Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 264, 16 September 1914 — Page 25

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1914

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EUROPEAN STRIFE STRIPS ALL FOLLY

FROM DAILY LIFE Persons Left in Beseiged Paris Neglect Magazines, Desert Cafes and Have No Time to Play. How war strips life of all but its essential and how it brings bome the relative value of things, la being demonstrated here in Paris today while the Germans are hammering at our very gates. Take one small instance, the kioska, which are the news stands of Paris. They are open, of course for news is as necessary to the people as their daily bread. Like food, the news is being served out in its sim plest and least fantastic form. Small sheets convey the meagre news of the war that the war office allows to be disseminated. For the most part all other publications are gone. The weeklies have entirely dis appeared. The comic weeklies have entirely disappeared. The .comic week lies died out like December flies from the first day of mobilization. It was not only that there was no demand for them, though that was true, but they die mainly because their staffs were composed mainly of young men who were called to the front. A few of the serious illustrated weeklies survive and they are in great demand. Cut Off Papers. For some deep reason of high policy no doubt, the English papers have been cut off from Paris. That is not strange within the last few days, since the Germans have been so close, but it was noticeable in the early days of the war while still there was traf- - fic between Paris and London. In revenge one sees everywhere hieroglyphics strange to the eye of Western Europe Turkish and Russian lettering. Koumania papers, too, are now sold in the streets of Paris. The cafes close at eight o'clock. Their place had to be taken by something, for it was unthinkable that Parisians, with all the excitement of war, the prospect of siege and bombardment, could go to bed with the cur few. So the Champs Elysees have come into their own and from ten to midnight from Rond Point to the 1'lace de la Concorde, they are one vast salon, where the people of Paris gather to gossip and discuss the war. There is little laughter and the voices seldom rise above a murmur. Soft drinks are sold from push-carts which have their stations along the curb. Playgrund Neglected. The Luxemburg Gardens remain, as always, the playgrounds of the children. But in the five weeks since mobilization they have gone to rack and ruin. The falling leaves cover the paths, there being no gardeners because all the men have gone to war. Everywhere is dust and desolation. A strange sight, typical of the times, are the herds of sheep and cattle pastured in the Boise de Bologne, whicn has returned to the pastoral age. Hundreds of animals are quartered there and on the race course at Long champs. The grass plots have been fenced off to afford grazing places for .the cattle which have been driven into tlio city from the surrounding country to be slaughtered for food if the siege really comes. The Montmartre of the artists and the tourists is dead, or at least In a state of suspended animation. It never was a very integral or vital part of Tails and it was the first to go. The clearing house of cosmopolitan pleasure has closed itB doors and quenched its lights. There is sterner business on hand HOW WIRELESS AIDS IES IN BATTLE In wars of the nineteenth century an army spent much time in attempting to cut an enemy's telgraph and telephone wires. To break the transmission of dispatches today is practically impossible, thanks to Mr. Marconi and his co-inventors. Do you realize that the two allies against Germany and Austro-Hungary France and Russia, are probably in constant touch every hour, indeed every minute, of the day and night They can talk right over Germany, Moscow and Paris can co-operate perfectly. Probably General Joffre and Grand Duke Nlcholaievitch know each of them what the other's forces are doing from hour to hour. SHOPS GIVE WORK TO MOST GERMANS The last occupation census of Germank, taken in 1907, showed that in the Empire there, were 31,497,100 employed, as follows: Agriculture and stock raising, 9,732,472, mining, metal work and kindred industries, 11,265,254; commerce, trade and manufacture, 3,477,626; domestic and other service, 1,736,450; professions, 1,738,530; forestry, hunting and fishing, 150,785; without professions, miscellaneous. 3,404,983.

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For the first time since the war started the German Emperor and. Empress met a few days ago at the residence of Baron von Stein at Bad Nassau. The royal pair spent most of their time during their stay at Bad Nassau visiting the German wounded in the military hospital there. The Empress who was bitterly opposed to the war, wept as she tried to express to the soldiers her sympathy. WAR MAY INCREASE RUSS PRODUCTIVITY The national debt of Russia amounts to about $4,550,000,000 on which the annual charges amount to some $207,000,000. But unlike the other great powers, Russia's debt was not entirely insurred by buying powder and ball, but represents to a large extent important productive work like the Trans-Siberian railway and similar undertakings. How much these staggering charges are to be increased in the various countries by this greatest of all wars, no man can say, but inevitably the fresh burden imposed by the waste of war will fall upon the laborer and the men of small means. They may not pay the taxes directly but they will pay them indirectly. For them the war means in a large measure that the increased productive power of the race, due to machin ery, which has added so greatly to hu man comfort, will be cancelled by the waste of war. It means that everything that they buy will be increased in order that the dealer may pay higher rent and taxes and that the money with which they buy will decline in their hands, if their respective states reBort to excessive issues of paper in order to provide the "sinews of war." HOW WIRELESS AIDS ARMIES IN FIELD So far at least as the German army is concerned, it is apparent that the old field telegraph, which played such an important part in previous wars, has been entirely supplanted in this great European war, by the wireless. The laborious and lengthy process of laying wires between distant points to establish lines of communication is now obsolete. Only among established lines of communication will wires be used in this war for telegraph and telephone service. The field equipment of the German Army consists almost entirely of portable wireless outfits. The great advantage of the wireless over the old method, is that the enemy cannot off any army's communications and if a code be used, the enemy cannot "tap" the messages. In the warring countries other than Germany, portable wireless equipments have been used, but they are cumbersome and far from being easily handled. The German engineer has however worked hard in hand with the service men and the aKiser's forces are now equipped with a means of communication which is so light and portable that a motorcyclist with a side car can readily transport one of the outfits a distance of 200 miles in one day. has taken place. And YOU SHOULD WORRY if your child strains over his books like this boy. I have fitted glasses for over 20 years that enable students to sit up like this boy

SUNKEIi ROAD HOLDS MANY GERMAN DEAD Empty Cartridges and Fragments of Clothing Add to Horrible Grave.

A sunken road near Meaux proved the grave of hundreds of German soldiers in the battle which was fought near there. From various sources more details of the fighting were received today and, pieced together, they form a graphic account of the -sharp., and bloody struggle which went on at the front. Some notion as to how the Germans were harrassed by the French and British army in their retreat beyond Meaux can be formed by a journey over the war scarred fields. The German infantry had taken up its position in a sunken road cutting through the crest of a long undulation. Upon each side pf the road, stretched for a great distance, were hummocks, some natural, others raised with pick and shovel. Besides the bodies were many empty cartridges and shells, fragments of clothing, caps, knap-sacks and broken guns - and . bayonets. This destruction had - been i wrought by French cannon three miles distant. Several patches of straggling woods intervened between the German position and that of the allies artillery. When the firing began the French guns had difficulty in finding the range because the target was out of view. Finally a French officer climbed a hill abont a mile distant from the German position, and telephoned directions to the artillery commander. With his long range field glasses he could see where the shells were exploding. The harbor of Rio de Janeiro has fifty mils of anchorage andis said to be the finest in the world. Yhmp With all the Modern

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The Russian people believe In God. This 1 the first fact that strikes every compotent observer. Mr. Stephen Graham is Impressed by this belief all the time. Mr. Maurice Baring never forgets it. Mr. H. G. Wells discovered it with some astonishment. 'Let me quote Mr. Baring. In his book, "What I saw in Russia," he says: "If you talk to a peasant for. two minutes you will notice that he has a fervent belief in a great, good and inscrutable Providence. He never accuses man of the calamities to which flesh Is heir to. When the railway strike was at its height, and we were held up at a small side station, the train attendant repeated all day long that God had sent us a severe trial, "Yesterday I had a talk with a man who had returned from the war; he had been a soldier and surgeon's assistant, and had received the Cross of St. George for rescuing a wounded officer under fire. I asked him if he had been wounded. He said, 'No, mv clothes were not even touched, men all around me were wounded. This was the ordinance of God. God had pity on the orphan's tears. It was all prearranged thus that I was to come home. So it was tot be "I also had tea with a stone mason yesterday who said to me. T and my whole family have prayed for you in your absence, because these are times of trouble, and we did not know what bitter cup you might nhot have to drink.' Then he gave me three newlaid eggs with which to eat his very good health." It is important to remember the faith of the great mass of the Rus au uie new 41 all the new Company

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LOIIE EIIGUSMI STAUDSFOR: PEACE J. K. Hardy, Socialist, Remains Thorn in Side of War-Mad Pecffk. In the midst of the great European war. England has one Socialist leader who stands out prominently against war. In speeches and through the Socialist newspapers, J. Kier Hardy has bitterly condemned England's participation In the great conflict oa every occasion. , ' As the opponent of war and the critic of the Government, Hardy is a sore thron in the side of the British race. Here are some of the newspaper comments on him and his attitude: "If any doubt "could possibly remain as to the justice of the British causa in the recent war, it baa been removed by the attitude of Mr. Keir Hardie. We can read no other meaning into his questions in the house of commons yesterday than that be wishes his country disloyally to abandon its pledges and from sheer cowardice to forsake a small and weak state in the hour of its agony. We are convinced that he spoke only for himself. Socialists Jn this country have rallied to the British Government aa faithfully aa the Irish Nationalists. Mr. Keir Hardie stands alone, determined to satisfy his Inordinate vanity by making capital out of the public misfortune and attracting to himselg attention which his real standing in his party and the country does not for a moment deserve."

Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, president ol the Constantinople College for Women, has been honored by the sultan who has conferred on her the Ordei of the Shefakah. IRONS