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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

profitable. When 4 mans house ia
burning he does not stop to Maggie
ABOUT the price of water necessary 10
.At!nSuiSh the fire. Nevertheless tho
pcopi. are gong TO see that the heart
icas ana ousciencelcSs profitcer does
not get a"ay Win al! OF his loot lie
must pay the bulk OF II into the ma
tivnai war chcsL w. Is. a
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

To the Editor Of The Zines Dispatch:
Stiff indeed the Herman U-boats
arc tanning spies Oh the Atlantic Coast
~ Is no. likely they Wiii take back 10
me Huns any Information of = pecu-
!!arlY encouraging nature. Here in
irsln the situation. II correctly re-
ported. should cause few smiles TO
Hreathe the pallid face OF the Kaiser.
II ne would be told OF the shipbuildinr
activities at Newport News Norfolk
~. IN NieA ahdriai or the driiiinG at Fort
Slyc-. Camp Hurnphrics and Camp Lee
nc ""u!o spend some restless Inomen,s
II ne could be correctly Informed OF the
dEah!hiiS Win which the great body
of the people are standing back or thet,
government and their fghting forces.
ne would be iiilcd with despair Above
al, II ne could be brought 10 realize
ne "ou!d wish TO goodness he had nor
sent MS spies such troublesome long
way u tI4h: fIm such bad news.
-, OBSERVER
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

Richmond Is beginning n suffer ante
parking space shortage. Ia !act. the famine
is becoming acute
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

Most or the trouble about people bein. IN
useless occupation is that they're useful only
in useIessness '"'s
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

wonder II old Doc Oslcr is gntng II, lobby
any against the forty-fys dram limit?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26
Thomas a'Becket. Jr., who died
columbia,
the Gem OF
the Ocean"

tomas aBccket, Jr, who died
tolumbla, a rev days ago. was the son OF
the Gem OF Thomas aBeckct. ST., author and
tho Oco.,, composer of what came very near
being our ational song. Co
. . iumbia the Gem OF the Ocean
- a Eood patriotic song. easier to sing than
iiai Columbia and far To learn and
Sinh IMAM me Siar-Spangled Banner" and dur
IN iGE the civil War it was much sung as either
OF tncSe The War Department and the NAVY
Department made The S,ar-Spangicd Banner"
inc naliohal song by directing that it be pla yed
mot suns-,at the hosting and lowering Of the
nag; Tor that ceremony it is, OF course par
ticu!arIS appropriate. But il il were customary
10 sing at enc hosting and lowering of the fla
probaDiy some other national song would ha We
becn selected. Columbia. the Gem OF rho
Ocean like Hail. Columbia" was born in
lhiiadclphia. and born the stage Each wa q
written as a solo to Civ, .cat TO an act or's
Dcncht David +. Shaw the actor who s;,nrr
columbia. the Gem of the Ocean" and his ma me-
is generally attached the song But song
books are not edited with much regard TO hise
i iih accuracy. and this song is often pub
iSheH Win no name author composer
more generally with the name ~ Sh.w a.
author. and occasionally with that OF a'Becket
ahou, this r song is that 1t is an English song
pha Record. ''uei-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26
Germany
Now
Secs" Us

Germany is beginning IN
germany cnahEe tactics in respect the
Now strength Of the Americans in
"Sccsn re- france. Hitherto denying and
- ridicu!inE all claims 10 the
. transport of a large force over
seas 1t Is now admitted by the Government at
berlin, through obviously official announce
m n, 10 the press. that Secretary Bakers
msures regarding the size of force in the
Mdl zone are about correct. These announce
men,s are iden,icaiiy wordcd. leaving no doubt
UL me source. one or two of the papers add
mat the? were not actually conceanE the
SSuenGt OF the Americans. saying that their
FORMER hSures were based on the situation mr. ior
men Mi bsra and mat the really big shpmcns Of
mat is the point. And they h2 We been Con,
tihued, the submarines Notwithstanding and no
ap9iosles VIII account for the fact that during
rriapSu'nms INC German press Inspired by the
the American force was neg liEible-W ,"n
Star. W '"''t"e 'oii
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Our Greed.

we were for peace peace with honor and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES until peace was no longer
possible NOW were for war; war relentless
war TO aVenGe Belgium and France war to re-
store Aisace. TO free Pol. nd. to protect the
weak to strengthen the strong whose strength
Is IN the virtue of worIrs honor Wo are
Tor war until the Prussian autocracy is the
httlest thing in the Universe. It'll divine right
is the puniest Dimple the globe until family
domination OF peoples is hated by all thinking
creatures OF all rule. We are for war to the
NIT with all the implements o; war now exist
ing or possible to be devised: and then we are
III FAVOR OF peace at a council table of the
allied nations. with the Kaiser stan ling in the
DOCK and poor deluded. cocrced Austria testi-
tEinE as chief witness for the prosecution
Ana we have no for limburser cheese
me man who walks pigeon-tocd is right In
line, anyhow with the latest military fashion
fhat man. said the garage owner thai man
Is one OF the most valuable men in the shop I
wouldn't lose him for thousand"
Some fine mechanic. eh?"
not any. he doesn't know a monkey wrench
from contact file. But when he gets under and
around car that doesn't need ANYTHING hut
sasollne In the tank he can look mysterious md
troubled and get ii into the shor for ten hours
repair Dill without arousinE susricion."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

"hen preacher grows red In the face and
pounds the pulpit you gotta admit he's working
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26

me man who walks pigeon-tocd is right ii
line, anyhow, with the latest military fashion
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AT buffalo. ~. ~

Alexandria. Va. August - isis = !"
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AppREss ALL COMMUNICATIONS e Tho Tamea'
/ Ul,patch md not Individuals
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pVrIISUED every day In year at 10 South Tenth
$50 Ricbrond Va. by The rmes- dispatch Pub.
\ lshins Co.. Inc. Charles h. HAAbrook. Editor sAd
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RirIJnlun0 Gimes-pispatrb

rHE TIMES rHE IsfATCH
-, Est. ! ass -. -. a.. -,
Richmond, second-elass mater.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
REMEDIES FOR RENT COUCINC

WHEN they begin to make speeches in
ssV Washington wise men lose hope. 1t
Is yet too early to predict the result of
the inquiry being made before Congress
into the abuses charged against house
owners and real estate men in Phlladel-
phia The hearing is a prelude to the
consideration of bill which Representa-
tive Darrow has prepared to prevent rent
gouging.
This is a big country. Most Congress.
men come from communities in which
there is no question of real estate valua-
tions involved with the general problem
Of the war. Congressional action for the
sake of a few hard-pressed house renters
IN Philadelphia is almost too much to OK
pect The regrettable thing is that an
ugly situation couldn't have been cleared
up by simpler methods.
Mr.. Darrow, who has the support and
approval Of Admiral Bowles and the ship
building chiefs, proposes to arrange for
the appointment of Federal officials who
will be authorized to investigate each case
OF alleged rent gouging, to make ap-
praisals and to offer recommendations upon
which the local courts could base intunc-
AioAiS III SdSeS tHe mousse owner at
tempted to abuse the privileges of owner
ship at the expense Of the helpless and
long suffering tenant
The method appears logical enough. The
majority of the people, even those who are
drawing war wages, are making sacrifices
Tor the war. No one should be permitted
to squeeze exorbitant profits from the dis
tress of others.
Admiral Bowles suggested that rents
should be increased only to meet increased
taxation and that the house owners
should bear the increased cost of labor
and materials essential to repairs. Here
there is a suggestion of injustice. 1t
would seem fairer, in view of the impor-
tance OF labor and material costs, if the
owner and the tenant were to divide the
burden.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
UPLIFT IN CONGRESS

TT WAS interesting to read Congressman
j. Hampton Moore's breezy TRADE
directed at his colleagues in the House
who are agitating for a commission to
guard the morals of Washington working
girls. Mr.. Moore was stung to fervid ut
terance and clamorous scorn by the chat
ter Of the members who talked for hours
about the obligations of the presumably
more enlightened employing class"
The delusion that a stern morality is the
peculiar attribute of those who have money
is outworn. 1t belongs with the age of
mittens That it should be enshrined In
Congress is not at all strange. Congress
loves the old point of view And yet If
commissions are to be appointed there is
and never was any reason why the poor
should not take a turn at the job and
name commission for the conservation
of the morals Of the rich The poor, un-
fortunately, haven't time to do other than
mind their own business.
The world is swiftly outliving the pro.
fessional uplifter. Public opinion is doing
more than any commission ever did to
make life safer for the uniformed. In the
course of time Congress, too, will learn
that the rich and the poor. the humble
and the pretentious. are alike at bottom
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
ARCHBISHOP DOUCHERTY

THE whole city feels sympathetic in
= terest in the splendid ceremonial ar
ranged at the Cathedral today for the en-
thronement of Archbishop Dougherty. The
new Archbishop will be welcomed warmly
as new citizen of unusual distinction.
who began life humbly in Pennsylvania
and was elevated to his exalted office after
demonstrating in wide and various fields
great qualities of mind and spirit
Archbishop Dougherty has won distinc
tion as humanitarian and scholar. He
succeeds man who was greatly esteemed
and venerated. The city at large will well
come him to the place made vacant by the
death of Archbishop Prendergast in the
assurance that his contributions to the
ethical and spiritual life of the community
will be as great as those of his distin-
Uuished predecessors.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
LESS LIGHT

THE reduction by 20 to 80 per cent of
= the artificial light in business buildings
hotels and homes now proposed by the
fuel administration may seem at first
glance like an excessively roundabout
method of saving coal. 1t might have been
better had Doctor Garfield and his asso-
ciates displayed greater efficiency in or
Genixing and encouraging a more extensive
Droductioh of the required fuel
Partial darkness isn't cheerful = espe-
eialIy when attended by the suspicion that
~ lint necessary.
The country will cooperate with the fuel
administration, of course. This is a good
<|1ne TO remember that many OF the homes
and public buildings in England and
France have had to depend for long time
rnolnly ON candles. Seeing is believing.
41oce who still refuse 10 realize that
- are at war may be helped along by
~ newest restriction to q realization Of
~ important fact
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
THE Stacker
By Stanley Kidder Wilson

7 CAME upon a rose
L Within an orchard close,
Single, on a frail stalk,
At break in the walk.
1t shrugged at me, tease.
Meath the serious, busy trees;
With a truant air danced
Opportune to winds as they CHANGED;
Shyly curtseyed. pouting,
AS If family doubling,
In presence Of the fruit
My grave stand at salute;
Lifted no arresting voice,
Murmured, Twas not my choice;
l. too. would bear and serve,
Enrich sinew and nerve,
/, too, be patriot,
But, alas, sterile my lot!
Mines but laughing bit,
Mine merely to fit
Futile from eye to eye
AS hunger plods by"
"Nay, be of comfort, child"
I countered, there's wild
Ingenious service, too.
Not unlike God are you:
God justifies His being,
Free-as we'll as freeing"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

- where angels fear to tread?
To go steam.rolering against the de-
fenseess Soviets seems Moscowardly.
The Kaiser's kind of warfare is not only
ruthless but truthless.
Apparently the Let's have organized
some pan.soviets of their own. Pantaletts,
we call them.
The Czecho-Slovak troupe has walked the
trans-Siberan railway ties all the way to
Vladisvostok. Perhaps they call themselves
Slovactors.
While the new Finn.Hun expeditionary
force is marching along the KEN -Kande.
lax Kola railway on the way to Ekaterina,
it is to be hoped they will take with them
the author of the song "K-KKaty." He
ought to make a pretty good anthem: out
Of that material.
But perhaps the Firms will decide that
the game is not worth the KandelaX.
A Bolshevik official in Moscow telegraphs
that the weekly mutiny was caused by a
group of cheeky fools. Is that whskered
pronunciation of Czech fools?
The German editors are very hot over
the fact that a few pro-Huns in this coun-
try have been forcibly draped in tar and
feathers. They must be jealous, for GER
tainly suit of tar and feathers is more
durable clothing than the paper garments
worn in Berlin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

ciety for the diffusion of useful knowledge
which our esteemed secretary, the ever
amiable DR.. I. Minis Hays, considers only
matters which concern the measurements
Of stars of the seventh magnitude or inves.
legations into premature senilty among
the gastropods? Think Of the literary SO.
cieties of North, West and South Philadel
phia-the latter at this very moment dis.
cussing that English classic. pigs Is Pigs"
Think of the literary "reminiscences of
Camden, with Whitman, now finally buried
there, or Of the poetical potentialities Of
Manayunk, when Ogontz has given us
Ezra Pound!
lastly, there are organizations-as there
~ are organisms-which one would feign
evade, and these are especially all societies
designed to teach one anything, to make
one better to regulate, order guide and In.
terfere with that innate willfulness which
alone prevents the reformers from reform
ing the human race, regenerate and unre-
generate, off the earth. 1t is an admirable
safeguard of nature that you cannot edu.
cate a real boy beyond certain point:
the boy in him rebels, and it is happy
shortcoming that organization carries with
it its own deadliest foe, for even the faith
fullest wardsmen cannot live by the organi-
cation alone.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

THE Socialists are digging themselves in
= with demand for a six-hour day. The
trolley company at Reading, Pa, is agitat-
Ing shrilly for eightcent fares.
The two-dollar sandwich and propa ganda
for the abolition of all work of every kind
cannot be so far ahead.
Guard your umbrella pously and be
braced for the deluge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

If the proposed revenue bill Is passed
wouldn't It be only consistent to pay taxes
on paper shoes, near-silk frocks and imita"
ton wool trousers with substitute money?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

Those German editors who continue to
trot hopefully forward with peace proposals
evidently haven't learned that some of the
old maxims have been revised and that. al
though It only takes one to make a fight
these days, 1t takes two to make a discus
sion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

Shipbuiiders at Belfast, Ireland, have
.completed an SooO-ton steamship in fifteen
days after her launching. That is Just one
more record for the Delaware 10 60 after,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

Kerensky doesn't seem
How's Your to be making much Of
Tact, Alec? hit in Paris Now Is
the time for Alec to
watch his step, for the American bleachers
are keeping their eyes on him. II he's
four-husher we haven't time to monkey with
him. America is pretty busy trying to win
the war,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

We hope no one will have the poor taste
to criticize the weather for long time to
come Not within our memory has there
been such a marvellous spell of cool, clear.
azure weather at this time of year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

The proposed Federal tax of ten cents
gallon on gasoline will have one momen-
tcus result IL it is actually levied. 1t will
take all the jov out of joy riding.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

and that no group monopolizes the talent
for wrongdoing. If n commission is TO be
appointed 1t should serve society at large
and do Justice to all alike.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

stroebe the German Socialist, who
called upon his people to hurl their rulers
ito the devil" hasn't much consideration for
the feelings of hades.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
The Fairies

TNHE fairies work so hard these days
To keep us gay.
For if we let them know we're sad
They'll fly away.
They tell US there are still the trees
That climb so high
They trip the round moon in her flight
Across the sky.
And there are still green fields to find
And hills to press,
And back behind the western wind
The wilderness.
And so we let the fairies think
That we are gay,
For II they knew how sad we were
They'd fly away.
BEATRICE WASHBURN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

The murder charge in the Fifth Ward
cases. says the District Attorney, has not
been dropped. 1t has been, SO TO speak.
mislaid.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

Some one ought to suggest that they tax
the gas in Congress.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

The Bolsheviki control Moscow. But car
they control themselves?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
A Habit
We Have

A lady in New York
Habit wants the nation to
We Have call itself Usonia. She
says II Is absurd to
call ourselves Americans, because the Cana
dans and Mexcans are as good Americans
as we are. Even so, we have kind of gotten
into the habit.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

The new bathing suits uncover multi
tude of shlns
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

Mary had little
Good Tidings, bin
Mr.. Garfield Her lamb just loved
to roll in;
But Mary, like a prudent girl.
Used 1t to put her coal in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

A war in professional baseball SEEM
uninteresting-even as a sideshow.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
1T is A LONG ROAD
TO KOLA

THE proclamation of martial law In the
- Russian province Of Archangel and the
landing of American marines to cooperate
with the French and British forces in pro-
tecting military supplies at Kola, on the
Murman coast, occurred at about the same
time. The news reached this country on
the day before the Fourth of July.
But not one person in a thousand knew
enough about the geography Of Russia to
tell where the Murman coast is or to ex.
plain the relation of the province Of Arch
angel to the other provinces.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
Darkest
Germany

For those who dislike
Darkest the prospect of light
Germany less nights there should
be consolation in the
knowledge that they have lightess days in
Germany,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

Foch says, to make
Boy! Page war is to attack. When
Hindy! the strategy of the
situation permits we
expect Hindy may have occasion to recall
this dctum.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

TTHE Germans did their best to interfere
L with the completion Of the road. The
rails for the section from Kola to Kanda
lakcha were shipped from Brooklyn in 1915
Part of them were on the steamship Silver
wings But from some undetermined cause
the ship foundered off the coast of Nova
Scotia and sank with her cargo. Arrange.
ments were at once made to send more
rails. AS the road is in operation, they
must have arrived safely.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

A Hun cannot see the truth. So he must
be made to feel It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

ARCHANGEL. or, as the transliteration
of the Russian spelling has It, Arkh-'
angelsk, is the northernmost subdivision
of Russia. 1t touches the Arctic Ocean and
extends east and west from the Ural Noun
tains to Finland 1t is bounded on the
south by the provinces Of vologda and
Olentz 1t has an area of $4,000 square
miles and population of 100000, or a little
more than one and half persons to the
square mile. The White Sea cuts it into
two parts, leaving about quarter Of its
area west Of that sea. This part includes
Kola and the Kola peninsula.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

TNHE section of the road across the Kola
l. peninsula to the Murman coast was
built under the greatest difficulties. The
workmen were almost literally eaten alive
by midges and mosquitoes, the pest of the
Arctic regions in summer. They appeared
in great clouds and it was almost imposs-
BILE for the workmen to prevent themselves
from breathing them and swallowing them.
The engineering problems solved were
most perplexing. The ground is floating
sod in the summer, supported by the water
from the melted ice beneath, which in turn
rests on the frozen subsol that never
thaws. For one stretch of l33 miles it was
necessary to drive piles to support the
track In other places cofferdams had to
be built to keep out the water while
search was made for firm foundations. At
one place lofty wall of granite lay across
the line and it was found necessary to
tunnel it for half mile to make way
for the tracks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10
THE CHAFFINC DISH
Broodings on Russia

NOES the Kaiser plan to invade Russia
~ where angels fear to tread?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-10

NNHE line between Petrograd and Pc
L trozavodsk has been open for several
years. Two hundred and thirty.seven miles
north Of Petrozavodsk the new road reaches
the town of Soroka on the White Sea, in
the same latitude as Archangel. Swerving
to the northwest the road touches Kem
thirty-fve miles away. KEN is the most
important industrial and administrative
center of the region, but it has a popula-
ton of only 1000. North of KEN the road
runs for 224 miles through district of
small lakes and extensive swamps and i'm
mense forests of fr to Kandalakcha, a
fishing settlement. Thence it crosses the
Kola peninsula for 179 miles to Catherine
harbor and Kola