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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26
Petersburg Index-Appeal.

The Index-Appeal is sincerely sorry to learn
that The Richmond Virginian IS in such Sc
rious financial straits that it will be forced
to suspend publications unless 1t receives $25,-
600 today we have known that The Nirginian
was being published loss since ii was
established
1t has beer the subject OF comment among
newspa per men that the management has been
able to meet weekly payrolls. Monday morning
drafts of its telegra phic news people rents.
white paper bills. metal bills, correspondents
bills, carriers accounts and the many othe2
items Of expense connected with the publication
Of daily paper. The announcement that it has
reached the end of It's string Is not surpris-
organ of reform in Virginia Ia forced to quit
publication There is doubling the fact that
The Virglnian has fun right to claim credit
for being the leading newspaper of the state in
advocating Statewide prohibition. 1t did great
work in fostering ana developing prohibition
sentiment in the most conservative of all the
states. and we not disposed to take from Ii
any of the honor which may lie in the achieve
ment.
The management OF The virginan has beer
conscentously opposed to accepting any advice
from the engaged in work pa pers nor
identified with reform and 'uplift" but we
cannot help thinking that had 1t stopped to take
counsel from the sons of this world" It would
be in better plight today in that 1t still would!
be in fair way to come out every morning
Of the year. advocating "uplift and reform
in doses small enough to be taken by the ay-
erage Virginan.
We sincerely hope that The Virginian may
not be forced to suspend, We hope that the
angels behind it will not fold their wings
TODAY and allow the child to enter upon its last
sleep.
There should be field in Virginia for daily
newspaper conducted along the general lines
y! that which The Virgnian has been following
or which it should have followed. 1t looks 20
Us that the failure of The Virginian IL due in
great part to its refusal to recognize the fact
that the average secular newspaper iabors for
the good OF The community just sincerely
and just longsufferingly as do organs OF
reform and the "uplift." The 'upIift'' or,,ans
accentuate their mission. The secular do not.
If We had $4,000 about would lend it
to The Virgipian today. provided should be
allowed to modify its policy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26
Richmond Evening journal. Monday.


No sooner do extricate the unfortunate
News Leader from one conflict and scrape than
it falls headloEg into another. A few days ago.
we interviewed, volunteered our good offices and
succeeded in restoring peace between our 'ocal
neghbor and the Petersburg Index-A ppeal.
Now the News Leader has brought down on
itself the wrath of the Rev. James Cannon, Jr..
and The Firginan. The cause Of strife Is the
publication of an extract from kind of S.
O. $ call sent out by Dr. Cannon in circular
letter, intended he says. to be private com
municaton. A copy of this document came
under the observation Of The journal several
days ago but il seemed to us that public ref
erencc to IL would be bad taste and bad iadg-
ment The News Leader. thinking other7ise
printed the facts, an outline of them and has
incurred avalanche of indignant aud pro-
testing words Also 1t gives opportunity for
The Nlra4nian present a somewhat ntc9cst-
4sg statement of its receipts and eXpendf ures
Of the last three years and the first four mortha
If this year From this il would appear that
cur esteemed morning contemporary lost s65.-
coo in 1912, and s26SS3 in 1913. while in the
great prohibition fight year of 1914 its loss VAS
reduced te 3d. Sc, lbs 4HSsHe' aasFfng eFnrrWMs,f
4 bout 5000.
The !s$sep of Dr., cannon referred 70 Says
that unless So. 900 of $50. O00 of first mortgage
bonds 10 Ire issued ny The Nirgiuian sub
s-ribed by tomorrow, the 25th publication mus.
lie suspended We confess to some embarfass-
lnent as to what to say, IL we strike opti>
mstte~ note and assume that. ths .sahseE4ptosl
will be. or H.. completed we may queer the
game End deter the outpourngs of friends witt
ihg 10 help in desperate pinch. but not pr@cip-
itately eager. On the other hand II we take
the pessimistic end and express doubt whssher
The contributions viii be Forthcoming. We r1ay
rhili asdor 10 harm snd Invite wrath and re-
IKE. Therefore. shall adopt the policy OF
Inc sagaeious unrighteous in sich qaandary,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26

peated The tone of her voice told
how great the shock was to her, q
Becker's attorney. Martin r. Man.
ton, was trying a case in the Bronx
Supreme Court this afternoon. whe1
he was told that Becker's appeal had
been denied. He stopped the trial oN
his case long enough to say:
The sentence is, of course. a disap4
pointment. but Becker will never ash
Whitman for Communication OF hi9
sentence"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26
Newport News Daily rrcss.

We regret to hear that The Richmond Vir-
g,nian is in financial difficulties The paper
has la bored iaGustriously for good morals and
better living conditions in Virginia, and while
have not agreed with its policies and
methods, we have doubted our con.em-
porarcs incer!ty. and we regard ii as a grea:
force for public morals and righteousness in
Virginia.
There is no doubt in mind that the prchi-
hitionists in Virginia indebted to The Vir-
ginian more than TO any other agency. for put
ting the "ene bling act through the Legislature
ton IN the popular election which followed.
the prohibition in Virginia If The Nir-
ginian should be allowed to fail fer lack OF
support.
A newspaper Is business proposition a I'd it
cannot he run on sentiment In this day of
typesettig hines power presses. leased wires
end al! that, IL requires large outlay of money
to establish daily newspaper in n field which
is already occupied, aud The Virginian has had
hard struggle to get Gn its feet. 1t has steadi-
" lost money from the day it started, and sc-
cordinG to "A statement published in its ISSUE
Of yesterday. it's deficit in 1912 was SOS 639; in
1913 s26.SS3 in 1914 $3.50. This indicates
that the paper is nearing the point where it
viii be sef-sustainng. but more money Is need
ed to keep IL going
And in all such cases much faith is required.
as well as much money. Starting paper is
very like boring for oil. 1t is ali right if you
strike Gil but if you do not. all that the investor
has to show for his money Is hole in the
ground.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26
PEOPLES FORUM


Editor NirgIn:1n
Sir~-The~e is class of people who watch
the course 70 civilization with serene. unruffled
minds, hel!e"Sng that the last obstacle to a
universal pea has been removed and see the
earth transformed to Eden in these vivid
da dreams. yet when cloud appears on
the horizon they forget that human nature
has not changed since the days OF the old Ro-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26
Roanoke World News.

a widely known and highly esteemed
newspaper published In that city, Is asking its
friends to come its assistance financially
A communication, signed by Or James Can
non, JT.. has been sent TO them stating that the
publication OF The Virginian will have to be
suspended unless it is able to aise $4,000 by
Tuesday. May 25
The Virgnian is clean. strong, and ably
edited newspaper. and it deserves TO succeed,
1t has stood the firing line for all that is
upright and worthy, and it is with deep regret
that learn of its financial difficulties. That
it may succeed in its plans to tide over its
troublous period and that IT may enter upon an
era of great success, is the earnest wish of
many thousands of people in this State.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26

New York. May 24.-AlthouEh they
pleaded guilty to oleomargarine frauds
in which they are said to have cheats
ed the government out OF $1.500.ooO
Charles E. Nolte and Fred ID. Oetjen
were fined only $4,000 by Judge Hand
in the United States District Court tos
day. 4
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26

Secretary Bryan should worry. Speaker
Champ Clark has invited all the other public
men in the country to his daughters wedding
and left Mr. Bryan off the list. Shoe, fly.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26

All these declarations of war are working
oeE State Department .ayertine making counter
declarations Of neutrality.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26
Fellow Feeling Shows
Kindness of Fourth Estate

what some of our contemporaries say of The
Richmond Virginian. from which know
they glad that the required capital has
been provided for the paper:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-26

decline to draw cards and temporarily drop
cut OF the game
Pending fuither play however. we venture
to The Virgnian of our conviction that
the News Leader is innocent OF any intent to
do harm; that its error is one of the head dis
tinctly and therefore should be overlooked
mercifully aud kindly. We call for general
disarma men. and the restoration of peace
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22

Nothing in the commercial or mer
 cantile history of the world can ap- proach in magnitude and success the general profit sharing plan of the Ford Motor company of Detroit flrst the Ford factory offered it's tremen- dous epoch making $500 minimum wage and profit sharing plan to it's 2U,000 employees, next II offered gen
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22
erous rebate to Ford buyers.

erous rebate to Ford buyers.
 August 1st, 1914, it was announceh that if 30O,O0O cars were sold at re- tail between that date and August 1st 1915. that a rebate of from $40 to S60 would be made. The 50O,oOO fi- gure was reached in July last, and to- day it is said that forty clerks at the home office are busy making out
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22
OVER 8O.,-DR|VES
 A FORD

The Rev. C. B. Hart, pas tor of the Free Baptist church, Gobleville, Mich, who is an enthusiastic Ford own CT at S1, writes us as follows:
 Dear Sirs:-I greatly enjoy the magazine, The Fordown- CT. I wish every owner of a Ford car couIo nave the benefit of the magazine.
 I wish every minister could know the real joy of owning a Ford car. I purchased a
 Ford last year. l will be
 S1 next birthday. 1 have
 found the car to be a source
 of much pleasure and real
 profit. I have always loved a good horse; but l have of times in my pastoral work, found it very difficult to
 hitch my horse safely, at
 many homes where l wished to call. The Ford stands ] without hitching. have
 never enjoyed anything that
 l have purchased with money as I have my Ford machine. We are fast friends. I meet ! most cheerfully all it's de- mands. and it does all I ask , of it without complaint. If 1 should ever be afflict-
 ed with the disease known I among ministers as Blue Monday" I could wish for no
 better remedy than a morn ing spin for one hour with
 the Ford. drinking in the pure morning air, which
 gives new life and vigor to | the blood.
 Yours respectfully, C. E. HART. (F'rom The FordoWner) Music charms the savage breast
 And gentler bosoms, too.
 When books and business prove a pest.
 Then music charms anew.
 l jump into my blessed Ford, And dump off every load, To the music of it's engines song
 A-singing down the roadi
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22
THE WORLDS GREATEST

$50 rebate checks for the 315.OO0
 tunate individuals v) secured F between the dates D ntioned. r nix took over 300 Fo fs the past
 son, so over $l7a will be di
 buted here. To alah Htue int. to the occasion, te tizona Rep, can has offered the first rebate check bro'l to its office
Arizona republican., 1915-08-22
4 BENED|CTION

Blessings on thee little car; My, but what a joy you are. Built for five-you'n hold fif-
 teen. Everywhere we go you're
 seen, TraVellng over hill and dale, With your gasoliney" trail. Rich may scoff and poor may
 smile At your rate of speed per
 mile; But you get there" just the
 same, There's no question of your
 fame. So let all the knockers knock And with jeers around you
 flock. Every day I thank the Lord For the man who built the
 Ford,
 M. s. K.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
Organic Trouble.

An automobile collided with street
organ the other day and the auto
went into the curb. The organ didn't
escape, however 1t lost six notes
from the upper set of a tango waltz
and broke two ribs from its collection
of popular Scotch airs.
It's ragtime love song was badly
jolted, too, and large sections were
gouged from it's silver Threads
Among the Cold
1t suffered the most severely, how
ever. in its Tower Scene" from III
Trovatore," it being quite impossible
after the impact to tell which was
Leonora and which Manrico.
Nobody was hurt, the organ grinder
crawling out from under the debris
and briskly shouting, Where is ze
tin cup?'
The cup and the pennies being
found, he went his way rejoicing
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
STAYS BABY; SHOOTS SELF
Mrs. Harold w. Dawson, Stevens
Point, Made Despondent by
Domestic Trouble.

Stevens Point-With her husband
in the next room, Mrs Harold w. Daw-
son, % years old, shot her 2-year-old
baby boy through the head with a re-
volver and then sent bullet through
her own brain. Both died instantly.
When the husband, an employee of
the 500 line. rushed into the bedroom
he found the two bodies lifeless on
the floor
The police here say that domestic
trouble was the cause of the woman's
act. She had been married five years.
The couple had been living in Stevens
Point for three years.
A second child, a 4-year-old girl,
was recently taken by the husband to
Rhinelander to live with his parents.
A coroner's jury issued a verdict of
murder and suicide, following an in
vestigation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
FOR PURE AIR ALL THE TIME
"Fiends" Urged to Keep Up Campaign
Against Pneumonia and Tu-
bercuIosis.

There are two diseases-tuberculo
sis and pneumonia-that are really
house Diseases says the Youths
Companion. They destroy thousands
of lives every year, and cost the COM
munity millions of dollars. chiefly be-
cause there are not enough 'fresh-air
fiends" to insist on the clear air in
which such diseases cannot flourish.
BY and by, when the nagging has &C
complished it's purpose, these two
scourges will get under control But
that time will not come until we have
good air all the time, in shops, and
schools and places of amusement, and
in public conyeyances, and. above all,
in every bedroom every night in the
year.
Those who would like to breathe
good air all the time are often forced
by circumstances to do without it in
the daytime, but they can at least
have all they want at night. 1t is dur
ing the hours of sleep that nature re-
pairs the waste of the days work un-
der bad conditions, and she never does
good work in bad air. Keep your bed
room windows wide open all the time,
and you viii have done your share.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
TAX PAYMENTS SWELL FUND
Railroads and Counties Make Return
at Same Time-lIIinois Central
Pays in Full.

Northumberland in terms of
cash are the figures which appear in
the record of State Treasurer John
son these days. The time for paying
the first half of the railroad tax ex-
pired, as did the date for counties to
pay their dues to the state. AS a re-
suit there was added to the treasury
s1.500,000. Add to this sS22,962.S1
paid by the Northwestern Railway
company and something more than
100000 paid by the counties, and
the recent additions to the cash bal
ance total something more than
100000.
The Northwestern paid its full first
half of the tax, 1922, 962.S1, making
the total $1221, 15O.22.
These payments clean up the first
half-payment of taxes by the railroads,
the amount due Feb. Is being $780,.
923.52. Two small roads, the Robbins
company and the Chicago & Lake SUI
perior are the only ones now delin-
quent, their present dues amounting
to only $3S3.16. The Illinois Central,
following its usual practice. has paid
its full tax, S14.66O.O7. anticipating
the August payment by six months.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
CONSTITUTION NOT PROPERLY
AMENDED, is DECISION OF
HIGH COURT.
TRUST DIVERSION UNLAWFUL
Amendment 70 the Constitution De-
signed to Permit Works of In
ternaI Improvement Not
Legally Adopted.

Madison.-The supreme -courI has
decided the forestry case, which has
been in court for some time against
the state. Justice Marshall wrote the
opinion.
In substance the court holds that
section 10 of article OF the consti-
tuition was not legally amended; that
the land contracts for the purchase
of forestry reserve lands are void and
not authorized by the statute. The
present forestry statutes are uncon-
stitutional and void; that the diver
sion of the trust funds is unlawful, and
a referee, the Hon. Samuel d. Has
tings, Green Bay. is appointed to state
the account between the state and its
trust funds, and a lien on the lands
belonging to the trust funds and I'M
lawfully sold is declared.
The amendment to the constitution
designed to permit works of internal
improvement, at state expense, as to
forestry matters. was not legally
adopted, says the court.
The board of land commissioners
and Judge Samuel D. Hastings of
Green Bay are named to make an ac-
counting of all of the transactions
which are declared Illegal in this de-
cision, and they are to report to the
court which will then make final adj
justment settling up the affairs of the
forestry department
The decision in the width of its
scope in wiping out a state policy is
the most important which has been
handed down in Wisconsin in many
years. The action In which it is the
decision was started as a friendly
suit by state ex rel Atty.-Gen. Walter
G. Owen VS.. Secretary of State John
S. Donald.
Under the forestry decision" said
State Forester E. M. Griffith, "the
state forestry department as consti-
tuted will continue as it is now. The
work of administration is not touched
upon by the supreme courts decision.
1t is unconstitutional until the consti-
tuition is amended for the state to pur-
chase any more land primarily for
forestry purpose, but the legislature
can purchase additional lands to en-
nance the value of the trust fund
land, and they can be managed Incl
dentally as part of the forest reserve.
'The lands in the forestry reserves
are derived from number of sources.
In 1905 the remaining swamp land was
set aside as part of the forest re-
serve by act of the legislature. All
these lands are row held to belong to
the school trust fund. The extent of
this land was 342.746 acres.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
WAsHBURN WINS $1,000 SUIT
Supreme Court Denies Heirs of Acci-
dent Victim Money
Demanded.

Washburn.-By decision of the SUI
preme court the city of Washburn is
winner of $4,000 damage suit brought
by the administrator of the estate of
Fred Carlson, deceased.
During the summer of 1913 Carlson,
while returning from town one night,
fell over the railing along the side
walk on West Bayfield, street, into a
deep ravine He was found next
morning and taken to the hospital at
Ashland. where he died.
Suit was brought against the city
for $4,000 damages, and after a trial
in the circuit court the jury awarded
the plaintiff the damages asked. The
case was taken out of the hands of the
jury by Judge Risjord and a verdict
directed in favor of the city. The su.
preme court affirmed the decision OF
Judge Risjord.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
DRIVEN TO THE LAST DITCH
just One Mere Visitor and Mrs. Mink
Ter Would Have Served Her
"Pie-Pudding."

That's the third time" observed
Mrs. Millsap, who was visiting country
relatives, that I've heard reference
made to Mrs. Minkler's pie-pudding,'
and it usually brings out laugh If
there's any joke about it, I'd like to
hear it."
Well, I'll tell you the story" said
one of the cousins. Mrs. Minkler told
it herself, so it won't do any harm to
pass it on. Perhaps you've observed
that we speak of the pie-pudding when
we have to divide up something into
unusually small portions; and pos
sibly. since you are not acquainted
with Mrs. Minkler, the joke may not
strike you just as it did US. But here
it is:
Mrs. Minkler does the cooking for
her family of four, and as she isn't in
love with the science of cookery, it's
very little in the way of extras the
family gets. Mrs. Minkler says she
considers apple sass and molasses'
good enough dessert for anyone.
We'll, one day. for a special treat,
she baked pie for dinner, allowing
quarter apiece for each member of the
family. But while she was preparing
dinner her sister-in-law looked into the
kitchen and announced that two
cousins had come over from Rushville
to spend the day.
'Shucks!' said Mrs Manl1ler. Now
I'll have to cut the pie into six pieces
A half hour later, two neighbors,
Judge and Mrs. Peters called, and Mr..
Minkler asked them to stay for din
ner, to which they agreed.
Mercy sakes!' grumbled Mrs.
Minkler. Now I'll have to cut the pie
into eight pieces
Just as dinner was being dished up,
who should drop in but an old bachelor
friend of the family from the other
side of town, and he also accepted an
invitation to take dinner
'Amenda Jane declared the exas-
perated Mrs. Minkler to her sister-in-
law, I'll make out to cut that pesky
pie into nine pieces, but l tell you
now it won't stand any more cutting
than that. If single other person
comes here to dinner today, I'll squash
the pie up, dish it round with sass on
it. and call it pudding. Youths
Companion.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
Sound Waves.

Some curious facts about the effects
of the wind. temperature, moisture and
composition of the atmosphere on the
way sound waves travel through the
air and reach our ears have been
brought to light by some Investigations
which DIR. H. Bateman, a famous me-
teorologist, has been making.
The general influence of any wind,
it appears, is to reduce the audibility
of sounds. The usual greater range
of a sound with the wind than against
it is ascribed to the increase of wind
velocity with altitude, which bends up
ward the sound waves travelling
against the wind and downward those
going with the wind.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-02-19
NEW LIBRARY FOR sHAWAN0
Work on $4,000 Building 20 Be Start
ed at onee-Was Started Fifteen
Years Ago.

Shawano.--Contracts or the con-
struction of Shawano's Carnegie lib
rary viii be awarded and work On the
$4,000 building will be started at
once. 1t is planned to finish the struc-
ture, planned by Madison architects
who have drawn the plans for most Of.
the more recent libraries in the state.
by Aug. 1.
The Shawano public library was
started about fifteen years ago by the
Woman's club. 1t was maintained sey-
eral years by private subscriptions and
from socials, etc. About six years ago
the city council appropriated $500
year for library purposes. This about
paid the rent and the librarian, and
what money was spent for books was
secured through entertainments. Three
years ago the council gave the board
5000 year, which was enough for all
expenses and books.
Last summer the library board went
before the council to secure an in.
crease of $500. making the annual ap-
preparation $1,000, then application
was made to the Carnegie foundation
for an appropriation of $4,000 for a
public library building. This was
granted, and the board secured plans
for the proposed building. The pro-
posed building will be S2x6O feet with
basement and first floor The build
ing will be a plain one; Mission or
tapestry brick will be used.