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Libraries
BIZ JOHN FOSTER CARR,
Library Expert.

The library was long a sort OF institutional
Lord Bacon: all learning was its province. Now
It's provinces has become al! life. and first OF all
American life.
In the new duties that immigration has
brought. the library unqucstionaby Is solvn
with lSrge success this new and greatest cdu.
eatonal problem; Ys; rapid has been the
wonderfully efficient in patriotic services and
so quietly has it been accomplished that a cam
paiSning propagandist has asked Why don't
development Of the larger American spirit of
the imni6rant?@
There is only one way of answering that
question, and that is by trying to give some
is doing
opportunity than the school. Friendly and
helpful It's aid is more inviting and less lorna .
II makes less demand upon the attention Of a
work 1t welcomes those who think themselves
It is open throughout the year. where the
night school at most is open only seven months
GI me year. It can furnish papers and books
vide familiar and homely air. and as com.
mon meeting ground with Americans. Il gives
him nm sense ,sf, OF joint right and ownership in
no suggestion of natronizing Interest.
in effective touch with American democracy
and Ame,ean n, Ideals and 50 heirs destroy ,he
many Of our immigrants. in their colonies.
continually assert is the main characteristic
OF our civilization.
Illuminating facts taken almost at random
from the mass OF records show the remarkable
way In which the public Libraries have ada pted
existing methods and machinery with plentiful
present interest and great extent.-(CopyriEht
1879
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Boosters" Speeding Towards Richmond

= ROM every corner OF Virginid-from val
1 ley and mountain from the Eastern
Shore the Valley, the great Southwest
automobiles entered in The Times Dispatch
booster rum" are speeding towards Rich
mond. That is, they are speeding where the
roads will permit it; where the roads are not
productive of speed they are struggling along
as hest they can. all hoping to reach their
destination by tomorrow when the good roads
session OF the General Assembly will con-
vene. The hundreds OF automobiles now
headed for Richmond are bringing host OF
good roads advocates. among them many
members of the Assembly and if there are
in the run" any not originally good roads
boosters they unquestionably will be by the
time they have travelled over Virginia's al
legged highways from their homes to the
capital. Nothing is better calculated to con-
vert bad roads man into an enthusiastic
good roads man than even brief ride over
what. through usage rather than courtesy or
discrimination in matters of truth Virginia
is pleased to term it's roads"
In this great object lesson on roads, the
greatest that ever has been staged in the
State, it should be borne in mind that those
participating are not doing merely because
they happen to own automobiles. They are
coming the unbiased representatives of
every community in the State and of every
class that goes to make up its varied popu-
tives of the farmers, whose labors will be
lightened and whose profits will be increased
by good roads; they are coming as the rep
resentati ves of the merchants, the factory
owners, the laborers, the churches, the
schools. every interest and every individual
who depends on highway communication.
They are the representatives, in brief, of the
whole State of Virginia, which has grown
tired and ashamed OF its streaks of mire and
rocks, and is determined that they no longer
shall hold it back from it's full measure of
happiness and prosperity that good roads
alone bring.
Tomorrow when these good roads boosters,
tired but enthusiastic, pour into Richmond,
and some Of their hardest and toughest going
will be encountered the highways lead
ing into this city and within its borders, and
parade before the legislators solemnly
charged with the great duty of forever ending
this disgrace, their cars will tell the story
and the object lesson will be complete If
any remain now who doubt the States pres
ent duty. that doubt will be removed before
this engulfinG wave OF public good roads
sentiment.
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A. Tabloid Tale.
big Chief Ha-Ha.

the waW:ho9s Of the tribe: sisna! ares curied d
There Something tense in the atmospheTe
Excitement filtered through the air-war was
on IN N NuTHer Nine Lived the e.e;hsw-
pick pick pe9ks Chief Painting Sparrow, Of the Gee:
Chief Bull- sees-red, Of the chick scE -pec is
lense to war by returning by their own scout.
VINO w1o WAS also scalped in return, porcupine
moe hlied with hot tamales.
suddenly blood -frzzling. ear .curdling hymns
Of hate rent the air The Gee haw- ha"ks rode
mountainsde. rode the blear-eyed. crazy chick-
Pick. Geeks sho9tins split pea spbals from
with clubs and bricks.
hurt the Ra wss m@a0dy ybem
selves victorious amid the protests of the Gee
As is ss In nSi to custom nS 1ya Chief
son, Ha ha an grow fiat claimed the vanquishcd
Eainting sparrow's daughter as his squaw But
day a nss dT{ Tad wdsd sds aay
over to Timid Gazele's wiswam and bring her
1t was Ha-ha ninetieth visit. and Jimmy had
Waila 0 @ula roo is i Soo! tmeannx Here
are your presents back). she gutteraled as she
hrw her sG nI IS n At bin him and slapped
iTey! srikks- jallo" I Cookie. 100 cook f,
Mink What about them cigars gave your
be so gioomin smart. give me back s me cleo CO
phant skin your old wtgwam is made out off,
= huff and Timd Gazele was left with : the
blue sky above and the green earth beneath.
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oyer such industry. The withdrawal
OF license from it's holder would
mean ruin. IT would mean that he was
he allowed to resume after the govern
ment had sufficiently penallzed him
II would mean. moreover. that soma
bureaucratic authority would be set un
IN Washington with power TO nS tho
rules and regulations under which H.
censes would be issued and under
which business might be carried on
after their issuance.
1t might be we'll for the country
TO give deep thought TO the possible
abuses OF such power before giving
us approval TO this feature OF the
Presidents program. That he viii be
supported generally by 2 great body
OF the American people in any proper
resulation Of business tina, may be
needed in order 10 insure a return Of
decent lying conditions goes without
saying. He ought to be supported and
congress Will incur the resentment OF
the country II it falls TO appreciate tho
imperative necessity which induced tho
sr,resident 70 act as declsiveiy as he
proposal he has made should receive
instant and unquestion!ns Endorsement.
DEMOCRAT
Richmond. Va. August il. 1919.
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The Iron Master Passes On

w 1TH the death of Andrew Carnegie there
w passes from the world Of human actvi-
ties one who contributed largely to the en-
richment of its life. Not only was he a great
phllanthropist. but he was enthusiastically
original in his conception OF plan for dis
tributing his benefactions in such way as
TO enable the greatest number OF people TO
share in their benefits. In this conception
perhaps. his gifts to the establishment of
public Libraries stand out as the most dis
tnguishing feature, for in thus afording the
facilities for researches accessible to all
alike ambitious for the acquisition of knowl-
edge he laid the foundation for achievement
10 which there is no limit in the results that
make for progress and human uplitt.
Starting life in this country of great OPP
portunities as mere boy of thirteen. with
only the assets of health, honesty, industry
thrift, unfagging purpose and loyalty to the
land OF his adoption, he made the best use
of these TO build up fortune which, at the
age of sixty-fve, had satisfied his ambition
To accumulate wealth, and with the announce
ment that he considered it disgraceful for a
man to keep on gathering idle millions he
forthwith proceeded to launch campaign
Tor disembarrassing himself of his accumu-
lated wealth, amounting at that time to an
pro1mately s300,000.000 Converting this
huge wealth into securities of the steel in
dustry, principally in bonds of the United
'|o'es "tSe' wi idIiop, lie entered upon the
task Of trying to dispose OF his wealth with
intelligent philanthropy in half the time it
had taken him to amass it. But being reve-
nuc-yielding. it continued to increase, and in
the Intervening years between 1901 and his
death he gave way something like s425,-
100000 in various philanthropies Of splen-
did conception in purpose and practical bene-
fits to humanity.
Aside from the public gain resulting from
his own individual Dhilanthronies u NAV
truthfully be said that his spirit has in
spired other rich men TO emulate his exam
pie, to the country's greatest benefit thus
unloosng springs Of human action to min
lister TO humanitys needs that may be un-
ending.
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News Of Fifty Years Ago.
tFrom the Richmond Dispatch Aug la, 1865. )

]. p. Raulston, justice Of the peace. Chester
field County: Joseph Walker, clerk Of the
County of Chesterfield, and Samuel T.. Maddox.
clerk Of Powhatan County. were all removed
from office yesterday by Gen. Candy.
Cen Candy yesterday, without assigning any
reason for this action, removed from Office A.
T. Pccbles. senior Alderman of Richmond.
The long continued drought Is still with US.
There has been rain of any consequence in
Richmond since June 81. and yet much of this
time the river has been muddy and at one
time was quite high on account Of rains to
the west OF US.
The investigation of the difficulty among the
policeman during the visit Of the Germans to
this city has resulted follows: Officer Cary
dismissed from the force, Officers Woods and
Haley fined $50 each.
A dispatch received in this city late Saturday
night brought Intelligence of the death OF Major
n. y. Strudwok. which took place at Hot
Springs The burial was in Hollywood on yes
terdsy afternoon.
The baptist Sunday school Association at its
Sunday meeting received reports from five
schools showing average attendance In July tor
those schools to have been 1851.
Col. Gilbert c. Walker, Governor eect. JOS
cph II. Walker and Gen. william Malone ar
rived in Richmond the same train yesterday
and stopping at the Exchange Hotel.
United States Treasurer Spinner Is over
whelmed with demands for fractional currency.
but there Isl none on hand with which to MI
the orders
The old cable company has reduced tho tariff
between any point IN England and New York
each additional word. ...
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when hundreds were hung upon the
selfsame day, tho society OF thugs went
out OF existence.
tecn, signed the commission appointed
for that purpose are looking forward
to the indictment and trial OF certain
and Prince Ruprecht. Many lndiet.
n:ents arc being drawn; tho evidence
men. young girls. and oSiidren. Even
today the civilized world has ex-
years thew FEW Of a Eo
travellers have iuny realized tina, lie
was not worth living on this planet
Tnasr the pr res nn Of the German
ment when the evidence assembled
to prove the indictments that have
been drawn against these Hun thugs
that the German soldier was educated
from his birth to look upon assessing
ton and robbery, torture and mutila-
can be thought out. as iegitimal.
Pan.German leaders, The Indian
the heather goddess Kali the Destroy
err the Huns under the patronage Of
the Prussian state. Like the Indian
or fountain pen with a hidden bomb.
injected the foulest diseases under the
skin. pretending that he was giving
the prisoner an anti-toxin. They dis
tributcd the germs OF incurablc dis
eases in neutral countries. until finally
the time has como when this commits
sion. that |. sending out the nrst
series Of documents that set forth the
murders and the thefts Of the Ger
man thuggee, have startled the world
Tested by the Hun standards Of crime
the Indian thugs were mere amateurs
where tho Germans made a science OF
crime under the patronage. not o,
Kali the Destroyer. but OF the Kaiser
and the Prusslan state.
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Business Problems
SOLVED BY BRUNO DUKE.
Author. Harold Whftchead
Profit shnrinu.

X.
CHAPTER N1iL--(Continued)
The batter you do your work the more
pleased the trade will be and that makes it
possible for the sa,esmen to get more orders
Ever hear the story of the colored coach
man?
He driving four hand one day, and
the passenger on the box seat with him said:
with your Whip
horse reared showed tina Sam Whip had Struck ies
home.
Look. sam. at that red leaf. Fetch II off
sam laughed and the whip curled snake.
IKE but true TO its mark. and the leaf fell to
the ground.
Sam. you're marvel with the whip. Let's
try you once more; See that hornets nest
were coming to? It's way up and hard TO
reach See Il you can hi! H.
but sam shock his woody head. and with a
leave dat yer hornets nest alone Yo' see boss
"A hosse S hosse's car an a red leafs a
red leaf: but hornct's nest--dats an organi-
The checks for the last years bonus we're
distributed. and the meeting broke up with
everybody full Of enthusiasm and determin ton
TO do their best to help get more than $4,000
For the next two weeks worked as before.
as desk order man. and during that time was
able TO straighten out many trifinE miBunder-
the wisdom Of having me stay, for had
not or some one else fully familiar with tho
plan and able TO explain it been hand. num-
erous misconceptions would have taken foot.
and at each meeting part of the profit
sharing plan is to be mentioned. BY this means
il is hoped and expected TO keep the men ia
rni!iar with the plan. for: as Duke explained.
cease TO be enthusiastic about ito be con-
ttnucd tomorrow.
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Books and Authors

Double day. Page & Co are this
yeaT trying tho Experiment Of an.day
cHs y pa aHd sess 1 aaTn s,rd ,ss
months of juno. July and August. Two
years ago the same Arm inauEurated
TINS pr, practice Win srea. success for the
war conditions made II Impossible. The
revival OF the plan this year ha: thus
far been attended with most satisfac-
tory results.
There is a charming story in connse.
Ladies'" which is scheduled for pub
Newton read tho completed work to tina
When the reading was done. Mr.. New.
ton asked the lady what she thought
Of he work. Mrs. Newton replied: Il
d. Nf 80 to And mTn 50 y sSs d wHsa
tion stands in the printed book,
published ~ e :. bS Susa,'Va' Co.. u;
S wh" are ton . In any way with
comparison o, their systems Of eau.
cation with view OF discovering the
the educational systems and the char
acter OF the nation. Each country has
been chosen with DEFINITE aim in
traization A undeS ab se'e e es troll
France as an instance Of Capitalization
under popular control; England as it.
iustTating In her system the principles
United States embodyns the hopes
OF a democracy; Canada as country
suldinsup an educational system un-
ment. and Denmark for the conscious
the needs OF an agricultural eommu.
nitr.
:, In The branding Iron" BY kathar,
novel OF years: romance Of tho East
and West that will appeal equally. to
levers of the best in fiction and to those
Lands. the passionate and primitive
woman Of the mountains. and OF the
cowboy husband. the other ihe over
civilized man of the city: the brilliant
~ colored scenes. ranging from the
Wyomins wilderness to the stage OF a
plot OF love, hate. wrong and atone
ment, and the curiously vivid style
that makes you read on and on re-
a story that once read will never be
forgotten. Rex Beach telegraphed: II
wish had written The Branding
and best stories / have read. look
forward with confidence to it's great
success both as book and as photo
eonsder An The Hspe5d Hughes Trss wrots
ordinarily strong novel and the central
woman character a memorable figure
! think Mrs. Burt has a remark able
from experience instead of from here
say, and is equally at home in New
York or at her Bar y G Ranch In wy
S omss as with this is n ts. she takes
writer's OF the present generation
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A Daily Once Over.
Don't Think OF Difficulties,

II you want to become Of real value about
the place where you employed, YOU must
be the who thinks Of some way to over
come difficulties and figures to cut the cost Of
production effectively.
Have you not noticed that il is the resource
tul who advances?
i you give UP when conditions out Of tho
you are going TO continue to be toilcr in the
ranks.
what going 10 do:"
Rather be the who decides. and says:
We do II this way"
You know that many a time when you have
been ready to give UP another has provided a
way out which you wondered that you had not
thought OF yourself.
unsurmountable dncultes--as it looked to
you.
Relief might have II you had conferred
your thought on the way out.
How long must you keep on having this sort
When viii you start using your brain to its
best advantage?
,.He thinker. not = plodder - Copyright.
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Straight to the Point.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch
Sir,--As the Presidents cost OF liv-
ing message TO Congress is more thor
ar-reachinE proposals are studied. II
is realized that he did not lack cour.
age in making his recommends ton.
a 4asGsates Hs nas asal ranky viii
iainties. He drove straight toward q
fixed goal. and Congress must under
stand now that the full responsibility
for relief rests upon It.
But there will remain a measure OF
aount even IN the minds OF some Of
the Presidents most ardent supporter,
as to whether Il is necessary TO rovo!u-
OF the nation in order TO deal effectively
With the question OF food and clothing
or thinks can fail to know that the
emergency now Exists. but II is by no
means certain that the country must
under eneeiive pedefsi control mt DF0uE"t
The one rccomn,e nda,ion which the
President made which will be debated
most violently Is that --oviding for a
wholesale system OF licensing. This,
II put into operation. would Mac. every
prise in the country engaged in inter
state commerce under the imme diat Q
would moan that every line OF industry
large enough to do "usiness beyond the
line Of State would have to look 10
Washington for whatever liberty it
might enjoy.
The licensing system was cSperI.
mented with during the course Of the
war. The food administration was en-.
powered 10 license certain producers OF
food. The fuel administration was All.
thorizcd to license fuel and oil pro.
ducers. The scheme worked with fair
success. it is true, but the wartime
system was mere circumstance as
compared with the system which the
President now regards AS necessary.
Be II remembered that by licensing
interstate businesses. the government
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FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS
National Problems Readers TimcsDpatc
Authoritative Writers-A Daily Editorial Feature.
THE DEPARTMENT OF THUGGEE
ny DIR. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLS.

Q organized n India under Inc patron
Tie % hs the goddess OF murder
oa aps FSS ssEs T From
the s sas fat If ces 0 the
murder became a profession. The
method OF the thug was to disguise
himself as a pilgrim going up to the
and he concealed his purpose by join
ing some party OF travellers or pill
nda sl5w, vaf fSs isr. moyins about
way into the confidence OF their vic
Tins. When the moment came they
killed the traveller through poisoned
hind AS the victim sat warming his
hands over the fire in the chill Of the
evenins. They then stripped the
body into a we'll or buried II. and
sharpened the knife for the next crime
came N. last nnb. the nc, conditions in India be-
knew whom he could trust. Hardly
morning dawned without the discovery
Of O.. at least one dead body. Finally
partment OF ThugEec." Tho police de.
partment gave themselves to their
u usual , duties. u but this depsrtment was
o6s aown TOT ,h the h sole rgrpose OF run;
years TO organize their agents. At
nrst' as soon as the government SPY
VAS dIscoVered the thugs killed him.
so many secret agents lost their lives
that for time It looked az IL the
department would fail But the gov
ernmcnt was very unwilling to con-
Tess that they could not copo with
organized crime. AZ last several thugs
made a full confession. gave sway
the passwords. and when the moment
struck. thugs were arrested in almost
every village. town and oity OF India.
and nultitudes were hanged, while the
children who were bcinS trained were
imprisoned. The thieves and murder
ers included all OF the castles, but
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SEEN ON THE SIDE
The Dnys of Calico.
By HENRY EDWARD WARMER

Tnc buyS OF Calico.
In Mothers time. there were few silks
To grace tho feminine, form
Tho calico. that Mother wore
Was good in any storm;
White cotton hosiery was the rule;
Sunbonnets graocd her head
And good. substantial food was what
Our mothers daily fed.
I cannot sing the good old days
With very much acclaim,
For luxury in Mothers time
Was nothing but name;
And yet somehow. it seems TO me
There was less folly then.
And calico was better for
The olden wives OF men.
Not that would deory the taste
In modern fashions shown.
Nor stick in ruts with grannics who
Have not progressed nor grown;
But just that thing of calico
Appeals. / must confess
For what we is largely known
BY how VIC choose to dress
And you may choose your fancy things,
And you may worship gowns.
And You may love the emptiness
OF saud and painted clowns;
But ever to my mind there comes
One picture that ! know.
That makes me love the memory OF
The days of Calico.
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-, Z. L. Fl, Tappa hammock. plain
CHARLES II. SigSbee commanded the
hattleship Maine when 1t was mys-
teriously destroyed by an explosion in
havana hsrbor. Cuba. on the night OF
Dewey, the American naval officer who
distinguished himself during the
spanish American War, was placed In
command Of the Asiatic squadron at
the beginning of 1895.
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] Have Made Songs.

Though have made you many a.
golden song,
Hymning your loneliness in artful
rhyme. - -
No one Of these but does your beauty
And stands libel for all listening
Dusks. / have said. are cloudinr
through your hair.
And Earth's old twihghB Ringer
where you are,
Dreams, ! have said, have made your
For largess brought from some old
ruined star.
Yet, all OF this is hut a falterine art
ot tutiie words that strain beyond
And still about your image in my
Tremb'es the clustered silence closed
a tempted shrine. dim and holy
Who're no least word profanes your
lifted face.
David Morton. in the Canadian Mag.
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Governor Davis has done wisely to set
at rest thus early rumors that he contem-
plated making change IN the Office of State
Highway Commissioner. With the Inaugural
ton by the General Assembly of the great
road-huilding program the Office becomes one
OF the most responsible in the State, and to
the commissioner the people viii look for
the wise and economical supervision OF the
many millions of dollars they are 10 CON
tribute in taxes and the other many millions
they are 10 receive from the Federal gov
eminent. During his incumhcncy Mr. Cole
man has had the opportunity 10 lay the foun-
dation. in an intimate knowledge OF Virginia S
roads and their needs, for a high degree of
usefulness. and his friends are confident that
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he will not disappoint them in the great
endeayor to which he now is called. How
ever, from this day forth the building OF good
roads in Virginia becomes strictly business
proposition, calling for a measure Of ability
the Office of commissioner never before has
demanded and II the confidence of the people
now vested in the Office is to be continued it
must produce results commensurate with tho
labor and money expended