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FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS
roblems Discussed for Readers of The By
Writcrs--A Duly Editorial Feature.
ON TO BERLIN, AND DEATH TO GERMANISM


once aroused it has a godiy wrath. Wo
propose equal justice to our enemies
might continue. we have to fnce no
uncommon enemy. Murder. arson ana
all manner, OF brutality have been COM
In times or peace our laws punish
extreme felonies with the penalty of
death. The Kaiser and his Official
iii they arc deadl dead! dead! They
deserve no other mention In the his
tory OF tho future than their record
The recollection of their vile. impious
and atrocious actions are SO unspeak
nblc that even hell should set apart
confinement and visit upon them tho
torment they. have given tho innocent.
Tho vilest, sinner should not be fur
ther punished by association with this
crowd. No peace terms should be
made with the present rulers OF Ger
many. They are not capable OF maxi
Of paper should be recognized at the
valuation they have given TO treaties
previously made. The Kaiser and his
puppets should have no place at Il
peace table that concerns tho destiny
OF any living soul.
When Heaven opens It's gates to the
unrepentant, when the Almighty calls
10 Satan TO sit In judgment and rulo
the universe when our men. women
and children have lost eveTy yestise
TO allow robbcr. murderer and n
liar TO DO part Of the council OF ma
lions.
To Let tho present autocracy of Ger
many go unhung would be license
to. other criminals to duplicate their
atrocious crimes. in either a lesser or
greater degree. Germany will ask for
peace when she is doomed. This is
no repentance.
German Kultur that would mark
the Sermon on the Mount as obsolete
nnd write the word lie" through the
Ten commandments must be crushed IL
the Holy Bible is to be our guido. II
outraged womanhood. the horrible
muiilation of tho aged, tnnrm and
helpless and children shall go unpun-
ishcd, the laws of our land should be
burned and the heastful law of might
Is right" he adopted In their place
II democracy means freedom, II IL
meant anything to our forefathers if
there ~ one spark or godiy blood in
our veins. Il behoovcs US to fight and
sacrifice to make the world n decent
place in which to live and pcrpetuate
generations still unborn.
The world owes you nothing, but
you owe the world n life and the per-
petuation OF life. Let us render to
Caesar the things that are Caesars"
Think Of outraged Belgium. Hear
the cries of virgins and unprotected
mothers. Behold the bleeding arms OF
defenseless children. SEQ the men past
three soorc years and ten buneted, tied
to the tails OF frenzied horses and
their brains beaten out Hear the
walls of women. children and old man
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Combating the Spanish Inf,ucnz.

I T is true that the Spanish influenza sitra-
ton in Richmond is serious II is not
worth while to try to blink ut that fact. nor
would it be wise. In the face OF the rapid]v
increasing number OF victims and the mount
ing death list it must be met squarely. AS
conditions almost hourly grow more acute
the necessity for calmness. collected judg-
ment and deliberate caro- on the part OF the
people generally becoms more vitality neces-
sary. II is a time for careful thought not
Tor excitement and hysteria. The latter can
serve only to aggrayate situation which
must he battled bravely. 10 him who wor-
RES or lives in constant dread lest he con-
tract the h,alady it comes the more readily
LOT me very reason that his physical powers
OF resistance arc weakened by his mental
ttitude.
Every step known to medical science is
being taken to combat and check the spread
oil the epidemic, but the ranks OF physicians
ana doctors already are sadly depleted by the
calls of war duty, and they must have every
aid that the community can give them. This
J means that every person must take those
precautionary and sanitary measures by which
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posts. beaten, forced ahead t 70 tho no
G Ca INC mouth I, as shields for German
homes and villages OF dear old Franeoell
Think Of oil the horrors OF horrors.
gsses'db5 x ho Mah1Sn Ges,rnetion by
liens that archiends can an edH eVisepis
think! DO you want unrepentant. I'm
crushed c n,a,,, ana M, untran,pled Germany TO
), America went into this war free o,
s mos mos fdlr 1and whose heart and mimi
German spirit. ne is as devoid of OH bae sho
bone as an anglo worm and has less
haste. and war is hell" Billions
have hay. been spent 70 avert this Gers
nave sacrificed heir lives. privation
and sacrifice have been necessary in
every hoHseho,d. There is but one ne
agery and destruction OF the German
hordes and that IL to beat IL out ar
them. wv vi
ternational principles have failed in
every instance to arrest the attention
OF OF, this vile autocracy. We must meet
science with grentcr science, and give
them tit for tat greater measure a.
their own medicine.
these murderers and pillagers, cry OUT
to civilization for swift and Certain
vengeance This nation does not want
peace -at-any price. but just punish
ment for murheters. .outragers and
looters. We entered this war to re-
move n from the earth the greatest men
ace that ever attacked civilization. and
our task will BIO incomplete unless We
absolutely destroy this poisoned Kul-
t dur and ~ those s who dream Of world cen.
arms. a victory over the military
powers of Germany is certain. II MAJ
NOT be this year, nor the next. but tho
United states has never lost a war and
by tho grace Of God She viii win this
one.
An greatly as we DEERE peace on
earth. purely military victory will
not accomplish this END. Prussianism
and kultur. murder. burglary and bar
barity must be conquered and nun
ished. The godly wrath that has been
born within US demands h total annthi-
lation OF every principle upon which
Germany has outraged eociety' For an
American there are but two paths; he
must live to serve or die 10 save.
We shall not stop at tho Iiindcnbure
line. We shall not stop at the bor-
ders Of devastated Belgium nor on the
soil OF bleeding France, hut we shall
go on and Oh till Old Glory f,ies In
triumph oyer tho nutocratic palaces
at Berlin. Vienna and Constantinople
Cod speed the strength OF our bat.
tie Scared allies and give us full i'm
Detus to carry on 10 Berlin, and death
to Germanism,
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an Historic sacrlncc.

TO the Editor of Tho Times Dispatch:
Sir-The prevailing epidemic OF In
huenza reminds the writer of an in
e,aent related TO the black plague in
Franco many. years ago. The plague
ragged violently, SO much SO that every
tie of affection was broken-the father
turned from the child and the child
turned from the father.
Misery is at its height when IT Thus
destroys every tic OF humanity. The
physicians assembled in n body 90 bold
4 consultation on the fearful dfease
found.
After long elaboration they de.
eided that the inalady had peculiar
and mysterious character, which the
opening OF corpse alone might de-
velop. an operation it was impossible
TO attempt. since the operator must
infallibly become n Victim in few
hours
4 dead pause succeeded the fatal
suddenly a surgeon named Guyon.
in the prime of life and OF great celeb
rity in his profession, rose and said
frmly: Be II so. ! devote myself for
the safety OF my country. Before this
assembly I swear, in the name OF hu.
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
ny HENRY EDWARD WARNER
Lon0nE Time.


Between the jobs We have to do
And tasks that we postpone,
There is a time, an hour or two,
When we can be alone
With boating. fishing. idiing where
Our inclination leads
y season with the open air,
With game bass in the reeds.
There is a time, ioaiing time
1t happens now and then
In any place, in any cline,
With any sort OF men;
s time when phones are silent and
The only sound I hear
The wind-songs in the forest land,
Or sweeping in the clear.
And / shall have my loaiing day
Some day when tasks are done,
And ] shall take myself away
Beneath some smiiing sun;
And shall lie beneath some skv
Where poplars bend and bow
Gut ere that day III have TO die.
The way the thing looks nowD
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No Comfort for Berlin Here

E)tHolDDNT WILSON has spoken. His voice
Is me voice of the allied nations and in it
there is no hope for Germany unless that
country really is SO desperately placed as 10
be sincere in its cry for peace. The allies
refuse TO fall into any trap that Germany
may have baited ever so shrewdly There
VIII he no armistice so long as a German
soioler or German gun remains on the
SOIL that it has invaded. If Germany is sin -
cere, then let it withdraw its armed forces
from all territory that it has seized since
1914 when it struck its first blow for world
supremacy When that has been done it will
be proof OF honest intentions and the
allies will consent to discuss the details OF
an armistice. That is the gist of the reply
OF President Wilson to Kaiser Wilhelm's lat
est peace offensive conducted through his
Chancellor
but wilson S reply is not a rejection of the
peace proner il is rather an inquiry He
wants to know il the German request for an
armistice with view to peace is made in
good faith. Does Germany accept the fourteen
points formulated by President Wilson mere
~ as basis of negotiations, or does it accent
them in toto as enunciated leaving ONLY their
application to be discussed later? On the i'm
perlal governments answer the future course
of events will shape itself
Again, does the Imperial Chancellor sneak
merely Tor the constituted authorities of the
empire who have so far conducted the WARP"
The allies must know with whom thew are
asked to deal.
mo PRESIDENTS reply is short: il is but
NIUE longer than his curt answer 10 Austria.
ana 1t is equally to the point Now that il
has been given with the other allied nations
concurrshg there can be no further doubt as
TO where they stand, and once more the situa-
tlon Is put up to Germany. Peace can be
hers Tor the asking, but first there must be
that remuneration which will he the token
OF faith that it is proposed to keep and an
earnest or acknowledged defeat. Until such
request for the cessation OF hostilites
comes the war will go on with increased
vigor, and the road to Berlin soon will ho
blasted open by Fochs cannon
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simple measures They have been thoroughly
explained and published broadcast and It is
duty every one owes to himself, to his
family and to his city to follow them to tho
letter. Otherwise he may DO responsible for
his own illness and be tho means of others
contracting 1T. To be careless now is moth
ing snort OF criminal. Above all, keep tho
body in good condition. avoid contact with
other persons. stay in the open air as much
as possible. keep the mind FREQ from worry.
avoid fatigue and eliminate everything not
conducive to the highest physical efficiency
That, perhaps, will do more to check the
spread of the plague than the combined CT
forts Of all the physicians At least observ-
ance Of these simple rules will aid them ma
terially in their work
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The Flu.

The other day in this place We kidded the Flu
mot hard, y know, but just en- PEASANT, as II
were. A mere trifle OF siry persifage, not in
tended to be insulting. Only Il little entertain
mcnt.
Well. Sirs and Marms. some one with d heart
as tender as chunk of Besseiner steel and a
sense OF humor like a hard boiled egg and
told General John l.. Flu, era ndfather of the Flu
family. and whadda v think the old man did !:
Iic just came along and laid low, right flop
back!
II you haven't seen s. Q. s. wabblng around
in thi" column for couple of days, that's why
At this moment we are toiiins under en-
forced rccuperation. Yknow until Jack Perish
ing really gets TO Berlin VIC gotta work Flu or
no Flu, and here sitting up but with an
inclination that yearns for Bed.
Seriously, don't Kid the Flu: Get Yourself
plenty OF ventilation and clothes and hot night
ba tbs and cold morning plunses and cxerc;sea
Eat prunes and denk the juice, and IL you get 1:
sec q doctor right quick. There's a mixture ct
acetanalid. Dover's powders and--but no. you'd
better see regular Doctor.
Never again do VIC kid the Flu! He's regu-
lar Teller with punch like the caress of n
mules hind leg.
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professed conversion curing this meeting.
Forty. convcts from the penitentiary. all ne
grocs. consigned to Mason & Co. to work tho
Chesa peakc and Ohio Railroad were being
ricd westward on "a train of that road yester-
day. AZ q point about four mics from Cor
louisville the convicts ovcrpowered the guard,
and twenty-five of them jumped from the rap
Hnother was over by the train and mortally
wounded. Three others were seriously wounded.
one aptured and nineteen succeeded in
making their escape
Rev. a. T.. Dickinson, tho well known pastor
OF the Leigh Street BaptisS Church, and one OF
the editors OF tho Religious Herald returned to
Richmond Monday evening from a West yir-
many times and collected. s57a, for the erection
of tile proposed 1apt!at Church in Rockets
The schools for the coored children under the
auspices of the New York Frcedmens Associ-
alton. arc organizing this week Five opened
Monday with about nifty scholars in each.
The number of entrances into the Richmond
dock for tho year ending September 80 was
barks, three; brigs. twelve; schooners. 49l;
steamers. fifty; sloops. scvcnty-four; tugs. 206
barges. 1874. Departures, barks, three: briggs
eleven; schooners. 49,? steamers, hfty.hve
soops sevcnty-three; tugs, 9o7; barges. 1Gs.
Rev DR.. Norwood commenced his mini stry at
!, large congre gator greeted him.
guest ut tho ENchanEo Hotel
struck iwenty-nne feet below tho surface
by u party who was digging well.
AZ the sale tho other day OF blooded stock az
Jerome park, New York, Thomas w, boswell Of
Virginia, bought three brood mares costing
$500. W uTt-f -
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Woman suffragists have resumed the tao
tics which have done much to bring them
into disreputc. True, they have relieved the
White House OF their Objectionable presence,
but they are obtruding their pcketing prac
>tiees on the Capitol Very properly their
first day of renewed mlitancy resulted in the
arrest OF their four leaders. Such campaign
methods only ALLEVIATE many persons who
otherwise might look with favor on their
cause, but the women seem slow to learn
their lesson.
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Walnut Trces.

w. NJ. MidIothian.-The War Depart
ment has issued statement telling
persons who have walnut trees twelve
to Captain r. l.. Oakley, Production
Division. Small Arms Section, Ordnance
department., Sixth and B Streets
Washington, d. G.. He will advise syou
where you can sell your walnut at a
fair price.
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Voice Of the People
Letters must 9ive the name and nd.
drea. OF the writer. Name will nor be
published II writer SO requests.
About the rrIce. nf xNh..

= NUUut TIC FrfceN OF Wheat.
To the Editor OF The Times Dispat ch:
Sir.-Having been reader Of your
paper ever since the birth Of the
Times. ! am surprised you would write
such an article as that recently about
prices OF wheat Your attention WAS
called to just such an article as this
In your paper by Il Virginia farmer
mouths ago. had supposed you would
see the justice in his statements
There were not over six farmers In
this township raising wheat when this
war began. and they are now raising
II from patriotic motives 1t is the
most Improbable crop We raise.
II. CLAY NICHE.
Charlottesville. Va, October 4, 1915.
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Sr,enfer to sa1aI.r

Mrs. B. G.. g., King Williamson
may not send any Kind Of a package
to soldier in France unless you ro-
ceive a request from the soldier him
sell, which request must be approved
by the officer commanding HIS regI-
ment-eSeept such package be sent
under regulations brescribed for the
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\. Told by their officers that the American
Soldiers could not and would not fight, Ger
mans in the trenches suddenly have a1ak-
ened to the fact that these Yankees are ter
trible men" and letters taken from prisoners
sbetray their wholesome fear OF the newcom-
lers on the western line. 1t has required
several practical demonstrations to convince
them that these lightning trained" men can
fight and hold on like demons. and now that
they know they were deceived by their SUI
periors it is helping to shattcr the nerve
OF the Kaiser's forces
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conditions throughout tho country are no
different from what they arc in Richmond,
and 1t Is going to take the united and un-
tagging efforts OF the nation to put the loan
across 1t can DO doue II each citizen will
view tho situation calmly and resolve to do
his full share. To fail would be to play
into the hands Of the enemy and to betray
the millions of men who are Offering their
lives for his overthrow
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Hopeful Herbert Hoover announces that
the war will be over by next summer. that
Is, il this nations war conscience is right
and leads it TO the utmost conservation of
food and purchase Of Liberty bonds His
slogan. Eat less and buy more" must be
adopted If his prophecy is to be fulfilled ac-
cording to schedule
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If Germany's new Chancellor really wants
peace based on league of nations, arbi-
tration, disarmament and no German annex
atoms, even in the east" it is n sign, OF
returning Teuton~ sanity. When it reaches
the point of confessing complete military de-
feat and Willingness for the allies to name
the terms. then, and not until then. will fur
Their discussion be fruitful.
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who Coun.eIs Peace.

Who counsals peace ut this mornentous
hour,
When God has given deliveranee to the
oppressed
And to tho injured poworP
Who counsels peace. whom Vengeance,
liko q flood, ~
Rolls on. no Longer now to be repressod
When innocent bloo1
From tho four corners OF tho world
cries out
For justice upon the accuraed hoad;
When freedom hath hor holy banners
spread
Over all nations. now In ono Just
cause
United; whom with ono sublimp -sceord
Europe throws or tho yoke abhorrsd,
Follow tho avenging sword?
--Robert Southey, 1915,
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Berlin at last admits that there has been
lighting in Palestine and its troops have with
drawn, according to plans. OF course, north
OF Damascus. With this growing spirit OF
frankness It may be expected to acknow-
ledge soon that there have been scattering
sktrmishes on the west front in which Will
helms men have not been uniformly sue
ressful.
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Abraham LincoIn,s Mother.

G. r. r., Camp Leo----The maiden name,
Of Abraham L.lncoln's mother was
ginia In 1888. and seems to have be-
longed TO an obscure family. but her.
self TO havo soon woman OF noble
character. His fathor was Thomas Lin
coin, born IN 1913. in Rockingham tthcn
,AMRusta) county, Virginia. Abraham,
Lincoln was born on Rock Spring.
Hardin (now Larue) county, Kcntucky.
on tho 12th OF February, 1903, 49,
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Draft Arcs.

j. W. G., Roanoke.-The draft ages
a are from eighteen to forty- five, in
age of fortysiX he is subject TO mill
tary duty.
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Information Bureau

Inquiries regarding almost my topio.
excepting ON legal and hiedicaI aub-
quiries are nnawered directly by per-
sonal letter a seif-addressed, stampes
envelope In required. Address The
Rich n1ond Va.
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The allied naval task has been enlarged
by Germanys seizure Of Russia's Black Sea
Fleet, but 1t is not too large for proper ac-
complishment. One Of these mornings the
Russians, having rendered themselves help
less, will awake to find that their gifts to
the enemy have been destroyed.
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0utbhIlnr!

year ago or more wrote: After all the
difference between mouse and bat Is only a
difference of l. rnon.'
This late in tho day receive n note: you're
wrong. It's TWO pinions."
Thus the clubbing critic huris, his javelin
And hurts our feelings! Ills cruel world,
Mabel a cruel world
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Inc Germans are not "evacuating'' Bel
GUM they are being driven out at the point
OF the bayonet by King Albert and his heroic
soldiers, who, with vigil long, have at last
FOUND their day OF vengeance and are work
ing overtime. TO increase the harvest of their
wrath
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Germany's new peace offensive may find
here and there among civilians misguided
friend, but among the soldiers il is entirely
friendless. Unanimous sentiment of the army
which is driving the Huns back beyond the
Htndenourg line seems TO be summed up i'll
tho words OF that private who said: Tell
the folks not TO fall for the German fake
Therel be no peace with the baby killers
If we can help it until white man can shake
hands with them. 1t can't be done now"
Failure TO support such military spirit as
that would be worse than treachery.
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FOR SALE-Onc automobile. one motor boat,
one small farm, town house. seven paid -up
Liberty ponds and piano. Also household
furniture. owner must dispose at once, any
reasonable price Reason for sale owner wants
to eat sirloin steak with mushrooms and some
French fried, and may have 10 tin the waiter
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Changing EmpIoyment

II w, Hopewell.-Sucif change of
employment likely would not affect
your standing in the draft. hui 70 he on
the safe side you should consult your
local draft board about the matter.
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News Of Fifty Years Ago
From the Richmond Dispatch. Oct. 9, 1869

The great revival Of re-
ligion which has been GO
ing on at Trinity Methodist
ChuI III Tor three weeks
past ,ntinuoS with una
bated interest. Rev. Rob-
ert y. Sledd, the pastor OF
the church. is conducting
tho meeting alone. and do
ing all OF tho preaching.
Ills sermons have been Of
tho most tender and melt
ing kind. He dwells on the
love OF God for dying men.
On Sunday last thirty-siX
new members were added
Ia thh church ALL of them
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1t is stated that Secretary Baker, visited
prison camp in France and spoke to the
prisoners in German. General Pershing also
speaks to the Germans, not in their own
tongue, but all the same in language they
understand; and they obey its voice
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For Heaven. Sake. Mister.

Again we ask: What has become of that day
light hour the government said 1t WIS going to
give back to sleep bout October 1? we bumped
into the milkman, the newspaper carrier and
the fellow who turns the lights out this morn
ing!
Please. Mister. for Heavens sake,
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Fritz is beaten to FRAGILE" in the jubi-
liant language of the doughboy in France and
a whole tome OF history never can convey
the wars result more adequately or salts
iactorly.