Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 241, 14 August 1912 — Page 6

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 11113. SECRETARY MEYER TO IIAVH 'RESCUE Attacks Democrats for Failure to Provide for National Defense. A Suggestion for the New York Police Force's Collection Department RICHMOND EAGLES EHTER ft PROTEST Because Their Degree Team Was Not Given First Prize at Cleveland.

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(National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. Secretary of the Nary Meyer, just returned to bis duties from a protracted illness, assailed the naval policy of the Democrats of the House of Representatives in a statement made public yesterday. Whether the "pork barrel" is more important than the navy in the minds ,of the Democrats, the secretary de- ' Clares, remains to be ascertained after another caucus of the Democratic members to be held today. "The proposition which has been advanced by a Democratic senator," eays Secretary Meyer, "to have the United States build the greatest battleship ever constructed is nothing more than an attempt to distract attention from the delinquency of the Democratic party with reference to the continued efficiency and up-keep

; of the navy, since what is proposed is ! nothing more than what is already required by every act of late years making appropriations for additions to the fleet." "Democrats Injure Navy. , The secretary declares that the i Democratic senators have knocked

out the plan for the council of national defense which was indorsed by the Democratic national convention and he asserts that should but one battleship be appropriated for this year the United States navy would

fall to fifth place in two years.

, All acts making appropriations for ithe upkeep of the fleet, the seCre!tary says "require that the battlet ships to be constructed shall carry as i heavy armor and as powerful armajment ns any vessel of its class, and ; shall have the highest practical speed 'and the greatest practical radius of action. "The council of national defense '.since the Democratic convention in j Baltimore has been knocked out in Ithe Senate by a Democratic senator on a point or order. "The country is now watching the I Democratic party to learn whether it purposes beginning its campaign by repudiating also one of the most important planks in its platform. Public sentiment on this question is aroused and the country is waiting to see what will be the final Democratic action. Gag Rule Employed. "We have had the spectacle this year of a Democratic caucus of the House of Representatives putting a gag rule on its members and thus preventing them from voting for a patriotic appropriation, the purposes of which were national defense and national honor. Certain Democratic members, under the leadership of Mr. Sulzer, are endeavoring to have the caucus rescind its no-battleship program in order to permit each Democrat in the house to vote according t his own conscience. It remains to be

Been whether the Democratic party places local interests ahead of patriotism. "It is a well known maxim, admitted by all, that the Monroe doctrine is no stronger than the fleet, and that the fleet is the navy. The navy's present position can only be recovered bj an appropriation for three batleships iat the next session of congress. "Many independent voters have I stated that if the Democrats can not be relied upon to maintain the effii ciency of the navy, and thus be pre- ; pared to uphold the national honor, 1 they intend to show their disapproval of the party's action by voting against It at the coming election."

CREDITS

toe The Moose) ( If IH CAP J

The members of the. Richmond aerie

of Eagles are mighty indignant be

cause their degree team was not ' awarded first prize in the recent com

petition at Cleveland. Ohio. Notwlth-i

standing the fact that the local team

scored 29? points out of a possible 30. the best record, ever made, in the ritual nest; passed 'inspection without' a mark. against it. and only made on mistake in the drill, first prize. $1,000.

was awarded to the Worcester. Mut. ,

team, second prize.. $500. went to the Indianapatds team, and third prise,$250. -ventito the Milwaukee team. Captain. Ben Bulla, of the Richmond degree team alleges the Judges were not competent to perform the tasks assigned to them and has filed a long protest with the grievance committee of tho grand lodge, demanding that first prize bo awarded to his team. "Our total, score was higher than the three teams which were awarded the prizes." Captain Bulla stated, "and I

cannot understand why" we were not awarded first place. We are going to make a hot fight to get that prize."

BASEBALL RESULTS

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Won Lost PcL New York i. 73 29 .716 Chicago . ... 68 36 .654 Pittsburgh 61 40 .604 Philadelphia 50 50 .500 Cincinnati 49 57 .462 St. Louis 47 59 .443 Brooklyn 38 68 .358 Boston 28 75 .272

Sporting Gossip

(National News Association) CLEVELAND, Aug. 14. Johnny Dundee of New York and Matt Brock of this city fought 12 rounds in the Luna Park arena last night to a draw. Both boys fought like wildcats all the way. During the opening round and in fact up to the closing round, Dundee had the better of the milling. In the last one, however, Brock made a whirlwind finish and clearly earned the right to an even break. Dundee was much the more clever at long range while Brock did his best execution at infighting.

Attention Moose! Moose, Wayne Lodge,. 167, Loyal Order of - M o6se. '" ' All members are requested to meet it the hall at 7: 1M this evening Wednesday), August 14, to attend the funeral of our late brother, Charles L. Ladd. John C. Darnell, Dictator.

Alph E. Kutter, Secretary. It

CHICAGO, Aug. 14. Billy Gibson, of the Garden A. C, and Jimmie Mc-

Mahon, of the St. Nicholas A. C, rival New York promoters, both arrived in

Chicago today in an attempt to sign

Jack Johnson for a Labor day battle.

Little Artha declared last night that

he was not particularly interested in

which one got to him first. Both promoters looked alike to him, he said,

being perfectly willing to box for eith

er or both provided they met his

price.

While the promoters are here they will endeavor to sign Packey McFarland and Adolph Wolgast for ten rounds in New York on October 3. Ad is to meet the promoters here.

got the worst of it when it traded Leach and Leifield to Chicago for Cole and Hofman. Leach and Leifield are playing great ball for the Cubs, while Cole has returned to his home nurs

ing a sore arm, and Hofman has not

reported to the Pirates on account of

illness.

WITH THE BOXERS. Frank Klaus will take another trip

to France as he has signed to meet George Carpentier in Paris, Oct. 5.

Dave Smith, the Australian middleweight, has arrived in this country and is willing to take on any of our

boys at the weight.

"One Round" Hogan, who defeated Tom McFarland recently, has been matched to box Willie Ritchie in San Francisco next month.

FINE LANDSCAPE BY BAKER

A Richmond Artist Who Produces but Little and , Paints with All the Eclat of the Moderns Why Not Endow People?

Still

GERMAN LATCHKEYS.

A FISH STORY.

The Man Who Told It Said It Was

Simply a True Narrative.

A man who formerly was a waiter

on n bis transatlantic liner told this

story the other day:

"On a certain trip over I had at my table an irascible old gentleman who was a fresh air fiend. No matter what the weather he always insisted on

having the porthole over the table open. It was no use to argue with him. but one day when the seas were very high and the ship pitching and rolling I ventured to remonstrate. He

was up in arms in a minute. 'You are paid to obey orders.' he said tartly. Open that port.' I did. The soup course was served in safety. Then I asked him if he would have fish. "Of course I will.' he snapped. 'And I'll have it in a hurry. Don't keep me waiting all day.' "Just at that moment an unusually big sea rolled by that is. part of it did. A goodly portion came through the porthole, soaking the old man and depositing on the table, in front of him a lire fish. No waiter on board of our ship had ever served an order so quickly before. But I didn't get any credit for It. The queer thing about that story. he added, "is that it isn't a And story at alL I never told It yet fc sty one who believed it. bnt it is b0ietlr true." New York Press.

Attention K. of P. faifhi & Pythias, lola Lodge, No. 53. mmker are requested to meet . M- A-! t 7; 15 this evening, y4y) Ajut 14, to attend the tWM&jd f4 iAm Urttthur, Charles L. &4- WUiUw H. W.tnon, C. C. $ fit&, K. fit It. and 8.' 1

BASEBALL NOTES. Catcher Lew McAllister, formerly of the Detroit Tigers, has been purchased from Buffalo by the Baltimore Club. Bill Sweeney, of the Boston Braves, is crowding Zimmerman, of the Cubs, for the batting honors in the National League. Joe Lake, who was a failure in New York and St. Louis, is now pitching championship ball for Hugh Jennings in Detroit. The Cincinnati fans have no mercy on a loser, and the Redlegs have a tough job playing ball at home since the team began to slip. Wichita Falls has the honor of owning the first championship team of the season, the Oilers having won the pennant in the Texas-Oklahoma League. The Dubuque Club, of the Three-I League, disposed of two classy players when it sold Del Paddock to the Highlanders and Ernie Johnson to the White Sox. Pitcher Demaree, recently sold by the Mobile Club to the Giants, was a

member of the Newark, N. J., team in 1908 when George Stallings was manager of the team. Pitcher Ray Keating, of the Lawrence New England League team, who has been sold to the New York Americans, has won twenty and lost nine games this season. Clyde Milan, of the Washington team, has a chance to beat Ty Cobb's

record of 83 stolen bases, made in 1911. Up to August 4, Clyde had pilfered 58 sacks. The Clarksville team took the lead in the Kitty League early in the season, and has stuck at the top of the percentage column like a porous plaster on an angry Swede. The Giants will have to step lively if they expect to equal the Cubs' record of games won in a season. In 1906 the Cubs set the mark at 116 victories and 36 defeats. The feat of pitching ninety-eight innings without letting in a run, has won for "Buster" Brown, the Sheboygan pitcher, a chance to display his goods with the Milwaukee team. It is not often that a star ball player is seized with such a ca6e of rattles as was Ivan Olson, the Cleveland shortstop, recently, when he made seven errors in a doubleheader. It looks as If the Pittsburgh team

An Unfortunate Ablution. It is an authentic anecdote of Hogarth that he was wont to make certain miniature sketches on his thumbnail to be elaborated at an after time.

A certain dramatist followed the practice. He would write a plot in the same limited space in shorthand. He was once consulted on a new drama by a manager. "I have it!" the writer exclaimed. And he immediately marked the plot upon his thumbnail. Weeks passed, but no play was presented. The manseer consulted the author.

"Now, about the piece! It's done, of I

nail!" "To be sure," replied the author, "and there it was for some time, but, as ill luck would have it, I one morning unfortunately washed my hands!"

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "Follow the rules without knowing them." This has been quoted before. But it is the pronouncement that applies to achievements in the arts by genius. Genius does not have to go to school. Does not have to learn the rules and regulations. Does not have to serve a long initiate. Does not imitate or copy. Genius originates or "follows the rules without knowing them." Mr. George H. Baker, of this city, has had a small canvas on display in the windows of the Starr Piano Company recently which, within certain confines, illustrates the foregoing. - It is a small landscape painted north of town. In treatment it is as fresh and crisp as a May morning. In color

glowing and harmonious, in composition well balanced, in perspective without flaw and in pictorial value, charming. But it is in its manner that it is interesting. For although this artist is without

training and has had few opportuni

Proof Positive. Arthur Lefevre, the author, told this story of a happening at the University of Virginia during bis student days in 18S4: There was a Baltimore freshman at the university whose father got several letters about his boy's wild ways about his fondness for peach and honey and such-like heavy drinks. These letters grieved the old man to the heart. He wrote to the freshman and in reply got a general denial of all the charges. Evidence, however, continued tc pour in, and finally the father decided on a secret Journey to Charlottesville. He timed himself to arrive late at night It was, in fact. 2 o'clock in the morning when he rang the bell of his son's boarding house. In response to his ring a woman in a yellow bath robe appeared, lamp in hand. "What do yon want?" she demanded, peering suspiciously forth Into the darkness. "Madam," said the amateur detective, "is this the residence of 1" And he mentioned his son's name. The woman's grim look relaxed, and she answered indifferently: "Yes, he Uvea here. Yon can carry him right in."

Chinese Humor. In his book on "China and the Chinese" Dr.- Giles gives a specimen of Chinese humor which, if the source were not known, might well be mistaken for American humor. There is a Chinese story which tells how a very stingy man took a paltry "arum of money to an artist payment Is always exacted in advance and asked him to paint his portrait. The artist at once complied with the request, but when the portrait waa finished nothing was risible save the back of the sitter's head. "What does this mean?" cried the sitter Indignantly. "Well." replied the artist. "I thought a man who paid so little as you pais wouldn't care to show his face.

It's too bad that the people who like certain things can't have them. The cult of everlasting self-denial as a projector toward spiritual exaltation is obnoxious and based on false premises of the meaning of life. Nothing is so degenerating as poverty.

Poverty never made any-one better, nobler, more contented. It pinches the intellect and the soul as well as the body. Poverty is vicious in its effect and operation. Wealth may enervate but poverty destroys. There is another cult which says that we are put into the world to enjoy ourselves. That the highest point in ethical development for both the individual and society is reached in the attainment of this end. And, it's plausible enough, to the It. stands to reason that if every individual entity is enjoying life, every other must. The fine point at which the logicians split, however, is on the quality of the enjoyment.

Although the promoters of this cult

ties for observation or experimenta- J have their own system about which

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tion, he is still painting with all the

breadth, freedom and naturalness of the ultra-modern school. A school highly sophisticated through study and experiment. While not a pointellist, as is Childe Hassam one of America's greatest present day landscapists thiB small picture by Baker is reminiscent of the more celebrated artist's manner of treatment. Mr. Baker, is, indeed, one of the most gifted of the Richmond artists who have attracted local attention within the past few years. He has a vigor and a dashing use of his medium, oil, which might be envied by many an artist who has achieved distinguished reputation. And it is a regrettable fact that his fortunes have not enabled him to develop a talent which should give its possessor distinction. People should be endowed. If a man fabulously rich, or even decently so, would look about him he could expend his superfluous monies to no better advantage than in endowing individuals whose talents might add to the pleasure and profit of society but which could not be developed through any other agency.

Philanthropists might do a lot more

good in this way than by building hospitals, orphan asylums, old men's homes and "such. In instance establish a trip to Europe fund. And let those take advantage of it who had vainly longed for this pleasure but whom misfortune had pursued. And not do it in any half and half sort of fashion. But supply them generously with funds for preparation as well as in realization. There are some persons constitutionally unable to make money. And yet who really deserve trips to Europe, de luxe editions, ornamental raiment and a box at the opera. But who must content themselves with trolley rides, fifty cent fiction, remnant counter rags and the ten cent andSTille. ,

you can inform yourself by reading after its exponents.

It entails a certain spiritual, as well as physical development, which would insure discrimination in enjoyment. And humanity s not yet reached a level where eveione is alike developed. So that the enjoyment of the one fellow must be at the expense of the others. This you see everywhere. The wealthy buy ' their enjoyment at the expense of the poor. The naturally sunny-tempered at that of the pre-destined grouch. The master at that of the servant The selfish wife at the expense of her husband. The brutal husband at that of the self-immolating wife. Little children must suffer for the sins of self indulgent parents. The virtuous for the vicious. For he who buys his happiness at the expense of another cannot know what enjoyment is. To say that you will be happy whether or no is to say that which is impossible. And at which the gods laugh.

The truth Is that happiness is not positive. But negative. We are hapby because of the absence of something, not in its presence. Misery is the only positive thing in the universe. All else is relative. "Will you please tell me." said the man at the next desk, "what you are driving at?" -Just putting in the time while the boy brings my umbrella and overshoes, replied the other person.

Sargent once painted a Philadelphia woman and when the work -was finished the woman's coachman called for it As the coachman was studying

the portrait. Sargent said to him TT J . mm

nuw no job uu, n r Tne man answered thoughtfully: "Well, sir, ye might have made It a little better looUn. mebbe, but if ye had ye'd have

Bifl Enough to Be Used as Weapons of Attack er Defense. Locksmithing in Germany is today as important a trade as plumbing, blacksmlthlng or the vocation of the barber, says our consul at Hanover in a recent report. The first lock and key were introduced Into Prussia in the fourteenth century and caused a con

siderable sensation at the palace of the

elector of Brandenburg. lie found

that by these devices he could do away with the guard at his private doors and thus materially reduce his household expenses. Since that day the schlosser, or locksmith, has been an essential factor in German life. The present German house key could be used as a weapon of attack and defense, besides serving its original purpose. It weighs on an average about one-eighth of a pound, and as each person entitled to carry a house and corridor key has nearly a quarter of a pound of soft iron In his pocket it is conservatively estimated that the amount of iron in circulation in Germany in the pockets of the men and in the hand bags of women amounts to 2,695 tons, besides an additional 2,500 tons for the keys to the interior of German homes. Thus something over 5,000 tons of iron are put into keys of a size to be found nowhere in America. However large the house or numerous the apartments, the outer door Is locked promptly at 10 o'clock, and as the German spends many of his even

ings out every person carries at least one of these massive keys to effect an entrance.

YESTBRDAY'S RESULTS.

Pittsburgh,, 3; Brooklyn, 1. Chicago, 4; Boston. 2. Cincinnati, 7; Philadelphia, 6.

GAMES TODAY.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

ANSWERED THE SIGNAL The King Sent the Reply, and the Captain Kicked Himself. Rear Admiral Sir Colin Keppel was given the command of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert by King Edward, and on one occasion when the late king was on board his majesty thought be would like to steer the yacht for a little way. Admiral Keppel took him to the wheel, and. having ascertained the proper course to steer, his majesty tried to keep the yacht In it, with rather poor success. The vessel was being escorted by a squadron of cruisers, and the captain of one of these vessels, noticing the wabbly course of the Victoria and Albert, thought he would "rag" Admiral Keppel on his bad steering. He signaled a sarcastic inquiry as to the erratic course of the yacht and King Edward, seeing the string of flags go up, inquired their meaning. Admiral Keppel went all the colors of the rainbow and tried to escape the question, but the king insisted. When at last he understood the meaning of the signal his majesty went off into peals of laughter, and after he had re

covered a little he ordered a reply to

be signaled.

A few minutes later the captain of

the cruiser read this message: "Pray

accept apologies, but am a bit out of

practice. Edward.

Then the captain retired to his cabin

and kicked himself. Pearson's Wee IT.

Won Lost Pet. Boston 73 34 .682

Washington 66 Philadelphia 63 Chicago 53 Detroit 54 Cleveland 51 St Louis 35 New York 33

43 .43 54 56 56 71 71

.606 .594 .495 .491 .477 .330

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.

Chicago. 5; Washington, 3. New York, 3; Detroit. 2.

GAMES TODAY.

St. Louis at Boston. Detroit at New York. Cleveland at Philadelphia. Chicago at Washington.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

Won lost Pet. Minneapolis SO 43 .650

Columbus 78 45 .634 Toledo 73 48 .603

Kansas City 59 64 .4 SO Milwaukee 56 64 .467 St Paul 55 69 .444 Louisville 46 76 .377 Indianapolis 44 82 .349 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Indianapolis, 2: Kansas City, 0 (call. ed in second; rain). Columbus. 4; Minneapolis, 1. St. Paul, 15-4; Louisville, 13-1. Milwaukee, 6; Toledo, 0. GAMES TODAY. Kansas City at Indianapolis. Milwaukee at Toledo. Minneapolis at Columbus. St Paul at Louisville. Yoa Mdat aaffev m nc toartartia. Mi tvstsoa. cooipto or asy mi CmUM arialag from disordered atomach. Dr. Caldwell' . Syrap Pepa wiU ore you aal keep yo waU. Try u raeo haad the year arooad.

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