Evening star., 1914-04-26
SALOONS ENEMIES
READY FOR BATTLE
Campaign to Make Virginia
DRY Opens in State
Capital Today.
JAMESTOWN "BOOKIES"
FACING HARD PROBLEM
If They Claim Money Confscated
in Raid They Must Make Con-
fession of Guilt.
Special Correspondence of The >tsr.


RICHMOND. Va. April - 1914.
GOV f. B. Glenn of North Carolina will
tomorrow open the prohibition fight in
this state. when ne makes an address in
the Academy of Music 1t is announced
that Lieut.. Gov. Ellyson will preside over
the meeting and that Attorney General
Pollard will introduce the speaker.
This is the announcement made by the
Anii-Saloon League officials. who are
manasing the campaign and getting the
forces in hand for the fight which is
soon to be made in every part of the
state. ard to be kept going full tilt till
the day of the election which is six
months off from yesterday. That the
drys are in the best possible condition
there is not the least question. That
they have q perfect organization is
known, and that the organization is
heing increased the voters gotten into
line and every Influence being brought
to bear is also true.
Much of the fighting will be done by
the churches of all denominations. and
there will be lectures. discourses. talks
and entertainments which VII have one
common purpose-the compete and utter
elimination of the saloon from the state.
In this connection tine Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union Will have an i'm
portant part. The members are actively
AT work and they are asking all their
man friends and acquaiatanc to help
them to rid the state of the saloons.
Protest Against Saloons.
White ministers of this city have taken
up the fight against the saloons in the
negro section OF the city. There are
sixteen IN that section which is largely
given over to residences of the colored
people. The colored preachers brought
the matter to the attention of the white
ministers and they at once took an active
part and gave every assistance to the
movement to have the saloon taken from
the negro residence section. and they
have filed protests against the granting
of licenses in that section.
There are saloons in close proximity
to some of the colored churches. and
there is and has been much complaint
from these because of the presence of
the disorderly element so close by. The
better clement of negroes is against the
saloon and many of them will vote the
dry ticket this coming fall.
Getting Down. to Work.
The state tax revision commission has
hecr in session here for several days.
hat the members have all gone to their
homes. and they are hard at work on
the task which has been assigned them.
The commission named several commit
tees and to each was assigned several
subjects. and in turn each member was
assigned a part of the classification of
property sent to the subcommittee. This
will give to each man one branch for
his study and for a report or sugges-
tion of new system for handling the
subject of taxation on that class of
property.
Then each of the subcommittee will
get together and will make report
which will be submitted to the fun COM
mission. This will give the members a
chance to discuss the matter in all
phases. and before any report is made
to the governor there will be a number
Of public hearings in this city. All the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES commercial. pro-
fessonsl. agricultural. cattle raising,
mining and manufacturing-wiil be in
vited to send representatives here TO
discuss the subject of taxation as it af-
fects each of the industries named. The
commission gave officeseekers hard
blow by refusing to do more than TO
name the men who, are actually re-
quired to do the work IN hano.
Bookies Are to Sue.
Since Gov. Stuart succeeded in put
ting the booimakers out of business al
the Norfolk race track there has been
some uncertainty as TO who owned the
money taken from the boohmakers al
the time of the arrest of the men by
the Baldwin detectives. There is some
$500 in the hands of the court officers.
and all that is needed is for the men
from whom il was taken to come for
ward and claim it. and to explain just
how il is that they managed to have SO
much money on hand. why it is that the
stands from which they made books were
numbered. and why it is that the detec-
tiveS have checks which have never
been cashed by the men who were taken
from the stands.
The moment they make the claim fog
the money il will he an admission that
they were making books on the races
and it will go hard with them wher
their appealed cases come up. They are
TO sue to recover the money
After the Book Trust.
one member of the state board of edu
cation startled the board here a day OF
two ago when there was handed in two
books. said to be almost identical ir
every way. One is published in Canada
and is sold to pupils In the Ontario
schools for -, cents. The same book, ac'
cording to reports. is published in New
York. and the publishers have submit
foil 81 for adoptiot, in Virginia at 81 cents