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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
EXPLAIN MOVEMENT
DEVELOP ENT WORK
w. III. MANSS TO SPEAK BEFORE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT
DINNER TONIGHT.

w Fl. Manss. general manager OF
the Southern Settlement and Develop
ment organization. and vice-president
of that organization, Will be enter
tanned at dinner tonight at the Jeffer-
son by the chamber of commerce.
This organization Is striving to
place every community In the South
upon high social and economic, as
well as industrial, plane. II en-
braces most of the leading people OF
the Southern country. It's aim Is to
put the South upon equal business
and social standing with that of any
other section of the country, and
with the results as they show, as the
work of awakening progresses, he Is
likely to have splendid cooperation
here
President r. M. Darlington, who Is
a member of the organization, will
preside at the dinner. ". T. Dabney
will not be able to be present, as he
Is now on his way. in company with
Mayor Ainslie and Alderman Nielsen.
to the Inland Waterways convention
in Jacksonville.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
SCOTTISH RITE
DEGREES GIVEN
MaSONS HAVE BUSY WEEK DEM
ONSTRATING WORK OF THE
FRATERNITY.

Scottish Rite Masons from all over
The state are now in the city taking
part in the semi-annual reunion at
Masonic Temple. They will be here
until Friday morning. During their
sotourn much will be done toward
contamination of lodge work. Sec
rotary Charles A. Nesbitt and Treas
urer James j. Sutton, Will be TWO
busy men all week.
Last night Ralph ]. Levy. as veneer
able master, assisted by his staff. the
officers of Lihertus Lodge, co ferred
the ineffable degrees from the fourth
to the fourteenth.
Tonight David c. Kennedy, thlrty-
third degree honorable, with the offl-
GERS of Pelican Chapter OF Rose CroiX'
No .. will confer the historical ana re-
ligious degrees, from the fifteenth 70
the eighteenth. inclusive.
Tomorrow ST. Omar Council OF
Kadosh will give the philosophfc and
chivalric degrees, including the nine
teenth to the thirtieth.
on Thursday Leon Wallerstein
thtrty-second degree. with his officers
of Dalcho Consistory, No. /. Will con-
clude with the thirty-arst and thirty
second degrees.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
Boom After New Tariff

Instead of injurinF the business in any way
the new tariff law has greatly stimulated H. AT
least in West Virginia, according to Senator ChlI-
ton. Of that State. Senator Chiffon. who spent
several weeks studying conditions at home be
lieves that practically every industry will be
benefited by the new tariff law, and he bases his
opinion upon what has already occurred since
the passage Of the law more than month ago
He declares that there Is not an Industry in the
State afraid Of the new tariff.
The state Of West Virginia Is experiencing
orc of the greatest periods of industrial pros
peritv we have ever known" said Senator Chill
ton at the Shoreman. Every city in West NIr~
e!nia is enjoying substantial boom. At Charles
ton my home several new factories are being
erected and the only drawback 10 the greatest
prosperity we ever experienced is that there
are not enough homes for those who arc brought
in nv the industrial plants that are locating there.
At St Adams, near Charleston, they are putting
Ip two new glass factories At Dunser suburb
of Charleston several new factories are being
lerected and there 8 a scramble among those who
are being employed to find homes. The same
situation exists In Huntington. Blueheld and Par
kershurg and Grafton, too has felt the indus
trial impetus given by the Underwood Dill and
pottery is being erected there. Huntington Is
inst adding to it's list Of industrial plants big
glass factory. Parkcrsburg is building large
pottery while in Clarksburg, Bueheld and Mar
tipsburg the Industrial outlook is better than
ever before More business is being done by
the existing plants, while the erection OF new
ones is contemplated. The city Of Wheeling IS
practically cut off from industrial growth. but IN
its vicinity new plants being erected, SUCH
II a large tinplate plant just across the river
at Martins Ferry The unplate industry, more
than any other. perhaps. claims to be dependent
upon the tariff yet this new plant Is being CON
strncted and viii be operated in spite Of the fact
that the Underwood tariff hill reduces the duty
on tinplate Washington Herald
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
With the State Press
sub~tantlatcs Official Claim.

Such profusent IS of oysters on the bottoms
Throughout Virginia has not been known for
many years This bears out report from exam
nations made for the state commission Of fish
cries before the opening Of the season, and
should induce those papers which wanted To
howl TO do the square thing by the oyster
folk. and boost the industry. Goodness knows
ii needs It, and deserves it, for enemies abroad
and AT home have given us costly trouble The
following ia TO be found in the last issue of the
Oysterman and Fisherman, published at Hamp-
ton:
AT the early part Of the oyster season this
year. the Oysterman and Fisherman printed
statements of conditions of the stock from many
parts of the country. Included In these reports
Virginia listed. and at that time we claimed
that there was plenty of good fat stock in the
Chesapeake and its tributaries. However, little
later various publications came out with the dis
couraging news that there was decided scarcity
of oysters in this section. This is evidently a
mistake as the statements first made by this
MAGAZINE are substantiated hy the recent report
made by the hoard OF governors Of the Nir-
ginia Oystermen's Protective association. This
report says that there a greater strike this
season in the James river than had been seen
there for twenty years. Furthermore, packers
and shippers in Norfolk say there Is plenty OF
the stock on hand, it is of good quality and the
prices arc reasonable 1t is thought prices WILL
however rule low owing to glut in the Mary
land markets. particularly Baltimore which nave
been a little overstoCSed.'
While on this subject, we can throw some
light on the reason why we so often hear
calamity bowls from the James river That
place being our most prolific seed bed. seed al
lowed to taken without regard to size. Oyster
men from other localities flock there at the
seasons opening. and while the weather is good,
reservng the rocks nearer at home for bad
weather and big prices. These transient oyster
men naturally do not want any more tongers
to go on the James than they help, and so
they carry to the cities reports of mo catch. "
/ This they hope, will deter others from going
! there. The Oysterman, as a rule, seldom admits
/ good season. but If things are little slack
4 he puts up a calamity howl. With many news
papers around the James it Is easy to get his
distress signal up. and seldom are the true con-
ditions recounted. This Is why the statements
and examinations of State fish and oyster officials
should be given more credence--as much as is
Justly given our agricultural reports. and more
so than any national report, which Is based on
guess work and not practical investigation
Virginia Citizen.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
The Noble Rcnst. MINI.

what a poor weak, pitifui dub a man is. AT
least this must be the judgment OF President
WEIGH, of Ohio Wesleyan university. who says
good cooking and happy homes will prevent men
from being drunkards.
Poor fool man is built up around his stomach
If he can't fill it with well-cooked, pleasing
food. he viii fill it with rotten liquor. Not hav-
Ing brains. he cannot be expected TO have any
sense.
Having only an incident of a heart, he can be
expected to have little feeling, Ruled by his
stomach, governed by his appeutes, wholly lack
ing In judgment reason, he runs from i'll
cooked food to the saloon, from the frying pan
to the fire
They used to say that boys should be put in
barrel till twenty one, and fed through the
bunghole. Evidently the only fault with this
rule is the age limit. Why release the kind OF
animal DR.. Welch describes at the early age OF
twenty-one? Why not leave him there for life
and then merely plug up the bunghole and roll
the barrel into a ditch?--Duluth News
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
A Foolish Critic

Fred d Underwood, who lacks the repose Of
another Of his surname, has expressed himseH
very hotly on the subject of congressional IN
tellect" He finds that members of congress
are different and declares that they are ambi-
tious at the expense of their intellect; few have
intellect" He especially inclined to roast
New York congressman. Mr.. Underwood IS
president of the Erie railroad, and might reason
bly, he supposed to know something about New
Yorl's representatives. There forty-seven
Of them" he says, but his statement Is not cor
rect They don't count for anything, much less
intellect Nobody knows who they 1 don't
know my own congressman. ] know he lSh
much account or we would hear from him.
It would be an easy rotort TO the windy critic
that If he was SO ignorant as not to know how
many members Of congress his state is cnuled
to his criticism of them could not be very dls-
eliminating or enlighteninG. And further re-
tort courteous could be based upon his state
ment that he does not know the congressman Of
the district In which he lives. A man in A high
position who is so little interested in his state
and country that he knows less about what IS
going on around him than the newsboy in the
street has very little right to set himself up as
a critic of ANYBODY. We agree with Congress
man Levy in his criticism of Underwood that
IF men In such prominent places can thus prac-
ticaIly acknowledge their utter failure 10 realize
or fnlfnI civic duties, what right have they 10
criacise the class Of men sent as representatives
to make laws or what even to find fault with
unsatisfactory Iaws?'
Mr.. Levy in congress with a sense Of respon-
s.bility as a citizen is more significant and OF
more use to this country than President hdeT-
wood Of the Erie railroad who confesseS him.
self so indifferent to civic responsibility that
he has allowed himself OF become as ignorant
as a boob We have very little respect for the
man who thinks to eXalt himself by ignorance
ana who takes disdainful attitude because he
assumes that politics dirty and he IS too
good to soil his hands by any participation in
the political affairs Of his community Char
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

The Norfolk Fu0intan-Ptlot, which has fire.
quently taken goodnatured filings at Richmond's
annexation policy. heartily approves that policy
and without going into detailed criticism of the
ordinance as passed. has the following to say
under the caption Greater Richmond" on the
general policy Of increasing the territory Of
cities which have outgrown their boundaries:
The policy If annexation which Richmond has
pursued within the past two decades had added
materially its Industrial end commercial i'm
portanre strengthened the bases Of It's credit and
hroadened its influence. while at the same time
giving rev impetus to growth ard values in the
suburbs absorbed. The policy /: one which other
cities might adopt with advantage, and 1t Is not
true that the progress accomplished Is
actitious-for IL Is "a impulses flowing directly
from the city that the outlying country owes
it's advantage to conditions, warranting inclusion
as a part Of the central municipality. The
thicly settled rural districts, towns and villages,
which spring up a61acentlF are the overflow.
really the product OF the hub, and 1t IS for the
good Of all concerned that when they have
reached a point whore further development is
beyond their unaIded means they should be
come incorporated with the political entity which
gave them birth, and so contribute to the up
buildine Of "a community In place Of a loosely
related aggregation of disjecta membra one
body. one spirit; and the result Is the concen-
tratlon Of means and energies to a common
purpose
The population added to Richmond by annexa-
ton IS, as the virginianPflot points out, not
fictitious in its nature The people of the suburbs
are people of Richmond. BY annexation the city
r. merely given the opportunity to include III Its
report all the population The people in the
suburbs moved there from Richmond or. If they
came from distance were attracted by Rich
mond They emigrated to Barton Heights OF
Ginter Park or other suburbs because business
brought them to Richmond. The same is true
of Norfolk or other large cities. and 1t must not
be forgot that the census reports of the popula
ton of a city are beneficial II showing gain
and a detriment If showing a loss.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
CURRENT COMMENT
That Deathlcss Charge.

While Bonapartes first serious victory Is re-
called and his first serious defeat is celebrated
the famous charge Of the Light Brigade at
Ralaclava again comes into the limeight' The
f{fty-nlnth anniversary Of that noted disaster
occurred October 25th. and a few days later
Sir George Wumbwell, the last surviving offlcer
of the brigade passed away. He was twenty
three an aide camp on Lord Cardigan's staff,
ana on the day of the battle captured by
Russian lancers and striped of his sword ana
pistols but managed to escape by catching
riderless horse.
1t was Wombwell who denied that someone
had bIundered' in ordering the charge, but all
the records show that the only error-lf error
+ it could be called-~was found in the prompt
response to direct orders
AS TO the result of the onslaught, the annals
show that out Of 673 troopers less than one-third
answered to roll-calsat the close Of the day
and OF these not hundred had their horses
And all this tremendous loss occurred in pracu-
caly twenty minutes.
1t has been claimed that the genius OF Tenny-
son was mainly responsible for clinching the
fame Of this brief battle, and that no military
/ onrapcment ever received such glorious public
ity as the poets Gathering lies gave the death
less charge BE that as 1t may, tfe simple
steadfastness of the British troopers following
leaders worthy of them. lifts for the moment
tho deed high above the sordid folly Of a need
less war.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

'ral others had grievances and so Mr.. Wilson was
% be taught a lesson. The first lesson to
be given when the currency bill came up for
action in the senate Mr.. Wilson had demanded
its swift passage. Well, they were going to show
Mr.. Wilson few things and delays we're made
tho order.
The great triumvirate had things their way
for while, but along came few elections and
everywhere the president the victor. New
York and New Jersey and Massachusetts and
Maryland swung into line Wherever there was
Wilson candidate or a Wilson policy at issue
the votes piled up for that candidate or for that
issue Thought came with the morning after and
Reed and OGorman are in line. Hitchcock IS
left to fight # all out by himself and with the
aid Of the Republicans Hitchcock is supposed
10 be a Democrats able to cause little trouble
However that trouble has become merely an
annoyance The currency bill Will be passed at
the extra session Of congress. The revolt has col
apsod.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
Abusing the Record.

The name, Congressional Record, suggests
publication exclusively devoted to the events OF
congress but as the old adage runs Things
are not always what they seem True, 1t gives
a more or less coherent account Of what the
house and senate do, playing up its big
features and human interest stories the hair
splitting debates in which members engage. But
he mass of extraneous mater il includes rather
makes a msnomer of its title Here, for In
stnaca is a speech by the Hon Robert L. Henry
of Texas. at the dedication Of site for mon
ument to the late Mr. Balboa AT San Diego
spreading itself in the most typical flord
Henryesque diction over a page and q half OF
good space In this fine old compendium of con
eressonal doiugs Like scores OF other speeches
and documents and articles and whatnots, il
bears no relation whatever to the business of
congress, Yet it got there, as they al do, by
Unanimous consent
Just why the Congressional Record should
be so careless with it's good space in these piping
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
Poverty and Wealth.

over against the doctrine so insistently de-
clared by many sociologists that poverty Is one
of the chief causes of vice among women and
crime among men, DR.. F. lot, president emeri-
tus of Harvard, asserts that Poverty Is a Tar
safer moral condition than inordinate wealth
If exact definitions could be given OF what
constitutes poverty and what constitutes NOR
dinate wealth, the issue would be an excellent
one for discussion in academic circles. The man
Of practical mind, however. will note only that
the number of persons exposed to the tempta-
lions of poverty must be at least 10000 times
as great as the number exposed to those or IN
ordinate wealth. Consequently, 1t Is the poverty
vices and crimes that mos tconcern not only the
police, but the reformer. Profligacies OF the In
ordinately wealthy pass over community al
most as harmlessy as a flaming comet that as
tounds but is too far out of reach to affect
the lives of many The temptations of poverty.
however. fostering in obscurity, may poison the
air for thousands.
Furthermore if sociologists could find out
how to get rid Of poverty. there might be ho
inordinate wealth to fret about.-New York
World.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

=
II the administrative board Of Richmond has
rot accomplished what was expected ri t. the
rhief trouble is that we expected too much. No
sensible man expected the board, with its limit
ed power and divided authority, TO reyolutionize
The government of the municipality When the
boarn was formed the laws Of the State Of
virginia did not permit us to establish al once
a government by commission. even If # had
been expodient TO do so. Even had 1t been
legally possible to abolish the council and give
over the municipal government to a fe" men with
fixed responsibilities and absolute power 1t
could not have been done because Of the con.
servatisnl Of the people They wanted a change
because thcy we're not willing to rush headlone
into an absolutely new form Of government un
tried under conditions obtaining In Virginia and
in Richmond They preferred TO feel their way
forward and wait uutH reaching solid ground
before moving at a rapid pace.
So the experiment Of an administrative board,
dividing responsibility and power with the two
branch councils. vas tried. II was experiment
and nothing more-a step forward to test the
road II was not expected and was not intended
that tho board should make revolutionary
changes. TIE form Of government adopted
was SO arranged that such changes were
-t4t-,--4. fttft' oet
what could be done by commission with limited
power and If the trial proved satisfactory to
so further
The trial has proven satisfactory in the sense
that it has shown that the cause Of disaatisfac-
ton lies In the fact OF too lttle authority. The
failures Of The board not due to personnel have
been due 10 the absence and not the presence
of authority What the board has not done
and not what the board has done is the cause Of
complaint ana what it has not done has been
left undone chiefly because Of the lack of power
TO do 1t.
Let us admit that the administrative board has
not been vt rtb $4,000 or even 100000 to the
city and what then? Is that true because the
board has too muea power or because it has too
rttle power2
We think it is chiefly because # has too little
We thsnk tbs boards existence Its sins of omis
sion and Its virtues Of commission have demon
stra,ed that wc should 90 forward instead Of
backward
The YIrqiniau does not mean 10 say that every
thing the board has done has been right or that
M membership is composed OF supermen, or that
there have no, been fe@ things lef' undooa
that should and could have bcca dole. aut Il
does believe that the experience Of the last clever
months has sl own us yhat the principle to~are
which v have .oy out IS tho right principle. i
does believe that Ae trouble can be found to {
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

The Lynchburg Netos whose building and plant
was destroyed by fire last spring. is now back
In its new building with its new equipment. In
Sunday mornings issue there appeared an edi-
torial apology for the appearance of the paper,
but 1t was not needed. Critical examination
may have disclosed few more typographical
errors than usual and there may have been a
few changes in the headline type, but the news
matter was up to standard and the typography
but little. If any, below it. Congratulations to
the Nous in its new quarters and kind wishes
for greater success than attended 1t even before
the fire
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

The frost ls now on ali the pumpkins that
have not been converted into pe.--Bedford
Democrat.
There is little frost around Indian Summer"
Richmond to get the pumpkins but with
sweet potato and apple and lemon meringue pies
like mother used to make easily obtanable
nobody in Richmond cares II the frost buries
all the pumpkins ever grown Nobody but Ice
bound and prejudicebound New Enganders can
eat the stuff anyway
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

Among tho many matters that will he he
fore the next legislature of the state for con-
sidoratiou there viii be none of more wide and
general Importance than that of the equallza
ton Of MISUNDERSTANDING Virgiuian.
or of the segregation of taxation. Which it
is TO be and how well the work is to be done de
ponds upon getting out of the way the enabling
act, and the only way to get 1t out of the way
permanently is to pass it,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
Thirty Days for Stealing Wood.

Sentence of thirty days in Jail was
given Jack Bell. coiored, in Police
court yesterday. when he was ar
raigned on charge of stealing load
of wood from J. T, Nuckols.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
Sce,ns Rafhcr INnrchanslcd.

Perhaps. after an, MIR. Wilson feels bound by
the ONE term plank Mr.. Bryan inserted in the
platform. He Is apparently trying TO kave all
the important legislation put through in his pres
ent term.--Kansas City Journal.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
learning John Bull.

Only 200 persons heard Mrs Pankhurst In
Cincinnati. It seems TO have been wise tn admit
the militant agitator, If only to prove how harm
less she is when removed from home arson in
fluences.--New York World.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

II Teddy really were the Strenuous one he
would have gone to Mexico instead of South
America.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

times of the high cost of government and max
tmum efficiency is puzzle. II congress is go
ing to run a general publication 1t ought to
change the namc.--Omaha Bee.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

Andrew Carnegie believes in giving advice
hoard your money"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18

y am not marrying woman" says Mrs
Pankhurst. Wen, then, some chap is GER
taInly In iuck--Columbia state
TWO of them ones dead.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-18
TWO TO PEN FOR
SELLING COCAINE

of three who were tried In the Hnst-
ings court yesterday on indictments
charging traticing in cocaine. two were
sentenced TO the penitentiary. The
case OF the other was nolle prose-
Quied.
Mack Evans. coiored, entered a plea
of not guilty and was tried by jury
that found him guilty and sentenced
him to year IL the penitentiary.
Henrietta Smith, colored. who was IN
dicted with him, was freed, the case
against her being nollied.
Susan Harris, colored, pleaded guilty
to selling cocaine and was given a
year in the penitentiary.