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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10
Y, N. c. A. BRANCH
FOR S0UTHS|OE
HOLDS MEETING
AND COMPLETES PLANS FOR
BENEFIT OF BOYS.

Definite plans were completed in re-
gard TO esta blishiug a Southside Boys
Branch Of the Young Mems Christian
Association OF Richmond at q meeting
OF a number Of citizens from south
Richmond held last night In the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A. building.
The continued severe weather has
with J. p. Jones presiding. Two brief
talkn were made reviewing the bust
ness transacted in former meetings
and giving an outline OF the good that
can be accomplished by sssaonsnins
a branch Y. NJ. &. A. in the Southstde.
The applications for membership
now reaches q total OF over $50. For
the present the rear Of the Leader
building Will be used by the associa-
ton, but as tho membership increases
larger quarters will be procured. The
rooms that the Branch Y. M. c. A.
will occupy for the present win be the
rooms once used by the Dixie Ath-
letic Club. recently disorganised.
J. 0. Arroll. now OF the Central Y.
NJ. G.. A., will be the secretary OF the
Southside branch. An assistant will
also be appointed. Mr.. Arroll Is well
known by the poys. on both sides ct
the river and by the interest he has
manifested In them has mace many
friends. Though young. Mr.. ArroH
10 thoroughly capable OF conducting
the branch as he has been doing this
class OF work for some time.
Twenty men has been appointed
to canvass South Richmond today ana
tomorrow to raise the necessary VI
600 needed before putting the as
ISOLATION into operation.
The hours that the canvaSsers Will
solicit the city will be tram I'D 80 ]
O'Clock In the morning and from
to o'clock in the afternoon. The
headquarters for the solicitors will be
in the ONCE w. c. Pulliam, rooms
and I, Leader building.
1t IL thought that the $1,000 will
be raised before s o'clock tonight.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10
CHILDREN'S CLOTHES
ESPECIALLY WANTED

The Salvation Army makes an e.
.pecial appeal to the charitabiy In
clined to send CASTOR clothing. shoes
:sm.a sutssxwexr. af.na tshanE M
particuIar-to the assny .hsadquAr.
tiers. s1s East Broad street. whore
the articles win be used IN relieving
need.
The Salvation Army has sent out
hundreds Of garments and q Argo
quantity Of food and fuel
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10
JUDGE WITT IS
GETTING BETTER

Judge Samuel b. Witt. Of the Corr
poration Court. Wa doing well lase
night. according n Information OBJ
tanned from his family physician. His
condition. said the doctor. was more
favorable. He II suffering from . So
vere attack Of pnsumoniA.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10

To have been routed bag and baggage
as often as he has been Mr.. Bryan's political
rough riding leaves him with remarkably we'll
stocked saddle bags.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10

10 living of OF and at the expense Of another
Get.
1t happens that the results are even worse in
that not only the innocent suffer for the guilty.
and not only the guilty suffer for their own
wrong but that the State itself suffers incai-
culably for Furnishing one section in order that
another section may escape. Tax reform IL no
mere punitive measure devised to make those
who have been inadequately assessed pay ade-
quateiy 1t is. on the contrary, clear neces-
sty called for in the interests OF the self-pre-
servation OF a whole people.
For twenty years the practice OF assessment
of property for State purposes by local officials
has been responsible for what has been scan
dial in the fiscal conduct of the Commonwealth.
For twenty years counties such as Scott. RS
Carroll as Grayson. as Patrick, and Franklin,
and Floyd have drawn for county needs from
the State treasury from $4,000 to $4,000 and
more money! year than. they contribute to
their keep as integers of the State government
And this not at all because they were not
rich because they did not possess taxable prop
erty and responsible citizenship capable OF
responding to their obligations as citizens. but
simply because of the growth here and there
in the case of local officials of the nsidious
policy of avoidance OF the most natural and
proper of all duties.
Every hog may not be the same as every
other hog but one peFker does not vary from
another in glory 10 the extent that the pork
10 at a
while tina, of IIenrico pays 10 the State upon
an assessment OF $6.97; one head OF cattle may
be worth more than another. but the $2S.2l
cattle of Loudoun would not maintain such
an enhanced value over the $514 cattle or
Grayson in any market save that of State tax
assessments.
Richmond like to believe in property
and business is on the point of attaining me-
tropoitan rank. but We should hate to think
that the fact that Richmond contributes more
than sl39 OIL in net revenue to the upkeep OF
the State than all the one hundred counties
combined serves to fix the relative wealth and
prosperity of Richmond and the State at large.
Such an intolerable condition be met
only by the inauguration Of a central system
of taxation under which the State. through
identical officials shall establish the basis OF
valuations under which the separate counties
shall pay for the privileges which they OBTAIN
of the State and under which they shall contri-
butte to the support OF State institutions. Such
a plan does not involve imposing upon poor
county a burden 1t can i'll afford 1t does aim
to deprive the rich county of the option OF as
suming It's proper burden or throwing 1t on the
shoulders OF others.
The bill to inaugurate this reform. providing
for an unpaid tax commission with one salaried
ofic!al. will be arefully drawn. 1t should have
the support and encouragement, not only OF
those counties which have suffered by reason
of senseless discrimination. but Of those. also.
to whom the saving of money needed to be
spent Ia the payment of just debts cannot com
pensate for the humiliation OF dependency.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10
Calls on Kings Dansi,tcrn.

The continued servere weather has
brought several calls to the E1lg's
Daughters from needy families. ask
stus fosScpaa RDAs al
Tho COMMITTEES. composed Of MrH'
Bemus, Mr.. Richardson and Miss
Burket, has had its hands full for the
past few days relieving the situation
They have worked faithfully putting
fares into many homes that otherwise
they would not have been warmed.
In the past few days the committee
OF the Kings Daughters have relieved
twenty-five different families and
brought warmth into their homse.
The Kinx's Daughters have done much
towards helping the poor and the af-
flicted since they have been organiz-
ed. They are now CARING for several
blind girls and many cases OF tuber-
culosis that cannot be entered for the
present At Pine Camp.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10

william Henry Jones. colored. was
fined SO and costs yesterday In Po-
lice Court, Part II. by Justice H. A.
Maurice. on the charge Of disordsriy
conduct.
Jones walked into the Police Station
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10
NEWS OF SOUTH RICHMOND

Monday night In an intoxicated con-
dition and demanded the police -
search for q man. who. he Claimed
had robbed him OF -.
The police refused to grant his raths
err indefinite request. which arousc0
the anger OF Jones. He was placed In
cell TO cool Off.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-10
Warning to Citizens.
Miritres Felkss Guest.

Eagles To Install Officers.
Stonewall Jackson Aeria Of EAGLES
will meet tonight and install the newly
elected officers. Il viii b. followed. NJ
a luncheon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
JAYHAWKER JOTy

Everybody probably gets a square
deal at La Harpe. The mayors name
is Jury.
In the Kansas short name contest.
Mr.. I. A. Zug of Wellington ought to
get favorable mention, at least.
Some men hold the government re-
sponsible when they get the worst end
of a horse trade, says the Emporia
Gazette.
The more a newspaper brags about
it's popularity, says the Emporia Ga
zette, the more trouble it usually has
meeting the weekly payroll
DR.. Glunz put in a lot Of gold den
tai work for a man this week, reports
the Alma Signal, and was somewhat
jolted when the man asked if he
should use gold dust in cleaning them.
In the line of faithful public service,
a rural mail carrier at Downs seems
to stand we'll up on the list He walk
ed over his entire route one day last
week, serving 107 boxes. His route
covers 81 miles It took him eight
hours and forty minutes TO make the
trip.
One of the stories going the rounds
of the Kansas press tells OF a new
minister who was somewhat embar-
raised when he first appeared before
his congregation, as the following
little speech he delivered would seem
to indicate: II have come here, my
friends" he said, Ito heal the dead,
but 1 am sorry to see so many absent
faces l wanted to shake hands with. "
The Tightwads never loosen UP to
help a local enterprise says the En-
marks for the man who is selling ice
bergs or moonlight. An oilytongued
stranger went into a Nebraska town
and convinced the tightwads that they
would harvest untold wealth by pur-
chasing an onion ranch in Texas. That
of a 90
the tightwads have engaged lawyer
to go to Texas and see if the ranch
really exists
The other day / heard a fellow say
that things We're not like they used
to be, writes Bert Walker in his Os-
borne Farmer. He said that in the
good old days he could make lots of
money and things came easy. 1 know
why. In the good old days the fellow
had a little ambition and occasional
ly worked. That was before the coun-
try saving germs began the work in
his system In those good old days
he worked for a dollar a day. Now
he en- get twice that much, but he
tolls not and neither does he spin.
The good old days was before the idea
that the country owed him a living
had sneaked into his head. Now he is
sure Uncle Sam ought to collect the
his door, In the good old days he
had some regard for his word of hon
or and kept his credit good at the
grocery store. Now every time he
can get out of paying a debt he con-
siders it finance and he doesen't care
how many times his name gets on the
deadbeat list. No, times are not like
they used to be with him. Those
good old times will never come back
for him, either. He has left work
and decency behind and burned all
the ridges as he-went. But he blames
the government and the fellows who
are successful for it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
says UNCLE CIV

About the last thing you have time
for is to plot revenge. 1 am too old
to believe in the doctrine of nonresis-
lance, and 1 believe that the human
creature who isn't able to take care
of his own rights seldom has them
taken care of for him; but there's a
vast difference between standing up
for yourself and being the victim of
a mania for getting even. Usually
the man whose soul thirsts for re-
venge is trying to revenge some mag
mary injury. Once his mind gets to
running in that direction ne sees
sights in jests, affronts in pIeasan-
tries, insults in well-meant advice
and woe in everything. He presently
comes to the pass where he is con
Stantly carrying a chip on his should
err and constantly getting it knocked
And it makes no difference whether
he is the uncouth ruffian who is bent
on getting som ebody" or the acid
faced dyspeptic, who boasts that he's
quite an Indian for revenge" and
thereby does the redman a savage
Nobody ever sized up the case of
the man with the mania for revenge
better than did a business man of my
acquaintance A minor clerk gained
admission to the private office and
began to unfold a tale of the wrong
doings of another clerk. The proprie-
tor removed his glasses, gazed at the
complainant for a moment and then
said:
You've got smallpox Get out of
here
4 haven't" protested the clerk in
a surprised gasp.
You have" said his employer.
You've got moral smallpox and you
don't know it. You've come to Of
flee to get the job of your fellow
employee, as you put it. That's a
disease with you. Before you came,
your department was working har-
moniously and with considerable de-
gree of efficiency You had smallpox
in your disposition. and now every
body in the department has 1t. You've
given it to 'em. You've changed a
group of conscientious employees into
a lot of knockers. Now you go back
to your department and stay just long
enough to get a requisition for your
wages from the manager. And then
YOU get out. I'm discharging you for
the good of the health of the depart
ment.''
Was he right? For my part, I new
er. run afou1 of a person whose mania
is revenge without feeling constrained
to ring up the health office.-(Copy-
right, 1912, by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24

east and the hills, and when 1 was a
boy used to lie in my canopied bed
ana look at the little crescent moon
above the peaks and dream. And it is
IN this place of dreams that see you
Marthe-"
The silence at the other end Of the
WIRE wire, made him ask, quickly, Are you
"Oh. yes"
Shall 1 tell you more2 OF the orch
ards abloom in pink and white? OF the
ousky woods beyond2 Oe the river
SHINING beneath the stars? Ny dear
perhaps you are asking why 1 should
tax TO You of these things. 1t is be-
cause 1 want you here. Marthe. I want
70 snow you the river and the hills the
oio books in the library, and the old
pictures on the Walls-and I want to
snow you the little moon from the win
DOW IN the east ROOM
again silence. and his question. May
come TO you in the morning?"
+ aintly her response was waited to him
gu nave not said I love you"
Ill, put you know it, And tomorrow you
He caught her whisper Yes"
.tnen sleep Wen. dear heart, goodnight"
After a time he crept to his mothers
silver across the bed. Her face was in
Ihe SHADOW, and at first he thought she
was asleep. But when she spoke, he came
and knelt beside her
haze told her, mother"
You wrote?"
No, the night winds carried my mes
sage over the Wire, his smiling eyes were
on a level with hers. so do the gods
OF today contribute to romance, Munsie."
And she listened?''
His hands went over hers where they
lay white in the moonlight.
Yes. Some day / shall bring her here
to the east room"
She turned her thin fingers up to meet
his strong ones. Your father used to
tell me of the west room-he spoke OF
the sunsets to me-
And speak to my love of the dawn"
lie stood up, radiant a young god,
fresh from Olympus. But It is all the
same" he cried, for east or west, north
or south, sunset or sunrise, it's each man
to the woman he Lowest My father in you
attained his hearts desire, as, please God,
tomorrow, 1 shall attain mine. Copy
righted, 1912, by Associated Literary Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

A friend OF mine. in walking through a
shop one day, came to a narrow doorway,
Just as another woman was about to pass
through it in the opposite direction. My
friend politely stepped to oneside to al
low the other woman to pass, but just as
she did so, the other woman also moved
in the same direction. The first woman
moved again, and again the other woman
lodged at just the same instant.
thinking that this had gone on long
enough, my friend stood still and said
with great dignity, Madame if you viii
stand on one side or the other, I will en-
deavor to pass you" At this moment.
the floor walker caught sight of her and
sprang to the rescue, pointing out to the
astoniShed lady that the woman whom
she had had so much difficulty in at
tempting to pass was no other than her
own reflection, as she was facing a
mirror.
Now that is a very amusing and un-
usual experience, and was probably due
partially to the lady's Observation-Disclosures.
but doubt If there is one of us, no mat
ter how keen-eyed, who has not some
time, in similar wise. caught sight OF
himself in an unexpected mirror, and for
at least instant, completely failed to
recognize himself.
And. if so much can be true in regard
to our outer selves which, we see daily
and indeed many times daily in our MIR
rors, tell me, friends, how would it be
with our inner selves, our personalities.
our Municipalities. if we could for an
instant catch sight of them-"as ithers
see them"
Arnold Bennett has a fascinating essay
along these lines. in which he quantity
asks, Has it ever struck you that there
is mysterious individual going around,
walking the streets, calling at houses for
tea, chatting. laughing, grumbling argu-
ing, and that all your friends know him
and have long since added him up and
come to definite conclusion about him
without saying more than chance,
cautious word to you; and that that per
son is your"
Isn't that a piquant thought. and true
one?
Perhaps the you which other people
know is more virtuous and more interest
ing than the you" whom you yourself
know. And then again, perhaps he is the
tally different person. Would you no
give great deal to meet him as You
meet other people? I'm sure I would.
And wouldn't we learn a lot2
OF course we can never meet him or
her face TO face as we meet our outer
selves in the mirror, but I think we can
to certain extent. make the acouaint-
ance Of this elusive parsonage. If we viii
make the necessary mental effort
And 1 think 1t would be a healthful ex-
ercise.
Try 1t some day.
Try to-
Just stand aside and watch yourself
Think of yourself as he instead Of l..
Pick flaws; find fault; forget the man is
And strive to make your estimate ring
The faults of others then will dwarf and
shrink.
Loves chain grow stronger by one mighty
link,
When you with he as substitute for y
Have stood aside and watched yourself
Strickland w. GnIllan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24

home and abroad and presented mass
of accurate statistics on which there
could be a scientific revision of the fam
Gus schedule K Did the Democrats 50
interested in an honest revision of the
tariff pay any attention to this reportg
Did they even consider the revision Of
schedule K, which they deemed SO es-
sential but a few months ago2 NO
They pigeonhoIed schedule K. and went
to work on a revision of the steel sche-
dule A bill enbodying their ideas on
this schedule was passed and is now
in the senate. The tariff board is about
to report on the cotton schedule. This
will be pigeonholed also by the Demo-
Gratis They are now interested in the
chemical schedule. The tariff board is
out of funds and cannot undertake in
vestigations of the steel, chemical and
sugar schedules which are on the Dem
ocralic program. The Democrats re-
fuse to provide the board with addi-
tioaal funds In other words the DEM
ocrats hope to fire a lot more tariff
bills to the president which he will be
called upon to veto. The schedules on
which they and the president might
get together are being hidden away in
committee files. Does this look like
the Dem ocrats were sincere in an eff
fort to revise tariff schedules in the
best possible way? Well hardly. They
are merely continuing to use the tar1d
for political football.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
REVISING THE TARIFF.

Surely the sincerity of the Demo-
Gratis in the house of representatives
in the matter of revising the tariff in
fair and square manner is open to
serious question Every tariff move
that they have made and are making
seems to have a, purely political pur-
pose in view. During the recent SPEC
ial session CT congress. called for the
primary purpose Of taking action on
the Canadian reciprocity bill, the Dem
ocrats insis' ed that the country world
60 further On its road to the bow
vows, if there were not immediate re-
auctions in the schedules relating to
wool and cotton. They passed bills
aiming to revise these schedules down
ward 1t is generally conceded now
that these bills were haphazard meas
ures. Through a coalition on the part
of the Republican insurgents" in the
senate and the Democrats in that body,
these house bills were passed after thei,
features were Traded around in a sat
isfactory manner to the members OF
conference committees This was the
same old kind of tariff tinkering that
has prevailed for years These bills
went to President Taft and he had the
courage 10 veto them. That was pro
badly more satisfactory to the Demo
Gratis than il he mad signed them. 1t
gave them the opportunity to insist
that they had done their part to re
wise the tariff downward, but had been
thwarted in their purpose by the presi-
dent. and the party of which he is the
titular head.
President Taft's veto of these bills
was not due to opposition on his part
to a revision of the tariff downward.
lie realizes that such revision of
many of the tariff schedules is essen
tiaI. But lie also believes that a scien-
tifc revision of the tariff along no
more than reasonable lines can be
brought about only after an honest in
vestigation has been made of all the
matters that are pertinent to such a
revision. 1t is admitted that neither
the house OF representatives, nor the
senate, nor any of the committees of
either body is in a position to make
such an investigation. This can only
be done by a tariff commission or board.
President Taft is urgent that a bona
fide tariff commission be created out
of the present tariff board that was
provided for in the Payne-Aldrich bill
The tariff board in existence, though,
is far better than none. Under the
presidents direction it has been maxi
ing Just the kind of Investigations that
a tariff commission would make. The
president thought it reasonable to await
the results of these Investigations be-
fore making any further revisions Of
the tariff. That was why he vetoed the
tariff bills that the Democrats pushed
through at the special session.
At the beginning of the present ses-
sion this tariff board, a nonpartisan
body mind vou made a ren0rf of IFS
Investigations of the wool industry at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-24
QUAKER MEpTTATToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
It takes a corler to keep out of family
jars
A woman Is generally older than she
thinks she looks.
Life with some men is simply a case
of meet and drink.
One swallow does't make a summer
nor quench a thirst.
It takes lot of sand for the grocer to
make his weigh in the world.
There is no time a man wants the earth
so much when he is seasick
Never say die is a good motto. espec-
tally for the life insurance people.
It is possible to be happy without know
ing it, but YOU can't be miserable that
way.
Pop "well. what is it now?r SAY.
Pop, did the dog star ever have the dip
per tied TO its tail2"
A man realizes how insignificant he is
when he gazes at Niagara Falls or at
tends suffrage meeting
It is well not to despise the little things.
but that is no reason why you should let
the big things get away from you.
The proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing" quoted the Wise Guy. 'And some
times in the vermiform appendix" added
the Simple Mug