Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 201, 5 August 1915 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 1915

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A Good Ordinance i Mr. Perry J. Freeman may be perfectly right in his theory that the so-called "dimmer" ordinance is "unreasonable," -hence invalid, and there is no criticism to be offered of his announced intention of testing the validity of the act. It is to be hoped, however, that his opinion is a mistaken one. From published statements credited to Mr. Freeman the conclusion is reached that he bases his theory of the invalidity of the ordinance on the ground that it discriminates. He is quoted as saying that dimmed lights are not required for horse-drawn vehicles operating within the city limits, which is perfectly true. As a matter of fact there is no statute requiring any kind of a light on such class of vehicles. It would appear, 'Mr. Freeman's opinion to the contrary, that the city council, for the proper

protection of the life and limb of citizens from motor vehicles would have the authority to extend the city's police power to provide for the operation' of such vehicles with dimmed headlights within the city limits. There is no disputing the fact that it is unsafe for a pedestrian to cross a street in the glare of headlights of an approaching car. Being blinded the pedestrian becomes confused and if he avoids the car bearing down upon him he is quite apt to step in front of some other machine or streetcar.;: Mr. Freeman's further assertion that it is unsafe to operate a machine with dimmed lights over many streets outside the business district will not be taken seriously by the general public. All of Richmond's streets are well supplied with arc lights and any automobile operating within the speed limit can traverse them with as much safety to its occupants as can a horse-drawn vehicle. It is dangerous to operate over certain streets in the residential districts at a rate of speed a large number of motorists are accustomed to even with headlights at full glare. It is not to be anticipated that any court will share Mr. Freeman's opinion of the dimmer ordinance, and its rigorous enforcement has been too long delayed by the police department. The act is one of the best which has been written on the city's statute books in a long time. Perhaps it is well to remind the police that there is another ordinance which provides that all bicycles shall be provided with lamps and bells.

Why U, S. Permits Sale of Munitions

FORMER LEGIONAIRE RECEIVES IRON GROSS ON FRONTIN RUSSIA BERLIN, .Aug. 5. Dr. Pick, chief surgeon of the miliary hospital at Miecbowitz, Upper Silesia, writes to the "Berliner Tageblatt": "A few days ago a badly wounded nrnrommissioned officer, Karl Win- " Cassel, was brought here. When .nlned the soldier I found his overed with French tatoo signs. !lm he was not willing to disclose he o!i.2,in of these "Decorations," but finally he consented to talk and he told me that he had served five years in the French foreign legion. "After finishing his apprenticeship as o mechanic he went to France six years ago. In Nancy lie fell into the hands of recruiting officers who induced him to enlist in the foreign legion. He was gent to Algiers and found the conditions there almost unbearable. Repeatedly he tried to desert, but he was recaptured and severely punished. "There was no'escape for him and he had to serve his full term of five years. Then he returned to Cassel where he presented himself to the military authorities. He had to enter the German army and was assigned to the infantry regiment Wittich. Shortly afterward the war broke out and the former French soldiers went to the front with his regiment. He soon distinguished himself by bravery and was promoted. In one of the battles in northern France he saved a German detachment from anihilation by his courage. For this act of heroism he was decorated with the iron cross. "When Mackensen began his great drive on Galicia the former "legionaire" was sent to the eastern front. He fought before Przemysl and Lemberg and took part in the bloody combats along the Bug river in southern Poland. Near Sokal he was struck down by a fragment of a Russian shell. His wounds are so serious that he will not be able to return to the front after he leaves the hospital."

Dodge Shells In Sky

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New Romance of War in Battles Between Flyers and Anti-Air Guns; Every Clash Thrills.

Dolly Explains Servant Issue

BY DAINTY DOLLY. In several instances lately wealthy men have taken positions in their own factories to better understand the demands of their men for more wages in certain departments. It took a very bhort time to convince capital that the concessions asked were not only reasonable, but necessary for better results. Why not employ the same methods in the home and the improved conditions of domestic affairs would ltpay us? I dropped in on a friend one day and fhe was putting away the ironed clothes. She raved her indignation. Have I ever seen such carelessness? This bed spread is just as soiled as when it was put in the wash. Oh, ye:?, the rest of the clothes -had been all right with reluctance, it was rather a large wash but, with impatience, had I ever seen such a spread, etc.? it was the maid's afternoon out, and I caught a glimpse of her as she went by, a young girl with a good-natured face and a body not over strong. I stiffled my comments to hear again about, the bed spread. We went clown and struggled an hour with soap suds, hot water and bluing. Exhausted, but triumphant, we hung it on the line. A brisk air was blowing and in a few hours it was ready to bring in; ljut our joy was short-lived, for most of those self-same spots still greeted us. The afternoon had not been wasted, for I heard my friend exclaim: "Why, it's not so easy after all. It really needs some one strong enough to rub it harder than you and I together, could." Thus had one mistress learned that n maid was only human and tasks too hard for one are apt to be just as hard lor another. A little better understanding between mistress and maid would result in househol daffairs better run, friction replaced by comfort and the old-time, long-remaining servant no longer a delusion and a snare.

BY FREDERICK PALMER. International News -Service Correspondent. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, France July 18. A crack and a whish through the air! No sound is more familiar at the front, where the artillery is never silent the sound of a shell breaking from a gun muzzle and its shrill flight toward the enemy's line to pay the Germans back for some shell they have sent. Six or seven thousand feet over the British trenches there was something as big a3 your hand against the light blue of the summer sky. This was the target German aeroplane. By the cut of his wings you knew it was a Taube, just as you know a meadow lark from a swallow. So high was it that it seemed almost stationary. But it was going somewhere between fifty and ninety miles an hour. It seemed to have all the heavens to itself; and to the British it was a sinister, prying eye. Other features of life at the front may grow commonplace, but never the work of the planes these wings of the army's intelligence. In the hide and seek digging and dodging and countering of siege warfare the sight; of a plane undef shell fire never loses its thrill. Fixes Deadline in Air. If the planes might fly as low as they pleased they might know all that was going on over the lines. They must keep up so high that through the aviator's glasses a man on the road is the size of a pinhead. To descend low is as certain death as to put your head over a parapet of a trench when the enemy's trench is only a hundred yards away. There are dead lines in the air no less than on the earth. Archibald, the anti-air craft gun, sets the dead line. He watches over it as a cat watches a mouse. The trick of sneaking up under the cover of a noonday cloud and all the other man-bird tricks he knows. A couple of seconds after that crack a tiny puff of smoke breaks about 100 yards behind the Taube. A soft thistle blow against the blue it seems at that altitude; but it wouldn't if it were about your ears. The smoking brass shell case is out of Archibabld's steel throat and another shell case with its charge slipped in its place and started on its way before the first puff breaks. Archibabld rushed the fighting; it is the business of the Taube to sidestep. The aviator cannot hit back except through its allies, the German batteries, on the earth. They would take care of Archibald if they knew where he was. But all that the aviator can see is mottled landscape. From his side Archibald flies no goal flags. He Is one of ten thousand tiny objects under the aviator's eye. Private Car for Gun. Archibald's propensities are entirely peripatetic. He is the vagabond of the army lines. Locate hini, and he is gone. His home is where night finds him and the day's duties take him. He is the only gun which keeps regular hours like a Christian gentleman. All the others great and small, racuous-voiced, and shrill-voiced fire at any hour, night or day.

Why he was named Archibald no

body knows. As his full name is Archibald the Archer, possibly it

comes from some association with the idea of archery. If there were 10,000

anti-aircraft guns in the British army

every one would be known as an Archibald. When the British expeditionary force went to France it had

none. It was pie in those days for the

Taubes. It was easy to keep out of

the range of both rifles and guns and observe well. If the Germans did not know the progress of the British retreat from on high it was their own fault. Now the business of firing at Taubes is left entirely to Archibald. Is the sport of war dead? Not for Archibald. Here you see your target, which is so rare these days when British infantry have stormed and taken trenches without ever seeing a German and the target is a bird a man-bird. Puffs of smoke, with burst

ing hearts of death, are clustered'

around the Taube. . You are staring like the crowd of a country fair at a parachute act. For the next puff may get him. Who knows this better than the aviator? He is likely an old hand at the game; or, if he isn't, he has all the experience of other veterans to go by. His sense is the same as that of the escaped prisoner who runs from the fire of a guard in a zigzag course, and more than that. If a puff comes near on the right he turns to the left; If one comes near on the left he turns to the right; if one comes under he rises,

over, he dips. This means that the next shell fired at the same point will

be wide of the target.

Looking through the sight it seems easy to hit a plane. But here's the difficulty. It takes seconds, say, for

the shell to travel to the range of the plane. The gunner must wait for

its burst before he can spot his shot

Ninety miles an hour is a mile and

a half a minute. Divide that by thirty and you have about one hundred yards the plane has traveled from the time the shell left the gun muzzle till it

burst.

"Close!" Within thirty or forty

yards the telescope says. But at that range the naked eye is easily deceived about distances. Probably some of the bullets have cut his plane. But you

must hit the man or the machine in a vital spot in order to bring down

your-bird. A British aviator the other

day had a piece of shrapnel jacket

hit his coat, its force spent, and rolled into his lap. The explosion must be

very close to count.

The following article from "Comfort treating on the shipment of arms to the allies Is published at the request of a reader. This is the first of three installments.' . v: ., ,,..;. .. Ever since the beginning of the war now raging in Europe certain powerful interests have been and still are diligently at w ork trying to induce our government to prohibit the exportation of arms, ammunition and other munitions of war from the United States to the countries engaged in war, and have been equally active in their efforts through the newspapers and other publicity agencies to persuade the American people that such dealings in war material is cruelly wicked and should be stopped. They argue that it is morally wrong for our citizens to provide these-com-batants with the means of destroying each other and that such traffic is a violation of the spirit of our neutrality. Their arguments seem plausible to such as are unfamiliar with the true facts and the rights of the matter and who therefore wonder why the appealhas not moved our government to take action. The pretense that it is urged merely in, the interest of humanity as an effective means of shortening the war has won the support of many sincere peace advocates who do not perceive the unjust and destructive consequences of such a policy under present conditions although both President Wilson and Mr. Bryan, the champion peace

aavocaie, nave clearly explained in official proclamations why the United States, as a neutral nation, cannot rightfully forbid the exportation of arms to the belligerent countries during the present war. And this position of our government rests on legal and moral grounds as well as being in accord with souni public policy and the best interests of humanity, as we shall show. As President Wilson is absolutely and unquestionably right in the stand he has. taken and is firmly maintainine on ttiis ouestion desDite the threats

and abuse with which he is being assailed by the unscrupulous and the petitions with which he is being bombarded by misinformed and misguided persons of good intentions, COMFORT deems it important that its readers should understand this matter in which a wrong step might lead to the most disastrous consequences, and therefore takes pains to give the following explanation which should interest everybody. Our Legal Duty. First of all it must be clearly understood that the rights and duties of our citizens and our government regarding the sale of war material to recognized belligerent nations are prescribed and determined by a law which even the Congress of the United States, the highest law-making power in this country, cannot change. Perhaps this information may be a surprise to most of our readers, but it is true nevertheless. On the same principle and for the same reasons that State laws are made by our legislatures .for the government of the people in their dealings within their respective States, and national laws are made by Congress to. regulate commerce between the States, it has been found necessary for the civilized nations to come together through their representatives from time to time and establish a code of international law to define the rights and duties, and govern the cefaduct of the government and citizens of all nations in their international dealings in peace and war. This is international law or, as it is sometimes called, the law of nations, and is recognized as the law of the world binding all nations by an obligation superior to their national laws. As international law was made by joint action of the nations it can be changed only by the practically unanimous consent of all the civilized nations. International law of more than a hundred years standing gives neutral nations the right to sell, and belligerent nations the right to buy war material from neutrals. Therefore, as the United States cannot change this international law, our government has no right to forbid the exportation of munitions 7fu Urvfha, by the recsnized governments of the belligerent nations, and if it should do so our country would become a law breaker and as such subject to penalties that might be very severe and even include punishment by war. The foregoing statement may appear to conflict with the known fact that under authority of a special act of Congress President Taft proclaimed an embargo against the shipment of arms and ammunition into Mexico but it ?awS nnnH a?MY T.ecoenizef governments can claim rights under international law, and as Mexico was in a condition of anarchy without any government recognized by the United States, Congress could rightfully prohibit the exportation of arms and ammunition to the various bands of filibusters, brigands and mauraders who for more than four years have been pillaging their own countrymen and robbing and murdering foreigners- under pretense 6f civil war To Be Continued.

KILL MANY TEACHERS BERLIN, Aug. 5. "The "Paedagogische Centralbibliothek (Paedagogic

Central library) of Leipzig reports that

during the first eleven months of the war 4,906 teachers of the German elementary public schools and kindred institutions have been killed on the eastern and western battlefields. Prus

sia has lost 2.6SS teachers, Saxony !

533, Bavaria 458, Wuerttenberg. 360, Baden 272, Hesse 96, Alsace-Lorraine 89, Bremen 23, Hamburg 102, Oldenburg 41, Brunswick 68, Anhalt 33, Saxe-Meinigen, Saxe-Weiner and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 146. .

CHARGES SWINDLE GAME.

FT. WAYNE, Ind., Aug. 5. Charging that Howard Raymond, an automobile dealer, gave him a $1.00 bill

wrapped about a bunch of revenue

stamps, purported to be J100 in bills, Samuel Goodwin, a broker, caused the former's arrest here.

WOMAN WANTS COIN HUSBAND MAILED TO 0. S. CONSCIENCE FUND

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Treasury department agents today were trying to learn something more about a woman 4who wrote a letter to Secretary McAdoo asking that $10,000 which her Lusband had mailed to the "conscious fund" of the department be returned to her. The letter was mailed on a train between Sterling and Peoria, 111. It was signed by a woman, but her identity was not disclosed by officials. The woman wrote: "My crazy husband, nearly dead, sent you a short time ago $10,000 made up of three $1,000 gold certificates, eight $300 notes and thirty $100 notes. Please return the money to me. No sound mind would do the thing he did." It would require an act of congress to have the money returned even to the man who sent it.

SHOT THROUGH HEAD BUT RETAINS LIFE

VIENNA, Aug 5. A strange case is reported from the southern front. In one of the battles on the Isonzo, Franz Wachleitner, a Tyrolian soldier, was shot through the head. He was not even stunned and walked unassisted to the nearest field hospital. In a, few weeks he will be able to return to the front.

EXCITEMENT KILLS MAN. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 5. Ex' citement over a razor fight between two negroes, caused the death of J. A. Carter, 71, shortly after the quarrel. He died of heart failure.

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BUYS ARMS FACTORY MERIDON, Conn., Aug. 5. The plant and equipment of the Meridon Firearms company one of the largest institutions in the city was sold today to the New England Westinghouse company and will be enlarged and will be used to manufacture rifles for Russia. The plant had been owned and operated by Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chicago. The price is said o be over $500,000.

FOILS ROBBERS WITH GUN.

CLINTON, Ind., Aug. 5. An unloaded shotgun in the hands of a nephew of Henry Mitchell, a farmer, living near here, foiled an attempted robbery of a neighbor's home by two would be burglars. Mitchell removed his shoes and entering the neighbor's house grappled with one of the intruders. Hearing his call for help, the nephew hurried to the scene and relieved the robber of their arms, later landing them in jail at Newport.

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