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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
QUICKER MAIL SERVICE
HERE UNDER NEW PLAN
beurery of Letters From North FaciIi
tnted, According To Announce
ment by Postmaster

Delivery OF letter mail from tho
North from two TO four hours sooner
than formerly on the various mail
routes in Richmond. and in Manchester
practically a whole. day sooner. is
called for in n new mail service plan
announced yesterday by Postmaster
Hay Il. Thornton.
Through the efforts OF r p Elan
chief clerk OF the railway mail service
IN Richmond. this improved mail ser
vice has been put in effect. according
To Mr. Thornton.
Letter box renters will be able to
procure mail in three hours less time
from the hour it was sent by this new
system. ii is said
On mail routes where two trips a
day arc made by carriers mail will be
delivered four hours and ten minutes
earlier than formerly: on four-trip
routes. which include most OF the
downtown section, on an average OF
fonr hours earlier. and deliveries from
stations "a" and "B' and Manchester
practically whole day sooner
Al the present time this new service
only includes letter mail. but efforts
are being made to have the service
also apply to paper mail
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
GIVE MUSICAL PROGRAM
BLENDERS of Junior Brnnch of ZIonists
Conduct Recital mt Young Mems
Hebrew Association.

Burton Block, superintendent OF the
foun Mems Hebrew Association. was
the speaker yesterday afternoon when
members Of the Junior Branch OF
ItoniStS met at the association build
ing, where an interesting musical pro-
gram was rendered. MIR Block spoke
on the topic OF Young Judea."
Those taking part in the musical
program, which included rccitations.
piano, vocal and violin selections
much Of watch was rendered in He
brew were as follows: Miss Rosa Som
ncnburE. who rendered for the open
ing selection "IIapeckah"; Misses An
ME Solid Dora Rubin. Bessie SON
nenburg, Applennan. Rosa Cohen
Harry AzinHky, Theresa Cohen Ger
trude Segal, Pearl Scgal. Rosa Cictson,
Milton Sollod and Helen Jesse. The
meeting yesterday was arranged by
Misses Mollye Sollod and Helen Jesse
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
COMMUNITY CHORUS MEETS
TONIGHT AT JOHN MARSHAL
Large Attendance Sought by Director
Mercer {" Consider Plans for
Morgan Meetings.

An urgent appeal was made yester-
day by Director Walter c. Mercer of
the Richmond Community Chorus. that
every member OF the original Billy
Sunday choirs will be present at the
regular rehearsal tonight at S o'clock
High School in order that vote may
be taken relative TO the matter OF the
community chorus singing for the
tcn-day series Of meetings in the CITY
Auditorium beginning Novcmhcr L.
should It y" the pleasure OF the
members of tho Eillv sunday choir
10 sing II the Campbell Morgan meet
ings each night III tho Auditorium, hi
rector Mercer Will a, once begin the
Organization Of two choirs to sing on
alternate nights
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
RATHINE FUNERAL is HELD
body OF Malvern Hill Flyer. who Was
Killed in Florida. Laid to
Rest,

Funeral services for Sergeant John.
ttathinc. twcnty-rIine years old who
was KILLED last Thursday while flying
At Arcadia. Fla. were conducted from
the Grace Chapel, at Malvern Hill yes
icrday afternoon. the Rev Shares of
MISSIONER Church. officiating
sergeant Rathine was burned 10
death. his machine catching tire when
II co!lidcd with another machine driven
by lieutenant Barker. who cscapcd
with slight injuries The dead aviator
I'M He is also survived by his rno,brr
two sisters. Annie and Bessie. and one
brother. Harry Rathinc. all OF Malvern
hin
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
Today and Tonight
in Richmond

Mems Club at 1.
Richmond Episcopal Glorious Mt
81. Pau's parish house mt 1890.
Sessions OF Baptist Trimming
school MT Second baptist Church.
Adams and FRANKLIN Streets, from
to y.
John Powell. pianist. at Rich
mOnd Woman's Club. under nuspicc,
Musicians Club OF Richmond. mt 4.
Richmond Community Chorus
meets at John Marshall High school
at -.
MnSs-meetinE of Roosevelt Me-
mortal Association Mt Jefferson
Hotel Auditorium at 8.
iHric-Nauderillc, 3. s, 0:3o
Academy of Music-"Parlor, Bed
room and Bath" at $40
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
KIWA!IANS MEET TODAY
Hold Weekly Session nj O'Clock in
Rooms OF business Mems
Club.

Members OF the Richmond Kiwanis
Club will hold their regular weekly
meeting today At o'clock at the Bust
ness Mems Club.
Clifford l.. Walker has been ap-
pointed musical director Of the club
according to statement issned LAST
night by Secretary Maxine Duchramn
change in the hy-)aws Of the as.
ISOLATION was made last week a. the
the club in regard To the approval Of
names to be presented for member.
SIM
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Commission win be in pe'ershutr 'n oHst al
M, y,,, hearing Of the case OF Detective james
discharge OF his duty, The question wh,rS
,ns c9mnission will decide is whether Young
whether his dependents are entitled TO-
CONDENSATION for his death
Dr. Russell Cecil Will preside at tho an
g nmnl meeting OF the, iuEucnot EvanEclical
cha wh 10 i. + So, % enc in
Of the First Prcsbyterian Church ore W vootn
M TsFS l"? and Rc =! osloek Rsy 4 Il
IN the meeting. " @iSN
m TFasiasn' ,5 n r. Sos ar has called an
eli Of social Workers of Richmond for '1 to-.
moctnc @ H,Ii TO- ,. nt 40 oc9ck Tho
Street. \ long list of rcpreseniativon ~
i i, i Ia number OF Richmond orEanizations
attendance urged tomorrow afternoon
=, headquarters OF tho Richmond Retail,
Murphy,s Hotel TO the Arcade Ruiidinr s,,h
day nishs WI, os hcid there on Thurs
held here this week. however. '
Members of the advisory BOARD ., ~.
Scoutmasters' Club will meet tor,or OF me
ternocn AZ Boy Scout Headouarters' to dis
goo campaign for funds which s ne "a ~ 10
launched hv the Richmond scouts vi, h p
a few weeks ~ "ithih
Richmond drug clerks will orran,za -,
cspTs 'Sn TO be af,a,ed With the Fetal
North Foushee Street 'V'
Tho Richmond Rotary Club will hold .
Snee1ai meeting tomorrow afternoon "a
1850 o'clock at the Business Mems Club.
Ri eSSns5ssSip 2ss,. Montague arrived In
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
Minstrel show Tomorrow

Richmond Jazz Mlnstrcls" will give
benefit performance for the charity
iNhd OF st Anthony'S Catholic Church
tomorrow night at Bellevue School
AUDITORIUM. The curtain rises prompt
" a; $50 o'clock The first offering
vnudcNillc skits and an nrtcrnincn
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20

In the early days Of storekeeping the
method OF exchange was barter or trade
- money was seldom used - the
Shrewdest person got the best bargain
In the primitive. method the customer
brought in his produce, his grain or
his hides and made the best trade he
could Traders, as the shopkcepers
were called, we're often trcksters and
practiced chicanery in every possible
form Goods were priced SO much to
one person and SO much to another
Price tickets and plain figures were I'M
known.
The purchase of a few family sup
plies often required the greater part
of day. for it meant visit to several
different shops One'trader sold sus-
penders, collar buttons, combs, etc..
second made boots; third kept groce-
rlfs and calicoes; a fourth, drugs;
fifth, furniture and china; a sixth,
hardware and implements, and a
seventh, clothing.
Then came the days of our grand
mothers; but, even then, few stores
were larger than 3Ox5O feet Wares
were kept-not displayed-in shelf,
box or barrel. Store service was un-
known. Frequently customers were
forced to wait until the shopkeeper fin
ished his game Of checkers. Usually
the owner and possibly an apprentice
or two comprised the sales force.
But conditions have changed. The
primitive store methods have fallen
into desuetude.
In course of time the dry goods store
was evolved-the embryo of the mod
ern department store. Then boots and
shoes and clothing were added to the
dry goods line. Then, apace to the
progress and improving economic con-
ditions of the world, wares of all the
various single shops were combined
under one roof, forming the first real
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20

department StOre-Or "the store of in
dividual shops"
The original 30x5O store has given
place to towering. pretentous struc-
lures of steel and stone. Department
store buildings today frequently have
floor area of Is to 90 acres. MILLER
d Rhoads Store now contains an area
of more than $4,000 square feet, with
more to fOllow) A veritable city of
employees find employment in them.
sometimes numbering up into the
thousands. The lines carried are SO
diversified as to supply every need Of
man, woman, child and the home, each
department being an individual shop"
that is presided over by one who is an
expert in his, or her, line.
The questionable trading of old has
evolved, with the coming of the depart
ment store, into HONORABLE, PRO-
GRESSIVE MERCHANDISING. Goods
are marked in plain figures. and ONE
PRICE applies to all. Store service
has attained high degree Of efficiency,
and every facility for expeditions shop
ping has been provided.
The original cracker box or hickory
chair that was occasionally given to
the customer to rest upon or eat her
lunch is supplanted by luxurious rest
rooms and the well-appointed cafe or
tea rooms.
The storekeeper Of decade or two
ago is the merchant Of today, honored
by the world. Only within the past
decade President of the United States
honored the dedication of a depart
ment store with his presence.
The department store, from it's small
beginning, has grown and improved
through the various stages of it's evo-
luton until today it is possibly the
most important factor in the nations
political economy.
MILLER & RHOADS.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20

Richmond drug clerk, will orro,,
STspt. hon TO be affiliated with the Retail
,crhS association next Sunday sfternoon
AZ 9c!oGk at the Arcade Buildinr .0I
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20

tIt.'''I IN'INHTY T-Iub VIII hold a
SncSaai meeting tomorrow afternoon -,
/ 80 clock at the Business Mems Club
congressman A J Montague arrival -,
hichihond yesterday from Washinrton IL
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-20
"7he Shopping Center"

The department might invention Noah
webster ha no SUCH term his dictionary The telephone
graph before the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
Glamor of the Past.

Egypt is the most popular field for
the explorations of the psychologists.
but Guatemala and Mexico. on our
own hemisphere. offer fields giamorOus
with the same mysteries. Even in
southwestern America the ruins of cliff
dwellings and other monuments of
dead-and-gone peoples furnish intense
~ interesting and fascinating fields for
Investigation and theory. No man can
stand in, the presence of these things
and fail 10 be thrown into strange
thoughts. Indeed, for that matter, one
looks with strange feelings upon even
a deserted house in which the tenants
were only of a generation past. But
it is when no one remains alive who
was part of a past that it becomes
of first-order interest. This is why the
old Franciscan missions of California
now possess so great fascination for
the world.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
COUNT FIFTY! PAINS
AND NEURAL lA GONE
Instant relief! Rub this nerve torture
and misery right out with
"St. Jacobs Liniment."

Rub this soothing, penetrating lini-
ment right into the sore, infiamed
nerves, and like magic-neuralgia dis
appears. est. Jacobs Liniment" con.
quers pain. 1t is a harmless neuralgia
relief" which doesn't burn or discolor
the skin.
Don't suffer! It's so needless. Get
a small trial bottle from any drug
store and gently rub the 'aching
nerves" and in just moment you
will be absolutely free from pain and
suffering.
No difference whether your pain OF
neuralgia is in the face, head or any
part Of the body, you get instant relief
with this old-time, honest pain de-
stroyer-it can not injure.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
Split on DiIley Bill.

st. Paul.-The House committee on
commerce, manufacture and retail
trade. has voted to return without rec
onlmendation the Dilley bill, reducing
the alcoholic contents Of extracts. pat
ant medicines, condiments and lini-
meuts 20 5 per cent. The principal op-
position 20 the bill was from the druc
gists and patent medicine manufs
turars. Representative H. c. Trow-
bridge of Austin, representing the
drug gists' objections, and Represents
i've w. Galewski of Winona tie pas-
ept &c a1:c:aa men
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
Rate TanaIe Unsettled.

st. Paul. The Solem rate bureau"
bill, proposing to take away from the
insurance rate bureau the work of
fixing insurance rates for the state
and placing it in the hands of state
board of insurance. was laid over by
the House committee on insurance.
Pressed for reason why the rate
bureau should fix the insurance rates,
representatives of the bureau an
swered that the bureau existed for the
purpose of keeping the companies
on safe and solid basis and to pre-
-a2s rate cutting"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14

The constitutional committee Of the
Austrian national assembly. according
to report from Vienna, has adopted
proposition submitted by the gov
eminent pfoclaiming German-Austria a
democratic republic and an integral
part of the German republic. The mo-
ton, it is said. was carried unani-
mously.
Government troOps began an attack
from all sides on the center of Berlin.
and made brilliant progress. One
force advanced to within a short dis
lance of police headquarters. Between
200 and 800 were killed or wounded.
A Coblenz dispatch says the disturb
ances In Berlin and other parts of un-
occupied Germany have resulted in
such an increase in the number of
civilians eager to reach the bridge
head area where conditions are more
normal that the American forces OF
occupation have been compelled to
take steps to prevent Germans from
all parts Of the country overrunning
the occupied zone along the Rhine.
When Spartacan forces captured the
main telegraph office in Berlin the
members of the United States Red
Cross mission ere$endangered by the
shooting, according to dispatch from
Berlin.
Fifteen thousand German sailors are
holding Munich in reign Of terror,
according to travellers arriving at AM
sterdam from Kiel. There is much
pillaging.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
lice Cream" Bill Reported.

st. Paul.-The House committee on
commerce and manufactures recon-
rilended the Lennon ''ice cream" bill
80 pass as amended, to require z per
cent butter fat in chocolate or fruit
ice cream and 9 per cent in plain ice
cream. The ice cream bill was bit
terly fought by the women's clubs be-
Cause 1t proposed to lower the butter
far content of the ice cream, which
under the present law is and II per
cent. The bill as now recommended
Is a compromise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
Passes for Legislators.

st. Paul-Members of the Mime
sofa legislature are to be given passes
over all railroads, within the state in
lieu of the present milage now paid
them under a bill introduced in the
house by Representative Frank E
Nimocks of Minneapolis. The passes
are to be strictly individual and are
to be good during the holders tern
of office. The bill is patterned after
the New Jersey law The committee
on railroads has recommended its
passage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14

stored to Italy, and at the
peace conference the final
pact between the nations that fought
Germany will undoubtedly give Trent
to the Italian nation for all time.
Leaving Padua early in the morn
ing in one of the powerful automobiles
of the Italian supreme command, in
the first party Of newspaper men to
visit these lands reclaimed from Aus
tria, arrived in Trent by way of
Verona after a five-hour ride, during
which we passed through the wrecked
villages that mark the old mountain
battle fronts of the Austrian and Ital-
ian armies.
Along the fine rock roadways that
run along the Adige rivere swift
flowing mOutain stream, a small line of
refugees was plodding along, on foot
for the most part, returning to home
steads deserted during more than two
years Of war. ..".
Just few miles north Of Verona
the first sight of wars destruction
co. for two years under shell fire.
Towns of the Trentino.
Trent in itself is a. rather inconsid-
cradle town. 1t had a wartime pop
ulation of some $4,000 persons, large
majority of whom were Italians, We
were told. In peace times the popula-
ton is around 10000. But in the
whole province of Trentino there are
more than half million people, and
it is the province, as we'll as the town,
that Italy fought for at the cost of
100000 men killed and nearly a million
wounded. l
Back of the Italian demand for the
TrentinO, Is sentimental reason, and
practical commercial reason. For
the sentimental and national side first,
Italy points out, through her biggest
statesmen, generals and propagaDdists,
that 100000 of the 100000 persons liv-
ing in the Trentino are Italians speak
ing the Italian language. Trent as
well as the smaller towns in the
Trentino, such as Rovereto, Ala, Arco,
Levico and Pergine, are filled with
buildings of Italian design, decorated
with Italian art and using the Italian
language in the schools and Offices,
We passed through several of these
towns. The people on the streets were
as Italian as the street crowds of
Padua, Verona and Vincenza, cities of
the Venetian plain through which we
passed in the earlier stages of our trip.
The practical reasons that Italy has
for keeping her tricolor flying from
the mountain cities of the Trentino
are numerous and vital.
Every Available Inch Titled.
First of all the Trentino is a very
productive region where vineyards and
grain fields flourish on both sides of
the Adige, producing large quantities
Of foods. 1t can be said truthfully
that every available inch of land in
this section is In state of cultivation.
To an American farmer the intense
method of soil filling would prove a
revelation.
Only through centuries of careful
work with hoe and pillow has it been
possible to create the garden that ex-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14

| is to be are largely dreams still long
after the days are past that should
is more than dreams. Most folks have
learned to their sorrow that it is a
rather stern reality. 1t promises much.
but it's always conditional 1t teaches
men that in the using of what they
have they become the heroes of the
days that are to be. It's the filling of
present hours flat brings the full hours
of the future. It's folly to mourn. the
last. It's all made in the present and
today passes so swiftly into tomorrow
that we scarcely realize how swiftly
go the speeding hours.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14

tends from Verona, where the AdIge
river strikes the Venetian plain, to the
impossible mountain valleys many
miles away where the absolute absence
Of soil forbids any attempt at farm
ing.
The fields on either side of the riy-
er are broken into small lots thou
sands being as small as a city block ::
many are much smaller in order to
completely fill segment Of rock-lock-
ed earth. On these plots, that have
been leveled with infinite care, the
farmer of the TrentinO grows grain,
garden truck. grapes, and often other
fruit. The grapevines are kept pruhed
to about four and half feet high for
the main stem, which grows to the
thickness Of mans wrist, while the
tendrils are trained onto sticks, or in
many cases to trees that are kept
pruned down to thick stump six or
seven feet high with small branches
half an inch in thickness protruding
in sheaf from the stump.
Ancient consiglio Castle.
During the middle ages Trent was a
typical fortified city crowned with an
old feudal castle. Built in 1890, this
stronghold, Castle Consiglio, has come
down to the present generation in q
beautiful state Of preservation. While
the ,Austrians held Trent the place
was used as kind Of town JAIL.
Ceasare Battisti, native Of Trent, an
ardent prO-Italian who had the nerve
to enlist in the Italian army against
Austria, was shot in the courtyard OF
the castle, and is today the town and
the Italian nations martyr.
Stored in the wonderful old castle
were $4,000 captured Austrian rifles.
Piles Of gas masks, trench tools, muir
derOus. trench knives and other odds
and ends of fighting mans equipment
were stacked in several of the large
rooms. -. ....... ... . ..
In one of the main corridors was q
typical Austrian torture machine. 1t
consisted of two rings, the first about
nine inches from the floor and the
second about four feet above ground.
The practice was to fasten q prison.
er's ankles to the lower ring by means
of a piece of rope, while the unfortu-
nate mans hands were tied behind
him through the upper ring. This
threw all the prisoners weight on the
wrists and ankles. Usually a man
tainted after several hours. ,sa..
In the highest room of the place, a
circular chamber of the tallest tower.
was all that remained of a German
wireless outfit. The operators had
made themselves comfortable in the
damp old place by putting storm win
dOws in the loOpholes that were orig
inally cut for the convenience of CROSS
bow men.
To get to the tower one has to pass
through q frescoed courtyard where
men were hanged centuries ago. About
five or six feet from the old gallows,
a double affair, runs sheltered gal
lery from which the dukes and their
courtiers, sheltered from the weather,
could witness the execution.
Some of the public squares in the
city of Trent have fine old buildings
in Italian architecture, decorated from
ground to roof with gorgeous frescoes,
the coloring of which is still vivid.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-03-14
Foreign

German troops on the Baltic coast
have severely defeated the bolsheviki
and have recaptured Rigs, according
to n report received by the London
Telegraph.
Tuesday and Wednesday $1,000 SOL
dierS rioted at the Kimmel camp,
Wales, because of the decay in their
shipment to Canada, due 70 the short
age of ships. Three of the rioters and
two of the pickets were killed and 81
wounded, including two officers.
Discussing the food situation in
central Europe in the house of lords
at London the marquis of LansdOwne
asked how long the process of turn
ing the screw" was to continue. He
said he regarded the position of CEN
trail Europe with dismay"
......
The Jewish press bureau at Stock
holm says that the Yiddiche Morgen-
post Of Vienna reports that Jews are
being nIassacred in large numbers in
eastern Galicia and the Ukraine. The
reports say that 400 families have
been killed at Proakuroff, in the
Ukraine east of Lemberg
Twelve million dollars is the esti-
mated damage in fire on the Santos
docks at Rio de JaneirO. The fire is
IN I,,,r, = Al.
week. Losses included 10000 bags of
coffee.
The Spartacans, according to an off
cial government bulletin issued at Ber-
lin, have begun movement to seize
Koenigsburg, East Prussia, and there
by open a route of communication 10
Moscow so that the 5olshevik armies
from Russia might move 70 the as
sistance of the Spartacan forces.
The British government has decided
to release all Irish political prisoners,
says the London Daily Mail. In order
70 prevent great public demonstra-
con, the newspaper adds, the prisoners
VII return TO Ireland in small patches.
Despite vehement opposition from
the laborites and liberals, the house
of commons at London passed a bill
continuing CONSUMPTION. The vote was
304 to II.
The German national assembly, or
ne Ebert government. is In honor
,ound IN furnish safe retreat on Ger
nan soil for former Emperor William
nj his wife. according to a procIa,aa-
.a-n ;.Gopted 55 the Pail-Gerinan
~" II Il meeting held III D.imbar
a'aTia. ;iccos'di4l: to 3trlin dis