The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-23

with ss.ooo,ooo population. there are less than
1000 saloons; that the per capita consumption
of liquor in dry territory is 1.23 gallons per
annum: in wet territory, 1928 gallons; that
no temperance legislation reaching a vote in
feated; that only six States have more wet
than dry territory: that seventy one per ce-t
OF the area OF the United States Is now sh1 tna
people OF the United States live in dry dis
tricts.
The VETS embracing, as they do. distillers.
brewers. saloon proprfetors, barkeepers. whis-
key clubs and fraternities, and citizens VINO
think Of business than they do of char
acter naturally are not enthusiastic when the
Anti-Saloon league comes among them. The
church people, hundreds and thousands OF men
and women who labor for the advancement OF
Christianity, and citizens who Believe In an
everlasting warfare against alcohol and drunk
enness. rejoice when the league Is with them:
they rejoice at opportunity to hear its mes
| sage and receive its spirit of encouragement.
First Presbyterian church this evening it will
find the good people of Roanoke ready to listen
and learn, ready to applaud its noble undertake
ing and ready to bid it godspeed in the prose-
cution of its work.
! Such people have no difficulty in answering
our question. They know that the Anti-Saloon
league is meeting in Roanoke In furtherance
of benefcent mission; that 1t represents the
force of intelligence and humanity and derives
its power from grace and truth--Roanoke
/ World.
When Public Service Corporation Understands
While railroads have come In for GOOD
deal of condemnation for certain of their poll
CfeS-and much or ir thoroughly deserved
the railroads should be strongly praised for
whatever policies they have iaugurated which
are deserving OF commentator. We do not
believe in damning a railroad because 1t Is a
railroad.
An instance of cause for hearty approval
| is the busness-lke and far-sighted policy of
the Southern railway in Its work of building up
the agricultural sections which that great sys-
tenn serves. According to the report OF Mr.. I.
o. Plunkett, manager of the railroads depart
ment of farm improvement work recently made
public, average yield of 46.6 bushels of corn
per acre was secured by 498 farmers In Alabama
and Mississippi who cultivated $685. acres in
1912, following the methods advocated by the
field agents of the department On neighhorins
farms where the ordinary methods were fol-
lowed the average yield was IT'S bushels per
acre In the same States s74 farmers who
| grew cotton under the methods advocated by
this department had an average production OF
| 1,205.5 pounds of seed cotton per a.
1 3s9 acres while neighboring farms where or
binary methods were followed the average
/ yield was 531.5 pounds of seed cotton per acre.
/ c. A. Lawrence, of Plantersville, Ala. averaged
! 1925 bushels of corn per acre on thirty-five
acres A. Henderson, of Greenwood Miss, aver
aged 100 bushels per acre on twenty-five acres:
B. Kilan, of Collinsvlle, Ala, averaged 2.732
pounds or seed cotton per acre on six acres:
DR.. c. N. ParneIl of Mapesvie, Ala. averaged
other farmers who made splendid yields of both
corn AMI cotton by following the methods advo-
Gated by the department could be given.
The work OF this department of the system
has been extended to all States served by the
Southern railway and afiliaed lines, field agents
having been placed In Virginia North and South
/ Carolina. Georgia Kentucky and Tennessee in
! September, 1912. 1t Is excellent example
OF what great public service corporation has
! undertaken to do In cooperating for the ad-
vancement of great many communities after
realizing that its own progress is dependent
upon the progress of the section 1t serves a
4 transporting agency--Lynchburg Advance.
i The Webb-Kenyon Bill.
+ When 1t became known that the webb-Ken-
yon bill protected shipments of liquor from
wet State into dry State when made to an in
i diyidual for his own USE temperance advocates
n IN
I difference disappointment; but they have
I studied the matter further, they have realized
that that is about all that could be asked of
II congress at the present stage OF public senti-
4 ment
The Roanoke World, concluding an article on
Il the Webb bill, has this to say:
II THE Webb bill. though 1t may not affect the
individual who wants gallon of liquor from a
nearby State. pronounces the death in prohibit
ton States of blind tigers and speak eases and
OF those clubs and fraternites which make the
dispensation of liquor large part of their ac-
tvity. In the hands OF the authorities, 1t will
4 be mighty weapon for the enforcement OF
| prohibitory statutes It will sound the ruin of
i iotte. Atlanta and other cities. where the rule
1 of prohibition has been voted out, but where
I 1t is openly violated. Furthermore 1t lis a pow
t erfuf bu1wark behind State liquor legislation
preventing the laws of the United States from
4 therein lies it's great value and its unmeasured
| possbities.-Staunton Leader.
Praise for a Virginia Democrat and Progress
Il sive Republican.
/ There are two in this country who de-
Il serve public recognition and sooner or later
| they will get. They have done things tangible
| They have done something more than talk. y
\ They each public benefactors, and should
/ have a few flowers while they are still able to
1 enjoy their fragrance and beauty So. here
are ours. We refer to Mr.. Hitchcock, post
i master general of the United States and c.
i Lee Moore auditor Of Virginia These two
4 men the job.
i Mr.. Hitchcock has put into operation the
/ great parcels post system. smoothly and sue
4 cessfully, all through this country. without a
4 Jar, without delay or confusion. This scheme
/ will be of more value In the way of conven-
fence and economy to a greater number of peo-
4 pie than any other scheme of modern times
And incidenty and Indirectly he has done Tor
the express companies what the whole OF cons
i Rress seemed unable TO accomplish. He has
4 built his monument.
IL State Auditor Moore has done greater SER
4 vice to his State than any of his predecessors.
/ He has gone after the tax-dodgers and care
less, incompetent commissioners with gloves
| OF, and unearthed hundreds of thousands of
| taxable property heretofore withheld from tax
! alton In the county of Norfolk, according to
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