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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-09
DEATHS

RoBINs-Died, At the residence Of his
Iutner. ~. II. hobins, 2v2 East Mar
snail Street. Monuay, April ), at 4:3O
~. NJ. CLAiBOlS.>I3 ROBINS. IN the
tnirty-nintn year OF ms age.
Funeral from Scconu Baptist
Church WEDNESDAY, At 1880 4. Nj.
WILLCOX-Died.a at the Protestant E:pis-
copal Cnurcn Home. at G:3U L. NJ.
Monday, April 5, l9l2. MISS ST.
SAN.>A PAGE WILCOX.
Funeral notice later.
SUTPHlN-Died. In Huntington. w.
Va. April 7. 1912, CAPTAIN JAMES
s. SU1pHIN, formerly OF Richmond.
Eemains viii arrIyc ut Chesapeake
and OHIO depot this (Tuesday) after.
noon at 2:30 o'clock.
Intermcnt In Hollywood.
JONES-Entered into rest. April S. at
$3.50 y. NJ, at his residence, 20o East
Franklin street. ALFRED q. JONES.
in the scYcntyninth year or his age
Funeral from First Baptist Church
WEDNESDAY. April 10. at 3 O'CLOCK
7. NJ. Burial in Hollywood.
PATTERsoN-Dicd, at his residence.
"Reveillc," in Henrico county. Mt 1885
Z. NJ. Monday, April S, 1912. DIR. r.
y. PATTERSON. in tho cighty-scv-
cnth year OF his age
Notice OF funeral arrangements
later.
No 0owers
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-09
OBITUARY
w. y. Anderson.

Especial 10 The Times Dispatch.I
Statesvlllc, y. c.. April S.--W T.
Anderson, a well-known citizen of the
town, died this morning at s o'clock.
aged sixty-three years. His wife and
eight children survive him. Tho fu-
neral will he held here tomorrow az
ternoon.
Robert W. Neal.
Especial to The Times DispatchJ
Winch ter. Va. Anril S-Rnhnrf w
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-09

Water Din Scott says: "No
amount Of training avW cause a per-
son 7pHh a poor memory 10 haze a.
good one
The late William James made The
same assertion.
But no matter how detective
your memory, if you'll read
our short a VeItis m n S
every day you'll never forget
the best place to find new and
desirable styles in Clothing,
Hats, Shoes and Furnishings
Tor Man and Boy.
!, And for tn e traveller the
right sort OF Trunks and Bags.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05
BOOTH MEMORIAL SCHOOLS.

The memorial that is planned for
the late General William Booth Of
the Salvation Army is characteristic
of that great institution for it con-
sists Of training school for settle
ment workers which will be erected
not only in America and Europe, but
also Asia, China, India and Japan
will have the benefit of such endow-
ments, as well as Germany and
France, or England, and the United
States.
The plan is at once to erect two
memorials, one in Chicago and one
in New York, in the heart of the
slum district, as examples of what
is meant to be the policy of the army
with reference to cities of less extent
than the two leading ones in the
Eastern and Central parts of the
Union.
There are slum institutions al
ready dedicated to the memory of
General Booth, but the plan of the
memorial school is to be that of a
distinct institution and the work to
consist alone of training people to
deal in the best way with problems
of crime, poverty and disease.
The army architect submits plans
which call for buildings of seven sto-
ries, to cost 100000, and to accom-
~modate $50 students at a time, be-
sides ten officers. 1t is not argued
that these memorial buildings are
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05
NOTHING BUT HARM 1T PLAT
FORM HONEST.

President-elect Wilson says there
is nothing for honest business men
to fear in the success of his party.
Then Mr.. Wilson intends to betray
the party that elected him, for that
party laid it down in the first plank
of it's national platform that all pro-
lection is unconstitutional.
Of~course, that means that it is IL
legal, and, translated into action, it
means that the Democratic party is
bound to take every shred of protec-
ton out of the tariff law and limit it
strictly to tariff for revenue only.
Any man who tells the country
that no honest men have reason to
fear from such policy is talking in
ignorance and is utterly reckless in
his statements, for this country is
a protective country, as much as
Germany or France or Belgium or
any other OF the protective countries.
1t believes in protection. Not only
that, but it disbelieves thoroughly in
the Democratic plan of collecting
revenue.
1t is worth while to note that
though the Democratic party has
carried lOTIy OtdCSS dAu AOuA -AACh0
of the electoral college, it's popular
vote is less by nearly 10000 than it
was sixteen years ago, although the
population of the country has mean
while increased by more than 90
100000, with proportionate addition
to the voting strength of the nation.
Mr.. Wilson would not have put
fourth such statement if he were
not conscious that honest business
men do fear the control of the party
pledged to upset the protective
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05
THE JEFFERSO NTAN
MI hese are the facts and there is no dis

These are the facts and there is no dis
putting them.
William P. jackson, one of the Taft Ma
tlonal Committeeman, has been appointed by
Gov. Goldsborough to fill the unexpired term
OF the late Senator Rayner, until the legisla-
ture elects his successor in 1914
Mr.. Jackson, of course, is a stand-patter,
and his appointment makes the outlook for
the Democrats In the Senate less encouraging.
The Senate is now evenly divided-that is,
the Democrats have one-half OF the>member-
ship, while the Republicans and Progressives
together make the other half
On strict party vote the Democrats could
rule by the Vice President casting his vote
and breaking the tie, but it is not certain by
any means that the Democrats in the Senate
will always stand together
On the most important legislation
tarif-there is apt to be split in the Demo
cratic ranks, and without the help Of the Pro
gressiyes, the Democrats may find themselves
helpless to put through the Senate the meas
ures that have been put through the House.
Last October President Taft issued an or
der placing under the classified service 81 900
fourth-class postmasters.
Is is natural to suppose that the leaning of
.Un0 aJOrlIy OF Deue1lclaT1eS uIlOer Cle OIu0E
was toward Taft, so the Democrats will 90
into power finding the majority Of $1,000
political enemies safely intrenched in jobs
that they would like to have for political
friends.
And it is needless to say that the friends
want this state of affairs done away with
just as badly as the Democratic representa-
tives do, SO President-elect Wilson will be
asked to revoke Mr. Taft's order and restore
the pie to the counter.
That many jobs would satisfy lot of peo-
pie back home, and you may bet that the
Congressman will put the utmost pressure on
President-elect Wilson to get the order re-
voked, after March 4.
The pension bill to be passed at the short
session of Congress will call for about $780,
100000, this enormous amount being necessary
to make up deficit of $2O,000,00O resulting
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05
PAGE THIRTEEN


After the House has done it's work, then
will come the Senate's time to concur or
reject, and resume its part Of the response
bility to the people who put the Democrats in
power.
BY all means let the House of Representa-
tiVes discharge the duty imposed upon it by
the Constitution, and if any compromises have
to be made later in order to get the measures
passed by the Senate, the responsibility will
be placed where it rghtfully belongs.
Recently six Democratic Representatives
elect met in the office of Mayor Fitzgerald,
Of Boston, and declared allegiance to the boot
and shoe manufacturers by agreeing to OPP
pose the proposed reduction of 10 per cent on
boots and shoes.
Senators Shafroth and Thomas, of Colo
RADIO, have declared allegiance to the Sugar
Trust, and announce that they will oppose
any considerable reduction of the tariff on
sugar and ores.
Senators Overman and Simmons, of North
Carolina, not to be outdone by Senators Sha-
froth and Thomas, now come forth and de-
clare their allegiance to the cOtton-spnners
by announcing that they cannot consent to
see the cotton-spinning~ industry ''unduly
threatened by low tariff duties"
And following these comes "Gum-sho Bill"
Stone, Senator from Missouri and dyed-in-
the-wool Democrat, who shows signs Of being
panic-stricken because the lowering of the
duties on lead and zinc may affect the Joplin
district.
Later on will come the Senators from Loui-
siana who will also object to the lowering
Of the present duties on sugar because they
do not care to see the poor cane growers Of
Louisiana starve.
Then will come the Southern Senators, who
do not want to see free lumber or cheaper
lumber, come in to ruin the lumber industry
in the South.
Already seven Democratic Senators are OPP
posed to the tariff policy to which the party
IS committed, and as the Democrats only have
a majority when the Vice President casts his
vote, the Democrats must look to their enc
mics for help in carrying out the party's
pledges to the people,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05

from an increase OF pensions under the Sher-
wood law last Summer, and the proportionate
increase OF the general pension budget oc-
casioned by the Sherwood law :
already the cost of wars past, and wars to
come was the biggest expense Of running our
government, and it is impossible to say ust
how much the Sherwood law will eventually
increase the already big expense.
With increase In PENSIONS the craze for
$12,OO00OO battleships and the growing de-
mand for a bigger standing army and more
coast defense, there is danger of our soon
finding ourselves in the same fix of some Of
the countries of Europe-facing national
bankruptcy because Of our craze to appear
stronger on land and water than the old ma
tions of Europe.
Germany and England are now engaged in
a struggle to outstrip each other in the num-
Der of battleships and cruisers that will ruin
both countries unless they retrench and the
jingoes of the Steel Trust are duping our
Congressman into the same danger
The Democrats, after March 4, should make
as sweeping reductions in the cost Of wars
past and wars to come as they expect to make
in the tariff.
It is national disgrace that the tax PAYERS
should be taxed heavier forty-six years after
a war is ended to pay pensions to the soldiers
been taxes before.
Some Of the Democratic Senators are max
ing an effort to have the House Ways and
Means Committee consolidate with the Senate
Finance Committee and decide upon the tariff
schedules that are to be presented to the new
Congress at the extra session.
There is objection to such program by
some of the Democratic representatives, and
rightfully So
The tariff is revenue measure pure and
simple, and the Constitution expressly says
that all revenue measures must originate in
the House of Representatives.
It will be the duty of the new House to
either pass or defeat the new measures that
will be presented by Mr.. Underwood's com
mittee, and the responsibility for the kind of
measure sent over to the Senate for approval
must rest solely upon the House of Represen-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05

policy of the last century, policy
that has always succeeded when
honestly carried out and which when
abandoned has always resulted in
business disaster. Buffalo IN. "
Evening News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-12-05

the finest thing that can be done for
charity, but it is strictly in line with
the work undertaken by the army
and no doubt will turn out an eff
cient corps of workers in a field
which is likely to continue to need
workmen to the end of time.
1t is not merely that we have the
poor with us always, as the Founder
of Christianity said, but we have
also the criminal and the diseased
Savannah (Ga.) News.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
A WASHINGTON STORY.

General Gassaway Saw the Great Man
In a Comic Situation
A correspondent favors us with this
unpublished anecdote about George
Washington, obtained from a manu-.
script autobiography:
In the spring of 1914 1 fell in COM
pany with General Louis Gassaway at
Annapolis, Md, then clerk Of the dis
trict court, by whom I was informed
that in the Revolutionary war he was
an aid-de-camp to Washington. 1 will
dote himself:
I'm the winter Of 1779 and 1850,
called the hard winter" the American
army went into winter quarters at
Morristown, N. j. General Washing
ton and his STAFF had their headduar-
tiers at tho farmhouse of one Gabriel
Ford. a large and convenient estab-
lishment. One severely cold night,
about 2 o'clock, there was an unusual
hustle at headquarters. I lodged be.
low on the first floor and soon learned
the cause of the stir. General Wash
fngton ran to the head Of the stairs in
his night dress with pistol In each
hand and called to me to know the
cause of the uproar.
'''"A soldier on guard, sir. has been
frozen ut his post and brought into
quarters"
"'"See that the poor fellow is well
cared for and change the guard every
hour" was the humane reply.
"'To see a man six feet high in his
night clothes with a pistol in each
hand for a slight alarm Of the night
guard bordered so near on the ludicrous
that could not easily keep my equa-
nimity to answer the great general Of
the American army with becoming re-
spect.' "-Army and Navy Journal.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
UNKNOWN COUNTRIES.
Mongolia and Tibet Mostly a Riddle to
the Outside World.

Mongolia and Tibet Mostly Riddle to
the Outside World.
Neither the Chinese themselves nor
the rest of the world knows much Of
Mongolia or Tibet. The most Of those
two countries belong to the desert.
and, although they have been inha bited
since the time when the memory Of
man runneth not to the contrary, the
outside world is to them a sealed book.
and they to the world an unguessed
riddle.
The great desert of Cobb, that is part
ly in China, partly in Manchuria, part
ly in Mongolia and partly in Siberia,
is traversed by the oldest transporta-
ton lines in existence. 1t has a cara
van route over which tea and silk
laden camels have travelled toward
Europe for these 5000 years, and yet
from the time when Kublai Khan
macadamized the road until the time
when the Russian railroad paralyZed
it by the competition of steam no one
Of the merchants who travelled over it
turned either to the right or to the left
to tell Europe and the occident of the
wonders or the terrors of that un-
known land.-Argonaut.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
COOLED THEIR WRATH.
Baiiey's Way When He Caught a Tar.
tar on the Telephone.


tar on tho Telephone.
When the telephone bell rang the
senior partner said to the Junior part.
ner:
IF that is that man Bailey just you
tell him what you think of him. even if
you lay yourself liable to a fine for VIC
lent language"
The junior partner relieved himself
OF few abusive epithets, but presently
after a brief pause he expressed the
same sentiments couched in much mild.
er terms. Said the junior partner:
There you go crawfishing again.
Why can't you stick to what you said
In the first placer
The junior partner dropped the re-
ceiver
"Supposing you come and say it your.
SELF" he said.
The senior partner did so, but after a
little he, too. repeated his harangue
with all the backbone left out.
Its no use," he said. You can't
curse man twice over the phone who
answers your first outburst with L beg
your pardon. l didn't quite catch that
Say it again, please That is Bailey's
way. You try to say it again, but the
second time 1t sounds pretty rank even
in your own ears, and your tempest OF
rage moderates into tranquil breeze
New York Times.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
HOW RICHMOND SHOULD SPACE TREES

together that the interlacing of their
tops, which have been cut back, makes
: the row look like a hedge fence on
poles.
| This is the natural result of each
man wants trees in front of his prop
erty; if he has lot with a thirty foot
front, he wants at least two and
sometimes three trees planted in the
park strip; his neighbor wants the
same and when the street is finally
planted there are from two to three
times as many trees as there should
! be both for the good of the trees and
the beauty of the street.
| In East Orange, N. J., where the
trees are not planted by the property
them is about forty feet, or to speak
accurately, American elms are planted
| fifty feet apart; the red, scarlet, pin
and chestnut oaks, forty Ave feet
apart; the red, Norway and sugar ma
pies forty feet; the kingko, catalpa
and blackberry, thirty eight feet; the
American linden and sweet gum thir-
ty-eight feet.
| On the south side of Main street
| from Fourteenth to Thirteenth the
| park strip is $50 feet long, and planted
| in it are seven American lindens, eight
! soft naples, two hard naples and two
| ash; nineteen trees in all, when ac-
| cocding to the rules for street spacing
there isn't space enough for the lin
| dens alone.
North Twentyfirst street has about
as nice a row of sugar naples as can
| be found in any city in the state, but
| it has too many; to speak accurately,
there are from Main to North G, 80
sugar naples, two soft NAPLES and one
catalpa, thirty-siX in all, these trees
stand in a park strip 324 feet in length,
which gives an average space of nine
feet, while the distance should be at
least thirty-five feet, in other words
this street has three times as many
trees as it should have. On the west
side of Thirteenth street from Main
to South A there are thirty nine trees,
mostly soft naples with an average
distance between them of less than ten
feet. On the east side of South Twelfth
street between A and B there are
twenty-six large soft naples in park
strip two-hundred and twenty-eight
feet in length, less than eight feet per
tree. These are average spaces, but in
many places trees are standing much
closer. These examples are taken at
random; one can find similar exam
pies almost any where in any street
in this or any city in this state. No one
is to blame because no one could help
it. 1t is but the natural result or rather
the cumulative result of the way trees
have been planted, but now that the
planting is done and the trees are be-
ginning to crowd each other and their
branches are interlacing and dying l
think we will agree that the result is
not satisfactory either for the good of
the trees or for the beauty of the
streets.
J.F. THOMPSON.
May 4th, 1912.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
BY PROF. JOHN r. THOMPSON

Most people know what is meant by
The Struggle for existence and the
survival of the fittest" a natural law
which determines what plants and
what animals may live and what must
perish.
When man plants a field of corn
ne wishes his crop to have the full
benefit of all the conditions necessary
TO make it reach its highest yield.
When the corn comes up, the weeds
come up also. If he lets the weeds
alone there begins struggle for the
light condition, between the corn and
the weeds, but the farmer sides with
the corn and ploughs the weeds up,
otherwise the weeds would prevail in
the struggle and the corn crop would
be failure. When dandelions get into
the lawn there begins a struggle be-
tween them and the grass for light, the
dandelion on account of its longer
leaves which lie in a flat rosette. is
able to shut off the light supply of the
smaller leaved grass and soon wins
the struggle for existence.
Plants must have light or they will
die. In another article it was pointed
out that with the aid of the sunlight
plants make their food. and if they
are deprived of light they can not
make food and hence starve to death
II plant Is deprived of water it dies
of thirst and if deprived of light it dies
of starvation. Every body knows if a
plant is put in the dark its leaves will
fol l.
When forester plants trees he
wishes to develop a long branchless
trunk SO that when the tree is finally
cut for the saw mill the lumber will
be free from knots. He therefore
plants the trees close together so that
their crowns will form a continuous
canopy, thus shutting the light off
from the leaves on the lower limbs,
which die when they are small and
are broken off by wind or storm or
snow; the struggle for light then is in
an upward direction, each tree trying
to over top it's neighbor and the result
is what the forester wants. Many trees
are left behind in their upward growth
and the tops of their faster growing
close over their heads and
hence the forester from year to year
has to thin" his forest, cutting out
those trees that have lost in the strug-
gle for light and when at last the
struggle is over the forest consists of
strong we'll spaced trees, with con-
tinuous canopy through which the
sunlight cannot pierce.
Such forests may be developed in a
natural way but it takes centuries.
Such forests we had a century ago but
such forests we no longer have.
This struggle for light obtains
wherever plants are brought near en-
ough to each other to develop it. There
isn't street in Richmond, with one
or two exceptions where the trees are
not hindered in their best development
for street trees, through a lack of
Hight. Nearly every street has it's trees
too close together. l know street in
Anderson where the trees are so close