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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Identified by Wiltshire

Har!eS Beckman. George Crowder
and Louis Chester have been idcnti-
fed by Detective Sergeant Wiltshire
as tho persons who looted the home
Of w. II. Anderson. 1o3 Moss Side Ave
nue., Ginter Park. OF jewelry valued
at $l.!0o The young men arc wanted
in Portsmouth. whcrc they were
caught. and in Norfolk County for
houSchrcakir..
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Winding Tn Affairs.

The state Board of Education Vas
IN session yesterday with Governor
stuart and L. G. StcarucS. Suocrir,.
'endcnt Of Public Instruction. i'm at
tendance This is the last meeting OF
the state Board OF Education at which
Governor Stuart and Superintcndcn.
Stearnes viii be present in their Of
fetal Canacity
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.Nppcul Is tllnneI

rue state Supreme Court ycs;erda V
allowed the appeal and fixed the hopd
~ S-oO IN the case OF Daniel Webster
AGAINST NJ y. Wingfeld's heirs and
william X. Perrow. The case was APP
pe"'eu from the circuit Court OF Camp
bell County. The case involved .,
chancery sui; as TO the title Of some
prOpertN.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
Collecting for socia, Workers.

Preparations are under way for col
Letting. within the next few days, the
bags which were distributed among the
various homes in Westhampton BY the
social workers or the Nurses Home
some time ago They may also be
turned in to Mrs. William NJ. IIabliston
Of Cary Street Road: Miss Rebecca
Gordon, Three Chopt Road, or at the
Richmond College
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-16
WAAT TRANSFER RIGHTS
ON SEVEN PINES LINE
SS5'a thorizing New Company
to Operate.
APPROPRIATIONS ARE TABLED
Police Powers for Members of Home
Defense League i'm Times OF Emer-
gcncy - Routine Measures Are
CouCurred In.

After opposition TO the measure ie-
: elopcd. the Board of Aldermen last
night recommitted TO the Committee on
streets the ordinance transferring to
tho Richinond and Seven Pines E)cc-
triv Railway Company all rights L"
operate IN the city's streets now vested
in the Richmond and Rappahannccis
River Railway Company. Tho former
corporation has taken over the Seven
Fines line OF the latter company. and
seeks 10 obtain the transfer Of its
rights TO operate within the city limits.
Alderman Paul, OF clay Ward, de-
Stared that transfer privileges should
he restored to tho patrons OF thi. line.
and he thought that no better oppor
unity 10 obtain this concession would
present Itself. After telling OF the
great opposition which Developed over
ihc abolition OF transfers when the
Seven Pines line was taken Over by
the Richmond and Rappahannocil River
Railway Company from The Virginia
Railway and Power COMPANY. he said
that another transfer was being made
of the lire. and this matter should be
considered ut this time. because OF the
great. number OF laborinS people ii
affected.
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Italy like knife through cheese it was
the shabby polu who was largely RESPONSE
bic for their arrest. When Engand's glo-
rsous army was being forced nearer and
nearer the Channel, contestng every inch
with sublime courage. again il was the
ponu who stemmed the tide. His stocky
body in its weather. stained. untidy uniform
is ever the barrier against disaster But
that body is not the prime factor, but rather
the spirit which animates it.
"One finds running all through the armies
of France the deeply rooted belief that
they are chosen by God to kill and kill
and kill Germans till that race is purred
OF Its sin in its own blood. The poilu will
count on his battered fingers the number
OF huns he can account for, rot with malice,
but satisfaction, as OF duty we'll done. An
officer will point out German graves from
his saddle without trace of vindctiveness
as: so many!' saying. IT is long, our task,
but we have all the time there is to do it
in The French soldier, paid FIVE cents
per day for the privilege of being blown
into Eternity lives through the years of
war in cold mud. want, hunger and final
ly dies with cheerful cquanmity. absolute
y certain that God will not count his sac
ritlces vain. but that later, just a little
later, the Great End shall be ACCOMPLISHED
toward which the soldier did his part"
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cspe from the foetid atmosp here OF Tsars-
koe-Selo and to spend weeks at headGuar-
ters. and at the front. with his little boy,
whom he loved. Perhaps there at the front
he found some glmmer OF happiness, some
vsstige of simplicity in world that had
grown far too bur6ensome and complex for
that strange conception of his place in it
to which with weary ami dependent
obduracy he elung.
Ana all the while great people was
struggling in a thousand difficult ways to
WIN the war, giving unstintinG!y of its
pest, while at the source of power. at the
centre OF the national organization, cor
ruption was running riot, and the monarch
was iumbling and helplessly shrinking
Toward the end Nicholas sank into
apathy. 1t was as though he felt that the
task was hopeless. He let things drift;
ne did not care. The wretched intrigues
made Roadway. The best men Of the bureau
crscy mad been thrown aside. A Hvostoff, a
stermer, ProtopopofF came to the front.
RasputIn was killed. The Gear took no
Warning but, swayed by his wife's hysterical
srieI, hung the rens to that malien adj
venturer. Protopopof And so the end
came; the inevitable revolution OF the COM
plexity of a strong nations will aeains.
the dead tradition of a once powerful autoc-
racy as asserted with feeble and fatu-
Gus vlndictiveness by a little man who
could not and would not perceive the signs
of the times
Two members of the Duma-Guckotf and
Sulgin-went to PskofT. and received from
the Car tho
dlcation. The Car displayed no emotion.
mechanically signed the paper. and handed
II 10 the deputies. SulSn, who was a con-
victed monarchist, turned sadly to the
Emperor and said: Your Majesty. If only
you had granted responsible government
three weeks ago, this would never have
happened
Do you think so? replied the Car, in
Inherently. He was mildly glad, it seemed,
that he had got rid of the ntolerable bur-
den.
I'm Tsarskoe -selo he lived quietly with
his family, gardening and reading. He made
no attempt to intrigue for the recovery of
power. Then the family were sent to
Tobolsk for their greater safety. And.
finally, the Bolsheviks dragged them. with
many indignities, from Tobolsk to Ekater-
inburg, where they were confined in three
rooms and kept on prisoners rations And
here without friend, exposed to all the
caprices of the mob, Nicholas II was cruel
~ shot by some of his former subjects.
This Russian autocrat had feared his peonle
all his life His fear had brought on tle
nation calamity after calamity, and in tte
end brought upon him his DOOM"
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panic flight, unrcasoning terror, those
mighty hosts fed back along the route they
had come in wild disorder, regardless 81
all else save self preservation from what"
lhcy passed through villages like stamped-
ing brutes, Ignoring everything save fight
White faces peered from shattered windows
at faces no less banched than their own
as that dreaded enemy passed and van
shcd into the night
IL questioned cure, a doctor, a shop
man and his wife, and French soldiers, and
they gave no other explanation for this
phenomenon than that other than military
forces were responsible. Later | ques-
toned a German prisoner, and his reply
was to the effect that the devil had dis
guised himself as q general and thus
brought disaster to the German troops.
Zone is frequently asked whether France
is tired OF the war. In sense she is, as
is the whole world, including those who
nstigated it. But France has left others
to pirate Of peace. Those waves Of gray.
helmeted men who twice have swept north
ern France, leaving q spume of blood on
their inevitable retreat have to reckon
with a spiritual force which thew neither
understand nor consider at its proper value
Since war began tho French have usually
been outnumbered, yet remain undefcated.
When the Huns were speeding through
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taken when he declared war. 1t is untrue
that he ever wished to betray the Allies.
THE pity of it that he could never under
stand! he went back TO Tsarskoe- Selo
and gradually the clouds gathered again
For once he had done q great thing. but
he could not permanently shake off the
deep-rooted habit Of fear and distrust. In
1905 the popular movement had wrested
from him constitution. and he had spent
the succeeding years in trying to make
it of none effect And the knowledge that
he had been forced to part with some Of
the traditional autocratic power aroused
in him a secret vindctivencss. He tried
to assert his power furtively. He took
shelter in delusons The Empress, in
constant dread for the life Of her heir,
born after long years Of fruitlcss waiting,
becamr more and more historical and
wtough. perpctually upon her husbands
fears and antirathies. Nicholas resented
the guidance and frank advice OF strong
men like Witte and Stolypin. One after
another, he drove ANONYMOUSLY from his
councils the most honest, the wisest and
the most farseeing mon in the bureaucracy.
HIS cold attitude to his most faithful ser
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could imagine him as a private country
gentlemen living tolerably happy life in
the management of his estate, dabbling in
rural politics and travelling abroad in the
long summer holidays. He had an agreeable
manner, he would have been popular among
his friends, and the defects in his character
would have attracted slight notice. Who
knows? He might have become a nation
alist member of the Duma.
"But he was the heir of the Romanoffs,
and there was an intolerable burden upon
him.. This little man, who had no CLINT
of imagination, was endowed, or believed
himself to be endowed, with absolute pow
err He accepted the legend with wooden,
stubborn faith that forbade further in
quiry. Yet his position disturbed him. He
shrank from it. Duly he was aware that
he was in changing, complex world that
the Russia over which he ruled was no
longer isolated and immobilo, but was
being drawn into the strange currents Of
the turbulent West. Hc would not analyze,
these new forces; it did not occur to him
that they could be analysed. He was not
the man of aertness and resource that the
moment demanded. He was to stay where
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wants became a byword. He listened to
:ogues, charlatans, sDinners of intrigues
who fattercd his own decisions. And in
tellect and honesty being banished, super
sttion crept in and ovcrshadowed the court
A dissolute peasant, who, by the use of
kind of spell or charm. not infrequentlv met
with in Russian villages, had checked the
Czarevtch's dangerous illness (Hamophylia,
or beedng), gained a kind of mystical As
cendancy over the Empress. And. through
Rasputin, all sorts of scoundreis conducted
their political intrigues at Court. The En-
press granted the most absurd requests OF
Rasputin, and the Car seemed perfectly
incapable OF resisting his wife's hysterical
appeals or of realizing the degradation of
his Court.
Yet, perhaps. he saw CLEANS Of better
things. He unable to tear himself
away from his habits and surroundings;
he had isolated himself; he had not single
intelligent friend His friends were old
officials OF the Court, mere ignorant and
stupid boon companions. Partly perhaps
owing to his wifes influence he held aloos
even from his relatives. his uncles and
cousins. But he seemed to be glad to es-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-01
War Is Bringing About NEW Immortality"

the ethics of the Church. One hears on
every side such expressions When | go
on Or, Tell my wife that I shall remain
near her. and to fear nothing Or, The
good God would surely not take meso far
away that could not watch the battle and
know the result
"Thc writer assisted by nc-lcgged hero
in a weathcr-stained uniform, was caring
for a lonely grave in the Somme. He had
survived many Hun onslaughts; his wife
was slave in Germany, his home a black
ened ruin, and his children God only knew
where. He contemplated the rough cross
with a smile.
Madame, never believe that such as he
are dead. No! they live, and not far away
yonder among the clouds, but here, close
to us. Their souls mingle with our souls,
lending them added strength. With each
battalion of living men there is another
battalion of souls which lead us to victory.
The Germans have not these battalions, for
they have no souls. Therefore, when a
Boche dies his usefulness is ended. Our
dead remain with US, making US greater
than our natural selves. How do I know!
All! men learn strange things on battle
fields. Does not every man know that the
battle of the Marine was won by the dead:'
This astonishing statement is not
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his own people grow upon him, and clouded
his perceptions and paralyzed his feeble
will.
CAT the outbreak Of the war again he
had an unparalleled opportunity. He came
to Pctrograd and, standing with the En-
press on the balcony Of the Winter Palace,
read to the assembled crowd the declaration
Of war with Germany. Half the crowd fell
on their knees before him. For the mo-
ment the bitter years of internal struggle
were forgotten The nation was with the
Gar. He had for once done the bold and
right thing. If he could only have seen
clearly, If he could only have led the great
and generous impulse of the nation and
identified himself wholly with the nations
powerful will, who knows what heights the
Russian effort might have reached, what
misery the world might have been spared
believe that Nicholas WAS then uplfted
above his ordinary self that he did feel he
was doing a great and solemn thing that
he was touched by mn unwontod sympathy
for his people, and that he thoroughly meant
to carry through what he had begun. In
intention he was never throughout the
war unfaithful to the task he had under
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he was. He wanted Russia to stay where
she was. He had An unin.elligent sense of
duty, and his desire was to keep the auto
cratic tradition intact. Of all that lay
outside the tradition Of AL the strange
new awakening forces he was afraid, and
his reign was dominated by that fear. He
had not the strength or the will, or the
intellect either to be genuine autocrat,
or boldly to face, recognize and lead for
the good of the nation the new forces that
were gathering around him.
"What opportunities he had, what ire
mendous opportunities he missed, In Janu-
airy, 1905, when throngs Of ignorant work
men, led by the priest Gapon, came march
ing to the Winter Palace to petition for
reforms, he need only have stepped out on
TO the balcony and told the people he cared
for them, and they would have been at his
feet. But he fed to 'rsarskoe SeIo and
turned the Cossacks on the crowd, and the
first revolution began. From that time on
he never once again, till his life's end, took
up his residence in the capital. and the
society life that centred round the Court
ceased. And in the unhealthy scclusion
OF Tsarskoe- ScIo and Pctcrhof the fear OF
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wreckage az is unuseful for his purposes.
He Is m acute man of business. The con-
yoy consisted Of two classes the very ar
cient and the very juvenile. You can't set
a nan Of eighty to dig trenches and you
can't make prostitute out Of girl-child
Of ten. The only boys we're Of the NAL
nourished variety. Men, women and chill
dren they all had the appearance of being
half-witted.
"As they we're herded on the platform
low, atrargled kind Of moaning went up.
+ watched individual lips to see where the
sound came from. ] caught no movement
The noise was like the signing Of tired
animals.
ave came to the Casino, wherA endless
!ormalitics were necessary. First of ALL
IN the big hall, formerly devoted to gam
bling, the repstTi4s were fed at long tables
Az passed, odd groups, seeing my uni
form, hurriedy dropped whatever they
we're doing and, removing their caps, stood
humbly at attention. There was fear in
their promptness. Where they came from
an officer exaetsd respect with the fiat of
his sword
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unique. One meets such ideas couched in
different terms in all classes. No less IL
parsonage than the military commandsnt
Of Eoye affirmed that the battle OF the
Marine was miracle. He was not particular
ly orthodox in his religious faith; rather
he was a free thinker; but he assured me
that no military explanation for the flight Of
the Hun technically adequate. A high
military official at Vcrdun last June af-
firmed this same belief, adding with con
vction that war would end suddenly by
similar manifestation of divine control. A
professor Of the Sorbonne remarked:
"'When will this war end? I know not,
but suddenly it will vanish as quickly as
it burst upon US, for, God having taught
France to endure sorrow with dignity and
patience, German force will become as run
ming water
Gone black night at Rambervillers. where
every chnk of light was obliterated that
Taubes might not find their way, was
taken to the exact spot where the Teutonic
hordes had turned and fed within ten
minutes walk from that large, rich and
feebly defended town. It's terrified inhab
'tants had listened to that grim tread along
the road. Suddenly there had been
silence, then a medley of sound, cries.
sharp orders shouted in vain. And on that
road, among meek apple trees. there was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-01

~ USSIA'S Carlyle is still to come.
E% Meanwhile, the modern giant
q q bursting his bonds remains a
puzzle to the world, an unknown
quantity; his history is still in f1ux and
undetermined Yet libraries exist about
him and are written about him. The
interpreter of the Russian finds greedy
audience everywhere. This sketch of
the Gar, this fixing of qualities that made
up the thread of his destiny and gave
inevitability to his ruin, is illuminating
and stimulating for it's fairness and hu-
the writer, is on the staff of contributors
to "The New Europe" where the sketch
appears and has been for several years,
IN his capacity of correspondent for
London newspaper, a close student of
Russian affairs and their development
toward crisis. He writes:
mo man can be an autocrat and remain
normal man. And there never an
autocratic power like that of Russia. The
sense of being the absolute ruler of all
the Russian immensities burned in till it
became kind of madness. The moods,
the whims, the WEAKNESS, the passions OF the
ruler affected millions, and, knowing that,
ne could not be free. The autocrat never
realized completely that thes means of ex-
ecutlng his authority, the administrative
machine, largely determined the mode and
the limits of his power. To his mind his
power was absolute. To his mind it
delegated by God. And the fearful confu-
sion between overwhelmn rcspons bility
and private whim deranged the free and
normal development of personality isolated
" from simple human social forces and
ieit character unsheltered except by
cofa and heavy tradition.
There was strain of insanity in the
russian autocratic power. No wonder the
swallow intellect of Paul became unhnged.
bigger men, like Alexander and Alexander
H. had generous impulses when they began,
but these impulses were soon fettered by
sense of power that grew inordinate
and crushed both them and their people,
alexander III was protected from dethrone-
B men, ment by the stoid strength of his own
limitations, and the growing strength of
MS bureaucracy. He handed on to his SON
ouil and infexible tradition.
And then came the turn of Nicholas III,
an autocrat OF all the Russias, thrust into
e. world that was impatiently becoming
modern. Who was he? What was he?
ne was very ordinary young man. neither
very stupid nor very clever not ill-disposcd,
rot devoid of sense Of humor, and GER
@'rly not without charm, He might have
peen very fair Guards officer; or Que
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-01
\ Whole Colony in
n a Little Hut

"In the midst Of this hell l came across
tumbled chateau. Its roof, its windows,
its stairways, were gone; only the crum
bling she'll of its former happiness was left
tie wood huts. There was a fragrance of
log fires burning. On tapping at door
/ found the entire colony assembled. II
was tea time, and Sunday. Ten out of the
seventeen VINO form the colony we're pres
ent. A box stove, such as we use in out
pioneer shacks in Canada, was throwing
out glow Of cheeriness. Candles had been
lighted, little knicknacks of feminine tast,
had been hung here and there to disguise
the baroness of the walls bed in one
corner was carefully disguised as couch.
Save FOR the fact that there was no glass
in the windowglass being unobtainable in
France at present--one might easily have
persuaded himself that he was back in
America in the room of girl undergradu-
ate. And Whist are these women doing at
Grecourt! 10 condense their purpose into
a phrase, I should say that by their exam
pie they are bringing sanity back into tn.
lives Of the French peasants. That is VIVA,
the American Fund for French Wounded Is
doing at Blerancourt, what all these recon
structon units are doing in the devastated
areas, and what The American Red Cross
is doing on much larger scale for the
whole of France
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-01
They Come From Living
4 in Cellars

And now the forma1ities commenced.
They all had to be medically examined.
Questions of every description were asked
them. They were drifted from bureau to
bureau where people sat filing up official
blanks. The Americans see to the children.
They come from living in cellars. from con-
ditions which insanitary, from cities
in the army zones where they we're under
fed. The fear is that they may spread conta
gion all over France. When infectious cases
are found the remnants OF families have
to be broken up afresh. The mothers COL
lapse on benches, sobbing their hearts out.
as their children are led away. For three
and half years everything they have
loved has been led away--how can thew be-
mercy?
From three to four hours are spent in
completing all these necessary investiga-
tions. Before the repatries are conducted
to their billets all their clothes have to be
disnfected and every one has to be bathed
The poor people are utterly worn out by
the end Of it-they have already done a
continuous four days journey In cramped
trains. Before being sent to France they
have been living for from two TO three
weeks in Belgium. The Hun always sends
the repatri6s to Belgium for a few weeks
before returning them. The reason for this
is that they for the most part come from
the army zones, and few weeks will make
any information they possess out Of date.
Another reason is that food is more plenti-
ful in Belgium, thanks to the Allies Relief
Commission. These people have been kept
alive on sugar beets for the past few
months, so it is we'll to feed them at the
Allies expense for little while, in order
that they may create a better impression