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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

The militants declare they did not injure
the suffrage cause In Maine. The return:
do not indicate that they helped 1t.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Tho prico Of Wheat and Bread

THE governments first experiment In fix
Ing the price OF foodstuff has developed
an interesting situation. committee of
tho food administration. after long debate.
deadlocks and dissension, recommended to
the President that the 1917 wheat crop price
be fixed at $2.20 bushel. This was not
price to be enforced upon all wheat sellers.
for the reason that authority Is not given in
the law to fix the present wheat crop price.
1t was the figure which the government
agreed 1t would pay for this product. but In
effect 1t established the market price for all
buyers.
The Northwest is now protesting with
vehemence against that figure. The wheat
growers there claim that the price named
came In time to affect them, but too late to
prevent the Southern growers from realizing
from $3.50 to 50 a bushel on wheat which
had been harvested before the price schedule
went into operation. Representatives of the
Northwestern farmers have met In st. Paul
and bitterly objected to what they regard
as famine" prices. threatening to reduce
their 1918 acreage measure OF reprisal.
About the same time the master bakers of
the country were in session in Chicago, be-
wailing the fact that $2.20 for wheat was
too high, and that plant Congress and
moro plant administration. In their efforts
to satisfy the farmer, was practically forcing
the bakery industry to the wall. This COM
plant. Of course. is based upon the assump-
ton that with $2.20 wheat the baker must
reduce the price OF his bread.
Meantime. many Of the Northwestern rail-
roads are urging the farmers to ship their
wheat to market while the weather is good
and while the railroads have the equipment
to move It, But the farmer demurs. He is
holding back hi crop probably In the hope
that scarcity of wheat Will effect some change
Of policy in Washington And the La Fol
lettes and the Gronnas are giving encourage
ment to their wheat-growing friends.
How the government Is to deal with such
q problem as Is raised Is difficult to foresee
And how much longer the consumer Of bread
Is to be kept waiting for little consideration
is another unanswerable question. Verify
price-f3ng has its vicissitudes. The govern
ment cannot hope to please us ALL 1t may
prove impossible to please any Of us.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

Poor people In New York will be gratifled
to learn that there will be the usual number
OF grand operas at the Metropolitan.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
To Shrink n Sweat.,

a. L. S., OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES aweatAr
probably will shrink II washed in
hard water. Do not stretch In wiring
ing.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

women desiring medical education have
|cored triumph in the decision of the dean
|f the New York College of PHYSICIANS and
|iurgeons to admit to that institution women
pa an equal footing with men, after It has
operated for LOG years for the education
ff men only. The demand for physicians in
connection with military operations has
trained some sections OF the country of their
medical advisers, and it is probable one re-
ut or the war will be large increase In
me number of women practitioners.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

1t will be too bad II some of the officials
who have accepted passes are given a free
trip up salt river.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

Life insurance reports show that the death
rate from automobile accidents has more
than tripled from 1911 to 1916 in this coun-
try. In 1911 the death rate was 23 per
cent in every 100000 In 1915 it was IA
per cent One-third of this latter number
children. The great increase in deaths
was due to the increase in automobiles,
wreckless driving and the carelessness Of
children in the streets. The one remedy for
this menace--for 1t has become menace to
every crowded community--is stringent regu-
lation Of automobiles and greater care on
the part OF pedestrians.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Voice of the People

Letters must give tho name ana ad-
eIe.s OF the writer. Name will net DO
published II writer SO REQUESTS.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Reminding Him.

Jones-And Mr.. Hoover says that the food
supply
Mrs J.-Oh! by tho way John, that reminds
me; don't forget to order a porterhouse steak
some mushrooms and another barrel of flour
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

We fail to understand the position Of the
Canadian government that women are more
likely to vote wisely when their male repre-
sentatives are away from home.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

"Red-headed women have an awful temper
haven't they?"
Yes: but. say. wouldn't you have temper
II you had to be red-headed?"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

sweden's neutrality Is something like that
OF the burglars accomplice who has been
caught with the goods.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

& When the history OF the war comes to be
written. one OF its leading features will be
The description Of the remarkable advance
|ment woman has made In industrial and
scfentihc lines monopolized by men. One of
tho most notable OF these is woman's new
;position in medicine IN response to this
pfogress. tho College of Physicians and Sur
sgeons of Columbia University. New York.
land the Medical School of Harvard have
AArown down the bars and have admitted
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Many
ENJOYS
Recalled

that 1t should fall to the lot OF
the United States government to do in tho
way, of compelling foreign ENJOYS to live up
penalize the nonobservance thereof than any
other sovereign power, great small. Not
only have the President and the State Depart
attention Of diplomats accredited to the United
States to sense of their obligations the
country whose hospitality they enjoy. but the
administration has also been instrumental in
bringing about the dismissal of foreign ENJOYS
stationed in other countries.-Washington Post
Hudson Maxim, the inventor of
Chemists explosives, once declared that
" inventiveness and that. II 1t had
department. not levied upon the devices
brought out by civilians, we
should still be fighting our wars with bows and
arrows and stone hatchets 1t probably would
not be hard to present facts in rebuttal of a
statement quite sweeping, but the stubborn
refusal OF the chemists Of the War Department
to adopt the formula used by private muntion
factories In making primers is a serious in.
line. The results have completely con-
founded the army chemists: and 1t must be
been discovered before troops on the firing
line were forced to depend upon faulty ammuni-
tion.-Springfed Republican
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

QnIISHED every day tho year at 40 south Tenth
street, Richmoud Va. by Tho linles- Dispatch Pub
tshinx Co.. Inc. Charies b. AnsDrooL. EuI,or and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Advice.
The HSnaOn.

Smile, darn you. smile! And If you can't smile
don't growl
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Pleasant Chan

Pleasant Chap.
Smiths happy guy isn't he?'
II should say he is happy. Why rye ss.n
him sit with a pair of deuces and smile like an
ace full right In front Of a flush"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Current Editorial Comment

In view Of all the talk that
has been current for some years
past about the shirtsleeve char
acter of American diplomacy, 1t
seems akin to an irony OF fate
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Charcoal Eph,. Daily rbourh,

Charcoal Eph's Daily Thought.
Il ain got no use TO sufrra gettin'" said Char
coal Eph. In nasty mood but hit cyarn't be
denied dat dey sure do git a heap o. loafers z.
listen! Try some pone. Mistah Jackson"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
SEEN ON THE SIDE.
BIZ HENRY EDWARD WARNER.
,LucIk and Pluck.

Luck and Pluck.
Whom Luck was born, handsome child,
His happy parents went near wild
About his beauty. Straight OF limb,
And grace In every limo of him,
He was a dimpled little chap:
And cooling in his mothers lap,
A picture no Of infant joy
A bouncing. bubbling baby boy!
His brother Pluck was different
The gods no grace to him had lent
But he was swarthy. muscles knit,
Teeth set ono who holds q bit,
Gray-eyed-a cold steel-Eray: his hands
And arms bound round with sinewy bands
Pluck in the dead OF night was born:
Luck came to Earth with singing Morn
Somehow the tickle Fates Eave Luck
The roses. and tho thorns to Pluck;
Somehow Luck found a pretty maid
While Pluck wore footprints on the spade!
Somehow-we never know just how
Luck plucked the fruits Of Plucks good plow
And so they trod the paths. these twain,
That neither might e'er tread again.
But Time-he has wondrous plan
or evening the Fates for man,
And the years wore on the sands
Ran fortune to Pluck's horny hands
And Pluck-good fellow!-Uncle Pluck
Trots on his knee the kids of Luck;
And though there Is no grace about him.
The family couldn't live without him,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

Germany's forcing of Argentina into the
anks OF her many enemies is another very
pad days work for the autocracv. The
feutons have not leg to stand on In the
Fhole Western Hemisphere, and in the Ar
genuine ahalr they have lost much of the
opuiar sympathy they possessed in Scandi-
flaVla' because Of the use they made of the
swedish government. The autocracy has
evidently discounted its own ultimate OK
termination, but 1t t'has determined 10 i'm
pose on its enemies every ounce of the burden
Pr making complete job of the task.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
The Family Album.

across
aioum-a tender. sweet. lons-cherished book of
Hkenesses running away back to the time when
grandfather worked in foundry with one
gallus. How memories overcame us! Trembling
with sentiment. checked to the GOOGLE with
affection. we pored over the old deguerreotypes:
the ones with the family bride standing beside
the family groom with her hand on his shoulder
and the cute little Us without any clothes on at
the age OF one year. Then, completely over
como with emotion. we chucked the family
album into the furnace. 1t was too utterly
much 1t was breaking our heart
Another One.
Here's another clock Joke from joker He
writes: This Is original. went to a rafle last
night and half an hour after 1890. o'clock. !"
Curses
Daughter don't marry tho fret man you ,noet
Just look what happened to Eve!
Wed Just as soon be sardine as a strap
hanger.
The Optinnist.
He can coax cold mint julep from the burning
desert sands;
He can turn a trick with either of his energetic
hands;
He can do the cat stunt. landing on his feet ~
he should fall
And, no matter what may happen ne can .n,ve.-
through 1t all.
He can see the sun that's shining Just behind IN.
darkest cloud,
And can make wedding garment from tho
remnants OF shroud;
He can smile. who might be weepine wh.,
disasters on hts hip,
And he doesn't advertise his cares BY tremhltnr
In the lip.
He can send storm cloud driving. te can laugh
away tho fog
He can sing while others SILVER in the tempera-
mental bog;
Tho he may be down one minute for On. ni,u+.
may be vexed.
You can bet your bottom dollar he'll be I'D again
the next.
When he slaps you the shoulder he's a hat
terry of joy.
And he bubbles fellow feeling like an .ner
vesccnt boy
He can laugh-Lord. but his laughter. IT is
music to the soul!
And the pillows of his music to a mighty ooea
roli
Here's a cup. a toast, tiger for tho Che.rfu,
Optimist-
All the gods that like good fellows thew ba ~.
got him on their list;
Let US grip his hand and hold him as IN.
master-work, Friend
May the most indulgent fortunes on his wana.r
ings attend
Enemy OF all dyspepsia, champion of song and
mirth.
Prince of Pleasure Lord of I,aur,,.r
Monarch of tho Earth!
Guam the cup. clear libation! Pour u "a vo,,-
thirsty souls
while the echo of his gladness to th. x.rx
heavens rolls!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

every ship that sails the sea to-day is a
3ripute 10 the memory of Mathew Fontaine
Maury, whose dust reposes In Hollywood .rd
whose genius lights the chartrooms of everv
navy and mercantile marine In the world
gtls name Is TO nautical science what Frank
ms is TO electricity, and in his own CITY
Pr hlchmond Maurys fame is to be rerre-
I'ented In magnificent sculpture and tho story
[of his achievements L. to become go nos
3session OF every child il t.c r,:olic sco,.1.
fal III" GO" monwealth Of virsi: ~ on eve e
,4l. OF tanuary Maury has long been a
&ienizen OF the worlds hall of fame.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

DDRESs ALL COMMUNICATIONS The Times
dispatch, and tndiSidunas
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

" The value of solid steel coaches In the
conservation OF human life was conclusiyelv
demonstrated In the derailment of the New
|prleans and New York limited on the Louis
|Hille and Nashville Railroad near Kirkland
|sAia.. thursday morning. The report states
|that the engine and seven coaches were
[ihrown completely Off the track on their sides
EWhiie moving at high rate of speed yet
mo one was Injured. This immunity from
Meath or injury no doubt is wholly due 10
THE protection afforded by the steel coaches
sIad they been wooden coaches, they would
|have been smashed and burned. and probably
great loss OF life sustained
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

al IiiE ~hGSo.-Aho
Asucinteu Ii enttcu 10 thu usc ioi
epu ut No otueE-
fse credited paper, ana vhsu tie LOCAL he"'
i tights ~ spe-
al dispatches tcrriE niso Reserved
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

lhere is pending In Congress hin to
empower President Wilson to suspend pro-
Visions Of the shipping laws that neutral
vessels may be permitted to engage in Ameri-
ian coastwise trade. There Is said to he q
1arge amount OF neutral shipping tied up In
american ports which is ready to put Its
onnage 10 carrying cargoes between Ameri-
ah polts whenever the government gives
permission. The service of these sbins r.
|nuch needed. and will be needed still moro
Ign the future. to release American steamers
FOR service in carrying supplies TO our armies
Ein Europe. Congress should waste no time
In Fastening this bill to passage
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
Beware!

Daughter. don't marry tho first man you mcet
Just look what happened to Eve!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
RllIIulDllD Ulurss.pispaIb
THE DIsfATCt

.eSred January 81, 1862, at tho foys-OncS ~
kfichnond, Va, second class matter.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

Randolph l.
krlSate ErAnch hAcnanEe
connecIinS with MI ucpaIt-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

Wed Just as soon be sardine as strap
anger.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

biSANCA OrSAI6S; NA
ING ton. lIu eoarIeu
euceL. \. Wi New AoiN
Gay, kith Avenue Dnhu
iug; Chicago, feopics nus
building; fhllauripniA' oo
tuat Lie building.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21

Here's another clock Joke from Joker He
writes: This Ia original. went to a rafne last
night and half hour after 1880. 1 o'clock. :
Curses!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
TODAY'S tialikeT REPORTS

Chicago, March G.-WHEAT-Whea de-
veloped considerable strength today owing
in some degree to prospects that American
ships would after all be either armed or
conveyed or otherwise be given notable
protecti0n against submarines. Bullish
crop reports tended further to lift prices
and so. too. did word that buying for
Europe yesterday was fairly liberal. Open
ing prices which ranged from u to Ac
higher with May at 81 Ss34 to $1.S9. and
July at $1.5s9s to S1.59, We're followed by
other material gains.
Disclosures that exports have been a
good deal larger than the generally ac-
cepted estimates led afterwards to a sharp
ascent of price but in the late dealings the
gains were not well held. The close never
theiess was firm. Sc to 2@sc net higher.
with May at S1.903s to S1.9034 and July at
$1.59 to $1.591s.
CORN-Corn hardened with wheat. Buy
ing however, was less eager than recently
had been the case. After opening Ac to
1b05sc higher. the market scored a mod
crate additional upturn.
OATS-Absence of selling pressure
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
SUPREME COURT OPENS
First of Big Grist Cases Up in Trust
Dissolution Suit.

Washington, March 1.-THE su-
preme court, after a recess. which be-
gan February 5. to-day resumed its
sessions and following announcement
of decisions in a large number of
cases began hearings on a docket of
important litigation specially advanced
for oral argument.
The first case today was the federal
dissolution suit against the Interna-
tional Harvester company. Similar
suits against the United States Steel
corporation and United Shoe Machin-
cry company and tho Oregon-Califor-
mia land case and Rhode Island and
West Virginia election fraud prose-
cutions are also up for hearing this
week.
An array of prominent counsel ap-
peared today in the so-called "Har-
Vester trust" case, in which the COR
poration appeals from a Minnesota
federal court decree directing it's disso-
luton. The case was argued once be-
fore in April, 1915, but no decision
was reached and today's re-argument
was ordered. The defendants counsel
were to open the new~hearings and to-
morrow the governments case in chief
probably will be presented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
TO CHANGE INAUGURAL
Would Avoid March Gales by Hold
ing Fete Late in April.

Washington, March 6.-Mem bers
from Washington of the national in
auguration committee were to meet
today to consider a renewal of request
made to congress in 1901 asking a
constitutional amendment changing
the date of the quadrennial event to
the last Thursday in April. The prin-
cipal argument advanced for the
change is that the weather is never
dangerous" late in April.
The senate has three times adopted
a resolution changing the inaugural
day to the last week in April as ad-
vocated by the committee. but each
time the measure has failed to pass
the house. A two-thirds vote of each
house is necessary for adoption of a
constitutional amendment. The COM
mittee on inaugural change includes
governors OF the various states.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
PAYS ELECTION BETS
OLeary Loosens Up for Half Million.
Now Wilson'S Sure Winner.

F Chicago, March 6.-By 0 a. m. to-
day, James O'Leary'S strong box, said
to have contained anywhere up to
S650,000 in election bets, was prac-
tically emptied. O'Leary announced
yesterday, after the president took the
oath, that he would begin paying off
today. When his saloon opened, a
long string of winners were waiting.
'O'Leary, famous betting commits
sioner, refused to pay bets last fall
after Wilson's election, contending
that tile issue would be in doubt until
after the electoral college had assem-
bled. Later he decided to wait until
the inaugural.
I'll pay every bet" he said today
I've been here thirty years and no
man ever knew me to WEIGH on II
bet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
EX-T0PEKAN is DEAD
III. y. EngaiI Expires at Home o. His
Son in Washington.

III. J. Engall. former resident of To-
peka, died Monday morning at the
home of his son, Don J. Engan, of
Washington, d. =, according to word
received here. Mr.. Ehgall came to
Kansas from New York in 1870. He
settled in Topeka, where he lived until
four years ago when he moved to
Washington to live with his SON.
For a number of years he was en-
ployed in the city engineering depart
ment of Topeka. He served four years
in the New York volunteer regiment
in the Civil war. Mrs. J. J. Fuller,
1917 Buchanan street. and Mrs. J. It.
Worley, 1912 East Eighth street, are
cousins of Mr. Engall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
IoDYS ADJUSTMENTS

GRAND-Thos. H. Ince's massive
screen preacnment against war
Civilization"
IRIS-Fairy Marguerite Clark in
screen version of Molly Elliott
SeawelFs charming Fortunes of
F'ffi'' and Mrs. Vernon Castle in
new gowns and new installment
of +Patria."
ORPHEUM-Rober Harron depict
ing pampered young America in
THE Bad Boy"
NOVELTY-Five acts vaudeville
and Pearl of the Army" picture
serial.
COZY-The well known Charles
Chaplin in Easy Street" and
The Sanity Sinner" Bluebird
melodra ma.
For details, prices. etc, see adver-
tisement on page 5 of the State
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
SPRING ON TAP TODAY
Continued from Page oneJ

change in temperature. The mercury
read AZ at 8 o'clock and Mr.. Flora
says, il will climb between SO and so
this afternoon. The highest tempera-
ture tomorrow will be around 35.
The shippers forecast reads to pro-
tect 36-hour shipments against 25 de-
grees in the north and west. and
against 80 in the south and east
The highest temperature on record
for this date is 10 in 1908. and the
lowest, above in 1912 The wind
was Moving 20 miles an hour this
morning at 9 O'Clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
S35O,0OO FOR CLUB
Syndicate Pays $25,000 for Option
on st. Louis Nationals.

ST. Louis. March 6.-An option on
the St Louis National baseball club
was obtained by James c. Jones, at
torney for the club this afternoon
when he paid $4,000 to Mrs. Helene
Britton, owner. Mr.. Jones and asso-
ciates have sixty days in which to
make a payment of $4,000. The
total cost of the club win be $3.50, 900.
Stock will be sold in any amount up
to $1,000 worth to one man, but no
one is to be allowed to buy more.
With each share of stock will go
season pass to the ball park, but this
pass must be transferred to some one
under sixteen years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
ON A SUBMARINE HUNT
British Cruisers Expected in Gulf of
Mexico in Few Days.

Galveston, Tex, March "a fleet
of British light cruisers is expected
to enter this port within the next day
or two, according to information OBJ
tanned here.
The cruisers, it was stated were or
dered into the waters of the Gulf of
Mexico to search for German subma-
rines believed to be lurking in the
path of oil steamers, and also to seek
ships which might carry supplies to
the U-boats from gulf ports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-06
BEGIN FAMOUS TRIAL
Quartet Charged With Plot to Murder
British Premier in Court.

London. March 6.-The trial of the
four persons charged with conspiring
to murder Premier David Lloyd
George and Arthur Henderson, labor
member of the war council, began to-
day at the Old Bailey before Justice
Low. The defendants who were held
for trial after hearing at Derby last
month as result of the exposure of
the poison conspiracy in which they
were alleged to be engaged are Mrs.
Alice Wheeldon and her two daugh-
tiers. Miss Ann Wheeldon and Mrs
Alfred George Mason. and Mrs. Mas
On'S husband