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I obotlmiowi J /\ /mj I Dafly Average A VJI July 1917 . I j / V j A Quality New?p?p?r for tH? 1 ESTABLISHED 1868. READ i mi itiLS i Fium ?.f Had To Learn That Universal Peace Ideas Would Not Work. t ninnriPTPAUnTUCnPlfO 7 nflfiurHuioHiiu MiLuiHLu t Now Know They Must Help To Defeat Prussian Militarism. Ic'harles Edward Russell, mender of the staff of The West Virginian, spent three months in Russia with the United States commls, ' sion headed by Elihu Root, to which Mr. Russell was appointed by President Wilson. He has Just returned to this country and Is now writing for this newspaper and its associates in the Newapak per Enterprise Association the real I facta,about GREAT RUSSIA TOK DAY as he found them in his dual capacity as official Investigator f and observant reporter. This Is I. his second article; watch for othr ers.?Editor The West Virginian. | [ By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL ! s. Uttoalo atrnteht in I ' II you warn, w so.. your mind you must begin with thb ' first foundation fact, which 1b this: The revolution there was different from any other revolution. All the rest have been political. This was about one-fifth political and about four-fifths something else. Revolution had been taught many years In Russia. Taught secretly, of course, underground. In cellars, stealth- J lly and In whispered speech, but taught. Those that taught It taught a great deal moro than merely the notion that '* ' the rule of tlio Czar must be overthrown. Here is the first place where we In Amorlca get off on the wrong foot. We 'have one fixed, abiding, persistent conception of the Russian revolutionist as a man with a deadly hatred of the Czar. We don't understand that he planned an entirely new system of society, that he had a wliole vast creed ' of social betterment in which the overthrow of the Czar was nothing but an innMoiif There never was a broader creed, j V It embraced the whole world. The Russian revolutionist dreamed j I of a free Russia only as part of a free j I world. Free not alone from czars and j I political despotism, butfreo also from poverty, injustice, hatred, competition I ?and war. All mankind is one great family; all races In one great nation. m j Happiness, joy, sufficiency for all; V1' and universal peace. I- ^ In that dream he cared little more for Russia than for any other corner of I the world federation. Perhaps he cared not at all, for it, or made himself believe that he didn't. Anyway, all the ordinary appeals of patriotism I that so much move other men came to seem to him not praiseworthy, as we think them, but hateful. World patriotism was his creed, i Universal brotherhood, universal good will, no more national barriers, no more national prejudices, made up Us ilrst article. And universal peace. To tell the truth It was a creed that la his time he did not expect to see put into practice. He knew that some day it would come true, but for his own life time he looked forward to nothing but covert agitation, secret meetings, perilous escapes from the ever watchful police, and either Siberia or the gallows ai the boundary of his life. The bloody story of tho futile revolution of 1905 taught him the terrible; lesson. The Czar and his power were fjBt rooted In the very foundations of things, not to be torn out except with long, painful, toilsomo efforts stretched over years. T V.otra tall/nrl nrit.Vt manv nt tho Duo A lia>u luiuvu "?uiuu; ui bug iiu.r 8lan revolutionists. I have found nono Je that on March 11 bad any hope that T the curse hanging over their country 300 years would in their time be lifted. And then, on March 12, the whole thing, without a moment's warning, began to crack and bend. On March 14 the revolution that no man had planned was complete, the older order had vanished, the wonder of a dazzling New Day hurst upon Russia. Then the Russian revolutionist soared to the skies in an uncontrollable burst of enthusiasm. The thing had come after all! All the old foundations had been swept away over night. The dreams of so many years were not idle. Behold they were about to be realities before his vsry eyes! rru? ... i no nag guiic auu uiou weiu free, not alone from Czars and political I despotism, but free also from poverty, H j.s Injustice, hatred, competition?AND C' A.h!?well, there was the trouble. (Continued on page 8) B The West Horn* MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. YFOI IT B QUI! ! HBE6MI Eight Claims ForExemption Are Allowed Fairmont Board Has Two Other Applications To Pass UDOn. Nine of the eleven claims for exemption that have been holding the local exemption board back in their work for several days were brought up at a meeting yesterday evening and considered. Eight of the claims were allowed and one refused. Two other claims are awaiting the filing of affidavits. Two cases from the first call and two cases from the second call, certified to foreign boards are awaiting > eclsion and ruling from these boards. it was announced at the office of the draft board this morning that on Monday all persons that have been culled for service and have not appeared for physical examination will be certified to district boards as persons called lor service, neither exempted cr discharged. Their names will be recorded to the nearest agent of the Department of Justice. Today the board Is spending a large part of Us time filling out the dockets giving the history of all that have been called. The local board has not as yet received the official list of those that are selected. This 1b expetced to he here not later than Monday and immediately notices will be sent out informing thoso that are selected for service. Claims Not Allowed. Order Serial Name Address. No. No. 208 1617 Russell (J. Francis, 30(1 Nerval St., Fairmont, W. Va. Dependent mother was tho claim. Failure of affdavlt fo meet the requirements of regulatlous and other available resources together with en listed pay. Claims Allowed 1GS 1275 Doniineck l'enhinary, 122 Robinson St., Fairmont, W. Va. (Alien). 212 6 Francesco Capallone, 708 Diamond St., Fairmont, W. Va. (Alien). 225 1221 Mike Natley, 135 Bennett St., Fairmont, W. Va. (Allen). 227 556 Nicolo ilamiozo, 501 Jeflersou St., Fairmont, W. Va. (Alien i. 187 1314 Camille Lambert, 1302 Virginia Ave., Fairmont, \V. Va. (Wife and children). 200 rSii Jamca Hawkins, R. F. D., No. 8, Fairmont, W. Va., (Wife and cliild). 170 1022 John Leo Gill, 510 Gaston avenue, Fairmont, W. Va., (Dependent mother). Discharge al lowed until Jail, l, wis oniy. 197 11143 Clarence Oscar Morgan. Walnut avenue. Fairmont, W. Va., (Dependent wife undergoing surgical treatment. (Discharged until Jan. 1, 1918, only, "FOLLOW ME," SAYS MANN TO SAMMIES 3 Brig. Gen. W. A. Mann, chief of the U. S. militia bureau, has Just been appointed division commander. He will lead the militia division to France. In this photograph he is reading the first orders for the division's mobilization. Virginian Is the Fai FAIRMONT, WEST VIRC I FED torn hep Fliil OF nUCIION GO. Plan Was Explained at Din-! ner Given at the Fairmont. lis GREAT OPPORTITIfi i Details Worked Out By | Great Baltimore Banking | House. At a banquet nerved at Tlie Fair; inont last night to the bankers and | nthfci representative business men ot Marion, Harrison and Lewis counties a plan was presented by which it ia hopeo ! to eiTect a stronger bond ot co-opers | tion and good will between the Monou , gaheia Valley Traction company and | the cltlezns ot the communities along its lines, its patrons and employes. ' The plan, as presonted last night by j T. S. Mathews, a representative ot the banking firm ot Robert Garreti & Sons, I Baltimore, who have perfected the pian, j is to permit the employes and others i who may be Interested to acquire a limited amount ot preferred stock and common shares of the M. V. T. Company, and thereby participate In the ownership of the company and acquire j a proprietary interest through the application of their savings mouth by month to the purchase of shares. , The firm of Robert Garrett & Sons | through a number ot banks along the ; line of the Traction company Ib pre| pared to receive subscriptions .or 1 shares pf stock c>( the_ Mpnpnfruhela Valley Traction company, aud on "such subscriptions us are confirmed, the Baltimore banking firm will arrange | Tor a local banking institution, mutually agreed upon, to purchase the shares 1 and carry the same for the account of thp subscriber. 1 O. S. McKlnney, who presided as toastmaster, arose when the last course ! ha l been cleared away and after a i j brief review of the development of this I I valley oi the Monouguhela, In which J j he emphasized the important part I . ,i,n /.itv nf Raitimore had olaved I | WUlVtl luu X.. ? _ I In that development from the very first I anu the close community of interests | existing between Fairmont and Balti| more, he introduced T. Stockton MathI ews, who with George E. Kelley reprei sented the Baltimore banking firm. Mr. Mathews outlined the plan for ! permitting the people of thi scommuuI ity to share in the stock of one of the ! moat important an drapidly growing enterprises in this state. The plan j which Is to be put into effect is as follows. The price of the shares will be forty-1 three dollars for each combination of one phare of Preferred and one of Common stock, but no more than fifty shares of each will be confirmed to any one subscriber under this plan. An Initial payment of seven dollars will be required on each combination of Preferred and Common stock, which will be credited to the subscriber's ac . 1 1-t-~ counr ar me uuuiuug mauiuuun, iuc subscriber agreeing to pay the balance in installment of three dollars a month on each combination of stock until the investment is paid for. The subscriber's account will be credited with all dividends receiveo , on the stocks and will be charged with I interest on the balance at the rate of i six per cent, per hnnum, such charges 1i to be made quarterly. On the present dividend basis the stocks will return < I the subscriber about 6.40 per cent, on i the investment. i TT*i/lnr hla nlnn thft chnrM will hp t , fully paid for in one year, the last pay- : ment being an odd amount which will i adjust interest charges as against divl- i dends received.. Subscribers may anticipate their monthly installments and 1 complete the payemnts at any time. In the event of a subscriber falling to pay his monthly Installment when due he will be given thirty days of grace (with proper adjustment of interest) and if payment is not made at that time the banking institution shall have the right to sell the stocks pledged, at the market price, returning to the subscriber any excess over the amount realized from the sale. The opportunity afforded in this way for patrons and citizens of the communities along the lines of the railway is an exceptional one inasmuch as the M. V. T. Co. is a prosperous and rapidlygrowing concern with an authoried cap- | uai biock or ?4,uuu,uuo r-reierren ana i $12,000,000 Common, both classes hav- 1 Ing a par value of $25, full paid and i non-assessable. I At the conclusion of the address by ! Mr.-Mathews In which he outlined the 1 above plan, Toastmaster McKlnney In- I traduced George W. Bowers, of Man- < nlngton, who said that he was glad of i (Continued on page 8) i mite Newspaper of J\ " I est Virginians Greatest Ne??} ?INIA, SATURDAY EVEK ERflL HI 1ES WILL * ? amp?% m vph FAi% mm ran nil Distribution Will Be Entirely In the Hands of Authorities. PRESIOENTSEES HOOVER Also Pays a Visit To the Federal Trade Commissions Office. (By Auocl&ted Prwi) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.?Presi dent Wilson went to the Food administration office today for a personal conference with Herbert C. Hoover and later went to the Federal Trade Commission. It was believed the President discussed the coal situation and the extent to which he tvould assume the powers to control distribution vested In him by the Food bill. I'ntler the law the President may fix the price of coal, operate the mines or commandeer stock and sell It to tho public. Some decision of which course he will pursue Is expected as the result of today's conferences which were based on the Federal Trade commission's now completed report on the coal situation. At the Federal Trade commission tho President went over the figures' gathered on the cost of producing coal. The trend of the commission's report on the subject was to urge the .''resident So taliit'ovnb supplies and its distribution. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.?The Federal Trade commission which has just completed its Investigation of coal production cost will probably submit its findings to President Wilson in a few days. Tho report will serve to acquaint the President comprehensively with the nation's fuel situation in relation to the consumer. Government control of the industry in accordance with the provisions of the food control law now appears Imminent. The Trade commission's report will say It has learned that at present prices operators. Jobbers and retailers are reaping exorbitant profits mul unusual distributiop Is adding to the cost in many sections. FOOD CONSERVATION EIPERTJS COMING European Expert Will Be At the High School Tuesday Afternoon. Miss Blanche Price, the girls' club worker for this county, has received a communication from Miss Marlon Hepworth, of the Home Economics department of the West Virginia University, to the effect that Frances Lund, a graduate of the Copenhagen univer,rinn whn has had extensive experience in the conservation of food in France, Belgium and other European countries, will visit this city next Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of instructing the women of this city in the conservation of food stuffs and interesting them actively in this work. Arrangements have been made to have the meeting held at the High school at 1:30 o'clock and at that time the noted worker will address the women on the important subject of food conservation and will probably give demonstrations in canning meats, fish, methods of drying, etc. Mr. Lund is devoting one week to a tour of West Virginia and be has Just completed a tour of Alabama where his work has met with great success. He will bo accompanied through this state by Miss Hepworth, of the University, and immediately alter the meeting on Tuesday afternoon the two will leave for Clarksburg to hold a similar meeting there in the evening. Mr. Lund is a noted authority on the subject -of food conservation, baring bad considerable practical experience so ?? ? flinrnnch crrntinrilno'fn fho ??'i no a "?w? d* ?????a ???? theory, and those who have secured his services here are very eager to have the people of the community respond to the opportunity In a way which will compare favorably with the response made by. the people of the southern states during his recent tonr there. iarion County Won rnnia ING, AUGUST 18,1917. COAL The New Ba i it / ^Zocrt !V ocsifjsiOk I A i-y The heavy black line shows the pre French front between Langemarck an d the front from which the recent offen a Ypres ia the little town of Westhock, i at week. Fresh gains have been mad e Slenin road. tforir"' MAKE R0A8S SAFE Special Committee Named To Enforce Law Against Reckless Autoists. President J. M. Jacobs has named a special committee from the Chambor of Commerce consisting of Fred Helmick, chairman, M. L. Hutchinson, Brooks Fleming, Jr., J. H. Iiownd, T. W. Hennen. This committee will act with a similar one to be named by the Business Men's association in a special effort to secure protection to people who ara obliged to travel tho city and county highways and who are constantly in danger from wreckless and careless drivers of automobiles. The county court will be appealed to by the committees to furnish special police officers to keep & lookout for dangerous drivers and arrest them. It is probable that action may be taken In order that Sunday traffic may be watched. Sunday is always a day of accidents and casualties, many of which have been very serious. It is to be expected that some severe penalties will be imposed on violators ol' the law before the dangers will be lessened. TWrt nnt<skot< a? QitiAmnkllas 4a f*r\n. iUD UUUiUVI VI HUWUIVI/HVP ?u vwu stantly increasing and in consequence possibilities of casualty are constantly growing. Every citizen whether an owner of an automobile or of other vehicle used for transportation over the public highways should Join with the automobile association in and stamp out the increasing hazard to human life and to property. We trust every officer of the law may be on guard especially on Sundays looking to the arrest and punishment of every traffic violator. Mrs. Jos. P. Palmer Dies In Arizona News has been received here from Phoenix, Arizona, of the death of Mrs. Jas. p. Palmer, formerly of this city which occurred at her home there on August 7th. Mr .and Mrs. Palmer and family left here In March for Arizona, In hope that the climate would benefit Mr. Palmer's falling health. The deceased was formerly Miss Icie -Barker, a daughter of Br. D. B. Barker. She was aged 38 years and was born ! and reared in Marlon county. She is survived by her husband and three children, Paul, Misses Virginia and Blaine Boggees and Assistant Chief a sister, Mrs. Margaret Simmons. The body was Interred in Phoenix, August 9. Mr. Palmer expects to continue his residence there. Mrs. C. F. Crane went to Pittsburg today to spend Beveral days with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Suck and Mre. W. A. Fisher, former residents ot Fairmont. PR0VERB8 AND PHRASE8. Geology gives us a key to the pai tience of God.?J. G. Holland. ien-To Reach Them tt i TODAY'S NEW? TODAY "CON ttle Ground \Y "XstwwiM rnrjE iat?L J zfunrKt r * j J KOuJWtO^ V^WVOORD?, I l'"v 'xrri I sent British front, connecting with the Bixschoote. The dotted line shows Ire was pressed. Almost due east of vhieh the British captured Friday of la on the high ground near the Ypresnwr 1AD10 ONE IN Jl JOIST1 "" * - * Am TXTaaf Vl?*<rinfan \ (special uiBiraiuu m .up. ...D. , CHARLESTON. W. Va? Aug. 18.On the first day of AugUBt Governor Cornweli sent to the Sheriff of each county a letter requesing information regarding the number of persona con fined in his jail, the number employed on the public roads, and the number physically able to work who are unem ployed. All the sheriffs have reported, except those of the following counties: Berke ley, Lincoln, Mingo, Morgan, Pendle ton, Pleasants, Randolph, Summers and Wirt. \ Excepting the counties whose sheriffs failed to report, there are GS5 prisoners in jail. Of these 348 are being worked on the public roads, and 158 physically fit are unemployed. Of the latter number a considerable number are charged with felonies, while some are Federal prisoners. The figures by counties are as follows: No. in No. work- No. physi Jail, ing on cally fit un County. Roads, employed Barbour ... 5 i Boone 2 I Braxton .... 3 Brooke .... 30 4 26 Cabell 11 11 Calhoun ...None Clay 1 <1 Doddridge . .None None Fayette .... 40 17 11 Gilmer 3 2 1 Grant I I Greenbrier . 6 3 Hampshire . 1 1 Hancock ...None Hardy None Harrison ... 44 26 t Jackson ... 3 3 Jefferson ..5 4 Kanawha .. 65 37 25 Levis None Logan 43 27 13 Marlon .... 33 11 13 Marshall ... 23 16 Mason 3 3 Mercer .... 30 17 9 Monongalia. 20 9 13 Monroe .... 2 Mineral .... 29 13 H McDowell .. 98 75 Nicholas ... 12 9 Ohio ...... 75 32 Pocahontas ..None Preston ....None Putnam ... 4 Raleigh .... 28 14 14 Ritchie ... None Roane ....None Taylor 8 Tucker .... 10 10 Tyler 7 1 Upshur .... 1 1 Wayne .... 15 9 4 Webster ....None Wetzel .... 2 1 w/u*? .so 6 Wyoming .. T I Use Its Advertising THE WEATHER w ilr and wtrmir tonight; Swv f .aHi PRICE THREE CENT^ : jftJB ITROL POWDER I PLANT irrern a LLIdUU I One Report Says 1 250 Perished at 1 Rigaud, Que. i njinl I Farm Houses Mile Awu .Were Leveled j (iwjj p?^oo?t ia> MONTREAL, Aug. 18.-A tetrWI | explosion at the powder plant ot OWN . 9 tls and Harvey limited, at RlgKta | Quebec, today la believed to havf ^ caused heavy loss of llfa ^ v;'m Five thousand men and womea ard , employed at the plant which covtoedf 1 an ayTa of 6 square miles. ??nnri, rnrnlvprt horn soon- after thd explosion said the plant was nearly all in Hamas. Prom points near Rlg? ,9 aud It was learned that three exphx . , lions took place. The first st nine ' '*? o'clock was beard at Vaudreuil, II miles away. It was followed by two .... Jh others In quick' succession. I ffsh The explosion' disrupted telethon! jf | I and telegraph communications wltl fl Klgaud. making it difficult to obtnb ' 1 Information. t ' ' S I Traffic on the Canadian-Pacific Hi .' J I It. Ottawa and Montreal line widen I passes close to the plant bas been suspended. Trainmen who got awM from the sccno of the explosion 1WJ ported that forty houses at Dragon? a little vlllaganear the plant occupied by workmen, were razed by the forced Rigaud Is a village In Vaudreuil county, Quebec, on the Riviere ah m Graisse 45 miles southwest of Mom treal. fj It had a population prior to the *efi of 1000 persons. The whole country side was covered at 10 o'clock wltUr a dense copper colored smoke. A ape- . }'i clal train of doctorB and nurses left ' ' , here at 10:30 for the scene of tk? disaster. Passengers on a Canadian Pactfld R. R. train which passed the seen? of the disaster placed the number ot , dead from the first explosion at 20. The passengers said it was impoe* slble to obtain definite figures aa hunk : -i dreds rushed into the open country . nr.nuuggoil Otlfl gjwBg wneu llit> litOk UApiUOiuu Wvutiv. " ' "SB , few had returned when their train left | for Montreal. The extent of the ax- ? . plosion may bo judged by the fact ^ that two farm houses more than * .. || mllo from the plant were blown down. '?s1S At noon tho village of Dragon was vtCj blazing and it looked as It it would 1 bo destroyed. The officials here of . " j Curtis and Harvey lack Information as to the cause of the explosion. 5 It was said that probably 30 per- ' 'fi sons were working In the section of ": the plant where the first explosion 1 took place. It was believed by tho s officials that the two other explosions i were caused by fire which spread from OTTAWA, Aug. 18?Kbit fHHI received here from the scene of the powder explosion at Rlgaud, Quebec, slates that In the neighborhood of . 250 bare been killed. Swimming for Girls . S At Y,M. 0,1 Soon Indefinite postponement of the op- ' enlng date for the opening of the . H Young Women's department of the '?:j Y. M. C. A. has been announced by ..-.A? tho secretary, Miss Grace M. Foster.'' ? Soveral weeks ago It was stated that , the department would be opened abort-', | !y after August 15 but Inability to sa-,> 'Jy!t cure materials and labor has greatly retarded the work of remodeling the eg building and delayed the opening in-) H'Jm definitely. Swimming classes, er, according to present plans, will be I opened the last week In August. WANTED - sM Laborers?Apply at r 'OWENS BOTTLE J 1 MACHINE CO. i; M " "L~" r " L""' -n-xi-.-.-Lfir [