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The Washington times., 1919-07-26
SHOE REPAIRING.
NEW AND SECONDHAND CLOTHES

WORKINGMEN-There is apt to be a lot
of plain spoken truths that convince
and appeal to reasonable hUstlers, and
that is the only kind are looking for;
some come here for slightly used suits at
IS up and find a fine assortment new
pants 81 up. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619
d. rs
The Washington times., 1919-07-26
AUTO Accessories

NEW nOnskid tire, SKA. mounted on wire
wheel, sold as a bargain Lee, s45 nth
ST. s. T.. 2Ss
The Washington times., 1919-07-26

FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS
In most desirable sections
Of city or suburbs, by see
son or wear.
The Washington times., 1919-07-26
BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Duplicate keys Csc; locks and trunks re-
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concrete foundations, cement floors, shor-
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YOUR enKine troubles orphaned; get DyksSS
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The Washington times., 1919-07-26
MADAME VICTORIA

MISS La POINTS. spiritual adviser, In
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The Washington times., 1919-07-26
AUTOS FOR HIRE

TAXICABS and touring cars for
hire, LibertyS and Cadillacs;
$3.50, So, and 81 per hour.
Franklin 467. 27*
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
u. S. MERCHANT MARINE
NEAR BR|TA|N's IN SIZE
by December 81, 1920, America
VIM Have Commercial Ship
Tonnage of 10 Millions.
PERMANENT POLICY PROPOSED
senator Jones Would Create New
PUBLICLY Owned Corporation to
build, Operate and Dispose OF Yes
scls Constructed by Government. :.
TBy Associated pra..


WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Predictfons
that ships flying tho American flag
VIII almost equal the tonnage Of
Great Britain by tho end Of 1920 wero
made In the Senate today by Senator
Jones' Republican. OF Washington,
chairman of the Senate Commerce.
Committee. in introducing his bills
proposing alternative plans FOR a per.
tnaanent Federai shipping policy. Both
bills were referred to the Commerce
committee for future consideration
With prospective completion OF the
governments war shtpbuilding prog
ram by December 81. 1920. Senator
Jones SAID the United states, including
Goas'wise tessels, will have merchant
neet of about 100000 tons, nearly
that OF Great Britain and. he added.
ne two nations will control about two
Thirds of tho worlds tonnage.
Only Wants Fair Chance.
we do not desire and it is not our
purpose TO drive other nations off the
sea-. said Senator Jones. but we do
our proportionate part of our own and
the worlds carrying trade. SO that our
commerce shall have a fair chance In
hereafter be fully prepared for any
Temergency."
Regarding the governments future
oSGey shs do1 oes
trade will be government owned.
we may diftcr about government
no issue here. Tho government owns
these ships. whether VIC will or no.
We must not allow private parties to
take the cream OF this shipping and
TO dispose of at great sacrifice.
Grant that government ownership
should end as soon as may be, II must
be brought about as nearly as may
n
one can reasonably hope that private
enterprise and capital in the face OF
foreign competition and Handicapped by
our own inexpericnce. Will be able to
absorb and take over all this shipping
In short while"
Should Retnin Plant.
Senator Jones also contended that
unless private capital can take over
tho plant constructed by the govern
operated through the New York Ship
ed and use for tho construction OF
the large ships for which there are no
other facilities.
In explanation of his bill to create
government control, to operate the
government lcct for not more than
thirty years, but without competing
with private. established lines. Senn-
tor Jones said in conclusion:
I'VE now have the United States
Shipping Board acting In dual ca
pacity. 1t was intended to BIO great
regulatory, governmental agency, and
Is In fact doing the work OF a great
corporation. IT cannot well serve both
ends. What l propose Is to divorce
the Shipping Board entirely from
building. selling OF operating ships and
allow It TO do the things II waB
created to do. and create corpora
tion separate and independent of II to
operate, maintain and dispose OF our
ships In such way as to give us an
adequate merchant marine on per-
manent basis
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
Now Industrial Conference

IN view Of the unfortunate developments
of the past few days, the dissolution OF
the industrial conference assumes the pro-
portions OF national disaster. That body
should never have gone upon the rocks. 1t
should not have been allowed to disagree.
It might be said of course, that men cannot
be made to agree, and 1t would be true. but
they can be induced 10 do SO when a powerful
enough influence is brought to bear, and
when the necessity therefor is made sufii-
GENTLY impressive.
But the first conference has gone its way.
1t ended in nothingness. 1t exploded be-
cause slender majority OF single group
refused to accept any compromise. Labor
walked out Of tho conference when that
stage reached, and when it did so it
Numbered. 1t should have remained on the
ground and compelled capital to do the bolt
ing If it had done this, the burden of proof
automatically would have rested on the en-
poyers.
All this is pnst. It is to the future
that the American people must look The
Cabinet has announced that confer
ence will be called; that 1t will be small
body Of strong Americans. representing no
differentiated groups, but representing the
whole mass OF the people. This conference
should assemble without delay. 1t should
sit in Washington at the elbow Of the gov
eminent and should counsel with the author
tiles who are now fighting to maintain the
ence should not only be confded the duty
of fixing an industrial policy for the nation,
but the government should look to it for
guidance i'll dealing with the concrete prob
lens which the country now faces.
Manifestly such conference should be
composed Of the ablest men whom ,the gov
eminent might summon. There are plenty
OF great American citizens who command
confidence, who have pre-eminent ability and
who are moved only by unalloyed patriot
ism whom the government might turn to
in this crisis. And not one who might be
called would dare decline to serve, any more
than men. whether OF high or low degree,
we're free to decline national service while
the war was in progress.
The future is not bright. There are
ominous clouds upon the horizon Two
nationwide strikes are now in progress one
directed against the steel industry and the
other against the coal industry Railroad
troubles are brewing. Labor everywhere is
sullen--even defiant And capital. with its
back to the wall. is fighting with all its
resources to safeguard property rights, to
maintain industry and to free itself from
tho baneful influences OF Red radicalism
1t is unthinkable that the American people
must surrender their government and their
freedom to organized labor, or be sacrificed
by organized capital Some solution for the
reimbursement problem must be found and it
must be found before it is too late The
now industrial conference should be called
without delay to aid in saving the nation
from chaos, from domestic revolution and
from wreck and ruin
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
RICHMOND HEALTH RECORD
FEATURED AT CONVENTION
Director +. c. Levy Presents Chart
Showing Low Denth Rate From
lnfnntlle Dinrrhca.

Director of Public welfare r. c.
Levy returned home yesterday after
attending tho convention Of the Ameri-
can Public Health Commission at New
Orleans last week
Richmond's death rate from lnfantile
darrhea for the past nine years was
the subject OF Il chart which DR.. Levy
presented TO the convention anu eN-
| planned. On this chart Is shown that
the average death rate from this
per 100000 inhabitants. while in the
: past five years (between 1915 and 1919.
the average was 1fty-eiGht per 100000.
| The lowest figures for any year were
those for the last fiscal period in
which the rate was thirty-eight per
DR.. Levy attributes the very crafty,
| ing change in THE rate to several
causes, one of which Is the instruc.
tion which has been given mothers or
children and another the inspection OF
the milk supply, which has been In
! force since he has been in office. Be
fore 1907, when DR.. Levy first acted
! as city health officer, no records or the
death rate from this cause were Kept.
Comparisons of figures show that In
fant:le diarrhea were tabulated, whiio
in 1913 to date but sixty-one nave peen
| reported.
mense increase in population are CON
! sidered extremely good. SO remark
mond on the chart which Dr.. Levy
presented at the convention that ne
! has been asked to furnish duplicates
| to several other health officials OF Varl-
Gus cities and has agreed to do so.
| About 500 public health officers and
officials in charge Of public welfare
from various cities in the United states
were present at the convention.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
SURVEY STATE INDUSTRIES
IN INTEREST OF WOMEN
Department Of Labor Plans to Get
Fncts Conditions In
Virginia Factories.

Under tho direction of Miss Agnes
l. Peterson. OF the womens bureau OF
the United States Department OF Labor,
survey OF tho large industries in vir-
ginla employing number OF women
workers Will begin at once. Co-operat-
inG with Miss Peterson and her stan
OF Federal investigators will be Miss
Mary J. Schaill. in charge Of the wo-
mems bureau Of the State Department
of Labor.
The investigation, which has been
planned. Will cover number OF plants
In Richmond. Norfolk, Lynchburg.
Petersburg. Danville and probably
Roanoke. Stress Will be laid on proper
working conditions. the hours OF labor,
protection OF the workers from danger
Gus machinery and proper sanitary
regulations. The question of wages
is not involved In the survey.
Data to be collected during the
survey will he used in guiding the
General Assembly OF the State in legis-
lation. which 1t may pass at coming
sessions bearing on the connection of
women with present.day industry.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
From Other Viewpoints
Gnats and the Bolshevists
BY DIR. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLS

A disciple of Foster, the syndieslist. had Just
With perspiration he 1nopped. his brow: After
many violent arguments in favor OF the de.
s Gs quot f! @ m mestng broke up lille
whirlpeols with an , excited alien waving his his
nIaelstrom. 1t was evident that all that that
WS tn s nd e riot
be launched a business man. who saw , that
the attention of a multitude that suddenly had
just aues oa aa% ss
As he asked tie ques,on the assIta;9s waved
settle upon his face. and then made substan
italy l The f enh,s 5s answ ers IN are
syndiea lists They Believe in mass action. This
swarm: but in August. on the edge Of the forest;
eat his BODY The s sns,s ha1s no head
general directs their, movements. They do not
and 81 guides It's Own ight but the swarm has has
ness e asSf Hss the
OF the honeycomb, have mass action The poison
sting Of the bee means only a swellins on shs
is only or Sting UPON the the Sn
all Of our revolutionists move in a mass. as the
swarm nan" and each Ena! and each bee begin to
asw ME- the M he e Mhe is gna
M @ 9se up1n nx any n one
Now that Is what mean by mass action
ss e? If xhfa tS ants cat v up
every table; chair coat shoe vegetable or tree
/, from me. the mass action cannot be stopped
by any Injunction. policeman Or judge!"
The crowd listened to that conversation with
open mouths. They were not at all offended
to be told that their leader looked upon them
simply as gnats or hungry ants. 1t never &C.
Cured to them TO be irritated or angry, nor
did single one suggest that he man,
and was approaching this subject. not from the
ant. that bites and tears. but from the viewpoint
hopes. and nspires The appeal Of that agitator
was 10 the mob spirit. lie offered no argument
for the intellect. lie offered nothing hope.
nothing to the spirit of adventure and sclf-sac-
rihce. Ilo gave no Indictment TO service. He
looked upon his hearers as lower than four
footed animals and reduced them to the level
OF u swarm OF insccts. These little creatures.
| the gnats, born ut daybreak. ma tured at
noon. and generally dead before midnight.
Thcy live us tho .lecch lives. the life OF the
parasite, and because they are parasites. the
+; gnats soon perish. That, agitator was a mel
alcholy spectacle. His appeal to class tired
| represented tragedy. There nothing in
| the scene that even suggested that was
could serve and die for liberty. and struggle
better hereafter. II tomorrow holds for tho
| people OF this republic nothing hut mass action,
| then our generation has degenerated 10 tho
level OF the gnat, and having the ethics OF the
| white ant. like the gnat and the ant, on the
| morrow's morrow, Will perish and go to the
| rubbish heap OF creation. But noble men be-
| lieve in better things. The mass can burn and
cruelty. and torture. but the man Tolatoi, Glad
| stone: Lincoln. can repudate the mass and live
and die for great principle Great man arc
men who rebellcd against mass action"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
Health Talks by DR.. VIM. Brady
The Danger of Being Alive (vI1
The Range OF Habit
Copyright. 1914 W National Newspaper ss.r,,

III. 4 question every man must decide for him
the Of Life is a ss of &c
sivo habits of gradually increasing enormity
thing Know S stop a0s inc range is valuable
Before learn to lie
ass Sss. ss 50 as
Sa Se sS s %Grs i. for ii
self beEets the fourth, isainsss. "'''" :" =
most In order or to eoum.ersSt ssness and fatigue
S ce s aas @ sa 9ed nss the
e. y S" asss%
ADOPT the s3pk1g Sheh acts xs
9nsfo'e a Uh no
sny ry that soe rs Is oS the con
,o II now we sontinue right down the scale our
nds ss Or 1 fR ofs
co nana sa or nas 1T
alone. ''"'' u All ~ 'e'
somewhere in the scale q man must stop. To
The nSin Is TX GSs to be
II s CANT The Be sasd is that it Is m0yaee point
.,1 THS man who works plays exercises
with profit. whereas the seden,arS man must must
easier to live Win II they use
Are naSfed By
coffee. tobacco. alcohol. venery drugs crime.
There Is the scale.
How FAR do you on it?
~ Questions md Answers.
and to Sys me
fui for use IN reduction of excessive iesh nA' :"
A friend Of mine who lie a mantkin I'M recon
mendcd the following prescription for reducing
Ike 's1 ana hs H. F i
prescription: Dissolve four ounces OF EPSON
salts In quart OF water Add juice OF four
Fat women seem be no exception The tab
lets, or any tablets or pills or medicine used
without the personal superylsion of your ply
sician arc harmful. Sometimes medicines arc
needed n,e.h, by by, fat women just as any else
possess the ,eehp!ca skill and knowledge neces-
would be. fatuous indeed to delegate that re-
SponSioiity 70 some other woman To reduce
experience and Inevitably Unsatisfactory. You
are too fat because YOU cat much or cxer-
else too little or both. There is no xottinx
benefit 10 health you must eat less and exer-
send STAMPED addressed envelope, with the
for suggestions how to go about it.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
News Of Fifty Years Ago
from the Richmond Dispatch Nov. s. 1869.

day extending the authority of the Richmond
police the Fair Grounds during the entire
week of the State Fair.
Governor Walker yesterday issued procia-
day Of public and general Thanksgiving"
The people Of Virginia never had more to be
thankful to Almighty God for than they have
had In this good year 1863
Antioch Baptist Church In Henrico County
some twelve miles below Richmond. burned
meeting in the church that day and fire
anywhere about It, 1t is supposed to have been
burned by negroes who had been turned
out of the church.
The virginia Guardian" a very sprightiy
advertising sheet published by William p. Gret-
ter. the enterprising agent of Piedmont and
Arlington Life Insurance Company is out. The
paper Is spicy. and witty. 1t could not be other
wise with Gretter as editor.
Ex-Governor Plerpont was elected to tho West
Virginia Legislature last week from Marion
County. The old war-horse Is in the harness
again.
the new State house for West Virginia will talk e
place today at Charleston, the recently located
capital OF the State.
The first ticket ever sold from Lynchburg to
San Francisco was sold at the office Of the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad Saturday.
The amount paid for 1t was $1,000.
Work will certainly be commenced on tho
much talked-of Lynchburg and Danville Rail-
road by February j.
General Belknap. the new Secretary OF war
was Installed In. office yesterday and free
In his talks with newspaper reporters. much
moro than some other Cabinet officers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
Did the President Blunder?

IN his communication to the United Mine
l Workers OF America, demanding that the
threatened coal strike be abandoned, Presi-
dent Wilson declared that the strike order
was not only unjustifabe, but was "unlaw-
full" 1t was unlawful because the miners
were bound by agreement with the gov
eminent itself to work under the present
wage scale until the war should end, or until
April 1, 1920.
In his message vetoing the prohibition en-
forcernent bill, the President declared that
the part OF the measure making more rigid
what is known wartime prohibition
should not have been enacted Tor the reason
that the emergency, which seemed to make
wartime prohibition necessary had passed
and instead OF becoming more drastic the
temporary prohibition should be repealed en-
tirely.
Immediately after the veto message was
made public the miners seized upon it as a
Justification OF the position which they had
taken to the effect that the war actually was
over, that the emergency of the war had
passed, and that the contract which they
were accused by the President himself OF
having violated, had been vitiated It must
be confessed that there appears a measure
OF inconsistency in the two executive utter
ances. Technically, of course, the war IS
not over and will not be until peace has
been proclaimed. The miners know this as
surely as do any other body Of people But
II the war is still in progress to the extent
that coal miners should work under a war
time agreement, ii would seem to be In
progress enough to make wartime prohibit
ton desirable.
That the President did not in reality con
tradict himself in his veto message may be
indicated, however, by the fact that he has
not lifted the wartime prohibition ban as
NC is authorized to do soon as peace has
come. He has merely stated that Congress
might properly repeal that law since the
demobilizaiion OF the army has been accom-.
pI5hed, and there Is now no longer any
necessity from military or naval standpoint,
for prohibiting the sale OF intoxicating
liquors.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
His Dog.

His LOG.
Can your dog waltz on his hind toes,
And flip a cracker on his nose,
And open doors like q man,
And bring the muzzle that he wears.
And be dead dog" and say his prayers?
My dog can!
And will he go when he is bid
And look for something where it's hid
Across the road and up the hill.
BY sninliIg of the trail you've made.
And find the place where 1t Is laid?
My dog Will!
And does he creep upstairs at night
And snugEle up against you tight.
Fen though he hears the door bell
when som some one comesq He feels, you
That he would rather be with me.
My dog does!
And when you've somehow lost your
DOES he not somehow understand
J, That you don't feel so very sood7
And would he stick through thick and
whatever trouble you were in,
My dog would!
Q, other dogs are good enough,
spose: but my, doG--he's the stuff
wouldn't boast, but then-gee whiz!
Course anybody's dog seems fino
TO Nh Sim No.. 'IsI you see, he's mine.
l,'3 . --Llte.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
Keyboard Touches
Waiting for Duty to Pay Up
ny FRANK II. BROOKS

Doing ones duty is long and tedious jour
is "a question whether the belief that duty we'll
done will eventually be rewarded in the here
the straight and marrow road. The best of us
who have to hew and draw, push and pull. need
work is done to start us out the next morning.
We may be conscious that have done the
very d,est that was in US, but the recompense
has staying quality II in doubt as
TO what others think OF us. provided value
their opinion.
y sense of duty brings to the brink OF the
stream. 1t doesn't put US across. Nor does it
help man who has failed after he knows ne
has done his part be told that II will be
sqn a,sf,, in the day Of j1dgment It requires
the day OF final reckoning will be sort of
earthly courtroom: Few of us like continuances
not like the idea OF having the reward to which
we are entitled on higher matters put at the
foot of the docket.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
A Daily Once Over
Don't Get Too Excited

DID you ever set your heart and mind n
certain thing. to the exclusion of everything
else, and then, when 1t was apparently within
your REACH ind that to get X you must accept
conditions which seemed unbearable?
And you fumed and frothed the mouth and
turned yourself and everyone else inside out
alter those conditions-to no avail.
In fact. you were persistent and set upon
changing the conditions that you came near
losing what you had worked hard gain.
And then. when you finally made up your
mind TO submit to the inevitable, although not
SO gracefully. the whole thing-hateful condi-
lions and all-turned out to be even better for
YOU and your side than you could have hoped
at your terms.
And how did you feel. down in your heart
realizing just how rebelious you had been?
Ii you are logical you have learned valuable
lesson.-(Copyright, 1880
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-04
QUAIL DIRECTOR REPORTS
w. II. Coleman, OF AIannboFo. Amelia
County, Takes Place With state
Game Department.

w. B. Coleman, Of Mannboro, Amelia
County. yesterday reported for duty to
Fisler,es as director of quail breed
ing in Virginia. a number OF game
preserves where the birds will be bred
by Mr.. Coleman and his assistants
within n short time and stocked with
game.
Two week will be spent by Mr.. Cole
man in a trip 10 all sections OF the
State In company with Colonel F. Nash
Bilisoy, Commissioner Of Game and In
land Fisheries. Farms suitable for use
this time. Before coming back to his
native State, Mr.. Coleman was In
charge Of game breeding on q
SO, o00-acre .lunting preserve at Switzer-