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5 CONTROL Of PUBLIC UTILITIFs

spoiis,' with the spoils multtplied .o
as to Include every position necessI-
tated by the operation Of the public
utility. whatever 1t may be. III II be
Imagined that collective bargaining,
including the right TO strike. may be-
permanently enjoyed in connection
with the public service. any one no
thinks this should recall what han.
peheo IN democratic France when the
rahFond employees OF France went
upon general strike The men were
ordered TO tho colors, and the strike
was hrel.en
me attempt to carry out the meth
ods or collective bargaining ana the
riSht or striking in connection with
the service Of the public is tho path
way towards placing every public en-
pioNH:ent upon military basis for
the large public will not permanently
permit the public servants either to
coerce Its Judgment or to depriyo /,
OF public services which are essential
TO Its weli-being. These are some OF
the social questions that are involved
~ the general acceptance of public
ownership and operation as distin
euishcd from private ownership and
operation.
THE political consequences OF The
acceptance OF public ownership and
operation on large scale are certain
10 he not less vital. II was said 'bv
some one al the time OF the Hayes
'''N' 'viitiVNeTFS IN connection with
the presidency. that. il the political
patronage had been twice as large a.
IT then happened to be. IL would have.
been impossible 10 have cscaned civil
war. The public ownership and one
ration OF public utilities of all kinds.
II steam railroads are included. would
add literally millions of men and won
en- to the. public pay roll II such !.
policy is adopted. 1t should be adopted
deliberately, and the object of this
memorandum is to point out that such
questions as these far outweigh. In
pubic Importance, the financial uues-
tons that are involved as between
public ownership and operation and
private ownership and operation under
public regulation. Public regulation
or privately owned and operated pub
lie utilities. II such regulation Is sue
ccssfui. ought TO obviate tho princi-
pal abuses which have developed i'm
the past from the uncontrolled private
ownership and operation Of public
utilities If public ownership and
operation or vast scale is under
taken. what is to be the safeguard
against tho social and political dan
gers which have been pointed out, If
these prove to be in fact as great as
they appear to hc?"
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Death Hook Of the Air

II has long been noted that as soon
as an Invention OF any kind which
- menace appears. counter inven-
ZION appears says the Technical World.
II some more imprcgnable device for
fortress is discovered at once ),
heavier means of assault Is found
Greater battleships are confronted by
heavier guns. and In this war the heavy
guns OF Germany have wrecked per.
manent Qualifications. while therc is
rumor OF sun heavier guns that will
render Dreudnoughts of no account.
So the horrors of the Zeppelin dirigi-
bles seem now to have encountered an
Invention that will put them out OF
action and end their apparently IRE
sistible bombs dropping. 1t is an Amer
ican invention, that OF Joseph a. stein
metz, president of the Aero Club of
philadelphia. 1t is destroyer Of mir
craft, said To be farther reaching than
any bomb droppins device or aerial
gun invented. 1T bears the same rela-
ton that the torpedo DESTROYER does
to n navy.
An aeropiane cannot carry the
amount of explosive that n dirigible
can, but 1t is faster, and the Stein
metz device is to destroy dirigible, as
Wen as slower 'aeroplanes. for II is to
DC mounted on the swlftest of planes
1t is bomb with contact devices.
hooks springing out on all sides.
III is let down by Il slender wire from
the aeroplane, which swiftly mounts
above the slower dirigible. When the
A,tter comes in contact with the wire
ms draws up until the hooks Of the
bombs. like the tcntacles of II spider,
become attached. and the explosion fol-
lows. The apparatus is simple and Is
characterized as one of the most ter
rible of th-dealing devices.-Tech
nical World.
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Origin Of Onyx

When waters charged with Carlo.
nate of calcium derived from the lime
stone are allowed to evaporate they
deposit their load in tho form of sinter.
or tufa. This process can be observed
at many thermal and "petrifyine''
springs and also in the formation OF
stalactites and stalagmites In lime.
stone caverns. In this way large
masses OF compact carbonate arc
formed. some of them of great beauty.
The so-called onyx marbles" of which
The Mexican onyx" is familiar eN-
ample. are formed in this way. Some
rock of this class is stalagmitic, I'm
caVerns, and some of it Is formed by
springs. Its variations in color and
texture, to which it's ornamental char
acter Is largely due, are commonly
produced by impurities or inclusions.
such as oxide OF iron, or even mud and
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Efficiency Has Bounds

WYE do not hear as much about the
wv ability of men to add cubits TO their
stature and thousands TO their income by
adopting the rules and regulations, OF the
efficiency apostles. Not so long ago men
were trying to dehul nize their business and
devitalize their lives, in the hope that the
elixir of efficiency would make them super
men. 1t is possible that the theory of eff
fcicncy will be still lie; heard of for many
years to come because OF what has hap
pened to the German army, which was re-
puted to be the superefficent product of the
consciously efficient German tree.
Let 1t be granted that the Germans had
marvellous military organization, which
was prepared for everything and had over
looked nothing that could lead to success
even TO sewing on two sets Of buttons at
the backs OF their soldiers" trousers so that
their shoulders would not be chafed. Let 1t
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-10
The Completeness OF the War

1T is AS well that no detail OF horror Is
L lacking in the n-escn: great war. Other
wise some of the legend OF the grandeur OF
armed conflict might continue to poison the
minds OF the present generation which had
only known by hearsay what such conflict
actually is.
Cities have been destroyed, an entire people
despoled thousands have been killed, atroci-
ties have been alleged and all the dreadful
reality of war on the great scale has been
laid bare A cynic might say that ii is the
property waste that has made the deepest
impression, because everybody knows and
covets wealth, whereas very few have ever
seen live man turned into corpse, and
the report that thousand or more men
have been killed does not convey concrete
image.
In the last two weeks the destruction of
valuable property, its utter waste, has been
made peculiarly manifest through the activi-
ties of the elusive German warships. Within
the first month of hostilites the British navy
had wiped the German merchant marine off
the face OF the seas not by sinking the ships.
but by capturing them and taking them into
British ports, there TO be sold as prizes. This
made little impression, because there was no
actual destruction, no waste. When the war
is over these ships will once more perform
the function for which they were built But
the Germans, who have ports into which
they could take their captures, must perforce
sink them as their only means of inflictine
damage on the enemy. So splendid modern
steamships, laden with cargoes of commodi-
ties that the world needs, have been sent 10
the bottom of the sea, where they will do
good to nobody. not even to those that sent
them there because they had nowhere else
to send them.
This is an aspect of war that even people
who have never seen dead man can fully
understand, and the lesso. will probably not
be lost Oh this generation Of Americans, who
live in time in which goods and chattels
have a sacredness all their own
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want. Conductor. to Call stre.t,.

70 the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Having recently moved to Richmond nd
located i'm the West End, where II Is necessary
10 take the street cars in going my home
from downtown. or from the stations, I have
found IL OF the greatest Inconvenience in
being carried by my corner account OF car
In the daytime. for have learned several signs
to go by--a school building Main Street
and sign Oh Broad tell when to ring the
bell But at night 1t is just a matter of making
guess and trusting TO luck
Out of about a dozen trips, should saw have
hit the right stop once. and of tho same number
OF trips l should say that the conductor made
cases. (In two instances he might have said
kazoodicks," and have been Just as intel
ligible.)
Probably after live in Richmond long enough
may get to know my corner "sorter'' by in
stinct. and also become accustomed to receiving
a double handful of pennies for change when
BUY car tickets and do not happen to have the
exact quarter with me-
And | have even been informed that Rich.
monds street car service was good,
a TRAVELLING; MAN
Richmond, November s. 1914
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The Other Side In the Combat.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir--I notice that you have rather parts ar
account IN your paper Of this morning nur
porting TO describe an encounter between A r.
Moore, general manager Of the Staunton News
ana the writer. do not object to Mr. Moore's
set'ing all the glory he can out of the sklrmisIi
but DO object to being advertised to my Rich
mona friends as physical culturst and as
attaching smaller man than myself even FOR
Cause. surely If there is any difference in
weight believe 1t Is the other way and when
me attach was made the object OF 1t was with
a friend. who took an active part in It, while I
was aione. The only blood split was not nv
plooo. ana tho only noticeable mark I bore was
. sllsnt scratch. Nor 1t over political dir
ierences and If staid old Staunton was par.
ticuiariy stirred by the incident 1 miss my guess
H. L. OPIE.
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The Voice Of the People
Thanks from tn. Y. w. G. A.

To the Editor of The Tunes Dispatch:
Slr,-The board OF directors of the y w. c. A.
wish to express their appreciation for the CO.
operation and assistance given their work by
the generous space devoted to II In the columns
or The Times Dispatch. The Y w. c. A. is
doing grand work and beneHtng all classes
of women and girls in the city. Again thanking
MRS. w. B. NEWELL.
For Board OF Directors.
Richmond, November T. 1914
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SONGS AND SAWS
The ola-ra.hioned noctor.

He's passed. the kind ofd
doctor man,
That we knew. In the long
ago,
Whose tonder ministrations
Through all life's troubled
a ebb and flow.
Hc smiled benignly when
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-10
Chats With Virginia Editors

The grip Will be the most common ailment
among the warning armies of Europe Just as
soon as winter sets in right says the Peters
burg index-Appeal The sign uud the pass
word, however, will remain In vogue
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crnment. the approach Of a moro equitable ar
arrangement OF society. And we arc not TO be
downcsst IL II be given to us, es to these vet
Grams only to see the opening sklrmishes. For
tho world Is always In process OF making. It
never is finishcd,--Kansas City Times. &
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PrncticnI Answer.

Teacher-Now. if paid one man So a day for
seven days. another $3.50 for ten DAYS and
another S4.75 for six days
Reddy Backrow (whose father belongs to the
union)-Youd have the durndest strike on your
hands you ever saw, teacher.-Puck
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Dr. A-Why do you always make such par
tcular inquiries as to what your patients ent?
Docs that assist you in your diagnosis?
DR. B--Not at all; but II enables me to nsccr-
tain their social position and arrange my fees
y.--Topeka Journal
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Richmond folks who have neglected the
Mayors admonition TO clean up their cellars
and get their furnaces ready for action have
been reminded by the cold snap that 1t is
time to do business.
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MANS CHIEF FniIInc.

Talk to any man long enough and he will
narratc some instance when the doctors gave
him up.-Atchison Globe.
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Ii there ever was a thinly disguised bless
ing 1t was the rain that fell on Sunday even
ing. 1t gave the visiting doctors an oppor-
tunity To form better opinion OF Richmond
streets.
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They will be blowing up cannonballs in
Belgium for the next fifty years." Is the sad
commentary Of the Norfolk LEDGER Dispatch.
y striking illustration-and to tho point-of
what the pillow shares in war.
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The Gown Fitn.

Alice-Does Maud's new gown 1T her figure,
Marie-It fits what she wants people to think
% her fsure.--BostoR Transcript.
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The Bright Side of Life
An Unusual Man.

"FIc's an unusual MANI
In what way?"
1 asked him how the European war is coming
out, and he said he hadn't the slightest idea nS
Houston Post.
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ON the eve of election day the observant Gov
ington VirEinian thus encouraged a Democra tic
candidate: We note in the White Sulphur Sem
tnel where DIR. Cory Hogg is running for
cratic ticket Three squenls for Cory. Let US
hope he doesn't get cut up In The Republican
sausage machine" The returns showed the
candidate wallowing in victory
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Troubles

TrOuhIcN.
we have small interest in the woes
OF which our pain w-acked friends will tell us
In fact, il we should truth disclose
Iheir troubles make us Slightly Jealous.
What we all wants a chance to show
How we are simply crushed with woe
THE TATTLET.
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VIII Richmond Get New post-onice?


TT WILL be a serious misfortune to Rich
| mond if the government and the owners
OF the property it has been planned to pur-
chase for the erection OF post-ofiice annex
are unable to agree OH IL price unless as
appears rather improbable, the bill making
an appropriation for this purpose permits the
use OF the money for the acquisition of some
other piece of ground.
This latter point does not appear to have
been determined finally. Congressman
Montague, who drew the bin, says his recol-
lection of It's terms rs that II does not
authorize such diversion. There is a clause
in the measure which undoubtedly gives the
Secretary of the Treasury the right not to
make the purchase of the site designated. if
it should appear that some other situation Is
more advantageous, but that this means that
the other and more advantageous situation
may be acquired with this special fund is at
best exceedingly doubtful
If the declarations OF the parties at interest
may be taken to be conclusive there Is no
chance of an agreement as to the lot at
Eleventh and Main Streets The appropria-
ton is S450,000, and the owners of the
property are demanding S612,OOO The
chasm that here yawns is zoo broad appar-
emily, to be bridEed by negotiation and
compromise.
1t will be hoped that careful consideration
of the terms Of the appropriation bill will
develop That the money may be used some
where else. Richmond urgel tly requires
additional postal Facilities, largely because OF
the demands the government system of hand
ling the parcel post business makes on the
post-oiice here. II the site ror the annex Is
not obtainable, it is highly desirable that
ground should be acquired in some con-
venient situation on which new post office
building may be erected.
Unless this ground is purchased with the
appropriation already made, it is but too
likely, Mr.. Montague said in The Times
Dispatch the other day, that Richmond will
have to wait. The next Congress, consider
ing the war situation and the presidential
election that will impend will be a Congress
of rigid economies Appropriations of $780,
900 for public building sites Will be- few and
far between.
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Unkfnd.

He-When are YOU gong to marry me?
She-Lets select day in Lent. 1 haven; been
lble to decide OH any other form of pennncc.
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Frauds
That Follow
the War.

but the first of n long line OF
dupes The ruined business man. the naughty
arfstocrat fallen on evil times. the mpover-
ished widow and the demonetlzed heiress will
become numerous as the birds of prey woke up
to their opportunities. The impostors will have
remnants Of stocks of plausible jewclrs laces
that lhok antique to unframed eyes, armor that
might have been worn in old chivalric days but
wasn't, pictures with the dust of the Rcnais-
sancc carefully rubbed into the wet paint, and
Il thousand other priceless treasures of fakcry
All will be going at bargain prices not exceed
ing fifty times their real value. and each object
will he rendered more precious by the thrilling
fable that Will account for its scape. from the
dchaclc OF some Belgian Polish Gallo OF
Galican mart or manor house. Even the swag-
Ills booty and begging secrecy the part of
his victim. The swindlers will be of all nation
alities, with infinite variety OF temptation for
guls and ingenious yarns to meet all doubts
People with long purses. short knowledge and
"r''s''r aspirations, please take noticc.--Ncw
York Sun
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FHE RICHMOND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

be further granted that. at least Ly COM
parison. the French. the British and, Of
course the Russians were sunk In the
slough of ineiliciency. After three months
Of war, however, the German forces find
themselves shorn OF the invincibiity with
which they started. and in such position that
1t is at least an even probability that they
will soon find themselves fighting the in.
efficient allies on German soil.
So much for the absolute invulnerabili
OF German military efficiency, which probS
ably comes as near being perfect as any
thing can, which, is an enormous distance
from perfection. So also is the chimera
called business efficiency. The French and
the English do their military work. as they
do their other work. in their own way, and
contrive to do rather we'll, without clothing
themselves with the garment of formal
quips and tricks which are about all there
is to efficiency which does not result from
the of ones own capacity for learning
and doing.
The effort to make men efficient machines
must fail, because they have brains and emo
tions and their own bodies are far from be-
ing efficient, although they perform miracles
which n machine cannot. The inevitable
goal of efficiency is to make men machines
although the nearer they approach that state
the more inefficient they must be, for the one
Godlike quality human being has is his
brains, while efficiency rules have no other
object, In large sense, than to obviate the
necessity of thinking.
This is not to say that instruction is not
necessary or that an open mind and will
ingness to adopt better methods not es-
sential factors in a happy and useful life
But II is meant TO convey that no set of rules
imposed from without can do much more
than reduce n man to near the level of
machine as his brain and temperament will
tc r.~,
to the German army, but rather an indica-
ton OF conscious or unconscious adherence,
that in this country it is almost invariably
spoken Of and thought of as a machine.
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NIilIanrinn,
Getting n Line on ,E.m

Motto of miltarists: In case OF doubt, pull the
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Our premier entrance life's Stage,
And wept with loved ones when we paid
Tho debt that's due by youth and age;
And I'm the intervening space.
When we were plagued by divers ills,
He'd diagnose, with care our case
And then prescribe us blue.mass pills
He had a most imposing mien,
This dear old fashioned doctor man.
The things that ho had read and seen
Could scarce be learned in mortal span
The very spectacles>he wore
Portentous wisdom seemed to shed:
We knew the ancients' healing lore
Was packed to bursting in his head
He scorned all upst;,rt theories.
Though he death on fits and chils
And all the modern therapics
He'd gladly swap for blue mass pills
All: dear old-fashioned doctor man!
Perhaps your ways were not the best
But neer II heart kinder than
The one beneath your dog-skin vest
You never veXed your mind at all
with serum. protoplasm, germ,
1t neer occurred to you to call
For help to prop your skill inflrm
His head the modern doctor shakes
Ger means you used to cure our Ills
But he, too. buries his mistakes
Like you. who gave us blue rhass pills.
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An oft-told tale Is told again
Gullible in the current proceedings against
u,,t, two sellers OF editions de luxe"
TO confding' collectors OF books.
Sohectors The methods revealed are not In
tho least novel; thoy have been
exposed scores OF timesi but they seem to work
just as well as ever. Tho volumes thus unloaded
on tho victims at ten times their real value
were not rare" or unusual" and better sets
could have been obtained from any bookseller.
Why any human being with brains should accept
unguestionably the falsehoods of unaccredited
reodlers Of literary green goods. and pay out
huge sums for trash to these creatures. instead
OF going to booksellers OF established reputa-
lions. is ono of those odd psychologist phenomena
which even Professor Munsterberg would find
IL difficult TO explain. These bookbuyers are
sulls de luxe.-Phladelphia Public Ledger.
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Another British general vet.
aI;..;po, cram of many campaigns, was re-
the End of posteudv ''s Gu, u'. ~, ~ prs nome
the nFhgSie. tlIc conflict almost a dozen old
warriors OF high rank In army
or navy, too old for active service, have passed
away Not TO live to the end of this war.
How these men, who in many clrnes upheld the
glory of British arms, must have pored over
tile accounts of their successors in the field
one can visualize them strainng at the chains
or incapacity. piliing to join the fray. or, God
willing. To live out>their days until firing should
cease and the map OF the world be made over
Perhaps il has been the POUNDING; OF their hearts
the stirring OF their aged blood, which proved
too much for their feeble shells These are
great days; days of which we all shall tell to
those who como after us. But before the out
burst of this catastrophe they great II
has been the privilege of the present generation
to watch the evolution OF Just and honest gov.
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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1914.
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The Big Stone Gap Post editoriaily records
the event: Ralph King came down from
Dumps Creek last week and spent several days
here, the guest OF Blaine McCorkle It will be
remembered that Ralph played second base for
the Big Stone team in the coal fields during the
early part of the summer. and he was said to
be the best second sacker in the league" Kings
are less popular than over in this country since
they began making rough house of Europe
but Ralph seems to nave scored simultaneously
a home and hit.
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Following Precedent.

Grubbs--I sec that England has banned Ger
man musicians.
Stubbs-Thnts nothing new we tied n can
to dot leedlc Sherman band" in this country
years ago.