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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
THE PATHOs OF DISTANCE.

In England and France l have seen
things which / wish could be burned
into the conscience OF every business
man in the United States, ! have
seen factories in ruins, office build
ings blown into bits. commercial dis
tricts, miles in extent, lying deserted
and silent, grass growing in the
streets like places of the dead-eVery-
thing that years. perhaps hundreds
of years OF patient industry had built
up and passed on as a heritage from
father to son--all vanished
We In America have known nothing
like this We can know nothing like
it. Thanks to our allies. these ex-
periences will be kept from us. That
factory of yours in New England,
that mine of your neighbours in Mich
igan. that farm ] own in Iowa
they are being protected today by
the untold sacrifices of the soldiers.
tho business men. the women OF
England and France.
Why then should We complain
Why should we protest that our
business is ruined? Why should we
prices, inconvenience, hard con-
ditions? Why should we rage at the
disaster that overtakes our business
| Our business? Our profits? Our
| lives? Good God, will we ever open
our eyes to see the tr4th? Can we
ever repay the debt We owe? The
time has come for us. the commercial
men of this country. to relieve our
French and British allies overseas
of their appalling burden. Their
soldiers are now our soldiers, as truly
as II they wore our uniform, and our
boys are theirs.-E. T. Meredith In
! the Nations Business for August.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
THE GROCERY AND THE FLY,

many would refrain from calling the
proprietor's attention to this or that
but 1t can be done IN a way that is
not offensive. and the merchant viii
quickly catch the point
Furthermore. this is not matter
that may be reserved In silence be-
cause OF the indeltcacy of remind
ing the grocer OF Objectionable ele-
ments in his business. " ia plainly
the duty Of every good citizen TO re-
monstrate with the man who leaves
his meal hin open, hts sugar bar
rel uncovered. his butter exposed or
who spreads his poultry and vege-
tables around tho front to attract
every fly from the street, and accord
ingly TO swarm in the store with the
food that the people must eat. The
patron is plainly negligent TO per-
nit these things without objection
and warning, 1t Is not sufficient TO
close your account and deal else
where. You owe a duty 10 your
neighbor whose keenness of percep~
ton may be less cultivated 10 guard
him and his family from disease and
arliction.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24

s~rhsre are $4,000 grocery stores
b the United States says the Ameri-
can Sugar Bulletin wherefore 1t is
wei nj this season to consider the
activities OF the ubiquitous ny. IL Is
from the stores we get our food. A
very large portion of Americas nun
dred million people are living upon
ths good that come from the storcs
Now some stores are guarded fairly
veil against fies and some are not,
and even those best guarded must
realise that too much caution can
not De exercised. for no one ever saw
Z grocery without flies, And 60 1t
y, the very best screened and pro-
tsrtsd place should nevertheless claim
the constant attention Of the pro-
pr4stor that his system may continue
70 improve
ons OF the greatest blessings to the
con~nmer in these DAVIS is the method
.mn,oved bv many Of the packers Of
food specialties in the use OF cartons
and other coverings upon goods for
rseail distribution. The product
oemes sealed from the sterilized ma
caslnery, and is never exposed till It
reaches the consumers kitchen. II
may be safely said the small package
pian OF manufactured food products
xnaSt1xutes the longest step taken In
fOod sanitation within a century.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
THE DELINQUENT CHILD.

he associates There is no escape
from this. and yet this is exactly our
system Of reformation. The old law
that confined the had boy in a eepa-
rate cell or otherwise punished him
NAV have been had enough. but the
rule that forces the good and bad
IN the same association utterly de-
foats the great principle laid down
by Judge Kicks in his discussion Of
the subject
The fault Hes in the lack Of judi
clal uniformity on the part Of the
many courts who are called upon to
handle these child deI'nquents. II
all were to follow the principle
enumerated and applied by Judge
RIcks, the problem would he solved,
for the reason that no half bad and
half-good hoy would ever be sent to
the "echoo1" but guarded in some
other way. The fact that one trtbu-
nal acting under mistaken notions
as to the objects OF tho lawmakers
sends a child to the reformatory for
stealing a watermelon or cutting off
/ the fine long chestnut tail OF Mrs.
/ Browns mare creates the problem
that the people must solve. me first
step toward this end Ia the puhlica-
ton and dissemination OF Judge
[ RIck's synopsis. 1t should he sent to
all magistrates in Virginia and by
/ them carefully digested. The naxt
stem might be the creation Of a state
supervisor whose duty would be to
examine the conditions of every case
before the child Is nnally committed.
| II is not our purpose to point out
any failure in the performance of any
duty by any officer IN the state. Il
in tho system that permits one cour'
to exercise ono viewpoint rs to tn
proper handling OF a delinquen
child, and another court differen
viewpoint whereby a genuinely hac
boy who should be committed is fore
ed into intimate association with an
other immeasurabiy less immora
and defective,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24

the FIRST clear. succ'nct and force
full treatise on the juvenile laws Of
virginia has just come from the press
under the authorship Of James Hoge
Rscks, Judge of the Juvenile and do
mestic relations court Of the city Of
Richmond. 1t would be well * every
c4s1xen in the state could have copy.
In the authors PREDATORY dis
course, he says:
The controlling purpose of the
Juvenile court system is to make
of every child coming before It
scaf-supporting, self respecting
iaw-ahiding citizen. 1t deals with
the offending Juvenile just as
fond parent deals with his crring
child. 1t looks at the child and
his wclfare-not at the ofTensc
and the retrfbution 70 he exactcd.
This splendid point OF view brings
n to consider the present system OF
refornatory confinement in Virginia,
Judxe Kicks lays stress upon the Idea
az what is best to do for the child,
and in fact everything necessary TO
promote the physical, mental and
- r
remedy prescribed by law and en-
ployed by the state board OF charities
ana corrections in the majority Of the
cases liz to commit the delinquent TO
the state reformatory.
m these reformator4es called
ssrnools" are hundreds OF boys. They
range in age from twelve TO eighteen
years upon their induction. Some of
these hoys are genuinely bad. Their
whole tendency IS bad. their nature Is
bad. Others are there from various
parts of the state committed for some
trivial offense who have finer quail
ties and superior characters. They
are all herded together. They ca
together. sleep together, play together
and work together.
AS truly AS bad apple will spot
The whole bushel, go will one bad boy
coxzsarainate the others with whom
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
POLE HAS PAPERS TO REPORT
TO SCOTLAND YARDS

Roanoke, July 23~~Frank Bolio-
mig. Pole, was arrested yesterday by
officer a. L. Hancock and is being held
rs suspicious alien. Government au-
thorities also have his case under In
vestigation. II was said last night that
Bolioniz had passport papers on his
person, showing that he had travelled
from Liverpool England. to a point in
Russia and he is said to have regis
tered under the selective service regu-
lations at a city in New Jersey. He
claimed Yesterday that he was thirty
years of age.
Officer Hancock said that he had
been Longing around several of the
important business houses of the city
for the past three days A paper
directing him to report at Scotland
yard, London, weekly were also found
on his person.
Government officials. along with
the police, are making a thorough in
vestigation of this case,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
News Of the Old Dominion
GENERAL JOHNSON'S
A|DE-DE-CAMP IS DEAD

Stanton. Va, July 23.-Captain
Thomas Davis Ransom, a Confederate
veteran and one of the most beloved
citizens OF Staunton, died at his home,
"Oakenwald," on Sunday night. at 10
o'clock, after brief Illness following
appoplexy.
Captain Ransom was born In Char
lestown. jefferson county, West Vir-
ginia. in 1S43. while that was still
portion OF Virginia While but seven
teen years old he enlisted as a private
in Bolts Grays." afterwards Com
pany G., Second Virginia volunteer in
fantry. Stonewall brigade, on April 10,
1861. two days after the capture of
Harper's Ferry, and served in this
command until after the first battle of
Manassas, when he was transferred as
sergea nt-major to the Fifty-second
Virginia infantry. At and after the
battle OF Allegheny he served as aide
decamp to General Edward Johnson,
and for some months following this
battle he was adjutant under General
Johnson. He was wounded and dis
abled at Cross Keys. and after the bat
tie of Sharpsburg he resigned and re-
enlisted in Baylor's light horse, Com
pany Il. Twelfth Virginia calvary,
Laurel Bridge"
With the close OF the last Maryland
campaign, Captain Ransom was de-
tailed for duty with the secret service
as captain of scouts. He was taken
prisoner at Strasburg, and from Octo-
Der, S64. to the i5th OF July, 1865,
he was confined at Fort McHenry and
at Point Lookout.
After the cessation Of hostilities.
Captain Ransom entered Washington
college (now Washington and Lee uni
persity), from which he was gradual
ed with high honors. He then entered
the University of Virginia law school.
and after being graduated from that
school. he was admitted to the bar in
stanton, where he continued to prac-
tee his profession To the end of his
life. At one time he was elected
trustee of Washington and Lee uni
Versity, but resigned after serving for
some years. He was q member of the
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity as we'll as of
the Phi BETA. Kappa, being one Of the
-four members Of this honorary school
astie society in stanton. He was
vestryman Of Emmanuel church. and
was devoted churchman I'm every
manner.
Captain Ransom is survived by two
| brothers: Or. Briscoe r. Ransom, of
| Harper's Ferry. and Or James y
Ransom. Of Charlestown. lie is also
survived by sister Mrs John II
Gay Of Richmond. In his immediate
family he is survived by his widow
five daughters, namely, Mrs. A. Jaff,
Mrs Herbert J. Taylor, Mrs Joseph
H. Glasgow. Mrs. W II. Yeakley and
/ Miss Margaret Ransom. He leaves
daughter-in law, the widow Of J.
/ Baldwin Ransom, Mrs Jane Brown
/ Ransom. who is now at sea on her way
/ to France as Red Cross nurse
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
NORFOLK VI. r.. DISTRICT
-CoNfENES- TODAY IN YORK

Hampton. Va, July 23.---The Nor
district conference of the Method st
Episcopal church. South. will be held
al Tabernacle church. East York cir
cult, Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs
day. July 1925.
Rev, Or. w. w. Royal and his con-
gregation will be the hosts of this
three days session.
Rev. DR., T. Nc. n. simpson. presid
ing elder. VIII preside.
Rev. Or. J. II. Moss. of Lion church
Lamberts Point. will preach the open
ing sermon, and Rev. r. L. Wells. OF
Client church. Norfolk. the sermon on
missions The committee to examine
candidates for the ministry Is COM
posed of the Following: Revs. A. L.
Franklin, J. J. Bradford and 8, j.
Battin.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
Sproul Mt Food Meeting,

H. b. Sproul. federal food admins
traitor for Virginia, is in Columbus,
Ohio, today. attending the monthly
meeting of federal food administra-
tors for this zone. comprising the
states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Delaware, Virginia and West
Virginia. Many common problems
are up for discussion and such agree
ment as will tend to avoid conflicting
decisions in border territory, among
the most important being the regula-
lions to govern the 1918 wheat crop
and the sugar situation.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
GYPSY SMITH. JR. AT HOME
IN CONN. RECUPERATIN(.

Gypsy Smith. Jr., who visited at the
home of Mrs, A. c, Braxton, has left
for his home in Noank. Conn. whore
he viii spend several months re-
cuperating from an operation on his
throat. performed last week in Char
iottesville
Mr.. Smith will spend a week in
IIoudoun county in September. at
tending the annual camp meeting
there.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
Peoples Forum
SHIPYAKD GUARD TEST FTES
TO VALUE OF PROHIBITION

Editor Virginlan:
Sir--I have been a guard OF the
shipyard for two months and was one
Of the special guards on July 4th. We
had grand day. The gates were
thrown open to the public TO see the
three torpedo boats glide into the
water.
! am proud to say | did not see n
drunken man in the large crowd of
visitors, nor have / seen a drunken
man In Newport News since l have
been in It, What has been the cause :?
The Mapp whiskey law. God
grant the day may not he far distant
when there Will not be a drop sold
in the United States
I GUARD No. 4S7.
! Newport News, July 10
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24
Frocks of Bingham, Wolfe. Linen, ct,
in beautiful plaids and stripes;
also some plain colors.

There is a wonderful assortment of models,
every one Of which is right up to the minute in
style. Dresses for the street. afternoons and
general wear just the thing for seashore, coun-
try mountains.
There are the favored tunic effects, coateo
effects, plain models some trimmed with pref
ty laces-others with pretty buttons, or in
smart collar and cuff effects
And there are plenty of sizes-for women,
36 to A bust for misses, Is to 20 years
A great many Of the Frocks in this sale are
duplicates Of Garments that have sold in our
stock for several times more than their present
special sale prce-S398.
Don fail to take full advantage of the op-
portunity; ii is very doubtful if such values can
be repeated-even at the season S end.
The Dresses are of unusually good quality
materials every one the product of a high
class Dressmaker. Patrons may consider them
selves very fortunate to be able to attend a sale
Of such dresses, Just as much as we are in hav-
ing them to offer, even if our representative did
have to purchase the entire lot in order to get
them at such low price
Second Floor-West.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24

NORFOLK DISTRICT RECRUITS
626 FOR NAVY IN A WEEK

Norfolk. Va, July 23-Recruiting
for the navy and naval reserve force
continues 10 run high in the Fifth
naval district, the report for the cur
rent week showing s2s toNl enroll
ments for the district.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24

london, July l23.-TweIve thousand
London women teachers are threaten
ing to go on strike unless their sal
aries are increased. They charge that
they helped the men win Increases and
that the men are now falling to sup
port the womens demands,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-07-24

Increase Culpeper Bank Capital.
The Second National bank. OF Gull
pepper. Va. has had an increase of cap
ital from $4,000 to SIS. 900 approved
by the comptroiLlr OF the currency.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-26

are gone and, though their blood cries
to heaven for vengeances this is not.
the time for thought of that. We have
done but poor job in tais war IL
we do not help its helpless victims.
And who are these victims? Mostly
Christians, like the great Snajority of
Americans - Christians Who have
been martyrs for their faith; who
could have saved their lives, the lives
and the honor of their wives and
daughters, their homes and their pros
perity by denying Christ and accepting
Mahomet. They have been the most
intelligent, the most orderly and the
most industrious inhabitants of the
Ottoman empire. They were relying
upon the Christians Of Europe and
America to protect them when the
avalanche of murderous persecution
burst upon them. They are relying
upon Christian America above all to
save their exhausted and starving
remnants now.
Thoroughly Organized Appeal.
The chance for the American to do
his bit towards thwarting the fiend-
ish Turco-Prussian policy of EXTERN
mating the Christian Armenians, Sy-
rians and Arabs comes in the $4,000
600 drive between January II and 10.
There will be a thoroughly organized
appeal all over the United States. 1t
is supported by the president and by
the Red Cross. 1t is conducted by the
generous and high-minded citizens
who are members of the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief, and who are not only donat-
ing their time and services but are
seeing to it that every cent donated
shall reach the actual sufferers, all
the expenses of administration being
already provided by private subscrip-
ton. 1t would be a slur upon the
American nation to believe that the
fund will not be promptly secured. 1t
would be unbelievable that any Amer
lean could deny this appeal and sleep
Of nights.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-26
HAVE SUFFERED FOR ITALY
Remarkable Fact That Her Two Great
Poets Should Be Injured in the
Same Manner.

Gabrielle D'Annunzio and Sem Ben
ELI, Italy's two most famous modern
poets and dramatists, each has lost
the sight of one eye in the war.
A literary rivalry that existed be-
tween the two men before the war
was carried by both into the field of
patriotic endeavor. Fate has seen
to it that neither has surpassed the
other in personal injuries and sacri-
fees.
Although both were beyond military
age, D'Annunzio being over fifty when
the war broke out, both volunteered
for active service. D'Annunzio, who
several years before the war had had
a trial flight in an airplane with Glen
Gurtiss, chose aviation, while Benefit
chose the navy.
D'Annunzio received his injury to
the eye in a violent landing of his air.
plane. the force of the shock all but
driving the eyeball from the socket.
Benefit received his injuries while
aboard an Italian torpedo boat that
was bombarding Pola.
D'Annunzio has been known in the
United States for years. Benefits
best known work in America per-
haps is his poetical drama la Cens
dele Beffe."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-26

IN THE path Of the victorious
British expedition in Palestine as
it moved northward lay the noun
tain ranges of the Lebanon, and
AleppO, the taking of which city gave
complete control of the Syrian end of
the Bagdad railway and Of the i'm
portant port of AleXandretta, the best
harbor in the country. From Damas-
Gus the railway to the north traverses
the Beka'a, a long, fertile valley be-
tween the Lebanon and Anti-LebanOn
ranges. In the middle of this valley
on the slope of the latter range is
situated the ancient town of Baalbek
celebrated for it's wonderful ruins.
Baalbek is a small and prosperous
town, a large part of the population
being Christian, says Country Life,
and it is the seat of the government
Of a province of the same name and
a military center. Ya'kubi, an Arab
writer of the ninth century, speaks of
Baalbek as one of the finest towns of
Syria, and other writer's make allusiOn
to this beautiful spot and it's wonder
full ruins. 1t is spoken of by the geOg-
rapher, MUIR Kaddasi, as the coolest
place in Syria.
AS the name Baalbek, which is
Semitic in origin, implies, it was con-
nected from early times with the wor-
ship of the sun, probably meaning the
city of Baal in the Beka'a, by which
the plain is known. The Phoenicians
here erected a great temple to Baal
constructed with colossal stones after
their manner. This was afterwards
utilized and reconstructed in the Grae-
co-Roman period, when the name Baal-
bek took the Greek form Of HeliOpolis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-26

would have been placed under it. But
of what were they, and what power
was sufficient to move and control
this immense mass of limestone rock?
Romans Reused the Stones.
The Roman builders would appear
to have largely reused the stones of
the earlier Phoenician work. The tenn
pie of the Sun itself had "a columns,
II each on the north and south sides,
and ten each on the east and west
sides. On the south side six of these
great columns still remain standing.
They are rs feet in height, including
base and capital, while the entabla-
ture above adds another IA feet; the
shafts consist of three blocks only,
joined with iron ties, their diameter
is z feet inches at the base and 6
feet 6 inches at the top. To the
south is the temple of Jupiter. This
is 227 feet by III feet, and on a low
er level. 1t also faced east, and had
a beautiful porticO and stone stair
case, nothing of which remains. The
peristyle had ~. columns, ID on the
east and west sides, and eight on the
north and south. These were IS feet
in height, the shafts being feet G
inches at the base, and feet 8 inches
at the top. The entablature was II
feet high, the distance between the
columns and the celia is 10 feet, the
ceiling being formed by great slabs
of stone connecting them, and beau
tifully decorated. The north facade
is the best preserved, where nine col
umns out of fifteen still remain in
position.
About 300 yards from the great tenn
pies is the small shrine of Venus, a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-12-26
New Disease.

"Eye-work is perhaps. the biggest
part of submarine hunting" writes
William G. Shepherd in Everybody's
Magazine, "and it has it's evils and pen
alties. Woe to the man on a Destroy
er who is gifted with that strange, I'M
explainable talent of being able to see
by night. There be such. His is al
most 24-hour-a-day task. And he
finally gets the 'periscope eye and is
sent ashore to get well, if he can. His
eyes weep tears of pus by day and,
after sleep, his lids are glued togeth-
er with granulation. 1t is a new dis
ease of this mad century.
t''You keep looking through those
high-powered binoculars like an old
lady reading through her 'spectacles,'
one Of the boys explained to me, 'un-
til finally they seem to be pulling your
eyes out of their sockets"