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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16

Tree Puzzle.
What's tho telltale tree?
The daintiest tree?
And the traitors tree?
The long wishing tree?
And the tree like an Irish nurse:
What round itself doth entwine?
What's the housewives tree?
The tree OF tho people?
That half given TO doctors when i'll
What's the tree that in death be-
nights you?
The tree that to travel invites YOU?
And the tree that forbids you 10 die
MARGARET DANIEL
Nohend. Va.
4 Song of the United states Cities.
said little Johnnie to the owl:
I've heard you're wondyous wise.
Now. please don't tell me lies
The first thing I'd have you tell,
My empty mind 10 hll.
Pray. was II that explosive beef
That made Chicago. Iii?
I've heard It SAID. yet do not know.
Then tell me. is II lots OF dirt
That makes Seattle. Wash,
When certain things will no, go
To rlsht them we should try;
Sets Providence. r. l.?
Another thing wish could
Inform my waiting class
Is Just how many priests II takes
To say the Boston. Mass7
This is the time Of running debts.
As YOU must surely know;
This secre, then impart to me:
How much does Cleveland. or
In ages, too. you must be learned.
More so than many mon.
SO, toll me in, n whisper. please
When was Miss Nashville. Tenn
LYRA V RANSOM
Masonic Home. Richmond. Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
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VIOLA P BEADLES.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
Thinks Club Progressive.

Dear Editor.--I received my prize o. K
and certainly do appreciate II. Plense ac-
eep' my thanks. ! have lust finished reading
IL. and think II was excellent don't see
how YOU can choose such good bookn for
hoys, a. am cure never read more
interesting ono. l think there are some
progressive artists and writer's in our club
II they keep improving Il will he but "A
short time until we Will have some more
like Charles Dana Gibson. Ida NJ. Tarbei
Robert w. Chambers and others am
thinking and hoping. Please find inclosed
puzzles and drawing. which hope Will
he available for the pake think the
pieces by the blind boys were nne. I would
like TO correspond with any OF our members
am sixteen years old and weigh $50
pounds Ny favorite sport is boxing. 1
think II is hne exercise I will close with
hest wishes 20 the editor and members re-
main your member.
CLARENCE K WYArr
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
THE TIMES DISPATCH RICHMOND VA SUNDAY JULY 1e 1911
Cores bondeuce. Column
Housekeeping Now.

Dear Editor.-weli. am housekeeping
now. Mother has been away one week. and
my sister and are housekecpins l am
cook and she Is house-rieancr. made my
first Pie the other day. but didn't much
like TO put ii on tile tnblc. bccaus. wns
afraid that II might XIII my sister and
father. But II didn't. Theodore Cornan Is
spending his vacation in Elkton and has
been in Shenandoah different times. | want
TO so to Bristol about the 18th. but
haven't fully decided. | go TO Bristol every
summer TO visit my grandmother. and al
ways have such fine time that | would
certainly hate to miss going this summer.
] want the girls that | was visiting in
South Boston and girl | met ftom Dan
VILE TO visit me the list OF August. Now II
they come. won't that be grand? My
cousin. Claricc Baker. went to Abingdon to-
day 10 visit grandfather. I would have
gone with her, but mother was away and
that prevented my going. Mary. my sister.
IS going fishing party tomorrow. 4
am sure she will enjoy herself. but doubt
whether she will catch any hsh or mott She
is going To spend the day away. and one of
my friends namely. Lillian Elliott, will
spend Tomorrow with Well am
afraid that have already written too
much so sending my hes; regaris % tho
editor and members. am, sincerely
MARGARET VANCE RoPP.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
Patriotic Puzzle.

What battle fought by American
troops? c. *. WYATT.
Conway. s. c.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
Working Hard to Win Medal.

Dear Editor,-I am just writing a short
note 70 ask few questions. | would like
to know the age limit for members of the
/. ID {. C.? imagine IL is seventeen. but
am not certain, Were any prizes given at
the Child's Conference. and will there he
any given at the fair? Since school closed
nave had plenty of time to write for the
paGe and am working hard to win a
medal have never won one but would
NE 10 so much. though never expect to
De SO fortunate. ! want to congrstulats
curtis Elder for his splendid drawings
mink his some OF the hest on the mage
Sincerely. your member.
COURTNEY X MEADE.
Mannhoro Va.
Editors Note-No prizes we're given Al,
prizes refer you 10 answer in editorial
letter OF July O. 1911.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
Shenandoah. Va.
A Hromise Entitled.

Dear Editnr,-HavinG promised you sew
eral times that | would send something for
the exhibit. | now fulfilling my promise.
certainly hope every one of the members
Will have a glorious Fourth. | am going
to Buckroo Beach and take pictures ! have
fine camera. II takes pictures four and
one-half inches by Two and one-half. There
tho Fourth of July. and think there will
be several excursions from Richmond
wish to say that j. b. Burwelrs cartoon
this week is fine. and Lyra Ranson's draw
ing Is good too. Hoping you all will havo a
nice time on the Fourth. I remain your true
member, EVELYN E. DYKE.
?Sis Washington Avenue. Newport News
Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16

Dear Editor.-l know you think am very
unsrateful not TO have written before TO
thank you for my prize. received II lac,
saturday, and was anxiousi to read
about The Story Book Girls" that by Mon
day afternoon | had finished IT, / think the
story is fine. You don't know how overjoy-
ed was when received the T. D. C. c.
medal Wednesday. 1t was so kind In YOU
to award me the medal for June and
certainly do appreciate II. am very much
interested in the State Fair exhibit. and I
am going to try to send several pieces OF
work. J. 3. Burrell, / received the Staun-
ton papers which were sent. and thank you
very much for them, l read with great
Interest the kind words written by friends
concerning your graduation. etc. Evelyn
Philips. am real glnd you won the medal
for which YOU were working l think II
was so nice for our editor to send YOU and
Baldwin Burwel A special prize. am send
ing to-day story. Celebrating the Fourth"
and also answers to some OF the puzzles I
was very much surprised to sac my story
in print last Sunday. | hope these contri-
buttons. IL worthy. will meet the same good
luck. Thanking you again and again for
my prize and medal, I remain your sincere
member. EsTELLE GATES
27l Byrne street. Petersburg. Va.
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Ryrne Strcet. PetershurE. Vo
VIII Send August Heading.

Dear Editor.-Inclosed you will nnd one
drawing. which hope will escape the waste
basket ! would have drawn n heading for
H. MS the June heading wac drawn By me-
Will send good one for August. would
IKE to Know If YOU can reproduce charcoal
dFawlnEs upon our page. ! see In your let
ter that You told us to have some good
drawings for the fair. will send several
good ones as ] have plenty OF time
TO draw them in. would like 10
Know II YOU give a prize to the
one that sends the best drawing every week
or wnether you aim 1t SO that all will get
prize I Will close From your true
member G. G. EIDER
Brookneal, Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-16
CLARENCE X. WYATT.
A GRATEFUL Medallst.

Conway. s. C.
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Alwnys Rends the Page.

BarboursviIle. orange county y:
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

will refuse to sell or part with the
land. Once public ownership OF land
values comes into general vogue, the
rents accruing now from land and go
ing into the pockets Of individuals
will go into the pockets Of the public.
When this system Is introduced
poverty will vanish, except among
those who deserve to be poor on ac-
count of their refusing to work.
All this Is not an idle dream.
am voicing the sentiments of hun
dreds of able reformers whose care
fully worked out deductions are mat
tiers OF record. In another quarter or
century these views will have come
into general acceptance and every one
will be astonished to think that they
were ever questioned.
Great reforms come gradually. At
first they appear absurd. Then the
people, one by one. begin to think
them out for Observation-Disclosures
grows and the barriers or ignorance
break down. The walls OF the Jericho
OF Ignorance fall before the trumpet
blast OF knowledge. That is all.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
ADVERTISING TALKS

FOOLw was angry instantly
and called him another kind OF
a fool. Then he laughed harder
than ever.
That little incident in my life
made a great impression on me.
1 don't like to be FOOLED. |
don't know of anybody else,
either, that likes to be fooled
do you?
This April day is good time
to again call the attention of ad-
vertisers to the fact that moth
ing makes people angrier than
to respond to an ADVERTISE
MENT THAT FOOLS THEM.
Don't put a few articles on
sale at reduced prices just to at
tract attention and then when
you get customers in the store
say to them:
1--WE just sold the last article,
but we have something here just
as good"
Reduction sales are all right
enough when they are honest
and when the quantities to be
sold are specified, but DON'T
TRY TO FOOL THE PEOPLE.
They won't stand for it.
1t is not a question of morals
any more than it is question of
good business-to put out adj
vertising that STATES FACTS
and then back up the facts IN
the store.
More people will buy wool and
cotton, mixed, if you tell them
the truth than will buy alleged
all-wool with cotton in it if you
try to make them believe it is all
wool.
(To be continued.)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
Getting Rich W,tbonf Working
~ ONE WHO MADE A MILLION.

the property the broker had hard
job to convince me that l was not
being swindled. | now know that he
was real friend of the monopolist.
The increased value that has been
caused by the increase of population
and industry in the neighborhood has
trebled the propertys value,
This property has increased by
leaps and bounds without the least
effort on my part. l have not even
visited the property a dozen times.
This increase In land value comes
to me simply because have had
the instinct TO take advantage Of the
thrift and industry of others.
To whom does this value really be-
long? Obviously to no one but the
people whose industry created it
certainly not to me.
The point Is that no great for
tunes are made unless one has spe-
cial privilege over ones fellow men.
The land Is the only thing without
which people cannot exist. Yet the
monopoly Of this one essential is per-
mitted without the slightest compunc-
ton on the part OF the state.
Economic writer's from Moses to
Henry George have proved conclu-
sively that the land belongs to the
whole people-to the sons OF men,
In general. As John Stuart Mill well
put IL: NO man made the land; it
Is the original Inheritance OF the
whole species. The land of every
country belongs to the people of that
country"
When a lawyer draws up a long
title and tells you you own a piece
Of land, that is a piece of pure fiction.
Blackstone himself knocks the bottom
out OF this ownership idea. He wrote
Accurately and strictly speaking
there is no foundation In nature or
In natural law why a set OF words
on parchment should convey the do
minion Of land"
In alluding. therefore, to myself
and others who have acquired wealth
by investment In land, | think 7 am
right In saying that we are robbers
Of natural rights.
campaign OF education to con.
vince the people that they are en-
titled to the earth Is wanted Once
this truth Is realized you will see no
more voluntary poverty, for people
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
BY JOSEPH FEls.

Nothing is more timorous than a
million dollars, except two million
dollars" quotes Henry George In his
Social Problems"
Did you ever stop to think why q
million dollars should be afraid OF
anything? Did you ever ask your
self why a millionaire in his money
making transactions prefers to move
along. so TO say. on thu shady side
OF the street with his hat pulled
down over his eyes?
The real reason why wealth is
afraid OF It's own shadow IL that the
manner OF its making would not, in
most cases, bear investigation. Elk
posture is what wealth fears most.
Public opinion has grown ques-
tioning. Gradually II has dawned
upon US that II would be well nigh
impossible, under right conditions,
for any man-without undue advan-
tage from some form OF privilege or
monopoly-to make as much as a
million dollars by his own individual
effort.
Great wealth can only be acquired
by some form OF special privilege.
Take, for instance, my own per-
sonal experience. Once a real estate
broker sold me piece Of property
near Philadelphia. When I bought
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
From Another Point of View

George P. codd would make nne circuit judge April fool
On hand who a
really Aprlfooed
advertising chief
chance for somebody who has rheumatism
going to dry do likewise?
Ohio, telling
be Aprilfooled again Monday
Repubica judicial
Manden p Codd which,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

Joseph Fels is a millionaire. He has
made much out of land speculation. He
makes Fels -Naptha soap. Thus he has
also made a lot OF money by real en-
deavor. But much OF II was without
making any endeavor whatever. He
frankly confesses that he Is a robber-
like the rest OF the millionaires. In
an article on How Men Get Rich With
out Working" published in the current
Pearsons magazine, he tells how he
made money thus by merely taking ad-
vantage of conditions that prevail In
civilized society. For instance. no has
a piece OF land near Philadelphia that
he holds as a horrible example" of the
evil OF private ownership OF land He
has never spent a cent on that land
outside of the purchase price and tax
es, and now II Is worth three times
what IL cost him He thinks there 10
a screw loose in q system under which
a man can thus make money without
working for 1t at all. and he IL doing
all he can to upset the system. He Ii
q strong Henry George man, and de-
votes most OF his spare time working
for the land values tax. Following Is
the gist Of his article on getting rich
without worhng):
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

illiu SCH. oiNCh W.
to die. three or
seven times, he
has fooled Father
Time, to bob up
again as lively as
ever with a new
stunt. So "Cyranno
de Bergerac' was
W ritt en-, a lso
"L'Aiglon," of hap
Ply memory, TO say
nothing Of Chan
ticler," which he
first conceived as
long ago as 1903.
But the best
April fool joke he
ever nut over was
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
OBSERVATIONS

that the price OF cns
time that TINS
confess NOW tne
be
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

Footprints.
To leave footprints in the sands OF
time
Is not always leaving facts.
There are lots of men trying hard
To cover up their tracks.
A little bit OF sunshine,
A little bit OF rain:
A little bit of happiness,
A little BIT Of pain.
A little bit OF toiling,
A little bit Of strife
And you have the sum and substance
or the average mortals life.
Men who work In salt mines are
immune from cholera and scarlet
fever.
The average standard watch ticks
157, 0S0,00 times year and the
wheels travel 1855 3-4 miles.
A job begun is half finished.
An unwise persistence had given
could not speak one word Of parle
vous, but determining not to show his
ignorance, he pointed to an item on
the elaborate bill and said:
TIL have some of this, please"
with difficulty the garcon restrain
ed his smile as he said, Il am sorry
sir, but the orchestra IL playing that
piece now"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

when he donned green suit and
broke into the sacred circle OF the
Forty Tmmortals" mostly moss
backs) whom he addressed on six diff
ferent subjects in one speech.
p. Sizes forty-three years old to-
day
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
Dads PLANT.

The kind OF seeds I sowed last year
that never did come up; the lawn |
moved after many a tear-Ah, bitter
is my cup! The ice bills that I
thought were gone; wife's board bill
by the sea. They're back again for
spring is on. Oh. misery, you're me!
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

George P. Codd, who will be re-
called as Detroit's most brilliant
failure as mayor, got into that office
through a political accident. il
The big Roosevelt vote the same
fall that Codd ran, carried Codd into
the mayoralty.
But accident that he was, and fail
ure that he was, these facts had no
bearing upon his powers in that Of
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

MADE. he these facts had nc
bearing upon his powers in that Of
lee Of which appointment the department heads
Though Colds rebuked by the turning out of
Codd the presented the political machine
toward the building up appOntve power directed
survives today.
80.
Judge citizenship BLAME
lsr Colds nomination.
It nomination which put. upon this good citizenship solemn
It nomination which puts duty upon every newspaper
Detroit unless newspapers
acknowledge that they quit cold in their responsibility the public
THE DUTY OF THIS CITIZENSHIP IS TO REGISTER IT'S PRO-
TEST AGAINST JUDGESMP FOR GEORGE p CoDD
THE DUTY PRESS OF DETROIT AND WAYNE COUNTY
IS SOUND FORCE vIGOR RINGING WARN
ING AGAINST SUCH A PUBLIC CALAMITY ELECTION OF
C0DD TO THIS OFFICE
We have the mayor" Justify putting
upon necessity of defeating Cod candidate for Judge
That record closed with linking Colds official position
Of the Detroit United Railway saddle upon city
sr ngterm franchise time when all Of of city
vs. opposed such settlement its traction difficulties
Tho lending of this office the cys gift
He plan Of corporation thwsrt the VIII of citizenship
@ Codd of corporation tendencies bias and prejudice unbecomng
and uniting him for satisfactory service the public
| bs realized
mayor utterly inposed give hearing those
he served and who paid him his salary would side
unqualified by temperament and annss to sit judge
Ut word in any issue
To the electng hundreds of workers comprising his
cal machine going the political trickey
Their strongest card advice
cattle Of requirements political
obs Codd and Codd alone exclusion
his party ticket safeguard against possibility
"a mistake being made under the multiple
report further overlooking no
opportunty trade and sacrificing the other Republican
dates matter whom the trade hits.
Times opinion threi only way
tsctics
party consequently
DOES from the standpoint of the public
interest Of q sound Judiciary
That suggestion VOTERS WAYNE COUNTY
IHER BALLOTS FOR SIX DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
|onCUrT BENCH
quantity tried and
found good like Judge Mnde instance would rather
side Of member
~ bancy capacity by Codd
nhine for the purpose of EIECTING Codd
suggestion citizenship
Codd following ocehods and profess
politicians playing the AGAINST the interests Of the
rod citizenship.
machine is that desperate willing
Judge Mand place Codd ON the citizenship
willing sacrifice Judge worthy object
of keeping Codd OFF the bench.
the blanket suggestion would simplify
voting and would preclude the possibility good
esn finding that HIS vote through slip had
Codd.
suggestion, Voter in our desire as
toward the people defeated this
cmcc
IA AMY AND EVERY DEMOCRATIC AsP1RANT FOR THE OFFICE
AID NEXT IN ORDER, ONE OF THE FIVE OTHER REPUB
11CANs BEFORE GEORGE P C0DD.
OSCAR und ADOL
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
OUR DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Speaking OF All Fools day, Edmond
Rostand is something of fooler
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01
Gorge P. COdd
Should Be Defeated
For Circuit Judge

- That End, The Times Advises
<He Citizens To Vote the Straight
4 Democratic County judicial
=. Ticket, THAT NO POS
siBLE MISTAKE BE
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

On May champagne will sninnss
bottle in London the OUTLOOK
bubble on
GOES UP' champagne OF vntases
4 = older than19 he
champagne
being depleted shouio
TOT isi
promising"
NJ Guay manager OF the
folk who frank
confidently
to a
would
and
boeths
a too
Of champagne
district
only
horseradish
But at best,th
viously
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-04-01

was o OF
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here valuable property interests which require her attention.
 Monday the company of the United States Signal Corps, com manded by Captain Hartman, which had been stationed at No- gales several weeks, struck camp and entrained for Hachita, near the Mexican line in New Mexico, where the command has taken station.
 Wednesday afternoon the Santa Cruz Club Auxiliary had their usual semi-monthly social meeting. The hostesses were Mrs. Moore, Mrs. McCurdy, Mrs. S. F. Noon and Mrs. O'Connor. A very in- teresting musical programme was rendered and dainty refreshments were served.
 The Peoples Church (Congrega- tional) Terrace Avenue, Sunday, March 26th, 1911. You are invited to worship with us. Two high class studies that will give you a spiritual uplift, will be given. Sub jects- sane, safe, sensible. II a. m., "Simon-The Crossbearer" or "Black Yet White" 7:30 p. m., "Stories Mary Told Jesus" being prelude to the evening address 7:30 p. m., "The Face of Jesus Christ" A hearty welcome for all w. A. Laughlin, Minister.
 Last week Doctor A, H. Noon received newspapers from Provo Utah, announcing the death of his
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brother, Dr. Alonzo Noon, who had been a resident of that city many years, honored and respected by all. Deceased had held during twenty years the post of city justice, and he was also judge of the juvenile court. He was also very prominent in masonry, having been the first grand master of the grand lodge of Utah. Deceased was seventy-one years of age.