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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
The Truth About Oysters.

Editor The Vrginian:
Sir,-The popular tendency to exaggeration
Ia illustrated in the case or the recent ATTACKS
ion the wholesomeness OF oysters.
There have been some instances in the past
fifteen years in which illness was ascr1bed to
leating oysters, but in NOSE OF these, where
circumstances permitted thorough invesn-
CATION ii was found that the accusations
against the oyster originated In the magma
tion and in one or two cases at least to a
desire to attract public attention on the part
OF persons who placed the matter In print
The real facts concerning oysters are that a
large proportion of the foods and drinks or
which we partake every day are more likely
to be unwhoesome than oysters, because oys-
tiers are now principally grown in the deep,
pure waters OF the large bays and sounds,
where they are continually swept by the clean,
saltwater currents. These grounds are miles
from land and are remote from all sources or
contamination. Not one bushel of oysters in
one hundred thousand has any chance to be-
come contaminated.
It is no longer permitted to market oysters
from the grounds formerly used in the vicinity
of large cities. Psychologists are employed
by State authorities to examine the oysters
and the waters where they grow. and certih-
Gates are issued covering only such grounds as
are suitable Wherever the standard of purity
is not fully maintained the marketing of the
oysters Is strictly forbidden
The cause of most of the complaints against
oysters consists in the fact that il writer
can acquire public notice by making sensa-
tional attack upon oysters or any other food
he can thereby place himself in position OF
great personal advantage, although to the reck-
less injury of others.
The slogan of pure food" is very effective
one and it deserves to be so, but IL it is abused
In order to build up a personal prominence
which be used for the purpose of financial
benefit to it's possessor, then the assertions
need to be carefully scanned in order to make
due allowance for exaggeration.
The best authorities pronounce oysters
wholesome and easily dgested. They are GER
tainly economical, as there are no bones or
waste, and the cost is reasonable.
HENRY G. ROWE,
President Oyster Growers and Dealers
Association.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
OFFICERS CHOSEN
BY MISSIONARIES
METHODIST w, r. NJ. s. AOJOURNS
SINE DIE TO MEET NEXT
YEAR AT PETERSBURG.

With the election Of officers the
womans Foreign Missionary society
of the Methodist conference closed
it's thirty-fc urth annual session yes
terday Mt noon. 10 meet next year in
Petersburg.
The new officers are as follows:
President, Mrs. w d. SouthaT
Norfolk: first vice president Miss
Ruth Blanks, Petersburg: second vice
president, Miss Edith Denny. Rich
mond; third vice president, Mrs $. p.
Tankard. Eastern Shore. fourth vice
president, Mrs. r. Fl. Potts. Norfolk;
corresponding secretary. Ms. s. n.
Brickhouse. Norfolk; recording secre-
tary. Mrs. Lee Britt, Suffolk, treas
urer. Mrs. A. w. Nowiin. Lynchburg.
District Secretaries -- Richmond,
Mrs. w. b. Newell: Charlottesville,
Mrs. w f. Buchanan. Rappahannoek.
Miss Fannie Robinson: Lynchburg.
Mrs A. w. Scott: Danville, Mrs. Will
liam Steger: Petersburg. Mrs Shell
ton Cheves: Portsmouth. Miss Edith
Neville: Norfolk. Mrs F-E Slmp-
son; Eastern Shore. Mrs Bette Rue:
Farmville. Mrs. n. T. Elan.
Reports OF the work during the past
year showed that the amount raised
for all purposes was SASH. The So
ciety pledged itself TO raise SEA. 600
during the coming year.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
IF

Republican organs are seeking consolation
In their recent overwhelming defeat by trying
10 make themselves believe that they would
have won but for the bolt of the colonel. and
the Progressiyes find balm in the thought that
1.-THE colonel would have won Int for Taft's
etubbornness In making the race after being
nominated by great party for that honor.
The truth OF the matter is that while the
Republican party vote was divided between
Taft and Roosevelt the Progressive vote was
divided between Roosevelt and Wilson. With
Taft out of the field Wilson would have Sc
cured many conservative Republican votes;
with Roosevelt out of the field he would have
received the bulk of the Progressive vote. In
other words, the country wanted Wilson, and
wilson was elected. Nevertheless, If the stand
petters and the radicals can find any comfort
mt OF the victory OF a Progressive no one
Wishes TO deprive them of 1t. Their plight is
I'D enough; let them ind peace in dreams.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
IT'S EAsY--LET fr ALONE.

THE task of the powers in intervention will
be- very far from simple" says the Boston
Ereaing Transcript. speaking OF the necessity
that has arisen since the defeat of Turkey by
the Balkan allies. The task on the contrary,
is exceedingly simple. although the simple way
VIII hardly be taken by the powers. All that
Is needed is Governor Eilson's remedy; "a new
spirit and new point of view" Give the con-
auered terrltory to the conquerers 1t Is when
the powers come to divide II among them-
selves that trouble will follow. Christians In
European Turkey have been crying aloud for
Intervention for years and the so-caled Chris
tian nations have turned deaf ear. The time
e. Intervention has now passed Let the
Balkan States. which have taken up the duty
watch the powers refused to performs settle
the question with Turkey and the expected
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09

court not to infiict 1t. The second conclusion
draw is this: The law can conspire as well
as those without the law. These trials, as
read them, appear to be a court conspiracy
out for blood. / see In the proceedings none
of the laws boasted majesty, none OF its im-
partiality. These reports indicate that four
Aliens are slated for death and condemned
beforehand. Bad as the March affair was,
these trials and their outcome appear to be
unspeakably worse. When law stoOps to VIII
dictate itself by finding victims In men whose
guilt is not clearly established, does it not
line up with the very thing 1t pretends ~ cen
denim? / have wondered II anything could
be done for these men. For one, am willing
to do all in my power to aid them. Many OF
our people in this section are bitter IN their
disapproval of these verdicts. / cannt hold
the court guiltless of this thing, ami III Its
sentence is carried out, in my opinion, 1t VIII
be a stigma upon the good name of Virginia"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09

ldency decided to battle for the Lord and the
people. ana although he ANONYMOUSLY
defeated his party outlived him short while
in the end to go the route of most new
parties The colonel has met the fate which
oefell Ben Butler, but he can secure that COM
pany which misery loves by communion with
the shade of his Massachusetts forerunner,
rather than with Abraham Lincoln, whose
spirit helped him not in bis disastrous cam
paign just closed
Butler of Civil War notoriety. was Repub-
l1can for a while, having left the Democratic
party Then he turned Democrat again. About
the time of his second OF third conversion he
conceived the idea of being president of the
United States. Unlike his latter-day prototype,
he did not seek the nomination of his own
party, foreseeing the hopelessness of the task,
but cast about for another vehicle for his
ambition. Here he had the advantage of the
colonel. who had to manufacture the vehicle.
for he had one ready to hand. 1t was badly
constructed and creaked dismally while NOV
ing. but Ben thought he could whip 1t into
shape for his purposes So he seized the
for the presidency of the United States. GEN
eral A. NJ. West of Mississippi offered himself
for slaughter in the interest of the holy cause
and was nominated as Ben's runnng-mate.
Then the platform was evolved. 1t sounds as
much like that devised at ArmaEedden in
Bin Flynn to lead in singing Onward, Chris
tian Soldiers" while 1.-The workers we're busy
patching it together In the preamble of this
platform It is declared that the "greenbackers'
are great and harmonious national party
having sectional prejudice" and bound
Gratis and Republicans who believe in saving
the country from banks, land-grant railroads.
monopoles," and so forth, are invited to leave
the corrupt old parties and join with the
"greenbackers" led by the patriotic Ben But
Ter. In this emergency" read this charter
of Democracy, "the dominant parties are array
ed against the people and the abject tools
Of the corporate monopolies"
Regulation of the railroads by congress and
the building of railroads by the government
* necessary; the suppression of gigantic
porate monopolies": the restoration to the peo-
pie OF their rights; conservation of public
lands; government ownership of the telegraph;
womans suffrage: prohibition; a graduated
income tax, and forth and so forth. For
tie rest of the platform read the Progressive
party platform of Colonel Roosevelt.
Socialists claim that the Bull Moose stole
numerous planks of their platform, and BRYAN
has been complaining with justice that the
colonel has stolen his clothes after he has
their desirability. In the colo
nel's wardrobe at Oyster Bay will be found
some that Ben Butler could claim were he
alive TO protect his property rights.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
trouble will not arise The task is easy--de
not undertake II.
THE OYSTER.

The Oyster Growers and Dealers Associa-
toR OF North America aroused by the attack
on the oysters of the Potomac river by So
la statement which is called THE Truth About
the Oyster" The statement is published in
another column on this page.
Henry c. Rowe, president of the association,
writes that reckless and indiscriminate asser-
tons have been made that oysters have caused
illness"
I'm many of these cases." he continues,
where circumstances permitted thorough in
vestgation, it was found that these assertions
were not founded upon fact, and In some cases
it has appeared very strongly that those who
made these statements did SO in order to profit
although the statements were great njus-
tice to an important food-producing industry
and deprived some timid people Of a nutri-
tious, easily digested, valuable and economi-
cal food
Many of the newspapers have unintenton-
ally done injustice by publishing sensational
statements of this kind and there Ia no means
of meeting them successfully, unless the press
will also present to the public some of the
facts favorable to the oyster industry,
1--WE, therefore, ask you in the cause of fair
ness to give publicity to the enclosed Item"
The report of a chemist OF Federal bureau
OF chemistry on Potomac river conditions was
sn example, it appears, of reckless asser-
items" and it is expected that the joint COM
mission since named to investigate will give
the oyster beds clean bill of health.
The association holsters up its assertions
regarding the oyster with statements from DR..
Julius Nelson. professor OF biology, Rutgers
College, New Jersey, and biologist OF New
Jersey State Agricultural College Experiment
Station. and from DIR. Frederick p. eGorham.
associate professor of biology at Brown Univer-
sity, and sanitary expert Of the Rhode Island
Skellhsh commission.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
MANY INDICTMENTS
ARE NOW EXPECTED
HENRICO COUNTY GRAND JURY
SUMMONS TAXPAYERS
TO APPEAR.

Disregarding thu warning Of the
vestigate the tax returns OF Henrico
county, scores of residents Of the
county have been summoned to ap-
pear before the investigators In the
courthouse next Wednesday morning
to say why they should not be indict.
ed for failure To make the proper cor-
rections in their returns within thu
time given them by the jury.
The special grand jury reconvened
yesterday morning, and ON looking
over the books Of the commissioners
of revenue 1t was discovered that a
large number OF taxpayers OF the
county had failed to take advantages
of the time given them.
A report was drafted and submitted
10 Judge r. Carter Scott but the
names are withheld from the public
until the report OF the jury has been
spread upon the minutes OF the court
and become public property.
While many have failed to take ad.
vantage of the given time, a largo
number OF others have made the
proper corrections. The books show
that since the first warning of the
grand jury several weeks ago voiun-
tary corrections OF tax returns have
amounted to the sum of $1s2,025. OF
this amount the income corrections
amount TO ss2.f05: personal. $50. 000;
intangible, $4,000. and six automo.
biles, $500.
Sheriff l.. III. Kemp and Deputy
Sheriff W. w. Sydnor have been or
dered to summons large number be-
fore the grand jury when II recon-
yenes next Wednesday morning.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
Boys Want Use of Park.

Editor the Firginian:
Sufficiently / have noticed in your paper
that others are seeking place for the boys
and girls to play. / am boy fourteen years
of age who started to the high school in Sep
TENDER. When get home from school. unless
have something to do at home / go out in
the street and walk or loaf around until 'dark
and then come home and study my lessons.
We cannot play football in the streets be-
cause the ground is too hard. The only game
left for the boys to play is marbles The other
day saw a man cut up the sidewalk by his
house to keep them from playing marbles.
There is Chmborazo park. which has five
mounds. One mound is used for tennis and
croquet, while the other four are not used for
ANYTHING We boys want two mounds for
use of football, and the girls and smaller chill
dren can use the other two for their games
and sports. l do not see that footoaH does
any more harm to the grass than tennis or
croquet.
Sometimes when / go after boy to come
out he says, Il am reading book and do not
want to come out; there is no place 10 play
II any one knows that playing in the park
does not hurt it, Mike Pierce. the park
keeper ought to know 1t. He says he believes
in letting the boys play football in the park,
and 1t is not he who Is keeping the boys from
playing there, some people think lie mas
to carry out the instructions OF the city engi-
neer.
Some gentlemen who are not SO old out snat
they can remember when they liked to play
are supporting us. But. friends, these men
cannot do it ALL Once football was played in
the park for an entire season and the city
engineer did not find it out until spring, wnen
the boys started to playing baseball.
A few boys and have petition before the
committee on grounds and buildings asking
that we be allowed to play in the parks. We
had some few to oppose playing football in
the parks They said that they believed In
identifying the parks instead of running them;
7 heIeve In identifying the parks myself, and
here is way in which boys can play in the
parks and beautify them, too: We will use
one mound in Chimborazo park one day and
the other on the next and both on Saturday.
n we begin to iniure the grass in the least the
nark keeper can stop us until the grass is
green again Respectfully,
WALTER ANDERSON.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
SHERIFF MERCER
ABLE TO BE OUT

Sheriff J. Herbert Mercer. who shot
off his left hand middle finger a few
days ago while hunting near Beaver
Dam. was back In his quarters in the
City hall yesterday and attending to
his duties The flngar WAS anipntated
Just below the second joint, and IL
healing fast. Though he still wears
a sling. Sheriff Mercer is able to do
his work. and Is glad to be in his
office again.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
TRIAL is HALTED BY
ABSENCE OF WITNESS

The trial OF Gertrude Ellis. colorcd.
indicted for the alleged killing Of her
brother-in-iaw. John Ellis. was halted
in the Hastings court yesterday when
1t was found that the principal wit
ness for the Commonwealth was abb
sent. The authorities 1t is said. know
where the missing witness is. and will
apprehend her.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
THE ARMAGEDnoy or rHr PAST.

$@ II Colonel Roosevelt has time now for a
3lttie reelection he can find consolation in the
1Aet that be 10 not the first champion OF the
&SeFd a Armageddon TO go down in defeat
nty-efght years ago another who had been
$3.50 ~ party's nomination for the presi-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09

The Lynchburg Nctes is threatened with
various and sundry forms of punishment if ii
does not let the noble Aliens" alone. Here's
hoping that Brother Addison will find his
future abiding place as comfortable as cir
cumstances will permit.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09

The New York Sun wants Mr.. Wilson to
use his long, lean fingers" to throttle that
dangerous thing" which ia to say Organism
The new president has many difficult tasks
possible.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
A Step Backwards

Is taken when savings account or sound
investment is disturbed because of the
temptation to indulge in luxury. To do
so is not merely to reduce ones surplus,
but implies a STEP BACKWARDS in the
practice OF prudent economy, which is no
small handicap to the man who aims to
Systematically save and invest some part
OF his earnings. Let your special saving
account REMAIN INTACT in the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL
SUFFRAGE CONVENTION

.t-t f r
Delegates TO the national suffrage
convention. to be held In Philadelphia,
have been appointed as follows: Miss
E'oise Johnston Mrs. Charles Bosher.
Mrs. Harvey Clarke. Mrs. Charles
Meredith, AIRS. Stephen Putney. Mrs,
Dexter Otey, Miss Janetta Fitxhugh.
Mrs. Waiter J. Adams. Mrs. Louise
Collier Wilcox. Mrs. s. w. Meek.
Alternatives chosen are Miss Ro-
berta Wexford. Mrs. Alice Tyler Mrs.
Thomas Murrell Miss Marie Leahey,
Mrs. A. B. Whitner. Mrs. John s.
Wright, Mrs, Carl Rostrup. Miss Ethel
Wiley. Mrs, George A. Barksdale, Mrs.
George Richardson.
Mr.. Old luallne-.
w. w. Old. Jr, of Norfolk. quail.
fed yesterday to practice in the city
N
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-09
American National Bank
Of Richmond, Virginia

adding regularly to the principal as we
place the interest to your credit Let
YOUR steps in investment be FORWARD
ONES.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-03
APPOMATToX DELEGATES
WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS

Especial to The Times Dispatch
AppomattoN, Va. May AT n large
mass meeting hers yesterday, with Hon
/. j. Stratton in the chair. six dele
gates We're elected 10 attend the Nor
folk convention on May %. They We're
authorized to go uninstructed and to,
vote as unit. They consist of II. d.
Flood, S. l. Ferguson. j. Il. Horsely,
j. b. Abbitt, r. IT. Browning and w, r.
Marshall.
Resolutions We're offered and passed.
upon unanimously. first, by S. l.. Fer,
Euson, that the delegates go unin-s
sructed and vote a unit: second. by
j. Il. Abbitt, that tho course of Sena-
Tors Martin and Swanson BE- heartily
ihdorsed; third, by Lee Smith, that the
administration of Governor Mann has
been able and conservative and IN the
interest Of the farmer; fourth, by j. w.
Cawthorn, that thu voters heartily in,s
Gerse II. u. Flood for recollection to-
Congress The meeting was harmonic
GUS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-03
Newspapers Are
Best Educators
They Reach the Largest Number 81
Progrcnsivo People In All
Parts OF Country.

There would b but little progreasI
IN education in this land of the frae
IL ~ We're not for she newspapers 81
Sinro BENJAMIN Franklin got to-
eether Il few fonts OF tyne and littfe:
printing press that rs made hinselfs
IN Phlladeiphia in the year 1929. and
started a newspaper the cause OF edtt-s
cation has been advanced ana devel-
oped up 70 the present standard IN
iact. FRANKLIN himself said his ediica-8
ton was mainly due to the art pre-
scrvativc." S>f&i
At the present time over billion
pounds o. white paper are consumed
for newspapers every year Az soon
rs child is old enough to read, IL
begins to prepare the way for an inss
crease in the consumption of whites
paper. Hsls
Recognizing the fact that news
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-03
MILLIONS ARE ADDED
BY SENATE COMMITTEE.

Washington, May 2.-Amendments to
| the rivers and harbors appropriation
bill passed by the House, involving ad-
waterways throughout the. United
States. are recommended by the SEN
ate Committee on Commerce in It's
report on the measure. 10 be submit
ted To tho Senate In a few days The
Senate committee proposes specific in
creases OF appropriations of $S,06I,0lo,
and decreases in appropriations OF
S273.0oo. If the bin passes. as recon-
mended by the committee, Ii will carry
! n total of 1858, 53o.5o.
An amendment recommended by the
committee provides an appropriation
OF 2l,iO0 Tor the Improvement OF
Aqua Creek, Va, from Goals Landing
10 the Potomac River. This creek en-
tcrs the Potomac about forty one miles
below Washington. 1t is now pro-
posed 10 make a channel six feet deep
and from sixty to 100 feet wide from
tho mouth OF Goals Landing. dis
lance of Two and three-quarters miles,
with n turning basin OF the same depth
and $50 feet wide at the latter place
This project had been recommended as
worthy OF completion by the army en-
ginccrs. and ia inserted in the bill on
their statement.
Another amendment provides $500
I for the Improvement of Elk River. Md.
Important surveys.
Several surveys. 10 which Importance
is attached by owners and masters OF
vessels on the Potomac River, are pro-
vided for in other amendments which
the Senate committee has adopted:
Chesapeake Bay, with a view to pro-
viding a suitable channel to Tansicr,
Va.
Chesapeake Bay. with a view to
Strengthening the north side of the
channel at the entrance of tho harbor
at Cape Charles city, Va, ana to In
crcasing the width of the channel 200
feet.
Savage's Creek, Va. with view to
providing It suitable channel from the
Chesapeake Bay 10 Eastviile
From deep water to Oyster, Va, to
provide a channel 100 feet wide and SIX
feet deap. with a suitable anchorage
for small boats.
Jackson Creek Bar. Va, with view
to cutting through same to provide a
harbor at Deltavillc.
Dnr 10 he Removed.
NassawadoX Creek. Va. with a view
to tho removal of the bar at its mouth
so as to conect with tho bay and pro-
vide u suitable channel.
Hampton Creek. Va for the purpose
of making this river deeper and more
suitable for anchorage and use of boats