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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08
ALVIN SMITH SPEAKS
BEFORE SUPPLY MEN
TO DISCUSS Statesmen ON SALARY
AND COMMISSION
BASIS.
ANNUAL CONVENTION
MANY vIRGIyIANs To ATTEND
MEETING AT HOUSTON,
TEXAS, EARLY NEXT
MONTH.
ANNUAL CONVENTION

A number of Richmonders will at
tend the fourteenth annual conven-
ton of the Southern Supply and Ma
chfnery Dealers association at Houa-
ton, April 9Th to 18th.
The discussions will include: Sales
men on a Salary Basis as Against q
Commission Basis by Alvin M.
smith. Smith-Courtney company.
Richmond, Va; "Jobbers' Value to
the Manufacturer" by w. A. Ray.
W. A. Ray Hardware company. inc,
Pensacola, Fla; Should the Manufac-
turers Solicit and Sell Goods Direct
in Territory Where he Has a Local
Agent Stocking His Goods??" by III.
r. PARROT, Summer PARROT Hard
ware company. johnson City, Tenn;
How Can More Substantial Co-ope-
ration Between the Manufacturer and
Jobber Be Brought Ahout?" by R. f.
Valentine, Mechanical Rubber COM
pany, Cleveland. o. Our Standard
Of Eligibility" by Mr.. 7. F. Young,
Young and Vann Supply company,
Birmingham. Ala: Should the Jobbe
Der usve away in HIS sales Price Re-
bates and Commissions Received from
the Manufacturer by Mr.. w. c.
Trout, Lufkin Foundry and Machine
company. Lufkin, Tex. Methods OF
Keeping Stock by Mr.. c. B. Han
COCK. blueIleiu hardware company,
Blueffeld, w. Va: Cash Discounts
and Terms" by Mr.. r. E. Post, Fair
banks company. Baltimore. Md:
Present Status OF Resale Prices" by
w. II. Banks, Banks Supply company,
Huntington, w. Va; should the Syn
dictate Buyer Give Advanced Price
Information to Others Of Their Gil
ents Than Those Carrying the Subject
Items in Stock?" by J. G. Bedding,
Lombard Iron Works and Supply COM
pany, Augusta, Ga. and Advantages
to Be Derived From Local Associa-
TONS by j. G.. Barley, Cameron and
Barkiey company. Charleston. 8. c.
The membership of the Southern
Supply and Machinery Dealers asso-
cation from Virginia includes:
Hunter B. Frischkorn. Richmond.
James McGraw. Richmond: Sniith-
Courtney company, Richmond; South
ern Railway Supply company, Rich
mond: S. NJ. Price Machinery COM
rany, Norfolk; Southern Supply COM
pany. Norfolk: w. M. Whaely and
company. Norfolk; John d. Westbrook.
Inc, Norfolk: Appomattox Iron Works
and Supply company. Petersburg; The
Charles Leonard Hardware company.
Petersburg; Stockdeil-Myers Hard
ware company, Petersburg: Stratton
and Bragg company. Petersburg; Price
Hardware Co, Inc. Pulaski.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08
AMERICAN PAYS BIC
PRICE FOR BUSINESS

LONDON. March Til. Gordon
Selfridge has bought for over ST.
100000 the site. shop and stock OF
the big Diapers establishment ad-
joining his store in Oxford street. and
proposes TO tlfrn Selfridge's into one
OF the largest island sites occupied by
a single firm In the world.
Tho additional site will give Mr..
Seifridge possession of block 525
feet long
Mr. Selfridge came here from
America to start his business about
five years ago.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08
Conductor Couldn't Wait.

A well dressed lady having given
the signal that she desired to alight
the tramcar was brought to stop
but just so that the rear step was
directly over q small mud puddle. The
lady looked an instant and Their
asked.
How do you think can get of
here?''
The conductor replied; M :. y. 81
II cannot tell YOU, madam, but
do know that 10 can't wait until thai
puddio 4yioa n, NJ I'm
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08
An Added Actor.

a Certain San Francisco dog Is very
fond of going to 1.-The movies" and
when his owner goes to one. OF them
the dog Is always taken and a seat
bought for him.
At recent show a pack of hounds
chasing a hare was thrown on the
screen.
This was too much for the usually
quiet Mr. Doggie. Barking wildly,
he sprang from his seat and dashed
onto the platform and through the
screen. making a scene even more
realistic than had been intended by
the producers of the pictures .--Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08
Hulrliliating.

Harry understand Gertrude Cad
alotte married man who made big
fortune by lucky speculation In soap.
Grace-Yes; and he disgraced her
while they were on their honeymoon.
Harry-How did he do It.?
Grace Gertrude wanted the other
passengers to think an ocean voyage
Was an old story to them, when her
husband, ~4he nrst crack out OF the
box, pointAd to = row * life preeefverr
ana nAlk6d th6 neptatn what ExS ~
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08
The Origin Of q Fad.

Marcella, who had been gazing out
OF the window. suddenly began to
laugh Historically
What in the world is the matter,
chlldf" asked her mother
hen I finished my carpet rug"
Marcella explained, II folded ii across
my lap and carried 1t that way down
the street to show 1t to Rosemary
We'll. what OF it?"
THAT was only three days ago."
gasped Marcella, with renewed OUT
burst of merriment. land now nearly
every girl in the block Is wearing 3
carpet-rag mum
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-08

tcontinued from First Page,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
eve Who Are About to Die"

JNRIDAY the Boston Braves descend upon
J. peaceful Philadelphia, culture combating
science. They will come in force; no
easy victory need he expected. StallnEs has
the sacred Goldfish of Massachusetts in his
bat bags as mascot. Every player, from
lanky James down to Rabbit" Maranville,
bears the coat of arms of Boston. the bean
rampant, tattooed his forearm, and the
essays of Emerson on his mind
Connie Mack is eager to give his new rivals
n square deal 1t is rumored that the Ath-
letics Courtly manager has bought several
gross Of assorted eyeglasses to prevent the
disahlement of his opponents through any
possible breakage. The local Gideons are to
cooperate 10y placing copies of Belamy's
Utopian Back Bay romance, Looking Back
ward" in the Braves bedrooms. To prevent
any chance Of near-sighted errors the Ath-
letics defense is TO be labeled plainly in large
white letters: This is a wall"
Everything Is ready. Philadelphia only
awaits the Braves and their proud, pune
tilious battle cry: "Morituri salutamus!"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
Missing Monuments Of Efficiency

TT is unfortunate that Senator Penrose's
4 influence in Washington was so weak
during the period of Republican asccndenCy
that he was able to do practically nothing in
the matter Of securing appropriations for
Federal buildings i'm this city.
1t is true, of course, that the Custom
House is ancient and poorly suited to its
purpose, but the gentleman who prides him
self on his wire-puing efficiency was unable
to interest Washington in so worthy an
enterprise as the construction of an adequate
and new custom building for a city which
collects comparatively great proportion of
all custom revenue received by the nation
The PostofliCe, too, is a relic of an older
DAY Perhaps this fact may impress the
Senator the next time he drives by the
building.
There can be no doubt that when Mr..
Fehroses attention is called to Philadelphia's
needs he will be quick to tell the community
OF the great good he will accomplish in this
matter if sent back to Washington. Per-
maps the Senator has been sticking too close
TO his desk at the Capitol this past decade
ana this past year to know from his own
observation this City's necessities
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
..Neither Children Nor Gods,

News from Washington that President
IN Wilson and Colonel Harvey have com
posed their differences is at least welcome
Not that the public has been worrying over
the quarrel it is simply interested in the
outcome.
The Colonel introduced his editorial in the
current North American Review, entitled,
uphold the President" with the following
quatrain:
Stand to our work and be wise
Certain OF sword and pen;
We neither children nor gods
But men In a world OF men
The quotation is most suggestive. At that
historic conference two years ago, when the
breach occurred between Wilson and the two
eolonels, the Schoolmaster," according to
the Kentuckian, treated the veteran editors
as If they were children. But no longer IT
seems, are they children; and neither are
they gods. Colonel Harvey has freely
criticised the Administration in recent
months. particularly with regard to the
Mexican policy, and he now longs TO for
get uphold the President" he cries. II
must be some relief TO be certain again OF
sword and pen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
W ars Blind Passion

TNHE war that began in high spirit is
4 fast reaching the sutter. In the first days of
conflict the poets and public men of the
Allies spoke bitterly of the mitarism that
they believed had plunged Europe into the
depths but they prayed for peace on behalf
Oh the German people as much as themselves
and they kept an open, friendly spirit toward
the troops driven their batteries
But now the hysteria of war has done its
beastly work. Kaiser and people. culture
and immortals are all thrown into the pot
or Vituperation. English writer's of the first
rank join in the coarse cries of ''Barbarian!"
fine example of what popular anger can
do is a poem, THE Day" written by an
English railway porter, and reprinted in the
EXENING LEDGER. Germany "stecped in blood
asa hog in slime" is a ridiculous as well as
a vicious slander. Nothing but that most ter
rible product of war-blind. unrea soning pas
sion-could have dictated it,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
Norris Resolution Merely Beginning

MIR. LOR1MER went jubilantly to Wash
lVl ington. He was somewhat sadder when
he returned to Illinois. Politicians may be
anti-moralists at home, but when they are
confronted by moral issue in Washington
they vote according to the nations con-
science Senator who carries the commits
sion of the people to the Federal Capitol in
these days must bear it clean and crisp.
The Norris resolution is not of great
Importance. If the Penrose campaign is not
investigated now it will be investigated later
1t does not require a strong wind to carry an
odor less than $50 miles. 1t would be n pity
for Pennsylvania to send to the Senate a
man to whom the Senate itself, for moral
reasons, would deny a seat Pennsylvania is
not going to do II, of course: but how vain
are the imaEnings of manipulators who
dream that the whole nation can be lulled
into acceptance of their peculiar ethical code.
If every lieg of beer in Pennsylvania is be-
ing taxed its share to swell the fund for the
propagation Of bad government, the nation
will find it out.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
Ready to Smite Penroseism

THE registration figures show that Penn
L sylvania is overwhelmingly Republican.
With a nominee other than Mr.. Penrose for
the Senate, the party would sweep to vic
tory, sure and complete.
AS it is, with Penroseism fastened on the
party's back, thousands Of good Republicans
have refused to enrol under any party name
and thousands of others, maintaining their
fealty to Republicanism by earnestly sup
porting Doctor BrumbauGh, have made it
plain that they will seize the opportunity to
deal Penroseism a staggering blow.
Just as Penroseism has deprived Republi-
canism of many seats from other States in
the House and Senate, so it is about to cause
Repubicanism in Pennsylvania itself to
make the final sacrifice for good government
I A high tariff and low morals do not go
together
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
THE COMING MAN

A man cries out in the wilderness,
And he has a terrible thing 10 tell
He cries aloud to age and youth
His words are hot with the sting OF truth
And fierce the bite Of hell
A man cries out in the wilderness,
For his heart Is raw to the worlds distress;
His soul Is scared with the peoples shame,
And his message brands like flame.
Oh his breast is SCARED and his hands are torn
He has bIazed the trail through hate and scorn
Vice and Ignorance, wrong and wrack-
These are the foes he has beaten back;
These are the beasts he holds at bay,
And he cries: make way! Make way.
Make way for the race that Is 10 be
The conquering race the coming man,
Clean, courageous intrepid, free,
Pure as the great Gods plan.
Dream OF the aBes-a vision dim
Martyrs have burned and died for him,
Prophets have preached him, unafrsid
For him we have wept, we have prayed"
A man cries out In the wilderness,
And the hghtnings wrath is in his face.
A man cries out In the wilderness.
And he pleads for the human race.
For / tell you, race shall come TO birth,
Ciodlke. glorious this earth.
As far in advance Of present man
AS the heavens that we only scan
Did we dream IL could breed from low desire7
Did We dream II could rise from bestial mire?
Could the beautiful celestial thing
From lust and lechery spring?
man cries in the wilderness
And his heart Is raw TO the worlds distress
With terrible truth his feet are shod.
Make Way-make Way-maks way for ths
sons OF GOdg'
Angela Morgan in the Cosmopolitan.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
THE IDEALIST

When the leagues mightiest batsman stems
TO the plate the unlocking crowd expects
him to hit the ball. Sometimes he fails And
sometimes he continues to fail most steadily
and persistently.
In which case the crowd that once roared
and yelled at his prowess now criticlses, con-
demns-even strongly doubts-the former
existence OF his ability Thus his glorious
reputation is sustained only by making good
to-day!
A salesman built up for himself a most an
viable selling record. Eventually he was Of
fered opportunity to earn a greater in
come by selling another line. Month after
month passed and his new employers realized
that he was miserably falling in his work
They summoned him from the road and n
took only few moments to learn the real
reason for his failure.
His cOck-sure attitude and his abnormal
display OF ego forced them 10 the Conclusion
that the man had been resting on his for
merly acquired laurels. The former snap the
old effort and energy were missing in his new
work. Now he had-only his reputation. And
what did 1t profit him?
The sole value OF a reputation lies In its
being simple proof OF ones ability TO do one
has done, therefore one can do. But unless
one continues TO do, the reputation fades like
Vapor.
Today's game is not won with the hits
you made yesterday
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
VIEWS OF READERS
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Contributions That Reflect Public Opin.
ion on Subjects Important to City,
State and Nation.

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Nothlng Of greater moment to Philadel-
phia than the Hands of Esau" has been un-
dertaken In many years. The shrewd insight
into the hamstringing and dust-throwing meth
DDS Of the Organization" the realization Of
its sorddness, and the keenly outlined picture
yet to be filled In, snow that high intelligence
Is applied to truly great journalistic under
taking.
1t is fine to have powerful and aggressive
support of honest and capable Admins
tration-such we fought years to get-and
better still to note that the Organizations
ways are thoroughly understood, and that the
people will be made to understand
Best OF all is the publication Of the articles
when a municipal election Is distant. City
government affects us every day, and we
should know about it every day. The story
can be made Of intense interest to every citi-
zen. and the style of tae Introductory article
promises that 1t will be.
To those of us who have been at work
through the old Municipal League days. the
Committee of Seventy and the City party, the
Hands of Esau' is a great stimulant. 1t gives
failed to give We now look for all the
facts from an honest source, and know that
they will come without fear or favor
These articles mean the dawn Of n better
day-a day of possession of facts a day when
the true and the false will be made so clear
that no excuse will be left the careless citizen.
With these articles Philadelphia should have
the best educated citizenship in the country.
Meantime some trickery and jobs will be
looking tor dark alleys to get out of the
searchlight ALBERT e. TURNER.
Philadelphia, October 5, 1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06

ce.is attracting the attention of municipal
authorities again. With Cleveland, 1t Is
the question of cold storage. The city is
entering on the second year of experiment
with it's refrigeration plant, located in the
new market building. The director of the
market is urging housewives to take advan-
taEe of the profitable opportunity of storing
eggs. butter, fruit and poultry for use in the
winter months.
1t has been difficult to make the women
realize that the plant Is especially designed
to handle the citizens small retail business
well as the general refrigeration of the
market. But the second summer OF opera
ton has brought a much larger store of
'pershable goods into $4,000 cubic feet of
cold rooms, which are devoted exclusively to
the public.
To the query, Does it pay?" Director
McCurdy replies: "A crate of eggs $50 dozen)
Is stored from April to January 1 for 40
cents 100 pounds of butter from June l to
February l for Is cents, 100 pounds of cheese
for month for 10 cents and a barrel of ap-
pies (three bushels) from October to April
l for 40 cents Does II pay, when others
charge from to 10 per cent. more and refuse
to handle family consignments?"
Meantime the plaint for municipal ice
arises from Hartford Conn, voiced by the
Hartford Post. 1t is the same argument that
Mayor Lund, Of Schenectady, put forward; If
the city can sell water in pipes why not in
chunks? II pure, cheap water is a social
necessity, why not pure, cheap ice? The
Hartford Post says edtOrally: I'VE would
like to hear one good reason why Hartford
should not cut the ice from its reservoirs
and sell it to the people of the city If Hart
ford can sell water it should he able to sell
the frozen form of the same substance And
II II can conduct the water business at a
profit there is no reason to suppose that the
ice business would not be run equally as
well. II Hartford cut ice on the reservoirs
and sold IT., there is no reason to suppose thar
there would ever be a shortage even in the
season OF the lightest ice crops IL the city's
supply was added TO that which the private
companies furnish, there would ALWAYS he
plenty and In the season of full crops the
supply would be sufficient to bring the price
down to very low igure."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
LET EUROPE SUFFER THE MAXIMUM

To the Editor Of the Evening Ledger:
Sir-Pending the time that the Lord will take
to the devout and sincere prayers Of
fered in this country for peace Sunday,
venture TO remark that, in the absence of bet
ter knowledge, the ought to go on Why
stop surgical operation when half done? If
peace came suddenly in answer to the prayers
Of people who prevented from losing their
tempers by President Wilson's injunction to
talk about something else, 1t would be a calam-
ity. incidentally, 1t would disappoint number
of people who making money out of the
war. The sooner the poor devils who are sent
to the front killed the sooner will peace
come. We all want peace after the fight is
over. Grant did not say "let us have peace"
when his army swept over the South 1 say
let Europe fight 1t out and have done with it.
In the meantime the people of this very nery-
Gus country may 20 praying and raising
voices. What is the matter with the world,
anyhow? Civilization has not collapsed like a
soap bubble; 1t has jumped the track like a
train. Emerson was wrong when he said the
devil Is an ass. In Europe he Is a king. For
my part would rejoice to see every king in
Europe sent in chains to st. Helena or some
other place. Away with kngs-whether they
live in Europe Pennsylvania. If democracy
cannot be bought except with blood, then down
with old cash. 1 do not want America to 60
to war. but If she meant half she says she
would practice what she breaches!
EARL YOUNG.
Philadelphia, October 4, 1914
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
Liquor Corruptionists Fear Brumbaugh

Liquor Corruptionists Fear Brumbaugh
1HHE rum-sellers are getting uneasy. They
L have been investigating Doctor Brum-
baugh's record, and a cold shiver has run
down their backs as result. They did not
think he meant what he said. They had
some sort Of an idea that maN who has
been educating children for years favored
the groggcrcs.
Now they know better. They are caught
i'm a trap. What good will 1t do them to
send MIR Penrose to Washington IL Brum-
haugh goes to Harrisburg? They doubt II
they are getting run for their money. So
they are scurryng about trying to tie the
schoolmaster up.
They are using every trick OF the trade
to spread the impression that Mccormick Is
the true and only local option man, and
that Doctor Brumbaugh can be depended on
"to do the right thing" Well he can he de-
pended on, but not in the way these social
harpics imagine
1t might do these men good to read the
BrumbauEh platform, and season it with
tabasCo by studying some of his speeches.
The surest way to secure local option and
effective regulation OF the liquor traffic is
to vote for Doctor Brumbaugh, who is
modern st. George whenever a dragon be-
gins to spit fire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
Destiny at the End of the Mall

WITH nothing better in sight except
w adjournment Washington is worrying
itself over Champ Clark and 1915, President
Wilson's mild reproof Of eager New Jersey
set the ball rolling. Certain illusions 10 the
attitude Of Democrats not so friendly have
turned the public gaze toward Missouri. And
now Colonel Harvey announces articles by
Champ Clark in the forthcoming issues Of
his North American Review. Is Clark out
for the nomination? Somebody suggests
ASK Hearst But the real answer lies hid
den in the ivory mansion at the end of the
Mall. And Champ Clark knows this as well
as any one II the PROFESSIONAL finger so
much as crooks, it will he Wilson. that's
all"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-06
THE BABBLINC FOOI.

Nature is huge mistake Take the sea-
sons as sample OF her work In winter va
arc 700 eoldi In summer too warm WHY
coIlu not nature have switched the seasons
ana thus have aVerted complaints?
The poets say that nature smiles Vvbst
look like grins. ''e
Again, one touch of nature makes The
is what they meant "
nature is said to work wonders but IN the
average mortal II looks as though natnrs
never worked, leaving labor to that s,InarIao
tive ass. man. Fe'ie~
The The color Of nature is green Man, too. is
woman is concerned. "Aeie
had nature known her business she ,,o,i,
nave made every other day paw dav S,itb
Sunday in between. @'' Win
Inc laws OF nature are not practicsd g.
age viewpoint. '"ii 'ie aver
Inc DOCK OF nature will never he opa ., a..
pest SIX sellers. It's too prosaicaI ana " d.o mo
H3nPlace' without thrills and minus cIir,eCnlI-
per,er bolny may be second nature. but natI'ra
never becomes habit. 1t is not attraotGIie
enough TO demand repetition. '"0'i'e
art Is said to be nature imnro,,.5 ~
Hluch eHOrt is needed TO do that Not
an apple tree Is one of natures U,orls M.
prjmariv to an our trouble Ergo nature is
Says Lowell, Before man ,,,s..,.
nature made US men" Now tba @ @ @NItiAens,
know whom to blame '"e women will
HSture speaks various lanRlIages -
'VS yati, HHo% enough 10 learn ours. 'u' uoes
NdtuIes sweet Testorer is sisar =,
sweat restorer is the surnrnar u, Natures
rs ne ai ~Hen we sigh for icy blasts she Pro-
be natural II you must, bnf 6a
your own sake. '11 ne sharp for
,.S,st Nsture Is always referred to 80 a.,
'i@l It was all a mistake.