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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
Notes OF Interest.

I. H. c. Mann, Of this city, has re-
ceived the appointment State cadet to
the Virginia Military Institute.
Retail business In on boom again
by reason OF the thousands OF people
ficcking to the Santonment grounds,
and rooming accommodations are in
great demand.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
Preserving Historv.

Petersburg Chapter. United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, of which Miss
Annie v. Mann Is the historian, Is in
Wiling sketches OF local heroes in the
War Between the States, and Of the
women of Petersburg who rendered
special service IN that war. The field
to be covered offers rich material In
local history. 1t Is the intention of
Petersburg Chapter to bind these
sketches In volume and preserve
them fer future generations
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02

are to DO laid Immediately. and future
Developments will. In all probability
include freight station Of considerable
size. The now terminal will be entirely
separate and distiict from the Peters
burg terminal. and will be given a new
name
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
Working on Terminal.

Work has already been started on
the new freight and passenger terminal
at the cantonment near Petersburg by
the Norfolk and Western Railway Com
pany. From four to eight miles of track
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT
WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM

Mr.. Brady replied as follows:
Il am in receipt of your highly es-
teemed favor of June 2S requesting me.
as chairman by your appointment. to
organize the motion-picturc industry
In such manner as to establish direct
and authoritative cooperation with
the committee on public information
of which Mr.. George Crcel is chair
man. In the full appreciation of all
that is entafled In bringing about the
desired conditions under which the
motion picture industry will throw its
weight TO the last ounce into the task
confronting the American people, ac-
cept your commission with enthusiasm.
The devoted men and women of tho
motion-p picture world have already
shown their eager loyalty to the coun-
try's cause with n spontaneous fervor
entirely beyond words. and in speak
Ing thus for them l but feebly reflect
tho noble sentiments which fills their
hearts. I hereby assure you of tho
undivided conscientious and patriotic
support OF the entire industry in Amer
ica."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
Local Temperature.
Local Rainfall.

Local Rainfall.
Rainfall last twenty-four hours. None
Excess In rainfall since March l.. ais
Excess in rainfall since January l. 900
Temperature 70; humidity, "a; wind.
direction. southeast: wind. velocity, 8
miles: weather. partly cloudy
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
CALLED into WAR SERVICE
President Requests William A. Brady
to Bring About Cooperation
With Creel's Bureau.
Pledges Conscientious and Patriotic
Support of Men and Women in
"Movic" World in Helping to Put
Americas Plans Before People.
Especial to Tho Timcs-Dispatch. ]

Especial to Tho Times -Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON. July 1.-The motion
picture will be utilized to help lay
present war before the American peo-
pie. The first step in this direction
was taken when President Wilson re-
quested William a. Brady. of New
York, TO bring about cooperation be-
tween the motion pictures and the bu-
reau of public information. Mr.. Brady
was named as chairman of the COM
mittee to have charge Of the work.
The President writes MIR. Brady as
follows:
ut Is in my mind not only to bring
the motion picture industry into fullest
and most effective contact with the
nations needs. but to give some meas
ure OF official recognition to an increas-
ingly important factor in the develop
ment of our national life. The film
has come to rank as the very high
medium for the dissemination of pub
lie intelligence. ard since 1t speaks a
universal language 1t lends itself i'm
portantly to the presentation of Amer
ica's plans and purposes.
May I ask you, as chairman by my
appointment to organize the motion
picture industry In such manner as to
establish direct and authoritative CO.
operation with the committee on pub
lie information. Of which Mr.. George
Creel is chairman?
ut is much to ask, tut my knowledge
OF the patriotic service already rend-
cred by you and your associates makes
me count upon your generous accept
ance"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
The Weather

Forecasts Virginia
Partly cloudy md
q o N I 4 n u e Il warm
Monday; Il II cs Il n y
fuir.
North Carolina
Il air NJ o n da y and
probably II lie n d a y,
little change In tenn
pernturc,
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
SHARK SKIN SHOES NEXT!
Use May Be Found for Terror of the
Seas If Price of Leather Con-
tinues to Soar.

You may at some time in the near
future be wearing shoes made of shark
skin if the price of leather continues
to avlate and Investigations now be-
ing made by Uncle Sam produce re-
suits. The bureau of fisheries of the
department of commerce has taken up
the possible value of shark skins in
making various kinds of leather. Such
skins have for many years had limit
ed demand in the United States as
coverings for minor articles of orna-
ment and utility, but their use as
leather has been very restricted. An
acceptable leather has been prepared
from shark skins in several foreign
countries.
Shark skins are very tough and dur
able, and some of them show beauti
full surface pattern which persists in
the tanning process. Leather made
from the skins of the larger sharks has
a very considerable body, and such
sharks will be in greatest demand if
the experiments of the bureau of fish
cries prove as successful as anticipat-
ed, although the skins of minor sharks
and the graytish also are being han
died.
Arrangements have been made for
securing from Florida fishermen u
supply of very large shark skins; and
further specimens are expected from
other sources, especially from num-
Der of llghtships off the South At
lantic and Gulf coasts. The bureau
Of lighthouses is cooperating in this
matter and will authorize the men on
southern lightships to catch sharks and
preserve their skins. The bureau of
fisheries is supplying fishing tackle.
The skins will be sent to tanners for
treatment in various ways, and it is
hoped that such raw material will
prove so useful that fishermen on all
parts of the coast may hereafter find a
market for the skins of all kinds of
sharks now incidentally caught in line
and net fishing.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
AMERICAN PIANOS IN DEMAND
All Parts of World-AustraIia Is
the Best Customer.

American pianos and player pianos
are being used in ever-increasing num-
bers in every quarter of the globe. De-
spite big falling off in the exports to
the war-ridden countries of Europe,
sales of American instruments abroad
for the fiscal year 1916 were by far the
largest ever recorded, Uncle Sans bu-
reau of commerce reports.
Over 10,S00 pianos and player pianos
of domestic manufacture were sold to
foreign countries in that year, and of
that number 5000 went to Australia,
New Zealand and the Philippines,
over 500 to Africa, and "a to Asia. In
the same year we sold 1875 to South
America, 2,446 to North America and
1,066 to Europe. No other year equaled
this record.
The growth in exports of American
pianos and player pianos is shown by
the following table:
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
INSTITUTION 70 YEARS OLD
Enterprise Which Has Been Fostered
by Uncle Sam Was Established
by an Enelishman.

The Smithsonian institution has Just
celebrated its seventieth birthdax
This institution, which has been fos-
tered by Uncle Sam for nearly three
quarters of century, was founded by
an Englishman, James Smithson. In
accordance with his will, dated Octo-
ber 20, 1926, his fortune of more than
$5OO,OOO was left in trust to the United
States to found at Washington an es-
tablishment for the increase and diff
fusion of knowledge among men,
Smithson died on June 81, 1899, and
his bequest was acquired in 1888, but
1t was not until eight years later that
President Polk signed the act of con-
gress establishing the Smithsonian in
stitution. The act provided, among
other things, for board of regents to
nave charge of the institutions affairs.
The board was to be composed of the
vice-president, the chief justice of the
United States, the mayor of the city of
washington, three senator's, three rep
resentatives and six citizens at large.
In general the institution was to fur
ther knowledge by carrying on, or as
sisting investigations in all branches
OF arts and sciences, and to dissemi-
nate the results of such researches
by publication. The act directed, as
part Of the plan of organization, the
founding of library, Museum and a
gallery of art, and made provisions for
researches, explorations and lectures.
After seventy years, the operations
OF the institution are continued along
these same general lines, although 9TH
er features have been Incorporated.
IL Is international in its scope, and
governmental in its affiliations, now
administering several government-sup-
ported bureaus, some of which had
their origin in the institutions early
activities.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
FOREST REVENUES Big CORN is WORLD king
Greatest Contribution of America
to Food Supply of Nations.
Uncle Sans Agricultural Experts De-
clare That 1t Is More Valuable
Than Any Other Two Crops.

Uncle Sans agricultural experts say
that it must be generally conceded
now that corn is the most important
contribution of America to the food
supply of the world. They declare
that in this country at the present
time the corn crop is more valuable
than any other two crops.
The popularity of corn with the
American farmer, they say, is due to
the fact that it will adapt itself to
great variety of conditions and yield
more food per acre than any other
grain crop.
In many schools throughout the
country general courses are given in
which the imparting of agricultural
information is the chief aim. AS corn
is one of the leading crops usually a
number of lessons are devoted to this
subject. In applying the vocational
aim to such a course in regions where
corn is the leading crop, the depart
ments officials say, n large share of
the time should be given the subject
as means of applying the principles
of plant production. Students in such
a course, they state, should be required
to grow half an acre or more of corn
in connection with the study of the
subject. In rounding out such gen
eral course, it is further suggested by
the experts of the department that
each student may keep one or more
calves or pigs.
1t is the opinion of the officials that
even if corn is considered in the ele-
mentary schools, students of the sec
ondary schools should also take up the
subject. Corn-growing involves a great
many of the principles of plant pro-
duction, and the subject cannot be ex-
hausted in the elementary school. The
department suggests that secondary
students have reached an age where
they cannot only learn better how to
do a thing, but they have also devel-
oped the power to reason, so that they
can better learn the why. This sub
ject is strongly urged by the depart
ment for all rural schools.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
CROP VALUES HIGHEST
All Records Broken by the Pro-
duCtion in 1916.
Yields of Corn, Cotton, Wheat and
Hay in United States Each Worth
More Than Billion Dollars.

All records for value of the coun-
try's important farm crops We're ex-
ceeded in 1916, despite their smaller
size. The value was placed mt $7,641,-
609,000 by Uncle Sam in his final esti-
mates of the year. That is $1,T50,000,-
600 more than the same crops were
worth in 1915. Higher prices, due
partly to reduced production and part
ly to the demands for American food
from the warning nations, were respon-
sble for the vast increase in value.
Four crops each were worth more
than $1,000,000000. Corn, with n total
value of $2,295, ,7S3,000 showed the
greatest increase, being worth $573,-
100000 more than last years output.
Cotton, the second most valuable,
with total of $1079, ,59S 900, increased
$475,37S,000 over last year.
Wheat, the third, was worth $1,02j,-
765,000, or $S3, ,462 900 over the year be-
fore, when the production was almost
400,000,000 bushels more.
Hay was fourth with Il value of ST.
0S,S94,0 600, an increase of $95, ,250,00O.
Compared with last years value,
other crops showed the following in
creases:
Oats, S9G,673,OO0; potatoes, $685.
071000; tobacco, $72,T27 900; barley,
S41, ,362,000;; rye, $12,774,000; buck
wheat, $1,521 900; flaxseed, $13,940-
0O0 rice, $10974,C000; sweet potatoes,
$13 3161 900; sugar beets, $4,243,0O0;
beans, $17,992,0 900; kafirs, $2,112,OOO;
onions, S1,6C1 ,00O apples, $27 100000;
oranges, $9,54599 and wild hay, SILL
053,000.
A revision of the 1915 estimates of
crop production was announced by the
department, showing the corn crop to
have been 1894, 100000 bushels last
year, reduction of 59,742,O0 bushels
from previous estimates, and wheat for
1915 was placed at 1925, sol 900 bush
els, an increase of 13,296,000 bushels
over estimates made last December.
Productions of minor crops, com
pared with last years figures, follow:
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
WILL TAKE LUMBER CENSUS
Uncle Sam to Undertake Important
Work in Cooperation With Ma
tionaI Lumber Association.

Uncle Sam, through the medium OF
the forest service, acting in co-opera
tioh with the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' association, is preparing to
take census of the lumber produc
ton of the United States for 1916
The information to be obtained by this
work, it is stated, will be of immense
benefit to the lumber industry, the for
est service and other branches of the
government.
1t is estimated by the forest service
that there are more than 10000 saw
mills in the country and it is planned
to have the investigation reach every
sawmill in operation. Each of these
will be asked to make detailed re-
port of its production. Information is
sought as to the total quantity of each
kind of wood. sawed, the number of
lath and shingles manufactured and
the average mill value for each spe-
cieS. =
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
Receipts Nearly Pay Expenses of
National Reserves.
Road-BuiIding One Cause of the More
General Use of Government
Timbered Districts.

An increase of more than $340,O
in receipts, which totaled over So, $780,
600, marked the administration of
Uncle Sans national forests in the
past year, according to the annual re-
port of Chief of the Forest Service
Henry S. Graves. This increase was
obtained by rapid progress in land
classification, by a material advance
in development work, in which road
building is one of the largest factors,
and by relatively small losses from
forest fires.
The receipts from timber were over
81, 100000 a 20 per cent increase !;
grazing receipts We're S1,200000, and
water-power rentals brought in $780,
900.
"At present the receipts from ma
tional forests are approximately
three-fourths of what it costs to pro-
tect them and carry on the current
business" says the report. "In ad-
dition to this cost, however, there are
expenses which are primarily in the
nature of investments"
Roads and other improvements, re-
forestation of denuded lands and
classification and survey work are
pointed out as examples. The re-
port says that the total expenses ap-
proximate $5,275,000.
Declaring that the business of the
national forests is on a sound basis,
the report continues: "An efficient
organization has been built up to
handle the work of protection of the
forests and of developing the re-
sources. The rapidly increasing use
of the forests points not only to
greater service to the public, but also
to increased financial returns"
Chief Forester Graves looks for a
steady increase in the returns from
the national forests. He holds that,
in spite of the condition of the lumber
market, steady and increasing local
demand for national forest timber is
created by the upbuilding of the coun-
try. This demand, it is predicted,
will be constantly growing even
though sales for the general market
will fluctuate with the prevailing
business conditions. The report adds
that the returns from grazing will in
crease as more stock uses the forests,
in consequence of range Improvement
and the development of new ranges.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

To the memory of Paul Laurence
Dunbar, the Negro poet, educator and
philanthropist, bronze tablet was un-
veiled on Wednesday in the new Paul
Laurence Dunbar school, Caroline and
Jefferson streets, Baltimore. The cere-
monies, conducted in the assembly
room, were impressive. The dead poet
was eulogized as "the only man of
pure African blood and of American
civilization to feel the Negro life es-
thetically and express it lyrically."
Addresses were made by Charles ].
Koch, superintendent of public
schools; Hugh NJ. Burkett, personal
friend of Dunbar, and others. Alice
Dunbar Nelson, widow of Dunbar, un-
yelled the tablet.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Australia is the section where the
sales are the largest and show the
most rapid growth. The sales of pianos
exclusive of player pianos to all for
eign countries increased from 1927, in
1912 to 9,343 in 1916. Those to Aus
tralia alone increased nearly nine fold
from 45S to 4,407; those to New Zea-
iand, from 7 to 80; to British South
Africa, from % to 473; Cuba, from 446
20 1,031; Argentina, from 396 to SIG;
and Spain, from IA to pa.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
How Many Of 'em Have You Got ?


established in 1892 they have
coined:
733000000 dimes.
S5500O000 nckes
2,345O0OO0O
that probably not more than
half and that only small traction Is
in active circulation
considerable part OF the
months and years on end
dimes Slot machines also Keep
large weeks a time
The nckels dimes became acute
them delaying the issuance OIL
and halfdolars for several months
The retail making for groce
bakers merchants keep change In their csh
registers the of the unusual de-
mand for small coins recently
chief increased demand Tor
cities and probably
that price That means ha
amlon pennies needed day. unless some means Is
found make those already in circulation faster
all the United States suddenly
would something like
penny million
the market.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
Times Are Hard When Tax
Collector Comes Around
Pity the poor corporations!

Pity the poor corporations
Nearly half of them are op-
Grated at loss, according to the
returns filed with Uncle Sans
internal revenue bureau under
the income tax law.
OF the 366,443 corporations re-
porting last year under the in
come tax law 1852 claimed an
operating deficit or no taxable
income, and therefore claimed
immunity from all taxation.
Similar figures, showing that
approximately half the corpora
tions are losing money, have
been filed each year since the
corporation excise and income
tax laws have been on the statute
books.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27
penuded Lands Refcrested.

Approximately 10,390 acres of de-
nuded lands within the national for
ests were reforested in the fiscal year
1916. The total number of trees plant
ed was 6,146,637, while $3.50 pounds
of tree seed were sown.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

"The student gets his taste and am
bition for higher education in the pub
lie school, If he is to have it at all.
Since such large proportion of our
youth is trained in the rural districts,
how necessary that we should take
pains to provide proper educational ad-
vantages for their early training. We
should seek to impress these boys and
girls that education is not merely
tool for enabling them to provide or
procure living easier, but that 1t is
intended to better fit people TO live
as units of society.
"rhe country must not be neglected;
it is the staff upon which civilization
rests. AS the rural communities
stand so stands the estate-economical-
ly, industrially and educationally."
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

The 1910 census shows that 69.91S
farms nre operated by Negroes in
Texas. Twenty-one thousand, two
hundred and thirty-two of these farms
are owned by them, while the remain
ing 4S605 farms are rented.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

An English lighthouse has been
equipped with lamp that can be low
cred almost to sea level in foggy
weather when it would be invisible in
its regular position.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

If a regiment of 1000 men. with
ten miles, it does as much work as
laborers raising weight of 100000
tons Il distance of one foot.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Costa Rica now manufactures and
exports Portland cement, quarry of
appropriate stone having been recently
discovered She also has sent her first
shipment of manganese ore to the
United States.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

The Hungarian government has es-
tablished an experiment station for the
study of the culture of flax and hemp.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Mrs. II. IL. ellison of East Haverhill,
N. H., has duck which in onel day
laid three eggs, n dOuble-yolked one
in the morning, and two soft-shelled
ones in the afternoon.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

A Vienna physician has obtained
good results and effected some cures
by treating insane persons whith hy-
podermic injections of pure oxygen.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

BY royal order, the celebration of
Arbor day has been made obligatory in
every township and municipality in
Spain, and tree-planting is to be more
extensive than heretofore.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

There is shoemaker in Kensington,
Pa, who always signs his name by
using his initials only, because his
name takes too long to write. His name
is Louis j. Sellamonweinsteino
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Government Investigators found
health standards low among New
York garment workers. Only per
cent were free from physical defects
or diseases.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

AS n general thing land is being
made by the recession of the sea along
the east coast of Africa, while it is
being cut away on the west coast of
Europe.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Oxygen apparatus that can be car
ried in mans pocket has been in
vented In France for reviving gas
victims.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

A Russian naval officer is the inven-
tor of an electrical machine for writ
ing messages In cipher and translating
such messages.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Duralium is the name given in Ger
many to several light but tough alloys
in which aluminium plays the chief
part.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

In some parts of India castor oil
beans are made into an Illuminating
gas that is said to be superior to Coal
gas.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

The summer residents at Blue Ridge
Summit, Monterey, Chairman and
Buena Vista Springs, from Baltimore,
Richmond. Norfolk, Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, have purchased land for
merly belonging to the late George T.
Oliver of Baltimore Mt Blue Ridge
Summit.
A church. 80 by 5S feet, is now be-
ing built, which, when completed, will
be presented TO the colored people of
that section, to be used as n place of
worship during the summer Here
tofore the colored help at the many
cottages had no church in which to
hold religious services.