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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
The House Pnrty.

Jones had party at his house.
1t was n beefstenk dinner.
One Of the fellers was the cook,
He said he was winner.
Yes. Joness wife had gone away
Z To spend Il chilly summer;
Jones put much thought upon this
spread,
And planned it for hummer
The steak was burned till 1t was black
And tough as any boot
The Kitchen surely looked as though
The cook was on a toot.
They couldn't find the butter nor
The sugar nor the tea.
The host looked on tho wreckage
And was sore as sore could be.
They left the dinner where 1t was
And went downtown to eat.
The other folks were gay, but Jones
Knew misery complete.
He hired woman to come In =
TO scrub as women do.
She says She thinks within n week
She may, perhaps. get through.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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Wanted in Virginia

= GOD public highways form one Of the
~ best assets OF a progressive Common
wealth Legislative bodies to-day waste no
time debating the advisa bility of expanding
available funds In road construction and road
Improvement. II is but question of making
such changes in existing road laws and enact
ing such new laws may be needed to give
10 those responsible for the building and
maintenance of public roads authority needed
Tor the proper discharge OF their duties.
That is what the State Highway Commits
sion will ask OF the next General Assembly
Commissioners George T. Coleman points out
what seems most practicable and desirable
plan for the advancement OF the good roads
cause in the suggestion that the automobile
tax fund. amounting in 1915 to $4,000 be
placed under the sole control OF the commits
sion to be expended solely in improvements
TO public highways already constructed Vir-
ginia needs more public highways. But more
imperative is the need for keeping in good
repair the roads already constructed.
The obstacles thrown in the way of the
commission by those county sheriffs and city
sergeants who are reluctant to surrender for
road Improvement work Jail inmates from
whose subsistence they derive emoluments is
probably strong argument in favor of the
proposed bill.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Cotton and Peace

= RANTING that men who make claim to
~ being experts are correct. cotton growers
have more reason to pray for peace than any
other contingent We are told by these
wiseacres that at the first intimation of
peace-not rumored peace-cotton will have
tremendous" advance, and that If Ger
many bought then the prices they would have
TO pay would put the interests OF that country
in bad trade position as compared with
England. 1t is believed that Germany Is wide
awake TO these conditions, and that there has
been considerable buying in q quiet way by
houses with German connection.
II cotton shall be declared contraband it
IS believed-in fact, it has already been init
mated-that an English syndicate will at
once be formed TO buy up 5000. 900 bales and
hold off OF the market until the remainder of
the crop is marketed.
AS 10 the prospects Of the crop, the gov
eminent reports that the boIls have opened
prematurely. Rain is needed to bring about
satisfactory results. The reports add that in
no section OF the belt has cotton maintained
the promise held out month ago.
a dependable correspondent" of the Henry
B. Clews Co. informs his house that he does
not see how it is possible, considering the re-
cent drought and high temperature TO raise
crop OF ll,o00000 bales. The present is
the critical growing month. and, as conditions
now seem from the authorities quoted q
great crop is impossible.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

THAT Joint board Of experts should ox
1 .he value va OF Tie American ship Frye. de-
should he paid by the German aoynrn,nnn,
was the original proposition BY this govern.
ment. The German OFFER was 10 sThi,ra,e
the question OF legal Justification" for the
sinking of the Frye, In so FAR as that Involves
the Interpretation OF the existing treaties win
Germany
The case was clearly ana forcofplIy ,ro.
scented by Secretary OF State Lansing IN his
paper To Germany, which was printed rfryourh.
out the country yesterday.
The whole question reduced IS this
whcthcn,or not the sinking of the FRYE ,ya 9
of 1928
What this country wants to know. as we
understand it, is whether Germany INTENDS To
govern its naval warfare on it's own or ON
this governments Interpretation of ,ha,
treaty
That Germany has dono its utmost to be
cloud this treaty is generally conceded. a
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
The Voice Of the PEOPLE
Women Rcfnrmcrs.

To the Editor OF the Times Dispatch
Sir.-The writer read the article by "Old Sub
Scriber;' and has also read reply OF August 9Th
BY "Nirginia Woman Her statement as TO
half-nude women with painted faces. dancing
with modestly dressed men must be cxag-
scratcd. or no summer resort would counte-
nance il. the modestly dressed men would not
dance with them and Virginia Woman" would
NOT ST. and look on. can imagine no condi-
no parallel among men. II the lady refers 10
RED light traffic, am sure such places could not
eNlst without the support of men, and [ have
read That many of them by men called
white slave traders There will no class of
voters among women that cannot already he
1ouhd among men We already have some good
voters ana we have the ignorant. the impure
me thouEhlcss. the incxcpe iicnccd, the negro
inc 1oreiGncr. the fanatic and the man who ha <
no hpnreciation Of the ballot and does not care
TO vote. II men did vote until ali men
to-uhy The same arrangement can be made
ABOUT the negro woman;S that has been
made about the negro mans vote. The white
women III Virginia largely outnumber the col
ored women. The time and money used bv the
equti suhraSiStS is ours and are using II
ior tho best interests Of mankind We arc work
ing Tor the spread of the Gospel. but we bc-
heVe that one of the best ways to render Derma-
ncnt service and good to mankind is to get Tho
UP. making better homes, counties States 60,
tries. better world. / have listened TO many
suffrage addresses and ] have never heard one
word OF the ugly things some of our sneakers
arc reported as saying. 'e'
BUSINESS WOMAN
also "a VIRGINIA WOMAN
Richmond, Va, August II, 1915.
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GeOrgia'S Shame

| ATER reports but deepen Georgias shame
IL AbhOrrent as was the act of the mob that
murdered Frank, the authorities Of Atlanta
have spread and blackened now the stain that
rests upon their State. 1t may not have been
altogether unnatural in view Of the intense
feeling that exists among the people Of
Georgia. that it should have been necessary
to plead with crowd Of angored men in a
country district to permit coroners jury to
proceed duly and in order. though even that
does not stand to the credit Of our civiliza-
ton.
But the harbarity of the police of Atlanta
in permitting n steady stream of persons to
view for hours the mutilated body Of the MUIR
dered man suggests nothing so much as the
savage spirit that prompts the head-hunter to
display his trophies on pointed stakes. And
to cap this, the Mayor Of Atlanta is quoted as
having stated publicly that Frank suffered
the just penalty for unspeakable crime"
and as having warned the Governor who COM
muted his sentence not to return to Georgia
yet
There is only thing lacking: if it shall
transpire that the prison officials, the men
who permitted handful Of men to overpower
them and take away their prisoner without
struggle, were accessory to the loathsome act
then indeed will Georgia wear nfamys crown
OF infamy.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
If It's n Virginia Oyster

TIRGINIA oyster shippers are TO be felici-
tatod. The bivalve may be shipped
from our waters to New York without being
held up for inspection. The Board OF Health
OF New York City has co-operated with Vir-
gnio's Dairy and Food Commissioner, Benja-
min l.. Purcell. to bring about this situation.
y Virginia certificate attached to any oys-
ter shipment from any bed in the State is
sufficient for the greatest oyster market in
the world. People who are not in the bust
ness may not know that the American oyster
is the one that is bought abroad.
And the Virginia oyster is the one pre-
ferrcd II is known now in New York that
the purchase Of oyster from polluted
bed in Virginia is impossible. The law OF
Virginia has made ii so. And this is the
chief reason why the health authorities of
New York have made the arrangements men
toned.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Women and Public Schools.

To the Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
Sir-Wc have made public education our great
concern IN America. and perhaps tho public
schooi system is our most distinctive achieve
the ages OF ten and fourteen years who cannnt
read or write. and $4,000 of them are in the
southern States. Is ii recognized that one cause
of this is the exclusion of women from the
stands the education of the child better than
the mother, and is il lust to deprive nor of -
voice In the conditions under which thev are
educated? - "
The work of the patrons Leagues shows what
mothers can accomplish. and among the innova :
tons introduced by women i'm the schools arc
cooking, sewing and other household arts 4
school of domestic arts and sciences was cstah
lished and managed by the clubwomcn Of Chi
caEo. y school of mother craft" was est h.
lished in New York and music art and drama IL
taste as ciVlliZing elements In school study have
been acknoW icdGed and fostcrcd by women Tbe
womens CLUBS In Chicago Massachusetts, Maine
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and ('onnect NJ
have promoted vocational training and II ,vas
through the initiative and energy of Mrs
Hcmcnway, OF Boston, that physical training
was adopted in the schools, and DR.. Jessie New
Kirk OF the Kansas City Board of t,dncotion
has made an extensive survey of athletics in thn
girls schools OF the country
Women are also especially fitted to plan scboo,
buildings. and Miss Alice Durkin, Of New York
has recently been given the contract 70 huiiG
one, and she has already built other school
houses elsewhere. There are MANY other inne
where women's help is valuable and they have
proved themselves efficient supcrintc ndcnts or
public schools in several States. There are now
states and In Montana one man only holds the
Office Of county superintendent. Virginia is one
OF the four backward States that provided no
State college for women, and the progressive
lethargy and prejudice Il. L. ROBINSON
Clarendon, Va, August II, 1915
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

is aptly stated by the New York World, the
position now assumed by Berlin is virtually
one OF heads they win, tails we lose.
In any event. the settlement of this case
will have far-reaching effect. If Germany
accepts arbitration. the way Is open for this
government to address itself In very force
full manner to Great Britain in tho advocacy
of legitimate neutral commerce on the high
seas. If Germany accepts the term Of the
note. sho will suspend her policy of attack
ing and destroying American ships carrying
contra band.
But If there is any way of lodging the pro-
posals, Germany will play the game to the
limit.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Have YOU noticed that all maps OF the Oar
danellCs look alike?
The American Dollar

\ PART from its great commercial signif-
u canoe, there is suggestion of poetic
justice in the announcement that. at the be-
ginning OF this week. all the vast financial
transactions between this country and the
nations OF Europe were based upon the stand
ard set by the American dollar Heretofore
the financial standard the world over has
been the English pound sterling.
The commercial reason for the setting up
OF the American dollar es the international
standard IS simple: America has become the
one great market OF the nations; their gov
eT1uents are straining themselves 10 the
reach az their resources in the purchase of
arms and munitions, and IL Is TO America
that ,aeE turn. Hence they must pay the
price demanded and in the manner designated
wa!le losses entailed by the decline in foreign
exchange rates must be borne b. the pur-
chase.s which is as il should be-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

case. which Is drawn from sheet brass
mas been designed by employees OF the
shon. 1t makes "A lock of much ncater
appearance ana lighter in weight al
cost OF 80 cents each. Savings such as
this have been made all along the line
some idea may be had OF the growth
or the postal service from the fact that
IN 1890 only 800, 600 locks were needed
for locking pouches, while at the pres-
ent time there arc over 1000, 900 used
ior the purpose. The number OF regis
tered locks required has Increased dur
Ing this period from 1000 TO 5000
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Home Run on the Dollar Button.

Home Run the Dollar Button
She: Hubby dear, l shall have to ask you to
hook mo.
He: Hooks are barred. Make it buttons,
Baseball buttons. you know. Cost a dollar per.
Richmond team. No dol but.
The girl on the switchboa I'd is connected with
the best families in town.
New e-piece frocks and "slipons" indicate
that garments hereafter will hang from the
shouldcrs.-Fashion item. So the Mother Hub
bard is coming back?
Was there anybody in your family who made
sassafras tea?
We reckon Bill had the National Security
League in his minds eye when he penned these
few lines in Henry V; act 2; scene VI:
My most redoubted Uncle
1t is most meet 'gainst the foe:
For peace itself should so dull kingdom
Though war nor no known quarrel were in
question:
But that defenses. mus,crs preparations
Should be maintained, assembled and collected.
AS were war in expectation.
What has become of the fine old mother who
years agonc. this season of the year beran
to gather boncset leaves-ever drink any bone
set tea Its mission was to put fever out Of
commission But it was good unless mother
made it,
The who complains that life isn't worth
living is the first ring up a doctor
In the opinion OF the school, whatever is
different Is
Swnttins the Home Town.
Teacher: What can you say of Rome?
Boy: Nothing. Amt acquainted
why, YOU bonehead, don't YOU know Il had
seven hills?"
That's nothin'. Richmond has its ups and
downs"
The meek may inherit the earth, but they
won't get II without law suit
Brooklyn proposes to make the owners OF
rubber neck" wagons prepare shelter where
the patrons can study the map Of the town be-
fore they start out to the sights.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Reducing Cost of Iiyfnn,

The same Ohio boy that raised 1879
bushels of corn to the acre in 1912. this
year raised ffty-ive and two-thirds
bushels OF wheat to the acre. If moro
boys preferred to do that sort Of thing
instead of becoming chauffeurs the
high cost of living wouldn't cause so
much loss of sleep-Indianapolis News.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Big Business Under WAY

IF anybody in this country is in doubt about
1 business conditions, IL is because he prefers
darkness 10 light. Within the last week gem
eral trade has been stimulated The monthly
report OF The !'nitcd States Steel Corporation
shows an increase OF orders unfulilled to tho
amount OF 10000 tons. Since that report
q number OF railroad trunk lines have placed
orders Tor steel equipment and orders for
more Than 200 600 tons OF steel rails have
been placed among various steel companies
~ the French and the Russian governments
The gross earnings OF the trunk lines West
We're not so encouraging in the month OF
July, hut this was because OF the delayed
movement OF winter wheat Traffic so Ear
as mas been learned, for the current month
shows a great increase, and it is confidently
predicted that it will ne surpassed by the
business of next month
Naturally the decision OF tho Interstate
Commerce Commission in the Western rate
case checked speculation in railroad shares
hut all reports from business centers indicate
mat trade is increasing and there is not. so
lar as has been learned. any doubt as TO a
bigeer business This fall than the country has
hal Tor many seasons The business here re-
ierred 10 has no connection with the enor
NOUS orders for war munitions. 1t is ,ba
legitimate business OF the nation
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Minds turn toward tho ultimate

Minds turn toward the ultimate
Simmer Justices under the shadow tho
In tho smoke wrack OF that Is
Churches t..H ms -, va 'no ~ -, +" WV"
cral recent Sundays In New York
churchcs show that the summer attendance has
risen ~ per cent above the normal and that
tent and outdoor meetings arc 25 per cent larger.
Both tho wcll-to-do and the poorly off. equally
touched by tho solemn times. seeking the
words Of religion for some light and leading out
or the spiritual distinctions depressing tho
world. These people and all who see the daily
inin or Ideals that have been upbuilding during
1000 years we do not doubt are taking in
spiration and determination to uphold and in
their own land defend these ideals against all
current or thrcnt tened ormitics.-Boston Tran
script.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

The war over yonder has played smithereens
with & lot OF oldtime things over here. Sum
mer before last children and young girls we're
sent TO bed TO escape the kissing bug Has
anybody heard OF that chronological mystery
since the Kaiser and Franz josef were forced
into the terrible conflict?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

Norfolk, Va skipped date last Wedncs-
day. 1t was the eighty-sey nth anniversary
Of the departure from there of Charles Wilkes
OF the United States Navy, on the first atte1npt
by the United States TO solve the mystery OF
the South Pole. There are not many days
in the history of Virginia that fail to record
something done
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

be invited to pay In taxes the cost OF war and OF
tho reconstruction OF tho ruins All this will
which a reduced cost OF living will be
, spicuously acknowledgements. ~ Y. Post
Standard.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

kilmcr, Of the New York Times. about Amcri-
can humorists. He names several but the
linotype played havoc with the copy, for we
fail TO find in the list the name of John Ken
drck Bangs.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

Seaplane bombards Venice.-Cable. AS Byron
would put 1T il he here:
In Venice. Tassos echoes more;
They say you not find gondoer:
Tho pigeons of st. Marks not around
And seaplanes drop their bombs upon the shore
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

Mayor Woodward. of Atlanta, warns for
mer Governor Slaton to stay away from
Georgia. 1t is in order for Atlanta to hand
its Mayor his hat
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

The lack OF dyestuffs. due to the war, and
the consequent shortage Of black wool for
fabrics has brought the black sheep into his
own. 1t will be understood that reference is
made to the four-footed bahia
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Chats With Virginia Editors

They may call women hens" says the Nor
folk Ledger Dispatch but there are some men
who never do anything creditablc that they are
not inclined to cackle over it little" True
very true, and it is not entirely discredtable to
the folks that 1t is true.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
For Exhibit.

Among the things women always save
up for rainy days, observes the Mime
sofa Better Way, arc silk stockings
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Summer
In the
Churches
The Need
OF
Mexico

eTUWCNt WtkFS tho
Mexican factionalists that it intends to apply
the strong hand. that ii intends to restore order
on Its own frontiers and beyond, occupying
Mexican territory to insure respect for it's de-
mands. will anarchy cease to reign south OF tho
Rio Grande.-Broolil Eagle.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
SEEN ON THE SIDE

For what he did during the week. we com
mend to guests better acquaintance with
tho man who furnishes tho weather
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

There wasn't a murder in New York dur
hg the month OF July, current year. Smat-
ter? Police on vacation, or did the mosqui-
toes sting the criminals out of town?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19
Whcn II =. Too T,,te.

Usually when people say nice things
about a man he is too dead to appreci-
alto them.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

woman may be ever SO absent minded. but
she never forgets herself.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

Better go up like rocket than stay on the
dead level
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Reaction
After
the War

based on. These Injuries like other luxuries
VIII go out OF style FOR a time, and the men and
capital employed in manufacturing them will
have TO hnd work of other sorts. At the same
moment millions OF men who have bent all their
energies since July, 1914, to the work of the
soldier Will be released and invited to support
themselves as best they may. They will also
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

w. w. Russell goes back TO Santo Domingo
as minister That's our idea of patriot
man who served in that country once. left 1t
and returns.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

The jitney business seems to be dying out
all over the country says of our Western
exchanges. 1t would be accurate TO say
that the jtney business was killed by lack OF
patronage.-Newport News Press
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

Published every dny in the year by Tho
Timcs-Disrntch Publishing Company, Inc. Ad-
Dress all communications to THE T1NES-nlS
PATCH. Times Dispatch building, 10 South
Tenth street, Richmond. Nn.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-19

Mexico needs the strong hand
to-day, precisely as il needed tho
strong hand in the days OF JuareZ
and the later days of Diaz. And
not until the United States gov
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Neutrality,
Past
And Present

such thing n neutral in ancient
times, all persons being regarded as either for
or against a country at war. Neutral nations,
like neutral persons arc something modern and
their rights and dutieR are fixed by customs and
rules based largely the practices and inter-
national agreements of the past century or two
Our government has striven to be neutral ac-
cording TO the only practical standard namely
the standard fixed by the recognized law of
nations when tho began and by Its own
statute laws bearing on neutrality-suspicious.
Republican.
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The reaction will come. Shrap-
mel will be in less demand War
orders for unlimited quantities OF
rifles and bayoncts are not the
sort or business tEat American
industry can he permancptIv