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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
A TELL-TAIT RAROMlSy,-r.

By reaching out into the surrounding country
and gathering unto itself all the outlying terrf-
tory within a radius OF ten or fifteen miles the
city OF Birmingham managed TO leap into the
hundred thousand class in population From
thirty odd thousand population 1t jumped to
$4,000 by annexing every village in the county
and several in one or two others. Richmond. at
the same census which gave Birmingham 1872.
ooo showed but $4,000 people, but that Rich
mond is larger city in everything. but name
is shown by the latest figures giving the post.
Office receipts,
Few things" says the birmingham Ne,os
indicate more plainly the growth of city
than the postof1ce receipts" Accepting this as
true-and IT undoubtedly Is true-Richmond Ia
a larger and buster city than Birmingham
larger in reality because Richmond's outlying
territory contains many more people than the
territory ANNEXED by the Alabama city. The
postof1ce receipts. as given by the Birming.
ham newspaper totaled s4s5,so1.4s for the
seal year ending June 30. 1913. as against
$40 ri r. preceding year. BTrInfng-
ham, says the Nens sis practically In the
100000 class"
Richmond. practically In the million dollar
class, congratulates her small friend and hopes
that eventually she viii reach her ambition,
which is TO secure receipts to the amount OF
100000, so that her postmaster may receive
$4,000 year, as IN Richmond These con-
gratulations the more sincere In that short.
iy the postmaster at Birmingham, as elsewhere
will be Democrat Riehmond's only fear is
that Republican administration may be back
In power before Birmingham reaches her goal.
The Birmingham Netos recognizes that some
explanation nauat be made fer the fact that
Richmond 50 far outclasses the iron village In
the matter Of postal receipts epd remarks:
Persons familiar with postoftlce statistics might
think IL strange that Birmingham with its great
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
The New Freedom.

Colonel Roosevelt pretends that ne does not
understand what President Wilson means by the
new freedom" In a recent speech at New
port he said
"A careful study OF the articles that have
appeared by President Wilson dealing with this
subject since he president has left me some
what puzzled to what he really does mean.
but, of course. I assume that there must be
meaning and If this assumption is warranted,
then The New Freedom means nothing what
ever but the old license translated into terms
OF pleasant rhetoric
1.-THE New Freedom liz nothing whatever
but the right of the strong to prey on the weak,
of the big to crush the little men, and to
shield their iniquity beneath the cry that they
are exercising fredom"
That Is not frank and the utterance liz I'M
worthy of Colonel Roosevelt President Wilson
has defined his phrase we'll enough and plainly
enough The New Freedom liz to break the
shackles OF the tariff by which trade is bound :
to break the shackles of the money trust by
which the banks bound: and by doing this
to set opportunity free TO all, to the weak as
we'll to the strong. to the poor well to
the rich, to all men and all classes alike, as
the constitution directs and Democracy has
ever guaranteed.
That ia the New Freedom and II In no empty
phrase. Nor Is 1t vain promise The shackes
already being and they will fall
off. unless congress is false to its promises and
recreant to it's duty
IL Is the promise Of this freedom ard the
fraterna reunion at Gettysburg which gives
peculiar significance and a rare junction to our
national celebration today.-Newport News
Press
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

volume OF general business does not produce as
much postoh1ce revenue as Richmond and GER
tain other Southern cities with $4,000 post
masters. In order for a postmaster to receive
$4,000 the receipts must be at least 100000.
There Ia really nothing strange about 1t,
though. Richmond does more business than
Birmingham and has more patrons of its Of
fees, for receiving mail from Richmond Of
fee and sending mail through 1t are about 100.
900 people, while the Birmingham Office sup
plies not more than 100000 people The post.
Office receipts give fine indication OF the busi-
ness OF city and facts and figures will sohw
that the barometer ts true In this instance for
those facts and figures show that Richmonds
wholesale and mail order business is larger, her
banks more numerous and prosperous and her
people buster than those of Birmingham. This
Is the reason the receipts at the local post
Office are larger than those at Birmingham.
The Birmingham Netos cannot afford to adj
NIT all this, however. and attempts to explain
in this naive manner:
But Birmingham postoface conditions are
peculiar. There three postofTlces inside the
city limits besides the central office in charge of
Postmaster r. II. Aldrich. Tho three referred
to Ensley W'yRm and Thomas. Tho Ems
ley postoffice Is Of the second class and It's re-
ceipts are about $4,000 year. The Wylam
office Is of the thirn class and it's receipts are
considerable, of The Thomas offfce is
Of the fourth class and It's receipts are negiigi-
BILE. comparatively speaking These three Of
fees will probably be merged before many
years into the birmingham postoffce.
Wa call this explanation naive, because It Is
evidently sincere and Is yet so simple and art
less. The writer really seems to believe that
he has explained the whole thing, but as we
have seen the explanation lies elsewhere--name-
Ily In Richmonds greater population and larger
and more numerous business transactions Take
the figures given, for instance: The receipts at
the Birmingham office totaled s4S6, 49, those
at Ensley, second class office ,totaled $4,000.
No figures are given for Wylam and Thomas,
but as they are third and fourth class offices
respectively the total receipts of the two could
not exceed another $4,000 Adding these to-
gether and then adding the $4,000 thus secured
TO the total for the main office. we have the
total postofice receipts for Birmingham placed
at s535.So1.4s.
The total receipts for Richmond for the same
twelve months were ss27,91e. difference of ap-
proximately 100000.
/ The increase for the Birmingham Office was
about $4,000, or about per cent
/ The Increase for Richmond was about $4,000,
or about per cent
/ AS the Birmingham Eeaos says, the postal re-
ceipts of a city's postoflce indicate plainly the
growth of city. and by the same token the city
that has the largest receipts and shows the
greater receipts each year is larger and grow
ing moro rapidly than another
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
The Function OF the Court.

The Index Appeal hits the nail squarely on
the head when protesting that In arising
In local jurisdictions the department of Justice
at Washington should have authority over
the conduct of prosecutions such was sought
to be exercised in regard to the Caminetu trial
The system Is vicious which takes control of the
docket out OF the hands of the presiding Judge
THE man. well says Petersburg con-
temporary, who should have had the power to
postpone the cases In question the Judge of
the court Neither the attorney for the de-
Tense the attorney general of the United
States should be vested with authority To de-
lay the trial Of criminal cases in the United
States courts. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

Men may dictate womens fashions, but In the
summertime women dictate mems fashions. All
the tailors' conventions in the world and all
the royal and parliamentary edicts ever issued
or ever conceived could not make woman wear
a thick coat, double collar and vest when
the thermometer Is making frantic efforts to
break through the top. The woman has said
that man shall not enter her presence In his
shirtseeves and man obeys. and 1t takes no
or organization or laws to compel
that obedience. either.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

much to the acre as we do and nearly all the
European countries surpass US. So do New
Zealand and Canada. There Is no doubt that
our lands are naturally fertile and produc-
tive as any anywhere in the world European
countries have learned from experience the alb
soute necessity Of conserving soil fertility; in
this country methods of cultivation have
from the beginning all tended to soil exhaustion,
and that condition. as q general rule. still OBJ
tains. The time has come when this tendency
must be reversed or the United States, with its
constantly and rapidly growing population, will
shortly find itself dependent upon the outside
world for a large proportion of Its food supply.
Recognizing this fact. the States and the federal
government alike putting forth laudable
effort to disseminate knowledge OF and encour-
iage the application of scientific agriculture. In
the rebuilding Of such effort lies real promotion
Of the common veal THE farmers" said DAN
lei Webster, "are the founders Of human CIV
ilization." Certain II Is that maximum pros
perity for the tiQers OF the soil spells maxi
mum prosperity for the country at large. and
nothing short OF It does.-The Laurenceville
Times
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
HIS OLD WAY.

In calling Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom"
"magnioquent vagueness," Colonel Roosevelt is
merely following his old course OF belittlng
anything and everything anyone else says or
does and Of pretending that his ideas and his
ideas alone the right ones. In attempting
to saddle upon the Wilson administration the
troubles in the West Virginia coal fields Colonel
Roosevelt is guilty OF disingenuousness. to say
the least The troubles had their inception dur
ing the administration OF President Roosevelt,
to a head during that of President Taft
and broke Just the latter retiring from
Office, Wilson inherited them and the only con.
nection his administration had with the strike
Was to Investigate the-causes~ and to seek the
remedy. Roosevelt knows the remedy without
investigation. OF course, but selfish is he that
he would give neither Taft nor Wilson the
benefit of his knowledge and even kept 1t from
Governor Glasscock. one of the seven little gov
ernors who induced Roosevelt to violate his
solemn pledge not to be n candidate for a third
term.
Roosevelt Is either very Ignorant or very
deceiuful. Few men of intelligence have
cused him of ignorance
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
Cost of Growing Tobacco

Is 1t true that the grower Of dark tobacco
loses s543o on every of his crop? This
was the declaration of Mr.. Thomas II steele,
editor of the Union Star, of Brookneai Va. be-
fore the congressional committee investigating
the prices and the cost of production of to-
bacco in this country. Mr.. Steele submitted a
detailed statement to the committee. not only
setting forth the actual items of cost in raising
an acre of tobacco. but giving some interesting
facts concerning the general condition of the
industry The following are the figures given
the committee by MIR Steele. showing the cost
per acre of growing tobacco basing figures on
four acres of Is, 900 hills, cultivated by one man
with horse mule:
prenaratton af land.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
COMMENT
The Law of the Air.

BY a decision handed down In Paris
aeronaut Is ordered to pay $4,000 in damages
for causing his aeroplane to come into collision
with another flying machine while the two were
making exhibition flights at a meet in Italy.
There have been several lawsuits over patent
rights in aeroplanes and airships and we have
heard Of one or two connected with charges OF
breach of contract against birdsmen But, this
suit we believe, ia the first developing out
OF the mishaps which have seemed inseparable
from the sport of aeronautcs 1t may indicate
two things-that the science OF flying has gone
far that it is now possible to fix responsibility
for accidents or that the lawyers have come to
the conclusion that they might as well make a
beginning OF that new litigation whose possibili-
ties have far only been guessed.
We may expect lawsuit to follow lawsuit until
there tons of records, learned works upon
the law OF the air some groupings OF under
standings to the proper conduct Of birdmen
while aloft the rights OF persons upon whom
aeropanes may chance to fall drop things,
the rules of the aerial road snlidihed into law
and decisions, tremendously solemn and i'm
portant. that will make 1t known who owns the
air.--Toledo Blade.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
The Value of Baseball.

Baseball in Newport News has done more
than. advertise the city abroad 1t has done a.
valuable service In that direction. but 1t has
done even a better work at home we believe in
developing the civic spirit among the people.
The people assemble at the park and root
for the home team. They watch the bulletined-
score as the game proceeds in other towns and
manifest the keenest interest in the conduct
of the home team. When a game is in progress
away from home, crowds assemble in front of
bulletin board and 1t takes two in the
newspaper office to answer the Inquiries
the telephone.
When the home team wins there is shouting
and rejoicing and when II loses there Is sorrow
arid lamenting. 1T is all for Newport News. 1t
is the spirit of local pride that makes the peo-
pie rejoice or lament. the case may be.
Newport News needs that sort of development.
Being town, it il lacking in those bonds
of union that bind the older communities to-
gether. and every agency that tends to supply
that defect Is an agency for good and is to be
encouraged.
The local baseball team is performing that
service and doing 1t well and for that reason.
well for the other considerations, 1t must
he maintained by the business men as q busi-
ness propostion.-Newport News Times Herald.
Courier
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
CALLING. THE BRYAxs TO BOOK.

The editor OF the Blackstone Courier, Hon.
w. A. Land. has his warpaint on and cunning
for the organs OF the tmes-Dispatch. In
righteous indignation MFR Land. who is a mem
Der OF the legislature. has for some time been
calling upon the Times. tspatch to prove itself
an honorable paper" by specifying what
members of that body we're tools OF the 'Plun.
derbund" and controlled by lobbyLsts Tho
Times-Dispatch has not SO far made good, so In
his last issue Of the Courier Editor Land. who
has gone TO some trouble to look up the records,
charges, fatfooted. that the Bryans were tax
dodgers and made correction after having
sworn to false list Also that they employed
lobbyists at the last session OF the legislature
to get through g hill OF much personal interest
to themselves Editor Land challenges the
organs to dispute these records and much
more yet unrevealed. winding up with these
phrases:
eyou were engaged in slipping something
through the Virginia legislature which you felt
questionable, and hired lobbyists TO get II
through How Goes this sound for yUu high
moralists. who claim to be working only for the
good of the State while you are engaged In ef-
forts 10 rob II on all- sides and adopted the
same methods you regard as reprehensible In
othars?"
Every charge here made Is from docu-
fnentary evidence, and there la much more along
the same line, But this is sufficient for tho
present. Now. let the Times Dispatch come
forward with its ev;ders4 mat the general as
sesnbiy Is the tool of eAt'iunderbund' as we
have challenged them 30 ~
rs the Times -Dts.~t@l an honorable d.
peri"
The Tsntes-Dtspatcf, cwned by the Byrans
has made no reply to these structures as yet
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
A Noble Thought.

Colonel John Jacob <Astor died like a hero
when the Titanic went to its Atlantic grave
His millions and the heritage of his good name
went to young son. mere boy from whom
too much might not be expected. Wealth AL
most unlimited rarely has SOLDERING effect upon
youth, but Mr.. Vincent Aston Is an exception.
He has exhibited altruistic proclivities and keen
intelligence through his agricultural and soco-
logical Investigations. and he has just coined a
sentence which should live long the Eng
lish language.
the young tended to destroy the swards OF Gem
trail park New York. this unusual youth. re-
plies: 1T fs far better to have dead grass in
the parks than dead children In the tene-
merts"
BETTER dead grass than dead children
Norfolk News
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
IF7

Trade promises soon to be much better be-
tween this country and the Latin American
countries--G alveston News.
This fs reasonable safe prediction. In a
comparatively short time the Democratic tariff
program will be the law of the land and that
Will do the work. Norfolk Virgininn Pilot
II at the same time our antiouated navira-
ton laws are revised and American owned ships
are allowed to fly the American flag, even though
built somewhere else. the trade increase will be
larger.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
Not Ready for sfilitancy.

The International congress OF suffragsts at
Budapest have had the good sense to refuse to
go on record as approving the manacal methods
Of the British ''Militants. Although It was made
evident during the proceedings OF the last day
that certain number of delegates approved of
the most extreme measures. It is evident that
in the opinion of the majority women who re-
sort to arson murder and suicide do not neces-
sary thereby demonstrate their fitness to share
the responsibilities OF government.
The opinion that women competent to aid
in many ways In the betterment Of humanity is
steadily gaining ground in most Of the civilized
countries. Whether not their influence
factors in the work of the world--an influence
which was never greater than 1t Ii today even
among those who do not vote--wll he still
further strengthened for good by endowing them
with the franchise. men generally are perfectly
willing to listen to their plea and to grant It
when convinced that any considerable number
of them want it. The interest. pro and CON.
taken in this important question Is one OF the
striking Developments Of the Philadelphia
Press
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
Too Hot to Handle.

The Richmond Times-D Dispatch appears to
have found the Plunderbund "a little too hot
to handle" as the baseball reporter would say
When it undertook to characterize county and
city officials indiscriminately a set OF crooks
and INSCRIPTIONS it encountered difficulty
in inducing sane men to swallow such a SANDER
good citizens. Thus far 1t has ignored The
Virginians s. call for specifications and proof of
it's grave allegations but far silence. deep,
dark. tense and impenetrable is the only re-
Spouse. If one has nothing to say it's always
Register.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

The People and the Legislature.

It has always seemed strange to us that a
member OF the general assembly could see his
way clear to ignore the wishes of the people
In any matter affecting their welfare AS we un-
derstand 1t. the people not asking the general
assembly to assume any authority, but only
make the modest request that the settlement
OF the liquor problem be referred to the people
to be settled. And that Is a fair proposition
Clifton Forge Review
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
'Letthe Virginian Follow You

III you are going away. either to the sea-
Hcso~e, The mountains or the country, let
STjTF STRGfSTAS follow You.
Remember there win be no extra charge
and Won will he able 10 keep up with the
happenings I'm your home town. All Won
have Ia do ~ 10 caii phone Madison 1853
am tell us whore you going. and your
paper Will be there ny the time you are.
DO 1T NOWf
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

AS Doctor Wiley is food specialist, we can
not see where he obtains right to lecture on
dogs. Dogs are not food-at least as far
as we know.-Exchange
He's man who has never at any frankfurt
ers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

The vestless season does not bother the cloth
ing stores. Men have to buy more shirts and
pay more for their ties.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

fly across the ocean will not soon find himself
In the swim
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

1t is now the open season for discussion
OF who participated in Pickett's charge
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

The announcement that the United States
ranks seventeenth among the nations of the
world in relative productivity of crops, but en-
phasizes how far behind the times are our
1NArming methods. Belgium grows twice as
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06


In plain words, Mr. Steele believes that the
year more than his crop brings him.
Are these figures correct? The Index Hpp~al
does not know. It does SEEM however. that
Mr.. Steele Is rather below the average when he
fixes the production at 100 pounds per acre.
and on the Petersburg market. at least, a great
deal Of dark tobacco is sold for more than
twice 81 per hundred. 1t may be that the
price will not average above this. but be-
lieve 1t will Still, not attacking the
accuracy of the figures submitted. 1t IL certain
and has been certafn.,to mind for long
time that the growers of dark tobacco were
making very little money, IL any, from the in
dustry. 1t Is for this that have
urged them to undertake to grow bright leaf.
where their land adapted to this variety.
1t is gratifying to know that many of our farm
have taken our advice in this matter Also II
Ia highly gratifying to know that warehousemen
of Petersburg making preparations now to
handle all the bright tobacco which may be
consigned them this coming season and there
after Buyers OF bright leaf will be the
Petersburg market and prices here should be
little better than paid by the British American,
for instance, elsewhere since this concern uses
a great deal of bright leaf which has to be
transported here The British American et
ports two carloads of cigarettes every day. This
company alone could take all the bright tobacco
likely to be brought to this market for years to
come. and still want more.
Meanwhile. the ex-Appea1 would like TO
hear from tobacco growers of the Southside re-
garding the cost of producing acre. Every
farmer ought to figure this for his own salts
MISUNDERSTANDING Index-Appeal.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06

Here is the immortal order issued by Lee on
entering Pennsylvania prior to the contest of
three DAYS at Gettysburg:
Cham bersburg, Pa. June 81, 1853.
THE commanding general earnestly exhorts
the troops TO abstain with the most scrupufous
care from wanton injury to private property 1t
must be remembered that make only
against armed men.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-06
"R. E. LEE"

And the women Of Chambershurg and OF every
other city. settlement, or farm house or
hoveI, were as safe within the lines of that
army as though soldiers were there for no other
purpose than to protect Enthusiastically
Star.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-29
WOMEN POLICE WILL
SERVE In ATLANTA

Atlanta, July 2S,-The women po-
licemen who will shortly be made
members of the force in Atlanta will
be given special supervision over the
dance halls, motion picture theatres
and other like places where young
folks congregate unchaperoned.
Chief Beavers is receiving informa-
ton from other cities where police
women have been used, describing how
the system works out. The effort IN
Atlanta, therefore, will not be leap
in the dark.
1t is probable that the policewomen
here will not wear uniforms, as it IL
said the conspicuousness hinders their
work. They will wear ordinary We
mans garb, but will have policeman .
badge.