^ 5^- ' ^ : -THE PAPER THATOOES H raig jV*fr-?v-?maTliHm r?AH.T f-xof-t*1?--" <_'****? Fairmont Pristine and Publlal afc*. ' Tfc*;'West Virginian Building. Adams H&|^ /. U " W. J. WllMEL, lienerai Ma -/'- XOOBS C. HERB EST. I k. RAT S Editor, i Advc gsrrt k CHAfiLES V. REUIC. Clrcuu rs--.. -. >'.f . MEMBER OF THE ASSOCtATel iSs?* --:Th* Saandaltd Press is cxclmlvelr enU | npebilcatlon of all news dispatches ere JSj.?. lUljiw Wlas credited lu this newspaper a nova -published herein. All rlchu of reoul k dispatches herein are also reserretL ? -^TELEPHONES?1105. 1106. 1107. AE del tirouarh private exchange i'Rmtcn Adrertlstui; Representative. RC p KSFTTth Avenue N'ew rork; S S Wabas , ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES KV- . IBT- MAIL?(Payable In advance only.] E- tbt nfoaths; 33.00; three months. 31.SC: on BY CARRIER?(In Fairmont.) One K months. 33.50; one month. 30c; one wee Three Cents. K V EY CARRIER?(Outside of Fairmont. 1 Bone week. 18c. By carrier Three Cents. 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A MEMORIAL BRIL ' I'TlE TIMES this morning cditona KniJ P - .r _ l_:J . - I ? r^?; - mg uic unogc wiiiui ? iu uc " Monongahela at this point a me tT" ; and women who served in the great wa I,: . v that-ought to meet with general appro\ R Virginian most heartily concurs in the Kjj ita contemporary. Spfe - V^- concrete bridge, properly construct* as, a.-conventional memorial. and if the hr-taken of the designing it will be impressive. The bridge design as it stai r a most beautiful structure, arc!, as Tire could easily be changed to mahe it cc f purpose. j'. The suggestion at least ought to be ta! 6 i given sympathetic study. And in cons ! * it:should be borne in mind that tire me s. bridge should be made in every way ' anid county. There will not be much trc | ever -money is necessary for such a purp SLATE MAKING P OLITICS is essentially a game of V even the wisest politician can tell f . the next what is going to happen actual participants in the moves nor I V-: t . . t .t grow weary 01 auempis 10 coniroi in malrrrg has the same fascination for th ested in politics that postmortems have fo Both keep everlastingly at it betweei neither ever seems in the slightest degree fact that most of their wise conclusions < to have been erroneous. Occasionally t liot at all strange when it is considered . they take and the large volume of pr 1 - > indnstrious and alert minded produce i season. ? . V. But even when this view of the matter " help but wonder why the Charleston cc Pittsburgh Gazette-Times was in such a gressman Neely in the running for govt Governor Corn well for United States later on a Comwell-Watson-Neely slate construction was not almost certain to in tics as thoroughly as it will make over V this kind of a guess at polical condition: f r be based either upon the hopes of so names it is not at all necessary to men grave lack of information, without which indulge m prophesy, upon the part or tl . tb? istory for the Pittsburgh paper. . No one who was on the outside know I j RUFF STUFF II 1,1 " I Lamp in a Washington dispatch that-one of the men considered as a possible delegate to the peace conference Is William Jennings Bryan. ... Whoinellize? Turkish government is reported to have demanded that a choice collection of Tnrlc generals who fled to Tentland be returned to take punish meat ior Armenian atrocities una other things, 1 J Want to start somethlrg, apparently. i Well, if It Is proper to punish Taiaat Pasba It is the correct caper ] to do things to the von guys who cut ] loose in Belgium and northern j Prance. * So, here's three cheers for Turkey. , m m 0 Wo believe that guilt is personal " ourselves. mm* Old Hin the Hon is reported to 1 have telegraphed the govemnaent at ? Berlin, that -the German army is in fip position to renew hostilities, and . of ABK Mttnaa ? ? ,,r# ' ".^r1 1 I Viijp&ZSm ?oo? which they d acwir of the tales agree. oSS^Sta. ?sebt el waiu>. spilled. If til h Ave-. Chicago. Cornwell and Wi 7 neither ofthem ca , one year J 1.00; time it is'worth w! * fg?.1'Mix member that is thi ik 15c. Per copr the election Co low os* month. 75c: his accustomed pl& procession in this s Ire old aa waQ as self quite a "factor __________ wast anything him \ve?t v-irjnoia. as j haps here and then = well, what are the ?ER CALL do about cyton? x to set The Wot :STE8JJ tTXION.;e and a messenser ; ,nca There t? n, ^ ^jES^L ! . VJ> casualties o: :R 25, 191S. | _ were 236,1 ? i high contribution t< convey a wrong a includes the slight never before figur _ armies. But it was real cnoed on the othei who died of woun 36.154. The tot at about 3O0.OO< years of fighting & jgllgH It should not be has become any hi REED. domestic conflict. icrica as a govern' Motor traction, fee1 the people. tehose conjmunic it of the governed; "t*ie mechanics of ii rt Nation of man$ fighting almost eon e and inseparable British and F dom. equality, jui- ftartling, but wher i patriots sacrificed me<^ ? ? percenti liere it is my duty th* fighting on th< ts Constitution; to throwers lo defend it against ?( Mr fitting, was Civil war. In five days dur - r -t - ftA7V\n j/^r oi aimosi 7v,wu\/. ^ for 53,000 of the lly advocates mak- remainder. Picke erected across the over in a few hotti morial to the men ? r. This is an idea Paris dispatch* ral and The West less will take ste; recommendation of : l',e future to a~t' i jett of savagei-' ;d. will last as long ' th? time .of tb? right kind of care i minded as they < many times more onlJ" viay in w'-ie ids would produce is- to roaktf it m Times suggests, it Ujcnisflyes to ins inform to the new 10 prevent a ma his .con. cen up at once and ?? idering the matter The Navy dep morial part of the ! sinking of the ste worthy of the city j with bouyanc mh!e to raise what I I* appears that.I ose. squarely that fou she kept afloat 2" effectual bar agai unsinkable ship, opportunism. Not with -water tight 1 rom one election to bridge have made . Yet neither the he onlookers ever : Albert J. Dick, ie changes. Slate day morning, Hv ore who are inter-. years. but among r baseball fanatics, men. were netore' 1 campaigns, and. period.of hta life downcast over the j Fairmont new-spa; ind forecasts prove and ability.. His hey hit it. which is from the city. what a wide range edictions the more According to < n the ordinary off which stretches' t [ Holland to Denm is taken one cannot ! thing does not stc respondent of the j will look as near hurry to put Con- | Tlismarck "began t iraor in 1920 and } Itiea and duchies senator two years I ? i. Even if the re- The country fa lake over our poli- now that the war many other things he comparatively s in this state must eating, hot-it Is ' me people, whose postal authortles tion, or on a very ed in these>and o no one may safeiy the old an! tried be mam who wrote very much in nee< that "there fever"t s what took place thls country was i that even operations against the FrenCh alone would be impossible. Wonder how it stands with-regard to the Reds of Tentland? , --- .... Beginning to Iooh as It any fighting in the near future .would, be of that character. They now say that WUhelm Hohenzollern was the champion food hoarder of his country. Maybe he was. bqt it is: a safe bet that he did not enjoy his meals very well in spite of the faet that they consisted of the fat of the land. "No more loafing for congressmen after present week."?Headline. ? m You bet, the gvys who hare been -uniiing things their o*a way for bo long win have an awful time irrangng to step down and out. - - .. And what a gang of lame ducks Wood row will ba-ae to take ear* of titer March 4 next. Bat maybe haTl Just eaaclcd* that 01 bets aTa^og, am} Just'Iet i?fc?:tak? *.* * -V '' '* tWadxngto* cooteuacB at which the! thaniat United State* senator m West* op. Several gentlemen have given ver-f eciared to be the whole truth, bat none and no one takes -any stock is them. It xwever, that there was a tacit agreement s that Con Well should have the support terents in 1922 in return for the support be governor "in 1918. It nay be, too, g e sort of an understanding about Neely < >20. But if there was Nedy soon re- v c up ha mind to piny a loot hand, else tc in the Panhandle on election day would ^ sss open handed. \ fact in the light of the election returns "s l the Democratic party in this state have erewere any deals, they are now ail off. i: tson may continue their partnership, but ? in afford to trust Neely. In the mean s; h3e- for all amateur slate makers to re- b is thimble tigging that'went on prior to c el John T. McGraw slipped back into p ce as the official bead of the Democratic Si tate. and he is in position to make himif he- wants .to. Of course he does not it self, but he still has memories, and per- S : an ambitious friend. As for Chilton? ? slate makers and the prophets going to j Sl ii ?o?;? v BATTLE LOSSES. * MARCH'S announcement that the total ^ f the American army in the great war u 17 is apt to strike some people as a pretty b ? die cause of liberty, but the figures will t npression unless it is remembered that it i: tly wounded. .This class of casualties p ed in the battle statistics of American b i n war that our gallant young men experi- ; i r .t i -ii i - t .i U r sice, tor tne Kiiiea in acuon ana tr.ojc t] d$ sustained in action together numbered ' r< al loss of life in the Civil war is placed a f. That, however, includes over three, t: nd(both sides. . j Ij : assumed from this comparison that war j c ore deadly in the interval since our great " ft. has merely become more intensive. r tter staff work, thanks to air scouting and fi atioa, and many other improvements in ^ ; have made it possible to carry on actual stantly. Some of the losses sustained by rench armies under these conditions are i they are put under scrutiny and examige basis it probably will be found that e west front in spite of the poison gas, and the introduction of the new element i not any deadlier than the lighting of our i ? ing 1863 the two armies sustained losses ; C The three days of Gettysburg account j n se and Chicamauga's two days took the ! .1 . r~ i .n ( :?A 9 uiai^c at. nuiui ? Harris, Mr. and Mrs. -Samuel Harris and two children are all sick at this writing. J. B. Davis and son, Arnold, of Norwood, was calling: on the former's brother. F. H. Davis, at this place on Sunday afternoon. Miss Lillian Hylbert was visiting her sister. Mrs. C. E. Hawkins, of near Winfleld. a few days, recently. Mxs.-C-J3= feather of Fairmont spent Thnrsitay-and Friday with her daughter. Mrs. Samuel Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis are both sick with the fln at thli writing. On account of the tta situation the uW?tv nl Vinla has nnr v?t bees reorganiedz for the winter. 6. HI Corbin, of Catawba, spent Saturday and Sunday la Fairmont. A, recuperative diet in influenza. Horlict'a Malted Milk, very digestible. ' Pwiton County Soctwbeat. Borne style tor breakfast etch morning. BoWa BestaurauL Adv. Editorial Comment |! on Current Subjects ! SECRET CABLE DIPLOMACY. j "rom the Chicago Tribune. Seizure of the marine cables by the ; oTemment evoked proper protest in j ;ongress. the thing licoks up badly , vith the departure o? the dignitaries j >r the peace table, the probability j Sat Creel will control the news for i mericaa consumption, and the right- f one onrwisirion a? the President to ! secret diplomacy." Three thousand miles is not shoutng distance. We will depend upoa he administration, controlled cables or our ideas of what goes on in Yerlilles. And the cables seem to have ieen made safe for the Democrats, reel has shown himself an apt disenser of information proper to the arty. Here is a chance for him to j tep high, wide, and handsome. Secret diplomacy is only baneful. [ ; would appear, in like manner to the I oringof oxes; it depends upon whose j x is gored and whose diplomacy is i ecret. Senator Lewis, who spent ' ome nervous days recently in arous- j ig the populace to a realization of j that the kaiser would think if the ; lectioa went Republican, also ad- | iscd the people that Wilson must be j ustained in his great possession of j iside dope. In the meantime Ger- ! lany has gone popa'.istic. the kaiser f as quit deploring the prospect of i lemocratic victory, and the President ! safeguarded more than ever in his i rized monopoly of Information. Postmaster General Burleson opines j e has achieved a neat stroke of bust- j ess in taking over the cables. He ; iresees a great increase of traffic un- ; er his management. The fact that j he cables have been burdened twenty- ! >ur hours a day since the war began nd have been coniDolled to refuse remenious to!ls through sheer inca- I acity means nothing in his life. On | is assumption a crowded street car J an always carry more if the government operates it. It all sounds so ague. lN AMERICAN "OFFICIAL PRESS.'' ! *rm the New York Times. Shteen employers of the Committee on public information sailed from New York Tuesday, constituting "the United States Official Press Mission to the Peace Conference."?The World. Y."e have heard of an official tress t Austria and Germany. Is there ar. lirial press in the United States? If here is, by what authority, founded pon "what ccnstitutonat power of the overnment, does it rest? Its ultratarino purpose is described as "to icerpret tiie wors ot ine reace maerence by keeping up widid-wide proaganda "to disseminate American a;omplishmeats and American ideals." s an official press, a Government "ess. amorf-ose Meals and accomlishments? Will the official interrelation of the -work at the Peace onference take precedence, as Govrnment and official business, on the obles which Mr. Bur'.eston in the mvsery and abyss cf his wisdom has ?izei. over the unofficial interpretaons of mere lay correspondents who ave no sacred credentials of proem lence from Washington? An official 'nited States press! From the Ewtfceit rolls the barley laughter of Bisaarch. communins with Dr. Busch ver the triumphs of his Foreign Press ureau and his long and various gulllgs and bedevilments o fdornestic r.d foreign opinion by means of hi? eptile press" AN EXPLANATION DEMANDED. rom the Baltimore Sun. Whatever their motives, the Repubcans are making a real point, and a oint that must be answered, in their -iticism of the etxension of Govern ent control to the cables. Mr. Hurler's explanation 13 no explanation a' 1. So far from satisfying the min creates fresh doubt. If there we aperative reasons for taking over ti ible lines. those reasons were ronger four or five months ago tha i i eg are today. At present it is ci: -ult to see any good reason at all fo, co lis action Coming just at this tlrm-. an gives rise to damaging suspicions, j yc OUTBURSTS OF E (BY CONI ~ MO, TH^ISN'T 1 A UOH-^-R ^?= ANO Twer is greatly to be deprecated. VERETT TRUE DO) 15 IT? ^ows, sev 1 / ' JURTNEYS* STORE. NEWS y Christmas She nderiiig What to Bi ;ep Into This Store; d j T1 I _ - e Serge Or ^ (&t\\ "^or 0002 e ^y\V\ purpose you 1 o one to fit you u ^ESftnli sortment. A serge dres o B^l winter wear a: o & styles s^^tte j * 'if as we^ as ^or S|af The American e and in these s f M ^ the styles delij " prices reason > $39.50. r MISSES' MIDDY DR1 j navy blue serge, plaited sk l. ?14, 14, 16,17, 18. Specie Courtneys' i^Ypoern * J SkcJIH: SAYS. ers are a sight; ge is a fright; ' be perlite as he. watch my Jawrue; but gee* r my pa. aws me! .-a. a j it. isiereti iwui uth of youth.* t tho seal of truth brow.' a trip or two temcmber. now. e. Half faro ?'or you bowl" 1 met fight and die, ht to self-deny 2 maybe pie. t to jump s play the game, le bump.' tho same, nd lump:" L91S, X. E. A.) There Is an almost universal desire that we should return in all things, as soon as possible, to a normal status. But still greater is the objection to ex FULLY to take care of every need In the of long and successful ezperien OF1 J. M. BROWXFIELD. President C C. RICHARD HALL. Cashier O Geo. E. Amos Z. F. Davis J. M. Brown field Howard R. T. I. Brett H. J. Hartlc W. S. Meredith THE PEOPLES K Capita (i I """""""T"?????? A Week of Shoe 1 nn f* 1 .vailing up iw i And you Indeed may be tl present difficulties in merchant make fortunate purchases that ] Thanksgiving Wo A beautiful line of models grey?brown?black and field i Trices Shurtleff ??? - .r _. - * ! I L .Reliable Advertising 3*| ay For Christmas i| and Look *( Drp?spe I i isions, no matter for what f wish a dress you vrill find . t J-j ir need in our present aar \s is the practical dress for: >? id our assortment includes " " < ? for more dressy occasions practical every day wear- f; 1 woman is forever young | : erge dresses you will find X | ghtfully youthful and the C X j lably small??14-50 up to 3SSES?for school wear, in : irt, very stylish, in all sizes il ly priced at $12-7o 10S-110MainSt. v. i ==? , >n tending war powers in time ofpeace 1 even beyond the limit tVoratedtn in M war. We hope and believe that a good answer can be made to Republican critt ' ' cism. And we trust it will be made without farther delay. Transfer and hauling don* promptly and carefully. Call phone 4 69S-J. Thomas Caruso. 22< Meredith Street. (Rear of Court House) . *j.-: 1 ] NOW FOR THE JOYS * OF THAT tit a vtrcrnrrvr' XUXXi.rn.OUlV A11VJ I DINNER y|^H Values for Womei IJ fhanksgiviBg Bay H ankful that?In spite at the ' I Isins matters?we've been able tofK Jfl irovlde these ik Special Values. In.ever? wanted style and $6.00 to $8.00