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San Aristocrntic College.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-AmonC the mass OF misuntlcr-
standing and INSTRUMENTATION scattered
30 freely through the speeches OF the
opponents Of the co-ordiuatc college,
hardly anything was farther out OF the
way than their statement :hat the col
legc, If founded. would be solely for
rich and fashionable girls. Nothing Is
more certain and easier to ascertain
than the fact that rich and fashion
able girls" do not go to coordinate
colleges. This is true Of Radcliffe. of
barnard and OF the others. The daugh-
terS of parents who have inherited;
wealth and social standing go to
wellesley. NaSsar, etc, to he with their
friends. The daughters of the newly
rich are sent to the same places in
hope that they may get into society.
1t is not true, OF course. that studious
and talented girls OF other classes do
not go TO these splendid institutions just
as they go to the coordinate colleges.
But 1t Is true that the rich girl does
not go to tho last named class OF coll
leEe. The vast majority OF tho girls at
coordinate colleges arc the very 'av-
crage girls" concerning whom DR..
Cannon is so anxious. The coordinate
college girl Is. as a rule, from the pub
lie schools. She Is not Snob with
n big 81, but goes to college because
she has intellect and ambition and Is
willing to live plainly and work hard.
She gets the Same opportunity as tho
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Enough school. for Nynncn.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-l want our legislators TO know
that out this w:ty We take no stock in
the proposed female college at the uni
vcrsitv. Not only Is IL not needed,
but II would prove Il positive injury
20 the university. Not one young WON
AN in - hundred desires or needs any
more education than She can secure at
one Of the existing four colleges for
women in this State. They have the
same number Of colleges as the men
have, and IL they must have anything
more let 1t be Introduced at one OF
these colleges and not At the univcr-
sity. The whole scheme Is simply one
OF the fads of tho petticoat lobby that
has been exploiting itself about legiS-
lative halls for a few years. past II
the voters and taxpayers who have to
foot the bills could get shot at this
proposition II would 20 down TO the
defeat II deserves. And woe be TO the
statesman by whose vote such a Job
is put over SOUTHWEST
Elk Creek, Va. January IS
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Fail to Encourage Ambition.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir-Apropos all this talk of pre-
parcdncss, why should the United States
now advocate the same principle 1t
condemned and ridicuicd at the begin
ming Of the European war? ii militnr-
ism is condemned. why not also con-
denim large navy, and If a large navy
is condemned, why not also militarism ?
, Both, since the world has known sin
have been looked upon as an old idea
of national defense, but can any one
say, where either has ever existed. there
has not been war? One thing is def
mite, where either is in existence war
Will never be conquered. 1t is true. to
avoid war, there must DO a prepared
ness. but why use the very instru-
ments of war?
War will never he conquered until
these Very instruments of war become
useless. meaning death TO those only
handling them. This is the prepared
ness scientifically the United States
ought not 10 hesitate to advocate: en-
couraging il To the EXTREMIST instead
Of wasting millions upon millions Of
dollars by adhcring to the old prin-
ciplc, which has never invited anything
but war, while another thing, even if
war Is delayed, this years prepared
ness becomes obsolete next year. Has
il not proven so?
government to-day is its failure to
take advantage OF its many intcllcc-
tual young mems service, who not only
possess the exact productive faculties
To conquer everything they undertake.
but are willing TO serve the govern
nent TO their fullest capacity, but can
not, nor shall not try, due TO the gov
crnnent's many unnecessary require
mcn;s or rcd tape
| know "A Young man pJr irllarlN
twenty-five years Of age. whom have
known from his childhood, and who
comes from the very best Of Nirginian
parentaSc. and whom I have seen and
! known of his many undertakings with
out the slightest previous knowledge
OF their working functions. and from
results I feel deeply justified in say
ing he is not only Il mechanical viva rd.
but Il natural inventive genius. and
one who is highly intellectually quail
I fed with ii. And il is this same young
man who has often reiterated and
shown me his numerous vain attempts
i'll offering his service to the govern
nent In an endcavor to not only OBJ
tain an opportunity to improve the
present accessories to defense but to
produce others: and it is also this same
young man who convinced me that war
will never cease until the present in
struments of war mean death to only
those whose hAnds they are in.
VIII the United states government
continue to permit this intellectual
class of young blood to remain una ided
allowing them to become preiudiced
against their own country? Cannot one
country rule the world with this know
ledge? Does the government realize
that many a young man has left home"
simply because the people at home"
failed to support or encourage his am
bition? Who is to blame for it?
w. w. FORD.
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Union. place in their parade in Mon
tana Tor fear of offending the brewers.
North Dakota. Il prohibition State for
twenty-five years, defeated woman sur
!rage. Chicago, where women vote,
mas over 1000 saloons which remain
open all day Sunday in defiance of Il
state law to the contrary.
Immediately after the election in Chi
caSo, where women voted. an ordinance
was passed permitting dance halls and
clubs. frcqucnted by adolescent boys
ana girls. to sell liquor for two hours
after the saloons were required to close
Such accusations as were put forth by
y Richmond SuffrHri3t' arc but the
cDullitions of peevishn ISIS and augur
poorly for a voting future for women
FLORENCE GOFF SCHWARZ
Cincinnati. o., January 81.
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I,nt nounty on Hawks.

To the Editor or The Times Dispatch:
Sir.--I will thank you for q small
space in your valuable paper to call
the attention OF the General Assembly
to our present game law.
We have plenty of birds, rabbits and
turkeys-more than we have had for
some years.
Now. the first thing we ought to see
10 is how to protect them. We have
MIR. Pot Hunter" to contend with {:
hut is he tho greatest enemy we have
to our game
Let me answer this question for you
by quoting what Mr.. Polk MIL ~ said
years ago: THAT the hawks. foxes and
rninks that hunt 365 days in the GEAR
do more farm than all of the hunters
combined
Now, If the Legislature will pass n
law Ia cut bounty on hawks. this. in
my jud t,ment, would do moro good than
a game warden w. c. BONVLES.
Tabsc0tt Va, January &c.
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Ink All IIIrntcrv

10 the Editor OF The Times Dlsn,tch.
Sir.-I noticed In your paper a niece
written by Mr.. Duval Porter. OF cas-
cade, Va, on protecting our game and
fish.
would like TO state my position
on the protective laws First. I would
can attention to the fact that our
present game laws are as porfec, ns
our landowners and taxpayers desire
ana ample enough to protect ana DEM
ocratic enough to allow each county
TO open and close the hunting season
as tho needs demand am a taxpavcr
ana hunter. and reverence our laws.
ana ask that YOU use your valuahlo
paper in moldinE public sentiment to
respect our laws and urge upon our
lawmakers the folly of enactinG meas
urcs that will not be respected by tho
masses OF our people.
As justice Of the peace. I find al
ready too many laws in our statute
hooks and amendments. The people
d not learn law before It Is amended
o. repealed. If the state wants to do
anything to Increase our game. tax
every hunter and spend tho money
raising game B. w. DODSON.
Bachelors Hall. Va, January %.
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Chnncc to Get WORLDS Goa, rrnde.


To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir-This war has created an i'm
mcnse opportunity for Virginia. and [
ma Virginia is not ready TO intelli-
gently take advantage of it.
The big war possibility. as see it,
is the chance to grab the worlds coal
trade permanently with the coal Of
West Virginia. Kentucky and Virginia
At first glance you would think Vir-
"tna would not be Interested in West
virginia and Kentucky coal develop
ment Let us look at this thing intel
H$,ntiy. The royalty at the mines is
only 10 cents n ton, while the haulirl,
OF 1t from one end OF Virginia to the
other is over 81, and 80 per cent of this
Is wages.
want to ask you to glance over tho
great railroad systems of Virginia, the
carolina. clnchtield and Ohio, the
southern. the Norfolk and Western and
me Nirginian Railroad, and Consider
me immense industry and investment
mat IS concerned in the handlin. OF
coal from other States
10 get anything like the co-onera
ron mat is necessary. we must raise
N'%"o'"oG for publicity. and make It n
national campaign. Each state Ken
lucky West Virginia and Virginia
must be induced to lend co-operatiou
ana II must be done in a hurry These
are war times. The worlds coal trade
Is ours II we Will act promptly. This
country has the money. but II is being.
put INTO temporary and dangerous in
VcStmcnt. w n, SoI .,,.,.
big stone Cap Va, January 2s.
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Richmond. January &c.


To the Editor of The Times DISPATCH:
Sir,-The writer is a reader of The
Times Dispatch, and wishes to COM
mend tho paper for the stand taken
in regard to advertisements Of whis-
ky and beer in the press OF the State:
also for the evident desire of this pa :
per to aid in the enforcement of the
prohibition laws. All riGht-thinlkinc
people will uphold The Times Dispatch
In this course. This is different from
the experience these laws have had
in other States. There the interests
have done all in their power to prevent
the enforcement OF the laws and then
placed the failure. for which they
themselves were. responsible on tho
laws. And so it Is the part of wisdom
for the Legislature to give tho law
every opportunity to vindicate the wis
dom of the people I'm establishing it,
even If II is necessary to have n de-
partment for this special service II
the men who are responsible for the
laws. think that commissioner i is
necessary for the best results, they
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Conscrve States VIVA liz

To the Editor of The TimesDisnotch.
would like to urge the pas
sage OF such laws as best to protect
the game of this state know fron,
personal knowledge that if som,.i, 'u',.
radical is not done promptlv thar -
VIII DC too late. If this pernicious
slaughter is allowed to continue much
longer we will not have enough left
ior seed purposes.
we arc urged to do everything nos
sibie t" make. country life ,ttrnciiv.
inc sport of hunting is a great AT
traction. and should be more so Large
areas of Virginia land are grown nm
IN brush aud small timber, and are in
incal condition for game. II the game
could be protected from tho irrcsponsi-
ni. class and not hunters. the game
would soon multiply and would bo n
source of revenue to the landowner
and the State. 1t is an outrage that
people owning no land and not living
summer should come in the fall and
hunt all the winter without permits
sion. They go IN great gangs and
clean up everything In their wake.
The Farmers Union has before the
Legislature very good bill, which
land. and should have the say about
the game law. think that the bill
Is fair and reasonable to tho sports
men. and they should cooperate in
every way they can to aid in the pas
sage OF the bill. We urge ali parties
Interested to write or sec their repre-
sentative to push this measure. There
should not he any interest that could
sidetracl the wish Of the landowners
Offer bounty for the destruction
OF all enemies of game; stop worth
less ours from roaming the fields and
breaking up nests of eggs and young;
do not allow any hunting until the
season opens. If they are allowed to
hunt squirrels and rabbits they will
kill other game.
September is too early to hunt deer
I'm this section, and December 1 is too
soon to close.
Appoint II game commissioner with
authority to have the law enforced.
The Farmers Union Is behind this bill.
and it should have the support OF all
Interested in this movement.
G. Il. SANDERSON.
Cunh rlaul Va. IAnmnrY &c.
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MANY SUBJECTS
ARE UNDER DEBATE
fertinent Affairs Are Taken Up
From Variety of
Angles.
OPINION IS MUCH DIVIDED
Coordinate College. Prohibition,
Suffrage and Other Cues
tons Considered.
OPINION is MUCH DIVIDED
dive Governor tic rn,cr.

TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sill have noted with much regret
thc inclination on the part OF the Anti
saloon League to want TO superscde the
governor and tame over the enforce
ment OF the prohibition law wan.
TO enter my protest. am n prohi-
bitionist OF the most pronounced va
rlet%. have worked and voted for
inc cause for twcuty-ninc years.
moved to Richmond Ia 1908. and
PAID back taxes in order to qualify to
vote on prohibition. Sow we have II,
and want TO keep IT,
n good way 10 kin a law is to ro,
people disguised with its enforcement
The enforcement OF this particular Law
should be characterized By good sense
rather than severity
hciieTo our Governor is thoroughly
competent TO enforce ali our laws. and
trust the Legislature will comply.
hands
don't sec any reason for doubling
his integrity
II would be a calamity. think. TO
nave special Office created for tho
enforcement OF special laws This
"ouia Iead on 10 ridiculous conditions.
Give the Governor a free handle.
US nave reasonable enforcement OF
inc law and cultivate "a respect for it.
ana AS people become adjusted to The
ne" ana better conditions wc can make
'"tlro"e'n"nts--to the end OF havini,
real prohibition in Virginia
Know VIC cannot have Edcnic con
ditions In tho beginning Let US 70
SLOW about upscttiug the established
order of things. Public scu,j,nor, dc-
mands prohibition. but public seu,t-
iHent might change. So / pray Tn.
brethren may be reasonable
IRA J. HAYNES
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To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch
Sir.--In to-day's paper your editorial
headed British Labor in Line" con
cludcs with: with such spirit in
Great Britain, the war can have but
one result" Obviously, this result III
Your mind as we'll as in the minds of
other dcImdcd supporters of the allies
in this country. means victory for the
allies. The editorial referred To rur-
ports to show the awakening OF pa
triotism in England through the aIr
proval which the Labor party has Civ
on to the government in it's recruiting
campaign.
IF it were so that the amount of pa
triotism shown by the natives or any
one country was an indication rs to
it's ability to win in q war in which 1t
happened to he engaged. then ask
yourself tho question: Is Germany or
England the more likely to prove VIC
tor in this war
If there were such a thing as n shirt
of sacrifice and patriotism in England
and all tho world knows there is
not--thcn there might he some slight
hope for her: hut as il is. England is
going to &c, what has been coming
to her for several centuries.
KAISER.
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Richmond. January IS.


To the Editor OF The TimeS-DiSpatch:
Sir,-Tt is all very we'll for YOU to
view equal suffrage or any other pucs-
ton of modern interest. from the top
of YOUR editorial column. where YOU sit
like st. Simon Stylitcs far away from
its issues. but on the level, do YOU THINK
that women want suffrage merely 10
lcgislatc against those laws that mill
tate against themselves solely: Don't
YOU honestly think that if women had
municipal suffrage we would have a
better system of cleaning streets ana
collecting garbage in this city That
the inspection OF the markets, tho food.
and the enforcement Of the weights and
measures law would be a little more
satisfactory to the general public? DO
Won think women would have accepted
Il police commission board, Such as the
one which has just been put out of
commission 10y unusual efforts OF city
sick OF trench politics? DO YOU think
there would not he a better housing
system in this city that there would
not he policcwomcn 10 look after the
children and the young girls who flock
to the movies and into other dangerous
places of amusement? DO YOU think
women would scliishlT enact the few
laws that Immediately concern her?
] don't believe YOU think so badly of
women in the aggregate as that, so why
should YOU allow our legislators and
Senators to pass bills to change the
name of ponotong Creek 10 the Pana-
tong River, to put naughty boarding.
house keepers in Jail who use oleo-
margarine to keep the unwary fisher
men from extracting fish from the Elue
Ridge streams, 10 amend hundreds OF
codes each week without one word
from Your editorial column rs TO the
triviality OF all these doings of che
brains OF our state" and vet attack
tho suffrage amendment which we are
trying TO bring to the attention of the
Legislature because you think it's mo
use" for us to advertise suffrage any
more?
do you think you arc quito fair to
tho women OF Virginia who want suf-
frage. even if they are In the minority?
READER.
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To Tho Editor OF Tho Times. Disnatr,.
SIT am for the co-ordinatc col
Tag" for women because | do not be-
l!cve In tho right OF father 20 send John
10 college just because he is a boy and
- Keep Mary ut home Just becaus,.
She Is q girl.
That Is what "" have been doing as
q state. We may deny it, we may try
I" '::"lain II away. hut wc canno, make
awning OILS" our or IT,
h'td va hrvc been doing ii lu.t rs
inihcr urei to do tho; because VIC
hHd The ,icht to do II, bu: b.e1us.
"" mad tn" Nigh, 10 do 1t.
am not a sunragist' nevertheless.
! bsileF" Lat in tho purpose of ,;oI
and IN tho constitution OF nature, men
and women stand on exactly the SANE,
level
This does not mean that they sand
in the sam" place. or that thu. are
controvertible terms. Nor does It
cc'sSarily mean that they should have
tho same things. do the same work.
exercise tn" same pr"rogativcs or share
the same responsibilities
hut u does mean that u woman is
as much "a member of the human race
ms a man. that sh" has just as much
right 10 live NE In its fullncss as a
man; that she has AS much right to all
the good that comes TO the race, as a
man. and that the might OF men gives
them no more right TO deprive women
OF their share of the good that comes
10 the race because they are women
,han the charm OF woman gives them
the right to deprive men Of their share
OF tho good that comes TO the race
because they are men.
Believing as do. the moment ] re-
ccivc satisfactory evidence that suf-
fragc is q good thing FOR adult mem
bcrS of the race, regardless OF sex, |
shall hc in honor bound To favor the
extension Of suffrage to women No
other course viii he open. ] have not
Yet received such evidence. and am
therefore, vet free 10 choose BIt |
have received satisfactory evidence
that the higher education is good Tor.
the race regardless OF sex. and, there
fore. believing as | do. am no; free
10 choose: if stand for the higher
, education OF men, / ann in honor bound
L. stand for the higher education of
women.
l, is simply a matter of common
honesty
Cloud the issue rs we may By ques-
tions of cNpcdicncy. We cannot get
around the fact that the state has
been sending John to college because
he was a boy and has been Keeping
Mary at home because she was 4 girl.
We carnot get around the fact that
We have been doing this, not because
we had the right to do it. but because
We had the might to do il.
And we cannot get around the fact
that we have no more right to provide
a university for our men and deny our
women than we have to provide a uni
vcrsity for our women and deny our
men.
If women are really members of tho
human race in good standing, and ii
they want their share OF the good that
is coming to the race, and If we be-
licve that the higher education is good
for the race regardless OF sex. then
the fact that we hold the purse strings
does not justify us in denying them
their share: we are in honor bound to
omen the door of higher education to
our women, or else shut the door which
we have opened to men.
EDWARD LEIGH PEII.
Dichmopl January %
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should havo him: otherwise thcy do
not get what they ask. and might say
theE were being hampcred in the on
forccment of the law, y large minded
man like the Governor OF the comnon
wealth, the writer is surc. will take
.ne same view and welcome such n
mug II IL VIII further the consum-
nation.
EMMETT w. McCORKI.E y n
RockbridSc Baths. Va Ioru,rv -
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Young men of tn" State, and when she
graduates receives the same degree. 1t
seems to me that we have no more busi-
ness I" ask what she is going to do
with the talents the state has enabled
h"r to cultivate than we have to ask
the same question of the man in tho
university. w
lsiChmnnd, JanuarV IS
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JOHN THOMPSON BROWN.
Evington, Va, January %.
protectron for lvife.s Chirdrcn.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir,--Will not some member OF the
Legislature who may chance to SEQ.
this frame such n bill As to eliminate
from the statutes the iniquity liable to
bcfall innocent children by reason
of the second exception 10 section 1851
OF tho Code OF Virginia In relation to
the distribution OF personal estate?
That second exception provides that
Continued on Fourth Pa9Al
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Richmond, January 81.
Conserve Virginia oyster Fields

COnscrvc VIrEinin Oyster Fields.
TO tho Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.--I have read with interest the
newspaper reports OF tho different con-
tentions anent the pending oyster
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rut Girl. and hoy. ON Same p,,,.

Richmond. January 20.
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Continued on Fourth Pagal
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-21
AMERICANS ASK
FOR PROTECTION
Petition is Sent to Wilson by Chi
huahua Residents.

Ell Paso, Tex, Nov. 21.-Americar
residents of chihuahua who are refu-
gees in Ell Paso signed a petition yes.
terday directed to President Wilson
asking him to send troops to protect
American properties in Mexico.
General Trevino remained in Chi
huahua City instead of leaving for
the field, as announced, because of
orders from Carranza, according to
three members of Chihuahua's for
eign colony who arrived at the bor-
der last night.
Mrs. Scobell, wife of the British
consul at Chihuahua, came on the
same train, but explained that her
trip had no other significance than
a visit of few weeks with her
daughter, who lives in Ell Paso.
Passengers said report had been
received that government troops had
defeated bandit force at Ortiz, be-
low Chihuhua.