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NEED OF MONEY IN JAPAN

whole diffioulty lies In our dc nciency
In food supply, chiefly In rice, the staff
OF life In JAPAN
DR.. Tajiri pointed out that tho an
nual supply Of rice was deficient, ap6
was made more so by the annual con.
sumption OF 2o.o00.000 bushels by III,
breweries for making the native drink
called sake. In eating rice. much or
which she imported. Japan WAS eating
verify the money OF the usurer" Ii
would be long timo before Japan be-
came creditor nation. and in addition
to adopting the remedies OF reorganl-
aation of commerce and industry and
more extensive colonization. Japan
must readjust her cultivated land so MS
to Insure an annual increase In the rice
crops OF at least 100000 bushels. He
declared:
IF we so on importing the most
necessary articles OF food and export
only luxuries and ornaments we can-
not bring about. the desired change"
Much also could BIO done. he thinks by
discriminating Injurious insects which,
destroy 100000 bushels Of rice every
year. Improved methods would increase
crops in Hokkaido. Korea aud For
mosa. In the south two crops year
could easily be raised.
What japan has to do Ia to make
agriculture tho main vocation OF the
n commercial and Industrial people. MS
she may. yet she should never forget
that without agriculture there is no
hope for her as a nation. Agricultural
reforms constitute the best policy for
promoting national economy. It is the
ill-considered notion that Industry
rather than agriculture should be The
foundation OF national economy that
lead SO many young men OF Japan to
forsake tho land and wander TO the
cities, where they come to nothing.
Another necessary reform relates to
foreign trade. Instead of importing
necessities and exporting Injuries ia
pans goal should be TO export tho ne
cessities. She should learn to grow
her own cotton. as she is now attempt
ing to do In Korea"
In conclusion, Niscount Tajiri warns
his fellow oountrymen thus:
Japan needs to be careful to guard
against the Western tendency to run
after ornament and to be reckless OF
the moro practica! things OF life. Our
people should think more about the
substance and meaning Of life. Tho
foundation of national economy depends
much upon tho economy OF individuals
IF we began by reforms In the supply
and consumption OF food and then
went on to improve commerce and In
dustry. wo would be taking the right
and natural COURSE"
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Staten during our Civil War. hut sacrinoes and
fostitude have been counted upon, and
going while the neeessaries of life hold out.
This 10 largely matter OF substitutips rcal for
conventional values. and an efficient and dicta-
tortnl government can do wonders In this direc-
tiop. II q country has the essential raw mate
rlals and the varied skill needed for making
whatever is strictly necessary. the, ordinary
econ laws can DO considerably nodihed 80
long aa great emergency subordtnates the
"eoonomic man" to the loyal subject. Such con-
ditions may reveal strikinsiy the artificial char
ability OF q perfectly disciplined nation to keep
going while the necesseries OF life hold out.
that Germany is In danger OF notwithstanding
hed Republican
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Correspondence OF Associated Prehs.J
TOKYO. November 20-Big business
interests Of Japan, some OF which have
opposed from the start the participa-
ton OF Japan In the war, are wonder
Ing how Japan will be able TO borrow
needed money from now or. Tho war
may be necessary for Japan from a
political and ethical standpoint" said
prominent banker to tho correspon-
dent Of tho Associated Press, "but
wonder IL It will be q good thing for
business. Moreover, think II will be
impossible for Japan to borrow money
in Europe within the hvo or seven
years following the close OF the. war"
Japan, he continued, desired to 30 on
with her work OF commercial and hnan-
cial development. The European money
market being closed. bankers were
asking themselves whether It would be
possible to secure loans I'm the United
States. Tie business interests were
anxious to create closer and more eN-
tensive business relations with the
United States and to mako the Pacific
Ocean sphere not only of peace. but
OF greater commercial activity. 1t was
evident, he said. that there existed In
Japan to-day a powerful current OF
opinion In this direction which was OPP
posed TO any consideration of local
politics or party strife Interfering with
such trade and commercial develop
ment.
Niscount Inajiro Taj!ri. president of
the Board of Auditors. who studied
economics and finance ut Yale Univer-
sity, has written this month about tho
fundamental solution OF Japanese H.
nance. which nc considered the most
difficult problem that Japan has to face.
In Japan, 1t was, perhaps. more diff
cult than In any other country In tho
world. and yet there was no country
on\ earth where there WAS such hope
for the future, IL all classes continued
to cooperate toward the one end Of
financial consolidation.
He wrote:
Tho question that most vitality af-
fects national finance in this country is
that of food It ia. in fact, tho great
fundamental problem of the nation.
solve this problem, and the problem of
finance Ii solved. At present our food
supply is deficient and renders us a
debtor nation. This is reflected In our
excess OF imports over exports, and our
unfavorable balance OF trade generally.
Tho government is In debt. and private
enterprise Is in debt to the extent of
hundreds OF millions. Many Of our
municipalities are In debt too. More
than O0o00.o00 yen $500. 00O.0oo), of
our business capital is foreign money.
'1t is not too much to say that the
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temporary art is Che better model because the

temporary art is the better model because the
pigments are fresher.
The fact probably is that some things have
been 80 well done that they will never be
improved upon. For instance. 1t Is not likely
that everyday wisdom will ever be more
penetratingly set forth than II was many CEN
turtles ago in the biblical Proverbs Shaw's
Caesar and Cleopatra" Is of our day. but it
has less Of twentieth century human nature
in 1t than Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Irwin Cobb Ia undoubtedly very funny. but
can he make you laugh outright as the
''Pickwick Papers can? We are not with
out prolific historical novelists, but 1t would
be pity If the present and future genera
lions were to be without Thackeray's Henry
Esmond."
1t is something more than doubtful whether
taste for literature can be formed in the
classroom. Even If 1t can be, it would seem
wisest for educators not to think too highly
of their own Judgment as to the value Of
books They are too close to current works
to be able to Judge them accurately. Only
the books that have stood the test OF time
can safely be called literature.
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inequalities in State Taxation

THE map The Times-Dispatch printed yes
/ terday, showing the gross inequalities
in the ratio of assessed value to selling value
in Virginia cities and counties, should aid in
concentrating public attention on the need of
tax reform.
The map shows that Fredericksburg as
sesses its real estate at 76.5 per cent of It's
value, Newport News at 1912 per cent, DAN
vile at 63.S per cent, Lynchburg at 56.2 per
cent and Richmond at 54.s per cent. On the
other hand, the assessment in Craig County
is 1G.5 per cent, in Carroll 1875 per cent, and
in Russell 17.2 per cent
These are merely illustrations. TO base a
uniform rate of taxation FOR State purposes
on such gross inequalities is grotesquely UNI
:kjust. The counties that profit by this in
Justice ought to be the first to resent 1t.
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The Standard Authors

n educator has recently proclaimed that
a he would abolish all the great writer's
from the classroom if they dated back fur
ther than about twenty-five years Shake
speare and Milton, Dickens and Thackeray
should be swept away to make room for
men whose writings may be assumed to an
proximate more closely to the tastes of this
age. This sort of cry is raised with regular
and rather tiresome frequency, always with
respect to the great men who expressed
themselves by the written word Teachers
OF painting are quite content to put before
their pupils the work of the acknowledged
masters of old; they do not believe that CON
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SONGS AND SAWS
Dreadful.

Dreadful.
Our. Uncle Samuels In d nx,
because In wars he's bound to mix,
And mix without a pardner:
Unless some millions he equips tt
To fight, and builds hundred ships,
HE'S lost. says Gussie Gardner.
Ring out" cries Gus. "alarum bells,
Heap high the shore with lyddite shells
~ And shrapnel ut for slaughter;
Seek out each crouching citizen.
And drag him forth to war again
To pine for blood he oughter!"
And so he loads the gentle breeze
With woeful. mournful proph ecies
And warnings of disasters;
II we believe Gus and his friends,
A cruel fate on us descends,
And keeps descending faster.
Oh. wild lamentl oh, piteous lay!
There Is the very deuce to pay,
And no one can deny it;
But Uncle Sam, though he may shake
When urged our -Gussie's pill to take,
Would be fool to try It,
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Haughton and Harvard

Percy IIaushton. the Gear. Emperor
Mandarin and Kaiser of Harvard's foot
ball fortunes, has shown again the
value Of systen,s over individuals. Gays
Grantland Rice. in Golfers. r
In the six years before Haughtoh
came to Harvard, Yale rolled up
"a points against Harvnrd's abject o.
In tho first six years after Haughton
arrived. Harvard has scored 80 points
against NYale's s--not including the
1914 battle Which Is quite shift.
Before Haughton landed with his sys-
tenn. Harvard had won but three games
from Princeton out of fifteen starts.
After tho landing Harvard won three
out OF four starts. and only costly
tumble kept 1t from being four
straight. N
Yale ruled in the old days through
Camps fine system--a system continued
from year to year. When Camp
dropped out the old Yale system fut-
tered and shifted and lost it's organized
efficiency.
Princeton has enjoyed neither
Camp system fIor a Haugf1ton syatsm,
and so has been forced to depnd upon
Tiger courage, alortness and individual
skill, which Is something to have, bn,
which is under heavy handicap when
thrust against the same virtues Or
ganized and directed In tho proper way,
Yale tfis season secured rIinkey TO
giyo the 1faughton system battle. But
for the warfare. between tho Crimson
and the Blue to be waged upon equal
terms. Hinkey MUST be given his
chance to build up and to perfect what
he has only had q chance to start.
For no system Is established In a
year--which In football way ON
braces but two months work and play.
And only select few from tho big
mass are capable Of Installing system
worth while. Camp. Yoss, Haughtom
sharpe and Stagg are leading examples
bination OF highly developed football
intelligence and a capacity for organI-
zation and magnetic leadershtp>.
which possibly ten OF our 100000 mas
tives possess. 81.
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The British Navy Yet Supreme

W/HILE the British expeditionary force is
w maintaining it's high traditions on the
battlefield, there seems to be a vague i'm
preston both in England and in neutral coun-
tries that the British navy is not living up
to its great history. Because Germany has
had some competent commerce destroyers
and because two British Dreadnoughts have
been destroyed, Joined to the fact that of
the coast Of Chile the British were worsted
by superior odds, therefore, the English navy
has not lived up to it's reputation.
Dispassonate view of the situation will
not substantiate such criticism. At the
outbreak of the war Germany admitted the
British mastery Of the seas, by informing its
warships under the protection of forts. Ger
man merchant shipping was either captured
by the British navy or forced to seek refuge
until the war is over in home or neutral
ports. That is to say, then, that SO far as
practical purposes are concerned, the Brit
ish naval supremacy was conceded without
striking blow.
some. German commerce destroyers re-
NAMED at sea, and succeeded in INJECTING a
lot of damage to British German shipping
which is precisely what every authoritative
English naval writer foretold would happen
IN the first months Of war with Germany.
The German submarines have given good
account Of themselves. But, rating the Ger
man naval accomplishments at their highest
the latent fact still remains that British
naval supremacy has not even been chaI-
lenged. The German navy remains chained
under the protection of shore guns, and Ger
man merchant shipping has vanished, where
as English commerce keeps the seas at rates
of insurance not SO very greatly in excess
Of those prevailing in times Of peace These
merchant ships are feeding England.
Without overseas commerce England
would quickly starve, but her navy has kept
the channels of trade open-a vital service.
Not only this, but the navy has permitted
England to be factor in the present war.
British soldiers numbering somewhere be-
tween 100000 and 100000 have been
transported from all parts of the world to
wherever they We're needed. Not man has
been lost. Munitions of war in what must
! be vast quantities have been similarly trans
! ported, safely and swiftly, because the Eng
lish warships have the mastery of the sea.
And England remains uninvaded
| In the face of these very conservatiy
stated facts. it seems idle even to hint at
the decadence of the English navy It's task
is to do the work 1t is doing and to be ready
against the hour that tho enemy's ships will
| come from under the protection Of heavily
| fortified harbors and stund out to open sea.
| When that day comes it Is TO be assumed
that British submarines will be heard from
as we'll as the mightier men-of-war
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breaking the Rules.
Highwayman-You money or vour

''EO'FNy VT , O0l 1IKC.
, Victim-See here. don't you
know 1t Is against the law TO
behave as you are doing
now.
Highwayman-Yes. but laws
cannot be any more binding
than/treaties. and i have the
best possible authority for
the statement that they arc
no moro than scraps of paper.
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Face and Fortune.

the suggestions OF character which we see
accompanying pictures Of the people prominent
in the great war In Europe? MRS. +.
The compilers OF the magazine articles on
such subjects endeavor to keep within. some
limits, and rarely apenk OF the enormous sIze OF
Lord Roberts, or tho timid. shrinking eye OF
the Kaiser. Outside Of this much propriety,
you would do quite as we'll to mix the descrip-
tons and the pictures In any way that suits
you. The results would be quite as reliable
your way any other.
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Chats With Virginia Editors

We are entering on the last n,o,.,
OF 1914" Editor showalter, of tho HarrIsonburp
News-fccord acknowledges unrescrvedly nj
the opening of editorial which extends nil
inc way down one column and halfway down
inc next We'll, brother that you have
let the cat out OF the bag. are encouraged
10 make n like confession. What are we going
to do about It? We are confronted hv n Gov
dition. not n theory.
Characteristic of the pcace-loving Editor
George Green, of the Clifton Forge Review is
this effort to smooth the RULED feathers of His
contemporary ut Newport News ''If the editor
OF the Press really has red hair IL NAV he
due TO the fact that when hair was being dis
trfbuted that there was no other kind LEFT
ana ho had to accept 1T go without. Per-
sonaily we prefer rcd head to a bald head"
There's no accounting for tastes.
Says the Bristol Herald Courier: 1--WE guess
1T was all right for former Chief Croker of
the Tammany tribe. to take Indian princess
to bless and brighten his wigwam." Another
safe guess Is that she will tighten his wampum
There at least to be towns enough
in Mexico to furnish capital for every gen
GRAIL" the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch remarks
emitting to add that 1t seems to be each gen
erals settled conviction that 1t is his duty as
n patriot and liberator to furnish his wallet
with somebody's capital
Editor Alfred Is. Williams dominates his
Roanoke Times to succeed Rev. J. .. Mails
ter as field secretary of the Virginia Anti
Saloon League, lie says: "rhis newspaper, we
submit, is the only real friend OF real prohi-
billion heard from since the Statewide cleo
ton Tho Rev. James Cannon, Jr. begins to
talk of foolish and extreme legislation. DR..
Pitt opposes the search and seizure law as they
have in North Carolina Other members of
this league hint at moderation and compromise
The Roanoke Times alone demands tho most
extreme prohibition the Constitution will per-
nit, tho pressing of the law to the last limit,
the tightening OF the girtr to the very last
hole"
Editor williams also seconds the nomina-
ton and says In his scconding speech that
tho Roanoke Times has the right to nominate
itself IT is much member OF the Anti
Saloon League as anybody else" Did we hear
any one move to close the nominations?
According to the Charlottesville Progress:
"At the beginning of the European Amer
lean tourists stranded in foreign countries were
unable to obtain money from the usual sources"
The same may be said of the guides who
wont to take the tourists in tow
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DebntabIe. AnyI,ov.

stubbs-Did you bag wild turkey on that
hunting trip Of yours?
Grubbs-Why. that was the very question at
ISSUE said had. but the farmer who claimed
to own the bird insisted L hadn't
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Too Literal,

y met tramp this morning who think
must have come from Boston,"
VIVA. Whnt made made you reach that conclusion
VOL. when he stopped me on the street he
said IF you please. sir, will you give n starv
ing man penny to buy slice of breadT
gave him exactly what he asked
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Dictated Enioyment.

That girl who was with you at the theatre
last night seemed, from her laughter, to he
onjoying herself immensely"
Yes We are engaged, you know"
the Joke"
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Queries and Answers
EuKeufCA.

what States require health certificate for
marriage license? j. w. HENDERSON.
Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota Oklahoma,
Wisconsin,.
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First preshxferinn Chnrch

Where Is the First Presbyterian Church in
Richmond? MRS r. L. G..
At Grace and Madison Streets to which 1oca-
tion 1t was removed, 1ss4-s5. from Tenth and
Capitol. when space cleared for the new
City Hall.
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William Allen White on what's
Nahraska tho matter with Nebraska Is the
,,...., latest illustration Of the various
si'ns" old ndages about next-door
With ScOrn neighbor and his neighborllncss
IIe seiZes tho attribution of
General Funston to Nebraska his
Nebraska" no chokes, "colorless, cventless un-
eyed, placid. blue -stockinged old maid, who
never had throb of emotion stronger than n
platonic yearning for tabby cat. Nebraska's
feet mover found tangoing up and down the
primrose path of dalliance with any idea moro
divertng than geometrical theorem. Nebraska
never has produced a public man except Bryan,
and she has given him sustaining ma
jority when he needed It" Nebraska moreover,
has never boen sought by cyclone nor baked
with hot winds, nor swept with Blizzard The
idea that she could produce soldier like Funs-
to produce anything out OF The ordinary 1t
characteristic OF Kansas to do And simply
because tho two lie side by side. Eastern news
papers have tho impudence to confuse them!
IT. after this. Nebraska does not send post haste
for rhetorical defence by her great public
man. 1t will be because she is as placid as Mr..
White declarcs.-New York Evening Post
There Is significance In tho
Rise of sharp rises In the price Of food
p,;cee In stuffs reported from Germany
but 1t should not be exaggerated
germany Such rises apt to be sudden
and strongly marked, and they
do not imply any corresponding shortage in the
supplies Germany will hnve 60 wage the war
on very narrow margin for subsistence, but
this carefully calculated and allowed for
I'm advance. II will mean very great sacrifices
and very great fortitude, as In tho Southern
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A NeW Err

Hoe! But the times have changed round hera,
io Keep streets clean we've learned we must
Or, failing, find that we cough up
Our own and not the city's dust
THE TATTIER.
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Presidents.

Please publish for me a list Of the Presidents
of the United States. and indicate which States
they came from. CITIZEN
George Washington. Virginia.: John Adams,
Massachusetts; Thomas Jefferson. Virginia.
James Madison. Virginia; James Monroe. Vir.
glnia; John Quincy Adams. Massachusetts;
Andrew Jackson. North Carolina; Martin Van
Buren,, New York; william Henry Harrison,
Virginia; John Tyler. Virginia.; James Knox
Polk, North Carolina: Zachary Taylor. virginia.
Willard Fillmore. New York; Franklin Pierce
New Hampshire; James Buchanan. Pennsylvania
Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky: Andrew Johnson
Rutherford Burehard Hayes, Ohio: James Abrani
Garfield, Ohio; Chester Alan Arthur, Vermont; ;
Grover Cleveland. New Jersey: Benjamin Harri-
son, Ohio: William Mckinley, Ohio Theodore
Roosevelt, New York; William Fl. Taft, afassa-
chusetts, woodrow Wilson. Virginia
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If some men kept their noses to the grind
stone they wouldn't be bowling that women's
dress Is immodest
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AS they say in Boston, the recrudescence
of polite demeanor among the lower classes
is invariably symptomatic of the contiguty of
Yuletjde.
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He told me 1t was Just such Nteralness and
.ack or imagination as displayed that retarded
the development OF a vital American literature =,
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Shaws idea appears to be that that union
scale for butchers should also apply 30
soldiers
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According to the Charlottesville Progress
.'At the beginning of the European war Amer
lean tourists stranded in foreign countries were
unable to obtain money from the usual sources"
The same may be said of the guides who
wont to take the tourists in tow.