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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12
Personal Notes.

c.. w. Gcod'ng, of Baltimore, is at
the bedside of his son, John Good
ing. OF Everett Street Sho is seri-
ously i'll.
Miss Matte Ellington has returned
home after a pleasant stay in CreWe'
Va
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12
Enters $1,000 Suit.

Page H. Moore has entered suit
against the Richmond. Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad for slo,-
600. No declaration has yet been hled.
He Ia represented by l. Q. Wendenburg
and Walter and y. III. Lecky
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12

rial Church for the purpose OF dis
cussing proposed improvements in the
community.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12
League to Nee

A meeting OF the Swanshoro School
and Civic League will be held Thurs
day night in the Weatherford Memo
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12
Elect Omc~rs.

The following officers have been
elected by the Select Council. Daugh-
ters of Liberty. for the ensuing year:
Councillor. Mrs. {. A. Raines: asso-
eiate councillor, Mrs, Maggie Jeter;
vice councillor, Benjamin Johnson;
associate vice councillor. Miss Zadell
Turner. recording secretary. ii, A. Gill;
associate recording secretary. Miss
Viola Starke; hpancial secretary. Miss
Bonnien Perkinson; treasurer. G. A,
Raines: guide. Mrs, S. A Williamson:
inside guard. w. r. Neblett. outside
guard. Mrs EnTrfTs Turner; trustee,
Mrs c. A. Raines and Miss Zadell Tur-
ner: delegates 70 State body, which
meets At Roanoke. Mrs. c. A. Raines,
alternate Mrs. Emma Turner,
The council is one of the strongest
organizations of Its kind in the state.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12
lnau.trI.l Chapter Meets.

An Interesting meeting of the In
dustria1 Chapter OF Meade Memorial
Church was held yesterday in the
home Of Mrs. ) q. Normally. f4e3 ref-
ter Street.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12
The Weather

For virginia--Rain Tuesday: We'd
nesday fair. fresh TO strong northerly
winds
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-12

In the State the differences between
wholesale and retail stores approach
minimum. Many merchants do both
Wholesale and retail business. he
said. and under the proposed law they
would be compelled To separate their
businesses and pay taxes or both.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
Products of the
Old Home Town

Do you remember the lazy fellow
Who used to sit around in the nipple.
ment store and the barber shops In
the old home town and predict the
allure OF every boy who tried 70
poke his nose above the common
herd? Up in the village OF Salem
hey used to crack lots OF jokes at
he expense OF a lank and ungainly.
looking young fellow who clerked In
he village grocery, poled fat boats
On the river and split rails for a liv.
ing. They called him Abe In those
days. He became the president o.
the United States and thousands
from far places on the earth have
visited his tomb at Springfield to
do him honor. they used TO make
fun Of Bill McAdoo back In the home
town. OF course. you've heard OF
Bill. He dug a tunnel under tho
Hudson river and is secretary Of the
treasury now. But there are a LOT
Of old tads back In the old home
town who sort OF hope that Bill viii
fall over something yet and land In
the consomme. And Orvllle Wright
was regular Joke in his old town
II is the old home town itself that
Is the joke.-Fsrm Machinery.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
CRIPPLES WORKING

Germany's prompt and continuing efforts TO
care for her war cripples are described in the
Medical Record by Douglas c. McMurtrie, editor
of the American Journal OF Care for Cripples
Mr.. McMurtrie says that the manner In which
the problem is being met is unquesuonably
sound"
Care Of the wounded was not difficult 20 or.
ganize adequate scale. The other part OF
the work was harder and q careful publicity
campaign was made throughout the country 70
rid people of the idea that a crippled man was
useless. Employers were urged for patriotic
reasons TO re-employ all crippled men possible
The government is setting the example by re
tanning cripples In the service Of the state own
ed railways.
II has been pointed out that the government
can go further and. In placing orders award
Ing contracts. insists that a proportion OF the
workers employed be war cripples.
The segregation OF cripples Ii discouraged.
own Jobs. Where the crippling has untitled a
man for the same task ne II trained for one az
near like II "a he can perform, the idea being 70
utilize the training he already has az far Ia
possible, Mr.. McMutrie cites several examples
young paper hanger who had lost a leg
showed artistic ability and is In a trade school
studying 10 be a decorative artist. His former
employer will re-engage him.
A baker whose left foot was crushed II being
Instructed In bookkeeping and commercial
arithmetic that he may enter the grain trade
and manage the bakery OF a dead relative
young farmer who lost one arm Is studying
agricultural science and learning to write with
HIS left hand. II has been arranged that he
shall look after the business end OF his brothers
farm.-New York Sun
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12

growing things which can DE serv-
ed raw at the table.
In using raw foods care should be
taken to see that they are properly
cleansed before being eaten.
Often the laborers In the truck
garden and those who handle the
garden stun before II reaches the
consumer are careless In the use
of dangerous fertilizers.
All vegetables and berries, even
at the risk OF slightly iniuring their
flavor, should be thoroughly washed
before being eaten.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
A Poem a Day

THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE,
Saint Augustine, well hast thou said
That OF our vices we can frame
A ladder, II we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed OF
All common things. each days event,
Thst with the hour begin and end
Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds BY which we may as
cend.
The low desire, the base design,
That makes another's virtues less;
The revel OF the rudy wine.
And all occasions OF excess;
The longing for ignobie things;
The strife for triumph more than
The hardening ardent of the heart that
irreysr.ncs for the dreams of
AL thoughts OF III: all evil deeds.
That have their root In thoughts
of III:
Whatever binders or impedes
The action OF the nobler will
All these must hrst be trampled
Beneath our feet. II we would gain.
In the bright fields of fair renown.
The right OF eminent domain
We have not wings. we can not soar
But We have feet To scale and climb
BY slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy submits OF our time.
The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedse-like cieave the desert
when nearer seen. and better known.
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
The distant mountains that uprcar
Their solid bastions TO the skies
Are crossed by pathways. that appear
As we to higher levels rise.
The nights by great men reached and
kept
Were not attained by sudden flight.
But they. while their companions
slept.
Were toiling upward In the night
Standing on what too long we bore
With shoulders bent and downcast
eyes:
We may discover--unseen before
A path 10 higher destinies
Nor deem the irrevocable past.
As wholly wasted. wholly vain:
II. rising DER its wrecks. at last.
To something nobler we attain.
III w. Longfellow.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
Pointed Paragraphs

Don't jeer; it's a game two can
play at.
Many man who Is well of is
well on in years.
II doesn't take a good locker Ions
TO find a husband.
Many woman without brains Is
able TO fool a male highbrow.
The man who is always celebrat.
ing isn't necessarily celebrated.
No candidate is as radical in OF
ice as he was during the campaign
People would rather listen to a
bank account than a hard-luck story
Anything that makes a noise like
meal ticket attracts a lot OF atten
ton.
Rather than make an effort 70
reach tfe top some men remain al
he bottom and help to pull others
Down.
II there was any romance con
nected with IL a girl would sew or
IeI own buttons instead OF letting
her mother do 1t.
A man who probably speaks from
% rsonal experience says that one OF
The most frigid things in life is a
Woman's cold shoulder.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12

LOOK at the first pcturehat OF taking high
ball from the saloons bar Standing picture
they there the
They this
his
little ahead a
he doesn't seem how rapidly the bartender HIS
Maybe his wife his mother watching
boy, he he
good spender record the saoonkeepe the
the other foolish youths
So happens that while
record he is also getting unconquersbie habit
Now the picture:
There doubt,
bright healthy. sober
2
Everybody including this
that he NOT he
socalled good spender he FOOLISH
spending
things that will spending
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
Using Up a Yard
OF Ticket
COUPON "a

The Grand Canyon is pit miles
long and Is miles wide. II 1t had Il
moving gallery like the Panama ca
nal exhibit at the P. r. l. exposi-
ton, one could see the whole thing
very comfortably for $3.50, at the
prevailing G. c. transportation
rates.
At Williams, where we get back
on the main line after leaving the
Grand Canyon, we are l0v miles
ircm the Moki Indian reservation
aud just about the same distance
from our Pullman reservation.
Having been transferred from
train No. 2 to train No. 4, four hours
slower. without our knowledge o.
consent.
During our brief stay In the Can.
yon, dining cars have been discov-
cred on the Santa Fe. and our prin-
cipal industry Is no longer getting
out for meals at the Harvey hotels.
Which makes US think Of that
small town where the leading occu.
patton is going home to dinner from
the movies.
Mr.. Harvey has also arranged IL
so you can keep on riding while
buying things from his suave curio-
dispensers.
A slight shower has fallen on the
desert. thereby relieving somewhat
the sultriness of looking at the
Navajo blankets.
After discovering the circulation
OF the blood, Harvey Immediately
got control OF the heart Of the
southwest.
Now and then a Hopi or Navajo
gets of the reservation and
launches an antitrust movement on
his own account by selling his wares
at the train. The government will
please turn out the guard.
The Painted Desert OF Arizona
does the exhibition at San Diego
full justice.
All the way across Arizona and
New Mexico you come across antici
pative slices OF Grand Canyon. dis
tributed like the trainboy's sample
lemon drops.
Having had extended experience
with subscription wood in our early
youth, we didn't sidetrip for the per.
tilted forests.
Bright young men who are hiding
their light under reportorial bush.
els on city dailies may be interest
ed In knowing that Oraibi, Shun.
gopavi, Shipaulovi. Mishongovi, VOL.
pi. Sichomovi and Tewa. all progress.
sive Hopi pueblas in Arizona. have
not even a weekly newspaper.
The Hopis have weird dances
which are really dramatised prayers
for rain. There IL a possibility that
they have been including Michigan
in their Flute and Snake dances
which are said to have great power
over the rain gods.
? Flagstaff hasn't any. but II boasts
the Lowell observatory upon a near.
by hill where II hopes to locate the
canals on Mars before T. r. claims
he built them.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
Empty Minds Breeds Vice
BY n. AppiNGToN BRUCE,
Author OF "The Riddle Of Personality
"Psychology and Parenthood," etc.

| II MAY be set down as a definitely establish
ed fact that an unoccupied mind is one OF the
| most dangerous things in existence
| Such a mind is dangerous both to its possess
| or and to the community in which its possessor
! lives.
One of two results Is likely 10 flow from
| vacuity of mind-NERvOUSNESS OR VICIOUS
NESS.
AS to the latter the comment of an able Amer
lean criminologist, Dr. William Healy. is much
to the point DR.. Healy, who is director OF the
psychopathic institute connected with the CHI
cago Juvenile Court, says In recent book, The
Individual Delinquent:
I'VE have been exceedingly impressed by
what We have learned concerning the paucity OF
mental interests of individuals who start GRIM
nalistic careers
These unfortunate individuals are generally
unaccostomed TO playing games that have in
teresting mental content, they rarely are found
to read the kind OF books which lead them into
constructive activities.
They have. almost universally. very slight
knowledge of the modern scientific interests,
such electricity which fairly possess the
minds OF more fortunate young people Such
normal activities as that OF collecting objects of
interest are rarely met with
As concrete instance, Doctor Healy, whose
book should be read by all sincerely interested
in the prevention OF vice and crime, goes on to
cite the case OF a DELINQUENT fifteen year old
boy
This lad, understood but of fair mentality. had
already committed several burglaries when ne
came under scientific observation
Careful examination revealed that. whatever
else might be said Of him, he did not belong 10
the so-called "born criminal" class. II was
found that he had been reared In an unfavor-
able environment and that HE HAD NEVER
BEEN TRAINED TO TAKE AN INTELLIGENT
INTEREST IN WORTH WHILE THINGS.
He read no books except sensational novels,
seldom opened a newspaper his interest In
historical. industrial and scientific matters was
absolutely nil.
In fine, his mind, In spite OF its natural
brightness, was virtually empty.
Under the belief that he might yet be saved
from life Of crime IL he were started thinking
to good purpose and given definite interests TO
occupy his thoughts, arrangements were made
for his removal from home. Interesting work
was found for him, and he was shown how to
apply himself to It efficiently.
This was several years ago. Today, wholly
as a result of having been given something that
kept his mind occupied he is a steady, respect
able young man.
or course, in some instances emptiness of
mind results from inherited brain defect. The
mind Is empty because there is no mind to be
filled
But such instances are comparatively rare,
As rule the mental vacuity. that breeds ner-
| vousness viciousness. come from PARENTAL
| NEGLECT during the first years OF life
II is much a parents duty TO feed his
chds mind to feed his body. Until all par.
ents appreciate their responsibility in this re-
gard the crime problem can never be satisfac-
torily solved.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
From Another Point of VieU
~ c. :. s.

81 have it direct from the Hon. j.
Pluve himself" confides CAD, that
those three days of sunshine were pure
" accidental. But BELIEVE ME- he
added most emphatically, you can rest
assured that I'll not let it happen again.
Our idea of zero in amusements: Bet
ting on when the war will end.
A harbormaster quit his job
To 20 back to the land;
He asked farmer on pillow
If he could use hand.
The farmer quickly took him up
And hitched his sorrel nag for him;
A harbormaster, he decreed,
Was just the man for him, indeed,
He hired him to drag for him.
Cleveland has blind lawyer. None Of
them, however, was ever able to see the
other fellows side of the case.
Crime records of late indicate that now
and then the passenger gets to the taxi
driver first
We overheard some race horse talk in
which we learned that Little Father is q
mudder.
When a dull day comes along we are
going to work this one in:
r
B
Just to stretch the point.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
Close Buying.

Close Buying.
Commend me 10 the average
woman shopper for real shrewd
ness" says the manager OF a we'll
known establishment I'VE received
a visit from one the other day that
taught us something.
She was considering the pur
chase OF yard OF silk at so cents
The woman's purchase left rem
nant OF yard and half, which
the salesgirl suggested that she
should take.
whatI 1t COST asked the
shopper.
Fifty cents
"T'll take it, was the prompt re
Spouse. and you may keep the yard
you've torn OF. Youths Com
panion.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
The Years Liquor Bill

TABS half the corn crop, add to it the
poetcn crop and the wheat crop in the
nited States and the total value is what
= 9psnt for liquor in the United States
- ~ year.
81 The yearly SALOON bill is $2,25O, 600, 900.
This much Is drunk up, and of it no
tongible value remains.
The same amount spent in public
buildings would make the country per-
lansntly beautiful; the same as to parks
e dtfes or the Improvement of slums.
HIT whsn this much is spent in liquor,
sMhils the temporary effect is supposed
+ - ~ the production of a physical ex-
! hniration which passes for happiness the
nm total Il larger measure of unhap-
plness expressed in terms of physical re-
6elion, bad health, damage to usefulness,
<N11ckage Of domestic relations and all
A<he weIl-mown wretchedness caused to
other people.
There is no economic defense for
liquor.
II II it Is to be defended at all it must
~ on the basis Of the value Of the tenn
poraxy exhiliratioh produced by alcohol
sand this defense would hold equally well
xDr the use Of cocaine, morphine, heroin
soe any other drug.
e the amount spent for liquor in a
'ypar in the United States were used for
fodtcatinS the rising generation, the re-
IN would b three times as much educa-
: TN - q now given.
AZ least We spend only one-third as
>>loeh for education in . year, namely
{; Qo0o, 900, - we do for liquor.
This carries some Of our children
eoxinaatsly 100000 Of them
zoegh ~ elsmentary schools; and an
s. - 1,S5tooo through the secondary,
"a SCHOOL,, public and private; while
119,0oo get into the colleges and
(ti>1tloR
- eouae q re nquor money
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
PRECEDENT.
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

Precedent is solidifed experience.
In the realm Of ideas it is canned
goods.
1t is very useful when fresh ideas are
not to be had.
There are advantages in doing things
Just because they always have been done.
You know what will happen. When you
do new things you do not know what will
happen.
Success implies not only sound reason
ing, but also the variable factor of how q
thing will work, which is found out only
by trying it.
Hence, the surest road to success il
to use mixture of precedent and initia-
tive. Just how much of each you will
require is matter for your judgment,
and for judgment there is no substitute.
To go entirely by precedent you be-
come mossback. You are safe, as a set
ting hen or hiving bee is safe. Each
succeeding generation acts the same way.
There is level of efficiency, but no
progress.
Boards, trustees, and institutions lay
great stress upon precedent, as they fear
responsibility. To do as our predeces-
sors did shifts the burden of blame bit
from the shoulders.
The precedent is the haven Of refuge
for them that fear to decide.
Courts of law follow precedent on the
general theory that experience is more
just than individual decision.
Precedent, however, tends to carry
forward the ignorance and injustice Of
the past.
Mankind is constantly learning, get
ting new views Of truth, seeing new
values in social justice. Precedent clogs
this advance. 1t fixes and perpetuates
rights of man.
Hence, while the many must trust to
precedent, few must always endeavor
to break it, to make way for juster con-
illusions.
Precedent is the root, Independent
thinking is the branch of the human
tree. Our decisions must conform to the
sum of human experience. yet there
must be also the fresh green leaf OF
present intelligence.
We cannot cut the root of the tree and
expect it to live, neither can we lop off
all the LEAKAGE Of the tree and expect it
to live.
The great jurist, such as Marshall, Is
one who not only knows what the law
is, but what the law ought to be. That
is, to his knowledge of precedent he
adds his vision of right under present
conditions.
Precedent is often the inertia Of
monstrous iniquity. War, for instance,
is due to the evil custom of nations who
go on in the habit of war-preparedness.
The problem of the twentieth century is
to batter down this precedent by the
blows of reason, to overturn it by an
upheaval of humanity.
Evil precedent also turks in social con-
ditions. in business and in all relations OF
human rights. The past constantly
operates to enslave the present.
We must correct the errors OF our
fathers, if we would enable our children
to correct ours.
Our reverence for the past must be
continually qualified by our reverence
for the future.
We are on our way to the Golden Age
The momentum of what has been must
be supplemented by the steam OF orig
inal conviction, and guided by the INTEL
ligence and courage of the present.
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The Detroit times., 1915-08-12


came some dots and dashes telling these
two stories:
From New York City-When false cry OF
fire was raised on board the steamer Grand ne
public panic started. Many women and chil.
dren were knocked down and injured In mad
rush by men 10 get life preservers and life BOATS
From Kansas City-ln making rush TO Cd
tain seats in a street car at the entrance 10
rairmont park several men knocked down a
woman and child. The two were severely In
jured,
Undoubtedly these men, at other
times, are perfectly sane and civilized.
They wouldn't harm a hair on little
child's head-if that child didn't stand
in their way to street car seat or life
preserver!
Civilization has done much for the ami
NAL that wears trousers and walks like a
man-but it has left enough of the brute
instincts in him to make him think of
self first nine times out of ten.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
lvoznan's Activity in Public
u All Right Now and Then

Il Is curious how significant" certain
\ aetiyities Of women become when these
ttvitiss agree with the policy of certain
groups Of people; whereas other forms of
1tivity, such As suffrage. delegations for
Toce, etc. are regarded as trivial and
Il NV because they are so at variance with
tke nttled ideas Of the same groups.
IA editorial in q Detroit paper consid-
- that women are 'waging up" because
1000 Of them have organized woman's
{ ction Of the Navy League of the United
Gta4es. while this same paper regards
~ endorsement Of suffrage by the Fed
sRoted Clubs Of the United States, num-
ine 1000, 900 women, as q matter of
sy slight moment.
Ihs striving Of the women of Amer
& for peace Is not thought to be an
4ort toward national security, as the
w hague II said to be "the first organ
I'D effort women have made"
Mo w are told that these women VINO
Rd Tor peaos and against military
|yparsdness q policy for our nation
~ ~ slandsr and ravesty on the
xlotiam q American womanhood and
r. insult to the intelligence of all
nsn.
~ quotation. we regret to say, is by
L ounan who win have to set Jane
6n1ns q the head Of the class of
\ h ~ describes.
Hszznors shs calls al disarmament
randa trsason.
o wurthy organ which devotes its
ial 3 this matter, scars into the
M @ cEatcry and calls it worthy of
\ - n.others md future mothers of
f progressive nation"
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
p1I|roRIAL PAGE

could be used to advantage in teaching
useful occupations to children in the ele-
mentary schools and sending larger
percentage of the growing generation to
the higher schools.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12

liant TO the appe-
title in mid-sum-
mer.
Eat largely OF
green stun, LEI
tuce, cucumbers
maSy varieties oi
berries and many
other tempting
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
Practical

she-Oh, Mr.. Mushiy. pray tell
me. do you think Bacon wrote
"Shakespeare"
He-what's the oddsf Amt the
copyright expired?
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
THE CHAMPION

After thinking over the matter carefully we
have reached the conclusion that the lightweight
champion OF the United States Is our family
grocer.--New Orleans States
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12

Some men would rather be abused
than accumulate . lot OF rcceipted
bills.
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
.sSS&7|zi32
The Keep Well Column
SUMMER DIET

A certain per cent of raw foods
in ones diet is an excellent stimu-
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12
The Brute in Man.

Over the wires to the telegraph editor
came some dots and dashes telling these
two stories:
The Detroit times., 1915-08-12

THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
saint Augustinsl well hast thou said
That OF our vices we can frame
a ladder, II we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed OF