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TreasliiS's
Service
to Nation


of the financial operations in
ciacnt to the outbreak OF the world war OF
1914, from the government point OF view. On
the purely financial side, this administration is
destined to bulk large in history for two rea-
sons the new Federal reserve banking system
is one; the unprecedented financial crisis caused
by the war is the other. The Secretary OF tho
Treasury, in this report. reviews episode after
after make ono OF tho most memorable chapters
in tho history OF the Treasury Department.
Future students OF this period will marvel that
the Wilson administration bitterly de-
scoring /, great triumph in carrying the burden
OF the most extraordinary emergency known to
modern finance. There is still almost recog-
milton OF this fact By tho people. least OF all
by bankers and business men. Many novel
OK pedients were adopted in meeting tho crisis.
some OF them being OF the utmost Importance.
Tho government through il all has led, rather
than followed, with the Federal Reserve Board,
in expert guidance If mistakes have been made.
they have not been vital Tho great outstand-
ing fact is that this country has wcathercd one
of the most critical years In Its financial history
ton, and the dark year Is closing with brighten
ing skcs--Springileld Republican.
No received official statement
Austria concerning tho IL more i'm.
Wa RENT portant than that made by ex-
"A' ron' Premier Giolitti, In the debate
Oh "hs upon the vote of confidence In
the Salandra Ministry that Aus
tria communicated both to Germany and toIItaly
IN August 1913, her "intcnton TO aAt against
scrviu.' This lightning stroke from Rome con-
firms much that has hitherto rested upon ded,c-
ton: that tho German increase In the active
purposes preparations for definitely ex.
pcctcd war; that Austria, almost year before
the murder OF the archdukc gave her a pretext
was already planning her onslaught on the
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No nlssolntion aet.

He--Are NO supposed still to be engaged?
i Sho-Oh ycs All engagements nIade in tho
summer understood to continue In force
until after Christmas.
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How Long Should the Franchise Last?

STATEMENTS made Thursday night at the
~ nass-meeting of East End citizens by
Henry w. Anderson, vice-president and general
counsel OF the Virginia Railway and Power
Company. confirm Tho Times-Dispatch in an
opinion long held and expressed more than
once on this page--that the company really
did not expect some Of the requests and
statements contained in its appeal for a new
blanket franchise to be taken i'll any other
than a Piclwickian sense.
Little details Of the proposition, like the
million dollar valuation on the aqueduct and
park transfers to the city, the tentative sug-
gestion for increased fares and, in general,
the naive theory OF that document that Rich
mond should give much and get little. obvi-
ously never were intended for serious con-
sideration. 1t was, as Mr.. Anderson now ex-
plains, mere diplomatic pourparler.
1t Is true that no progress toward just
solution of the problem will be made by citi-
zens and company throwing bricks at each
other, BUTT ought also to be said, in defense
of such indulgence in that paBtime as citi-
zens have permitted themselves, that tho
company is guilty OF contributory negligence.
1t certainly erected mighty tempting
glass house.
When Mr.. Anderson discusses tho question
Of the duration Of the proposed franchise ho
is OH far safer ground The fact is as he
states it--that Il great public service cor
poration cannot be financed adequately and
SocAoiAiSoiis WHEN LID IiSuI W uO DuSlucSS lB
to be terminated at the end OF ten years
Moreover, there is in such cases the fixed
certainty that service and equipment will be
allowed TO deteriorate as the franchise term
nears its expiration.
These are general considerations Speci6-
cally, there is no reason why the Virginia
Railway and Power Company should consent
to accept Il ten-year franchise as the prin.
cipal ones 1t now enjoys have fourteen or tit-
teen years TO run, and somc Of the less inn
portant run forever.
Thirty years may be too long period for
n wise franchise grant, but ten years certain
~ is too short. Perhaps tho conferences
Mr.. Anderson suggests and experience In.
dorses will solve this problem along with
the others that are involved.
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Manufacturers OF arms and arnior ought to be-
willing to open their hearts and contribute
generously to tho support OF tho National
Security League. II 1t s successful In Its arnbi
tions, it will add security to their bank accounts,
Mt any rate.
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Food for thought, served in the best style OF
the paraErapher OF the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch:
since tho war began crime has decreased 80
per cont in London, even with the lights turned
out every night" Easily explained, however.
,rhc lure OF the white lights eliminated.
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~ Published eScry day IA the year by The Times
Dlspntch PubiishinE Company, Inc. Address ALI
to THE TIMEs-DfSpATCH,
Times Dispatch building. 10 South Tents street,
sutchmsRd. Va.
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Compensation

Conipe atfon.
Tie anctents had some blessings
We do not think about;
They wero not left in darkness by
The current popping out.
TffE TATTLER
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Tho Petersburg Index-Appenl comments with
u tingc OF irony: ''ot course, tho navy 81 in
The grog has been abolished, 'Tippcrary' has
been cut OUT Rnd nothing IS left to render It
ineffective save the rntlons OF tobacco. and these
probably have been marked for adjustment"
Tho heart of tho sailorman Is glad. however, for
tho ban Is not upon his beloved hcrnpipc hut
the reel is barred
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Chats With Virginia Editors

Says the Portsmouth Star: "oho has a law
which oon,pels newspapers to tell the truth.
Texas has law which conspels them to sup
press IT." Which proves nothing except that
there are moro mon in Ohio WHO can AFFORD TO
liaSc the truth published.
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EntcISG January %, zoos, at Rlchmond, Va. Ms
second -cluxn matter under net OF Congress- of
March g. 1870.
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servia Refuses to BE Crushed

IT was only few days ago, following tho
i taking OF Belgrade by the Austrian forces,
that the world talking of Servia as
second Belgium, certain TO be overrun by its
enemies. certain to be most sternly gov
erned, certain to he required to pay heavy
indemnities to its conguerors. All the sus-
ceptiblc hearts were panied by this prospect
and every benevolent eye shed few pre-
iminary tears
1t now appears according to the reports
sent out by the Servians themselves, that
these heart throbs and tears were entirely
unnecessary Not only has the army Of King
Peter not been crushed, still according to the
reports but it has inflicted heavy defeat OH
the advancing and too-confdent Austrialis
and thrown them back in confusion, taking
many guns and thousands of prisoners.
There must be lesson in this. For the
Austrians 1t has regard, probably, to the I'M
wisdom of counting chickens before they are
Matched, and for us in this country, per-
haps, it is that we should not do any weep
ing or heart-throbbng until we are asked, or
at least until we know what we are weeping
and throbbng about.
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Some people will spend years planning
what they are going to do, when they stop
planning and begin doing something.
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When the small boy looks at the calendar
he wonders what any one can mean by 'un-
lucky Friday"
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Making Skeptics

"EIEA,vE,N is on our side With
pcace;'' thus saith the German Emperor
Similar declarations have come from the
mouths of statesmen aud makers Of war of
the other nations, side by side with cable dis
patches describing the moving down OF
human beings by machine guns and gigantic
shells, the dropping Of bombs on women and
children in towns only technically fortified,
tho dead lying in heaps In the trenches.I
How much OF this sort of talk Is Intended
dcvout acknowledgment Of divine
leadership, real or fancied, and how much is
gallery play, none may tell. We have heard
county politicians on the hustings batantly
claiming the.leadership of the Almighty and
i'll rather colorlcss OF too colorfu causes.
Let them fight ii they will, all Of them;
let them shoot and cut and hack and NOW
down their brothers Of many colors and
tongues But the high-sounding claim that
any Of them are doing it under the direction
OF God is calculated 10 make more skeptics
than converts to religion which counses
peace, and cannot counsel slaughter except
By the Interpretation OF bowling fanatics
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After a long silence, Count Won Bernstorff
has arrived in port with a cargo of dumdum
bullets.
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SONGS AND SAWS
The Limit.

d world OF grief and zoe.
Palms always upon our
track;
But most times we can make
q show
OF enduring Fnto's attack.
ret there III etill ono deadly
thing
That Will. stir us up to
fight 4
Just lot II fat soprano sing:
ro's Ny Hoy To4NiShtw
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER u. 1914.

a WORTHWHILE EIrT--you can mike
your friends happy every day In the
year by sending thcm subscription
to TIE RICHMOND TIAIES-DISPATCI
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Current Editorial Comment

Secretary McAdoo's annual re-
port will always rank as 4 his
torical document Of grcnt value
in the annals OF American finance
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-12

Hear the CHEEKY chirp Of the editor Of tho
Halifax Gazette: "No, there's no use waiting
hard times to U.S. refuse to BIO convinced
Our name isn't Cashnbank, and probably won't
be for some time to GOMEZ but have three
squaro day. place to sleep and big Jar
full OF tobacco, we should Gas the slangists
say worry" There's truo philosophy for you.
Poor and content is rch, and rich enough"
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pefectively, the war critic of the Newport
News Times Herald remarks: "One OF the great
est problems OF the war III Europe is how to take
care OF prisoners It Is all that each of tho bel
ligeront nations cnn do to take OF it's own
soldiers" Belligerents. rule, feel that they
have pretty we'll solved the problem when they
take care that the prisoners do not get away
and arc not overfcd.
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New York is angry because Chicago's
Board of Trade wants to change the local time
to agree with Now York's by setting back the
hands OF the clock.
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"Four Kings the battlefield? Yes, hut al
safe distance from the firing line and Will,
means at hand OF making quick getaway In
case OF emergency" says tho Bristol Herald
Courier, from which comment VIC dcduce thnt, r
tho opinion OF tho Herald Courier man, four
jacks would hold out stronger BLUM.
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trhc Pesatntiat saxs:

"oh, where's Ny 10y To-Nishtg'
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The proposition to create huge standing
army might meet with favor, provided the
first recruiting were among useless members
OF legislative bodies.
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In tho last--beG pardon. most recent issue OF
the Wiao County Nows.-for rili l1ade, editor and
publisher. advises us no will keep tho paper go
ing until November, 19t5---the list of governor
ship candidates Is again enumerated and APP.
praised Editor Bill Eads states frankly that
ho doesn't think much OF tho available timber
IIc inti,natcs his suspicion that dark horse Is
looming upon the political horizon OF Virginia,
and no indicate that while the identity OF tho
dark horse Is not known to the editor OF the
News tho editor of the News is for AR. Dark
horse II the expected entry is scratched at the
post, then Bill iads is for the candidate dcsig-
mated by him AS the rcathered songstcr,' mean
ing Richard Evelyn Byrd. But Bill lads rises
to rcmark-and his language Is plaln-that lie
prefers mon whose Christian names be pro-
nounced in monosyllable.
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II the average man would put away So a
week. 10i year, 81 ,040 in ten years, S2,OSO
in twenty years, with compound interest
added, he who started at twenty would not
be in want at forty.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-03

BerIin-Another infallible remedy
for seasickness has been found. But
this time it's infaIlibility has actually
been demonstrated on the. high seas,
as well as on paper, by the inventor
himself, DR.. Joseph Fischer, the we'll
known heart specialist of Nauheim.
The cure consists simply in an injec-
ton of atropin.
1t seems that all the havoc of sea-
sickness is wrought by one small
nerve, the nervus vagus, which runs
from the brain to the stomach and
upsets the stomach whenever the
brain gets dizzy DR.. Fischer decided
that if he could paTalyze the nerve,
seasickness would be prevented. So
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-03

judge the future but by the past, and
Judging by the past, what have we
seen in the conduct of the British
ministry to justify those high hopes,
etc., stuff. He leaned forward over
the table, knuckles down and said:
eve did not come here to hear
what Johnson thinks of Fultz, or
what Fultz thinks of Johnson. We
came representing 900 major league
ball players get the answer to our
demands. And we are going tc get
them"
John had told the national COM
mission where it got off just as clear
ly as his revered ancestor, Pat, told
King Geo. The delegates, who were
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-03
he made trip to New York in rough
weather and injected atropin into the
nervus vagus of all his fellow passen-
gers. Not a case of seasickness was
reported among them.
WHOLE MENAGERIE
WHOLE MENAGERiE

''It's funny, amt it, that everybody
in our family's. some kind of an ami
MALI"
Some kind of an animal, Bobby?
What do you mean?"
''Why, mothers a dear, you know"
Eyes, certainly"
''And my baby sister is mothers
little lamb, and I'm the kid and dads
the cat"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-03

preparing to go home and report fail
ure, were summoned to another con-
ference. Again the feud started.
Johnson and Fultz baked agreement.
Then up rose John Henry again. He
told the national commission a few
things. He talked two minutes. From
that on John Henry dominated the
meeting, and in one hour the agree
ment was reached.
Not until the Federal League COM
menced its wild raid upon the leagues
did the powers of organized ball know
the. full danger they faced, and that
John Henry, catcher, had saved the
major leagues from wrecking them
selves.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-02-04
NORTH CAROLINA SATISFIED.

Hon. r. b. Glenn, ex-governor of
North Carolina, in a recent tour of
Alabama in the interests of statewide
total abstinence, said
There is not any danger whatever
of North Carolina ever again joining
the ranks of liquor states The people
OF our state are too we'll satisfied with
prohibition. They have seen the state
grow and prosper until today we rank
second in textile products, A few years
ago North Carolina was known only
for its turpentine Today we are IA
nous as a manufacturing state.
North Carolina is clean and ex-
poets to continue clean. There is not
even the remotest prospect of our
state ever wanting to give up state
wide prohibition
The Prescott daily news., 1914-02-04
MARCHING RIGHT ALONG"

The annual report of the correspond
ing secretary Of the National Woman s
Christian Temperance Union, Mrs
Frances p. Parks, shows that the past
year has been one Of prodigious activi-
~ among the state organizations
The passage of the kenyon-Webb bill.
removing the shield of federal protec-
ton from the interstate traffic in
liquor, infused new life into the hearts
OF many who previously felt that the
enforcement of state prohibition was a
hopeless task During the year, 1888
new unions were organized and 39S
Loyal Temperance Legions (children's
societies. Twenty-six states made a
gain over all losses in membership.
one organizer crossed the Atlantic
and established unions and Loyal
temperance Legions in London A
territorial union and local unions were
organized in Alaska and local unions
in the Yukon territory. For the com
ing year Mrs. Parks says, the w. c.
T. L. cannot do better than to better
do the things ii has been doing for
four decades, namely: Push scientific
temperance instruction in schools Nhe
boys and girls of today are the citi-
zens of tomorrow; spread the truth
about prohibition by publishing and
distributing literature, through the
press, and by personal work; oppose
efforts for the restoration of the sale
OF liquor in the United States army
and in any place from which 1t has
been banished; guard and protect the
steadtastly seek to add to it; urge
rs a prohibition measurable ballot
for women.
Forward to greater things, is the
eager note OF the white ribboners
faith"
The Prescott daily news., 1914-02-04
SURELY THE MEANEST THIEF
Old Woman the Victim of Clever De-
vice That Was Employed by
English Rascal.

A sad tale comes from rural dis
trict in the south of England man
called at the cottage of an old woman,
explaining that he was sent by the
landlord to find out whether any of the
cottages on the property were in need
of repairs, and promising that any re-
quired should be put in hand at once
The old dame, long having ceased to
expect anything from the landlords
conscience, welcomed this angel visit
or in, and showed him with alaciity
what was wrong with the oven, and
why the back door wouldn't shut prop.
erly, and that the window frames were
quite rotten and dropping to bits.
These complaints the inspector
noted down carefully in his book Then
he inquired whether the floors were
quite safe. This was a point which
had not occurred to the old body, SO
the Inspector civilly requested her to
go upstairs and jump as hard as she
could on the floor while he remained
below to tests it's stability. When she
had jumped till she wss quite out of
breath without receiving any counter
mand from below she came wheeling
downstairs to find that the inspector"
had gone away-with every portable
thing of value.
The Prescott daily news., 1914-02-04

as requested AS soon as She mad
left the rom. Mrs. Orme, who had
been watching her, slipped out of
bed and went to the table.
The sly MINK" she exclaimed Il
thought all along that she was trying
to ensnare him. Not If l can help
it."
She was about to break the seal of
the letter when she heard footsteps APP
preaching, and slipping the missiye
hastily into book, she hurried back
to bed. Doctor Orme entered, glanced
at the table, seemed disappointed and
went out again. AS soon as he had
left. Mrs Orme rang for Julia, who
also glanced at the table, and saw
that her letter was gone
Has Doctor Orme been here recent
ly?'' she queried.
Yes" replied Mrs. Orme. adding
sweetly-"I see you are very anxious
to leave Miss Dayton. AS Celeste,
my maid. can wait upon me now, you
may go at once"
leave my address for" she was about
to say Doctor Orme, but substituted
for you, in case you should require
my services again
With Julia once safely out of the
house Mrs. Orme's frivolous mind be.
came occupied with other matters, and
the letter concealed in the book was
entirely forgotten by her The book
in question was returned to the library
shelf, still holding the precious mis-
siye which possessed the power of
changing the whole current of a mans
life.
Months afterward Doctor Orme took
down a book from the library shelves,
and out fell the letter she had writ
ten him, unopened. He read 1t
and Immediately set about finding
the missing writer. Many weeks
were destined TO elapse before sue
cess crowned his efforts, but at
last he located her in a New York
hospital When he entered the room
where She awaited him. he held out
the fateful letter
Il received this eight months after
it was written. Julia he said Il
have been searching for you ever
since. Tell me-is the message still
true or am / TOO late?"
The girls eyes filed with happy
tears.
You are not too late she said
forever-had Fate 50 decreed'"
The Prescott daily news., 1914-02-04
ABOLISH LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

(From an Address by Clinton NJ. How
ard)
Suppose the news came tomorrow
that we had established wireless com
munication with the planet Mars; that
they had heard of our shoes, cotton
and WOODEN goods. furniture and other
articles of manufacture, and had sent
us an order, accompanied with the
cash coined into American money, for
two billion dollars worth of farm prod
ucts and manufactured articles, to be
shipped over the new railless trunk
line soon to be in operation. A stand
ing order to be duplicated the first of
every January indefinitely! We would
not have the factories or labor to pro
duce them; we would not have the ma
chinery to make them; we would not
have sufficient raw material to manu-
facture them. Such an order would
put every factory on double time. and
every man on extra pay. But how
much better would it be If we placed
such an order for ourselves. have the
work, get the wages, and keep the
goods to enjoy in our own homes,
Let US abolish the liquor traffic and
such an order can be placed every
year with the merchants of the United
States.
Six cents out of every dollar spent
in the saloon goes to the man that
makes what is sold over the bar
IWenty-eight cents of the dollar goes
TO the producer of the raw materials.
Spent for the home in. twenty ether
ways and twenty-three cents out of
every dollar (instead of six would so
to labor, and fifty cents of avery dollar
(lnstead Of twentythree) would go for
raw material. Forty cents more of
every dollar now spent for rum would
go back to the pocket OF the working
man and the producer.
Two billion dollars more business
for the merchants, five hundred mill
ION dollars more to the producers
four hundred million dollars more
paid in wages to labor and one million
more men than is now required to
make the goods would be the economic
reward year by year for national total
abstinence