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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25
SPEAK FOR RALEIGH
itlchmond Men mt Farm Lonn Hoard
Meeting In North Carolina
City.
Especial to The Tlmes-Disputch.l

Especial to The Times Dispatch.l
RALEIGH. y. c.. October 24.--Cole-
man Wortham and Richmond III. Smith.
or Richmond, were speakers to-day
before the Federal Farm Loan Board at
It's hearing here. They presented the
claims of Raleigh as the location OF
one of the banks. The Richmond dele
cation consisted OF eight.
Charlotte, Durham and Greensboro
were urged by speakers from various
sections Of the State as best locations
for tho bank. The board goes to Co.
lumbin. >. c.. tomorrow.
y. l.. Brooks. of Greensboro. AS prcsi-
dent of the North Carolina Bar Assoc
citation, in u statement to tho Fed
cral Farm Loan Board this evening,
resented reflections that had been
made GA lawyers of the State by some
speakers earlier in the day as to fees
that attorneys generally charge for
procuring loans and looking up titles
to land involved. lie said investi.a-
ton shows that the average fees for
such service by North Carolina LAWYERS
are generally lower than those charged
for like service in L number of neigh
boring states.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25
SOLDIERS MAY DECIDE
Their Vote Likely To Swing Cnngrcx.
siOnai Elections In
Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG. PA. October "a
Seventeen commissioners appointed by
Governor Brumbaueh to take the vote
OF the 10000 Pennsylvania national
cuardSmen on the Mexican border on
November Z. took the oath of Office to-
day and prepared to leave for Texas.
one commissioner is assigned to each
al the seventeen commands in the field.
The vot" Will be taken under laws
enacted prior to the presidential cleo
ii"n Of 1864. when tens of ,housand.:
OF Pennsylvania soldiers were in the
field.
No provision has been made for
wiring the returns from the border.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25

Richmond was represented yesterday
at the Farm Loan Board hearing in Ra.
leigh by Il delegation Of eight \ com
mittcc consisting of Richmond IL
smith. president of the Planters Ma
tional Bank: John NJ. Miller. Jr, presi.
deaf of the First National Bank: Ju-
lien H. hin. cashier OF the National
state and City Bank: Coleman Wor.
than. president Of the Chamber Of Com.
n'ercc; w. II. Dabney, business manager
IL tho Chamber Of Commerce: Herbcr,
w Jackson, president of the Virginia
Trust Company: Henry T.. Litchford
icc-prcsidcnt of the old Dominion
Trust company. aud w. II. Adams. pre-
iGcnt Of the Board of Aldermen. accom-.
panied the board from this city OF
Monday night. The Chamber of Com
merce and Richmond Clearing House
Association have both Endorsed Raleigh
as the location for one of the banks
although Petersburg and Norfolk are
strong contendcrs.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25

and official results will not be known
until the returns arc received by mail
or brought home by commissioners
Contests i'm several congressional dis
tricts arc expected to be close, and tho
exact standing of Pennsylvania dele
cation In Congress may not be definite
~ known until after the soldier vote
is received
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25
C0NvENES AT SALISBURY
Two Hundred Attend Opening Scs,,o,
or Presbyterian synod of
North Cnrntt,,n

u.
SALISBURY. y. T.. October 81
WIN about 200 clerical and lay dele
s 60" present from all parts Of tho
state. the Presbyterian SYNOD NJ N,r,L
carolina convened in Salisbury to-day.
rev. Walter Il. l.nglc, u. d.. OF Rich.
i'lohu' retiring moderator preached the
opening sermon and presided IF tho
"IHt session Al noon there was an
en.oIlmeht OF delegates. md after
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25
Very sincerely yours.
x II. CAItIJM ELL
GOVERNOR STUART
ISSUES STtJENr>T

Governor stuart carly in tho anv
issued The following statement.
After more ,hnn 4 score If years Of
distinguished service. Judge Tichard
u. Cardwell has this morning rendered
90 mo his rcsis nation az Il member OF
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25
JUDGE PRENrfS HAS
HAD NOTABLE: CAREEI,

ROBERT II. PRENTIS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22

exact opposite is true. it has been
estimated that women do rs per cent.
of all the retail buying in this coun-
try. And they are undoubtedly bet
ter shoppers than men.
In the first place, they give a great
deal more time to the matter, whether
they have it or not. They undoubted-
ly get a great deal of pleasure out
of merely looking at goods, and are
pretty certain to scan all the poss-
bilities before making purchase.
The woman who is said to have asked
to see some two cent stamps is scarce
ly an exaggerated case, for women
nearly always ask to see rather than
to buy. Thus they become highly
critical and experienced shoppers, al
ways making comparisons of price
and quality, pretty well able to take
care of themselves.
But they also require a tremendous
force of salespeople to watch them
while they paw over bargain coun-
ters, and to answer their steady flow
of questions. In q haberdaSher's, one
man can sell more goods in a day
than six girls in a department store
patronized chiefly by women.
The conditions inside the retail
store have undoubtedly been i'm
proved by women. They insist upon
cleanliness, light and ventilation.
Goods must be attractively displayed
to please them, and they must re-
ceive solicitous personal attention.
so pleasing the women is the re-
tailer's first problem, but what pleases
the women in one part of the country
does not even interest them in an
other Probably no country in the
world has such a complicated retail
problem as the United States. Each
section of the country has Its own
tastes and prejudices. and these are
Cf a m l.
grafton. The retailer must at once
cater to these whims of sections,
nationality and custom, and must use
his power through advertising and
suggestion to modify them.
If you opened grocery store in a
community where many of the peo-
pie were French, for example, it
would be useless to put in an exten-
sive line of breakfast foods. The
French do not eat them in their own
country, and they seldom learn how
over here. If the people you cater to
are mostly German, you can sell them
a great many sour foods, but if they
are English the dill pickles and sauer-
kraut will be drug on the market,
while sweet cakes and tea will be-
come staples.
These demands according to ma
tionality are comparatively easy to
discover and supply, but there are
many which are not so obvious or so
easily explained. For example, in
some sections nearly all people buy
carpets for their floors, while in the
others they nearly all use rugs. In
some parts of the country you can
sell nothing but black tea, and in
others nothing but green. Some whole
cities wear extreme styles of clothing,
while in others conservative styles
prevail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. %
Patience is the most necessary thing
in this tc0rId.-CoNFUCIUs.
SAFETY ON RAILROADS

NNE must admire the spirit OF rail-
~ road managers who through all
of the Encouragement of the
past few years have maintained
steadily their campaign of safety
first" 1t is easy to prosecute move
ments for the betterment of conditions
in general when business is good and
profits are big. 1t is not difficult to
spend money along such lines from
surplus funds, but it is difficult TO
withstand the clamorings of stock
holders who are more interested in
dividends than in welfare enterprises,
and to continue to pour out thousands
upon thousands of dollars in non
productive channels when revenues
are on the decline and the outlook is
uncertain.
The figures for 1915, compiled by
the Railway Age Gazette, are impress
Sive. AS a result of the combined ef-
feet of the safety first movement. of
Improvements in facilities of various
kinds and of the slump in railway
traffic caused by the business depres-
sion, the accident record of the rail-
ways of the United States for 1915 is
in most respects the best ever re-
ported, even when allowance is made
Tor the reduced chances for accident
resulting from the decrease in traffic.
1t is necessary to go back several
years. to time when railway mileage
and traffic and the number of en-
ployes were all very much less than
in 1915, to find accident figures as
small as those reported for the year.
Excluding trespassers, the total
number of fatalities in connection with
railway operation was only 3,537, or
less than for any year since 1900, and
% per cent. less than in 1914, while
the number of passengers carried one
mile in 1915 was approximately LOG
per cent. greater and the number of
tons of freight hauled me mile was
about 80 per cent. greater than in
1900.
The total number of persons killed
in 1915, the Railway Age Gazette
shows, was less than for any other
year since 1902, and the number in
jured was less than for any other
year since 1911. The total number
of passengers killed, 222, out of ap-
. proximately one billion carried, was
less than for any other year since
1898, when only 79S, 100000 were car
ried; and the number injured was less
than for any other year since 1906.
The total number of employees killed
was less than for any other year since
1898, when there were only about half
as many employees as in 1915, and the.
number injured was less than for any
other year since 1911. The total num-
ber of other persons killed, most of
whom were trespassers, was less than
for any year since 1910, but the num-
Der injured was greater than for any
other year except 1914 and 1913.
With Legislatures and Congress
hammerlng at them, with business on
the down grade and no relief in sight
the railroads kept right on with their
safety campaign, and it is pleasing
TO note that they are now beginning
TO reap their reward.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
OUR FOOD SUPPLY
NTHY all this boasting of our
wv growing exports of food pro-

MTHY all this boasting of our
wv growing exports of food pro-
ducts? The figures sound well,
but they do not have the ring of true
prosperity, for nearly every pound Of
provisions sent abroad has its effect
on prices to the consumer in this
country.
The remarkable advance in the ex-
portation of food in the last two years
can be attributed entirely to the war
and its influence. 1t is, therefore, but
temporary condition, and when the
war is over it is certain that there will
be slump especially in breadstuffs.
A return to normal conditions
should be welcomed rather than de-
plored, for food production in the
United States for some years has been
turning from a resource to a prob
lem. Increasing population has
brought about a home consumption
that is not only overtaking home pro-
duction and reducing the normal ex-
port surplus, but one that was, before
the outbreak of the war. beginning to
draw upon foreign countries for GER
tain of its requirements. Nearly two
years ago James J. Hill, in an address
before the National Export Trade
Convention in Washington, called the
attention of the country to the decline
in the position of the United States as
producer of foodstuffs, particularly
of breadsuffs, and warned that the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
WHERE YOU BUY
The Retailer and His Problem
By Frederic ]. Haskin

lust at present retailers are doing
heavy business in absolute neces-
- sites, such as shoes, clothing,
staple foods and household supplies in
general. For absolute luXuries, such
as jewelry, there was little demand
for some months, until the Christmas
shopping began.
The reason for this state of affairs
is that people are now beginning to
replace the Supplies of necessities
which were exhausted during the re-
cent period of financial stress. They
have not, however, reached the point
where they can afford to spend any
considerable amounts upon things
they do not need.
The experience of the shoe industry
is a typical example of the effect of
financial stress upon the demand for
the necessities of life. For a long
time after the European War broke
out the shoe business was very hard
hit-all except Guiseppi, the shoe
maker, who did rushing business in
half-soles and taps and patches.
Everyone had his shoes mended in
stead of buying new pair. The re-
taller of shoes had to bide his time
and was fortunate if he carried rub
ber heels and did repairing as side
line. Soon, however, shoes began to
wear out and prosperity to return,
and now the shoe dealer is doing a
rushing business.
This is an example of the compli-
Gated problems in supply and demand
which are faced by the retailer, one
of the most important factors in mod
ern life and one that is growing four
times as fast as the population.
The man who buys and sells has
never been considered nearly as inn
portant as the man who produces, so
while farming and manufacturing
have been studied scientifically the
equally important science of retail
ing has been allowed to grow up as
it might. Economists and legislators
are just beginning to realize its i'm
portance. Books are being written on
the subject, State laws are being pass
ed and Congress has taken under
consideration the matter of fixed
prices for trade-marked goods.
According to the census of 1910
there are over a million retail deal
ers in the United States. Figures
compiled in various States show that
these are increasing at least four
times as fast as the population. The
chain store, the department store and
the mail order house have attained
tremendous growth and power. The
effect of these new factors in Amer
ican life and the whole subject of the
relation between retailer and GUS
toner have been studied only in the
most fragmentary manner. We are
trying here to show what the problem
is rather than how to remedy it.
Such as the American retail store
is, the American woman has made 1t,
and undoubtedly on the whole she
has been a very salutary influence.
Fifty years ago, women were so COM
pletely occupied by their duties at
home that men almost invariably did
the buying for the family. Now the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
THE ENGLISH SITUATION
LFrom the Boston Globe.


I'VE do not trust the trade union
leaders," shouted Lloyd Georges Christ
mas audience In Glasgow. Whom do
you trust?" he asked. The answer was
swift. Several voices gave it, mo
body"
Toward this climax the British labor
situation has been working. For gem
erations the British workingman has
had disappointment after disappoint-
ment work the lesson of mo truth" into
his deliberate but tenacious brain, He
has seen reformers start reforming in
his interest and then turn off to other
interests, was the case with Annie
Besant. He has seen labor men rise
high in the Commons and become inter-
ested in getting rich. He has seen the
Government forced into a corner by the
pressure of better conditions and then
wiggle out, having granted only a small
fraction of what was needed
Recently twenty-siX shlpwrights at
Govan were fined $50 each for striking
and We're not permitted to employ coun-
sci to defend themselves. Some of them
asserted they had been worked 1874
hours a week.
Perhaps IL is "too late as Lloyd
George has suggested. If so, England
has. lost at the front. because she never
took pains to win at the rear Eng
land has been preparing to lose at
the rear even longer than Germany has
been organizing for conquest In Eng
land. or elsewhere, preparedness
which does not include the men in the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
WELCOMING WILSON
LFrom the kansas Clty star.l

FROM the hdnSdS CllS ctdi'I
When President Wilson comes to
Kansas City to present his prepared
ness program to the people of the West
he will find a genuine welcome, and
something else. He viii find that there
ness as the President and the people of
the East have been led to believe ex-
lists
The people of Missouri and Kansas
are Americans. and they, VIII not OPP
pose any program that Is big enough
to meet every need of American inter-
ests.
There are many. of course. who now
object to this program Some for po-
ltical reasons. some because they, de-
sire to oppose everything the admins
tration favors, but the majority because
they do not comprehend the purpose OF
made r'oi in to them that America Is not
prepared to protect her own interests in
view of the present world crisis, the
opposition viii crumble.
The red blooded Americans of the
West do not believe the United states
should he q rag doll among the nations
of the world. They are not that kind
OF Americans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

To the supersensitive, an editorial on
the subject of "retching'' might be
somewhat distasteful. But. of course,
it would all depend on the spirit
which, moved the editorial. The
Reading Herald yesterday devoted
half column to explaining that it
was perfectly all right to print a
story about young school girl who
was accused of having FETCHED" upon
a boy in the same school. To make
q long story short, the word as used
in Pennsylvania Dutchland means
nothing more nor less than "tattle, or
tell tales"
We extend our heartfelt sympathies
to the. poor unfortunate undergrads of
Washington and Jefferson College,
who by reason of the illness from
scarlet fever of two students have
been compelled to go home until Feb
ruray Z. AS we recall, an enforced va
cation of that sort was usually OBJ
noxious to the majority of the students
in our day.
1t is said that the body of a lion
at Chester. Wonder where the rest
of the family is!
Romantic hearts, ably re-cnforced
in courage by banana and an orange,
bolstered up two young people of
Philadelphia yesterday who simply
had to get to Elkton and get married
without mother knowing anything
about it," They were about 1S and
20 years old respectively, and they
were very scared to think that they
were really eloping, but determined
that "love would find a way" they
stuck to 1t and finally got to Elkton
before the license bureau was closed.
Shenandoah is undergoing a rather
risky experiment in that the city
streets are developing wide cracks in
them that look as though the people
of China had been delving into the
bowels of the earth with picks and
were finally approaching this crust
on which we liye. Houses are settling
and it is almost impossible to open
doors and windows. 1t is believed that
the threatened collapse comes from
old mine workings of the Reading
Iron and Coal Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
CHANGING FRONT

N CCORD1NG to Colonel Roosevelt,
n heroics are no longer in fashion.
Colonel Roosevelt ought to be
an authority on the subject, for his
career from San Juan Hill all the
/ by flights of verbal rockets. eloquent
appeals to "the common people" to
save the country" loud cries of my
hats in the ring" and the huzzas of
admiring thousands wrought to fever
heat of patriotic fervor by the Col
oners eloquence. But while many
may smile in contemplation of the
Colonel as an apostle of calmness and
deliberation in national affairs, they
must agree with him that this is not
time for a display of heroics, but
rather for the careful consideration of
the grave problems now before us,
problems that cannot be solved in the
heat of partisan debate nor by mere
appeals to spreadeagleism.
Colonel Roosevelt, in conversation
with Mayor Smith of Philadelphia,
yesterday. summed up the thought of
millions of clear thinking Americans
when he said:
All. reform-uplift. We hear so
much about II. 1t is all right; but,
you know, we must get right down
10 the facts. a nation incapable of
reaching the heroic plane is incapsa-
BILE of properly defending itself.
But no man or nation can stand the
strain of living always in the
time and place. but when | hear a
man perpetually calling for up
lift feel like getting up and yell
myself. You know, after man has
been reading Macbeth" steadily he
feels he must so out TO the
"movies'.at least, that's the way
feel about 1t.
The perpetual "up-lifter" is either
unbalanced mentally or he is up
lifting for his own personal benefit.
To accept the professional reformer's S
doctrines at their face value would
be to believe everybody except him a
crook, with the suspicion that he him
self may be no better than he should
be. AS the Colonel intmated, the
nation has had so much of "up-lift''
and mock heroics that it is tired of
the whole sickening performance and
desires nothing so much as to get back
to place where sanity and dignity
shall be permitted to resume their
erstwhile Importance in the affairs of
the nation.
Another shock that fire-eating
friends of the Colonel received yes
terday came when he told Mayor
Smith that he, Roosevelt is n good
organization man" and that every
public official ought to reckon with
his Organization" so long as the
organization" is not guilty of too
much burglary" The Colonel is,
above all, shrewd politician, and
none realizes better than he that
without organization" little can be
accomplished in politics. 1t is not
the use of an Organization" but the
abuse of it that makes for evil.
From extreme radicalism to reason
able conservatism is a long jump, but
these most recent and more or less
surprising views of the Colonel lead
one to the suspicion that he is
crouching for a spring which he hopes
will land him safely again on the
Republican band wagon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Every spy must be a diplomat. but
hltherto the reverse has been consid-
cred neither necessary nor good FORM
New York Tribune.
Yuan is beginning to find that while
a throne is much higher, the under
plnnlng OF Presidential chair is con-
slderably broader.-Washing Post
An Ohio paper says there will be no
typographical errors in heaven This
disposes of printers and proofreaders
Press.
NO doubt all those State grangers
VINO voted against preparedness for
Ihe United states will return and tear
down their lightning g-rods-Philadel-
phia North American.
The dried apples that the British
seized from the cargo of the Oscar III
We're doubtless taken on the ground
that they might he used to swell the
forces of the enemy.-Boston Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
PRESIDENTS APPEAL

n WASHINGTON dispatch to the
n Chicago Herald states: THE
President realizes that he can
not take the strong stand which his
past procedure logically demands un-
less the country gives him unmistak-
able backing" This is in reference
to the foreign policy. The President
need have no misgivings. When he
takes a strong stand he will find the
country at his back, but it would take
a population of artful dodgers to
keep behind him in his present back
ing, filling and side-stepping. Another
thing: To appeal to the country to
stand behind him, with the present
intention to make political capital OF
the foreign situation when the cam
paign is on, looks like "heads 1 win,
tails you lose
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William Finn, the Pittsburgh
Progressive leader, slept through a fire
in the basement of his house.
Il. III. Mayer. the new head of the
State Vegetable Growers Association,
is Lancaster man.
i. r.. Chandler, Philadelphia
broker, has been ill.
DR.. S. L. Gulick, student of the
Orient declared in a speech at Phila-
delphia that the japanese peril, was
largely phantom.
Col. G. Carleton, OF the United
States cavalry, well known here. has
been ordered to Manila.