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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-25

In order that eleven vacancies.in tho
police department may be flied. tho
list Of eligihles has been augmented
by the addition OF seven men. who sue
cessfuliy passed the examination Fri-
day. Here IL the lst 'e
G. w Hoge, 2702 East Main street:
f II. Brooks 3007-B p street; Arthur
Butler. 1903 South Belvidere: j. Il
Buck, 500 South Pine; T. II. Hail, 3fts
Beverly; ] + Pugh. zoos venahle,
and w NJ Mitchell, AS Denny.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-25
|SOUTHSIDE ITEMS.
"vyilI Soon Ia. Over"

According To Stanley Morrissett, son
Of William J. Morrfssett. prominent
funeral director the war viii soon be
over. He is over there" in the
thick Of H. with company n. 3o5th en-
gineers and In "A letter to h&e father
he says the allies have the most per
feet system imaginable and he can
not see how the Huns have stood the
onslaughts SO long.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-25
MUN|T|ON RESERVE
ADDS TO IT'S ROSTER
twenty-five Rescrvists to Answer
Call for Training at Scvchf
Pines Tomorrow
LEAVE By SPECIAL AUTOS.
Those of First Call VIII Go From
Main Street station at 1920 O'clock
A. vi. On Special Train Provided for
Them--Rcturn Same Way.
NOTICE.

The "Women's Reserve Special
will leave the reservoir car barns
at Gas O'Clock tomorrow morning,
plainly placarded, and will reach
Main street station In time to con-
meet with the special leaving that
station for the plant at Fort Lee.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-25

Games To-day.

New York at St. Louis.
Brooklyn at Chicago.
Boston at Cincinnati.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-25

Matrimony is the destroyer or many
leasant enRagements
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-25

Al woman's voice isn't necessarily
heavenly because It sounds unearthly.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
DIED WITHOUT SEEING
HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER
Sergeant Thomn- Is. Sale, of Hirhmond,
Gives Life Fighting for Freedom
In France.

Details OF the death in France OF
Sergeant Thomas Il. Sale are contained
in Il letter to his widow. who resides
IN this city. The letter is from Cap
tain Thomas c. Griffin, who was in
command OF Sergeant sales unit. Com
pdny !. Three Hundred ana Eighteenth
Infantry. He says. in part:
Sergeant Sale WAS struck on the
head by Il piece OF shrapncl ON October
!. ana Vas sent IL - hospital in Paris
Although we knew that h" WAS severe
~ wounded. We all hoped that he would
recover. and ii was quite Il blow 10
us when wc we're notified of his death
OF October SO Lieutenant Cabcll OF
his res mcnt. vas i'm the sam" hospital
ana 1t was IN Il telegram from him that
first learned Of Sergeant Sales death
II resulted directly from hernia OF tho
brain. caused by the shraoncl wound
have not yet learned the exact loca-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
Confscated Autos
Gi0e Police Trouble
OaDner Hats Deal by
Which Department Per-
chased One Mdcilinc.

Decision Is being awaited as to the
claim OF the i'laGeman Motor Company
on a conhscated automobile bought by
tn" Police Department. The machine.
valued at more titan $1,000. was taken
several months ago when Fred Mcy-
'Ts was charged with transporting
liquor. lie denied ownership or knowl-
edge OF the machine and was released
After holding the car :hc police de-
cidcd 10 buy ii, and th.s week paid
SCI, for it. Representatives OF the
rla@c,nan Motor Compan? have APP
pcaicd TO Commemorative Attorney
Wise. declaring they have a lien on
tho car for several hundred dollars
TN" machine having been bought from
&. Smith.
Detective Sergeants Bertucci and
Gordon Smith yesterday purchased one
OF the coniiscatcd roadstcis offered for
siX-cylindcr machine and we'll equipped.
II was taken in capturing an alleged
DootlcgGcr and Bertucci and Smith
CAIN they are going TO chase liquor
carriers in their new machine.
Through a restraining order issued
by Judge beverly r. Crump. City Ser
ycant John i. Sattcrhcld WAS prevented
from selling cUn:iscatcd automobile
Yesterday morning at public auction
Charles T.. Staples. proprietor Of "A tax
the machine belongs TO him and was
taken from his garage without his
consent and knowledge. He has given
a 5000 bond for temporary posses
sion OF the machine. which was filled
with liquor when captured rs. the po-
lice. Staples demands a nearing o.
his case. IN order that he may cstab-
iiSn ownership Of the ear.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22

ton of his place of burial. but have
reason TO believe that he was buried in
iaris. ] VIII cndcavor to secure THIS
information as early aS .possiSlc and
notify YOU as to the exact location"
Captain Griffith says that Sc.gcan.
sale received the wound which resulted
IN his death in one OF the ficrccst bat
ties of the war. Continuing he SAYS:
NO young man in the regiment went
to the front richer in friends than Real
Sai" Tic added: ~ am sure that he
was devoted husband and son: he
often spoke fondly 81 his loved ones
at nome and was most nanny man
when h" received news OF the birth of
his daughter
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
PREPARE MANY GIFTS
FOR CAMP LEE SOLDIERS
iiici,mond Women TrnnSportcd 10
Cnntonmcnt by He'd Cross
Motor COrus.

representatives o: the various COM
,uillccs OF Inc woman, 3 auNiiiary OF the
War camp Community Sc-yjcn want
|" lamp &c yesterday 10 AID in wrap
ping packages for 1000 men and 200
nurses in the base hospital. The l;cd
erica Campbell in command, trans
ported many Of the representatives.
othcrs went by train ANA trolley.
Among ihoS" wno went from Rich
mond were. Mrs. W"stmur,land Davis
Mrs. 6. = W. Kc:n. Miss Frances Scott.
Mrs. AH!Snn hodges. Mrs l.. - Me
cabc. Mrs. W. W Sale. Mrs Thomas
Reynolds. Mrs. 81. George I:rvau. Mrs.
stuart Hume. Mrs. II Julian Myers.
MIS-: Woolnrr. Airs. Livingston. Mrs.
Miss Katherine iiawnS. Mrs Robert
Vincent. Miss Katherine Miller. Miss
hafgalc' u Kern. Mrs stuart Mich.uN.
kate Lauii. Mis- Greg. Ms Il. Vaw-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22

ter. Mrs. T.. A. Blcnncr. Mrs William
Judd. Miss Is. Evans. Mrs. Lame. Mrs
Dickcr*uu. Mrs r. hudson. Mrs. H. r.
CLOVES. Mrs. ". p. Newell. Mrs Wal
ter Allen and others
Mrs IL. ~. Dear. wife Of Colonel w
Il. Dear. commanding officer of tho
hosp.ti!. was hostess -, Il luncheon fp-
the party. Miss Allison and Miss Ell
gin were hostcsscS at IN" nurses home
i"r O'Clock tea served before The.
iartN lcft fOr Richmond
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
$4,000 R|CHMONDERs
ANSWER RED CROSS CALL
Nrcat Campaign. Which Ends To.
Morrow, Now Far Short
OF Goal.
SEEK UNANIMOUS RESPONSE
Drive Is Not Primarily for Money,
nut Summons to Undivided Effort
on Part of Members to Continue
Work Of humanitarian Society.

:, ApproNima,cly l2.ooc i;lcimonders
m''c hnS"eTcd the Red Cross Christ
mas roll call. according to "a ,ni,uia-
,! made at roll call headquarters.
fnhr'h and Grace Streets Las, night
after fairly complete reports had been
N:ssrrs
!. ncs'erday's "nroilrcn;s were the
.frscSi Tor any single dag since the
n,etnhlrship drive began last Monday.
noout 1000 new members and renewals
h"nIS obtained.
seems scarcely likely that any
nan or woman needs :, summons 10
'InH duty Al this time. Yet we are
49,, ~ Snor, of our goal, which was
Asn!h u g: Boykin. director Of the
"rivr. The roll call is not primarily
TO T nndiy 'or meme 5tn, J., is summons
society "llich mothers American. SOL
dlcrs, watches over their families
succo's the fri"ndloss and bcrcavcd
.! inc allied nations and stands ready
10 NICE, any emergency anywhere.
work OF RED CUOsS
WILL Not END NOW
The bcneiiccnt work Of the Red
Sross Is 10 go forward on a great scale
not alone as heretofore, for purposes
"i relief IN way. but as an agency Of
r,eacc ana permanent human service.
i!enr% T. Dawson. chairman Of thc
is not so much contributions OF money
az inc continued devotion and loyalty
o. rs members While inc Red cross
"iil be called upon 10 Supplement
governmental activities in all parts OF
inc world. II VIII bc a call for human
service rather than large expenditures.
Ihc roll call offers an oprortunity for
everybody 10 stand uc and he couut. al
as 2 R"i Cross member. If the results
OF thc drive are all that the Rcd Cross
cApectS. P"rshinRS men VIII receive
unanimous support from ron f the hom "5
-Four airplanes unexpectedly ap
reared over Richmond Yesterday after
noon hying IN close formation in such
scented The famil!sr symbol Of tho Red
'ross The av'ators dropped thou
hands o. Red cross leaflets on spec
fator' In ALI sections Of IN" city. ana
Gross membership booth. where -
heart and dollar" were all any INC
needed 10 become q 1919 member
BAND DRAWS ATTENTION
or busy SHOPPERS
In addition TO tho tiigh, Of the -four
n,,-platnes oitsn Thrilling and sp"ctacn..
Christmas shoppers was riveted on the
Red Cross appeal yesterday by tho
presence tn the downtown distr;c, ~
= piF military band from Camp 10"
IN" band arrived earl" III the morning
"Nd gave frequent concerts 1T busy
street corners Neariy all 81 zinc inu-
sirians received fu-loVchs yesterday
which would have cnah!ed them to
s:art for their homes carly IN the dav
out OF friendship for Tie Red Cross
tNery one OF them insisted on taking
fitt ~ IN denonstratiol in Richmond
wounded soldiers from overseas
r''al al Wcsthampton Friday night.
Mere brought into tho city by cars
OF the RED Cross motor service and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
WILL RELEASE TANKERS
Grra; Eject of OH Carriers VIII TIC
Ncturncd soon TO General
Commences.
iHy Associated Press !

NEW YORK. December 2l.--rlans
for the prompt release from the gov
eminent rcpui*it;ou of a part Of the
a""t Of Ia tank steamships. with an
approximate aggregate tonnage O l.
100000 d":,dwcirht tons. were an
nounred mere to-day =: tho United
States shipping BOARD. only those re
uuir"d for supplying the army AMI
may Of the United States with fuel
OIL. II was stated. Will bc retained by
tho government.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
TWO ARE DISMISSED
arm! ofhccrs' Negligence Caused I'm
d"l! Harsh Measures tEuinnt
conscientious ObJcctors

'''F 'NS7VVIaT' F'rNSS.
WASH NOTION. December 2I-Dis
tniSsai from the army OF Major Gustav
e. TausSig and Captain Frank < C;bit .
Tor negligence IL connection with nm
duly severe disciplinary measure.
against army conScicnti ous oh j.rtor-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
Will. tIOSI:
WITH wIiIItLNISD FINISH
FLU" SEEMINGLY WANING
Or. Einnnn-nn Regards OutlonL n.
i.ncuurI.inr, and believes
Epidemic Subsitinc

iuhgc;.2a In Richmond appears to
again be suhSid!ng. Only ninety ono
new cases were Yesterday reported to
the City Health Department. Two
deaths we're listed.
l'r. Roy Is. flannag gan, Chief Health
Officer. declared that the outlook is
encouraging. and there is reason to
believe that the epidemic is on the
wanc.
II ia probable, however that tho
report tomorrow WILL snow Il cous!l-
era bic increase. as Mondays report
not only covers part Of that day, but
the whole OF sunday and a part of
Saturday
The Velvet Kind.
The Kind TINT Grown-ups do en-
Joy-Makcs hit with girl and boy"
ADV.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22

helped campaign wOrkers in enrolling
members James J.. Anderson spoke a,
the demonstration in Capitol Square
1T noon. Murray ~. Mctii;irc At Tenth
ana Main Streets and Eugene Massic
at first and Broad Streets.
CAMPAIGN Will. CLOSE
WITH WIiIRLWISD FINISH
The membership campaign comes TO
- close Tomorrow night. Nothing Will
be left undonr by Director Boykin. l..
u. Stern, vice chairman OF the roll call
committee. and their associates TO in
sure a whirlwind finish
All OF the patients It the Home for
In-urab!cs have been enrolled as Red
Cross members. Memberships were
r,rn through The enrolment booth at
Cohcu's store.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22

in detention section at Camp Funston
rotary Baker. l1I
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22

The Velvet I<ind.
The buying public isn't h,,d :,
SEES and knows the Velvet Kind.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Why Prices Have Risen
w SO High

1t could not have been otherwise Either
in terms of falling money wages with stable
prices or of rising money wages with
more than offsetting fall in purchasing
power-prices rising still faster-the real
wages had to be less. Real wages are
tested by thetheir command over consumabe
goods, buying power. Average consump-
tion falls when average production falls.
These recent years have been years of a
restricted output of the things that civil
populations consume-a smaller rather
than a larger output of civil supplies. The
explanation is not far to seek Two-ffths
of our national productive power has been
diverted to the supplying of military
things, shunted away from civil produc-
tion. Two and half million of our work
ers have been conscripted into the training
camps or out upon the firing line We have
sent other millions into the shipyards and
into the muntion and armament factories
The coal miners have supplied ships and
the factories instead of cellars. A d-
minished civil consumption has merely re-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Where Do the little Peoples Fit Into the Landsca

the recognized intellectual leaders of the
confederation, has caused profound SEN
sation by his recent book, Die Neue
Schweiz' (Alten: Trosch Verlag, 1919.
Though not himself politician by pro-
fession, he claims that in a real democ-
racy every citizen ought to be able to speak
of public affairs and he appeals, above all,
to the younger generation to save Swift
zerland from the deadly danger which
threatens her His diagnosis of the va
rious ailments of the Swiss body polite is
sufficiently remarkable to deserve careful
examination even in a foreign journal, for
it has a far more than local significance.
He proves this at the outset by boldly rails
ing the whole problem Of small states, and
sums it up in the assertion that if the
present system in Europe remains, the
small nations cannot live,' but must be
driven into the arms of one or other Of
the great powers. A small country like
Switzerland cannot hope to resist an at
tack such as that directed against Belgium
no matter how much it may arm itself. The
old situation which prevailed up to 1870
and under which Switzerland represented
genuine military force in the world has
been replaced by a system Of giant states
which overbear any possibility of resist
ance on the part of their small neighbors
fet many Swiss cannot reconcile them
seive to the role of 'scraping and grovel~
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Public Opinion on the Presidents Trip

of the Allied nations. But such triumphal
visit could be staged with more safety and
with better grace after the peace terms have
been signed"
'The New York Herald" suspects that
the President may be going to France
because he wants to go there, an ex-
planation not yet advanced by the Wash
ington Interpreters of the Presidential
mind;
"None, SO far as has as yet been dis
closed has been frank enough to say that
the President has decided to go to France
because he wants to go to France-an al
together natui al and human desire. His
tory records no instance of a man in Mr.
Wilson'S present position being averse to
the applause of his fellow men, and GER
tainly Mr.. Wilson would be given wonder
ful reception in France. Why, then, should
the self-constituted interpreters 'pussyfoot'
concerning a situation which is perfect
ly apparent to the Man in the Street 2"
New York newspapers generally ques.,
tion the wisdom Of the Presidents de-
cision. "The Globe" comments:
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Violent Price Fluctuations Are tho
Real Burdens That the Work
ingman Must Garry

is probably the minimum wagethus get
ting the wedge in at the bottom where it
will raise everything, and indirectly-so it
is believed--under the rising general stand
ards Of wellbeing the profits of employers
will also feel the uplift. Interest likewise
will rise with the better recognized neees-
stiles Of the creditor class. And finally
also, we may believe, the landlords, needing
more income, can reasonably look for higher
rates. And all then will be as well as may
be with us that have waited so long in doing
so simple thing. The way to raise any in
come, wage other, is obviously merely
to raise it,
1t was inevitable, then, that real wages
mast suffer. The civil population had to go
short. The wage earning class includes
nineteen-twentieths Of the population. 1t
was only through the diminished real wages
that the necessary margin Of labor and
product could be set free for war. The
goods and the labor could be over there
We couldn't give away our cake and keep it.
And there was still another reason why
wages had to be small. Not only were the
goods scant for affording real wages, but
an unusually large share of them were being
distributed as profits. Business margins
were exceptionally large.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

happy. 1t does not reflect the spirit of
concliation and accommodation which has
wonderfully marked our war effort
Surely the wisdom and restraint and self
sacrifice which Americans have patriot
cally displayed during the great war ought
not to be 50 exhausted that none will be
left oves for the great tasks of peace And
the certain thing is that angry talk and
burning jealousics and trumpetings by
monopolsts of all sorts not only are out
of place to-day, but tend to prejudice the
calm and fair consideration that must be
given tq the whole problem of getting
peacefully back to the status of peace
"lt is no time for any group or class to
breathe out threatenings"
"The Post" adds:
1--WE ourselves have no doubt that labor
has advanced during the war to a terrain
from which it will never be dislodged. 1t
will stay there with the utmost good will
of the people who will have to pay the re-
sulting high taxes. But the temper and
the social attitude are the main things to
be anxious about in all the coming read
justment, and we think that too prompt
protest cannot be made against the temper
and attitude OF Mr.. Gompers in his speech
at Laredo"
"The New York Times" commends Mr.
Gompers:
"Mr Gompers's hopes for the welfare
and happiness of wage earners after the
war will be shared by all men Of good will
and enlightened minds. Mr.. Gompers has
a right to speak for American labor By
his loyal devotion to the great cause of
freedom, to the war policies of the govern
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

peace conference is as much necessity as
choice. He cannot dvest himself of his
authority. He cannot we'll delegate it, The
Prime Ministers of the Allied nations will
be there. America elects her Prime Min
lister and calls him President. 1t is fitting
that he should be there"
"The Charlotte Observer" thinks "the
peace conference would find very i'm
portant bit of furniture missing if Pres
idept Wilson should not be there" 1.-THE
Providence Journal" believes his decis-
ion to be "a grave error of Judgment"
While "The Richmond Times-Dis-
patch" is of the opinion that "in this
decisi n he is adopting course contrary
to the best judgment of the people," it
concludes:
However, if the arguments against his
attendance are not weighty enough to re-
strain him, he will be assured of trium-
hant reception such as never before has been
accorded to any man, for the countries he
may visit will in him the personifica-
tion of those democratic ideals which
brought America into the war to the rescue
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

sense; and here by natural process, our
author brings us back to the federal as
opposed to the centralst idea The proc
ess already visible in Russia and Austria
must be allowed to extend still further.
The forcible control by one dominant race
of number of subordinate races or racial
groups must come to an end; and life
must once again acquire more numerous
focusing points President Wilson's
famous enunciation of American princi-
pies Gin his message of January 2l, 1910
is adopted the Magma Charta Iibertatis
populorum and the true programme of
Swiss foreign policy. The salvation Of
Switzerland is only possible through such
a thorough transmutaton Of values as is
implied in that message and as will auto
matically put an end to the invidious dis
tnction between small and great in the
life of the nations. Thus the essence of
Professor Ragaz's creed is the profound
truth that the future international order
must and can only rest upon satisfied ma
tionalism. Internationalism does not
mean that the small and medium peoples
with their own individuality are to be
crushed fiat by the so-caled world peo-
pies, but rather "a free living together Of
all peoples, great and small on a basis
of mutual respect. 1T is impossible to be
international without being national
"One of the most eloquent passages in
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
High Wages of War Stay High in Time of Peace

with the priccs7 Doubtless so, if only the
prices stop rising. But when once prices
are stable long enough so that the wage
lag has been taken up, some other way Of
taxing must be devised if the expenses of
war are still to be mot. 1t Is the entire ma
tion that must pay, laborers with the rest,
If the necessary saving is to be accom-
plishcd.
But now that the war has stopped? As
the burdens become lighter the real wages
can rise, and will rise, even with billion
of new taxes to be cared for--the interest
burden that is to be borne because of n
war that has passed AS the volume of
products available for civil consumption is
reSstablished the average income can
come, and must come, to buy more goods;
the average money income will be more If
prices do not fall. Real wages will go
higher even though the billion dollars of
new interest burden will somewhat modify
the distribution of national income.
But will wages rise in terms Of money? ?
unquestionably, if prices continue to rise
always, however, with some wage lag to
the advantage of profits. In any case, wages
will be exempt from war exactons. If
prices arc held stable wages must
shortly catch up with prices. The cur
rent margins of employers will be trans.
ferred to the account OF real wages. Out
Of larger aggregate product for civil con-
sumption labor will be getting a larger
fraction.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

made arrangement which is to be incubated
of the worlds affairs for all future time"
"The New York World" believes the
President is making great mistake
''in deciding finally to remove himself so
tar from the seat of the government he is
charged with administering in still criti-
cal or crowded time, for purposes which
can better be served where he is."
Likewise:
The Tribune shares the general regret
expressed throughout the country at the
PRESIDENTS decision to attend the opening
OF the peace conference. 1t is our cenvic-
ton that he is making grave mistake.
Whatever formal invitations have been sent
by the leaders Of the Allied peoples. they
could not speak for the traditions or the
faets OF our governmental system"
But "The Evening Post" speeds the
President to his task
as spokesman of a puissant nation that
entered the world war solely for the sake
OF human liberty and wishes to see the
treaty ending it pillared oa Justice and ON
enduring right