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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
STATE TAX BOARD
INVESTIGATES RESULTS
Where Examiners Arc Weighed In
Balance and Found Wanting
Changes Will Re Made
At LEAST ONE RETIREMENT
Fifth District Examiner. &. l.. Fer
guson, VIII Not Accept Reelection
Due 10 Compensation Being Inade-
quate.

Although the State Tax Board re-
manned in session yesterday from II
A. NJ. until nearly 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. members of the board de-
clared that nothing final had been
done toward naming the examiners of
records for the thirty-one Judicial cir
cults in the state The board on last
Monday held practically an alI-day
session and it was believed that final
action on the appointments would he
taken yesterday.
II appears. however. that the Tax
Board is conducting a searching in
curry of the work done by the eN-
aminers in their respective circuits
before they reappoint them. or name
others in their places. In some OF the
counties in the State there are vast
amounts Of intangible property which
has been omitted from taxation. and
which. it Is said. some of the exam
liners have not been especially a,wye
in bringing TO light.
Yesterday afternoon several Of the
examiners Of record appeared before
the board on invitation. among them
being George Mason. of the Fourth
Circuit. s. l. Ferguson, OF the Fifth
W NJ. Tredway, Jr., Of the Seventh W.
n Sands. of the Tenth. and W NJ. Me-
Hutt.- Of the Eighteenth 1t was said
that these officers appeared before the
tax board in connection with their
work In recent years.
II was also stated Yesterday that s
!. Ferguson. examiner of the Fifth Cir
cult has handed in his resignation on
account Of the insufficient compensa-
ton ~ was declared that his income
office .NfEgiFnf
Justify him In continuing longer.
All eff the members OF thu boa: a were
present erday--Goveruo stuart.
chairman c. T.. Ghrnett. Of tho State
Corporation Commission. AID state
Auditor CI.ee Moore.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
UNIVERSITY SUFFERS
LOSS Of $4,000
Early Morning Fire DESTROYS Indus
trial Chemical t.aboratory-
Valuable Relics Burned.

harlottesVille. Va, Jan. 26.-F'ire
on unknown origin completely de-
S'f"yea the industrial CherliCal lab
oratory of the University OF Virginia
ut O'Clock this morning causing
damage amounting 10 $4,000 partly
covered by insurance
r. J., burlington, professor of
analytical and industrial chemistry
barely escaped injury when he was
drawn from the doorway of the blazing
building a few seconds before "A shower
Of bricks Tell upon the spot where he
had been standing.
streams Of water played upon an at
tached room of the laboratory. where
nitroElycerin ard dynamite Were
stored. to prevent an explosion, which
would have wrecked the new cduca-
tional building Students helped the
fremen in Keeping the flames from
spreading.
The valuable museum and collec-
tons Of chemical manufacturers, gath
cred throughout half a century, can
not be replaced. They included fibres,
silks and bronzes from India and Tu-
rope ana many exhibits of the British
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

Cane IS KING IN paimy Cuba Fore
casts Of the coming crop place it at
3 800 900 tons The annual average
value of Cuban sugar prior to the
Wsf was $3.50 600 900 The first year
9: The wal raised tins to 1925 100000
Nov II IS expected that the crop will
&c $215 0000 900 he : are 2.500.OO
people in Cuba A single crop in the
United States bearing this per capita
production would amount to eleven
hilltop dollars
No other export from any Latin
american country equals that of
Curan cane fields throughout the
sugar districts are to be seen hat
cars loaded with the huge machinery
required for the great million dollar
rIlls Millions are sometimes ex
Osrded m equipment tn get the cane
&c tha mills Thousands of men
armed with machetes, attack the
fields of hir plantation in great
sudads
A number OF men come into Cuba
every year for the cane cutting sea
son winch lasts from the middle of
December to the middle of summer
but The ishoi available for the sugar
INDUSTRY Is not sufficient Il fact. the
snottsEe Of labor today in Cuba is
tie great handicap for any further
extension of the sugar business in
the island
Al the great sugar oiant at Pres
ton tUh7 there are 81 miles Of
standard gauge rock hala sted rail
roaI extending from the cane fields
to the factory There are eleven IS
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
TALL RESERVES TO GO
| TO fED. RAL SYSTEE'
Member Banks VIII BE Required to
Keep Funds in Federal Re-
serve Institutions.

Washington. Jan. 27.-Legislation
that will increase the gold holdings OF
the Federal reserve banking system
by some .o00 at once was
framed today by the House Banking
and Currency Committee. The COM
mittee agreed to the final form of
legislation requested by the Federal
Reserve Board to enable the new
system to handle the situation grow
ing out of the vast flow of gold to
this country. and the conditions which
will follow peace in Europe. The bill
as agreed upon today will be reintro-
duced by Chairman Carter Glass. of
the con. mittec, and will be recon-
mer ded to the House this week.
The measure will provide for the
Immediate shifting of ell bank re-
serves to the Federal Reserve Banks.
This shift, under the present law.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

ton mogul locomotives and strings of
cane cars that would extend for
miles if placed in : single line There
are wharves. docks. lumber mill,
foundry, etc, besides the big sugar
mill The plant has a capacity Of
300 to 5000 tons of cane each day
II produces from $500 to 5000 bags
of sugar a day A bag of crude
sugar as sent to the United States
for refining usually weighs 800 lbs
and is 96 per cent pure sugar This
plant can produce therefore. 100000
lbs. of sugar every "a hours, enough
to sweeten the coffee milk, or choco-
late of everybody in the United
States
To keep this factory supplied with
cane is a mans sized lob Trains of
cut cane are fed into the factory on
schedule time On the other hand =
is the duty Of the factory superin
tendent to grind his cane as soon as
Il comes IN and the big plant booros
along in the bright Cuban moonlight
lust as hard as by dav At the Preston
plant two PISTON electric cranes take
a whole load of cane out Of car ano
weigh il while it suspended in the
air From the hoprer the cane is
ca 'ried by cane conductor to a giant
crusher where the stalks are sub
r,itted to pressure of $50 tons
After this it passes through the rolls
Of the mill which L. smoother than
those of the crusher and where it rs
unlimited to As~<ons pressure The
cane after being crushed is GATED
hagVose and goes to the furnaces to
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

cradle amounts. In effect, the Spec
suranCe companies demand a mor~ eff
Acient judicial administration and the
rigid enforcement OF the laws AGAINST
murder, which, 1t maintains is, after
all, the fundamental underlying
cause of our appalling homicidal i'm
pulse
1t is brought out by the Spectator
that firearms are a big factor as a
means of homicide, in the period OF
1910-1914 causing 81 per cent OF the
Deaths also that more persons be-
tween twenty-five and forty four years
old are Killed than at other ages
Atrocious homicide waves" like a
series OF ripper murders. are
ascribed to the initiative faculty of the
insane. 1t is also noted that murder
is frequently the result OF very trifiing
initial causes. such as the greed for
money, as in the case OF DIR. Arthur
Warren Waite, Of New York. who
poisoned his parents-in-law ana whose
case is also taken TO show that the
fined TO the lower classes or to for
oigners of recent immigration. One
case of a trifling cause mentioned is
that of a patient OF a doctor In Free
dom, Pennsylvania, last fall who killed
his physician because the treatment
had proved unsuccessful It is further
pointed out that not all cases of true
homicide are reported as such, be-
cause of the deficient methods of
coroners' inquest.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
MennhiA Icnds IN Murders.

During 1915. 800 lives were sacri-
feed in the United States to the
homicidal impulse. which number
though constituting a slight decline in
rate from l4I4,- is deemed by the Spec
tator, New York weekly insurance
journal, sufficiently large TO place the
blame for II uIcu lax judicial admin
istratton throus. ;he country.
Philadelphia, lp a table Of mortal
ity from hom 'do IN thirty-one cities
from 1905 up jo and including 1915,
is placed twenty fifth on the lst-tust
behind MISUNDERSTANDING her rate
of homicides per 100000 population
has decreased since the ls10-19l4
period and increased since the 1905
1909 period From 1906 to 1909 the
homicide rate for Philadelphia was
29l. or four per 100000; from 1910
to 1914 1t was ISL or Al per 100000,
and In 1916 the number of hom1cdes
in this city had dropped to only seven
ty-four. or a. per 100000 for that
year alone. These figures were fur
nished the Spectator, for its current
issue, by the United States Census Blu
reau.
Memphis, Tennessee, still holds the
record of having the highest homicide
rate In the country. or for 1915. $50
per 100000 Of population. BY way of
tOfi'AeA''tE l4t' wy Oh new
York, for 1918, had a rate of only Al.
and. by way OF still greater contrast.
the average rate for London is only
about 10. Next TO Memphis rank five
other Southern Clties-Atlanta, Geor-
gia; savannah, Georgia; Nashville,
Tennessee; Charleston, South Carolina.
and New Orleans, Louisiana--their re-
spective rates Of 35.9. 32.3, PA and
2S.a neing AFFECTED by the negro popu
ldion, among whom crimes of per-
sonai violence. according to the cen
suS bureau, are more common than
the whites. The cities in which homi-
cides are rare are Dayton, Ohio. 40
per 100000; Rochester. New York.
SO: Milwaukee. Wisconsin, 80; Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, 2.S Hartford.
Connecticut, IS, and Reading. penn
sylvania, Ia
Pittshurg's homicide rate for 1915
was 4.6.
The impulse is most strongly de-
veloped in the southern and far West
ern States and least so in the New
England, the Middle Atlantic and the
North Central States.
The Spectator suggests that since
the data here given have "A practical
bearing on the present and future of
iifo insurance companies. TIE value
OF thoroughly specialized inquiries
into the personal record of applicants
IS indicated and that it would be well
that an applicants past record ana
preSent nnaQclal status be cleared up
beyond reasonable doubt In every
case before final action is taken on
~ least sueh cases aS involve consid-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

MAKE steam to operate the factory.
where total Of 5000 horsepower is
generated
The cane Juice is then conveyed to
tn. lining tanks which are feature
CT the boiling house The lime neu-
tralizes the acid in the cane Juice.
The Juice then goes through an elab-
crate course Of publication and evap-
grafton, through giant watts. crystal
lizers. juice heaters. defecators. vacu-
um pans scum tanks. centrifugal and
other appliances
But in great sugar plant. neither
the cane fields nor the factory tell
the whole story The biggest prob
lem is the human equation Ore OF
the first steps in tie building of
great sugar plant in the semi-tron,cs
is the establishment of ADEQUATE
health measures At Preston which
Ii named after Mr. Andrew w Pres
ton president of the United Fruit
Company there is a modern hospital
and clinic branches of the latter ex-
tending throughout the cane growing
district; there are two churche: and
a school; there is a milk pasteurlzinp
plant: there is a garbage incinerator
to burn up all garbage collected dur
ing each day Their is pure water
system with water pumped into
every home The hospital has nurses'
quarters. orderlies' quarters, cement
operating room, surgical ward. con-
tagious hospital dental clinic and
other features. The town liz az
healthy as any in Cuba if not In the
;porId
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

would have been delayed until Mo-
vember. The new provision will re-
quire all banks in the system to keep
all of their reserves in the Federal
deserve Banks instead of. partly In
their own vaults, partly with other
member banks, and partly in tho
Federal Reserve Banks. Country banks
would be required to maintain with
the Federal Reserve Bark seven per
cent reserve on demand deposits, and
three per cent time deposits, re-
serve city banks ten per cent on de-
mand deposits and three per cent on
time deposits. and central reserve city
banks thirteen per ceft on demand
deposits and three per cent on timo
deposits.
A provision was Incorporated in tho
bill authorizing Federal reserve MEM
Der banks to receive deposits from nom
member banks for collection or ex.
change
Chairman Glass was authorized to
recommend to the House a separate bill
authorizing national banks in cities Of
more than one hundred thousand popu-
lation having n capital of s1.0oo,0o0 or
more. to establish branch banks.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

The Temps. In France. "wherc wine
has solved the problem" has this to
say. untouched by the almost uni
versat ruin the seller Of alcohol is con-
tinuing TO serve out the poison which
Is undermining the race Side by sldo
with the horrors OF war we suffer the
horrors Of alcohol During war time
undoubtedly the sole use OF alcohol
should be for the manufacture of tx-
pIosIves. let us send this poison over
to the enemys lines in tho shape of
shells We shall then save France
while killing her enemies"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
|DRAH ATTACKS
PLAN As Ht|NlUS
NE League TO Enforce Peace Pro-
gram Is Indefcndble As Mere
Matter Of Morality.
sDECLAREs PROJECT
i STARTLINGLY VICIOUS
ArEucs That II Would Mean This
Country Could he Attacked and As.
sailed by a Force II Would Help
Create.

Washington. Jan. 26.-President
I WILSON'S league 10 enforce peace pro-
gram was tonight denounced as per
fectly vicious. perfectly heinous and
indefensihle in morals" by Senator
William Borah. Of Idaho. a minority
{ member OF the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations and Republican
IsaNthority on international affairs
The address was delivered before me
members Of the Michigan Society OF
Washington at their annual dinner.
Senator Borah said
The singular and startling vicious
ness OF this whole proposition OF a
league TO insure or enforce peace is
this: We enter the league. we con
nabute our portion OF ships and Of
soldiers for a police for9e OF the
world force large enough and
J strong enough to crush those who do
rot submit thctr vital interests to ar
hitration ana Cancellation Then some
question arises rs 10 immigration. Citi-
zenship ar territorial prnpinquity to
wnich We decline. as a people. to
submit Then We have agreed in ad-
vance that this force which We have
helped 10 create shall attack and as
sail Us As % people. We invite them
here from Japan and from Europe
under "a solemn a@recment previously
mad 10 engage tu war. In 'aet un-
der the agreement which ", have
made Ehef are bound guder Their OH
ligatinn "a attack
DCnounCc~ Principle.
without assuming 80 assal irdi-
yifiuals. / denouuCc This principle as
perfectly vicious. perfectly ueiuous
= ~ TrF, s. E.,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
School BOARD NOW HAS

Continued From First Pago)
effect to anyone who may be In the
superintendent Office
And whereas, this board is in
formed that each and every one OF
said charges and statements is un-
true. he IL therefore.
""Resoived, Thai" the said r. y.
Thomas be cited 70 appear before
this board. at a special meeting there
Of 10 be held on Friday, the second
of February, 1917 at O'Clock p. NJ,
ard show oDlise II any he May, why
he should not be dismissed for cause.
to-wit: conduct unworthy OF his posi-
P ton as a teacher"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
/ P[.Is6 GthE i
BDN BY MARSHAlL|TES

especial 10 The Richmond Virginiau1
South Boston Va. Jan. 26--Ioan
Marshall High defeated South Boston
efs4sh tonight by a Score OF ~ 10 II.
The Marshallitrs presented we'll
balanced nse ana South Boston. al
though cutweiShed. played "a last hard
game Levin starred for John Mar
snail, whjl, Finch played best for south
Boston
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

The New York World says that
there are two hundred thousand drug
slaves in New York. Where the IL
cense system is tolerated. many drink
victims will take post graduate
courses In drug debauchery.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

No trade can be accounted OF value
to the nation If II merely produces or
supplies consumption. 1t must also
contribute to the conservation of pro-
ducts and energies, making its out
put reproduce all of the material and
labor it represents and add something
to the nations reserve of wealth.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
Pro-Gcrnlau Kissed.

Ludwig Nissen. OF Brooklyn, created
wild disorder in the hall swhen he
mounted the rostrur. referred to the
righteousness OF the Teutonic cause
and attacked what he characterized
AS th, 'ro-ally. utterances of former
Senator Elihu Root, He was rouudly
Missed and in the confusion which
ensued was induced to take his seat
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
1rn gic Esc,F Occurs.

A tragic incident of today's session
was the sudden death of Benjamin
Blewett uperintendent Of St. Louis
Public School, who was stricken with
heart disease while addressing a com
mittee meeting OF the congress and
died within a few minutes Mr.. Blew
EFT had arisen and with much excite
mcnt was making "A defense Of the
patriotism Of the teachers of the West.
when he dropped to the floor
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

will come. but il has not come yet,
and any nation. which with the les
sons OF the past two and half YEARS
before II. fails to take adequate meas
ures for its own defense deserves TO
pray in ain. and will pray in vain
when the enemy is at its own gees
Or Manning asserted that he did not
believe there was good ground for
tho assertion that universal training
would develop in the citizens of tbs
country an arrogant and un~Amer4ean
spirit
Representatives. elect Mediit Nc
Cormick If Chicago. spoke ON tho
need for governmental efficiency.
Other speakers were Henry d ESta-
brook. Of New York. William T.
Marhury. Of Baltimore. and George
" penner- OF PHILADELPHIA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27
UNIVERSAL THRIVING

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-27

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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-11-23
TeachInn you'd ConrteaY.

1t is true that the one-time honored
"ma'am" has gone to voyage. Yet
wait-what takes its place? Sometimes
nothing. Poor modern childl
Little Willie, you see, Is taught that
"na'am" Is decidedly bad form, don't
you know a mode Of address only to
be used by servants, indeed, and so
his youthship comes out with an
abrupt "No" or a brief yes" to old
ladies and playmates alike, an ex-
change observes.
The really correct thing for Willie
to be taught is that the name or rela-
tonship Of the person addressed must
be given in place of that socially os-
TRACKED 'ma'am." He must say Eyes,
mother" or mo, father" (if he has
been taught not to use "sir), or mo,
Mr.. Smith or Miss JONES'" as the case
may be.
The mentioning Of a persons name
when speaking to him or her is always
pleasant little mark Of courtesy
even from one older person to another,
and is charming to hear from a childs
lips.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-11-23
Aunt VlrulnIa Saws.


TO attempt to plan your life for
year, month, a week ahead is Just
as foolish as 1t would be to commence
to add up a column of figures without
knowing what more than half OF them
were.
Justice to the innocent sometimes
demands that we expose the faults Of
our neIghbor, but we ought to meet the
occasion as an unpleasant duty, not as
a joyful opportunity.
It pays to be generous If only for
the claim 1t gives us on the generos-
ity Of others when our time Of need
comes.
It ought to be made a penitentiary
offense to thrust upon the radiant hap
piness of newly married lovers the
cheap, coarse cynicism that 1T won't
last"
Some people imagine they are discl-
plining their children when they pun
ish them brutally for doing something
the tenth time that they have been
allowed to do without protest nine
times before.-Farm Life.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-11-23
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

has been a household panacea all over
the civilized world for more than half
a century for constipation, intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the generally
depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. 1t is a most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys-
pepsia and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming Of up food, palpita-
ton Of heart and many other symp-
toms. A few doses Of August Flower
will Immediately relieve you. 1t is a
gentle laxative. Ask your druggist.
Sold in all civilized countries.-Adv.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-11-23
Not Bread Alone.

A japanese newspaper, in emphasize
ing the gravity of the responsibility
resting on Japan and America on &C
count of the fact that the world ac-
tivity is shifting from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, says that these two great
nations are bound to exchange more
and more Of their products and de-
clares that they must come to agree on
high principles. MAN cannot live by
bread alone" quotes the editor-which
is perfectly true; but, ash the old
darby remarked, observes an exchange.
1T keeps er man hustlin' TO- a little
piece O. meat"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-11-23
| HOnan'S Burdens

are lightened Yhenssh turns to the right
medicine. Ii her existence IS made
gloomy by the chronic weaknesses, deli
cate arrangements, and painful disorders
that attiict her sex. she will find relief and
emancipation from her troubles Ia DR..
Plerce's Favofite Prescription. If she's
overWorked, nervous, or rundown" she
4nds new life and strength. It's power
1ui, invlgorating tonic and nervlne which
was discovered and used by an eminent
physician for many years, III all cases Of
"female complaints and weaknesses. For
young girls just entering womanhood |;
Ior women at the critical change Of life =;
IN bearlng-d0wn sensations, periodical
pains, liberation, Inflammation, and every
kindred atlment, the Fayorite Prescrlp-
tionlD IS the only medicine put up without
alc0h0l- ingredients on wrapper.
Send DR.. V. M. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y,
10 cents for trial package Of the tablets.
OBIoN, TENN suffered from woman's
trouble, congestion, liberation and q
catarrhal condition for three years. ]
took several different medicines but none
q them did me any good. / have taken
four bottles Of 'Favorite Prescription, one
q Golden Medical Discovery and used
Sne Lotion Tablets and Healing Sup
p0sltories, and they have done me more
good than all the other remedies.
II hope this will help some woman who
IS suffering to find the road to health,"-
MRS. M. @. PHIPPs, Box 65, Route Q.
PoRTERvmLE, Miss. --UDuring my first
expectancy / suffered with heavy, bear
lng-doWn feeling and backache all the
Glme. Before my second baby came the
doctors said could not live. I was in
Florida at the time. My mother came and
carried me back to Mississippi with her
and began giving me Favorite Prescrip-
tlon, and 1t saved my life. I took six
bottles. The Prescription is aOorth dts
gl0etght ilt gold 1t saved my life when
The doctors had given me up."- Mrs.
EVA GRANTHAM.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1917-11-23
War Behind the Lines.

In the house Of commons the state
ment was made some time ago that 1t
needs man and a half behind the
line to keep one man In the trenches /;
and that is only at the front. How
many men, women and children at
home are needed to keep going the
man with the rife and hand grenade
we can only conjecture, but If we say
ten civilians to every fighting man
we shall not exaggerate.-Simon
Strunsky In the Yale Review.