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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-04
Correspondence Column

New Member.
Page a long. time. ana have enjoyed ii
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spon nTp with soe OF tho ~nn ebo ks to core
LILA pABSEr.
I.ynchburg. Va.
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crazy FOR the peace Gon,ss,, to I BEGIN 1u''i
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ina, I thought would make a good healing
H,fn , iSf f"Th hon. in H' hry?
sunday. Hest wishes to all tho members.
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Society. correspond with two member.
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school Your Old m TySlis n.~,s
na. Grs Te,.ise,
Dearest Editor.-1 received my badge ard
thank YOU 30 much for it. | am at school
now. Isn't the weather bcaut!fui. Ger.
tainir do hate to have 20 stay IN school
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Another New Member.
Dearest Editor.-l received my badE. and
hank M. You SO much FOR t., Ths paEe vas
img which homo TO SEQ tho mage
am ~ school now do not cores pond
wi,h any o! tho mcmbcrs. but would li;<c
."ry much 20 do SO. NJ address IS For.
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Your new member.
HESTER g. MAEGRE%
Debate Comes Later.
-, Dear Edi,or;,l DO not quite understand
have. whs, ia 1t over. tho contest Tn"
ether members seem to know tho ones
maj write anyway When we 10 have
tht peace contest Abou: month ago /
them: or course YOU canno, answer III
Of nay Questions. tven x loft room !.
The top. III bet that - the very reason
WY my ic'tcrN are not answered but II.
Xon Soc thom YOU may answer something
as much good. because i''n sure trst my
letters Will not adorn the page much but
am anxious to know AL about this do
pphlr' heto'c you have 'if tho waste
drawtnEh that snnt months ago Spring
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S!ad or II. aren't YOU. know everyone
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
Common Sense sorcly Needed.

TO the , Editor Of The Times Dispatch:
public schoois?" '
Some Sf,it. wise men mention the terrible word
poitics others 'barsa priced teachers" yet
others, school buildings unsutably equipped or
earnestly seeking and striving for the better
ment Of the school system
In the grammar grades is laid the foundation
on which our democracy must stand or fail.
nhehreiore let US first consider the erials fur
AZ efficient public school teachers have long
si,i mat many textbooks totally UNI
70 be used. These books are not only written.
legcs and unvcrsttcs whose WORKS o pipTe
10 nave forgotten the Language OF childhood, In
ana express themselves in technical terms.
WhiIe the child understands only spoken Eng
The pupil not being able TO understand the
i nut mas TO DEPEND upon explanations and trans
latohs from teachers patrons who are
Grams enough for daily reciations and for ex,
aminations. and thus passes from grade to
And. after twelve or thirteen years Of schooling
he gains only a faulty foundation OF lea rninE
where the public school system is TOO often a
can Tor every normal child could easily
his studies, were they written in his own Eng
1sh a on rget instead Of in The
the learned scribcs, who may thoroughly I'M
are they totally OF t6e b aney write YET
of the child. N' ''''''o
Al schoobooks should be written by an an
pointed number of efficient teachers OF exper-
i hn re-. IN 'hs grades IN which the books
certain teachers could write course Of tent
books intensely interesting and Instructive.
own reading without need of "transiations''
and explanations, which IA necessity
words and tolls through dry. dull lessons from
whish all Interesting data is carefully eiim-
Front Royal. Va. October q. 1918. va ALL
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
ALL OF CENTRAL EUROPE
APPARENTLY MIGRATING
Where People Arc Going or Why
No One Seems to
Know.
MANY TRAINS CREEP ALONG
Crowded Even Beyond Capacity Of
Cars With Men, Women and
Observation-Disclosures Takes Up
Collection to Buy Wood.

BUDAPEST. Oct. 1S.-All Central Eu-
rope seems on the move. In a railway
jourcny from tho Eastern Swiss bound
AIRY across German Austria, parts Of
CZecho- Slovakia and as far into Po-
land as Warsaw and Lemburg. back
into Austria proper and thence TO this
city. an Associated Press correspond
cnt saw dozens of long trains crowded
even beyond the capacity of the cars
ana with every platform filed with
men. women and children and the non
dc.cript baggage of the European peas
ant Bundles and chests and cloth
bags and paper packages. straw and
wicker baskets. rope tied, were
strapped on every available space.
Where Arc They Goinsf
Where the people are going or why
no one seems To know. 1t is apparently
Il general reshtftinG and milling about
or tho population.
The trains themselves are wretched
enough. There Is not = passenger car
in Europe that has not been used for
yond words. nearly 81 the glass gone
and the windows filed with rough
boards or rusty sheets OF iron or tin.
The paint has long since gone. and
some still bcSr the faded lines Of early
war camouflaGe. LubricatinS oil is one
OF the scarcest OF commodities in these
rusied rails. drawn II" shabby engines.
Trims Creep Along.
Travel Is a hazard Schedules are
virtually existent and these un-
certain trains creep along AS the fuel
supply permits. stops In dcsolate
countr" '.~-'"rs OF hours 1T time are
not unusual and in 1907 parts the rail- =
way buffet that once supplied tho
traveller with meals ere closed. so that
il is imperative to carry ones own
provisions.
A passenger on one of the orient cx-
press trains said at at one point in
southern Europe the conductor took
up a collection from passengers TO
buy wood for the locomtve.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
From Other Viewpoints
Ready-Mnde Cities Going begging
By ALFRED ID. WILLIAMS

try youes as & IS are Most known in this
With Some Of these are Af Sy sa aMare
OF their own deafness and stody contented.
morn. aye and bore people with
when hens arc giving o sWimmns 20 e Be
sons; = brand new complete town or city. all
living in it and noSoSy Wantn na Wis. is unos9a
about and he es SHeh OF
mem Is , wsorryng the government. They
money and drew its life from private enter
the United statcs rererred to were built by
Of the ,axpayers funds and the upkcep and
800, a year each each - costing more '"an -
near a GHshesy near r. S22shvs and
were built TO make powder for the war They
they and H %aS gone
to wGTk the sna aEmistiSs came They sned
Wien IS abeu sa sn
f'y city ii Of and prem
Reysa 1890 ro ns hso Other 5000 ali hsh
i itiT.t and naf miles long-neariy as long as
IIrseF Bo,s haye hosp,as better than any Of
With SpG bUd 99HPie epSb
and R't e. ap na Ghe5 'ses.ers
ssommuni,y3 houses, audiioriums and school, I,
Stores frn hv ihGg we're In the drug
the powder mills. Gas. water. electricity heat
to go around clean the houses. We're n'f fur
,reG by the g1ycrnment Every faddst.
else and deaist and upfter in 1he any
De feet
communities. Now both cities are abandoned
except for the guards and skeleton forces at the
nospltaIs.. y corporation has a bid for
NITRO or o,Soo,0Oo, including movable property
Whicn cost The government $4,000 900, such as
and machinery. ' p"''
,Ipcidentally. these enterprises give glipmse
millions Of dollars literally were pumped into
inc pockets Of people who otherwise would
nave had, at the most few hundreds Land
LOT which there had been sale were bought
and PAID Tor at Inflated prices. For Nitro hin
uTeds or thousands were spent with the Vir-
GINA rover Company which had been living on
comparatively petty contracts for electric power
mere are the towns, all ready, with factory
buildings and everything complete; and nobody
seems TO want them. They have rail and
water connections with the world but nobody
seems TO desire to live in them, If anybody was
allowed to do II. They represent hundreds OF
and going to waste. like the abandoned canton
inents, which represent other hundreds Of mil
lions They are not like the surplus food and
the many tens OF thousands of surplus auto
mobiles. which must be fed the markets
gradually to avoid running great industries and
throwing , hosts OF men out Of work. If occupied
they would start new industries and furnish
new homes and work for many men. 1t looks
as II we need an independent and energetic
general department OF salvage, managed by
huge Job OF dIsposlng OF war remnants awav
from r the regular dspartments which forever
Is not Ss!rle to sell ready cities. il
might 10 Tossibe to rent them for enough at
least. to pny interest and sonnet thing over toward
gradual repayment OF tho cost.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
JACQUES SAYS HE NEVER
DOUBTED WARS OUTCOME
Belgian With King Albert Says He
Had Front Scat When Huns
Started Show.
EARLY DAYS OF CONFLICT
Says Germans Still Have Arms anu
Men and Cherish In Their Hearts
Desire to Conquer, Instilled Ill
Them From Cradle.

Ne" YORK Oct. lS.-Lieutenant-
General Baron jacques. who, accord
ing 10 ms own assertion, occupied the
front seat in the front row" when
me Germans opened the great inter-
nir,kinr sho~ In 1914. is the most
accompanying King Albert Of Beigium
on his visit in the United States.
Ja eam straight inoEi ; as an arrow; General
S he is and Io 6ss b aee me hEhtne man
ne Is one OF the professional soldiers
upon WI, whom Belgium relied when it
me German army until French and
British soldiers could get into action.
the en Tw.,; JhbeaHes was in eommand OF
crack mil itary organizations OF Bel
gun and was stationed at Llege,
mand. "
Tells of Wars Early Days.
nave never been Impressed by
me Gombast OF the German soldicry.
his plainly furnished cabin c" on s 5ear I'd
the e esfy da Was nj and talked Of
We frs, came in contact with the
S sf,eT = sb on The bridge at Wise. and
capturing. the, nag Of the see' S.R DeGx.
seS Tha; d nEbsind sInnIrGE Resiment:
Immediately, we had more than 1000
elvilian volunteers. digging trenches
"ra u "flP!ng IN every possible way. Cen
which he said Big Germany has i'm ~.
Hnuea our rh Go cfountry imposing an uiti-
Little Belgium proudly accepts he
ff 81 dS,s The Belgium army Win dc dc
10 be lowed p TO- dc III Ihe ti!sFs only ask
Never Doubted Outcome.
During the discouraginr d,y. u.hio,,
toIlowed. when the Began army vas
MI, iiei -, TO retire from place to place,
and h d, iast II mad to give UP Antwerp
amu peeln IT'S slow retreat along the
coast General Jacques never doubted
me h ma outcome. and encouraged his
reached the User River the backwarS
movement would end. And SO il did
nj MY regiment had orders TO hold
until Hnni the high command decided to
cTacute the town did we leave our
places. said the general
sun Has Desire TO Conquer.
inc war is over. but the Germans
syn have arms and men. /, is up to
the allies TO sec they do not use them
again 1 look upon the German az a
e par Ran. who sim has In his heart
trained TO II from the cradle. This
war vas not war entirely OF the
haisera making. II was war OF the
iievsS p .nn o war for loot. They be-
Paris in six weeks. and tho booty
,hey took would amply compensate for
General Jacques has had an adven-
,urous career. AS young officer he
early ninetics began his memorable
night against the Arab slave traders
on one occasion, when he and his
natives were hard pressed by large
| body of Arab slave traders nc killed
eighteen Of them with his own rifle.
His administrative work in the Congo
ALSO was or high order He has
been decorated seventeen times. and
wears the highest honors his country
can give while other countries have
been only, little less generous in rec
oGnizing his abilities and valor.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
MUST WAIT FOR MONEY
CInin,s of North Carolina Draft Boards
VIII Not BE Paid for Some
Months.

RALEIGH. n. c.. Oct. Isl. Frank
Mitchell: representing the North Caro-
Una Mrs. Adjutant- General Just back from
Of claims of local war draft broad
claims for services in Inducing mon
made in the bureau at Washington,
but that under the system it will he
some time before the claims are all
settled.
Local boards and the State disburs-
ing officers had TO rush in their records
10 Washington before claims for this
little If any possibility OF representa-
tives of these boards getting access TO
me! me records now 10 perieGt thelr ciaim
Of compensation until long after ser
vice was rendered Many Carolina local
boards are likely to have TO wait Il
long time for claims that were noI
perfected before the records were
forwarded to Washington. Something
like $4,000 isl due North Carolina
workers In this service.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
YUCATAN SISAL GROWERS
ORGANIZATION DISSOLVED
state Government Orders BODY Into
Liquidation Due to It's Papers
Depreciation.
Iny Assoc!a,ea rrcs.l

.WAsHINGTON. Oct. Standardization
OF the Commission Reguladnra, the
slsal growers organization in Yucatan
ordered by the Yucatan government
because of the depreciation OF the
paper money OF La Regu,adora. and
the high price OF silver have combined
10 create another financial crisis in
Mexico, according to official advices
received today in Washington.
The fucatan governments order for
liquidation OF La Reguladora created
a panic in :he state. and the Chamrer
OF Commerce in Merida was in session
Tor several days and nights in an cf-
Tort 10 prevent the LIQUIDATION
oo Inc Legislature, howeyer, Is now
liquidation OF the company In ac-
cordancc with the orders o: the gov.
ernment, and the Federal government
Is said TO have refused to extend any
aid 10 the state authorities in hand
ling the situation.
Luis Cabrera Secretary OF the Trea-
sury. few months ago refused TO
accept Resuladora paper in payment OF
taxes. and from that date the deprecIa-
ton of the paper became rapid. The
norkmen OF Yucatan recently won a
strike called TO protest agains. being
paid in the deprecated paper
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
FRICTION EXISTS AMONG
ITALIAN LEADERS AT FiUM6
Professor ZnneIia, After Break With
D'AnnunZio, Leaves City for
Parts Unknown.
iBx Associated Prcss. !

FIuME. Oct. lS.-Professor Zanclla.
leader OF the Italian population OF
f:umc. who recently came TO AN open
break with Captain Gabrielle Dan
nunziu. has left the city for an un-
known destination.
His business associates were left in
conduct of his affairs during his abb
sencc. but are unable to give any in
formation as 10 the reason for Pro-
lessor Zanellas departure. Dispatches
received here from Trieste state that
he was in that city, but stayed only
lI hour.
Disturbances are reported through
out Fiume. and large part OF the
business interests are understood TO
be going over 10 the support OF Pro-
lessor Ianella. because of heavy
levy having been laid upon the town
by the forces Of occupation.
Captain DAnnunZio has prohibited
the sale in F'iume OF the Corricrc Dell
Ia Scra, OF Milan. because OF the hos
tile attitude of the paper toward
t'iume." The Milan newspaper has
ma intained cold reserve toward the
ID AnnunZian enterprise.
Lieutenant Orlando. son o, the for
mcr ltal ian Premier. who is in Fiumc
as volunteer, has challenged SiGnor
Ccnturlone, another supporter OF Cap
tain D'AnnunZio, TO light a duel. be
cause ,SiEnor Centurionc. in address,
ing. an audience in theatcr here.
made personal attacks upon the eide
Orlando
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
Keyboard Touches
"kindiy Omit Fiowers"
BY FRANK II. BROOKS

1t is becoming a commonplace in the obituary
notices Of the daily newspapers these words
in the caption. There people who would
rather go in debt for n floral Offering for the
dead than ask credit for bread. IT has been
said in all sorts OF ways, and doubtless in every
language. that we shouldn't wait for our friends
to die before sending them flowers. People
who ask in their obituary notices to omit flow :
crS know Il whole lot about human nature.
There is quite tendency TO regard display
at private funerals species OF vulgarity.
Even on monuments and headstones of the
dead 1t is no longer considered essential to have
stone. The name, the date of birth and dea tn
are enough. Too often. Byron had chisele d
on The monument he erected over the remains
OF his dog. we record what the dead man
was, but what he should have been.
The best tribute to the dead consists in spoken
words. You VIII search in vain for more cx-
quisite and tender words than spoken by
Nine. Sembrich when she heard OF PATHS death:
w hen you speak of Pats, you speak of some
thing that only once"
Why MOVERS when such words be said OF
the dead? Why fill the monument or headstone
with extracts from Holy Writ?
Two men were talking of one whose life
had not been perfect
How do YOU regard hm?" asked one.
He is dead. was the reply That was better
than flowers.
We never can think of the living as we think
of the dead Ii is not human nature. But we
can be as charitab to the faults of the living
as we are tender TO the virtues of those who
arc gone. We can do for both by adopting a
line from TennySon. kind words more than
coronets." Cut out the nowcrs. If you have no
Kind words to say, say nothing.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
There Must Be No Strike

IT is unthinkable that this country should
1 suffer the disaster OF coal famine at
the beginning of winter, the whole industrial
and transportation system paralyzed and
millions Of women and children subjected
10 the rigors Of wintry weather. all because
the organized coal miners have made out
rageous wage demands or because obstinate
coal operators refuse to entertain compro-
misses.
Yet this is exactly what the nation seems
to face The United Mine Workers OF
America have voted in favor Of repudiatng
their contract with the mine owners, con-
tract made through the medium of the gov
eminent itself contract recognized through
the period Of actual hostilities and con-
tract which expressly provides that it shall
remain i'll effect until peace shall have come
or until the spring OF 1920
They have voted for wage increases of
approximately 60 per cent, for six-hour day
and nve-day week with various conditions
rs to overtime, work on Sundays and on holi-
days. They have directed their Spokesman
10 entertain no compromises and have re-
solved in favor Of a general walkout on
November ], if their demands are not ac-
ceeded to in toto by that time Conferences
nave Deen held with the operators, without
result Other conferences have been held
with the Secretary of Labor but no agree
ment has been reached
All that is promised is a Joint meeting
between the scale committees OF the miners
and the operators, 10 be held with Secre-
tary wilson next Tuesday, when the problem
Will be threshed out further If that meet
ing is held. it must not adjourn until an
agreement has been reached which will pre-
vent the threatened strike The miners NAV
make their demands; the operators NAV
make theirs but the demand OF the public
Is that the strike be avoided, and that it be
avoided with the laying Of merciless fuel
tax upon the American people. There arc
three parties to this dispute and the interests
OF the third party must not be ignored.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
DO Something for son,ho,

tWritten for The Times Dispatcb +,
10 ye som n.. for somebody when
Help item carry their burden
And brighter will be their day.
10 rh someihi stoI for somebody gladly;
The fruits of pure benevolcnce
From heart that beats within
Do something when one Is weary
with burdens OF the day;
Iw'l! brighten up their efforts
And turn their gloom away.
Dc something when one is falling
Into the ways Of dismay:
1t may turn their course
Into brighter way.
Do something. for II is written
BY Him who dweIls above,
In message that He left us.
Should We dwell in His love.
X. LYNN BOWERS.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
Marriages Made in Germany
BY REV. FRANK HAMPTON FOX
Noted Traveller and EssnYIat

Some years ago Europe, with the rest Of the
world, shocked by the publca ton in Ger
many Of Il book advocating trial marriages to
relieve the inevitable ennu and friction of the
unrelieved marital relation. Though the vol
ume issued anonymously it was credited
developments II seems to have been published
at the instigation of those who foresaw the
possibility of a declining birth rate during the
war for which they were planning.
lllegitimacy has always been larger in Saxony
and Bavaria than in any other German sta Les,
the forming leading with 1913 per cent of illcgi-
innate births. In the city of Hamburg illegiti-
macy jumped from 8 TO 40 per cent in the first
two years of the
DIR. Engel. an alderman in Berlin and director
OF vital statistics for Germany. stated officially
that more than 100000 llcgtimate children
born in Germany during the period
He pleaded with the Reichstag to pass IA law
Several kinds OF so-called marriages. have
been practiced in Germany since she saw her
birth-rate entering on perilous decline. Lat
eral marriages are also being practiced. These
closely follow the plan proposed in the volume
published some years BY this form Of
marriage wives whose husbands away in
the army may contract lateral marriages with
to gain permission from his wife or her hus-
band to such new temporary relationship. AT
least this was done during the latter period of
Ali Of these schemes for the increase of the
birth-rate are likely to fail The Turk has
one wife out-nopulates the harem not only in
as well. 80
Germany soems doomed to fall in this as she
has In many OF hor other schemes which defied
the laws of Got and man.-(copyriGht, 19l9j :
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
WILL ENFORCE PROHIBITION
STRICTLY AFTER MONDAY
Wartime Enforcement Measure Be-
comes Effective, Hating Sale
of 2.15 Beer.
INV I-niyorsal S.,v,cc /,


NEW YORK, oct lS.-On and after
next Monday, New York IS going TO
be dry, or as nearly dry as wartime
prohibition can make It, When one
asks for ginger ale or sherry he will
get just that. and Il wink 10 the barkeep
won't mean thing.
The skids will be put under the old
2.15. too. .tftar that it Will be 0.50. or.
in plain English, one-half Of per
cent
The reason for all this is that Daniel
l.. Porter. supervisor OF internal revc-
nue. agents tor the New York division.
figures that the wartime prohibition
enforcement act will become law on
October 20. having been sent TO the
President on October 10.
He called conference of newspaper
men in his office in the custom house
today TO ask them TO advise all thirst
parlor proprietors to watch their step
on and after next Monday. because he
means business
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-19
A Daily Once Over
Do You Want to BE Tramp.

You arc complaining a great deal about xha,
employed. " CIV
You think it would be very different and lot
easier II you were your own boss
Sut SuppoSinS you your own boss as
you say, would you not have perform a
to do? ' ~ tus'
The hours OF labor you now refuse to do, your
boss has TO make up himself, eh?
If you had business and you followed the
line OF the least resistance, worked and MIA vcd
Just when you felt like it, how long would you
be in business? W
And as TO responsbilty-as an employee YOU
are twice as independent. for you have not every
cent Tied up in the enterprise, the failure OF
which would mean you would be penniess-
perhaps worse off than nothing.
The man who takes the business rcsnonsihil
ity is the one who has occasion to worry nova
Gays. and the extent Of his worry you cannot
conceive in your position.
about the only care-iree" man in the world
Would you rather be tramp than what YOU
are?--(Copyright, 1879 $500 ~"