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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04

which causes the earnest summer reader
to leap about in sheer agony. Happily he
is infrequent. One of them came in the
Public Library the other day. He had a
friend with him. and the appearance Of
both of them sugge sted that they had
just graduated from school and were ear
nestly anxious to impress the world with
that fact.
Now. there is nothing that your true
booklover-and most summer library Wis
itorS are true devotees-despises more
than an argument. An argument any
where annoys him-an argument in the
reading room is the objectionable crime.
Why waste time in silly discussion when
the thoughts of the master minds of all
ages are at hand waiting only to be
called for.
The first young man gave his English
cut trousers firm hitch ard walked I'M
portantly to the desk.
Let me-" he said. have a complete
edition of Shakespeare"
He got it. and with his friend departed
to nearby table in the reading room.
where requesting silence, but that didn't
worry him.
Now" he said. ponderously. "let me
find you that key which Is in Richard
III"
When he found it he began to read in a
fine believing basso. 1t was not until
fifteen minutes later that the Mortified
readers around the library discovered that
TINS bright young man was deliberately
reopeninS the Baccn-Shakespeare cont,o-
versy.
\ smalfsh man. who had on a pair of
trimmed eyeglasses. and was conspicu-
ously lacking in hair seemed to be the
first to make the discovery
20 tempora, o mores:' said the baldtsh
man in angushed accents. This is the
limit
And with that he chased off to find an
attendant. He found one and persuaded
him to speak firmly to the youthful
prodigy.
Say" said the young man. plaintively.
do you mean to tell me that / can't
talk little. How can l improve my
mind if ! don't talk? l gotta improve
my mind.
Don't you bother said the little bald
ish man. viciously. He had returned and
was standing near. You leave your
mind alone. Let it stagnate. This world
can get along without your mind whole
lot better than it can with your con-
versation.
The young man bestowed upon the
elderly man a look of infinite contempt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
DEMOCRACY AND RACE: FRICTION;
n Study In Social Efhica. BY John

- - OS:T of Washington is spend
IN ~ ing its time out of doors
U"u these days. The canoe and
the fishing rod, the tennis
court and the golf links
rather supercede the pastime of book
reading. But there are a few devotees
who stick to their reading though the
mercury push the roof off of the Their
mometer and the historic stunt of fry
ing eggs on street car tracks again
becomes the vogue.
To him who does not read much the
notion of pouring over books i'll the
summer is emblematic of mild insan-
ity which goes to show how false ideas
are established. The reading rooms of
the Library of Consress and public Ii
braries in Washington are about the
coolest spots in the city. Electric fans,
awning shaded windows, thick walls,
all lend their part in the scheme of
GOODNESS. There are no flies. There is
no noise. Library reading rooms in
summer can make cemetery at mid
night look like the mob scene from
Julius Caesar"
fetal at the Library of Congress, is
the type of literature that seems to APP
peal mostly to the summer crowd?
"Oh, felton," he replied. THE lat
est books of fiction, l should say, cas-
lily lead any other two kinds of books.
Il should suppose" was suggested.
that the magazines would lead the
books in general popularity"
They are obtained In a different
ROOM replied the official, and there
fore any comment would be more or
less guesswork. But offhand l would
say that the magazines are not as
popular by one-thind as the books of
fiction. BY fiction 1 do not necessarily
mean contemporary fiction. Dickens is
always popular. Thackeray is growing
in popularity with the contemporary
reader De Maupassant is another IA
vorite. o. Henry, 1 imagine. is as
widely read as any American author.
save Mark Twain.
"Humor or melodrama seem to have
first call with the summer crowds. Next
comes the fad type of literature. By
this type ! mean the writings of men
who have been widely exploited. The
Indian poet Tagore, for instance, is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
Staging a Trial.

From the Kansas City Journal.
ut would help some if you had pretty
wife
ALAS, l am a bachelor" said the male
factor of great wealth.
Il have an idea. You plead illness.
and I'll have you go on the stand with
an attractive trained nurse in athena
ance."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04

background of democracy, democracy
wherein freedom, and not equality. is the
promise. Founded upon trained and sea-
soned scholarship. this Is also concrete
and practical study 1t has much to say
about the economic and social future of
the negro. Here Booker T. Washington
stands as the great negro. the one of
true vision, the one who realizes that the
negro must within his own race-group
build up a social tradition upon his own
race traits, that within this group he
must work out his own salvation of in
dustrial and economic security. This is
very clear and impressive and con-
vincing study into the causes and eff
fects of race friction.
AMERICA, ThrOushe the Spectacles of
an Oriental Diplomat. BY WI
TinGfang. LII. D.. late Chinese min.
lister to the United States of Amer
lea. Illustrated New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Company.
In an elementary fashion. much as If
he were telling the strange story of the
United States to the home people in
China. this distinguished and popular
foreign diplomat gives his manysided
impressions of America. Naturally, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
THE EVENING STORY.
A White DAY.

Copy right. 1914. by W. werner.)
All night Hilda Crewe was troubled in
her sleep by the noises of the storm.
When morning came raw and gray to
her window. she sat up In her bed and
looked forth. The snow was still coming
down thinly languidly; the wind had
quieted. Across the lower panes a high
drift peered blue and cold. Hilda knew
then what had happened.
She got up and dressed, attended to the
stove and went to the windows AS far
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
An Old Melody-The Bluebird' s
Song

From St Nicholas.
A melody of the sprngtime.
A tune of the April sky!
A music like vocal sunshine,
As a fash Of blue skins by.
Blue are the sky and the river
And the music tn. Lord hath made
Is held in the throat of a songster
Tina: CLEANS with the same bright shade.
And we know that spring is coming,
When We see the bird of blue
And hear his song In the orchard
A melody old yet new.
For 1t seems that the bird is a spirit
Whose summons sweet will bring
Over the river the dawning,
And over the hills the spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
NEW FOREIGN BOOKS RECENT.
LY ADDED.

The following list gives the titles of
the latest additions of foreign books to
the Public Library:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04

The winter had been so mild thai she
could get out of doors each day. Now
nature, too. had turned against her and
buried her in snow. She was imprisoned.
She might indeed be dead for days be-
fore any one sought her out.
The thought choked her. and she turned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
OTHER PEOPLES MONEY: and How
The RnnI.erS I.sc II. z Louis D

Erandcis Preface hy Norman Hap
coed New Tnr',: Frederick, A
Stokes Company
This is the story OF the Investment
banker WHOM Mr.. Brandeis declares to
hc the dominant cement in the financial
uiigarcny chat controls the money OF
,roaaools rre savings uf the people "a,
the tolls OF the investment banker. 'on-
,iia-iar, is the source OF his power. The
intricate methods ~ which combinations
and denominations are made by the
tankers to tn. end that the world
frnnev IS in the hands OF few men,
,:..;rce of concentration that does away
y: -h Tn. posS bihty OF any genuine eco
monte freedom Tie eNpain.s what inter
.ocking G!Teytorat,.s are ami what taeS
mean 10 fret. industry He describes the
pDSitiEe .Nl!S o. ~ erDigneSS in business
aud defines the failure OF banker-ihana e
frent and the general inediciency OF ms
ulans He outlines an industrial deinoc-
,ucv for the United states, and points 10
,.,,-operative alliances as q cure TOT 'HS
money trrlst With perfect publicity an
atoms; the line as effective remedy anu
aid Concrete and amazingly circunl-
..aut5sl clear and furceful; - perfect
s.onn,,.T,ditrn of the facts in THIS case oi
.h,. concentration Of money power III the
hands of the few. the STUDY wonih inahe
al, admirable elementary textbook on one
sag. ,,f the evolution of modern bust
ness Published originally as "a SEXES OF
articles on the money trust. these stuoles
CONS. together here as both narrative ana
e;ue;, ANALYSIS of the present iHuustriai
i,t-of,lef1!s in which the country g IN
vowed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
BOOK REVIEWS.

THEY WHO KNOCK At OUR GATES.
BY Mary Antin. author of The
Promised Land Illustrations by
Joseph Stella. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in CompanN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
ITALIAN BOOKS,

Hazard, FAM. Gia-"mr Laopardi. ZY35AIiI5Sh.
Novelli Augusta. La Cupoa. Y35D-NsJSc.
Znnin Carlo. STEELE d'Arsento Cuori dorc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
i;lsINEsS-A PROFESSION. BY Louis
D. Brandeis- Boston: Small. MAY
nard & Co.

This volume brings tosetnef aoo"'
twenty of Mr.. Louis Brandels addfesses
on one or another phase OF THE pfopiehis
Of modern business The book taxes IT'S
name from the first of these addresses
the ore wherein the writer makes the
plea that business be raised to the Level OF
a profession. In order to define what ne
means by this Mr.. Brandeis analyses
profession upon its ideal rather than upon
It's actual side. What ne asks is that
business shall rest. as a profession does.
upon preliminary training Of an inteilec-
tual character. involving knowledge as
stinguished from mere skill. And that
it shall. like profession. be pursued
largely for others and not merely for
ones self. And that II shall not. as a
nrofession does not, measure its success
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04
FRENCH BOOKS,
History and Travel,

Bruce. ". $. ed Recit ct Con,es de Ia t;uerrs
de 1870. F3a53- Bs3
Ciantepleure. Guy, pseud. La Vile Assieyee
F59-J .3ti6y
Caller. Humbert de. Les Moeurs ct la Vie
FTtvee Autreiois. 1911. ti:B9 ;l36m
Caller. Humbeu de- Les Moeurs ct Ia Ne
privee d Autrefois. Files Mobiles ct Magiciennes
t;39-G136f
Greirt -Dumazeau. Andre L'Anaire du Bonnet.
F39.4-tiStsl.
Marvand. Angel. L'Espagne au viny,Ietns
Ciecle. HC40- M36.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04

q p OS.T of Washington is Spenu-
IN ~ ing its time out of doors
these days. The canoe and
u the fishing rod, the tennis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04

popular in a restricted sense. And h
was unheard of a few years ago"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-04

There is one form of hot-weather pest
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22

overwhelmingly school teachers
OF Stafford County have organized by
the election of the following officers:
s. r.. Young. president: Misses Louia
Arlington, Ellie Fleming, Flora Ry-
land, Mrytfc A. Bullock and Sallie
French vice-pres!dents: Miss Elsie
Clore, treasurer; Mrs. Kate Gill.
Misses L.oula Arlington and Virginia
Perciful. delegates to the convention Of
the State association.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
News Of Progress
Is More Important
| han War News y

Industrial Editor OF The Richmond
V.rginian:
Sir,---Allow rue TO congratulate you
people upon the business-iike manner
you have kept your Progressive Sec
ton Of your Sundays issues. ] am
glad to Sc there is one newspaper in
the State that has had confidence
enough in the welfare OF our country
and forethought 10 see that the peo-
pie are more anxious 10 read ''progres-
sive news" rather than stale yellow
war news" / compared yoar last sun
days Paper with your strongest COM
petitor, and here are a few facts that
a mere laymau could detect Your
Progressive Section had six large head =
lines of thrifty progressive news and
what WAS going on IN Richmond and
the State in general. while the other
Industrial section" (which has been,
but now anything eise). had seven
columns of stale war news.
Now we people are, as you know.
anxious for the war news; we look
for it. and we get 1t. but we do not
want it in everything that We read.
We want to hear of something else
save old war news, that everybody
knows that Is not one word In ten is
correct. II tho people throughout tho
State would sill stop and talk nothing
else nut Waa what Woulu DSGcHie tl
our industries? We do not do that:
we also talk little business. The
writer Is just little fanat!cal on this
European war and II is but natural.
] am little hard on some people who
do nothing else but think. write ana
talk this kind OF news I recently
wrote one Of our largest. If not the
largest, newspaper in the State calling
their attention to this fact, and also
was responding TO a request OF the
editor ''as voicing the views of the
people," but he saw fit mot to publish
it. The old adage. the cap fitted
him"
1 hope from now on / shall see
nothing else in your Progressive Sec
ton but such news as fills us with
pride for our State and cities. that W.
are going ahead with our work and
are still on the upgrade of prosperity
and not sitting back reading yellow,
stale war news
Very truly yours.
], Il. GRAFTON, JR.
Alberta, Va, Nov. 81.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
BETTER HIGHWAYS
WILL Be NAKED
AND DISTANCE BE
TWEEN TOWNS, WILL BE-
INDICATED.
G E N S y S
RICHMOND CLUB LEARNS THERE
ARE 2.Ies OWNERS or CARE IN
CITY AND sUBrRBs--ro
HAVE MAGAZINE,
AUTOMOBILE c E N S u S

That the guide pos should follow
the road Is apparently a belief Of the
Richmond Automobile Club. whose
activities in the direction OF improved
highways have given impetus TO va
rious good roads movements in Eas-
ern Virginia and North Carolina
There are now being received in this
city large numbers OF guides or signs
TO rbe placed on posts for which or
der has been given. which will LIE
the new highway from Washington a."
Raleigh, n. c, as soon as the rod
building is completed,
The club Is prepared now Ia place
the posts along the highway from
Richmond to Fredericksburg and the
work will be begun early this week.
it is expected.
Distance and Direction VIII BE
Pointed Out.
The Richmond AutJmopife CUBS
activities, in addition to those look
ing TO posting of roads that stran-
gers NAV be guided from place to
place without the loss of time inct-
dent to the hating and making Of
inquiry of psssersby, extend al this
time in several directions, eaci, NJ
which will result with osnefit esp-ci
ally to owners of automobiles and
generally to the public,
2.1G3 Own Automobiles.
A census of the automobile owners
Of Richmond and suburbs has just
been completed. 1t shows 2.l6s du-
tomobiles are owned by Richmond
people and by people living within
radius OF sixteen miles. or these
more than three hundred are mem
bers OF the club.
The club, at It's annual meeting
held recently. J. r w, Curtis was
elected secretary and Joe Leonard was
made chairman Of publicity commit
tee The club has determined to
publish a magazine for the owners of
automobiles in this section, ami
first number OF the publication whica
!s to make it's appearance about De-
cember /.
TIE "uesdIight" Ordinance.
Considerable attention IS being
given by the club membership TO the
proposed ordinance which would aho'-
ish the strong HEADLIGHTS with which
most cars are equipped, The club
is In favor OF the adoption Of the or
dinance, but IL believes that II should
be so amended as TO require every
horse drawn vehicle eo he equipped
vt.N a light .oca'ed In relatively
uniform position above the street
level at the left side OF the vehicle.
Automobile owners declare that
without their headlights It Is often
Impossible for them, esnectallv on the
darker streets or roads within the
limits OF the citv 81 Richmond. to see
a horSed-awn vehicle. They are Will
inr. II not anxious, to have the head
light abolished. but they insist that
All vehicles should carry AT least one
light to the left.
The ordinance. given a hearing ir
committee durirg the week has het1
referred to the Bosrd ~ Pofca com
missioners for a recommendation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
BRINE HELPS SAVE
BIG ICE FACTORY

Petersburg. Va. Nov. 2l.--Informs-
ton was received here yesterday Of the
destruction by fire at Waveriy OF the
dry-ktln of the j. l.. Bradshaw Coop
erare Company. Fire was discovered
in the kiln and before X was got
under control, II had destroyed the
entire plant. with the exception Of the
ice factory near by In addition 10
the building the machinery Is total
wreck. entatiing a loss OF about s15,-
900. on which there was $1,000 IN
surance
The ice factory was saved through
the liberal use of brine which Is used
in making Ice.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22

SOUTHERN CITIES BUSY
LEEsBURG AND PETERSBURG ARE
VIRGINIA MUNICIPALITIES
PREPARING ron I'M
PRovEMENTs.

That the business depression, general
iy felt throughout the United States
because of the T. ropean wars. has not
caused any failing off III activities in
road building and highway improve
ments in tha South Is shown In the
weekly summary prepared by the
Manufacturers Record Many coun-
ties and cities in the Southern States
have let. or authorized, contracts for
improving streets and highways, and
others have voted or soon will vote,
bond issues Tor sGch work The sum
mary shows
Ponds Voted
Gadsden. Ala --- Etowah County
voted 5000 600 bonds 10 construct
roads.
Bonds 10 BE Voted.
Takersv!ue. y. C.--Bakersville town
ship. Of Mitchell County. votes Deem
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
WILL VOTE ON
SALE MONDAY NIGHT

T.le congregation OF Emmanuel Bap~
fist Church will meet Monday night
for the purpose Of voting on the aues-
ton of the sale of their church, Mem
bers only will have the right of suf-
frage on the question. The vote VII
be taken under the supervision OF IA
commissioner representing the court
which has asked that the will of the
mem bership be then registered before
granting the petition of the trustees
for an order permitting i,ne sale Of
the church.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22

Continued on Fifth Page,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
Y. w. C.. A. WORKERS
NEAR $1,000 MARK

The total subscriptions secured by
the various teams sent out by the
local Young Women's Christian Assoc
citation received up to last night were
$3.937.50.
One thousand sixty-two dollars and
fifty cents has yet to be secured by
Monday night. The subscriptions are
being collected for present expenses
Of the association
A team composed OF ten bnsin
girls of the association has procured
more subscription than any OF the
other teams. Their total TO date
amounts to $1.IS9.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
MANY TRANSFERS
HERE DURING WEEK

The Daily Record. organ of the
Real Estate Exchange, yesterday
summarized the real estate trans
fers for the week. beginning Satur
day. November IA, which shows
Richmond has not dropped OFF the
real estate map. The total shows
that s15S,735 exchanged hands dur
Ing the week Here is the sum-
mary.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22

When Tho meeting OF The board ls
raped to order by Chairman Ingle
nryt Wednesday II will he with a
eav@l whi'si has just been presented
10 him through the Broadway Ma
'sc''ai Bark OF Richmond, by Char es
~ Vaughan. 4 director of that esta b.
Hshment. The gavel was made from
one Of the mahogany railway ties laid
By De Lesseps when the French were
attempting to construct the Panama
Canal.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-22
West End Subscribers to G. 4
p. Service Now Call Through
"Boulevard" Central.
Instantaneous Shift From
Downtown Exchanges Made
Last Night-320000 Persons
in Communication Daily.


|
~. ..l,+4av or tso,,ssraa of dts
,,lg,,.-,7 t.Ess, ..--ja 20 nc the ru3piatifre
rt,..s arr. ,.a.,.a ,n inc downtov,,
( t'Iildtr'e ,r tha C1se..naalee and poto-
49, rn4.,..,.,,,.. ,r,,,.,+.ao,- and the
T s,r,,,lts,,...f,, a,.,ltv,s az an aouaI
/ n,,,ra,. az release, -erays in the naw
/ h,,I3dfrs nf tn.. ,o,,r..x- r., the West
( Ean5 at "a n,-1ocl, LAT u{f~,t u1artad
a., ,,srt,,s ~ ne r2o,rtovard ex-
chor~s 80 ~ trs,,starrf,,sy ~ .hrse
4 thn,,sar5 irro,ss vet nj Alien Ave-
mn ara soi,e1, 81 M. g}t.,bnIond Fred
Z nr{cLrsb,,r~ ana putauaar HaiIroaa.
+ fra,r, ~ 4ov-,,,,,,-., ..vrh.uoea ia the
-a,r. ore 7hers - ~ 9ereynonv
F. rTu.a o,.c,,r,- no .aiar,hl,,,n ronnauy
ar,r,n1,ns ms g., aals, ~ The mid
inge. pulled strings previously set for
the operation, ard the "cut-ovcrH was
compieted within less than minute
+ Calls for or from Telephone stations
IN the territory covered ley the new
central. were hand ed up to 10 o'clock
last night in Madison and Randolph
/ exchanges. few seconds later the
operators IN bonteEaFo e%Tilat lse "ess
r'aha'i"s t''s iH"hS 't'" 6'iNS az.
4 tee A3Aot@S Soi'''t''i ''i~~a .i'' con
WIN an l7Ie' P''"H I'47@ Was "@teis
"oIcSdo'e'
After Months OF Labor
Though many months of labor ars
required In the preliminary work In
connection with "cnt-over" Of this
kind. the actual transfer Of the tele- =
phones from one exchange to another
IS almost instautaneouslv made For
severg, months nset the te5enhones IN
the West End have been connected by
very small copper wires In the under
ground cables, OF 120o wires. with the
Boulevard exchange. They have. dur
Ing the same time, remained connects
ed with one or the other Of the down
town exchanges The transfer OF ths
telephones meant, hat the discor-
meeting Of the instruments from the
exchange which has been serving
them and the connection with the
new exchange.
BY pulling the heat coi1s" on the
main frame in me dounto,rr building
the Yves, End lines we're dtsnonnAc,ea
By releasing the RELAYS on these Same
lines In tha Rol,Iey,,rg4 ntf3na the tires
were auto.naficaiv throwr, int tsne
Boulevard enc nsr,r1snar,t1,,
,o A., ..., -,
/ " ''"A''"
IN preparation Iof the pulling OF the
cons stfohg t"ine was placed behind
those "hlch were 10 be removed. The
strings were run together into groups
along the 4ength ot the frame in the
downtown ONCE. a somewhat similar
arfaheement 81 string Was put up on
the relays In the Boulevard office.
behfhc the frames al ~ o clock iast
night the teIephoae men stood In line
awaiting the sigma for the pull When
heat coils leaped out 81 their places
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-15
HERRING A POSITIVE CANDIDATE.
Clubs Organize In Several Cities: 1000
Members At Elk City.

F. f. Herring ranchman-merchant,
of Elk City. is without any f"ifs" or
butts candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor. Whatever
uncertainty there may be about other
candidates running, the most reliable
certainty attaches to the candidacy
of Herring
He openly announced as such sew
eral weeks ago and that he will give
the democrats Of the state an oppor-
tunity to line up for him next August
is as certain as anything in the realm
of human events can be forecasted.
The Herring club at Elk City has
been in existence ever since Mr.. Her
ring sought nomination four years
age. At Clinton the Herring club is
making medicine" with a member
snip OF 200. AT Mangum a similar
is on the job. The Her
ring admirers will spend their time
from now until election day forming
other clubs with View OF furthering
the interests of their favorite for gov
ernor.
Ale Herring club at Elk City boasts