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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1913

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Time To Wake Up It is to be hoped that congress at its next regular session will provide an adequate appropriation to stimulate aviation. Both the army and navy are sadly lacking in aircraft and it is vitally important that this branch of our military services be brought up to standard. In most European countries great strides have been taken in the science of aviation. Although the heavier-than-air machine is an American invention, the French today are our superiors in the science of their flight. The dirigible balloon has been so perfected by the Germans that they are now in common use for commercial purposes, and the German army has a formidable dirigible fleet. In this country the dirigible is practically unknown. Even the most conservative students of aviation admit that the day is not far distant when it will be possible for a dirigible of the Zeppelin type to fly across the Atlantic ocean with but small danger of mishap. When that day comes the United States will no longer enjoy its isolated

position. It is estimated that the German dirigibles now planned could make the flight in at least two days. In the event of war with that power, our fleet would be of practically no use in the protection of our shores. But congress has not looked that far into the future and has not even authorized the experimenting with dirigibles of the Zeppelin type. So ' far there are only 18 aeroplanes in the American military service with ten building. Germany has

ten war dirigibles and 48 war aeroplanes. In the ;I'rench military service there are 260 aeroplanes and 13 dirigibles.

Two Statesmen No comment is necessary in the presentation of this pert statement of Mark Sullivan, in the current issue of Collier's: Senator Albert Bacon Fall of New Mexico says in the formal biography written by himself that he is "interested In mining in Mexico." In Congress he is the leader of the movement which aims to involve the United States in trouble with Mexico. A man with a different view of his office is Congressman William Kent of California. Some of his views of international obligations are contained in his- formal public statement: "I fear that we are altogether too prone to talk about national duties and national honor in careless terms. We cannot afford to set up controverted doctrines to be needlessly fought over. Many a man entitled to life will lose it if we heedlessly and unnecessarily adopt or uphold theories and policies that others feel justified in resenting "But the lives of American soldiers should not be sacrificed, the people's treasure should not be wasted, in protecting "the property rights" of those of our citizens who, having gone beyond our borders, have "taken a chance" on the laws and conditions of peoples beyond our control. "As one financially interested in Mexico, inasmuch as I would not jeopardize my own life nor the lives of my sons to protect my property, I would be a coward and a murderer if I should send any of my countrymen to death In behalf of that property. "Yours truly, William Kent."

SOCIAL CERTAINTIES

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I. "KILLING THE PROPHETS." By H. L. Haywood. TT HAVE in my possession the reproduction of a very I old Japanese painting which shows the execution of JL an English ambassador by the Japanese; the poor fellow is suspended between two posts while fire is

built under his naked body, a group of very pious Buddhist priests attending, meanwhile, to the details of the roasting. This man was sent to them as a messenger of good, bringing light and gifts and help. He gave them bread and they in return gave him a serpent, a very fiery serpent! But we must not suppose that this is peculiar to the Japanese, it is the way of the world. Prometheus, in the Greek mythology, (often so much truer than the mere

prose of history) was spiked to a cliff side for bringing to mortals the inestimable gift of fire. Socrates was made to drink the hemlock. Savonarola was burned in the public square while his old friends and fellow-priests looked on. Galileo was given the choice of recantation or death and would have suffered the fate of the martyrs had he not decided it better to run away and so live to fight another day. Bruno also passed from earth in the fiery ordeal as many another llght-brlnger of his age had to do. Even so late as the nineteenth century Darwin was executed in a more refined way; from pulpit and press he was denounced as a perverter of religion and morals, a degenerate who 'had a monkey for his ancestor. And greater than all and back of them all is the Savior who had a cross for his death-bed and vinegar to stay the thirst of dying. Movements for the exaltation and betterment of society have ever suffered the same fate. They have been broken like glass across the hard rock of the world's indifference, they have forged to success through blood and had the whole planet to lift. What a black story is that of England's nineteenth century when Bright and Cobden and Mill and the causes they stood for met the combined opposition of church and college and money and press! Bishops actually arose in their pulpits and argued that it Is a part of the divine order for women to toil in coal mines sixteen hours a day, naked and starved; for children to live like swine in a pen getting little food and less sleep being driven to the factory with whips and beat en to death for the slightest offense! But no blacker Is our own story for we stood up for slavery as a divine institution. Lovejoy was hauled through the streets with a rone about his neck while Whitier and Phillips were look-

young folks are inspired to become missionaries or settlement workers because they have had painted before their eyes a radiant vision of the tears of gratitude, the volume of thanks, and the everlasting praise which would roll in upon them as a reward for Their self-sacrifice. This often happens, be it to mortal credit, but usually after one is dead. If you ha any delusions that men welcome the good offices of a reformer and Savior go out and try it. As a usual thing they will prefer Barabbas to Jesus. All this appears to be a very hard state of affairs, especially to the prophets; and yet we take the side of the crucifiers and announce our conviction that it is very wise and very necessary to kill our saviors. The world would not hang together very long without the cross and the stake, or at any rate, what these things symbolize. And your genuine radical, your real reformer, he who believes in his message with all his heart and mind and soul, who is willing to risk all that his cause alone can save the world is going to welcome the cross. This habit of killing the phophets will be to him one of the "beautiful necessities" which make the game of life and reform worth while. This paradox will be resolved for us if we will but take one or two plain facts into consideration. In spite of the contumely and scorn, the fiery stake and the cross, the breed of reformers and iconoclasts never diminishes. Persecution seems but to increase their ardor and swell their ranks. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." I Now think what would happen if society opened its arms to each and every reformer and accepted his program at once and put it into practice. In a brief time there would be no society left. Chaos, worse confounded than that which reigned in Tartarus and the Cimmerian wilds, would reign on earth tomorrow. Society is obliged to protect itself constantly against the caprice of its own members. Were it to give them too much leeway it would invite its own destruction. Scorn, ostracism, and reproach are unpleasant to con

template but they are necessary. And we need little wonder that, now and then, in eliminating the fanatics the race also cuts off the head of a Savior. Where there are so many weeks to eradicate one can't avoid digging up a stalk of corn now and then. The immobility of the mass is to society what inertia is

to matter; it gives solidity and stability, it makes an unmoving foundation possible. If the world were helpless in the hands of its own individual what insanity would prevail! The average person is easily persuaded even against his own judgment, he is the victim of his prejudices and is almost always "easily taken in." If you have the nerve, try a little experiment some day and prove this; stand in the center of the street at Eighth and

Main and begin to stare with amazement into the sky;

ask the passersby if they see an extraordinary bird flying among the clouds; you will soon gather a crowd about you many of whom will become convinced that they can see a wonderful bird very plainly. This gullibility of the individual, his instant willingness to depart at once from the canons of reason and of common sense is the capital on which fakirs work and green goods gentlemen of all descriptions, from the Gipsy fortune teller, to Count Cagliostro. We who are reformers and radicals, let us give thanks for the wooden immobility of society. What would be the use of reforming a community or a nation if some new reformer could step in tomorrow morning and undo all our work? The game of reform wouldn't be worth the candle, nor would the game of life. Resistance is necessary; inertia is a blessing. The aeroplane must at one and the same time resist the atmosphere and depend upon it; without resistance it could get no leverage for its propellers, and it would drop straight to the ground if no effort were necessary. The very thing against which it sets itself is that which makes it possible for It to rise. So also with society; its inertia is to it what unchanging forces and laws are to nature. If every lovesick girl was able to cut up her Romeo into bits to serve as stars in the galaxy, if every drunkard could turn the sun to cheese at a wish, and we had the power to reverse gravitation and chemical attraction by the turn of a finger, there would be no Natnre no law, no universe left; all would revert to chaos. After all, therefore, the wise prophet will draw to his embrace the hard cross of his crucifixion, secure in his conviction that only thus is a resurrection to a newer life possible; that only thus can the world win the new and keep the old.

Continue Takiug Testimony in ihe Van Schaick Case

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Mrs. Frances Van Schaick, who has been examined by Coroner Livingston in the inquiry Into the mysterious death of her husband, Singleton Van Schaick, and her daughter Frances. Below is Singleton Van Schaick riding to the hounds. NEW YORK, Aug. 11. As soon as the evidence in connection with the death of Singleton Van Schaick now being conducted by Coroner Livingston of Westchester county, can be transcribed from the stenographer's notes, it will be submitted to the district attorney, who will decide whether the body of the wealthy sportsman shall be exhumed or not. Mrs. Joseph Jasper Ecclesine, wife of Van Schaick's confidential secretary, gave testimony which seemed to indicate her husband was in love with Mrs. Van Schaick. Ecclesine said that his love for his employer's wife was purely platonic.

MY CONSCIENCE

Sometimes my Conscience says, saye he, "Don't you know me?" And I, says I, skeered through and through, "Of course I do. You air a nice chap ever' way, I'm here to say! You make me cry, you make me pray, And all them good things thataway That is. at night. Where do you stay Burin' the day?" And then my Conscience says, onc't more, "You know me shore?" "Oh, yes." says I, a-trimblin' faint, "You're jes' a saint! Your ways is all so holy-right, I love you better ever' night You come around 'tel plum daylight When you air out o' sight!" And then my Conscience sort o grits His teeth, and spits On his two hands and grabs, of course. Some old remorse, And beat-me with the big butt-end O' that thing 'tel by clostest friend 'I'd hardly know me. "Now," says he, "Be keerful as you'd orto be And alius think o' me!" James Whitcomb Riley in Century.

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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

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99 9-10 PER CENT, IN FACT. Cleveland Plain Dealer. More than a score of Republican senators want to make speeches against tariff reduction. It is announced they will be sound speeches. That is probably correct mostly sound.

CERTAINLY NO LUXURY. Houston Post. "Lying is neither a necessity nor a luxury," asserts a Denver pastor. This is the proper pastoral theory, but maybe the brother is not married, or, if he is, has never come home at a A. M. At that hour it is both a luxury and necessity at times.

FURTHER THOUGHTS ON BUTTERMILK. Philadelphia Inquirer. "When fresh." says The Ohio State Journal man, "buttermilk is a noble beverage, possesses a conscience and sits on the stomach like balm." " Yet, on some stomachs like a whole bottle full of balm with a lebel "For External Use Only." , . .

will safeguard the city from the possible consolidation of values, to be subsequently used as a basis for an increase of rates. I am glad to be able to offer commendations, which I do unsparingly, where commendations are deserved. Believing , as I do, that all corporations will take the advantage of every opportunity. I believe supplementary to agreement entered into, the Light, Heat and Power company should be required to furnish to the city, for its permanent record, an itemized inventory of valuation of such parts of its plant to be used in the supplying of natural gas to the city of Richmond, with the further request tl t an annual itemized statement of the cost of all betterments be submitted to the city within a given time each year.

I would suggest further, that a stand j ard of depreciation be established, ; that the city might know, any year, I the actual physical value of such parts l

of the plant as is actually used and useful for the supplying of natural gas. I believe further that a separate valuation of such parts of the plant of the Light, Heat and Power Company as is used exclusively for the manufacture of artificial gas be also obtained, and if, when the occasion arises, we have to revert back to artificial gas, we shall be possessed of sich information as will make clear the equity of rates charged. The city is entitled to such valuations of the three district properties, tto avoid possible consolidation of values. By the acceptance of the demands made by City Attorney Bond by the Light, Heat and Power company, and the further compliance to the suggestions made herein, the City of Richmond, apart from some laxities of the contract in its stipulations of liabilities between produce and consumer, will have a franchise that can be re-

lng merits: 1st. Cost of gas never to exceed

cents per 1000 feet. 2nd. An artificial gas plant to be

! held in reserve as a permanent relief j against natural gas failure. i 3rd. A franchise that makes possible

the changing from artificial to natural gas, without tearing up the streets. 4th. Discontinuance of meter charges. 5th. The retaining of the Light, Heat and Power company's proportion to our municipal taxes. 6th. An indeterminate franchise which puts us in a position to revoke at any time, for non compliance with the terms of the contract, thereby, insuring to the city better service than

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years. Viewing the situation as it now stands, I consider the city's position as one of which we might feel content and in our future negotiations with

THE GAS SITUATION. The consummation of the gas deal, giving to the Light, Heat and Power company the franchise for supplying the people of Richmond with natural gas, is very gratifying. City Attorney Bond is entitled to great credit for his insistence to the

acceptance of certain stipulations that , is usually rendered when the contract

the atmosphere depict the simple life of the open range.

for a given number of

Palace. In searching for your evening's entertainment one should never overlook the fact that the Palace presents the highest grade of films obtainable. "The Mutual Program," and presents it in first run pictures, which insures you against seeing the same subject twice. The pictures are all clear and free from the eye strain and headacre that comes, from old and poorly projected pictures. A bill of exceptional quality is offered today in the three subjects, "The Code of the U. S. A.." a Pilot drama, "Hearts and Hoops," a Majectic comedy featuring Billy Garwood and Francelia Billington. Also "The Protectory's Oldest Boy" one of those ever pleasing Thanhouser dramas.

Almost one million tourists visit the Alps each year of whom about twenty-

public utilities, let the result of this I four meet with fatal acidents

transaction be an inspiration leading to what should be the primary thought in all such deals, the preservation of the consumers inalienable right to justice. Yours truly, ALFRED BAVIS 411 X. 13th St.

Guide

At the Murray. Week of Aug. 11 "Hello

BilL"

'Hello Bill." The Francis Sayles players will enter upon their fifteenth week tonight at the Murray, when they will offer an original farce comedy in three acts, "Hello, Bill," by Willis Maxwell Goodhue. My Sayles as well as the other members of the company will been seen to good advantage. The regular matinees will be given on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Heart to Heart Talks !

DID HE CHOOSE THE BETTER. FART? Lot term a a George W. Let term a Is dead. You did not know Lettennan or know of him, perhaps? If not the loss is your, as tb death of Lettermao is the nation's loss. Letterman belong d to tbe rac oC born naturalists. To him the starry beauty of an anemone to the gn was more than tbe g!re of the electric light in the city witdernesa. His mind petvelTed more beauty in the stately aisle of tbe forest tree than in the arches of a oathedrnl. For seventy yar I.etterman Mudled and botanized in the Missouri woods and fields. As his fcnowldi: of nature grew so grw his fim. until few men were more highly regardKi by the botanUt of the state and nation. Many famous cleutits visited hU tittle eabln aud roamed the wood with him. Rare plant wen named for him. Fame brought to Letterman no Inflation of spirit. The man who lire much with nature is never Tain or conceited. He knows bis own littleness. Letterman was a true member of th family of Agassis and Audubon and Muir and Burroughs. He did not twk the world. Tbe world sought him. His wisdom li the ways of plants reached the seats of learning, wher men and women study botany with books and microscopes as well as with the naked eye. So some of the great universities asked Letterman to jolu their faculties, to become an Instructor of the young. Letterman preferred his haunts along the brooks to a stately chair near tu river of learning. He would not leart his woods. Did Letterman choose aright tot himself? Considering himself alone, probably be took the better part. II may bars felt himself unfitted for the Ufa in tn balls of tbe universities, although b was a man of education. Perhaps ha feared the restraint of regular noun of teaching, when his soul would long for the great outdoors which ha had made his home for bo many years. The world lost, no doubt, by his decision. But possibly be gained. Should be bare sacrificed hlmsell and given more freely of the stock ot nature lore which was In him ? Only be could answer the Question, and n la dead. He lived a good life. Whether b might hare lived a better, more useful existence elsewhere than among bli beloved grass and flowers and trees each reader must decide for himself.

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PALACE TODAY "THE CODE OF THE U. 8. A." Pilot Drama. "HEARTS AND HOOFS" Majestic Comedy Featuring BILLY GARWOOD and FRANCELIA BILLINGTON "THE PROTECTORY'S OLDEST BOY" Thanhouser Drama

Murray ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles' Players in in the Jolly Comedy "HELLO BILL" By Willis Goodhue Funnier than 'Brown's in Town PRICES Matinees Tues. Thurs. V Sat. 10 and 20c Nights at 8:1510, 20, and 30c. Next Week "IN WYOMING"

"In Wyoming." "In Wyoming." a romance of the Western plains, will be the offering of tbe Francis Sayles players at tbe Mar-

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