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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-19


gold mining is done on lands owned.
or formerly owned. by the Gear of all
the Russias. Some OF these mines are
said to be very rich The Kaiser doubt
less has his eye cooked on them al
ready.
This interesting little story is taken
from the Wall Street Journal:
We must stop eating candy and
buying new clothes. We must save
every cent we can for Uncle Sam. till
this awful war is over"
This wasn't thrift stamp campaign
speech al all. II was what greeted the
ears OF prominent Wall Street broker
on reaching home few days ago. The
speaker was his daughter. age three
her audience, two rigidly attentive
dolls. propped UP on the floor OF the
nursery.
The broker says that with such a
patriotic daughter. there is nothing
Cor him 10 do but 10 keep in line.
Here is a hin, that may be of SER
vice 10 somebody In this region:
Down in Alabama at a place called
DOthan 4 real estate agency (Smith
~ MOrgaD, finding business dull in
their line, as II is in this part OF the
country, is using much space in the
newspapers Of its locality with adver-
offerings. but in the form of open
letters TO the farmers of that terri
tory. This communication urges that
no effort he spared TO raise and con-
serve food; that careful! thought be
given 10 the question whether or no,
| TOO much cotton is being planted; that
the arricuiturists should plant every
acre possible in food crops. and also
that they should produce every pound
Of meat possible. This is patriotic
work. TO be highly commended and
widely enulatsd.
Here IS some advice the governmen,
offers which cannot be repeated too
. often just now:
l. is the duty Of every coal consumer
whether for domestic or manufacturing
use, 70 contract for coal and have IL
delivered just as promptly as the coal
mines can produce il and the railroads
/ handle II. II is entirely possible that
/ there may lee a more acute tranSpor-
/ iaton condition next winter than we
have had this winter. To some extent
that viii depend upon weather. but it
Is certain that tho railroads and the
coal mines VIII next winter be crowded
10 the utmost limit OF their capacity
Every ton Of coal which is now stored
IN dwellings or factories will to tina,
. extent lessen the pressure upon coal
/ mines and railroads next winter.
I Those who do not order coal now
b VIII have no ground for complaint for
I next winter II they do not get their
/ supply. It Is not possible for all
/ manufacturers TO be as discriminating
as they have been in the past in buy
/ ing coal from concerns with which
they have long traded, for 1t may be
necessary to buy coal within the zone
area without regard TO former condi.
tons. But coal should he bought now
anu put away for the day OF need
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-19

1t is said that nine-tenths OF Russia $
gold mining is done on lands owned.
or formerly owned. by the Gear of all
the Russias. Some OF these mines are
said to be very rich The Kaiser doubt
less has his eye cooked on them al
ready.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-19
NO MAN CAN BE
SLACIiER NOIY

HEpoc.i,ical and rapar!ous By nature
Sermanr !ui!-c th- world % sleep ,..,b
me 're-1cioLs strains of Beethoven
Meaa@4ssCaH and Handel. ana ,bn
TTneSoT'ca! cadeaceS 81 Vsp Bo,h.nann-
iioi'"eE AID cI.r-ani' and woke
90 q sudden realization OF he- in
famous Intent. with the diabollral
song OF hate" The true nature gained
ne ascendency In the crucial ,-s--
and ms is what We fight today
snail we who cannot agh, and who
remain safely removed from IN. -.It
o! carnage iai! to do our small o,r,
small We sell our manhood ou,
Honor yea, our very souls 10, ~
pa!tiy dollars?
y Hcc Cross Stacker is moral a..
WEI! a civic Stacker, and ". ma j..
"eH assured that upon the head o<
every individual who fails in his du.,,
IN tls war-fails to supper, our raj.
lant hThiing forces. and fails 10 con.
'H"Htc 10 tha succor, corntor, sr1
treatment OF our bleeding and DIR,
sohs-upon the head OF every sucb g,,.
{he judgment OF Almighty Cod win
lie visited. =" '''
fnis var is a holy war. and H. an
INC history Of the ages. is the yun~.,,.
test OF our moral stamina ana Of nl,,ua,
integrity I'''" Il
WIN the love OF humanity. Win ~.
."Ne OF country, with the love ~ nova
!", us therefore be inspired -, H.,
"H'oe all selfish considera,jons anJ
s1el 'hee TO any extent to give 10 this
Let us wash our sous 0, all .e,,.
'eproach before it is TOO lat.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-19
TWO FAMOUS DECLARATIONS
OF INDEPEN DENCEc

TWO FAMOUS DECLARATIONS
OF INDEPEN DENCI;
On August .. 1875, Thomas jefferson
and his colleagues signed the Declara-
ton of independence, guaranteeing to
the people Of this great country free
dom OF thought and action. on April
=. 1917 Woodrow Wilson signed a
similar declaration OF independence for
the whole civilized world America
- signed sol!dly with him. Carlyle said.
~ and this has been accepted by all de-
. emocraccs. that the rule OF the ma =
Jority is the fundamental principle o.
civic liberty. Practically the whole
world has joined hands in this holy
warfare TO prevent the prostitution OF
liberty and the institution of the rule
OF the sword
The Kaiser maintains that might Is
right, and proposes 10 enforce his
perverted ideas hy a rule OF ruin and
reign OF terror. Christ said Not
10y might, nor by power, but By NV
Spirit shall the world be ruled"
history repeats Itself. Atti!la the
run ran wild on murderous assault
on Europe, and went the WAY OF tho
sons OF hell. The Kaiser will 70 the
same way. Might is not right; ana
the rule Of ruin shall not nrevaiI
Every man is his brothers keeper. /,
there is deity. II there is a God I'm
Heaven. the Germans cannot win.
But God works through man as a
iree moral agent. He expects us 10 do
Our part. and every man, woman ana
child will he held to account. in me
.-hhal judgment, for what he or she has
done 70 help preserve civilization ana
10 assist in the triumph OF Christianity
over atheism. German writer's and
thinkers, -notably Kant. Trietsche and
HChopehhauer have for years been
p,"p pag atheism under the guise
their Infamous and murdcrous personal
and national instinct. because /, could
not De made TO conform 20 the chart
table and humane teachings o.. the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-19
/. WORK or THE RED CROSS
]. !. FROM INDUSTRIAL VIEW
Man Acting as Free Agent in AL
mighty's Hands Can Accomplish
Wonders for the World.
NO MAN CAN BE STACKER NOW
Two Famous Declarations OF 1ndc-
pendencc, Industrial as Well as
Democratic - Selfish Considcra-
lions Must Take Back Seat.

The Red Cross and it's holy work
~ill have precedence in Richmond to-
day. Tho following article by a. d.
Anderson. OF Louisiana. which appears
In the current issue Of the Manufac-
turers' Record. is strictly in order this
morning:
The present work OF the Red Cross
represents the supreme test Of mans
love for man. To me. the Red Cross
work Is the epitomc OF personal SER
vice. In the response to this appeal
the souls OF America will be laid bare.
This Is the great fundamentally for
the relief OF pain and death. 1t is
the Goddess OF Mercy. ministering un-
se,fishly to a torn and bleeding world
The antithesis OF this is the military
clique OF Germany, headed by Wilhelm
the Murderer.
Were ] able 10 draw q picture OF the
Kaiser. conciscly portraying his indi-
vidualty. it would be demon march
ing through Europe. the brand of Cain
on his forehead. the breath o: hell in
his nostrils; in one hand bloody sword
held on high. and in the other the
heart Of a child. This bloodhound is
running rampant over Europe. the
smirch of damnation on his soul. and
with murder his fell purpose. He IS
committed TO his mad orgy. and the
protest OF al civilization has not stayed
or altered his purpose.
We. therefore, have the choice OF
actively supporting the Red Cross in
its humane efforts. or. by our indier-
ence. contributing to the success OF
the kaserS work.
The one is Gloriously constructive.
the other UNANIMOUSLY destructive.
Your response will show which you
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04

The Bolsheyiki put child-dKe faith in the Hun, Taid down his arms, and will now take the terms offered
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
BELGIAN WOMEN FORCE3
 TO LABOR FUR GERMANY

The correspondent of the Times at Amsterdam writes
 "At Blankenberghe, the Germans forced a great number of servants to leave their situations and tried tnt com pei them to take, up the work of un- loading, docking; and transportation for the army. The young girls refused and were shut up in the Hotel Belve- dere, which serves as prison Most of them persisted in their refusal and were liberated; they were requisition- ed again and sent to different places, even to the wall of the port of Zee brugge in order to work there for. the. Germans. Daughters of farmers and the bourgeofsie from the surrounding country have also been requisitioned
 "The military authority does not spare even the, disabled and i'll. The, Telegraaf correspondent. on the iron tier reports that disabled man who happened to remark that he had only one leg was told that there was work that he could do with his hands, A one-armed man was told: fN'.4 will give you a one-armed comrade and the two of you can do one mans work
 "The communal school at Dudzeeie i has been transformed into a penal colony. The building is surrounded with barbed wire, like a prisoners camp The chateau near Bruges is also employed as penal colony"
 The Rheinische Westalische Zeitung recently contained communication emanating from the Labor Exchange of Cologne, which said in part:
 Industry meets with more and more difficulty in procuring artisans, difficulties that can be remedied only in so far as the supply of labor per mits The central intelligence office for manual labor asked at once that foreign artisans should be called on for aid These artisans will not be able to replace entirely the German workmen, to say nothing of their de- mands in respect to wages, which are very often in inverse ratio to their capacities. Experience, moreover, has still to teach us whether the employ ment of women from the occupied ter ritories will be of advantage for the intuition industries The demand for women workers in the metallurgic in. dustry, as we'll as in chemical and ex- plosive industries, is very great, and the supply, according to the figures, is still diminished
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
THEORY VERSUS PRACTICE

General Sytin, a soldier who has done much fighting for Russia, in a recent interview said:
 "As for Lenine and Trotzky. like
 them personally. It is very interesting
 to talk with them about big world problems in front of a cozy fire. but
 you cannot do anything with them in the practical affairs of life" Every nation has many of those who
 can spin fine theories "in front of a
 cozy fire" These generally meet dis
 aster when they try to deal with hard
 facts.
 In times past we have read some of
 the works of Prince Kropatkin, the
 Russian anarchist He believed that society was near that ideal state when man was so perfect that he no longer needed the restraint of government
 He expected to see the time come when courts of justice would be closed because justice would be ruling in every heart. when police officers would not be needed because there would be none to commit crimes, when courts in equity would shut their doors because no man would commit a wrong that he would not be willing to re. dress, when there would be no poor because the people of the world would see to it that every man had a seat at the table that contained the richess of the world.
 KrOpatkin conceived an ideal socie. ty. much nobler than the ideal of the socialists. Between socilism where the individual is submerged in the state and anarchy where the indivf- dual is free with out any semblance of government, the latter has the advan- tage
 KropatlIin may or may not be dead. If he is living he has many books to revise, for certain things have ocurred in Russia that would lead him to be- lieve that his ideal state of society, l made so because man has made en- tirely good, is few thousands years in the future
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
A NEW KIND OF OFFICER.

If we lived in China we would vote for the reelection of Feng Wo Chang to the presidency.
 This man is one of the most remark able officials that has ever occupied a public post.
 He recently issued mandate in which he asserted that he was too weak for the burden of governing China. He said that he would prob ably retire from the presidency and let a stronger man take the job
 He then told how he had misjudged conditions in China and how the re- bellion against the republic had sue ceeded largely because he did not heed advice and use force to suppress the rebels when they started their revolt
 Feng Wo Chang makes a strong case against himself, but any man who will come out in public and announce his weaknesses from the house tops must be, in reality, wonderfully strong and capable. .s
 The Chinese had best keep Feng Wo Chang in the presidents chair. If they let him quit they will get a man who will probably make as many mistakes and who will be full of lengthy ex- cuses.
 And the mandates giving these ex- cuses at great length will not be half so readable and half so true as the confessions of the only office holder that we ever heard of who was willing to reproach himself for the instrue- tion of his fellow citizens. ...
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
THE WAR SITUATION TODAY

Hindenburg has not started on his trip to Paris, where he promised the Germans he would be by April. In- stead he has decided that jaunt to Petrograd will be easier travelling and more to his liking.
 The Austrians had counted strongly on the German general being in Paris as he, had promised. They have been disappointed so many times that they are taking the, Russian excursion quite to heart. Some of them are in the mo- tion of refusing to play with Hinden- burg and the kaiser any longer, as too many mean tricks have been done to them lately.
 The bolsheviki in Russia, unable to make a peace with Germany with fast talking and impractical ideals, have de- serted their frontiers and are offering no resistance to the invading Germans.
 The Russians are keeping in trim, however, and are getting valuable training in a half dozen revolutions in their own land. They are said yet to have five million men under arms, but give them time and few more revol- utions and they will not have any
 The Italians are more than holding their own in the Alps, and their mor-
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH

The bright young man who has charge of censoring the war news must have been spending the evening away from his desk on the night ot the Tuscania disaster. If not, then why was it that thousands of anxious hearts were permitted to be torn with false information that was flashed over the wires. What suffering might have been saved to thousands of anx. iOus home folks throughout the land If these earlier dispatches had been suppressed until something approxi- mating the truth-bad as it turned out to be-cOuld be ascertained.
 It was the first big disaster of the war, so far as Americans were indivi- dua1ly concerned, and it is to be re- gretted that the startling reports cir culated found the official censor asleep at the switch. But perhaps we do that enterprising young man an injustice; he may have been somewhere on the job, at that. For all we know, he may have hurried immediately to the thea tre to see that the President was not disturbed by bad news. This thought is suggested by reading the following news dispatch printed throughout the country on the morning following the disaster:
 President Wilson was in the thea Ire when the news of the disaster reached Washington. No word of the tragedy was allowed to reached the President. The secret service guard saw to it that no one was allowed to approach the President and it was not until the return to the White House that he learned of the loss of the Tus- cania".
 No one will find fault With the eX- treme consideration shown for the Presidents feelings by those in pos session of the disconcerting news, but many will wonder why the mothers of the men on board, and all their folks and friends. were not accorded the same consideration. That the horrible untruth of the disaster, as first re- ported, was recklessly released on the wires, heralded broadcast by the screaming headlines of the sensational press, and believed by millions of newsboys in the stiffness of. the night, was something more than blunder- 1t was cruelty. The administration will do we'll to see that such a glaring misrepresentation will never occur again
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04

ale has greatly improved since French and English troops have been sent among them.
 And on the western front the French English and Americans are massing men and munitions. The Yankees are tuning up on the Huns and discovering that they need not fear the enemy.
 All the way around it looks like q most unpleasant summer for the kaiser and his Huns, and one they will wish to get over quickly
 The imports of gold into the United States fell in 1917. The reason was that this nation already had in it's borders nearly all the gold on earth.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
MAN IS NOT ALL ANIMAL

Some people get it into their heads that men are more than animals.
 The advocates of eugenics are in that class.
 It is important that man should be a good animal first of all. Therefore the eugenics are right.
 But the spirit of man is in the end his most valuable possession. There fore the eugenists are wrong.
 The human race might be advanced to physical perfection as are cattle, dogs, and horses
 But who wants to wear a blue rib bon won at a human stock show?
 The noblest character of man is love. The souls of man ana wo- man must unite if marriage is to be happy.
 What would it avail to breed su- perior race of physical beings if man thereby lost his own soul?
 Other means will be found to inn prove the human frame without eugen- ics. Advocates of that theory should remember that war is being fought for human freedom. They should for get their nonsense and deal with man as a rational animal-instead of a mere being-that has within him the power to love-the spark of the Divine.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04
THE SICK MAN

Colonel Roosevelt lies confined to his couch in hospital, yet the dem ocratic press of the country still con tinues its merciless attacks upou him. How they hate this man! What singu- lar ingratitude they manifest towards him who did more to establish the Democratic party in power than any one man or group Of men in the na- tion! Had 1t not been for the Coloners defection from the C. 0. P. in 1912, the Democracy might still be cooling it's heels in the outer corridors of the cap- itoI.
 We fear that our Democratic friends are losing altogether too much sleep over ROOseVeIt's ambitions. We doubt that he is seriously setting his stakes for the Presidency Opportunity as a rule does not knock twice, on the door of any man; the strenuous ex-presfdent has had his great opportunftq and who is there to say that he did not make, the most of ft2 Although it is a Igng. look ahead, we venture the prediction. that history will repeat itself in 1920: that, providing the. war is over, the American people win look to some mir itary hero for leadership. and wtiem such man is found they will sendI him to the White House with whoop.. This too, irrespective of tine. political faith of the new-found hero.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04

Gunny sacks are scarce, we learn. And just when they are in most de- mand Right now they are wanting them in the east to tie around their feet as they go out to do the chores.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-03-04

Viscount Tshii is to be. the Japanese ambassador to the United States. He recently came here on a special mis. sion, found out that the United States and Japan have nothing to quarrel about, went home and told the mikado as much, and landed a steady job by showing he has good sense
The Cordova daily times., 1918-12-23
TREATISE ON INFLUENZABY
 A SPECIALIST

The Daily Times has been furnished with a copy of the New York Health Culture by Councilman Will Clayaon, which contains lengthy article from the pen of Dr. Walter J. N. Living ston on the cause. prevention and cure of influenza The following ex. cerpts are timely and may prove of interest to our readers:
 There is a certain sequence in diseases. They change like the changing fashions. Every race, every temperament, every season. has it's special disorder The phlegmatic races. stolid and heavy feeding. are prone to rheumatism. 'biliousness and apoplexy. The highly sensitive, in tellectual races suffer from thrcpsia, neurasthenia and other disorders of nervous origin. A century ago men died of apoplexy. Now they die of heart failure. The girl has chlorosis or green sickness The old man has the gout In the summer we have malaria. In the winter we form the acquaintance of influenza.
 ''It will be observed that, although epidemic influenza travels rapidly it goes no faster than the rate of travel itself. This fact. together with the knowledge that its spread is not in fiuenCed by the direction of the wind. would indicate that the influenza is what is known as a contagio-infec- tious disease; that is, disease pro duced by specific germ, transmitted from another person having the same disease
 The terms infectious and conta- gious are frequently misapplied. In fectious is q word applied to diseases produced by a specific germ, but not necessarily transmissiblc from one person to another. Contagious is term indicating those diseases in which the pathogenic germ may be transmitted from one person to an other An infectious disease may or may not be contagious; but conta- gous disease is necessarily infectious. Another point regarding infection is not generally understood. Disease germs. like seeds, grow only where they find suitable soil From what we know of pathogenic processes, 1t is safe to state that an individual in prime health would be invulnerable to the attacks of disease germs.
 "The grip is no respector Of per sons. and attacks all ages and tenn pcramcnts. although more frequently those between 2O and 40. The symp- toms vary greatly. Usually, however, | the opening symptoms are those oi what is commonly called a cold that is, sneezing. coughing, running at the nose. chilla (sometimes quite scverc), l and fever usually slight. Sometimes l the onset is marked by extreme and l sudden prostration. At other times
 the attack begins with severe pains | in the head. chest or elsewhere l throughout the muscular system. l These pains are severe and sudden: and their peculiar character has given
 to the influenza it's popular title, the grip. Mental depression is frequent
 symptom, becoming sometimes so eX cessive as to induce suicide, or even i homicide