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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25
Disarmament.

Edt6r The Richmond virginian
Sir.--In his second inaugural Ad-
Dress. March g 1917, Mr.. Wilson said ::
We are provincials no longer"
Peace cannot securely or Justly rest
upon an armed balance OF power. .
National armaments should be limit
Cd TO the necessities OF national order
end domestic safety"
These are profoundly Significant
uttcrances Americans OF world
vision. Of normal human sympathies.
and or anything approximating a
worthy sense Of responsibility for the
veal Of all the race must needs be
stirred and thrilled and awed in the
Election that. however II may have
Eeen or seemed In the long ago. now
most certainly we arc not pro
metals Our own enterprise. the
"esourees we are supposed to com
and. our success at the experiment
IF governing ourselves, the onward
march OF the vast procession OF
world events, and the dogmas and
-4.4l1'.+%e&- at-at4r. religion hanc con
SHlted 10 urge us forth into inevitable
recognition and unacceptable oppor-
'unlty among the nations o. the
world. Whether we would or would
not now have 1t so had we our choice
- Tho moment so. Il is: We have not
the choice. We simply could not be
tiisregarded Mankind at large would
not leave as to ourselves however
3rdHntly We might desire so to he let
lone Nor, again, could We In Justice
10 onrs"iTcs-to say no more-intel-
/ iEently wish 10 he ignored Along
with our possessions and our history
our ideals and principles ana achieve
ments, come also message Of ire
mendous significance and a constrnin-
Ing conviction Of obligation IN re
speCt of that message That message
IN virtue OF its intrinsic and eternal
truth and value, we conceive 70 be the
property of the race. from the Father
tf all gift treasure. for unhind-
cred and unquestioned use and enjoy
ment by mankind In all reIationshtps
religious and civic as we'll That mes
sage is To every men freedom and
protection In the right, limited only
~ the equal right Of every other
man, TO live his own life and achieve
his own destiny Clearly. II IL our
privilege and our duty. not only TO
proclaim this doctrine In words-the
attest ana most impressive words We
can hud--hut also to perform all nos
Sihle acts which--not vioiatlve or the
principle itself-Shall most effectual
ly further universal recognition and
Appiicatson Of that principle Nav
heaven help us to keep our minds
clear, Our hearts brave and our
sine~s taut and firm to perform this
task most wisely, to do absolutely all
hat we should. and absolutely re-
--Iln from every step and every act
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25
RADFORD NORMAL

Special to The Richmond Virginlan. J
Radford, Va, March 24.--The
Emory and Henry Glee club of six
teen members rendered a program in
the auditorium of the normal school
on Wednesday night. After the pro-
lam the young ladies in the normal
school extended a reception 10 the
members OF the Glee club in the par
ors OF the new dormitory.
superintendent J. T. Whit teaches
several classes in the normal school
and has recently delivered several ad
dresses to various school communities
He has organized several school i'm
provement leagues and parent-teach-
ers' associations on these lecturing
tours.
The Radford Summer school, which
Is conducted under the auspices OF the
state board OF education. will offer an
unusual number and variety OF courses
during the present summer. In addi-
ton to the regular summer school pro-
fessional courses, courses are offered
for the benefit OF graduates Of high
schools in 1917 who wish to secure n
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25

blow strike except In defense OF our
own Not one step should we take
toward anything like retaliation. nor
20 an Inch In repr!sal or revenge or
vindictiveness And. now-now in the
light of the fires which this raging
madness has k!ndled, and under the
mower of newborn sense of human
hr0therhood-"ne newborn" I'm the ira
vail agonies OF these awful days and
months and year. let us urge to the
fore again the duty OF disarmament
Except In such conditions as now dis
tract mankind, navies and arsenals
and forts and armies evidences Of
impotency. arguments or arrogant,
declarations Of defiance, challenge to
tho very conditions We now deplore
and are ashamed to witness or even
acknowledge. TheH may prove me
presence Of a certain form Of courage.
II Is not that courage the major part
CT which IS wisdom Religion speaks,
N clear, sweet. simple straights9r.
ward and authoritative tones religion
utters her voice IN this matter Rut.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25
Won HINDT-NBURG'S MKT
STROKE.

When the kaiser reorgpntzed his
general staff and placed Won Hinden-
hug a. the head. we said that u meant
nm stteinp, 20 bring the war 70 an issue
on tho cast front.
Dvery move since has dem onstrated
the correctness Of our forecast. Won
Hindenburg-s dream has been com
rleb defeat - Russia.
Germany had matters well ir hand.
~ reason OF the czarira-s intrigue tor
4 ssparate peace with Russia Tho
weaAIing who once occunied tho
throne was being worked" p. his
sninisters. ard was reaIl, tept largely
A lrnorance ~ conditions ard de
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25
DOES 1T NATTER?

I Our traditions, our ideals and. as
we believed. our self-intercst, all con-
spred to keep the United states neu-
trial during the first two years Of the
war. but the war has educated us and
set in action other Influences that
arc steadily driving us into the con-
fiict We have a tradition Of standing
up for the rights of our ships on the
high seas as well as a tradition Of non
interference in European affairs, We
have an ideal of justice and humanity
as well as an ideal OF peaceful and
friendly relations with Cur neighbors,
We have learned that Qua seli-lnter-
est is no longer served by neutrality
If 1t ever was so served that II means
e great deal To us--prrhaps even our
existence as a self-rc~2cctin de-
3uo2rJcH- which side wins In this
great war
Germany has nnsbeathcd It's last
weapon II it can actually destroy
the ships that serve England. England
can no longer fight it must submit,
aud with its fan must come the fall
of its allies Germany hopes 10 win
with It's submarines, rutllcsslY and il
legally used. what It's army AMI navy
have failed 70 wtn-thy hagemony OF
the world. What viii d. mean 20 the
nited States If German succeeds?
First, the annexation of the richeSt
part of France to Germany, and the
ruin of that sister republic. the nation
to which We owe more Of gratitude
and sympathy than to any other. Sec
ond, the destruction Of the British en-
pire, and the end of Great Britain as
q naval and commercial power or the
first rank Third German domination
Of the seas and absolute German con
troll in Europe and. tc somewhat
less degree in Asia and srtGa. Fourth,
the necessity either Of submitting to
German dictation on the seas and in
Pan-American affairs. or Of lighting
the greatest of world powers
What the humiliation % the great
European democracies and the en-
thronement OF German military ALL
tocracy would mean. We began at last
90 realize, II would mean he triumph
Of every political principle that the
United States was born to deny and
combat. Il would leave as virtually
alone in the world Ia stand for the
principles OF freedom and self-eovern-
ment
We know we'll enough What The con
ditlons Of trade and commerce are
while England Is most powerful upon
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25

we need not invoke her testimony.
Unevangelized intelligence. plain COM
ION sense, such observation as is
possible to every one. should suffice.
The gun-carrying habit many time,
Cnoangers him who yields himself to
i. exposes him TO multiplied perils.
War has never settled, and cannot
settle, the right and wrong of any
question. But. war is almost sure to
re the last resort until the nations
openly affirm by disarmament that
they do and will trust, respect, de-
pend upon, and assist and sustain enc
another.
+. w WINFREY.
Culpeper, Va, March 81. 1917.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25

'v.olatlve or the principle itself"
That peace cannot securely or
Justly rest upon an armed balance OF
power" should not need re he argued.
Vt is wel-nieh sclf-evident AN arm
Cd balance nj power" is always and
everywhere a menace. II is form OF
coercion It Is compulS.on Il Is con
troll without consent II is depend
ence upon force. whether Just or un-
tust, iniquitous or fair and righteous
No Informed and intelligent people
IAN be expected to bear K longer
than they must Il invites unrest II
self a declaration Of a want Of con-
fidence, naturally and Inevitably II
engenders and fosters suspicion and
'ear. It enthroncs physical power.
thus cndangeripg. Il not surrendering.
every principle OF Justice. 1t makes
tte weak subject 70 the strong, not
;;ecausc the weak are criminal. but
because the strong arc strong. II Tho
world needed new detr onstration OF
he folly Of the theory OF government
by gunners ard sd bres and deathful
gases surely we have It now In tho
consuming flames which enwrap the
bleeding. waiting leagues over which
the war god Is driving his charlots OF
destruction.
Our president says that national
ornaments should be limited TO the
necessities OF national order and do
nestle safety" 1t is none too soon
70 begin to preach and teach anew
to preach with new thunders OF elo-
quence. 10 teach with new and more
painstakirr diligence the doctrine OF
Slisarmament-absO lute and universal
disarmament except for order and
safety az against POSSIBLE marauders
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25

| the seas. What they would he with
the German navy in possession of the
seas and with Germany controlling the
colonies and trade opportunities that
now belong to Great Britain. France
and Holland, we cannot thing of with
out anxiety. England has learned to
administer IT'S power literally. In
itine of peace II has asked no privileges
for itself even in its own territories
that it would not grant to other trad
I ing nations. That has never been tho
policy of Germany: still less would it
be the policy of IA Germany wholly in
the hands of the military party, and
the victor In costly and bitter war
We have seen the German method in
authority In Belgium. and in the mat
ter OF the submarines we have seen its
lack Of regard for the rights of others,
and its Interpretation OF the freedom
of the seas" There would be VIC
lent readjCstment of all international
trade relations, q readjustment that
could not fail to be harmful to us.
and that would hear with it a con-
slant threat against our peace and
prosperity
The startling revelation Of the plot
against MS in which Germany tried TO
Involve Mexico and Japan while we
were at peace with all three countries
must convince every one of US that
to serve its own ends the German gov
erument stands ready at any time to
interfere to our hurt in Pan American
affairs, and If possible to emhroil us
with our sister republics. There is no
other European power from which we
have any such conduct to ear. Ger
many and Germany alone threatens
the Monroe Doctrine. which Is the cor
nerstore Of American foreign policy,
and makes II its business to fornrnt
treachery and war In this Western
hemisphere
We can no longer ina CINE that It
makes no difference 70 us which side
Is to win the war. In the past, some
Americans have said that 1t made no
difference and doubtless they have
been sincere In their belief The very
real danger that the submarine may
after all win the war for Germany
has cleared their vision. At last they
see what would then lie before their
country. Il Is as essential TO the
future Of the United States that Eng
land and France be not beaten down
as il was essential to the future of
England that Belgium and France be
rot conquered. Youths COMPANION.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-25
TWO ALLEGED GYPSY
THIEVES JUMP BAIL

Goethe Mccall and Dovie Stanley, two
Gypsy fortune-tellers, have tumped
their bail and left behind them a guam
tity OF alleged stolen clothes and their
names on the South Side police blot
ter tackled besides charges of telling
fortunes without a license.
The women were arrested yesterday
for alleged thefts. the non-licenss
charge being merely for the purpose OF
holding them until evidence could be
collected. The women are said to havs
worked a smooth game. While ore
would be reading the palm of the mis-
tress OF the house, her companion
would be plundering the home
Evening star., 1917-11-25

/ companies for service abroad, and
seven battalions and 113 companies for
home service.
| Under the new conditions of war
| fare every labor requirement Of civil
| life may be said to be paralleled in the
Organization of the army. The person
mel of the labor companies consists of
| those classes of men who are not At
| for the front line. such as volunteers
| who are over age or soldiers who have
served and incurred physical disabil-
| ity.
They build and repair roads, dig
trenches, erect defenses and redoubts,
construct and man light railways and
i handle heavy stores and transport.
When an allied advance is carried
out and the Germans driven back over
a substantial depth of front one of the
first tasks of the labor companies is to
continue the lines over the lacerated
strip of no mans land and the crater
field which was the enemy position.
and connect it up with what is left of
the German light railway in the cap
tured area. In the way. she'll
wrecked and mine-destroyed roads
near the front lines have to be re-
paired.
Often their work is carried out un-
der persistent artillery fire. The fight
ing troops have only to pass through
rear area bombardments. but the labor
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BRITISH FORCES CLOSE
IN UPON JERUSALEM

In Palestine the British are closing
in on Jerusalem. their official state
ments claiming added interest because
of their increasingly frequent mention
of biblical names. The site of the an
cient Mizpah. some eight miles west of
Jerusalem. was carried by storm
Northwest of the city the British were
still closer. but their mounted troops
near Deit Unia in this sector were
forced back a short distance by a
strong Turkish counter attack
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 24-The text of
the official statement regarding the
Palestine operations reads:
On Wednesday we stormed the Nebi
Samwil ridge. the site of the ancient
Mizpah, which is 5000 yards west of the
Jerusalem -Nabulus road. Repeated
counter attacks by the Turks have been
beaten off. The enemy has bornbarded
the mosque containing the tomb of the
Prophet Samuel, which we carefully
avoided.
Our mounted troops, which had an
preached Belt Cnia on Wednesday.
were forced back by a strong counter
attack. and are now holding Beit-ur-el-
Foka. on the Upper Bath Heron.
After a heavy rain the weather is
now bright and cold"
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JACOB De HAAS TO SPEAK
TO ZIONIST SOCIETIES

Jacob De Haas, secretary of the pro-
visional executive committee for gem
erai Zionist affairs, which at the pres
ent time is the representative of all
the Zionist organizations throughout
the world, is to speak at a meeting OF
the Zionist societies of Washington
Wednesday evening at the Young
Mems Hebrew Association. 1347 Penn
sylvania avenue.
Mr.. De Haas was active in bringing
about the declaration of the British
government in favor of national
Jewish homeland in Palestine. This is
hailed by the Zionists of this city and
throughout the world. as the greatest
event in nineteen hundred years of
Jewish history. The great dream of the
Jewish people. of which the Zionist
movements is the concrete expression
is the establishment of a. publicly
recognized. legally secured homeland
in Palestine.
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month arc accepted in the Red Cross
nursing service. and We are sending our
base hospitals have from 65 to 100 nurses.
The Navy base hospitals usually have ~
nurses to their STATS. Besides the larger
unit, we are forming hospital units, Navy
and emergency units Inc
hospital units of Is nurses and ! doctor
are added to the staff Of base hospltai.
should 1t need to be enlarged. and the
Navy detachments OF 20 nurses without
doctors are sent either to the Red Cross
Navv base hospitals or. when needed. 70
the regular Navy hospitals. like that on
Mare Island. The emergency units can
be called on at all times and in any num-
ber. to fill in. their name signifies
in emergencies.
Fifty public health nurses have been
assigned BY Miss Clement to service in
the zones surrounding the training camps
in this country. Over a thousand He'd
Cross nurses are engaged in the 262
centers Of the Red Cross chap
ters''
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TWO MOTOR ACCIDENTS
CAUSE INJURIES TO TEN
Victim of Car Crash Figures in
Second Accident While Being
Borne From Scene.

One man was seriously injured in a
crash between an automobile truck and
a street car shortly before midnight
last night, and in a later collision be-
tween an automobile bearing the vic
tim of the first accident and another
machine nine men were badly hurt.
The man seriously injured was Harry
Stemes. theater emplOye, thirty-two
years old. of Carroll House. who was
hurt internally. Stemes was on the
auto truck that collided with a street
cat at 5th and H streets northwest.
Ten minutes later the automobile in
10 which he had been helped by Police
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GENERALS SON A PRIVATE.
Scion of Maj. Gen. Sibert Enlists ION
Quiet.o

san FRANCISCO. November a4.-The
identity OF Private Martin D. Sibert.
18th United States Infantry. increased
greatly in prestige today. following the
discovery that he is the son Of Mai.
Gen. Sibert.
Young Sibert. without the knowledge
Of his family. enlisted at Manhattan.
Kan, and will be written down as un-
assigned recruit for service in the
Philippines. When his paternity was
discovered he was sent to the 18th
Infantry as q full-fedged private. ST.
bert is just old enough to qualify
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LABOR COMPANIES PLAY
BIG PART BEHIND LINES
Build and Repair Railways and Dig
Trenches Often Under Heavy
Artillery Fire.
Of the Associated Press

BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE. November 1.-The Labor
companies" form the greater part Of
that army behind the lines" The first
British expeditionary force was al
most exclusively combatant. but today
it is said that one and half men are
required to maintain one man in the
trenches.
of 500 men. commanded by a captain
and his staff. In April, 1917, one year
after the first formally designated
labor companies We're authorized. there
had heen formed in En- ng,and thirty
four labor battalions and ll9 labor
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companies have to carry on their work
amid shelling. and their casualties are
often numerous. Behind the British
lines are to be found Zulu and Kafir
units from South Africa, Tonkinese
and Annamese from French indo-
China. coolies from all parts of China
and natives of varied type from
India.
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man George Murray of the first pre-
cinct, crashed into the machine of Lee
Ho1ecker of Pennsylvania, who Is Wis
iting at 45 Qirard street northeast. The
automobile bearing the injured man be-
longed to Robert Downing Of 1923 10th
street northwest.
Hurt in Second Accident.
Hoffecker was hurt on the back and
head in the second smash-up. Policeman
Murray received a sprained back. Six
other men who were badly hurt in the
collision were: Corporal Thomas Kerr
Sixth Artillery, OF Quantico. scalp wound; !;
Thomas Lee. farmer. of Mitchelsville.
Md, lacerations on face: Charles Dod-
son, stage hand, Oxford Hotel, leg hurt;
Paul Rusher. 80 Massachusetts avenue
northwest, bruises: Alexander Greenfield.
twenty-nine. artilleryman, scalp wound:
Wesley Anderson, twenty-five. Of st.
Elizabeth hospital. bruises on head; Rob-
ert Downing. leg hurt.
All Of the injured men were treated
at Casualty Hospital Stemes is at the
hospital today in serious condition.
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Hurt in Second Accident.
Robbed While Giving Aid.

Miss Carrie c. Messer of 2523 14th
street northwest reported to the police
that while she was extending first aid
treatment to the men injured in the sec
ond crash some unidentified white men
stole a ten-dollar bill and liberty bond
receipt from her purse
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Demand Made by War.

The outstanding demand of war is
for trained nurses Of exceptional
health and nervous endurance TO serve
as Red Cross nurses with the military
base hospitals. to keep, as some one said
TO me the other day, the Army in re-
pair for its work at the front. But all
this. with its place in the public in
terest highly colored with shot and
shell and heroism. is neither the be-
ginning nor the end.
Much of the war nursing will still
be our task when little children will
tell about the war beginning once upon
q time. The MANNED. not alone in limb.
will be returned to US. and the task of
fighting the tubercular tendencies. that
have already taken toll of the army of
France and the British expeditionary
forces. will make heavier the national
obligation. Always we have with us
the problem Of public health at home.
for which We feel a peculiarly definite
responsibility at this time.
Our Red Cross task abroad would be
in reality undone if We left the families
of the men we serve there at the mercy
of nursing scarcity here.
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Rural Nursing Service.

That is why. whenever Red Cross
nurses are mentioned. with only the
woman at the soldiers bedside in
France in mind, that / want to speak
at once of the rural nursing service
that may be lowering the infant NOR
tality rate in some remote Dakota
county This is the work of the town
and country nursing service. of which
Miss Fannie +. Clement, with head
quarters in this city. is in charge
'On the average a thousand nurses a
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sc MILDLY
BiOUSES,
44c

Heavy grade
twill or jean
white, blue and
red trimmings ];
all sizes.
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Dining Room

Includes handsome Golden Oak Buffet
and heavy golden oak eft. Extension
Table. golden oak Chairs with imta-
ton leather seats.
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q o o d weight
Tor use n o W,
with tabs for
fastening diapers.
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Bedroom

Includes one Pinch post White Ename
Bed. link spring. and soft-top Mattres
golden oak Dresser. with Frenc
plate mirrors. one cane-seat Chair, on
cane-seat Rocker to match.
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Heavy quality.
unbleaciied 30
j n c h = 3 wide
twi,led hack.
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