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Battleships Come First

n NE of the first questions that will stare
~ Congress in the face soon il reas-
selnbles after the holidays, if it does not rise
UP before will be that OF appropriations for
more batteships and submarines. The ma
jority leader Of the next House will be Claude
kitchin. BY reason of his position he will
he the first TO speak or direct officially on
the subject He has already. unotficially. de-
Carod himself and ii he is correctly quoted,
We assume that he will oppose appropra tons
for hattleships. and favor expenditures for
submarines. and mine work on the coast He
Is also quoted saying that these will he
sufficient. and that thus far the European
was has demonstrated the uselessness of
batrleships.
We do not disagree with the majority
lcaderto-he on the usefulness of submarines
and mines, but do not follow him in his
views on battleships. Ii Great Britain had
had no battleshps the German navy in Kiel
Canal would have been out long ago and
would have recn defying everything on the
which di.i not agree with Germany S
policy. SO far we now recall. the battle
ships OF Great Britain have kept the German
battlcships where they are Ii not directly,
indirectly, battleships have enabled England
to transport q great army TO the western
front. Nor DO we recall that submarines pre-
vented the bonlbardment OF a number of
towns on the English coast, although there
were submarines in the vicinity.
Whatever sea lighting has been done. has
been by battleships cruisers. The sub
marine is a good sneaker, and is capable of
doing tremendous amount of mischief. as
too we'll know, over here but il will never
he able 10 defend q coast point against at
tacks ny hattleships. Ii appropriations be
made for strengthening the navy. battleships
and submarines ought 10 be considered to-
Scthe:.
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QUESTION FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-My boy is all cnthused with
the idea OF becoming soldier" and
wish to encourage him. but my ella
ton is n bit dampcncd at the extra
cost il will entail. Under the plan as
outlined by the School Board. 1t be-
comes essential for parents To have
four separate outfits for our growing
boys. and I have one that jumps like
a sapling.
and Sunday; little strong for the or
binary man that's not blessed with
over much OF the worlds goods. but
who still wishes his boy to grow up
without the Idea that the other fell
low is any better than hc"-and you
know children are impressed by what
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In Behalf Of WorkingG Girls

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir am prompted by motive OF
sympathy and an overpowcrjnc inter
est in the welfare of working girls and
women. 10 make this plea in their he
haii. ana trust 1t may serve to awaken
Ike interest in the minds Of other
business people of this city.
There is an evident Indifference and
thoushtlessncss among business men
VINO turn down the appeals of these
working girls who are seeking cmploy-
ment. Ihere are times, of course, when
1t is impossible to give them work. but
IL would be most encouraging and helm
full to them for the business pcoplc TO
manifest some interest in these appeals
and try and help these working girls
and women seeking employment To do
50 would inspire confidence and put to
rout the belief that nobody cares" for
1t is a fact that this fatal conclusion
has been reached by many men and
women seeking employment.
II the business man appealed to has
nothing to offer in the way of EMPLOY
ment, he might inquire of some ac-
quantance as to whether or not he had
anything to offer, and to offer to bear
the party seeking employment in mind.
taking into consideration the possible
urgency of the case, and that the re-
quest for employment may mean an in
capacitated father, brother. husband or
some other member Of the family whom
the party seeking work has to take care
OF, but above all it represents the
working girl or womans share of
legitimate employment, and it is duty
the public owes to help in this matter.
Every attention should be given this
matter, and ii should have the personal
and individual attention of the business
people in this city.
LLOYD II. GooDE.
Richmond. Va. August IS. 1915
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No Liquor at the Fair

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,--I have read with good deal of
interest your editorial to-day on the
state Fair Association not being dis
posed to sell liquor on their grounds
this fall. | indorse what you say
heartily. and fully believe this action
on their part will add greatly to the
intcrest the good people of our State
Will take in the fair.
i think it is a wise thing to do on the
part of the fair directors. inasmuch as
the people of the state have spoken in
no uncertain terms as TO how they feel
about the liquor traffic in Virginia.
trust the good people of our State will
do all in their power In helping along
the cause of the fair. which should be
one of Firginias best and most valu-
able assets. Liquor now being elm
mated we can all join hands in attend
ing and othrwise giving all the help
ana encoura cement possible toward its
success and enjoyment.
r. S. BARBOUR.
South Boston. Va. August &c, 1915.
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News of Fifty Years Ago
(From Newspaper Files August 80, 1869

The trial of Wrz has at last commenced.
Ihere is no telling when it will end The re-
ASK Tor a continuance or postponement pend
that Mr.. Davis and some of his associates may
cut very important figure
The Federal Army Of Tennessee. which has
become civic organization. mas started out TO
raise si""'""o. or as much thereof as may be
necessary 10 erect monument to General Nc
Pherson' who was killed ut Atlanta
a story was sent TO Northern papers TO the
effect that ]. D. Howell. the brothcr-,n-law of
Mr. Davis. was arrested IN the Pulaski Hotel
in Savannah, Ca. while in state of ntoxica
ton and threatening to shoot up the house
less everybody therein swore ALLEGIANCE TO Mr.
Davis. the fact is that Mr.. Howell never gets
intoxicated and at the time he reported
TO be In Savannah he vas in New York atte,d-
inr to private business. and later attending a
church service in the interest OF foreign n.is-
sions.
J. B. Stoyal of Halifax County. spoke at Henry
County Courthouse day before yesterday, an
nouncing their respective candidacy 10: Con
gross from that district.
Governor William Woods Holden If North
Carolina, seems TO be putting the iror hand
down on some of the best people in that State
cations for pardon of over 100 good men unless
they would make some kind of Il side pledge TO
stand by him diolden) in future political efforts
j. G.. Pritchard, formerly of Fredericksburr
has been appointed postmaster of Lynchhurr.
The grand steamer Yazoo. the queen OF tho
New; New York and Virginia steamship line. viii
lcaEc to-IlSnt loadeu down 10 the bottom with
passengers and freight. Tho Yazoo will make
no stops or the route to New York.
r. w. Best. formerly secretary OF the state
of North Carolina. has been apportd treasurer
and business manager of the Raleigh Standard
Company. the publishers of the Holden paper
of that state and city.
There is something pathetic in the adNer-
Using columns of this paper when comes
TO read tho large number of applications or
propositions for places school teachers pr!-
vate instructors, etc They In the main
from good women who in the days gone by did
not have 10 make their own living
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tho other kid" gets.
| think dress uniforms are useless,
as ] was under the impression that the
battalion was being formed for train
ing and not for show. we can do
without this extra expense so don't
start this thing wrong; and the School
Board Is not infalliblc. as YOU can see
by III" site OF the new High school in
tn" West End It's all right IL one
has an auto Il haven't even Ford)
live in the 200 block West Grace.
am looking for information. and the
school Board can give IL, il it wishes
How can my girl, who will attend this
school. get there in bad weather with
out paying two car fares each way:
trust your stand on the dress uni
form question will bear fruit G.
Richmond. Va. August %. 1915.
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4 System for Preparedness.

To tho Editor of The Times Dispatch.
Sir,-ilaving read with interest the puhlica-
tons on our unpreparodncss in the time Of war.
kindly allow me to suggest the following: That
our public high schools have selected
from the standing army to drill hoys one
half day per week to cover ten high schools
In one week, the county to pay for this man
reimburse the government, the government
to supply the latest model guns at cost for this
purpose. the young ladies also to have n half
day per week in first aid to the injured; our
coast defcnscs to be strongly fortified and gar
risons placed at principal forts subma-
rines in place of Dreadnoughts This Euro
pean war has given us many good lesson
0OO, 900 population he taxed 80 cents or 81 pcr
year per capita. What American alien or ma
tive born could object? Let every American
man, woman and chld--put his heart and soul
into the preparing for an invasion. 7 am Eng
lsh born, but naturaliZed American, and
have three sons growing up to manhood. and if
invasion OF our country were near. would
all consider 1t sacred duty go and pro-
tect It. Let United States government
work in unison with the people and offer in
ducemcnts IL necessary--and there should not
be-to gain inventions and new Ideas
Let have system to work by. In the first
place. guard our port OF entry at New York
and San Francisco and return under SRA bles by
first boat We do not want to be the dumping
ground for the world make ourselves indie
pendent by having things made in America /"
not in England or Germany. Why should We
be dependent upon others and making other
countries rich with trade?
EDWIN JOHNSON
Fnrmvle. Va. August %. 1915.
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TO tho Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-l have noticed for the last few
days tendency Of the city papers to
bedeVil and harass the Chicago Tri-
bunc by calling to its remembrance q
few things that no doubt il had fondly
hoped were buried. without hope OF
resurrection. One brother in his lot
ter quotes holy writ TO strengthen his
argument: Let him that is withou,
fault cast the first stone" To that !
wish TO add: Let him that is withoa,
fault cast the last stone"
My friend. c. NJ. Cowlcs. has allowed
himself TO be "het up" over n question
OF sectional jealousy and antaSonisrn
Even he usually OF calm and philo-
soph!cal mind has been tcased hy the
wicked Tribune until he has for the
moment lost sight of she real object
All this elimination and rccrimina-
ZION gets us nowhere. "a soft an
swcr turncth away wrath. but rrievous
words stir up anger" Let us get In TX
to first principles: Behold how great
matter little fire kindleth" Hc
calm. gentlemen Please sit still and
don't rock the boat. All this accusa-
ton and paradinE OF skeletons started
because a few citizens of these United
States murdered man who, il is said
had murdered girl The fac, that the
mans name was Leo Frank and the
girls name was Mary Phagnn has
nothing to do with IL.
Chnncc Ia Snvc Others.
II the people Of this country had
been half as sol!citous for the we'll
being Of Mary Phagan living as for
Mary Phaean dead there would have
been no murder at the pencil factory
Had Mary been at School instead Of
striving to obtain the actual ncccs-
sites Of life; had she been living the
happy. Carcfrcc life every child has a
right to live. she would not have been
at tho factory. Let us not waste our
tears over the little Mary Phagan that
Is dead. but try rather 10 save the
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hundreds OF thousands Of little
Marys who are alive and are forced
to 20 10 the pencil factories and all
other kinds % factories and mills in
lie.
Little MARI Phagan is, dead. and
nothing are able TO do can affect
her in the slightest. hut there are
thousands and thousands OF little Marys
"ho are living and who are able to
enjoy any happiness are able TO
give them
Are Sections RcsponsibIet
| have looked in vain for any sec
ton of this country that lis separated
from other parts OF the country by
imaginary lines called State bounda
ricS. and free from these conditions
Five hundred thousand little Marys in
this land OF plenty. less than sixteen
years old are daily exposed to the
conditions that made possible the MUIR
der OF little Mary Phagan.
Now. what Will you do. gentlemen?
VIII YOU continue in wordy combat
with some other gentleman over the
imaginary honor or d!shonor OF some
section OF the country, or will you use
the same energy IN an endeavor to
save the living Marys from a condition
that produces dwarfed bodies and
minds; these little Marys the poten-
'ial mothers OF tho future genera
ton?
There is no excuse to be offered why
In this land OF plenty only three
quarters Of tho children of school age
ever enter school. and only "a per cent
finish n high school course, and we
have only one college graduate out
OF $50 possibilities. Mary Phagan was
one who was not able 70 continue in
school She needed food and clothes.
and went IN search Of the things she
had need OF. and she was one of the
Marys who lost out.
r. a. TYREE.
Richmond, August IS. 1915.
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The Voice of the People
"Disccrnlne" View OF the prc.s.
Q Editor OF The Times Dispatch.

To tho Editor of The Times Dispatch.
Sir,--ln reading your valued journal OF to-
days issue. found statement made by Will
liam Jennings Bryan in Chicago. August 30.
Ny reasons for writing YOU is personal.
but universal over the United States and as
YOU have given space inside page. when
1t should have been put your front page.
showing the people that the press OF this cOun-
try isn't in favor of dragging this country into
war If tho newspapers think they use
their editorial sheets in such manner as
they do to produce sympathy for the allies.
they certainly are using the wrong method,
nameiy knocking, Germany No doubt you
Who'll is controlled by the money interest; in
interests place their greed OF avaricc above
tina; Of the lives Of millions OF people, and I
only hope that II plunged into such n
position that which abominable few so
called American citizens" succeed In placin e
us, the true blood OF America will refuse to re-
spond to the call. ! am horn American
citizen forty-fve years Of age, and my ances-
tors for three or four generations like
wise. and have r>ever supported Mr. Bryan
politically. In my life, I Republic
can; but want You to know that l am
not narrow minded that 7 cannot support
such uttcrances as he is credited with in your
paper. I hope this will convince you OF the
fact that in the future any such utterances,
given space on the front t,, Of your Journal
City Point Va. August %, 1915.
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Unframed Hoof. md Candy.

Bentonite Is a kind Of clay which has
a variety OF uses. 1t is employed to
give body and weight to paper, in the
preparation Of a dressing for infamed
hoofs OF horses, as constituent OF
antiphlogistine, a proprietary remedial
dressing, and as an adulterant of can
dies and drugs. 1t has notable powers
Of absorption, taking up about seven
times its own volume of water. 1t alb
serbs twice as much glycerinc ms can
be absorbed by diatomaceous earth, and
for this reason has been suggested as
n substitute for that material In the
manufacture OF dynamite.
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1 use to be the baby
Fore the other baby came
1 didn't know that maybe
I'd have 10 change nv name:
But now Pm only Brother"
He's mothers precious pet'
q guess she's stayed my mother,
But haven't asst her YETI.
[ thought though he was tiny
And he looked so very queer,
Red get over being whiny,
When he found that was hero.
| thought before we knew it
We'd be chummy as could be:
But ] amt a-goin' 10 do IL,
Cause he isn't nice to me.
mustn't even hold him
Less he drops onto the floor,
An 1t doesn't do to scold him;
1t just starts him in to roar
am goin' on to seven.
And l. go to bed alone;
But I wisht he'd stayed in heaven
Till he'd got little grown.
Pr'aps some day there'll come another,
1t would be a funny joke;
Then he'd have to he the brother
An be told his nose was broke"
1t would start him yellin' maybe,
Eut I'd tell him just the same,
That he couldn't be the baby
When the other baby came ;
NJ. Kelley, in the September st,
Nicholas. "a
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DcuuCraCy'S Shame

IN the action OF the Welsh coal miners, who
l again have left their pits and gone on
strike. the convinced believer in and lover of
democracy finds cause 10 shake his faith. il
not 10 change it. \utocracy, assuredly- and
autocracy Of the sternest kinds the only
treatment for such men as these Their
countrymen are dying in France and Elan
ders the women OF their country are
lnournine for husbands and brothers, fathers
end sons slain on the battlefield in the com
mon defense. That they should be recreant,
i'll such situation. TO their less dangerous
AMI onorous duty is reflection on the race.
!ilease at his best Boston headline, Must
have been 4 sensation to Blcasc.
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Overheard I'm Broad STREE

Stranger-Where is First Street?
Nntive-You pretty nigh It,
How YOU know
That number over the door is 1o1"
What docs that indicateo"
Hundred numbers in the block You find :.
number Of n house and you know where YOU
are"
The city doesn't put up the signs of streets
them"
Only some. Don't know why, less it's the
same reason the street company has for let
ting conductors call the OF some OF the
streets and letting YOU guess at the others"
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Saying. or rnmou. Mon

General Bcauregard: Why didn't you call me,
Early"
Andrew Jackson: II know I'll die some day.
parson. but I'll never turn to Clay"
Robert Bonner: Don't keen diary vounr
man; keep Ledger. That's how I got rich"
Brigham Young: Pretty maiden. are there any
at home like you?"
job: Doctor isn't there something the matter
with my blood?"-Boston Globe. WHY didn't
quote the last words of Daniel Webster
IT amt dead YETI
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\ company has been organized in New
Jersey for the purpose Of choking mosquitoes
10 death by some sort OF machine that will
generate chlorine gas by electricity jersey
lightning has killed many man. and if it
is applied in The same manner TO the pests OF
the marshes, il will do the work.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-30

The skyline Of Dallas Texas. looks like
section of the lower end Of New York. The
sprightly city Of the Lone Star State is ma k
National Convention next year. We suggest
that Dallas get some pointers from Kansas
City on national conventions.
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Captain Mnrr

Captain Mnrr.
Please inform what authority there is for
the statement which The Times Dispatch con-
tanned time ago OF the date of the kill
ing Of Captain Mari. You gave date
n week ten days before that OF the killing
Of Wyatt at Big Bethel. CHARLOTTE.
The date may be found in the biographical
notices OF Captain MARI for instance in Walk
ers History of the V. NJ J. there is the high
est possible record warrant in the fact that
Mari member of the Virginia Constitu-
tional Convention OF 1861 (thc secession con-
vcnton), and the Journal OF that body con.
tains record OF resolution his death re-
citing the date. There could be higher au-
thority
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4 inonE the Missing.

II somehow seems ali awful shame
That in the war news going round
That aspirant for martial fame,
Dear Gussie Gardner. isn't found
For Gus-in TRIMS n worse bore
Than even Colonel Theodore
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pcrtinences and travcsties Of tho law. Cotton
was never declared contraband. nor was the
shipment OF 1t or other noncontra band from or to
neutral ports even held violative OF our blockade
Ihe British promises to amcliorate the wrong
by the purchase of all American cotton seized
ut market prices are illusory. The unused
cot,on stored In Great Britain the more powerful
will be the effect in depressing prices Amer
icah planters may have to stand even greater
loss on TINS years crop than that OF last
Eear.-Phiadelphia Record
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rrril OF Orertinkering n Motor Cnr.

a long Whiskered man in Atchson. Kas.,
reached over far to tinker the engine Of his
Ford last Friday, and the machine promptly
grabbed him ty The beard and jerked him over
tho Observation-Disclosures County (Mo) Leader.
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Virginia Had the Man

THE cynical disregard of law and order
! openly displayed by the men who tam
pered with a Juror in the Hopewell bribery
well as by the juror himself, serves
as cumulative proof that Governor Stuart was
not day too soon in taking Il hand in the
AFFAIRS Of that mushroom town. The hand
Of strong man was needed. and Virginia
had the man.
1t is singulariy fortuitous that the Gov
crnor who is now directing the cleansing OF
What was awless town. should have taken
n'n active part, when Il mere boy, in the polio
ms OF similar community. He was mem
'er OF that remarkable and highly efficient
reputation known as the Volunteer Police
- Big Stone Gap. which first brought the law
into that section Of Virginia. A mans man.
whether IN the mountains or in Underwater.
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Crop report in Europe: The season has pro
duced large number of widows weeds.
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Therefore, The hairs upon the head
OF that poor catcher rise.
Drawn up by agony and dread
Right straight toward the skies.
The pitchers fright is hid from you.
Sut that lads hair hair is rising. too.
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1t is now explained that the man who kissed
William J. FRY an had whskers. and that is why
Mr. Bryan did not turn the other check
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TypoSrnphical Error.

The Germans have about knocked the last
vowel OF Russa.--St. Louis Post Dispatch
Proofreadcr's mistake-The ~" in the eighth
word should he 3D." and IS" should be added
the ~"