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factories are already trying to dupli-
cate many of the wares Austria and
Germany have produced In great guam
titles for foreign trade.
The shortage OF potash is a serious
handicap to the production of test
tubes. TASKS and other glass equipment
for use In laboratories. Strangely
enough. England has relied almost ex-
clusively on Germany for such mate
rails, and has never tried to produce
them.
English manufacturers of glassware
have specialized in the production of
expensive cut glass, and have allowed
Germany to monopolize tie production
OF cheaper grades. AS consequence
there is n shortage of skilled labor in
England for glass working.
Several English firms have already
entered upon the manufacture Of dolls
heads with considerable success. and
are said to have produced samples far
superior to those manufactured in
Austria. Before Christmas England
Will doubtless have n good supply of
dolls free from the stamp Made in
Austria" now so Gistasteful to Eng
llsh children and adults alike. Sir
Richard Winfrey heads the committee
which Is organizing the British Toy
Association for the purpose OF dis
placing Austrian and German toys per
manently In English territory.
The British Empire Industrial
League, with the Duke Of Sutherland as
president, Is devoting its efforts large
ly to q study OF trade conditions i'm
Russia. Canada and Italy, with a view
to replacing German supplies with
British made goods. This league be-
lieves the field for British manufactur.
ers Is especially good in Russia, as II is
unlikely that, Russians Will resume
trade relations with Germany for
another generation.
Lord Desborough is president of the
Entente Trade League, which is urging
the public to deal only with friends.
The Anti-German Trading League and
score of other associations designed
to prevent Germany from ever regain
ing n commercial foothold In English
territory, are also at work. ~ -
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For One Good Service

CONGRESSMAN DAVID j. LEWIS. of the
~ Sixth Maryland District, is candidate
for reelection. Away down here in Virginia
we may be supposed to have nothing to do
with Maryland politics. but Lewis belongs to
the whole country. by virtue OF the fact that
he is the father Of the parcel post system.
and. such, he ought to stay on the job
until his child has grown up. The Sixth
Maryland District will see that he is returned,
of course
All around Lewis there are congressman
from everywhere who are clamoring for re-
turn---a majority of them. no doubt, in con-
sideration of some purely local service. But
Lewis was fortunate enough to hit upon
someth ing that takes his service out of local
ity, and applies 1t to the country at large.
Parcel post is yet an infant. 1t will grow
up, of course. And, according to the Post
master-General and others who know, it will
grow better with Lcwiss assistance than
without it.
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The NIinimfzed Peril

NJ o less an authority than Sir William Osler
~ reports that to-day disease Is greater
peril than bullets, and that we who live In
the midst Of germs and alleys are in greater
danger, relatively, than they who fight in
the midst Of Germans and allies. Only one
out of 700 who reached the base hospitals
in England died and he of tetanus. This
goes to prove that Standardization Of bullets
and scientific treatment of wounds make bull
let holes far less difficult to deal with than
pathological conditions in everyday disease.
But. Of course, there are thousands who
never reach the base hospitals The bitches
are long, and the record appalling.
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SONGS AND SAWS
The War Taxes.

The War Taxcs.
1t won't be long before we all
h Will have to start to pay
The taxes Uncle Sam has laid
TO keep the wolf away.
Perhaps you haven't had the time
Right through the law to wade
Well, hero are some poor sufferers
On whom the tax Is laid:
There's no new tax on whiskey.
But there Is one on beer;
There's none yet on motor cars,
And gasolene goes clear.
Tobacco factories feel the weight
OF this new excise law:
You will pay more for what you smoke
And eke for what you chaw.
The theatres must come across.
And movies, too, l fear.
Each broker has to help the cause
With thirty bucks n year.
(Thc lines above refer to those
Who broke in bonds and stocks.
But he who brokes In pawns likewise
Must ope his treasure boN.)
Pcrfumery must pay tax,
And powder, too and rouge.
And chewing gum, that everywhere
The lady typists use
Newspapers get it in the neck
And sleeping cars we'll
In fact, this tax that must pay
VIII make us all say
Dog gone 1t.
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Fire Prevention Day

M AYOR AlNSLIE'S announcement OF his
1V1 purpose to issue shortly a proclama-
tion designating Fire Prevention Day."
should have Rchmonds sympathetic ap-
prevail Such days are useful in themselves,
i'll that they result in the elimination of cen
dftions from which destructive fires often
spring. They have further and deeper use
fitness, as they direct thA public mind to
the enormous and unnecessary fire loss that
this country suffers every year
The destruction Of property in fires caused
Ivy gross carelessness and negligence Is a
Lublic scandal. Not only does such destruc-
ton represent an economic waste appalling
in character and amount, but ii involves also
a Heavy tax, in the high cost of insurance.
that every owner of property has to pay
Experts say that at least half the fire loss
OF this country could be prevented by the
exercise Of reasonable care. If that care
were exercised and the loss reduced in the
estimated proportion, insurance premiums
also would be reduced one-half.
Under existing conditions the careful
property owner pays largely enhanced rate
OF insurance. because other property owners
are negligent. The fact Is that changes In
our insurance laws are vitality needed. When
fire is the result of gross negligence, re-
covery on the policy Of insurance should be
as completely barred where an actual
criminal purpose is established. That would
create very different public attitude.
In the meantime, Fire Prevention Day is
an admirable institution. 1t Is an excellent
thing, especially for Richmond, which last
year had an almost marvellous record in the
smallness of its fire loss The community is
entitled TO just pride in that record and
should bend every effort to have II main
tanned. Fire Prevention Day. is one
means 10 tina, highly commendable end
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Those Minor Tragedies

Nj me persons were killed in a railroad col
l lision and fifteen injured near Mem
Dhis The newspapers mentioned the fact i'm
modest way NOT long ago there would
nave Deeh great excitement and indignation.
lo-day IL taxes more than mere railroad
wreck and few lives lost to attract more
than local attention.
1t was a tragedy, a few years ago when
an automoDile struck man and MANNED him;
II 1t killed him. the mob talked about lynch
ing. Bat we are becoming accustomed to
treating automobile killing as necessary
eVil--a thing which cannot be avoided-a
part OF human progress, in the interest Of
which there must be human sacrifice
When aviators first began to fall from
their machines, every fall sent a shock of
horror and thrill Of sympathy through the
land To-day when an aviator takes a dash
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The Voice Of the People


TO the Editor OF The Times -Dispatch
Sir,-A warning to girls against ROSY dreams
oil employment Mt the Panama Pacific Exposition
in 1915 is being sounded all over the country
by the Travellers Aid Society of California
Already there are scores OF girls out of cmpioy-
ment In San Francisco. AS every great ey nosi-
ton has left in Its wake the record OF hundreds
and, in the case OF the st. Louis Fair thousa nd q
OF lost girls, California is preparing to meet
and avert many such tragedies as NAV result
from the Influx of strangers to It's METROPOLIS
next year.
The National Vigilance Committee reports
that much OF the white slave traffic Is carried
on by persons Offering assistance to women
travelling alone. stating that I'm 1912 no less
than e66 women and girls were lost between
New York and Chicago alone. College girls
young wives. foreigners and working girls
made up that number.
AS n means OF prevention of such trn cedios
travellers Aid work is carried on I'm over 100
cities IN the United States. where women wear
ing badges are found terminals and ports
TO guide and direct the unprotected stranger
thousands or girls and women have been saved
from fate worse than death by these agents.
Organizations carrying on this protective work
in various cities are uniting with the Travellers
Aid Society Of California, in an effort to prevent
crime and tragedy in the general exodus TO
the Pacific Coast next year.
The Travellers Aid Society of this city re-
Gently organized on a nonsectarian basis, stands
In readiness for such cooperation and will
distribute circulars of information and warn
ing sent out by the California society
HELEN T. BEARDSTEY
Richmond, October "a, 1914 Secretary
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Policewomen and Thugs

D ALTIMORE has recently passed through
- a severe test Of it's policewomen system
Two of these valuable aides In the preserva-
ton Of law and order, assigned to Highland
town to Investigate social conditions there,
were shot at and felt the keen cut of the
wind as bullets passed--or thought they did
And two days later another policewoman in
the heart of the city, locating negro who
had been snatching purses and assaulting
women, was shot and possibly fatally
wounded, and n policeman accom- anying her
was also shot. by their intended prisoner.
Policewomen were appointed originally for
probation purposes, especially to look out for
children and young girls who, for various
reasons. were under surveillance. Their
duties broadened with effective work in minor
things and they were put to detective detail
and patroling the shopping districts. Then
Baltimore uplifters asked for the two who
took part in the Highlandtown raid, believing
problems involved than could men.
There is no question that policewomen are
useful. and could be continued In usefulness
in limited field of activity; but it does seem,
at this distance and with the information at
hand, that Baltimore has gone Just n little
too far in exposing Its poicewomen to danger
Let the lawless colored element develop a
contempt for women policemen. and they
Will grow less considerable of women general
ly. The feeling may spread to servants and
the household problem may be increased by
general wave that seems to make itself
fait when such social turnngs get firm
foJthold. POlicewomen for their own safety
and for the sex. should be assigned only to
such duties as will not involve them i'm the
harder work that belongs to men
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-26
Chats With Virginia Editors

The Marion News (Republican) remarks cdi-
torially: We'll! we'll! Now comes Candidate
Irvine and claims majority In every county
IN the district except perhaps Tazewell." Earlier
reports from the Ninth indicated that all was
WELL but we hardly hoped to see II conceded by
Editor Anderson. "Brer" Anderson's candidate
Slemp has apparently passed the slump
stage
The Zeppelin casts its shadow over Europe"
the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch observes, senten-
tiously. Aye. and something less harmless
The Northern Neck News moralizes: "war,
war; war! and then again war! Fool people
cutting other fool peoples throats, numbering
their fellowmen by the thousands. and imayin.
ing, no doubt. that the world IS saying of them
as men said In semicivilized times: Saul hat
slain his thousands but David has slain his
tens Of thousands Then offers UP this TIE
Deum: we return thanks Mt this juncture' for
the elimination from public life OF Theodore
Roosevelt and men Of his ilk. So be it," The
News is obviously of the opinion that with
Terrible Teddy" injected into the European sit
uation it would be some war"
Says tho Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Rye
says Hooper calls him different name eve-y
day But what's strange in that? Aren't the
brands" almost as numerous the stars in the
sky or the sands on the seashore?--Norfolk Vir-
gilman Pilot. We don't know. but assuming that
the V.-P. discusses the matter advisedly, per-
haps he can designate tho brands that make the
stars most numerous.
There Is note Of pathos in this plaintive
reflection echoing from the editorial column Of
the Halifax Gazette: I'VE were In Richmond
this week and did not go to see that burlesque
show. Postscript I'VE were alone, too" Such
is barely possible
The Altavista Journal Is reconciled to the new
era. which will dawn upon Virginia in 1916, and
tenders this advice: Every village in Virginia
should have a town pump, and every town and
city with water works should have a drinking
fountain where stream of pure running water
dispenses Adams ale to the thirsty populncc
Pure water and plenty OF II is n good community
builder" Now, all together. fast and forte:
The Old oaken Bucket for Mine" Andante
allegretto, allegro
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MONDAY. OCTOBER %. 1914.
THE TIMEs-DIsPATCH and breakfast
served together with unfailinE reEu-
Iarity In the Best Homes of Richmond
Is your morning program complctes
Niodesty

GIT was really nothing" writes British
private, who, crawling out in front Of
the trenches to bring in dying comrade
won the Victoria Cross.
He is right was really nothing. In the
heat Of battle risking ones life is mere
ba gatelle. Viewing the act from safe dis
lance, half of the average would say
he was hero half would say he was
fool He himself disavows any intention of
being either, and complacently remarks that
the Victoria Cross took him by surprise.
The viewpoint makes lot of difference.
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FOlIelI Again.

Germany has, expelled all the foreign
students from her schools" he remarked by
way OF prying the lid or the conversation. ooh.
really? she asked. What FORE" They're
afraid they'll learn something" was his come
back. Well, that's what they went there for.
wasn't it?' She countercd, and his secoYds
threw up the sponge to save him from further
Observation-Disclosures Express
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Comment and hope expressed by tho Raleigh
News and Observer: "A little child shall lead
them Maybe something practical will come OF
the petition Of the children of America asking
the warning powers of Europe to desist" A
contamination devoutly to be wished But the
war lords responsible for the European situate
acted as II little child did lead them, and IL
wasn't a very bright child, at that.
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Mountain und Mouse.

Mountain and Mouse.
oman tenployed as watress)-'Yes, mum.
am a-leaving dis place Tomorrow"
Mistress-"Why Dinah whatever can have
dspleased you with your positionc Haven't T
been treating you well?'
Dinah-"Oh, yes, indeed you have, mum. But
to tell de truf, miss, in dis house dey am too
much shiftiT oh de dishes TO dc fewness OBJ de
Observation-Disclosures Herald
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The Bright Side of Life
Saved Them Trouble.

II thought you were going to move into n
more expensive apartments" THE landlord
saved us the trouble" replied Mrs. Flimgilt.
He raised the rent OF the have been
occupying. w Washington star
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wanta More broad and Main Cars.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir would like to ask why there is a
discrimination in the street railway company
against the Broad and Main line in the rush
hour. Many extra cars are placed on the Main
street line in the evening but none on the
Broad and Main. Yesterday just after O o'clocl k
l stood at Ninth and Main Streets while FIVE
Main Street--two regular and three uAtra-
went by going west No Broad and Main car
passed in the interim, and went home finally
on a Westhampton car.
This morning I stood at my corner in the
west End while three Broad and Twenty fifth
street cars passed, going east, with no Broad
and Main. had to come back down town on a
crowded Westhampton It does seem that
the crowded traffic on the Broad and Main line
would justify n more frequent service than Is
given on the Westhampton line. S. b. W.
Richmond, October "a. 1914.
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he has been issuing. Why not insure a long in
terval OF quiet and 'repose by giving the same
Old BIZ a steady job consul or subconsul In
the Island OF zap? There is no cable comn,uni-
cation with Zap. and mail comes from the island
to tho United States only once in three months.
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Gossip from Down Home

The editor Of the Wilmington Star has no
sympathy for an armess man in n free for nil
fight, we take it. from this cold declaration of
neutrality: When we get ourselves into trouble
we ought to BIO able to get out Of 1t without
yelling for help from those who have trouble of
their own" Whether the comment was inspired
by some current event Of local interest or in
| tended as never again" resolution, readers
OF the Star are left to judge for themselves
Among other things for which the Charlotte
Observer is prepared to give thanks this year
is the football team of the University of North
Carolina. The Observer Observes North Caro-
lnians who have waited long for a State univer-
sity football team over which they might an
nropriately throw their hats up in the air seem
TO be coming into their In this respect
1t is for self congrntuation tina. Caro-
lina's eleven this year gives promise of enabling
us to hold our heads up after THANKSGIVING
Day." The team has made excellent showing
in the preliminary events Of the season The
somely. according to report, and have placed
ample funds at the disposal OF the management
allowing the men who arc in daily contact with
the players to exercise their own Judgment In
training and organizing for action. This ac-
counts for the fine form and fettle and the
abundant pep exhibited by the team.
High time" says the Greensboro News. FOR
the Asheville Citizen to make whitening
remarks about German Ostend- taton." What's
the use? You've knocked us Off KEEL Is the
rejoinder of the Citizen Nevertheless and not
withstanding with the emphasis the latter
participle). the suggestion of the News Is JUS
tifable. In altitudinous Ashcville everything is
necessarily in high time"
Everybody's hammeriHg the Same Old
Bill" and we don't know that he doesn't deserve
1t ALL but as a publicity agent for his own ex-
plotation Mr.. Sulzer Is entitled to promotion
to the Roosevelt class. The Raleigh Times gives
him severe jolt on the challenges to debate
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-26

The Dust.
There Is in talking
The dust piles up in stacks
Or course such things can hardly be
But is 1t n conspiracy
To force bootblack taxi
THE TATTLER
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Plenty of iimburger cheese is made In Amer
lea to supply the demand" the Durham Daily
Sun informs Its readers. We have always cher
ished the belief that more than plenty OF linz
burger cheese has been made.
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The Pe,.tut.t s.x.,

me way OF the transgressor Ia hard we are
told put sometimes 1t is whole lot softer
nan mat or the upright man. who makes
fight to be kind. loyal, honest and truthful
What's the use?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-26

Income tax statistics show there are only
forty-four persons in this country who have
acknowledged incomes of over million dol
lars n year. This shows that our real aris-
tocracy is very limited class
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Dog gone 1t.
Scriptural.

Scripturdl.
He-Will YOU give mo n
kiss?
She-Why not? 1t Is more
blessed to give than to
receive.
They CATER an intermis-
sion)-Ah-h-h!
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Colonel Roosevelt swears he will never go
back to the Republican party. The party has
never forgotten the time when he went back
m
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Amending the p,

Grubbs--Have you Joined the buy-a bale
movement?
Stubbs-Not yet but one of the leaders
In the buy -a-beer movement. Don't YOU want
to be tagged?
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The Zeppelin casts its shadow over Europe
the Norfolk Ledger-Dspatch observes. senten
tously Aye, and something less harmless
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| At any rate, Congress has adjourned
without committing the country to this new
economic folly. That in itself is sufficient
cause for public congratulation and relief
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-02
HOLY WARIMAY
Be CALLED BY
TURKISH RULER

BERLIN, Nov. ., via The Hague
The declaration by the Sultan OF a
holy war" against British. French.
Russians and some others may be ex-
pected Immediately, the Turkish am
bassador announced.
Unofficial advices indicate the Ar
abs in Tripoli already are attacking
the Italians.
PERLIN. Nov. 2, wireless via Say
ville.-German successes in Belgium
and France Austrian victories in
Galicia and a generally rallying of Mo-
hammedans to the standard OF the
sultan, were reported I'm an official
statement issued by the kaiser's gem
eral staff this afternoon.
The battle in northern France was
reported increasingly favorable from
the German standpoint.
The statement said Sundays re-
ports show the French have been
driven across the Aisne near Scissors.
Letters from the front describe the
conflict between Nieupont and Ypres
as the fiercest OF the war. The losses
on both sides have been extremely
heavy.
Exploits Of the Turkish fleet in the
Black sea, which bombarded Odessa
and Sevcastapol, destroying two
Russian warships, 10 transports and
several oil tankers. have created great
enthusiasm
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-02
student Assembly, Held.

This morning the first monthly stu
dent body meeting as provided for
under the new amendment TO the
high school constitution took place in
the auditorium The coming game
vith Walla Walla next Friday was the
chief subject under discussion. and
Professor Gambee OF the agricultur-
az department. gave an enthusiastic
speech on school spirit in which he
stated that before he came to Pen
Eiet0n he had heard that Pendleton
high vas noted throughout the state
% Oregon as the most Loyalty. enthu-
silsticaIIy supported school in the
state Tickets for the Walla Walla
game were distributed among the
students for sale. and the first ~
ceum attraction of the season was
arn0uncei FOR Thursday night at the
high school auditorium.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-02

City. South st. Paul and other smaller
western meat centers were not az
fected by the order.
Following the order the price OF
live hogs jumped 25 cents per hun
dred.
The international live stock show
scheduled here for December was
abandoned as the result OF the quar-
antlne.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-11-02

olutions which bear upon the election
tomorrow.
The peace plan OF President Wilson
Is characterized as one OF the great
educational movements OF the age.
and the licensed saloon is branded as
chief among the agencies that op-
pose the best welfare of the youth.
Both the tax measures referred to
above are characterized as inimical
to the upbullding OF the schools mas
much as they decrease the community
revenue.
State Superintendent ]. A. Church
III is glowingly endorsed and recon-
mended for unanimous support at the
election and the work OF County Su-
perlntendent I. Il. Young is also
heartily recommended. The full text
OF the resolutions will be published
later.