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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24

Officer Falwel1 went to Richmond, and,
calling at the Second Police Station,
obtained the assistance of Detective
and began to search for Fields.
After several hours work they were
about to cease for the day when they
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24

Special to The Richmond yirginian.)
South Boston Va. Dec. 2S.-The
county home q Mr. william G. Slate
u as the scene Of q beautiful marriage
,otav when Miss Susie Slate became
the bride q Mr. Enron King The
arriage vae Witnessed by a large
0emher of friends Miss Halle Roller
was maid of honor and Mr. owen King
led as best man Before the Cere-
stony Mfss Alice Bleecker sang Rev
lay Moore was the minister who per-
f#rue5 the ceremony The couple left
for q tour and Will reside here on their
e@rarp Mr. King is engaged IN the
tobacco business herd
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24

decided to go into a oiler room to
warm and while there Fields came
there to apply for a job. He was ar
rested and taken to the police station
and then brought to Lvnchburg and
later lodged in Rustburg jail.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24
TODAY

TO COMPLETE YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Let us heln
this eleventh house repete
and Furniture Novelties acceptable
Birthday
ESSENTIALLY A GIFT is the little Work Table
useful companions Our variety offers prices
$500 to $500
BRASS AND MAHOGANY cANDLEsTICKs in their ou;et
and dignited lend themselves to spirit Christmas
and useful and decorating effect We show
ands to the pair
RED CEDAR CHESTS, mohproof, combination necessity
and luxury all styles and sizes prices
TABLE RUNNERS n large variety of designs and mate
riak, from So so to $500
Special Delivery Christmas Eve
Sydnor G. HunAey,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24

Miss caFfis Ta8afergo T. SPENDING
ss1fss lsOsidaAa WITH. ier parents. Mr
40 sIgs, fhil 9a.iaferro. at the home
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24

Newport News, Va. Dec. %, 1918
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-24

ANNE MYERS
Society Editor.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07

This is pan-Americanism. 1t has none
Of the spirit Of empire in it. 1t is the
embodiment. the effectual embodiment,
Of the spirit Of law and independence
and liberty and mutual service.
The president calls attention to the
meeting in Washington recently Of
Representatives Of the pan-American
republics and says that economic ad-
justment is inevitable in the next gen.
Grafton
No one who really comprehends the
spirit of the great people for whom we
are appointed to speak can fail to per-
ceive that their passion is for peace,
their genius best displayed in the prac-
tice Of the arts of peace. Great democ-
racies are not 5elligerent. They do not
seek or desire war. Their thought Is
Of individual liberty and Of the free
labor that supports life and the un-
censored thought that quickens it.
Conquest and dominion are not in our
reckoning or agreeable to our princ1-
pies. But just because we demand un-
molested development and the undis-
turbed government Of our own lives
upon our own principles Of right and
liberty, we resent. from whatever
quarter it may come, the aggression we
ourselves will not practice. We insist
upon security in prosecuting our self
chosen lines Of national development.
We do more than that. We demand 1t
also for others We do not confine our
enthusiasm for individual liberty and
free national development to the Incl
dents and movements Of affairs which
affect only ourselves. We feel it wher-
ever there is people that tries to walk
in these difficult paths Of independence
and right. From the first we have
made common cause with all partisans
Of liberty On this side the sea and have
deemed it as important that our neigh
bors should be free from all outside
domination as that we ourselves should
be; have set America aside as whole
for the uses Of Independent nations and
political freemen.
Out Of such thoughts grow all our
policies. We regard war merely as a
means Of asserting the rights Of peo-
pie against aggression. And we are
as f1ercely jealous Of coercive or dicta-
torial power within our own nation
as Of aggression from without. We
will not maintain standing army ex-
cept for uses which are as necessary
in times Of peace as in times Of war.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07
SUGGESTS BROAD PLAN
FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
increase Standing Regular Foree-Fcur
Hundred thousand Citizen soIdiero.

Hundred Thousand Citizen SoldierD.
But war has never been a mere mat
ter Of men and guns. 1t Is thing
Of disciplined might. If our citizens
are ever to fight effectively upon d
sudden summons. they must kn3w
how modern fighting IS done. and what
to do when the summons comes to
render themselves Immediately avail
able and Immediately effective. And
the government must be their servant
in this matter, must supply them with
the training they need to take care of
themselves and Of it. The military
arm Of their government, which they
will not allow to direct them, they may
properly use to serve them and make
their independence secure, and not
their own independence merely. but
the rights also of those with whom
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
FOR GREATER NAVY.
Always Looked to It as Our First and
Chief Line of Defense.

Chief Line of Defense.
The program which will be laid be-
fore you by the secretary Of the navy
is similarly conceived. 1t involves only
a shortening Of the time within which
plans long matured shall be carried
out, but it does make definite and ex-
plicit a program which has heretofore
been only implicit. held in the minds OF
the committees on naval affairs and
disclosed in the debates Of the two
houses, but nowhere formulated or for
mally adopted. 1t seems to me very
clear that it will be to the advantage
Of the country for the congress to adopt
a comprehensive plan for putting the
navy upon a final footing Of strength
and efficiency and to press that plan
to completion within the next FIVE
years. We have always looked to the
navy Of the country as our first and
chief line of defense; we have always
seen it to be our manifest course OF
prudence to be strong on the seas.
Year by year we have been creating
navy which now ranks very high in
deed among the navies Of the maritime
nations. We should now definitely de
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07
PAN-AMERiCANISM HAS
NONE OF EMPIRES SPIRIT

Economic Adjustments inevitable With
in the Next Generation.
The moral is that the states Of Amer
lea are not hostile rivals, but coop
Grating friends, and that their grow
ing sense Of community Of interest,
alike in matters political and in mat
ters economic. is likely to give them a
new significance as factors in interna-
tional affairs and In the political his
tory Of the world. It presents them as
In a very deep and true sense unit
In world affairs, spiritual partners,
standing together because thinking to-
gether, quick with common sympathies
and common ideals. Separated, they
are subject to all the cross currents Of
the confused politics Of world Of hos
tile rivalries; united in spirit and pur-
pose, they cannot be disappointed Of
their peaceful destiny.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07

they have made common cause, should
they also be put in Jeopardy. They
must be fitted to play the great role
in the world. and particularly III this
hemisphere, for which they are quail
fed by principle and by chastened am
bition to play.
1t is with these ideals in mind that
the plans Of the department Of war for
more adequate national defense were
conceived which will be laid before
you. and which urge you to sanction
and put into effect as soon as they can
be properly scrutinized and discussed
They seem to me the essential first
steps. and they seem to me for the
present sufficient.
They contemplate an increase Of the
standing force of the regular army
from its present strength Of 5.023 Off
GERS and 1O2,9S5 enlisted men of all
services to a strength Of 7.136 officers
and 134.707 enlisted men, or 141.S43
all told. all services, rank and file. by
the addition of fifty-two companies Of
coast artillery, fifteen companies Of en-
gineers, ten regiments Of infantry, four
regiments of field artillery and four
aero squadrons. besides $50 officers re-
quired for a great variety Of extra
service. especially the all important
duty of training the citizen force Of
which I shall presently speak, 1872 non
commissioned officers for service in
drill. recruiting and the like and the
necessary quota of enlisted lnen for
the quartermaster corps, the hospital
corps, the ordnance department and
other similar auxiliary services. These
are the additions necessary to render
the army adequate for it's present du-
ties. duties which it has to perform
not only upon our own continental
coasts and borders and at our interior
army posts, but also in the Philippines
in the Hawaiian Islands. at the 18TH
mus and in Porto Rico.
By way Of making the country ready
to assert some part Of its real power
promptly and upon larger scale
should occasion arise the plan also
contemplates supplementing the army
by a force Of 100000 disciplined citi-
zens. raised in increments Of $4,000 a
year throughout period of three
years. This it is proposed to do by a
process Of enlistment under which the
serviceable men Of the country would
be asked to bind themselves to serve
with the colors for purposes of train
ing for short periods throughout three
years and to come to the colors at call
at any time throughout an additional
"furlough" period Of three years. This
force of 100000 men would be pro-
vided with personal accouterments as
fast as enlisted and their equipment
for the field made ready to be supplied
at any time. They would be assem-
bled for training at stated Intervals at
convenient places in association with
suitable units Of the regular army.
Their period of annual training would
not necessarily exceed two months in
the year.
The president says it is up to the
patriotic young men Of the country TO
respond to this call.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07

house at the beginning of the
Sixty-fourth congress:
Gentlemen of the Congress-Since /
last had the privilege Of addressing
you on the state of the Union the war
Of nations on the other side Of the sea,
which had then only begun to disclose
Its portentous proportions, has extend
ed it's threatening and sinister scope
until it has swept within its flame
some portion of every quarter Of the
globe. not excepting our own hemi-
sphere. has altered the whole face of
international affairs, and now presents
q prospect of reorganization and re-
construction such as statesmen and
peoples have never been called upon
to attempt before.
The president tells how this country
practiced neutrality and declares that
be hopes that when the time comes
for readjustment and recuperation this
country will be of infinite service Re-
ferring to Central and South American
problems, the president declares that
we should retain unabated the spirit
which has inspired US throughout the
whole life OF our government and
which was so frankly put into words
by President Monroe.
We have been put to the test In the
case of Mexico, and we have stood the
test. Whether we have benefited Mex
leo by the course we have pursued re-
mains to be seen. Her fortunes are In
her own hands But we have at least
proved that we will not take advan-
tage Of her in her distress and under
take to impose upon her an order and
government Of our own choosing. Lib
erty is often a fierce and intractable
thing, to which no bounds can be set
and to which no bounds Of few
mems choosing ought ever to be set
Every American who has drunk at
the true fountains Of principle and ira
dition must subscribe without reServa
ton to the high doctrine OF the Vir-
ginia bill Of rights, which in the great
days In which our government was set
up was everywhere among us accept
ed as the creed of free men. That doc
trine is, THAT government Is or ought
to be instituted for the common bene-
fit, protection and security Of the peo-
ple, nation or community that ''of
all the various modes and forms Of
government. that is the best which Is
capable of producing the greatest de-
gree of happiness and safety and Is
most eTectually secured against the
danger of maladministration, and that
when any government shall be found
inadequate or contrary to these pur-
poses majority Of the community
hath an indubitable, inalienable and
indefeasible right to reform, alter or
abolish it in such manner as shall be
judged most conducive to the public
veal" We have unhesitatingly ap-
piled that heroic principle to the case
of Mexico and now hopefully await
the rebirth Of the troubled republic,
which had so much Of which to purge
itself and so little sympathy from any
outside quarter in the radical but nee
essary process. We will aid and be-
friend Mexico, but we will not coerce
her. and our course with regard to her
ought to be sufficient proof to all Amer
lea that we seek no political suzerainty
or selfish control.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07

National Preparedness Main
Theme of Head of Nation.
Submits Definite Plan to In
crease Present Standing Force
of Regulars and For Four Hun
dred Thousand Citizen Soldiers
Raised In !ncrements Of One
Hundred and Thirty-three
Thousand.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07
PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE

Declares That if Full Navy Pro-
gram Is Carried Out We Will
Have a Fleet For Defense That
Will Be Fitted to Our Needs
and Worthy Of Our Traditions" :"
Greatest Danger to Country
Comes From Within Our BcF-
derS.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-07

- GLOWING is the message of
- President Wilson delivered at
joint session of the senate and
house at the beginning of the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-17
SHORT ONES

This dry movement is going a bit
too far. Now an eastern doctor de-
clares warm water good for snake
bite.
We knew the truth would come out
at last. A New York minister has
discovered that the war was due to
civilization.
The San Francisco exposition gives
New Englanders wonderful chance
to find out what a lot of land there
is west of the Hudson.
We now intend to organize a COM
pany to carry Goals to Newcastle. 1t
ought to succeed, because Chicago
has sent an expert to New York to
clean the streets.
A Grand Rapids girl saw movie
film, went home, undressed and
chased around the street, declaring
she was Truth" She was pinched.
After one glimpse the authorities de-
cided truth was stranger than fiction.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-17

As loitered, watching the players,
and perforce listening to the vapid
chatter of my own immediate group,
a CHEEKY and familiar voice broke in:
Paper, sir? Paper, miss? All
bout the war"
turned; there stood my morning
acquaintance, their faces no longer
shining from soap and water, but
grimy and streaked with sweat of
toll, the first edition of the after
noon papers displayed.
A lady, probably a mother, richly
dressed, and with rather more jewels
than the occasion warranted, each
worth a kings ransom, shrilled; >.
mo, no! Oh, go away, you dirty
little boys!" Then to her compan-
ions: isn't it shameful that the
mothers of these street arabs let
them run around this way?"
My pride as an American quivered
like harp string.
In the Great Ledger, where the
Recording Angel keeps page for
rich and poor alike, for millionaire
and street arab, which account, do
you think, shows a credit balance?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-17
THE PUBLIC FORUM
FOR STEADMAN.-In your issue

FOR STEADMAN.-In your issue
of April IA the suggestion of Sey-
mour Steadman for the Thompson
cabinet is a good one, but let me go
a step farther and say that he ought
to be appointed corporation counsel.
The people would then get square
deal
Mr.. Thompson was not elected by
the Republican party alone and as he
stated that he would do as the people
wanted him to do, let the people put
this up to him in the shape of petit
ton signed by as many of the COM
mon people and union men of this
city as can be signed up in weeks
time.-O. TodtIeben.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-17
EIGHT-HoUR LAVAL

ElGHT-HOUR LAW.-After read
ing the testimony of Mrs. Clara
Mountler must say that l think she
ought to be ashamed of herself for
so trying to degrade her own sex. 1
know from experience that she is
wrong.
Twas once waitress and know the
long hours and poor pay that they
receive. What blessing the 8-hour
law is for women. l would like to
see Mrs. Mountler start work at $50
and work until 7:30 in the evening.
This is what I once did and it surely
did not make me happy. think she
would realize the pleasure" of being
on her feet this long if she tried it
once.
After IA years as a housewife l
was compelled to again take up work
as breadwinner and l now do tailor
ing. When 1 first started to work at
it l would work from 1880 until IL
noon. Then l had 35 minutes for
lunch. After that worked until 9
O'Clock in the evening. l would go
home so tired that could scarcely
arise the next morning. was doing
piecework. AS for craving to do this
that is not so. None of us want
such conditions again.
Since the 10-hour law was passed
1 thank God my health has been bet
ter and have been able to have more
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-05
WANTS SHOWDOWN Oh
SHIP SEIZURES

Washington, Nov. 5.-Prompt &C.
ton by the United States to prevent
further seizures of American ships
under the new Anglo-French policy
of determining enemy ownership was
indicated by officials today. 1t was
reported this government will seek a
''modus vivandi'' for settlement of the
new ship registry dispute by request
ing that the British and French gov
ernments refrain from further prize
court seizures until the question re-
garding the steamer Hooking at Hall
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-05
MAYOR AND WIFE SIGN THE SUI
FRAGE PETITION

ENJOYS of the Woman's Suffrage
League were welcomed to Chicago
by Mayor Thompson on the steps of
the art institute this morning with
the expression that he was proud of
them" and that he hoped they would
succeed in their mission. The wom-
en-, on their way to Washington from
the San Francisco Exposition, are
going to present a petition to con-
gress to amend the constitution of
the United States to allow women
suffrage.
Mayor Thompson signed one
after Mrs. Thompson had. Today
the women will make the rounds of
the women's clubs of the city for their
endorsement. Tomorrow their ca
valcade of autos will go on to Wash
ington.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-05
SPECIAL STRIKE EDITION

The Day Book will put out Gar
ment Workers Special Edition Sat
urday morning. This issue will car
ry a story of the general run Of the
strike; cause and effect. Also stories
by Sidney Hillman, international
pres. of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, and other interested in the
strikers cause. Pictures will show
police brutality that has been car
ried on.
The regular noon and last editions
of The Day Book will be issued.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-05


ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nv. WIS will celebrate opening of
new headquarters, 933 w. Madison,
Nov Is, with entertainment and
smoker. Public forum will be held
during winter.
EXPIRES. VIM. Howard Taft will
speak, Orchestra hall, Nov. 10, on
What Shall Be Our National Atti-
tude Toward a League of Nations to
Enforce Peace?"
do American WorkingTnen Want
Large Standing Army?" subject of
lecture by VIM. Thurston Brown, CO.
lonial hall, 20 W. Randolph, Sunday,
8 p. m.
Socialist State Reps. Madsen and
Mason will speak at West Side So
cialist hall, 1903 w. 18th, Sunday at
8 p. m.
West Side Peoples Forum, Church
of the Redeemer, Robey and War
rem av., will begin second season
Sunday night with Mayor Thompson
discussing his ideals for Chicago.
Are public schools privately owned?
Issue will ediscussed Sunday aft,
ernoon, 2:45 p. M, in public meeting
in Drill hall, Masonic Temple, on the
topic, "Crisis in Our Schools" Speak
ers: Aid. Rodriguez and ]. Stitt Will
son, formerly Socialist mayor of
Berkeley, Cal.
1890
CHICAGO GRAIN. - Grain and
provisionssplit. Dec. wheat closed,
$104%.
-O-O
NEW YORK STOCKS. - Market
showed fair strength. Prices steady.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy tonight and Satur-
day, with probably light showers;
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-05

fax can be settled. The American
government is willing, however, that
the Hooking shall be made test case.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-03
BRITAIN INCONSIDERATE
Neutrals want Rules to Govern Seas,
Says Rome Paper.

ROME. Jan 1.-The Tribund says that
the American note 10 the British Govern
ment regarding interference with ship
ping must be considered as an expression
of irritation at the injury done American
commerce. The Ti1bund says:
America. the Scandinavian countries
and Italy are united by an Informal under
standing which might become formal II
the abuses continue. They only desire
to see their commerce protected and de-
mand that international rules. instead OF
arbitrary belligerents, reign over the
seas.
THE American note or similar views
from other ueutrals must not be taken
as an expression OF hostility toward Eng
yland or her allies. but as an expression
Of irritation at the injury to their COM
merce by the nconsiderate application OF
international rights"
The VITA the organ OF the Italian Rad
Gals sees in the American note an Op-
yortunty for other neutral States to pro-
test against the injury to their commerce.
1t expresses the hope that these States
OF Europe will take advantage OF this
opportunity to act together with America
in insisting that the relations between
neutrals and belligerents he now settled
on the broad basis of all neutrals to all
bclligerents. Otherwise, the paper says
the United States individually will re-
Ceive all the satisfaction while the other
neutral Powers will be worse off than
they were before
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-03
HARD TASK TO SEND JAPANESE.
Transport would Need Hundreds of
Ocean Steamers.
Special co6ie Despatch 10 Tuv su~

PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE CTt de Paris In
it's political section, points out that those
who favor bringing Japanese troops TO
Europe overlook some OF the difficulties
in the way OF transport. 1t would re-
auire hundreds OF oceangoing steamers
for transport purposes the paper says.
II 100000 japanese were brought 20
Europe II would require $50 steamers.
carrying between 1000 and 5000 men
each, to transport them. II fewer ves-
sells were employed and they went back
ward and forward between Japan and Eu-
rope II would require year to place
such an army in France.
The writer considers that the ques-
ton has been closed by the action OF
the Mlkado In putting off the Japanese
parliamentary elections to the end of
March.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-03
JoFFRE'S BULLETINS IMMORTAL
French General Is Thought to Have
Qualified for Academy.

WVT' 'TFF1''''
PARIS. Jan. THE French Academy Is
still considering the question of electing
Gen Jofre, the French commander In
chief, 10 one of the vacant seats among
the Immortals The last case OF a nom
literary man being elected was that OF
Ferdinand de Lesscps, the builder of the
Suez Canal.
majority OF the members of the
Academy consider that Gen. Joffre's elo-
auent proclamations, such as that to his
soldiers on the eve of the battle OF the
Marine ard later his address to Alsatians,
entltle him to consideration as a literary
man. one immortal remarked
II Christopher Columbus had lived in
oug times the Academy would be justified
IN e,ecting him as one OF It's members"