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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

stantial in character" SO constructed
as to carry prospective traffic with
total annual charges will represent a
reasonable expenditure for the pub
lie service rendered by the highway.
Also that the amount contributed from
the Federal Treasury in connection
with any road shall not exceed $40
600 a mile. And further. that the road
public road a major portion Of which
Ia now used, or can be used, or forms
a connecting link not to exceed ten
miles In length Of any road or roads
portatlon Of the United States mails"
This changes the definition OF the term
post roads" In such way that very
Few important roads Will be debarrcd
from receiving Federal aid.
1t will thus be seen that a broad
and comprehensive road building pro-
gram has been inaugurated. This pro-
gram is being vigorously pushed. and
the indications are that a larger
volume OF highway construction will ba
accomplished this season than In any
ton. Furthermore. the work is being
done in such way as to utilize to thd
best advantage the road building ex1
per!ence and facilities of the whole
country.
The purpose OF the Federal aid road
law is TO encourage the construction
OF roads OF substantial nature by the
States, and to provide adequate safe
economical action. Long experience
has shown that the best results win
be secured If the work is performed
under the supervision of the Stale
highway departments. the method OF
the control depending upon local con-
dtions.
Under the Federal law. the State
highway departments have been
strengthened and developed. in wav
that could not be eaualed under any
other type OF national road Legislation
that has been suggested. The existence
OF an effective central highway
agency In nearly every State. actively
cooperating with and supported by the
Department of Agriculture. makes il
possible TO speed up road building
more rapidly than in any other branch
Of public works.
BY devotinE all it's energy to helping
each state inaugurate the work "a
quickly and as extensively as possible.
the department nultipiies its re-,
sources forty eight times, and is a co.
operator instead OF competitor In
placing men and materials on the high
ways where they arc most needed,
Copyright. 1919.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
BurlcSon in Retreat

ONCE more the cables in the hands OF
- their private owners, and soon as
Congress shall have enacted the necessary
legislation the telephone and telegraph lines
will be surrendered. This means that the
Post-Ofice Department has confessed to
failure in the operation Of these services
and has yielded to the overwhelming demand
on the part Of the nation that it withdraw
as soon as possible from control OF the means
OF electric communication in this country
The move which has been made by the Post
master-General, prompted, it may safely be
assumed. by the President himself will give
satisfaction to the country. This will not
como because Burleson Individual has
been defeated in his projects In him as
such the country has little or no interest
But it is vitality interested in the kind OF
telegraph and telephone service it is to re-
ceve; in the price 1t has to pay for this
service, and in the character Of development
OF the wire interests in the future.
The official record of the Postmaster
General would have been more credtable if
he had never been placed in charge of prop
critics worth billions of dollars with which
he had no familiarity 1t would have been
far better for him if he had devoted himself
exclusively to the postal system, a govern
mental interest vast enough and certainly
important enough to the nation TO absorb
the whole mind OF any executive
Congress may be relied on TO act on the
administrations recommendation respecting
the delivery OF the wire services to their
owners without prolonged delay. Some adj
justments for the protection of these owners
must be worked out before the return of the
properties can be brought about but there
is not now any organized opposition to the
general proposition. II government opera
,ion of these corporations had been a mani
fest success. the demand for government
ownership would have been strong that it
could not have been resisted. But there has
been no such success. Instead, there has
been admitted failure, and the government
ownership advocates silenced in the face
OF actual and unfortunate experience They
may rightfuly insist that government control
was not given fair chance. but they will
attract little, If any, following on that basis
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Health Talks by DIR. VIM. Brady
Wanted, A Human Nurse.
tCopyriEht. ..Ie Natlonai Newsuap per aarYfoAl

TIL, The average substantial citizen can scarcely
sst's Hsfss rss ssysss
winner is prohibitive '''''''' - O''A0
si
rs hs sre
sssnX ana
Erea'e inaS Hbr sus%
Tie s na OF Of E1Sa
Chilly f the not sosnd e @
s sed Yo psr as seriously III in
be kept clean and eomfortable when sick abed.
and DO psss hs es S
eNsmpe s a ans ssdom da1es
Il ,n sarss es sheets s or The night:
as as tmId Id about fresh air and size looks upon
in inraiiSs Place fsk sSs
IF Il be-
wh short on rasas as
the housework up and at the same time nursing
nS5zs WI MOI sSqsla 90; but thsSs u are
ss 81
be 6, eom t,n in six months. She would be
Our hospita ,rainnns schools ought to con-
s sasF class hs Of of s
nurses with three years hospital training and
o a y sSSad a os
the n5SEss csss rs
the paupers and tho rich alone TO receive the
Dement'S of modern nursing skill?
Question. md Answers.
Yeast and Acne.-Will you kindly publish in
S S4 ac Teln"" directions for Tie SlgS
a aa ufs m Ssa S
TTS5nti nue. for about SIX weeks more or less;
IS Cite" Ren o De p fHT
OLD Mrs Busybody SAVIOUR baby three
e %sSs a. s 'SS'S
OF and 9s, waIh TIC navel VIII oiye oil ana
SsSsral weeks doesn T' ssem mus nov ~o 1Gr
XnsweT should I'D advise that some )" one e. take
the s eaSs
of the one no Ghanfe Of natural
ruptare Olive &C oil 1ps and rais T5
Sn spe Of efn E rub
yoG da to fo oow P9 s
st. and Soften
red rSasS d from "Ss see a9sds
wssnSs hands G nd 5ef sed mes ,nsy a s
n ssesTm iMo
rms constantly Tin ali dsso he pint BOIL stir
Yarns About the Tonsils.-An old nurse In.
forms me that II is ruinous remove the ton
sis from girl under twenty years Of age
our daughter has suffered much from her ton
sils and we were about to have them removed
She is eighteen Would you advise us to post
pone the operation? MRS c r p
My husband has been advised by two doctors
that his tcnsils badly infected and should
be removed. He is thirty-hve years old and
the only reasoG hesitate Is because W. ba
heard several say that afr person has passed
thirty years he Is liable bleed to death if
the tonsls are removed Is there any medicine
that can be used to dry them up?
MRS. J. F. E.
Answer.-Both yarns are 100 per cent nom
sense IL your physician advises operation fol-
low his advice. "
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
SEEN ON THE SIDE
BH HENRY EDWARD wARNER
The Round.

The Round.
Beginning again on Monday.
Beginning week OF toll
Where the whrl of things
Is abroad on wings
And the marts and markets broil;
beginning tho tug. the struggle.
Beginning the nagging doubt
Where the problems speak.
beginning tho week
10 work tho problems out.
Beginning again on Monday.
And some. they are whipped to start;
AnC some. they are bold
While the prices hold
And some SO broke to the heart.
And some, they will whine and WINNER
And murmur their mournful dole,
But the wheel goes on
From the break of dawn,
Cnheeding the timd soul
And shall never finish,
But ever anew we start
, Where works stern call
Is master OF all
Where men go down In the mart
And ever the one shall prosper
Where the other may hesitate
And the whfrl of things
Is abroad WINGS
And tho loaded dice are Fate
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Information Bureau.

Inquiries regarding almost sny topie
excepting on legal and medical am.
jects, are answered free. Az ali IN.
1uirfes are answered directly by per.
sOnal letter, q self-addressed, stamped
envelope II required. Address The
lkichHa0ad. Va.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

There is one infalible test OF IA good cti-
zen--hc pays his poll tax and qualities himself
for :: vote in every election. BY the same
token. the poor citizen fails to qualify, and
then complains loudest and longest because
--ihe government doesn't suit him This is the
last day on which the poll tax may be paid
for qualification at the coming elections. In
which classification OF citizens will Euu be
found?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

The activity OF the steel industry fairly
reflects American business activity, and its
net earnings likewise are accepted ndi-
eating conditions regulativc OF tho profits OF
business undertakings whole. The
United States Steel Corporation is the steel
ndustry-that is. 1t Is the dominating in
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Republican Senator'S gathering in New
York for a secret conference to devise fur
Their means of trying TO lessen the confidence
Of the American people in the wisdom of
the course President Wilson is pursuing in
trying to negotiate a just treaty of peace
and an effective plan for preventing future
wars. When craftsmanship resorts to this ex-
treme to bamboozle the public it is high time
for an expression OF publici indignation
against such manifest prostitution of true
party purpose.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Poet Laureate Of Enx1and.

Miss J. O.. Coohran.-The present
poet laureate OF England. is Robert
bridges, being appointed in 1913.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

While ethe Danvile evangelist does not
mean ii TO serve that purpose, he is doing the
thirsty citizens good turn for which thew
are duly grateful IN specifically mentioning
various cellars where stocks OF wet goods
may be found. Owners OF the cellars are
likely to be kept busy with the host OF those
who press upon them to renew old friend
ships.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Elimination of the Old Testament from
the reading of any denomination is within
the province of its governing body, but TO
those who have received inspiration and
solace from this most beautiful of all the
masterpieces of literature, that denomination
surely will have lost IL largo measure of at
tractivencss and power for good
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Remembrance.

Let not the world remember 20,
BY any greater thing or less,
Than that upon a reed I blew
a song to praise your loneliness!
Let not the world remember mo
or Immortality should crown
A line Of verse, when empery
In the last waves of time goes downy
BY any greater thing or less. 4
Than one good song I made and SUM
To praise your love and loneliness,
One evening when the world VIZ
young!
Theodore Maynard, in the NJ,
Witness,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Richmond in the past has been happy in
entertaining William H. Taft, and it is de-
lighted that today this illustrious citizen and
former President again will be its guest. AL
ways popular in the South, Taft, by reason
OF his patriotic broad minded course through
out the war and his untaggng support OF
Democratic administration in its national and
international policies has risen above all
political lines and stands as the ideal Ameri-
can citizen. AS such Richmond receives him.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Thtrty-Second DIyi.tor

Mrs. w. L. s., Mineral.-The Thirty.
second Division is scheduled to return
home during tho present month, excent
One Hundred and Twentieth and ons
Hundred and Twenty-frst ARTILLERY
Regiments.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
The Germans have reached Versailles.

The Germans have reached Versailles. a
year ago that announcement would have sent
shiver Of terror through the heart OF the
civilized world. and at that time their
triumphal march seeGed likely not 10 be
checked short sd Frances capital. Now
their arrival is worth only few brief lines
OF newspaper space, for they come as the
representatives of conquered people TO re-
ceive and sign treaty of peace dictated by
the enemies whom they formerly held in
such small resi- ect.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
One Hundred and Twenty-sixtL
Infantry.

Mrs. A. w. NJ, .Phenix-Company
Fl. One Hundred and Twenty-sixth In
fantry, Thirty-third Division. is sched-
uled to return home In May.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Name. Must Accompany Manuscripts

r. S. v.--Your poem, Gone West"
is meritorious. but The Times-Dispatch
does not print contributions unless
they are accompanied by the name OF
the writer.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

That tremendous smash in hogs and grain
on the Chicago market is likely to be dis
sipated into nothingness by the time it per-
colates through the ranks OF the various
mddlemen and reaches the well-known uti-
mate consumer.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Chicago on Tuesday reported the fastest
decline in hogs since the rush down steep
place TO the sea in the country on the Ger
gescnes, related by st. Matthew
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
SATURDAY, MAY 5. 1919.

1t was too much to expect that Senator
Lodge would agree with President Wilson's
attitude the Fiume controversy AS the
loader Of the unconscientious DIRECTORS, it is
necessary for him to maintain his consistency.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Those round robin" Senator'S begin to
look like Jays.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Now 1 put 1t to you. man to man." said the
voter. do you do you not believe this coun-
try is on the verge OF ruin?"
''Wcll-or-tcll me-" said the other chan
am supposed to be already In Congress
just running for office. and If so with the con-
trolling party the minority?"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Great Britain's formal recognition of the
validity Of the Monroe Doctrine and the
declaration of its delegates TO the peace CON
ference indorsing il a world wide tenet, is
another milestone along the march OF prog
ress. II required upwards of three quarters
of century and the frmness OF a Grover
Cleveland 10 bring Britain to the view that
the doctrine was a matter TO be taken seri-
ously, and now developments OF another quar-
ter Of century have convinced it that it is
one of freedoms strongest bulwarks and a
pretty sure prop to permanent peace
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

TELEPHONE: Randolph /.
Private Branch Exchange
connecting Win ala depart.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03
Automatic,

Each Seed I plant l christen Truth
The Reasons very Plain:
My neighbours Chicken will, forsooth,
Make Truth to rise again.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

Latest number on the program of the
International Moving-Picture Company is
CarranZa in his famous deineation of Ajax
Defying the Lightning Mexico, failing to
win place in the league OF nations or to
have hand in its organization, now refuses
to be bound by the financial clause of the
armistice terms imposed on Germany it's
quondam friend. In brief. Mexico is "agin"
anything which the United States and the
allies favor, which means it has set its face
against cooperation for peace and order there
or elsewhere. While Italy and Japan are
expected by the public TO be the rocks on
which the league of nations is to be tried
1t may be that the American republic will be
the first whereby its practcabiity will
be tested.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNlCA-
TiOSS t. Tho Times-Dis-
patch. anu not to individuals.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

BRANCH OFFICES: Wash
inGton. lil6 New York Ayo-
nue.: New York City. Fifth
Avenue Building; Chicago,
Peoples Gas building;
fIuuuelplia. Colouini ACusS
lSuIIg:nK.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

ED every day In the yaar at 10 South Tenth
tichmoud Va. by The Times Dispatch Pub
Co., Inc. Charles h. HAsbrook. Editor and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

There are seven kinds OF fools. and they,.all
play poker.
Making Good
Say, Jones I lent you IS yesterday. and
you said: 4 will pay you tomorrow Are you
going to make good?'
Sure; just as l said yesterday. I'll pay you
tomorrow
Contributed.
The Office Boy hands us tho following tribute
which he requests be sneaked into S. o. S..
Mamie dear, II 1. could be
On your typewriter but key,
think that should faint such
beneath your gentle, loving touch!
A Recipe for Indigestion.
Gimme oyster sandwich
And coffee quick. cup!
4 couple O. sinkers waiter.
And pie-and HURRY UP.'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-03

There are seven kinds OF fools. and they all
play poker.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-07
II. Don't ask his oplnion-he may

II. Don't ask his opinion-he may
not have one.
13. Don't ask why he rejects your
offer-he may not know.
One added caution seemed too i'm
portant to condense into line:
"Those about to try to become
contributors a particular magazine
would be we'll advised to purchase or
borrow copy first, so as to form an
opinion what it is like. If this pre-
caution is not taken it is as we'll not
to say anything about it. Above all.
don't ask an editor to tell you what
he wants-you are supposed to find
that out for yourself"
Truth is, the editor is glad to have
items and suggestions sent in, but
he will never find way to explain
why all of them are not printed
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-07
LANCASTER LEADS AS a COTTON
MARKET

Every intelligent observer of the
cotton markets in this state knows
that Lancaster is the leading market
In recent issue of The State there
were specials showing the market in
IA number of towns. indicating sales
Of middling cotton ranging from so
cents to 80 cents and Rock Hill took
pride at the publication that it's mar
ket was in the lead at 80 cents.
Does not the dear little tagging
town OF Rock Hill know that middling
cotton on the Lancaster market on
the same day was "a cents?
1t would pay the Rock Hillans to
buy the cotton that goes to that mar
ket and ship it by rail to Lancaster
and secure handsome profit which
should have gone to the producers.
MORAL-Sell your cotton in the
best market.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-07

mis- machine and take his wife and
children to visit friends, or to town
70 see picture. Instead of having to
start home from town well before
sundown, many farmers now wait un-
til nearly sundown to go in to town.
"Of course the ability to do this is
predicated on having good roads In
those parts of South Carolina where
the roads have been improved it is a
common sight now to see three or
four hundred automobiles, a majority
of them owned by farmers, parked
in the neighborhood of the moving
picture theatres at . or 10 o'clock at
night The greatest handicap which
the coast country has today against
it's settlement and development is the
lack in this section of first-class high
ways usable the year around and in
all kinds Of weather. Give us the
highways and we shall have here the
same sort of civilization the Wichita
paper predicts for Kansas"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-07
SALE OF Personal PROPERTY

AS executor. / will sell at public
sale, on October cath, 1919, the fol.
lowing personal property: House
hold and kitchen furniture, one horse
and one mule. one surrey. one buggy.
one two-horse wagon, and farming
tools. Sale to take place at late resi-
dence of j. +. Carnes Terms cash.
G. r. Carnes.
Executor Estate OF J. r. Carnes. De
ceased 99-lOl-!
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-07
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
Prices of Liquor Now and I'm 1892.
(Hamlet, n. c. Messenger

(Hamlet, n. c. Messenger)
The young man who came all the
way from Bennettsvlle. S. c., paying
his way on the train to get quart
of liquor from "old standby" and
paying for it fifteen dollars to Guench
his thirst, as was brought out in the
trial last Monday waf a week, no
doubt would n exclaimed, Turn
backward. o Tim, IN your flight to
1892" if he could have read as we
did Saturday in the Greensboro Pa
triot, dated Feb. l, 1892 which was
shown us by its present editor, Atty.
G. III. Mebane. In il was given the
Fayetteville market which included
among other things. peach brandy.
apple brandy and corn whiskey.
Peach brady was quoted at fOrty-fve
10 fifty cents a gallon; apple brandy.
forty to forty-!ve and corn whiskey
at twenty-seven to twenty-nine cents
"A gallon.
For something like year or more
Bottled in Bond" whiskey has been
bringing fifteen dollars a quart. and
scarce at that, at least TO the man not
on to the trade. All kinds have soar
ed regardless of where or how it was
made. We could hear sometime ago
how the prices moved from five dol
lars to eight quart and then to ten
dollars and now fifteen The unscrup-
ulous fellow who has no regard for
the law or the condition of society
and fears neither God nor man takes
this as the opportunity of his life to
make money to get rich quick
But to the price of the different
pal market in 1892, it is hard to
work ones belief down to the fact
that peach and apple brandy and corn
whiskey could have been put on the
market at any such price and any
| profit whatever have been made. II
was as near nothing as could be i'm
agined. What about rations then D.?
The cost was in the same category
as the liquor.
Then you could buy it for a song
and there was no penalty other than
the damage done your mind and body
and the chances Of doing that was out
of any proportion to the present liza
bility. Now, one has to go to the bot.
tom OF his jeans to pay for even a
quart with the possibility OF the
strong arm of the law encircling him
and squeezing ten times OF the origin
al cost besides being pointed out as a
law breaker
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-07

named Miles Dorton who was ten feet
high and weighed more than a thous-
and pounds. This seems so remark
able that l hope you will give the
public full account of this man. as
l am sure there are other people who
have never heard of him"
From Appletons American Cyclic
pedia, volume of which Mr.. w. j.
Andrews kindly loaned the News and
Observer from the library of his faith
er, the late Col. A. b. Andrews, the
following information is taken:
MILES Darden, probably the larg-
est man on record. born in North Car
olina in 1898. died in Henderson
county, Tenn, January 23. 1857. He
was z feet 6 inches high, and in 1S45
weighed S71 pounds. At his death
his weight wasC little over 1000
pounds. Until 1853 he was active and
lively and able to labor. but from
that time was obliged to stay at home
or be hauled about in two-horse
wagon. In 1899 his coat was button
ed around three men, each weighing
more than 200 pounds. who walked
across the square ut Lexington. His
coffin was feet long, 35 inches
deep, 80 inches across the breast, IS
across the head and IA across the
feet"
1t is noteworthy as limited at the
beginning that the name in popular
usage has been changed from the cor
rect form to Dorton that the height
has been magnified considerably and
the weight some, which shows that it
is good thing to be able to go back
to the book
1t is believed that the Lexington re-
ferred to is Lexington, Ky, and that
the North Carolina county in which
DaIden was born was one of the east
ern counties.