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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
INVESTIGATING
PRICE OF BOOKS
Nine Publishers are Placed
on the Discrimination
List.
STATE LOSES s32o,oOo.
Attorney General Engaged in Prob.
ing-senate Committee Defers >Ac-
tion on Gum Resolution.

Richmond. Jan. 22-Shortly before
noon yesterday the Senate Commit
tee on Public Institutions and Educa-
tion adjourned until today without
taking action on the Gum school
book investigation resolution.
Virginia has lost no less than
$4,000 in the last seven years on
account of the discrimination of
schoolbook publishers, according to
a statement made by Delegate Gum
of Henrico, today before the Senate
Committee on Public Institutions and
Education, which had before it the
resolution calling for legislative in
vestigation of the schoolbok situ-
alton.
From other sources it was learned
that Attorney General John Garland
Pollard is conducting an official in
vestigation into cases of alleged dis
ordinations made by nine publish
ers. If these Investigations warrant
it suit will be brought against the
publishers on their bonds.
The publishers, according to the
records of the Attorney Generals Of
fee, are the following:
Houghton Mifflen Company, of Bos-
ton.
The Prang Company, of New York
Rand McNally, of New York. Chi
cago and London.
Silver, Burdett and Co., Of Boston.
Sanborn & Co., of Boston.
CHM & Co., of Boston.
Allyn & Bacon, of New York.
American Book Company, of New
York.
All these publishers have filed an
swers to the declaration of the State
Board of Education, and the answers
are now in the hands OF the At
torney General.
Some of them may show, the At
torney General today said; that the
charges of discrimination against par
ticular publishers should not be made
Where the charges hold good, how
ever, and where it is deemed eN-
pedient, suit will be at once 'nstltu'-
cd.
Following the meeting of the Sen
ate Committee on Public Institutions
and Education, which lasted through
the entire morning, a meeting OF the
State Board of Education was held.
At This meeting the members OF the
board had expected to make the state
odoptions of school books for the
next periods of four and seven years
In view of the pending Investigations
however, the adoptions were MOI
made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

AUDITOR REVIEWER.
Senators Are at Work On Bill Incor-
porating Tax Commission Idea
Fifteen Behind it.

! Richmond. Va. Ian - a tili
providing for a review of the returns
of taxpayers on intangible personal
property, incomes and money, one
Of the several bill suppiement,nS the
Weaver segregation measure. was in
troduced in the House Of Deleagtes
this morning.
Under the provisions of this bill
The State Auditor is made n central
take reviewer to supervise the ass
cssments made by the several exam
iners of record. which officers are
given the additional authority 70 in
uuire into the value of the intangible
property OF the living a the present
examiners proceed against ;Ee prop
erty of the dead.
The examiners must annually re
view the intangible personal proper
ty. income and money returns Of all
and Federal. with view TO ascer-
I tanning and reporting for taxation
the value 20 be extended by the COM
missioners OF revenue. Reports are
TO he made to the State Auditor and
Commissioner OF Revenue. The eY-
amiuerS have authority 10 summon
taxpayers or their agents and require
them 10 answer under oath all Gues-
tious touching the ownership OF sa,h
property. The State Auditor is charg-
ed with the duty Of seeing that the
commissioners and the examiners
perform their duties faithfully. the
sum of 5000 being appropriated
for the purpose. The Auditor is re-
uuired to review annually the work
of the examiners.
Senator Holt, Senator Lesner and
other are at work on 4 bill which
they hope to present today provld-
ing new scheme Of taxation. 1t
is designed to provide equalization
and uniformity Of assessments III all
parts of the State.
The groundwork OF the bill is the
Lcsner Bill, presented several days
ago. 1t provides that there shall be
j tax commission, consisting of the
Auditor, the Treasurer and one man
to be named By the Governor.
This board is required to name a
commission of three for each county
and city in the state, the selections
to be made from list of perhaps ten
names furnished by the Judges of the
respective counties and cities.
Senator Holt said today that his
idea was to establish State Tax
| Commission with authority to do
things.
These are some fifteen senators
wbo are behind this proposition, ac-
cording to those who are identified
with it, and they are hoping to get
enough support to prevent segrega-
ton. They incline to the behet thar
they will be able to do this.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
2OOO.0 JEWS PENNILESS
War Creates Widespread Distress Il
Eastern War Zone.

London, Jan. 22.-Two million Je"i
-one-sixth Of the Jews in the World
have been made penniless in Rus
sian Poland and the eastern fighting
border by the struggling armies. Re
sides there are 10000 Jewish ref
ucees in Galicia. $4,000 in Moracia
and $4,000 in Bohemia.
These figures We're given ont at a
Jewish meeting recently held in Lon'
don for the purpose Of relieving TINS
acute distress. of co-re!igi0nists.
Plans indorsed by Leopold de .Rotfs
child were made to raise funds :h;s'
subscriptions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
NEWS OF THE DAY DAY

The British government announces
through it's embassy at Washington
that if the former Hamburg Amer'-
can liner Dacia proceeded to sea she
would be captured and taken to a
prize court. The State Department
had communicated this information In
formally to the owners of the Dacia
as a result of message from AM
bassador Page, and was notified in
reply that the vessel was loading at
Galveston and would put to sea, not
withstanding the British govern
ment's position. 1t was believed that
the owners had resolved to test the
issue in a prize court.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
DROWNED IN CREEK.
". ". Sadier. of Staunton Died il,
Two Feet of Water.

Staunton, Va, Jan. 22.-W. ".
Sadler So, d retired railway contrac
tor. left home near here Tuesday
night and was never seen alive
again. His body was found in two
feet of water in small creek ti.is
morning. The man was Or his way
back home from a country store. He
probably slipped in the dark and eell
into the creek. a blow on the head
probably rendering him unconscious
He was a widcwer, with fcu" grown
children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
ETTOR RELEASED on BAIL.
[. w. W.Leader Agrees Not 10 En-
ter Belmont County. Ohio.

St. Clairsville, Ohio, Jan. 222.-Jos-
eph Ettor. Industrial Worker of the
World leader, who has been II jai'
here awaiting d hearing on the
charge of treason, vas arranged be-
fore Mayor Davis this morning. Ee
entered plea Of not guilty and vas
hound over to the. grand jury. EIsol
gave $1,000 bail and Immediately
left town with his attorney after
agreeing not to enter Belmont coun,
tx again or to send any Of his rep
rescntativcs here.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
MAY RUN AGAIN.
r r Cation Considering Adrisabill'
Ties Of Entering Race for Lieu
tenant Governor.

Especial Dispatch TO the Gazette9
Richmond, Va. Jan. 22.-UnlesS
al, sipns are awry. an announce
ment of the candidacy on the part OF
Colonel James R. Cation, Of Alexan-
dria, for lieutenant governor, is ex-
nected soon. He said today that ne
was considering the question and he
has been urged by friends to make
rhe race. He admits that he would
like to have the position.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
CONTRACTS AWARDED.
Double Tracking Southern Between
Orange And Charlottesville.

Double Tracking Soulherh
Orange And Charlottesville.
Contracts for grading in connec-
tion with revision and double track
ing of line from Orange to Chariot
tesyille. Va, have been let by South
ern Railway Company.
The work from Orange to Burnley
Va, IS miles, was awarded to tnt
Morrow Construction Company o.
Atlanta, Ga, and that from burnie!
to Charlottesville. Va, 1877 miles, u
C. w. Lane and Company OF Az
lanta, Ga.
It is estimated that the improve
ment will cost one million and on
half dollars. It will give a greatl.
improved line both as to grade ant
curvature, as well as furnishing ad
ditional track facilities, where the.
are greatly needed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

a number Of delegates 20 the state
convention of the Florence Critten-
ton League Of Virginia, which will
hold its first meeting this afternoon,
arrived here this morning. The meet
ing Of the convention will remain
open to the public.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
DEATH NOTICE.

DIED-At his residence, l03 south
Fayette street, at sos A. NJ. Fri
day, January 22nd, 1915, WILLIAM
ROGERS, in his 6Sth year. Fun.
eral services from the residence
Sunday, at 300 P. NJ. Friends
and relatives invited. washing
ton, Fairfax snd Leesburg paper
please copy.l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
LOCAL BREVITIES

In the Circuit Court III vacation
today. the will of the late William l..
Clark, an employee Of the Citizens
National Bank, was admitted TO
probate. All Of his property is left
to his wife, Mrs. Frances Ann Clark.
who qualified as eXecutrix.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
AUCTION SALE TOMORROW.

Samuel H. Lunt, auctioneer, will
offer for sale for John D. Normoyle
and ?. NJ. Bradshaw, trustees. tomor-
row at noon. in front Of the Royal
street entrance to the City Hall, a
lot of ground with the improvements
thereon on the south side of Queen
street, near st. Asaph
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Mrs. A E. Ryan, wife Of a wealthy
farmer, living 3 miles from Altoona.
Kans.. was shot and killed in her
home Yesterday. The shot was fred
through window, and the officers
have no ciew. Mrs. Ryan was the
mother Of thirteen children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

General Maytorera, chief Villa of-
fetal at Nogales, Ariz.. received a
dispatch from General Villa saying
Provisional President Gutierrez when
he fled from Mexico City. January
l6, had taken with him Sl0,500,O00
from the government treasury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22
DEATH OF HUGH l.. STRlDER.
Old And Well-Known AleXandrIan
Expires After Brief Illness.

Hugh L. Strider. for many years
engaged in conducting second
hand store in the old City Hotel. this
CITY, was taken seriously i'll about
noon today and died half an hour la
fer His death is attributed to acute
indigestion. He was 63 years old.
The deceased was son Of the late
John St1.ider, who conducted the
tailoring business on the east side OF
Fairfax street, between King and
Prince, over half a century ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Randolph Chapter, Rose Croix and
Fafayette Council. Knights Of Ia
dosh. will hold meetings tonight in
Masonic Temple at 7:3O o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

A private dispatch from Brussels
Yesterday said that the Kaiser's ply
sician had ordered him to return TO
Berlin so that another operation Oh
his throat could he performed. The
Kaiser. it is said, refused to accede
to the demands of his physician. and
is said to have declared he would not
return to the German capital until
his troops had scored an overwhelm-
ing victory.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Pleading guilty to the charge OF
whipping Jesse Snider, farmer, to
death several months ago, Clarence
Coley, Lawrence Rakestraw, and
billiard Elder yesterday were sent
enced to life Imprisonment in the
State penitentiary by Judge J. l..
Bates, in New Albany, Miss. No
cause for the attack of the night
riders on Snider ever has been given,
Snider resided near here with his
wife and three young children. He
was called to his door at midnight
several months ago, and carried to
a patch of woods nearby, where he
was flogged for an hour by night
riders and left dying.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

For the best oysters go to the Hotel
Rammel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Ed Johnson, a young negro, was
taken from deputy sheriff by a
mob of about twenty men at Ficks-
burg, Miss, early Wednesday and
lynched. He had been arrested
charged with stealing cattle and the
officer was bringing him to Jail when
he was met by the mob. The negro
was shot to death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

San Francisco has moved to within
talking distance of New York. BY
the completion of the new direct
overland telephone line between San
Francisco and Denver officials of the
Pacific Telephone Company were
able Yesterday to talk to officials
of the New York Company. The ac-
Movement will be celebrated next
Monday by a formal opening of the
San Francisco-New York service
when Mayor Rolph will speak to
Mayor John Purroy Mitchell.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Going to Mineral Wells, Il mile
from Leeds, 16 miles from Birning-
ham, Ala, where she resided, Mrs. A
l.. Moore found her husband with a
young woman known as Annie Myre
about midnight Tuesday night. Draw
ing pistol, Mrs. Moore shot the
woman through the right lung, in
ficting a dangerous wound, and then
shot her husband twice, one bullet
going through his heart and killing
him instantly. Moore conducted q
general merchandise store at Leeds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

A dispatch from Arnhem, Neither
lands, says passenger arriving here
Yesterday from Germany asserts
that allied air-men on Wednesday
threw bombs upon the town Of Es-
sen destroying number of houses.
Essen is the home of the famous
krupp steel works.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

The snowfall in the Apennines has
reached a depth of several feet, ad-
ding to the suffering of the earth
quake victims in Italy and in some
instances causing death. Wolves,
driven by hunger, have left their
dens on the tops of the mountains
especially Mount Sirente, which is
1000 feet high, and attacked small
villages. Near Ajelli they tried to
dig up the newly buried bodies OF
the dead. They were hunted by SOL
diers and several Of them killed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Paxton Thomas, aged 3S, cashier
of the Citizens Bank and Trust Co.,
of Batesville, Ark, locked himself in
the bank vault yesterday and blew
out his brains with revolver. The
body was found later by relatives,
who had become alarmed when
Thomas failed to return to his home.
So far as known the dead mans ac-
counts are correct. His act is at
tributed to fears of a surgical opera
tion he was to have undergone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-01-22

Snow tonight; lowest tempera-
ture, about 26 degrees; satnr-
day, snow or rain, and warmer.
High tide 1884 a. m. and 100
p. n.
Sun rises I'll; Sun sets 5:l2.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-05
Another Safety-6rst Fourth.

Patriotism is to be the lesson of today in Wash
ington, and again without the toy cannon and pis-
tol and the casualty list. Public spirited citizens
have arranged a program that old and young can
enjoy and Young America is to have his feast of
rockets and bombs night at safe distance. 1t
may not please him we'll as the old-fashioned
Fourth with the din of the giant cracker and the
cang of the fire bells, but those accessories are
scarcely amcmory to those who will find the
kecncst delight tonight in the public burning of
red fire.
After all il is better as it is. The Declaration
of Independence will be read and none of its
meaning has been taken away by the noise or
persistency OF the peaceat-any pricers, has it
been added to by the clamor against unprepared-
ness. Most Americans retain their confidence in
the willingness of the country to fight and its
ability TO make ready if fighting becomes neces-
sary; and the promiscuous and dangerous use of
explosives on independence Day will not build
warships or put armies in the field. And besides
the citizen who is longer young, and has
acquired nerves will be happier So, with the
country at peace it should not be difficult, as the
glories of the past recalled to forget Diff
ferences OF opinion as to what may happen in the
future and enjoy the events of the day without
apprehension.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-05
Arguing for a Cause.

The cause OF Temperance has received more
support from the secular press OF this country
than has any other agitation for improving the
moral and physical welfare Of the people, and
the spread of prohibition and other legal re-
strants on the liquor traffic has been largely
due to this support OF the press than to any other
cause But the extreme temperance agitators are
not satisfied. They believe in national prohibition
and demand that kind of support, which many
newspapers and responsible public officials do not
believe will be effective legislation, that it
would be fair other lines OF business and indus
try to relieve the liquor traffic from the heavy
burden OF taxation it bears The Anti-Saloon
League will hold a convention at Atlantic City,
and of the subjects for consideration will be
the financial support to be given to organ.
Some OF the leaders do not approve of investing
$4,000 in a publishing plant to maintain an
organ but the general superintendent of the league
maintains that this is necessary. We not con-
ccrned about the policy way the other, but
the Rev. P. A. Baker, general superintendent of
the league, presents an interesting, if somewhat
Anticipated argument. In prepared statement he
says: 1T isn't news we need, but arguments in
which there be comeback We cannot ex-
poet the secular press to become propagandist
press for our cause"
This is fair to the secular PRESS but how about
the people who are to receive arguments in which
there can be no comeback? There was time
when political parties, churches, and business as
sociations had their organs. They wanted people
to receive OF a particular kind and argu-
mcnts to which there could be no comeback, un-
less their subscribers also took another paper.
These organs were conducted on the plan of the
preacher in the pulpit the college professor in
the class room who laid down dictum and per-
mitted question to its fnahty.
We have got away from that kind OF preach
ing, teaching and publishing. There are still
few UNCONVENTIONAL organs in the religious press
and few trade papers devoted to special lines
OF business. but the temperance question has al
ways been considered great moral reform which
could be discussed from all points OF vicw If it
is now to be presented onc-sided question
with no chance for comeback argument, it will
suffer from class consciousness and class prejudice
just have political religious, business and labor
organizations which tried to educate their sup
porters and followers in particular line with
opportunity for comeback argument or news
that might not confirm the policy of the organi-
zation.
Mr.. Bakers reasons for maintaining prohibi-
ton organ the most serious reflections on
prohibition have seen.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-05

1T TURNED out that Samuel Adams
had invented a tremendously pow
= erful engine of propaganda for
such opinions and suggestions of &C
ton as he chose to put upon the wind
or set afioat in his private correspond
ence-as he had, no doubt, foreseen.
with his keen appreciation of the most
effectual means of agitation.
Here was. in effect. a league of
towns TO watch and to control the
course of affairs.
There was nothing absolutely novel
in the plan. except its formal COM
pleteness and its appearance of per-
manence. as II of a standing political
arrangement made out of hand.
In the year 1865. which was now
seven years gore by. Richard Henry
Lee had taken an active part among
his neighbors in Virginia in forming
the ''Westmoreland Association"
which drew many of the leading spir-
its of the great county of Westmore-
land together in concerted resistance
TO the Stamp Act
Four years later G769) the Bur-
gesses Of Virginia. cut short in their
regular session as Legislature by
sudden dissolution proclaimed by
their royal governor. met in Mr.. An
thony Hays house in Williamsburg
and adopted the resolutions for a gem
eral non-importation association which
George Mason had drawn up. and
which George Washington, Mr.. Ma
sons neighbor and confidant. read and
moved.
There followed the immediate or
ganization of local associations
throughout the little commonwealth
to see to the keeping of the pledge
there taken.
Virginia had no town meetings: each
colony took it's measures of non-im-
portation and resistance to parlia-.
mentary taxation after its own fash
ion; but wherever there were English
men accustomed to political action
there was always this thought of free
association and quick and organized
cooperation in the air. which no one
was surprised at any time to see act
ed upon and made an instrument of
agitation.
What made the Massachusetts, COM
mittees of correspondence especially
significant and especially telling in
their effect upon affairs was that they
were not used. like the "Westmore-
The Washington herald., 1915-07-05
NOBLEMAN WORKS AT LATHE.
Lord Norbury Likes to Labor and
VIII Do His Rest.

London, July 4-The latest recruit in
the ranks of the munition makers is no
less a person than the Earl of Norbury.
according to the Daily Chronicle. Lord
Norbury has obtained a Job as filter in
factory in Surrey to be used by a
big firm of armament manufacturers for
the construction of aeroplanes. He will
start work in the course of the next
few DAYS.
The hours are a. m. to p. m. with
half an hour for breakfast and an hour
for dinner Lord Norbury told a Daily
Chronicle representative. II expect I
shall be given a lathe to work.
II am not altogether strange to the
work. he explained. 81 have run
lathe of my own for the last thirty-fve
years. and have been used to turning
my hand to all kinds of mechanical jobs
that wanted doing. I had intended at
frs, to offer myself for shell work. but
wfAn an advertisement appeared asking
foS mechanics for an aeroplane factory
NTpplied for a job and was taken on"
Lord Norbury Is 80 years of age, but
has the appearance and enthusiasm Of a
man half his age Though the hours
are long. they will not mean much hard
ship for me-" he said. Il like work, and
am never happier than when I'm work.
ing at something" Once when he was
staying with some friends in the back
woods of Canada. he related, he put In
no less than eighteen hours in one day
on some pipe-fitting work In the house.
The peer munition maker will receive
exactly the same treatment as the other
workmen. and will lodge in one room
near the factory.