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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-14
HEROES AWARDED VICTORIA CROSS

Correspondence of Associated Press. ]
LONDON. December 1.-The granting
of ten Victoria Crosses within the last
few weeks brings the total number
OF these awards during the present war
up to twenty-one.
Tho cross is the highest reward given
to the British army FOR some signal
act OF valor or devotion performed in
the presence of the enemy" The medal Is
In the form OF a Maltese cross OF bronze
bearing in the centre the royal crown,
| surmounted by the lion, and below, on
a SCROLL the words. "For Valor." Tho
ribbon Is blue for the navy and red
for the army. The decoration IL ac-
companied by pension of $50 year.
Official lists OF surviving holders OF
the honor at the beginning of the
present war contained about $50 names.
The ten latest "v. C." awards are
as follows:
Private Sidney Cooley. Royal Fusi-
liers-For GOODNESS and gailantry in
lighting his machine gun under hot
Are for two hours after he had been
wounded at Mons on August 90.
Driver Job Drain and Driver Fred
erick Luke. Royal Field Artillcry--At
LeCateau. on August &c. as volunteers.
helping to save guns under fire from
hostile infantry 100 yards away.
Major Charles Yate, deceased, King
Own Light Infantry--Commanded one
OF two companies that remained to the
end In trenches at LeCateau on August
as when all other officers killed or
wounded. led his nineteen survivors in
gallant charge. Wounded; died In
hands OF opponents.
Lance Corporal Frederick Holmes.
Kings own Light Infnntry-At Lee
Cateau. on August &c, carried wounhed
man from trenches under heavy fire;
later assisted to drive q gun out OF
action BY taking place Of wounded
driver.
Captain Edward Bradbury, deceased,
Royal Horse Artillery--Organized de-
tense Of battery against heavy odds at
Merry OH September /.
Captain William Henry Johnston.
Royal Engineers-At Missy, on Sep
TENDER "a. under heavy fire worked two
RATS bringing back wounded. and re-
turning with ammunition.
Drummer Spence John Bent Ask,
Lancashire Regiment-For taking COM
mand and succeeding In holding posi-
ton after his officer had been struck
down. and other deeds Of bravery.
Bombardier Ernest Harlock, now SER
geant. Royal Field Artillery-For con-
spicuous gallantry on September Is near
Vendresse: although twice wounded
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Increasing the National Guard

WYE are peace-loving people, and Secre-
w tary Garrison's suggestion that the
standing army be increased $4,000 to partly
make up for the draft police duty in the
Canal Zone and in the Pacific will be looked
upon with suspicion by those who view our
love Of peace too singly and regard the posi-
bilties OF enforced defense too timidly.
We have no policy of aggression. Our
duty under the Monroe Doctrine is purely
protective. Our business in the Philippines
and Hawaii is strictly humanitarian. We
have no business, save humanitarian
and philanthropic basis, outside our own
borders. We are not looking abroad, nor
are we dreaming OF territorial aggrandize-
ment nor of world politics. Our OWE lares
and penates interest vastly more than
poaching or inching our fences outward
or course, we have to consider the ques-
ton of defense, and Of preparedness for that
defense. Our interest lies not in other
lands nor on the high seas, but right here in
this country that has not been scraped be-
meath the surface of its possibilities for de-
velopment. What we need, and should have
by all means Is q competent and equipped
Home Guard 1t may be that the standing
army should be increased $4,000 men and
1000 officers. This may may not be the
whole or partial solution Of problem.
To the. man who opposes enlarged
standing army and still believes in prepared
made by increased Federal and State aid for
the National Guard In too many States the
National Guard is a beggar, with hat in
hand asking Legislatures to kindly drop
penny for charey's sake; giving balls to raise
funds to pay the coal bill. This is all wrong
In the Spanish-American imhroglio the Ma
tional Guard showed what 1t could do, and
the big army thanks the tin soldiers to-day
for contributions Of mighty good officers who
came up from the ranks What could this
country do better than work out plan of
cooperation between national and State gov
ernments, to make the National Guard at
tractive, honorable, creditable in every way?
II seems reasonable to suppose that Uncle
Sam would encourage such n promotion of
the National Guard which would create
feeling Of greater interest in the standing
army. Congress-, indeed. already has done
much, but more can and should be done. 1t
ought to be obvious that the regular army
cannot be raised in times Of peace to 10000
men without ntolerable burden of ex-
pense or some form Of CONSUMPTION. Increas-
ing the National Guard, both in numbers and
efficiency, is the practicable answer to most
Of the defense problems.
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Paris Theatres to Open

Correspondence OF Associated Press. J
PARIS. December 1.-Many theatres
soon will he reopened. thanks to Min
lister of the Interior Malvy. who OBJ
tanned from his colleagues permission
to do as he saw ut with the amuse-
ment places. The lower lights also
coon Will be burning on the boule-
wards.
The Opera Comique will reopen with
1.-THE Daughter of the Regiment" as
the first attraction, and Mile. Chenal
draped in the French colors, will sing
the Marseillaise between the acts. The
orchestra is ready and the cast COM
plete, excepting the leading tenor. The
place of FrantZ, serving as a military
postman at Nogent, is not easy to fill.
Here 1 am and here I stay" says
Jacques Rouche when any one asks IL
II is true that he Will give the direc-
tion of the opera.
The national opera house, however,
is cold and dark. and callers crowd into
the porters lodge. for the porter alone
about the place has the funds to buy
coal. This Is not due to the morato-
rum, 1T is simply case of more money
paid out than taken In. and the gas
company gives no credit. while I'm the
scarcity of coal all orders must be ac-
companied by cash.
\ Nevertheless. artists and chorus peo-
pie stamp about the Icy stage rehears-
Ing La Favorite" and "Semiramis"
with the same zest as II the reopening
was certainty.
At the Theatre Francois there is
plenty Of coal and the gas bill has
been paid, but the place recalls the
times when the scene shutters were on
strike. All except six of them are off
to war. By instructions OF Lieutenant
Colonel Care, who keeps in sort OF
wireless touch. with La Maison de
Moliere." stage hands Of the Theatre
de la Monnaie, now In Brussels, will
be modified for the winter campaign.
Fifteen per cent of the gross re-
ceipts of all places Of amusement dur
Ing the war must be paid over to the
different relief funds. If Bellevllle is a
criterion, substantial aid for the suf-
fering will be derived from this source.
The Casino there reopened within five
hours after the word go" and the
house was crowded with workmen and
their families. eager to applaud the
patriotic songs that constituted the
program.
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Waste in National Administration

Z ORMER President Taft's plea for budget
system of controlling national expendi-
lures deserves public approval, and should,
but probably will not, result in congressional
action. The waste with which this govern
Jpent is conducted is known OF all men. and
has been matter Of common information
for many years, but little nothing Is done
to check this especially gross form of e1-
trayagance.
- President Wilson expressed the general
view very correctly, we think, when he said
in his recent message that what the country
demanded was economy, but not parsimony.
The United States Is too great a nation, too
rich and powerful. to grudge the money nee
essnry to be spent In efficient administration
for an intelligent system Of defense and in
useful public improvements.
Extravaganza and waste in administration
serve no useful purpose whatever. Former
Senator Aldrtch. who knew as much about
this government as anybody, said that the
annual waste resulting from duplicated eff
fort and Anticipated method and careless
systems OF purchasing supplies amounted to
$300,000,000. That is big enough amount
to attract any nations attention. It is about
time that some sensible reform should be
adopted
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no rhoso WHO Have Much

THERE are plenty of men In Richmond
able to give generously to the fund The
Times Dispatch is raising for the support, in
this time of special need, of the work of the
Associated Charities. Perhaps their incomes
have been reduced by the failure Of some Of
the securities locked in their strong-boxes to
pay accustomed dividends, but this very fact
should direct their thought to the situation
of those who own no stocks and bonds, whose
pitiful savings have been spent, who find no
work to do, and who face winter of suffer-
ing and privation.
Here, gentlemen who have, is an oppor
tunity for profitable investment-an invest
ment in humanity, in human flesh and blood.
More than any other Immediately contribut-
ing factor. hopeless poverty tends to perma-
nent inefficiency. Citizenship of the right
type rarely energies from the slum; the
slum's inhabitants are amending drain OH
the resources of the community.
This Is a period of stress, from which, hap
PLY, the nation already begins to emerge.
Help the honest and Woodworking man who
needs your help to-day, that he may tide
over this financial chasm. Doing So you
strengthen him against adversely and keep
him here at home, where in normal times
he has done useful work and contributed cs-
sentally to Richmond's progress and Rich
mond's wealth.
This is opportunity, let it be said again.
Much of the casual charity in which the
world INDUCES, because it's heart is touched
by some pathetic appeal, is hopelessly in
efficient and demoralizing. 1t has no perma
nent influence, it tends to encourage
the idle and shiftless In idle and shiftless
ways. This work you are asked to aid is
different proposition altogether. You must
see that it is-you must know that 1t is.
You are not urged to encourage poverty, but
to prevent it.
Take out your checkbook and make
an investment in the menaced manhood and
womanhood of your city!
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| persisted in returning to lay his gun
| each time after wounds dressed. lIa
Lance Corporal Dobson, Coldstream
| Guards-For bringing wounded men
| into cover on two occasions while
under heavy fire. $50
The most conspicuous OF these ten
heroes is Captain Bradbury. whose
Battery l. made n determined stand
! near Compiegne on the last day OF
the retreat towards Paris Battery l.,
while covering the retreat, was at
| tackled by a strong German force with
ten field guns and two Maxims. Three
British guns were brought into action
but two of them were quickly silenced.
bradbury and his men served the re-
manning gun SO well, however that all
| but one of the German guns were
| siienced. and when Battery l. was re-
lieved this gun WAS captured. An
account of the action says:
Captain Bradbury was the real hero.
He got the gun into action and gave
orders. Mundy knelt on one side as
| ranging officer: Bradbury, Campbell
and Giffard. with the battery sergeant
| major, gunner aud driver. served the
gun. Bradbury had one leg taken off,
| but still went on; Campbell and Mundy
| were killed. Bradbury had his other
leg taken off. and Gifrard was badly
wounded. but still they kept the gun
going: and when Battery / came up
they found the Germans had boltcd.
| oHis lnt ana VINO re-
| ccived five bullets, survived"
| Three Victoria Crosses have now
been awarded In connection with this
| fight. SergeaEtMajor Dorrell and Ser
gcant Nelson having already received
! the decoration. In addition. Lieutcn-
ant Giffard. Gunner Darbyshire and
Driver Osborne were awarded French
| decorations.
The first Indian to be recommended
for the Victoria Cross is IInvildar tscre
geanD Gagna Singh, of the Fifty
| seventh Wiide's Rifles. The havildar.
with fftcen men. was attacked In the
| trenches Just before dawn by an over
whclming German force. In the brief
hand to- hand struggle which cnsued.
| sixty Germans were killed. Gagna
| Singh, sole survivor OF his little COM
pany, was left for dead in the trench
with five bullet wounds. When picked
| up. he still held tightly the sword OF
Il German officer whom he had dis
patched.
This Is the first war In which II has
| been possible for an Indian to win the
Victoria Cross. Eligibility to tho dis
| tinction was one of the boons granted
| by King George at the Durbar OF 1912.
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Another Voice for "A Glenn city.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-In your paper yesterday you spoke OF
receptacles attached to iron posts being put up
the street corners for trash and paper. It
struck me good Idea when I in London
baskets for that purpose attached TO the posts
OF the letter boxes.
Having always been interested in the beauty
of our city and the appearance of the streets.
] have been close observer of causes-and
alleys! ] daily in the alleys behind the
stores, especially the dry goods stores, quanti-
ties OF scraps of paper left by the removing
the trash or dropped by them. These naturally
blow from place to place
Houses and stores at the corners Of the
streets have the pavements in front nicely
swept every day. and have the snow cleaned
off when it falls. Should not the sides and
alleys of lots be required to be also kept in a
neat condition. they make much for the
cleanliness and appearance OF the city as does
the front? A stretch OF snow on side street
makes most uncomfortable walking, and I'M
swept pavements do away with the appear
OF the whole.
Then, again, Isn't there any way-should It
not be somebody's duty?-to have pnvements
in front OF unoccuped houses cleaned? What
good does II do for part OF a pavement to
be nicely cleaned when the next space. or around
the corner. is dirty and Wallpapers and scraps
and leaves to be blown back and sloppy, wet
places to be walked through?
AS 1t has been begun. lots continue to Guilt
vate civic pride In neatness as we'll as
beauty ANOTHER OBSERVER.
Richmond. December TO- 1914
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Villagers Of Industry

The housing Of Belgian workingmen
and the agricultural activities through
which they supplement their wages
are described in an article on "1m-
perishable Belgium" In the Survey.
The author. Bruno Lasker, says:
Until the war broke out, the Bel
CLANS undoubtedly were the best
housed nation In Europe. If the In
vading armies had concentrated their
destructive talents on the few con-
fined Stun areas of the great cities,
we should find little cause to COM
plain. But unfortunately. when we
read of the devastation Of whole VIII
lages. we must remember that a COLI
siderable proportion of the habltations,
not only of the agricultural, but also
of the industrial popula tion-habita
tons which are the envy of the work
ers OF other lands. have been destroyed.
Belgian workers. by means Of
rapid train service at cheap fares, arc
enabled to live distributed over wide
semirural areas. Land values have
been kept down, and the mobility of
the workers-their choice OF employ
ment-is increased even though they
own their houses. Though the great
majority of them only live few miles
from the place where they work, they
arc able, IL necessary. to look for
employment at distances OF fifty miles
anu TlVTc.
Residence in the country, with a
fair sized garden attached to most
houses, has other advantages which go
a long way to compensate for the
time lost in transit. The Brussels
bricklayer, when work is scarce, stays
at home working on his garden plot
or for neighboring farmer, and leaves
what Jobs there are to his less fortu-
nate mate who lives in the town 1T
self
The Antwerp decker does not hang
about the dock gates waiting for a
ship to arrive, but awaits In his own
village the telephone call of the labor
bureau He usually has a side of
bacon, sack OF potatoes and other
food about HIS home, and does NOT
starve the moment his wage ceases to
como In. His children are brought 3up.
amid rural surroundings, and there is
not the same cleavage between In
dustrial and agricultural employment
as there Is. for Instance. In England
Scratch the Flemish miner is a say
Ing. and underneath his CRIME YOU
VIII find peasant He ID able to
so back to work on the land II cir
cumstances incline him to do sou
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Almanach Is Changed

BERLIN (via The Hague and Lon
don). December 1.-THE new edition of
the Almanach de Gotha has appeared
and presents numerous changes as a
result Of the war. Names in number
OF places appear In small type, with
the simple comment that the person
has fallen in battle. and the date and
place are given.
noticeable change is the fact that
the sovereigns generally have Invested
themselves OF the titles and decorations
conferred by nations with which they
are at war, but Emperor William Is
still carried as n doctor OF Oxford and
a Knight OF the Garter, while Prince
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Helping Hating Nature

n EDICAL and surgical practice combine
ly4 suggestive therapeutics and various
sorts of pseudo Notwithstanding cults con-
epire, and all breeds of the occult practtion-
ers hope to- persuade themselves that they
can-do what? Why help hating nature
or arrest the progress of dissolution. open
up founts Of youth, stave off the inevitable
send Charon back the Styx with an
empty ferry! Somehow or other, every
agency dabblins in the laboratory of the
soul plays hard on the human desire for
health here and happiness hereafter Hence
the prosperity Of numerous creeds and tho
fattening tills of multifarious makers of pro-
prietary remedies. We all want them-the
two things hard to be assured of through
human Intervention.
Painfully present among the most COM
relling desires Of humankind are these: The
fat would grow lean, the loan fat the tall
would lop off an inch or two, and the stubby
would greet attenuation with Joy; the bald
would grow mop and the wooIly would
swap their heads for the intellectual appea r.
ance of the bald Whatever we have there
Is something else we'd trade 1t for, and TO
that end we watch the press for every ap-
pearance Of anything legitimate, or nearly
so. that will help promise to help us on
our way.
= All OF which somewhat labored introduce
ton Is merely to announce that in Rochester
Ind. physician has enabled a stunted child
OF nine years to grow two inches within two
months. by feeding her the dried thyroid
glands of sheep. For Ave years the child
had not grown. At nine she was OF the
stature of four. Then came the thyroid
glands and the extension dietary. 1t is to
be soped that she be not overfed. In that
event, Will the good doctor have something
else to feed her that will make her shrink:
Otherwise, the family may as we'll have a
hole chopped in the ceiling at once for her
future comfort. For. at the rate CT foot
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-14
Keep to Tax Revision

THE TIMES DISPATCH hopes that the
j General Assembly, at it's special session,
will stick to the purpose for which 1t has
been called together-consideration of the
tax problem and relief of the State from the
burden of Anticipated and inequitable tax
laws under which 1t now groans and suffers
There are other problems. doubtless, the
solution Of which. under ordinary circum-
stances, might be undertaken with profit by
the Legislature. Present circumstances
however. are by no means ordinary What
the best thought of the Commonwealth de-
mands and justice and progress unite to ap-
prove is tax reform. Virginia is shackled
so long as the existing situation Is permitted
to continue.
The subject is difficult and complicated
one. The Committee Tax Revision has
given long and patient consideration to its
yexed features, and yet the members of that
committee were not able to agree. The COM
mittee's conclusions are expressed in ma
jority and minority reports, although ma
jority and minority agree that the two plans
separately favored are each the best of
It's kind.
1t all goes to show that the Legislature
must give its undivided attention to the SUBJ
ject of taxation, If wise and Just results rea-
sonably are to be expected. Other legisla-
ton. however desirable. must await the solu-
tion of this problem, which is Of exigent and
compelling necessity.
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Henry is given as n chief OF the Rus
sian Hussar Regiment and as British
admiral The Russian Emperor is no
longer titled as the chief of Austrian
regiments. but, like King Albert of
Belgium, Is still credited az a knight OF
the Black Eagle. The King OF Mon
tenegro Ia carried as an honorary COM
mander of an Austrian regiment and us
a knight of the Black Eagle.
In the nonsovereig. houses Nancy
Leishman's marriage to the Duke Of
Croy again appears as one of unequal
birth. but their son, Karl Emmanuel,
born at Dusseldorf on October 10, is
recognized as hereditary Prince Of
Croy.
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Congress as a New Field of Effort

.aST INCLE JOE" CANNON'S statement that
=. ~ he has gone hack to Congress that
he may prepare to meet his Maker" sounds
strange and incongruous, and yet 1t must
be accepted at it's face value. However, very
few statesmen In this country's recent his
tory have selected the halls of Congress for
that particular sort of preparation, and GER
tainly it may be said without unkindness or
irreyerence that in his past service there
:Uncle Joe" himself paid mighty little at
tention to his purely ethical development.
= On these very accounts, though. the choice
may prove wise one. Gin business" some
cynlc. has said, honesty is the best policy,
because 1t assures freedom from all competi-
tion.' uncle joe" back in Congress and
pursuing his newly-acquired ideal with his
old-time force and ardor, will have open
field.