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Sing Judge Van lnvanter. arid to tin' I " in
Stic clamor for jj;irt> rrenguition lie gives not
much heed .is contempt in naming a hewn
St and Ex-Confcd< rutc
chief Justice and in
Jug for Associate justice a Southern Item
It from Georgia, able no doubt., but scarcely
«n to the country at l.u g<. Evidence of a
IStttutional weakness as was tin long-drawn
pWKBffcrence between Pr> ddetit and Senators as
to what action he should tale . tin aetion It
-^#tf seems to lia\e been ill tin more courageous
■pCMSe was probably so painful in the (ut <■
the criticism it Sn\ it* against a man so
or of criticism.
"When the un it named conn- up for eoitsbh ra
ttfoil )ii the Senate, their contirmation will In
implishcd only with continued and varying
HjMciXn. I Ml Follette will feel hi; gorge rise
Justice White, whose record lias been ani
aratly tifion the conservative side of a deyel
ling Supreme Court irrispnidein e Aldrich
id Ills allies will with difficulty stomach the
imation of Van lievanter who. as Clreml
;e, has already sat upon md derided tin
dard Oil case now marking the derision at
fell of two long approui hltig lines of differ
jBjr directed thought shall avail over the otluu
it In the end both tin- • bn timis will be ftnrced
remember what, it would perhaps have been
dignified in Mr Taft to remember in tin
.nning, that the appointment of Judge* Is a
iidential prerogative. arid that a failure to
riu would simply p-sult in th< • ountry hay
at the moment of greatest l|em| for ,1 full
ih. a depleted 11 ihunal.
‘That Mr. Taft believes in tin- judbi.il uuality
Mind is shown hv i.i appointment of Judg>
Devanter, win-. al.’eady on reeord In -t
lug case, is put forward to again In ar tin
i cause sTi iu, ittiglns appointed after
»ion Of opili nji adter-e !o tip income Tax. .
he is read-, to tint oratory arid srnt.lmen'
pratthe is shown by his a|ipointment,
f Justice, of a Southern man, a Confederal•
lor, inil a Roman Catholh Taken together
is nothing in either of tin- the,,. appoint
» to itnijente that tin President h:tH done
than to choose to tie- best of his ability.
proper but not scrub regard for sectional
t> and with utter disregard, if not indifl.-r
W*. to the hearing oi tin :'t*l»c»intui« n.ts up,on
own politic.;l futur*
With the new member., of the highest i on; t
« in this spirit, tin- Court it#,-If should I,
M.V strengthened in public ( -nnlidHiee.
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\ on tiii: itoi ii'-i
listing of tli<- common etoea of the Vir
ptarolinu Chemical Company on tb• ■ ?‘ar,;
ii- a notable financial achievement not
to !i><‘ company it.-elf, which ;• Mhik given
oad mark"! among •• gn-at inv* sting pubil*.
Indirect]; , to the t uited ritati in genera!
the first American Industrial’ to past-. th.
M rcquiremt !" - of the French authorities.
( honor of the ucblcv nu-M t, the T.-c." ami
[President. Mr. Morgan, is tin1 greater berause
IIBaincs’ftsfnl attempt was made l>> (Kited
Steel to do the same tiling Iti< limoml.
juarters of the company, naav wi ll take
anal pride in an event nothing legs than
erican financial epoch.
capital built in the ieginning the rna
of the railroads and great corporations
i which the industrial life of this country ,•
Unfortunately most of urn ii capltr.l
•ut of foreign hands and stayed in this
ns a dea<l loss to its owners The more
financial standards of the old world .
caused old old world investor* to bo more easily (
victimiz'd 1>\ , new brand of sharpers Hipn- ,
diatton ran riot. It mere Impossible to reuiotely
estimate the hurt that \v; - done to American
development by the bad odor in which surh Ini
vestments fell among ;»*t.ple «ho bad money
to invest That only one Industrial" and no
railroad common stoi k is ov. u yet listed in Paris
is sufficient evidence of the tedious course of
building up a sacrificial lonfidonec
Ajurt from the broader market among a peo
ple in which nearly every middle class fitnlly
aims to retire at fort' five upon accumulated
investment, recognition !■;> the Paris Hoarse Is
lt-i II a certain vote of confidem c. The cen
tralized French floverntnent Is Jealous of the
safety of French Investments in foreign con
.■ms It requires the fullest reports the most
, undid dls Insure? To be dealt in at Paris a for
i :cn stock must pass. as it yvere, a strict exam
matlon, and it must • .aintuin its standing
Ibme inwntors cam a a conseqtfem e, invest
with the more eonfldi • . in a cotnp,iny not
afraili :■> lisk the insp. Mot, of a rigid fpccu
latlve re,, ilatiotj.
\\ ii„t has been a . ointdished by ‘ V will
r.oyy t.c doubt be done by other great industrial
.air t mn- i to broader markets, ?r which f* e
stocks will be bought more for investment ai d
Jess for speculation that, with us. will tend to
make fstability in prices They yvill largt?
ly absorb surplus *e •urttie*. The periodic
i'qiiuiations in this country ought, for that
reasoi to be less frequent itid le-s severe. Tin*
tieth of ’putties" will. In a measure, be drawn.
" hat is more Import air. there will be added it.
' ■ icement in the organization «>r great com-.
...antes to more .onservu'im . and greater regard
foi the safety . t Hie mass of the stoeg holders
to whom the underwritten scentles must always
Is' distributed
What the mad rush for r.r-y money . nurs'd th 1
candy wildcatters to throw awuv Virginl.t Caro
linn Chemical leads tin financial organizations
of the country in reeovi ring
N|,\SO\ (II ( IIAIIITV 1*1 ItIM.l \ I II
This m th<■ season nf charity perplexed Tin
general 101111118'' is to open hearts and pocket
hooks alike. Human nature is in .1 limiting
liinotl It takes a potitlvo joy 111 foolish expcwli
ttire, < harping >11 • its mistaken to a “iiroli!
loss ' of the holiday season. < liildrm's ,
laughter rings in tie world's imagination.
ThIUK>> an- sieii throu.li a brililimt mist of
memories Tie- "t'In Istruas Spirit-' play strange
pranks with habit, fleer enters the heart, ’
frost « ll t tens t lie lie his.
\ll this is good, and satisfying, and ennobling
it cui ries, however, it' (lunger \V ■ arc all of
11*. too apt to build up a callous reaction in a
seasonal exhiliratlon of geiirrnin impulse We
a * *■ :i(it to gorg'd that 1 huritv is a strong pull,
and a long pull. Ilia! lie poor are with us, not :
only at ('hristinastide out always, that in tie
OT' larges' o| in holhhiv outpouring there
the want to meet n everyday insistent, Im
perative (leiiiaibls of seasons that ai ■ not holt
day. Idle satisfaction 01 a holiday impulse to
give a- bought Id .1 pin w nen It results in a
temporary i linrtty making for a move permanent
SelttHhm-s'*
"tie of flu things ;i).» to stifle: ,|I till- Chris
mas seiisnn is llm organized, ftft two weeks
tliff i- hundred and i\t ftv« !|,it< in the year
i huritatde 01 galii -at ion - \t a time uimi it is
easy to otlipt- tin |mrkf(, anil jOVOm |o !'--t-0Itii
to appeals, wo at' apt to tak< thi.se things too
tmtoh tor gran toil, vpt to forget that their work
K fiuunU'il lilt tlio t ■ \ - -1 -: si * nr th- Christinas
spirit as a routine, trust ;oi n! as the inspiration
of a festival Apt to o , iM -looh, in meeting tint
holiday halfway, tin- ft.oi rtint with them tito
tl.attor Is Pot a holiday but a business \nrl
apt to lorgi-t in iito enthusiasm of personally
M-attet tiiK aim- Hint tli*' need of eoutributions to
alia,' suffering ahd to tight want goes on In
tin- Hattie matter-of lai t Wa>, in Christmas times,
its well as other times among (hose to whom tile
Pan ne. os-itii-s of food and fire are tilings of
daily ex per nm e. rather than holiday luxuries,
in- lim hatt.tn, Snperlteiident of the Associated
( imriti' s, rails' attention io Mu cisience of the
Cht -stilt:,H till posters among the sit. t beggars
Mil1 ft- I ,'*/1 hHin it ih time ami again j,ro
tinted against < tl> permission in these people
!•' ply tiiejr trade at any time, while it terog-i
lii/a tile fraud that tie- per pel rate upon a gen
‘■re'll'- people, we do not a' this time counsel
Me- I I* tillff 'I O give to lu ll pitiful if virions
Individuals is an net carrying its own satisfne
ten it is a Christmas ittilnlgciiee, to which,
it. le-tn • amount or other, almost every one is
apt fo yield lilt! What w* would counsel i-c
'hat m yielding to such a natural extravagance, i
there lie not ftp-got ten tile organizations which
do a- a 'early obligation what ws are apt to
lo for ole- da> or one week Impendent upon
tin charity of tin* people organized to conserve
tie dollars ef charity and ailmlnister them on a
ha■ iii'u-H liasis, the, are f.,i t,lat reason not so
htisinesH-Iike as to lie left c, it of the Christmas
budget To us * tm11 s Chrlstmu • oin-e a year”;
to them it:- iall is the ■ all of duly, plain and
insistent, unbeautiful, but imperative, it were
a plt v If the longest and flatlet stocking on t>» •
eitv s mantel should tail it, at;> respect of that
to till i; lull on Christum morning. It were
a greater pity if, for ilte sake of Christmas,
there should In- forgotten tin obligation which
the ch’-ist Hims'-ir made one 0f the pillars of
his philosophy.
Ill vriNt; A\l* I’OOTIMIf
in one flute, Pennsylvania, ntrendy thirteen
lei soon have lost their live s ami thirty-one have
been seriou»ly injured In hunting nceidents, and
thus comparatively eariy ih the •taeou.
With fuott.nlI in all tli*' Staten, thirteen placers
were Kilieu during tin present season, and "<■'eic
teen seriously injured.
The figures dramatically joint the fact that
it is ttn prevalence of a sport that manes it
deadl.v. A few nars ago, when there win* not
more than one football t am to twenty tliat now
play .u<h Kail, a oeat.li was n rarity and serious
injuries infrequent Now, with thousands of
youths engaged in tiie game and Jiublle at
tenlion directed to it throughout the country,
tin fatalities and accidents seem more numer
ous ihun they re-iily are Thirteen lives seems
a large toll to pay for a college sport, but it is a
lug country and eolleges are almost ns numerous
as villages snuggling into the rank* of cities
If the total death list from hunting could be'
compiled the result would show an appalling
.11 rlflce to inexperience and carelessness
It is Just, In the broad view, inexperience and
m re less ness that cause acidents in football, as
a hunting. When the game was much rougher,
when tiie flying wedge was in existence anil the
tactics were those of the army strategist who
throws the bulk of his own force at the weakest
1 mi jit of ins enemy’s line, tfo’re were very few
serious catastrophes, chiefly because the smaller
number of players was recruited from the
physically fit as a matter of necessity. Th*' foot
liallist in those days was capable of withstand
ing shocks. He "knew' the game.' even if lie
learned in a very rough school. Now, with
supposedly better conditions, many boys are al
lowed to participate who, rio matter what their
mental spirit, have not the physical stamina
requisite for one of the hardest games in his
tory. We have not the tip' of deaths and th* ir
causes at hands, but one or two instances make
it appear that in several cases a weak heart had
more to do with the fatal issue than any neees
sry injury incident to the style of play, .lust, as
in hunting the deaths occur chiefly on account
of individuals who know nothing of a gun and
less of the* woods and the game they are sup-:
posed to be seeking, so in 'football its ultimate
reasonable safety is to be reached more by stric*
supervision by competent physicians and train
ers than by changes in the rules.
A boy should have us preliminary educati n to
hunting a thorough familiarity with a tastily
unloaded arm. Ho should be taught how to
i a:t> it with respect to his own safety and that
of his companions. II" should !*■ impressed
with the vital necessity to shoot at nothing
unless he knows for a certain tty what he is
shooting at. And. liefore he is turned loose in
the fields or woods, he should be tested tempera
mentally as to his hunting •‘sense". In the same
way the football player should be guarded and
tested by parents and college authorities be
fore being permitted to engage in a game which,
like hunting, is capable of bringing out the
driest qualities, but is death itself to those
who engage if when untrained and ill-equipped.
MMX.I \VI> IIOXRY 1117, >
11 one;. Kit/. ". Huston s Mayor, having visited
the White House, breezed out with the state
ment in an interview’ that .Senu'm l,odg.
couldn't "come back
The truth is that senator laodge never really
arrived He is a survival of old time condi
tions. He represents an out-worn, send literary.
sent: sristoi rath- political tradition. Hi was of
tin da> when Massachusetts still harbored the
mentor) of its literary giants, playing with puli
tics. Now that Massachusetts has again shown
that it is really concerned at heart with a real
political economy, he cannot "come back," be
cause he never < ame. He will stmph not be
sent
Which it* to say that politics is mode ridicu
lous when it is made "literary" It loses caste
when it apes exclusiveness It heroine inef
fective to decay when it assumes r stocracy.
Polities is human, ami want), it is responsive
to c omlitions, rather than precedents. When
It or they becomes really concerned, such
parasites of false ideas --.s have fasten* l on its
body are speedily shaken off. They mver ‘'come'
hack”, till politics -real, popular, self oncerned ’
politics—goes again into slumber.
Honey Kits" is not literary, is not an aristo
crat, denies exr lusi veness w ith a slap on the '
buck and a lioisterous laugh. He is, for all that
and granting the truth of many of the attacks
upon him, not only a better politician but a more
responsive public servant than Senator Lodge,
muttering od* s in his whiskers and l l tcherlnz
iiig for more perfect assimilation tin petitions
ami desires of all those to whom an • xorbitant
tariff moans literature, art, aristocrat , and pa
triotism. exactly ip proportion as it means wealth
as a gift and profit without lnboi
KI WI -SAW MOCNTAIX SAM V rLAI’S
LAMHS.
Say Kenncsaw Mountain Landis, and the aver
tge man gets a vision of a lean, white-haired,
blazing eyed person tense with the • -ITort to1
• rush a trust between.the iron teeth a legal
rack.
There has been too much fain about Judge
Landis' iiassionate opposition to corporate op
prrssion. discriminations, and unfair advantages,
and too little about him as a man within the
judge.
After an incident in nis court Saturday, we
will have to get out a revised picture of this
judge-rampant, and invest him with something
of the color of human feeling, where once he was
painted as a mere judicial machine.
' I can’t sentence this boy now," he said when
Bo! s Kaktoviez was brought before him after
conviction of stealing It! from a registered let
ter I can’t, do i» Christmas is coming on.
and he has four little brothers and sisters at
home, i shall allow him to remain with them
until after Christinas. Let hint come here again j
<>n January Pth and I'll set? what I'll do then.”
What the Judge probably meant was, not that
he couldn't, but that he could. Not that ho
couldn't sentence, so much ns that he could re
fuse to sentence. That is one of the very fin*’
things, not" so much observed about Judicial
place the power to brine the surprise of hope,
to turn despair into joy, to act In these obscure
rases the part of a tender angel.
Judge Kenneaaw Mountain I .a mils was not, vve
dare swear, on this occasion the living picture
of adamant justice that he usually contrives to
present. Instead, a smile must have Illuminated
the fixed cast of his features, a smile that, as
the tear in the fairy story, sank into the heart
and melted there the lump of ice. In general
the country will applaud him his act and envy
him the privilege of doing it. We hope he en
joyed Ms supper, and that when Kaktovicz comes
back for sentence, be will find instead his liberty.
Virginia goes North Carolina one better in
the matter of cows, trains, by-standors. etc. A
<ow hit by an engine struck and killed a man,
the man. falling, hit ari l killed a dog, and the
cow was dead to begin with. Against this North
Carolina has the mild case of Colonel Wadling
ton who, fishing for cat-fish, was struck by a de
scending bull yearling, sustained a broken leg
and. suing, was told bv a heartless court that ho
ought to have sued the bull.
In the dajs of aviators flying 100 miles in
75 minutes, there ar> jet left thousands of peo
ple who w ill buy admission to see ,i dozen ghost,
contend around an indoor track in a six-days
bicycle race.
Woodrow Wilson, though a student in politics,
does not seem inclined to avoid a (light wnen ti
is pushed on hint. There is yet room in the
world for the educated tighter.
The courts have granted a stay for Charlton,
although the State Deparment refused to permit
him to May longer.
If President Taft lives to appoint many more
Judges, the. Democrats may vet capture (lie
courts.
Now that if is all over attain, it is stated that
tli*' Mexican revolution was greatly exaggerated.
The Charlotte. X. ('. Mint is doomed to go
the way of its navy yard.
■■school children a.- n 1’nlittcal Weapon."
1 nder til*1 above caption, the Kichrnoiul Tmif"
Ibspabh thus h* pins a comm* nt on tin re
cently doted to* a! option campaign in this
* ity.
■According to the speech of John I.. Lie, of
Lynchiiurg. made in that city Wednesday night,
til* school Idldren of that city .tr* being used
by the prohibition element there ns a political
* apod against one-hull of the people of that
■ <*.' We thin!; that .\! r. Lee was right in ask
ing til. people Of the Hill (.■Ity. -Why do you
stand for this ” •
Without waiting to hear another word upon
this suit i*-et, The Times-I bspatch assumed the
_ i Large ;■> reflect verity, and proceeds to indite
a homily upon the w rongfulness of the policy
in'* Ivi d Lynchburg and Ly nchburg's school
amhoriti -s arc presumed lu be guilty without
a hearing without argument without oppor
tunity for disclaimer upon their part, and wlth
. cut a scintilla of evidence save an ex-parte state
ment of a wet” speaker at a "wet” ill ass
meeting. Certainly Th. Times-1 lispatch owed
ii to its own reputation s-r just dealing and in
telllg.'iu i rltlcism to wait at least a few hours
with a view of ast ertaibing w hether a denial of
the charge would he forthcoming. Hut it didn't
do this thing which the plain anil elemental
! ethics id journalism ri i|iiired that It should do.
It didn't eve n predicate its conclusions hypo
thetically. Just the moment it read Mr. tee's
utterance, it turned its batteries owards Lynch
burg and fired a volley of rebuke and sainl>
admonition at the Lynchburg schools!
And it even failed to read correctly —certainly
it failed to state correctly—what Mr. Lee said.
More than this. In the statement of Its propo
sition it went much furher than did Mr. Lee.
For that gentleman, according to our own p*-r
' sonal hearing, and according to the report of his
speech published in The News, did not make tin
charge Inferred by The Tlmes-Dlapati h. on its
own responsibility. He did not himself vouch
for th** truth of his statement. ”1 afn informed. '
said Mr. Lee, "that the children of the public
. schools have been used as a political weapon
against at )ea*t one-half of the people of this
city" The Times- Uispatch unfortunately- quotes
but the last half of the foregoing sentence, and
omitted the first part thereof—a part which
should have Inovitably in good logic have put
It upon notice that at least the element of doubt ;
entered Into the proposition! I
Furthermore, The Tlmes-Dlspatch has failed 1
to note that Mr. Lee's informant has been con
tradicted. * >ur report *>f Mr. Caskie's audi
torium speech of Thursday night contained that
contradiction, full and complete, and backed by
the assurance of th*- superintendent of Lynch
burg's public school. Evidently our contempo
rary did not so** Mr. (’ankles declaration on
this point as printed in our Friday's issue, else
we assume it would have given it the same de
gree of publicity mi its editorial page yesterday
that on Friday it accorded a part of a sentence
from Mr. Lees speech. We hope it will y*t do
the right thing.
The News presents the above recitation of i
fact as representing one of the most pronounced
Illustrations of haste and rashness in newspaper
comment that it has ever observed. AVe at- !
tribute no improper motive to our contemporary,
but we do charge it with a bit of carelessness
and an act of prejudgment in this Instance that,
to our mind, ought to make it thoroughly I
ashamed *>f itself.—-Lynchburg New*.
I'rnni IPliilo-oplij.
Kugcne 11:*lo. the veteran Senator from Maine,
Is a Republican statesman or the old school.
Ho i* one of the veteran law -makers of the na
tion who have not been aide to change their
lifetime convictions by full acceptance of the
aims and methods of the progressives.
Yet Senator Halo will go down In the history
ot the country as one of the ablest and most
useful men that ever sat in Congress. Ho has
the wisdom of many years spent in high ofll
rlul position. He Is about to retire from public
life, a course decided upon last rummer, and :
is in a position to regard present conditions
philosophically. His forecast of the future ,
therefore carries unusual weight.
“Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth," says
Senator Hale, “and the defeats of 1910 will
do the Republican party good. It must fear Its
reverses and make the best of them. Painful
though it may be, It must submit to its tem
porary defeat." He foresees a reconciliation
between the insurgents and the standpatters1
and trouble ahead for the Democrats, In the next
Congress. As he r. ads the future. President
Taft will grow steadily In the confidence of the
American people, and the destinies of the na
tion will soon he -placed again in the hands of
the Republican party.—Cleveland Leader.
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U AS! 11 UTU.V, l*. <A. I>occmhor '
—Thp Himuul report nf the fust- j
ruitN!( r-Ut'iuml was suimuited t<> cnn
fiirss to-utt.v. ft is in part as fol
A year ago the nscal records of tHe
po.-t,i| si rucc discioM'd a uolliit ot ,
tunii'in and u nan inilllo.i dollar*,
t*it> laigosi in the history ol the coon
ir>. in trie .'■pace • twelve month* t
reduction of etc*on and a had mil
lions has heen made III tnis ilr-lh'it. tlio.
• .webs ot CAiiernmuros in or roceipLa
as reported tor tin- year oiidiat June
•>" last amounting to only fj.sis,-;
.1 *)*,.> s
u is most gratifying to report that |
this unproi euiditou reuuetion has hi t n 1
*o,uo wiuunit any curtailment ot
postal fat-jiitits. * »n tilt: coiiirury. the
■sort ice has noon largely extended. At- i
tempts in p* e v ions tears to reduce a
dehelt hy restricting the development
o' tne postal settler have munulilv
‘ailed, 'i n** Jiollev of the presn nt ad- j
ministration has hern ttj wipe *>tit
loss» j. hy increasing the postal I'U^mv*4"
a!,,ng profitable* lines. and while thus
enlarging tin* department's income t«*
ream e a.s far as possible th<‘ rate of
expenditure hy cutting out Wasteful
pr*>< esses, by simplifying ami r«-nder
iuk more yttettiw- tne methods of
handling postal business, and by rais
ing t*. till highest possible standard
tin* ettiuienc; of ofii*.-« rs arid em
ph iviu.
K\erv practicable measure has h«*< n
htki-n during the \»..r t*> a< «derate *
th«' movement of the mails. T he more
duieklv mail matter ••an be handled'
(he less expensive is the process.
* * • j
I-\U*n>ion of Service.
Th. department's present poli. \, a
already itiuh-aicd. is t«> extend the ser
vn e as rapidly ay is warranted i.y in
creasing population, and to it **in
pi.f-n its savings, n»»t b> the curtail- |
ni»-ni of pe. uu facilities, but by luuni
ling m a mere s>st« -matte and husi
mss-jike manner urn constantly » v
ramnng V'uumc t»f tin: mans in j ir
tneranee ot tins policy there v\<it* «s
taonsneu during me ymr oxer l.uuo!
n» \\ pi .sivuie * . , wnjie me rural <ic- ;
livery s y s i. •• n i u.m gi*.vAi\ t. \ a emit i
L> pulling into "I'fiatiun 1 .• n e v\
r<*ui* s. traversing ad* g- UP r .1'
miles. ' *
•second-t lav- Mail.
In ihe Iasi iiiiii. i.i it port t*f tii** <lf
partnunt spe* iai ittieitnoii was <m*< et
■U t*> tii*- *11*1(11.ms 1.• <tii* go-,, 111
tn*nt sustains in |m- handling ami
iram-poriulioii ,*! s. ..ml-. mail.
t.'\' lug t" in*- rapid increase in in*
v"lumo **f such mail in. j.,ss *1s * *u*
ftaiuiy growing. A r*■ in*•«l> sn.nini t*.
proniji 11; . i *, .. * * i . i irg * * * k mor* * *
l>!-stage in Imying tin higher rat *:*
it i.- believed that a distitici 1*in ilumlu
I .* iiKi'ic i» I.-., in adv.-riming mallei
.mil what is tcnn.il legit .mat. ■ lend
ing matter. I nti**r pi.M-nt c*»ihiui.ms
an in* I'rasc ill tn.. p.ixiag.- mi i. a.ling
.matter is tmt recommended. > .. t.
an tin reuse would place a special i nr- .
1 <*'•<» "ii a largo mimi»*r .n sc. ond
class publications, including edm o
ti*»11:11 and r.-ligli.u.-* [»* rimii. als tout
*1* ri\.- In lie or no j't-.iit from adver
tising ll is tin circulation ..f mi*
i.'I'e of publications, which aid so
.'He. tiieIv in the educational ami
moral mivant erneiit <*r tin* people tha*
Hi.* Kutirnmi-ni * an la st afford to en
'■••urunt. I* nr the.-e (luidii atiotis, and
n's*. lor uni other legitimate reading
matter in periodical (..nil, tin.. depan
mei.t (a tor's a continuation or the
•prest nt low postage rate of 1 eem a
i found, ami re. omimnus tliat the pro- 1
posed increase in rate lie icf. 11111-ii only
lu magazine advertising matter. This
plan would be in full accord with til*
statute goii ruing sc. end-class muti, a
iaw thill nevi r .mstitUd the inclusion
under tin* second-class rates of the
l ast amounts of adv* rtising n*.w traits- ,
ported, t.y the government at u tre
mendous loss.
in view of til.* vanishing postal deii
. it it is believed that ;f tin magazines
1 ould lie required to pay what it costs
tha government to carry their udver
tising pages the department's reve
nues would soon grow large enough to
warrant l cent postage on llrst class
I mail.
Newspapers are not included in the 1
plan for a higher rate on advertising -
[ matter because, being chiefly of loom
! distribution, they do not employ the
mails I., anay such extent as the w ide
ly circulating magazines. » • •
Itural Mall Service.
• Next to tin* heavy loss resulting j
from the low postage raft* on second- t
class mail, the principal inroad Into
the profits ol tile portal service 's !
that made by the e.x* esstve cost of i
rural delivery. The large expenditures !
for rural mail service are far more
justifiable, however. than are the
much heavier pay merits required to I
meet the losses incurred "ll account of I
second-cl ass mail. Millions of dollars
dinhumed each year for the lntter !
purpose are paid out Vhiefty for the '
benefit of a comparatively small class
of publishers, w hile the appropriations
annually granted to maintain and ex- j
tend the rural delivery system are ex- 1
pended In the inlerests^of a vast popu
lation. * *
I'oslnl Savings Nylcm.
The board of trust, es created by the
ar t of J mi*- 25, 11*10. to control, sup
ervise and administer the postal sav -
ings* system has made substantial pro
gress in perfecting a plan of opera
tion. * * *
Parcel Post.
The recommendation made in the
last annual report ol the department
for the Introduction of a linilteu par
cel post service on rural routes is ear
nestly renewed. It is believed that as
soon as the postal savings system, is
thoroughly? organized the postolflce j
department should be prepared to es- 1
tabllsh throughout the country a gen- 1
era I parcel post. As the preliminary
step in the development of such a
service It is hoped that Congress will
authorize the delivery on rural routes
of parcels weighing us high as 11 1
pounds, which is the weight limit for
the international parcel post. This 1
form of service can 1 >e1 conducted !
with little, if any, additional expense
to the government. It will not re- j
quire the appointment of more car
riers, for those already employed have
the necessary equipment In the way of
horses and wagon* to distribute the
‘ 'I ire
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<” ."kP .n* the or<H*>ary wail.
Harpiy |S the latter of sufficient vol
mTtio’ nP more than « smalt
port km of ,he mall apace in the ear
th'!. A rural parcel post of
the kind . potted. If successfully con
i W"“kl Pfohably lead to a' more
Keneta1 system. liefore the parcel
service is extended to the whole couii
tr>, however, definite Information
°htalned us to the nature
5ui'" "“e of ‘he business to be han
.lB ^ordhwiy urged that in
tk>" "lth the experiment on
thort, V", “ further inquiry be au
thorized by Congress in order that th«
ib partnient may be in a better posl
tu.n to develop the system on con
st rvatlye lines and that a special ap
»r.prir,tiHn r,,r th<' ,,u>u|rj'he gram
* u *u trie coming *enaion.
I*ostal .Note.
It IS again recommended that con
gr«s. lonal authority he serure.d for tho
ssu,. 01 money orders in fixed amounts
"" exceeding $10. to l,e known as
Holes and to be payable on prensent
ation at any post-office.
.... t,m> Franking Privilege.
I he unrestricted manner in which
the (ranking prlviledg • is now being
used by the several federal services
ami h\ congress has laid It open to
serious abuses, a fact clearly estab
lished through investigations recently
Instituted l.y the department. Whiio
U has been impossible without a better
control of franking to determine the
exact expense to th. tloverment of
Ibis praetle there can be no doubt
i.i’it it annualy roach*** into th»* nii?
lions. It is believed that manv abuses
Of the franking system could be pre
vented. and consequently a marked
economy affected. by supplying
through the agencies of the postal ?er
x *' * speeial officisI envelopes and
stamps for the free mail or the gov
ernment. nil such envelopes and
stamps to be issued on requisition to
tlm various branches of the Federal
service requiring them, and such r. -
cords to be kept of otlh ial stamp sup
ple" as will enable tho pnstoffice de
partment to maintain a proper posi
ng- account covering the entire vol
omc of fr»-. government mail. • * •
Crusade Against Fraudulent Vs> of
Mails.
’1'he crusade started l.y the Pos
office Department early In the joir
against th*- fraudulent u>e of' mails
has been pushed with great vigor.
1 hiring the- Inst few months the prin
cipal officers of HI corporations, com
panies. ami firms have been placed
under arrest b\ post-office inspectors
for swindling Hi. public by this meth
od In 41; additional eases Individ
uals ha\ 1 been arrested f..r conduct
ing similar schemes t,. defraud.
< I'll .service | or I‘residential 1»om
1 It asters.
Allim igh recent reforms have great
lv Imr.Ms.-.l the efficiency of (ho
'’"■“till son if.'. It is apparent that tha
highest degree of off- rtivon-ss In the
conduct of this tremendous hardness
establishment i an not he attain, d
while the thousands of postmasters, <n
"hose faithfulness so much depend,
continue to he pollti aI apjHdntees.
Th, entire postal si n lr. should b<j
la Kelt out of polities. The reretit er
ror of th»- president classifying. on
the recommendation of the depart
ment. all assistant postmaster* was an
Important step m tin right dire, t.ion.
As a stm more important reform
I’1"' sidential p, stmasti rs of all grade a
!r, rn the tirst < iass to the third, should
e plyy eil ill the t i.issdle.l flvll w-f.
■ !■ 1 . ‘‘■"'This if it. ", which Is , arneatlv
recommended, would untfuestlonahiv
result In n slid la tter standard of ser
ine. * * *
I ‘ourth-f b-s fostnmsters
The plan that has 1.,-en tested In
several States of si le-etlug fourth
■■■■*»* posttna.st, r tl.tough a olvll-s.-r
ih e examinati ,rt does not always bring
siltisia■ t.<r> results. This is purtleu
:art> true with respect to the smaller
folirth-emss ofth ‘ - At Shell ofthas
th. valurhs ar, u,,t s .iili, hiH to com
l" hsit> th, postmasters for th-, tinea
and attention repaired of them. ' •
\nnual \iuiiiloii.
lit the departments Iasi report It
’’ » recommended that ., U» he passe |
granting thirty days annual leave of
111 sell, e with pax to po-t-ortta* clerk*
and eitv letter , arriers and also to
railway postal clerks who are required
I , work six dais or more a week
throughout th" y, ar. yueh a measure
would place th, employes In the post -
al ser.ive outside of Washington on
the same hash* ns the departmental
employ s with respect to vacation*.
It Is hoped that congress will take the
desired action at the , oming session.
AGED WOMAN IS
BURNED TO DEATH
NKW VoIlK, tie -cm her T".—Mrs.
I'. A Hilliard, a wealthy widow of
Milwaukee, was hurtled to death hi her
room in the hotel Bristol early to-day.
Although the fire raged through
(''cry part of Mrs. Hilliard's room, it
did not reach the hall and a panic
among the guest* was averted.
Mrs. Hilliard, who was seventy-six
years of age. had told the manager*
-he Would use neither gas nor elec
Irieity. hut wanted a candle to light
her room. If Is behoved the eandl*
set fire to the lad clothes.
NFt.ltO IIKLD AT SI FFOI.K
NOKT1I ( AKOMN.V Ml RUHR
Sl'FFOLK. VA., Dec. 12.—Poll, a
Chief lirlnkley ami Detective llobba
an Saturday effected the capture of
Washington Alexander. a negro, w ant
ed i.iy Wallin e, N. i\, authorities on
a charge of heating Hugh Darner,
another negro, to death last May,
The row in w hich the killing was done
"its a sequel to a crap game. Alex
ander is h»lng Held for the North
CarolIna authorities.
ROCK I N<; HAM FAMILY
SORIXY STKHKITX
(Special to The Richmond Virginian.)
HAHUISt iNBT JtO, V.V., Dee. 10.—
'I’he family of Rev. Letcher Argen
bright, of Mount Sinai. Rockingham
county, is sorels stricken. For threo
months Carl, a three-year-old boy,
has ho< n helpless from infantile pa
ralysis. The mother, driven Insane
by her child's condition, tried to com
mit suicide by jumping into a cis
tern. She escaped with painful In
juries, hut has been adjudged lnsan*
anil committed to the Western State
Hospital In Staunton. Now it Is an
nounced that little Carl has fallen a.
victim to the epidemic of diphtheria,
which has appeared In this part of
the Valley. Physicians, however, hope
for the ultimate recovery of the child
from both maladies.
December Term Begins.
Judge Ingram, of the Raw and Equt
ty Court, opened the December term
of his 'court Monday at 11 o’clock,
calling the doeket and setting tha
cases. The odocket for, the term ia
unusually long, containing nearly two
hundred cades. _
boardrhs.
Ads. will (111 your house with board
niE RICHMOND VIRGINIAN WANS
•rs.
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