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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24

mar, The reason for the latter being
mat II closes the pores and keeps the
Iuid In the hair" With the long hair
OF u woman, which has Il tendency to
Spit at the ends, il is possible that
sihgcing the tips may be OF some use !;
II substitutes n charred blunt end of
FUSED norm for one tapcring to a point
or cut clean across. But even In
cases or this sort 1t is less useful than
Sreas'hg lightly the hair and thus sup
riyinS the fat which is lacking in such
Dalr. For the hair of men, which is
kept short, smuggling is not Of any use
In preventing splitting; hair which is
not allowed to grow to it's natural
length does not split, unless 1t has a
ueepseated disturbance for which there
is no such simple remedy.
VI course smuggling the hair lends in
order to prevent the fluid in the hair
from escaping, like sap from tree, is
based on an entire misconccption of
the hairs structure and nutrition The
hair does not contain any more sap
than Il buggy whip; 1t is not nourished
by any fluid In 1t, but by the blood
Dlasma that reaches only the hair
root. The hair above the skin surface
is n spine of horn, which is even oiled
from without, and smuggling it's tips has
no effect whatever on either it's nour-
fshmcnt or it's growth. II Is certain
that smuggling the hair is OF no value I'm
preventing its fall: i'm fact, the ONLY
value the procedure has Is to tho zeal
GUS hairdrcsser who gets his little fee
for doing it-unlcss it is worth a quar-
ter to the seeker after hair to think he
Is doing something, even If he Is not
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
Shall Politics Rule Employment Bureau?

Shall Politics Rule Employment Rureau2
F the whisperngs of rumor and public ap
prehension are resolved into factland the
clty's employment bureau does become an
annex to somebody's political machine it will
be enough to make the angels weep and the
cynical critic of American municipal govern
ment laugh himself to death.
Here was an enterprise that made it's bid
for community approval on the ground that
it was to perform community service-to
make some sane and decent effort to solve the
serious problem of unemployment Politics,
we were told or permitted to believe, was to
he banished from its composition and opera
ton. Now, it is openly charged, politics will
control the boards discharge Of it's initial
function--the selection OF manager.
To permit politics to dictate influence
this choice would be little short OF criminal.
a stupid law restricts selection to registered
voters here, which is unfortunate, but there
would be no difficulty in obtaining a good
man for the place were the board to announce
publicly that the position would be conferred
on the best qualified applicant.
The manager of the public employment
bureau, it is reasonably obvious, ought to
possess few qualifications other than all oily
capacity to land ward heeers in municipal
sinecures or with public service corporations
and paving contractors. If that or anything
like it, is the ideal the board has in mind in
selecting Its executive officer, the establish
ment of the bureau will not prove a bless
Ing but curse to Richmond.
The Times-Dispatch refuses to credit that
this CHASTITY and brutal joke is meditated
seriously. It is impossible to believe that
five representative citizens should have so
little regard for their responsibility to the
whole people, whom they will be sworn to
serve.
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put it In the power Of foreign governments
py declaring certain goods contraband, prac-
teaiiy to destroy American trade That trade
ID MT quito hard enough as It is International
laW' our own private law. and the decisions of
our courts. all sustain tho trade which the bill
is designed to prevent. 1t is impossible to
Imagine any war In which one belligerent would
not have more complete control OF tho sea than
another. And In every such cuse the weaker
power would, OF course, complain. What wo
In this case are asked to do Ii to prevent tho
allies from enjoying advantage which Is
fairIy theirs, but which we did nothing whatever
to create. Our merchants and manufacturers
are to-day prepared to sell on equal terms to
all bellfSerents. 1t Ia not their fault II
of the beigerents able to deliver the goods
and other Rre not. There is violation OF
oitizons to any and all who are ready. to buy
The business is one with which tho government
has absolutely nothing to do. The administra-
ton went to the limit when 1t discouraged loans
to the heigerents. and Induced Mr. Schwab not
to build In this country submarines for sale
Observation-Disclosures News.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24

; was first tested by tho German govern
mcht | am unable To state positively
nav" reason to believe, however that
II WAS tested In Tn. Baltic Sea, about
two years ago
AS another method of increasing tho
rang" of the average submarine a num-
Der OF locations were determined upon
where secret bases might DO placed
should the t'athcrland engage In a war
lhe British admiralty had admitted
,his-that one OF the secret German
submarine bases is undoubtedly located
somewhere upon the Nestcraalen Is
lands, Ia the northwest OF Norway
In order to effect the destruction of
the Audacious, had her position beer,
known 10 tho Germans, II would
have been simple matter to send out
mother ship 10 Il point forty or fifty
miles away and there the submarine
could Have been readily turned Out,
within striking distance.
Naval men generally arc Of the opin-
ION that Il torpedo fred By a subn,a-
rlhc sank the Audacious. But how
the submarine managed to reach that
part of the sea has completely mvstt-
ned them. The solution of tho pnz.le
would seem TO lie in the mother shin"
or the secret base.
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htted with nine-inch guns and looked
quite formidable. While l was there
painter who was working ON 81
dummy funnel fell out OF the bos'n's
.hh'I ne was sitting In. went through
'hc turret and smashed the gun inside
Nun CRrrics Anchor.
~ course. all these things are very
nightly constructed, and have TO be
handled carefully. An able seaman.
VINO was carrying ten-ton' anchor
on ms shoulder along the deck. was
hdTnonishcd by the bos'n to 20 eaHv
or he would break the mudhook in
two auidships
me work on some OF the smaller
vessels Is being done very rapidly.
was told of one vessel that was "a
dinSy- looking old tramp at ) o'clock
on Monday afternoon, and by s tho
I'm hiHht she had been transformed
INTO smart-looking light cruiser
armed with eight apparently formid- ,
hoie siN-inch guns and Quick-tircr,
Knew Captain Iaddock when he
was commander OF The Olympic; and
spoke TO him at the hotel In Belfast
Just before sailed for New York
When asked him what was to n.
done with the dummy fieet he was CON
strncting he looked startled. and re-
piled.
Hush! 1t is secret
i told him that | gor my informn-
tion first from German waiter I'm
the hotel, who said. with great glee:
They nrc building a dummy Lion
to-day at the dockyard'
lhHsc vessels are To be manned by
volunteers who Will take their lives
In their hands, as there is the danger
or foundcring In a heavy sea in addi-
ZION TO that OF being SHIELDED and sunk
by the enemy. The IA 'ralty has
had no difficulty in getting officers
and men for the lob"
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WHY Moro Horrors?

TOHN HAYS HAMMOND has. by his engi-
neering ability and achievements, won the
respect of the scientific world. His son, John
Hays Hammond. Jr., now comes forward with
bid for fame by inventing projectile that
will discharge q white-hot mixture OF molten
steel when it strikes. and at the same time
fill the atmosphere with deadly gas to repel
fire-fghters. The first purpose Of the molten
steel is. of course, to set fire to towns dirigi-
bles and forests. The secondary effect will be
to scatter this white-hot metal over any
human beings who may be near, and burn
them to death horribly, or scar their flesh,
burn great holes in their bodies, send them
to eternity with foretaste of hell.
What pity the son of John Hays Ham
mond could not have invented something to
heal the wounded and lessen the terrors of
deadly conflict!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
BE Just to the League Angel

TT would be a short-sighted policy for the
L virginia League Of baseball clubs to at
tempt to hold Richmond within that organi-
cation against the citys will. Richmond has
been the league angel for good many years.
but disgruntled and disconnected and re-
bellious angel cannot be regarded as very
valuable piece Of personal property.
we have present opportunity to move up
from Glass to Class a. A in the ranks OF
organized baseball. The only opposition
comes from the Virginia League which dis
likes, naturally enough. it ought to be said,
to surrender its most valuable territory The
league, however, should conquer this aver
sion and consent to fair arrangement with
the hackers of the project to bring an Inter
national League franchise here. Such
course is not only just to Richmond, but good
sense as we'll. eve say this as character
in contemporary fiction remarks, ''in no
mercenary spirit but just as n matter Of
business
1t is highly improbable that the present
enterprise will result in failure, but if failure
comes, 1t will be imputable to the Virginia
League and to nobody else. To say that
Richmond will resent the loss of this oppor4
tunity to take its rightful place in fast base
hall company does not involve threat; it is
the mere statement of an obvious fact
Neither is there uncertainty as to the manner
In which this resentment will find expression
Richmond has outgrown the Virginia
League. 1t is too big, baseball interest here
is too keen and too general, for the city to
finger longer in the bushes Organized base
ball, through the national commission. has
recognized the situation and it is Just as
well for others TO fall into line.
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France in the Great Wnr

L RANGES determination to wage the exist
Ing war to its bitter end scarce required
to obtain general understanding. the declara-
ton Of the Premier in the Chamber of
Deputies. That determination has been evil
dent in the whole attitude and bearing of
the French people and i'll Il gallant and reso-
lutte endurance of suffering and death
with France, at any rate. this has been,
and is, a war for national existence Blame
mas been laid at the door Of Germany, and Of
Russia and England. but no serious attempt
mas been made even by her enemies to show
that France acted other than in self-defense
she dld not cause the war, she did what she
could to avert it, but, now that 1t has come.
she bears herself with an inflexible courage
with simple dignity, also There has been
1858 theatrlcasm and emotionalism on the
part or France than on that of any other ma
Ton it is about time that we should re-
wise the stupid American estimate of the
French character
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
Chemical Company's Deferred Dividend

A CTION by the Virginia Carolina Chemical
"A Company, in deferring the quarterly
dividend on its preferred stock, had been an
ticpated, in view of the agricultural depres-
sion in the cotton belt, where SO large a share
of the companys business Is done. 1t indi-
Gates no increase in financial stagnation, but
is the necessary outcome of stagnation that
has existed since the outbreak Of the Euro
pean war and which is just beginning to
disappear
II is noteworthy that the dividend has not
been passed. but merely deferred. When cot
ton. under the influence of better shipping
conditions and the s135 100000 fund raised
by bankers of the country, commences to
move In greater voApme, the Virginia-Caro
lima Chemical Company, like other creditors
OF cotton belt merchants and farmers, will
get their money. There should be no reason
for increased pessimism.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
War News Fifty Years Ago

For reasons satisfactory to the managers tho
proposed big Christmas dinner to Lees army
has been postponed from Christmas Day to New
Years Day. That 1t will come off on the last
day named, there can be doubt.
The terrific storm along the whole line Of the
Atlantic Coast still continues and there Is no
telegraphic communication with either Whining
ton. Savannah Charleston. Hence, no war
news from those interesting points.
Telegraphic communication with Lynchburg,
Danville and Gordonsville was restored yester-
day. but no news received by tho War
Department from any of those quarters. and
yet there are all kinds of rumors of active
operations In at least two Of the sections named,
1t is almost neXplieable that military events
OF great Importance should be occurring in
Southwest Virginia and along the base OF tho
Blue Ridge Mountains of which the War De-
the government would remove the embargo on
the wires, the newspapers would manage to
get the
We have vague reports of severe cavalry
the enemy In the Valley. but because OF the
control of the wires by the secretlve War De-
partment, we can get no particulars. The rumor
is that General Rosser got the best OF the two
days lighting.
During partial lull In the general storm, the
wires between Richmond and Staunton got In
working order late last night report Is tele-
graphed from Staunton that Sheridan's In
fantry have gone back down the Valley, finding
I1arlys forces little too strong for the adj
vance he (Sheridan) had contemplated.
BY telegraph last night we learned that the
cavalry force. reported to have been in Madison
County. turned their and yesterday
reached point not far from Gordonsvile.
where they were met by Confederate force.
and after savage little fight were repulsed,
and thus the railroad connection which tho
Yankees were trying to dislocate was saved
Forty-fve Federal prisoners. captured by
Colonel Mosby In his slashing around on the
borders of the Yankee armies, reached Libby
Prison yesterday They shipped from.
Gordonsville by Major Boyle.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24

NEW YORK. December 2o-A tale
or British naval trick In process OF
preparation. the purpose OF which was
not quite clear. was brought to New
norN ny passenger on the White Star
inner Baltic from Liverpool
The passenger told of the fitting out
or nifty dummy warships at Belfast
ny the British admiralty under the di-
rection of Captain H. ]. Haddock, II.
y. r.. formerly the commander OF the
tiympic. Ihese vessels are old steam
SHIPS or various tonnage and speed,
from the former Cunarder Campania.
with n speed Of nineteen knots, to tho
tramp which cannot make more than
eight knots with gale OF wind be-
hind her.
Purpose Kent secret.
The purpose for which they are In :
tended Is being kept secret. but one
theory is that the admiralty purchased
them for use in blocking the Kicl
canal AS Lieutenant lIobson ATTEMPTED
10 hiock the entrance TO the harbor OF
santiago. Cuba. by sinking the Merri-
mac In the Spanish american War In
an interview with n reporter at his
hotel the passenger who would not
permit himself to be quoted, said that
the work was being carried on day
and night at Belfast by workmen
drafted from all parts of England.
After the Interior fittings OF the
ships have been ripped out" the mas
scnger said. tho bulls are strength
ened with extra steel beams and the
holds filled with cement or some prod
uct OF a similar nature to sink them
level with the water. Then the upper
WORKS arc painted a naval gray and
wooden turrets and wooden guns are
mounted on their decks. Through a
friend In the shipyard looked over
one old passenger liner that Was being
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
The Voice of the People


To the Editor or The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Iiving under adverse circumstances with
the wheels of great Industrial system
cloEged and depression In all branches of
business, feel the hard times very keenly,
which has brought about good deal of suf-
fering in this country. Amidst it all, may We
blood stained and battc-scarred Europe with It's
awful toll of suffering and death. Let us
analyzc the condition that existing over
there. and to think the same condition would
exist if we should share a long drawn out war.
We resortcd to that sad and cruel practice of
conscription drafting out the able bodied men
80 to the front regardless. There has as
yet risen up power even in this great ad-
vance ago OF civilization and christianity to
stop this terrible god of as he descends
upon the land carrying millions of the strongest
and youngest men In his grasp to be made
unwilling victims Of greed and aggression.
Can christianity stand Idly by and allow this
grim monarch to take men from their home
without their consent and force them to fight,
whether they want to or not?
Christ has given to christianity to purify
and purge nations. and to advance the father
hood of God and brotherhood of man. and has
left his followers here to carry out his com
mission Christianity appears very weak In her
protest in this great conflict. Some mighty men
OF God who have voiced their protest against
this awful murder, and will not the same God
Who still rules and judges save the city?
l.. A. S.
Richmond December 81, 1914
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The Price of Murder

IN olden days. when knights and other fooI
lsh people went chasing around the globe
after trouble the price of murder was a
woman's smile or an invitation TO the Queens
luncheon Murder has had placed upon il
more differing values, in more kinds of coin.
than any other Inconvenience of human
existence In some quarters murder demands
lis price in family tradition, as in the noun
tain feuds; in others, there is the unwritten
law OF Justification; in Others nations mt
their o. *. on murder Wholesale because
lew select advisers of paretic or egomaniaca1
rulers are gifted with vivid imaginations
But for crude, dollars and cents. barter
and trade value Of murder, New York has
Just taken the floral offerings 1t has come
out In the case of Barnet Baff, rich poultry
man. assassinated, it is alleged by command
of the Chicken Ring. that $500 was offered
and refused for his death. and that II was
finally assigned to crew that undertook tho
Job for $3.50, cash in advance. dozen gun
men are on trial, and the actual murderer ia
undoubtedly among them. For his share OF
$3.50 at least that one Is more than likely tn
go to the electric chair, while the others face
prison.
Murder as trade is inconceivable to most
people, fortunately for society; but that q
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24
SINGEING THE HAIR USFI FSS

The reams Of paper that are used
up each month in articles In the daily
papers-and weekly and monthly pa
person beauty culture are conclusive
evidence that 1t Is as natural for man
to desire to beautify the person az 1t
Is ito indulge in the illusions of hone"
says tho journal of tho American Medi-
cal Association. A sound mind in a
sound body suflces the serious-minded
minority, hut apparently the innumera-
BILE majority, il they had their way,
would have comely body and take
their chances on any old kind OF a
mind, on the principle that 1t is better
to be good looking than wise, because
more people have sight than under
standing.
TO decorate and beautify the body is
an Unborn passion; the savage does 1t
differently from us, but when 1t comes
to the many maniDulationS and rene
dies that are recommended for avoid
ing wrinkles, giving the eyebrows an
aristocratfc arch, coaXinG the lashes
to- be long and languorous, making the
cars pink and small or the nose straight
and thin, removing double chin or
taking the core out Of the Adams APP
pie, we have nothing on our uncivllized
and supposedly more ignorant brothers..
The hair In particular is the object
OF all manktnds cosmetic endeavors
When 1t comes to CIVILIZED man he is
universally engaged in trying to save
what he has left, or regrow what he
has lost. Women. with few exceptions,
do not become bald, but all women, in
their opinions, are threatened with that
unspeakable calamity; men not only
may get bald, but a large number of
them are already so. And thus the
popular remedies for the hair need al
most q surgeon-general's catalogue. Vi
bratory and electrical treatments, hair
tonics that feed the hair roots, as
though they grew out of the scalp like
broom-sedgs out of an old field. meats
foot oil and crude Kerosene, massage
and mango cures. all have their futile
trials.
Among these our particular topic now
is smuggling the hair. This Is recon-
mended to overcome splitting at the
ends and to prevent falling Of the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-24

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming 1T on you
II you trust yourself when all doubt
you,
But make allowance for. their doubling, too;
If you wait and not be tired by waiting;
Or being lied about don't deal in lies;
OF being hated don't give way hating,
And yet don't look too good. talk too
II you dream. and not make dreams your
master;
If you think, and not make thoughts your
aim;
If you meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you give your life to,
broken,
And stoop and build em up with WORKOUT
tools
And risk 1t one turn of pitch and toss
And lose. and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe word about your loss;
II you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they gone,
And so hold when there is nothing in you
Except the WIN, which says to them: Hold
on"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue,
Or walk with Kings. nor lose the common
touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends hurt you;
If all men count with you. but none too much
II you can MI the unforgiviug minute
With sixty seconds worth OF distance run,
Yours Is the Earth and everything that's in IT.,
And, which is moro. you'll be n Man, my son
-Rudyard Kpling.
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high-class murder Can be bought, that hired
butchers are only too willing to risk their
worthless necks for such paltry sum
$3.50, Is matter of record And possibly
there may be gunner In New York who will
contract for murder much cheaper-say,
$40, or six for $50. If 1t Is true that there
are numbers of such murderers for hire the
State ought to get something out of 1t to help
pay the cost Of trials and executions. Muir
derers should be compelled to take out
licenses.