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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-16
LENIES SPECIAL. TANES
FOR ROADS AND SCHOOLS


"''" n'l' '""' pfoV'oins Tor Spe-
49, w! % ''"'S on each si"o OF
'hN""'e property III virginia Tor the
'''"' ''Nta o. r""nS' the promotion OF
''''t'p''S"'""'S work an" Tor Schpoi
49, ""H E'N'h executive appr"Na' iatc
no "'S"'- We cents Is 20 hc al
WIG" mo cent? Tor road work, 3
'e"'5 '"F Sth""'" ana cent Tor inber-
'uIosi" treatmcn'. The appropriation
""'' No. Hr' nc" "E Governor DAVIS
''oE '',' 'i" III" n'''ndea apprCpria-
w" u f"'''''" Tor 'nc Sth"oiS OF me
H'".' S""i' "e raised IRON TINS tax.
"' 'h''u DILL senate hiii 81 pro-
n.'rH '"H 'he i.cn'iSs'"n 81 women into
NH''"M ana Mary college npon equal
''''nS u" ihc''' KS Shi'' mn rihn'c
. '""' IL REQUIRES ne BOARD oi Tiss-
"''r - NC t"i'eEr !" admit women
''" "ooS MOI !"'Fe inc matter ia tn"
MAINS % we h"ar"'
""'Ne o'" o. was returned :" the
''ne'"' Assembly without the Cover
"o'S Approval me measure i'll Gues-
"oH proposed i" amend a f"rn"r act
creating = commission to consider the
1@hp'hSation OF court clerks. exam
"''rS 'l 'eeoFnS' ir'nShrcrS' ccminis-
toner's "' revenue ana other onlcia!s;
proVid"'S ~ nc amendment tina the
PROVISIONS "i TINS act Shouid not apply
20 fi'nce George COUNTY
IN I''hThiHs 'He OIL Governor Davis
''"''"' GU" Sh'7 ""' "'tA"H' my
'pPr"''' n'i"n"' sec u" reason VIM
INC county OF Prince George should
."hs'r be III" ON y COUNTY exempted
T.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-16
pITITUI. PROCESSION NOHE
THAN THREE YEARS I.DEG

M, worl: IN France" said D' Love
10y was No; ,nnonr soldiers. but
among III" women ana children who
had .;nficrcd from the effects II In,
war without participat!nG in title
:.ic':. Oil. f""hl" u&"lCSS ,,rn and ~,n-
on and tn, very young bows ANA girls
and little chiiircn who had been SAINT
N"rtE ru FranCc---cullcd out according
20 thu military pv.Ht II vicw re tho
.iIiUs--a steam Of war Wasta;c do
pond"ut piIiful"
IN l-ovsjry WAS stationed with ot!icr
Red Cross workers cooperating with
the l:r"rch government at Elan. a
ii'f'" Swiss town south OF Lake &C.
ncN1 where !rum 1000 - |. 90 IL fuu..s
lay passed the most pitiful ~
ocs.-iom eyes ever loo:;.d upon" lie.
ciared tn" sn"al-"r "and the !"agost
~ :li hi-'ury-ov"r three vra-s long
III led with nothing save tr" clothes
"u their backs ana the tickets ted
lev string arourd Their u.cka shpy-
ing thu; each was . ."r,aiu KIND %
gcfuE,"."
- ihcyo the RCD Crosa workers. = in
istcreG in tE,ir distrese. and Dr Lore
icy told o' tn. reception daily az the
refr gees in the ii:tl" town az EVAN.
aud Of tn" spirit or glat-eSs which.
IN spit" ri "v"ry;hirc made thr rcc-
ns"os SIN" 'hHc blessed martyrs" that
tho were from under he heel Of the
orp"crsor for y space
With much daiicacy. Or I.ovcjoy
Touched uppn tho most h.incu, crime
that IN" Russians have committed in
all history tn" retention by Military
"utho"itr IN Northern France Of all
Young French women over sixteen
. wears I'D md hose married WHO have
but ono ch.!d--slavcs 10 tho pruss ia n
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-16

we, tam do, To- ,dtd. and comfort tho
Frcnra' the, tewer lives OF America n
boys will 10 needed 10 win the wnrr'
. The auditprium was filled and many
people crowded into the gallery last
night ~ ~
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-16
THREE IMPORTANT BILLS
ARE SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
Approval Given Special Scent Tax,
Council az defense and Cocdu-
cation at Williamsburg.
OTHER MEASURES ARE SIGNED
Special Levy Will BE Made for High
ways. School Work md Fight
Against TubcrcuIoSis-- overall
Bills Sent Back 10 Assembly.

Three important bills were signed
yesterday by Governor Davis: namely.
the special S-cent levy bill. tho meas
ur" aiviH" state recognition 10 the
state Council OF Defense. and the Wn-
liam and Mar: cocducational bill.
Tho state Council of Defense has
heretofore been merely an appculage
OF the state system. with practically
no recognition Of amy sort. With ,hc
passage and approval OF the measure
it, the council is created "a
LEGAL state office. 1t Will have here
after tho power to adopt such rcgu-
Ia tons as may DC necessary in the dis
charge o: it's duty. and may call upon
the governing authorities Of all coun-
ties and cities OF tho state to CO.
operate with il in It's Investigations.
Most important cf all its new powers
is the authority given tho council to
mobilize all state officials for duty in
a war emergency.
I'm appropriation or s5.00G per year
is TO he sjv"n to the body. with which
20 pay the expenses of IT'S activities
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-16

IN this campaign. she said. and there
~ nothing more popular In France just
now than the American uniform,
whether military or civilian"
at was particularly Impressed upon
me To-day" said DR.. l.ovcjoy. tina, IL
Was. after all. the same old fight he
tween liberty loving people ana the
PruSsinn influence. because II Was
the King OF England the colonies were
lighting 40 years ago. not the Eng
fish people. II WAS again tn" House
Of IIanovcrIIuns, ilapsburGs. Linden
burgers. iiessiams. all the iI'H Ia fac.
And did not know until to-day
that this was Patrick Iicnry's Tow =.
und whoa read his speech NJ dnn..
tu.night. | marked passage uncr
passage which was Just nS applicable
to-day as II WAS thcn--Jusi as tru. ~
when Patrick Henry said II. Why.
every t'rcnchman in France to-day.
every Hussan every Serb. cvcry caris.
ti3u in the Turkish empire. every man
who worsh.ps God all over tho world
ia sryin. In his SOUL to-day: Give me
liberty q. give mo death" The soul
Of l'ntrick Henry will meyer die Du;
viii live over ana over again"
SHOWS soWL: OF IMPLEMENTS
NOW t>ED "oNr:R TIIia:,E'
.ior" eloquent than even Dr. Love
joys thrillnc address were some cN-
from tho other side Thcrc was frst
the famous 10 the most dies .ruc,irc
shell wh'cn WAS ever invented. and 40
per cent of Witch is mad" by INC hand;
Of women in tho munl,Ion factories
abroad. There il no question about
In" iiYhtiu" unInli.lrs Of Tho women Of
Europe declared the spoaiic". There
is woman behind every man in the
trenches"
Tho second exhibit was one Of ne
culiar pathos and Significance 1t was
= gas mask for LITTLE child DR..
i.pVCioN cyplaiucd how the poisonous
fumes blasted the fair faces Of the liz
tie chilarcn. aud these masks with a
padding which ncuuaiizcd 10 :, certain
cXtcut thr poisonous effects Of tn" yns
We're worn by the children and xn.
went on to say that recently .hc linns
had ptrfUmcd tho eases so that They
came down tn" breeze like a breath OF
wild flowers more ins!dious and deadly
thar anything tina; could be imni:iucJ
The tnirj exhibit WAS a shock helmet
from u ;criunn head which was con =
structcd 10 ward off the bullets ~ til.
allies. ont was no longer effective.
WITH passionate intensity which
found Instant response IN her audi
cncc, Or Lovcjoy spoke OF The awful
destruction Of the lives OF little chill
drcn ia this war. and how this was
Tie most terrible indictncn, which
could BE brought against the priaqiaIi
system. "Ev"ry father ana mother IN
,hc world should declare war on such
Clarcd pr i.ovcJoy. and while only
the strong young mHn can go 10 the
front and only TN" strong women ca,,
do active ice. No can all coutri hut q,
20 tho supro,; II tho WORK az tho
American Ecd Cross. and cverythirp
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-16
Makes THRILLING TALK
ON WORK OF REQ GROSS
Or. Esther i.orcjoy Describes Work
OF American Organization In
Northern France.
WOMEN ARE WAR MARTYRS
Declares That Pitiful Procession Of
Old and Useless Men and Women
Continued for Three Ycnrs-l.N-
l,buS From France Are Shown

INT, oduccd by coiernr Worthu,n.
president 81 The Richmond, charter %
In, American Rcd Cross. Or. i:s,he-
Lovej"y. Of cortland. Greg. who r"-
Gently returned from nvc months ser
vice abroad with Tho Rcd cross. dc
iivcr"d enc Of Tive most fcrccfrl and
Uniting addrCswrs hoard in recent
months in the Jefferson Hotel audi
;orium last night Wcarirg the khaki
service uniform Of surgeon AZ thc
Rcd ross. pr. Lovojoy is II forccful
acurc typical i'll :, broader sens" -;
the opportunities FOR service :.hich tn"
war has Trough, to tho women Of
.\wcricn.
Or. i.cvcioy spoilc first or her do
li@ht III The capital city o. Nirci.ia.
and because i,ichHond People are ncvo''
tired Of hcarins- Richmond praised.
they listened with sympathy aud
amusement while the sneaker spoke OF
u sirh;-Saeinr trip about the city, h"r
visit 10 old 81. .lohn's. how she han
bc'u tod - all seriousness that the
Declaration OF Independence was sign
I'd in Hich,hond, and came very ncav
getting aw'.0 with 1t but ror u ruth
!o"ing woman In tho Dariy.''
she spoke with admiration OF Hope
wcl. which She called "a war own"
ANA jhc fact that IIopcwcll made "a
pcr cent Of IL" output OF junction.
'wlici was iiic only kind ~ arsu-
aud Of 4 recent meeting IN Washing
ton which She attend q whore ih"rc
were 1000 women in the audience III
III" uniform OF III" itod eros arl how.
20 lcr L seemed thai day that thu
soul of the Rod Cross vas -ccrcscntc I
there in Washington. ami tina. all aver
The courtr: women were mohiininc
- -.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Evils of Initiation >

Financial Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The recent letter of Mr.. A. E.
Adams to The Tribune bears some very
interesting and unique statements
which I cannot agree to.
Consider, in speaking of the terrific
dangers of imitation, his charge to re-
call that it took twenty-five years to
recover from the limitation bubble" of
the Civil War.
The comparison is not good.
The differences are vital.
Then the country was under the dis
advantage of an unscientifc banking
system, of monetary system whose
qualities of inelasticity made panic and
depression the inevitable result of
credit expansion. One-half of the ma
tion was bankrupt at the end Of the
war; and that half, furthermore. was
forced through an industrial revolu-
ton.
But the chief cause of the financial
condition in which the country found
itself at the end Of the war and of
which Mr.. Adams speaks was not credit
imitation or expansion.
1t was a debased currency. There
is vast difference between the two
phases.
The wide issue and circulation of
paper money which had no actual value
save the stamp of their worth upon
their face was the great outstanding
cause of high prices at that period.
Mr.. Adams and other writers entirely
miss the important point Of difference
between an overabundance of gold and
other currency and an abundance Of
credit.
If the supply of gold and currency
is greater than the demand it is easy
to understand a decline in it's value, in
its purchasing power.
Under our present banking system
there is not and can not be more credit
in use than there is demand. There
cannot be more bank loans than there
is demand for them. Therefore it is
obvious that the value of credit cannot
be deprecated by the simple act Of
credit expansion. In short, the sudden
expansion Of credit is no evidence of
an oversupply of credit, and the laws
of supply and demand which undcrlie
all economic change do not cause a de-
probation in its value.
Clearly there is no analogy between
the debased currency Of the Recon-
struction period and the credit ex-
pansion Of the present time.
Mr.. Adams admits that up to the
present time high prices have not been
caused by credit imitation, but by in
creased gold supply and increased de-
mand for commodities.
Not up to the present time!
How does The Tribune reconcile this
statement with their oft repeated as
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Under the pressure of the consum-
ing masses of the population the gov
ernment has in some measure counter
acted this endeavor through the fixing
of maximum prices; but it has done so
unwillingly and only proceeded against
the worst excesses in this respect.
This procedure is in itself entirely
comprehensive. The government
needs money for the conduct of the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

the war the owner of the means -
production always has the advantses
If him. He is the owner Of the prod.
ucts without which the workman cannat
i've; thanks to Germany's isolati,a
from the worlds markets, he has
monopoly of the sale of these product.
and he only sells them at prices piyi,.
nim the same or rather a better proHt
than in pre-war times.
Great Rise in
Cost of Living
Thus the course of commodity price,
and of wages during the war has be-
come real tragedy for the workirv
:lass in the widest sense, whether thev
ire wage earners, salaried employees Or
officials. In August, 1917, according "a
Calwer, the cost Of the weekly famiiv
ration was 54.67 marks (s13.of. =.
compared with 25.12 marks (s5.98l !.
July, 1914-that is to say, it has riser
during the war more than 1T per cent
1t must, moreover, be noted that ths
commodities on which Calwer bases hi.
calculation are mostly rationed com.
modities, of which the supply is 50 in.
adequate that they do not furnish suf-
dcient sustenance. If the workinrmsn
wants barely to survive and retain his
working capacity he must buy consider.
able quantities of non-rationed com
modities or else procure rationed COM
modities through illegal channels, and
in both these cases he pays far higher
prices than Calwer indicates. To this
must be added the fact that the quality
Of large number of food articles, such
as -four, bread, potatoes, coffee, etc,
has deteriorated. Moreover, the in.
crease in the cost Of fuel, clothing,
shoes and household necessities of all
kinds has been far more rapid than the
increase of articles represented by the
Calwer index numbers. Certain goods
have increased in price by 800, 800 and
even 1000 per cent, and without exag-
geration the average increase of the
cost of living may be estimated at be.
tween 200 and 300 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Maximum Prices
Not a "Cure-All"

When, after the outbreak of the
war, conditions had come to such a
point the consumers began to clamor
for maximum prices. But only too
soon they discovered that maximum
prices are by no means cure all.
Immediately after maximum prices had
been decreed, large part of the we'll
to-do consumers, in conjunction with
producers and dealers, set out to evade
them. Thus it came about that ar
ticles for which maximum prices had
been fixed disappeared over night
from the market and were obtainabie
only for those who did not care how
high price they had to pay. In or
rationing of all articles that could be
rationed was demanded, so that every
body would get some of the available
supplies. But even in rationed ar
ticles fourishing trade is sometimes
carried on at really exorbitant prices.
Flour, butter and other foodstuffs
sometimes bring in illicit trade five
times as much and more as they
would bring if acquired legally, by
means of rationed distribution.
AS set forth here, various circum-
stances, among which should also be
mentioned the low quotation abroad of
German exchange, contribute to the
continuous increase of prices. This in
crease of prices is tantamount to a de-
probation of German money. The
workman, who with his wages must bry
the necessities of existence, notices this
by the fact that his wages are no
longer sufficient to purchase the neces-
sites Of life. AS he is not willing to
die of starvation, he finds himself fac
ing the necessity of demanding higher
wages. Such demand is, however, re.
sisted by the employers, and often most
strongly by those employers who have
been doing fourishing business dur.
The workman soon notices that in the
long run he cannot counterbalance the
increase of prices through wage m.
| creases granted to him, because during
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

war. 1t, however, cannot dare to
raise the required sums through direct
taxation of the individual citizens. 1t
must raise the money through bond
issues. AS such government loans
could never be fully disposed of
through sums subscribed by the great
mass Of the poorer classes of the pop
ulation, it can only suit the govern
ment if industry, commerce and agri-
culture extract these sums from the
great masses of the population
through good" prices and put them
at its disposal in the form of sub
scriptions to war loans. In this man
ner the individual citizen hardly no.
tices that ultimately it is he who
finances the war. AS a matter Of
fact, industrial magnates, banks, land
owners, business men, etc, have only
apparently subscribed the greater part
Of the war loans; in reality it is the
great mass Of the population which by
hard work and privation has raised
the sums required for these loans and
given to the fortunate owners of the
land, of capital and of the means of
production the opportunity to enrich
themselves at its expense.
But the consumers themselves are
partly responsible for the high prices.
On the outbreak Of the war they be-
gan boarding supplies, and thus cre-
ated scarcity Of supplies and con-
sequent imitation of prices at time
when actual conditions did not war;
rant it. Under the capitalistic regime
prices will always rise when the de-
mand for goods is greater than the
supply. The more scarce and indis-
pensable the goods in question are, the
more will the prices rise. And prices
will, Of course, rise beyond all bounds
if a general scarcity of supplies sets
in and the individual can barely sat-
isfy his hunger. In such case the
increase of the price of one article
will automatically extend to all other
articles without regard to the fact
whether the costs of production JUS
tify such an increase or not.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

RIGHT at length produced the only
thing with which his captors would be
satisfied. They took the bottle he dug
out of his vest and permitted him to
so on his way, the picture of dejec-
ton.
That, anyhow, was Enricht's story,
and one on which he still stands. AS
he rccited it In affidavit form it ended
with punch"
He had been prepared for some such
contingency as he met in that lonely
road, Enricht said. He had provided
himself with duplicate bottle, and it
was the dummy he surrendered to the
hold-up men.
Covered at
Every Turn
A clever subterfuge it was, on the
surface. And in another light might
it not be regarded as clever explana-
ton Of why the liquid in the capt
ured bottle shouldn't be expected to
make the mysterious compound COM
plete? That is just one question. With
Enricht and his fuel such questions
keep cropping up at every turn. And
at every turn he has kept himself
covered.
In the next few weeks or the next
few months the case of Yoakum VS..
Enricht must be coming up. Then it
will rest with the court whether En-
RIGHT shall be ordered to give to the
National Motor Power Company his
full formula.
In the pendancy of the suit Enricht,
by his own statement, has been in
conference with Secretary Baker and
Attorney General Gregory. He as
serts the United States government
has made him an offer in excess of
that made by the British government,
contingent, of course, on his fluid be-
ing all he claims it to be.
ut was just a tentative offer" he
said the other day. "But they'll come
up, they'll come up. I have offered the
government my new bomb as a gift,
but for the fluid must have my price.
"Of course, I can't enter into any
definite agreement until the suit has
been disposed of, until the fluid is all
mine again. suggested that to the
Attorney General and he proposed that
the governments money be paid into
the Court of Claims, to be turned over
either to me or to Yoakum as the suit
between US is decided. 1 told him
was too old to wait for money tied up
in such n way.
Wants Protection
After the War
1.-THE government wants my secret
only for war use. What l want the
government to do is to protect me
after the war. proposed that should
be specially licensed to manufacture
the compound, and that it be made ill.,
legal for anyone else to make it. On
that plan I was ready to sell my fuel
to the government for ten cents a gal
Ion and to sell to the general public at
twelve cents, on those sales paying a
tax of two cents gallon and enrich
ing the Treasury at the rate of some
thing like $7o,ooo,oOo a year."
So the "cent-a-gallon gas" idea has
been Abandoned Enricht explains
that the cost of the chemicals he
needs has greatly advanced in the last
two years.
"They have had the wrong idea from
the first" he says. "Their theory is
that I change the chemical compost
tion of water, and they say truly that
l must spend more energy in the pro-
cess than would be produced. AS a
matter of the fact, water is Just
carrier; it takes minute quantities of
my high explosive through the carbu-
reter and into the cylinders. Simple :?
Eth 2"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-09-27
PRIVILEGE OF BEING AN ASS
Generally Considered lnalIenabIe, but
New York Magistrate Who Fined
Student Thought Otherwise.

Compared to the inalienable right to
make fool of yourself. the right of
free speech, which loud-mouths pro
claim the most cherished one, Is of
small concern In the average person
OF all places where some restraint
on the former might be expected New
York Ia the last that would be thought
student, caught by an alert constable
In the act of standing still under an
open umbrella while the stars shone
overhead, was fined $40 and warned
that the penalty for the next offense
of similar genesis would be a term
in the workhouse. The young man,
of course, was qualifying for fratern-
ity. He looked foolish-as was the
authoritative intention, In which he
acquiesced.
But" quoth the police magistrate
ponderously, mo fraternity has right
to order man to make an asa of him.
self" and he expressed the wish that
the whole chapter could be hailed into
court that he might fine them all. Con
siderlng In how many ways New York
invites young men to make asses OF
themselves, and how many persons In
that town, In fact, do make asses OF
themselves without molestation. why
should the line be drawn at practice
apparently so inoffensive to public pol
icy as the one criticized ?-Providence
Journal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-09-27
WHAT DOES "LURlD" MEANl
Popular Usage Of the Word ls Opposed
to Its Definition, Which
ls "Pale."

Two men got into an argument re-
garding the meaning of the word
"lurid." One OF them had used the
word, as the police reporter uses 1t, to
describe the red glare In the sky
made by fire at night. The other
man objected to this, asserting that
the word 'lurid" means pale" in
stead of deep red" Thereupon they
applied to the dictionaries and found
them agreed in defining "lurld" as
pale, wan, CHASTITY pale"
But the Oxford Dictionary has
caught up with the new and popular
meaning Of the word with this defini-
ton:
Shining with red glow or glare
amid darkness (said of lightning
flashes across dark clouds or flame
mingled with smoked"
But this seems to be gratuitous of
the Oxford Dictionary. The word
''lurid" started out 1t seems as a Latin
adjective meaning pale, yellow" 1t
was used chiefly of the complexion,
much AZ ''sallow" Is used. Then 1t
grew to have the meaning of "ghast-
ly." But it's transition into tho popu-
lar meaning given 1t today seems to
have been due to the willfulness of the
press, which found It q handy word
to describe a phenomenon for which
no other word had, apparently, quite
the desirable flavor.-Mancheste
Guardian.