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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

Mjh'I w cody, coloTcd, 10 accident
ailE ahoi herself III the abdomen last
nlsht about o'clock ia her home. 10l S
North Second street. She was treated
by Ijr. Hoover OF Tho ambulance corns.
ana taken 10 the Virginia Hospital.
~ucIc y was stated that her couJit ION
was acr!ous. but not fatal.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29
TWO HOLDUPs REPORTED
Negroes Got Sf0 Erom Storckcencr ,,,
SiS'' From Pedestrian Early
Sundny.

Two daring holdups. thought to
nave been pcrpctrated by negroes.
We're reported to the police yesterday.
son took place within few hours
carry Sunday morning. the first victim
Jackson street. who lost $40 when two
negroes entered his store and demand :
Gu money ~ the. point OF Il pistol La :
5"r w. -. ilumpleu. OF 26-A South Elm
Street. reported to the policc that he
Was held uD by two negro men at
Roh:nson and Cary Streets, losing
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29
SOUTH BOSTON MAN DIES
Joseph Stchhins. Constitutional Con-
Ncufton DELEGATE, Surcun,l,s nj
Stunrt Circle Hospital.

Joseph StCbbins. n prominent mcr-
chant OF South BOSTON. Va. died yes
'crdHy morning at stuart Circle Hos
siitutional Convention OF 190l-02 and
WAS tho father OF tho late Joseph
Stcbbins. former Mayor OF South Bos-
ton. who was member OF the state
LEGISLATURE.
Funeral services will lie couductc cd
AT the grave in Hollywood Cemetery
tomorrow morning at IL o'clock.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29
Small Girl IL Hurt.

Marie Gratis. r. OF 1OUl Virginia
Avenue. was slightly hurt Yesterday
afternoon at Sixth and broad Streets.
when she ran into tho aide Of an auto
mobile driven by Miss Helen Bull. 1905
Gordon street. The child was treated
and taken home by Miss Bull.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Richmond delegates to the Student Vol
IYi Tcnysn'iG I,toI in De- MSines Iowa
this inornin. at $3.50 O'clock for Roahoke.
where the delegates from Virginia will
board q special train. There twenty
colleges represented among the delegation
ana ninctE-iiNc students in the dciega-
Hon.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

Annual church services of Post \. Trav-
last night in The Holy trinity Episcopsi
Church, on Laurel street. the rector Rev.
John j. Giaratt. II. d. post chaplain.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29
PORTRAITS GIVEN LODGE.
MANCHESTER MASONS HOLD
ANNUAL "POSSUM" MEETING
Lodge No. II Receives Pictures or
CHIEF Justice Marshall. Robert
brooks and Edwin Randall.

Portraits OF Chief Justice John Mar
shall. Robert Brooks and Edwin
randall, who took part In the laying
OF the cornerstone OF the old Ma
sonic Hall in IT'S were presented to
the Manchester Lodge, No. 4, A. T..
~ y. NJ, at the celebration OF '"PosSum
Night Saturday, and the annual ccre-
mony of the installation of officers.
Judge Edmund Waddil!. Jr., os the
United States District Court: Sol
Cutchns, and j. w. Egg lesion, respcc-
lively. most worshipful AMI past most
worshipful grand masters of the
Grand Maosnlc Lodge OF Virginia. and
Ben +. owen were among the speakers.
What was said to have been one OF
the largest attendanccs recorded By
HUI street ana CoWardin Avenue sat
urday night 10 celebrate the annual
PoSSum Night"
Follow Tradition or Lodge.
According TO the tradition OF the
lodge, in 11TS the organization found
itself without funds to provide for its
annual feast, and "a general atmosphere
nt uiscouraSclnent hung over the meet
organization, with his ceremonial
sword in hand. left from the hall
lie returned "a moment later waving
his sword in triumph and holdin; an
poSSum. which he had found on the
meeting Was being held H. Th Ts'% meet tte
ing. therefore, Toasted on o'possum,
funds were quickly raised, and ever
since "'Possum Night has been cclc-
DRAFTED annually.
True 10 the ceremony. while the
meeting was in progress last Satur-
Day night, an official rushed into the
nulldlnS carrying live o'possum i'm
his hand At once the banquet gong
was sounded, and the mem bcrs
N
winch was one OF the principal courses.
Presents Fourth Portrait.
~ the meeting Augustine Royal
also presented the lodge with Il por-
trait OF j. ID. Craig. who was wor-
shipfmi master of Lodge No. II in 1871.
On The program was Il solo by George
H. kiZer and a short address by
George NcShitt, secretary Of the Grand
ora lodge. which was located at Fifth
and cambridge Streets. were next pre-
scented Sc ny George Paul. The pictures
81 Justice ice, ; John Mnrshnil Robert
latter OF which were Governors of Vir-
GINA. were presented by George Page,
ana were all in one frame
Justice III. a. Maurice received the
pictures for the organization. Ben T.
owen spoke on the history of the
lodge. ~ solo by Mason Dyson ended
the program.
InstNI New Officers.
Officers installed by -. i. Sigourncy,
district deputy and grand master OF
The Grand Lodge of Virginia, and who
we're elected at a previous meeting are:
worshipful master, II. G. Gibson:
senior warden. NJ. w. Bevcl: junior
warden, w. NJ. Engard: secretary, John
X. Robertson: treasurer, G. A. Watkins:
senior deacon, II. *. Scott; Junior
deacon. Henry Moore.
Trustees installed are: c. S. Wells.
y L. Robertson ard w. Il. Bricc
Charles Bcrford and o. ID. Brinscr
as master tilcr. and a. H. SAMPSON
Superinten1cnt of tho building
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

lndianola Tribe Of Red Men Will hold
a speciai banquet and initiation OF be-
tween eighty -iivc and lrS candidates to-
night at their lodge rooms, Tenth and
nun Streets.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

What Is SucceSS?.

That question has been asked answered varosy since
before the days of the Sphinx But New
foot up both sides Of the ledger heart and strike
balance.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

This afternoon at the Y. NJ. c. A. the
young boys will hold gym circus and
treasure hunt" under the direction OF the
physical Instructor. Many kinds OF games
Will he INDUCED in, The events being open
to members and their friends
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

And If the balance at the New Year hunredth part of
that surely has most nob answered for himself great
question. MILLER & RHOADS
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-29

Harry St. George Tucker will represent
the Virginia War History Commission at
the convention OF the National ASsocil ton
Of state War History Organizations, which
meets in Cleveland today and tomorrow
Arthur Kyle Davis. chairman OF the War
History Commission here viii also be pres
cnt at the convention aud VIII read Il
paper on The Care ami Pie>crva tion OF
Local Records"
The Bible Class OF Broaddus Memorial
Baptist Church. Thirty-sccond and
Broad Streets. will give iis Christmas en-
ter;ainmcn; tonight 81 5 o'clock. Offerings
for the Baptist Old Ladies' Home and the
Bethany Home will pc received.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
LAST LEAVE

Let us forget Tomorrow! For to-
night
At least, with curtains drawn, and
driftwood piled
On our own hearthstone, we may
rest, and see
The firelight flickering on familiar
walls.
(How the blue flames leap when an
ember fallsD
Peace. and coptent, and soul-secur-
ity--
These are within. without. the
waste is wild
With storm clouds sweeping by in
furious flight,
And ceaseiess beating of autumnal
rain
Upon our window pane.
The dusk grows deeper now. the
flames are low:
We do not heed the shadows, you
and /,
Nor fear the gray wings Of en-
croaching gloom,
So softly they enfold us. One least
gieam
Flashes and fits, elusive as q dream.
And then dies out upon the dark
ened room.
30. even so. our earthly fires must
die;
Yet, In our hearts, loves flame shall
leap and glow
When this dear night, with all 1t
holds for me,
Is but a memory!
Eileen Newton in the Bookman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
VALUES ARE RELATIVE

Recalling in his new paper, the
iact that as war measure several
industries had their activities dimin-
ished or wholly suppressed on the
ground that they were "non-essen-
tial," Henry Ford argues or at least
seems to argue, that these same in
dustries deserve the same treatment
in time of peace.
This contention shows an absence
or inadequacy of appreciation on his
part of the large, and to most peo-
pie the familiar, truth that "circum-
stances alter cases"-in other words,
that thing Is not always wrong
because 1t is sometimes wrong. We
talked about "nonessentiai indus
tries,' while the war was on, but
always, at least in reasonable minds,
the Characterization was qualified by
"for war;" and it did not imply eth
er any intrinsic or absolute culpabil-
ity of those industries, or any denial
that they were innocent, or even
commendable, in ordinary condi-
tions.
Before deciding whether o. not an
industry is essential, 1t Is necessary
to ask for what?" When the win
ming of war is the end to be at
tanned at almost or quite any cost.
the number of non-essential indus
tries becomes large one. After the
war is won, the situation changes,
and industries that are essential"
only to convenience, to comfort. to
the increase of culture and refine
ment, to the qualification of aes-
thetic taste, to increasing the joys of
life and relieving its tediums. all be-
come important in their several de-
grees, and they then deserve to be
called Essential" as well, perhaps,
as does the raising Of wheat or the
making OF shoes"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20

these have been stripped away and
its history written in the language
OF cold facts it's constructive accom-
plishments will stand forth clearly
as great influences for good on the
life of the Commonwealth. We are
too close to the happenings of the
past four years to get O. true perspec-
tive. But q bare list of the legisla-
tive enactments of that period which
bear the signature of Governor
Brumbaugh, the passage of which
was urged in one or more OF his
messages to the Legislature. includes
measures of great importance which
have been the footballs of politics In
Pennsylvania for the past decade or
more, always the subject of lively
discussion but never before getting
beyond that stage.
Among the more important of
these measures is the workmen's
compensation act State insurance,
child labor, women's occupational.
continuation school and teachers re-
tirement acts. There are many more
but these stand out prominently
and indicate the general trend,
which has been in full harmony with
public thought and the growing SEN
timent for welfare legislation and
laws for the protection and benefit
of the common people. The retir-
ing Governor may look back with
satisfaction upon the accomplish
ments of his administration as they
affect society in general, and for
ward with hopefulness toward the
passage of the housing, reforestra-
ton. waterways and other conserva-
ton laws which he supported and
which in all likelihood will be writ
ten on the statute books of the State
within the next few years.
Governor Brumbaugh was the
center of political controversy from
the moment he was inaugurated, and
before, and in the light of what has
transpired the wonder is not that
more was not accomplished along
constructive and progressive lines,
but thai, so much was done.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
Sea Life For American Boys
(Ernm the New York WORLDLY

y
The three weeks campaign to OBJ
tain men for the merchant marine
is proceeding with encouraging pros
poets. In this city 1000 enlistments
have already been secured and as
many more in Bostnn and Philadel-
phia together.
Many of the recruits are discharg-
ed sailors and soldiers. and fully half
are from civilian life. That the latter
type of recruit, that clerks and fac
tory lads, should now feel the lure
of the sea is the significant thing In
its relation to the future develop
ment of the American merchant ma
rine. Are the old times of Yankee
sea supremacy to return after long
interval and are American ships to
be manned again by American sail
mrs as in the days OF the clipper
ships?
Certainty the incentives to a sea-
faring life for American youth are
greater to-day than within half a
century. All the conditions Of service
on q merchant vessel have materially
improved. Thereare comfortable g
quarters for the crew, good pay,
good food and the protection of lib
eral laws that have whnlly redeem
ed seafaring from Its old conditions
of seryitude.
That peace is to bring about q re-
viyal of American shipping Is ap-
parent. With ships OF modern. con-
struction and sailors of the old ma
tiveborn type, why shold not the
American merchant marine again
lead the world?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
MONDAY, JANUARY 90, 1919
WELCOME TO OUR CITY

~ OVERNOR- ELECT WILLIAM
Vr c.. SPROUL and his family
took up their residence at the
Executive Mansion to-day, which
will be their official home for the
next four years. With the new Gov
ernor It is like an old friend coming
back home, for he has been with us
at intervals for so many years that
he seems like one of our very own,
Just returned from long journey.
He and his family will find this city
a honey place In which to live.
The new administration opens
auspiciously and with bright pros
poets for large accomplishments for
the good of the Commonwealth and
its people. Harrisburg extends the
hand of welcome, hoping that Gov
ernor Sproul will quit his high Of
flee as happily and as triumphantly
as he enters, with the great govern
mental program worked out to its
last detail and that his term will be
marked by that congeniality and
good feeling he so much merits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
MoDdble Great Guns

(From the NewSYork Evening Post.)
The operation under Rear Admiral
Plunkett,. of 14-inch naval guns on
special railway trucks during the last
months of the war on the French
front was highly effective. They
possessed the twofold advantage Of
extreme mobility and long range,
and could be quickly shifted from
point to point for use against the
enemy's lines of communication. By
the practical test to which they
were subjected 1t was demonstrated
how readily they could be adapted
to coast defense purposes on an un-
limited scale.
At enormous cost the coast forti-
fications of this country have been
planned exclusively with view to
the protection of important harbors
and channels. Beyond that because
of their stationary character. they
were useless against an invading
force, and the navy alone opposed q
dependable barrier.
In the system of movable guns Of
high power Rear Admiral Plunkett
has found the answer to the prob
lem to which the army authorities
have never offered any adequate So
luton. He has proved that where
ever railroad tracks can be laid the
biggest rifles can be carried for Of
fensive or defensive uses.
What was accomplished with Am
erican 14-inch guns in France could
as easily be done at home. With
railroad tracks and mounted guns
the coast defense system of the
United States could be made Trtu-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
No Fighting Qualities

(From the Kansas City Times.)
The rate at which the states are
ratifying the national prohibition
amendment is setting a good many
people right. First of all, of course,
the liquor interests, which thought
they could stop 1t; but also quite as
surprisingly those average citizens,
themselves of prohibition conviction
or leanings, who thought the fight
would be long. hard and perhaps
doubtful.
But booze turns out to be true to
form. 1t is loud and demonstrative
before the coats are peeled off, but
in action ts without stamina or en-
durance and soon crumbles. Booze
can neither fight nor get away when
the talk stops and the real racket
begins: 1t is SO with the ratification
issue. Booze talked big about what
1t could do, about its friends and
hackers, its pull with business and
finance. but when the roll call OF the
states started booze soon showed It
didn't have the knees, the wind or
the head to go on.
It was only n few days ago that
booze anpounced in a big voice that
1t had billion dollars to fight rati-
fication with. 1t had better look
around for some other investment.
1t had better put 1t into an annuity
for the dry days of its old age. But
IL the distillers are determined to
spend their billion in a way caleuia-
ted to affront morals they would do
better to bet it on horse race. They
will lose 1t just as readily that way
and get more excitement. to say
nothing of the satisfaction that
would be theirs in the soothing
knowledge that they were In .
crooked game.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS

(Henry Cabot Lodge. in Scribner's)
The quotation worthy of the high
title of familiar" must have stood
the test of time and passed unhurt
through the shifting tastes and
fashions of centuries. In its lofty
or In its humble way it must show
that. like Shakespeare, 1t was not
for an age, but for all time. I use
the word humble because the
rhymes Of childhood, of the nursery,
fulfill the requirement. of age in q
quotation worthy to be called famil-
lar. Their intrinsic. their abstract
merits may appear siiht, they may
even seem to be sheer nonsense, but
they are passed on by mothers and
nurses and by the children them
selves from generation to genera
ton. We may be assured that they
would not thus have lived and pros
pered If they had not possessed
some quality, however, slender, of
imagination, which gave them per-
manence.
Then there are the popular say
ings, the folk tales and ballads and
the songs of the people with an an
cestry lost in the mists Of antiquity,
which, stored only in the human
memory and kept alive only by hui
man lips, have come down across the
centuries with their endless variants
until at last they have been gath
cred up by the collector and the an
tiquarian and made safe from OBJ
livion by print and paper. These
tales and ballads and proverbs are
often rude in form and expression,
but no curious inquiry Is needed to
explain their long life and lasting
familiarity. In them you find wit
and wisdom, sparks struck from the
hard fiints of experience by men and
women struggling unknown through
what we call life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
The. Big Gun Speaks
(By Lieutenant Grantland Rice, Third Army, A. E. F)

T HE colonel says he doesn't know just what he will do
] Now the war is and the bloody job is through;
- He may duck the army, picking out farm,
Living where the clover grows far away from harm;
He may be broker where the yens abound,
Or pick an easy chair and merely sit around;
But where the shells usng and the powders growing
Tell what the bally hell I'll do for a career
The captain says he doesn't know what his job will be
When he strips the khaki off and sails the
He may practice law again, or, perhaps, he may
Write book about the kick in with play;
But my throat is rusty, and my voice is still;
no longer rise and roar behind some wooded hill;
From my casson parted, stared at by the mob
Tell me how the bloody hell IN get another job?
The gunner says he doesn't know where he'll work.
He may also buy farm, become a clerk;
He may take it easy for a month so,
Till the around and tags him for the dough-
But my spade is battered, badly out of gear,
And my sights been lifted for souvenir;
With my bosses busy, tell me if you may,
How the hell I'll pass the tagging time away?
Once was the Only Noise - once ruled the game
Once had a bite of steel, with tongue of fame
Once the minute that spoke with voice of wrath
Huns returned to hell again scattered from my path;
I was master of the trench, king of the corral
Once the doughboy looked to as his greatest pal;
Now that peace has come again to weary world
What the he'll left for me, where the flags furled?
who cleared the pathway for the dawns advance;
who broke the German line, down the fields OF France;
who fed them and she'll hell and flame and smoke,
who left bloody every time spoke;
who tore the earth apart, by crimson ght and day.
I who wiped the forests out within right OF way;
who left the cities flat, flatter than the dew
What is my reward to be = the job is through?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
MEETING THE TEST

PENNSYLVANIA not only met
the test of war by sending into
the United States service for the
struggle with Germany more men
than there were on both sides in the
battle Of Gettysburg. and having
more volunteers than any other
State, but 1t came up to hopes in the
matter of food supply from its farms
and gardens. And now comes the
news that it actually exceeded the
record coal production Of 1917 dur
ing the year just closed.
This is one of the most gratifying
pieces of information to come from
Capitol Hill in a long time. For
months during the early stages of
the war there were fears that the
patriotism of Keystone State miners
who volunteered or who declined ia
ask Exemption from the draft would
cause such a slump in coal mining
as to make not only Pennsylvania
but other States suffer. On top of II
came the unprecedented severe
weather of last winter. To fill the
places of the miners who were In
khaki or navy blue many men un.
skilled in mining went into the col
leries. and mines were opened which
In the demand for coal were rathe,
hastily handled. And on top of /,
all was the tremendous demand foI
eeai. affecting operators and mer
alike.
And now the word Is out that the
state produced 272.eoo.oo0 tons OF
eoai, In round numbers a million
haore than In 1917. And at the same
tine fatal accidents deolined in mum.
bsr in comparison with formel
years.
Pennsylvania has met another
test.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-20
The NeID British Government
(From the Chicago News.


Lloyd George has reorganized the
cabinet of which hes remains the
head and 1t appears that he has suc-
ceeded ta satisfying no one. The
Asquith Liberals think the new min
tstry altogether too Tory, and one
OF their london organs calls it "a
puppet show" Labor is definitely in
opposition to the government, al
though there are five coalition lab
orites in the cabinet. The North
cliffe press, in the main Conserva-
tive, OF course, also criticises the
Premier for his selections. 1t finds
that there is not enough new blood"
In the reorganized government.
1t may be recalled that before the
election Lord Northcliffe repeatedly
warned Lloyd George that he would
come to grief, no matter how large
or preponderant n majority he might
obtain, if he did not surround him
self with real leaders and statesmen
in sympathy with the spirit of the
times. There is an "old guard In
England, as in this country, and 1t
is said that that element, with the
best win in the world, cannot plan
or give Britain the political, social
and economic reforms she needs If
serious unrest Is to be averted, and
the demobilized fighters are to be
made TO feel that their sacrifices and
sufferings are not to go without sub
stantial recognition.
In Parliament the opposition to the
government, both formal and in
formal. is unusually weak. The ex-
Perienced Radical and Liberal lead
ers were defeated in the recent e4ec-
tiens, and the government for the
ame being caH do about what IL
pieases. But 1t must please to dc
the right and reasonable thing, for
regrouping of forces is inevitable
and the day of reckoning at the polls
Is sure to come perhaps sooner
than many expect.