
used to circulate manifesto in three
languages English, French and Ger
man) in which the German Foreign
Office, masquerading as "The Executive
Committee Of the Republic of Alsace-
Lorraine" is trying to establish that
the inhabitants of Alsace- Lorraine arc
being tyrannized over by the French
and desire to free themselves from the
French yoke and set up an independent
state.
This manifesto is addressed to the
delegates to the late Genoa Confer
ence and shamelessly declares that q
plebiscite Of the people of Alsace-
Lorraine would result in IS per cent
of the votes being cast in favor of
autonomy and separation from France.
The trainers of the manifesto make
much of the fact that 95 per cent Of
the inhabitants of Alsace speak Ger
man. They conclude from this fact
that at heart they are German. The
same reasoning would make the inhab-
itants of that part of Switzerland who
speak German race apart from the
rest of Switzerland, or would the
Committee Of the Republic of Alsace-
Lorraine" contend that the Swiss who
speak French are French, that those
who speak Italian are Italian, and that
therefore there is no such thing as a
Swiss nationality, there being no Swiss
language?
Feeble as this argument is, it is, like
most German premises, used to boil
ster up propaganda both false and ir-
relevant.
The statistics of 1913 COLLECTED un-
der German rule) may have given AL .
New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
No Straw Vote Repeaters

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Lemuel Roberts, in your issue
Of August i5, mentions one man who
has already polled fourteen votes in
'The Literary Digest's" prohibition ref
erenduin. Such dishonesty surely is con-
tenptible.
Az subscriber to the magazine, /
received q blank for voting, which I
Immediately filled out and sent back
with the request for fyc additional
blanks for members Of my immediate
family, who were eager to cast their
votes. NV ragasat was nest eaurss.