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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
nMNY TIGHT HAITI"

TAe afternoon Bryan" organ inquiries edi-
f|gnr ftHrt-- AS the 'Bf5sn"
srgan stood with Senator Hart in his hght
Ngainse .'4urzi" issues IN the senate, Of ooursa,
can zee no reason Why anyone should "Aght
Hart"
The name OF Senator Hart has been pre-
vented to the United States senate for con-
Ermation 10 the Office Of collector of internal
revenue for tho Western District OF Virginia
Mr. Harris af7Iiation with the opponents OF
Moral Legislation" IN the late session Of the
legislature. hRs offended the moral sentiment
u the people q Virginia to such an extent
as 10 make him Persona ron Grdtd 10 the vast
body OF our people
Not only SO but his attitude toward the ques-
tion Of Statewide prohibition. now imminent in
Virginia. renders him particularly unfit TO ad-
minister the office that has 30 much 10 do with
the very question at Issue.
One Of the chief arguments OF the enemies
of prohibition against that policy ts that pro
hthition does not prohibit" It is. OF course,
their policy TO use every means to break down
the effectiveness of all laws restricting the
traffic in strong drink, and to nullify, az far
as possible prohibition
With man in the Office Of collector OF In
ternal revenue. 80 utterly inimical to the policy
oil prohibition. the enemies of the cause will
have heiper and hacker IN the thousand and
one indirect and undsrhand methods OF under.
nniring the movement
Hs selling United States permits, to clubs.
blind tigers brothels and others- the revenue
department has always made It moro difficult
to enforce prohibition With man In ONCE
whose sy1npathies go out to those people, al
Indicated by his record IN the late session q,
the State senate, It will DO all the more diff
cult to enforce prohibition when once we win
It.
The Vfrginfan has quarrel political or
otherwise, with Senator Hart, except his known
and aggressive attitude on ali the moral issues
that up In the late legislature. But The
Vtrgfmsan Is persuaded that because of that very
record he is unfit TO occupy the position and
his appointment would be q direct Insult 10 the
good people OF the entire State OF Virginia
We are the more certain that we are right
n our position now that the Bryan evening
organ is clamoring for the confirmation oil
DIR. Hart
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
OPEN AIR SCHOOL DAY.

Thursday. April 9th. has been designated
Open Air School Day In the public schools of
Richmond by the city school board. On this
Day the pupils IN every school are asked by
the committee OF nohle women who have
Ehargc Of the open air schools OF the city, 10
ssutrtbute one penny 10 the cause II is a very
&st<ls thing to ask. when one stops to think
" the tremendous amount OF good that la be
Ing accomplished In these schools, and every
enr child gives much possible FOR the
nysseep OF this work.
The committee from The Richmond Educa.
t1onal association starred its work In the Msdi-
yon school. tnauglusting the open air school on
The root. The weak and enaenic children were
taken from their respective classes and classes
were arranged for them in the place prepared
pm the roof. A sysfem OF feeding WAS ar
RANGED and cots provided for short nan In the
hrtght sunlight and fresh air So marked was
the Improvement both in the physical and men,
tsl condition ot the little patients, the idea
PRE- t7e''fe~ue ant the other at Madison
school
This worthy cause cannot be carried out un-
less the proper funds are provided as the ladies
of this committee have heretofore carried on
.he work out of their own purses. The small
sum o. one penny can easily BE- spared, for each
dollars raised means bright. rosy cheeks in place
of the puny, sallow faces that come from con.
6neinent In close hot roorna
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
aooept tho best Judgment and tho most feasibls
solution OF tho problem.--Danviiie REGISTER.


Progressive Democrats.
body OF vhginians. said to be about !. 800
strong. met in Richmond Friday OF last week
and remained for Saturday. They listened to
addresses from Senator Owen and SecrstAr,
Bryan, adopted platform and no doubt re-
turned to their respective homes congratuaatin8
themselves that the prayers Of the sher1Ks had
been answered and that tho Commonwealth was
Fsafe-safe from bossing. machineixm. lobbyiun
and all manner of harmfuims
The weakness Of tho movement on tho
political chess board. Is found In tho fact that
agents having the matter in hand not ac-
eredhed--certany they did not meet with the
stamp Of approval from the sovereign Demo-
cratic voters of the State They went to Rich
mond Of their own free wills and accord, as they
had perfect right to do. and adopted such
measures to them seemed wise. But man
Of thought will confuse such action as the work
OF the Democrats OF Virginia
And another weakness is found in tho fact
that the imported spokesm good and true
men, differed widely. Senator Owen advocates
Initiative. referendum, recall OF Judges and wo-
man suffrage while Mr. Bryan stops with the
initiative and referendum. This may neces-
state tho meeting OF other Progressives with
Democracy attached TO decide between the
views OF the distinguished gentlemen. day
of progress. however. and the Lord only knows
Just where Progressives viii land In the
meantime Democracy, without handle lives
and f1ourishes 1t has saved the nation and
Will save the State-Farmville Herald.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
SUGGESTION TO MIR RoCKEFTILER-

A SUGGESTION TO MR. RoCKEFTILER-
John d. Rockefeller. it is announced. has given
the sum o. 100000 10 be expended by the
Rockefeller Institute Of Medical Research IN the
study OF animal diseases. The Rockefeller tusti-
tsee Ia. h--ctotore devoted its Investigations to
the field of human ailments, particularly the
hook1wurm disease. and great good has been and
is being accomplished IN the Southern States by
The physicians engaged In this work-in fact Il is
thrcphy of which modern man has oognizance.
The study OF animal diseases is important be
afflicted with many ailments common to the
human family. which are transmissahie through
germs. While he is In a generous frame of mind
we suggest that the Standard OH magnate donate
another mtllion~-or several millions II he feels
disposed-to the study of pellagra- While the
government has taken steps looking to the An
vestigatton OF disease which ia battling the
medical fraternity by making An appropriation
foi @AlS VSrtsADliafhSii vi d uNSpldi
burg, s. c.. IL is not endowed with any great
amount OF money and Mr.. Rockefeller. with his
millions, culld well afford to offer purses that
would tempt the best medical talent OF the
country in the expenditure of effort and skill to
locate the germ and find cure for this dread
nlalady. In limited area the disease 10 killing
more people than tuberculosis and killing them
quicker.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
The Drug Habit

II some ono ware TO tell you that rational
man or woman would take drugs Tor temporary
relief OF pleasure. knowing that in the END
those drugs would undermine his or her system
and finally result in q miserable death. you would
scarcely believe It: yet ouch is the not with
an individual here and there, but with hundreds
OF thousands. possibly with millions, right here
In the United States 1t costs nearly three
times much to buy the drugs with which tho
American people abuse themselves as It does
to run the government, and the money loss is
by all odds the least serious consideration.
The drug habit Is hundred headed and ap-
pears 30 be coexistent with the life Of man 1t
is ins'dio1s and seductive in oil forms for other
wise II would never gain such a strange hold
the human Whether II be arsenic to
make the complexion white. powders to induce
sleep. cocaine to deaden pain, whiskey TO make
Joyful, or absinthe to make one dream. the
primary sensations invariably those produc-
tive OF relief and pleasure. 1t is only necessary
to read the Confessions OF Thomas De QuincesA
to know and realize the pleasures of the first
stages Of the drug habit
OF all the useless and Whaling habits to which
the human race Is addicted, that which employs
physical substance TO produce physical effects
for physical pleasure is by far the worst and
the mental trait weakness that is responsible
for It Is the one most to be feared Somewhere
IN the makeup of man is the defective element
that would tell the story. This however, Is still
undiscovered and until 1t Is we must deal with
the pestience by sequestration of the drugs,
Moral slasion has proved unavailng. II is
comparatively useless to tell a boy that he must
not take the first glass of wine, the first hypo
dermic or the first sip Of absnthe. The problem
is not solved by warning the girl against the
enervating influence Of arsenic the deter
iorating effects of morphine. They go their own
way, blindy, foolshly. believeing that they alone
immune, that they alone will not be tempted
beyond their strength Once the habit has been
established, It is cruel cure to break It by
force-sometimes n fatal cure.
1t is said that ten thousand people are muir
dered In this country each year. and that twelve
thousand more commit suicide but this fearful
aggregate would pale into rslgnificance II the
victims of the drug habit to be counted
Their deaths put down to this or that cause
but, surely they die. surely should 1T
he recorded that they sJccunb to their acts
through the indifference Of their fellow men
Houston Chronicle
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05

and he can be understood IL only the
proper Idea OF his character u kept
in mind, and the Notes" in its entire
seif-revelation. gives US q sweeping
view OF his character.
Mr.. James Ia an incredible victim
of sensibility Like most other great
men he would not have passed the test
for observation-disclosures II 1t had been
applied to him in his youth. an ex-
aminer would unguesttonaIbly nave
condemned him AZ mentally defic-
lent and thereby done him a great
injustice. He says Il 80 feared and
abhorred mathematics that the sin1p-
lest Arithmetical operation had always
found and kept me helpless and blank
the dire discipline OF the years
bringing no relief whatever to my
state: and mathematics unmftigated
we're at the Institution Rochekto tho
air fwe .hreathed." This EtAke OF
mind Ia due to a sensttivenesa to Inn
pressions too great for cold reason
ing. and 1t is not uncommon.
AS a result Of this cxtrsms susosp-
tibihty OF the moment, Mr.. James
lived through some of the most STIR
ring years Of American history with
out having anything worth while TO
say OF them. The only life he knows
is the inner life OF his own thoughts
and sensations. Tho firing on Fort
Sumter. the clutch OF tho great sGrug-
gle sounds distant and unreal: James
is interested only In his own fmpr1s-
sions. not In tho things beyond
Necessarily. therefore. his style =
exceedingly complex and hts aen-
fences are unbearabiy long. but Il
IS a brilliant style in Its own strange.
impreesionistio way Ciearness and
terseness are not tho qualities OF =
man who can never SEQ anything
as a whole or M detached from him
self. who continually seeks to catch
and put on paper kemsatdons and
emotions too subtle for Transcription.
And right here Is his trouble. He 10
one Of the most perfect machines ev-
err invented by nature to register I'm
pressions--but the Impressions no
registers are usually trivial. Appar-
CURED In his life; he has done littie
Is beyond his ken. So he has no ma
terial. II he had had any great nerve
-shattering exporience--f he had
committed murder, Tor instAnce-he
might have produced an immortal
work.
As II ia the book Ii well worth while
for those who nave somo patience and
ingenuity. II IL by far the most sAt-
isfactory OF James works. far the
most self-rcvealing. and ~ some
knowledge OF James IL regulate Tor
a reputation for culture wa heartily
recommend II.
II. J. EcKENRoDR
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
Richmond's Vice Com
mission.
VIII Have Hearty Approval.

The mayor Of Richmond, Mr.. George Anslie.
has appointed a commission to investigate vice
conditions in that city.
Mayor Ainslie indicates that his ectten In the
appointment OF the commission is due TO the
failure OF the legislature to adopt the antivice
measures which It had under consideration.
When they failed to pass" he says: Il de-
rermined to name guch commission
Mayor Ainsle's plan will have the hearty ap-
proval Of all Virginia people who believe that
Tho social evil, It has existed, not only can
be controlled but be moderated materially
and eventually reduced to the vanishing point.
To those people who believe that any legislation
or organized work against the social evil is i'm =
practical the mayors decision will useless
and wise.
The work thus. undertaken. although IT may
mot bring definite results speedily. will un-
quest bly, pave the way for awakening of
fsiclr1nonds conscience and for complete over
throw OF It's notorious and shameful red light
dlstrict.-R oanoke World News.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
A Wise Move.

Tho mayor OF Richmond has appointed a
vice commission composed OF fifteen prominent
men and women. whose duty 1t will be to IN
quire into and investigate the conditions In the
capital city relative to the underworld Just
what power the commission has II any, we do
not know. but We take 1t that the mayor will be
by the final report of the commits
sion. The claim is made that the vice COM
mission will report in favor of closing UP the
red-light district in Richmond. because on the
commission number of ministers and wo-
men who opposed to this evil. But what
ever the result 1t will do no harm for the people
of Richmond to be made acquainted with what
is going on In their very midst. There never was
ia truer saying that "one half of the world does
not know how the other half lives" and we be
such will come under the observation OF the
vice commission. When Mayor Davis entered
upon the duties OF his present Office he seriously
considered the proposition of appointing vice
commission but later changed his mind Per
haps he considered the city too small in size TO
Justify the appointment of the commission, and
while this Is In part true. venture to assert
that a vice commission here In Clifton Forge
would discover conditions that need to be
remedied We dare say that the people through
out the State will watch with interest the work
TO be carried by the commission lust named
by Richmonds chief executive.~-CIfton Forge
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
The AnElo-Prflhisfs.

II the result thus far of the canal tolls do
bate in the house had accomplished nothing
else. it has been serviceable in rebuking the
dangerous. laundering and unpatriotic Anglo
phobists who have been striving with all the
pvalor OF demagogy and the recklessness of pas
sion to appeal to prejudice against England and
involve this country in trouble with the grea.
nation to which owe much of our inheritance
In blood, tradition and institutions
The effort of the marplots to entangle us with
England has already received emphatic re-
primand in the vote of the house. It would he
nothing short of a calamity IT, at this critical
stage of international relations, should
be brought to breach with Great Britain, to
whom bound by every consideration OF
inheritance. material interest and tradition.
The attempt to befudde the issue for the
benefit Of the coastwise shipping trust by the
discradited- trick twisting the tail OF the
British Hon fails OF its mere weakness. The
people know that Great Britain Is not asking
to dictate canal toll policy. but merely for
the recognition of treaty right-the principle
of which she herself recognizes in her main
tenance of the suez. and OF her Canadian canals
But II the case from the point of view OF
honor and precedent is not strong enough.
from the point of view OF economic reasoning
it is unanswerable from the Democratic stand
point.
To pass coastwise shipping tolls free through
the canal will be to bestow from the pockets of
the already overburdened taxpayer absolute
gratuity upon industry already enjoying the
highest form OF protection 1t is possible tor a
government to confer. Under navigation
laws vessel of foreign register can transport
a pound Of merchandise a passenger from
American port to another, American
coastwise shipping Is given the exclusive mon
opoly. Already we'll organized and capitalized,
this precious trust is not only to be protected
from foreign competition, but given a sub
stantial bounty which comes direct from the
pockets of fha American Recommendations
Constitution
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
ABUSE OF ANIMALS
Visitors Shocked BY Crnclties in lat
I'm America.

would like to take the person
who said that ne had been twice
around the world and that Jerusalem
was the cruelest place he had ever
visited to Mexico and certain coun-
tries In South America The natives
OF Palestine are cruel TO animals. no
doubt How can they be different?--
ignorant. pitifully poverty stricken
and oyertaxed as they are, cultivating
their soil today as they did before
the time Of Christ, with wooden plows
and animals of different breeds har-
messed together. Yet they cannot for
one moment compare in cruelty to
race that tortues bulls and causes
them to gore defenseless and blind
folded horses in an arena for pub
lie pastime.
In every country where the Span
lard has left his footprint. from the
Rio Grande to Cape Horn, torture of
dumb animals prevails
/ shall not go into the details OF
a bull fight; they are not pleasant.
Jack London. in a short story pub
lished some time ago. told OF an
American, one John Harmed. who
witnessed a bull fight In the ring at
Quito. The fight might have ended
with the usual results had not the
horse screamed from tortuous pain.
Then the American turned himself
upon the tormentors OF dumb beasts.
and never in the history of all Quito's
bull ring was SO much human blood
shed as on this eventful day. Fiction.
no doubt. but a spirit no white man
with heart can help from having
when witnessing such sights
On the big pampas Of Argentina
mules and horses are raised In count
less numbers. The mules are shipped.
as are cattle, many hundreds OF miles
sometimes around the Horn. without
food or water Many Of the mules
used in Peru are shipped from Ar
gentina. have never seen a mule
working in Peru with collar that
fitted, hence necks and shoulders are
invariably covered with sores and
gals.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
THE NEW TAX COMMISSION

The commissioners charged with the reyision
rf 1he States taxes have an important duty and
the results OF their labors will be awaited by
virginans with no little interest The States
LAX laws--or at least many Of them-have long
been held 70 be inequitable and unjust and a
handicap to commercial and financial progress
While the new tax commissions work viii not
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05

Richmond has the capital. the brains, the en-
terprise, PHYSICAL advantages -everything else
that go 10 make city great, but probably Rich
nond has been too modest Let's advertise all
these things we have TO the world and next time
get something big, like the regional bank.
for example. some of the other cities OF the
country won't collapse with surprise as some
Of them pretend to have done in this instance.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05

Invent ave years ago @. w vanderlip, a
merchant OF Jonesboro Mich. kissed his wife
goodbye and started presumably for his store
Not word was heard from him until a few
days ago when he returned from the Klondike
rich Just for meanness his wife
ought to refuse to forgive him for not saying
where he was going.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05

Now here's the right sort of philosophy IN
strong contrast to the attitude taken by its morn
ing contemporaries:
Well we may not he ahle to get that bank
hut If We get a coast to- coast railroad, we shall
get something better. And II can't get the
bank itself, can get all the money out OF 1t
that want And we ought TO make sure that
we shall want great deal."--Baltimore Evening
Sun.
Sure. son-we'l let you have all the money
you want. provided you furnish the proper
security.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05

The late Isaac Cooley. of Escambia
county, Florida, thought he was III:
more than a hundred grandchildren
survive him. The report as to Henry
Dorman, who died at Liberal. Mo- on
Monday, is that no was born on January
In 1TQq
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05
MRS. GILL,S ANNUAL
Easter Excursion
Washington
Monday, April 18th

Train will leave Hancock and Broad
streets at A. NJ. Returning. will
leave Washington wednesday. April
9Th, at p. M.
Round trip. $2.76.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-04-05

security,
Evening star., 1914-11-21

tendency In the happenings Of the sec
ond month. though the fall of Antwerp
he regarded as a German success OF
material value. In conclusion he pays
a warm tribute to the Belgian people,
thus concluding:
I'm all history. the resistance OF
Greece to Xerxes. of Holland to Philip.
has remained unchallenged as the
most heroic incidents in the records OF
our planet. By right of courage, devo-
tion. supreme agony. Belgium had now
earned her right to q place beside these
two. This could not be a solace to her
In present suffering, it would not heal
the ravages nor bind the wounds Of
will make Belgium a place of pill
grimage and give to the history Of this
nation a spiritual value compensating
for the ashes of Louvain, the ruins Of
Antwerp, for the terrible months Of
agony now touching the apex
NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES. BY Zona
Gale. author Of Friendship Village"
etc. With frontispiece. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
It was Calliope's longing to celebrate
with. instead Of for. somebody that
gave Friendship Village its first COM
munity Christmas tree. Ca1liope tells
the story, seasoned with much homely
philosophy and with an always pun
gent freshness characteristic of Zona
Gale. There are other stories, each
with its genius for making literature
of some ordinary happening of village
life, or, as in the case Of 'The Flood"
as unexpected misfortune, which
washes away small feuds and entirely
befriends the business rival he had
intended to crush. For her final mono
logue, Calliope tells about 1.-THE Home
coming"-a story in which laughter
Evening star., 1914-11-21

Is beaded with tears, and in which
humor blends with a sorrowful lesson
that most good women need to learn.
There is colored frontispiece to pic
ture Mis- Holcomb" auctioning off her
Christmas gifts that boy might have
carfare to visit his dying mother and
the book itself is bound in heliotrope
lowered in snow-white lilies and gold.
THE PRINCE OF GRAUsTARK, BY
George Barr McCutcheon. author Of
'Graustark." etc. With illustra-
tions by A. l. kellar. New York:
Dodd. Mead & Co.
Readers Of "Graustark" will remem-
Der that Princess Yetive of that some
where-in-the-Baikan kingdom mar
ried an American named Lorry, who
was. after some difficulty. accepted by
the people of that rather Independent
little state as their prince consort. Mr..
McCutcheon now takes up the story Of
Yetive's son. Prince Robin. who, at a
rather critical juncture In his nations
affairs. goes touring around the world
with two most trusted officer attend
ants. Graustark Is at crisis. Her
bonds are falling due and she is hav-
ing difficulty finding funds to renew
them, while a certain matrimonial prof.
ect for the prince. which would SO ma
terially facilitate matters. is balked by
the mutual stubbornness of the young
people. At this stage of affairs Robin
arrives at the New York suburban
home Of dear friends of his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs Truxton King, whose mod
est establishment lies adjacent to the
Americas most successfully self-made
men. Mr.. Blithers has project of
finding for his independent and at
tractive daughter the best available