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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01
MouNrlNc MLLloss IN SHIPS.
,s nnttlcxhins NNihl More Than
-, .,..LI. lr,,.lcr lIcNcr'H plAN.

Cost of Bnttlcshirs VIM w. ILL.,,
Double Under Meyers I'ihn.
,aw vaarsa ago 1t was thought that
tho United States Navy had reached
its limit in the l6,o00-ton battleshlp.
This month the 20oo0-ton hattleshlp
Delaware was delivered TO the govern
ship, the North Dakota, Will be. ready.
Contracts have been awarded for the
Arkansas and Wyoming, each or 2b,OOU
tons. Now Secretary Meyer proposes
that next year Congress authorize ii
80 900 ton battleship. to be tho larS-
est in existence, The estimated cost
will be about $lS000,o0 as compared
with sS,ooo,00o for the l6o0o-ton flaa-
ship Connecticut.
When the British government built
the original Dreadnought it not only
rendered obsolete a large feet OF its
own hattleships, but it started the
other nations of Europe IN mao race
of naval construction that threatens
the building OF s2,ooo-ton battleship
by the United States will be to rem
der tho greater part of the eNistlna
battleship fleet out of date and 70 de-
stroy it's homoseneity, which naval en-
perts have argued is an essential for
| successful operation. Many harhors
will be closed to so large vessel, and
| naval drydocks must be enlarged OF
new ones provided to receive It., A.
| the same time, while the cost of the
! new standard OF battleshtp increases
| rapidly with It's size and armament, thu
] Navy Department shows no DISPOSE
| tion to moderate its demands as to th'
number of new battleships to be lalf
! down each year.
The whole Dreadnought policy, eve
since Great Britain first adopted Y
worked harm wherever tried. ma
| led constantly to fresh excuses o
mllitarisrn, burdensome taxation AM
bloated arma,nents that in themsclve
are a menace tothe peace OF the world
New York World. n I,
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col. GoRDoN's FAREWELL.
Unique Address OF Southern Statesman
PIenscs Whole Country.


The farewell address Of United States
Senator James Gordon is well named
by Chauncey Nj. Depew, "a farewell
unique Colonel Gordon, although
a took brief soiourn among the mem
bers of that body. seemed to be en-
ceptlonally good natured. He had
attained the height of his ambition
even realizing the ACCOMPLISHMENT of
The prophecy mad, by his mo Their. that
IF he were a good little boy he would
some day sit in the chair of the big
man at Washington Yet some might
question his past career on the basis
little boy in the Sunday school book
and what Mark Twain says are the
qualifications OF national legislators.
colonel Gordon Is a humorist who is
not ashamed Of his ACCOMPLISHMENT.
Wit, all the genial hospitality Of "a n
Southern gentleman he invited Senator
Hepburn to Mississippi to spend a few
weeks, supposedly to get over his bel
I InHaa a., toward General Lee. He
Two poems to prove IT. lie also ad
mired John d. Rockefeller and feels
sorry for. the oily magnate.
:, I - y IS no apparent worry .Jn Col
onel Gordon's heart because he han
pened TO be a Confederate soldier. He
fought, bled and skedaddled freauent
~. The Spirit Of Southern gentle
ma d fairly shines Ma through his past life
81 81 Wn'he te was capturing General
Shafter he Very thoughtfully allowed
| himself to be shot at five times by
that gentleman---and very accurately
missed. The poor craftsmanship OF
the general doubtless enters largely
into the friendly recollection of Mr..
Gordon. 49,
The genial, whole ouled spirit az
the Southern Senator cannot but cali
d forth kindly attitude from the North.
Years, II Father Time has been run
ming accurately. and the Southern ivy
and the Northern evergreen have unit
ed in q grapevine twist. SO to speak.
me spirits OF the two, sections have
has been permitted to run his pine
/ line across Southernpl plantation, while
i the "darkies" chant a soulful paeon Ia
i the Elortes OF the snowbound North
/! or words to that cffect--Senador Hey
burn to the contrary notwithstanding.
Bee.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01
At the Polls
THE cEasELEss CRITICS.


THERE may be a few YOUNG Matthew ,o''.
Quays growing up In PennsylNan ma ou.
we don't believe the story that
father in New Hampshire mas named his
helpless infant son Jcthro bass-Chlcaso
Tribune.
That man CLAWS appears 10 have accused
Secretary Ballinger of evcry heinous of.
fense except wearing side whiskers ardl
playin- the accordion.--St Pau Dispatch.
.Unclc Joe" wonders whether he is afoot
or on horseback We can remember times
when he has been UP in the air.-Los An
seles Express.
By the way wouldn't future generations
be busy IL r. Roosevelt had been born in
Tebruary?-cleveland Leader.
Speaking OF baseball. all the clubs now are
potential pennant winners.-Chicaso News.
Airship companies are now letting stock
buyers in on the ground floor.-Detrot
Free Press.
With Raisuii out OF the way Presiden;
TAFT King Edward. Jack Johnson and other
dignitaries need no longer fear Kidnapping
--Pittsburg Leader.
| An Indian chief refrained from presenting
| an deliberately decorated shirt 10
| President Taft when he how big a man
! he was. Tho Indian isn't the only man tC
! be enlightened as to tho size OF the Presi
| dent recently. Wall Street mas learned a
! thing or two.-kennebec Journal.
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relics of tho Iron Duke and OF water
loo. These galleries OF the Dukes OF
Westminster and Wellington, OF ny
Earl OF Ellesmere at BridseN.at {, !,
(. e1snrd House, and OF several other
wealthy peers and great financial mag
mates in London. are more pafticu-
larry open to the public on sutiu iai ,
with a view OF rendering them acGe 81 :
Bile TO the working classes, anu Si :
Edward remnant Is adopting the same
policy with regard 70 his new sai-
The late sir Richard Wallace showed
a similar degree of enliShtenea llne
.tity with regard to his world ned
COLLECTIONS at Hartford House. ana ms MS
widow. in pursuance of his yie" >,
when she died beaueathed Heritora
House and all its contents to the lia
tion. together with a large cnaoM ,
mcnt. for use as an art museum. /.
IL n pl,y that the private owners
Of splendid collections of nalntins
in mis- country. do not follow suit IN
this mater. 80
:. 9 married 70 one of that lovely trio
Of daughters of Percy Wrndham u,nose
famous portrait by Sargent, eXhlbiteo
at the Royal Academy, WAS hap5 ,,,i
described by King Edward as "I ne
father before him. derives his WeaiiI
from the greatest chemical works II
the United Kingdom. Tie has repre-
sented Salisbury In Parliament ioi
many years. and on his fathers dealt
found himself the largest indiridua
owner Of stock in the London Times
It is understood that he DISPOSED O
those holdings 10 Lord Harmsworth
and that 1t is owing to their acduisi.
ton by that peer that tho later !!
a,,1e "a exercise a controlling influence
over THE Thunderer" The holdings
of Lord Harmsworth do not represen
a majority of the stock. but the lars
est individual block. the remainder Q
! the stock, including that belonging
the Walter family, being divided III
! amongst number of people who ar
Ihopelessly at variance with one anoth
err. and apparently incapable Of an.
united action.
| Copyright. 1910. by the BRENTWOOD
COmpanN.)
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Borrowed Jngle1
MARCH.


Comctli March, with wind ana ram
Smashing on the window pane
Little aephyrs hero and there
Lifting roofs high In the ar
blowing hats from y TO n,
raising thunder on the sea
Filling all the air with dust
On their mad bSreal bust.
Nov and then we hear the mum
or the billiards. frolrsome.
AS about the land they tack
Giving carly spring whack,
Filling all the ways with SNOW
Setting plumbers hearts agIow'
Raising thunder with the car
or the trollcYs near and far
Now and then q robins peep
Tells us somewhere ITO is "checp.
And the hose gives us the iausn
At nine dollars and a half,
For II knows that Casters moon
VIII be shining very coon,
And amid this wintry scene
Cometl, March tho seventeenth
Marvel month this month of Mareh,
Filling up our souls With starch;
Now q lion, now q lamb
Now a blat, and nov slam
How it fills thu soul with cheer
THAT 1t comes but once yearl 1ndS :
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THE CORPORATIONS ARE NoT
PAVING UP.

There is no surprise in Collector,
,ou,,,y,s announcement on sunday,
Ma, one in every three of the corpor-
ations WITHIN his jurisdiction had fall
"a - maize returns for the Federal
az mon them. which, practically,
noes into eject to-day. Ii is not only
mat the tax is a new one, that mis-
UNDERSTANDINGS naturally arise about
{, and that many corporations find il
necassarv 10 do a lot Of work upon
,,,e,r hooks before they can give the
reonired information; though all OF
nose thlngs would naturally interfere
vim the successfut launching of the
measure But beyond them is a gen
s,a, dissatisfaction with the terms OF
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01
AN uNcoNsTIruTioNA PRIMARY
LAW IN TENNESSEE.

Virginia Democrats will be interest.
cd to note that the primary law
passed by the Tennessee Legislature
at its last session has just been de-
clared unconstitutional BY the Su-
preme Court of that state. The courts
objections cover the exclusion OF
county Judges from the operation of
The act and the fact that the body Of
the act was broader than its title
But it seems to have laid most stress
,,pon the assessment of fees from can
didates as a condition to the right to
run.
II will be remembered that the Byrd
primary bill now before the Virginia
Assembly includes just this feature.
Under it each aspirant is to be charged
a fee equal to per cent OF inc
annual salary attached to the ONCE
which he seeks The Tennessee act
nrovided hxed fees which run from
$40. in the.case of q county Office, 10
$500. in the case of United states
senator. This provision excited the
hostility of the Tennessee court,
which 6rst quotes an Illinois opinion
and then goes on to say:
We think this section is unconstitu-
tional for the reason that Ii maAes a"
arbitrary, capricious and uhfees'
classification of candidates IN Pro-
yi,.inc that persons VINO are aoi2 ~
nav The prescribed ices may ehlef 'he
urinary. while other men who are
al
Guided because of their, pecuniary in
abiIitv to pay the prescribed fee
cnnh law Is unreasonable because
the classifcation is arbitrary and oP'
pressive.
THE opinion as a whole is>distinctls
,riendlv TO the primary principle, dis
cusses it from liberal point of view
and upholds at length the right of
state Legislature TO enact compul-
sorry primary law. as being in the
interests of the public welfare. But
when ii comes to the assessment o.
s candidates the court detects dis
examination against poverty which
founded on no just or reasonable prin
ciple.
Here in Virginia. the Times-Di
match has opposed the assessment sy
tenn for the same reasons which Il
Teaness,e court lays down. II
present Democratic plan of nnloadil
upon the candidates for office the G
tire expense of what is TO all pfa
teal purposes an election is man
testify unfair upon it's face. II cou
be justified only on the theory IN
Office seekers alone were interested
giving the people the right to nan
their own choices direct, and such
hypothesis is too absurd to requil
notice. The proposal of the Byr
bin to put the expense upon the colr
ties and cities. with only more Q
less nominal charge upon the candi
dates, is much better In fact, il
better to thu. exact. degree that 1T re
duces discrimination between men, an
eliminates the money considerable
from competition between them in cleo
lions. 1t would be still better, as W
have said before now, to throw III
whole burden on the state and tax
the last bit OF 1t from the shouidel
of individuals whose interest in bette
nominations should be no greater tina
that OF the rest oil us. Apart fro
that, though. is the question OF COZ
stitutionality. raised and decided az
versely before now. Why should Il
Assembly adopt provision which is
doubtful wisdom at best and whi'
may invalidate the whole law?
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ing invitations which have this invis-
iple but real string attached to, them.
'i'hey VIII vanish from the drawing
rooms of the ornate classes as though
some scourgc like the Black DEATH
had swept them off In night. This
would be a pity all around. The young
men would lose some innocent and
harmless pleasure, and, banished from,
the pink-tea belt by their strict allie
glance to the code, would doubtless
gather in clubs and morosely absorb
Scotch and soda, a pastlme which many
regard as neither innocent nor harm
less. And society would miss the
young men. and be the poorer for their
going. Increasing numbers OF debu-
tantes would polish the wall at the
their own ices from the melee about
the supper table, while the spinstcr
ratio throughout the country would
rapidly soar TO the standard long OBJ
tanning in the New England school
marin district. Society is largely held
| together by these well appearing young
| salaried chaps who are supposed to
| pay their way. we thought. not by CIV
ing expensive entertainments. which
| any body can do on one condition, but
| by being amusing ana agreeable and
helping to make things go, which not
everybody can do on any condition.
| Pull out this pin, and the whole struc-
ture comes near collapsing, and So
cicty becomes a place" where only
the very rich, and maybe the very duh
and fat to boot, meet each other
, necessarily to their enormous bore
. dom.
t What is hospitality" anyway? We
Z don't understand it to be anything re-
/, dueible to neat dollar and cent basis
} II hostcsses are inviting young mer
; to parties in the very practical expec-
tation that the young men will give
: parties OF equal value to them mex
day or next week, VIC should say tina
hospitality is not in these ladies, an,
that the young men would do cxactl!
|
champagne. and so away and say n,
more about it, thus taking the invita-
ton in exactly the same spirit Of plail
business in which it is offered Ar,
we not right Miss Fairfax? Isn't hos
pitality something little bigger an,
better than an affair of bookkeeping
Isn't it quite right and proper tina
people with plenty of means and beau
2 tiful houses and fondness for en-
PERTAINING and giving pleasure to 9th
ers should have In" their friends whel
they feel like it, the same friends agail
= and again II they like, without carin.
:. at all, or even noticing. whether eacl
Of the friends was dutifully givin:
: back string music for string musi
and canvasback for canvasback?
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AS TO "RErAyINGY HOSPITALITY

AS TO "KEPAYING" HOSPITALITY.
Really the thesis is one for Miss
Fairfax rather than ourselves: but
since strong men like Hopkinson Smith
are already tacklng it with vigor. we
nave. consented to approach it. for
once, With the natural amount Of diff
hdence. 1t has to do, this thesis, with
the politeness, or lack Of it, or the spirit
of hospitality, or want of 1t, that char
acterizes the young men of the rising
generation. In a speech before the
southern Society Colonel Smith, burn
ing with the things he has suffered at
the hands OF proud walters, conductors,
| taNicabmen and the like, described
New York as the most insolent city
| IN the world; and having been some
| what pounded for his aphorism, the
colonel CALAMITY returns to the fray
stronger instead OF weaker, and carry
| ing his assaults into what we love to
cali the higher walks of society. Now
he raps, not the rude despots of trans
portation or the public refectory, bu;
L the DutteTlS youth OF the fOQr ThON-
| sand In particular does he rebuke
. and swat these young men for theil
boorlshness in accepting hospitality
4 which they do not repay. This W.
| gather from tho comments of Mid
/ die Western paper, which upholds thu
! smith hands with Il few caustc re
marksao of its own about social WEIGH.
ers" and so on.
/ Now really we do not know so much
! about all this We doubt very much
that these hostesses who invite agree.
able adolescence to ther dinners anc
their dances expect a return in kind
y Certainly we hope for tho good O.
/, their own souls that they do not. Thu
s homely truth is that many charming
young men, fully qualified in ever.
n way To be the life OF the party. haven
q great deal OF money They could no
Il hope TO repay" the so-called hospi
/. Itallty extended for them on the basi
S of dinner for dinner or dane
: TOR a dance If they arc expected I
il DO so, Ii tangible repayments, NIGEL
al appraised become matter OF nobless
t. oblige, one certain and definite thin
MI Will happen. The really nice but In,
- pecunlous young men Will stop accept
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01
THE MOSQUITO: GUILTY AND SEN
TENCED.

lllSS lidNc plpNNu Viz easy oil tI'
Georgia mosquito and have denounced
him iii open court. After months of
litigation, lawyers and experts have
sealed the fate of those lonS-leSged,
singing comrades OF darkness and
doom which make night miserable
along the Towaliga, Consequently
there is rejoicing in Monroe county
The good people of Paran and their
neighbors across the river at Toland
| and Berncr are anticipating n quiet
summer, what time the courts injunc
ton shall hhvo sent the mosquitoes
down into Crawford or over into Bibb
! Long happy nights are assured; do
| nestle peace is guaranteed. and the
when men no longer swear at the noe
| turpal visitants.
Tho cause of all this rejoicing, and
| incidentally, the false friend of the
mosquito was certain mill pond tina,
the Towaliga Falls Power Company
put across the river. To run tho plant
but little water was required, and SO
week after week, the water began TO
dam up towards tho lands OF one pro-
testant soul called Sims. AS the wa
ter stagnated. of course it bred mos
| uuitoes, mosquitoes that invaded
! Simss bed room and robbed Sims Of
his sleep, Simss sleep, mosquitoes that
attacked Sims at the table and drove
sims in dislnay from sleep on the porch
of Sims. Naturally sims grew wrathy.
Naturally he began to complain. Nat
| uraNy he blamed the pest on the stag
nant water. Naturally he went into
court
This, of course, was in those hot
i August days, when the scorching heat
4 around Forsyth and Goggansville
makes man feel how awful it is to
4 live in Georgia anyway. The case wa:
argued from court to court. until f.
nally it reached the Court of Appeals
Sims came with his experts, we arc
told. and gave the senealogy of tht
mosquito in such convincing term!
that the court was forced to declare
the culex a pest and the anopheles ;
brutal murderer. Sims got his dam
ages, and the company will have Il
pour crude oil on its stagnant waite
, as soon as the grass begins to sc
green around Popes Ferry.
$ Aside from its proper recompense t
: the agsrieyed sims, and apart fror
all natural rejoicing over so notabl
6 an act of common justice. this decisio
6 has an interest beyond Monroe cour
ne ~. Georgia II means, indeed, the
he the courts have sanctioned what IL
,r doctors have proved and that the rt
n sponsbility of the man who allow
o. mosquitoes to breed on his propert
4. is at length fixed at law. In othe
id words, the wise courts decision. with
AT out further litigation, makes it culr
in able for man to endanGer the healt
le of his neiShhors by growing mosqu
!. toes for his own amusement.
"a A more beneficial decision than til
!, could not be given those who ha,
been fighting to Danish the mosquit
- 1t removes the great drawback to tt
determination OF this pest-the III
q Willingness OF people 10 remove nu
sance from others even when the
(, suffer themselves. Put into gener:
practice, and accepted by all II
courts, the victory of Sims becomes
% victory for all enemies of disease ar
,al all advocates of good health.
-
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While no beings of the genus femina
look so adorable in furs, our little
star-eyed blondes never wear them,
like some, when the thermometer is
above 81.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01
staunton's MIX Ordinance.

The milk ordinance passed BY tho City
Council IN 1908 has taken front rank among
inc health regulations of to-day. 1t Is a
fact not perhaps generally known, that one
State mas adopted the stanton ordinance
as state law, Surely this shows that our
legislators knew what they werc doing when
they passed The present ordinance, Now,
then, since the legislative branch OF the city
government has adopted this law 1t only
to enforce H. We believe this department
OF the cItys government will do its part,
and we ask all citizens and dairymen to CO.
operate with them in seeing that the law is
enforced. no one but those in official posi-
tons know the many difficulties encoun-
tered each day in conscientious fulhlment
OF duty The law explicitly says that all
herds must be tested before .tprt has pass
ed ana a certificates of an expert veterinary
surgeon, appTr~-ts by the council must be
filed with tho general manager whose duty
the herds that show clean records. lie
must then issue II permit to deal in milk,
which is good for twelve months Ihere
| is no cost attached TO such permit ana
| very little red tape or trouble SO we urge
al owners or COWS TO comply with the Ia"
IN lne Nhen the users Of mix hnoW
| there arg 1000 cases OF tuberculosis III VIZ,
gina ana lnhumorable cases CT TYPHOID ana
clher diseases, many of them due TO impure
| milk, we trust they Will insist that their
| milk dealers comply with The law before
| nave good Jaw, honestly and equally GU
forced, and we Ncan sec no reason why q!
| good cilzens Watcher milk dealers or miiN
users should not help the city officials u
4 tne enforcement of the law.-Staunton DIS
/ patch and News.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

In making plans for his new battle
ships, Mr.. Secretary ought 10 pear
closely in mind that the Atlantic IS
after all, quite a small ocean.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01


We think-you have the weak side
of the debate. Education certainly IN
creascs happiness. but education Is
not in our Judgment. necessary 10
happiness. For example. the negro
race, as rule. has no education, or
at most very little. and yet VI is the
happiest race on the earth: However;
lots OF people have weak SIDES OF
things. You might make the follow
ing points True happiness can come
only from a true appreciation Of the
duties and responsibilities Of lie; Ihese
ing. the outcome of education. Again.
happiness is dependent in measure
upon an appreciation OF the deeds OF
others. and the standard OF the civil
zation in which we live. This mani
fsstI, cannot be secured without edu-
cation. In the third. place, education lon
teaches one more OF the |orld ana ne,
brings him nearer to the goal OF all
desire-the knowledge of the living
truth.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

We cannot refrain from noting with
sincere regret the very bad habits that
our friend, Hon. Bill Skillitt, of Hanny-
racker, has fallen into since he emil
grated from the back page.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

Miss Alice PAUL, the returned suf-
fragettc. is now lecturinG in this coun-
try. We do not know her exact SUBJ
1ect, but suppose that she has some
thing to say on the winging of prime
ministers with adroitly aimed shoes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

Mayor Gaynor may yet give the
world the pleasure of seeing a real
Tammany boss going to work for n
living.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

At least we can give the labor unions
credit for having put a permanent
crimp in the alleged Jest about the ma
pitual somnolence Of Philadelphia, etc.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

LOCI, on the bright side. RenaeIhpei
that last year Congress was IN Session
all the way TIL June.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-01

1t is said that London ladies are now
smoking pipes, and maybe that Is
where the sufragettes get their
dreams.