Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

majority of ten There will be no con-
test, the liquor men accepting the result
as final and will close up and get into
some other business at once Steps are
being taken. 1t is said, I'm Roanoke and
Lynchburg to force an election and if
are expected to join In the ranks of the
anu-saloon people at very early date.
Attacking School System.
During this week there has been in ses-
sion here the conference for education
in the south. headed by Robert c. Ogden
OF New York and others who are devot-
Ing time. energy and money to the cause
OF education south of Mason and Dixon's
line. The conference was largely attend
co. In fact, there were at one time
twenty-one sections going at one and the
same time. The speeches were, for the
most part, theoretical. There was
much speculation as to the duty
of the church in having hand
in reforming things. The practical
part OF the conference was that In. which
the theme of the speakers was .'co-opera-
tion.' That was declared to be the duty
and the right of the farmers of the coun-
try-to get together stand together to
agitate for better schools for more COM
forts In the home, keener appreciation
of the women in the farmers home and
for better general understanding of the
needs of the people who till the soil, a
higher regard for his worth as man
and determination to encourage him to
better his condition and to increase his
pleasures.
Another thing was the demand that the
schools Of the country shall be entirely
removed from the sphere of the politician
and placed in the hands of teachers and
people who know something Of education
and who are not responsible to a horde
Of politicians.
Taught Nearly Half Century.
DR.. William II. Taylor. the veteran
member of the staff Of the Medical Col
lese Of Virginia. has given his last lee
ture In that institution or any other. He
was the instructor in medical jurispru-
dence and also in chemistry
For forty-six years, three times a week.
he has gone to the Medical College Of
Virginia and delivered his lectures. He
has missed very few lectures. He de-
livered his last lecture and told the stu
dents that he had tried to teach them
what was right and honorable. that they
would need what he had undertaken to
teach when they began to practice medi-
cine, and he wished for them all measure
Of success and prosperity. DR.. Taylor
graduated from the Medical College of
Virginia in 1853, sixty years ago. and
of that class there are today three men
living-Dr: Taylor, DR.: Thomas II.
Barnes of Suffolk and DR.. Thomas H.
Dunn Of Albemarle.
Getting New Voters.
The effects of movement inaugurated
here some ten days ago by active young
business men, men who take an interest
in the city and state and in public af-
Poip to o,-fp fr,,it
was started to interest several thousand
young men in the city Of voting age in
the duties Of citizenship. The fact that
there are here some 1900 to $1,000 young
men Of voting age who have never taken
the least interest in public affairs. and
| have paid no taxes. seems to have at
tracted attention.
The first night out the committee of one
| hundred succeeded in seeing more than
1000 voters and exacting from them a
promise that they would go to the polls
and register and get ready to vote this
year. The fight is to be kept up for sew
eral days. II is expected that several
thousand names will be added to the
polling lists. What may be behind the
| movement Is not known, but 1t is sus-
pected that the refusal Of the council to
| respond to the demands OF the city is
| really what Is aimed at.
There Were Many Guns.
At the trial Of Barnett Alien, in Car
| roll county, recently, the sheriff gave or
ders that no person was to be admitted
| to the courthouse until he had been
| searched for arms. Some fifty men We're
on hand. and 1t is reported by a lawyer
| that thirty-three OF the fifty men We're
| found to be armed.
| The weapons were taken from them,
| the men were admitted to the courtroom,
and when court had adjourned the guns
| were returned to them. Barnett Allen
| was tried for the same crime that pre-
coded the shooting in the Floyd Allen
cases-that Of interfering with an officer
in the discharge Of his duties. Barnett
Allen was acquitted by the jury. Judge
A. A. Campbell presided at the trial.
Double Slayer to Get Life Term.
PORTSMOUTH. Ohio. April 19-Aftel
being out twelve hours. jury brought in
verdict today finding Oscar Clarence
Uack) Wooten guilty of second degree
murder. Wooten killed his wife and %,