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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04

bilcs have also been very slow The
police say that only 1850 automobiles
here have proper city licenses. or
less than the number OF persons
holding permits TO drive. The ON
Gals attribute this to the fact that
the driving permits cost nothing and
that city licenses do. There should
be at least 1000 automobile licenses
sold by this time OF year, the police
declare.
In order to facilitate the distribu-
tlon OF licenses and driving permits
Omccrs ]. II. l.!Ggway and r. ~
Nicsz. OF the First Police District
have been assigned to Police Head
quarters and placed In charge of the
work. Police expect TO start n drive
to roundup III. drivers slow In COM
plying with the law within a few
days.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
GO AFTER COTTON COMBINE
Federal Prosecutors to Investigate
Illegal Movement TO
DcDress Isriccs,

WASHINGTON. April 3:-Federal
prosecution OF an alleged combine
OF Georgia cotton dealers to reduce
the price of cotton may he the re-
suit OF an Investigation by the De-
partIncnt OF Justice.
Attorney General y. Mitchell PAL
,ncr announced today that he has in
structcd United States District At
torncy Hooper Alexander AT Atlanta
to Investigate an alleged illegal com
bination to dcpress cotton prices
through the control of differeiitials
in the various grades of cotton.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
FAILS TO ANSWER CHARGES
Man Wanted for Passing Seven
Worthless Checks on Local
Iinnks Disappears.

G. c. Burruss. charged on seven
counts with passing worthless checks
On Richmondd banking institutions
failed to appear yesterday In Police
Court when his case was called. lie
was alleged 10 have passed checks
on the National State and City Bank
the First National Bank OF Richmond
the Merchants National Bank, and
the Broadway National Bank. The
total sum. however. on all OF the
checks Is only s2l7. Justice Crutch
field ordered that his bond be for
feited and an attachment issued for
him.
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nond.mnn Needs acquisition.

Because w. W. Stewart had failed
to secure the necessary extradition
paper in tho case OF y. .. Ellis, so.
who Is charged with heing fugi-
tive from Maryland. Justice John
Crutchnc,d, refused TO consider his
case yesterday and ordered IL con-
tinued until April IA, in Police Court.
According TO Stewart, Ellis is wanted
on enlarge OF assault and battery
in Prince George County. Md. and
also for jumping a $1,000 bond. stew
art is said to he the bondsman.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
SPIES ACTIVE IN BRITAIN
Many Secretly Collecting Information
for Foreign Powers, Says
War Office.
TBy Associnted prcas j

I3y NssnCINtrH i'roas I
LONDON. April 3.-The British
government is taking steps TO re-
strict the operations in England OF
spies from foreign countries. The
House OF Commons has just adol 49,
antispy regulations at the request
of Sir Ernest Pollock. tho solicitor
general, who told the members of the
house that information was now be-
ing collected here for foreign gov
crnments. and that this ought 10 be
stopped for the sake OF the country's
safety.
spies are as active in this country
as ever" said BriGadier-Gencral
Cockerill. director OF special intelli-
gencc at the War Office.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04

rendered today by Assistant-At-
forney- General r. L. Wood, in a
letter TO w. G. McAllister, secretar y
of the State Election Board.
An old election law providing that
no party may he placed on the State
ticket unless it poiled at least per
cont OF votes cast in the State at
the previous general election or 10
per cent ,-of votes for Governor or
President at previous general cleo
tions In other states. was cited by
the Assistant Attorney-G
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
AUTO OWNERS VERY SLOW
IN GETTING 1920 LICENSES
Police to Start Drive to Round-Up
Thousands OF Dclinqucnts
IN ItIchmOnd,

Police would bd justified in ar
resting about 5000 automobile
drivers here for not having 1920 per-
mits to drive cars. according to OFF,
Gals in charge of tho distribution of
driving permits. Richmonders are
said TO have been exceedingly slow
this year In getting their permits
20 drive, only about $500 having
taken the trouble to secure a permit.
Old permits are no longer good.
tho police point out, and any one
not having an up-to-dato permit is
liable 10 arrest and fine i'm Police
Court. There arc 1900 persons who
drive automobiles here. 1t is everred
Sale of city licenses for automo-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
RAIL EARNINGS INCREASE
Atlantic Const Line Figures Tor Past
Two Months Exceed i013
Period. t'!st''N.

Net operating revenues OF the AL
lantic Coast Line Railroad for the
month OF February showed an In
crease OF over 100 per cent ovsr. the
same month In 1919. The total oper-
ating revenues were s6.55s, sU5. and
the operating expenses were $4,1S3,-.
29S.53. making the net revenHegs 3d.
I15.5o6.75. The net total for Fe6ru-
airy. 1919. was ss27,94o.lo. Net faxes
of 100000 being deducted, TIE lbp-,
Grating income for the motitha vas
sl,575.506.T5. 5SsT
Operating revenues for the months
Of January and February wereN$13.-
a7S.9f4.S0. Operating expenses We're
s3.s37.7i9.37 and the net revsnu9S sy3,-
44l.l95.i3. The net revenues for the
same period In 1919 were $2.36U,726.-
Il, showing an increase In tho presi
ent year OF s1,090.469.24. Net feve-
nues for the same period cinT 1918
were S2,735.b47.35. u ees
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
WILL TRY DEMPSEY SOON
HenHyweiGht Champion Charged With
Draft Evnsion Awaiting Trial
In CALIFORNIA;

SAN FRANCISCO. April 3.-Thc
cases of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
champion. and his manager. Jack
kearns, indicted by a Federal grand
jury in connection with Dempscy's
alleged evasion OF the sclective drafi
were called in the United states Dis
trict Court today and went over for
TWO weeks. Al which time. 1t was an
nounced. the cases would be get for
trial. Neither Dempsey nor Kearns
appeared in court.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
Demands Danish Parliament Meet.

LONDON, April 1.-Two vice presi-
dents of the lower house OF the Dan
ish Parliament today demanded that
house. according to an Exchange Tcle
house. according to an exchange tcle-
graph dispatch from Copenhagen. The
request was refused and the vice
presidents thereupon disclaimed all
responsibility for any consequences
that might ensue IL the house was not
convened in the present critical cit
uatioN.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
NOTED COMPOSER DEAD
Homer \. Bnrtlrtt W'nn OrganIst for
7 Madison Avenue baptist Church
for 81 Years.

HoBOkDN. y. J.. April 3.-Hou or
y Bartlett, composer. pianist and
organist died 1t his home nc.e today.
al the age o. 10 Mr.. gartl,t: lie.
tired eight years ago as organist of
the Madison Avenue Baptis, Church,
New York City. after a service there
OF thirty-onc years.
His compositions were OF wide
variety the best known being his
concert polka and Christmas an
them. "Bethlehcm."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
THIEVES TRIED FOR MURDER
Jury In Cnse OF Mrx. Grace v. Howell.
OF Miami, FniIs to
Agree.
BY Associated Press
IN IlA L ~ l.

WEST PALM BEACH. FLA. April
3.-The third trial or Mrs. Grace V.
Howell, charged with the murder OF
nor husband. Samuel Thomas Howell,
ended today in tho jury being dis
charged, after having reported u
could not agree.
In the two former trials yer5ic,a
Of first degree murder were returned
but each Time the defendant obtained
new trial The killing took pluc.
al Miami In 1918, and the case was
brought here on n change OF venue.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
ALLEGED MOOkSHINERS
FIGHT WITH OFFICERS
buffalo Creek, Kentucky IL scene
uf Pitched Hattie Between Is

Lny Agsoe!ateh rreus. ]

~ associated t'rSSs.
HAZARD. KY, April 1.-Two alicg-
cd moonsh,ners. Robert Cornctt and
q man named kilburn. and two depu-
ty-shcr!ffs. logan Johnson ana Jerry
cornett were brought to the Hazard
Tiospita! today from Buffalo Creek,
where they Nero seriously wounded
in fight last night.
1t il said the fight started when
Deputy-Sneri Johnson and Cornett
and three other men attempted TO
arres; K!lburn and Cornctt. who were
alleged to have been selling moon
shine whisky. when the shcrtfs
called upon them TO surrender the
alleged bootlcggcrs opened fire and
n pitched battle cnsucd.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
VEHIzEL0s IN SYMPATHY
WITH ARMENIAN CAUSE
All Cfiicin Ii Threatened by Turks,
With Danger OF Massncres.
by Associated Press.l


WASHINGTON, April 3.-Greek
sympathy for the Armenian cause Ia
expressed In u cablcgram received
today by Miriam Sevnsly. chairman Of
tho Armenian National Union. from
Premier Ven!zeios.
Armeninns In CiIicia, where the
military situation was said TO be
criticai. are being armed by French
authorities. n cablegram from Adann
reported.
Forces OF tho Turkish nationalist
leader. Mustapha Kemai. and local
Mohanmedans were threatening ali Of
Cilicia the message said. The town
OF HAHN. bes!eged for some weeks.
would have to capitula,c with prob
able uassacres Of the Christian popu.
!a,ioh' " vas added. unless relief came
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
Make Final Appeals.

DETROIT, April 3.-Final appeals
by Governor Frank o. Lowden. of
Illinois, and Senator Hiram Johnson.
marked the close tonight OF the cam
raiGn for Endorsement in Michiean's
presidential preference primary Mon
day. Governor Lowden closed AT Sa-
ginaw, while Senator Johnson wound
up his campaign at Muskcgon.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
A.hcvilIe Meeting Is Postponed.

ASHEVILLE. y. c., Apr!l 3.--Owing
to tho inability OF the officers to
reach Ashevillc in time for the meet
ing. the committee of officers OF the
Thirticth Division Association. schc-
duled for today here has been post
poncd until April ID. Colonel IL. Il.
Springs, of Grccnvilie, s. g.. is presi-
dent. and Frank Bowen. of Knoxville,
Tenn, secretary.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
begims tuesday, Judge Scott VI ai-
journ the court while he bs kkay.
DEsERTERs FROM s0vtEE
ARMY RARELY CAPTURED
Russian Peasants Leave Red Forces
Mt Every Opportunity. Seys
COrrcnpOndence. slSs

THE HAGUE. April 3l%kussian
peasants desert from the Req army
N every opportunity and go hack 40
their villages. where they ehrn fAore
money than they ever before dreamed
II earning. asserts the corresponding
OF THE Amsterdam Handelsblsd. who
recently visited Soviet Russia Nobody
Inns OF shooting them for Asser-
t.on. ..t..a
For the little they cultivate, on
their own soil people bring, ithem
whatever they want-gold.., gramo-
phoncs. clothes or money" haliadds.
Nevertheless the power of the Soviet
n the country is very slishtiscThe
'casant accepted from communism all
hat suited him. Having secured the
dvantases. he listened to the npopes,'
n village priests. who resfsr this
nngodly and particularly unchtIstian
government" I'd
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
Rihlc o.iass To Meet.

The Mems Bible Glass of Barton
Heights Baptist Church Will meet
tomorrow night. Addresses will be
made by James " Hillman. saperin-
tendent of the state Department OF
Education. and w. l.. Austin. a social
hour and dinner will follow tho
business session.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
Highland Park Methodist,

Rev. DR.. Raymond Browning. noted
Southern evangelist. vii! preach this
meetings 10 b. held in the Highland Park
Methodist. Church. DIR. Browning Is ac-
companic3 by his son. who was connected
win tho Y NJ. {. 4. in Richmond .or
several years aad is a singer OF some
The amount donated by the congreea-
ton 20 establish a building fund for 4
Few church viii be announced today by
Rev. l.. r. Williams. the pastor Tho
congregation OF the church has outgrown
the present edihce and a new one viii
be constructed as soon az the necessar y
funds are secured
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
Mexicnna Deliver PInne.

DOUGLAS. ARIZ.. April 3.--The
United States airplanc In which Lieu
tenants Wolf and Usher were forced
to land near Nacozari February ..
was delivered by Mexican officials to
United States authorities here today.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
HENRIco COURT TO OPEN
Judge Scott. However, VIII POSTPONE
Cases, Pending Trial In
Hamilton

Judge r. Carter Scott will open
the April term OF the Ilenr!co Cir
cult Court tomorrow with a dock ct
OF siSty-slx cases. many being nf
great interest to Richmon..rs
Because Governor Westmoreland
Davis appointed Judge Scott to pre-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04
is RULED OFF BALLOT
New National Labor Party Not Eligf-
bic to Place ON Ticket In
oklahoma.

Try Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA, CITY. OKLA, April! 3.
An opinion that the new national
Labor party cannot have It's cnndl-
dates on ballots In Oklahoma was
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 TIT is stated that Cincinnati Is making
 II preparation to cope with an antici- = pated crime wave. Other cities al ready are struggling with sinister situa- tions. Chicago, New York and Cleveland semed gripped by a Mephistophelian sat- urnalia. Crimes which might have shocked Babylon, Rome, even the degen- crate cities of the plain from which Lot fled, are of daily occurrence in metropoi- itan centers. Murder is more common to- day in practically every large city in the United States than it was in the palmy days of the Venetian bravo. Robbery has developed into q lucrative. practically safe, business, and is conducted on scien- tific principles.
 Philadelphia is among the big cities af- flicted by a resurgence of crime Tho as sassin, the bandit, the thug arc plying their trades in the City of Brotherly Love. The police authorities there have decided as to one measure which may assist in the suppression of criminal activities, Now high-powered cars arc to be sta toned at strategic points throughout the city. night and day, with riflemen in them, to chase the cynicaIly bold auto bandit.
 As America leads the world in 90 many other respects, so we seem entitled te the lead in criminal activity. Authentic lfigures inform us that in New York city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25

to the core, this iL church-going and God-worshiping community and it is brimful of the spirit of thanks that Providence has dealt so we'll with it. It has the right kind of gratitude; that which does not complain because all the paths have not been smooth all the way, but which sturdily faces any present small discomfiture and sees the littleness of the untoward things in the big and beneficent achieve ments that have come about and others greater still that are on the near horizon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
THE CRIMINAL

in fsfs there were exactly six tifneu more
 homicides than in London, and exceeded
 the total homicides of England ana
 Wales by e. In each of the years
 from 1914 to 1913. inclusive. m New York
 there were more homicides than in Lon
 don during any three-year period previous to the outbreak of the war. During the same period in Now York there were eight times as many burgiaries as in London. and nearly twice tho num- ber reported from all England and Wales. It is said that similar comparisons are presented by the figures for all tho i'm portant American cities
 Perhaps one good way to meet this situ- ation and to destroy 1t would be to do generally what certain European and a few American cities already have done make the entire police force aa efficaeit detective forcA
 It is not meant that tho ordinary po- l;ceman should be scientist or an in- ductive philosopher in any expert sense. What is meant is that he should be able i to do something more than shoot straight and understand the art of overpowering
 criminal by physical finesse or strength. He should be instructed how to function efficiently in detective work as it ordi- narily is understood Vigilance, intelli- gence and courage on the part of the of the public-these must be the reliance of
 the cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
GERMANY IN THE LEAGUE

From the New York World.
 Hard on the heels of Lord Robert Ce- cil's plea at Geneva for spirit of rec onciliation comes the appeal of George Nicoll Barnes. British delegate to the assembly, urging immediate admission of Germany and othsS enemy states to the league.
 It will be argued that Germany is guilty of crime against civilization and should be made to pay the penalty of her wrong doing. The wages of sin is death and Germany will be fortunate to have her sentence commuted to de- cade of solitary confinement within her own borders. Sue must make good the damage she has wrought and she must he kept on probation, beyond The pale until she brings forth fruits meet for repentance. There is no lack of logic in this presentation of the case; but life is deeper than logic.
 If the league is to succeed. and it must succeed if the nations are hot to be drawn into the maelstrom of bol- shevism. then calm wisdom must dis place impassioned sentiment. Never be- fore has it been possible to bring the representatives of so many nations around one common council table. Never before have so many nations been driven by despair or drawn by desire to end war.
 The reasons why the league must be universal are hot far to seek. First. because it must be puissant. When it speaks it must speak as one having au- thority. Its moral and material f6rce mus be sufficient to paralyse the will of the malefactor. Second. because its
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
Hazing Is Not ;a
 Test of Manfulness

7UST as soon as young men at the cU colleges and universities of the country realize that the test of man. hood does not consist merely in the ability to stand physical punishment, they will quit hazing.
 The lower in the scale of intelli- gence the more stoic the endurance of physical pain. The Australian bush- man, if his ofoot is crushed and he sees it cannot be, saved. lights a fire and holds the foot over the flames until it is burned off. Indifference to pain is characteristic of all uncivilized peoples. Those who suffer dare not complain.
 The young are healthy animals and their test of one another naturally inclines to the physical side. How ever, when boy goes to college, he is supposed to have begun taking on real manhood, the manhood of con- sideration, of the mind rather than the body. The Romans clothed the 16-year-old youth in the toga and he was thenceforth considered man. The college boy has left childhood be- hind and is preparing for the re- responsibilities of life. Horse play is scarcely compatible with the new viewpoint that he should assume.
 Hazing in modern times is far less rough than in the old days at Eton and Oxford, but customs have changed and hazing of any kind is not de- manded as a test of manhood. Once that idea prevails young collegians will seek other and more convincing forms of decision as to character and endurance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
A RELATED HINT
Erom London Tit-Bits.

CTOtn A>ou0Ou 1At-ASitS.
 He was very affable and free with his opinions. was this young Englishman, but that was about all he was free with, To the man who had carried his bag to the countryside station he had given ono whole penny.
 Notwithstanding the forlorn look on the mans face, he still continued to chat in an easy manner.
 T shall never forget" he continued. "the spisndor of the scenery when was in Switzerland. It was an educa- : tion to see the sun rise. tipping the lit- tie blue hills with gold"
 "Ahw interrupted the man who had toiled with his bag. Them Ills was luckier than me, weren't they?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25

From the Louisville Courier-Journal 6F1o express, or to hold. the opinion
 that General Nivelle was providing
 q an example of the graceful polite. ness of the Frenchman when he declared that he wished to visit Kentucky because he heard a Louisville relief worker sing My Old Kentucky Home in Constanti- ropie would be as unfair to stephen Col lins Foster as to General Nivelle.
 When Foster. native of New York, educated in Pennsylvania, wrote a song about Kentucky he may have been under the spoil of the charm of his surround ings, but he applied to the task the genius for writing plaintive melodies which shines in some of his other exotic, and, it might be said, synthetic, folk songs for example "Suwanee River
 The author of Nelly Cray and Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" wrote more than 100 songs. He composed the music as we'll as the words. as did the less well-known Louisville song writer, will S. Hays, author of once widely popular song. "Mollie Darling
 In My Old Kentucky Home" anu "Su- vance River" the former destined to be- come the more famous. the art of Foster reached its highest achievement.
 My old Kentucky Home" is sung, and it will be sung forever, around the world. If there is here and there in an antipodal audience rowing kentuckian. or one ''exiled' temporarily or permanently to whom the song is more moving than 1t is to the average auditor, it is true never theless that audiences are responsive 70 the melody east of Suez. as well as in Europe and upon the. other side of the equator as we'll as on this side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
Thanksgiving a Feast of Ancient Origin

11 THANKSGIVING is among the
 u oldest of feasts. The offering of fruits by Abel and of meat by Cain are the first biblical records of mans recognition of the hand of Providence in his welfare. The feasts of fruits and flowers and of harvests of grain in the brown autumn were expressions of the same sentiment by the Romans, the Greeks and the Jews. : Whatever the form of offering, man has never been so confident of him. self as to discard the sense of an overwhelming and greater power and a feeling of thankfulness that this spiritual overlord has dealt kindly with him.
 Civilized nations go further in their thoughts on Thanksgiving than grate- fulness for the physical, the animal comforts of life. They are grateful if the year back of them has advanced them in intellect and in qualities of well-directed sympathy. They feel grateful if during the year they have learned better how to care for chil- dren, the sick, the wards of society wherever found; if they have increased their own spiritual stature and laid the foundations of better state to come.
 Birmingham's progress has been physically wonderful and it's interest in schools, in the young, in cleaner community life and in all that ad- vances the common good has not flagged, although severely tested by an almost endless succession of ap- peals.
 Although modern and progressive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25
PLACING THE BLAME.

Tn the last analysis who's to blame for nudity on the stage?" asked the serious person.
 "old Mother Nature" replied the tired business man.
 How do you figure that out?-
 "If she produced more angles and fewer curves. the chorus as an institution for the display of feminine puichritude would cease to exist''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-25

covenant establishes new standards of international morality and it's perma- nent court will fix higher standards of international law. No nation claiming to be above or outside the law can have its claims allowed. Third. because the world must not be allowed to return to the international normalcy of 1914 with counter-alliances and the balance of power.
 Germany belongs in the League of Nations along with every other coun- try that is ready to accept the oblfga- lions of the covenant