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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

the domestic atmosphere and exerts pernicious
influence antagonistic to favorlte Rooseveltian
policy. However that may be, governmental
interference in the matter of more marriages has
in MANY instances been proven to be not only IN
effectual, but mischievous.
Marriage is, of course one of the chief founda-
ton stones of wise and benticent public policy.
The Government i'll the long run will, OF course,
succeed or fail in accordance with the way IN
which the marriage relation is conserved and pro-
tected. Every marriage is potential national
asset. and anything on the Governments part
which encourages marriage is wise, and any
thing that discourages it an unwise policy. But
in seeking the elimination of the married woman
from the ranks of its employees it would appear
that the Government would be rather discourag-
ing than encouraging matrmony. The married
woman whose husband provides her an adequate
support is, of course, logically selfish in holding
her position; but to deprive her of the position
on account of the fact of her matronhood would
result simply and solely in turning the great ma
iority of female clerks into confirmed spinsters.
As it is many clerks marry and voluntarily leave
the service Most of them have their retirement
in mind when they cease their single life. But to
make it condition to marriage thar they sacri-
flee their employment would be to penallze the
entry into the state.
The economies and hopes OF married life are
matters of public policy in the large and imper-
sonal sense only; in practice they are the prob
lens of the individual existence They cannot
be made the subject of statute or rule. In the
complexities of modern life what once a
simple condition is become one that is more and
more subject to risk and uncertainty. Where
both parties to the contract employed this
risk is appreciably diminished. To provide in
the case of the army Of women clerks in Wash
ington that marriage. so far as the Government
Is concerned, must be upon the basis of one In
stead of two earners, would be appreciably to de-
crease it. The part of wisdom in this matter
is, for the Government, with individuals,
Glands Off the domestic forum. Despite its
added complications, the heart of the average
woman in marriage the step to home !;
the average man feels in it the impulse to provide
and care for his chosen mate and these natural
and deep rooted desires, though cautiously exer-
cised IN the beginning, can be depended upon to
operate to preserve the spnser character of the
departments without forcing eternal spinsterhood
upon the hardworking but hopeful clerks whose
irruption into the Avenue every evening produces
the natural but false impression that all fem
mime Washington spends its days in sitting at a
desk .sr,x=
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

frank temperament of its people, rather than any
specially vicious character, that makes them APP
pear worse than in other places The Latin
temperament is more unrestrained, but at the
same time less hypocritical, than that of the peo
ple of colder climes. But however that may be,
the fight against vice, protected or otherwise
is to be won in the end by sustained and direct
attack, rather than by all appeal to red fire and
fierce oratory. Such methods aid vice and viclous
tendencies by reason of the false sympathy
aroused by the false spirit in which they are
attacked. The preacher, or any one else, who for
the sake of epigram undertakes to arrogate to
himself the purposes or express the limitations
of the Deity, sinks his power for good in the
folly of his presumption.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
LAW AND MATRIMONY.

II is TO be hoped that the recommendation of
the department economies committee in Wash
ington that hereafter married women whose hus
bands are able to support them be barred from SER
vice AS Government clerks, will fail of adoption.
Specifically there is that to commend the new
policy, in that it would appear hardship to
deny employment to single women dependent
upon their own exertions for livelihood, to give
it to women whose salaries are in a measure in
addition to the normal source Of support to which
the happily married woman may look. It may
be argued with some force that employment for
married women reakens the home tie destroys
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
,PERNICIOIS FOLLY.

We do not know exactly what the American
kurity Congress is, but it will stop far short
+ any effective achievement, if the words and
Amper Of Rev. James F. Chase, of Boston, are
y Ne taken as typical Of lis policy and method.
AasEAt meeting of the Congress in New Orleans,
II proceedings seemed to resolve themselves into
l{Rperation of the city of which they were
Its. Speaker after speaker went after the
- situation, but the eliminating attack was
16 Of the Reverend Chase, who is quoted as
ing:
The system Of protecting rice IN
EN| NeW Orleans ~ such that the hand Of
God Almighty could not make this
accent community inside of Twenty-Five
s 1ecrs'
xs Chase is a minister and as such is sup
" be the servant OF an omnipotent power.
I'M declaration he lost in value to the cause
Master whom he basphemed far more than
ined in any effort to sensationally attack
ieious conditions of New Orleans. Since
Amember Of the Purity Congress, and since
lire time Of its meeting seems to have been
znp In denunciation Of the Crescent City it
assumed that he feels himself and his fel-
Dmpetent to do what he declares Divinity
kt 40 accomplish.
IA general may be bad in New Orleans.
I'D are, though we are inclined to
NJ matter # fact il y the WARM and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
For Southern Consumption.

The brand OF New Nationalism which Colonel
Roosevelt displayed III his Southern speeches
fers from the simon-p Osawatomie hotstun pap
from cocktails,
In those bold days the exgencies OF his state
campaign pressed him. the New Nationalism
an assault the cherished Southern doctrine
of states rights.
"The New Natonalism," said he atoawatomie re
CARDS the executive power the steward OF the
public welfare
Equally antagonistic ancient Southern creed was
his further declaration:
THE betterment seek be accomplished
mainly through the national government"
old free days ne declared, too that govern
Interference with social and economic condi-
lions" should prevent any any corporation
from enjoying wealth IN and comfort unless 1t
had been "honorably obtained and we'll used" and
unless II represented "a benefit to tho country
All these slogans have lapsed into silence. He
cares that the New Natonalism, In the words OF the
Tribune, IFS nothing actually new and nothing radi-
CAL"
What by the New Nationalism." he
plains Is simply efficient application OF the old
ralities and changed conditions"
Reduced to the domain of plattudinous morali-
ties" says the New York Evening Post shorn OF
its distinctive character. the New Nationalism can
be defended. with great II that IL the tack
the colonel e going TO take In the New York cam
paign Democratic orators who may have been
line old-time fight with him the New
Nationali.m .re doomed 70 sad disappointment"--
NAw QrleAns NeUk As sE Sy M
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
Topmost Steeple Jack.

People coming out of the City Hall from the
subway about 80 o'clock Friday forenoon walked into
from point opposite the Post Office, and that
interested In George G. Nenly.
Mr. Nealy is a steeplegeorge. After arising from
bed early In the morning the steepegeorge continued
to scrape the paint off the fagpole top OF the
Singer Building from bah to socket and then paint
the pole. BY of bosn's seat. which permits
with the inclination reach the ball by sliding
climber 'elits the strap and then slides
and checks the seat while standing the foot
strap. next increasing the height by showing higher
the foot strap while sitting the seat strap. which
while standing the s,rapn brief. George the
steeplegeorge had reached ball. which Is GA feet
above the Broadway sidewalk
When George had got up to the ball by lifting him
self by his strap he hooked the toes OF his
the upper surface OF the foot strap and
hung from the of the pole prompted
by trait in his character which his friends
almost to obseseve love for all that IL
bizarre,
A number OF citizens stopped o watch the painter
hanging head downward
When George had hung by his for many min
utes he seemed suddenly to remember that he wasn't
up top OF the nagpole for pleasure alone. Where
upon he drew himself to where his feet were and
began scrape the paint off the pole
The crowd below, which reached from Grace
church the north to the kitchen windows OF the
officers homes Governors Island. breathed easier
when they that George had stopped his foolishness
resumed normal position. But little did they
the happiness In the painters heart, for he
explained later Of these fly steepeton Dick
hagpole got a notion he's regular champ, and,
OH the chestiness OF these fly guys talking around
the meetings the union like they little tin
Wright brothers and passing their beters the street
dirt under their feet So George simply had to do it
New York Sun
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

country has been secured are Philadelphlans IN
bone and sinew--to hear Philadelphia tell It,
For them the fireworks the red lights, the groan-
ing banquet board. For them the freedom OF
the city,, the torchlight parades, all the honors
and emolnments which a grateful people can
heap on patriots returning from the war. let
not only does not IA one of them appear to belong
to Philadelphia, but they are all eager to get
home They have been hard at work at their
trade. They are tired of cheers and applause and
party food. They want to get back to the farm,
or the corner grocery, the familiar woods, and
smoke a pipe, and engage familiar vituals, and
indulge long and grateful stretch. These ball
players have been at work in a foreign land. Now
they are headed home after their labors, while
behind them great city slowly subsidies from
the frenzy of pride brought to it by the pick
ed men from the country at large.
Philadelphia is full to the chin of the sporting
glory of its very boys.
The papas and farmers and whatnot of hard
working men who have been playing the role are
fastening back to enjoy longedfor rest.
Considering what they have been forced to
eat, drink and listen 10 since their triumphant
return from Chicago they need it.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

new sort of insurgency is developed in South
Carolina by the organization of Lily White
Republican convention Immediately on the heels
of President Tafts naming of negro to be As
sistant Attorney General of the United States.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
Dixon As An Advertiser.

When the Rev Tom Dixon's theatrical company
in Wilmington. Sunday. of the men Of
his troupe went out to Wrightsville Beach for a
splurge in the surf. One Of them far out from
shore and drowned. 1t was Sunday. the season
over. but the young man had the freedom OF the
Now told, Rev. Mr.. Dixon will sue
the Tdewater Power Company because It did not have
life guard the beach The Tidewater Power
Company less responsible for the drowning OF
whose personal chaperonaxe he should have been
at church or Sunday school instead Of II tho beach
inck 81 getting N sbundAncs oe ~ hAsle110
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

The proposition TO weed out of the Washing
ton departments all married women whose hns-
bands support them may, if adopted, have per-
nicious influence on the industry of the husbands.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

Johnstones experience in gale shows that the
aeroplane, in addition to its other accomplish
ments, has the power of being blown like leaf
and sometimes alghting as safely
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

Commissioner North is suspended as an unde-
slrabe citizen account of the fact that he adj
mitted undesirable aliens to citizenship.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

A French Society has named Colonel Roose-
welt ''debroulIard'. If the Colonel were stronger
on French the return blow of the big stick might
come quicker with quicker appreciation of the
epithet.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

New Orleans Jack the Stabber' has been
rested, but claims that on account of the Use OF
cocaine he has no recollection of any one OF his
many crimes. A dangerous sort of sleep walking
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

New York s decision not to hold worlds fair
was possibly prompted by the reflection thar
Manhattan Island Is consttutionally already full
to overlooking.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28

President Taft has been talking to collection
of Methodist Bishops. There was class OF
men with whom one in authority could speak on
equal terms Of power.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-28
THE BALLPLAYERS' RETURN.

Nothing so excltes town pride as winning
baseball team. Since the return of the victorious
Athletics to Philadelphia their life has been
one continued round of receptions and banquets
They have literally "owned the town.. As a
honor they are to be rendered civic
reception at the City Hall, followed by am ella.
borate banquet the Mayor of the City heading
the committee arrangements.
But it is Illuminating to read in the Phia-
delphia Press who these Quaker "Mackmen'
really are If III the entire aggregation there
is even one philadelphia, his identity is not
disclosed. The prize money having been called in
the banquets all but eaten and the toass drunk
the various players whose prowess has served to
give Quakerdom delirium are preparing to
dispersed to homes ranging from Louisiana to
Maine. For instance:
The members of the house of Mack
are busy planning their Winter voca-
tons Manager Mack and Eddie Col
line are to be married SOON Collins
is to marry Miss Mabel Harriet Doane,
of Clifton Heights, on November 3, and
his worlds series cash will probably
help to bury a new home. He will spend
the Winter doing newspaper work.
After hunting and fishing trip, Har-
ry Davis will also break into the lime
light as newspaper guy Ben
Houser will hunt the wild animals for
while and then kill time until the next
baseball curtain is lifted. Ira Thomas,
Topsey Hartsel and Amos Strunk are
others of the team who will winter here
Jack Lapp will get busy tinkering with
electric wires and other things as an
electrician
Cy Morgan has polished up lot of
jokes and will take the initiative on the
stage Jimmy Dygert will keep in trim
for anther year by playing ball at his
home in New Orleans. Danny Murphy
will retire to secluded spot at Nor
wich, Conn. .'Rube' Oldring will win
Ter in New York. Eddie Plank will
help to take in the pumpkins and watch
The cows on his farm, near Gettysburg,
Adams County, Pa. Harry Krause will
take his family to the Pacific coast for
the Winter.
Jack Atkins will fix up his pool and
bowling alleys at gainesville, O. "Bg
Chief Bender is going to sink his earn
ings, but will continue in the limelight
this Winter breaking blue rocks at the
shooting traps. John Coombs will stock
up his Maine farm. Gland Derrick has
caught on to job in his home town,
Clayton, Ga. Paddy Livingston counts
ON sinking his roll in real estate and
will tackle job in Cleveland, Ohio,
his home town.
D Yet this collection Of PLAYERS for whom the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22
i'm inquire
FOR BEING UNFAIR
Maps Donation of Game to
Help the Athletics Brings
Sharp Criticism.

IF Manager Jim of the Maps Wants to
Kill Base Ball Here He Took a Long
Step Tuesday Toward Putting For Rent
Sign on League Park"
This headline Is copied from the Cleve-
land Press Across the top Of the Press
sport page is the true story OF the Tues
day game. in which the Athletics made
% hits and IS runs off Fred Falkenberg.
The game was close till the eighth in
ming. The score stood 4 to 3. Then Falk-
enberg suddenly lost his effectiveness
and the Athletics hit him at will. Nc
CURE did not send a man out to warm
up; he seemed to make not the slightest
effort to prevent the Philadelphians from
winning Among other things this criti-
cism of Mcclure includes this paragraph:
But fans will not stand for the yellow
streak. They will not stand listless.
dont-care playing. They will not en-
dure to see games given away without a
struggle as was Tuesdays. They have
the power Of punishment in their own
hands and they can exert that power by
staying away from League Park until
there are not two quarters to jingle to-
gether in the tin box Of the Nap owners.
Last September the Maps drew the
criticism and contempt of Philadelphia
fans for laying down. to the Athletics
in an effort to beat Detroit out OF the
pennant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22
TWO STARS GOING BACK.
Mathewson and Brown Not Pitchers
They Used to Be.

CINCINNATI, August 22-The bell is
almost ringing for the two greatest pitch
ers in the National League. Christy
Mathe wson and Mordecai Brown are
nearly done, so far as the speed. the
fooling curves and the general mechaIl-
cal execution are concerned. Other
pitchers. handicapped as they are now,
would have been shunted to the soup
before this time. but these two hold on.
and win game after game because they
have the think-tanks.
Both Brown and Matty arc being slam
med hard all the time. and as the days go
by they get II harder. Even their wiz
ardlike control is not what IT used to be.
When the records are made out for 1910
they will show that more hits per game
were made off Brown and Matty than
ever in their previous career. and that
they issued more bases on balls But
they win, and, after all, it's winning
games that counts no matter whether YOU
hold the foe to three hits or thirteen
Those two old foxes are worth dozen
fast youngsters even now. and the way
they win is the grandest display of actual
pitching art that the game can show
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22
BATTING is FACTOR
IN NATIONAL GAME
Limit Of Genius Apparently Has Been
Reached and New Tricks Are Only !.
Variations of Old Ones.

has brought out many geniuses. Those
who stand out prominently are John Nc
Graw, Johnny Evers. Fred Clarke. Frank
Chance, Tommy Leach. Hughey Jennings.
Ty Cobb. Connie Mack. Joe McGinnity.
Jack Dunn and Sammy Strang.
The latter three are out Of the big
leagues now, but some Of the plays they
planned and executed will be remembered
for many years to come. Sammy Strang
is generally credited with having origi-
mated the delayed STEAL" which Is one
of the prettiest plays in the game. The
delayed steal, when once worked by a
single base runner, opened the way for
many variations.
McGinnity and Dunn invented the play
for killing a sacrifice from second. That
was many years ago, but 1t is still used
with good results.
AS a matter Of fact there have been
very few new plays during the past ten
years, most of them being merely varia-
tons Of an old one. Still 1t is interesting
to watch the gradual development to
what now looks to us like perfection.
After all. the scientific perfection of
base running will only lead to one thing.
The teams will become so evenly balanced
in that art that the winning strength
will fall back on the old proposition as
to which has the best batters. Batting
is the milk of the base ball cocoanut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22
BOSTON FANS ARE
LOSING LOYALTY
TayIor's Trades, While Bene-
ficial, Do Not Please Hub
Crowds.
Special Dispatch q The Star.

Special Dispatch % The Star.
BOSTON, August 22.-Boston is the
most loyal base ball city In the world.
loyal to both the home hopes and the
invading teams, but with all this fair
ness to ball players. Boston followers of
the game find themselves constantly ir-
ritated by the action Of the Boston club
owners.
John I. Taylor, the man who owns the
Boston American League franchise.
means we'll enough, but. somehow or
other, everything that Taylor does seems
to- meet with disapproval.
The owner does not mean to take &C
ton which will harm the best interests
of the club. Taylor is one OF the most
enthusiastic fans who have ever applaud
ed or criticised ball player. 1t would
give Taylor more JOY to see the Red Sox
land a pennant than any other five men
could derive from the same victory.
When Taylor sold "Cy'' Young to Cleve-
land and Lou Criger to st. Louis there
was a wall that reached all through the
state of Massachusetts,. John had a
tough time squaring himself with the
patrons of the game in Boston for that
alleged break" They had about gotten
over ii this summer. but what does John
do? He just pulls of another trade
This time he hands the best tnird sackel
in the league and another corking good
infielder over to the White Sox for Pur-
tell and Smith, infielder and pitcher.
Any wise man in the game Will tell you
that Boston got the best Of the deal. but
the Hub fans can't see II that way. They
blame Taylor for pulling of what they
consider ''boneheaded trade. and they
are sore at the management or the club
III this thing continues Boston VIII proc
ably lose the title of 1.-The best ball town
In the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22
BASE BALL SLUMPS
HARD TO EXPLAIN
Even If Good Reasons Are
Presented Fans Are
Dubious.

Commenting on the complaints OF the
fans of various teams when the latter
take the inevitable slump. as has happened
to SO many this season. a writer says: As
a matter OF fact, no matter how lucid
reply is given, II is not given much Gre
dence. for when a team is in the throes
of a losing streak few are the fans who
do not have their own opinions as to the
contributory causes, and few also are the
ones who fail to express them.
1t is beyond dispute, however. that none
of the teams Is having very easy shedding
this season. The pace is a hot one. de-
spite the fact that some of the teams
have suffered from almost unprecedented
slumps The gap between first and last
places has never been as wide to date as
is usual at this stage of the campaign.
and even now the team which occupies
the cellar position Is not so far behind
but that a squirt OF week or two on its
part and. a corresponding slump on the
part of the leader would materially
change the aspect of the race and the
final chances Of the contenders.
1t Is likely that the National League
campaign for 1910 will go down into
sporting history as one OF the most pecu-
liar in the entire history of the old or
ganization. Its surprises, both pleasant
and unpleasant, have been numerous. and
1t is no certainty that they are ended or
will be ended until the close of the season
Is much nearer.
Base ball Is a game In which the unex-
pected plays a large part. In truth, II is
this vagueness. this uncertainty. which Is
half the games charm. For instance, il
the fans of a city knew when the cam
paign opened that their representatives
would finish in last place, what would be
the teams drawing power at home? Prac-
tically NIL On the other hand, IL the pa
irons of another city knew in advance
that their favorites would win IL would
detract from the zest of the contests. But
one never can tell. Hope is ever present.
even when all the dope" I'm the book
tends to prove that there is no chance for
victory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22

DETROIT. August 22.-The Detroit
American League base ball club Satur-
day Internationally released Frank Red)
Donohue. the pitcher who has been on the
clubs reserve list for three years. Dono-
hue is now in business in Philadelphia
and says he will not return to base ball.
The Detroit club has signed Smaller. the
outfelder of the Springfield club Of the
Three / League.