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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Satisfied.

Sometimes when All looks around an
sees
De folks what's all fred sure
Days s~ine right straight to glory
kase
Dey am so pow'ful pure:
When All looks at old Deacon Jones.
Who's crooked as stick.
Wnen An considers Deacon Sniff
Who says he wouldn't stoop
TO do wrong, but has been caugh.
In Ike Browns chicken coop.
When An takes stock OF ole man Hicks
Who exhorts Wild a shout.
But has been rested nineteen times.
Or lcastwise Whereabouts:
when An looks at old Elder Jinks.
who spens his time in prar
And let's his wife take washin' in
From families neah an far;
l say. when All consdahs dem
An somehow got a bunch
1t won't he safe TO me to take
No chances wild dat bunch.
If dis we're few dat All have named
VIII be de only men
In dis yere town OATS gwine to go
To glory sure, we'll. then
somehow got a feelin' dat
From all de things All knows
Ahll take nah chances wild de crowd.
No Inattah whar ii goes
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
THE CITY IDEAL.

liz The literature Oh city government
stream from the presses OF tho coun-
try there is observable OF late tone
OF pessimism. That FIRST enthusiasm
with which commission government
was hailed rs the panacea FOR every
existing municipal i'll has given place
TO doubts and misgivinSs as the de-
:ccts OF the commission plan have been
revealed with experience. Locally we
md this spirit reflected in the wide
spread belief that our last condition
have traded tho devil for the witch
IN taking the administration of city
business from the Council and placing
it III the hands OF five men.
We must confess that we do not
share this pcssmism. We are not un-
conscious OF the fact that the com
mission plan has its faults. and we
are FAR from admitting that Rich
mond's experiment. in simpl.fed gov
eminent deserves emulation by other
the reason that we regard nil that has
been done in recent years TO restore
the city to the citizens as means.
not an end, 4 step, not journey.
achieved. We should never despair
while We are still Xpcrimenting: we
should never declare municipal gov
eminent failure until we have tried
10 build strongly on the known foun-
dation OF past failure
II is too often forgotten that city
government IS but question OF This
morning IN tho United States. Until
Tweed's abominable rule in New York.
IT can honestly be said that We had
no problems of city government In
this country our cities had merely
happened their government was that OF
chance; we had never given to their
administration a serious thought But
when Tweed looted New York men
began to reflect that American towns
had become citice! fair mark for
thieves ana plunde-crs. But even at
THIS. graft now part OF every
mans Vocabulary. was . word UNI.
coined until some ton years ago.
III the circumstances we cannot OK
pect that we shall evolve in a gener-
alton such municipal government as
Europe has won for itself after cen
turtles OF struggle We may rather
take courage from their success and
press on in the belief that though We
may make mistakes we can correct
them, and that every year we are gain
!ng knowledge which We may utilize
in building our ultimate IDEAL city.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Hints for ,Iuggy weather.


To avoid getting no; in the sum-
iner time, YOU must keep perfectly
cool.
Go out FOR long drives In the coun-
Try every morning in your touring car.
II YOU don't own car. live next to
some man who does, and bet him that
1t cant run four miles an hour until
ne gets mad and proves ii to YOU
Don't spend your money foolishly
for beer Wait until the wagon stops
at your neighbours and then so over
and call on him.
Very good hot weather underwear
can be made out or old hammock $
that have been discarded. Every at
tic should contain n dozen or so of
these with enough material TO SUNNY
the whole family.
No gentleman can weigh more than
10 pounds in hot weather and remain
4 gentleman. To reduce your weight
ten pounds day put on five sweaters.
sealskin underclothes, and walk
twenty miles a day. Ii you tire OF
walking. run a while.
Don't do n stroke OF work all day
long. but just sit in the shade. When
the !nstalment man comes with n
wagon and takes your furniture away.
you can sleep in the park
Don't worry about anything, because
worry makes YOU all the warmer. If
the cat falls into the well. borrow
water from your ncighbor
When everybody else falls hang onto
an eavetrough on the shady side Of
the house. and maze noise Xix. an
icicle.
above all things. keep cool.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
our ISCOAII, TAX.

Some very Interesting suggestions
regarding tho State income tax arc 10
be found IN Wednesdays Hnrrisonburg
News Record. That paper which usually
/ thinks straight OH matters of taxation,
calls attention to the demand in Con-
Eress tor n graduated income
tax and from this tcxt proceeds
to explain what the income tax might
! do in Virginia. In the Judgment OF
the News Record it could be made ono
oc the most productive OF al state
taxes
VIC are OF the same mind and re-
peatediy have pointed out how this
just and equitable tax was being
ovadod in Virginia. We have seen in IL
great possibilities and have hoped that
. timc might come when We emulating
Wisconsin, could rely on this tax 10
Weld the revenue now wrunG with such
difficulty from the levies on realty and
personal property.
The adoption Of the new Federal in
come tax may create strong demand
for the abolition OF the State tax on
the same source. but apart from this.
the income tax in Virginia can never he
model until Its two great defects
have been corrected.
The first OF these defects IS that this
tax IS liab;, 10 different interpretation
according 20 the whims Of tho various
commissioners From taxable income.
as our readers will recall arc to be de-
Quoted losses" during the year But
what arc losses? In some Of our coun-
ties and cities the commissioners con
strue this very strictly and Will not
permit a taxpayer to deduct anything
except the amount OF money he has
actually lost" In bad investments dur
!ar tire year. In others II popular re-
port IS 70 he credited. friendly commits
sioners regard servants hire and rent
rs losses" and permit taxpayers 10
deduct these from their gross incomes.
Manitesuy. as long as this condition
remains, we can never hope to make
our income tax just IN it's operation
throughaut the State Only by posi-
tive ard definite construction OF the
term can we make It certain that every
man who should pays on his income
The second defect IS one OF admin
istraion Virginia has absolutely no
or1oer whose duty It IS to see that the
incomes or nil citizens are investigated
and reported to the proper taxing on
GERS. We leave this task entirely in
the hands of the commissioners. who
are also. as We have pointed out, al
lowed 10 construe the law to suit their
own will II the income tax is to WELD
revenue as it has in Wisconsin, We
must have an officer Ike Commissioner
KEENAN, OF that state. vino Will or
Canize anu direct the assessments.
Are we prepared TO do this? II
so we can make the income tax one or
our surest and best sources OF reve-
nue.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Voice Of the People
Champion the Holy scriuture,.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Thc communication published
in your. Issue Of August 30 was very
Interesting. TO say the least. In my
limited experience with the so-called
higher critics. l have noticed that the
quality Of reason was very conspic-
uous. In the letter Of your CORE
spondent OF the 3oth this quality is
prominent notably by it's absence. For
example. he objects to the harsh ac-
lions Of Joshua towards his enemies.
and almost in the same breat declares
that 1t is imposaible for a man to love
his enemies. What attitude. pray. Is a
poor mortal to have toward his enemies
IL he can neither love nor hate them?
As he. says, there are certain things
in the Bible which. in the light of our
present day learning, seem TO be i'm
possible. Are we to completely dis
card the Bible because 1t is not a com
pendulum of all the present-day knowl-
edge in geology, astronomy and all
the other sciences? Because q foun-
tain pen Will not maui rails, is it there
fore to be discarded as fountain pen?
Is the story of the creation any the
less valuable because unreal? Any
person OF ordinary Intelligence knows
that this story tust gives the Jewish
conception Of this event. But 1t Is q
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

n man with the attitude Of MFR Frank
lin toward them
In summing up his unreasonable
category. Mr.. Franklin quotes from
rope "Fcstus,' and "a thought from his
much desp!scd new testament Those
OF us who cannot drink deep at the
i'ierian springs certainly do not be-
lievc that a little learning is danger
GUS. unless 1t be OF tho kind advocated
by Mr. Franklin; Paul told Festus that
he was not mad. so we may conclude
that this statement is false also. What
again, is a person 10 do H. as Mr.
Franklin seems to think. a little learn
ing is dangerous, and a whole lot OF il
VIII make him mad? AS TO tho ques.
ton OF light. man cnshroudcd In ruch
utter darkness as MIR Franklin seems
to be- certainly needs TO make that
appeal. II the Bible. or those parts
of II whose Truth can DO doubted Is
TO be discarded, together with all tho
stories and accounts In NIL literature
which are not facts, our worthy CORE
spondent viii find that he and his pos
tcrity viii have very little other than
their own thoughts 10 keep them com
pany; and Judging from tho tenor OF
his letter. these would be poor com
pany indeed So here's hoping that
the worthy Mr. Franklin may be en-
liPhtcned. so that he may have n moro
rovcrcnt attitude toward the acts and
inspired writings OF that God who
Moves in such mysterious ways
HIS wonders TO perform.
EDWARD +. RAIFORD.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT

By ROY *. MoULToN.


The lady sat d;sconsolate,y and alone
IN the big touring car three miles from
the city, and l pulled up my car and
asked her why she was so sad and
why she didn't move on.
There IS something wrong under
the car and 1t won't run think 1t
could be fixed In a moment. but /
don't want 20 do il. am terribly up
set about i, too, as want to keep
luncheon engagement in the city"
Perhaps can fix It," replied gall
lantly.
"Perha ps" she agreed
She was n pretty lady II always
seems to be the pretty ladies who need
inc most help I climbed down out
OF my car and ali unm:ndtul of the
new TWO piece suit which had donned
that morning. crawled in tho dust and
mud, and wr.ggled under her car on
my elbows and shoulder blades like a
soft sheIed crab going to war.
/ puttered with the thing for ten
minutes and got enough grease on
my face. hands and clothes, off from
the universal, 10 oil all OF the loco
motives on tho Eric system for a
week. However, didn't mind that.
as mad succeeded IN making the en-
CINE start.
AS crawled on, battered up
roadster. coming from the city. APP
pcared over the hill. recognized 1t
at once AS 4 service car from ga
rage In & were two men.
"Oh, mere they come now said the
lady.
Here who Gomez" inquired
ny husband and the garage man"
she replied. my husband went to
town TO get the expert. He could have
fixed the car h!nscl: hut he didn't
want TO get his clothes dirty. He is
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
REvIsING TIE vuLGArE.

The arrival in this country @, Abbot
Francis y. Gasquet in the interest Of
the proposed revision of the vulga,e
should attract attention not only to
this distinguished historian OF the
Church OF Rome, but to the tremendous
undertaking he has assumed as chair
man OF the committee to revise the
standard biblical text of his church.
Ever since Richard Bentiey's famous
apostrophe on the original. churchnen
have felt that tho vulga,e as reprinted
from time to time stood in need or a
thorough going revision. with all
reverence for the magnificent text
which st. Jerome prepared, leaders felt
that its original purity had been lost
in some Instances. This view was
strengthened by tho knowledge that tho
excellent tcxt OF the sixtine version Of
1880 had not been well rendered in The
Clementine revision of 1882 or in the
frequent new editions since that time
When, therefore. the Pope in 1907
announced preparation FOR q new re-
vision, there was universal satisfac-
t!on everywhere; and when. 4 little
later. he asked tho Benedictine order to
undertake the preliminary work. Chris
tendon was elated TO think tina, some
Of the best minds Of the Church %
Rome would be given to this sacred
task
The story Of how the Benedictine
commission has worked since 1907 is
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
F L | E S.!

Horse manure ~ the principal
hntching place for Mics.
1t cnn he made sterile with conl
oil. cnrbol.c ncid, copperns water or
dry lonm by mixing thoroughly.
Horsemcn, stablcmcn. owners of
horses and sanitary inspectors. pny
attention.. Cut this out.
Let 1913 be 1yless yenr-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

Please give the legal weight OF a
bushcl OF tomatoes. j. r. WOOD
No such weight is known here The
tomato seems not to have been In
cluded i'm the act OF Assembly settling
the weights of many other vegeta bies.
and we'll Informed commission dealers
in Richmond state that they have no
record Of n legal weight of toma toes
anywhere.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Moves in auch mysterious ways
HIS wonders to perform.
EDWARD T. RAIFORD
Queries and Answers


Can you inform me who was III.
illustrator OF Fairbanks's History OF
ST Augustine? NJ. ~ KING
The illustrations bear no name. and.
as they are. with two exceptions, map
and architectural dra awnings. il is quite
likely that the cngravings wer9 made
from old drawings not specially de-
signed for the book, and that the AR
tists' may not now be identified.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

Can you tell me where I may buy
one or two ferrets? Are they easy to
raise? " X
Send stamped and addressed en-
vclopc for address of dealers. Such
refs are quite easy TO rear when the
conditions are proper.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Grammatical.
Is this sentence dramatically cor.

IL this sentence dramatically cor
rect, Dividing 100 by 20 leaves 81?
MISS y. r. WILSON
A thing Is left. in arithmetic only
by subtraction. But grammar knows
nothing hut the form OF statement, and
grammatically, the sentence ia ali
right. Two and six make eight; two
and six make nine are equally good
I'm grammar. however poor the arith
metic of tho latter form may be
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Ambassador Pngc.

Please tell me what salary Mr.. Page.
the ambassador TO Rome, receives; at
what date his pay begins; whether
penses to Rome and back home, and
when he will leave for his post and
when he will reach it, r. l. r.
,1i Ab0 ont $40 Sns,n day SiH5oeso year).
took the oath OF Office. He is allowed
cents mile for expenses In going
sailed from New York September Z,
and is expected to arrive in Rome
about tho 1st Of october. While you
do not refer to IL. it may he worth
while to say that the amba ssador has
no claim to pay longer than thirty DAYS
after taking his oath unless he start
for his post in that time.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
Virginia Coal.

What rank has Virginia as coal
producing state? T. f. WILSON
In value of coal at the mines fifteen
States excel Virginia. showing ANY
where up 10 twenty-five times this
States valuation.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

u ine sclent!ats are right about It
Wien 'hey say tina, badness IL caus.d
~ 700 H-ch Washing OF the hair. then
'sn''Df Earaaman, Of Mississippi. has
l.'e- nAl.cH his bangs in a washpan.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05
purrINC tue rHoCHAM THROUGH.

al Indictment which has, ici the time,
lost It's fear FOR the people OF the ma
,ion The tedious pages Of the Con
sressiona! Record or late have been
punotuated with Republican present
rents OF Presiden; Wilson as die
yator 10 whom the Democratic major
~ !n Congress is subserv!eat
Such uiteranoes have not persuaded
;he country away from. It's conception OF
him rs The leader OF the dominant
party who is insisting upon legisia-
lion TO make good tire pledges OF that
party TO the whole people. From the
tents OF the unbelieveTs In democracy
has come repeatedly The feeble and
ins!ncere protest tina; the balance OF
power between the coordinate de-
partments Q: the government VIII be
disturbed b. the Presidents course.
No detri.uent has resulted to our re-
publican form OF government
Mr.. Wilson IS participating IN ma
t!onal legislation precisely as he did
in state legislation. when he was
chief executive Of New Jersey. HIS
broad vision IS that his Office demands
not t!tula7. bat real party leadership
TO him The platform adopted a. Sal
t!,nore is no mere meaningless decla-
ration Of generalities. but definite
program Of principles TO he fashioned
into tho law OF the land b. the Demo
cratic party.
The discharge OF the obligations so
undertaken involves monentous
changes that must be wrought slowly
and paticnuy The man at the helm
and the pilots whom he has summoned
10 his aid have charted the course,
fully realizing that the task is one
Of tremendous difficulty Surely they
are moving forward out OF the reach
OF the ROCKS Steadily they are hold
Ing the ruddcr true
Tie hsst and most important pledge
of the pcmocratic program is near
redemption Tarin revision is pro-
oevdinc with reasonable dispatch TO
p Contamination which Will he IN vir.
t4al accord with tho Democratic posi-
zion. The Senate majority is main
tanning solid front as was shown in
rs defeat o: the Kenyon aluminium
amcndmen; on Wednesday,
More ;empestuous passage awaits
the administration currency measure.
Opposition to it IS mqre powerful and
determined than to the Underwood-
simmons tariff bnl From present IN
1icatons it may IL DELAYED. ana per
haps materially altered but IN what
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

~ lE ,rls that the shovel ig usea
10 'As ayai!on for subways, but
mayor GatHor vii note tina, It liz alno
the avof'e impiemen, Of the grave.
diggor
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

rhe Portuguese admirers of TX King
Manuel OF Portugal, sent him bag
q his native soil 80 stand on when he
WAS married yesterday That's the only
way he can evs: stand safely on por-
tuguese earth.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

soon we stall he hearing from tho
colleges and universities about the
largest entering Classes in tnelr his:
tory.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

~ me urgent request Of man
friends and admirers, colonei Tanhari
= Littiebcrry. o; powha,an COUNTY Is
considering becoming 4 candidate tor
assistant conmissary general 70 the
squirrels In the Capitol square
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-05

very particular about his appearance.
Thank you 40 much"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14
STATE LEGISLATURES
APPROPRIATE MILLIONS
FOR TUBERCULOSIS

Out O forty-one state legislatures in
session during the season of 1913,
laws dealing with tuberculosis were
enacted in thirty states, while in
thirty-four states consideration was
given to bills dealing with the proven
ton of this disease. This is a sum-
mary of the legislative campaign for
1913, issued by the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis today.
Appropriations to the amount of
over 5000. 900 have been set aside for
the treatment and prevention of tuber-
cnlosis by the various state legisla-
lures in session this year. Most of
this money is for the maintenance of
state sanatoria. There are at the pres
ent time 80 such institutions in 81 diff
ferent states, Connecticut, Massachu-
sets and Pennsylvania, each having
more than one sanatorium. Delaware
is the only State which has made pro-
vision for a state sanatorium for tuber-
culosis negroes IN addition to the
amounts appropriated BY the various.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14
TALKS ON TEETH
0y
0rian He,drick, D. D.S.
W. Can Fix 1t

Don't be continually bothered with
the toothache.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14
STORY OF CHILD LABOR.

Washington, Aug. 14.-The children
of 5000 families in all states of the
Union are this week reading about the
children who work in cotton mills, ten
ments, canneries, coal mines and
glass factories. The story Of child la
Dor had never been written for child
rem until the National Child Labor
Committee prepared this latest num-
br of the Child Labor Bulletin in
which 'our warm friend Mr.. Coal" the
little boys big medicine bottle and
other inanimate friends of weil-cared
for children tell them the story of
their lives. The only story for grown
ups in this number of the Bulletin is
an account of conditions found in
Georgia cotton mills last April by
agets of the National Child Labor Com
mittee. In Georgia, children Of
widows and of aged dependent faith
ers are allowed to go to work at ten
vars old, but the law is so poorly en-
forced than in many mills children Of
ten were found at work whose widow
ed mother had married again, or
whose "aged dependent father" was
undr fifty and also at work Georgia
is the only state in which children
under twelve may legally work in fac
tories and the legislature is now con-
sidering bill to do away with this
condition and raise the age limit to
to fourteen years in 1915.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14
A GOOD LESSON.

Washington, Aug. 14.-In a current
issue of the Coke and Coal Operator
and Fuel Magazine there appears an
interesting item uder the caption
'Keepink Employees" 1t is as fol-
lows: Zone phase of of the efficiency
OF a conservative policy that now is
getting serious atteition is that If con
serving the skill and experienc Aot
employees. A remarkable example OF
this form of efficiency is to be seen in
the leather factories of Cornelius Hey
in Worms, Germany. Of 1922 work
ers and officials in the Heyl factory
4 $50 have been in the employ of the
firm ten years and more, 1872 in employ
twenty-five years or more, 122 for
forty years or more and twenty-one
for fifty years or more. More than one
third of the employees have been with
brought face to face with these figure;
for the first time would be apt to ex-
fury or more. An American expert
than one-sixth for a quarter Of a cen
the firm more than ten years, and more
claim that, if he were running the
Heyel establishments, he would clean
out the dead wood and get lot OF
bright young men. This would be
naturalIt is a common American policy
to discharge men in the middle years
Of life and to employ young men who
are hustlers; but there is great
economic waste in this American
method
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14
United Docto rs
Create Interest

their regular Office hours from a. m
to II M, 1880 to 5 p. NJ; evenings
to daily.
There has been steady and increa.
ed patronage given the United Doctors
since the establishment of their insti
tute in Wheeling some fifteen months
ago. The United Doctors have already
secured new lease for two more
rooms in the location that they at
present occupy, for long time ahead.
Mr.. A. E. Hawker, of 522 Lorain ave
nue., Dayton, Ohio, the latest to praise
the United Doctors, says:
-Four years ago began ailing with
pains in my side, stomach trouble and
constipation. was about "all in, =
could hardly walk and the brightest
days seemed dark to me. -
Three months treatment with the
United Doctors has placed me back
among my fellow men and the dark
ness of former days has turned to sun
shine. l can testify to the rapid, Ger
tain results obtained from the won
derful new system of medicine" tad
vertisement.)