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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
RICHMOND TAX CONTEST
Court of Appeals Grants City Writ
of Error and Supersedeas

Richmond, Aug. 4-The Supreme
Court of Appeals has awarded a writ
of error and supersedeas to the City
the Judgment of the Hastings Court,
the Judgment Of the Hastings Court,
entered on July 20, sustaining the
contention of the Drewry- Hughes
Company, dry goods jobbers, that the
assessment by the city of $1.40 on
each $l00 of the firms capital stock
was in excess of the rate allowed by
law on the taxable intangible person.
al property of merchants. Judge
Richardson held that the rate of 80
cents on each $100 was the correct
one, and ordered that a tax of 5000
be assessed against the company's
capital stock of 100000.
1t is contended on the part of the
city that a rate of taxation to be
followed by local communities it pre-
scribed under the terms of the seq
regation act of 1915, only for such
intangible personal property as is
expressly segregated and made sub
ject to State taxation only. and that
the same act provides that; ,"capi-
tai of merchants shall not be sub
ject to State taxation, but may be
taxed locally as prescribed by law" "
City Attorney Pollard points out
that Richmond for many years has
not levied license tax on merchants,
but, in lieu thereof, has taxed their
capital. The rate of 81. 40 was fixed
by ordinance in April, 1915.
The suit was instituted by the
Drewry-Hughes' Company; which com
planned first that the assessment of
its capital at 100000 was excessive
and should.:be reduced: and, second
that the rate of s1.40 per S1OO was
contrary to law,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
HAVOC BY CLOUDBURST.
Many Deaths in Kentucky and Ten
nessee During Past Few Days

Middlesboro, KY, Aug. 4-While
the waters which overran the banks
Of Big Barren Creek, near Tazewell
Tenn, late Wednesday night and
early yesterday have not receded and
have impedea the work Of recovering
bodies and rescue, yet it has been
definitely established that the lives
of 60 people are known to have been
lost as the result of the cloudburst.
Rescue parties returning from the
stricken district report that the wa
ter is all over the little valley of Big
Barren Creek and that apparently
every home along the creek for a
distance of six miles has been washed
away.
Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. "A spe-
silt from Tazewe1, Tenn. says eight
persons are known to be dead and
thirty or more are reported missing
as Z. result of cloudburst on Barren
creek, in Clainborne county, which be-
gan about 8 o'clock Wednesday night
and continued for possibly thirty min
utes. Considerable property was dam,
aged and some destroyed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
GERMANS SHOOT IRISH

London, Aug. g. Baron Newton,
under secretary for foreign affairs,
replying to a question in the House
of Lords of Parliament as to whether
the government had any informa-
ton concerning the shooting of two
Irish soldiers while prisoners of wal
in Germany said:
"The American Embassy in Ber-
lin notified the government on July
2, that Patrick Moran, of the Con-
nought Rangers, had been shot by
a guard at the working camp neal
Limburg on May %. The comman,
dant of the camp told the American
representative that Moran, while in
toxicated, attacked a guard, who shot
him dead in self defense.
"It is important to note, that, &C
cording to our information, bott
soldiers had refused to join Roge,
Easement in his proposed expedition
to Ireland"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY
List of New Books Placed on Shelves
for Month of August Announced

Following are the new books that
have been on the Alexandria Library
"The Finding of Jasper Holt,
Grace L. Hill Lutz.
"Under The Country Sky" Grace
). Richmond.
"Father Bernard's Parish" Florence
Olmstead.
Handle With Care" Margaret
Turnbull.
erich Man, Poor Man," Maximiliar
Foster.
"The Valley Of Fear" A. Conan
Doyle.
"The Lightning Conductor Dis
covers America" C. w. and A. M
Williamson.
Happy Valley" Anne Shannon
Monroe.
"Gibby of .Clamshell Alley" Jas
mine Stone Van Dresser.
adams Garden" Nina Wilco'
Putnam.
"Babette," F. Berkeley Smith.
/ "The Day of WRATH" Louis Tracy
"The Seed of the Righteous" Julie
w. Tompkins.
! "i Diplomats Wife In Mexico,
Edith O'Shaughnesy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
4 TURKEY WANTS TO QUIT
Willing To- Make Peace on Humlllas'
ing Terms

London, Aug. 4--It is reported on
high authority that Turkey wants u
Quit the war and that the Ottoman
government has indicated to Great
Britain an abject willingness to make
peace on the most humiliating terlns'
Great Britain, however, even i II
desired to accept Turkeys offer, is
unable to do so because it has given
pledges to her allies that it will make
peace only in conjunction with its al.
lies.
Fer this reason Turkey will be un-
able at the present time, at least, to
make the best of a bad bargain and
once again come under the wing of
it's old protector. 1t is considered in
London that the "sick man of Europe"
realizing that he is about to De sever
ed from the European portion of
the Ottoman empire, is now ready to
su, for peace at any price.
Turkey, it is known, has just about
reached the end of it's tether. Not
only has the Constantinople govern
ment mailed" all the German efforts
to induce it to send troops to the re-
lief of Austria, lat even the 3O,Dan
Turks in The Fay of the Bulgarian
arny have refused to fight.
The losses suffered by the Turks
in the fighting Of the past month has
keen a crushing blow to the hopes of
The Ottoman government, one from
vt'ch it is declared she will not he
able for some time to recover.
This setback at the hands of the
troops of the czar and the financial
straits of the government has, it is
Sid, brought the Ottoman government
10 the realization that to continue the
struggle would mean nothing less
than hopeless rui: in the end. For
lis reason Turkey wants to make
peace at any terms.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
FAIRFAX MEDICAL SOCIETY
Elect Officers for Year Yesterday
Before AdiOnrning.

Before adjournment yesterday at
tcrnoon, the Fairfax County Medical
Society which met yesterday at the
Hotel Rammcl, in this city, at II
a. M, elected the following officers
for the next term of one year: DR..
r. L.. Wilkins, Alexandria, presi"
dent: DR.. g.. l.. Starkweather, Oc'
conuan, first presidents, DR.. d.!
C. Blackstone, Washington, second
vice-president; DR.. T.,@C. Quick,
Falls Church, secretary; DR.. +. NJ
Brooks, Fairfax, treasurer. e!
Dr.. Llewellyn Powell, of this city,
president of the medical fraternity OF
the county, for the past year, presl-
ded over the session and DR.. ,S,. IS:t
Moore, of this city and DR.. W. P.i
.Caton and J. c.. Smallwood, OF the
county, read papers, after which din
er was served. - =.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

MUCH MORE IN HIDING
Tax Authorities Believe From $780,
100000 to S1OO,OOO,OOO Will be
Uncovered
Uncovered

Richmond, Aug. 4. - Executive
Assistant Garnett's call for reports
to the Tax Board of omitted intangi-
bles returned voluntarily by resi-
dents of Virginia has brought
from the Examiners of Records
statements showing that Il total Of
So, ,43S,3S7 of this class Of property
has been voluntarily reported for
taxation.
Under the new law relating to omit
ted intangibles persons were allow
ed this year only to report this class
of property for taxation up to Aug.
/, without penalty. The period of
grace expired Monday.
The fact that nearly $12,500,00, in
omitted inangibles has been report
ed voluntarily is taken by tax Off
GERS to mean that several times that
amount will ultimately be brought
under taxation through the investiga-
tions of the examiners. The aggre-
gate value of omitted intangibles
which still remain in hiding, and
which should properly be made to
bear its share of tax, was estimated
by authorities at between S50,0O0,-
900 to $1OO,0O0,OO0.
The examiners who have made re-
ports of voluntary returns and the
amounts reported by each follow:
Richard McIlwane, jr., Second Cir
cult, $1,O95, 800.
Robert w. Arnold, Third Circuit,
S4O,9O3.
George Mason, Fourth Circuit,
s29;O25..
Tucker c. Watkins, jr., Sixth Cir
cult Sf3G:165. !,
w M. Tredway, jr, Seventh
Circuit, $149,S11 =
John S. Chapman, Eighth Circuit,
G217,7O3. <
w. C. Williams, Ninth Circuit, S3,-
325.
William n. Sands, Tenth Circuit.
100000.
Samuel r. Buxton, Eleventh Cir
cult, $6,961 OF.
C. S. Towles Twelfth Circuit,
$34s,OOO.
Sidney Smith, Fourteenth Circuit,
$4,000.
w. D. CardwelI Fifteenth Circuit,
s2O,G95.
W. NJ. McNutt, Eighteenth Cir
cult, $4,000.
F.. V. Barley, Nineteenth Circuit,
s1,6lG913.
a. p. Hutton. Twenty-third Cir
cult, s9,33O.
H. w. Wyant. Twenty-fifrh Cit-
cult, $4,000.
Richard H. Tebbs, Twenty-sixth
Circuit, S4l7,4OG.
Winston Parrish. Twenty-eighth
Circuit. S54 sos. ..: =.
R. H.. Drummond, Twenty-ninth
Circuit. Sl20,4S5.
A. J. Cauthorn, Thirtieth Circuit,
$3.50.
Total S12.43S.387. ,,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

when the board was formed, was not
qualified for the place.
Judge Knapp and Mr.. Chambers
asked the President to increase the
membership because the. work of the
board already has become great and
the threatened railroad strike has
added to the necessity of having an
other member.
Administration officials said every
thing possible would be done to avert
strike. If all other steps fail, 1t IS
probable President Wilson will make
a personal appeal to railroad mana
gers and the employees urging them to
effect settlement in the interest Of
the public. The question may be dis
cussed at tomorrow's Cabinet meet
ing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
WORK OF SUBMARINES
Passenger Steamers and Other YES
sells Sent to the Bottom

London, Aug. 1.-The Italian mai
steamer Letimbro has been sunk by &
submarine and 2S survivors have az,
rived at Malta. Two boatloads with
survivors also have arrived at SYRIA
cuse.
The Letimbro carried crew of 81
and her passengers numbered ll3.
1t is believed that large number
of them lost their lives. The pas
sengers included women and chill
dren.
Survivors report that submarine
was observed at a distance of about
5000 meters. 1t fired warning shot
and then gave chase, firing contlnu'
ously for half an hour.
1t finally overlook the Letimbro
which had begun to lower boats.
"The submarine" adds the dispatch
"continued its bombardment, smash
ing five boats. the occupants of which
perished. Some of the survivors say
that many were killed by she'll fire.
All the crew of the Italian brig
Robalo, torpedoed by an Austrian
submarine, have arrived at Malta.
Lloyds report that the following
yoSsnIs have been sunk:
Steamer Bror Oscar, Swedish, 36S
tons. Fate of crew unknown.
Steamer Yermland. Swedish. 2ls
tons. Fate of crew unknown.
Steamer John Wilson, Norwegian
797 tons. Grew saved.
Brigantine Margaret Sutton, Brit
ish. 1877 tons. Crew saved.
Several trawlers also have been
sunk.
| Cocker Line steamship Britannia
British, 3,4S7 tons. She was unarmed
Steamer Heighington, British, $500
tons.
!. THE Swedish steamer Hudlksvall
was torpcdocd by German subma-
rine Wednesday night in the Baltic
while on a voyage from Sweden to
Finland. The captain, with twelve
men of the crew and five women. took
to the boats and reached the Swedish
coast. The Hudiksvall carried a valu-
able cargo.
1t is reported also, adds the dis
patch. that two other Swedish steam
ers and two Finnish steamers were
sunk Wednesday night in the same
vicinity.
Stockholm, Aug, 4-The Swedish
steamers Pitca, of 6l4 tons gross, and
Tennis, of 63S tons gross, both bounc
for Raumo, Finland, with cargo OF
general freight, have been seized by
German warships.
Copenhagen, Aug. 4-The PolItl
ken reports that the Danish steamer
Katholm, a vessel of 1,201 tons, has
been sunk by German submarine II
the Mediterranean Sea. The crew wa:
saved.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
TAG DAY TOMORROW

Boy Scouts Will Work in Interest of
Anne Lee Memorial Home
The Boy Scouts of Alexandria
will devote tomorrow to the sale of
tags, the proceeds to be devoted to
the Anne Lee Memorial Home, for
merly the Old Ladies Home, north
east corner of Cameron and Far
fax streets. The boys will be on the
Job bright and early tomorrow morn
ing, when the people of the city will
he given an opportunity to contrl-
butte in a pleasant manner towards
this commendable institution. The
Scouts headquarters will he IN the
Westminster Building of the Second
Presbyterian Church
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
HORSE STOLEN.

Chief of Police Goods, of this city,
has received telegram from j.
Z. Dunn of Quantico, in which the
latter states that black horse was
stolen from him last night :;by one
or two men, who could NOT ba ;don+;
fed. The police are on the look ont
for the thieves. The horse, when
stolen, was bridled, but had no s,a
de.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

Miss Kate Gordon, president of the
Southern States Woman suffrage
Conference, issued a statement yes
.,sre;ay in New Orleans praising Presi
dent Wilson for his stand for State
action on suffarge. She declared
Democratic women voters would not
be deceived by Mr.. Hughes bait OF
a Federal amendment as a short cut
to woman suffrage"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
French Deputy Strikes Key,
note Which is Likely
to Spread
BE NO ARMED TRUCE
French Nation Aroused to Frenzy
Will Make no Treaty With Kaiser
or His Family

a well-known deputy, has launched
in the Figaro what, in the opinion OF
many well-informed persons here, is
likely to become the allied watch
word, "Away with the Hohenzol-
lerns!"
'GThe allies,n says Reinach, twill
agree here shall be no treaty with
William of Hohenzollern or with any
member of his family. Unless / am
greatly mistaken, the question of
the Hohenzollerns will become
more important every day. 1t is too
vague to speak of destroying Ger
man militarism. German militarism
is the house of Hohenzollern, with
its feudal castles and all its birds of
prey.
81 have shown twenty times that
the war is the personal work of the
German Emperor. Exactly when he
began to premeditate it even he does
not know.
"But it is fact that he had TAX
en- his stand November 6, 1913, when
he unbosomed himself to the Belgian
King about the necessity of war soon
and his certainty Of success"
SIT is fact that finally, as the
accomplice of Austria's ultimatum
to Serbia, the Kaiser's own hand alb
slished all chance of peace. He re-
fused the conference proposed by
England and the arbitration of The
Hague offered by the Car, and de-
clared war on Russia at the very
moment when the Vienna government
had welcomed Petrograd's proposals
And this though every pretext had
vanished. :,
"Since the drive through Belgium
failed and his bright dream of vic
tory vanished isince the German ma
tion rises hungry and bears the hat
red of the world, while the horizon
is lowering with menace;:the German
Emperor is afraid and says, Il willed
it not.
"Then who did will it? His feudal
chiefs, his junkers, the crown prince
and his Agrarians willed it, too, but
the Germany of the Hohenzollerns
is no aristocracy, oligarchy, or demo-
cracy, There is one lord and master,
the Hohenzollern, the Emperor. 1t is
he who willed, who ordered, who be-
gan this war. He is the master as
sassin. British Premier Asquith has
said this in solemn declaration be-
fore the House Of Commons.
"Over a year ago in the verdict on
the Lusitania the jury at Kinsale pro-
nounced guilty Of. wholesale murder
the officers of the submarine, the
German government and the En-
peror of Germany. All those gener-
ais, those officers. those soldiers are
only his tools and accomplices.
I'VE will not make our peace a
mere truce between two slaughters.
We will insure the future of free
peoples. But with him who premedi-
tated, willed and ordered all these
crimes, one does not negotiate. Him
one Judges"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Alfreu Nolan, IA years old, was in
stantly killed yesterday in Wal
ham, Mass, by MS chum, George
Beatty, the same age, when the TWO
tried out .38 caliber revolver, whlcn
they had found, to see how lar inc
bullet would penetrate a telephone
pole. The bullet struck Nolan, who
was standing few feet away, and
he fell dead.
Miss Charlotte Dumas, II years
old. of Plattsburg, N. Y, was instant
ly killed at Wilmington Notch by
being thrown fifty feet down clll1
from the automobile in which she
was riding. The car struck the
bridge, and Miss Dumas and Miss
Mildred Banker, also of Plattsburg
were thrown over the heads of the
twa young men with whom they were
riding.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

In police court this morning Nancy
Johnson, colored, charged with keep
ing disorderly house, was fined
$50, and Beatrice Craig, colored, and
Charles Spencer, were each fined SIS
for disorderly conduct. The trio was
arrested on Oronoco street, be-
tween Pitt and Royal, last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
PAY A VISIT

To CATIONS ice cream parlors after
the show or excursion. 1t will add
to your enjoyment. Cool, clean, sani.
tary. 1913 South Royal, and 32l Prince
Streets. - l78-6t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
NOTICE

Commission as captain of
fered to organize company of
limited States Life Guards in AL
exandria. Will lead to honor and
profit. Address Francis C. Nicho-
las, care of Gazette, H9-St'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

Miss Janice Sampson of Brentwood,
Md. who has been visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Chas. A. Moore
in south Lee street, has returned to
her home after a delightful three
weeks visit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

The regular weekly crab feast
of the Columbia Steam Fire Engine
Company will be held tonight at
8 o'clock at their home on south st.
Asaph street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04

The postoAice at Clarendon, AL
exandria county, Was entered and
robbed of money and stamps last
night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-04
LOCAL BREVITIEs

Alexandria Lodge of Elks will hold
their regular weekly crab feast to-
night at their home on Prince street
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-09
Entirely New Explanation Of the Real Cause Of the Wa

IL appears that this present war must go on
no doubt with intermissions and breathing
spaces-until all the plutocracies OF the earth
have cancelled each other out. Peace has be-
come impossible on the old plan. The modern
working order has so modified and fudzed
the whole body of civilization that a fixed and
static concord between selfcontained and mu-
tually exclusive nstionalities is now imprac-
ticable
The president Of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company told the State Chamber of Com
merce the other day that under modern con-
ditions the existence of even two rival sover-
eighties on this little planet has become alb
surd. We must therefore drive forward.
through incredible waste and slaughter. to the
settlement of the question which Of the rival
Powers is TO build the New Rome and estab-
fish military world-State on the Caesarlan
model-or else we must now set our faces
toward a real democracy
We have hitherto been baffled in our social
struggles for democracy because we have riv-
eted our minds upon ballot boxes and Legis-
latures. We have not failed TO observe that
the business organization is stronger than any
party. But we have stubbOrnly insisted that Il
ought not TO be so. That is our very grave
mistake. The truth Is that the business sys-
TEN not only is stronger than any other politi-
cal force, but ought TO be. IL must be- and in
the nature Of things will continue 10 be. Our
reform politics viii be merely wistful and
pitiful until adjust our minds TO this star
ing fact
Business cannot be kept out OF politics"
We should give mp the idea OF regulating and
overruling the working organization By which
we all live and move from some ideal political
realm supposed 10 be higher and purer than
business.
The organs Of busnees-banks, stock ex
changes, chambers OF commerce and so on
are in their very nature much more powerful
than the polling places. Whether we know II
or not and whether We like it or not they
The characteristic political agencies OF the mod.
ern world.
Probably We shall stumble on for awhile in
tragic perplexity. treating the main facts OF our
actual political estate as If they we're actions
and the actions as il they were facts. But an
awakening is long overdue.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-09

that we are being forced toward entirely new
conceptions of right and justice. These cease
to be absolute and become relative to the pro-
ductive process. The bottom moral fact in
the new order OF things is that a man has
right to such tools and materials as he can
handle. This is a state of affairs quite new
In human history.
We left the old social order behind-in the
middle of the last century. The crucial mo-
ment was the moment OF the efectual ma
turity of the organs OF universal credit and
contract-and instantaneous communications.
Before that time business was just bust
ness. 1t was a mere fraction Of life. That
had been the case since Plato's day. Human
efforts for the mobilization of creative forces
ana the mastery of materials were distinctive
fragmentary. The public power arched itself
over these endeavors as over everything else.
Government rigid armament and politics
was PtOlemaic
That old world of hard legalism. Of inhexibls
constitutions, is gone. II has left behind only
a Root and a Taft or two.
From the moment that the fragments OF in
dustry coalesced and became throbbing, cleo
trio, universal tissue business became the whole
OF life II involved all art, science, manners
and morals. The nerve ganglion Of financial
control became the seat Of social sovereignty.
In Kankakee and Oscaloosa, as in London and
Paris, the practice OF law, medicine, journalism,
politics. engineering as we'll as school teaching
and the preaching of the Gospel ceased TO de-
pend upon the old social centres for their sane
ton and acceptance and began 10 relate them
selves TO the new centres, the working centres,
the centres OF credit
This enormous and world-changing tTansac-
ton has been gravely misconceived by most OF
the professional moralists, politicians and re-
formers. II is 10 this misconception That the
shock and turmoil OF these times and the men,
tai and moral bewilderment are mainly due.
Our blind guides have tried TO resist the ad-
vance of the new order Of the world. But the
advance is irresistible The modern bank as
credit centre is the most subtle and powerful
organ of social control that has ever appeared
within the universal field OF politics.
Our great misfortune is that we have failed
20 treat the grand agencies OF modern business
with intellectual and moral seriousness. No
body has written a readable book on the phi
lOsophy OF business. Regarded a novum
organum OF creative ma1 the universal bust
ness system is as portentous and moving