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The Washington times., 1913-10-24
FEEDING THE NATION BY PROXY.

Southern agricultural weekly has published a
tenant farmers special number in which it considers
the striking facts set forth by the last returns
about the increase of tenant farming in this country
As to the group of Southern States to which this
number is especially devoted, it is shown that the
proportion of tenant farmers is larger than in any
other section and increasing very fast. In every
section, indeed, the proportion of tenants is growing
at alarming rate.
Tenant farming is bad farming If it were studied
and anayzed with care venture that tenant farm
ing would be shown responsible to very consider
able extent for the reduction of the national produc-
ton of meat. The tenant farmer does not build up
his land; he skins it of what he get out of it in
the short time he lives it. His tenure is so shor,
and uncertain that he cannot undertake the long
operation of building up herd of beef Or dairy
stock, which requires years, and also progressive
policy of adding buildings, fences, facilities of all
kinds. The tenant farmer with three years lease
cannot lay out a ten-year program of buying thorough
bred leaders for his herd and building up its quality
and numbers together while at the time adding
new buildings to shelter the animals. He doesn't
know that he will De there long enough to see his
herd develop to proft-earnng state; so he prefers
TO make as complete turnover possible each
season. 1t is the complete annual turnover that
makes tenant farming bad. 1t means the raising of
grain and cotton and the selling Of them in that pr-
mary form rather than in the secondary form of meat
1t means that the land suffers because it cannot be
forever cropped without putting back into it the ele
ments that are brought by live stock.
1t is fact, at any rate that the decreasing sup
plies of live stock and the consequently increasing
scarcity of meat coincident with an increase in
tenant farming; and it is coincidence that we'll
deserves attention. The census finds that in Texas
81 per cent of the farmers in 1880 we're tenants; in
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Mr.. VANDERLIP'S PLAN.

1t will not do, in behalf of any pet plan of Ad-
minisraton leaders, to elbow aside the Vanderiip
proposal of Bank of the United States asperse
the good faith of public who believe in that
plan. The project of twelve regional banks has
failed to stand up under close analysis of the con-
dtions it would confront. The distribution and vol
ume of the redscount business of the country, when
actual figures produced does not justify any such
elaborate machinery. The discussions before the
Senate committee have made perfectly plain that in
the minds of thoughtful and earnest students the
drift toward the plan of great central bank.
]. MIR. Vanderlip has won for himself the confidence
of the committee which he has favored with so much
of patience and such clarity of exposition. True he is
president of the National City Bank, fact that may
be made the basis of appeals to prejudice. But will
demagoguery attempt to convince the country that
the National City and Mr.. Vanderlip have bought
up the support of such Mr.. Bristow, Mr.. Cum
minis, Mr.. Reed, Mr.. OGorman, and Mr.. Hitchcock? :?
Those gentlemen were we'll known to have decided
leanings toward the central bank plan as distin-
guished from the Administration measure, long be-
fore even the first appearance of Mr.. Vanderp. His
testimony strengthened and confirmed the leaning
toward this project
Mr. Vanderlip would have great Bank of the
United States owned by the public and controlled by
the Government in the publics behalf. He woulo
not have banks bank, and that view is getting to
be more and more widely entertained despite the
supposed prejudice against Bank of the United
States.
Not much will be gained by assumption that such
bank would be the Money Powers instrument A
bank owned by the people, its stock widely distributed
among them, would hardly be closer to the Money
Power" than chain of twelve banks, each owned
by the banks of its vicnage. The Vanderlip plan of
control by Government board named for very long
terms would certainly not get closer to the Money
Power than the Glass Owen plan does.
If the central bank plan is rejected it should be
rejected on its merits on prejudice. 1t is long
time since Andrew Jackson and the world has been
moving
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
PRINCETONs GRADUATE SCHOOL.

Formal dedication of the Graduate School of
Princeton University marks not only the beginning
of new institution of learning in the United States,
but the formal presentation to the university of the
Grover Cleveland Memorial Tower. Moreover, this
dedication of the Graduate School will perpetuate an
historical pedagogical struggle the outcome of which
was to give to the United States its twenty-eghth
President, in the person of Woodrow Wilson.
There are indications in the utterances of those
who are most concerned with the foundation of the
Graduate School in Princeton that the thing Wood
row Wilson fought for when he president of the
New Jersey university is not foremost in the plan of
the institution which is hoped to make an American
Oxford of "Old Nassau Instead of pure Scholarship,
which the Wilson dea stress seems to be laid
most heavily the social and architectural aspects
of the Graduate School in the preliminary announce
ments; and, although there is almost no mention of
the professors who are to comprise the staff of
the school, one may read many details of the baths,
electric lights and other domestic comforts now
ready for the graduate students. The undergrad
yates of the university already appreciative of
the quality of the cooking of the Graduate School
kitchen
The pure democracy which is the backbone Of
all learning is not concerned with physical luxury
to the exclusion of scholarship. Woodrow Wilson
knew this and fought for it day in and day out as
long as he remained at the head of the New Jersey
university. Up to the present the greatest triumph
of his ideals of education is to be found in the pre-
ceptoria system of teaching which has superseded
the old plan to which so many of our colleges still
cling, although the Wilson idea is slowly making
headway in university circles.
The friends of Princeton may look forward to the
day when there shall come renaissance of this idea
of scholarship over social aggrandizement as applied
to the conduct of the Graduate School, When it
comes it may furnish second memorial tower to the
institution, although it be of more substantial
structure than the monument of many dream come
true,
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

1890 the percentage was almost A. in 1900, almost
so; and in 191O SIG. That condition refers to the
greatest cattle range State in the Union. 1t means
that the old ranges being cut into smaller tracts,
and these in turn rented to tenants.
Go through the list of States and similar condl-
tions will be found in almost all There are few
exceptions, but the tendency is all toward increase
in tenantry.
Tenantry ruined the splendid old agriculture Of
Ireland; and that agriculture is fast being restored
about in proportion the Irish people are getting the
land back into their own hands. Tenantry wrecked
the agriculture of old Italy; it makes poems of the
Mexican agricultural population and serfs OF the
Russians 1t threatens this nation, and there is no
pressing problem than to attain such an adjust
ment of economic conditions as will stop, and then
reverse, this tendency.
1t would be we'll worth while to have thorough
study made of the relations between tenant farming
and the cost of agricultural necessaries of life.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
AMBASSADORS MOUTHS.

2. 1t may be that we have no policy at all to follow
in Mexico or that we have mistaken one. 1t may
be that in. opposing Huerta We are adding insult to
injury, that in advocating new President we are
urging Mexico to jump from the frying pan into the
fire. May be so. Our bed is made; We are content
to lie in it, and do not care who objects
But an ambassador must be both close-mouthed
and protected from misquotation by newspapers. If
Sir Lionel Garden, the British representative at Mex
leo City, actually talked he is reported to have
talked in criticising the American Administration il
up to England to explain things. If he didn't talk
that way he ought to repudate the published story.
An ambassadors usefulness is gone when he becomes
or is believed to have become garrulous.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
The Matter With Aphrodite.

HE extent to which the modern
child is educated in matters Of
hygiene appears from recent
episode in Boston school:
The class had visited the art museum.
and the teacher wished to learn what
the children haG observed. and how
they were impressed The subject at
the moment was the exquisite head or
Aphrodite one of the chief treasures of
the museum. A little boy who franticaliy
waved his hand was called upon He
announced triumphantly:
II noticed she had adenoidsr'
why, Peter" exclaimed the shocked
teacher, what do you meang
"She keeps her mouth open all the
time was the reply.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
What's on the Program IN
Washington Today

Meetings, evening:
Masonic-St. Johns Lodge, No. II. and
Hope, No. 20; Takoma Chapter, No.
12, and Friendship, No. Il, Order OF
the Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Central Lodge. No. ]. Me-
tropolis. No. IS. and Phoenix. No. 3.
Red Men-Seneca Tribe. No. II. Sls
Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Min
cola Tribe. No. IA. Anacostia-
knights Of Pythias-SyracusiansL Lodge.
No. ls, Rathbone-Superior. No. .:
past chiefs night. Rathbone Temple,
No. s. Pythian Sisters.
National Union East Washington
Council, weller's HALL Mckinley
Council, Washington Hall.
knights of Columbus-Monthly meeting,
Washington Chapter.
Local. Central Washington. Socialist
party OF the District. Sr E street.
Sis o'clock; local; Northeast Wash
ington, Socialist party of the District.
Ss9 Eighth street northeast, sa0
O'Clock.
Jubilate service, First Baptist Church.
Avenue of the Presidents and o. street
evening.
Debate on Federal Ownership Of Rail-
way and Telegraph Lines, Columbt-
an Debating Society, OF George WASH
ington University Masonic Temple
D. m
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
THIS& THAT
THE U. s GOVERNMENT
with Sometimes Little Of the oths,

Congress.
This here Comment is divided
In three separate, decided
Parts, each one of tehich stands ct--
tu'Hy alone:
The executive, judicial,
And the-'oeH, the superficial
Legislative, as it's generally knotcn).
Hapin9 hitherto dissected
The affairs of state connected
with the former aud the fields that
they surrey,
We come bhthely to the latter.
Which toiH be the subject-mottsr
OF the Governmental lesson for today.
Pardon, no,c the indiscretion.
Whfle zoe vieto a single session
OF the Congress Of these great United
States,
"hHe, relentiessly but s,seetip,
We 90 over it completely,
And Observe chat ep'ry action ,udi-
Bdrring, then, Indictment peuther.
Congress often gets together
Very early in the mornino-sav. at
noon;
But tohen finally they get there
You con make little bet there
IS something doing in that Valley Of
the Moon.s
First, or nearly first, is rolI-caH,
And so long that patrol call
Is the thing that you ,oould ,oelcome
most of oil;
But at last they get all through it
Whereupon they turn and do it
Once ogdfn-the whole. intermimab bic
call
Then a Coz0ressman arises,
And the Speaker recognizes
Him-the sessions under 1ay beyond
-s' doubt
But before he's fairly started,
All the others haze departed;
They just got up from their places
""o "cht Out.
Some assemble IN the cloak rooms,
In the anecdote aud joke rooms:
Some 90 out on the rotunda for the
air; :.
Many 90 to their committees;
Plenty 90 to other cities
Hardly any of them think Of staying
THERE.
An, ii should be elected
To q job not1 so neglected:
II NTH honor such as that I should
be blest;
II stood before the nation,
Here to fashion legislation
Why, I guess I'd do the same as all
the rest.
vfv
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Good Stories
Hennery's Love Token.
By VIC

YOUNG colored woman. tall and
~ slender. was standing at the
~ northeast corner of Washington
and Illinois streets, when two
women acquaintances stopped and ad-
dressed her.
My, my, Liza, who done black ye'
poo eye dat-a-wayT'
who done bIaca my eyeT' said the
tall, slim one. You want to know who
oone black my eye? My Hennery done
black my eye, dat's who"
"I wouldn't let any man black my
eye" said one of the acquaintances-
'.Ah, 10, dom know my Hennery. Dis
black eye jes' shows how he loves me.
an. dat's de kinder man likes. s."-India-
napoiis News
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

The national admin, Mr. Bryan told
a Camden audience. speaking in behalf
of Governor Fielder, looks to New Jer-
sey to give vote Of confidence in Presi-
dent Wilson" Mr.. Fielder's election, IL
1t happens. will be "a national indorse-
ment of Democratic policies" his de-
feat, on the other hand, will be 'In no
sense a rebuke to the Wilson Admins
tration." Stick a pin In that.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Amusements.

Nat;onal-"The Strange Woman" Sis
BeJasco-''The Honeymoon Express" a:l5
Columbia-"Excuse Me-: s:l5 D. m.
Poii's-"Barbara Frietchie." Ais and
Sis D. m.
Keith's-vaudeville, els and s:I5 D. m.
Cosmos-yaudeville, continuous
Casino-yaudeville. continuous
Academy-"The Common Law" Sis
D. Iii.
Gayety-Burlesque. s1i-and Sis D. M.
Arcade Auditorium-Danctng
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

The thing that strikes men in Wash
ington," Congressman Kent told his San
Francisco constituents. "is the great
waste of effort" And, among Congress
man Kent's associates. the lack of it.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
The Villainy of Edward E. Mccall.

From the New York WORLDLY
Mr.. Mccall constantly came to the
executive mansion from New York"
said Mrs. Sulzer. He was always urR-
ing the Governor to do THIS AND
THAT"
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Things Others Want To Know.

r. j.: why a woman buying tickets
at box office never opens her bag to
get her money until the tickets have
been handed out to her"
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

The Thanksgiving manifesto has been
issued, and the day will be the last
Thursday of November Nor will it find
us dilatory in enphrasing our gratitude.
Thanksgiving Day, bless it. marks, prac-
tically. the end of the football season.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
NOW, THEREFORE,. l. WOODRo

NOW, THEREFORE,. /, WOODROW
WILSON. President of the United States
of America. do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty of November
next, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their wonted
occupations"
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Our Hours Are Ten to One That We're
Out,

Sir: Seriously. now, what ARE your
office hours? Not when do you REST,
but when do you WORK?
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Bus. of Retaining Subscriber.

G. S. K: Please mention, IL you would
retain subscriber, the man who
doesn't care" for any grapes when they
are passed to him, but, directly the dish
is set down, picks separate grapes from
the various punches and destroys the
symmetry of every bunch.
MRS. F. F.
Little Causes Of Big Wars: You're
another"
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
The Weak Reply of Murphy.

From the Baltimore "Sun.'D
Under this onslaught Murphy has
made only this reply: Non-organiza-
tion: kaodSobm mhmhmh NH mhm
sense
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

A Colorado man has had his stomach
removed. He ought to be able to get a
Job as a theatrical manager In New
York now.-Salt Lake Herald.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

The French President is touring
France after the American fashion. -
II requires forty automobiles TO carry
his party. Even Teddy the Terrible
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

As an .accelerator of loves young
dream, the one-horse buggy Is still su
perior to the motor car.-ColumbIa
State.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

How TO prevent fire loss-exercisa
caution and common sense.-knoxville
Journal and Tribune
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

Tom Osborne. New York's voluntary
convict. discovered at any rate that one
week in prison was ali that he wanted
to know about conditions ''on the In
side"
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

Our conception of task, as tasks
go. is taking pied line over the tele,
phone.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Winter Resort

r. BURBANK gathered a oou-
NN quet of violets one brilliant
N morning in December in Santa
Rosa. and remarked: why do
so many OF our misguided people shive'
and cough on the Riviera In winter.
when they might bask here in whits
linen under the palms? The Riviera re-
minds me of the man who opered .
boarding house at Saranac Lake ana
advertised II as a winter resort. A
guest went up there and after brtss
sojourn packed up- paid his bill, and
said: How can you have the nerve to
advertise this place as winter resort.
when the thermometer for the last week
has registered below
THE landlord looked aggrieved. We'll.
that's winter. amt it?' he explained
If below amt winter, I'd like 70
know what isl Los Angeles Times
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

In years to come there may be a
multi-millionaire BRYAN of whose for
tune it will be written that his grand
father laid the foundation for il. by
coming words into dollars.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

4 Georgia man under sentence to he
hanged next month has been reelected
president of his lodge. Perhaps the real
contest was for the vice presidency.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24
Hits From Sharp Wits.

Not even practice makes a Mexican
perfect as a fighting man.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

never did anything like this.-Boston
Advertiser
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

Can il be that he reads this column /?
G. 3. x
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

Thaw also gives evidence of being
thrown into the discard.
The Washington times., 1913-10-24

'All rights reserved. London.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-10-21
MILLER'S PHARMACY
Fhos. z. Moors,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
CHARLES TOWN, W. VA.
May l4-y.
Money for Sale.

The Public Building Associations will Ne
deem shsres or Loan Money ON Tuesdav
nights.
d. 6. HUGHES,
Sepi 4-1y Sec'v ard Traas'g.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-10-21
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
CA g TO RIA
State Road Laws

The Road Laws in pamphlet form as
compiled by Chief Road Engineer Will
llams and issued by the Department of
Agricultural can now be had by making
application either to the State Road
Bureau. Morgantown, w. Va, or the
Department of Agriculture. Charleston.
w. Va. The laws are compiled and up.
to-date, containing Acts of 1909 as re-
vised by Acts of 1911 and 1918, and
Chapter SO, 1913 which defines the fees
OF the Jailer; Chapter 80 of Acts 1913
which refers to the limited indebtedness
the counties may have in reference to
bond issues; Chapter 40, Acts of 1913.
defines the rates of levies to be laid
and disposition of the funds; Chapter
Al, creating the State Road Bureau de-
inning It's purpose and powers, the du-
ties and powers of the county courts
the method Of obtaining prison labor
and the handling thereof; Chapter az
compelling all prisoners convicted of
misoemeanor confined in the county
Jaiis to be worked upon the roads;
Chapter Dc compelling Justices Of the
Peace to sentence prisoners awaiting
sentence the right to work upon the
roads and defines the credit they shall
receive; Chapter IS defines how County
Courts shall handle the funds and pro-
yides form of check to be used by tho
County Road Engineer. The law per-
tanning to erection of bridges, tell
roads, establishment of ferries. toll
bridges, automobiles. motor vehicles
and the license laws in connec' ion with
motor vehicles; use for which private
property may be taken; of the
constitution relating to the curtis and
Ievies and rights and duties vi citizens
and officials in connection with the high
WAYS and roads of the State is to be
found in this phamplet.
STATE ROAD BUREAU.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-10-21
Esg Publication OF State Geological
Survey.

There has just been issued from the
press new publication by the West
Virginia Geological Survey. Morgan
town. w. Va. This volume ls described
IN the following extract from The
printed circular of the Geological Sur
yey. and the reader is also told how to
secure the publication in question.
Detailed County Report on Monon-
gala. Marion and Taylor Counties,
published under date of September lst.
1913 the largest volume yet issued by
the Survey. containing e44 pages plus
XVII with 81 plates of Illustrations
and II figures in the text, and a case
of maps tSoil. Topographic and Geo.
logic) of the entire area. In addition
to the detailed study and descri otion
of all the rocks. Goals. limestones.
clays. minerals, soils, streams and in
dustries, with hundreds of oil and gas
Well records, coal analyses, etc. oc-
curing within the area and given in
wills SPSAs, SbC SSOiOSlC map gives
the structural contours on the Pitts
burgh coal. and this is very valuable to
any one interested in coal, oil. or gas.
in showing the exact position of all rhe
anticlines. synclines and structural ter.
races. The suggestions of Ray v.
Hennen, the author of the Report, as
to the location of prospective oil and
gas territory which have heretofore
been so frequently verified arc very
full and complete in this Report. Price.
with case of maps. delivery charges
paid by the Survey, So 80, but in COM
bination with other publications. see
the general list of the publications of |
the w. Va. Geological Survey, Morgan
town, w. Va Extra copies of the
Topographic Map, so cents. and of the |
Geologic and Structural map. 81 90 each.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-10-21
Prices.

beio" we quote few nfol T r. gular nrifes
POI cut prices, hut Jest whsi We haws s =
thsse goods for in the iast ts,, ytars y, ).
Sc Ing them for II VI: =
Wy eths Phosphate of Soda. regular n.ira
" cts our prize 4Oc p'aoe
a. oo.gates FAlcanls, a k.uce. rel ular price
- cts, ous Price I5e r'sNs
oar price I5e pSs ~ss'
= E l anon liver Pills, regular price Is cte.
Two-gra.u mime Pills. our .,iee j. 81
Cos o. one hundred
Al Calnmel and Soda Tablets -. 49,, Z.
OF SIZE, - cts per l00
Mennen's Ta!cum. 20 els ner hov alIsf~f.
aud o ors - ~
Ihevmcs Bottles. The n, west and h.s. Il "a
for pint size. S2.5 Tor quarts.
Loulsiue Papers, three styles aud a;vas -
cts fer iull ouud ptckage
Red Cross Kidney Fiaserf. es els each.
the best plaster made
Viii mans Candles 60 cts per noppa ma
qualed BY any. reg rficss 81 price
Fais stock OF Hudnat's Perfumes Tai
Gums. etc.
kale Dy pepsia Cure, so cts for so a. s,se
SIS cts for BLOC size. sf
of prices.
One Hundred Comp. ca,harue PMS for
% ents.
Sole Agent for vinol. NyaI's Fami.y Rem
eoles; Cnristiani of Washington, Drs. ". q
Whiu"ck q Nephew, of Winchester. ana
many others
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viii gnt itsfor you.
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- Ko SubstitNte.

The sad news of the death of Mis-.
Lily 5. Moore. which occurred in Frost
burg. Md, on Saturday, October 18th,
was a shock to her many friends and
relatives in Berryville Miss Moore
was the daughter of the late Major S.
j. c. Moore, and a native of Berryville,
and had only just returned TO Romney.
w. Va, to fill position in school
there. Her illness was OF short dura-
ton, she having within the past week
gone to Frostburg to consult physician
She is survived by four sisters, Mrs.
Frank V. Tilford. of Cullman, Ala.
Mrs. William Mott, of Gloucester, Va.
and Misses jamie and Nora Moore, of
Berryyille, and two brothers, DR.. L. B.
Moore. of Praffott, Va and Rev. S. S.
Moore, of Parkersburg, w. Va The
funeral was held on Tuesday at IL
o'clock from Grace Episcopal church.
in Berryville, Rev. Ed. L. Wall, Off
ciating. The pallbearers were Messrs.
Fl. w. Baker. w. T. Lewis, P. H.
Powers, DIR. A. P. Osbourne, F. B.
Whiting and Blackburn Smith.
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