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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
TRADING-wITH-EN BILL
On WAY To FINAL PASSAGE
[By Associated Pres..l

WASHINGTON, September 24-After
brief debate the Senate to-day adopted
the conference report on the trading
with thc-enemy bill with only six neg
alive votes. The House liz expected to
accept the report tomorrow and send
the measure to the President for hia
signature.
Discussion to-day conferred upon an
amendment added by the conferees, pro-
hibitinE tho publication or distribution
by any means Of matter made nonmaI-
able by the espionage act. Tho proyi-
sion Is designed to suppress entirely
seditlous publications barred from the
mail. but still circulating by express or
otherwise.
Senators Norris and Cummins pro-
tested vigorously against tho action Of
Inc confcrees, declaring II would permit
the Posmaster-General to put out of
business arbitrarily any newspaper or
magazine without giving reasons. Sem
ators King. Ransder, Fletcher and
Nardaman upheld the provision, insist
Ing that publications violating tho
espionage act should not be permitted
to circulate.
The bill. which passed both houses
with little opposition. forbids trading
by Americans with enemies or allies Of
enemies, provides for custodian Of
enemy funds. for regulation of foreign
insurance companies. for licensing Tor.
eis n-anguhge newspapers for censor.
snip OF all foreign communication, and
authorizes the President 10 embargo
imports.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
100000 MALC0NTENTS
PLANNED REVOLUTION
Were to Shoot Officers OF the Gov
ernment, Apply Torch to Cities and
DemoraliZe Communication.
1. W. w. TO LAUNCH UPRISING
Revelations Made by State Witness
In Trial Of Alleged Antiiraft Agi-
tators From Central Oklahoma.
Was to Have Broken on july 81.
tBy Associated Press. !

ENID. OKLA. September PA
revolution Of 100000 malcontents,
nationwide in scope. backed by tho
I. w. w. and forty-eight AFFILIATED
organizations. including the Working
Class Union. In which II was MANNED
TO apply the torch to small cities,
shoot officers OF tho government
and demoralize communication. was
Planned for July 81 last, according to
the testimony to-day Of VIII Hoover,
state witness In the trial of eleven
alleged antidraft agitators from Cen
trail Oklahoma.
Tho Industrial Workers OF the
World were to launch the uprising,
Hoover said "Rube" Munson, alleged
state organizer of the w. c. u, told
meeting OF the Friendship local In
an open cornfield near Sasakawa. At
prearranged time. the w. c. u. was
to capture small towns. take charge OF
banks, burn bridges and cut telegraph
~ires' while the 1. w. w. cared for
the larger cities in like manner.
president Wilson and Governor Will
llams. OF Oklahoma, Hoover said Mum
son declared, would have such a large
force OF soldiers for personal protec-
ton and OH the Mexican border that
none would be available to send
against tho rebels.
Members, he said. were told by II.
[. Spence. accused State secretary OF
the w. c. u. that two carloads of
rihcs would be available when needed.
and that the w. c. U. had as much
right to conscript recruits for rev,-
luton as the government had to draf,
men for tho trenches In France. Al
this meeting early in July, appropria-
lions were made for the purchase of
100 pounds OF dynamite, Hoover de-
clared.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
News Of Fifty Years Ago
(From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept o. 1857 ,

General Schofeld yesterday issued C;ener.,
order No. 81 requiring all Confederate snIIie
VINO were not present at any surrender ana
therefore. not properly Daroed, to take ont ~.
prescribed parole within thirty days '"e
The Officers. soldiers and sailors ~ ~.
Union now living in Richmond have be1d inc 10
meeting and expressed their choice for next
H Fl. Wells. ei ai
UP to the present only 1873 petitions for
bankruptcy have been filed with the renistr roi
from all parts of Virginia al
1t is estimated that the cotton cron =,
the South will exceed 100000 bales this ysor
The proprietor of the Greenbrier White GIL
phur Springs Is said to have cleared 81 400
this season. '"0
A dispatch received from Lancaster Do &,
Washington yesterday said that Thad steven
is very Ill man and supposed to be diving
The Conservative Constitutional Union, mo,
OF Wake County, ~ c.. have called ctSnVen
tion to oppose the Incorporation OF the Brown
low Holden Radical program into the Con.
stitutlon of that State.
General Grants father addressed a Demo-
cratic meeting in Cincinnati Saturday night
and denounced the reconstruction measures Of
stevens, Boutwell, & Co. -
The Charlottesville Chronicle saws Nortbern
men are seeking land In Albemarle County
week tho Tibbs farm of 500 acres was sold Sor
s11,5oO. and the Terrill farm OF 565 acres for
more than $4,000.
heads, sixteen tierces and eleven boxes being
offered. the most Of which taken mt prices
entirely satisfactory to the sellers. The high
price, usual, was for yellow wrappers, a
tiorce selling for s111 per hundred pounds.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
VIRGINS IS CHARGED
WITH SERIES OF CprHrs
[By Associated pr.,s =,

tby associated Press
SEATTLE, WASH. September "a
j. T.. Virgins. alleged head of the
Working Glass Union. an antidraf,
Organization. that caused much trouble
In oklahoma. and who has been in
the city jail here since last Thursday
is charged with a series Of crimes in
dispatches received BY Federal officials
here to-day. 1t ia alleged that he
dynamtted the water and sewer mains
at Harietta, Okla. last spring, and
later set fire to R school house near
marietta, and that he armed negroes
ana others near Dcwar and Kusa,
Okla. and urged them to obstruct the
draft law.
virgins was a waiter sixteen DAYS
at the cantonment at Camp Lewis
american Lake, Wash. and his con-
duct while SO employed is being in
restigated.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Mortality in War and Peace

Mo ono would be foolish enough to contend
that soldier in the trenches would be
as safe as though he were at home following
a civil occupation yet there are some civil
occupations in which the workers are sub
Ject to rate of mortality almost as high
as that which prevails among soldiers at the
front. There are said to be many cities in
the United States in which the death rate
for the whole population is half as high as
among the men engaged In the European
Most people e1aggerate the deadliness of
war-and certainly it stands in no need of
eXaggeration-by charging the entire loss OF
life among soldiers to the dangers of war.
without rejecting that many of these same
men would die If they had not joined the
army. The American Experience Table, in
use by most Of the large insurance com
panies, shows that between the ages of
twenty-one and thirty-one of the general
population OF this country there is an aver
age death rate of 2h per cent or 23,25O
out or each million. Miles NJ Dawson an
experienced actuary, reports that the Pru-
dental Company OF London having insured
100000 soldiers has found the death rate
TO be per cent This shows an advantage
of the civil population of only one-half of
l per cent. The Experience Table however.
has reference 10 infants, old people and
invalids, as we'll as to others; while the
iTudehtldl taDies apply only TO men Of mil
itary age, who have been physically eS-
amined. Nevertheless, the discrepancy is
not as great as most people believe 1t is
clear that, in order to arrive a. the mortality
due to the war, one should subtract from the
military and naval death rate the mortality
OF men of like ages with the soldiers and
sailors who have passed medical examina-
tons Unfortunately, there is no table In
existence by which the comparison may be
made. The best guess Is that the mortality
OF men at the front is about twice as great
as among men at home who nave physiuues
equally strong.
1t Is noticeable that deaths from disease
among men at the front are fewer than
| among an equal number OF men in civil life
| The physical exercise, the simpler diet tho
| diminished opportunity for dissipation and
| the stimulation Of mental interest NAV
account for this. All pension lists bear
witness to the fact that those who survive
| wars dangers are likely to live long In
| deed, 1t is by no means certain that the
average longevity OF the men composing an
| army OF. say, 100000, even though they
! encounter all the dangers of trench warfare
| would not be greater than that OF the same
! men II they were to stay at home engage
| in sedcntary callings and suffer the disin-
tegrating evils OF a modern business life.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
"Spurlos Versenkt."

Sink the ship and drown the crew!
Wreck the crowded lifeboats, too!"
Thus your Kaiser orders you.
We have used a base deceit:
And the crime must be complete.
Lest they should detect the cheat.
Leave TO tongue to tell the tale!
Child may plead, and woman wall!
Death for you. If you should quail.
Massacre and drown the whole!
Let the seas above them roll!
Drive Gods mercy from your soull
A ribbon for your buttonhole.
And hell forever he your dole.
Bertrand Shadwsil.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

afford laid and comfort to the enemy"
which comes within the definition of trea-
son. AS Senator King has courageously and
periodically observed, the time has come to
expose and prosecute to the full extent OF
tho law those who, by word or deed. attempt
to influence citizens against giving whole
hearted support to the government In It's
prosecution of the war by every resource
within its power. There is ample statutory
law to put a quietus upon overt disloyalty,
and it should be invoked to the limit
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
NO AGREEMENT YET
ON WAR TAX RIII
tBy Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, September PA.
though on the verge of a complete
agreement on the war tax bill many
mes to-day. Senate and House conferees
again failed to get together. and adj
journed until Tomorrow with tho hope
OF concluding their struggle then.
continued disputes over war excess
prohts taxation and few minor mat
ters blocked the agreement expected to-
day by many Of the conferees The
senate members were reportd ready to
accept the compromise plan of gradu-
ated war excess profits rates, proposed
by the House representatives, when
further dispute arose over renewed at
tempts to provide fiat exemption of
per cent Of invested corporate capital
1t is generally agreed that any agree
ment on war excess profits will not ma
tcrialy change The Senate's proposed
gross levy Of $1,000. 100000
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Health Talks, by Dr.. Vim. Brady
'CopyFisht 1917. by National Newspaper Service,
Symphony Due TO Exexfrnin

girl nineteen years of age empIoved in -,
headache s we're he
with gratutious advice. They assured her it
merchant op,cian, who examined Seg e yss'e ana
sure res enough found astigmatism and other
GLASSES The headaches continued and increased
So se Visited b eac she began to look badly
and aie, to bed. where her typhoid fever ran its
the opca had made to light it With efforts
practiicaiiy all of US have astgmatism (ir-
is eye perfect in its refracion Yet t'" only
a few Of us suffer from defects Of vision.
kidney is anchored jouncing aroundMun,e nas
MoWer Resistance is mere auibbiing we must
is ewer .n ass Why
just know that Smith doesn't endure iittIe
4 gentleman suffered from redness and ,rr,.
aton eSrh the Of EYES te and ids After reading
when his eyes were used for close WorR 0I Hs
visited merchant optician. who found thai
we're lifted No better Gasses weIe cban nssss
sun no better Gentleman Ii decided to consult
aeG S to
and the y spms mattel
to trouble him. and his eyes regained their
mighty good oeuls, deermins whether as sspm.
Headache is a symptom OF great many diff
depend upon eyestrain and arc relieved or cured
y tendency to squirt or narrow tho eyes. to
using the eyes. sense Of fatigue and soreness
redae an" "n OF e sss sns
eyelids without apparent cause. sometimes diz-
Res to os nSea.s eye
strain.
Questions and Ansyyers
what he msk sst an m'TS s, Of IN
sider most hysienio for tho colder season of the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
SEEN ON THE SIDE.
Fishing.
BIZ HENRY EDWARD WARNER.

Fishing.
Just got back from a fishing trip. and didn't
catch fish;
But caught tho feel of bigness where tho waters
roll and swish
There wasn't single nibble. and didn't catch
thing
But the sweetness Of the open, whore the wards
of Nature sing!
1t was rrutless fishing trip didn't have a
bite!
But o the healthy punch there was in Daddy.s
appetite!
Counted by fms and pounds. I guess the day
wasted-yet
Somehow there's something better than fish, the
earnest fishers get!
Just got back from fishing trip-the folks all
laugh
And put through the third degree of usual
landsman chan!
] fshed in deeps and shadows. but never 4 min
To nibble the luscious bait dropped or hep
n hopeless game!
I didn't catch n single FISH; but one thing that
l caught
Was OF the bigger hopes with
which mems lives frauEht!
And. though my creel empty I caught a
whole heap more
Than the suggard that fret and stew and
worry themselves shore.
caught breath of the good salt breeze Just
from the open sea:
caught vision of greatness Of God that
always braces me:
caught the sweep Of the rolling waves from
farthest countries sped;
caught the sigh in Widows prayer for tho
souls of the brave sea dead!
l caught n thought that was shaped and
wrought by the arms of iron Fate;
caught the dreams OF Conqueror, the birth
of mighty State!
And though I caught fish at all, that Whit
of the good old
Is better than all the fish on Earth to an out.
door chap like me!
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

year? think your method of scalp massage is
the most effective have tried. Your
article on coryza. printed some time ago. was
a revelation to me.
Answer have II purely personal belief that
lightweight. knitted all-wool or wool. silk
lined union suits the ideal underwear for
ninc-tenths of us who arc indoors and outdoors
in cold weather. Wool Is slow conductor of
heat. Hence you do not cool OFF too rapidly
1t Is not too warm indoors. as thick as cotton
free Evaporation and ventilation It is the
nearest imitation think. of the hairy coating
some ago.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

The functions of the Home Defense League
may not seem so important while Richmond
has within call SO many soldiers, but when
these are moved TO fields of active operation it
will be highly necessary for some trained force
to be ready to deal with any outbreak of the
lawless element, from which even the most
orderly community is, unfortunately, never
entirely free. The men and women who are
lending their influence and energy TO the
establishment and maintenance of this league
are doing patriotic work Of an intimate and
practical kind.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

The appeal of the President TO tie so 900
striking iron workers at San Francisco for
their patriotic cooperation in carrying on
the work OF supporting the war has brought
Immediate results in eGecting a settlement
OF the strike which has tied up govern
ment shipbuilding contracts OF $3.50 OO0, 900
When properly made, the appeal to their
patriotism finds prompt response from every
class of American citizens. 1t is encourage
ing to note, after three years Of antiwar and
pro-German propaganda, that the President
has the fullest confidence of organized labor
no less than that OF every other loyal in
terest.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Alien with First Pap.r.

T. ]. H., Richmond.-Yes, an alien
resident who has taken out his first
citizenship papers can enlist in the
United States Army, and to all prac-
tical intents and purposes, he auto
matically becomes citizen, as aliens
of the age of twenty-one and upward.
who have been honorably DISCHARGED
from service in the armies of the
United States. either regular or volun-
teer, are not even required to make a
declaration OF intention.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

Tho revelations OF the Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills, d. D., OF Brooklyn, OF the German
atrocities are shocking even to those who
thought they were prepared to believe the
very worst of the outrages of the Hun
However, 1t is a comfort 10 know that evil
dence, in the shape of photographs and afi-
davits, was gathered Immediately after the
preparation OF these crimes and will be con-
sidered when the time comes for Germany
to pay the reckoning.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

The Texas Senate high court Of impcach-
mcnt has sustained ten OF the twenty-one
charges brought against Governor James f.
Ferguson, which means that by formal action
he viii be removed from Office. His i'm
parchment grows out OF bitter fractional pol
itics, in which the Governors technical yio-
lations OF law were seized upon by alert no.
litical enemies and made the basis of charges
good portion Of which have been sustained
by the trial body. Lieutenant-G ovcrnor Will
liam p Hobby. who succeeds to the Office, is
a comparatively young man OF acknowledged
ability and unimpeachablc integrity we'll in
formed as to the States needs and very non
ular, having incurred the hostility of none
OF the factions which have made Texas pol
tiles rather heated for several years past
He is se!f-Inade man and one OF the State
leading editors.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER %. 1917.

The Virginia Military Institute is to be
congrat ulated upon being again placed at inc
top OF the list OF colleges designated by the
War Department as providing efficient military
training. Though it is not a new honor 1t
is we'll deserved, and must be gratifying at
this juncture TO General Nichols the super
intendent, who is also chairman of the State
Council OF Defense.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

The civilized world-from which, for the
time being, We exclude the imperial German
government-wll be overjoyed if the report
that MIR. Edison has invented n contrivance
TO defect torpedoes should turn out to BIO
true. So many devices for this purpose have
proved ineffective that imperishable glory
will be the reward Of the inventor who
accomplishes this difficult task.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Complain. Of str..t v,o,L

Z. l.. Marks complained to the Ad-
mlnistrative Board yesterday Of the
condition OF the 700 block on Rogers
Street. Battery Court. and of the man
ner In which certain work on the
street Is being done. The complaint
was referred to City Engineer Boiling
by the board for his report and rec.
ommendation.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Genealoeie. yYanted.

Mrs. r. N. NJ, Richmond-Wants
some one to tell who was the father
of Byles Boykins. of Isle Of Wight
County. Virginia. who married Miss
Sarah Feebles and removed to Samp-
son, N. c. Byles Boykins fought in
the war Of 1875 at the age of eighteen
years. as stated on his tombstone. Also,
Their of Baker Bowden, or Bowdoin,
who settled in Duplin County. N. c..
having come from Isle of Wight or
Southampton County, Va, with two
brothers, John and Nicholas. Baker
Bowden had with other children a son
named Lemuel, who married Sarah
CoWan, Of North Carolina.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25

1t is high time lawful restraint were put
upon the public utterances OF Senator La
Follette and others Of his official stripe
The law gives members Of Congress no i'm
munity from being questioned and otherwise
held responsible for statements made else
where than in either house, and these NAV
be questioned when made in either place
In a public speech in Toledo, Ohio Sunday
the Wisconsin Senator viciousiy assaied the
President as having influenced Congress to
declare war against the overwhelming oppos-
ing sentiment of the country. He further
charges that the war party was made up
OF the financial interests of the country
which, for the most part, controlled the
American newspapers. The latter statement
is a direct libel upon both the press and the
country's financial institutions, and would
fail of prosecution to effect only because OF
the fact that specific names were not men
toned. II such utterances as he is charged
with making are not reasonable, they at
least are near-treasonable. Indeed. they
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Jewish New Year

j. b. r., Richmond.-The Jewish cal
endar Is dated from the creation, which
years and three months before the com
mencement of the Christian era. There
fore to obtain the number of a Jewish
year. add 1851 to the number of the
Christian year. The Jewish year be-
gins on the LIST of Tisre. and that al
ways falls in September or October.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
The FeminIne.

Tell me. Charles-am I the first girl you
kissed?'
Il should say not! Whatcha think am a
piker?"
But dear, that we are engaged you'll
never kiss another will you?"
"of course Will Think I'm going to let
EN- suffer-"
But IL we get married. dear. will you come
home early every night and BIO always with mo7"
II will mott"
Charles adore you! Embrace me"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Cnpitnl Of Russia.

]. B. c., Jarratt-Petrograd Is the
capital of Russia, the court having
been transferred there ct was then
known as st. Petersburgl by Peter
cause conditions in the latter city were
unfavorable for the introduction of his
reforms. Moscow. however, is still
known as the second capital. 1t being
the spiritual capital of Russia, and
the city in which all the czars were
crowned.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Information Bureau

INQUIRIES regarding almost any tonic.
excepting on legal and medical sub
Jects, are answered free. As all In
Guiries are answcred directly by per-
sonni letter, 2-cent stamp In required
TOT return Portage. Address The Times-
Dispatch Information Rurenu Hi
mOnd, Va.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Wearing Mourning for Fotb.,.

MRS. y a: p. Richmond.-There Is
no established rule as to length OF time.
though customarily worn through one
season by those who observe the GUS
tom.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-25
Chnrcoal Eph., pnil, Thoprh,

EFF all de millonaires died right sudden.
said Charcoal Eph. in OF his wise moods
"dcy would sure be a heap mo- Socialists work
in an less spoutin' TO chicken an pone. Try
some biscuits. Mstah Jackson"