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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-08
THE TIMEs-DIsPATCH and Breakfast
arc served together with unfaiiins resu-
tarity In the Best Homes Of Richmond
Is your morning program Completed
The Big Stick Again

COLONEL ROOsEVELT's attacks on Dis
~ trict Attorney Whitman, the Republican
candidate for Governor of New York, must
be the occasion Of great satisfaction to Gov
ernor Glynn, who wants to succeed himself,
and probably will At any rate, he is obtain
ing from the tattered remnants of the polit-
cal army that met at Armageddon to battle
for the Lord" all the help he could desire.
OF course, Colonel Roosevelt knows there
ia not the slightest chance Of electing Daven-
port, the Progressive candidate. His purpose
is to defeat Whitman and so convince the
Republican party in New York State that it
cannot get along without the help of the big
stick. He and the district attorney have
at each other with the utmost cheerful
ness, augmenting the Ananias Club at the
conclusion of every bout.
But why should Democrats worry about
motives or even about casualties? They are
certain to reap whatever profits realized
from the Observation-Disclosures row.
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Increasing Demand for Apples

NlRG1NIA apple growers, whose exhibits at
the State Fair emphasize so eloquently
the horticultural possibilities of the Com
monwealth, but who labor this year under
The crushing handicap OF reduced demand.
caused by the European war, may take a leaf
from the book of their Canadian business
rivals
Apple growers there are worse hit by the
war, 1t is probable, than are the orchardists
or this country. Usually Canada has en-
ported 100000 barrels of apples to Great
Britain and rs per cent of it's evaporated
apple product to the Continent of Europe
rms business was suspended automatically
by the outbreak OF hostilities
Neither the Canadian government nor the
apple growers themselves, however, were dis
couraged Acting in conjunction, they in
augurated campaign of newspaper adver-
Using, designed to create Il greater domestic
demand and pointing out new or unfamiliar
ways in which apples could be utilized in the
housewives scheme Of domestic economy.
The campaign promises to attain all the ends
1t was expected to serve.
1t is lesson for Virginia. In times of
financial depression the worst course any in
dustry can follow is to sit down and none:
the best course is to meet the emergency
courageously and strive TO pluck profit from
impending disaster Here lies the apple
growers way.
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, way, ] had arrived at Ostend without
having paid cents In fares and only
few cents for food.
I'm this roundabout route to Ostend
encountered many little kindnesses.
but the limit was reached when 4 por-
ter ofrcred me franc. 1t was prob
ably all the money he possessed. nut
he thought by my gestures that was
broke.
But although ] have spent seven
DAYS In France and Belgium at a cost
apart from the boat passage) OF %
shiilinss, have come back with an un-
comfortable feeling that have hardly
had my moneys worth Not one Ger
man have l seen.
I'm the seven days, however, have
seen sights and heard tales thrilling
and glorious that the years will never
eTace [ shall never forget. for in
stance, how, one morning in Boulosnc,
saw coming towards me little group
or seven men, clothed in rags. faces
smcared with dust and CRIME, rusty
red blotches showing duly here and
there. grim reminders OF such things
as whistling bullets and flying frng-
mcnts OF she'll. One of them asked NE
to direct them to the British consul
When replied to them In words that
still have lingering trace of Midland
accent they were almost overcome with
joy
They werc British soldiers. not as
we Know them, locked out in the fine
trarpingS Of the parade ground. spick.
spnn md shaven. They had been at the
great battle OF Mons. and the nine days
OF walking and hairbreadth escapep
that had followed their having been
cut off from their regiment had left
their mark,
French peasants. they told me had
eiven them clothes and buried their uni
forms. The picture they presented was
cameo OF tragedy, but there was the
inevitable comic relief One great giant
or fellow. six feet three inches In
hn'ght, had been given a pair of trous-
crA that reached only an inch or two
below his knees. 'Blime me, mate he
SAID with a rueful glance at his partial
~ covered legs, I never thought l was
hoomin' boy scouts"
They had had terrible time. They
mad been, they said. In the trenches at
Hioiis. The German artillery had got
the range almost Immediately. The
Llessed shells said one, were screams
heard before. All wc could do was to
Keep on firing. Our officer stood up In
the trenches and clapped his hands like
as " he was clappin' star turn at the
empire Good boys" he yelled. Good
boys" Stick to it!' That was all he said.
~ ts"I !hoHent q piece OF she'll had
e:umpied MIN up. The next In COM
mand ordered us to retreat and we
7elted back.'
On the way we passed a deserted
Mexlm There was a Lancashire chap
,nera who knew how to work 1t. 80
long, hoys' he shouted, ana made dive
i LOT the gun. few moments later I
looked back There he was pumpin'
lead into the mass of 'em, laughin' for
an he was worth and yellin' out; Look
at en- droppin', toys. look at 'em drop
pm That was the Lost saw Of hint
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Let us Sing!

A FTER the correspondents had narrowed
~ our souls by sending nearly every for
eign member OF the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany to the front. there to become the mark
OF inartistic bullets, IL Is announced that
practically all the artists will be on deck
when the season opens next month. This is
a matter for rejoicing, particularly as we are
left with the pleasing impression that the
tenors and baritones and bassos were all
eager 70 shoulder muskcts, and wLre only
deferred from doing by rejecting on the
woe their absence would cause to the Ameri-
can public. or at least to that portion OF it
that pays for high-prced opera II the metro
polls.
Meanwhile low-priccd opera has struck its
gait in New York to the fine tune OF an aver
age attendance of 1000 And the operas are
being produced in English, too the language
in which, we once were given to understand
no self-respecting opera singer could MARBLE
In the erstwhile st. Petersburg It was well
enough to sing in melfuous Russian, hut
neither In England nor the United States was
IT possible to make passionate the sense of
hearing" in the tongue that was good enough
for Shakespeare's tolerably smooth sonnetS
and Swnburnes not altogether dissonanA
verse.
1t 10 the New York Century Opera Com
pany that has more interest and promise for
the music-loying public of other cities than
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-08

Gentleman wishing to form a cav
AIRY division. wants to meet other gem
tlemen willing to enlist"
Gentleman. unmarried. going to the
front, wants someone willing to write
him home news in exchange for occa-
sional censored post cards form the ar
Ing line"
All OF the London newspapers, too,
carry variety OF advertisements urg-
Ing recruits to join the army. One OF
them:
Your King and Country need you.
Lord Kitchener wants every able bodied
man to enlist. God snve the King"
/. Another:
IAN appeal to all ex-N. c. o.'s tnon-
commits sioned ofTlccrs). Lord Kitchener
appeals to ex-noncommiHsioned oficera
OF any branch of his majcsty's forces
to assist him now by rc-enlisting at
once for tho duration OF the war Par.
ticulars: Chiefly required to act as
drill instructors. Promotion to non
enlistment. Ago no obstacle, SO long
Or competent. 40 liability for service
abroad II over forty-nyc Pensioners
Will draw their pensions In addition TO
pay OF rank at army rates. God Save
the King"
Besides such advertisements, there
are scores appearing in all the daily
newspapers. proclalming MADE In Eng
land goods. Clothing. boots and shoes
drugs. edibles and all other commodi-
ties are advertised as Of English make
for the reason that Immediately Or the
outbreak OF war there was a whole
Bhle crusade throughout the British
empire against all goods OF German
manufacture.
In this connection some really amaz.
Ing advertisements may be seen. among
them this:
Action for libel. j. Lyons & Co, Ltd
fplaintifrsl vs.. Upton. Ltd. defend
ants). In the High Court OF Justice.
Mr.. Justice Sankey granted an interim
Injunction restraining Upton, Its,
their agents and servants from speak
Ing or publishing or writing any word
to the effect or OF the substance that
J. Lyons .Ss Co. Ltd, or the directorate
thereof, Is composed of Germans, and
that by purchasing their commodities
the public is assisting the enemies OF
Great Britain.
u. Lyons & Co.. Ltd. tby appoint
ment to His Majesty. tho King) is an
Il-British company. with all British di-
rcctors. and has $4,000 all British share
holders"
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or THOSE who Walk Alone.

Women there are ON earth, most sweet and high.
VINO lose their own and walk beren and
Loving that one lost heart until they dic
And so they never beside them grow
children, whose coming is like breath of
flowers; "
consoled by subtlcr loves the~angels know
Through childloss hours.
Good deeds they do; they comfort and they
In duties others put off till tho morrow;
Their look is balm their touch is tenderness
TO all In sorrow.
Botimes the world smiles at them, as twere
shame,
This maiden guise, long after youths departed; ;
But In Gods Book they bear another name
THE faithful-hearted."
Faithfu'in lifc and faithful unto death,
sach souls in aooth, illume with lustre
That glimpsed glad land wherein tho vision
saith.
lGarths wrongs are ended.
Richard Burton, in Century Magazine.
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Taxation and Premium on Honesty

HE too QuiXotic conscience may be dis
posed to find some fault with the lax
commissions frankly material and unitarian
method Of reforming evils connected in this
State with the taxation, or rather with the
nontaxation, of intangibles The commission
finds that this class of property Is not as
sessed to any very large extent and 1t pro-
poses to remedy this situation by reducing
the rates and thus placing a premium on
honesty.
When questions of taxation are reduced to
their ultimates, there is no sound reason, as
general rule. why one class of property
should hear greater burden than another
In municipalities, where the owner Of real
estate enjoys the benefit of police and fire
protection and other services the municipality
renders. 1t is proper, possibly, that these
facts be taken into consideration in fixing the
city rate, but. so far rs the State is con-
cerned, there is no apparent ground for exact
ing more from the owner of $4,000 house
than from the owner of $4,000 in cash
In the light Of experience, however, these
considerations become almost wholly aca
demic. The bulletin of tho tax commission
shows that, based on estimated true values
real estate in Virginia pays an average rate
OF S.577 per 500. tangible personal property
about $40 and intangible personal property
less than $.15. But" says the commission
most Of those who do pay on this last class
state and local rate, that is, nearly three
times as much as is paid OH real estate Of
equal value, the average combined State and
local rate being $1495
Under such circumstances, it is not diff
hcurt to understand the trouble and the diff
hculty. Owners of intangibes realize per-
fectly that scarce any one returns this class
OF property, and that those who do who, by
the way, are very largely the legal represen-
tatlVes OF dead mems estates, are penalized
heavily for their honesty
IL is to the States advantage, obviously
and to the COMMON interest as WELL that the
burdens Of taxation should be fairly dis
trlbuted. Preferences and exemptions
whether they result from unequal assessments
or from individual differences in the matter
or conscience are alike obnoxious That
system which serves to impose on every citi-
zen his just proportion of the expenses of
government or most nearly attains that ideal
is the best system.
Excluding bank stock and property under
the control Of guardians, fiduciaries and
court commissioners, the commission says cit
is known that not one-tenth of the intangible
personal property in the Commonwealth is
assessed" Surely that is situation that
calls urgently and emphatically for remedy.
we should feel more confidence in the com
MISSIONS remedy were it not accompanied by
the statement that under the new 90 cent
rate on bank deposits, fairly analogous to the
plan for reduced rates on intangibles only
about one-siXth part OF the money Virginia
banks now hold for their patrons is returned
Tor taxation. But even that is better than
one-tenth-and the showing may improve
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and that all tho policies written by American
life, companies In Germany assumed tho war
FISK FMS concession was deemed neeessary IN
German companies. which offer full protection.
1t is needless to say that nll now insurance
I'm Europe Is written without tho war risk, but.
of course. tho outstanding obligations Will hold,
and little new insurance Will be written for
some time to como Tho day OF reckoning will
not be immediate. since the moratorium In
Europe covers all insurance claims. a comfort
ing feature of tho situation also Is that II good
proportion OF the business OF American life
companies abroad is In policies Of not
than $5,o00-Springield Republican.
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4 Minor Accident

w HEN pelee blew up, the whole world
w began to organize relief; when the
hoodgates opened at Galveston and Johns
town, when Borcas blew disaster into St.
Louis. when San Francisco shuddered and
fell down, when Baltimore touched by a
spark from n cigarette, gave its business sec
ton to the flames, all the country began to
get frantic with hunger for details, and
with offers OF money and train loads of pro-
visions where needed.
Consider how time flies and events become
pigmies The other day Smyrna, in Asiatic
| Turkey, advised the rest OF the world that
isbanta and Burdur, in the Province of
konia: were wrecked, and $500 killed by an
earthquake. Six months ago or less the
news would have been accompanied by har-
rowing details; moving picture crews would
have been rushed to the 'front.' relief expedi-
lions would have been organized. But how
Is 1t now? With few million men formed
along battle line 200 miles long, what
boots puny disaster OF an insignificant $500
lives In Asiatc Turkey?
1t will take long time for the world to
get itself back to that condition In which an
earthquake can have more than paragraph
of space, though whole >cit,es be engulfed.
There is far more serious and dramatic bust
ness on hand in another theatre.
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The Bright Side Of Life
His sunIess Birthnlnc.

a Young woman reporter was Interviewing n
wealthy young Pittsburg her-.rbout his home it,
says the New York Evening Post ~ &C.
.n Wh 1s ala you first SEQ the light OF day."
But" said the writer, al have alwavs ,,a.
STOOD that you were born in Pittsburshv'
ana so was Your question however ,l,d
not take that form You asked where frat en- w
the light of day. That historic event oocurreI
In Philadelphia when nine years or age"N
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Lett s5O0 uuaccov,.., -,

When H. q. c. Lamar, member of Clevelapds
cabinet; went TO Washington he wanted to find
suitable nome: Among the numerous offers
ono from Mrs, Dahlgren, who was anxious to
lease her beautiful residence for long term
After expatiating on Its numerous adyantarea
the lady quoted tho price for annual rental al
$500, and said: ~ a.
What do you think of it, Mr. I.amar?".
Il am only wondering how l can mana,a 80
spend the other $500 OF my salary"-Kan sss
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Keep Going.

, A. Rustem Bey, A. Rustem Bey.
We grieve that you have sailed away
We mourn because you would not stay
And teach US how to work and play
And when be sad and when be gay.
But now that YOU have gone away
Most earnestly We hope and pray
Twill be very distant day
Ere you come back, oh, Rustem Bey.
THE TATTLER.
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Current Editorial Comment

Tho question has been raised
Insurance as to how the American life
and It's insurance companies are to be
War t,,slr affected by the war. 1t is too
early to answer that question in
anything like an adequate way
but there is one very interesting feature of the
situation. 1t appears that our Insurance COM
panies have large interests in Germany and
Austria. whence no word can as yet be obtained,
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Below the peit.

see by tho papers," said the Prominent
Citizen that the Democratic caucus OF tho
Senate has determined to place special war
tax on beer and spirits. Considering the unfor-
tunate experience through which the Rum
lemon mas just passed In this State, that seems
to me Sood deal like hitting a fellow whep
he Is down"
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SONGS AND SAWS
The Censor Man.

Oh, q wonderful man Is the censor man
Who sits in Ills offlce neat,
with war-maps here and war-maps there
And war-maps under his feet
He takes tho tale OF writer pale ,,5I-
WHO hands 1t DER In fear.
With gray goose quill. he slashes till
These sounds break on the ear:
Our feet engaged the foe at tBlankl,
Near the tomttedl shore,
And of his ships tdeletedl sank
And tblank1 were soon more.
The armored cruiser lNameless1 won
Distinction in the fray
She'd steamed that morn from tBlank1 to
IBlank],
long and dangerous way"
Yes. the censor man has a wonderful plan
For letting the wide world know
Just what's been done twixt sun and sun,
Where the blood-red rivers now
His idea Is when bullets whiz
And shell and shrapne1 hiss.
Hn must sing song that moves long
In words somewhat like this:
Our gallant men o-day at [Blankl
Assaulted their harrled -oes
And turned with ease tvon Blank'sl tblank ]
flank.
And moved them IblankI In rows.
And General tBlankl has ordered tBlankI
To move up from the right.
SO all can that victory,
lDelctcd1 Is In sight,
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Defense
OF the
Censor

communication becomes supreme. Law may be
nuliihed and custom ignored, IL the public good
Isl thereby served. TO prevent military move
nents from becoming known before they are
completed and to prevent the circulation of
ISLANDERS about 1.-THE armies and people along side
or whom we are nghting" are the nvowed objects
OF the British censorship. Those who do not
like the way tho censorship works may relieve
their feelings by swearing at the censor, but
that gentleman will not modify his policy in
the Sigh testABrooSyn Eagle
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Uncle znch,s pb,Io,o,b~.

Time and tide. dey say, wait for no man. but
dat amt true erbout Old Man Hand Luck. He 8
hangin' aroun' de cohner ahl de time ready To
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-08

How long will the European war last?' the
Stanton Daily Leader asks. No answer from
any of our contemporaries. All right we'll be
the goat. How long?
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The Pessimist says.

Some are born fools, some achieve folly and
Sol have to listen while their friends expound
the mystery of European war strategy.
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The Danvllo Register says: Secretary Bry-
an is reported as chopping wood for exercise
He was probably merely trying out that axe
he has for Roger Sullivan" Gently, gently.
brother! Every knows that Mr.. Secretary
Is ready and willing to bury the hatchet-in
Rogers neck.
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Laffan, the World (and some other papers
we know laughs with you.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-08

From the beginning OF the war
Optimism the British adopted the rule.
Shown Nv Business USUAL and concen-
Ru.,naes trated all the energy and re-
sources that could be spared
~, from naval and military necessl-
YES 90 the task of keeping business going
Aeeordins to all reports, the British rule is
"orhihg wei. Government and business men
aIe cooperating to restore financial stability
anu nm. elasticity to stimulate building, to keep
nc inc factories open and commodities moving
OPTIMISM and energy are driving out gloom and
inertia. II the British, In the midst of war, with
us great drain upon their resources and It's
destruction and menace to their trade can keen
business going, what cannot Americans do? We
nave al our resources We only Indirectly
nurt. our finances arc only disarranged. Some
industries and commercial activities have been
hard MT. Others have been stimulated New
opportunities have been created. Let us take
rear from British good sense. Let us quit
Drooding over calamity and shrieking abou,
losses .and go to work. Much of our business
repression is wholly mental 1t is caused BY
paralysis OF the mind. 1t is pure panic which
induces confusion and ncrtia.--St Louis Post
Dispatch.
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Chats With Virginia Editors

According to the Norfolk virginian- Pilot, "Mr.
Hearst says he publishes "A paper for people
who think but 1t is mostly the other kind
who read It."
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The Colonel has just added District Attor-
|ney Whitman to the Ananias Club The ex-
(amplc OF the European nations has encour-
(aged recruiting.
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Underlying the institution Of
the censor in every civilized
country is the great principle
that in time OF war the military
authority OF the government
over all n,auno M t,,,,coo.x n.xt