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Little Miss speers Hostess.

At the home of her grandmother; Mrs. M. E. Speers, Little Marietta Speers entertained large number of her little friends yesterday afternoon with a beautiful Washington birth day party.
 The charming little hostess was
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p;rthday PafN'

Birthday Paft!' , ,.u Title George Wiley celebrated his eleventh birthday yesterday aftef. T. noon by entertaining a number Of ms litt1o friends at birthday party helo .4 the home of his parents MT. allo
 n r.. Wiley, No. 1877 Chesnut street. .o ,,,oe- ont and many childhood games were T. ind indulged in throughout the entire ;, at- ternoon. The home was beautifully docorated with red geraniums, nat ohots and flags, and>the color scheme ,as carried out in the desert' the
 oroam being red, white and blue le' rod hatchets were given the young people as souvenirs
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Theatre Party.

A theatre party, composed Ol young Camden society folks, witness ed the attraction, "Everywoman,' Friday night at the Elks Theatre. Thoe present were Misses Mary Truesdail, Margaret Ramsey, Mildred Gordon, Norma Hanson, Ruth Gaug- han and Mesdames J. C. Ussrey, C. H. Moore and J. w. Brown, Mrs. Hamp Hall. MT. and Mrs. Ed liar per. Mesdames Moore and Brown are guests of Mrs. w. w. Taylor while in the city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-23

the execution of this program brought much praise from the visitors.
 A cordial welcome was accorded Mir. and Mrs. Bosbyshell and daughter, who are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. c. w. PettigreW.
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MathOntes Club.

The Mathontes Club will meet with Mrs. A. W. Troupe at her home on West Fifth avenue "Wednesday after noon at 2::30 o'clock.
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oMng Ladies Guild.

A business meeting of the Young adies Guild of Trinity church will e held with Mrs. E. w. Freeman. iondav afternoon at o'clock. The lembers are urged to attend.
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City Beautiful.

City Beautiful.
 The City Beautiful club will meet next Thursday at 10 o'clock in the parlors of the Jefferson hotel
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Place for Girls
And Their Mothers

Garden of Attractive Spring Dresses
 for Girls of to l4 Years.
 h making our chiIdrcn'S $ department ready for spring we have used every effort to have variety, best new styles, good materials. low est prices. See how well We have succeeded. Come and look IeisureIy through all the racks and tables of pret- ty, attractive dresses.
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SOCIETY

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
GRACE STREET S.,
ELECT OFFICERS

Grace-Street Baptist Sunday school
held its annual meeting Monday
evening. The reports OF the officers
were submitted. showing the school
in an encouraging condition. The re-
port OF the Superintendent Hugh P.
Powell recorded an increase of forty
eight scholars making a total on the
roll Of 526. Collections for the year
amounted to $714.14, of which amount
$500 for the Baptist Orphanage. at
Salem, Va, the balance being used
for running expenses and improve
ments
There were thirty-six conversions
in the schools and unearly as many
baptisms. The outlook for the new
year Is promising, and the school ex-
poets to enter upon a progressive
campaign for greater things.
The following officers and school
representatives were elected for the
Term OF one year: Superintendent,
Hugh p. Powell; first assistant sup
erintendent, Tyler E. Perrin: second
assistant superintendent, Henry Y.
Ehei: secretary. Alt. H. Powell; trea-
surer. c, Versal Blackburn. librarian
Fred H. Powell. distributor, G. v.
Robinson; choristor, h. F. Cosby. rass-
sionary, Vivian McKinnon: represen-
tative on executive committee of Bap-
list Sunday school association. Henry
=. Ebel; superintendent adult de-
partment. Miss Alta Foster superin-
tendent junior department, Mrs. B. b.
van Buren,; superintendent beginners
department, Mrs. W. w. Lefew; super
intendent cradle roll, Mrs. Charles
r. Winston: library committee. Mrs.
w. A. Harris. Mrs. H. r. Powell Mrs
s. b. Atkins
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02

and data to adequately rigid tests. The SUBJ
seriousness and sincerity of thought until he
shall have come to know that he stands on
absolutely solid ground in his views and con-
victions and until he shall have brought the
full force of his influence to bear-in every
field. and in every direction--on behalf of JUS
tice and Righteousness.
What the State has no power to give or to
restore, that she has right to take away.
Inc fact that God. sovereign and sole Creator.
Judge and Owner of all, has infiicted--and does
now inhict-the death penalty, cannot be ap-
pealed to as justifying society-human govern
ment--the State-in demanding the life of the
criminal The fact that the MURDER. other
criminal deserves to die cannot be sanely,
logically urged in justification of legal exc
cution.
punishment should be deterrent 1t cannot
De conclnsively shown that the death penalty
Is ever effectively deterrent. Punishment should
be corrective and remedial in it's tendency 1t
cannot be affirmed that the death penalty Is
either Punishment should be humane and
merciful To the victim, the death penalty cam
not be, and they who would convince us that
IL is humane, merciful, in any sense helpful, to
proof'-from under which they shall soon
ardentiy desire to be delivered.
Let the laws requiring the death penalty
be SO amended as that capital punishment shall
be blotted from the statute books.
E. w WINFREY.
Culpeper. Va, April 80, 1913.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
California and the South.
Editor of The Virginian:

Editor OF The Virginian:
Sir,-With shaking hand but armored in right
purpose, l set pencil in rest to run one more
course with that redoubtable journalistic war
rior Colonel williams my kind and well be-
loved former chief May be another David
going up against Goliath. and stick him through
the middle
Don't you see, colonel that your exposition
of all that is praseworthy In the Japanese
their intelligence, hardihood, industry thrift
Irugality and ahstemousness-as shown by Mr.
Browns Facts About Florin." are among the
very reasons why the Caifornans object to them
as competitors?
japanese in character. either they would have
been exterminated by this time or they would
nave had the Southern States in their grin
from the fatherand.
The average Californian, like the rest Of is
not willing to work live like the average
Japanese He couldn't IL he. would. The
japanese is the product of an evolutionary pro-
cess radically different from that which prn-
duced the Anglo Saxon. The typical Califor-
MAN is the antithesis aside from jntelIisence
OF that Japanese described by Mr.. Brown, and
ne won't consent to standard of existence
his Oriental competitor is content with.
But 1t is the basic racial principal of the
thing not the statistical proof OF numerical
white superiority we in the South ought to
consider. especially in those States where
blacks outnumber whites l surprised and
not little disappointed that all the influence
or the South has not banked itself solidIy be-
hind the Cafornians who are fighting our own
fight and bringing home to the country political
truths our fathers fought for.
There is historic reason for the old Con-
federacy to side with California. Do you know
mat 1t was touch and go" whether or not
California should stay in the Union. when her
sister Southern States seeded? No Wen
comparatively few persons do. even among the
Wen informed, on this side of the continent
But 1t Is a fact and only recently a thick book
written by Northern man. was published in
boston to show how the Union league barely
aVerted that catastrophe to the United States
catastrophe because california's gold gave
weight to the paper of the United States a
thing that would have saved the Confederate
states, perhaps. Our own flesh and blood are
numerous throughout that fair State; destined
believe to be the battle-ground of a terrible
struggle Tor supremacy in the Pacific
W no can estimate what benefit n would
nave been to us If our fathers. after the war
could have declared the African race "fneIiplIa
70 citizenship and barred from holding land
mat Is what the Californians are irving To
erect 1t is pretty serious business for them
IN the state department at Washington having
purposely or carelessly made a foreign treaty
violating the domestic rights of State can
command the support of any large number of
IeadlnS American men such as the contributin.,
editor of The Vrginian.
JEFFRY MONTAGUE
Richmond, April 30th
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02

passed Dy the senate another Judge from one OF
the nve States comprising the circuit will have
to be named by President Wilson.
! Virginia wants virginian named to that
position Ii entitled to have 1t and can get It
II VIII 30 about the task In the proper man.
ner.
North Carolina has one Of her sons on the
oench; South Carolina has her second and West
virginia and Maryland each has had one Only
virginia has never been honored. President
Wilson is yirgnian born and is understood to
be DESTROYS of naming virginian should the
opportunity occur.
FOR these reasons Virginia has the greatest
opportunity OF all the States to have one Of her
sons named to the new judgeship. The only
bar Is the multiplicity of candidates. The in.
ability OF the Virginia delegation, the various
bar associations and the people to unite on one
candidate for the position was probably the
Carolinian to the vacancy just filled by the
appointment of Judge Woods. Just why this
should have been SO we confess that we do not
understand. 1t would seem that the larger the
number Of fit candidates the greater the chance
for success, but evidently such was not the case.
for 1t is almost unanimously agreed by news
paper correspondents and others in touch with
affairs at Washington that more than for any
other reason Judge Woods was named because
he had the united backing Of South Carolina, yir-
g1nia should profit by the example.
There were a dozen candidates in Virginia
for the vacancy just filled. There should be
one for the new judgeship to be created
How the selection is to be made is diff
cult question, but 1t would seem that the vir
ginia delegation In Washington might call
meeting and decide to recommend the candi-
date agreed upon regardless of whether candi-
dates appeared from their own district or not
II this were done at once many others prospec-
tive candidates would keep out of the field in
stead of announcing their candidates. securing
some local support and complicating the situa-
ton.
The Vfrgintnn hopes that, whether It be done
this way in some other, 1t will be done. With
one candidate from this State, supported by all
the State and possessing the necessary quail
ications and embodying within himself the
claims of the State. his appointment Is almost
sure.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
C. { D. EARNINGS
SHOW A DECREASE
FLOOD SITUATION IN WEST HIT
ROAD HARD-sOUTHERN EARN.
INGS ON INCREASE,

While net revenues OF the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad fell con.
siderably below the earnings OF the
system for the month OF March, 1918.
as compared with the corresponding
period OF 1912. the report of the com
ptroiler OF the Southern railway shows
that the earnings Of that road appya-
eisniy exceeded those of March, IsIs
the flood situation in the weat
which hit the Chesapeake and Ohio
hard, Ia responsible for the falling ~,
In the earnings of that road The
report of the comptroller shows a net
operating revenue of s71l.f92s6. while
the net receipts for March. 1919
amounted to sl.o12.o4sss. a decrease
or - per cent For the nine months
ending March 3ist. the Chesapeage
and Ohio net revenue shows de-
crease of per cent as compared with
the nine months OF 1912
The Southerns total net income for
March, 1919, was s1,s14ss2s1 as com
pared with earnings Of sl,529 4Is, o..
an increase of 3.5s per cent For the
nine months ending March sIst the
sontherns earnings showed an In.
crease OF 4.s3 per cent ever the cor.
responding period Of 1912
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
Ed HALSEY GETS
BETTER POSITION
APPOINTED ASSISTANT SERGEANT
ALARMS OF SENATE At IN
CREASED SALARY.

Especial to The Richmond VirEinian.)
WASHINGTON. d. <. May L.
Edwin a. Halsey, of Lynchburg, was
today appointed assistant sergeant at
arms of the senate. and assigned to
the senate floor to have charge Of
pages.
Mr.. Halsey has been an employe OF
the capitol fifteen years starting his
career as a senate page. For the past
four years he has been assistant su-
perintendent of the senate press gal
lery. and since the death of Charlie"
Mann three weeks ago. has been a
candidate to succeed Mann as super
intendent of the house press gallery.
The position he secured today is
preferable, the salary being $4,000
year.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
NEARING THE SENATE.

Setting their hands to the pillow, the Democrats
OF the house have not looked back They are
going right ahead. They are stalking their own
political futures and the fate Of their party on
the righteousness, justice and wisdom OF the
partys position on the tariff They are. lodging
structing new tariff bill and laboring to have
it in effect and operation by the latter part of
this yeaT They, deserve more thanks and
honor than the country knows. Each man OF
them has been subjected to strong and trying
pressure from great and small powers, from
general and local interests from the honestly
alarmed and the greedy and crafty. They have
faced piteous appeals and savage threats,
Through it all, they have borne themselves wei
and gone right on with their work.
The Underwood bin IL nearing the senate its
danger point The responsibility for its sue.
cess or failure will be the Democratic sena.
tors. 1t is for them now to be solid determined
vigorous and earnest as the men in the house
The one way to test theory is 70 put ii into
practical operation and actual use Democrats
believe their theory Of the tariff is right and
for the advancement and good Of the masses OF
the people. None of US should be afraid or
should hesitate to trust our theory to the final
can challenge and trust the American people
"a decide. II We are right We VIII Be srpruvrr'
and sustained IL we are wrong we will be
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
PEOPLES FORUM
BLOT 1t From the Books.

Editor of the Virginian:
Sir,-So long there is statute which de-
mands the death of any one convicted Of muir
der, rape. arson. or other crime, jurors judges
and all others charged with the administration
in respect of such cases is the unhappy
criminal whose fate they declare and seal Their
They are the servants creatures instruments
of the State The fault is with the statute, and
by whom and at whose bidding through
whose negligence the character of our laws is
determined.
Diligent search fails to discover any sound
reason valid argument for the death penalty
and suspicion wakes toward conviction Ahat
cowardice. and cold hearted conservatism. and
stolidly selfish rating of lucre and leisure above
human life, and blood -lusting vengeance, and
narrow view Of the scope of the demands
OF justice the factors which effect the per-
petuaton of this penalty.
For many OF those who champion capital
punshment-men of well deserved. most en-
viable and altogether spotless reputation, of ac-
knowledged ability and large learning, men OF
pure life and lofty character--t is impossible
not to cherish sincere and profound esteem.
But for their views this subject 1t Is equally
impossible to entertain respect. II Is impossible
to justify their conclusions by valid processes
of reasoning. Their arguments are based upon
indefensible assumptions, move only in circles,
and nothing better than verbose reitera-
tons Of empty dicta- Lifelong habits of thought.
inherited impulses. sanity adherence of crime
and baseness, holy and wengh consuming
zeal for all things pure and noble-by these, or
one or more of these. they seem blinded be-
wdered. confused, till unable to perceive the
paths of truth and duty.
One of the most painful and pernicious Of
their blunders is the attempt to rest their
theory and contention upon the sacred Scrip
lures, 1t seems forgotten overlooked that
according to Moses other crimes than murder
as adultery, idolatry. Sabbath Dissertation, and
wtchcraft-were punishable by death. 1t is
forgotten or overlooked that according to Moses
judicial procedure regards murder was more
elaborate. breathed larger leniency, more
hedged about against the possibility of unjust
haste an harshness than in certain other cases
which, from the viewpoint of modern legisla-
ton and Jurisprudence and thought and custom
are relatively. of a decidedly minor character
But, the grayer and more hurtful phase Of
their mistake here Is the failure see that
with the coming of the Christ ideals. new
forces and new methods came into the world 1
and that these ideals and forces and
methods meant not only evolution but revolu-
tion restoration and enlargement. None OF
the moral, religious, eternal principles enun-
ciated by Moses and the prophets, but certain
of their interpretations OF those principles, and
of their applications OF them to domestic, social,
civil relationships were abolished. either by ex-
plicit and specific utterance by the expulsive
paXer Of broader light and higher life
Let Us emancip4te self
indulgent tndispoeition to subject hypothesis
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
To THIS POLITICAL lIIrNs.

TO the ten thousand Inhabitants of Richmond
who are not citizens. greetings.
You are in Richmond. but not Of f. You
live here, you make your living here you spend
your money here, you must obey its laws but
you live here under conditions not of your MAX
ing. you spend part of your money In taxes for
things that you may or may not want. you obey
laws that not your laws You are taxed
without representation something against which
your forefathers fought and suffered hardships
but which you endure rather than turn finger
Richmond is your home. but you have no voice
in its affairs, You are newer OF wood and
drawer of water in your own house although
You could sit at the table with the family and
have influence in the conduct of its affairs
Richmond is governed well. and IT is nothing
TO your credit II Is governed badly. and it is
largely your fault
Richmond send capable man to the State
legislature and though ne represents you. none
give you any Of the credit for selecting him. 1t
sends one who does not do it honor, and yours
is partly the blame
Richmond adopts certain policy and YOU
may approve you may disanp,ove and mono
tain policy of which you approve. because It
cares not whether you approve or not 1t may
spend money for streets when the money should
have been expended for schools or IT may spend
money for increasing salaries while both the
streets and schools neglected and it is as
much your fault in the aggregate as it is that
of the councilmen or administrators directly
responsible
You live and work and die In Richmond and
you die as YOU have lived-a political alien.
You may be. successful in business, pillar of
the church. public benefactor man respected
and loved by your neighbor, but the keeper of
the lowest dive In the city has more political
influence than you. He can influence city and
State elections more than you can. Each of
several hundred negro ditch diggers have some
thing to say as TO who shall be mayor OF Rich
not. He is a citizen.
II such conditions as these we're forced upon
you, Mr. Good Resident, without a vote, there
would be revolution. Aye, bloody rcvolu-
tion If necessary TO change them. People have
risen In revolt and have fought and bled for
years for less than this, while you submit TO
II without murmur Yet you change things
In five minutes. without fighting battle or even
shouldering a nusket. You do 1t at the
cost of one dollar and half In money and ten
minutes in time.
Eternal vigilance Is the price of liberty and
for ages people have refused to pay the price
Life and fortune they would give, but wakeful-
ness and vigilance all the time they would not
give. Yet had Indifference been banished many
revolutions and for freedom would never
have been necessary.
n Indifference shall be banished in Richmond
during the next two days Richmond will have
the best electorate and consequently the best
government In Virginia
Today and tomorrow your poll taxes can be
paid and you can qualify to vote,
Pay today.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
TICK TOOK" WILL
BE GIVEN HEARIRC

Thomas Brockenboro. colorea. was
fined $40 and costs for reckless drty-
ing yesterday morning His team ran
into horse belonging to O. b. Norman.
"Wednesday. $780,. i'
Alfred Bollin, alias Tick Took vitli
be given a hearing May 8, on the charrnl
Of stealing brass fittings from cars IN
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Hn'
recently escaped from a special offt-
police station. The police believe that
they will be able to prove that he stolo
quantity of brass from engines * the
road.
and costs for hitting NJ r. Goodman.
of Norfolk In the eye at Ninth and Mar
shall streets, early yesterday morning.
the white man had resented remarks
made to him by the negro.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
Pitiless Publicity.

NOW that Investigations in order WIN
not aeVe INTO the methods of obtaining infor
nation from the comptroller's Department r.
one oanK mas been favored over all others the
practice should he stopped at once The ba r.
ing business extremely sensitive and should
pe IKE caesars Wife, above suspicion No
one bank should have private knowledge Oh
,aiileo through any channels OF the government
fosslpiy the New York bank that kept a clerh
IN the once OF the comptroller of the currency
showed enterprise little ahead Of it's com,
Petitors' Whlch gave that bank some advance
news OF financial value, but notwithsta nding
the statement that such news was open To the
pubic no one, unless he knew the ms and outs
or the governments methods could Obtain such
Information as early the private individuai
or institution that had their own employe look
it up. Nv"
Uncle Sam is abundantly able to emplov b;s
own clerk to give out the kind of news ,ha+ 10
desired, and no private concern should be al
ington Herald.
This may be the Ratchet burying season hut
we don't notice Colonel Watterson digging any
holes in the back yard-Columbia State
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
Y. M. G. A. MASS
MEETING SUNDAY

DR.. Douglas s. Freeman will repre-
sent Governor Mann as the principal
speaker at the big Y. NJ. c. A.. mass
meeting for colored people, which
will be held in the City auditorium
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 O'Clock. Or.
w. H Stokes, pastor of Ebenexer
Baptist church. will introduce tho
speaker. whose subject will be: .srhou
Shalt Have No Other God" Mayor
dress
The musical part Of the program
will be furnished by the Euterpc
quartette and the Sharon band. The
public is cordially invited to the meet
ing.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-02
LICENSE TAXES
ARE NOW OVER DUE

City Collector Hulce is preparing hfs
list of delinquent license taxpayers.
which will be presented to the jus-
tice of the Police court within n
few days.
City license taxes are past due. and
those who do not pay up at once
subject themselves to a summons to
court with a fine OF $40 following.
The collector says that those who
pay now before the list is completed.
may save themselves much annoy
ance.