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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-11
HANG BODY UP FOR
DOGS TO BARK At
Acting Mayor of Lynehburg Re-
ceives Blackhand Letter for
Enforcing Law.

I.YNCHBURG. Va. Feb. 1.-THE
new ordinance prohibiting all dogs
without an escort on the streets.
which had just gone into effect. is
working very smoothly. A good many
dogs have been caught by the police,
bat every effort Is made to save their
lives by allowing the owners to claim
them.
Only one serious complaint has been
occasioned, and that was In the form
OF blackhand letter received by act
ing Mayor Whitaker. which contain
ed this threat
.if you fine any more people
for their dogs running loose, /
will MI your body fun of hot shot
and hang it up for the dogs to -
bark at"
The letter was turned over TO the
police and the postofilce authorities
who are at work upon 1t to-day. IL
Is stated that q very strong clue ex-
lists as to the author. The fning oil
dogs owners still goes on. however,
and no apprehension Is felt.
Teachers Hold Institute.
Campbell county teachers held an
all day institute at Rustburg yester-
day which was well attended. II was
under the supervision of Supertntend-
president Of the county teachers as
ISOLATION. The program for the day
was as follows.
Devotional Exercises-Rev. DR.. Asa
Driscoli.
Duties OF Principal--Prof. Rufin
Of Brookneal High School.
The School Fair, Its Purpose and
yalue-Mr. s. c. Goggin.
Report OF Delegates to State Teach
ers' Association.
Advantage Of School Consolidation
MIR. N. NJ. MurrelL
Business session.
Afternoon session.
Address--Mr. A. +. Thomas.
Physical Culture In the Schools
Prof Jackson Davis.
Open Forum-conducted by Mr.. d
M. Blankinship.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
Many Experts BeHeOe Man VIII NeOer
Learn TO Fly Safely Until He InVenfS
MofCrIeSS Wings.

in 1 minute 26.4s seconds Leon MOrane
the Frenchman. held the worlds record for
that distance. flown. however. over a five
kilOmetre course instead. In ia OrviIIe
said flying the new racer around the
smaller course added fifteen seconds to his
time. which. in comparison with MOrane's
accomplishment, would bring OrviIIe-s ap-
pToXimate speed to I minute II seconds
Plus. or thirteen seconds better than the
record.
These figures were not made known by
the Wright brothers at the time. To-mor-
row would be time enough. when the fig
Ures would speak for themselves after tine
great race was won. OrvilIe's test had
shown the baby racer to be capable, Of
speed equal to eighty miles an hour, 50 all
that was required was not too dispOrtins a
wind. fair women in the boxes. the large
German band in the grandstand. and the
blue ribbon OF the year would be worn
around the neck of the man who flew u
Wright.
1t would be cruel TO Inger longer on this
theme. When BrOOkins got out of the hos
pital it was the one thing he wished to
forget. Saved for the big race as jockeys
were OF old. early to bed for two weeks
and on a diet, happy to the limit as he
took his seat in the fastest machine that
flew. and vowing to himself that nothing
could keep him from bringing the James
Gordon Bennett trophy 10 the Wright tents
when it was all over. young, handsome
"Brooky" forgot about the cute little sur
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
The POETRY CROP.

, There's no such thing as poetry you'll
hear some cynic say.
The muse has had her fling; the Tyre Is
warped and tossed away
No such thing as poetry! lis false On
every hand
II blossoms like the wild flowers IN Slad
and fertile land
II gets into the speeches of a statesman
great and grave;
The advertising pages with allurinS rhymes
are brave.
The home-and-mOther poet. with his sentf-
mental tear,
Walks arm in arm with baseball bsrds,
with phrases quantity queer
II summons us to peace or war; II SnunS no
time or place
'Tis quoted by the lawyers in a breach OF
promise case
1t comes forth unexpectedly our casual
smiles TO win.
AS dainty oft as COlumbine and spry as
Harlequin.
And some Ike PantalOOn. with feet that
tempt the dance in vain.
Comes hObbIinC TO the front with kind IN
tentiOn for a cane.
'Tis not the polished hymn OF ancient scnOi
aTShiD. in SOOth.
It's the healthful effervescence of nation
in its youth
We find the greeting Of "A song. no rr1ttsr
where we turn
70 such thing aS poetry There's poetry
70 burn,-WaShinEtOn Star
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
Herbert Parsons Tells How
County Committee May
Spend S2O8,OO0
BY Herbert Parsons.

Why does a political party need money?
Let US assume that 1 am approaching you
for a contribution of $1,000 for the party
expenses this fall I'm New York County.
You very naturally want TO know what the
money is needed for; so ! VIII try to tell
you. The campaign this year involves local,
state and Congress candidates. 1t would
not make much difference if Il were a
Presidential year. The Presidential cam
paign is a few weeks longer than the
gubernatorial campaign, and experience
shows that the longer the campaign the
greater the expenses, but beyond that the
differences are slight.
There are two kinds of expenditures: one
kind virtually required in order that the
party may comply with the provisions OF
the law-as. for instance. the printing Of
the primary ballots; the other kind required
by party exigencies. Let US consider the
other kind.
The party must maintain headquarters
throughout the year. That costs about
$4,000, made up of: Rent. s.. 600: secretary
s, 500; Stenographer and Office force, $4,000;
printing and stationery. 8. 900: postage, tele-
phone. telegraph and miscellaneous. s1.500
The secretary TO the county chairman has
an important office: the present secretary
gave up q salary OF A,50o TO accept the
lesser salary of this office, at the urgent
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of important candidates must be taken down
IN shorthand. written out in manifold form
and given to reporters the same evening.
This cost us $500 in 1903.
Some newspaper people believe that cam
paiSns in the future are to be conducted by
advertising. Under the influence of this
progressive Idea we spent one year s2S500.
The expense of the great Madison Square
Garden meeting. at which President Taft
and Governor Hughes spoke, in October.
1893, together with the cost OF the torch
| light parade, was approximately $4,000 In
the Presidential campaign the county COM
mittee established three tent camps and
maintained one set of MONDAY meetings
! They cost $4,000.
Last year about $4,000 and a great deal
of effort were expended under the efficient
direction of Edward r. Finch in providing
against fraudulent registration and voting
The men who did the work were very
| largely college and law students. Usually
| some detective work is necessary One year
We spent $4,000 on such work. Usually
about $4,000, which is about $40 to each
election district, is distributed for use on
Election Day in getting out the vote. The
amendments to the corrupt practices act
this year require the filing of statement
giving the name of every person employed
and the amount he receives-a very desir-
able reform
| The total of the expenditures for the
purposes which l have already described
amounts to s20S20O. This represents expen-
ditures primarily within the jurisdiction of
the county committee The state com
mittee has expenses of fits own i'm main
taininG headquarters, supplying train ser-
vice to the leading candidates and printing
and circulating campaign material. At
times it defrays a few of the expenses that
/ have enumerated, so sometimes does the
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
Clement Grsco Says Americans Are Reckessl Extrapagunt

{ into the loft and made the getting Of
cargoes the principal business OF the house
was doing with ships. in fact, what
Rockefeller was doing with refnerfes and
what Carnegie A few years later. was to
do with blast furnaces and steel works.
Beginning with q few chartered sailing
vessels-one a month the first year or two
MIR Griscom has bought and sold, built
and combined. until ne easily stands at the
head Of the shipping interests In the United
States and has become one of the great
ship owners of tie world. Abroad, he has
been the friend nd partner OF kings Some
# the richest men IN Great Britain are as
sociated with him in business Helped by
]. PieTpOnt Morgan, he organized the In
ternational Mercantile Marine Company.
with $50 000. .0G0 of common stock, SEQ 000,
600 of preferred stock and $65, 600 900 Of
bonds The company owns more than one
hundred ocean liners and freighters, sail
ing from ports in this country To make
countries in Europe. Mr. GriscOm was
president ot the corporation. ON r.signing
to be chosen chairman OF the board OF
directors, he named his own successor. J.
Bruce Ismay. son Of Thomas Henry IsInay,
founder of the White Star Line. About the
time of GIiscom's clerklng for 81 q month,
the elder lsmay was a hoathulider'S ap-
prentice in Liverpool lie died worth So,
Goa 01o
Partner Of the late King Leopold of Bel
gium. member of a London club with Ed
WaId VII when Prince OF Wales. honorary
member of the British Institute of Naval
Arcnitects-aS is the Grand Duke Con-
sianliIes Of Rrssia-cheValier OF the Legion
Of Honor. in France. and knight OF the
order Of Orange Nassau in Holland,
decoration conferred on MIN by Queen WI
helmina; The personal friend Of William Nc
kinleV banker. msuUfartTer, and oi-
rector %! tao Pennsylvania Railroad fjr
iveHtNtsi. years Ir. Crigcum owns two
""T's "f fancy ,o"s ard Peadies Uuk
among his n-iahbors.
What do you get for your milk
asked
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
By James 3. Morrow.


Philadelphia. Nov. Back TO the days
when Marcus A. Hanna was a travelling
salesman of groceries for his Quaker father
and was shipping a large part OF his mer-
chandise by canal; when John d. Rookie
feller. aged nineteen, was A commission
merchant on the shore Of the Cuyabogs
River. in Cleveland. and was entering his
contributions 10 charity and the church in
a little account book; when Henry II.
Rogers had quit clerking in village store
Tor s. a week and was baggage master
on a railroad in Massachusetts, being paid
s. j. q day for his work; when Henry ".
Flagler. country merchant In Ohio, was
sending Rockefeller consignments Of but
ter. eggs and grain, a safe business he
abandoned TO make salt I'm Michigan. at
which he failed, owing $1,000 he told
me. ITO fifty thousand Irishmen."
Pack in those days Clement Acton Girls
com son OF a Quaker physician in Phila-
delphia, was learning all about crockery
in the house of Peter Wright & Sons and
was being paid so year for hard toll that
began early in the morning and only
stopped At the edge Of night.
Groceries. produce, baggage, general
merchandise and crockery - diverse and
scattered interests, And embryonic mill
:ouaricS personally unknown 10 one an
other bot fhev were 10 come together Al
the cal of trade. some - partners and
some - friends IN the loyal ana symTa-
theiic intimacy Of money making
ono Hna lc6 10 .Eather iu 'ho chain II
coufrorcc tlat joi1od Tic oil of Eocke-
foiis l3aSlar snd RoE5r-. intended for The
f.ra.cr market. 10 Grisooin's ships and
fLaIl! ~ Il&uaa's Senate bill written by
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
VoSarIeS of Obese Crank y Machines Which
Hox,e Caused Dedfb. Wrecks
tie Loss of Prizes.

7 thought, and when they don't move they
won't. and no mule can outdo them in
mulishness
| Charles X. Hamilton. the lightest heavier
than-air operator that ever hailed from
Connecticut daring in the extreme. pre-
tended not to hear the taunts Of his motor
the day he few from New York TO Phila-
delphia and return. At New Brunswick
y. J.. one cylinder Of his eight pouted and
soon refused TO play with the others.
few miles further on the road TO yester-
day" another took its dolls and sat down In
a corner Hamilton knew enough of he
characteristics Of his power plant TO real
ize that the only chance at winning the
money for his trip was to talk placidly 10
himself as though he Were ignorant OF the
fact that two idlers were tagging along.
When the Governor OF Pennsylvania and
countless voters OF his state cheered Ham
ilton upon his arrival near the gas tank
the red-haired hero did not say one unlind
word about his temperamental twins. Like
fond mother, he petted them, sent to town
for lust the sweetest oil that they were
fOndest OF. and when asked before starting
back If he would so to Grants Tomb for
good measure said, behind his hand. so as
not to be heard BY his engine: IF my
motor is willing / will"
Perhaps it was for the best. But that
was an awful test OF a mans intentness
on winning a prize. For five hours sunk in
a swamp. compelled TO caress a motor that
went heartlessly on strike when within
twenty-five miles Of the goal
Just a quick glance abroad at dawn or
a summers morning, and Hubert Latham.
the idol of France, found himself literally
sitting in the sea while he smoked a cigar
cite. The Antoinette had left the shore at
Cherbourg twenty minutes before, the
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

Until man flies with rnotorless wings
results with motorless wings now the
dream Of engineers as well as poets-the
vsgsries of motors viii occupy his most
-nomentous moments when in the air and
he the subject Of his studious night
thoughts during the witching hours when
aviation fields are like banquet halls de-
serted
A flying machine motor without at least
one vagary! The farmer for the first time
saw the giraffe under the circus tent in
Posey County, Ind. lie saw it for nine
consecutive minutes. Just then the giraffe 5
head disappeared through an opening be-
tween the scallops Of the tent and the
farmer. tickling his chin fringe. said 10 his
wife: There amt no such critter."
The dramas that have been lived and
some day may be written for which the
vagaT1es OF motors have already been re-
sponsiblc, The fears and tears. the heart
burns and deaths their fickieness has
caused in the comparatively brief time that
has elapsed since Wilbur Wright flew first
over the sand dunes OF the North Carolina
coast less than seven years ago, Readers
Of the daily newspaper know how men in
she prime Of life and flushed with the Joy
Of doing wonderful things on high are
picked uTl an 100 frequently III l4ieSe early
days Of the science of aviation dashed 10
an unreoognizable mass, the sport of mo-
tors with ungovernable whims.
Wilbur Wright says aeroplane motors viii
never he much more trustworthy than now.
Are notorless wings. then. necessary If
flight by man is TO become anything like
general2 A thrashing machine company
is the latest recruit 10 the number OF in
vestigators in the field of aeroplane motor
perfection. Perhaps no judgment should
be formed until the thrashing machine
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

rational committee.
Locally every Assembly district has ex-
penses entirely apart from those enumer-
ated as county committee expenses. There
is a headquarters club in every Assembly
district open the year round, the expense
of which is betrayed by the members dues.
entertainments and chOwder parties. Some
districts never call on the county COM
mittee for any expenditures on their behalf
They themselves pay all their expenses Of
registration. Election Day. meetings. 5%ak-
ers and literature. There are only 20 or
three that can afford TO do this An ef-
fective campaign in Republican district
costs. including the expenses Of headquar-
tiers Of local candidates. $1,000. according
to my recollection. Have 1 not made it
clear that We need the money?
We can run an effective campaign in this
county for less than S2Os.0OO- We ought to
have s12O.OO0 We will have to do with
whatever we get. We will have to size
up the situation and guess at what we will
set and plan a campaign on that guess.
long before we get the money. If We
don't get it. we cut down we can. For
any difference between what we get and
what We incur. the chairman and treas
urer viii be dunned-a privilege of which
the nOh-paruclpatlhS feIOTmtt deIiiNeS
himself.
If you have not the newspapers with YOU
personal canvass is the only way To have
your side heard. ~ is as expensive as i.
is effective. over 100000 could he spent on
it lecitimately. All of which means that
unless you rely wholly on newspapers. in
Guiding those in opposition. You must spend
money 10 reach the voters mind. and local
candidates in great city receive almost
no notice from the newspapers. and never
will receive much attention. short baUor o.
long EaIIOt-Thc CufiOok
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

! request of the county chairman, because ne
believed the work he was asked to do was
& party and public service. The printing
item includes the printing of the primary
ballots. which under the present law has
to be done by the party organization, or by
I individuals.
Why do we need a force like this all the
year instead of merely during the cam
paign period? For several seasons. The
more ignorant the people are the more they
write 10 the county committee. 1t is a
bureau of information on political affairs.
Monthly meetings are held in halls, at
which special committees are frequently
appointed, and these committees need head
quarters for meetings and work. We had
a special committee on the subject of di-
rect nominations before it was ever agi-
tated by Governor Hughes, and prepared
a bill Much of the structure Of the Hin
man-Green bill was based on that bill.
That committee spent two or three months
at work on that bill. In 1906 we had TO pre-
pare the plan of reapportionment of Sen
ate and Assembly districts, and spent
four months at work on it, day and night.
One year we had a committee which in
vestigated fraud at the polls and which
started the work which has eliminated
forty thousand fraudulent votes. number
sufficient to have changed many Presden-
tiaI and gubernatorial elections.
During the summer months the lists Of
election officers have to be prepared and
filed. There are two inspectors. a poll clerk
and a ballot clerk of each of the two major
parties in every election district
In getting out the registration effectively
workers are needed, and they must be paid.
In the Presidential campaign this cost
about $12 800, and the money was well spent.
Republican and reform elections are won
on registration days. not on election days.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

Some people would register without any aid
or invitation. some will not register until
they are personally called upon. There
are. on the subject Of registration, all va
rieties OF human nature between the two
extremes.
The expenses of the campaign itself are
very great In each of two campaigns our
county committee spend more than $500
on postage We spent in printing one year
s240OQ and 5000 in addressing and mailing
Local candidates usually pay for their own
Autographs. their districts do; but there
is considerable expense for Autographs of
the leading candidates. and that expense is
included under printing. We do not pay
many speakers. Volunteer speakers are
uncertain quantities. especially in distant
localities; nor do they like to speak in the
open air, where the most educational meet
inEs are held; so that corps of paid
speakers must be maintained for truck
or "cart-taiT' meetings. and for the out
lying districts in the Borough of The Bronx
Some very able speakers are in such de-
nand that it IS only fair TO compensate
them for their time
Rent is an important item Of all indoor
meetings. Speakers and meetings will cost
about $4,000. five-sixths of 1t for meetings.
which means rent, some red fire to adver-
tise the meeting and sometimes music or
quartet TO sing campaign songs. This was
our average after l had cut out every
vestge of any plan of using the speakers
bureau patronage.
Important candidates, such as candidates
for President, Vice-President and Governor
have to be taken in automobiles in order
to meet their appointments. and so do the
reporters who are to comment. favorably
or UnfavOrably, on their speeches. Seven
hundred dollars must he allowed for auto
mobiles during a campaign. The speeches
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

FlaSler multiplied his stores throughout
Great Britain and pushed his business into
India. Germany and the United States I
fancy b@d character would have been
given to him had he been an American
What ! inquired ais the matter with
the country
II think we Americans are becoming
IecElesSly extra. dEant- We. condemn COM
'indtions. but BY the natural process Of
'"htra iizition We brought about economics
'n operation. and thus reduced the cost ~
many products Ia the consumer Ccmbina-
u"nS, therefore. We're an offset bv their
u iucnCr ON prices. To- the increasing ~
tritNaSar'e 81 the people There WAS q
natural balance, you SEE. and We were in
II" danger. But new ways OF spending
money are coming into fashion am "a
director in banks and trust companirs and
know what ' am talking about
MortSas"S are being nut on homeSs To-
"htom luXuries. What would have been
said five years ago OF a Young man who
Pledged his house. the refuge % his wife
ana children. that he miebt b,t, two or
three horses and a clrrtareq Wen. the
practice IL common now. only fht vehicle
5 not carriage. and the motor is "A gaso-
Iene enGine and not horseHesi. We arc
losing the old balance between economics
OF operation and our expenditures ior
.n'"SS that are not wholly necessary.
mere is a menace in the situation.
A"reo'es. have been thinkius abou,
the one million Immigrants who annually
swarm in'" o1r country rtrv are Ital-
iars. largely. and are p..,.lc., o., ,ur rail
Ways
iliS" come no more. and those who
w are not common Iaborers. The immi-