Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

Germs nowadays and was sold to q big
combination, there can be no doubt
| that the purchase price more than COW.
cred all the losses.
What is better still, the manarers of
the other concerns found here two de-
vices which they promptly adopted
One was a system OF shop-accounting
invented by Richmond boy, which
| had enabled the company to estimate
with extraordinary accuracy the cost
of any particular piece Of work. The
other was a plan Of feeding the work.
men which would have done credit to
Mr.. Edward Atkinson of Brookline. but
| which was in fact the contriyance of
the head Of the company. There would
\ be something humorous, to anyone for
| tunate enough to know this Vireinians
| idea about things to eat If I were TO
| name him as the founder of perhaps
| the cheapest lunch-counter service in
the country. He himself was no doubt
| surprised enough when he discovered
that strong coffee could be sold for one
cent cup. and good rich soup for three
| cents pint.
That IS doing pretty well for wasteful
| Virginia, but let us not be tor ready 10
| find only what We came to seek. There is
waste enough. me is scckin.; that. anu
proof enough that Virginia, il at the be-
ginning of a period of rehabilitation, il
only at the beginning. and the bes:n.
ming is very slow. l have been strongly
| tempted to run down the peninsula. and
start these observations at Jamestown
Two reports from that quarter of the
state may explain the temptation. One
daaT-fh1t
| increasing in number until they become a
pest The other Is OF immigrants from
| the North or from Europe who are taking
up land. Perhaps. if ! seem too eager to
| ma a new purpose and new thrift in
Virginians. the suggestion Of new colo
| MES in the wilds near jamestown may
set me right with the reader. If a still
darker picture is needed. let the reader
search out for himself the horrible de-
| tails of the recent crime at Roanoke
The governor said yesterday they were
too revolving for one man to tell them to
| another: Then let him pon.lar a sueges-
| ton which came to me for the first time
| this afternoon-that it may be We do not
know half how often the worst horror of
| the liberal patient habit of the women to
conceal her deepest wrongs?
That startling idea did not come to me
from the man who conceived it, but from
one of the group of men who are doing
! Richmond's part in the struggle for bet
ter schools and better roads. These are
evidently the two main lines of progress
and reform. In the cities much has beer
done on both Southern cities in genera
cannot be very far behind those of thu
North in these respects. Yet the Othe
day at Il good-roads meeting here IL
Henrico county, ono speaker declared that
there is not in all Virginia outside of tn,
immediate neighborhoOd of the cities /;
single mile of really good country road
In the tideWater region. understanding
and dairying promise to be the best means
of rehabilitation; for these ready access
to market simply essential. Sheer pow
erty is the states eXcuse-that and the
dissipation of it's revenues into too many
institutional channels. Better roads
would doubtless do more than anything
else to keep the country people at home,
but il seems plain that to get them the
counties must tax themselves.
If they wish also to tax themselves for
better schools. they can. The Southern
Education Board. in order to carry out its
plan of local taxation for school purposes
In Virginia, does not need to secure first
any amendment to the law. But the agi-
tation is slow in making Roadway. Two
competent agentS-Virginians of family
and infiuence-have been for a year or
two presenting the matter, as McIver and
Alderman did In North Caroina-on the
stump. The Times-Dispatch. of Rich
mOnd would scarcely, at one time, let a
single issuer go out without some sort
of an appeal. There is no lack of ardent
advocates. If the people are slow to re-