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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
THE TIMES DTsPATcT RICHMOND VA FRIDAY APRIL % 1910

server gets pecved. He general!
i takes his stick then and walks abou
I bis garden knocking the heads off tn
4 ho)lyhocks and cussing until his oil,
i maid contemporaries blush and hol,
their ears. Whenever he gets in TIL:
state, our urbane contemporary FINAL,
! finishes his walk by cussng out the
i railroads and finally settles dowr
to his normal pace. This little fling a,
/ tho railroads always seems to do his
temper good and should certainly not
be denied him.
| Just at present, however, the OBJ
! server is peeved because we had a
few remarks to make about North
Carolina freight rates and about the
way Salisbury is kicking at the al.
legged Determinations against it. This
is all right, and the Observer will
soon simmer down, as is his wont,
If 1t does him any good to detail his
grievances, we would certainly not in
terfere.
1t happens, however, that the latest
blowing off of the safety valve in the
North Carolina does not have the
freight rates it thinks 1t deserves.
The Observer states its case and tells
how high rates are. how unfavorable
they drive merchants from the State
and how they ought TO be amended.
Then it goes on and abuses the COM
panies which give the rates and the
ment. profit to the disadvantage of
North Carolina cities. Every railroad
which does not favor North Carolina
distributing points is grating, every
city which gains by favorable rates is
grating ard all men. wherever To-
Gated, who think that North Carolina
should not have better freight rates
are Of the same class.
This is the secret of the whole mat
ter North Carolina gets the bad end
of the deal, If the Observers figures
be exact, and North Carolina gets 1t
because North Carolina goes about the
matter wrong. railroad is like
man. 1t will stand so much abuse
and no more. When certain point
Is passed, it gets its dander up and
lights like any other blooded animal.
When the Observer and it's friends go
TO work and abuse the railroads in
season and out Of season, they may
expect that the railroads will retort
in kind and will oppose on principle
what the Observer demands.
Cancellation is the better policy of
business and Cancellation with public |
service corporations pays. When our
good friend of the Observer cools down,
washes the blood off his collar and
begins to talk civilly to the railroads,
the chances are he will get what he |
wants. If his freight rates are un-
fair. they should be corrected, but they
can be corrected more easily and more
by remembering that the
railroad owners are human.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
HATcHING A STATESMAN.

I The Rochester Democrats are so
pleased at their defeat of the Aldridge
] machine that they think Ravens the
/ greatest man in New York State. He
owns the town. He can go into any
| emporium and have as many as he, will
| take on the house If he wants an
| other office he can have it. If he wants
TO go to Congress at the end of his
short term, the office is his. Nothing is
too good for him.
Before the returns had boon counted
and long before Mr.. Ravens could
House of Representatives, some of his
friends decided that the man who could
redeem Rochester could redeem New
York State, so they at once launched
young boom and are counting Ravens
as a coming candidate to succeed
Hughes, On Monday he was u private
citizen. who had the nerve to fight a
Republican boss; on Wednesday he
was an approved nominee for Cover
nor, with Rochester Democrats behind
him.
NJ. Ravens is doubtless a good man
and strong man. He showed that
in the way he fought Aldrdge and
defeated him: but to the outsider it
seems little premature to launch a
boom in his favor for Governor Of
New York. He may prove failure in
Congress He may have done all the
fighting he is capable Of He certain
~ has not shown any especial reasons
| why he should be Governor of New
York.
Yet this is the very way our present
day statesmen are made. 1t was so
with Hughes. it was so even with tho
Colonel a man turns a trick in poll
ties and wins a fight His majority
shows that the people are for him. The
next thing is to run him for Governor
or for President, solely because he
won single campaign. Nobody ever
thought of Judge Gaynor as a candi-
date for anything and nobody ever
mentioned his name In connection with
the Presidency last spring, but the
day ne won the mayoralty campaign in
New York he was hailed as the COM
ing Democrat of the country.
This may he the way to make
statesmen, but history does not prove
It, The men who are successful pub
lie servants in the end are the men
who have been trained in public SER
vice, Jefferson was fit to give "a
century of policy to great party be-
cause he was a trained public man.
and Lincoln held the North together.
when others would have failed, be-
cause he was schooled in Congress
Occasionally there comes Grover
Cleveland, who is Mayor. Governor
and President in the space of few
years, and who improves with each
jump in office; but such a man is the
exception statesmen grow, They are
not Matched full-feathered in a day
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
WHAT Ans THE CoI,Ipcps,

woodrow Wilson, OF Virginia, So
journing in an alien land as presiden,
OF Princeton has been doing lot OF
talk recently and he has been talking
straight Some weeks ago he made ar
address before the Democrats of Eliz-
abeth, New Jersey, and told them some
things they need to hear, Then. again
on Sunday night he talked to the
Princeton alumni OF Chicago and made
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

Facts About Charlotte" is the en-
tltlement of an article printed in the
Observer, of that city, few days ago
This is an entirely new departure on
the part of our contemporary, and IT
is TO be commended, because any man
or newspaper that would only tell
facts" about Charlotte deserves
Carnegie medal for downright heroism
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

II i
some remarks which were not on tn
schedule. He probably surprised TIL
frincetohlans by the way he elubbet
them but he certainly did not hi
them n lick amiss
According to DR.. Wilson, the trou
bic with the colleges of this countr,
Is that they are catering to u elias!
instead or to the great mass of tho
american people. They are creating
class spirit, are incubating snobbish
ness and are hatchlng men of nc
| carthiy use to the work day world
IL the college is to meet the demand.
| OF the day, and if 1t Is to stop the
soclai breakup which DR.. Wilson
thinks Is menacing the country, the
college must mend its ways and be-
/! como democratic.
| Or co'rse,- DR.. Wilson was talking ir
the large. and naturally was a bi,
lurid in his figures of speech. There
are many colleges in this country
| small colleges. In most instances
| which keep In touch with tho people
and perform genuine service to the
state in which they are located Yet
| 1t unquestionably is true that in some
of the large colleges the real test of
the student is his wealth and social
standing. The man who is looked I'D
! to by the freshman is not the student
whose academic record is the best, but
the young cub who has a motor car, a
choice collection of loud clothes and a
long line of culled cuss words These
men are typical college men," quick
to condemn every man who is not in
college as an ass and worse, and
thinking only of how much money
they Gun spend and how much devil
ment they can perform in their four
years residence at seat of learning.
BY the side of these shining students,
the plodder and the grind are insig-
nif1cant, often even In the eyes of the
professors, and are hardly desirable
additions to the college. AS the snob
gives his imprint to the college, the
college gives its imprint to the world
and loses It's proper place in the maxi
ing of a better country
A college is useful to the State only
in so far as 1t better prepares young
men for citizenship and better eauipsI
them to do their duty in the world |
When college ceases to do this, it |
ceases to be useful and it can never
again become useful until 1t is regen-
Grated in some such way as that pro-
posed by Dr. Wilson.
The schools which have been of most I
use to the world have been those
which kept in closest touch with the
world. When Luther went to Erfurt |
he found the college made up of young
men who were peasant-born and often
paupers. They sang for living or
worked with cobblers or tended stable;
yet because the men who went to Err
furt We're men of the world. and be-
cause Erfurt kept in touch with the
world through them, that school had
a tremendous part In one of the great
est movements in the world. In the
same way. when the Revolution of l84S
began in Germany am; when the pres
ont revolution began in Russia, the
We're the centres of the
because they touched the
world being attended by men of the
world If our American colleges areI
to be of equal value to this country,
and to its future, they must follow
tho same course.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

Speaker Ward, of the New Jersey
Assembly has refused the request made
by Governor Fort for an investigation
of the orgy on the last night of tho
New Jersey Legislatures session. 1t is
just as well. perhaps, because New, Jer-
sey could not hope to get hearing in
the investigation business as long as
the Albany gang is still in session.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
Is HEARST EIsHING.

William Randolph Hearst will no
down, and nobody need think IT. Fl,
ran for Office and was defeated. II,
began again, and again he was de
| featod. He took breathing-spcll
bucklcd up his breechos ana took +,
long running start, Every time Wi.
! liam Randolph has finished tc
the rear. but no still insists that he
4 is a proper man for office and that he
ought to have it. 1t does not matter
| much what the office is--he is alto
sether Indifferent on that point. If
they will not elect him Mayor, he will
! he satisfied to be Governor of New
| York. and IL he cannot sit in Albany.
he will even consent to become Vice
President,
Just at this writing, Hearst is in
the field again He sent John Temple
Graves to dinner the other day
with neat speech and an olive
branch. lie told Graves to offer his
undaunted henchmen of the Independ-
ence League to the Democratic party
and to promise that il the Democrats
insisted long enough, Hearst might
consent to be a running mate for
Harmon on the next Presidential
ticket. Harmon. Hearst and Har-
mony' was the way John Temple
Graves put 1t, showing how carefully
he had worked out the plan with the
man who tills his pay envelope. Graves
was not given a particularly favorable
reception. It might even be said that
the men whom he addressed very
calmly appropriated his motto, left out
the Hearst part of it and cried for
Harmon and Harmony"
Nothing daunted William Randolph
bctook himself to Washington
and called on the President. When he
came out from his interview witp
Taft, he told the reporters all about
it. Taft was making good, he said
and was eNcelling the record OF the
Colonel, Taft was "ouiet. earnest
gentleman who has placed the coun-
try on a high order of prosperity"
The President, lie thought, most sar-
castically, was quite as valuable as a
Spectacular person" who had all but
ruined the country. There was more
of 1t in the same strain, hut this is
enough TO show how William Ran
dolph talked.
What was he driving after? lie, a
partymaker and trouble brewer, boost
ing a Republican President? He. ti,e
enemy of everything and everybody
that is Republican. having kind words
for Taft? 1t scarcely seems possible
but those who know Hearst and
Hearst's record will not be hasty to
draw conclusions, Maybe it was only
friendly chat and maybe-but then,
Hearst insists he is anti Republican,
which, by the way. is about the most
any one can say about its politics,
The country has had enough OF
Hearst and of Hearst.s+s, Hearst has
never done anything that was worth
the doing or promised anything, po-
litcally, that was worth tho .fulAlling.
He may have followers and he may
have party, hut the country could
do without either or both.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
MPEROR WILLIAM
is WIDE awake
Keeping His Imperial Eye OH All
Important Gable Stations
in the World.
PREPARING FOR TIME OF WAR
Lord Lauderdalc Loses i'll
Contest for Dignity of Heredi-
tary Standard Bearer.

DY "a MARaUIsE DE FOsTENOy
Y, INFERIOR WILLIAM, realizing the
I H. enormous Importance which sub
/ marine cables are destined tc
play in the next great war In
which Germany happens TO be involY-
ed, approaching, moreover. the fact that
| almost the entire network of suhma
/ rinc telegraphy is In non-German
| hands Git is mostly controlled by
| cradle amount of study to the land
| ing places and stations of these various
cables, with the idea of discounting
at the very outset of the hostiltes, by
systematic and sudden attacks on the
stations and landing places of these
cables, the advantage which the foe
might hope to derive from their con-
troll.
1t is with this object in view that
the Kaiser has recently been station
ing consuls and vice-consuls either
in their immediate vicinity. AT places,
for instance, such as St Helena, AS
cension. the Seychelle Islands. etc;
also In the Shetland Islands, which
are of no commercial Importance, and
whore there is no German trade and
there are no openings for German COM
merce. such as TO warrant the nainte-
nance there of well paid consular Of
fetal
If mention this. it is merely to show
how exceedingly wideawake is the
Marshal bIoltke, from whom he re-
ceived much of his military training.
he is careful to make every prepare
ton in advance for the war which con-
tinues to loom on the. horizon. giving
his personal attentionSto every detail
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

If one or both did reach the pole, 1t
has been of no benefit to mankind. and
1t was simply a trial of physical en-
durance, They would deserve no moro
honor or credit from the public than
would the Hon. Mr.. Jenries or Hon.
"Mr." Johnsing, while as TO Hon. Tyrus
Cobb--well. they are not In his class,
HAROLD NJ. SMITH.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
A GREAT Man pAssEs..

Few men in America will be more
missed than Mark Twain, for few were
more beloved. Whether in tho Middle
West. where he was born and where
he learned so much of men. or in the
East where he lived in later life. Mr..
Clemens was easily first of American
characters, Everybody knew of him
and everybody felt that he was one
writer whose touch was true and
whose merit was real.
Mark Twain did what perhaps no
other American has ever done. He
created a distinct literature. There
had been humorists before his time
humorists who had been as original. asI
daring and as successful as was he
but there had been no man who had
succeeded in making literature of
humor. All that went before was
fragmentary. scattered and dislo!nted
He made it consistent, definite and
wholesome.
1t is hard to dissect the qualities
which made Mark Twain such a great
literary figure There is humor in
all he wrote, except when he turned
aside to write childrens story or a
serious essay, but there is much more
lie had all the powers of description
which belong to one who knew the
Book of Nature. He loved the river
he loved the fields. and he loved those
flats along the Mississippi where the
sun shines on the yellow sand and the
cranes drowsily flap their dipping
wings. He had, too, deep knowledge
of human nature, which made every
character that he described live and
breathe. He knew men, through and
through
Mark Twain the man was as in
teresting as Mark Twain the humorist.
he two, in fact, were one The books
We're the man. and the man was the
books. His view of life was sunny.
and his nature was kindly even when
he had business adversely and do
mestc trouble which would have
broken less fortunate spirit He had.
too. a high sense of honor and a deep
'"NSst!tJ anu 81 tIuc CHHTlty, SHOWN In
hundred little incidents which no
always tried to conceal. In 1895 the
firm OF c. L. Webster and Company in
which he was Interested as a silent
partner. went to the wall. Mr.. Clemens
was not responsible for the company's
debts. but he assumed them, ana be-
gan long. exacting lecture tour IN
order that he might return to the
firms creditors every dollar he thought
himself in honor bound to pay. He
did it, though his health was bad and
The season was most oppressive. Then
again. on the last day before he was
finally stricken down, he signed his
check for $4,000 to build library in
his town.
These things showed the man, and
for these things s9,e American people
loved him. They knew he was true {
and generous and kindly, and they saw
in him that spirit which makes man
great.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
IA cavalieri is going to tale

Lima Cavalieri is going to tale no
chances with Bob Chanler. Sht de-
MES that she really plans divorce
suit before the marriage is completed,
but she insists that she will not marry
him where she cannot get a diforce.
Bob had better retain a lawyer now
to undo what the preacher is to DO in
October.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

Now and then the Kaiser does tome.
thing that we can approve. There is
his refusal to receive the Prnte dc
Sasan at court, for instance, which
shows that the Kaiser gets right once
in a while. But then, he is going tc
make UP for it by receiving Roofevelt
so what's the use?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

Not to be baked in their political
predictions by such an unfortunate In
cident as the fulhlment of their fore
casts about Aldrich and Hale, the
soothsayers in Washington are now
promising tho country that Taft will
go to the Supreme Court bench in
1913. This is worse than buryins a
man alive.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

Senator Depew Is also among the last
batch of those slated to resign. This
will not interest the people, for Chaun-
cey has been a dead cock in the pit
so long that most men have forgotten
that he ever had spurs.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
The nockefcller Institute.

Can YOU give me the name and adj
dress OF the physician in charge of the
Rockefeller Institution for Investiga
ton and Cure of Cancer. in New York
City? Can poor man obtain treat
ment By application In the institution.
or obtain directions for use in his own
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22

4 KEW DEAL FOR THE NEW
CDJISCIn

The election yesterday decided whom
tho voters Of the seven city wards
wanted to administer the affairs of tha
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
REGII.AR SIfRScRIRER

4 REGULAR SUBSCRIBER.
DR.. Simon Flexrer is in charge Of
this work. No arrangements have Yet
been made by which cancer serum Will
be sent from New York to those who
wish TO be treated. 1t will be neces-
sary 10 visit New York DR.. Fiexner
may be reached at the Rockefeller IN
stitute for Medical Research.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-22
Voice Of the People

Communications must not con-
tnin more than 300 words.
When this limit |. exceeded let
ters will be returned.
No anonymous communications
will be accepted.
a stamped envelope, with the
writer's address, must accompany
every communication.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-09-10
PAID VERDE VALLEY.

F. F. Nelson is clearing forty acres on the Blythe ranch, which will be seeded to alfalfa this fall.
 x < <
 A small ice plant is to be placed in the butcher shop to be built for Neipp Brothers at Blythe,
 < x x
 R. w. Masters, who has a quarter section of land in the Palo Verde Val ley, is planning to sell out and go to New Zealand.
 The townsite of Colorado City, owned by Neighbors & Longworth, is to be placed on the market during the fall and winter.
 Norton & Kelsey have been work ing crew of fourteen men on their threshing outfit, handling the barley crop of the Palo Verde Valley.
 
 Riverside county has expended $1200 in placing in good condition the road between Blythe and Blythe Junction, on the new Santa Fe cutoff.
 x * x
 A display of products of the Palo Verde Valley will be maintained in the Chamber of Commerce at River side through the efforts of valley set tiers.
 * * x
 Efforts are being made to secure the location of new school district at Rannals, which Is several miles from Blythe City and Neighbors, where schools are now located.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-09-10

Kansas City, where he has been spending the summer.
 * x x
 Frank M. Bradshaw has returned to Imperial after a three months visit with his parents in Chicago.
 x < *
 Mrs. Clarke H. Bradshaw has re- turned to Imperial, after a summers visit with relatives in Chicago.
 * x x
 A three-year-o child of MT. and Mrs. J. F. King fell from horse last Sunday morning and broke it's thigh.
 x x x
 MT. and Mrs. N. J. Reid left Imperial last week for a trip which will in- clude sojourns at Oakland and San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
 < % *
 W. J. Mitchell has cnristened his new hotel building, on East Eighth street, the King Cotton Hotel The hotel was opened to the public this week.
 x < x
 L. J. Thomas, president of the Far mers' & Merchants Bank of Imperial, will erect seven-room bungalow for his own home one block north of the new high school building.
 x x *
 Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Patten have re- turned to California after their visit in Omaha, and are now quartered at Ocean Park. They will soon return to Imperial. Mrs, Patten is much im- proved in health.
 * * x
 Mrs. Anton Sochor is still confined to a Los Angeles hospital as t re- suit of falling into a sewer ditch last spring. MT. Sochor has returned from Los Angeles, where he has been to help care for his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-09-10
BRAwLEY

Louis Bennett is building cottage on Imperial avenue.
 * * x
 A. P. Higgins has plans completed for building, 25x10O feet, which he will erect this fall for a pool hall
 x * x
 Dr. c. A. Dawdy, Imperial County Stock Inspector, who has been spend ing the summer at his former home, Watsonville, has decided to locate there.
 A. l.. Sebille has passed the state examinations and has been admitted to the practice of law before the Cal ifornia Supreme Court and the United States Land Of1ce He will open an office in Brawley.
 * * *
 Brawley's city officials are adver- tising for bids for the purchase of the issue of $1S,OOO sewer bonds. Bids will be opened on October g. The city is also advertising for bids for the construction of the sewer system, which will be opened on the same date.
 x x *
 The Brawley gin building will be 20xS0 feet, with corrugated iron walls and roof. The walls will be fourteen feet high over the gin stands and 22 feet high over the cotton press The Brawley gin house will be located al- most directly east of the National Lumber Company's yards.
 * x *
 Cotton picking will begin on the ranch of the Brawley Farming and Experimental Company, south of Brawley, on September 15. The crop is making a fine showing, and John Alien, the superintendent, believes that large part of the 100 acres will produce two bales of cotton per acre.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-09-10
COUNTY NOTES

possible. The Holtville gin will be in charge of Sidney B. Reeves, who is an experienced gin man.
 x x *
 The Holtville Tribune raises cry against the miscellaneous circulation of subscription papers for all sorts of causes, and questions the propriety of business men being subject to this constant drain, with the necessity of subscribing to everything that comes along or being dubbed "tight-wad" or lemon"