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NO. so.
substitute an elective system OF fixed

substitute an elective system OF fixed
compensation for such injuries.
Such legislation would relieve the
injured employee, or his family, from
bearing all the loss which ne sustain
ed in the course Of his employment
and provide relief at time when
most needed. 1t would avoid the de-
lay, expense and bitterness of a law
suit. 1t would tend to promote more
harmonious relations between the
employee and the employer. It would
be very helpful In causing fairer and
closer study Of the causes which pro-
duce the injury and thereby tend to
bring about more effective safeguards,
thing most desirable for all concern
ed. The employer could calculate with
some certainty the extent Of the loss
under a fixed schedule Of compensa-
ton and protect himself by insurance.
6. Liberal pensions should be
awarded the Confederate soldiers as
recognition of their patriotic and he
roic services to the state.
Z. The rights Of our people must
be protected against unlawful COM
bination of capital and our antitrust
laws enforced with vigor.
s. The right Of every white Demo-
cratic citizen Of South Carolina to vote
in the primary should be zealously
protected. am opposed to requiring
a registration certificate as a qualfii-
cation for voting in the primary. For
eigners should not be permitted to
participate in our PRIMARIES until they
become naturalized.
8. We live under Democratic
government, and under our consti-
tuition the functions Of the legisla-
tive, judicial and executive depart
ments are separate and distinct, and
he who exercises the function Of one
department should not invade or usurp
the powers Of another.
10. The pardoning power should be
exercised with great care and only
then after careful investigation by the
board Of pardons The pardoning
power is a sacred trust and its abuse
Is menace to the peace, order and
safety Of the people.
IL The veto power Of the governor
SnOulQ not De exercised arDltrdrliys
nor to obstruct legislation, but to
correct errors and prevent abuses and
thwart the enactment Of laws clearly
against the welfare Of the people.
IL. The great office Of governor
should be exercised for all the people
and not for q faction only.
13. The states peace, progress and
prosperity are dependent on the en-
forcement Of law and order.
IA. The people Of this state are al
ready burdened with taxation and I
favor the reduction of taxes to the
minimum consistent with the efficient
administration Of state and county
government.
Is. The great problem for the up
country is to conserve the moisture
In the soil to prevent erosion Of the
land; and the great problem for the
low country is to drain the lands.
Both conditions require scientific
thought and action. A thorough sys-
tenn of drainage by individual co.
operation and Federal aid, would
reclaim thousands Of the best lands
in the state and am heartily In
favor Of such system.
Ira B. Jonea-
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THE GREAT EMPTY LAND.
Millions Of MsnIsss Acres Of landlsss
Men In Australia.

Men In Australia.
The tragedy of Australia was told
a day or two ago in an obscure para
graph in the newspaper, says The
London Express. The paragraph oc-
cupied precisely two and half lines.
and 1t recorded the fact that the final
results of the Australian census show
that in ten years the population has
increased by $4,000.
To the casual reader the figures
convey little suggestion Of significance.
Most persons have vague idea that
the people Of the commonwealth num-
Der something like four or FIVE mil
lions, and the circumstance that to
whatever, the total may have been.
the figures of the new census have
added $4,000, arouses but q languid
interest. After all Australia Is long
distance away; people do not run
over" to Melbourne or Sydney as they
run over" to New York and Mon
treal. A country which. can only be
reached by five or six week journey,
and keeps US waiting the better part
Of three months before It replies to
our letters, recedes SO far from the
average view as practically to exist as
something even less than a geograph-
ical expression.
Let US, however, take into consid-
Grafton few elementary facts. and
then superimpose upon them the les
son Of these final results Of the GEN.
sus which have been recorded in two
lines and half Of newspaper type.
Here in England We are overwhelm-
ed with the twin problems Of over
crowding and unemployment Out
there. In the great empty land, there
are very nearly three million square
miles-getting on for two thousand
million acres--among a population
Of less than four and half million.
The country is as big as the United
States (excluding Alaska,) or about
three-fourths Of the area Of Europe.
or twenty-five times that Of Great
Britain and Ireland; and its population
Is barely that OF Ireland alone.
To that population there has been
added in ten years including chill
dren and emigrants, an average Of
just little over eleven thousand souls
a year! Here Is another aspect for
Not all the 1,s03,731,-
$40 acres Of the great island continent
ora a. for orlfIvo fiop. huf allnwtn0
for the area occupied by its cities. and
for the marsh ground where nothing
but spinifez and scrub. there
is room and to spare for all the able
bodied unemployed Of the rest Of the
world; and up to the present time, in
round figures, only 100000 acres
out Of a thousand millions Of possible
fertility are under any sort Of culti-
yatiOn.
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made in order to call your attention to
what is going on, No charges are
made against any specific candidate,
for l have not the proof that he Is
doing these things, but have the proof
that it is being done.
Gentlemen, the matter Is in your
hands, and whatever may be your de-
cison will be satisfactory to me. Do
that which you believe Is for the best
interest of all the people of your state.
for l do not believe that the people of
this state can be bought nor coerced,
and want to insist upon all of my
friends going to the ballot box and
casting their ballots. and after they
have voted. stay there, or appoint
three or four good men. who will stay
there, and see that the votes are prop
erly counted; for 1t has been openly
boasted that, IF we can not beat
Blease, we propose to see that he Is
counted out" l appeal to all Of you
who are against buying votes and who
are against sending hirelings around
over the state in an endeavor to put
this government in the hands of the
ring-rule and corporation interests, to
go to your ballot boxes, and see that
the interests Of the people Is pro-
tected, and all I ask is a free ballot
and a fair count and will be reelected
governor of South Carolina over all
of my opponents by a clear-cut ma
jorty. This is stated advisedly. be-
cause l have travelled nearly all over
the state; have received letters from
good men from every section of the
state, and the only danger that has
yet been hinted at was the use of
money and fraud at the ballot boxes.
The Code of Laws.
Sections 1856 and 365, code of laws
of South Carolina. 1912, read as fol-
lows:
Sec. 356. At or before every politi-
cal primary election held by any politi-
cal party, organization or association,
for the purpose of choosing candidates
for office, or the election Of delegates
to conventions, in this state, any per-
son who shall, by threats or any other
form of intimidation, or by the pay
ment, delivery or promise of money,
or other article Of value, procure or
offer, promise or endeavor to procure,
another to vote for or against any
particular candidate in such election,
or who shall, for such consideration,
offer to so vote, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor."
Sec. 365. Any manager at any
primary election in this state who
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floor will seat 1861 and the balconies
4.408. Deducting the seats on the floor
reserved for officials, delegates and al
ternates and the press leaves 1920 for
the public. These with the balconies
make room for 11,62S seats for the ac-
commodation Of Baltimoreans and Wis
itors who are expected by the ten
thousands from all parts Of the coun-
try.
The public seats on the main floor
occupy the two ends Of the hall and
run at right angles to the delegates
seats, so that when a speaker on the
rostrum is facing the delegates the
greater part of the audience will get
side views of him. The great balco-
nies that have been added temporari-
ly to the armory project from the
ends and overhang nearly half these
end seats on the floor. These two
balconies are 200 feet long by 81 feet
deep. At the front and back Of the
hall the narrow permanent balconies
have been equipped with three rows
Of seats that will accommodate be-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Detroit Is Largest
Car: Manufacturing City

Things are doing in automobildom these
days Orders and shipments that few
years ago would have attracted wide
spread attention, now scarcely receive
passing notice, not only by those out
side, but by concerns handling business
on a large scale. The requirement of a
few attractive new phaetons by New
York society a generation or two ago
would in all probability have received
favorable newspaper mention. But now,
hundreds of big motor cars can be put
on the city's streets without the ma
jority of the people knowing the diff
ference. These are signs that the world
moves.
Detroit, with twenty-eight thriving
automobile factories, besides dozens of
large concerns manufacturing accessor-
les, etc, rightfully claims to be the hub
of the automobile world, having the dis
tinction of building six of every ten au-
tomobiles produced in the United States.
The citizens have become so accustomed
to the idea that the business is done
on a large scale, that individual ship
ments, as a rule, must comprise several
trains before the matter Is considered
worth receiving public mention. 1t IL
a remarkable fact that at this season
the trade Is enjoying the greatest boom
in the history of the industry, whereas
In previous years the greatest lull
was experienced al this time. Many
Of the larger concerns have enough Or
derS on file to keep them running at full
capacity for the next four or six months
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Former Governor
FaVOrS Good Roads

An announcement of the greatest in
terest to motorists is contained in
statement authorized by former Gov
j. Franklin Murphy, of New Jersey, to
the effect he has withdrawn his opposi-
ton to the bill now pending in the New
Jersey senate granting fifteen days
free use of Jersey roads by residents of
other States. The bill has already pass
ed the lower house by a decided ma
Jority. AS many Washington motorists
make frequent trips through New Jer-
sey, they are keenly interested in the
reciprocity bill.
1T is repugnant to my idea as an
American citizen that any automobile
owner should be halted at the border
OF any State by action of law, while
other varieties of vehicles may pass
over without question" said Mr. Muir
ply. Even If an appropriation of sew
eral hundred thousand dollars is neces-
sary to take the place of the license
fees lost by reason of a reciprocal law,
In order to maintain the roads of New
Jersey at their present high level Of
perfection, | am in favor of the pas
sage of such a law"
Former Governor Murphy's attitude
is in line with the policy which has
been advocated by the Touring Club of
America. With Mr.. Murphy friendly
to the reciprocity bill the situation is
manifestly simplified, and the chances
for the enactment of the measure are
much improved.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
TERMINAL LEAGUE
MEETS At UNION
STATION TONIGHT
James F. Waters Is Expect
ed to Be Elected Presi-
dent of Circuit.

Manager ,Winslow, of the Terminal r.
f. Y. NJ. c. A. has announced a meet
ing of the Railroaders' Baseball
League tonight at the Union Station.
At this meeting complete details for
the operation of the league for the COM
ing season will be made, and, according
to plans, the coming season will be one
of the most successful in the history of
the Terminal circuit.
During the winter It was reported
that the Railroaders would not associate
themselves with the amateur commits
sion this year on account of the one
man one-team rule, but all difficulties
have now been adjusted and a perfect
operation between the Y. NJ. c. A.
League and the commission is expected.
1t is rumored that James F. Waters,
who has been manager of the Adams
EXprEss team for several years, will be
elected president of the Terminal
League at tonight's melting and 1t is
thought that J. T. Wilson, trainmaster
Of the Union Station, will be chosen as
vice president. Six clubs will compose
the league.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Hunt Will Report on
Tournament Prospects

Granville Hunt, chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce conventions
committee will maii" a report Of the
rUssib!Ities of bringing the next tourna-
ment # the American Bowling Con
gress to this city, at the Chamber
headquarters tonight.
Every alley artls: who is interested
in the indoor pastime is asked to be
present and to lend his aid in making
this city the most attractive in which
to hold the big tournament.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
ASSOCIATION WILL
DECIDE THE ROUTE
OF PROPOSED ROAD
international Highway Di-
rectors Meet In Rich
mond Today.
By HARRY WARD.

The directors of the Washington"
Richmond division of the Quebec Miami
International Highway Association will
meet today in Richmond. At this meet q
ing 1t is expected the directors will de-
eide definitely upon the route the high a
way will take through Virginia.
According to the route selected by the
patEfinding party the road will run
from Washington to Falls Church, Ma
nassas, Bristow, Catlett's, HARDWOOD
Church, Falmouth, Fredericksburg,
Bowling Green, Richmond. This route
would leave out Alexandra, but 1t
would be comparatively easy to con-
tinue to Alexandria from Falls Church,
| although this route would make the
dis lance n little longer. The road from
Falls Church to Alexandria and the
road from Falls Church to Washington
are almost equally good. AleXa ndria,
It Is said, wants the route TO lie through
Occoquan and then over the old Tele-
graph pike to Dumfries and FreGe ricks- /.
| burg. This latter route Is said to he
far from ideal. The route collected by
the pathhnderS passes through nutncr-s
GUS villages ard country that is fa-4
nous in history, for Bull Run and other
famous Wilderness battles took place in
that that, section: There is a proposal to
| each section after a famous general in
| either army. Thus one section will be
named Grant, another Meade, and a.
| third Mcclellan, while others will be
| named Lee. Jackson, and Stuart.
Memorial arches will be erected in due
! time ia each section. and the Washing
| ton to Richmond link in the great inter-
| national highway will become memo
| rial highway to the heroes who fought
| in the war IF the States
| Joseph T. Trew, sales manager of the
| Overland Washington Motor Company,
will leave tomorrow on a trip through
Virginia He will spend a week visit
ing Overland dealers in that State.
The Alpena Motor Sales Company Is
preparing to open its new salesrooms
| at 1910 Fourteenth street. A shipment
of Alpena touring cars and roadsters
| is expected to arrive tomorrow.
| The Zell Motor Car Company yester-
| day delivered a Chalmers "S6' touring
] car to A. NJ. Lothrop.
The National Electrical Supply
Company has just received from the
Commercial Automobile and Supply
Company a Flanders "20'' delivery
wagon.
The Overland Washington Motor
| Company reports the sale of Overland
| roadsters to Leonard Nicholson, Cl!f-
ford Bangs and DR.. r. H. Steward.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Three Held on Charge
Of Stealing Lead Pipe

Three young white men living in the
southeast section of city--William H.
Martin, of Gs y street; Richard Hay
dem of 800 n street, and Allen Bell, of
III Sixth street--arc locked up at the
Fifth precinct police station today on
charges of depreciation on private
property. They were arrested last
night by Policemen Showalter and
Warfield.
The trio are alleged to have entered
four vacant houses in the, southeast
and stolen lead pipe and plumbing Ak
lures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Girl Frustrated and
Damaging Story Hats

PITTSBURGH. Pa, March 15.-Worn
out by the ordeal of telling the circum-
stances which surrounded her sister $
death, and the serious illness of her
aged mother, Miss Lillian Coe uttered
nervous collapse, and was unable to
go on the stand today to continue her
story in the trial Of the Rev. DR.. w D..
Mcfarland, charged with causing the
death of his former secretary. Elsie
Dodds Coe, by means of illegal opera
tons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Help to Georgetown.

Georgetown will obtain a good ath-
lete when young Marum moves up from
the prep school to the collegiate depart
ment and becomes eligible for the uni
versity teams. He was the star of the
prep eleven last fall and was prominent
in all of the games during the remark
able season the basketball team has just
closed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Tonight's Sports

Joe Turner vs.. Jack Mccarthy, at
Gayety Theater.
Meeting of the R. R. Y. NJ. c. A.
Baseball League, Union Station, at
8 p. m.
Meeting Of Washington City Bowl
ing Association, at Chamber of Com
merce, 1880 D. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Mcfarland Meets Burns
At KenOSha Tonight

CHICAGO. March 15-F'ight fans who
brave the snow drifts and the falterjng
railroad service tonight and take
chances of being snowbound in the
wildz of Wisconsin, may be rewarded
by seeing one OF the flercest fights
staged hereabouts in years when
Packey Mcfarland and Kid Burns meet
at Kenosha in a return clash
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Returns $4,000; Gets 81.

SOUTH BERWICK. Me. March 15.-I
Charles f. Chaplain, a railroad con-
ductor, returned a handbag containing
$4,000 to woman who lost It on his
train. She gave him a 81 bill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Protest By Wilson.

Joe Wilson, the 1O5-poundr National
Guard wrestler, has made an appeal to
the South Athletic Associatio of the
A. A. I. to be allowed to compete in
the championship tournament at Balti-
more tomorrow evening. Wilson has
been barred on the ground that the
miltiamen are not members of the as
ISOLATION, but he claims that his status
is the same as that Of Fred Moore, Of
Gallaudet. What the A. A. Z. people
will do remains to be seen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Syracuse OarSmen
Have Short Practice

SYRACUSE. March 15.-Jim Ten Eyck
has had his Syracuse oarsmen out in
four cared and pair-oared boats on a
small stretch of open water on the On
ondaga outlet.
Everywhere the oarsmen are stretch
ing a point to get out in the open, but
Harvard and Cornell are still icebound.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Liable to Arrest,

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. March 15.-The
sheriff has notified the managers Of the
ball clubs that players even walking
about the town in playing clothes will
be liable to arrest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
AH-Round Athlete.

SYRACUSE, March 15.-Tom Keane
has in Champlin, OF Syracuse, an ex-
ceptional all-around man. He can
hurdle. broad jump, put the shot. and
run an excellent quarter in a relay.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
To Carry Whistles.

NEW YORK, March 15.-NIiss I,ota
Robinson, Mrs. StuyVesant Fish, Mrs
August Belmont, and Mrs. William JAY,
wealthy society leaders, today received
police whistles which they will carry
when riding in Central Park.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Visit Norfolk Show.

Among the Washingtonians visiting
the Norfolk automobile show are Ted
3. Johnston, manager OF the Buick
Motor Company. and Manager Wade
Powers, OF the Goodyear Tire and Rub
Der Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Wants Flirting Taught.

PHILADELPHIA, March 15-"Teach
your girls how to firt and when and
why they ought to first and you will
have more noble motherhood and fewer
tragedies" said Miss Laura B. Garrett,
of New York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
May Call Off Primary.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., March IA
proposal to rescind the recent decision
to elect delegates to the national con-
ventiOn by direct primaries was consid-
cred at a meeting here today of the
Democratic state committee of Rhode
Island. 4 majority of the committee
men favor tine primary system, but
some of the influential party leaders Op-
pose ii on the ground that IT would De
much more expensive than the conven-
ton plaA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
Weston, Pedestrian, Is
SeVenty-three Today

Edward Pdys0n Weston. the ''e;erAn
walker, is celebrating his se\ cnty-third
birthday TODAY. To oil appearances he
ls as hale and hearty as most men of
half his age. He has not been indulging
in any long tramps of late, barring an
occasional walk OF twenty-five or thirty
miles Just to timber up" but he has
Einted to friends that he may celebrate
his seventy fifth birthday by taking
another long distance walk.
During his long ,sreer Weston has
been the American apostle of walking.
He has been in all manner of heel and
toe contests and 1t Is estimated that in
the period of fifty years he has covered
in public distance equal to three times
the circumference of the earth. At
seventy years of age he accomplished
one of the greatest endurance feats on
record by walking from New York to
San Francisco in los days and maHing
tho return journey across the continent
in seVenty-seVen days afoot
The Rt Rev. John T.. Gunn. Roman
Catholic bishop of Nutrhez. Mics, is
forty -niTe years old today. He was for
several years a teacher at. the Catholic
University OF America, leaving there
in NsS4
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15
PoStoftice Willing to
Change Name of Akin

Postmaster General Hitchcock is per-
Iectly willing to change the name of
the postoffice at Akin, N. Y, to John
son City, or any other Cognomen that
Is pleasing to the people of that town.
This answer, with that of DR.. C. p.
Grandfeld, First Assistant Postmaster
General. has been forwarded to the peo-
pie and the town council of Akin.
After the latest plunge of Congress-
man Theron w. Akin into the lime
light, with his attack upon the Presi-
dent in the Congressional Record. the
people of Akin applied to the Postoffice
Department in an effort to rid them
formed. that the town, being a cor
porauon, would have to change its own
name by popular vote. and that as
soon as this was accomplished the POST
office Department would change the
name of the postoffice. The vote will
be taken in May.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15

The Zell Motor Car Company yester-
day delivered Chalmers IS" touring
car to A. NJ. Lothrop.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15

The National Electrical Suppl,
Company has just received from thu
Commercial Automobile and Suppl!
Company Flanders "20' delivery
wagon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15

The Alpena Motor Sales Company Is
preparing to open its new salesrooms
at 1910 Fourteenth street. A shipment
of Alpena touring cars and roadsterS
is expected to arrive tomorrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-03-15

The Overland Washington Motor
Company reports the sale of Overland
roadsters to Leonard Nicholson, Cl!f.
ford Bangs and DR.. r. H. Steward