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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
WEDNESDAY cLrn PLANS

The Wednesday Club has the right
spirit. 1t is just checking up this
years finances. in order TO go ahead
with bigger plans for the future. The
members are not content with This fes-
tiVaIS laurels; they want to win fresh
glory. The success of the l9,2 CON
certs is an oncoura cement for high
hopes of more good music in Richmond
he people want IT. and they are will
Ing TO pay for It, and that means
STEADY growth until the desired goal
oil season of grand opera be reached
The Idea of charging and improv-
Ing the Auditorium is an excellent be-
ginning. The most beautiful setting
possible should go with the most beau
tifui music. The cost of putting In
more seats, of removing tho obstruct-
ing pillars of arranging for better
ventilation and of adding stage
should not he beyond the reach Of this
city Probably 5000 people commented
upon the attractlvcness of the bunting
ana Er3enery decorations In the hall
this year. They declared it had never
looked 50 festive ana brilliant. Yet
,tis WINS i,,s. ,t
done to give Richmond a di,-,,n.,,
Tor its music. And tn, concon,io, =.
adding more seats 10 enabI. = -5con,
Charge to be made is s.r,c,I,. y, ,.
ing with the educational Ideals NJ no
club. There are hundreds Of r,,s,o
lovers among tho poorer ci,,z.,s v.,,o
would he glad to hear an ,bro. co,-
certs, say for a season fec of s. Ave-
the moro people YOU educate ia love
music. the more music Won ,ap ,o.ora
10 have.
In connection with mex, season =,
may be suggested tina, som, ,rtn,-
town ADVERTISING and publ;citv co,,niod
with railroad rates. might r>s,1, IN ,
larger attendance. i prcss rp,o,,,
with q little money for posters and
newspaper matter. should bring in .
good return OH the investmht Tbo
stores might Offer some special attrac-
lions to outside shoppers during the
festival week. and by little nlnnninr
other attractions could y. aided TO
make the whole AFFAIR a kind If snr,n..
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
NEW STATE CHARTERS
Memphis Terminal Corporation to Operate
In

Memphis Terminal Corporation to Operate
In Norfolk.
Tie Memphis Terminal Corporation. of
Norfolk. yesterday Incorporated by tho
State Corporation Commission with char
ter allowing maximum capital stock OF
sl.50O.coD and n minimum OF $500. The fee
charged BY the commission was $500. the
maximum fee levied for ordinary business
concern. It's officers being Norfolk men.
The officers are: Il. II. Tunstall. president:
Alfred l.. Thomas. Jr.. vice. president; W.
b. walker secretary and treasurer.
Other charters granted yesterday
F!sherviIic Lime Grinding Company (IncD.
Fishcrvilic. Va T.. :. Boyd. president,
Mooresviilc. y. e.: j. o. Mann, vicc-presi-
dent ". n. Bailcys secretary and treasurer,
tishervilie. Va. Capital: Maxim.m 5000;
minimum, $500 Object: Lime business.
EsNis Morgan tLndp. Richmond j. Il.
Morgan. president: NJ. y. Recs. secretary:
G. II. Bailey. w. X Davis-all OF Richmond
Capital: Maximum $1,000; minimum. $1,000.
object: Brokerage and commission busi-
ness.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04

employment agencies those who will
consciously misrcpresent them. the
state would be nightly helped: but
the demagcguc who invokcs the name
OF the people TO be clected and then
comes to the Capitol to fight tax re-
form and befricnd the fee gentry man
ages to get here every time. The fault
lies. of course, with the people, and
none but the people. They choose TO
send demagogues here 20 misrcpresent
them. instead OF good men TO represent
the m. Their only remedy is TO keep
up with their misrepresentatives rec
"rds and gently but firmly apply the
hook
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
ID: I,LsOEI'NnIS

! Well. maybe Mr. Roosevelt is bette,
than Mr. Taft. OF vice versa, which w,
doubt, for to be better you have first
! To be good. and maybe the Titanic in
vestigat on will check mans mad rae,
! for speed and dollars at the terribl,
! price of life, ana maybe the Admin.
istrativc Board WILL as England does
nuddle through by policy of laisscz
iairc. which means trusting to luck
I and maybe the South Pole and the
North Pole and the Aurora Borealis
are or are not discovered. and maybe
anything else that frcts the futile
Hash of mans brief transit. but there
remains one indubitablc and certain
sanity in the rush OF the worid-spiri
in spring the young mans fancy.
and all sensible people would like to
go fishing
That is the zeal problem. the cry
from the depths. to get out of the
fever and the fret and the hard
boiled shirt. and go somewhere that
is restful and sylvan and cool, TO Toll
on the earth for glorious hours and
watch the grass grow and hearken to
what new melodies the mating birds
have learned. That is the call of the
wild that drags at the new barred feet
of boyhood, and makes tired business
men forget their paper worries to look
out the window and listen to the tru-
ant pleading OF a stray breeze. The
trout are leapng in many n Swallowed
branch deep in the coves of the Blue
Ridge and the stnl pools and lacey
falls hold a thousand ancient and
soothing consultations
Stevenson was right in his Apology
for Idlers.' when he wrote: Gle may
pitch on some tuft Of iilacs over a burn
and smoke innumcrable pipes 10 the
tune of the water over the stones.
bird will sing in thicket And there
he may fall into a vein of kindly
thought and see things in
new perspective" He knew something
of the highest good the philosophers
have sought. and ne knew too that
money making and politics and So
ciety and science are but machinery
with which humanity tries 10 produce
golden JOY of living. The desire to
get outdoors and seek simple pleas
ures is older than all our wisdom
and sensible talking. In this same
essay there is a keen estimate of
what, of all the mirk and turmoil that
entangles us. IS really worth while
Take 1T as motto for spring. The
shadows and the generations. the
snr!ll doctors and the planGent wars.
go by into ultimate silence and empti-
ness; but underneath all this a man
may see, much green and peaceful
landscape many hrelit pariors; good
people laughing. drinking and making
love as they did before the Flood or
the French Revolution; and the old
shepherd telling his tale under tho
ha wthOru"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
Voice Of the People
Duck vs. Goose.

70 the Editor of The Times Dispatch.
H,r'--Nc"Spapcr reporters are gem
orally accurate in their accounts of
PUBIC happenings. especially in regard
10 matters OF great civic interest
OOhihcht on THIS subjcct is prompt
issue or the near tragic affair on Main
street IL is taken for granted that
~ was Main Street The heading OF
1 ne article IN your paper is Duck
Blocks Traffic" whereas your morning
contemporary has It Goose Blocks;
street Traffic II is hoped that your
phfer is right. Tor to be supreme"
Now. IT occurs 10 the writer that ono
or the other or both of these report
ers should Join the back to the farm
movement and SO learn the difference
between the two birds In question.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
&c hands OF fallible men

finish in the hands OF fallible men
and Judges
In this Mr.. jefferson covered the
whole case as against the propaganda
of reform through judicial recall and
popular revision of judicial decisions.
Like Jackson's declarations, it en-
bodied warning to the American
people against the Colonels school of
statesmen and politicians ana reGcne-
rntors, and their disappointed ambi
ton and inordinate thirst for power"
II is prophetic Indictment of these.
which sane sober. thoughtfu. men
cannot but indorsc ~ true bill.
Verify. nay verify, 1t would appear
that in his arrogant prescription of
right to the support of The hcirship Of
Jacksonianism and Differentiation.
the colonel has placed himself be-
tween The upper and the neither mill
stones. the grist whereof not only
utterly discredits his claims, but his
Enowiedse OF political history and
his political sagacity as well. More
over it is ridiculously scif-stultifying.
Both Jacksonianism and Jefrcrsonian-
ism, as living forces and in the heri-
tase they left to the nation. rcpudi-
ate all such as the Colonel in toto.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
Building Permits.

BUILDING and repair permits were
issued yesterday as follows:
w. a. Aiken. Jr., to erect a detach.
ed two-story frame dwelling. 1923 Nc
Donough Street. to cost S2,46b.
Valentine Meat Juice COMPANY. r.
repair n brick warehouse, COL East
Cary Street. to cost $3.50.
o. J. Davis, to repair frame store
cost $500.
Lottie S. Cannon. to repair a bricls
store, 420 Vest Broad Street. 10 cost
$500.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04

Can it be true that the appearance
OF the Hon. Alden Bell in Richmond
III Il new straw means that his
nat Is In the ring for the Democratic
Vice-nresidcntial nomination? Far less
eloquent men have held the Office
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
CONGRESSMAN FLOOD AGAIN
DECLARED NOMINEE IN TENTH

Hal d. Flood Will again be declared the
nominee OF the Democratic party for Con-
Sressman from the Tenth District as soon
as chairman Joseph Button can call the dis
tlct committee together This announce
ION with the statement that the time limit
Tor candidates to submit their names had
EXPIRED. with no opposition to Mr.. Flood.
OF candidates could be entered. In rurs,
amce OF me statement recently issued, Mr.
fiood Will have his fee refunded by. The
State Treasurer.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04

Richmond man went into a cato
chantaHt in blackstone not long ago.
scanned the French menu. pointed TO
inc on 1t, and said to the waiter, "I'II
nave some of that, please" 81 am
sorry sir" the walter replied In true
"Fs'efheid county style. but the band
is playing that"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
QUERIES &
ANSWERS
The Titanic and the senntc.
Can you suggest any authority NV
which the committee or the Senate is
investigating the Titanic disaster?


which the committee or the senate Is
investigating the Titanic disaster?
w. NJ. PEYTON
So far as written authority goes
this committee has quite as much rish;
70 arrange the program of the mil
iennlum as to Investigate" the loss
OF the Titanic. Some ono has sur-
sestcd that the artist did well to pro
vide your Uncle Sam with n very
sharp and long nose. characteristics
by means OF which this interesting
member might the more readily be
insinuated into the business OF other
people. But tho disaster to the ~
tanic was rs monstrous that there was
a general feeling that something ought
"a, be done to fix the responsibility
and to lessen the likelihood of stint
lar horrors and. much as the Roman
senate used TO pass q blanket decree
In times of stress Ito provide that tho
republic take no harm" this senate
committee. in spite Of the absence of
written Jaw and in consequence of the
absence of more competent tribunal
mas aaken the matter up and. so far.
has proceeded with 1t In highly graft
Tying and effective style.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04

from experience with the Illusions
and mysteries OF the primary law
'o'n ut home ana abroad, we should
saw The law is In an advanced stage
OF pr'mevpl primitlveness.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
Marriage Liccnsc.

marriage license was issued yes.
terday In the Office of tho clerk OF
the Hastings Court to Charles A. Metz
ger and Mamie L. Turner.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
Sue Insurnnce Compnr

Sue Insurance Company.
SUIT was brought yesterday I'm TIM
Law and Equity Court by Josephine
GGrady against the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company of New York for
s''ooo. NO declaration has been fled.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
From the Class u Training Camp.

The team is looking simply great.
Dc're's nottin' TO IL boys,
Our aggregation's goin' TO be the. one
and only noise.
We're going to make the other sever
teams look mighty tame.
And we can't iisser out just how
were goin' to lose game
There's nottin' TO tho bunch at all
cXceptin' simply class
They'll even win the plaudits OF the
Teller with the pass.
Just take this bunch right off the bat,
j; somoway seems as how.
Us folks have just as good as got
that pennant clHlched right
The boy who writes the press stuff
TO US from tile training camp
Is bound to view the matter with an
optimistic lamp.
He says We've got some runners who
could make fs:in Hayes turn
His burning words of fulsome praise
almost crematc the mail
The big leagues overlooked a bet in
some uncallcd-for way
BY failing TO sign up this crown that
We have in our pay.
OF course. the owner might say more.
but modesty forbids.
Although 1t Will be just like taking
candy from the kids.
But when we come to recollect the
byGone baseball lore.
1t seems as though we've read this
same old line Of stuff before.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-04
Punctuation, tho Thicf OF Time.

celebrated Eastern educator COM
ma who has spent much time in study
ing literature comma tolls us that
the modern writer use too many
punctuation marks semcolon that nc
often gets them In the wrong place
ana that they are nuisance comma
anyhow period Another shark on lit
erature comma however comma says
that II is impossible for any person
to write without using punctuation
marks period Being of u genteel
turn comma we do not feel like com
ing right out and calling the latter
gentleman a quotation marks a liar
quotation marks but We have demon
Strnted comma to tho sat.siaction OF
ourself comma at least comma that
writing can be done without the use
OF any punctuation marks what
soever period. How do you like
It Interrogation point
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
Roosevelt Only Once
Before a Candidate For
the Presidential Office

that the failure to exclude it was
practically declaration, if not in
favor of it, at least not against.
Washington did not attach great
importance to the question. He re-
fused third term merely because
he was too old, and sought the rest
which he had so well earned. Prof.
McMaster, the historian, says: mo
scruples about a third term troubled
him in the east. He went back to
private life solely because he was
tired of the presidency and because
the state of the country did not de-
mand a further sacrifice of his COM
fort. Thomas jefferson insisted
that there were certain contingent
cies in which he might accept third
term. The fight against Grant was
factional fight between certain
wings of the Republican party, and
the third term was used against
Grant to defeat Conklin. The New
York World favored Cleveland for a
third term; so did the Post and
Times of New York.
We once had a tradition stronger
than that against a third term. 1t
was against entangling foreign al
liances and the requirement of
colonial possessions. Yet the course
of events compelled us to acquire
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phlippin-
es, and the constitution followed the
big flag, and the Supreme Court
followed the election returns. Shall
we now follow blind tradition in
these days of different conditions,
when no political clique can control
only the voice of the people express
in preferential primaries?
But some one says that Col Roose-
welt expressly declared he would not
accept another term, and that by
changing his mind he is subject to
the charge of being inconsistent.
Very WELL Now, listen to the vacil-
lating Washington. When he said
time and again that he would not
again upon laying down his com
mission as Commander-in-Chief of
the influential Aamy, that he
would not again serve in any public
office. In a farewell address to
Congress, he said: Having now
finished the work assigned me, | re-
tire from the great theatre of act
ion, and bidding an affectionate
farewell to this august body, under
whose orders | have long acted. /
here offer my commission, and take
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
Not to ColOnize,

Although Antelope Valley offers
great possibilities for the small farm
er, the idea of colonization which
has been talked of the past few
years, received a setback by the
purchase of the Hickey holdings by
Moffat & Humpheries, stockmen.
The entire Hickey holdings, COM
prising thousands of acres hay and
pasture land, is far from being
adequate for the requirements of
this giant live stock company. 1t is
understood that the land leases Civ
en- by the Hickey company before
their deal with Moffat & Humphries
will not be renewed upon termina-
ton. Several of these leases expire
next year while others three years
yet to run. ksSMN
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
Wilson,,
Historian

"A great poverty and depres-
sion had come upon the western
mining regions and upon the
agricultural regions of the West
and South. Prices had fallen.
Men of the poorer sort were idle
everywhere, and filled with a
sort of despair. All of the larg-
er cities and manufacturing
towns teemed with unemployed
workingmen, who were with
the utmost difficulty kept from
starvation by the systematic
efforts Of organized charity.
Not until the very year 1897,
when the Republican admins
tration came in, did the crisis
seem past.
Who wrote that? Why, Woodrow
Wilson wrote it in his History of
People" He wrote it
when he was a historian and not
of ever being a candidate.
He wrote it because it was the truth.
Read itagain, now that you know
who wrote it.
Not until the year 1897, when the
Republican administration came in,
did the crisis seem past"
Whata sentence that is-that is
why we have set it out by itself
Repetition and reiteration, damned
is sometimes necessary
to get these things into the minds of
men as active forces.
We thank you, Mr.. Woodrow
Wilson, historian. But we have a.
bout decided not to follow Mr..
Wilson, candidate for President.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01

A would-be assassin has declared
that his bullet was directed against
Theodore Roosevelt's body because
no man who attempted to secure a
third-term as President was fit to
live. His logic was as Intellectual as
his bullet. But he has done one
good thing. He has emphasized for
this campaign the question whether
Col. Roosevelt actually seeks a third
term as President, and is so whether
he is waging war against the best
traditions of the country. Col.
Roosevelt succeeded to the presiden-
co on the death of President Kc-
Kinley and for practically all of the
three succeeding years he carried on
his administration with a Cabinet
selected by Mr.. Mckinley and with
out the preparation for his office or
his policies which every successful
candidate, between November and
March, gives to so important a task
He was never, before this year, a
candidate, for the presidency but
once, and then he was elected by the
largest majority ever given a presi-
dental candidate. He left the office
the most popular citizen of the
country.
No sane man would contend that
Col. Roosevelt could not have been
re-nominated in 1908, and most like
ly reelected. But he refused.
Waving aside every quibble as to
whether he had actually come with
in the tradition against third term
counting his first three years in
office as against himself and in favor
of the tradition Roosevelt refused
to run. Had he been personally
ambitious, he would have accepted
the denomination. When the tra-
dition against third term became
an unwritten law of the country,
the President was elected by ma
chinery which he could control more
effectively than any political party
has controlled political machinery in
the last fifty years. 1t was in fact
before the days of well-defined po-
litical parties. The question was
threshed out in the constitutional
convention, and nowhere in the con-
constitution is there a prohibition
against third term. Our consti-
tutional friends should remember
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01

womankind, declaring her to be
mans equal and therefore capable
of taking part in casting ballots at
the polls. He illustrated the
strength of woman in a most beauti-
full and pathetic example displayed
by Mrs. Strauss, when she refused
to leave the Titanic and with her
arms about her husband was ushered
into the presence of her Creator.
She could have been saved but when
she learned that her husband must
stay behind, she refused to leave
him. Strength of woman is that
which makes her mans equal.
This meeting was as well attended
as any meeting held here during
the present campaign.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
THIS COUNTY
|SFROSPEROUS ?
Per Capita Reaches
Near the $4,000
Mark.

The total assessed valuation of
property in Douglas county for the
fiscal year is 81, 102, 1926, $328,675 of
which represents personal property.
The assessed valuation is about one
third of the actual valuation of
property, but for the sake of argu-
ment we will place it at one-half of
its actual valuation. The last GEN.
sus gives the white population of
Douglas county at 1850. According
to these figures the per capita of
every man, woman and child within
the county is 81 ,S56.36. When it re-
membered that the per capita in the
United States is below $40, it does
not take much of mathematician to
arrive at the conclusion that Doug
las county has some wealth. Very
few counties in the country can
make such showing.
In connection with this it is esti-
mated that the hay yield of Douglas
county is something over $4,000 tons
annually, $500 tons of wheat, 81
900 tons of barley, 7S4 tons of oats,
$50 tons of potatoes, 661 $50 pounds
of butter, 10000 pounds of wool,
besides the beef and mutton that is
marketed each year. Hogs bring
the farmer a good profit while the
annual egg and poultry business
amounts to over $35, ,000 The farm
ers of Douglas county have great
market for their produce and are
not worrying over the high cost of
living.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
United In
Marriage

AT the Lutheran Church last Fri
day evening Miss Ellen Petersen be-
came the bride of J. l.. Hoffman.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Menzel, while the couple was
attended by Mrs. C. F. Hendricks
and A. w. II. Helberg.
The bride has made her home with
Mr.. Hendricks, a relative, for a
year or more and is held in the high
est esteem by all who have gained
her acquaintance.
The groom is the energetic and
hustling owner of the cement tile
plant at Minden. Since residing in
this community he has made many
friends.
They have set up housekeeping at
Minden.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01

The biggest magazine scoop" in
recent years has just been achieved
by The Ladies' Home Journal.
Four of the best known writer's in
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Jane Adams, Margaret Deland, Ida
M. Tarbell and DIR. Lyman Abbott.
The subscription price of The
Ladies' Home Journal is 81 so year
so subscribe now through the agent
The Kane Drug company. Adv.
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01

my leave of all the employments of
public life
Later in many letters, but par
ticularly in one to Col. Henry Lee,
in response to the suggestion that he
should allow his name to be used in
the contest for the presidency, he
said: Might | not, after the de-
claration | have made land heaven
knows they were made in the SINGER
ity of my heart) in the judgment of
impartial world and of posterity, be
chargable with levity and inconsist-
ency, if not with rashness and am
bition."
The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
Total
I 1o92
Total

Total -474
These figures show the result of
the shifting sands of time and the
changes which twenty years bring
about. In 1892 there were two pre-
cincts at Lake Tahoe with COM
bined number of n votes. This
year there are not enough voters
at the Lake to hold a precinct. In
1892 there were but lat voters reg
istered in East Fork precinct and
this year more voters are registered
here than in all the other precincts
combined.