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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-02
Not Like the Lusitania

7 AMENTABLE as we may consider the fur
IL ther destruction of American life by the
attack Of a German submarine, there does not
appear to have been occasion for national ex-
element in any of the circumstances con-
nected with the sinking Of the Armenian.
Whether legally so not, the Armenian was
in effect military transport, engaged in
carrying central band of war for the use OF
belligerent power. That certain American
citizens had been foolish enough to expose
themselves to the hazards Of such voyage
does not justify American intervention.
1t appears, moreover, that the Armenian
sought at first to evade the submarine that
summoned her to surrender, and that she was
fired on from the German vessels deck to
enforce compliance with the order When
finally she hove to, the submarine commander
permitted crew and muleteers to take to the
boats 1t is not perceived that under the
circumstances. any more merciful policy
justly could have been expected
The difference, from the American view
point, between this case and that of the Lusi-
tanla is apparent. The Lusitania was liner
carrying 1900 passengers and q relatively
small quantity of small-arm ammunition; the
Armenian was transport, carrying no pas
sengers, but a whole cargo Of contraband
Under the rules of civilized war, neutrals
had right to take passage on the Lusitania
IN the just expectation that their own coun-
tries would protect them against belligerent
attacks or else avenge such assaults; neu-
trails could not embark on the Armenian
without consciousness of the dangers they
faced and understanding that they -aban-
doned their right to the protection of their
countries flags. The Lusitania was tor
pedoed without warning and without giving
the women and children aboard a chance to
escape; the Armenian was called on to sur
render, and attempted to find refuge in flight
1t does not seem probable under these cir
cumstances that the United States will ven
ture on more than perfunctory protest
Our position will not be strengthened by COM
plicating our demand for the punishment of
the criminal who ordered the sinking of the
Lusitania, with this later tragedy of the seas
humanity will not be satisfied until the real
author of that atrocity, who murdered fifty
babies and nearly thousand other persons
meets the fate he merits, but that consumma-
ton will be delayed rather than advanced by
stressing the Armenian disaster
Men who take service on horse ships in
wartime take also their lives in their hands
II the vessels are not actually controlled by
belligerent, Americans who dare these dan
gers may not sacrifice their right to the pro-
lection of their government, but they do
weaken their claim public sympathy II
the vessel is a transport, as the Armenian
was, the Americans aboard have slight claim
on either the nation or its people.
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For National Preparedness

L FINANCIAL. and industrial institutions in
L New York have been urging their en-
ployees to become members of the National
Guard. Officials of these institutions have
assured the military authorities Of the State
that their men will be encouraged to attend
the encampmenis. Big corporations and in
dividual employers in other parts of the coun-
try are following this goodly example.
That is long step toward national pre-
paredness. Until war is actually immin emit
when, OF course, volunteers will spring TO
the colors in whatever numbers they NAV be
needed, the National Guard must be the coun-
try's principal reliance. Properly aided by
State and national governments and en-
couraged as employers are now encoura ging
it, it could he Alade easily into efficient
agency OF defense.
Every young man should consider it his
duty 10 spend part Of his young manhood
III the guard. Every employer should give
+ his approval and his help Any army
America raises must be a citizen army. 1t
Will be great or small, efficient or inefficient.
just as the nation peases and decides
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nized as being examination papers,
which would be given them at tho ap-
proaching examination. That the same
Recommendation was not applied to tho
othefs VINO might have benefited by
the knowledge was due to the fact that
they had copies OF the examination
paper itself.
Mtdshipmen have testified before
me present court Of Inquiry that they
would use examination papers. no
matter how obtained. If necessary 10
save themselves from failure on an
examination. and thus prevent their
neing dropped from the Academy.
THIS Is confession OF their willing
ness 10 commit fraud on the United
states, and shows a sense OF honor go
low as TO unit them for the service
which has always held honor as dearer
than life
IT Is possible that those lads have
peeh induced TO make these statements
W me beaef that By SO doing they
! might save their comrades from dis
inissal and without being fully CON
scious OF what their statements meant
IL such opinions. however be common
among The midshipmcn then there is
| something vitality wrong. for which
SupeEihtendent fullam certainly cannot
be heid responsible. lie has been there
but year. During that time he has
caiien me attention OF the parents and
OF the nidshipmen to the seriousness
oil the onense OF gouging.' and BY
precept and by example has done all
that possibly could be done 20 bring
them TO a realizing sense OF what was
honorable and right
personally, | do not believe that the
evidence now being given before the
court Of inquiry does represent any
large circle of opinion at Annapolis
me poiiuc!ans are beaten and the
superintendent is sustained, the result
may be good. II the politicians guc-
cced. and II the boys who IL is adj
mitted have used dishonorable means
10 Improve their examination marks
ana nave thus worked a fraud
! upon the American people are per
mltted 10 remain in the service, il viii
Oh course, be necessary TO replace everv
J oIilcer who has been connected with
iEis investigation. for their influence
with the midshipmen Will be at an
end. and how the officers who arc IN
take their place are To change the Sit
uat!on Is beyond me.
~ must be plain to the people that
II there is to be good disci Mine and
h'sn standard at the Naval Academy.
II can only be insured by supportInr
me ofhcers who are responsible.
Neither the mdshipmen themselves
nor their political friends can be
trusted TO run a military institution.
ahd II they are permitted to do so.
the Naval Academy Will degenerate
ana the decentralization Of the whole
personnel Of the navy Will be com
! piete"
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News Of Fifty Years Ago

The Postmaster-Generalo Of the United States.
after conference with General Grant. has sent
condition of the railroads, with the view TO the
complete resumption Of postal service all over
the South.
Among the applica lions for pardon filed with
President johnson day before yesterday were
those of Ex-Governor q. ID. Vance and Hon.
John A. Gllmer, OF North Carolina.
The private effects of Mr.. Davis and General
Besurcgard, recently captured in Florida. have
beer taken to Charleston for shipment to Wash
ington. IT is said that there are numerous i'm
portant official documents in the trunks.
There was very serious trouble between the
white and negro soldiers in Charleston last week.
Quite number both sides were wounded, and,
usual. the negroes got the OF the fight.
letter from Fortress Monroe in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer says Hon. c. G. Clay, who is
the constant of DR.. Bancroft the prison
surgeon. Mr. Davis is quite we'll and growing
robust weighing six or more pounds more than
when he was first incarcerated. John Mitchell
is gloomy and morose, never attempting to break
tho partially enforced silence. Mr., Davis does
not know that Mr.. Mitchell. his severe critic, is
In the same prison house with him.
General order No. IL, Just issued by the mill
tary authorities. informs the public that James
force of Richmond. vice Reuben T. Seal. who
chief under the authority of the City Coun-
Gil and by order OF the Mayor.
Now that the mails from the North are get
ting here by rail and the military restrictions
have been removed from the selling OF papers
the newsboys of Richmond are roaming harvest
Something new under the is the colored
news seller, but he suffers by the white boy
because he cannot read. and thus old papers
are as many negro boys in the business as there
are whites.
Enormous internal revenue frauds have been
uncarthed in New York. and il is predicted
that several prominent people will be convicted
and perhaps Imprisoned
The saloonkeepers of Richmond have the
price of drinks at % cents They buy their
whiskey at So. 81 and SIS per gallon. These
figures insure them very large profit.
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The Voice of the People
Iamhnsicd nm n CTnic.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
queer mixture of cynical piatitudes in regard
to women and some more less philosophical
90 missta temen,s such as this Woman pre-
mankind that it seems hardly necessary for her
take over the machinery of life into her
hands meaning II isn't necessary for her to
vote.
] simply denie in toto that this is true. and
wont take time to argue IT, though, OF course.
Is the strongest controlling force in the evolu-
ton of mankind.
II is also true that. under the existing condi-
tons OF economic slavery" of both men and
women, the pretty women or The rich women
esans a to pf we Steal ana Or 'he
to attain what they think they want.
But the world is getting better and wiser,
and Organic evolution has been displaced by
human evolution" and the rate Of growth and
it begins to show
Women demand the vote as right. Because
the majority Of women in Virginia are Indifferent
TO the matter proves nothing. II was just the
same way with the men in the days Of Cromwell
and OF Robesperre when men first learned TO
vote.
Also The Times Dispatch has been making
some bad gSesses OF late as to the true sentiment
OF the people on another subject. and there are
more people thinking about equal suffrage that
you are aware OF. and many of them are men
to-day working in the factories Richmond
and the other i've cities Of the State? Do YOU
and ,shacts in the mountains who are even worse
off? ! don't expect you have really thought
about it.
We OF the new democracy can see what won
derful possibilities there are ahead of us when
new forces are set free by means OF equal
suffrage
1t isn't question Of what the woman will
do with her ballot, but of what the ballot will
do for the woman. 1t will enable her to grow
than now know of PIEDMONT"
Charlottesville, Va. July !. 1915.
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Help for the Suffering

IT HE new appeal the City Ice Mission makes
to Richmond's generosity should not go
unheeded unanswered. The hot wealth r
is with us again. In humble homes, where
are little children serious illness among
older persons, heat wears the garb of death
we'll as OF suffering.
The Ice Mission meets this need. 1t knows
neither race nor creed, age nor sex, in its
kindly ministry. Its agents go where they
are called and the ice they leave in many
cases marks the difference between life and
death
few dollars will help this work greatly,
and there are many hundreds of persons in
Richmond who would not miss such con-
tribution. He gives twice who gives early
and now is the accepted time.
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education accounts for q short day, generally one
Of only four or Ave hours. The children are
the Fairgrounds. Tho net effect OF the new
system Of instruction for elementary pupils
above the fourth year is to lengthen their school
day to six hours and twenty minutes. Messing
will be avoided. While some pupils in the
regular classrooms, others will be in the special
studios and laboratories and still others Wall be
on the Fairgrounds. BY thus breaking up the
attendance into groups, tho children will have
moro attention, and at the same time n larger
number can be cared for during the day The
efficiency OF the plant and teaching staff is in
creased twofold 1t Is remarkable that, OF all
cities, Gary should act as instructor to the coun-
trys metropolis. Gary was built to order. 1t
has been In existence only few years. and it's
population consists largely of foreign laborers
brought in by the United States Steel Corporation
The Gary school superintendent. Mr.. Writ. is an
Indiana man who has achieved notable sue
cess. 1t Is puzzling to some that the Gary plan
should find quicker recognition elsewhere than
in indianapolis and other Indiana cities II the
Gary plan is good for New York it is worth
consideration nearer home.-Indian apolis News
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-02
Would Bar All Cotton

Sir William Ramsay, the world.fa
nous british authority on chemistry,
VINO. with other British scientists sent
protest TO the government three
months ago urging the inclusion of cot
Ton IN the contraband list because 1t
was used In the manufacture of gun
cotton, is the author Of a paper, APP
pearine IN the British Review, in which
The protest takes the form of an en-
phatic demand.
Among the startling assertions made
by Sir William Is one to the effect that
FOR rifle ammunition alone Germany Is
using up ffty-one tons of cotton a
day during the war. the cotton being
used as a constituent part of the pow
erful explosive called guRcotton. A
much greater quantity, he says, is used
daily by the machine guns. and still
more for cannon and other weapons.
Sir William records the fact that cot
ton lis grown in the Southern States
OF America, in Egypt. and in India"
and adds that the last two sources of
supply are, of course. cut off from
Germany
1T would have been we'll at the COM
mencement Of the war" the writer de-
clares, ito have taken every possible
could serve the enemy fof ammunition
But the policy appears to have been
that SO dear to our government Wait
and see" He suggests that 1t would
have been reasonable and would have
raised no i'll feeling among neutrals IL
England had begun a policy of cap
turing all ships conveying cargoes like
ly to be used for any purpose for
munitions of war. at the outset, and
had paid for them-this, regardless Of
whether the ships were headed for
Germany itself or for nearby neutral
ports
The principal routes by which Sir
William says cotton can reach Germany
at the present time are through Hol-
land and the Baltic.
He explains the chemical reactions
which cause the various sorts Of ammu-
milton to explode and tells from what
sources each necessary constituent is
procured; and in this manner shows
That sulphur and cotton are probably
the only constituents which Germany
and Austria cannot supply from their
own territory, or of which they have
not ample stores already. Very high
prices are being offered for both Of
these. he says, and no asserts that
supplies Of sulphur are being sent to
/, Germany from Norway and from Spain,
both neutral countries.
No one knows how long the war VIII
last" says Sir William. 1T may be
| for months; we hope 1t Will not be for
years. But Of one thing we are abso-
luteiy certain-that the more materials
for ammunition we (the allies) allow
to enter Germany, the longer the du.
! ration OF the war;"
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Empires Founded on Force

M UGH attention is being given in the press
w 10 Granville Bankers presentation of
Euripidess play, THE Trojan Women"
which has been played in several college
stadiums with notable effect
The Trojan Women" was written about
400 B. c., and is an elaborate attack on mill
tarlsm 1t is supposed to have been sug-
gested by the subsection of the Island of
Melos to the Athenian empire which oc-
Cured not long before the presentation of
the drama at Athens The great Greek city.
then at the apex OF its power, was building
up an empire in the Aegean waters partly
by natural attraction but more by force. For
time the plan succeeded. and Athens became
the wonder of the world, by means of the
wealth drawn from her island empire and
expended on culture
The papers and magazines which have COM
mented on the play have not hesitated TO
draw a parallel between the German and
Armenian empires, and to deprecate the man
ner by which both have arisen-that of mill
tary conquest.
al the present moment such a lesson seems
salutary Athens erected her empire by the
sword and lost it by the sword In the same
way germany has taken up the sword and
VIII perish by it. But there is one dificultv
ith the analogy which the New York Even
ing Post and the other publications have over
looked, and that is that IL empires are built
on force. So was the Roman SO Is the Eng
ilsh, SO are all. The islands that Athens CON
quered contributed the revenue through
which the greatest civilization the world has
known came TO its flower But for Athens
these wretched islands would have existed
ehdiessiy without result; conquered by her,
.neS wrought the finest culture OF history.
me truth is that in this world of struggle
ana conquest 1t is very difficult to lay down
a sound doctrine as to where the use NJ foroe
should begin and end
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SONGS AND SAWS
Gentle Revenge.

Gentle Revenge.
When she gave him smile
AS she did in the dance
IL was not done in guile,
Nor with wish to enhance
His burning affection;
But the fact was. it had
That effect, just the same,
And the poor foolish lad
was so scorched by loves fame
He moped. in detection.
Which perceiying, che felt
She had played the wrong part,
And then felt pity melt
To its kin in her heart
fitting location.
So this damsel and swain
Tuned their lives to Loves lays,
And walked down Lovers Lane
For the rest of their days
Grief got vacation!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-02

selves, however, in entire accord with the
N. A. w. S. A. We resent the Congressional
Unions insults to the President. and its fool
ish but still annoying campaign to CONVEX.
Virginia to the theory that the ballot should
be controlled by the Federal Constitution.
If we were as bitterly opposed to woman suf-
frage as we are occasionally represented to
be, we should shrek for the Union, becauce
it is much more likely to damage than to help
the cause it espouses
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-02
Usually Effective.

suppose" said, sourly,
the victim of the modern
parasol, whose eye still
smarted. that instrument
will not keep off rain when
1t pourS."
Il suppose not" responded
the gentle maiden, who had
not meant to see him, but
1T often serves to ward Oft
pain when 1t bores."
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considering all the circumstances in the
case the best thing to do about that S45000O
appropriated to purchase site for an addi-
ton TO the Richmond post office may be to
lei 1t alone. With the eyes OF our Senators
ana representative in Congress glued on the
appropriation, 1t is not likely to get away,
Va. II prlea loose from its moorngs-by a
resolution, Tor example, that attempts to shift
lis application elsewhere--it might make it's
escape. "
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III we have to select among the various
ahenists who have testified to various things
ut the various Thaw trials, we cast our vote
lot the experts for the defense who at the
orlglnal earring swore he was crazy and the
experts FOR the State, who since that time
nave sworn TO the same thing. We are op-
posed TO the experts for the State who be-
iieve him sane originally and the experts for
the defense who have come around to that
conclusion.
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A Problem.

Problem.
Will you please tell what number il is
from which If one-third be taken and then half
Of what remains and then one third nothing will
remain? ALICE w
Any number. If you will consider, you will
see that two-thirds remain after the first sub
traction. and that if you take half of this away
you taking one-third. etc, and that you have
taken off one-third three times a proceeding
which will leave nothing no matter what number
you had at first
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Too Much to Endure

Too Much to Endure.
She had disposition that
Was sweet and bound to please:
She ne'er said Scat" to any cat
A dog she would not tease;
But when a passing jitney bus
Bedaubed her lingerie
She made fuss so like a cuss
1t missed it narrowly
THE TATTLER.
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Officers
Right to
Resign

for all. the question
e''Sh army officers have inaliena bile
right TO resign in time of peace.
Two conflicting opinions have been given on
the same subject by the judge advocate general
OF the army and the judge advocate-general of
the navy, the former holding that resignation
must be accepted and the latter holding that it
may be refused While the opinion of the At
torney General with regard to this moot ed point
will not be final. 1t will at least serve the pur-
pose of establishing preceden, for future action
by the Secretary Of War II the Attorney-Gen-
this is bn sne BE
tary or War, 1t will not be long before a test
case Is brought in court and decided with hnallty.
Certainly IT hardly seems fair for the United
States government spend the taxpayers
money in educating officers at West Point only
TO have them resign after they have served a
few years. II they had satisfactory reason for
quitting the army. it would be so bad but
more money. No one would argue that Ameri.
can army officers are paid very good salaries
to every young who decides to enter the
army. There is no deception about it, When
ment at West Point Annapolis he owes it to
his country to make adequate return later
on and not yield to the first temptation to sell
the experience which the government has given
him for a higher price than the government
itself is willing to pay.-washington Post
After having been tried in sew
Gary Plan eral schools of New York city
of schools Tor year or more, the Gary plan
s,ra.d;n1 is to be adopted in the Bronx
and. II successful there, will be
extended throughout Greater New
York. Action in the Bronx is evidence that the
system is working satisfactorily. and it is be-
lieved that congestion has been finally overcome
The principle Of the Gary plan includes greater
individual attention for the pupil and increased
use Of the school plant a group of twelve
schools In the upper north and east sides of tho
Bronx will be reorganzed under the Gary plan
This will make necessary much alteration the
purchase OF more ground and even the con-
struction Of several new buildings. 1t Is ex-
pected that the expenditures incurred all
though totalinE almost s2.o00,O00. Will mean a
considerable ultimate saving. The beginning OF
each new school year in New York finds
thousands Of young pupils enrolled. Many Of
.hase come from immigrant homes and reauire
much attention. Crowdins has resulted In part
time classes The present routine of primary
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-02

The New York Sun thinks the final word
IN Teutonic frightfulness was the WORK ~
'hat chicago society which cancelled an inyi-
ta'ioh 10 MI Bryan to make an address
hereafter. says the Sun, the world will be-
HeVc every atrocity story II is told
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Queries and Answers
Which as Comnnss

using a watch as compass ! have forgot the
contrivance, and shall be glad if you can tell
me what it is r. K. X TYLER
Point the hour hand to the sun and halfway
between the hour hand. and the figure IL will
be south