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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
Capital Grabs
War Veterans in
Loving Embrace

Washington. Feb. 97.--America vic
torious was symholtzed IN a memorable
military pageant on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. this afternoon when President
Wilson headed \ column OF veterans.
fresh from the battIcfeIds OF France,
who were thanked by an escort of
many thousand civilians, Spanish war
veterans and veterans of the war be-
tween the states in q march from the
Capitol to the White House.
AT the White House the president
and his personal escort left the column
OF marchers and took position in the
reviewing stand. He stood at atten-
ton while the long column flied by.
the president returning the salute of
each unit
Veterans Of tbs world war. the
Spanish war and the men who wore
the blue or the gray IN the civil war
were In the tine of march, the aged
soldiers OF the sixties marching the
entire distance OF more than a mile,
despite the fact that every one of
them was a septuagenartan or more.
Fifteen thousand men. women and
children were IN the pageant tnclud-
ing 5000 soldiers who had seen serv-
ice overseas. for whom the spectacle
was planned as welcome home"
Almost every implement known to
modern warfare from the rifle to huge
field guns, tanks and trucks was
shown in the parade, while overhead
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
Legislation for Real
Nationwide Ac-
tivities May Not
be Pushed at Pres
ent Session Ow-
ing to Congestion
of Business
Fight Not to Be Along
Partisan Lines, But to
Be Conducted as a Cen
eral Onslaught Upon
the Realm of John Bar
leycorn.

especial TO the Richmond Nirginian.)
washington. Feb. 27.-~-Lndications
now are that legislation by congress
necessary for the real enforcement or
nationwide prohibition will go over
unul the new congress. The conges-
uon OF business in congress is such
even that many of the big appropri-
alton bills VIII fail TO pass This
means, of course. an extra session Of
congress, tho date depending upon
the wisdom OF the president as to
when it shall begin.
That when this legislation Is en-
acted IL Will be strong enough to make
possible enforcement of the new
amendment and state legislation en- :
acted hereunder Is assured. In fact,
the most drastic legislation suggested
along these lines has come to congress
from Secretary OF the Treasury Car
ter Glass Secretary Carter Glass, as
a legislator and as an executive of the
government. has at all times been in
sympathy with the prohibition move
nent and with the thorough enforce
ment of laws made in harmony with
IL.
A subcommittee OF the senate Judi
ciaTy committee is engaged In whip
ping into shape the bill 70 make war
time prohibition efTective The bill
has been introduced by Senator Shep-
pard, of Texas senator Walsh. of
Montana has heen appointed char
man of the subcommittee, III place of
Senator Fletcher, originally named,
because Senator Fletcher was engaged
on the floor of the senate in charge
of the rivers and harnors bill
Senator Sheppard expresses the
hone that the bill would become a law
before this congress ends March 4. 1t
necessary. he said. an attempt would
he made to add the bill rs a rider to
an appropriation bill, lie said. how
ever that it would be subject TO
90
1x r-,ro
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
Il H.
If You Have Religion
Let Everybody Know
No True Christian Is Afraid to Carry
His Own Cross He Doesn't Want
Somebody 70 Tote 1t For Him,
Says Sunday.

Billy Sunday told a Joke In his at
ternoon sermon OF q lawyer out west
who claimed that the Lord would have
to strike him blind or cause some mir
acle TO happen before he could be con-
verted God wouldn't use a forty-two
centimeter gun on you." Billy an
swered him, "de doesn't use anything
but birdshot to bag canaries."
Sundays sermon was on the CONVEX
sion OF ST. Matthew. and he took his
opportunity to give a few opinions as
to the experience a man should have
on being converted. The evangelist
claimed that q man could rise and
follow him" without Hopping TO his
knees, and signalling like man with
a stomach ache: that the simple act
Of being converted could be as gentle
an operation as saying II will at a
wedding. Billy showed them how j
man with stomachach4 acted in
such a realistic way that everybody re-
called awful memories OF their youth
connected with green apples and too
many doughnuts.
Billy's afternoon Time" was pep
pered With slang as usual. He told
hin audience 4 yarn about the guy who
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28

Attendance hundred district school trustees who
met in the hall the delegates in conference with
Governor Wesoreand Davis yesterday featured the meet
ing The delegates occupied seats the stage When MS at
tention the delegation Sunday said 1.-The only
office that have asped to is that of school director or
The first thing that would do upon assuming such
office would be to raise the salaries OF the teachers ms
evoked storm Of applause.
Rodeheaver addressing the trustees spoke of the bene
fit music schools and recommended to the school
heads that thew make Walter Mercer under whose drec
ton and guidance the big campaign chors organ
lied trained state director of music In the schools hs
recognition Mr. Mercer also evoked of appreciation
from the vast audience.
The trustees asked stand and show their
numbers They then asked to their favorte
Brighten the Corner Where You Are came back Sunday
said something about the appropriateness of the selection add
ing "Education is enlightenmcnt.''
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
Governor, INV elcoming School Trustees,
Says Schools and Roads go Hand in Hand
Executive Declares He for Establishment of Great
in Virginia-Whee Horse Is Going to Be Education But
the Off Is Going to Be Good Roads, and He Wants
Hook Them Together

He said that such tax would
amount to 81 on the $1,000. In Vir-
glnta., however. where taxable values
are assessed at only about SO Is per
cent. this tax would he equivalent to
not more than 90 1-s cents on the
$1,000. This would mean a revenue
for good roads OF about St.400.000
Immediately following the COVER
nor's talk there were displayed sew
eral films depicting the one-room log
school versus the modern school the
lack of and the need for adequate
ventilation, the pay of teachers, the
tax paid by the. counties and by the
state and how the fund Isl distributed.
One of the charts showed that the
county and city treasurers receive 5
per cent for handling the school funds
AS much as Is paid for superintend-
ents. travelling and janitor service.
Tho slides Also showed a ype of the
average mud road in the state and the
same road after it had been made into
one of the best highways to be found
anywhere in the United States.
PEOPLE MUST COME ACROSS.
III the people want the best roads
and the best schools that can be pro-
yided. they will have OF pay for Them"
the governor said.
/ A speaker representing Alexandria
county said that the schools there are
good, that the teachers are underpaid
and that the impossibility OF adequate
ly paying teachers was due to the
assessment on lands, which was en-
tirely too low. His remarks were
greeted with applause. Alexandria
county, he continued, is compactiy
settled and not given to agriculture,
but that even the lands are not ade-
Quately assessed.
Rev. J, c. Holland, OF Danville, was
the next speaker. strongly correlated
are the public schools and the church
OF the living God. and 10 these the
safety. the welfare and The life OF our
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
Wilson Idealism
Is Yankee Bluff
Bottomly Sets OF Anti American
Blast. and Wants TO Know IL
America Has Bought Great
Britain.
BY Robert WcIles Richie.

London, Feb. e7.-~wilson's ideal
ism is another name for Yankee
'ttiff:'''' The fact is we have been
thoroughly out maneuvred by the
Wilson idealism.' How long is the
British governments going to subject
itself to Wilson's hypnotism ?"
These are the high velocity centers
in an antiAmerican blast by Horatio
Bottomly. M. p, noted as one of
Britain's most outspoken publicists.
They are displayed in black type in
The midst of an editorial in Bottom
Tvs weekly. John Bull regarding the
British governments alleged dis
elimination against Canadian trade.
Has America bought Great Bri-
tain ?" scornfuliy asks Bottomly. 1t
should be explained that Bottomly
has no counterpart in New York. but
loves to believe himself a red-eyed
radical. and Fleet streets friend Of
the people.
! searched out Bottomly In the
anteroom of the house Of commons
today and asked him to elaborate on
his anti-American sentiments or ex-
plain them.
'tMy editorial he said. needs no
explanation. II you read II carefully
you will discover that there Ia no
spirit of antagontsm against America,
but that 1t is a protest against the
British governments insane policy of
admitting certain American mauufac-
turers while Canadian manufacturers
are still excluded.
why Is this tenderness toward the
United States? Why should the
seeing their own boats transport
American soldiers and American
products, yet debarred by the war
trade beard from exporting their own
manufactures to the mother country.
Licenses are being granted Aneri4
can manufactures on the percentage
of particular goods sent to England
in war time. But Canada's manhood
was drained from the factories to
fight in defense of the empire of
Canada sacrificed her outputs in time
of war. yet her imports are not per-
mitted now even equal licenses with
the Americans.
Il ask again, ave we bought by
Bottomley waived aside the sug-
gestion that American trade is COM
planning against the embargo and
that American dyes are the latest ad-
dition to the banned imports.
-Can you explain why Canada. IL
allowed. could furnish all the wood
pulp Britain needs, whereas last year
neutral Norway furnished 10000
tons of the total OF 10000 tons? Can
you tell me why, when Canadian
leather was all Communicated in war
time, American leather now controls
the market?
II have met and conversed with
many Canadian business men. who
are deeply concerned with Canadian
post -war interests. Canada asks no
treatment but she does
claim that there should be no dis
elimination against Canada for the
United States,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
AMERICAS yvTERESrs

IL is understood that the president
also suggested that every interest ~
the United States had been protected
Mt the peace conference by tina nrasenca
OF an experienced constitutional law
yer. thoroughly competent to pass mon
every question affecting the coustitu-
ton OF the United states.
The presidents views az given RI
those who talked with him today and
as impaired 10 the guests at last nights
oinner were the chief topic OF discus
sion IN the senate cloak rooms On
nonents of the league firmly stated
mat the discussion Of tire league plan
vote.
The presidents followers were DIS
appointed by bis. statement that NO
amendments could be made to the con-
stitution. 1t is wen known that among
the Democrats there are number ~
senators who are favorabfy disposeN
toward the league principle, but who
would not vote for the constitution nm
less amendments protecting the Monroe
Doctrine were put into IL. Admits
tration leaders expressed the fear tfat
the votes OF these senator's have been
lost by the presidents statement
Senator Lewis, Of Illinois, was suh
tected to n great deal Of good-uatnrA
chatting by his colleagues for having
followed almost the same line OF areu-s
3AA&
adopted by the pre- sident at last mighty
dinner The senator was credited WITH
extraordinary acumen In havtnE 6SSns
able to forestaIl what tho arxuma
for the league might bA
Senator Lewis made this sea<ann 80 u
the question WIN not b saf43
in the Senste. It win be sotf1ed n1757
the senators 80 back to thA1r p1nI
ane talk to the fellows on tn etxe
and on the farms and m thuees
They VIII know then what the ~
thinks about It, Speeches III A3
II might make the finest phuu6g
record in the world. but they aY&SS
the voice Of the people" sA a
A number Of resolutions a. -
ject were introduced today. So
Owen presented one to prevent n 4
league OF nations from interfering s1Sff u
such questions as emigration ana - ~
exports and imports
other domestic affairs. sNss
Senator Spencer proposed an axnend3
ment TO order the league TO keep hanAGA
OF the Internal affairs and policy r
the United States. f9ssSs Al sssss q
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
ADOPT WITHOUT AfEl|DAaENT .
CONSTITUTION OF THE LEAGUE
CLEMENCEAU rs
BACK ON JOB

Paris. Feb. 2-.---A gasp of amaze
ment went UP In the peace confer
encr chamber at the Quai D'Orsay
today when the door suddenly OPEN
I'd and i'm walked. quite erect, and
unaSsisted. though very pale, Pre-
micr Clcmenccau The delegates
jumped up from their chairs and
crowded around the Tiger" heart
ny congra tuiatiug him on his mirac-
uious recovery. He stayed IA little
while. taking active part in the de-
liberations, then made his adieus.
walking out agnin uuassistcd. po-
litefy. hut firmly. declining the
many attempts to- aid him.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
Sunday Tells Them Their Office Is Only
One to Which He Has Ever Aspired
BILLY Would Raise Pay of Teachers
Preacher Says He Would Rather Have Standing
Room in Heaven Than Own the Earth and Go to
Hell-Declares Hypocrite Is Counterfeit
Christian.


A. called
IN
to
the added fact that hr
o
declared Thosc Of the students
10 do
addressed the boys IN John Maa g
C. Mercer director OF
music
Of nights srvs
to
RUM o
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-28
WANTS TO LIVE.

WANTS TO LIVE.
The evangelist preached on "Etcr-
nal Life by way of pareuthesis
he declared tina. he did not want tn
|Als Not that arm afraid 10 die. :"
he fastened To assure his nearer
.'when my time does come TO die" he
added, II am going To put up PRETTY
stiff argument with the Lord. ! am
going 70 say: Now. look here. Lord.
You have let me live this long. Why
not let me live little longer
sunday told OF being asked whom
b. thought would die frst. himself or
INA Sunday. Gosh. don't know.
he said. Sunday expects. though, to
shuttle of this mortal coll before his
.heipmeet It's becau~e ! work too
hard he explained. "y know ! am
burning up my life too fast The doc
tors tell me 50. They say I've cut
twenty years Off my life. Nell FMa
sunday, has been away three weeks,
and here I've been stewiEg around
ever since"
Sunday apoiogized for appearing to
|he egctistical and assured his hear
|ers that he liz not. but" he added.
.IM bet there's not a man in Rich
bncnd or who has ever heen to this
city who has worked az hard as
Rave since I've been here
The evangelist declared that he has
ts-eY been in city that he has grown
IA love a. he has "old Richmond
FTf some OF the people here would
ALL or get converted or move away,
khen Richmond would he a paradise.
khe nearest thing tn heaven this side
u the pearly gates" he said
Bt11y, In picturfng paradise, de-
cared that he would rather have
afandfng room In heaven than own the
world and 60 to he'll
Keep the Rent sign on.
ssOon't let the Lord hang for rent
asrn on the mansion that ne has pre-
800 for you In heaven" Billy inn
slofsA his hearers.
He pictured himself in heaven. after
&he Lord has written 1'finis TO hts
Earthly career. ST. Peter was con-
Auctinr him around. He espied a
mansion. Say Pete Billy asked
hln. what does that sign mean.
WHO once occupied that mansion ?"
~ preacher "A preacher Billy
enAated. astounded "Yer." What
- the natter .soh. he was eject
n because he wouian', preach the
Rrtth.'s Bill saw another ''for rent"
Sfrus on the one-tinae mansion. OF
fsacon who wouldn't "deass." and one
m the erTWHlfe heavenly dpoue OF a
Efevard who made a rncss OF the
Efaw." Billy also had pointed out to
~, tho mansion once occupied by
Vlreinia district school trustee, who,
a6Cwn In Richmond when you were
.nNductfng your campaign. BILL" SUN
~ had St. Peter saying TO him, was
riyen an opportunity to hit the trail
~ didn't" This brought a hearty
arxh from his hearers.
There il counterfeit religion and
.Nunterfeit salvation. 1ut the same as
So Is counterfeit money. Billy de-
aved. ''You never hear of the bad
Sinr counterfeited." he reminded his
ErsdiSnce. ITS always tho good that
ri ennnterfeited. A hypocrite is
t1rfeit Christian. Tho isms and
211uss and Ologies some preachers
tying n cram down the throats
I71jr SpSlSxsga &iOps Ia the cruise OF
213oai q connterfett religion" he
~ II Nth an AZ his old-time fire
f1ij1 - 1u1 me-. NE Lord knows
t1se peA u under" he
ss$s ~ 1s1ed 40eSn't bite on a
~ NJ IN xn't himdan God
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WEATHER

Washington. Feb. 81
Forecast:
Vfrg nj a---Incrcasing
ctoudtnese and warmer
FRIDAY; rain At night and
saturday; colder Saturday.
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NO OTHER CONDITIONS
Letters cannot be returned.

Fact! Only Government job ever held
and I've always sworn they'd never get
me. The only alternative was to wait five
hours for the R. F. d. and get to-day's
mail out yesterday, for they were going
to discontinue the post Office because no
body would take the job. It's a great
saving to a writer. / commend to an
struggling authors the scheme Of getting
themselves appointed postmasters of
fourth class post Offices. You think I'm
going to say because it's such grant
chance to study human nature. Nothing
of the tall. It's because the postmaster's
compensation is the value of the stamps he
cancels! You send your MSS. out for
absolutely nothing and all you have to en-
close for return is a two cent stamp.
Then they come back with lot of postage
due on them and you pay yourself the
face value Of the postage due stampsl
Perfectly wonderful. wonder there hasn't
been mad scramble for these jobs long
ago. The former incumbent of this Office
had poultry farm and used to ship eggs
to New York by parcel post and under
sell everybody because his postage didn't
cost him anything. Amt economies
grandf'
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"Alone Worth the
Price of Admission"

SeVI/ITH the signing of the armistice
w German propaganda reap
peared in wave and has been going ever
since."-Stanley Frost in GermaDy's
New War against America, page 70.
Reminds us of the "waye of crime" and
again, as we read, we have that engulfed
feeling.
"The natural causation Of evils is too
well known for the hypothesis Of trans
cendent and well nigh omnipotent creator
Of evil to be any longer necessary
Douglas Clyde Macintosh in Theology as
an Empirical Science, page 227.
But, we gather, there is no natural caus-
alton Of good and God is still necessary
to explain the existence Of good in tho
world.
"Ninety per cent. of the workers of to-
day are in the wrong occupations.
Harry N. Balkin in The New Science Of
Analyzing Character, page 228.
Aren't they finding it out fast enough
without shouting it all over the placef
"What is interesting in the Bolshevik
experiment is the machine which Lenine
has created for the establishment Of his
communist State."-An unnamed writer
in Boisherik Aims and Ideals, page %.
And what is fearful in the Bolshevik ex-
pertinent is the fiction the Saturday Foe
ming Post feels impelled to print about il
THE following was inflicted on Bar
i rett Fl. Clark, who is arranging
Granville Barker's tour:
Our Betters, by Somerset Vaughan,
Was, if you remember, quite vaughan;
But The Moon and Sirpence-
Here's book whose contents
Are joy and devoid Of all haugham."
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"a London Lot"
IoVELIZING play is an altogether

NIoVEL1z1NG a play is an altogether
IN different process from dramatizing
novel. The dramatist selects certain
scenes in order to follow the story and
then makes his play in his own individual
manner. Quite often its likeness to the
novel is striking by its dissimilarity. A
novelized play, on the other hand, gen.
orally follows the acting script rather
closely. This is true of d London Lot.
novelization of the play London Pride, by
A. Neil Lyons and Gladys Unger. Mr..
Lyons has done the book. 1t is fairly
easy to perceive where the book would
divide up into acts, for the play has
merely received rather thin mantle of
description to carry the dialogue along.
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The Infallibility of Women
By BENJAMIN DE cAssEREs:

oNSCIOUS is the tongue Of
~ hesoul
the dim perception of this truth that
spiritual All feenos
Being nuitve They are seldom
Nature knows nothing o human justice - -
The nuitve faculty the
and past lives the
The have written there their aspirations forebodn and
$3.50
Provisions
the and blood whispering their to the
Women subject
the springs of Being. - ~
Feeling deeper than all tOugbause thought
become The of the soul . - -
is Tru;ton
the rudder. - r. ~ =
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About Bojer

HoFFAT, YARD & CO. announce
lVl that Miss Jessie Muir's transla-
ton of Johan Boier's The Face of the
World will be ready October 10. This new
novel by the Norwegian follows publica-
ton in this country of his The Great
Hunger.
In The Face of the World Bojer tells
the story of dreamer, doctor who
sss;ight to right the wrongs Of the world,
but who came at length to the realiza-
ton of mans importance in the working
out Of smaller things. Bojer's hero,
young DR.. Mark, comes to reflect:
"They [Jesus, Shakespeare, Michael
angelo, Voltaire] were dreamers iks
you. You are nothing, but you may
surely bow down to them. They carried
a world picture on their breast, of which
they wanted to know the meaning, like
you. =. They suffered on a world
cross-bke you.
"They were dreamers and yet they are
the torchbearers in the procession Of
mankind; and it is owing to them that
there is not night over the earth.
perhaps dreamer's day may come
when judgment will be pronounced upon
all the wise men who have always proph-
esied evil and were always right"
The following is list Of Bojer's novels,
plays and fairy tales.
Novels: The Procession, The Eternal
Strife. Mother Lea, A Pilgrimage, Tho
Power of a Lac, Our Kingdom, Life, The
Prisoner Who Sang, The Great Hunger
and The Face Of the World.
Plays: Theodorea, Bvwtus, The Eyes
of Louc and SiJurd Brda.
Fairy Tales: At the Ch.rchyard Gate,
The Wind in the Reeds, Old Tales and
White Birds.
Before Bojer's visit to this country in
March, 1920, Moffat, Yard & Co. will pub.
ish biographical study Of him trans.
lated from the Norwegian By Elizabeth
Jelliffe MacIntyre.
IRON Frank Parker Stockbridge:
IL "Did tell YOU that I've been an
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People who enjoy Bruce Bairnsfather's
cartoons Of Cockney soldiers and his play
The Better '0le will take pleasure in A
London Lot. 1t is all broad fun, with its
undercurrent of war being treated in that
decided romantic manner that goes SO
well on the stage. Cuthbert Turks, mid
deweight prizefghter, lurid in his Ian
guage but hero at heart, upholds the
honor of Silverside in no mean fashion.
He goes to the war, changes identity with
deal soldier that he may return to Eng
land and find his lost sweetheart, thinks
he is going to be court-martialled, is sud-
denly made hero and lives merrily ever
after to the tune Of Rule, Britannia.
Simple, yes, but how the London galleries
must have thumped at it!
A LONDON LOT. BY A. NEIL LYoNs.
John Lane Company.
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The Longest Sentence

T<o THE EDITOR OF Books AND THE
i Book WoRLD-Sir: Your inquirer
who is interested in long sentences might
care to read certain passage of Ruskin's
description Of st. Marks, Venice, where
he has one sentence of 231 words followed
by one of 237, with another of 247, a
couple of pages over.
DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH.
New York, September 2.