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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
They Pledged Their Own Faith

nUR correspondent Puzzled whose CON
~ munication appears in another column
on this page, is quite right in his assumption
that no group OF private citizens can pledge
Richmonds faith or honor: nor, so far as
we know. have any individuals ever at
tempted 20 do so. But The men and women
who toiled so unselfshly and so successfully
for the greater Memorial Hospital represented
the best thought and the best effort in the
community; they knew how RichTlond's best
and most eeyating interests lay. and so
inbuea were they with The Spirit OF their
high purpose that, 81 the last moment. they
pledged thcr own faith and honor that the
purpose should NOT fail. We cannot believe
our cores pendent IL serious IL his sugges
tion that our elected representatives"
Council, &. ether words. investigate SUCH en-
terpr!ses sc the hospita! before the public
is asked FOR support.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
The Voice of the People
PIedEing Richmond. Faith.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sill notice in your mornings issue under
the heading. Quarter Million Fund is Assured"
the subhead, Richmond Keeps Faith" If not
asking too much will you kindly inform me
when Richmond pledged her faith raise this
money: Ihat the cause was worthy no one will
deny, and there is sincere gratificati AT The
successful result But would like to know IL a
dozen or so citizens. meeting privately have tho
right TO pledge R!chmonds honor and the money
Of others to an amount which to them seems
proper for 4 cause which them seems lust
ana then to call on every to sustain the M on
inc plea that the honor of Richmond is mt
stake" 1t seems to several persons that civic
movements of this sort II worthy. should l,e
hhanccd by the city government. and at least
our elected representatives. should examine and
report on the necessities of the case before call
ing on the people individually. PUZZLED
Richmond. June %.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
To-Dny's Hest Hand-Plcked Joke.

The late Gilman Marston, of New Hamnsbire
was arguing a complicated case. and looked I'D
authorities back TO julius Caesar At the end
OF an hour and half in the most intricate pa ri
OF his plea. he was panied TO see what looked
like inattention. II was he had feared The
Judge was unable TO appreciate the nice points
of his argument.
Your Honor he said. Il beg your pardon
but do you follow me-
II have so far answered the Judge shif,inp
wearily about in his chair but ri say frankly
that If L thought could find my way back I'd
quit right here."-Christian Herald
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
ROosevclt's Listiess Letter

hNOlD of real argument or sound reason
u Ing, padded with dispara cement OF presi
ocht wilson and permeated throu chout with
. strain OF uncertainty, the letter of Theodore
Roosevelt TO the Progressive National Com
mlttce' declining the nomination for Presi
Gent and hespeaking the support OF the Pro
gfessNes for Hughes, is the weakest and
most liStI"ss document ever penned bv that
once vigorous politician
lie begins by eXcusing himself for dcsert;nr
ms party, continues with a statement that
,hc nominee OF that party could not possibly
20 elected, goes further with an admission
that ne had hoped the Republicans would so
ACT as TO make it possible for the Progrcssiyes
10 JON them haf-heartedly expresses his
opinion mat the nomination of Hughes meets
the conditions OF the Progressive party, and
concludes by requesting the Progressivcs to
support Hughes
i1ls defense Of Hughes's Americanism. as
'ihpHshed by the Endorsement OF the German
american Alliance is merely a formal ayoucb
menu OF the candidates character and pubIic
nc Whlie his attack on President Wilson'S
administration is intangible generalization
AS campaign material for the Republicans
thc C0ioneis letter falls far short of expec
tanohs ana as IN appeal TO the Progressiyes
II VIII IAN on cars du!ad by his own desertion
ana ncalcned by the nomination of a man to
""oia thcy were opposed from the beginning.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
National IIOliduys,

w. i.--There is no national holiday pronerlv
s.ou Gniaea IN the United States. as the Federal
"nsless ~ not empowered to legislatc in the
nat,er ior the states OF the Union The fol-
r nnnrs Gays however, have been apart by
CconSrtfa as legal holidays for the District OF
obsu ana the Territories and are generally
,b 49,. w.. IN an inc states upon proclama ton by
wv, ny Governors or III pursuance OF State leris-
!a't Sns, January l. February %. May 80 July
a. a. AZ, ~ Ni"huhy IN September, December % In
hol,da " Sar mated nat hy the President as legal
si,oii'ihS Tor inc District Of Columbia and Ter
iilto'ics, TO he observed as day OF thanksriv-
ken, a" I i"tyy '%uI years the 4th of March is
Irt on account OF the inaugura ton of the
Cd h,, ~ hSSides the legal holidays appoint
rarG ue'H dssignated by the Legislatures of the
in 49,. 70 he observed in those States
events. 'e'o"S W poHtieaI
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
All Things Are Blue.

All things are blue all things are blue,
All! everything has changed it's hue;
The laws are blue, the days axe blue
The cops are blue, the nights are blue.
The drinks are blue, the pills are blue
OH everything ] is blue
Even the soldier boys are blue
The assies eyes are now all blue
The streets are blue. the skies arc blue
Alack! alack, and ! am blue!
INDIGO
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

l.. is 1t safe to scnd towels. hundke rchicts and
napkins to public laundry? q Is boiling suf-
hclent 10 destroy any disease germs on such
articles! B. Is tuberculosis Of the lungs IN the
HrSt stage cura BILE? (. IL water from the faucet
OF bathtub safe to drink? 8. Would three
cigarettes day be Injurious for one with
catarrh"
AhSwer-l Perfectly safe. Q Yes. IL the boil
OUT or every five such caass regain good health
II me patients are treated properly. 4. AS safe
ms from any other faucet. 5. One with cntarrb
must give UP smoking before lie can expect
70 De cured OF whatever condition he has in
we nose or throat under the meaningless name
OF "catarrh" '''
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
Shakespeare Day hr nar

FoF the oesoiate after November /: II do now
remember the poor creature, small ha.r" 49,,
Henry w. Part H., H. ?
For the aged choir-snger: For my vote. r
nave 1851 II with hallo!ns and singing of
anthems" king Henry ". Part H.
For the Colonel: He draweth out the ,hr.,a
OF MS \eroosty inner than the staple of his
argumsnt"-Loves Lahor's Lost "
For the home-sick country boy:
know bank where the wild THYME h,on-.
where oN!ips and the nodding violet grows
quite orercanopied with luscious wondhina
WIN s"eet musk-roses and with eglantine"
a Midsummer Nights Dream ii
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
---C---
In Sleep.

In Sleep.
Not drowsihood and dreams and mere
idleness,
Nor yet the hlessedness Of strength re.
gained
Alone are in what mon call s,eon rha
past.
My unsupported soul. my parents voice.
Inc generations Of my forebears. yea
The very Will Of God Himself are there
And working: so that manv a
doubt
Is wiped away at DAYLIGHT. n,ny cot,
Washed cleanlier. many n nuzy,a la
died plain,
strong. silent forces push my puny self
towards nnSuessed issues, and the
waking man
Rises Greatheart, where a. Slave Law
down. Richard Burton.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
Business and tIc,ic,

HHE fbrtuhat5 phase 81 the Mexican crisis
~ Is 10 be found in the iirmness win which
our nhsihsss interests have met the shock
whicH must come 10 any country standing
lace 10 fare with tl.e issue of war. Noiwi,h,
standing the fact that the peate Of the Aueri-
can nation is grayely threatened and that we
acsn1 about " be forced into confic, Of ,r /.
dcSn1te duration. there have been no tighten.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

IN page 2Io of Personal Health" a book
"i.tteh ny DR. William Brady, appears This
s,"'enent ~ cold tyre = the ma jority Of us
are injected with tuberculosis early in child
"oon Do you subscribe 10 that?
AnSwer--rhe eminent author quoted is RICH.
we 'hink. IN fact, We are willing to 20 him
tm ~ oeSlet mere The majority OF us have
ho osisu'os's riSht now and don't know II
cent ~ is latent, inactive. kept securelv
hh, neo 20 some lymph node deep in the chest
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

Many 4 man who IS now doubtful! would
enlist, If he could feel sure be would appear
later IN a thousand picture houses in Some
bo6y's Current Pictorial News Review o!
Recent Happenings All Over the World
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
High Trfh,rfA

Don't YOU think Miss sweetthine's courI.xion
is perfectly lovely" inquired the infatuated
youth
CO. indeed replied the cynical young
woman In fact, have told her several times
that that shade harmonizes best with the presenr
color of her hair
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
Matrini onial NIix-Cp.

He-"omen have no real intelligence. They
show the judgment in tn. ,.o.r t,nor,
ant matters
she--Thats perfectly true, but think YOU
ought to be the last person to call it 10 my
attention
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
neording to the onice rhilo.onher

Enduring other folks troubles is one of N,
easiest tasks man can assume. but when Il
comes to enduring the presence OF some of thes.
folks there is another tale to tell
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
Highly so.

Gruhns-Has old Grahem a record for activity
during the war?
S'ucns-fou bet he has Why, he va. so
active he eluded the recruiting officers ,hrourb
out the whole period Of that struggle
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

NV 'oFK IS onering prizes TO liremen
for ideas useful to the service. II Rich
m"nds hremen offered the one best idea thew
hho" Tor advancing the service, the Fire
hoard would nave TO punish them for in
standardization.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
Queries and Answers
Mammoth Spring. Ark.

Mrs C. $. T.-Mammoth Spring at Mammoth
rrpr!hG. lrE, Is the largest spring in the world
TINS spring covers eighteen acres. flows 600 600
Eallohs ni water per minute and is seventy feet
rep ~ forms Spring River, $50 feet wide
nc now does not nnctuate the wear round.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

"ha' the Big Stick said was. "Our loyalty
10 20 me fact, 70 the principle, to the ideal.
ana not merely TO the name, and least OF all
10 inc party name" What he meant to con-
'e! "ab, Il have no further use for you"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

secretary Lansng's note to Carranza CON
Veiheo not only lesson in morals, hut few
sharp suggestions as TO his manners
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

heart" IN the sense Of pain suffering. That
senseless term may be loosely applied TO tho
painful disease. angina pector!s. but not by
physicians.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

published every day In the year Mt 10 South Tenth
Strest. Richmond Va, by The Times Dispatch Pub.
Z fishing Co.. Inc. Charles +. Hasbrook Editor and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

1nIsESS ALI. COMMUNICATIONS Tho Times.
Dfspatch ind indiY duals
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

4 burnt child breads the fire, but the
chronic Sunday seller has no fear OF the fire.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

.ELEPHOSE: Randolph !. Private Branch EhchanSe
connecting with all departments
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
SEEN ON THE SIDE
Yct Another eve
with a Commercial Tourists Apologies
Rudyard

with Commercial Tourists Apologies TO
Rudyard.]
IL you can work and work and grow weary
or calling on the same old hard ell trade:
II you can smile when all the world seems dreary
When heart Is sick and nerves are raw and
trayed:
II you can wait on trains and keep from cussing,
or drive spawned horse and make good time;
H. m"ch provoked you do fall fussing.
Or greatly aneered. don't commit a crime;
II you can snow your wares O hinty
And orders get when business is bum;
If you know how to deal with shameless liars
And when you're tired. keep on going some;
IL you can virtuouS be when all around YOU
Are snares and pitfalls dangerous and deep;
IL YOU stay clean when Satans legions hound YOU
And in the nighttime sweetly, soundly sleep;
II YOU can keep your nerve when troubles
threaten,
And toss them lightly. carelessly aside.
OR. being fretted. don't give way TO frettin'
Ana patient be when you are sorely tried
i you can force yourself 10 poor rations
Ana snlinSly declare that they are good:
IL You can calm yourself when hellish pa ssions
are throtting you and act just you should:
Is Keen and when competitors are shrewd.
H. when discouraged. YOU retain ambition
And be polite 10 people coarse and rude:
II you can satisfy the house that paws Won
Ana make and hold good friends wherein vo,
go,
You'll he wonder. kid-there's uauebt ga,
fea2e YOU
And. Furthermore. you'll make a salesman In
w. r. SHIELDS
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

The owner Q: 20 7iously 1smel grocery
probably 'h2lEs ta= name is observance
enough
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

OF course. offers OF mediation arr. nc,.n,
able 10 he2!co. she has nothing 10 lose and
everything 10 gain
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

Although the Colonel wrote abou, four
columns OF nice clean copy, he didn't really
-ay st!cktu!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
Chats With Virginia Editors

The Chase City Progress rises up and saws
people who would censor the public press
nrohhhlY have never read the bill of tights -
secretary Baker has gone the extent OF re-
tuslns 70 talk TO the reporters. Don't know
what Will come next.
The Norfolk Nirginian Pilot deliberately CON
cluoes: In sizing up the influences that arc
Promoting preparedness in these United States
ed among the most important"
The urbanna Sentinel asks: What has he
come OF that list Of railroad subscribers which
was TO have been published in the Richmond
papers We are not getting impatient but
would IKE to be able to answer all those ques-
ions mat are nred AT every Gay." You will
get it in due time. Memorial HospitaI crowdad
II off the stage for few DAYS
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27
The Pessimist Snys,

us hard 10 love music or your country e;,he
bugle calls
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

rECIAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES, Mns-
New York: Mutuai Lie building. Philadelphia;
Pcoples' tjns Building. Chicago
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

tered january e7. zoos. at the Post-Oface Mt
Richmond Va. second clnSs matter.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-27

aI1NoToN OFFICE. 7,c fourteenth Street, y W
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-12-27
rARrPF TRUTHS FROM SUGAR.

WE have raised very little sugar beet seed in this
w country We have relied mainly on Germany
for the supply. II has been suggested that it would
be advisable to place protective tariff on this seed
in order to encourage its production here Colorado
is raising some and experiments Of the Department
OF Agriculture have convinced government sci
entsts that it grown elsewhere in this coun-
try But, inasmuch we import practically all we
require for the propagation OF the sugar beet, and
its metamOrphOss into beet sugar, it follows that the
amount Of importation Of beet seed is first
class indication Of the state OF the beet sugar industry
here
For example: The Democratic party made % per
cent reduction in the dnty sugar when il passed
the present law and all the duty TO be taken off
beginning with May t. 1916. This was for the benefit
Of the seaboard sugar rehners who wanted to get
their Cuban raws in at less cost and be in better
shape drive the Western beet sugar men out OF the
Eastern market and the refining trust was large
contributor to the Democratic campaign fund the
Democrats were practical men,"
But the effect OF this reduction. together with the
prospect ultimately OF free sugar, was disastrous to
the beet sugar industry. Hence we find that while
during the nine months OF 1913, before sugar
duty reduction was dreamt of-for we had the Pres-
dents word for it that such thing would happen
we imported 100000 pounds Of sugar beet seed,
while for the first nine months OF 1914 after the beet
sugar had found out what was in store for men,
and when the business in state OF depression
we imported but 100000 pounds OF the seed and IN
1915 with the prospect Of free sugar still staring
them in the face. beet sugar growers imported
but 100000 pounds the seed during the first nine
months OF that year.
The following year the Democrats got cold feet
Their tariff bill failure a revenue producer
and the revenue to be derived from sugar was very
considerable they struck out the provision slat-
| ing for the free list May Of that year With
the assurance of at least little protection their
/ NTH, uor ride hfuinp Ia
engross their attention the effect the beet sugar
producers was magical and find that for the first
nine months OF the year imports Of sugar
beet seed jumped to 1s5OOOoO pounds most of it now
coming from the Russias. And then the great beet
sugar States Colorado and Utah. who had apopleXS
because OF Mr. wilson's treatment OF them in the lat
! ter part of 1918 turned around and voted him int
| mower again in 1916, while the price or sugar hal
gone so high that the consuming public has to use
long sweetenn' %.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-12-27
Toledo MAN Was
MURDER VICTIM

CHESTER, Pa, Dec. 27-The iden-
tity of the man shot to death early
on Sunday morning near the East
Ninth street bridge, just west Of the
sddystone borough line, was estab-
lished today by John Snyder, of No
1888 Day street. Philadelphia, who
recognized him as Isaac Taylor AS, a
resident of Toledo Ohio. Subsequent
ly Benjamin Taylor. Of No. 72l Up
land street this city, corroborated
this statement. by admitting that the
dead man was his brother. The two
men had been together the night be-
fore. but separated about o'clock at
Sixth street and Edgmont avenue.
The murdered man was employed in
the plant of the Remington Arms
Company, and boarded at Eddystone.
Merrill Derry, Of No. 1917 Hyatt
street, who was walking home early
Sunday morning. found him dead,
shot through the back.
The motive for the murder is puz
zling, and detectives have been as
signed to the case. If the slayer was
bent on robbery, he was frightened
of, as Taylor's money and other yalu
ables were not taken.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-12-27
WHO LEAKED!

nREsIDENT WILSON'S note to the European bel
4 ligerents was sent to the newspapers at o'clock
in the evening OF Wednesday, December 20. 1t was
not to be released for publication until after midnight
Yet at about O'Clock that day news ticker in
wall Street carried report that the President was
about to dispatch note urging the warning nations
TO work out terms OF peace.
These statements were printed in the New York
Times Of Thursday, December o. i'm the course of an
article dealing with the crisis in the stock market;
and there is natural inquiry here and elsewhere as
to who leaked" the information.
The Presidents note was dated Monday. December
1s-two days before it given to the press; it
was prepared all reports agree several days before
that, Consequently its contents must have been
known to a fairly group. Washington gossip
has been busy trying to identify the men who could
have had knowledge OF the Presidents purpose-and
there sinister to the effect that peo
pie who we're sn the know" did not let the opportu-
nifty pass to pick up some easy profits in the stock
market when securities went tumbling. they we're
bound to- as soon as the Presidents note became pub
lie property.
The incident serves to emphasize the power which
an administration holds upon values in this country.
What the Presidents note did upon large scale
which affected every industry whose securities are
dealt in on the market be done to lesser degree
with individual securities by any OF a group OF
officials whose duties bring them into with the
industrial life Of the nation This power It is to the
credit Of American public life to record has rarely il
ever been abused-and it is significant that it is only
within the past few years that anyone has SER
iously that personal gain any other pri-
motive lay behind any course Of action on the
government part. That such surmises rife
IS due in part to the system which clothes officials
with such power and in part TO the askance
with which conservative minded people have come to
regard much Of the activity in some circles OF the
present administration
The remedy Is partly legislative-by limiting the
power Of administrative onicers-and partly political
by seeing to that the is lodged in the
hands OF and Of parties immune TO sinister infu
snce The country, however. has just voted: and II
Is trite observation that nation receives that sor
Of government which It deserves.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-12-27
WEpNEspAY, DECEMBER ~, ZIG.
COUNCIL AID AMEmCANzATON scHOoLs.

A FEW weeks ago the Wilmington Americanization
"A Committee requested City Council to make an
appropriation Of $500 to the Board Of Education TO
enable the schools for adult foreigners TO be opened
for the four months beginning with the year
Probably on account Of the holiday season, Council
thus far has taken definite action. It behooves
that body however. to act promptly in order that
these schools may be opened contemplated.
We that the pressing need for such schools
is understood generally; that it is no longer open
for argument and that City Council will not hesitate
supply the modest financial demands made for the
maintenance and continuance Of such institutions
With approximately FIVE thousand nom English
speaking adults OF foreign birth in Wilmpgton-un-
able to understand language-out OF touch with
American ideals and citizenship and not knowing or
feeling the spirit OF American democracy question
OF serious import presented TO the duty Of our
city to see that they are educated OF their present
condition foreign-s speaking coonists in our midst
and built up into English sneaking citizens who
JOY to the full the liberty which enjoy and also
appreciate just fully the responsibilities and duties
which citizenship in democracy imposes.
The intent and purpose OF this movement, insti-
gated by the United States Government and prosecuted
under its supervision is not that OF henehting pri-
marily these English speaking people in midst
but as a matter OF absolute self-protecton to the
community in teaching and preserving the highest
American ideals on which rest the foundations of Out
government The performance OF that duty is, there
fore necessarily. a public one. and is the cos
thereof Incidentally il the recipients Of this favor
thereby become better educated and more useful ct
gems the community reaps benefit OF their greater
economic efficiency which flows therefrom par
tiai repayment for the money expended on them.