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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
SOUTHERN WILL
MEET HERE OCT. 8
president Fairfax Harrison Says An
nual Meeting Is Not to Re Mere
Conventional Routine.
VOW INSPECTING CkMPs
Offfcinis Are In South--Ratlways Are
Working to Prevent Congestion.
President Fairfax States.

President Fairfax Harrison has
Rfven notice to the stockholders OF
1he Southern railway that the annual
meeting OF officials and holders OF
certificates OF stock IN that company
viii be held in Richmond on Tues
lay. October O.
The cooperation OF the stockhoId-
Nrs 10 earnestly invited to continue
the successful practice established
three years ago of making the annual
meeting not merely conventional
routine. but forum for the express
sion OF the views OF individual stock
holders upon the policies and prob
lens Of the company" writes Presi-
dent Harrison to the stockholders
The letter further states that the prin-
cipal officials Of the Southern will be
In. attendance to answer questions di-
rected to the management, or to any
detail Of the company's business. and
adds.
YOU arc earnestly invited to attend
tn person, or. If that shall be i'm
possible 10 have your own personal
preventative in attendance in your
.,shalf. or to address to the under
signed in writing what you might say
II present"
- there are hundreds of stock
Folders Of the Southern living in Rich
rao1S and points South. a large num-
-fer IT business men will be in Rich
mond on October 9 for the meeting.
Vow Insncetsne Camps.
President Harrison. IN company
y-t'9 officials is now making inspec-
tens Of all OF the government can
comments along the road. They have
aireadv visited Camp Gordon, Atlanta,
Ca: Charlotte. n. G, and Spartan
burg and Greenville. s. c. Yesterday
they inspected the camp at Colunt,ia
s. C. The officials wished to note
the progress that is being made upon
the camps and to ascertain the trans
pcrtatton conditions generally along
the lines OF the Southern.
They were accompanied by Mr.
Hungerford, writer for the Saturday
Evening Post. who, It Is stated, will
shortly write an article for the Satur-
day Evening Post upon the national
army and national guard environments
md camps. Those who were in the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
THREE REGIMENTS
Being Reformed
Colonel Robert F. Lecdy VIII Lead
Consolidated Organization OF
Virginia Units.
BRIGHT GETS BATTALION
Richmond Grays' Commander VIII
Head Battalion--Captain Stack and
Company h Arc Selected

Confirmation OF the reported plan
for the consolidation OF three Virginia
regiments. as told exclusively in The
Firginian on Monday, was received
here yesterday from Admission. Ac-
cording to the latest information on
the subject, Colonel Robert f. Leedy.
Of the Second Virginia infantry, viii
command a regiment to be composed
Of selected companies from the First.
Second and Fourth regiments.
The report OF the shakeup in the
Virginia organizations caused stir
here on Monday when 1t was first
learned. There was no surprise.
however, as the war department has
adopted the same policy all over the
country, the change being necessary
in order 10 make the organizations
comply with the new standards.
Col mel Leedy is the ranking regi-
mental commander in the state and
his regiment made a great record on
the Mexican border last year II is
because OF this record shat he has
been selected to lead the new regi-
ment Eight line companies and the
headquarters, machine gun and sup
ply companies from the Second in
faniFY VIII he the nucleus for the new
regiment Three compants will be
drawn from the First Virginia in
Tantry and one from the Fourth Viz
Rlnla infantry. A number OF Mary
landers Will be picked 10 fill the ranks
to the required strength of $3.50 Of
hcers and men. The regiment win he
DESIGNATED as the One Hundred and
Sixteenth infantry.
Major Bright Selected.
Major John Fuln1er Bright. corr,
nahaer on the Richmond Grays' bat
talon VIII command one Of the bar
talions, and Company p. First infsn-
try. commanded by Captain William,
a Stack. of this city. Will form A mart
81 the regiment. MaAor Stanley Mar.
tin. OF Lvnehburg. will be transferred
To machine gun work exclusively on
account OF his fire record st the school
of rnusketry, Fort Sill. Okla. recently.
II is unofficially reported from An
niston that Colonel William J. Perry
com mander OF the First Virginia IN
fAntry. and Lieutenant Colonel Roher.
+ Craighsll, 81 the same regiment
VIII he transferred 10 the field artfI.
lery. In that event the remainder Of
the regiment VIII be merged with the
Fourth Virginia TO form war
strength organization under Colonel f..
E. GOODWIN. 81
Besides being highly efficient milf
tary man Colonel Leedy Is we'll known
throughout the state as a lawyer and
as member Of the house of delegates
from Luray. Page county. He is well
known In Richmond, having lived here
for months at time while attending
the general assembly. His regiment
also spent three weeks here while be
ing mustered out of the federal SER
vice on its return from the Mexican
border while II modified at Camp
Stuart for that duty. Colonel Leedy
hae commanded his regiment since
1905, He is a Spanish American war
and leader such as men de-
light in following.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
GIRL STUDENTS MAY
WEAR UNIFORMS

This girl students IN John Marshal1
ffgh school may wear uniforms In
the future IF ". wen crt introduced
~ meeting OF tho Federation ~
Mothers clubs and Parents Teachers
associations on Tuesday meets with
the favor of the school board. The
members OF the federation wf1l re-
quest a discussion of the idea In the
GEAR future
The federation will also provide FOR
exhibits the weman's building ut the
state fair and lecture will be de-
livered daily ON chiid-cape.
Many mothers vii help on tar dry,
Friday, September %. for the pur-
pose of raising money for home de-
Tense company unfforns,
Mrs. William burrows q peo0ilGn4
Of the federation AnA Nh.
kAillips = SlannaRl1i -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
ELEVEN INJURED
IN COLLISION

Especial to The Richmond virgfnianA
Roanoke, Va. September 19.-As the
result of rear end collision between a
railroad motor car and a Norfolk &
Western passenger train which oc-
Cured one mile east OF Zurich this
morning, eleven men were injured, fve
of whom are in serious condition and
one Is not expected to live All the
injured men were members of the Oak
vale section force and were proceed
ing to work on the motor car which
was running just behind the passenger
train. Four of the men sustained
broken legs, three had fractured arms
and one sustained serious fracture q
tbs ekull
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
POPE GIVES UP PEACE
EFFORT FOR PRESENT
Britain Prepares for Another
Big Push in Flanders and
China Plans to Help Defend
Democracy in France
CHINA TO SEND TROOPS
TO FIGHT IN FRANCE

Toxic, Sept. 13.--Ghina, accord
ing to the Picking correspondent OF
the newspaper Nichi Sichi, will
send 10000 volunteer troops to
France. The force will be only the
first detachement of a Chinese ex-
Probationary army to aid the allies
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
Richnond's Quota Landed at Peters
burg In Four Parties and WINS
Soon Assigned TO Duty.
TWENTY IN HEADQUARTERS
Other Men Become Part of Three
Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry
Big Crowds Sec Departure of
Local Boys. -s5


Camp Lee, Sept l9.-Over a thou
sand men or 1.15s to be exact en-
tered the service of Uncle Sam at
Camp Lee today These were the
first arrivals OF the second increment
of 40 per cent OF the $1,000 soldiers
who will be trained here for service
in Europe ARRANGEMENTS had been
perfected for receiving the recruits as
they reached Petersburg and no hitch
occurred, The men will continue ar
irving for five davs
Officers has been stationed at both
railways in the city and even at the
principal stations In Richmond, so
that men who rea ched the capital
after long trip from remote parts
OF the state might receive intelligent
supervision and direction for the re-
mainder OF their Journey In some
cases meals were served at Richmond
to men who had to change trains
there.
forty men put in an appearance at
the camp a few minutes after noon
arriving from the adjoining county or
Chesterfield. After being lined up
and their names called. inquiry was
made as to the presence OF men skill
ed "a stenographers, chaufreurr,.
mechanics. farriers and In other lines.
As the demand is keen for such in
the headquarters troop. A Gould.
David Dunlop. r. c. Williams. w. T.
Carroll. e, w. Belcher and William "a
Archer were finally chosen as mem
hers OF the troops and the others
were assigned to the Three Hundred
and Eighteenth regiment OF infantry
which heretofore has received all re,
crutts from the eastern portion OF
Virginia
Richmond Men Arrive.
Following Chesterfield came the
first party from Richmond, number
ing forty-four men. From these ]. l.
Gregory was chosen for the head
quarters troop and immedia tely after
wards two other Richmond parties
mum hering respectively sixty three and
seventy-one men. marched up and
halted In front OF the division head
quarters. From these were chosen for
the troop J. w. Stinson, James r.
MONTGOMERY, f, C, Perkins, C. b.
Grumpy. Morris Groh. A. r. Sadler. J.
w Chandler. r, r, Biakey, C. H.
brown, II, s. Colbert. IT, A. Hairfield,
Charles Taylor, O. w. Ford and Byron
T.. Linton.
All the ether men coming from
Richmond were apportioned to the
Three Hundred and Eighteenth regt-
1880 ~ 'itdhtiJt
The particular companies to which
they will he allotted cannot be given
now inasmuch as various preliminar-
les are necessary before full orga MIA
ton can take place. Colonel Rhodes.
chtef surgeon at the cantonment. pass
ed along while the Richmond addi-
ttons to the national army were lined
up answering their names. and re-
marked to several press representa-
lives standing near on the fine per-
son al appearance of the men.
Soldiers from Henrico county came
next. They numbered forty-one and
from their ranks wer taken w. III
Gordon. l.. L. Moore and n r.. Harris |
to serve on the headquarters troop |
More Richmond Rockies. -
Later In the Afternoon. Richmond |
was given in tie ltmeiight at division |
HEADQUARTERS. when two other com |
panies of Thirty Ave and seventy |
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
Mitchell IN LEAD
BY CLOSE MARGIN

New York, Sept. 30 @ A. M. Thurs
day.-Mayor John Purrov Mitchell
is having hard fight IT, win the pri-
mary election over his Republican OPP
ponent,- ex-senator William II. BEN
nett-
The mayor is leading his opponent
by only 1909. The returns from L.
$40 districts out of 2.0s0 in the
greater CITY give Mitchell 3l,o42; Ben
nett 29.T33.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20

Petregrad. Sept Ia--Russia's rad.
icals who clamor for peace and moi
rule, were leaderless tonight Their
cause has suffered the worst blow since
the March revolution. Tschideze, who
stuck with them through thick and
thin as the chic. pilot. for six months
regardless of the odium and stigma
that went with his leadership, has de-
serted them SkobelofT, ex-minister OF
labor. who fought their battles day In
and day out in the governm entail coun-
ellis. has parted ways with them Te-
hernoff and Tsertetelli. two other ex-
ministers, have done likewise.
These four together with Messrs.
Annismoff and Gotz. today threw zap
their office as members of the exec f.
uttvc board Of the Petrograd council
Of workmen's and soldiers delegates~-
threw them up because they are sick
and tired and disgisted with that vast
ungoverna BILE thronE of dreamers who
have been hampering construction at
every step.
For these leaders the cup OF useless
sacrifices. of battling for an undeserv-
ing cause. overfowed when the council
in plenary session yielded to the J'to-
plan shrteks OF the Maximalists who
recognize no law but that OF the empty
stomach and the Jealous purse, no au-
IhpFHy hAI t1at OF the mon.
Waited For Return Of Reason.
At that pienary meeting--held on
Saturday. resolution was passed by
an overwhelming majority urging i'm
m ediate steps toward peace, a counter
revolution and usurpation OF ail power
by the council, For three days the
executive committee, long since be
come a body Of lea ders" whose coun-
sci was hooted down and whose &C
tions were overruied, waited in pa
thence 20 see II the great mass OF mem
hsrs would take on reason. Today re-
alizing that the most effective way to
check the tide of anarchy was TO de-
priPe II OF the influence that still goes
with the names OF the leaders the lat
ter resigned Their action constitutes
a browning triumph for kerensky The
situation thus created is by no means
void OF danger, since the masses are
expected to unloose their fury in some
way. But unless they find some new
powerful leader, atter1a pts at bringing
about new chaos are doomed to fall
ure. II is generally believed
Disobediencc Punished.
Premier Kerensky and his chief
lleutenants are at chief Headquarters
in the field. working out q program
OF reorganization for the army and
sternness toward dis
if>tas II = rendering II good account
of itself, Thirtv-fve Maxinalists who
refused To ohev orders have been SEN
fenced TO hard labor for from six to
ten years.
All the sailors who had hand In
'he recent massacre of officers Of the
Petronavlovsk At Helsing-
fors have heen arrested and will he
severely punished.
General Ksledine. commander Of
the Cossacks. is at full liberty, the or
der to arrest him having been re-
scinded. In this sescue alone, II is
frankly admitted. the provisional gov
ernment shows some weakness, for II
s an open secret that It's leniency to-
ward kaledine was dictated by the de-
liant attitude OF the Cossack Re-
ports from the front hint at new agi-
'atton among the troops insisting on
In politics and on aboli- /
Ion OF the death penalty
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20

(C6nfinasd o. ssosnd DAss.)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20
Gossip

A f. ttsre extraordinary.
Something spanking new,
clean and clever Don't
let your neighbors get the
hop on you. Get YOUR
earful every Sunday.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-20

Avxl4hU a. 11S szpsss-
sapD In 0Asuany Toy The
Riohmond vYrBiniAn. Hs
worth reading. Tell your
friends
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-12-13
PROTECTION FOR
WORKING MOTHERS
ON WAR CONTRACTS

Protection for mothers employed
on government war contracts is rec
commended by the Committee on Wo-
men in Industry of the Council Of
National Defense "No woman"
says its bulletin on industrial stand
ards, just issued. "shall be employed
during period of two months prior
or two months subsequent to child
birth"
Such a prohibition is already in
effect in four states in this country
but no provision has yet been made
for the care and support of work
ing mothers when thus deprived of
their wages.
All European countries that have
this restricted period also have ma
ternity insurance, according to of
fetal reports, as protection against
suffering, restitution, and impaired
strength of both mother and child.
To afford full protection of mother
hood among families of industrial
workers in the United States, the
workmen's health insurance bill pre-
pared by the American Association
for Labor Legislation in cooperation
with the American Medical Associa-
ton provides for maternity bene-
fits including medical, nursing and
obstetrical care, as well as cash
payments.
Maternity insurance to accompany
the restricted working period for
mothers, it is being urged, is neces-
sary in the United States as in the
allied countries, to safeguard eff
fectively the health and well being
of women workers now entering in
dustries in greatly increased num-
bers.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-12-13
A STORY THAT INDICTS
CIVILIZATION

A powerful novel which radicals
should read and get their conserva-
tive friends to read, is David Ora
ham Phillips posthumous work,
"Susan Lcnox, Her Fan and Rise"
It is not a propaganda story and
is all the better for that season.
But it lays bare all the evils and
shams of existing society. 1t shows
people as they are and though it
presents no remedy, no thinking per
son who reads the story can lay it
down without feeling that such
things should not be, and that no
superficial remedy will suffice.
The heroine of the story is not
pure unsullied saint. Far from it.
She is one who makes her life con-
form, not to conventional ideas of
propriety, but to conditions with
which she is compelled to deal.
listing social conditions there are peo-
pie who, however DESTROYS to be
good, cannot be so and live. "Susan
LenoX" could no more have regu-
lated her life as convention requires
than one of Ernest Thompson-Se-
tons wild animal characters could
have been reasonably represented as
a strict observer of the Golden Rule.
Although the novel has a happy end
ing, although not of the conventional
kind, it is one that is only possible
with extraordinary characters who
happen to have a stroke of good
fortune. 1t brings no comfort to
those who would like to feel that
"all's right with the world"
The world lost much when an in
sane assassin put an end to Phillips
life. His last work shows that he
had a vision of a better social state
and the power to make it clear to
others. "Susan Lenox" shows the
civilization that is. It may well
have been followed by other stories
showing civilization that is pos
sible and how it may be attained.
But after all, that is not necessary.
One who has been awakened by
Phillips great story should be
urged to pursue the subject further,
not by reading entertaining fiction,
but by study of serious work by
such writer's as the author of "Pro-
gress and Poverty"
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-12-13
BREAKING UP
THE HOME

According to a bulletin recently
issued by the Equitable Life Insur-
ance Company, there are twenty-five
million men in the United States be-
tween the ages of 10 and A years
of age, and of these, ten million are
bachelors. The years from Is to
A represent the period in which
marriage normally occurs, and yet
nearly one-half of the American
men of agegroup are not married.
We learn that these men are not
bachelors from choice, but that liv-
ing is so expensive in this country,
and incomes so relatively low and
uncertain that marriage has be-
come luxury whose sheer cost
causes many prudent men to hest
tate"
The Chicago Herald, in comment
ing on this alarming situation, SAYS:
''In order to assure their own pros
perity, the governments must con-
spire to arrange economic affairs in
such way that reasonable men and
women may marry without financial
fear"
Somebody is beginning to see that
they are starving the geese that lay
the golden eggs. Something is
breaking up the home, and doing a
thorough job of it, too; but some
how it is not what they have been
wont to accuse of that the sinister
crime.
Breaking up the home"l Ten
million American home that might
have been, but could not be, because
Capitalism has taken such a heavy
toll from the American Labor that
ten million American workingmen
of manageable age have found
themselves unable to meet the ex
pense of maintaining honest
Go into any of our large cities,
and walk up one street and down
another and you find needless miles
of houses bearing the sign" Rooms
for rent" This means two things.
1t means that the occupants of those
houses are unable to live upon their
incomes, and must exc out their
meager earnings by sharing their
habitation with others. And far
more serious than this, it means
that millions and millions of Amer
lean men and women have no homes
at all, but must live, or exist, each
in a little room in strangers
house. The barrenness of such life
Is known only to those who have
lived it; and yet, if present condi-
tions continue the day is near at
hand when this class will be in the
majority.
The American home! What is
happening to it? What can save it?
Who are its friends, and who it's en-
emies? Wherein lie the hope for
the future Of family life and the
home? Ask your neighbor, or your
fellow-worker. And if he knows,
ask him what he is doing about it.
or what he is going to do.-Idaho
Party Builder.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-12-13
CONSUMERS WHY
NOT COOPERATE?

The whole system of profit-mak-
ing, from top to bottom through
out the commercial system, is aim
ed at the wages of the ultimate
consumer. 1t is aimed to exploit
the man who works with his hands
to sell, and the man who works with
hands to buy. Life is limited, health
undermined, spirits depressed, bles-
sed opportunities lost and disastrous
deprivations suffered because every
individual of host of middlemen
eXacts his toll of profit form the
very requirements of your animal
existence for food, for clothing, and
for shelter.
Has it ever come home to YOU
that you could do all this business
yourself, just by cooperating with
your fellows?
Why not HAVE YOUR OWN
STORES, where there is no incen-
tive to adulterate, to misreresent
the goods, or to give short measure
where the earnings come back to
you in dividends; and where policies
are inaugurated and supported that
result in Federation, WHOLESALERS,
Workshops and Factories, Wheat
lands and Pastures, Diaries and
Laundries (as in several European
countries to-day under one vast
voluntary democratic control in the
interests of the ultimate Consumer?
Consumers Cooperation is the
most direct sort of direct action.
Why should not the Solidarity Of
Labor, when it buys as well as VIII. n
it produces, lead toward the Coop
eratiye Commonwealth?
SCOTT II. PERKY.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-12-13
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR

Why Almighty? Because, in our
civilization, it is the medium through
which most of what we call the
good things of this life are obtained.
Our possession of plenty of dollars
thus means easy satisfaction of our
desire for these "good things"
The easiest way to get dollars
therefore becomes the easiest way to
get the physical necessities and
comforts we crave; and it is the law
of our nature that we seek the line
of least resistance and greatest at
traction.
The easiest way to get dollars is
by means of rent, interest and profit
The hardest way is by work-pro-
ductiVe work. Is not this true?
And yet-all these things, obtain
able through the medium of the dol
lar, are the result of human work
upon natural resources.
This is why the moralist teaches
"the dignity of labor"
But the practical man" teaches
US to make money" by the surest
business" methods. Which are:
enterprises and investments that will
yield rent, interest and profit.
Ground rent comes from land own
ership; interest from loaning money;
profit from marketing commodities.
As Henry George said, 1T is this
capacity of yielding rent which gives
value to land Until its owner
ship will confer some advantage land
has not value. w. f. Brokaw.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-12-13

1t is true that the disciples Of law
and order in Butte, Montana, drag
ged "a helpless cripple out into the
night and murdered him in cold
blood, but what of it? The world
must be made safe for democracy