The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-20

We have been too lenient with anarchists
This government, Is based on the rule of the
il il does not seem 20 at times The nag rep.
resents and protects all the people. Anyone
who insults the flag insults what II Is. He il
an enemy to his neghpor and should be dealt
with as such. We should quit toerating tn ose
who have no respect for institutions-st.
Paul Dispatch.
Limiting Argument
In all controversy. the first thing to do is to
prescribe its limits: to declare just the thing
tnat 10 wanted and not allow the discussion to
straw word beyond that inquiry. There is no
nope to get at the truth OF thing unless the
controversy IL Invested of all verbiage, theory,
conjecture or opinion. A wilderness of argu-
ment - the most discouraging thing in human
experiences. Allow man to lug In every fact
and consideration that he can hitch on to a
matter in dispute and he can bury the truth out
Of sight every time.
The thing to do In court and legislative hall
is to limit the argument to time and space. and
connne II within certain defined limits II
smart person was allowed to talk as long and
how he pleased he could. in the minds OF some
ought to be limits to this everlasting gable,
misnamed argument.vohio State Journal.
Warning For Homer Being Dead.
Domenico Theotocopuli was born In Greece
some time about the middle Of the sixteenth
century. He studied art In venice-some say
OF time he made his way to Spain There
he lived for nearly half century and there in
the fullnessof time he died. Meanwhile he had
acquired very original style In painting
style marked by stin unnatural drawing; un-
Pheasant monotonous color, and a peculiar hand
ling Of light. Really he sixteenth GEN.
fury Futurist, one Of those Futurists which pos-
ter1ty never produces the likeness of.
The Spaniards called him Ell Greco. Greece
to him after he left his native country. Spain
gave him his opportunity, wrote sonnets in his
honor and hel was treated royalty there by
ROYALTY. To all intents and purposes he was
Spaniard.
In the course Of the centuries the Chicago
Art Institute. by the payment of forty thousand
American dollars. cash down, became pos
sessed Of one Of -TheotocopuMs- Characteristic
paintings. Yesterday in the home of art and
culture the directors OF the institute were noti-
ned by Consul Nicholas Salapoulos and Prince
de Byzance that their Ignorance and mis-.
chievous wrongdoing' were causing irreparabl
injury to the glorious nation Of Greece and
that suit for 100000 damages would be in.
stituted Immediately unless the word Spanish
IL removed from the frame of the picture and
Is robbing our country Of Its gems" said the
prince, but they must not rob it of its genius
and Its name"
All. the pity of 1t.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head
New Dances.
Conservative New Workers who are inclined
to view with alarm the change In the character
OF the dances now popular in sociery may
taAc Whatever COInIoFt possible from the
thought that they are not the first generation
that has been compelled to cali on the spirit of
the good old times. They always seem SO deco
rous and proper in comparison with the ten
denotes OF the present. So long ago as the enc
of the eighteenth century the waltz from
Germany had begun to supplant in England
the stately saraband, the formal minuet and
other dgnified measures In which serious
tioh solemny took its SENATORIAL pleasures. Just
as the bunny hug and the turkey trot of the day
were such menace to sthe FORMAL dances OF
the present century, 80 was the "ariemande" or
round waltz when II was first imported from
Germany into English social life.
The introduction of this German dance into
English life was the assertion OF the democracy
of pleasure There were formal dances for
nobility In Germany just there were in
France and England. But travellers the
dances of this kind less often than they did
the dances of the middle classes Of that period
which came naturally under their obser-
walton. The turkey trot and the bunny hug
came just these old round waltzes which
in Germany, from another milieu OF society than
that in which they gained their present popu-
larity So they naturally shocked the formal cir
cles into which .-ey were introduced.
But society survived them. Surely the turkey
trot today could be more conventional than
the "aemande," against which even Lord Byron
protested. in its day. So even these inno
vations in society's way OF dancing may pas.
and leave no evil effects behind them.-N. y.
Sum-
GsoIuses, Attention.
Miss Adeloide Stedman. young Californian
writer, discussed three points in modern iitera-
ture yesterday afternoon at the meeting OF the
National California Club at rne Waldorf-As-