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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

In a speech delivered at Norfolk
Sunday at the organization of num-
Der Of men of the Jewish faith into
a new society. the chief speaker il
quoted as saying. among other things.
the following:
''The Leo Frank case has
demonstrated the necessity of the
Jews of the Southland standing
together for fair play and square
dealing"
The Frank case has demonstrated
nothing OF the sort. The race and
faith Of Frank did not enter into the
question before the courts which
passed on fac case in Georgia or the
United States Supreme Court. Mem
Ders OF the Jewish race ''in the South
land" receive greater consideration
and better treatment than is accorded
them anywhere else in the world. The
United States Of America Is the most
favorable country in the world fot
me members of this race to live and
do business In, as the great numbers
who have flocked to its shores tes-
tify. while there are fewer of them
In the South than elsewhere, II is alb
solutely untrue t.iat there is need for
them TO stand together for fair play
and square deal" The best way to-
initiate against settling these things
viii be to inaugurate a campaign Of
organization TO demand them.
The Jew has not only been given a
square deal in the South. but has
heen welcomed and given an oppor-
tunity 10 participate in its work.
There is too much OF this class
appesl in America anyhow. German
sAusricans say they have to stand to-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
COURT ORDERS CITY'S
SALARY LIST CUT
Sweeping Economics Effected BY Rea-
son OF Vigorous Court Action In
Nashville.
SELLS INTEREST IN NEWSPAPER
Frank p. Glass Sewers Thirty Years
Connection With Montgomery Adj
yertiscr--Cnstcr Massacre Survivor
Passes Away In Mississippi.

Nashville. Tenn. Aug 16.--Chan-
cellor John Allison, in whose court
cases arising from the City Hall scan
DIAL are pending, today ordered sweep
ing reductions in the salaries of city
officials and employees. At the same
tine he allowed the city to borrow
$4,000 for running expenses.
The Mayors salary was reduced
from $4,000 to $4,000 and the City
Commissioners from 5000 to $4,000.
The reductions generally amounted to
about % per cent The old salaries
will be restored when the revenues
come In sufficient volume.
He directed that the use of auto
mobiles by officials and employees be
greatly curtailed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
INCREASE IN
STATE ASSESSMENT

the State Auditor from the assessors
OF real estate for the year continue
to show increases, indicating very
plainly that the assessments made by
the assessors named by the courts
are generally higher than those placed
on property by the commissioners
of revenues. Two reports received yes
terday are fair xamples-Lovenstei
District, in Nelson County, shows an
increase of s222,201 over last year,
and District No. 8, in Pittsylvania
County. shows an increase of $44,929.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Court sentence Carried Out.

Annapolis, Md. Aug. 16.-Carry-
ing out the provisions of the approved
findings and recommendation of the
court of inquiry which investigated the
"gouging" scandal at the institution,
Midshipmen Ralph NJ Nelson. Of the
first class. and Midshipman Charles
M. ReagIe, of the second class. We're
today dismissed from the Naval
Midshipmen James f. Moss, Chap
lain f. Evans. A. s. Hamilton. d. b.
Duncan and T. w Harrison, who were
acquitted by the court were restored
to duty at the academy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
THE GOVERNORS CONFERENCE.

The Governors conference, the fifth
wheel of our American system Of gov
eminent, Is TO meet again this month.
Viewed from the standpoint of gov
eminent, this is one OF the strangest
organisations of the world. II is made
up of executives of sovereign States
but II has no power of sovereignty.
II u not legally constituted in the Con-
stitution of the United States. or the
constitution Of any State. 1t can take no
action binding in legal way on any
one. 1t has no power over anybody
or anything. And yet it Is as we have
stated, congress of representatives
OF sovereign States.
II ts from organizations such as this,
whose nature has seemed vague,
whose powers have been negligible,
whose membership shifting. that the
most powerful governmental boos-s
have been developed. The British
Parliament was originally a nebulous
body, whose chief duty was to meet
on call of the king presumably to ad-
wise him, but in reality to vote such
taxes aS he felt he needed AT.
ter a while the Parliament got wise
and decided not to vote any taxes un.
less tie king gave them something In
return. and so the law-making power
OF Parliament developed from a sort
OF bargain and sale agreement. sc
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
hummer corn Cron In kansas.

Saffna. Kansas. Aug fS.--Whitc
there may have been some loss to
the wheat crop from the excessive
rains In Central Kansas, the
farmers say there will he the
greatest crop of corn ever bar-
vested. and many OF them are
wondering how they are going to
gather the crop.
The stalks are from twelve to
sixteen feet high. and great ma
jority Of tho cars are ont of reach
of the tallcst man, many of them
being ten and twelve feet above
= the ground. The poorest fields
will yield fifty bushels to the acre,
while some fields will make sew
enty and eighty bushels.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
No Roose Good Reads Movement.

Bluefield. w. Va, Aug. I6.--A great
boost is expected to be given the good
roads movement in West Virginia at
the meeting of the Southen Appala-
chian Good Roads Association here
October Ia and Is. The organization
includes in its membership all the
good roads Associations in Maryland
Virginia, West Virginia. North Car
DINA. South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana. Missis-
lsippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
NOT AN ISSUE IN FRANK CASE.

gether to get square deal. Labor
says 1t has TO stand together to get
square deal. So do other classes
and sects. This is one great country
of all the people, but IL all the people
split UP into sects to demand their
sect rights" il will become a coun-
try of classes and not Of limited
citizenship. Let US have less class
appeal
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Mark Fort Morris site.

Morgantown, w. Va. Aug. 16.-The
monument to mark the site of old Fort
Morris built in 1774, in the Sandy
Creek glades, one and one~half miles
from Glade Farms. this county. will
be dedicated Saturday, August rs. a
bronze tablet in the shape OF a key
stone is donated by the Women's In
dustriai Society of Pennsylvania,
through its president. Mrs. Edward n.
Jones, of Pittsburg
The old fort was used by the from
tier settlers on the upper Cheat and
Monongahela Rivers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
FIVE KILLED IN PLANT
FILLING WAR ORDERS
Gelatin House Of Aetna Explosives
Company Blown Up At Grove
Run, Pennsylvania.
ESCAPED LEPER sURRENDERs
Haid of school OF Stammcrers Takes
His Own Lifc--Atiantic Fleet at Full
War Strength At War Game In
Rhode Island Waters.

Emporium, Pa. Aug. 16.--Five men
were killed and the gelatin house of
the Aetna Explosive Company's plant
at Grove Run. near here, was blown
to pieces today by an explosion Two
other buildings were badly damaged.
and the entire countryside shaken.
The men, Joseph Strayer, Fred Has
kins. Emery Haskins, Ossie Miller and
Michael Campbell. were the only en-
ployes in the building when the ex-
plosion occurred, and company Of
ficials said the cause probably would
never be known.
The company has been engaged In
filling war orders. it was stated.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
KING CONFERS MEDAL ON
SOLDIER WHO LOST EYES

Rome, Aug. 1.-THE king today
conferred the silver medal for mill
tary valor on Luigi Pompili, of Rome,
a soldier OF tho Ninety-fourtil w.
fantry Regiment, who, after having
lost both eyes in recent engage
ment, declares:
Il do not mind In the least the
loss of my eyes because the last thing
they saw were the Austrians in full
retreat on July 49,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
open-lair Meeting Tonight.

In honor of Better Acquaintance
Week" the Equal Suffrage League oh
Richmond. will hold an open~air meet
ing at Sixth and Broad Streets TuesE
day night. August II. at 80 o'ciocid
Among the speakers win be Mrs H
r. Valentine, Miss Adele Clark. Mis-
Mae Schaill. Mrs. F. l.. Jobson.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

much law for so many taxes. To-day
the British Parliament Is the most
powerful governmental organization
In the world. II not in history.
1t is probable that many of the
Of the United States conceived of some
such conference as the Governors
conference, and in their minds en-
dowed 1t with powers supreme. or at
least TO those of Congress. Certainly
the doActrine OF State sovereignty
would have conceived the congress of
State governors as about the most
powerful organization In the country.
However, while national powers
have grown until there Is now no sub
stantial element which disputes the
supremacy of the United States Gov
eminent anywhere and everywhere in
this country, the governors congress
has only been reality for few years.
Whatever possibilities 1t may have had
of taking the first place in govern
mental circles has been removed, and
there now remains for 1t nothing but
q sort of voluntary debating union. or
social club--that Is. until some prac-
teal use and some substantial exer-
else of power is conferred upon oil
acquired by 1t, or until governmental
genius devises some opening through
which it may enter into field of ac.
tive operations.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
MORGAN BACK ON JOB.
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Feels Fine and Not Bit Afraid OF Be-
Ing Blown Up.

New York, Aug. 16.A large throng
gathered at Broad and Wall Streets
9oday and welcomed back to the
financial district J. r. Morgan, the
ffnanc.er. who was shot on July by
Erich Muenter. alias Frank Holt.
word that Mr. Morgan was at his
officer again spread through the dis
trtct quickly. and when the financier
left the building shortly after o'clock
this afternoon the apectotors gave him
q cheer. Mr.. Morgan smiled and
slipped Into his limousine. He was
the picture of health
As the result OF the attack upon Mr..
Morgan 1t was reported turing his re
cuperatson that when he returned to
New York there would. Ii all prob-
ability. be an accompanying giaard Of
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
-cantain n r. Caboniss Dead

Forsythe, Ga. Aug. 16.--Former
Representative Thomas r. Cahaniss
died suddenly here Friday night. He
was a captain in the Confederate
army, held number of State offices
and was member of the Dawes COM
appointed by President Cleve-
land TO adjust affairs in Indian Ter
ritory. He was eighty years old.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
sent to Grand Jury.

grand jury yesterday morning hy
Squire L. B. Franklin in Police Court
on a charge of feioniously cutting and
assaulting Cal Sewer. Pearson was
also fined SIC He was arrested be-
cause he created a disturbance in the
saloon of r. L. Sewer. Two young
brothers of Pearson, who were charged
with aiding and abetting him in the
assault on Sewer, were dismissed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

And now the German-Americans
will howl because tsne government re-
fused to mortgage it's future safety for
the sake of prohibiting the shipment
OF arms to the enemies of THE Father
land"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

We don't like to predict unpleasant
wings. but we imagine the existence
of william Of Weld was paradise
beside the time the newly crowned
King of Poland" will experience in
the next few months.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Demands For NitrscuIture.

Many demands are now being made
by Virginia farmers upon Commission
err OF Agriculture Koiner's office for
supplies OF nitroculture used for the
incubation OF alfalfa. clover. cowpeas
and other legimunous plants. This Is
the season for thel farmer to get In his
work. and the department. .is kept busy
supplying the demand
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

Governor stuart left late Saturda.
night for Maine, where he will tot,
his wife and daughter for brief w
cation. Next week he Will attend tn
conference of governors in Bosfon ans
is cheduled to deliver an address be-
fore that body Former Governor VIII
liam II. Mann will also speak at thai
time.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
CHARGED with Drunkennes..

l.. A. Hitchcock. charged with being
drunk for several days and proving a
menace to his neighborhood, was ar
rested yesterday by Henrico County
authorities. He was bailed for his APP
pearance In Henrico Courthouse be-
fore Magistrate Fl. s. Sunday Wednes-
day morning.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
yIasons IfoIa Neetinr

The Manchester Lodge of Masons
held its regular meeting last night
in the Southside Masonic Hail. A good
old-fashioned Brunswick stew was
served and great time was furnished
the members who attended, who came
out in good numbers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

Ali parties In the western field OF
war seem to have dug themselves in
so successfully there is no digging
them out--either in making or re-
Polling an attack.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
THE ANNAPOLIS VERDICT.

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Head of stammerers, school suicides

Detroit, Aug. 16.--George Andrew
Lewis, head of the Lewis School for
Stammerers of this city, shot himself
three times, once in the head and
twice in the breast. He was removed
TO a hospital. where the physicians
said there was practically no hope for
his recovery.
Dependency over sickness is sup
posed to have been responsible for the
shooting
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

E That note to Vienna might just as
well have been addressed to Berlin
that's where ssse original came from.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

At any rate the publicity agents of
the Balkan States have had grand
field day of this intervention business.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Return From Buckroe Beach.

Members of the Fellowship League
of Genital NJ. e. Church returned from
Buckroe Beach Sunday night, after
spending a pleasant week camping MT
Buckroe Beach. Those who went on
the trip were Messrs Ernest r. Haw-8
kins. Arthur Reynolds, Wyndhnm Gal-
loway. Joseph Galloway. Garnett Camp
bell and Virgil Goode, all OF the
Southside.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Quality as Executors.

W. J. and A. B. Morrfssett have
qualified in Hastings Court. Part H..
as executors of the will OF the late
Beverly II. Morrissett.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Sell Half Interest In Newspaper.

Montgomery, Ala. Aug 16--An-
Gouncement has been made that Frank
+. Glass. president of the Advertiser
Company. and editor of the Birming-
ham News, had sold his interest in the
Montgomery Advertiser to w. T. Shee-
han, editor of the Advertiser. and
Charles Fl. Allen. business manager
Mr.. Glass owned so per cent OF the
capital stock and on its sale today
he severed thirty years connection
with the Advertiser The other half of
the stock of the paper is owned by the
family of the late Major w. w. Screws,
who was for nearly fifty years editor
of this paper. In the new organiza-
ton, w. T. Sheehan will be president
of the company and editor of the pa
per, and Charles II. Allen will be pub
Usher and general manager.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
survivor OF "Cnster Massacre, Dies.

Greenville, Miss, Aug 16.--Frank
il. Earle, seventy-four. said to have
been the only survivor of General
Clusters command when the Seventh
Cavalry was massacred by Indians at
the battle of the Little Big Horn, was
buried here yesterday Mr.. Earle died
at Arkansas City, Ark. Friday. He
was born in England
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

The regular meeting Of Fonticeilo
afternoon at 8 o'clock In the home of
Mrs A. J. Cooper. 23o1 stockton
Street.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17
Better Acquaintance

This week the Wholesalers and manu-.
facturers arc hosts to the visiting mer-
chants.
This Store joins hands with the pro
motcrs of "BETTER ACQUAINTANCE
| WEEK. in extending hearty welcome to
those representatives of our neighboring com
munitics and sister cities
It has been said, in substance, that you
can tell who man is by the company he
| keeps or the books he reads. So it il with
towns and cities. You can tell what kind of
community it is by its STORES. And whyi
Because the stores must keep the merchandise
a community demands
But the keeping of good merchandise in
stock is not all there is in merchandising; the
goods must be effectively and attraetively
displayed to attract customers.
COME IN, Fellow Merchants, AND MAKE
YOURSELF AT HOME in the Miller &
Rhoads Store. Wen be glad to see Won and
serve you in any way we can while YOU re
here.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-17

appeal.
The Irish standard., 1915-02-27

If the United States, in view of
the weight which it is justified in
throwing and able to throw into the
scales of the fate of peoples, should
succeed at the last moment in remov.
ing the grounds which make that pro.
cedure an obligatory duty for Ger
many, and If the American Govern
ment in particular should find way
to make the declaration of London re.
spected, on behalf also of those powers
which are fighting on Germany's side.
and thereby make possible for Ger
many legitimate importation of the
necessaries of life and industrial raw
material, then the German Govern
ment could not too highly appreciate
such a service rendered in the inter.
ests of human methods Of warfare
and would gladly draw conclusions
from the new situation
The Irish standard., 1915-02-27

It is great joy to see the Blessed
Sacrament reserved and guarded by
the sentinel ray from the little red
flame of the sanctuary lamp. Other
chaplains, having no chapels, have to
employ makeshifts with table for the
altar, etc. But, with the reverent sur.
roundings, with the bright rubrical
colors and the lights, few rugs, cur
tains and portieres, very pleasing
effect is secured.
In the field each occasion presents
it's problems, and the writer recalls
a Field Mass during the Spanish war,
where the altar was composed of a
couple of boards supported on barrel
ends, while the candles escaped ex-
tinction by being inserted in stable
lanterns, and the high winds and rain
caused the celebrant to keep hands
on Host and Chalice throughout most
of the Mass. Troops were taking their
turn in the trenches, and the confess
SIGNALS of the evening previous had
brought forth many candidates, some,
perhaps, for their last Holy Com
munion.
At other times in camp, in pleasant
weather, under the sheltering branches
of an overhanging tree, with the sun
shine sitting through the leaves, max
ing stained-glass effects in color, and
the air vibrant with the choir.song of
birds, one feels that the groves were
the first, and at times the finest tenn
pies, and that it is good to be out in
the fresh air of heaven.
But the world has moved forward
from cave and tent dwelling. David
mourned that the ark should be moved
around in tabernacle and was in
spired to build a temple-army quar-.
tiers today are dignified and commodi-
Gus. 1t is fitting that the house of
the Lord should be likewise, which
brings me to reiterate, in conclusion,
that where there is a chaplain, there
should be chapel.
The Irish standard., 1915-02-27

we crouch before the proud usurper.
NO more, as of old, must the American
be prepared to get down on his knees
and crawl in the very dust at the sight
OF some one supposed to have in him
drop of the blue blood that flowed in
the veins of that mailed morauder-
that royal robber-William of Orange.
prolonged applause.) Aye, we re-
joice that we are free! We are Ameri-
cans. (Applause.)
What more shall say? What fur
Their tribute to Washington? Well
has it been said of him that he was
the greatest of good men and the best
of great men," His name is synony-
nous with freedom. His country is
the Mecca of the oppressed. His in
fiuence is felt today. Should anyone
dare trample on the rights of the peo-
ple-should anyone dare attempt to
remove clause from the Constitution
which preserves those rights-the spir-
its that guard the ashes and wreathe
the tombs Of its authors, the spirits
that guard the ashes and wreathe the
tombs of its inspirer, would shrek
aloud to the friends of freedom and
the desecrator would be torn from his
pedestal. (Applause.)
Such was Washington. should
have said "such is Washington" for
the patriot never dies. And if the
shades of the departed return to the
places of their earthly labors-if love
of country moves them-then does he
look down tonight and contemplate the
changes of this fair land. He sees the
old slow methods of travel, in vogue
in his day, replaced by the rapid tran
sit; he notes how the spot where once
stood the virgin forest is now the site
Of mighty city; he hears the hum of
machinery proclaiming our vast indus.
tries; he beholds our Titans ploughing
the waters of every cline; he sees
America literally feeding the world;
he sees her institutions of learning
diffusing their treasures far and wide;
he observes the countless spires turned
heavenward directing mans thought
to the farther shore he has already
reached; he perceives his own land at
peace, undisturbed in her security
while the other nations of the world
are either at each others Threats or
snarling at each others heels; he con-
templates our bright sisterhood OF
states, like the glowing planets in the
heavens, each one moving in its own
celestial orbit, yet blending in one
harmonious whole; and, throughout
this broad continent, from the southern
prairie to the snowy sierra, and from
where the great St. Lawrence pours
his crystal tide into the daybreak OF
the Atlantic to where California filings
wide her golden gates to the sun sets
of the Pacific, he hears one name on
every lip, he knows there is one mem
DRY in every heart-the name and the
memory of Washington. prolonged
applause.)