Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-17

ASEKDEEN y g. March lG.-Th~
Sand I'M i;uavd OF Trade TX a great
deal NOR" than "a commercial orEau'!a =
ton - - tn. pTa,tica! OPPRESSION OF
an ideal of oUmlnuuity HE in the coGn.
Try Tn" members tell YOU this then
they l"nd YOU out in the sand hills and
Sho" Nou thoir schools and roads and
svUpporuou- Vineyards and peach
orchards and cotton fields and tobacco
patches. lhcY SHOW SOU a very mixed
farniu. CONSTANTS that nUrrishcS
amazm-;ly in Il shallow aud sandy soil
largely ~ reason OF the fact that all
OF IT'S members pull ono way They
make Won believe iu their ideal
III. sand iiiil Board Of Trad. can't
hc classified. B, j. the oulv on" OF its
Kind /, IS an independent aud self
CONSTRUCTED democracy which has no
regard whatever 10, county lines This
is the Way i came into being
Among those vino have moved into
the sand ii!l!s within tho last i've wears
hay" been about FORT men from New
York. Hoston and other big cities
Nearly all OF them brought money.
youth and brains Most impoT;au; of
ali. they brought a pretty definite ideal
Of what they wanted 10 a."
Mr. Ralph " Page, once a New York
lawyer, is the chief cXpoudcr Of tho
sand nm philosoph". Rural life, n"
points out. should De the ucst Kind ID.
the WORLD. 1t may htv" mulch Of the
~" az, '''> ~ 10
|''"'' VIZ" me !,'ed"'h an" ti'Sh
air and health Of tho great outdoors.
England, Of course. is Ia. classical cx-
'"Pi" OF 'h'N h"l ia h1thh" we
w"althicr ncoplc do not go 10 the coun-
try merely 10 have good time They
liv" there and the lies, al them devote
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Take Their Jobs s~ri"">iy
That is what thc sand I'M ucu
Furthermore. they take themselves :n!
their Jobs s-riouSls Thcy do not
merely com" here to yisi; once a wear.
they lis" hero They Hcar sort shirts
aud KHAKI ana sroot around iu .l,cur
autos pI.simlng reporter from
philadelphia once wrote them up as
".sildcd Youths" ana ,ncy sim frovu
when tho name or this o,r,icuI.,. snrihn
is mentioned
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''''I p."HS' 'h"N ''Il"H hl% meeting
".','". "''"re '"'m INC farmers sat
una H'""'c" " Nhi'" ana decided that
a. N"@ -""" \ 'i.cic 81 IN" sand I'M
t"uh''N io'iN NILES in diameter wns
th"" as ~" territory of the board II
was divided int" twcn'N-uinc districts.
''''h 81 "'lch ii"d b.i Of village as
u.s. center Each district was given
three representatives in tn. council OF
the board and each district had one
vote y meeting is held once n month.
not 10 talk. but II pass upon some
specific project These meetings arc
heavily attended
Executive Needs IrrsutjIity
The board has an executive con-,
mjttoc which meets every week. and
"u executive officer in tho p.rsnu az
rlvGe L. Davis. WHO Is on the ion
every DAY and nearly every pi..ht
Among other things. he has D=cr !,
Kansas farmer a rural cvanneI;et ,rJ
student Of the classics. lie u.-i.:
all Of his vcrsatility. The BoarI OF
Trade calls anon him To produce any
thing ii wants Not long ago il wanted
Il fair ana told Mr. Davis to orcan:zc
one but not Ia hire any balloon ascon-
sions. nidways or anything like that.
Mr Davis went among the people. ana
bad them rig up their farm wagons
u suit themselves for Il great parade.
The farmers fell back upon the story
an0 legend of the countryside. They
came as wild Indians. as highland
clansnlen and as soldiers Of the Ecvo-
luton. bearing the muSkcts and powder