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Dealing With the Sugar Problem

HERE may be an acute shortage of
sugar upon the American market and
an abnormal demand for that product, but
neither circumstance is an excuse for out
rageous proiitecring. Nor Is either circum-
stance an excuse for lifting the price to the
consumer with every passing wind, whether
there be criminal profiteering or not This
years sugar crop has been placed on the
market. The cost of producing 1t has not
changed The cost of marketing has not
changed materially. The only thing that
has changed is the price. and It has been
raised systematically and in defiance OF
both law and common decency for many
months past
The Acknowledgement has at last been
compelled by the sugar interests TO become
price-hXer. He has laid down a margin
of profit for both the wholesaler and the
retailer. The former is permitted to make
] cent L pound profit on all the goods
handled and the latter 2 cents n pound.
This is the literal maximum, it is declared
by the chief law officer of the government,
and tho distributor or retailer who charges
more is subject TO arrest and prosecution
under the Lever act
1t is by no means certain that this warn
ing will have the desired effect. The habit
OF ovcrcharging has become so fixed in most
quarters and the contempt for the Federal
government so profound. that profiteering
Is going on almost without restraint not
alone In the sale OF sugar, but in the sale
or scores OF other staple articles. The De-
partmcnt of Justice and fair-price commits
sioners may agree upon margins OF profit,
but they rarely accomplish anything more.
Meantime, witnesses appearing before the
committees of Congress and before the Rail-
road Labor Board have submitted state
'nents to the effect that the sugar-producing
companies OF the country now selling their
output at an advance of from 800 to 400 per
cent, are reaping profits of gigantic totals
" Is shown in one statement, laid before the
Railroad Labor Board, that the American
Sugar Refining Company made 40 per cent
last year upon its output after setting aside
millions OF dollars for depreciation and
other surplus accounts.
How long the consumer is going to stand
for being gouged in this fashion Is hard to
say, but the time is inevitably coming when
there will be revolt OF grave nature and
when property rights. now held sacred, will
be totally disregarded. a demand will grow
| into Irresistible proportions for nationaliza-
! ton OF all such industries as sugar and
coal and when IL comes, the Interests" will
begin to realize the blunders they have COM
mittcd at the expense Of the be-damned
| public.
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PARKER is iNAUGURATED
GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA
AntirinE leader Takes Oath at ONCE
in Pelican 9tnte Following
Monster Parade.

BATON ROUGE, LA. May 17.--At
noon today John NJ. Parker. New
Orleans, was inauguratcd az Cover
nor Of Louisiana. succeeding II. C.
Pleasant.
The inaugural ceremony was pro-
coded ny a monster parade pnrtici-
pated by tho officials, tho New Or
leans Democratic Club, OF New Or
leans; the military units. and various
political units.
Governor Parker delivered tho
shortest inaugural address on rec
ord-%ohsfstinG OF three paragraphs.
All citizens were urged to take n
deep interest in public affairs to
prevent the drifting away from
those great principles formally SO
dear to both state and nation" BY
tho Governor
The vast majority OF Americans
think right, see right and act right,
said the Governor. They are full
able to solve any problems which
confront them. we have played too
much politics and too little common
sense. and arc now paying tho
penalty.
Every great war has left In its
wake a period OF misery and suffer-
ing for the vanquishcd: OF cXtrava-
gancc and waste on the part OF the
victors. The problems to be solved
by the world today are complex. and
cover nearly every phase or human
endshvor. We of Louisiana must not
be dptellct In doing our share
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
Swat One and Kill a Million

mon housefy. ~ ~
There 10 not an intelligent man. woman or
chlid III the country who does know what
dangerous. disease bcarinE, death brinrinE
summer boarder he is. - 80"
1t Is time now to take the most thorough
PROSECUTIONS against having amy breeding
pIaSef Tor HES. whose large families thrive
G is I'm, IN nth and decay about the promises
doors: II Is time to prepare to swat
, IL seems hopeless Bometmes, when one re-
nects that a pair OF flies arc capable of pro-
ducing millions of their kind in n single sea-
SON. to take the pains to remove one nv from
TINS scene OF activity. But tho death Of ono
duction of millions
Our memory goes back to the time when
screens wero OF the most primitive sor {, made
or MOSQUITO netting, ill fitting In their frames
and anording easy inGress into the house for
any wide awake fly.
We used have n sort OF CATO nIhc- = q ils
r., Length OF broomstick with strips OF tough
ashes ia,. and when the flies became unbcarably
unlGH on the dinner table. ono of the children
would Jump up and swish them away with this
temporarily effective instrument.
The human race survived. but in those DAYS
tne dea lea rate from typhoid fever was one
oaoies died where two die now.
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From Other Viewpoints
skeleton OF the Socialist Party Dances.
HI ALFRED II. WILLIAMS.

Those who let goosehesh be raised on their
PACKS ny newspaper and political talk of
cialism in this country should be interested
In actual facts and figures showing our So
cialism MS 1t really il. Tho national conyen-
ton or the party. in New York, consisted Of
l6l persons calling themselves delcEates No
body seems TO have been particular about
matters OF credentials OF constituencies
represented but those present claimed 70
have been sent from thirty OF the forty eight
states OF these seventy seven, practically
half. were from the four States OF Illinois
Wisconsin. Now York and Pennsylvania OF
the Southern states. Arkansas had one dele
gate Dear Lady; Maryland had four and
oklahoma hve males and Texas. Kentucky,
West Virginia and Georgia one each Virginia
was unrepresented. -
OF the total number OF delegates ninety
were born in the United States seventy rht
about half. havo names suggestive of English
Irish or Scotch origin, and OF the foreign born
four are English and one each Irishman and
Scotchman. by occupation, forty-one' of the
delegates are actual handworkers, including
several printers. while thirty four arc mouth
workers; such as lecturers. organizers. law
Among the isi delegates one is CLASSIFIED as
a farmer. ..
or tho five delegates from California, three
women.
The most pessimistic hardly find in this
OUTFIT much threat OF an upheayal Impotent
and hopeless IT. was, II split promptIy The
one show of a definite purpose was by the mi
nority OF one-hfth the membership. consisting
ly demanded declaration for "a Dictatorship
Of the proletariat." which Is prccineiy what
RUSSIA mas. victor berger told tho truth, for
once. when he said. opposing this. that outside
Milwaukee and lower East Side New York no.
body In America knows what a "proletariat"
Is Tho real, original moaning Of II Is mon At
for nothing but to keep up the numbers Of
population by being fathers OF children, like
male animals.
In 1912 Dcbs. the jaiibrd nominated for
President by this convention. polled o91 900
votes In 1916 Benson, candidate Of the same
parry, got 100000. Since then the respectable
ity Of the party has left 1t. Men like sparKo
and Benson gave itoccasional flashes Of brill
hhncy and taste OF decency because they were
not common cheap Srafters rabid. but per-
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TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
sir.-Is IL true that General Lees family
In the Associated Press account Of the dedi-
of the SaEtSn On Nay
May Is. tits suited That "dfts.siI gears ago 20
yesterday Arlington Cemetery was hrst used
when President Lincoln personally witnessed
the hospital on the he AringtoD estate va"
by General Robert L. Lees family at the be-
ginning OF the Civl War, and bought by the
heirs $4,000"
a. meeting 81 the Assoe,ation for the
,he John Marshall House. May j. isi7. Miss
Mary GUSTS Leo was present to place in the
Of priceless Washington relics. including what
was left OF the Cincinnati dinner service
each piece bearing the insignia OF the Society
for General Washington.
Miss Lee atated that the china waB stored In
Roher, 4: Lee was required to leave there on
twenty-four hours notice during the War Be-
tween the States.
The barrels opened by United States
stroyed.
a Mr.. Lyons Of New York who had been a
visitor mt Arlington before the war. saw aome
pieces in the yard and recognized ono OF the
Cincinnati plates. He represented the value
to the Paten; 0fhce and afterwards TO the
Smithsonian Institute.
have it restored, but Congress passed n reso:.
to Miss Mary cass I fe@ BY H Meain
Miss Lee told me that the hurry and excite
ment OF packing necessary clothing for her
self and the children who were hastily sent
and that the packing OF articles that had to be
LEFT behind and stored in the cellar took most
MRS j. TAYLOR ELLYSON
Richmond, Va. May II. 1920. III.
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IMMATURE ALMANAC.
INTERESTING DETAILS OF
JOAN OF ARC EXALTATlON
Cnnonisstion Of Girl Patriot by Pope
benedict Witnenaed by $4,000
In Rome.
my Associated prc.u.l

A'S NohO''akSu
ROME. May l7.-Joan OF Arc. tho
shephcrd lars. who In 1919 was called
from tho peaceful fields OF Domremy
10 ieau the armies OF Franco to VIC
tory against the English and Bur
Eundians; today was exalted to saint
hocA Thirty thousand persons Wit
messed the rite In honor OF tho meek
GIRL CIR r whose leadership founded mod,
tho allied world during tho dark
honrs OF the great war Just closed.
impressive ceremony and ancient
ritual marked thu. adoption OF her
Benedict. cnthroncd In st. Peters. an
nounced TO the Catholic world the
solemn fact OF the adoption 10 tho
9 5eny or the ne saints Of Jean of Arc or
devotion by the church and called
mpon surroundinE ecciesiastica to
ed the consistorial advocate to draw
up tho deed Of announcement and left
the throne, intoning "Te Deum"
I'm. b 6sS OF 81. ms's5s an, antnouneed
the churches OF Rome answered.
The rite was concluded b.. celehra-
ton Of mass by the. Pope, the light
ousiy vested cccicsiastlcs gatHesed
around tho altar. Pope Benedict con-
s Ith h ora, psr, Of 'hs io
saint, and as he spoke = picture OF
Joan OF Arc which was placed behind
the high altar. was unveiled.
The impressive procession that
marked the beginning of tho cerc-
monies was then reformed and slow
ly wound Its way back TO tho Vatican,
passing through reverent. weeping
thrOnGs which again received tho
apostolic benediction. Great emotion
was shown By members of the fam
ily OF Joan OF Are, who had places in
a tribune with members OF the French
Chamber OF Deputies. municipal
councillors and other French pilgrims
who came TO Rome for the canonlza-
ton
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18

sonaiiy prudent howlcrs for destruction, but
thcy could not give II any brains because they
VEG none or substantial quality to Eivc.
what IS lett Is mess or shallow theorists
n VIZ saDoie and gabble. dronc and dronc split
hairs with endless verbosity and yocifcrations
.,nu aGsue themselves round and round In
aisury circles. Most OF the remaining leaders
nLsA up scahty and preCarious lvngs from
the same Kind of intellectuals as fall for al
nesGa bhuddist mystics and the same variety
~. ."e commonality that enriched the quick
vure Lakers who used to go about in tho coun-
,s with four-horse hacks and singing quar-
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lightweight members of the House sign
protest TO Great Britain against "imprison-
ment without arrangement or trial" OF va
rious Irish. II is q somewhat insolent in
trusion on the affairs OF friendly nation,
an Insulting suggestion which We would re-
sent violently, and fragrant misuse OF rep
resentative position intrusted to these mer.-
oerse by constituents OF varying opinions and
raclai connections II is made especially
RIDICULOUS ana humiliating to those who re-
sara our national dignity and RESPONSE
bility by the fac: revealed by ,bn sri-
cide7o an anarchi<t i'll New York that our
government has been holding number OF
Italian suspects several weeks ''githou; mr.
raingnment or trial" j, is gratifying to
note that OF eighty-eight signers, but twelve
are from the South, none from virginia
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN
PENNSYLVANIA TODAY
Faction OpPoslnE Palmer n. Demo-
cratic reference Urging Mime
OF William G.. McAdoo.

PHILADELPHIA. Nav i7-Au M.
iitical parties In Pennsylvania Will
hold their primary elections tomor-
row. Tho Republican and Demo-
cratic parties each VIII elect sew
enty-six delegates to their respective
NATIONAL conventions. Presidential
preferences are not directly involved
IN thc Republican primary, tho con-
sonnel OF the designation and to set
Ito factional differences
EDWARD Randolph Wood. d retired
sole candidate on the Republican
presidential preferential ballot. At
ey-Gcneral Palmer vas the only
candidate TO nle nomination papers
on me democratic presidential ballot.
nut In the last few days the faction
opposing the Acknowledgement for
control OF tho organization I'm Penn
syivania Is urging It's followers TO
w!ite the name OF William q, Nc
Adoo on tho ballot.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
DAWSON WANTS HELP FOR
PLAGUE STRICKEN EUROPE
hcd Cross Director Tells Methodist
Conference Of Snd Plight OF
Central European States.
1Dy Associated press.l

DIES MONIES, IOWA May IL
tntenry T. Dawson, OF j. +. Morgan
Co. chairman OF tho board of gov
s snn1frs OK the League OF Red Cross
OF tho Methodist Episcopal Church
nero Today TINT zone OF tho most tor
rlo!e TRACED les tho history OF tho hu-
man race Is being enacted within tho
tho Battle and the Black and AdrIa-
TO Seas. In this area are the ne e.
baitic States. Poland. C:zccho-Slo-
HaKla. Ukraine. Austria Hungary,
Serbia.
Wants Immediate Aid.
Mr. Dawson asked that Congress
Immediately appropriate not exceed
ing $500. 100000 for tho use of the
countries OF Central and Eastern
Europe. He requested that Congress
H nan, oRon the President to appoint a
AMERICANS. who should survey tho
conditions In these countries and TO
aliocate materials TO them without
interterence. lie suggested that the
years.
Il am confident" he said, that our
action would BIO followed by the gov
ernments OF Great Britain, Holland.
and japan and that France. belgium
aud Italy would help to the beat OF
their ability"
Mr.. Dawson said he was custodian
OF authoritative reports recording
appalling conditions among millions
Of people living In Eastern Europe"
Il believe" he said, that tho apathy
and indifference which prevail today
are due alone to tho fact that Amer
lean people have not graspcd the
dreadful facts"
Civilization Has broken Down.
The reports which como to us
make IL clear that in these war raw
ished lands civilization has broken
down. Men, women and children are
dying by thousands and over vast
once civilized areas there are to be
found Mother medical appliances nor
medical skill sufficient to cope with
the devastating plaques"
Summarizing these reports. Mr..
Dawson said that ono OF the worst
typhus cpidemios in the worlds his
tory now exists among tho Poles.
who wero threatened with wholesale
starvation this summer; that typhus.
Influenza, smallpox or tuberculosis
existed In Czccho- Slovakia, Serbia.
Roumania and tho Ukraine and that
there was lack Of medicine, eoap and
physicians to combat these diseases.
lIo pointed 10 the menace OF typhus
"at our threshold" and asked how
long before 1t ''might creep TO our
own shores"
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FRENCH TROOPS EVACUATE
CITIES IN NEUTRAL ZONE
Laconic Message Is Ponted I'm Vari-
ous Cities Readings "Frcnch
Keen Their Word"

Nv AAsociNteN PTtss
troops which have been in occupa-
ton OF Frankfort. Darmstadt and
other cities on the east bank Of the
Rhine evacuated those cities this
morning, 1t is announced here.
The Germans were informed OF the
departure of the occupying forces
through a laconic message issued by
NJ Goutte. posted In Ine various
cities. which read: 1.-The French keep
their word"
Tho evacuation proceeded In an
orderly way and amid entire quiet.
The Belgian troops, which have
been occupying Frankfort and Hanau.
evacuated those cities this morning.
No untoward incident has been re-
ported.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
ATLANTIC FLEET TO SEA
AFTER F0RTNIGHT'S REST
Squadron Has Been Reduced by De-
parture OF Battleship and Six De-
atoycrA for MeIicS.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE At
iantic. feet, which has been ut anchor
in the Hudson River for the last two
weeks. put TO sea today. Since II
arrived here II has boen reduced as
n unit by the detaching OF the bat
tIeship Oklahoma and six destroyers.
which were ordered to the Gulf OF
Mexico for possible duty in connec-
ton with recent political changes in
Mexico.
The battleship Pennsylvania. flag
shin Of the nect. will so to Hampton
Roads direct. The other ships of the
fleet will carry out program of
InaneuYers and practice runs. after
which It was Understood here they
viii join the flagship. Rumors also
were current in naval circles that
additional ships may soon be sent
to the DUFF Of Mexico to join the
Oklahoma and the destroyers now on
duty there
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
MINISTER TO HONDURAS
HAS RESIGNED HIS POST
II. Samboln Jones. Following Long
Leave OF Absence, Leaves Ulp-
lOmatlc Srryicr0

WASHINGTON. May lit. Sam
bola Jones. American Minister To
honduras, has resigned his post and
Nils resignation has been accepted,
tho state Department announced to-
day Nr. Jones. whose home Ia in
Louisiana. has been on leave OF alb
sence for some weeks in this coun-
try. His successor has not been
selected.
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nills. Bills, Birl,,

tFor The T.-D.) =
I'm dog-tired OF reading speeches,
Telling how to cure our ills,
And our statesmen make me weary
With their everlasting bills
Bills to cut the cost Of living,
Bills to salvo the folks back
home"
Bflls to mako this old world better.
Bills as useless as this "pome,"
"All this world Is sad and dTeary," y
Oh. We gods, speed up your mills.
II you're short OF stuff for grinding.
~ 81 = X. w, b,
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Recommend 100 Per Cent Dividend.
BOSTON. Nav 7-necla IN I'm al

BOSTON. May 17.-Decla ration of
a stock dividend OF 100 per cent by
the Dwight Manufacturing Company,
which has cotton mills at Chicopee
and Alabama City, Ala, was recon-
mendod to stockholders by the di-
rectors OF tho company today. It
WAS voted also to recommend that
the par value Of the stock be
OF the old, and to increase the au-
thorized capital from sl.800,O0O to
S6,000,0Q0. The stockhol ders will act
at q special meeting called for
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
FAMOUS BAhDERILLERO
KILLED IN MADRID ARENA
Jose1ito FL Gallo. Member OF Bull
Fighting Family. Loses Life Dis
patching Fifth uuIl.

10y Nssoc!attd IIrfss.
MADRID. May l7.-Toreador Jose-
Tito FL Gallo was killed last even
Ing at Place dc Talavcra. when dis
patching his nth bull of the after
moons fight. He belonged to a fam
Gus bull fighting family. his father
being a banderillero. while his elder
brother. Rafnel. also Is n bull nghter.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
1,590,624,644 POUNDS OF
TOBACCO HELD IN STORAGE
Census Statement Shows Slight De-
crease in Amount on Hand
One Year Ago.

I 10y AsHDCIhtOU PrcsF.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-Leaf to-
'bacco held by manufacturers and
dealers on April l aggregated $780,
624.G44 pounds. compared with 1,G27,-
233.876 year ago. the Census Bu-
reau announced today. Included are
1.437.166.452 pounds Of unstemmed
and 153.45S.192 pounds of stemmed
leaf tobacco.
Chewing, smoking, snuff and ex-
port types aggregated l,179.S23.043
pounds; cigar types aggregated 82s,-
724.633 pounds. and imported types
aggregated S2.O7s,0GS pounds.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
$4,000 IN LIQUOR STOLEN
Truck Load of Bondcd Whisky Held
for Medicinal Purposes Disappears
in Cleveland.

IBy Associated Prcss.1
CLEVELAND. OHIO, May ia
motor truck loaded with whisky
valued at $4,000, WAS driven away
by liquor thieves this morning, when
Samuel Cohn. chauffeur. left II, while
he breakfasted. The truck was load
ed with 100 cases Of bonded whisky,
intended for medicinal purposes.
which Cohn was transporting by
government permit from n Kentucky
distillery to n wholesale house in
Brooklyn, ~. y.
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SENATE ASKS PLANS FOR
DEFlATl0N OF CURRENCY
Financial Experts Arc Gathering in
washington TO DiscUsa Plans with
Federal Reserve Board.
IBy Associated pro,s.

WASHINGTON. May l1.-Thc Sem
ate today adopted the Mccormick
resolution calling on the Federal
Reserve Board for information as to
rency and consequent reduction OF
high prices and also for It's plans for
credit mobilization to cover crop
movements this year.
In urging tho adoption OF tho reso-
luton, Senator Mccormick said the
snmc signs that preceded the boards
plans would 30 for toward offsetting
the danger Financial experts. no
added. were now gathering in Wash
ington to discuss these plans with
the board
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ARREST FOUR DETECTIVES
AS FREIGHT CAR THIEVES
New York Central Men Charged WITH
stealing Large Quantities of
Bic rchandIse.

NV Nssocla'td Frc.s
NEW YORK. MAY I7.-Cbarpcd
with having stolen thousands OF dol
lars worth OF merchandise from
freight shipments In Interstate COM
morce. four detectives employed by
tho New York Central Railroad were
arrested today by other private
operators under the roads detective
chief
After being arraigned In police
court. the quartet WAS turned over
10 tho Federal authorit!cg
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18
NTH TO FORM CABINET
Accepts Invitation by King Victor
Emmanuel Following nesiEna-
ton of Mtnistry Inst Week.

f3N NsSOCInt ed FrFSN.
ROME. May 17.-Sisnor Nitti.
whose Cabinet resigned last week,
Victor Emmanuel to form a new min
istry. The invitation was extended
today after the King had conferred
with former Prcmiers Tittoni and
Orlando
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-18

Mr.. Edison failed to produce anything
very startling for war-use, but comes for
ward now with announcement of great
following for Hoover in New Jersey.
Whether this is n discovery or an invention
by the famous wizard of Menlo remains to
be decided
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Dram ats Personnr.

The Groom-The sad ared-looking fellow
who wears an expression of lingering doubt
mingled with desperate resolve: tho silly
COOP. rs.
The Brido-The young lady in mosquito net
ting carrying more expensive flowers than
she ever haa before She has ono eye on the
groom in case he makes a break for get
away q:
The Father-Ho Is the proud looking fellow
with the large front, who Is wearing an ap-
pearance of responsibility to cover his real
feeling of profound relief.
The Mother--she is in tho front row nEi-
tatedly pulling her handkerchief to pieces.
You can pick her out better when she begins
10 snifAe.
The Groomsman--He is the important young
fellow who walks down tho nisle with his
niger In his vest pocket for fear he might
lose something germane to the ISSUE
The Best Man-There he sits. the son-of-a-
Gun over In the corner holding his hand over
MS mouth to hide a laugh. tIe Ia tho fellow
the sirl wouldn't marry. and he got his ring
back. too!