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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
British Navy Traditions Sustained

TWO points In Admiral Sir John Jellicoes
1 report of the Jutland sea fight stand out.
one OF which has bearing on history. AS il
will be written while the other is notable
for what may be called its sentimental value
AS no military reasons" such as influenced
Germany TO minimize her losses caused Great
Britain TO conceal the extent OF the damage
done her fleets during the engagement Ad-
mlral Jeiicoes report merely officially cor
roborates the report Of British losses And
the frank policy pursued by the admiral lends
strength 10 his statements
Therefore, his assertion that the German
fleets withdrew from the battle under cover
OF night viii be accepted as final despite tho
Kaiser proclamation Of "a glorious naval
victory II possible. this is verified bv the
admiral's ungrndging tribute to the Ger.
mans. which constitutes the second pojn,
He said The enemy fought with the gal
lantry that was expected of him" and he
singled out one ship for special praise The
traditions OF the British navy are doublv sns.
stained.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Cost Of National Defense

1T has long been realized that national pre
parednesS would prove an expensive pro
joel IL mas been generally understood tina,
we could not provide ourselves win a mower
ful navy and Formidable army without an
enormous expenditnre Of money. Yet rela-
lively Few people imagined. In the beginning
that our national defense budget for one
year would exceed $500 900 900
.s When the first calculations of cost were
made. based on the original Garrison and
Daniels plans. the maximum appropriation
was nxed a. S4oo'ooO,0o0, 4 few venture
some propagandists insisted tina, no less than
h $500 100000 would be required, but thew
were cried down as mflitarists and reckless
aaxitators. They were rem inded. in the first
riaces thai the administrator would never
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
vindication of Man and Methods

sTOMPLETE vindication. as a matter of
~ right, has been effected by Governor
'Whitmans reinstatement of Thomas Mott
Osborne as warden OF Sing Sing Prison.
When Mr.. Osborne was charged with various
crimes and offenses, he temporarily gave up
his management of the prison, in order TO
devote all his time to refutation of the
charges, and challenged his slanderers. In
the courts, as we'll as before the bar OF public
opinion. his accusers failed utterly to cstab-
,:l1sh anything even to his discredit
His reinstatement comes TO crown his per-
49onal victory. But more than that. it marks
a triumph ofA.modegn, reformative methods
over the brutal and grating ring which so
long dominated New York 5 prison system
In the order named, the State OF New York
Mr.. Osborne and Governor Whitman are TO
be congratulated. Those who are striving
elsewhere in the country, for prison reform
may take heart
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ask for any such sum, and, in the second,
that Congress would never provide the money,
from whatever source the demand might
come.
Nevertheless, the army and navy appro-
priations have grown step by step. until that
for the naval establishment is now projected
on basis Of sS15, 900, 900; that for the mill
tary establishment on basis Of $32S,0 900,
and that for Notifications will be not less
than s25,000.000, a total of $66S.O00. 900.
Within the next two weeks the bills carrying
these sums will be finally considered. Those
for the army and navy may be somewhat re-
duced, but not enough to bring the aggregate
below the $G0O.000O00 mark. National
security can only be had by paying the price.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Shipping Legislation
vantageS

CERTAIN Republican Senators have served
~ notice on the Democratic leadership OF
Congress that they will throw every possible
obstacle in the way of the passage Of the
administration revised bill for the creation
of government-owned merchant marine. A
year ago the same threat was made and sue
cessfully executed: carefully organized fill
buster prevented the original ship-purchase
bill from coming to vote
At that time the burden of Republican OPP
position centered around the provision of the
bill authorizing the government to operate
as we'll own merchant ships That pro-
vision has now been amended. The objec-
tionable operation feature has been elm
mated. The government is still empowered
to finance the purchase or construction of ap-
proximately fifty merchantmen, hut these
vessels are to he Immediately leased or sold
to private interests.
In view of this circumstance, it is difficult
TO see wherein the shp-purchase bill violates
good policy. Every exporter or importer on
the continent knows that need ships If
we are to hold our foreign commerce after
the war. Every army and navy authority
knows that we should have more transports
and naval auxiaries. as we'll as a trained
naval reserve. Every maritime interest
knows that we should have shipping board
with authority to regulate our marine trans
portation.
These the important things provided
for in the new shipping bill. The government
merely undertakes to finance this enterprise
by sale of Panama Canal bonds and to
create commission with broad and compre-
hensive powers for the proper administration
of American shipping laws. Many powerful
interests arrayed themselves behind the Re-
publican opposition to the old bill, on the
ground that the government had no moral
right to engage actively in the shipping bust
ness. These interests now have no such
ground to stand upon, and the Republican
Senators will miss their support if another
ihbuster is undertaken
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Jitneys Are n Necessity

ID EASONABLE regulation OF jitneys long
~ ago became recognized as a municipal
duty, because so considerable percentage OF
the population used them that they consti-
tuted an established feature Of complex,
modern life. From what was at first an eX-
pertinent. jitney operation has developed into
as much of necessity any other means
OF transportation. Jitneys continue to
operate on the streets because the citizens
patronize them. and they patronize them be
cause they need them. Police Justice
iCrutchfeld's official decision that jitney
traffic is such necessity as is exempted from
the provisions of the Sunday observance laws
is supported both by reason and common
sense.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Housewives League VIII Win

IF the housewives League is as dauntless
L as its purpose is admirable il will not he
cast down by its failure to make out it's first
case IN court. Nor is there any real reason
why the members OF the league should feel
discouraged. Conviction OF alleged offenders
against sanitary regulations is not the nri-
mary object OF the organization What it
desires above all things is the prevention of
insanitary conditions
And it is certain that persistence in the
effort TO enforce cleanliness in the markets
and food stores will result in arousing public
sentiment and in awakening the dealers to a
realization of what that sentiment demands
The work of the Housewives League has lust
begun; an occasional setback should only
spur il on. and serve to increase the interest
of the public in what is essentially move
ment for the public welfare
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Golf Ing IN M.hcrI.

A new invention, which will render
the golfer Independent Of the oft-times
unreliable caddy, is a golf bag set on
a pair of 4-inch wheels with handle
at the top hy means of which the
golfer can readily propel it over the
ground. Attached to The upper part
Of tho bag are two steel supports
which can he thrown out by n single
movement Of the hand These sup
port the bag while the golfer is play
ing a shot The supports fold auto
maticaliy against the sides of the bag
whenever it is necessary to move tho
equipment
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Lloyd George, Now and After the War

II LLOYD GEORGE seems destined to play
IL greater part during the war. and after,
than any other man in any of the countries
involved. Already. he has been called from
post to post each little more important than
the one preceding, and in each he has done
great things Now, after his work in Ire
land, he has been appointed Secretary for
War, the place left vacant by the death of
Lord Kitchener. And it is proba bile he will
I'LL it better than any other man in Great
Britain could.
But still higher place is prophesied for
him. writer in the London Sunday Pic
torial predicts that in the reimbursement after
the war he will be the national concilator
and harmonizer. the broker between the
hosts of capital and labor. and that he will
be Prime Minister. 1t is likely; after the
war England will need Decentralization or
there will he something in the nature of an
.upheaval by force
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Shnkespenre.

others abide our question. Thou art
free
We ask and ask: thou smilest and
art still.
out-topping knowledge. For the loft
lest Hill
tina, to the stars uncrowns his
majesty,
Planting his steadfast footsteps in the
Making the Heaven of Heavens his
dwelling place,
Spares but the cloudy border OF his
chase
To the fold searching Of mortality:
And thou, who didst the stars and sun
beams know,
self-schoord, self scann'd. salf-honored.
self-secure
Didst walk on Earth unsnessd at.
Better So
All pains the immortal spirit must
endure, t
All weakness that tmpairs, all griefs
that bow. s3s
Find their sole. voice In that vice,
torious brow. go
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
A Rural Nocturne.

Rural Nocturne.
OH the cricket
And the frog
In the grass and
III the bog
How their ripping music soothes one!
How their gladstone chorus snooths one,
How the unisons arise
To salute the nicht-garbed skies.
Just the cricket
And the frog
In the grass and
In the bog!
We Will have no cares to burden
While the things Of nature sing,
But a holy quiet rests US
Where the night birds softly wing
In and out the sleeping verdure
OF the hedges and the trees
And the sacred theme is waited
In TO lull us on the breeze
There the kline in slumber huddle
And the fowl have gone to rest
Mother Nature seems to nourish
All things living at her breast:
Strong. full-throated comes the music
From the trees and from the hog.
And the leaders in the chorus
Are the cricket and the frog
Oh. the cricket
And the frog
In the grass and
In the bog.
II ow their ripping music soothes one.
How their gladstone chorus smooths one!
How the unisons arise
To salute the night CARRIED skies
Just the cricket
And the frog
In the grass and
In the bog.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Observation.

Did you ever notice that If n girl has two fine
bisque dolls and rag doll. she'd rather play
with the rag doll ten to one? And the mother
who has three fine and Maynard bum in
her flock would rather down stairs a 3
o'clock in the morning to open the door and let
some one throw him in than have all the others
going right!
It's just matter of the rag doll needing IT.
! reckon.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
shakespeare Day by Day.

For the National Guard: II here volun-
tary.'-Troilus and Cressida ii. /.
For the Prohibitionist: II would fain die a
dry death"-The Tempest. l. /.
For the empty orators: Here will be an old
abusing of Gods patience and the Kings Eng
lsh.'Merry Wives Of Windsor. i. 4.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

With film favorites fighting and swimming
swollen streams to make realistic photo
dramas. and camera men turning their cranks
on most OF the European battle fields, the
moving picture business will soon become one
OF the hazardous trades in the eyes of the
insurance companies
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

In imposing a tax on munition manufac-
turers, the government will only be placing
war burden where 1t belongs---on the
shoulders of those whom war most ad-
vantageS
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

With all the soda fountains closed on Sun
day, playing ball in the streets on week davs
forbidden and policemen watching the swim
min holes TO see that bathing suits are. worn.
what's the use In heire Z hnr.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
TIA Xis.

IT, you stated few days ago. the taxi
rate in Richmond is far high how doe& II
happen that no taxi operators make any money?
AUTO.
We have TO your communication the objec-
tons that We did not make any statement about
the matter YOU refer to. that there is
son TO suppose that no taxi operators make
money and that if they did not make dollar
a year, that would prove nothing in the
If he taxi charge here were $50 second, you
might possibly acknowledge that the rate
too high. and stil no taxi operator would
make cent.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Poison Ivy Remedy-kindly mention goos
remedy for poison ivy eruption.
Answer-Keep skin wet with an ordinary SAL
eratus tsoda) solution.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

If the Germans are really withdrawn
their troops from Nerdun, it's about time the
crown prince began to cast about for some
body to blame for the failure of German
plans
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
hcrIculturnl Product..

W H. P-The annual value OF AGRICULTURAL
products OF the United states has averaged
about $4,000 900 in the past few years. and
exports OF agricultural products have averaged
slightly more than $1,000. 100000 annually
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Progress
in
Alabama

structed alohg the lines obtaining in the west
has been elected at Andausia and the Mont
gomcry Advertiser halls the work as one of
the finest steps in industrial progress taken in
constructed OF concrete and steel is now open
Tor business, ana VII mark new era for the
will bring much closer together the farming
and the business interests OF that State II
stands for the courage, far-s ightedness and fni-
tiative OF the business OF Alabama The
building OF that plant--one Of the most mod
ern in America-.was task which should en-
title the men of the State to liberal credit
Hartford Courant
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Rabindranath Tagore is expected in this
country about the end OF this month While
he is here will be the time TO ask him what
his poetry means
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

To whom should applica ton be made for PEN
sion for soldier of United States Army from
1857 to 1889? H. /
Pension Bureau, Washington. D. c.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
The Pessimist Snys,

What's the use of saving money if you've only
got a dollar?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

The bill posters trust has been dissolved
Most OF us lost confidence in the posters
themselves long ago
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Those Mexicans are determined to get the
better OF us in one way another. AS soon
as they hack down about fighting. they want
to borrow money.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
The Brute,

he gets married.
Dnsiey-Yep. and then he's only half of
woman
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

With mosquitoes on land and sharks In
the surf, New Jersey bids fair to become
No Mans Land.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Laxative Mineral Waters-Do you recommend
laxative saline mineral waters for chronic con-
stipa alton?
Answer--No Salines tsalts) in any form are
Objectionable for frequent or prolonged Iuse
merely for laxative purposes.
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Queries and Answers
N0luntccrs,

About what number of men In Richmond have
volunteered for the war? j. r. FLEET
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Questions and Answers.

capacity for work. muscular eficiepcy OF the
heart. 1t is a mechanical question
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Domestic Note.

How to keep the cook Let her know tina
you have new piece of cut glass that she ha
never tried to wash
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

y M--This is the name given to the members
of the Irish society called the Loyal Orange In
stitution In 1890 after the Battle OF the Boyne
the Irish Catholics were being oppressed by
the English on account Of their Jacobitic be-
lief and began to form various semirevolution-
societies. To oppose these societies, the Irish
Protestants formed the Loyal Orange Institu-
ton. the object OF which was to oppose Roman
Catholicism and to maintain the union OF Eng
land and Ireland II was first established in
Ulster in 1875. and il rapidly spread to Canada
and the United states. In Ireland the society
has had no influence for long time, but nu-
merous lodges still exist In the United states
and Canada
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

PUBLISHED every day In the year nt 10 south Tenh
fishing Co.. Inc. Charlcs T. uusbrook. Editor ana
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

1t begins to seem that the British big
push" is staying where it was pushed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Motor Note.

The farmer who used to sell Is milk is now
selling us gasoline. and it comes out of the
same old pump.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
The speed TrBp.

The speed Trap.
He sits upon the roadway fence
with heavy, ponderous jaw:
HIS name is j. p. Higginson-
His majesty is law.
And when he sees YOU coming,
If you're going fast or not,
He'll open wide his heavy Jaws
And eat YOU on the spot!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Az compared with the Mexican border
Plattsburg and Fort Oglethorpe are primary
grade training camps
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Current Editorial Comment

Alabama has recently launch
Ell new industry which has
every reason to show great
growth and be of much value to
the State. \ large, modern beef
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

ADDRESS ALL CONCENTRATIONS TO Tho Times.
Dispatch, and TO individuals
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

rELEPHoNE. Randolph 1. Private Branch Exchange
4 connecting with all departments.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
To-Dny'. hest Hnnd-Pieked Joke

ne rev pastor OF certain country parish
is likely TO lose the confidence of his flock unless
he changes his ways During his sermon one
sunday morning not long back he stopped
abruptly and asked
HOW many OF those here diligent stu
dents of their Ribles?"
Fifty hands went up
Good said the pastor Now. how many of
you nave read the second chapter OF Jude?"
y wan smile overspread the divine's face
ihats also good hut when you go home
ana read the chapter again you Will doubtless
learn something TO Your interest"
The point OF this story saws the teller of Il
lies In the fact that the Book OF Jude consists
of one chapter only.-scranton Times.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Can you give me the details of the old Jen-
ninGs-Tabb duel about 1890? F. l.. J.
There duel So far as we know. the
sole record OF the matter besides what the news
papers of the date may have printed is in
old broadside OF interest to collectors. Here is
the statement that some difference arose in 1884
between y. r. Jennings and George T.. Tabb:
that the former challenged tho latter; that they
arrested and bound over. and that Tabb
intimated. and afterwards proclaimed, that Jen-
ninGs had procured the arrest. The broadsde
is mainly taken up with the correspondence be-
tween the parties on the matter OF the iniu-
rious report which Jennings claimed Tabb had
circulated. and. Tabb declining to 60 farther
into the affair, the whole seems to have ended
with the correspondence
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

Detroit is beginning 10 nav the
penalty OF prosperity The thous-
ands attracted by the boom have
exhausted The housing accom-.
modations. and the scarcity OF
labor for the conS,rnn,IaH or
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08
Paying
Boom
Penalty

new buildings has accentuated the sitmation
Rents have been raised to the roof and raised
again And now spendthrift city government
having carried the tax levy high ms IL dared
money! The assessments just announced are
said TO be 80 per cent higher than last year
year OF over sl7oooo,ooo. Practicaliy nothing OF
ness sites are reported by n tax exnert ~ be
assessed al a higher figure than any other nro nc
erty in the world Residences, large and small
have been boosted in valuation far beyond 1 SIM
liar valuations IN any other city OF the size
s. frenzy for real estate speculation has Snnnt
the town People Are paying fancy prices for
dream OF giving for Places for their own hnn e
or business places Warnings that there is n
ma ximum real value, the value to tho oceunier
have gone unheeded. People are NIT thinkinr.
Of buying homes, one Detroit paper savs. ~ ~
are going wild on speculation ana Iivin ~
rented Observation-Disclosures Dispatch. - -
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-08

SPECIAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE, i iia.'
New YORK; Mutual Lie building. Philadelphia
Peoples Gus Building. Chicngo.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-09-23
CLAP TRAP DRIVEL"
ABOUT DAY LABORERS

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-A
local newspaper declared that "the
day laborer in California lives better
today than the rather prosperous
merchant the @ar;t lives in any other part #
Editor Scharranbers of the Coast
seamen's Journal says. this statement
is "claptrap drivel." 49,
1T is inferred" he continues. that
those of us who belong to labor
unions for purposes Of safeguarding
our liberties are afflicted with unrea-
sonable discomfort, an! are unworthy
Of citizenship in this glorious COM
monwealth. :"
1T is doubtful If anywhere else in
the wide world is1there such a. large
percentage OF homtlsss men willing
to work, who are living under a sys-
tenn which compels them to pick up
their blankets and walk every time
they are compelled to change Jobs
Some $4,000 men in California are
commonly termed blanket stiffs,' ow-
ing to the fact that their employers
do not give them the consideration
granted to horses and cattle in the
provision of shelter. To the initiated,
the lot of the day 1aborer in Cali
tornia,' far from being better than
the rather prosperous merchant else
where, is, in many instances, less to
'be envied than that r. the household
pets OF the said merchant