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THE AMERICAN'S CREED. i / believe in the United States of America as a govcrn, went of the people, bp the people, for the people, rvlme just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic, a sovereign NaBBjjK-L.lion of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon US9 those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is . my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constilulion; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend nil nrtrmift MARKING THE COURSE. | HE Federal Trade commission was created by an $ act of congress which was signed September 26, 1914. It got down to work in February of the following year. The purpose as expressed in the act is "to prevent persons* partnerships or corporations, except banks and common'carriers subject to the acts to regulate commerce, . from using unfair methods of competition in commerce." Tire idea, loosely expressed, was to set up a body which would do for ordinary business what the Interstate Com'y mercc commission does for the commerce that is carried on ' j, the railroads and other common carriers. But the Interstate Commerce commission as a regulatory ; body developed rather slowly. It's increase in powers . and activities was so gradual that it managed somehow to ji'carry a compelling measure of public opinion with it. Moreover most of the time the commissioners kept their feet -- ;! .on the ground and did not attempt to do anything revolu'i.tionary. j I' V{' The Federal Trade commission, on the other hand, not ]! only attempted to spring full panoplied into power, but it , soon developed some rather peculiar ideas as to what its ! mission is in the scheme of htings at Washington. There : is need for just such an organization in the government, but it can be of no real service while it is attempting to carry on with a high hand and to exceed its authority. In starting suits which will serve to define just what its ( powers and duties are the National Coal association there fore deserves the thanks of the business men of die nation. I'i.Federal Trade commission demands upon the coal industry .' have been vexatious and burdensome for a long time. Doubtless the issue would have been joined long before ' . this had the operators not had many other things to think 1 about. . o i I GIFF PINCHOT'S NEW JOB. k\Y/ITH Frank Harris Hitchcock, postmaster general I '* * under Taft. out the practical man of the Leon:: ard Wood campaign, with authority equal to that of Colo,; nel Proctor, the rich Cincinnatian who has undertaken to ; j make a president out ?f Roosevelt's old friend and Gilford yj Pinchot accepting an appointment as forestry commissioner ; of Pennsylvania at the hand of Governor William C. Sprout, the avergae man may be excused if he comes to !' the conclusion that politics this year is a highly uncertain game- and one with which men with weak hearts should ; I not tamper. Hitchcock, of tcurse, is a "business man" in politics. He goes where opportunity is largest for Hitchcock, and ; makes no bones about it. As the guiding spirit of the .1 famous steam roller which Roosevelt employed to make Taft the nominee of the Republican party in 1908, he i can claim a certain regularity in his return to the service ! J of the progressive wing of the party. But Pinchot as a I v !'thenchman of the Republican machine in Pennsylvania; the | t Ijman who ran against Boise Penrose the first lime that polit- I llical and physical heavyweight was up for election to the ' senate by popular vote, taking a job as a bureau chief ;! under a state government which after four years of wierd personal rule under Brumbaugh is again staunchly stalwart and properly disciplined, is simply too amazing for proper ^ analysis at the moment. What brought it about? Has Gilford, after a season ' :,during which he carried the political woes of the whole country upon his shoulders and imagined that he was the ' only politically righteous person on two legs as long as the Colonel was out of the country, suddenly developed ' a sense of humor sufficiently strong to make it possible for him to get a line on his real worth? Or is his simply an. other of those cases of the hanker for office thwarted at every turn which at last adopts that bit of political phil; I osophy best expressed in the Missouri aphorism, "if you \can't lick 'em, join 'em"? Or, finally, has Governor />fi. sen Woodrow does it /II ally and he knows. I Ruff Stuff ? ... i .i ij loiiower 01 me art Boy, page St. Paul's old friend. for women back in 1 ; Never m!*d telling him about what happened last, evening at Charleston. And if there are He knows about that. 'il"> "hat llC" D". 1 more urgent, and more milnous. , , , hotel clork namod 1 . Tell him that tho friends of Wood- * * JSjrpw are planning to bring him to trial You can make y KSfar guessing wrong. but It Is certain thai had taken no more ^ jpp'That's a terrible offenBO in poll- Hagerstown he wot Sproul, mindful of what happened in the rock ribbed old' Keystone state in 1912, determined to have a united party this year even if he does have to toss Gifford and the oth-! | ers of the self conscious crowd of political purists over) there a bone or two? It may be some time before the public will get the correct answer to the riddle. In the mean time it is safe to say right out plain that the acceptance of this position is i a sign that Pinchot recognizes that he has been attempting to sail around in an altitude where the air is altogether too; rarified for the kind of an organism with which he was1 ] endowed. Moreover it is certain that he will have to dis-:, play real talent for forestry and keep out of politics alto-; i gether if he wants to make good professionally. He sue-1 cecds a man who never tried to dictate to a president or tellj' the American people how they should vote, but who did j . build up from nothing the finest state forest preserve in the; i country and worked out forestry practice which has been copied all over the world while he was doing it. If Gifford J lets politics alone and sticks closely to the job in front of ' him now, he may yet be of some account in a practical j i world. . !1 o j] PROMOTION. ROGER W. BABSON, the noted business observer j j and expert, has just spent a month visiting factories? great and small?department stores, publishing plants and;1 other great business establishments. In every case he talked j j to their owners or general managers. The most important . question he put to these men was: "What quality do you ! i like best in the men who work for you?" Listen to the 1 answers he got: "Wo promote those who are most interested in their work." ; "We pay Tor enthusiasm and not tor time." , "We pay most for new ideas." I "Those who like their work are the ones , who Get ahead here.". < "Enthusiasm, imagination and initiative are the qualities we want." i Do you get lo the eternal limit what this means? It: t means simply that America is just as democratic as ever! j J Babson did not get such answers as the following: "We , like to promote gentlemen." "We prefer to give the best 11 places to the owners' and bosses' sons." "High places in our business arc reserved for men with money." No such answers were given at all. Everywhere these big business men wanted qualities for promotion that any young man can have if he only makes the effort. If you like your work you are in line for promotion. If you have enthusiasm, they'll pick you, my boy. If you ihink?use your brains?they'll push you straight up the ladder. It's all up to you. 'It does not matter whether you are i of lowly birth or not. It doesn't matter whether you wear ! a swallow-tail or an overall. And you don't have to have J a college education. , In a word, it's equal opportunity, equal rights, the gold- ( en age of equality. America, the paradise of the com- 1 mon man! j In giving publicity to the important information he pick- s cd up on his tour Babson has done an immensely valuable ; service to the people of this country and his story should be blazoned across this land in box car letter*. Ob v? and don't fail to tell the Bolsheviks about it. , o , According to a disptftch from New York to the Balti- i more Sun, a movement has been started by a committee 1 of Independent Republicans to make Herbert Hoover ( the nominee ot the Republican party for president. In ] the meantime the New Hampshire Democrats have ap- c propriated him and several delegates from that state . to the San Francisco convention have binding instructions. There is not yet much prospect that Mr. Hoover I will be the candidate for either of the old parties, but| I it Is worth while to notice that in the talk he is running well with any other man. The obvious moral is that in this country the surest way to strike the popular imagination and become a national hero is to display ability to do big things simply and well. o Down in Pittsburgh the city council has begun a cam- I paign against profiteering in rent which is apt to produce some salutary immediate results and to have effects that Willi be felt for a long time. One of the features of the movement is a public hearing of the grievances of tenants whose rents have been raised. All who have been subjected to increases of more than 25 m _ _ ..M, v wvvu <ui>vvu IU ICil U1C nuiiu clUUU L 11, | and as a result some things that landlords probably! would like to keep quiet are coming out and the officers] of the board of assessors have intimated that income i and not building cost in the future will be the basis of ' assessments on real estate. . . o Admiral Sims probably is right when he declares that the American navy did not_do the things that it should have done during the first six months of odr participation in the war, but he is talking nonsense when he declares that if it had pursued a different course it! . would have been possible to end the war in July in- i slead of November of 1918. If there had been a] railroad straight to the front it would have been impossible to put an American army there and soon-' er, for the simple reason that it could not have been trained any faster than it was., As it is, some of the critics are talking about men drafted in the spring ( of 1918 being killed in Prance before they had learned how to use their rifles. It is about time for some of these critics of the American war effort to be ordered to fall back far enough to get a perspective so that they will be able to appreciate what a truly remarkable and altogether magnificent affair it was. Some of them are I like the overworked surgeon who came to the conclusion lhat the whole war was a failure because he could not get a rairoad siding built to the hospital over which he was in command. The fight to secure ratification in this state for the suffrage amendment which began badly has ended well. There is of course some incidental soreness, but all this will be forgiven long before the general election rolls arOUnd. BUt tWO more mtifl^atlnno ara to give women the right' to rote at the next election, and J there seems every prospect that these will bo obtained before many weeks pass. / jy - ? i| himself occasion- How would it do for the Demmies to e nominate Colonel Wait for one of tho ? court house jobs this fall? i : to put the rotund ? Btocratic old reac- But don't forget, girls, there'll be t approve of votes other guys who perhaps cannot write the days of Rome's a8 weu a9 Col. Wait but who were just lal- as much opposed to woman suffrage on that ticket. any "women on the ? II be a plenty. ? . , , , . Make em come clean on both ses in the Bergdoll tlctet8' is a Hagerstown ma Dayhoff. They know what is before 'em now and if they do not make the right kind . __ of nominations soak the oCeltuTng our own wneezes, ____ . if young Bergdoll onos' than a day off in tld not now be so And just remember that the rest room Question has not yet been settled. II LETTERS TO I s THE EDITOR j" I - m ^ as HON. JESSE A. BLOCH FOR I ei CONGRESS. tti FAIRMONT, March 10.?[Editor', bi The West Virginian.]?The First Con-' 1 i> tsressional district will send a Kepub- at I lean to congress at the next election, !ai that Is sure, and there Is no man in so the district who has, by conspicuous I th public service, made a superior claim' at to this honor than the Hon. Jesse A.jht Bloch, senator trom Ohio county, who cs das risen bo the supreme occasion oils' saving the day for woman suffrage in I in VVpRt VlrHnlti ? ?- ? 1 ? - , uj u Qiiai.uiiuueiiiai iriji | " to break the dead-lock in the state sen-[ m ?te. Senator Blocli is no novice in leg-1 a Islatlve procedure, he having ably rep- i al resented Ohio county in the house ot! tc iclegates before he was given the j ol higher honor of the senatorshlp fromjin the Panhandle district. He is a man al with extensive business experience, being one of Wheeling's most interprising m:-iufacturers and identified with the state's industrial progress in many other business enterprises. The First Congressional district being one ot pf large manufacturing interests Sen- -n itor Bloch would immediately marshal si to his support an influential following fr and there is no district in the state! m that needs the solid, old reliable in-1 S( fallable business policy of a sound r.r protective tariff than this district. di If Senator Bloch can be induced to th make this race he is in every way bt lualified to fill this office with credit so to himself and honor and satisfaction to to his constituents and no man in the m district could perfect a better organ!- m ration and make a more vigorous _ campaign than he. It you'want a Republican in con- ? ;rcss from the First district, and one | pn whose statesmanship and Republicanism you can implicitly rely, wire pr write Senator Bloch that you want him to make this race for you. REPUBLICAN. Evening Chat ? ?-?i- ? Don't Take Off Your Un-n-wares. The usual early spring warmth perradert everything yesterday and manv people immediately removed part of neir wearing apparel to conform 1 with the weather. In about a week I ive'lll have a new crop of the finest j olds anywhere. There isn't anything j nore conducive to colds than this j< iort of weather minus the usual cloth- I ng. Winter coats and other things j ihould be continued for some time j ct. j Here She Is. Here is an example of the sort of [ voman who is never satisfied any- _ vhere. You can run across her most _ inywhere, and she is to be found in ~ falrmont as well as in other cities. "3 "Oh, I'm so lonely," wails the afIcted one. "I am cooped up all day. ; see nobody. I go nowhere. Oh, lear. Oh, dear!" SETTER THAN WHISKEY FOR COLDS AND FLO Hew Elixir, Called AsDiron 1 al, Medicated With Latest Scientific Remedies, Used, and Endorsed by European and American Army Surgeons to Cut Short a Cold and Prevent Comnli-1 cations. Every Druggist in U. S. Instructed to Refund Price While You Wait at Count- (J: er If Relief Does Not Come Within Two Min- E utes. Delightful Taste, Immediate | Relief, Quick Warm Up. j | The sensation of the year In the I 8 rug trade Is Aaplronal, the two-mln- S ite cold and congh relleyer. autbort- fcj atlroly guaranteed by the laborator- Uj ei; tested, approved and most enthn- ' |>| ilastically endorsed by the highest [ , uthorities, and proclaimed by the n ommon people as ten times as quick nd effective as whiskey, rock and & ye. or any other cold and congh rem- r dy they have ever tried. i H All drug stores are now supplied I 3 rlth the wonderful new elixir, so all 3 on have to do to get rid of that cola B 1 tc step into the nearest drug store, D Land the clerk half a dollar for a brJ- I J le of Aaplronal and tell'him to serve ? ou two teaspoonfuls with four tea- 3 poonfuls of water in a glass. With ft our watch in your hand, take the H rink at one swallow and call for your 1 ooncy back in two minutes if you can- 3 >ot feel your cold fading away like a ft ream within the time limit. Don't Kj e bashful, for all druggists invite you P nd expect you to try it Everybody's ft oing It. S When your cold ot cough is re- a leved, take the remainder of the bot- I S le home to your wife and babies, for s' LBpironal is by far the Bafest and most itfective, the easieet to take and the S dost agreeable cold and cough rem- 5 dy for Infanta and children.?Adv. j ft 1 ====n c Order Your New Si Early j| It will be ready to wear when ^ the first warm days of Spring ? arrive?and our stock of wool- 1 5 ens offers a greater variety now tj than later. ZaM Tailoring Co. I 226 Madison Street I ? Watson Hotel Blag. j fENING, .MARCH 11 1920. | ' "Well, why don't you get out. Join ime womens' club, stir around and ; somebody?" "Because 1 think too mnch of my >me!" Can't you lay your finger on a woan like that right this moment? Iin. It ls-a't altogethter unexplained ther. Women do feel very often at the home doesn't satisfy them, it they have been brought up to be-; jvc their place Is there all the time j id somehow they can't seem to get vay from the Idea. They've become1 > used to sticking around constantly j at It is actual pain to pull the vay. As a conseouence they aren't j lppy anywhere. If they try going! illing or to the club, the children1 : home from sehoo! first and (get; to mischief. If they stay home, they , ork too hard and don't see a 1110-1 erit ahead to sit down. It's mostly, matter of lack of judgment, an In-j (lllty to know Just how much home J 1 mix with Just so much club or; her dissipation. The two work ad-1 iraoiy togetner, but neitner will get ong exclusive of the other. , Maybe It Will Bo Worth All the Trouble. There are a lot of men congregated 1 the streets today discussing woon to still greater degree than ovei nee the ratification of equal surage late yesterday. Why are the j en so worried about the thing? >me of them appear almost frantic id are rushing about today quit' siracted. "New what will happen!' ey escclaim. not in question form, it as an exclamation suggesting all irts of possibilities. "We'll not have give up our seats to the ladies anyore," they say hair In jest. "We'll >t have to treat women as though . t nr ...i.i ^ "They Are Sure What They Are i Recommended For SADOMENE TABLETS?ARE Mr. W. A. Kitaberger writes: "I wish to state that I am us- ! ing your Cadoruene Tablets, and 1 am on the third tube at this time. I must sav that they ate | sure wnai iney are recommenu- g ;(1 for and you can use ray name j | ;ts one.to testify." Cadomene Tablets the favor- j Ite prcsuiption of a great phy- j sician are recommended to ner- I j vous, worn-out tired people with j stomach trouble and impover- I . ished bloo<l. These tablets are j j tonic to the various vital organs ] anvl soon restore health and ! j stregnt.lt. Sold by all druggists j ' everywhere in sealed tubes ? j I Adv. Let Every Member of i Every Family Ta'te Sulphur and Creant Tartar Lozenges. It's a pretty strong system that goes through the winter withou showing at this time of year slight sklin eruptions, loss of appelate, lackadaisical ennervated condition. So every member or every family should reitainly lake Sulphur Cream o:' Tnrtar Lozenges to purify lite blood, to | set the system right for the com ing hot weather effect. In han- I dy can form?a very valuable I medicine. Costs a few cents but worth many dollars. PRICE 15c & 25c I CRANE'S Drug Store Millinery of a far higher order than V /*j one usually sees is now awaiting your Inspection. Hotl^S : Trutjtful Advertising C ^????? (hey were on pedsatali in the future. They'll come down now to common level." Thle they say In earnest. I don't think any one Is very sure what Is going to happen to this state following woman suffrage put to the test. But I believe. In spite of predictions to the contrary, that women who demand respect and consideration will continue to receiTe It from men just as in the past In spite of tins vote. There Isn't any more reason why a woman can't go to the polls and vote in a respectable manner without Insult than there is that, she should go to any other public place where she mingles in a mixed crowd and receives proper treatment. Many men predict that the country will go to ruin because they declare they can buy women's votes. Tut, tut. my man, did it think this hasn't been going on long before women had a single thought outside of rocking the cradle? There will always be the element composed of both men and women who would sell their souls if they received sufficient pay for It? some will sell them for less than sufficient. We'll have added troubles in taking care of an increased voting population, It is true, hut who knows what the result will be? Maybe It will be worth all the trouble. The first private wireless message j ince government wireless control wa . lifted, was sent through the New Brunswick (N. J.) statiofi at midnight March .1. ? ' " CADI Motor Standan W( Engineering & Distrit H. J. W Fairmont Re ij | Courtesy, Com ; ai a All three are essential to every i ij Neither is lacking here and the o x bur service. x Funds subject to check, or Savir * received, and your account will be w< 5 Let us tell you of our facilities THE PEOPLE N.A g Capital & urtneys' Stoi t Values 108-110 Mail This Magnificent Smart Spr No wonder the new Spr ular for it has tfeen ma practical modes have be rics are jersey, ful-woc hair, silvertone, velour, The colors are tan, na\ and reindeer. But, tha so many desirable coats it is very satisfying to r You are by no means res This Wide Range of Pr Our Assoi $16.50 to ourtneys' Store i sst jrwugrssx jrusst-ruiri/sfT, Fred W. Karhl. a former resident or this city, hu Won named president 6r the Chamber of Comiqeree at 1ft Ver non, Ohio. They had resided there since leaving thla city a number of years ago. Fsirmoiit is bo Exception Fairmont People Come Out aa Frankly Here ae Elsewhere. Fairmont people publicly recommend Doan'ii Kidney Pills. This pape; is publishing Fairmont cases fron week to week. It ^s the seme every where. Home testimony In home papers. Doan's are praised In fifty thousand signed statements, published, in 3.000 communities. Fairmont ped|?.are no exception. Here's a Falrmoni statement: Geo. B. Morgan. P. O. Box No. 03. says: "I am always glad to say a good word for Doan's Kidney FJills. 1 know they arc a good remedy, for they helped me considerably when m> kidneys were out or order. I hid been suffering with rheumatic pains In ray limbs and joints. 1 got Doan's Kidney Pills from Crane's Drug Store and they relieved me of all that trouble." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy-r-gel Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. Morgan had. Foeter-Milburn Co.. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y. ^ II LLAC Cars 4 i of the ..?s si >rld Equipment Co )utors |j| ILSON presentative i?attaacao8C8e8a?MB?9a^^ lenience Ik id Confidence successful banking Institution. i fficers are anxious to have you test igs that earn a liberal Interest are >lcomed. and service. IS iTIONAL BANK, 500,000.00 f MBaMBaaaeeaettcaMttaa^a^^ Of Spring Stocks j^j ( are n?w bloom jg1 with beautiful crea- > 1 St. tioni is a Display of 1 ^ ing Coats j ing Coats are so pop.- j my a day since more en offered. The fab- | 1 il, polo cloth, camel's $ and other novelties. I y, rose, pekin, copen t's not all?there are \ in our showings that !! nake a selection here. | itricted in your choice 1 4 ices Adds Interest to tmentsl v jj J 1 I I