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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
when Counsel Becomes Prosecutor

IF City Attorney Pollard, as certain of his
critics allege, has found himself occupy
ing the role of prosecutor before the Council
committee, of persons accused of neglecting
their duties abusing their powers as police
officials his experience Is that Of practically
every other counsel to an investigating body
of this character. Sooner or later, and
sometimes quite against their will. lawyers
SO assigned do become prosecutors.
They started out probably with very diff
ferent theory, but the manner in which these
Investigations are conducted prevails against
them. 1t is the almost universal custom to
permit those accused whose conduct is to
be investigated, to be represented by counsel.
Practically the first act of these lawyers for
the defense is to strive to break down the
evidence of the witnesses on the other
side, either by attacking their characters or
impugning their motives. or by contradictory
testimony. Counsel for the committee there
upon leaps into the breach, to support the
witnesses lie has himself placed on the stand.
1t is not only investigating committees and
the proceedings before them which reveal
this trait of human nature; the same trait is
on exhibition at every trial of every hard
fought criminal case. The Commemorative
attorney is not prosecutor, in the theory Of
the law. save as Ito prosecute" means "to
conduct" He is merely that official Of the
court assigned to assist the judge and jury in
the elucidation Of the facts. 1t is not as
sumed that he is hostile to the prisoner at
the bar, or that he has any passion for that
prisoners conviction He is supposed mere
ly to discover the truth, lay it before the
court, and let judge and jury do the rest.
That is the theory. What is the reality?
Why, that every criminal trial Of sufficient
moment to attract public attention becomes
legal duel between the representative Of
the State and the representative of the de-
PENDANT. The Commonwealth attorney OBJ
serves that the prisoners counsel is fighting
hard for acquittal and Immediately he grds
up his own loins for the fray. After that it
is nip and tuck. Truth is evolved, perhaps
but it is in the form of sparks from clashng
rapiers.
We do not say that Mr.. Pollard has fallen
into the professional attitude-for, as mat
ter Of fact we think he has conducted him
self and the duty conferred on him with great
moderation and restraint-but the attitude is
natural one. If he escaped it, he will
shatter a large number of respectable pre-
cedents.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
THE WAR BABIES Of ENGL AND

pecially encouraged young women to
become war brides IN order thereby to
fulhll their duty to the race. But that
was only to subordinate and degrade
tho ideal OF marriage to a physical no
cessity-the necessity in the face OF
war TO propagate the race at an abnor-
NAL rate. Neither the state nor popu-
lar emotion was interested in the hap
piness OF those marriages. Only tho
physical consequences were considered
That the effect OF such public atti-
tudc was bound to relax the conven.
tional restraints of'sex morality every.
body now can see. And yet the war
baby" not covered by moral sanction
that had to be greatly strained to cover
the war BRIDE" and war MARRIAGE"
is scandal. Even those who Insist
that the state shall adopt 1t speak OF
the necessity OF forgiving It's illegiti-
macy. The strictest Justice" ono
writes demands for the women COM
piete forgiveness. sympathy and assist
ance."
state with a war baby" who In doing
30 risks her life to protect the race
from the adverse cugenic effects of
war. might he pardoned for asking by
whom she needs to be forgiven and for
what? She is in a position indeed. to
raise most embarrassing issue. A
woman cannot give her life In battle.
AS man does: she has another func-
ton, which Is to replace life and she
who performs this function out Of we'd
lock may make a greater sacrifice than
ono who has observed the forms
What shall be said of herr That she
did not intend deliberately to sacrifice
her chastity for the benefit OF her race
or country? Neither does man DELHI
cratcly intend to lose his life. And so
Tar as the race Is concerned II Is more
important that the man who loses his
life in war should have reproduced
! himself first than that the will to live
should In every case have received the
sanction OF a form. 1t may be said
that there is no coordination between
chastity and life. which is true. but
the saving fact OF sacrifice may stand
alone. The woman who bears England
a war baby" does make sacrifice for
England, and England docs not know
what to do with her or how TO legiti-
matize her Offering. II is tragic II
she had only taken the slight trouble
to get into war wedding group. that
would have made her baby legitimate
but 1t might have no bearing at all
upon her ability to support or rear IT.
One who writes to the London Morn
! ing Post says: 1T is just such prob
lem as the British public lis prone to
hide away and TO say and think as lit
tie about as possible So 1t is. and
30 IT might be in almost any other
country. The moral problems OF war
will become at length insupportable.
and war itself on that account intoler-
able, not because any OF the problems
are new, are more hideous than was
the case before, but because they can
not be ignored. a war baby" for
merly was a theme for literary treat
ment in after years. To-day, before 1t
is born. il relates itself as news 10 the
social sense of the whole world.
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Queries and Answers



Please show me how the square of the ratio of
the diameter of n sphere the side of the in
scrihed cube Is to l. persist in getting to /.
Also solve this problem: What portion of the
at height of one radius above the surface?
Some awkwardness of statement OF solutions
is due to the fact that the machines which
the composition of this column is done are not
provided with the symbols of mathematics
Draw the hgure and you will that the
diameter of the sphere Is the diagonal the
cube. Also you will that the diagonal is the
the side of the cube, and the other the diagonal
of one face of the cube. Assuming the side of
the cube to be J. the diagonal OF the face will be
the square root of 2, and the diagonal of the
cube will become the square root of g. Hence
with the side of the cube equal ] and the
diameter of the sphere equal the square root
Of g. the square of the ratio will be to g.
Draw the figure a circle will do, with a
diameter extended to the length Of radius
above the circumference and tangent from the
point Of observation and radius drawn to the
at the center has base of radius and a
hypotenusc of two radii, whence it's cosine is
one-half and the angle is sixty degrees II you
prefer to keep the matter clear of trigonometry
lateral triangle divided into two equal parts
by perpendicular from one of the angles to the
opposite side will make two triangles in which
the hypotenuse is double the shortest side, and
of your circle is one of sixty degrees. Now the
chord of tho subtended by this angle is equal
to the radius OF the circle The zone of one
base. which is the zone OF observation, is equal
in area to the circle whose radius Is the chord
OF one-half the arc Of the zone, in this case. the
radius of the earth, and the area of this zone
would be the square of the radius times 314l6
As the of the sphere is four times the square
walton would be one-fourth of the area of the
earth
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
Germany's Burning Lake

NEW YORK. May 1.-C. r. Lynch. an
American who has been touring the
Continent for the last few years intro
ducing American business and amuse.
ment ideas, returned TO this city yes
terday and told of having witnessed
experiments by the Germans with their
deadly asphyxiating gases which they
used with remarkable effect against
the allies recently in the fighting in
Flanders.
About four years ago" said Mr.
Lynch. Il lpd arranged to build a
Dreamland park near Berlin. had
raised the capital and secured the site
The German police officials insisted,
however. that all the structures should
be of steel and concrete Just then
Dreamland at Coney Island burned
down, and the police said they did not
want anything like that in the neigh.
borhood Of Berlin, and the project had
to be given up.
But while 1 was getting the site I
was invited one day to witness an AZ
hibition of a new invention of a car.
man engineer named Fielder. He called
1t burning lake. and it was his idea
10 use u Tor amusement purposes Fled
Ter claimed he had rediscovered the
lost secret OF the ancient Greek fire.
we took a train from Berlin and
rode an hour to place whose name I
was not told. We drove through a
forest until dark. when suddenly we
came to a clearing in the woods. Here
there was some sort of small engine
which they did not allow me to an
proach, and they would not let mo sac
anything except the end of hose. At
signal the hose began to squirt a
stream OF fire in the air. The heat wa.
such that could not approach within
100 feet of the nozzle. They turned
the hose upon a small stream that was
near. and soon for quite a distance the
surface OF the stream was ablaze. The
inventor said that he had set fire to
boats by setting the water afire near
them, and letting the current and the
wind carry the blaze in their direction.
The invention had been demonstrat-
ed three times before the Kaiser HIM
self. / was SO impressed with the in
vention that I Immediately made
proposition for the American rights OF
it. was told there were no American
rights, for the German government had
forbidden that the invention should be
shown outside of the country. When
tho descriptions were published of the
attack on French. trenches with liquid
fire. recognized the invention I had
seen demonstrated near Berlin about
four years ago"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
Getting 1t or Our Minds

IN its later stages, Baltimore's effort to have
~ the Federal Reserve Bank for this dis
strict transferred from Richmond to the
MARYLAND city has become somewhat perfume
tory. Not even Baltimore, it is likely be-
sllhves that there is remote chance of the
iFederal Reserve Board returning favora BILE
answer to its plea
sf However, It is gratifying that the board
has taken up the matter for final decision.
and that this decision is expected this week
II 1s time now that such differences should
be adjusted, so that the whole system may be
freed of any possibility Of disturbance Even
small annoyances hamper the progress of
financial Institutions and, though the Rich
mond bank has set the pace for all the Others
1T might do more and better were it's situa-
tipn as determined in law as it is in fact
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
War News Fifty Years Ago
(From Newspaper Files MAY 4. 1s65D

=, Inc report from. Washington is that General
kiroy Smith has sent flag OF truce to the
ROCK. Ark. with proposal to surrepder the
Tonredsrate army operating under him in the
trans Mississippi, the general terms
granted to General Lee
The latest report is that Mr. Davis and party
have passed through South Carolina. and will
certainly be intercepted by Wilson'S cavalry
before they can reach the Mississippi.
Colonel Robert Guild, late Confederate COM
tant. and several attaches of the bureau were
arrested yesterday upon orders direct
Washington. 1t is understood that the charge
against them is connected with the admins
tration OF affairs devolving upon them agents
Prison
1t is reported that Governor Pierpont. who
claims to be the rightful Governor of Virginia.
VIII be In Richmond within week to assume
the duties of Governor, He Is now in Washing
ton in consultation with the United States gov
eminent authorities.
The provost marshal of Manchester has run
In all of the idle negroes of that town and put
them to work The men and boys are cleaning
up the streets and alleys, while the women have
been packed off to Belle Isle. which been
converted into grand wash-house and laundry
Tor the benefit of the soldiers stationed there
and in Manchester.
The financial institution to be known as the
First National Bank. which was organized
such week ago. and will get to work in
few days. has for its officers Samuel T. Suit, OF
New York, president; George T. May. OF New
York, ice-president; John b. Morton. OF Rich
mond. cashier. The other gentlemen assoca ted,
and who with the above named, will be members
of the board Of directors. Charles Gallaher
and John NJ. Lamb OF New York: Reuben Rag
land. David Currie. r. w. Hughes and George =.
Gillian. of Richmond.
General Halleck has issued order that all
persons who in the military or civil SER
vice of the Confederate government. matter
what their rank employment, will be per-
united to take the amnesty oath. and will re-
ccivc the corresponding certificate. Those
specially excluded from the benefit of the am
nesty oath can make application for pardon and
the same Will be forwarded to the President of
the United States.
Lieutenant General George A. Meade, com
handing the Army of the Potomac arrived in
Richmond yesterday afternoon. His headuuar-
ters for the present Will he board the United
States gunboat Monahansctt.
The schooner Harvest. Captain Mitchell, ar
rived yesterday from Baltimore direct with a
cargo consigned to Kimberly Brothers. This is
the first cargo direct from the North to reach
Richmond since 1850.
The people of Philadelphia have presented to
General Grant handsome and valuable man.
sion in that city, and 1t is understood he and
Mrs Grant will AXE that their permanent home
General Grant is now in Philadelphia awaiting
the arrival of his wife
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
A New Plea in Extenuation

NJ OF since the famous brainstorm defense
have lawyers and doctors had so in
teresting a plea in extenuation of crime as
one just in from Ftchburg, Mass. A man
who had been on duty in an automobile sup
ply shop for thirty-seven hours without Sleep
finally went to bed, and needed no rocking
no lullabies. Street brawlers came along
just when he was getting set, and made a
huge noise outside Half awake, enraged by
the trespass upon his rest, the man rushed
TO the window and fired shots at the crowd
One was killed The slayer now offers the
defense that he not responsible
No man or woman hungering for sleep ca
fail to appreciate the annoyance of being
violently aroused. Keeping sleepy people
awake used 10 be one of the Middle Age tor
lures, and if history is correct, it was always
one of the most dreaded 1t is within the
experience Of every man that he has done
irrational things when half awake Acts in
somnambulism are commonly reported. which
In waking hours would be impossible Sleep
walkers have stolen from themselves con-
cealed their pilferings and forgotten all about
the incident.
The old adage applies: Let a sleeping dog
he 1t is equally dangerous to suddenly
arouse a sleeping man. especially if his nerves
have heen previously unstrung by long hours
OF enforced wakefulness. 1t is hardly wise
or proper, however to accept even so good
an excuse for homicide
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
Last of Old SnecuIn1ors

/ John Cudahy's death, the last noted
of the old-schooI SPECTATORS
I'assed away. Cudahy was one of the great
esi plungers in grains that ever operated. He
Was Il member Of big Four" which played
grains for years with great audacity and
usua ~ with success Cudahy's most famous
oDeT2 ton occurred in 500, when he forced
wheat from rs ID cents in March 10 80
cents in April. Soon after he tried TO squeeze
the Armours in .larl,. hht the market broke,
and Cudahy lost s2,00o.ooo or more. He
paid il all back in five years
The stock market has revived again but
81 is not likely that the old-school speculator
will revive with il. For one thing the gov
eminent takes such hand in affairs now
hat it is difficult to make the corners so
typica OF the past. Then again the specu-
tor has changed. He is more OF "A business
man nowadays and less OF a gambler He
plays safer, more closely calcula ed game
and is willing to take smaller profits with
smaller risks
Cudahy was the last leaf on that tree which
produced jim Fisk the keenes and many
another Jay Gould, the greatest of them
all, was more Of the modern type as were
Hartman and Morgan. The old-time opera-
rfSr,Nthe man who won million or two one
day and lost five millions the next without
apparent concern has gone the way of all
other interesting types. He was a product
of the buoyant hopeful, strong-nerved Amer
lea OF the past, now merging into the sedate
and conservative country OF our times
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
Trust in the President.

THIS is time especially when citizens of
this nation should hold judgment, as
well as passion, in strictest allegiance. The
sinking by a German submarine of the
steamer Gulfight is fraught with grave pos
sibilities. That action cost three American
lives that had enjoyed the protection of the
American flag. On the face of the reports
our neutrality has been fouted. Such con-
'siderations are serious-even menacing-but
there is the greater reason that we should
show the fine quality of self-restraint.
The country risks nothing in conflding it's
itohor to President Wilson. There is not
the slightest danger that that honor will he
soiled or furnished SO long as it remains in
his hands. He will ascertain the facts and
then he, and the people with him. will know
what to do.
1t is easy to grow excited. hard to keep
calm, in the face of an invasion Of our rights
that appears so gross and SO inexcusable
Camness, nevertheless, is national duty
II should be performed with the same readi-
ness, IL not with the same cheerfuness, as
ATTY OF another and even sterne: sort
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
The Voice of the PEOPLE
Wants Autoists to "Be RcnsOnnbIeo
e Editor of The Times Dlsnatch


ST-This is noisy age, and the various
ways of manufacturing noise seem to be ever
on the Increase. Ordinary human beings for
tunately can accustom themselves to n reason
able amount Of this kind of thing. but when the
breaking power is reached excessive and un-
warranted noise becomes nuisance and a
menace to health.
fortunately the large percentage of people
sun have some little consideration for the rest
or the community. If il does not cost them any
tnnE IN m;1ney. and am In hopes that offending
request and act accordingly
request the operators of automobiles to re-
ifain from unnecessary and wanton blowing of
n nc etc IN the residential districts especially
afford TO ride arc trying get rested IN for
the coming days work. and request the owners
OF ahtomoblleS TO so instruct the proper parties
VINO Operate their cars. 1T Is unnecessary TO foot
n norm more than once. and even that once in
moderation when approaching a corner where a
traffic officer is duty
One corner OF this kind according tn renorts
S Sad several hundred cars pass in half an hour.
stop ana consider the accumulation of noise,
even If each only blows a horn once As
little Jer would say, "be reasonable"
. TAXPAYER.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
Escape From Unemployment

IJOW serious has been the labor situation
from which we now escaping may
be seen by the figures given in the just-pub-
ltshed report OF the Bureau of Labor Stats
tics OF the Department Of Labor. In Feb
ruary there were 398 900 workers out of en-
pioyment in New York City alone This pro-
portion is So of the total number Of wage
earners. and those working on part time are
not included.
We read all through the winter graphic
descriptions of the long bread lines in New
York, but Trustworthy estimate of the num-
Der of the needy was very difficult TO make
Similar conditions existed in all the cities
and towns of the country, Including Rich
smond. There discomfort in February
and naturally, for it is useless TO try to per-
suade a man that his lot is solely due 10
economic causes, over which the government
has no control. When a man is starving, he
biames the government.
sThe report of the Bureau of Labor Sta
atfstics, relating conditions Of two months go
Ati..ow only an interesting document of indus
rias history. Within that time the whole
Mutation has changed, and by far the greater
Art3 OF the 900 idle workers are back
I their tasks Wheels hum again and the
sund OF the hammer is heard once more il
lie city.
= And along with enforced idieness and trade
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04

depression have fed political discomfort and
the desire for change. The growing pros
perty and the saneness and caution Of the
administration are raising Mr.. Wilson'S popu-
larity to great height Few Presidents of
the United States in the midchannel of their
terms have ever enjoyed such general pub
lie confidence. Some of the big business in
terests affected by tariff reform may be OPP
posed, but from present Indications the re-
election of Woodrow Wilson by a large ma
jority seems pretty we'll assured.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-04
The Colonel
as Writer
of Letters

II Colonel Roosevelt has, as he
The Colonel says, written 10000 letters since
Writer January l. 1892 how many will
of Tetters he have written by the time he Is
eighty making proper allowance
for all his correspondence in the
years from 1881 to 1899. when he filled various
ohccs! What, also, will be tho value of his
au'osraph In the year 1850. IL he shall have
ceased his earthly activities by that time?
These questions are submitted as proper prob
lcms for classes in higher mathematics For
cnlidren IN the low grades these are suggested:
IL the Colonel Is nominated for President by
the Republicans in 1916. what will be tho Demo-
cTa'ic majority in the popular vote and the
electoral college. giving the G. O. p three out
OF every hve Progressive votes cast in 1912 and
making due allowance for all the women who
will be entitled to vote next year? what ma
'ority VIII Boss Barnes give for the Colonel in
Aioany County, N. Y, provided T. r. wins the
hnei suit at Syracuse and the costs arc placed
on the planting? This can be worked out by
simple Observation-Disclosures Record.