The times dispatch. [volume], May 02, 1912, Image 4

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Daily without Sunday. 10 cent.
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Entered January r?, lfOO. at HI-hm eid.
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THURSDAY. MAY 2. 1912.
"is IT ANY OK YOUR III SIXHSSt"
Slxty-slx hundred men voted for the
Common Council Tuesday out of'a pos?
sible vote of about 9,000,
It is estimated that there arj n;,uP0
men in Richmond who could vote, but
18,000 of these hnvc not qualified to
vote.
The electorate of Richmond Is so
small that It is practically controlled
fey an incompetent majority of Incom?
petent men. Some of the ballot boxes
[{Tuesday were guarded, by the city nm
ployes and others who owed allegiance
;to certaJn of the candidates. The very
? presence! of these men at the polls was
an open defiance of the spirit of decent
'and honest election laws.
If f.,000 more voters could be added
j to the electorate, the power of an evil
;mlnorlty r.vould be broken, and gov?
ernment by the citizens would be sub?
stituted for government by city em?
ployes.
The present situation Is this: the city
iismployes control tho electorate. Ho
?ktause they control the electorate, they
C4n elect their Incompetent candidates
to tho Administrative Board. In other
?words, the city employes and the ctlt
'?tleflsh politicians to-day control the
'management of the city's business.
The only way to wrest the adminis?
tration "t city affairs from Hie city
employe trust Is to add ."? 000 nmro vot?
ers to the electorate. Thai nmst be
done In tho thr.o remaining days of
this week?to-day, Friday and Satur?
day. The final day for the payment of
poll taxes Is Saturday. After that |
d.^te no one can qualify to vote fof
tlie Administrative Board.
The politicians and city employ -s
have told you to '"fiet out." They
have replied to the demand of the peo?
ple for a square method of -election for
the Administrative Hoard: "Is It nny j
of your business?"
How about it'.' 3 s it any of your
business? What right have you to j
Interfere if live political puppets choose j
to waste $3.000,000 of your city's mon.'y
ev.-ry year? Why should you open ?
your mouth when you see a crew of
peanut demagogues about to grab '?,
$25,000 a year In salaries? Why should
you caru If your tax.'-s are to be lor
ishe 1 on the city employes by an In- |
cltlclcnt Administrative Board? Why
Should you protest It your money Is
paid out to men who nre either al?
ready paid enough or nre loafers and
henchmen of cheap politicians?
Tho man who can pay Iiis poll tax
befor/s Saturday, and who does not dei
It, confesses that he Is unfit to be a
citizen. Tlra nonvotcr in this election
Is classed with convicts. Idiots and
?maniacs.
Make It your business to reo that
your city is-..r.u-n. right by the right
men. '?' ?'* "
Pay your poll tnx to-day.
A SECESSION Til 11 fj AT REMINIS?
CENCE.
The celebration Tuesday of the Cl n
tennial of the admission <,f Louisiana
Into iho Union of States recalls the
Interesting fact that during the con?
gressional debate on the bill to admit,
the llrst threat In Congress of seces?
sion was made, ami l>> a Massachusetts
man.
In an article oh the centennial the
johtor day'we noted that Mr. Jefferson
questioned the constitutional warrant
of his action in purchasing the Louis?
iana territory, and suggested the
necessity of a. constitutional amend?
ment to validate it, i,ut Congress It;
norcd his position. Louisiana was the
first State to be erected into u Terri?
tory after the adoption uf the Consti?
tution, and just us the purchase raised
the Issue of our constitutional power
to acquire new lorrllory, application
tor admission raised tho issue or pow
er of the Federal government to ntld
to the nutnbi r of the States hi will.
The main contention if the oppon?
ents harked bnck to an argument ad?
vanced incidentally , but In anticipation,
by the opposition t.. ratifying |hc pur?
chase, and which was that new
State could be admitted save by the
consent of all the State.. The Constitu?
tion itself Is silent as to that parti?
cular point, tin: section on admission
reading: '/New States rnny be admit
ted by tho Congress ir.tp this Union;
but no new .Stute shall b.- forhied or
Erected within the Jurl.-.ulctlon of any
other State, nor nny State, be forme.;
by the Junction of two er more Statei
or parts of State, with jut the consent
of the Legislatures of the ."tales con?
cerned, 111 well as of tlie Congress.'
Parenthetically, It may be remarked
that the prohibitory provisions of thin
article were grossly violated In the
CIibo of the erection of West Virginia
Into a Stale.
in thV debate em ihi Louisiana nd
mlHHlon loll, Joslnh Qumcy, of Massn*
? chusettn, expressed tho belief thai suen
an act ounht to, and doubtless would,
cause revolution, "if the Mil passes,"
hu went on to declare, "the bonds of
this Union are 'virtually dissolved; the
that et which compose It are free from
their moral obligations, rind, as It will
be the right of nil, so i. will be the
duty of some to prepare definitely for
ii separation?amicably if they can,
violently if they must." For these
Intemperate utterances Mr. Qulncy
was promptly and vigorously rebuked
by George Polndcxtcr, territorial dele?
gate, laler Senator, from Mississippi.
1 :s reminiscence leads a content?
porary to auslest that as a mattci of
fuel our right to acquire outside pus
si slons still remains unrecognized In
tin- Constitution. That ir.ny be. but It
has been recognised in judicial deci?
sion ami construction, an witness .Indue
Taney'a conclusions bearing on ih?
v ial in tin- Dred Scott case. .\t ihe
same time, however, in Hint decision \.>
denied the power to acquire any such
i territory ex. opt for the purpose of ul?
timately erecting it into ;. state or
I Stutes. Hence comes up in persi.
', tlvo nnothcr Interesting Issue. whl< it
I is, "AVhul ate we g?lnc to do about
! the Philippines and our other far In
jstilar holdings as respects their right
to statehood?" The promise is at least
I another battle of pole,nie plants, if
: such there are in these tiays.
1 JIG-SAW PI 7.7.1.1'. IN HAI STATU.
I Republican presidential aspirants
'called Massachusetts a "pivotal State"
I until that sedate and conservative
jCommonwealth spun around on its i
I howncd hub and produc <1 th ? dizziest
I preferential ivrlinnry ever primed, ln
| Steffel of in,netting its wise choice of
a possible, c'.ilef executive, the Hay
State staged a comic opera, with that
astute politician. Theodore Roosewlt.
smiling toothfulty In the glare of his
ifavoritc IMumlnant, not Truth, bu?
the limelight. The Intent of the Mas?
sachusetts primary law. as far as it
had an Intent, was to enable the peo?
ple to choose thirty-six delegates to
I the,.Republican convention by districts.
and them add elgh! more "at large."
[ Who should represent the will of th1
I voters as expressed in their prefer
I ence. These last drlegxites were not
supposed to be pledged, inn to cast
I their ballots for the aspirant who re?
ceived a majority vote in his party.
Mr. Taft received this majority, but
the delegates are still very much "at
large" and the people equally at sea.
By some mystery of peevish follt,
who cast blank ballot", or wiio gave
i themselves the double cross by fall?
ing to make their ne.-i-ssnry twenty-1
j two crosses at the proper places In the
monstrous eight-column ballot ' given
them. Mr. Taft got the preference, hut
Colonel Roosevelt corralled the dele-'
gntes--.it-large. These latter patriots J
being Independent of primary laiws, i
decided they would vote for thMr hero
regardless of what the Kolons who
framed the itw intended, Now enter-j
prtmn donna Theodora, scenting a pos-I
stole charge that he |- pot hearkening'
to the will of the people, and scenting I
still more acutely the psychological
moment to play to the galleries, and
graciously present;', his botlqut t of I
delegates to the victorious Taft.
Tills Is right, just, noble and logi?
cal. 'It Is the sci?nrc deal by a dealer 1
who Is In the awkward position of!
having te> square himself. It Is play- 1
lug the game, and most brilliantly i
playing politics. If Massachusetts
?wants a master of the era. t for her J
next President, her primaries have by I
a kind of left-handed legerdemain I
marked out whom she must select. ,
Most frank observers, however, wllii
j be less lmpresse-d by Roosevelt's mag- j
nanlmlty than by the cold fact that]
-what he has hastened to give a>way j
mlgltt havo been summarily taken i
j from him. And In ease u similar sit?
uation, with the cast reversed, snould
happen in any Other advance,I State
bent upon expressing its urefererve,
he can exhaust his exhaustlcss vocab?
ulary of vituperation unl >SS Mr. Tu.fl
is similarly charitable,
The Massachusetts primary was a
thrilling spectacle <>f tti;> sublimely
ridiculous. It shows lhat a diet of
begins can produce, results almost as
cataclysmic as a piet of Worms. Plt?- I
ing together a Jig-saw primary may ,
be ahiusltg, but the tragic frustration j
of the will of the people cannot bei
'forgotten. Vet ,if this preferential 1
primary shows anything. It shows that '
Massachusetts people pref r to be .
foolish.' 1
St'CCKSS OP NttSIIT SCHOO'..
.The closing exercises of ihe Night j
School call attention to the splendid (
j work being done in Richmond to j
tend the benetlts of education to all
I classes. ?u enrolment ->f some POO,
j with an average attendance or -11)0 from
October until May. indicates the wide-;
I spread eagerness of those .who are dr
I prtvctl by age or necessity from socur
ling a regular education to get BOtn > \
'; protltablc training at any cost. There
? is nothing more inspiring than the
' thought of earnest young men and wo- J
] men, am! adults, too, coming at night, ;
, after the day's work, to gal.i more
j knowledg! Itnd better training to tit
. them for their work,
j Tills Instruction is thoroughly prac
j Heal, it includes Hie courses of the
'last two years of the elementary
I schools and [?.-?its of the first two
year.-, of the high school. In addition.
; to me, t Hi - demands of adults, there
, have been included various vocation.il
features, bookkeeping* penmanship and
' st, nogrnphy, for men. and cooking,
j dressmaking and millinery, for women.
! Tit ? academic work Is open to both
sex? above the age of fourteen. An
' exhibition of practical work done In
the .lasses gives conclusive proof of
the value of the training offered,
This, is education of the highest
type.. It Is in keeping witli the most
modern Ideals of making the schools
reach out and help when help is most
needed. Too little of n?N extension
work bus bech done in the South, nnd
Richmond is to be congratulated or,
inaugurating the movement and upon
the Instant response jt has received.
Tho schools urc loo bin an Investment
to bo ulU.wcd to remain 1 <li<? save for a
f.-w hours a ?iny. Education is a fu-i
damcntal ns-^i for the community, and
every slop lo further it moans progress
and prosperity. There is a constant
cry Hint children are forced to lenv;
the schools and go to work before they
have completed the course. The night
school j;ives the answer to tills prob?
lem. Furthermore, it impresses the
Idea that education docs not stop at
any particular ago; it can be continued
throne;!; .ill the years of n man's lif ?.
and will not only mean a citlson better
trained to produce in n n atcrlal way.
but one who is bound to get more ot/l
loftier pleasure out of iir... w-3 com?
mend the School Hoard and its super?
intendent upon their wisdom and vis
Ion, and trust thai the success of the
j Work this year will result In its dcvil
Opincni as a vital part of cur educa?
tional s.vst.-m.
I'LAYED BAM..
! "Wasn't It great'."' Thai was what
I thousands or fans shouted to one an
! other yesterday as they Hied oat or
: l.''c I'ark at the close ..f a perfect
afternoon of real baseball. Most an
1 spiclously begun tin- career <>r tho
United States League here, and most
auspiciously did the Richmond team
j hit Its way lo victory in the flrs| lap
of tin- race for 111.- "gonflllon." to
borrow a very undent word that is
I used lor new by the sporting editor.
? A record-smashing crowd that Jammed
'tli.- stands und overflowed In thick
i streams |n tlie open spaces enjoyed
j every moment of nine Innings of tlrst
: class baseball, and the crowd was for
the tentu from start to finish, l- was
js genuinely representative gatiieiing?
j the high and the low were there, all
; i-ootinp together for Richmond. The
new home team played Its way into
popular favor with a vim and a dusH
that meant that the new diamond is
goiiiK to draw large attendance all
season.
Tin meat outpouring of the sport
lovers of Richmond yesterday Indl
Icatcd thai they lend thetr support t"
i Richmond's graduation from the minor
j league class into prospective major
'league circles. It will take lime to
I effect the transition, but It will come.
'The baseball public of ibis city wants
? to have the very best possible base
{ball here, and they showed their lu?
llerest and their enthusiasm yestcr
I tiny by givins the hew team and the
'new league as ends-eff that made the
I o win era igrln like Milkens, if the
Hrst day's "article'' was a fair sample
lot what Is to follow, Lee I'ark Is go
I Ing to be a Mecca for fan. fannies and
1 flllicttes this year and next year and
litany other years. The new team "looks
good" to the baseball lovers of Rich?
mond; It certainly mnde good yester?
day. It will have enthusiastl. popular
backing because of the brand of ball
it plays, and because it Is the begin?
ning or belter and bigger baseball for
Richmond. Watch Richmond buseboll
'till-: VERSATILE Wilt .?.LESS.
Emphasis has tuen l"nt to the po?
tentialities of wireless telegraphy by
tli.- "Titanic" disaster. The uses ami
misuses of Marconi's wonderful luven-.
tlon hav. i.e. n demonstrated, with the
result thai a new rode of wireless law
will be formulated and l.s use for hu?
manity enlarged.
The wireless establishes communica?
tion where tin- construction crews of
man cannot reach; its sputtcrings have
saved already thousands in property
and millions In human lives. To the
far off fans on the bleak Alaskan
shores It Hashed tin' linings of the'
world's series, piny by play, it creates
news where there are no news Rather- j
ers; It keeps the sea In touch with land;
It warns of disaster and aids in a
hundred ways.
Surgery by wireless la the latest'
us.- lo which the Invention has been;
put. A laborer on Swan Island recent?
ly crushed his toot and found that III
had to he amputated. There was no;
surgeon within leagues, nor medical'
books. So the wireless operator on the
island called a ship 420 miles away,
explained the situation to tin- ship's
SUrgCOn, mid detail by detail the litt-l
tti explained how the operation should
be performed. The poor fellow's leg.
w.,s amputated correctly, and now he
Is getting well. Thai sort or ".s. o.
8." opens up a new field cf speculation]
ii^ to the possible Uses ,,r the wireless;;
in fact, Its potentialities tempt the
Imagination. I
It Is reported that the residents of
ib.- town of ismay, Montana, arc con?
sidering changing ihc name of their
city on account of the criticism heap?
ed upon th.- gentleman whose cogno-1
men tiny hid adopted as a title. They'
are considering choosing the name Of
on.- of the heroes of the disaster, but
do ne t favor As|or. Butt or Smith. \\ c
think the Ismnylltes are a little hard'
to pie;ise. but. Judging by the spirit I
of many Western towns, we iinuglno
Titanic will be the llnal selection. A.
any rate, they can Change the name. :
while Ismay, lite man, can do hothing I
but slick it out.
France paid n bounty of 7 cents
apiece upon neatly p.'iOv vipers' heads
lasi year. Bui the i.ost tlilnc, France
can do to gel rid of snakes is to put 1
a bounty op absinthe bottles.
Richmond la getting ?n advanced
that when you hear somebody talking
..i tin. scere, you have to tlnd out
whether it is the score of an opera
from tin- Music Festival or > esicrday.'s
result In the bis league.
A pessimist Is a fellow who pro
th.it al! this cool weather will
mean a t,orrld summer and forfeit) to
enjoy the present blessing.
la.l; Johnson Kot tangled up with
the custom officials to the nine of
10,600, Ills hat will be in the ring,
too, before long.
On the Spur of the Moment
?y Roy K. Moulton
Personal.
(?? ii. t. ? Wear ii leather cap. sunk
your ?.loves In gasoline every morn
Ing, put two or Uirco streaks ol
black grease on your nose and talk
about automobile?! to everybody you
meet. They will Btirely think you own
one. )
llcnrljetta?No. we do not bei love
that lud Ich should smoke cigarettes
on the back platform of street >.irs.
or "ii th.- front platform, cither.
.lane?we quite agree with you.
Jam If he carries his loose change,
before marriage, In one of those leath?
er wallets with nine yards of string
around it there is no prospect that he
would make n spendthrift husband.
I'ete?No. Sibysitko, the wrestler, was
noi named after a curtain populur tell
w a fers.
The Cruel W nr.
illy a stur Correspondent.)
Juariz, .Mexico. April -'.'. The cruel
and Idttor. If not, in fact, almost
peevish war noes roteiitlessly on, The
attendance to-day was all that could
be expected. The grandstands were
packed and the elite of Texas and
the surrounding Slates was represent?
ed. The ladies wore their smartest
frocks and silk lials. and frock coats
wi re numerous In the crowd. The au.
iomobil.es were parked about a Hill?
from the battle, SO as not to ho If,
the way.
The war opened promptly at 10
o'clock in the morning, after an over?
ture b> the hand. General Chill Con
Cnrnl. of the revolutionary foi.s
was the llrst to in- Injured and taker
l.. the i ear. He fell off the water wa.
goll and broke three ribs und one ol
the commandments.
, Colonel Tainale, ->f the government
arm:., was repulsed during the day.
It.. tried to lllrl with the wire ol
j one of the Insurgent-generals. ThU
; reverse was keenly felt by the gov
| eminent force.-, whose uniforms excel
', those if the insurcents by nbout Sf
I per cent.
General Csrcla, of the federal army,
defeated General Gomee. of th,- insur?
gent forces, vory decisively aft,:- a
hard preliminary skirmish. General
Gomez feinted with a bobtnlled flush,
land General Garcia stood pat on font
aces, The newspapers tell of an in
I tercstlne onsi.igemen' near Juarez,
Senorita Bond I a, daughter of one ot
the Mexican army cheiftnlna, has be
come engaged to Don Juan de l'eruna,
a rising young soldier of the Insur?
gent urtiiy. it Is about time this en?
gagement \v?s pulled off. fy>r they
j have been going together for nearly
\ nine years,
There will be no war to-morrow,
us the same has been postponed in
I order to allow the combatants and the
? spectators to attend a bull light neat
HI Paso.
_
'Ihr Saddest Hays.
The melancholy days are here.
1 Tin; saddest .luys "f all the year.
Ilousceleanlna time i* drawing near,
j Oh, aln'l it awful. Mabel?
I When father eats his humble fare
j Here, there ind almost everywhere;
' Without recourse to any chair,
Or e'en to any table.
When all of our folks fume and fret.
And discord Is the >ne best bet.
And short replies are all yon get
To any sort of question.
When father uses language drude
And Btlll'S his food In manner rude.
And does not I nil It Is chewed.
And ruins his digestion.
The air i:' charged with dynamite.
Anl all the fates do hold a Spite
And seems lo want to start a light
With neither sense nor meanlr|f.
There's no Joy in the old home nest.
When father cannot find his vest,
In married life the supreme test
Comes with the spring housi clean?
ing.
Caught ?ii lh,. l lj.
Somebody has mentioned 1 >'r. Wiley
f..r VIce-Presldent. It must have been
slmc bitter enemy, such us Secretary
Wilson, who did it.
It Is getting so the grocers look
up a customer's standing in Brad
street before sending a dozen fresh
eggs to the house.
The Colonel seems lo bear a closer
rcsemblnnce to the immortal Hnrkls
every day.
The candidate who Called Senator
Jeff Davis a disgrace lo Arkansas
should remember that Arkansas has
1.n disgraced by experts.
Now that Senator lleyburn is again
[viewing with alarm, things in general
must be in good condition.
Schuumnnn-IIctnck says "God's best
handiwork is th? American husband."
nod after that no American husband
can have the heart to . refuse to buy
tickets to her con,?ens.
It is rumored that Jim Jeffries Is
thinking of challenging Jack Johnson,
bill the gate receipts for such an event
Wouldn't pay training expenses.
A Western surgeon operated upon
himself for appendicitis. He will
probably send himself a bill through
force of habit.
Voice of the People
\|i|ilcs and tpplc Borrels.
To the Lklitor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.?Will you kindly allow me a
little space in tie columns of "The
Voice of the People"?
There is a qucstlpn before Ihe peo
tdo ,,f this country that Is of grout
importance to the applergrowcrs. Some
discussion of It his appeared in yours
and other paper of Virginia, The
bill item- pending: before Congress,
known as the "Sulser bill." proposes
lo make a standard also barrel ami a
standard grading of apples, The mail?
ing is In tie kn< vil as United States
standard A. United siates Standard It
and United State, Standard C, which
Abe Martin
Tiptop Bud Ihspectin' Kiorldy
land lliis Week Hi a view p' Iniyln'
ii lew gallons. S'othin" makes a fel?
ler feM as Olo IIS goln1 back t' his
boj hood town a:' seein' how sciiuuty
th' courthouse. ) oka.
" MOVING" PICTURES.
By John T. McCutcheon.
(Copyright: 1912: By John T. MeCutcheen.J
Puzzle ? Find the man who Puzzle?Find the happy woman Puzzle ? What doe* the man lay
can't find hit razor. whote cook ie leaving. when he ditcooert that the water
hain't been turned on yet.
looks when it ttands on the lidewalk where the tafely installed in your haute?
.i*i\thlinr? ran f#* it?
I would mean according to tho method
we tii"' now. us No. I. No. '.' and No. S.
?The sai?i bill gives a greater latitude
In the pack than wo have now, which
allows in per cent, of the ripples to
fall below iho grading that Iba A. n
! Ond O Is supposed lo stand for. Hut
I Mo.old tho pack ..f tipples fall below
; tin.- requirements of tin- law the grow?
er who packed thorn la to face the
! United States .-01111 for the failure,
I whether it be his fault or the fault
? of the speculator. It might bo one or
J it might be tho other, but tho grower
I whoso name is on the pnekage, as is
required by the law. Is the one who
I will bo hauled up to answer - the
charge.
1 Now. Mr. Ed i for, WC all aerree that
! there should be a standard barrel and
! that barrel should be large enough
I to hold thre e bushels of apples, no
, mole or no less. "The consumer expects
ito got three bushels In a barrel and
the grower expects to nlvo three
bushels; why sitinild there be n law
r< quiring a barrel that holds more?
The barrel suggested In this hill will
I hold loo quarts. Why not tak- the
Virginia barrel that holds f'G quarts?
I Other states are usitis it: Canada uses
I that si/.-, whilst a lew of the States
1 have ltiil quarts and others have .1
barrel much smaller titan the Virgin's
; barrel.
! I heard some of the speculators state
j to the Committee on Colhngo, We'ghts
land Measures, House of Itopresenta
I lives, in support of their side of the
I question, that "90 per cent, of tlie
1 growers use the 100-quart barrel now."
Whether that be true or not. 1 have
i no way of proving, tint I do know
I that whether 00 or 40 per cent, uses
I It, tin y are forced to do so by the
speculator himself. Ho comes to my
orchard and proposes to buy my ap
I pies; we airroc on the price, etc. Ho
I then wants to know what barrel I am;
j lining to use. 1 say the Virginia bar?
rel. II.- Immediately teil? mo he will
not take that barrel, but 1 must use
j Hie larger Sl*0. I kick; he goes off.
I The next and the next buyer thai
Iconics says the same thing. What
I am I t.. do? 1 am compelled to sell.
! Klllall] I 11m forced to accept their;
terms. It looks like an organized I
1 plan. I don't say it is. but It lias that
appearance. All growers have tlie
j same experience.
j Now, Mr. Kdltor. do I pack In that
? barrel by choice? No; I am forced to
I do so by tin- people who are behind]
j this hm.
I Hoes it look as though the prowers J
late pleading witli Congress to give!
them tbe Sulzer bill? it has been ro-J
j Pcatcdly siat.-d before tin- committee
j thai tlie growers are asking for it]
through tin- Slat.- fruit associations.
' I .im forced to believe Hint other as- J
I Bociatlons are asking for it. about asI
I the Virginia association asked. Thel
[representatives of this association, I
consisting of eight or nine men. met
io Stii 11 litsonic time In March, and 1
a majority of them voted to indorse|
the Sttlzer bill. Those eight or nine I
men were Hie legal head of the asso
'elation and had a right lo do just What I
th.-r did. but did they go there In- j
structcd by the l.noo or 1,200 frtilt
growcrs of the State, or did liny act
individually in the matt, ! ? I say they I
toted their individual views. I ami
Informed they were Influenced by 11
statement made by Mr. laipton, of |
Winchester, who stated before tho;aj
that h.- agreed with some of them thntl
tu. bill wail not what it ought to be.
and that he would not pack Ills apples
according to it if it sln#id become a1
law. bill stated that it was better than!
nothing, and that If we undertook to
amend it the bill would be killed and
we would get hoth'hg. Consequently 1 j
majority of the eight or nine gentle-j
men present voted to indorse the Sul-I
.:? 1 hill. I heard this same gentle
man State at a hearing of the Rom-1
mitlec on Coinage. Welgtht'S und Mens- )
tires that he wanted the bill for Ills,
neighbors. In proof of tho fact thai
Stauntou meeting had no Instructional
ti, go for this bill, an annual meeting,
of the Virginia Horticultural Society;
met in llarrtsonburg and passed 11 I
resolution asking Congress to pass a
law making a standard size barrel and
asked for the Virginia barrel. Tin v
have had no Other meeting since. A
very large number of the fruit-grow?
ers of Albemarle county met al Crozet
and protested against the Sulzer hill.
A large number of representative]
fruit-growers of tin- piedmont section I
of Virginia attended 11 hearing by the
Committee on Coinage, Weights ahd
Measures and protested earnestly
ngalnat the Sulsor bill. Some of them
were of the number who met In Staun?
tou and voted for the adoption of it, 1
but changed Hicir minds after g. l
ling better light on the subject.
Another objection to the Suiter bill
la in the way Hi'-- apples uro to bo
classed. It forces the bulk of iho
winesap 'apples in the it grade, and
would In- sold as a No. 2 n|i|>lo. IJo
you suppoau the winesap growers an
backing ?bis hill? Surely not the,
growers of the piedmont scct'oil <d
Virginia, where thu winesap ?? grown
lo perfection, both in beauty and Hit
vor. The advocates of the b'll tell
us they cannot provide for the wine?
sap because it would ho class legisla?
tion.
Now, Mr. Kdltor, we nrc opposed
? o any law that will relegate to the
background <>ne of the finest apple ?
raised In the world and put the Hen
Davis to the front. Let Congress give
us the thr.bushel barrel and leave
ihe grading proposition to the grower
and the buyer, ns has been done In the
Past. The buyer Is going to see that
i to- apple is graded properly. He sends
bis man 10 the orchard, who supervise?
the packing <>f every barrel, and ihey
are packed according to the needs of
the trade ami variety of the. apple. The
grower wants a good pack, because it
builds up hu business. Tin.- only thing
I can see in th's 1,111 now oemllng Is
It l'fts the exp.-nse and resjjions'blllty
of packing from the shoulders of the
speculator and puts it on the grower.
with the responsibility on some
else. The dealer can hold the apples
out of storage or In storage as long
as he pleases, and If they go had the
grower 's held responsible for it. no
matter how good a ??ndlllon the ap?
ples were in when they were carried
from the orchard.
The grading proposition seems to
me to be unwise and will work a
hardship on the grower when a bad
barrel of apples '* found, although I
some one else may be responsible for 1
it. as well as the difficulty In provid?
ing for Ihe great number of varieties
of apples.
APPL.K GROWER IN
PIEDMONT VIRGINIA.
Crozet, Va.. April 29, 1012.
"Nearer, My Cod, to Thee.''
As sank the doom'd Titanic
Beneath the yawning sea.
Its last of earthly music
Was ??Nearer. .My (Sod. to Thee"'
Its notes of trust inspiring,
F.ven to its latest breath.
And of a faith triumphant
While facing certain death.
And ?Nearer, My God, to Thee":
What pathos evermore
Will henceforth make it sacred
On sea us well as shore.
Bach muriner will hear It
) Wherever he may be.
For it will always tn:ugle
With music of the sea.
Bravo men will ever love It.
Since ?"bravest of the brave" ,
Were hero Hearts that play'd !t
A> they sank beneath th,- wave.
All faithful souls will love it.
Kor it will ever lend
An added Inspiration?
i lofts with us to I lie end.
'Tis said a touch of nature
Will make the whole world kin;
Hut scenes of death and danger
ft e vended the man within.
No matter though a pauper,
<'i- misjudged millionaire,
Uls soul, if high, heroic.
.Shines out in beauty there.
And as we sing hereafter
Of "Nearer, My God, to Thee."
Oh, may we all remember
'These heroes of tin- sea;
And Judge not others harshly,
For when the test Is given
They may show themselves full worthy
Of earth as well as. heaven,
DUVAL, PORTER.
The Titanic.
1; was a calm and starlit , en.
The midnight hour was passed;
A Mighty cargo of human freight
Has sunk to sleep at last.
There comes a burst of thunder sound;
With his money, oh. where Is he?
Tlio cruel waves alone can tell,
As with corpses tiny strew the sea.
Such was the wreck of the greatest
ship
On a mountain of Ice und snow.
Christ save us all from a death like
this
When we are called to go.
R. Y. .VIRGINIAN.
QUERIES &
ANSWERS
< !unfederate.
To whom may ] send contribution*
I f<>r th. Confederate monument at ,ir
i llngton? Which in the b*at Southern
j history of the buttles of the War?
. which is best ror ihr constitutional
i questions Involved? C.
Mrs. Thomas B. Uocock. ltlchmond,
; Vn . ?Hilter l'ark.
! No one van say. If you wish vigor
: OUm nnd tolerably fair stories of the
? battles without ttttemlit at "historical
science" Pollard's History will serve
. as we|| as any.
Stephens* "War Between iho
Sta'cs."
Early Banter ? elebrallon.
When was Koster first celebrated
as a heat hi n feast?
JOSEPH QUOE.
Long before the people of Northern
1 Europe bad any in. ans of recording
dates or events and. so. the time of
I their earliest celebration Is lost. As
i., the Southern people, like the Kgyt>
1 Hans, the record is so little clear that
i It Is not even certain that tlielr ccle
bratlon was not borrowed from the
I Jews In the time of the Egyptian
, Captivity.
Dulles of Untren.
' Will you loll me what are the duties
I of a matron In a school? A. S.
I In general, much those of the mother
I In her own family. She might have
j supervision of servants, the care of
j clothing, household linen, etc. Prom
i your letter you seem to have in mind
it special position, and. yon may, of
j course K"t accurate statement of the
duties at this pine.- by asking those.
' in control.
Personal
Service
Interested personal service
for every customer, rcgartl
jess >>l the size of his account,
is one nf the factors which
has caused this hank to lie
so successful ever since its I
establishment forty- two j
years ago.
.Nut only are our employees
courteous .m<! glad to ,i-m.>i
customers in every possible
way. but the. officers, acces?
sible at all limes, are ever
ready to give lb patrons ihe
benefit of their wide experi?
ence in business as well as
banking affairs.
m
-IIMDER* BOTH U.S. COV'T.
STATE SUPERVISION