Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 308, 7 November 1917 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, NOV; 7, 1917.

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The Defeat of Alfred Bavis

Alfred Bavis went down in defeat before Dr.

W. W. Zimmerman in the election yesterday. The cause of his defeat is to be found in himself and not in a lack of political discernment among the

voters who supported Farwig and Zimmerman.

Bavis has been accused consistently and per.

sistentlv as being autocratic and dictatorial

Men who have observed his four years in office

have noted time and again that Bavis had to have

his own way or he would oppose measures. Voters feared that if he went into office, Rich

mond would be ruled by a dictator, and that there

would be no need of a board of works, city con

troller, fire and police departments.

This feeling of the voters against Bavis was

strengthened by the paid political advertisements which his committee employed to further his candidacy. Cursory reading of any one of them left the impression that Bavis was the only man in the present city administration. No reference to the work of Mayor Bobbins who appointed him to office, to his associates on the board of works and to the other city officials who co-operated in carrying out administration measures, are to be found anywhere. Bavis took all the credit to himself, leaving the impression that everything had revolved about him. Citizens of Richmond are quick to detect and resent a false note of this kind. They refused to give approval to the methods used by the Bavis campaign managers to elect him. The statement which Bavis gave out after his defeat confirms the judgment of the citizens who voted against him. - The Defeat of the Italians

For two years the Italians had been waging a wonderful campaign against the Austrians. In one week the German war machine wrested away the fruits of this bloody victory. Today the Italians and their allies are analyzing the problem and seeking the solution. The Italians blame the allies for denying them' artillery and ammunitions. The allies say the Italians overestimated their own strength when they pushed ahead without an adequate supply of shells. A few facts loom large and cannot be denied by either the Italian government or the allies. One of them is that the Italians were outnumbered, and that the Germans through their spy system knew the weak point in the Italian line and the dearth of artillery. . But of far greater significance is the woeful lack of co-operation between Italy and the other

entente belligerents. France and England are working in harmony on the western front. Italy has been left to stand isolated and alone. She predicted her own defeat. She complained that England was not giving her enough ships to carry coal, munitions and provisions from the United States. England answered that Italy showed poor judgment in the use of ships alloted her and that the provision margin in Italy was more satisfactory than was her own. Italy even suggested that it would have been better to have kept American soldiers at home and given her the use of the ships that transported them and their supplies to France. Italy also believed that she was the nation that would end the war by her defeat of Austria. Over against the military claims of Italy stands the vitally important fact which France and England have never kept out of sight that the western front will see the decisive battles of the war. If the allies have been slow in aiding

Italy, it Is due to their decision that the western front needs the men and the munitions.

The misunderstanding regarding the import

ance of the various fields of fighting suggests that the allies organize a general staff that will

have supreme command over all operations. Then

the importance of each front will be viewed in

the proper perspective, making it impossible for one nation to lose the fruits of two years of brilliant fighting because it lacked artillery to back

up the gain. . The allies would then be able to negate the ad

vantage which Germany has in this respect. All plans and decisions are made by one Teutonic staff, and the particular needs and requirements of each front are constantly before the men who are able to cope with the vicissitudes of a military operation. A general staff of the Allies would enable them to concentrate vast forces of men and artillery at one point and smash through to a decisive

victory. Under the present arrangement, the British, for instance, mass the men they can spare for their offensive. They do not call on the French to give them as many men as they can

spare from their line. The result is that the full force of the Allies is never exerted against any

one point.

The German general staff is smashing its way

through Italian lines because it stripped the Rus

sian front of all the men that could be removed

It is repeating the same tactics it used in the Rour manian and Russian campaigns.

The final upshot of the Italian campaign may be a general revision of the staff activity of the

Allies and the creation of a general board that will supervise their military movements. The Food Pledge Campaign The refusal of a number of persons in this city to sign food pledge cards reveals the presence of both ignorance and a pro-German propaganda. This city has been exceedingly lenient with persons who are not heart and soul for the United States. It has resorted to no drastic steps to check an evil that is a greater menace than most of us imagine it to be. Severe measures were employed in other communities to check disloyalty. In Kansas City, refusal to sign a pledge card was interpreted as a disloyal act and the names of many persons were handed to the government agents for investigation. . - Perhaps it would be salutory if federal officials investigated the reasons assigned here by persons for refusing to aid in the conservation of food. It might clear the atmosphere to a marked degree.

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The Peanut to the Rescue From the Minneapolis Journal. THE American peanut, which till recent years was held by those who consumed it at "five a bag" as a confection and a joke, has risen to the dignity of a food, and a first class food at that, taking a place in the pantry alongside of corn and wheat. In the cotton belt it has filled th empty cottonsee oil barrel, where the boll weevil has ravaged the fields, and incidentally has turned the cotton farmer from his destructive one crop system of tillage to a sane diversified program. In Texas, where the boll weevil has done its worst, they have planted this year 600,000 acres of peanuts, or twice the acreage of last year. Georgia planted this year 420,000 acres, as against 190,000 last year; and the entire south planted this year more than 2.000,000 acres, as against less than 1,250,000 last season.

The peanut produces not only food for man but grain and forage for stock. Peanut hay is equal to clover and alfalfa as a forage; while hogs are fattened on the nutB which they harvest themselves, making as high as 400 pounds of meat to the acre. As human food the roasted peanut is said to be an almost complete ration, while peanut oil is now one of the dependable sources for the vegetable oils that are compensating for the growing shortage of animal fats. Cotton seed oil has already become a favorite shortening in the American kitchen, and much of the so-called olive oil we use is squeezed from the peanut The peanut in this year of war is bringing up the fat reserves, and in no poor way either, for it furnishes a perfect substitute for lard. As butter the ground peanut is rapidly coming into popular favor and is driving a consierable amount of dairy butter off the American sandwich. Thus the little peanut, humble though it be, has already braced up the lean pork barrel, has supported the waning butter Jar, and has laid the lard firkin under a tribute ot thanks, while not one jot abating its visible and welcome presence on the corner popcorn stand.

THIN SOUP AND OTHER THINGS i A pastor ef Detroit has recently delivered a sermon on the marriage state and declared that many a man

hat . been driven to drink by being

obliged to eat thin soup. The pastor

aright, but he doe not go far enough.

Thin soup Is not the only thing that drive a man tq drink. Here are tome

of the others: Thumb prints on dinner plates. Dishrag in Irish stew. Suspender button in the hath. No towel In the bathroom. Slippery cake of soap -on the floor. Pale pink coffee. No pearl shirt stud In sight False teeth left on dining room table.

Razor used to open can of toma

toes.

Canned cherries that are not pitted.

Baby's rattle In bowl of creamed

potatoes.

Best derby nat used to plug up

broken window. ALSO TROGLODYTE

Referring to a certain statesman.

Colonel Roosevelt says: "The senator

is a neo-copperhead."

Move to amend by tneerting the

word "neo-bonehead.

THE COST OF RADIUM HAS

BEEN REDUCED $50,050 A ORAM

NOW IS THE TIME TO LAY IN A

SUPPLY FOR THE WINTER. POLYOCULAR ART.

Yet no less an authority. than Carl N. Werntz, president of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, gave the following definition: Polycularism : Representing pictures as "seen by the soul ot the mob." "These pictures are based on a multiplicity of perspectives," continued Mr. Werntt. "Polycularism shows a picture as it might appear to a man with many eyeB. Polycular art differs from cubism and futurism, although the general effect may appear the same to the layman." All of which Is as clear as a cup of boarding house coffee. MILD FOOTBALL. The edict has gone forth that football this year must be mild, and no rough work will be allowed- As we understand the revised rules, the fol. lowing restrictions are made: When one player finds another player's ear In his mouth during a scrimmage he is not supposed to bite It off, as formerly, but is allowed only to chew it until it has lost all semblance to Its former self. When one player gets the heel of his shoe into the mouth of an opposing player,, he is not allowed to knock out more than seven teeth at one time. If the same situation develops the second tm in He umft game, ija Is allowed to knock -iutseven more. When the situation Is desperate opposing players are -not. allowed to use pickaxes on each . other's heads. An occasional brick used in this fash, ion will not be noticed, but all such deadly weapons as picks, sledgehammers and baseball bats are tabooed. When seven men pile onto one and break one of his legs, the seven shall rise and allow the man to be carried away to the hospital. Under no circumstances shall they be allowed to break another leg. Scientists advises every woman to choose a dress which matches her soul, but if a blonde has a yellow soul can she wear a yellow dress?

PIECE OF BEEFSTAKE. ANY OTHER FORM OF SUICIDE IS CHEAPER. japan says China's doors re open to the world, but where is the old doormat with "Welcome" on itr

An Indiana man went to sleep In church and leaned up against the het stove. He wore a celluloid collar.

IT fiETCMS T.nric a T,nNfl TIME Funeral announcement later.

SINCE WE HAVE READ OF ANY- A golf novice at Forest Hill made

BODY CHOKINO fr TiEATH ON Ala. G. A. R. score the other day. A

G. A. in 65.

R. score Is oat in 1 and back

Concerning External Growths Write to The Weber Sanitariam. IT Garfield Place, Cincinnati, Ohio, for information concerning the Medical Treatment ot All Forms of External Growths and Ulcerations (malignant (snd benign). Involving breast, face And other parts ot the body. Established 25 years and well indorsed. 'Accommodations homelike and charges reasonable. Descriptive book free. Adv. ,

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An officer, far from popular with hie men, coming to camp one evening was almost drowned in a river swollen by recent heavy rains. He was rescued by a private in hi a own regiment The officer was duly grateful,

and a6ked his preserver how he could reward him. "The best way, sir," said the soldier, "is to say nothing about if "But why?" asked the astonished officer. ' "Because, sir." was the reply, "if the other fellows knew I'd pulled you out they'd chuck me in." The burglar's wife was In the witness box, and the prosecuting counsel was conducting a vigorous crossexamination. . "Madam, you are the wife of this man?" "Yes." - "Sow did you come to contract a

matrimonial alliance with such a man?" "Well," said the witness sarcastically, "I was getting old, and had to choose between a lawyer and a burglar." The cross-examination ended there. The man who had built up the new tow and was showing a prospective settler about the place pointed with pride to a pretty little church Just completed. "Da you belong to the church?" asked the visitor. "I should say not," replied the head man with an air of injured pride, "the church belongs to me."

HOT TEA BREAKS A COLD-TRY THIS

Get a small package of Hamburg Breast Tea, or as the German folks call it. "Hamburger Brust Thee." at any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of boiling water upon it, pour through a sieve and drink a teacup full at any time. It la the most effective way to break a cold and cure grip, as it opens the pores, relieving congestion. Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking a cold at once. It is inexpensive and entirely vegetable, therefore harmless. (Adv.)

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Wednesday Nov. 7. Webb Lodge No. 24, F. and A. M, called meeting. Work In Fellowcraft degree.

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