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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
Begin Work on Mills.

BRISTOL. Sept. G--Work has start
ed here on the construction OF the new
hosiery mills at the corner OF Buford
10 represent a capital stock OF about
100000 aud viii give employment 10
l5o people. The mills arc being cstah-
lishcd by Captain james i. Grey.
prominent mill man OF Johnson City.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07

.YNCN8UR1i S.Nt. 5--Tne Common
oHnc. ha> accepted an Invitation
from the Lynchburg Rotary club 10 De
ats guests a. buffet supper 20 b"
served on the root ~ tn- Peoples
Nacona. BANS Building September -
"a" same Invitation goes - The Board
of Aldermen Tuesday evening
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
VIII Not TIC Candidate.

FEEpENlCNSBURG. VA, Sept d.
Thomas LomaN Hunter, Of kinE
George. has given notice to The county
cha irmcn OF stafford and King George
Counties that he Will not he i Candi-
date for reelection to the House Of
Delegates from the district composed
OF stafford and King George AT the
election which takes place in Novem-
Der.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07

houses was 37.io5 pounds for tho first
day. The prices ranged from 50 20 SIS.
ana the quality WAS very good. From
indications ii appears there * a much
better crop OF tobacco in the county
than was first anticipated.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
appomn,,o. wn,.hou... o,.

q AIT'VNA T''N. 'N"TT . TTDIv N4O-U
Z Warehouse opened wlth large break
5pf sales aimos eqEallu. - glui Thr
,otai number OF POUNDS sold ~ both
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
Hotels and Resorts.
The Greenwood House

viii he open for guests until Sep
t.mhcr 10Th. High in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Albcmarlc County Va
on G. Il @. L. X. For particulars
apply TO
MRS. NJ S. HARRIS.
Greenwood. Va.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-07
McCuire's University School
Greenwood. Va.
opp. William Byrd Park.

WIZ " IITI'IHI 'NTV1 1|Hfk.
Fif'y-iifth session will open Sep
TENDER is. Prepares for all colleges
and technical schools. Lower School
Tor little boys.
Catalogue and other printed mat
matter upon application.
The principal may be seen at the
school from $3.50 ITO 1870 daily, or
at his residence in the afternoon.
school phone, boulevard Az. Resi-
dcncc phone, Madison 5l7I
JOHN l.. MCGUIRE, Principal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
WOMEN AND VICTORY

MO MORE impressive or moving spec
a tacle has been seen i'm this city in Il
long time than the parade Of 5000 women
war workers yesterday AFTERNOON.
The women in line We're the represent
9 tativeS of countless thousands Of others
who have devoted their time and strength
and money to the great task in which the
nation has been engaged They have
worked with al enthusiasm and devo-
tion unsurpassed by any other class Of
citizens. If they could have fought in
the trenches they would have enlisted.
They did the thing which lay at their
hand, and they did it we'll
And they are continuing to display the
spirit of genuine AmcricaniSm, for they
are working heart and soul to make the
Victory Loan a success. Their manner
as they marched the streets indicated
that they were not out for Il lark. but
were engaged in a serious business. They
have assisted effectively III floating pre-
vious loans. and they will once more
demonstrate their ability to fulfill all the
responsibilities of citizenship.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

forms of property must be destroyed and
society must revert to the stage Of primi-
tive barbarism.
The destruction Of money involves
merely the destruction of an intorme-
diary commodity used to facilitate barter.
1t enables a man to exchange his labor
for the Intermediary commodity and then
to exchange the Intermediary commodity
for food and clothing and whatever else
he desires. 1t is really a representative
of labor, and is the most convenient device
available for exchanging the labor Of the
tailor for the labor of the farmer and the
labor of the farmer for the labor of the
sugar manufacturer. But Lenine and his
fellow MarXians do not seem to be aware
of this elementary fact. And they seem
to be ignorant of other elementary facts
also. so ignorant. indeed, that their
efforts to establish a MARKHAM state are
doomed to ignominious failure sooner or
Inter-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
NO MIcAWBERISM IN PORTLAND

CORTLAND, Ore. does not seem to
think it profitable to wait for some
outside agency to take the initiative in
developing the business of its port.
1t has authorized its port commission,
subject to the approval of the taxpayers,
to issue bonds to raise money to pay sub
sides to transpactic steamship lines
using its piers as their eastern terminus.
They are now discussing ways Of eXer-
cising this power.
There are some things which the West
does better than the East. When it wants
a thing it sets out to get it. and it usu-
ally succeeds. We are willing to hazard
the guess that if Portland can secure
greater business for its port in no other
way its business men will buy steam
ships themselves and put them on the
ocean. guaranteed against loss by the
subsidies which the charter permits the
city to pay, just as the Hamburg business
men invested their money in the Ham,
burg American Steamship Line and as
sisted in making their port one of the
biggest in the world.
Portland evidently does not intend to
be the Micawber among cities, COM
pacently waiting for something to
turn up.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
A GOVERNMENT OF FOOLS

t1HE depth of the abyss of economic
: ignorance in which Lenine is founder
ing is revealed by his remarks on money
quoted in an interview, the report of
which comes to this country by way of
Geneva.
Lenine says that the Bolshevik print
ing presses are kept busy turning out
paper money in order that the Golfers of
the state may be filled with practically
WORTHLESS paper, with the deliberate in
tention of destroying the value of money
as means of payment" "There is no
Justification for money in Bolshevist
{ state he says, "where the necessities of
LIE shall be paid for by work alone" He
has discovered that capitalism cannot be
rooted out by confscation or by expro-
priation, so he proposes to eXterminate it
by destroying the value of all money in
REGULATION.
Z IL is apparent that he thinks that
money is the basis of what he chooses to
',all capitalism, when as matter of fact
money is mere incident. Capitalism is
thc result of accumulated property,
whether it be land, Or cows, or horses, or
.uIrs. or buildings, or machinery, or what
|'lsl :, n Il cspitalism is to be destroyed, all
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
Thoughts on Japan

In all the Electric Chairs official family
there is no more delightful member than
Mrs. Etsu Inagaki SugimotO. japanese
lady who lives in New York and favors us
now and then with charming letters. We
trust it is no breach of confidence to let our
patrons enjoy with us few paragraphs from
Mrs. Sugimotos last letter:
7 should have tcritten before this but
hare been a,cGy from the city for fortnight.
Miss Gordon, the president Of the ". @. r..
T., 1UiShed me to help her in her toorb on
the point tcorld friendship, especially be-
t,oeen the United States and Japan. As
the principle being my hobby, ] consented
10 do mv poor best. I travelled through
Dclarcdre State for ten days. The erperi-
ence gare me much. Especially / enjoyed
immensely in meeting villagers IN good old
fashioned rillages. They guve me much in
stead my giving some to them. A feto touch
ing incidents almost took me back TO my
childhood days in mn fathers home.
Once after my address in a little rillage
church rough looking (by my unkind
imagination made me to think thus) farmer
stepped up to me aud oppressed, Little
Ladv. / am rerv sorry that your country has
not the custom kissing" :" I'm my talk,
mentioned that each country has different
,cay of demonstrating ones feeling and so
FORTH. acas little startled. He also
asked me, "Little Lady, do you like milkF'
OF course answered in Affirmative. He
said that he 1could send the best milk he
aoould hare in the morning. True to his
,rord, he sent milk early in the morning.
Sererdl such incidents gate me untold hdppi-
ness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
THE EXPECTED HAPPENS

WHETHER the refusal of Doctor
" Strayer, of the teachers college Of
Columbia University, to accept the post
of superintendent of public instruction in
this state is diplomatic or not remains to
be seen.
II was too much to expect that man
serving in university where the full
professors receive $500 year would
accept a position paying only $4,000.
If We are to get the right kind Of a
man to succeed the late Doctor Schaeffer
the Legislature will have to provide a
more nearly adequate salary than that
now authorized by law.
Doctor Strayer's refusal Of the post
may possibly be reconsidered if the
Legislature should act. But whether it
is or not, the Legislature ought to act at
once, as we said on this page yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

]. Oakum: the substance to which old
ropes are reduced when unpicked;
used in calking the seams of boats,
etc.
.. Bella Kun is the premier of the Hun
garian revolutionary government; it
is reported he has been forced out of
Office. We.
3. Old Bailey: criminal court in London.
A. Sir Walter Scott wrote "Marmion,
). The Reign of Terror is usually set as
the period from the overthrow of the
Girondists, May 81, 1893, to the fall
of Robespierre, July 27, 1904.
g. King Arthur's knights sat at round
table so that distinction Of rank might
be avoided.
Richard Crane, formerly secretary to
the secretary of state, has been named
first United States minister to Czecho-
Slovakia.
s. Sadducees an ancient Jewish sect who
denied the resurrection of the dead.
o. The Rouudheads were SO called because
= they wore their hair closely cropped.
in distinction from the flowing locks
and wigs OF the court party of
Charles !.
10. Old Hickory; nickname for Andrew
- y IHcktVA. ~ 4 .1'.s 4. s ~. VI
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
TAPPING SUTHERLAND'S BARREL

THE amusements of the rich are always
l. a cause for wonder to the observer.
Take the case of Senator Howard
Sutherland, of West Virginia.
This distinguished statesman was born
in Missouri and lived there till he went
to Washington in 1890 to become a clerk
in the Census Bureau. He remained for
three years and then went to West Viz
pinia as general land agent of Henry
Gassawav Davis and his son-in-law, Ste
phen 3. Elkns After while he became
a landowner on his own account. He
entered politics and became rich enough
to afford to be a senator.
Now comes the news that he has con-
sentcd that the editor of the Herald, of
New Castle, in this state, shall organize
a "Sutherland Alliance" to boom him for
the presidency. The alliance has already
been incorporated and soon will be ready
to do business
It cannot do business without money,
however. If the senator wishes to amuse
himself by permitting his admirers to
nroclaim his presidential qualifications
no one shall say him nay. 1t may cost
him more than to own an oceangolng
Yacht. but there may be more fun in 1t
for him. And West Virginia, anyway
does not abut on the sounding seas. AS
he seems to be willing to have his barrel
tapped, the tappers cannot be Blamed fol
accommodating HIM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
PROSPERITY BONDS

AFTER the Victory Loan has been taken
"A up by the people Governor Sproul is
planning to float the first issue of a series
of what may properly be called Pros
perity Bonds.
In July he will call for bids for Sl0,-
100000 of highway bonds, the proceeds
from the sale Of which vii! be used in
improving the roads of the state. He
has authority to borrow S5O,000.000 for
this purpose, and he has announced in
Hot Springs that he purposes to spend
this sum before the close of his admins
tration.
Every one who knows what good roads
will do for a community is gratifed that
the good-roads movement in Pennsy Viva
/. MIA is rapidly passing from the stage of
talk to the stage of action. Contracts
have already been let for work in various
parts of the state. Specifications for
other contracts are being drawn or are
ready to be submitted TO bidders for
their consideration. 1t looks as if the
road building campaign would be in full
swing before the leaves begin to fall.
If the money is properly used, as we
have every reason to believe it will be,
the vast sum will be invested in one of
the most profitable enterprises on which
any community can engage. for every dol
lar spent on the highways will create
from two to ten dollars in new value in
the farm lands through which the high
ways pass and will decrease the cost of
marketing all the crops which have to be
carried from the farm to the railroad sta
tion or to the ultimate consumers in the
neighboring towns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
The Lure Of Spring
WHEN the sun is winking early
w Tn tho oroy dawn of tho nost.

WHEN the sun is winking early
w In the gray dawn of the east;
And shines all day in his sleepy way.
His warming rays increased
When the muskrat haunts the marshes
All along the silver stream.
And the blackbird's glee rings out 'ch wee.
A song like golden dream:
lis then the pulse of days long gone
Beats strong in every vein.
For the lure of spring has a captive ring.
And we are young again.
When the velvet grass is sprinkled
With the dandelion's gold:
And the humble bees, meath the willow trees
Arc growing very bold;
When the chubs and redins gambol
Up and down the old mill race.
And the butterflies and the dreamy skies,
Are smiles on Natures face;
lis then the memories come once more
But Time should not complain.
For the lure of spring has a captive ring,
And we are young again.
james A. Ross, in Toronto Mail and
Empire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

didn't have to do so. In a service where
men of ability and experience are dropped
for even slight offenses against the un-
written law which implies that the word
of the supreme boss is a sacred word and
beyond question subordinate executives
soon learn TO be cautious. Unuueston-
ably they will be cautious on the railroads
at some future day, if one-idea man
controls the roads, and they will not
need to be told to discriminate and to
obey the Great Wish. The telegraph.
telephone and railroad systems in politics
would virtually end political freedom In
the United States. And it has remained
for Mr.. Burleson to demonstrate the sud
denness with which that end could come
about.
1t would come about through the sort
of manipulation and terrorism that Mr..
Burleson has applied during his period in
Mr.. Wilson's cabinet.
The postmaster general has been the
most ardent suppresser who ever held Il
high government office in the United
States. Newspapers. magazines and
books have felt the weight of his auto
cratic wrath. He has been reversed by
the President on most occasions. But he
does not learn.
Open covenants of peace openly arrived
at imply nothing in the mail and wire
service. The principle of the rights of
small nations does not temper the rela-
tionS between Mr.. Burleson and his work
crS. Future Burlesons, whether they
rule utilities for one end or another, will
be shielded by the authority of the fed
cral government which consistently re-
fuses to grant the privilege of collective
bargaining to workers in its employ even
while it urges that principle upon pli
vate employers as an economic necessity
and human right.
And what would the railway brother
hoods say to that?
Mr.. Wilson is an astutC man. He may
be retaining Mr.. Burleson in office only
in order that we may see whittier the
government ownership theory leads.
Then again the President may hesitate
TO fire his postmaster general by cable.
The message might be stopped on the
wires.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
What Do You KnoU?


1. Who is the United States Commissioner
of Education?
,. What is stringcr in shipbuildng?
8. Name author of Little Dorrit."
A. Who wrote, "a thousand years scarce
serve to form state, an hour may lay
it in the dust?
j. Who are the Forty Immortals"?
6. What is the legend concerning the nam
ing of the Adams apple?
Z. What country is known as Albion?
s. What is meant by the phrase, '"To finish
Aladdn's window?
o. What was the Aldine Press?
10. Who is Signor Orlando?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
V V V

Mrs. Sugimoto' $ letters also give us untold
happiness, and we have taken the liberty of
quoting her because world friendship is a
hobby of ours also There have been recent
demonstrations in this city on the part of
those who look toward Japan with no
friendly eyes. On such matters as tho dis
pute between Japan and Korea we are not
qualified to speak. The world is full of in
justices and misunderstandings. Men are
hopeful nowadays that some of these will
be cleared away in the years to come. When
governments make mistakes, it is because
Nthey are out of touch with the hearts of
plain people. In Mrs. Sugimoto's letters,
which come to us on dainty rice paper print :
ed with delicious faint pictures OF yew trees
aud cherry blossom boughs and flying birds
With little red aopknots, there speaks the
Asass 0f The true ys2ani--a land ot beauty
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

The government will, of course, see to it
that if cars and locomotives are lent to the
Mexicans for the purpose of building nm
International trade due care will be taken
that the equipment does not fall into tho
hands of the ]. w. w. rampant there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Excellent Judgment is being shown in
postponing the transatlantic airplane fights
until meteorological conditions are propi-
tious; but the fact that such postponements
are necessary proves the adventure a sport.
ing event rather than a commercial venture.
Commercial possibilities will come later.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Germany will soon find it very difficult
to prove that she is in any danger from
Rolshcvism. Germans, having been inocu-
lated with more deadly disease, are practi-
cally immune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Two boys in Kalamazoo, Mich. robbed
store and killed the proprietor. Tbev
have been sentenced to solitary confinement
for life. 1t would have been more mercifuI
to hang them; but Michigan does not prac. :.
tice capital punishment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Mr.. Depew has again celebrated the
opening of the chestnut burr. His eighty fifth
birthday was marked by three dinners, and
he told stories at all of them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

The sweet reasonableness of Matthias
Erzberger's address to the German peace
commission suggests the calm that comes
after the bawl that comes after the spanking
af q naughty little bog.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24
THE ELECTRIC CHAIR

and simplicity, stole courage and human
love so intense that her people fear to give
it expression
The Koreans tell us that the japanese are
cruel. Probably they are. with the par
ticular cruelty of those who are sensitive
inside. Those who tread smilingly upon the
thorns Of their own hearts, who fight to re-
press their own emotions, will probably not
be too tender with the emotions of others.
1t is always the sentimentalist who is most
cruel-one remembers Nero. And yet we
remember japanese fairy tales we have read,
and particularly some quaint and lovely
stories rctold by Mrs. Sugimoto from her
memories of her old nurse. The heart and
spirit of nation is more likely to be found
in its fairy tales than in the acts of its
government.
The only remedy for international bicker
ings and bitterncsses Tics in the mutual
friendship of individuals. If the league of
nations would establish big boarding school
and college at its headquarters, where the
future statesmen (and statcswomen) of all
lands could be educated together studying
the literatures and traditions and languages
of each others countries, many of our trou-
DltS "ouiu Dc SIeully SiHpllltu suppose
that Messrs. Clemenceau, Lcnine, Lloyd
George, Orlando, Ncnizclos, Chinda and
House had all gone to boarding school to-
gether and had mutually studied and argued
over French Russian, British Italian,
Greek, japanese and American history,
would they not meet on an easier footing
today-with a kind of rubber heeled tread.
as it were? Well, perhaps not. Who knows?
Men are perverse. Perhaps Lloyd George
would remember the time when Clemenceau
had given him a scarlet nose, and Mr..
Houses placid breast would rankle little
over the fact that Lenine had bitten his
ear when tackling him on the five yard line
V v V
But at any rate, it does seem to u.s. Just
thinking about all this in an offhand way,
that a mighty good rule would be for every
body to cultivate at least one foreign friend
If everybody in this country had foreign
chum whom he knew we'll enough to call by
his or her first name. surely the sum total
of those affections would go a long way to
help the world along Pick out some for
eigner whether " be French or Brazilian
or Korean or Eskimo, and insist on loving
him.
We have often thought of a story told by
Lafcadio Hearn in one of his letters. We
found it in volume given us by two friendly
Japanese students at the University of Penn
sylyania, Messrs. Ueda aud Shimada. Hearn
| describes his young japanese cook, telling
what happy, healthy and always smiling
face he had. One day Hearn happened to
glance into the kitchen through a hole in
| the wall, and to his amaZement saw an en-
tirely different face. The young mans
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Two hundred and fifty Yankee cavalry
men boosted the loan yesterday. Victory is
again their goal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

The greatest little street in the world
has proved that cubistic and futuristic de.
sicrs arc not wholly futlitarian.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

There is no foundation for the rumor
that the delegates from Peru to a Pan
American labor congress in New York viii
make the Journey north in Peruvian bark.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

OF course there is always a possibility
that people being forced to buy their own
bomcs are being forced into prosperity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

If DIR. Fridtjof Nansen wishes to be
'roally helpful he might take Lenine and
Trotsky to the North Pole and leave them
there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

And during yesterdays pageant there
was not an anti suffragist to declare that
woman's place is in the home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Entirely apart from the merits of the
Rorkc bill, there is no immediate danger of
The state going into the life insurance bust
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

pitiless publicity continues to sbe pitt
losslv nupctured at the peace rarley.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

The telegraphers who paraded yesterda!
oro oxDerts in barbed wire also.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

Kolcbak appears to be pretty good cure
for BOlshevism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-24

In Budapest the accent is still ON the
| third syllable.