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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-14

to run . standard gauge railway
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-14
PRESIDENT WILL ACT
PROMPTLY TO AVERT STRIKE

Washington. March 13.-President
Wilson will act promptly and de-
ctsively to prevent any general tie-up
Of tho commerce of the country
through a great railroad strike while
the nation is confronted with the dire
possibilities of the present interna-
tona1 situation. Convinced that both
the railroads and their employees will
put aside their own differences to Join
IN the defense OF the country, tho
president Is prepared to once more
step into the railroad controversy, II
the strike threat once more becomes
acute
Today, although confined to his
room, the president was in close touch
with the railroad situation. He con-
fcrred at length with Secretary of
Labor Wilson who has been watch
ing the developments in the railroad
controversy closely and received a
detailed report Of the present situa-
ton. He will be kept advised as to
tho progress of discussions between
the four big brotherhood chiefs. and
! the conference committee Of railr DAD
managers In New York. which begins
on Thursday. Under his direction.
the federal board OF mediation and
/ cancellation will be prepared to act
at once, and to exert all OF the In
! fuence OF the federal government to
! prevent clash between the railroads
II nd their employees The board met
oday and reviewed the situation. but
no announcement was forthcoming.
j In a secret meeting today. w. 8.
/ Stone. of the engineers: w 8, Carter.
Of the firemen: l.. W. Sheppard, OF the
conductors. and w. G. Lee. of the
| tra!nmen, went over with the brother
I hood chairmen from the Southeastern
| Ines the proposal which will be sub
nitted to the railroad managers
! Thursday.
Virginians Represented.
| The local representatives endorsed
! the proposal. which will not be made
public until II is laid before the rail-
road representative 1t was stated in
railroad circles. however. that the
rev proposal will demonstrate the
sincere desire OF the brotherhoods to
avert a strike In the present crisis
The Southern. Norfolk and Western
and the Chesa peake and Ohio local
organizations were represented at to-
days meeting
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-14

On concurrence with the council,
= .s.>.. ..s4@u rt4sorabiy .;.il urdi-
lance granting permission to the
= ltheru railway w operate spur
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-14
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away was not his employer. but wo'
man VISITOR
Boy-Ed I'm CITY.
Agents or the department OF justice
admitted today that they had definite
~ established the 'act that Boy Ed
had been in tLIs city ana that they
had questioned Mrs. Mackay Smith
and her daughter II Boy Ed had visit
cd their home After visiting the two
women the federal agents said: Mrs
Mackay Smith and her daughter had
nothing to say"
During the past week the Smith
home has been kept under aurveil-
lance, Miss Virginia Smith at one
time was reported to be the fancet
of Captain Boy Ed, but the engage.
mont was never officially confirmed by
the family.
Another Mysterious Woman.
one OF the peculiar condolences ir
connection with the search for Boy
f-a led TO mysterious woman wht
called OF the navy yard last week
she said that she was relative of one
81 the informed officers. but as she
dad 80 credentials the guard refused
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queS1ioat1 0y t'arhafino and BROOKS
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-14
B21THtRHooD5 SAY
CONTINUED from First Page

Seemingly 1t has been the purpose
of the railroad companies to post
pone final settlement of this question
until either a panic or war should
defeat our demands"
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27

over again by passing another amend
ment forbidding the states TO deny or
abridge the suffrage on account OF sex.
The only question involved is one OF
political expediency.
The author practically admits this
by discussing the wisdom OF the Fiji
teenth Amendment. He considers that
amendment to have been a great po-
litical bunder, and cites the fact that
many of the Southern states found
WAYS to make il a dead letter az n
proof of it's unwisdom. He suggests
that similar steps would be taken in
many states TO nullify a woman suf-
frage amendment.
The analogy is far-fetched. The Fiji
teenth Amendment affected a relatively
small class, without education, means
or power, massed in a few states. A
woman suffrage amendment would af-
feet half the population of the country,
that half including all grades Of So
ciety. Moreover, suffrage for the negro
had never been tried before the nation
gave him the franchise. It was leap
into the unknown. Woman suffrage
has been tried in many states, and no
state which has tried it has ever
abandoned it. II is not in any sense
q rash experiment.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
Great Men
sOurces.

WORLD PATRIOTS. BY John = N, JoovsoJhd Wo,d
illustrated. $50 pp. Ill., Sl'' i"' ~
Patriots Company.
Very different. in character and IN
achievements, were the ten men VINO
figure in these pages as representative
patriots of the world, yet there is not
one to whom the word does not IN
dubitably apply. Washington and LIN
coin; Bolivar, Bonaparte, Peter. Bis
marck. Pitt (the elder, Ito, Cavour,
Gustavus Adolphus-every one OF
them great, every one a patriot. BY
way of appendix, or supplement. there
arc included. not unworthlly, sketches
of Lee. Jefferson and Benton. DR..
Johnston has treated his famous SUBJ
jects in a manner popular rather than
profound, and this is judicious; al
ways assuming the popular treatment
to be also accurate and discreet. IL
NAV be doubted whether any further
profoundities concerning these men,
or, at any rate, most Of them, are 10
be forthcoming, while there Is no
question in the world that sane and
correct popular information of them,
through the presentation OF well es.
tablished facts. is highly desirable and
is much needed. This attractive vol
ume will therefore serve useful pur-
nose. and is TO be cordially commended.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
Belgian Martyrs
"Friohtfulness" Seen by an
Authentic Witness

. yorRNAr. FROM oUR LEGATION IN BEI-
Cfr-N Ry Hugh Gibson. liusfsteo ,@,uln -
SfS,osrsphS $50. pp. $50. Doubleday. P.E'
Co
This Is one OF the authoritative
hooks on the war. Of timely interest
and enduring value. Its author was
FIRST secretary Of the American Lega..
tion az Brussels at the outbreak OF
the war, and it was part Oh Doth
Ills official duty and his official privl-
;ege 20 know what was gong on
obove all ordinary observers. Ihere
was no thought Of making u enron
;clc Of horrors, and, indeed, the IN
clination seems TO be 10 avoid dong
so But such was the internal nature
of German "frightfulness' that IN the
most ordinary variations it frequently
crops up. Thus:
Reside this mans property there
is a railway crossing. When a troop
train passed over il day before yes
terdav there was an explosion Ike
the rcport Of rifle. The train was
immediately stopped. The officer IN
command announced that civilians
had fred upon his train, and ordered
all the men in the vicinity taken
prisoners. Then, refusing to lis
ION 10 explanation or discussion, he
had them all stood up against wall
and shot. When il was all over he
listened 20 explanations, and
learned that the reporr was that OF
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
Men Who Endured
Personal Experiences in Battle
and Prison

A sr-NSY srrBALTTRN. lsmo %. i5s. Tue
Georg. H. Doran Company
IN GERMAN HANDS BY Charles Henneoois.
with a preface by ESnest Daudet- l2mc pp 2ot.
z. L. Dutton 90.
TIE RtHIEBEN PRISON CAMP By Israel Cohen.
with illustrations and plan. syo, pp XIV 2oI.
Dodd Mead & Co.
HOSTAGE IN GERMANY. BY Georges D@-
son. illustrated. l2mo. pp WILL lt'. t. T. Du'-
ton & 60.
"a Sunny Subaltern" finely displays
the victorious career Of young, hope
full heart. He sees the humor which
turks in even the grim and tragic ex-
periences of war, and he put 1t, with
his own unconquerable buoyancy, in
these letters to his mother. At the
same time he is intensely thoughtful;
as the most playful sometimes are, and
he gives TO the problems Of the war
and of human life and death very seri-
GUS and fruitful consideration. In the
end comes tragedy, but We instlnctively
feel that though il Is the end or the
volume il simply cannot be the END OF
that vital and joyous soul.
The sufferings Of a wounded prison
er in German hands are set forth by
Charles Hennebois in a diary which
reads rot at all like something de-
signed for publication, but rather the
transcript Of the intimate communings
Of a soul with itself. In reading it
we instinctiyely enter into the soliloquy
ourselves. and seem ourselves to be
undergoing the experiences of the di-
artist. In its pages the atrocities of
what the author mordantly calls "Boche
humanity" are set forth in aqua forts
etching. Yet it is characteristic OF
,a ~
which we have commented, that it
eliminates in a renewed profession Of
triumphant faith:
II my physical strength has been
diminished by the ordeal. my vision
has been enlarged, and embraces new
things. Ny faith has not foundered
in the tragic encounter with the real
tiles Of the conflict; | have purified
il. set it free from doubt, and l no
longer believe in death.
Surely, men Of such sublimity Of soul
are unconquerable.
Mr. Cohen, not a soldier, but civil
ian, gives us an account not OF war
and prisoners Of war, but Of the fate
OF civilians in vast concentration
camp. For more than a year and a
half he was in one Of the largest OF
those establishments, and he gives us
the most detailed and circumstantial
description and narrative that we re-
member TO have seen Of one. Sports,
pastimos. mock elections, schools, pub
ication of periodicals and innumerable
other social activities were resorted TO
By the prisoners TO relieve the horror
Of their lot, but withsl their lot re-
mained horrible. Ruhleben may have
been the most humanely--or least
inhumanly - conducted concentration
camp in Germany. Yet there are points
at which we find ourselves instinctively
wondering H. in comparison with the
doings Of the Huns. the Cuban con-
centraton camps with which Weyler
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
2OOKS ATIIORS. PUBL NEWS: Reviews COMMENl

warranted form in the same chapter
when the author says: IAN amendmein
taking the right of determining SUI
frage and placing il under the controi
of the Federal government would be a
radical change OF the instrument ana
contrary TO the views of those VINO
originally framed the Constitution
This provision has been accepted dur
ing the life of the government for 10
years without any serious denial OF lts
wisdom or any attempt TO change its
wise and bencficent provisions"
Such declarations come into head-on
collision with the fact that the Fiji
teenth Amendment, which has been a
part Of the Constitution since 1870,
doss determine suffrage in exactly the
same way as the woman suffragists are
now asking to have il determined. Mr.
Tucker cannot argue that fact out OF
existence. But he tries to reconcile 1t
with his own contentious by holding
that the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments were "the out
come of revolution" and therefore can
not be accepted as precedents for con-
stitutional action in a time of national
tranquility.
This, of course, Is mere begging
of the question. What the nation did
when it adopted the Fifteenth Amend
ment. forbidding the states TO deny or
sbridge the suffrage on account OF
race, color or previous condition of
servitude. il is entirely free TO do
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
Romance Of Benedict Arnold
Men Who Were History Makers

treacbcrv and treason; but neither can
tho bIackness of his turpitude conceal
tho snlendor OF his earlier achieve
ments' Nor can his guilt transform
tho iniouities OF others into virtue
Gates would doubtless have been as
great n traitor as Arnold if he had
been as brave n man. Charles Lee was
AT least as treacherous as Arnold, with
out a single one of the latter's great
oualities; while the unspeakable VII
kinson was probably far worse IN every
respect than the traitor Of West Point
MIR. Stimson does not, IT Is needless
70 say. undertake anything like a vindi-
cation of Arnold. lie pictures MN as
n selfish and sophistical traitor, trying
10 nose in his own sight as noole
pacifst-a feature OF the work when
is to be commended to some OF the
pacifists of our own day. with master
iy skill he has entered into the inner
processes of Arnold's mind. until IN
his luminous pages we can see the
working of the leaven OF unrighteous-
ness. the moral fibre of the man de-
teriorating and breaking down under
the stress of temptation, injustice and
persecution, until, partly through re,
venge, partly through cupidity and
partly through a mistaken despair OF q
country dominated-as he incorrectly
thought-by Gates, Wilkinson, Reed
and creatures Of like kidney, he
plunged into an abyss of crime from
which there was no redemption. The
volume is one of the most valuable
contributions to American Revolution
ary literature that have appeared in this
generation
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27

the nervous and throbbing flesh and
blood of vital romance and makes old
times and old characters live again IN
the white light Of truthful portrayal.
Such an achievement is here TO be
credited to our old friend -. 5. OF
Dale" lie has written in the form OF
Arnolds memoirs a romance OF the
Revolution which as sheer romance IS
of fascinating interest. and which as
history is probably more informing
and accurate than nine-tenths OF the
actual history books on the subject. All
the salient features Of the narrative
are taken truthfully from the record
and official letters and other documents
are freely quoted In literal text. BEST
of all. the portrayal OF characters OF
the prominent men of the Revolution
is effected in a sngularly litellke and
convincing manner. They are given, OF
course. not as the historian himself
would in all cases haYe them regarded
but as Arnold regarded them; and as
Arnold reveals his own character with
especial fulness we are able 10 ap-
praise his opinions of others at their
true worth. 49,
Thus, Arnold's reverence for WASH
ington, which was doubtless sincere is
made plain. Equally plain and equally
sincere are his contempt for and detes-
tation of Gates, Wilkinson and other
such creatures, and for the time-serv-
ing and self-seeking politicians in Con-
gress; in which sentiments the great
traitor was quite right. Jay" said
Gouverneur Morris, years afterward, TO
John Jay, what lot of damned scoun-
drels we had in that Congress!p Yes
replied Jay, that We had" II those
two Of the purest souls that illumined
the Revolution with their virtues so ex.
actly agreed with the darkened mind
of the betrayer Of his country, we must
surely accept the judgment as just.
This, indeed. is one OF the several
great merits of Mr.. Stimson's master
piece. that II presents a portrait OF Ar
mold in Just setting. Too often he has
been portrayed as nothing but a traitor
and all the others as pure and noble
patriots. The fact is that In the early
part Of the war Arnold was one of the
bravest and ablest soldiers and most
devoted patriots in America. His
downfall began when he got "into so
ciety" at Philadelphia and became
covetous Of wealth; after which he had
not the moral stamina to stand erect
against a combination OF pecuniary
temptations and the vile provocations
Of slander and persecution with which
he was assailed. or course, none o1
these things, nor all of them together
can excuse in any degree his infamou;
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27

Mortified the world were really so very
bad, after all.
The case OF Mr.. Desson was one of
the most inexcusably fragrant Of all.
He was not a prisoner Of war. He was
not an alien enemy in Germany. He
was a French civilian, eminent in his
profession, who had given no offence
whatever, but who was seized at his
home in Northern France and deported
to Germany, and there held as a hos
tage. The denominations OF his prison
house and the bestial tyrannies Of his
jailers could not, however, break the
spirit Of the man nor absse the note
Of hope. of faith and Of buOyant for
titude which prevails throughout this
graphic narrative. As a contrast in
mentalities, the French and the Prus-
sian. the book 10 Of singular and men,
orable interest
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
Eyewitness ofBelgiium' Rape
State Rights and Suffrage

a can placed in the switch by the
German railway men as a signal 10
stop the train before reaching the
next station. BY way of reparation,
he then graciously admitted that
civilians were innocent. But, as my
caller said: "The civilians were
also dead"
There are many such records OF Ger.
man atrocities, eliminating in that OF
the murder of Edith Cavell. Mr.. Glib
son, who was the chief personal inter-
cessor with the German authorities
against that crime, makes it damning-
ly clear that she was convicted through
a strained and unwarranted interpre--
tation of the law; that the charge OF
being a spy was not made against her
until after her death, and did not fig
ure in her trial; that most, If not all,
others convicted Of the same acts Tor
which she was tried were merely I'M
prisoned; that she was sentenced not
in open court, but in the privacy OF
her cell, and that her death was re-
solved upon and executed as sheer
act Of "frightfulness," one of the muir
derers saying to Mr.. Gibson with a
sneer that at would have an excel
lent effect"
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
State Rights and Suffrage

wOMAN's SUFFRAGE BY CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT ny Henry ST. George Tucker
$40. pp. \. 20i. Yale University Press
Mr.. Tucker has published under this
title FIVE lectures which he delivered
year ago in the Storrs Lecture Course
st the Law School Of Yale University.
The lectures have been slightly modi-
fed and brought up TO date. The
authors purpose, as he describes II in
the opening chapter. is to demonstrate
that the granting of suffrage through
the adoption of a constitutional amend
ment such as Congress has been con,
sidering for some time past would
"subvert principle which has beer
recognized from the adoption OF the
Constitution to this day. viz, that the
right Of suffrage properly, the
privilege Of suffrage-is a state priv
ilege, emanating from the state.
granted by the state, and that can be
ourtailed alone by the state"
This is manifestly too broad state
ment 1t is repeated in an equally un-
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27

the war we would have won our inde- e
pendence." is Mosby's view. lnat Is,
of course, only hypothesis Aga,niss !,
If NAV be placed Upton's scholarly
Judgment that the war could have oesn es n
won much earlier by the North if the
Federal armies had been commanaea
from the beginning by man VINO was
wiling to make full use, as Grant was
Of the North's greatly superior re-
New-York tribune., 1917-10-27
I. S. of Dale, Historian
A Remarkable Autobiography
of Benedict Arnold
MY STORY Being N. Memoir. Of Benedict Al Al

MY STORY. Being the Memoirs Of Benedict ~,
mold By T. J. Sfimson. with portraits ana
map svo. w. iE. 622. Charles Sorbners sons
Historical novels are too often neither
novel nor historical. being chiefly re-
hashes and distortions. We recall sew
ersl such in recent years, put forward
bv pifling nincompoops Of the type
writer. now happily forgot by all save
us whose business it is to remember
even the brutalities Of the book world
But now and then there swims into our
ken. in Keats's phrase, like a new plan
ct. some work of signal talent which
clothes the dry bones of history with
The sun., 1917-09-14
BOND MARKET HELD
UP BY MUNICIPALS
Other Issues Continue Down,
With Some New Low Records
Notes Continue Soft.

The municipal department continued
yesterday to be the outstanding feature
of the bond market. New York city
ANS. due in 1867, and which represent
the latest issue. were fractionally higher
owing to the dissolution Of the syndicate
which successfully bid In July for the
$55.0o0.000 offering. It developed that
before dissolving the syndicate some Of
the members divided among themselves
nearly $13.000.000 Of the issue. This
was done, It was said, because the
firms believe they could dispose Of them
more readily as individuals.
Dealers believe the demand for munic-
lpals will be further increased IL the
new Liberty Loan is not tax exempt.
The note market was again soft, Hook
Ing Valley notes being in particularly
good supply and at concessions in'prioe.
Bethlehem 6teels continue to display
hrmnesA
Foreign Government Issues were also
offered at the expense Of prioe. several
now low hsures being made for this
movement. Banks were said to be sellers
Of the United Kingdom loans
Local traction issues fail to snow any
resiliency and Interboroush-M -Metropoli-
tan ANS touched new low figure.
The day was not without further new
low prices in the Industrial department
United States Rubber refunding 6s
changed hands at s2A. Among the rails
st. Louis and San Francisco prior lien
4s lost a fraction and made a new low
record. Missouri Pacific general mort
gage 4s were also heavy.
Total sales amounted in par value to
$685. 900. compared with $3,3S5,000 on
Wednesday and $3.222,00o week ago.
Quotations for Governments and sales
of other bonds follow: