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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

possible emergency, such as tho
defense OF our thousands OF miles
OF coast against world enemies
on both sides. Tie var desks OF
At least TWO OF the Nightiest military
sometime invasion. Plans upon our
part large enough TO make such an
attempt by any nation = piece OF un-
cNampled folly would be sowing, not
the seeds OF future wars. but the seeds
or future peace. for however VIC may
dislike H. circumstances compel us 10
use the only arguments which bear
weight with the burglar. Millions for
defense, but not one cent for tribute"
is q classic of American liberty and
American policy. There are many cir
cunstanccs arising since that day, even
coming TO light in the last fourteen
months, which may we'll make us say
billions for defense instead C! millions.
1t does not seem to me that n program
of $1,000, 000.o 900 for the next 1--WE years
will he either unreasonable or exces
sivc Unless we do the thing right
we had as well do nothing.
The preparedness of war defense
may be noncthical and offensive to
many good people, but we have seen, to
our vast establishment, that the pre-
parcdncss Of ambition and war mad
ness is hell on earth. as much as IL
ever was. only on more stupendous
scale and no veneer Of civilization
affords any protection against Il.
BENJAMIN G. MOOMAW.
Barber. Va, December 6. 1915.
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Hopewell Will Deserve Its Name

7 TITLE more than Il year ago the corn
- waved where the streets of Hopewell now
swarm with busy throngs. 1t was dead"
country and had been so ever since the orig
inal Epps sailed up the James with Captain
John Smith and took possession of City Point.
Then the War Order Fairy waved her nitro
glycerin wand and Hopewell came into being
like the town Of the Black Mountains in
the Arabian Nights
And once more Hopewe does not exist,
The heterogeneous mass of buildings and the
lack of adequate fire protection invited the
disaster which has befallen our neighbor city
on the James. But IIopewell is only tenn
porarily down and out. The great war still
continues and the Du Pont Powder Works
still have millions of dollars worth OF orders
to fiji Under such circumstances. il is only
question of a short time before the de-
stroyed buildings are replaced.
They will be replaced, too, by far better
structures than those burned down. These
were put up when Hopewell was still an eX-
pertinent and were essentially temporary and
perishable in nature. The building hereafter
will be for long years Of use and wear While
the misfortune falls hard on the citizens of
lopewell just now, it will tend TO their in
creased eventual good.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Mr.. Asquith

Mr.. Asquith is the Indispensable
Prime Minister, because his rivals are
so obviously impossible. His training
has not fitted him to conduct a war.
] suppose he is, in his unima gina tive,
limited, mechanical way, one of the
ablcst men in England. He used to
compose admirably !rigid Latin verses.
He could argue formidably from n
brief. lie could turn the House Of
Commons round his little finger. lie
is Il cold failure, with his set written
speeches. on a public platform. His
mind works quickly and adroitly in
emergencies TO which il has been
trained. He never had the gift OF fore
sight. He never did the constructive
work of planning policies. lie was
neither fertile in ideas nor receptive or
them His task was to intervene after
a debate, with the managers tact, the
smoothcrs instinct, and to make the
kind OF speech which would keep a
majority together.
a certain dignity, II rather forbid
ding reserve, a trick OF suggesting deep
sagacity which is only plain common
sense, has served him well. In real
crises which called for will and power
he had always been lacking-when the
struggle with the Lords required firm
dealing with the crown. for example
and again in the Ulster trouble. He
is the sublimatcd lawyer, for whom
deeds" are words. He trusts to the
old parliamentary hands habit of i'm
provisation. When IL comes to half.
past eleven and the house fills for the
impending division he will know what
to say. Up to that moment his for
mula is the notorious wait and see"
THIS is about the worst training one
can conceive for the conduct Of Il great
war One cannot cope with the Ger
man general staff n one brushes OBJ
poncnts in ST. Stephens lobbics.-The
New Republic.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
SEEN ON THE SIDE
ItubnIynt of A. Knocker.

Why should tho Booster live amid the praise
or others like him all his nights and days?
Why should tho censers. swinging to and fro.
Enshroud this fivver in perfumed haze?
Tho up and down he doth his jawbone jog
And stubborn fact with endless folly clog,
This truth is plain to all who take Il squirt
lie neer is deep in anything but fog.
In houses built on sand he loves to dwell
Ana while the waves rage below. "All is we'll. -
rms and his other slogan. Watch my step"
Arc all the goods he has to sell.
One boon l ask my friends when | shall pass
beyond the reach OF such perfcrvd gas;
Say what you will OF me and what I've done
But write me not Booster-or an ass.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
The Glory Of Erin

The soldier loved who was lighting
for Erin
Was lighting for Erin in Flanders
and France
The truest and bravest OF all Ia my
Erin,
So mighty seemed he with his saber
and lance!
Who, when he departed made lonely
my Erin.
But clasped me and cried, Gods
heart be with thine"
In answer I gave him shamrock of
And tendcrly whispered. 'rhy glory
be mine"
The shamrock gathered, the shamrock
The shamrock sent with my soldier
to France,
is resting this day near the warm
breast of Erin,
Der the heart of a hero in deaths icy
trance.
But not for the gold, nor the wealth Of
all Erin
Would see the proud name OF the
soldier decline:
1T was he who went forward. went for
ward for Erin,
Erin, ON, Erin, thy glory be mine!
How proudly the ship will return home
to Erin,
Return home TO Erin from over the
sea,
Return with the soldier who died for
sweet Erin,
Who died for sweet Erin-for Erin
and me.
Thy crags and thy wales will be desc
late, Erin.
The life which thou gavest, thou
Savest was thine,
So why should pine when he raye IL
thee, Erin,
Erin. sweet Erin. thy glory he mine.
Rcune Ross.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
To Nuke II Merry,

Don't buy neciiwcar for a man whose friend
ship you esteem
put make il porous plaster.
IF you buy tin horn for boy, be sure that
the boy lives out Of town.
For the love Of Mike, don't ever send ANY,
body cake of soap a toothbrush, "A towel or
whsk broom
The men who looks gift horse in the mouth
VIII spend more time searching for the price
mark of a Christmas present than he does look
ing for collar butt on.
Don't forget to erase the output from the
purchase.
In buying for the man who is bald, between a
hY-catcher and fne-tooth comb, to the
former.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Rural Credits

\ effort will probably be made al the
"A present session of Congress to adopt
rural credits system for permanent. use.
This subject has attracted much attention in
recent years. since the need OF some new
method of farm loans has long been recog-
niZcd
The President strikes the keynote for such
legislation when he says that eve should put
into early operation some provision for rural
credits which will add to the extensive Dor
rowing facilities already afforded the farmer
by the reserve bank act, adequate instrument
talitics by which long credits may be OBJ
tanned These rudimentary provisions of
the reserve bank act are the beginning of
national policy on this subject.
In attempting TO establish workable rural
credits system, we are conscious imitators of
Europe. Agriculture there has received such
an impetus in the last decade from the forma-
ton Of cooperative loan association and CO.
operative farming methods generally that the
world has been forced to consider and learn
Not that our farmers are not prosperous.
They are. There is no reason. however, why
our agricultural prosperity should not be
many times greater than il is if proper steps
were taken TO make money more easily OBJ
tainabc by farmers than ii has been hitherto
Banks ordinarily do not touch loans secured
on farms, and the farmers recourse has been
to mortgages which sometimes bear high
rates OF interest and call for repayment in Il
brief term of years. Under the European
system OF rural credits, interest rates are low
credit is founded on the character of the in
divdua as we'll on land security and re-
payment OF the principal extends over many
years. Long-term loans are repaid in fifty
years in annual payments, which are so small
that the burden is not felt. III this country
mortgages are constantly being forecosed be-
cause the land cannot produce the money fast
enough to meet the requirements OF the con
tract.
Advocates OF rural credits divide on the
question OF government support. The Dater-
na!StS think that the Federal government
should lend large sums of money on land
security; others hold that private initiative is
best, and that cooperative loan associations
and cooperative banks can meet the need for
loans and call out the savings Of farmers ef-
fcctivcly enough without much aid from
government.
1t is likely that the solution will be a com
bination OF the two Farmers NAV be left
TO care for themselves to a certain extent
and private initiative is better than paternal-
ism under ordinary circumstances, but farm
ing is not organized like business and until
it becomes so, aid from the government,
financial as well as educational, will be
needed.
Everybody expects a powder mill 10 blow
up some time. but when il is learned that an
asbestos factory has been burned i, looks
very suspicious
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Pay and Qualify

Z VERY man in Richmond. otherwise Ell
l. titled TO the suffrage. should not fail to
pay his poll tax by Monday, and thus qualify
himself TO vote in the elections Of next year.
Monday is the last day on which poll taxes
may be paid. Important issues are to he
presented TO the electorate of Richmond in
1916. There may be opportunity to pass on
new charter for tho city, a matter of high
consequence 10 the welfare OF every ind-
vidual. This consideration should quicken
public interest. After all good municipal
goveTnment depends iii large measure on the
alertness OF the citizenship. Delay is danger
Gus. Pay your poll tax to-day.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

station IN army around 1t. obliteratc tho free
dom or the press. annul free speech and trans
late our presidency into hereditary monar ,hy."
and th"t would be going 1t some.--Richmond
Iimes- Dispatch. Personal liberty. independent
opinion and such like sound we'll. but It's a
vastly different thing when q leading Democrat
or any other Democrat makes a fool of him
seif.-AppomattoN Times Virsinian. The Times
NTgihiat III strictly Il party organ, published
at the home village of Cong rcssman Flood
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Milking the Meter Even.

When popular captain had died four
Leading men of the hamlet selected to
write an cpitaph, and 1t decided that each
should write line. The first wrote his easily.
The second puzzled little; then he wrote his.
The third followed even more slowly. But the
fourth wrote as if inspired. and the whole verse
read:
Here lies the captain OF the sea-
Here lies him, here lies he
llallaleujah. halleluce
y b c d l. L G.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Sarah Bernhardt says she likes her new
American cork, leg better than any OF the
twenty-five she bought abroad. Madame
Bernhardts many admirers in this country
will be delighted to know. that she has at
least one leg upon which she can rely
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

rewnrdinG honest worth and unseltish regard
for their interests, which is one reason for
their continued confidence in Woodrow Will
son. They are not likely to desert him be-
cause in what he and they conceive to be an
hour Of national peril he invites every man
who loves his country and is capable Of serv-
ing il to enter the ranks.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Who backed Columbus in his exploration and
furnished him with the money needed? DID
any Jews take part in the venture" 6
The only records know state that tho
money was furnished by the Spanish court, and
10 mention is made of any Hebrew In the
ncction. nor does any seem TO have come on the
expedition
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
sknggs Reads the Message.

Yes, read portions OF the Presidents mes
sage. The sentence which appealed to me most
is that in which Mr.. Wilson says: NO one am
sure, would wish TO take Il backward step' The
President is right. Even the women OF the
present generation no longer do that in lea wing
street
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Demonstrated,

DO YOU think Mrs. Binks is much in love
with her husband?"
You know Bnks. don't youc"
YES"
she lives with him, doesn't she?"
Certainly"
What more proof do you wantc"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Queries and Answers
Virginia Gcnealogy.

descent. if any, of the Mildred Reade. who mar
ricd Colonel Augustine Warner. OF Warner
HcN," in Gloucester u, T. r.
The books give her descent from Alfred the
Great. whence YOU may carry it back with any
good history OF England
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Hail. St. Louis,

q REETlNGS to st, Louis for it is to he the
~ Democratic National Convention city next
year Eccc Speaker Clark and Senators
stone and Reed! They did it, St Louis
has history, hospitality of the Virginia brand
TAR women, and men who always look pleas
ant regardless OF the weather The heat
which beats down on the fine old town from
the opening OF tho first rose in June until the
leaves begin to turn is tonic when YOU get
used TO it. The convention next held will he
the firth for the Mound City. In the first
1iden and Hendricks were the nominees
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
All the Way,

There was man in our town
Whose ways were wondrous queer
lie was Tor putting whisky down,
And also wine ana beer.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
-fiarper's.
The pesstmist Suys:

see by the papers that the Boston Economic
Club will undertake TO educate the people OF
Massachusetts on the benefits of new Constitu-
ton 1t had never occurred to me there was
anybody in that State who stood in need Of
education on any subject.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The Boston Transcript calls attention TO
the fact that for the first time in the history
OF this country ii leads the world in the ex-
portaton of nuts. Nevertheless. we still
have lot on hand.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
"cathcrfOrd Estafc.

Is anything known to YOU touching puhlica =
t!"n eight or ten years OF tho existence OF
AN estate in Texas left by Wcatherford OF
Virginia.? MRS w e 6
Nothing.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The saying is commonplace that an Eng
lishman can't take joke The acid test
will come ii Henry Ford goes there.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The society editor OF the Cherokee Qowa)
Times says: You may be able to force an old
lashioned man to wear evening dress. but you
can't convince him that he is eating dinner at
supper time"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Double AHlictiou.

Il suppose YOU were deeply touched when
YOU heard Of tho accidcnt?'
Il was-but not so deeply as when they started
IN to collect funds for the sufferers
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just One Possibility.

Observation-Disclosures says he has discovered a
method by which he can do less work than he
does now and accomplish quite as much
Stubbs-Ah, s"e-a way Of committing
suicide.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
In II Brond street Dnznnr.

"Have YOU any family jars"
NO. This is Il shop, not a home"
Have YOU the cup that chccrs"'
Around the corner 70 your left"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Current Editoria! Comment

Taft Finds William Howard Taft is
II Hard very amabe gentleman who
finds il difficult to say no"
TO say No Ills conspicuous good nature is
an excellent trait ordinarily,
but occasionally it gets him into trouble II
is generally believed that many Of his mis-
takes as President were due to his Willingness
to accept the advice OF others instead
lying upon his own Judgment and to his lack
of suspicion concerning the motives Of his
counscllors, which were not always the best.
Ills unfortunate weakness manifested re-
Gently in writing the Introduction TO "A pamph-
let containing structures upon the present adj
ministration Of government in the Philippines,
which has been made the subject OF a public
statement by Secretary OF War Garrison
Wheeling Register
SchooIboys The principal OF a high school
Grade in an Ohio city has been invcs-
~ tGating the grades of boys and
Below Girls girls in the school for the last
ten years. He finds that in gen
cral tho boys are far below the girls in stand
ing. Forty per cent OF the boys have been in
the lower third of the class. How this sort
OF record would he used prove that chill
dren OF one race were inferior to those of
other IF Japanese children were in the
school with American children. and proved TO
get uniformly low grades, it would he
assumed that they were not bright. II there
were "a masculine prejudice, as there is race
prejudice, il would be the most natural thing
in the world TO discover that boys are by
ture inferior in ability to girls AS there hap
pens TO he no prejudice OF this sort. the invcs-
tgators merely point out that the boys gen
orally have so many outside interests that they
fail to put their chief attention on their work
III school.-Kansas City Star.
The optimism of the Far West
o.'n,S." stands vndicntcd in the trium-
OF Faf west phant closing OF tho Panama
indicated Pacific Opposition Saturday
with balance in its treasury of
o,000.000 The dark predictions, made when
foreign government after another refused
to exhibit. and when the cut off visitors
from abroad all rddlcd. But il is not tho
financial success of the exposition in which the
Pacific Coast will take most pride That sue
made possible only by unprecedented
contributions Of public money in California it
self. reaching Il of 500 .00O nearly
half the cost Of the fair. The exposition has
scored in drawing an attendance of nearly 49,
100000 figures which represent food OF East
and Middle Western visitors who would
never otherwise have made the transcontincn-
tai trip. And those in charge OF the cXposi-
ton may. above all, take pride in rejecting
that in It's architectural and artistic achieve
ment ii stands quite alone Few expostions
have had It's harmony of color, skyline and
general design. and none has had it's richness
n its profit Of $4,000. 900 Is not to bc redis-
tribmtcd among the generous guarantors. II
is to lie hoped that II can he used to give per-
mancnce to one or two OF tho more noteworthy
buildings.-New York Evening Post.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

One person went crazy and jumped overboa rd
as the Ford ship of peace withdrew from mort
'ut II was ho~eNpectcd that Mr.. Ford would
take all the crazy folks acknowledgements Ncws
Press. No. he left some in Newport News
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

woman may make clothes but the clothes
do not always make the woman
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Motto for a women's club: y man will manu-
facturc lie OF the whole cloth but :,
woman Will generally use remnants
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Spanish is the simplest language i'm the
world 10 learn. There are no accents to
trouble one, and tho letter III is ALWAYS
silent. Then how does Spaniard express
himself when he hits his finger with
hammer?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10
Chats With Virginia Editors

The Blackstone Courier which o1vavs b,s
an opinion of it's own, prints this one: THAT
Richmond explosion could hardly he s,ia
to have been unexpected"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The Bristol forald-Courier has discovered
that Greater New York is boasting of popu
lation Of 100000 people but there are a5 900 900
VINO prefer TO i've elsewhere few OF them
in Bristol
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The Roanoke World-Ncws has a daily suc-
gcstion. Here is It's latest: LAS Taft carricd
Utah and Vermont, think tho next Rcpubli
can convention should be held in Salt Lake civ
or Montpelier. TO the faithful belong tho
spoilS'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Mr. Bryan says he would rather he right
than successful politician. Having failed
at the latter, he should not be discouraged i'm
working the former to the limit
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Wall street says tho Fredericksburg star
celebrated the opening Of Congress win .
rising market. The street evidently no lonrc-
looks upon our Solons dangerous" rut orr
Soons may we'll look upon Wall Street ,s dan
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Discussing the announcement that CONGRESS-.
man kitchin's position the preparedness
proposition has not made him pcrsona non
grata at the White House, the Roanoke World
News cloqucntly observes: The privilege of
independent opinion and opportunity TO EXPRESS
il is the bulwark and the surest foundation Of
this nation. When such privilege is dcstrovcd
We may convert the White House into IA palace
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Furnished every day In the year by The
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

With meat soaring ana nothing allowed TO
give the pastry Zcst, there will be thing left
Of the Colorado mincc pic but the "kivcr''
and the bottom.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

c. Bernard shaw is of the opinion that
England is made up of gentlemen" and
"cads." OF course. the former are those who
agree with G.. r.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The Cimch Valley News makes this inquiry.
What has become OF the boy who used 70
brush the flies from his horses leg with :: ,o,.,
cow's-tail brush while the blacksmith lacked ON
shoe? And the boy who parchrd corn on tha
millcr's old wood stove while waiting FOR hiS
turn? Some of them are 1T the head OF great
corporations and some stll doing b,siucss
the old stand. Much depends on Tho HOY,
YOU know.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

THE TIMES Founded. Observation-Disclosures. 1Sss
THE DISPATCH. Founded. 1850
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

The principal OF Il high school
in an Ohio city has been invcs-
tiGating the grades of boys and
girls in the school for the last
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-10

Entered Jnnunry 80, 1905. mt Richmond. Va.
sccond-cIas> matter under net OF Congress of
March =. 1870.