Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-09
VIEWS AND NEAR-VIEWs,
HUNTS AND SUGGESTIONS
In the National Dog Tax Comiuxr
Opportunities Down South Back
to Old Times.


to Old Times.
AT recent meeting OF wool grow
ers somewhere up North, United States
Senator Weeks made an address In
which no declared 1t to be his inten.
tion to introduce bill in Congress f,s-
Ing national tax on dogs. This leads
the st. Louis Republic to say:
AS revenue producer we do not
suppose national dos tax would COM
mend itself to financial exports, but. at
that, thoroughly enforced law taxing
dogs would raise the taxpaying capac-
lily OF this country materially by re-
ducing the annual slaughter of sheen
ana by making sheep growing possi-
Die in regions where dogs now make it
impossible. Cur dogs are the common
carriers of rabies: they are the favor
lite breeding ground Of tho festive flea:
they are sometimes dangerously savage
and they consume great quantities OF
food that ought to be saved for pigs
chickens and moro useful creatures.
Therefore. we look with favor upon
any means for the reasonable suppress
sion OF our dogs"
The government would get very lit
tie money out of a cur-dog tax, but IL
1t would impose one high enough, the
cur dog owners would hurry to STAY
the beasts rather than to pay the as
sessment. and that would pay Uncle
Sam in the long run much more than
the tax on the live ours would amount
to. BY all means let's have the Sena-
tors cur-dog tax law.
President c. II. Markham. of the IL
nnois Central Railroad. has been down
South on tour of observation, that is,
in that part Of the South through
which his railway line and its connec-
t1onS run. On his return to Chicago he
had occasion to make a little talk in
which he declared that the South now
offers greater opportunities than any
other part Of the country. He said:
Inc south was never more prosper
Gus. and conditions point to another
banner year south of the Ohio River
The value of the cotton crop last year
amounted to $1.500,000.0o0. This year
the value will be .000.o0o.oOo. and this
100000 100000 moro than two years ago.
Cotton prices continue high. The crop
will equal medium one, with high
prices, which is most desired. Sugar.
rice. tobacco and corn are all good
crops and command good prices. sugar
selling for double what it did three
years ago. Cars are moving freer, and
there will be no serious trouble NOV
ing crops this fall The South offers
great opportunities. I look for high
prices for cotton for some time"
What President Markham says about
that part OF the South through which
he has been travelling is just as true
OF this neck OF the wood, and, in fact
of all of the South.
Among tho many suggestions inspir-
ed by the sugar crisis has been a
movement to use unrefined sugar as an
economy measure. thus saving tho ex-
ira expense OF the refined product,
amounting to more than a cent a
pound. Brown sugar is equally nour-
ishing. and many think equally pala-
table. An objection raised Is that SUI
gar direct from the producer would
need special process to make 1t Mt
for the table, which would be almost as
costly as refining. Steps have already
been taken to overcome this difficulty
by producers. who think that by SIM
pie additions to the machinery of the
ccntrals. the changes can be made
during production. II anything should
como OF the movement 1t would be
return to the days when the brown
sugar barrel in the pantry played
very important part in the domestic
life of the people.
Raleigh correspondent writes that
one OF the banks OF that city has
room devoted to the farmers of Wake
County and to exhibits OF their pro-
ducts. and he prates about little
matter like that as II 1t was one of
those things in which North Carolina
was first and continues to be fore
most Such a room in such a wide
awake bank is nothing new. Numbers
Of banks In Virginia maintain just such
exhibits and do all kinds OF stunts
to encourage the farming interests or
the country. But many more ought
to have these exhibition rooms. In fact
such a room ought to be a part of
every town and city bank in Virginia,
and North Carolina too.