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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-23
In active sympathy with this move
ment.-John A. Ulrich.
WoRKERs, RIoHTs.

WORKERS RIGHTS. - A Day
Book reader sends me by mail the
issue of Feb. 6.r@In Letters to the
Editor there is an article God
Given Rights"-heavily UNDERSIGNED,
Thank you. I take the hint and
fully understand Mr.. F. Williams is
a single taXer, no harm in that. The
single tax faith is backed by expert
ence. It has been tried and works
well, where it never has had a chance
to operate. will not question their
faith or the result. Progress and
Poverty by Henry George was writ
ten in sincerity and is well worth
reading, but it would not harm sin
gle takers to pick up the bible occa-
siOnally.
The first single taXer we know of
is, evidently, John the Baptist. Ac-
cording to the Gospel of st. Luke,
third chapter, 18th to 18th verses, he
made some very profound utterances.
About the same time appeared Christ
as an ideal refoTmer. Both were tor
tured and executed as a reward for
their higher ideals. Their teachings
have been promulgated 1000 years, .
but the human race remains unmOved
by the ideals and isms and still looks
for saviors and leaders. When a real
leader appears they GET HIS GOAT.
1t is too dangerous for real true
leaders. Hence there is such a great
abundance of false ones. There can
never be otherwise, so long as the
human race believes in authority,
isms and leaders.
This question is also underscored:
''Why is there not always, in all sea-
sons, more jobs than workers"
Christ answered this with the parable
Of the '1aboreTs in the vineyard .
''Why stand here idle all day." He
asked. They answered: None have
given up hire" See st. Matthews,
goth chapter, 4th to 18th verses.
All. Parallels are nothing, 1 hear
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
Richmond Methodist
Conference Meets
at Laurel Church

Beginning Tuesday morning. the
Richmond District Conference of the
Methodist Church. South. will be held
at Laurel Hill Church, Henrico
County. The opening season will be
held at $50 O'Clock.
Bishop Collins Denny will preside
over the conference In the event he
Is able to be out, but il he is unable
to be present, Rev. T. Men. Simpson,
u. D., Presiding elder of this dis
trict. will be in charge of the sessions.
The opening sermon will be preached
Tuesday morning at 1850 o'clock by
Rev. T. A. Smoot, d. D.. while Rev.
r. N Potts, conference missionary
secretary, will preach on missions
the Following day at the same hour.
r. s. Southgate. of Norfolk, lay leader
of the Virginia Conference, will also
address the meeting.
An invitation is extended to the
publ. and transportation will be fur
nished the delegates to this con fer
ence. Vehicles will leave Harrison's
Drug Store, Fulton, at $3.50 o'clock
each morning and afternoon and
morning, returning in the afternoon.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
RURAL MAIL SERVICE
BY AUTOMOBILE soon
More Than One Hundred Machines
BY August will Extend
System.

washington. June 2o.-Rural mail
service by automobile will begin or
a large scale in many parts OF the
United States on August 2. Tnere
are now los machines under order
TO carry United States mail alone
$500 miles Of rural post roads daily
except Sunday The first dispatch
Of rural mails by automobile VIII be
made July on routes radiating from
Quarryville, Pa.
Surveys OF special needs and con-
ditions in every State are being maue.
A rapid increase Of automobile mile
age in rural free delivery Is certain
during the coming fiscal year.
Automobile routes thus far authoriz-
ed by the postmaster-general are APP
p6rtioned a.. follows: Oklahoma, III
Georgia. 70. California. 10. Texas, 8;
Florida, >: Pennsylvania, Louisi-
ana. i. BY the minimum length OF
such routes is Nifty miles. Families to
be served by the routes varies from
q minimum OF $50 to miximum OF
470. The average. 1t Is expected, VIII
be about three hundred.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
Yesterday in the Churches
Do NOT LAY BLAME
upon WIFE, HE SAYS
VenabIe-Street Baptist Pastor Says
They Have Their Own Sins
TO Bear,

Preaching on the theme, "A Wo-
man Who Ruined Her Husband,
Rev J. II, Johnson. in Venable-Street
Baptist Church yesterday morning
told the story of Ahab and Jezehel.
describing their lives and their char
acters and their surroundings. and In
drawing the lesson from the story
told his congregation that it pays 10
serve God rather than to strive for
material things.
The preacher told how Jezebel. pro-
totype of Catherine de Medici and of
Lady Macbeth but with much less
human kindness, would wade through
human blood TO have her way, and
how she influenced the weak husband,
Ahab. who sought material things
and who was so covetous that he was
not hard TO ruin. He told of how
Ahab was stirred up, melted, urged
beyond even his own inclination" by
Jezebei, of how she goaded him To
sin in acquiring the vineyard he
coveted, and how she entangled him
in q great crime, murder.
Concluding. Mr.. Johnson said that
Ahab and Jezebei have many reid
tives today, who are selling them
selves to the devil for worldly gain.
Women do not lead their husbands
away from the things of God. into the
ways of the world Mr.. Johnson said.
"One man declared he gambled and
stole Just to crafty his wife's passion
for dress: hts wages would not do 1t.
But. men, do not lay all your sins on
your wives They have enough 10
bear"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
M|STAkINe HIS FATHER
FOR BURGLAR SHOOTS
Armistead Walker Is Accidentally
Killed BY His Son. Russell 4. T.
Walker.

As the result of what is Thought
to have been an accident, Armistead
Walker. colored, IL lying In Prices
undertaking shop and his son. Rus
sell E. r. Walker. Is TO answer TO
the charge of shooting the father at
their home, No. ITO Feast Leigh
Street. last night about 2 o'clock.
Early last night the younger Walker
says he was standing at the front
gate OF hts home. when he thought he
saw a man crossing narrow alley
from the roof of an adjoining house
to the roof of his fathers house. He
ran into the house, II was said by the
police last night, and In company with
his father, went to the roof of the
building, They found no one there.
The Younger man descended, leaving
his father behind few moments
later he Is said to have heard slight
noise on the back porch, and looking
through saw a man. He fired. and
the man fell forward across the porch
with A bullet hole In his lef. temple.
IT was his father. Death was instan-
taneous A crowd soon gathered
Many explanations were made, and
the one here mentioned appeared 10
have been the correct one.
Coroner Taylor was summoned:
C0E0red OOCtDf ScoIt iS6tiANN tfN
house. and Attorney Harry M. Smith
was gent for. The Roisee .inxastigat-
ed and reached the conclusion that
the shooting was probably accidental,
Further Investigation win BE Had
The story told by the younger man
was reasonable. because call had
been sent out the previous night.
notifying the policemen that indica-
tons of the presence OF burglar
had been noted at the walker home.
They were still on the lookout
The wife of the dead man, Maggie
L. walker, is leading official OF st.
I.uke's Emporium,a savings bank, of
old jackson Ward. and the family is
considered one Of the leading colored
ones In the city Walker and his sons
are engaged in the brick business.
Armistead Walker was a mail carrier
for a long time.
Russell Walker was bailed at the
Second station last night by Squire
Purdie. by consent OF judge Rich
ardson, for his appearance In Police
Court Wednesday. Coroner Taylor
said last night he had not decided to
hold an inquest. but would await de-
velopments in the investigation being
conducted by Detectives Wiltshire
and the other officers. Those asso-
ciated with Detective Wiltshire are
Policemen Wills. Harris and Clarke.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
MOTHERS INFLUENCE.
IS TOPIC OF SERMON
To Her Love and raining Il Due
Fame or Infamy. Says Dr..
Moore.
GREAT MEN AS Exa,rpIEs
Their characteristics That of Fhei1
Mothers--Union Theological Semi-
nary Head breaches at First Bap-l
fist Church. 4-s-

Mother Love. and training, and.its
influence upon the youthful mind.
was the topic OF strong sermon; by
Rev. ID. w. w. Moore, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, at First Baptist
Church, last night. ~-s~as
All great men, all brilliant men ard
all notorious men of the world, said
DIR. Moore, owe their success. their
influence or their infamy to the
mother influence on youth
He pointed to- many of the great
men of the centuries. and showed that
their main characteristics were those
of their mothers, and We need at this
time more mothers who use einf1u-s
ence for good upon their chiidrens
Text From Samuel. 1tr-t
DR.. Moore took his text from First
Samuel, third chapter. twentieth verse
and illustrated his sermon by nnmer-s
Gus references to the career of SAM
uel. who BIO characterized as ethe
greatest man after Moses. -rs
Samuel said DIR. Moore. was the
author of constitutional government
and of the educational system. .He
was able to do this because. OF the
training OF his mother and the grad
ua1 development of his religious fer
vor. III
The man who starts out in IFS
10 c&pouHu tliG 1pSpSk anu 10 tttt liz
story of old. can best accomplish his
work by steady. consistent develops
ment. #t rf
Early Training Best I'll
THE man who arises from the &ut-
ter, who has been down and out.
may be of service in the spreads of tn
good news of the Gospel. hut 7 h.
cannot do as much good as the man
who has grown up In the. atmosphere
OF mother love and mother training,
and who has developed gradually thu
Christian spirit. nftt%r y
The broken branch, once mend0d.
is not as strong as the branch which
has never been injuFed.n ~s~ffy
The best religious education,- said
DR.. Moore. comes from muther,s i'm
fluence. self-mastery and the train
Ing OF love. The best character III
made through the mind. rather than
the emotions.
A large congregation. many of those
present being women, greeted DIR.
Moore. who occupied the pulpit in the
absence of Rev. Dr., George w. Me-
Dauiel, who is out of the city.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
POSTPONE DECISION +.
UPON BANK REMOVAL
Federal win Not Act ON the baltimore
Plea Until Next
Fall.

The Federal Reserve Board has de-
cided to postpone until the fall Ia de-
cision upon the proposal to move the
Regional Reserve Bank for the Firth
District from Richmond TO Baltimore
This will carry with ii postpone.
ment of the alternative proposal
made by Baltimore's representatives
that il be given a branch bank In
the event the board decided against
moving the Regional Bank from Rich
rnond to Baltimore. The board is
waiting to determine what bearing
the clearing operations OF the Re-
serve Banks will have upon the need
for a change in the reserve city oil
the Fifth District or for opening a
branch bank here.
The board has decided practically
to authorize the atlanta 4seserve Bank
to open branch in New Orleans Nc
formal decision has been reached, bai
II Is understood that there Is no OPP
position In the board to the saove.
The New Orleans branch win be the
first authorized since the Federal Re
serve act went into operation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
TRIBUTE IS
PAID FORMER. REcTORs
-----------------------.---------

DR.. Carl n. Grammer, rector Of =
large Episcopal charge IN. Philadef-
phia, formerly rector Of Christ
Church. Norfolk, filled the pulpit ~
st. James. this city. yesterday morn
ing. preaching a very able sermon
during which he referred tenderjS "a
several of the former rectors OF this
church, Including the late lamente0
DIR. William Meade Clark. .
Others in the pulpit assisting IN
the service were the Rev. Gss Free
Ian Peter. the new rector, who A.
sumed charge. June /. and the .Rex.
Churchill g. Chamberlayne, Phi. D.
head of the ChamberlaNne- school tor
Boys at Northampton. zsT~r
DR.. Chamberlayne is leaving fhis
week for Bedford~-City to attend Il
Sunday Echool convention, at which
he expects to read several papeFaI
It is understood that DR.. Grammers
who Is a. brnther5in7law Of. Or, PgKes
rector of the Episcopal Church ~
Bedford City, is also en- route ~
that place to spend short vacation
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
PASSENGER INJURED
IN J|TNEY COLLISION
Private Auto and Public Conveyance
strike at Pine and Grace
Streets

NJ @. Georg.son was cut In the
arm in an automobile collision at
Grace and Pine Streets collision
afternoon about s:25 O'Clock, while
both automobiles were slightly dam
aged.
An automobile, driven by Mrs. d.
II. Griflth, OF No. 22l7 West Grace
street. was struck by jitney. driven
by W. l.. McCabe. Georgison was a
passenger in the jitney. He was taken
into ST. Eiixabth's Hospital and
treated. His injury was not con-
sidered serious.
MeCabe was arrested by Officers
Pillow and Holt. on the charge Of
reckless driving. and was baiied for
his appearance IN Police Court this
morning.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
GERMAN SPIES blow
UP RUSSIAN ARSfNAlS
Well known Chicago War Correspon.
dent Tells OF Treason on Part of
Officers OF German Descent.

New York. June 30 John F. Bass.
a well known war correspondent of
Chicago. who performed noteworthy
work in the Boxer insurrection and
later IN the Philippine campaign, re-
turned today on the liner New York.
after ten months on Russia's eastern
battlefront, where he was slightly
wounded in the back .of the neck by
shrapnel from a German shell. Mr..
Bass said that the reports OF the
shortage of arms and ammunition in
Russia were minimized rathers than
exaggerated.
Many arrnories and manufacturing
plants in the interior of Russia, said
Mr.. Bass, which were stocked well
with ammunition and arms at the be-
ginning of the war, have been blown
up by German spies whose activity in
that work has been facilitated by con-
nivance with Russian military officers,
themselves Germans or of German
descent. Mr.. Bass himself was In
Petrograd. he asserted when large
powder plant was destroyed by Ger
man agent
Regular Spy system
These SPIES" continued Mr.. Bass,
maintain a regular system of COM
C.
and a number. of Russian officers are
known to be implicated with them.
While was at Warsaw saw one
Russian officer hung for espionage.
He was caught red-handed."
Mr.. Bass was wounded on january
on the Bzura River battle line. He
travelled along a 500-mile front from
Niemen to Warsaw. and also touched
on the Galician border. He was ar
rested twice on suspicion of being a
German. and once was detained twelve
hours. While at the front, he said.
he frequently saw whole bodies Of
Russian troops, some OF them newly
recruited and trained, sent into the
trenches without rifles and arms. or
dered to take the discarded weapons
of the killed and wounded and use
them against the Germans.
Mr.. Bass believes that the success
Of Russian arms depends altogether
on RussiA's rifle and ammunition sup
ply. II she is enabled to get suffi-
Client, she can hold Germany. he
thinks. and whip Austria.
| Nctahles On New York. 80,
The New York locked this after
noon with f6s nrst cabin passengers,
Among the notables In her cabin list
were III. Cunliffe Owen. Mrs. Guy
Drummond. who lost her sister on
the Lusitania: Sir Richard MacBride.
premier OF British Colombia: Samuel
Lppincott. Of Philadelphia: p j.
Hinchan. NJ r. Of Sydney, N. S. w.
". n. Ales. a Lusitania survivor. and
r. b. Foster.
/ Miss Clara Refs. who returned from
school at Rams Gate on the advice
OF her parents. told Of seeing the
|Zeppelins which raided England ON
May II. The giris In the school. said
Miss Reds. had .zcrpeiin drills. after
the appeerAnce of the. early raiders,
Sir Richard MAnEridc spent several
enough ID the front, Nj s&td. 80
|stMte with mt i1ortkY that I'M <ier1nAn1
|nF& fh0roukf1y ~ 4l3146 ma 0lo5
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
SCHEDULE INDICATES
LIGHT WEEK IS AHEAD
Claims, Finance and Advertising Com
mittees OF Council Have Meet
ings Called.
ORDINANCE BODY MAY MEET
Number of Leftover Matters Likely
10 Claim Attcntion-Finance Com
mittee Member Sees No Need to
Hurry Juvenile Court Matter.

Councilmen will have little to do
this week, under the present sched-
ule. The Committee on Claims. that
on Finance and that on Advertising,
are scheduled to meet. There is pos
sibility of the committee on ordinances
beng called so that leftover matters
may be disposed of.
The Claims Committee meets to-
morrow afternoon at s O'Clock, and
the Finance Committee at 8, while
the Committee on Advertising viii
meet on Thursday night.
A number of important matters will
be considered by the Committee on
Finance The proposition of widen
ing Fourteenth Street will be one of
the questions. II is believed, ana q
report may be formulated concerning
the establishment of a Juvenile Court.
Juvenile Court Report Deferred.
In this connection a member of the
Finance Committee said yesterday
that the reason Finance Committee
has made no report is that the city
is not sufficiently supplied with funds
for the establishment of the court as
proposed.
THE court Is now handling all the
business that comes before It," said
this councilman. There seems TO
be no special reason for change at
this time. unless IL he for the purpose
of providing places for people. IL
the ordinance. as proposed. Is adopt
ed, IL means the creating OF several
jobd and a large expenditure for
detention homes. as there will have
to be four-two for whites and two
fo- coiored children. All this has
been exclaimed to the advocates of
the court. The steering COMMITTEES OF
the. court were given $4,000 for the
years expenses, while, Il was said
was sufficient TO maintain the insfitu-
ton for the year This Is I,oOe
more than the previous year"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
JAS. INGRAM, 81, Dies
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Oidess Hardware and Mfli Supply
Dealer in City, Having Been I'm
Business Since War.
WAS CONFEDERATE VETERAN
Born In England, But Had Lived In
This Country Since Twelve Years
Old--was Member OF Second Louis
lana, Mustered Out In Richmond.

After an Illness of about a week.
James McGraw, Sr., the Oldest nara
ware and mill supply dealer In Ricn-
mond, died about o'clock last night
at his residence, 1885 West Grace Street
aged seventy -one years.
Mr. McGraw had been Ill only since
last Monday. and his death was unex-
pected and came as great shock TO
memb ers of his family and friends who
serious. Death was due to heart
trouble.
His Survivors.
Mr.. McGraw is survived by his widow,
who was Miss Ann Dolan. of this city,
and by eight children. They are Mrs.
Luther Libby. Captain James McGraw,
Jr.. of Company c. r. L. l. Blues. ana
George A. McGraw, all of Richmond,
children by Mr.. McGraw's frst mar
rage, and william S. McGraw. of SEQ
tia, n Y; Misses Jean. Elisabeth and
Miriam McGraw. and Thomas g. NC
Graw, of this city. One sister. Mrs.
A. r.. Peacock. of New York city, sur
wives Mr. McGraw's irst wife was
Miss Jean Nathaiia Timberlake. of this
city.
Born in Lancashire, England, In 1s43.
Mr. McGraw came to this country at
the age of twelve years He settled at
New Orleans. and at the outbreak OF
the War Between the states he enlisted
with the Second louisiana Infantry. He
served with gailantry throughout the
struggle. and at It's close was mustered
out In Richmond
Enters Hardware Business.
In 1866 he entered the hardware bust
ness In this city and he had since made
his home here. For nearly forty years
he had been at the head OF the hard
ware and mill supply house which bears
his name, and he was widely known
throughout the southeastern territory.
Mr. McGraw was member of r. q.
Lee Camp, United Confederate Veter.
ans. and of the Richmond Lodge OF
Eiks. He was also a member of Sacred
Heart Cathedral.
Announcement of funeral arrange
ments will be made today.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
|B|G MOOSE CLASS
| INITIATION TONIGHT
About FIVE Hundred Members Already
and Many More Are
Expected.

with q big class initiation In the
auditorium OF the Mechanics Institute
the Loyal Order of Moose. No. $50.
which IL being organized in Rich
mond, will be closed Monday night,
June es. There are something like
500 charter members at the present
time, and from present indications
before it II closed.
The new club rooms OF rho order
are located at Fourth and Broad
Etrsefs. They Rrc vsry nsnf atnd At
tractfve and will be open 70 the mem.
bera and their : families any day or
evening. IN order IS ~ alsxible for
initaAtion Tune 7l. m 40 6pnaree N
INN ~ or1ef nnoNl4 IN ttelx
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
NOT SO WARM HERE
YESTERDAY AFTER ALL

While they sweltered in the nea,
Yesterday with the thermometer
registering eighty eight degrees, Rich
monders should consider themselves
exceedingly fortunate upon not having
been further south yesterday.
The temperature in Montgomery,
Ala. was ninety-eissrt. New Orleans
being the second warmest city with
mercury lowering around ninety-six
sfegree@y The. people Of Atlanta,
Jacksonville and savannah were also
faring bad. the temperature being
ninety-four i'm the shade.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-21
LANGDoN GEER DIES OF
BLOOD CLoT ON BRAIN

New York, June 2e.--Langdon Geer,
son OF George Jarvis Geer. died tonight
In st. Luke.s Hospital His death was
caused by a blood clot on the brain re-
eulting from septic poisoning. Mr..
Geer's illness began several months
ago, when a pimplu on his nose be-
came infected,
Mr. Geer. who was thirty-nve years
old. was vice president of the American
branch of the firm of b. Priestiy and
Company, He was married in 1907 to
Dorothy Roosevelt. daughter of Mrs.
Hflhorne L. Roosevelt, cousin of
Colonel Roosevelt. He Is survived by
his wife and one son.