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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
n..,ns to Reverse Natures Laws


M AYOR mitchell, of New York, in es-
wi Dousing the cause of those women
teachers In the public schools who have been
dropped from the rolls because they have be-
come mothers. declares in a letter to the
Board of Education that "tn mnny there
seems an inconsistency in permitting teach
ers who marry to remain in the service, while
refusing 10 grant leaves Of absence on the
ground of maternity"
There is restraint in the Mayors state
ment that there are "many to whom this
Inconsistency appears. AS matter of fact,
3perception of this inconsistency must obtrude
itself on the consciousness of most, il not all,
thinking persons who have given this mat
ter attention. 1t is possible to understand
though 1t may be difficult to sympathize with
the attitude Of school board which makes
the marriage OF woman teacher equivalent
to her resiEnnton; but permission to marry
accompanied by denial OF the womans right
to discharge the highest and hottest function
of the marriage state, is scarce less criminal
than 1t is absurd. ~.
1t is vioative of all sound public policy.
Childless marriages no healthier for the
sch COL teacher than for any one else. Nature
collects from the pedagogue from others
the penalty she exacts for violations OF her
laws. For Board OF Education to place a
premium on race suicide represents unques-
2tionably a curious twisting of the mental
function
Inconsistency? Well. that, at least
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Adult Infants in the Marriage State

\ MONG the causes that tend to make of
"A matrimony transitory condition is the
practice of courts to grant petitions Of
annulment OH the plea that one Of the con-
tracing parties was under age, an infant
in the eyes of the law, and so not able to
enter into q binding contract. Usually the
petitioner is young woman who has
married beneath her. at least, one does
not hear of the courts being asked to break
marriage ties where the husband is pos
sessed of means, unless. indeed, his parents
seek annulment because their has
married beneath him.
The law must fix some minimum number
band and wife, or we should have binding
which are forced so very frequently to leave
common sense out of the reckoning. cannot
be expected to give weight to fact that
everybody knows-that some females are
more mature at seventeen than others are
at twenty, and the same is true of the
sterner and more gullible SIX.
The precocity of American young men and
women has an international reputation, partly
because they are better fed, and, therefore,
have more active brains than their coevals
elsewhere and partly because their seniors
have a sympathetic fondness for the express
sion Of high spirits. But n matrimonial con-
tract is not Fundamentally joke, and the
young should not be encouraged to enter into
it, as they are when annument is made so
easy 1t Is not desirable that marriage should
be made any more OF q national pastime than
our generous divorce laws already enable
il to be.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Raising the Boy

~ UT of Kansas comes wisdom when a
~ speaker at the international Purity
Congress says: Make comrade of your son
and there will be no boy problem"
That is DID, old the hills. 1t is old
that it cracks with triteness. But it is one
Of the best possible theories Of boy rearing,
and in this age of youthful independence and
improper tendencies, great thought can hard
ly be given more important question. The
mother who makes confidante and personal
friend OF her daughter Will never have cause
to regret it. The same relation should exist
between father and son.
The average boy would rather play with
daddy than with any other person on earth.
But daddy is too often superior being, or
merely Furnishing medium, or feared
monitor. Daddy, in fine, is not as sociable
as he should be, and lets the cares and frets
of business break in too much on the pleasure
of being the inspiration and guide of that
growing who wants to play ball and
take long walks. Or perhaps he is selfish
and cares more for his ease than for his boy;
or possibly he is too dignhed, and doesn I
know how to get down on his hands and
knees like q horse.
There is story of man who, rushing to
catch a train that was just steaming up, was
followed by boy who was crying. What's
that boy crying about?" asked the conductor,
stopping the man at the steps. "He wanted
to kiss me good-by, but had TO catch the
train" breathlessly replied the man, with a
jump at the steps, Its more important for
you to kiss that boy than for this train to
move; go back and kiss him!" said the con-
ductor, and held the train while the business
OF major importance was properly trans
acted.
There is nothing in the world more i'm
portant to daddy than that boy.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13

zion worked was that, for practical
purposes. 1t is not possible to obtain u
drinking water which is absolutely
free from bacteria SO it determined TO
hnd out what quantity and types of
bacteria wero permissible without
danger in human life. 1t has, there
fore liked a limit for diesase produc-
Ing bugs In drinking water, being par
ticulnrly rigid In the case OF bugs
which belong to the bacillus coll group.
which arc recognized az the most dang
erous Of all. inasmuch as they include
tho typhoid fever germ.
Tho vast majority OF the bacteria
In drinking water supplies are entirely
harmless" says the commission, "and
regulations designed to Insure freedom.
from diseasc-produclng bacteria must
accordingly be concerned more with
the character than the number Of the
bacteria present. The Isolation of the
disease producing bacteria which may
be present. even In highly polluted
water. Is so nearly impossible. because
of the difficulty OF separating them
from the much more numerous harm
less bacteria with which they ure asso-
olated, that III actual practice the at
tempt to directly demonstrate tho pres
cnce of diseaes-producing bacsriu IL
seldom made. The meteorological d.
animation OF water supplies has. there
fore, been developed rather along the
line of determining the number and
proportion of certain broad classes o.
bacteria present in given volume OF
water"
Further along in its report tho com
mission says:
ut liz obviously desirable that drink
Ing waters should be at all times en-
tirely free from such offensive and dan
Rerous pollution. but 1t would be both
impracticablc and unnecessary to en-
force Il requirement that the supplies
OF common carriers should always b.
entirely free from bacteria OF the bacil-
lus group. The test Is an extremely
delicate one, showing traces OF polln-
ton not detachable by any other means
all Surfaco waters are natut. w sub.
ject TO more or less pollution ilh ami,
NAL exereta and experience has shown
that efficient publication rendering
originally polluted waters entirely safe
and satisfactory never extends to tic
point Of constantly and entirely remov-
Ing all bacteria of the bacillus coli
group.
THE limits recommended for permits
sible pollution of this character are az
rigid II Is possible to mako them
without. on the one hand requiring alb
solute freedom from such bacteria. or,
on the other hand, increasing mate
rally the cumbersomeness OF the eX-
aminations necessary to ascertain COM
p1iance with the requirements COM
piiancc with tho requirements herein
recommended Will insure quality of
water supplies equal to that OF munic-
pal supplies, which have been demon
strated by experience to be entirely
safe and satisfactory, and will, Mt the
samo time. impose no great burden
upon common carriers, since II Is en-
tirely practicable, with moderate ex-
rense, and pains, to purify water to
tho degree required"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Stone Expects Prosperity

KANSAS CITY. November 12-Sena-
! tor w. J. Stone slipped quietly into
Kansas City for a conference with his
logical political advisers concerning
the appointments to he made in the
government service here Several
toothsome Federal plums remain. and
! these are 10 be given to Democrats
before the next Congress convenes. ac-
cording to the simplest Interpretation
OF the Senator's remarks yesterday.
when his presence became known to
newspaper men.
some secluded spot, and think ovor
tho appointments" Senator Stone adj
mltted. II want to get that load off
my shoulders before tho next Congress
convenes. but L haven't made up my
mind as to any OF the Offices us yet"
Concerning tho election returns,
Senator Stone had this to say:
ut was fine Endorsement of Presi-
dent Wilson and the Democratic ad-
ministration. You must rene mber
! business conditions were unsettled by
the new tariff law and the banking
law. and that on top Of this came the
European war. which furthered the de-
preston. Had the people not had the
fullest confidence in the administra-
ton policies II would have been dark
day for the party in power. But the
spirit OF the country was to trust In
VIC SiHSclils the ana tuOEG
UNFOLDING his hands.
The tariff law. being a radical
change from the old conditions. put
things at sixes and sevens In the bust
ness world, of course. That result was
bound TO follow, and everybody en-
pected it just as they expected a
mighty wave OF prosperity after the
readjustment Of business to meet the
requirements of tho now condition.
THE European war, by swapping
our foreign competitors In the common
holocaust, will force prosperity on the
United States. The administration,
sustained by n fine working majority
In both houses, is taking ample pains
to take advantage of events as they
develop. South America has been
given courtesy by this nation that
1t was not used to in tho past, and
Is responding with interest to our COM
mercial advances In that direction.
Since President Wilson was elected,
the nations Of Chile and Argentine
were elevated to embassy countries,
tho same az European power. When
the Mexican situation developed horns.
the ambassadors of Brazil, Chile and
Argentina were given the honor Of ar-
bitrating the matter, instead Of Its
being turned over to the tribunal OF
The Hague. All those things show to
what length we have gone to make
friendly neighbors of Latin America,
and 1t will bear fruit, OF mistake
the spirit OF both the Latin Americans
and my ccuntrynaen."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
The Voice Of the People
woman sunrasc and Prohibitiop.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-I have just read Mrs. Chiles NJ. Ferrelis
article In your paper OF the 9TH instant Surely
the members OF the association opposed to
woman's suffrage have forgotten that last
spring 1000 saloons were closed ut one tlmo In
Chicago~by the vote of the women of that city.
This last week 900 saloonkecpers OF the same
city failed TO apply for a license. Why? Be-
cause they feared the vote of the women next
spring.
Tho woman's vote has greatly increased the
prohibition vote in many OF the States. Kansas
is prohibition State ana suffrage State
we'll The women Of Colorado have worked
vaNcntly for prohibition. The news comes from
Wyoming that before tho granting of suffrage
all Wyoming was wet. and at this time 90 per
cent OF the State Is dry territory. In Colorado,
within four years after granting equal suffrage,
quadrupled. Colorado has gone dry. 1t is
OF that State did their part to make the State
a safe place for the boys and girls The same
is true OF Washington Oregon and Arizona.
II is trud<hnt the same Legislature that voted
for the enabling act defeated womnn's suffrage,
but we must not forget that the enabling act
had been before most Of these gentlemen three
times, and we must also remember that the
action OF this last Legislature was but the
culmnation OF the effort put forth by the
citizens OF this State for thirty years.
Equal suffrage Is not yet quite five years of
age In Virginia. The campaign OF education
Win not require more than one-third the time
that the prohibition workers found necessary.
before woman will come into her own.
"A PROHIBITION WOMAN OF MANY YEARS
Richmond, November 10, 1914
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Help viii Reach Stricken Belgium

TT is gratifying to every decent and humane
i instinct that from Washington and Brus-
sells as we'll should come prompt denials of
the report sent out from London and The
Hague that the German military authorities
in Belgium had threatened "to close all chart
table organizations that now feed the idle
populace," unless those who fed from the
armed shock of the German invasion should
return to their homes and resume their
former occupations.
In its treatment Of Belgium and the Bel
sians Germany has done much for which
neutral sentiment to-day and impartial his
tory hereafter and forever will rigidly coll
denim 1t, but that 1t should actually contem-
plate such an atrocity as that imputed to it
is almost inconceivable. That the food and
clothing which sympathetic world Is send
ing to these sufferers should be kept from
them by armed force would predicate a
brutal cruelty that would disgrace a Com
anche Indian
Ambassador Won Bernstorff at Washington
has denied the charge. He declares that his
country has no purpose of interfering with
any measures for the relief of the Belgians,
and certainly would not contemplate the con-
tiscation of food or other supplies sent by
charitable organizations and individuals in
the United States. His statement must be
believed The distribution Of supplies will
be under the direction of Brand Whitlock,
American minister at Brussels, who says he
has the written assurance of the German au-
thorities that there will be no interference.
Generous Virginians, who have given or
desire to give to the alienation of this stricken
and devastated land, struggling under an I'M
paraleled and almost unimaginable burden,
need feel no anxiety that their gifts will be
diverted from the intended purpose.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
SONGS AND SAWS
w.nt Nothlnx. You,n Get n,

wAsHINGToN: November ii.--chsrlcs II.
g. Robinson. OF Roxbury. Mass, a defeated
Republican candidate for Congress, Giod this
report at the Capitol to-day: 81 received
nothing, promised nothing expended nothing,
got nothing"
1t must be fine to run race
For Congress seat or other place
With real success assured
(The trick is not TO win the fight
That may be done by any wight,
Though foolish and absurd).
Oh. not at all! The way to get
Tho thing on which your heart is set
Is nothing to desire,
And then when the returns are in,
And Fate lands just below your chin,
~ You have what you require.
Blest is that man." you've heard. know,
WHO asks for nothing here below
He's almost sure to get It.
SO. when the job he had In sight
For some far-dstant shore takes flight,
lie chortlcs, gaily: Let It."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
THE TIMEs-DISPATCH md Drrnkfaat
are served together with unfniIsnE reRu-
iarity In the Rest Homes of Richmond.
In your morning program completcs
1t Was the Governors Busy Day

A PPARENTLY, there are busy days for
"A Governors, just as there are for house
wives and bankers and plumbers, and for all
sorts and conditions of men and women who
are personages in the drama we call life
Wednesday. for example. was rather full
day for Governor Stuart Thereon he framed
or issued proclamatons
ta) Calling the people Of Fir
-ina to Tome to the aid of the starving
Belgians
.b) Declaring that no case OF foo,
and mouth disease existed Oh the soil
OF the Common wealth;
M tc> Calling extra session OF the
Legislature TO revise the tax laws
Incidentally. the Governor signed the deed
for the State lime plant site. pardoned con-
victed slayer and attended to the routine
duties OF his office. Surely when he collects
his nay for that days toll the blessings re-
puted to reward the possessor OF q clear con-
science will fall like a benediction on his
head!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
General Jonre

LIS pictures show the commander-in-chief
OF the allied forces of France, Great
Britain and Belgium to be rather kindly
old gentleman. OF distinctly nonmilitary
sort, when compared with the intensely war
like aspect of the German generals. Yet the
war has proven that General Joffre is good
deal Of soldier, alike in his ability 10 keep
up the spirits OF his soldiers and on the tacti-
cal side OF military operations II seems not
unlikely that when the war IL over the great
est military reputation to como out of 1t
will be that Of General Joffre. a name prac-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Apples for the Heleinn..

TO the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
Sir,--As the Governor OF Virginia has called
FOR contributions from virgiuians l write to
suggest what think will be two pieces OF
charity for the price OF one, and as charity
begins at home. let's give 1t boost. No gift
that you can send TO Belgium could be more
appreciated than barrel of Virginia apples
and no greater impetus could be given to Vir-
glnian's apple growing business than to lift
from the market few thousand barrels Of
surplus apples at fair price, and thereby re-
lteTe tho market of some OF its glut caused
from an unusual yield and the poor dema nd
from abroad.
The BUY II Bale" movement has done tho
South more harm than any other agency since
the war between the States. The cry of pow
ertS OF tue south has no real foundation, and
the poverty wall came mostly from the rich
time merchants who through mortgages
or otherwise fully three-flfths OF the South's
great cotton crop Let Virginia's call be for
the help OF her own people and the needy suf-
ferers abroad. You may draw on me for the
price OF two barrels of apples which is S.
j. c. NJ.
Richmond, November 10. 1914.
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protec, the Cattle Quarantine.

Q ONE currency having been given to a
~ statement that foot and mouth disease
has been found TO exist i'll Virginia. Governor
Stuart has issued formal, explicit and posi-
tive denial 1t is as gratifying as it is
definite. Apparently there was no other
foundation for the rumor than one exercise
OF the States policy carefully to guard
against the introduction OF this cattle plague
The Governor does not overstate the fact
when he declares that "the protection of this
State by proper quarantine regulations
against an outbreak Of foot and mouth dis
case is of almost unreasonable Importance
Thelcattle industry is growing in Virginia. as
it deserves to grow, and, by eason of many
favoring circumstances and the war demand
for all food products, assures large profits
from this industry in the next two years. 1t
would be destructive In the worst sense if
this disease should attack the herds on Vir-
ginias hills
The quarantine regulations, which have re-
ceived wide publicity, should receive also the
strictest obedience Of all good citizens
There can be no paltering with this very real
menace, nor, indeed, with those whose care
lessness invites its advent here.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13

Grubbs-Do you think General Carranza has
any further chance of rendering public
service?
Stubbs-Not in Mexico; but If he cmigrat led
to this country and induced some State to send
him to the Senate, he would render big
service to the jokesmiths by rowling that old
argument about tho finest set Of whiskers In
the upper house.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13

Pctersburg--Just the Kaiser Is, said to he
drawing from the Russian frontier to help his
forces In France-and the stories from the other
centres Of Interest. In Georgia ana along tho
coasts OF the Caroinas, were just about con-
nictlng as those we get from Constantnople.
Vienna and Berlin. on one side. and Petroyrad.
London and Paris. on tho. other. of progress In
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Common Ball

Please tell me what institution is meant by
the Hall" the Common Hail." in older Rich
mond references % s
The City Council. Under the charter of 17So
Common Hall" met next day composed Of suc,
men as had been chosen the day before and
elected one of the numher-Willan Foushec--
as Mayor. another--William Hay--as recorder
and Jaqueln Amber, John Beckley James
Hunter and Robert Mitchell as Aldermen and
James Buchanan. John McKeand, Samuel scherer
and Isaac Younghusband--to act as Councilmen
The Common Hall" would. then, seem TO be
legally composed; of the two parts OF the City
COUNCIL and the Mayor andrthc recorder
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Chats With Virginia Editors

According to the Norfolk virginian- Pilot:
New Jersey cider mills are reported to be
working overtime In effort to liauidate the
apple crop. Down in Carolina the stills are
doing the thing to liquidate the corn
crop" And up in the mountains the chem
lists of the Carolinas whose laboratories are
in bosky dells and sylvan glades. continue their
profitable experiments with the modest rctir-
ing worm and the merry "retort"
1.-THE European Is spread less
over Asia and Africa and the Pacific Ocean.
as we'll as the Atlantic, tho North Sea- the
Black Sea and other bodies OF land and water.
We hope IL Will not spread to America" Gays
the Newport News Herald. gloomily enough.
We don't object so much to that reminder, tho
spreading It OH thick but the suggestion In
the last sentence seems like rubbing 1t In.
The Norfolk Ledger Dispatch directs atten-
ton to the fact that "thc Bull Moose party
seems to have done better where It had no
candidates running" Easily explained. Where
there candidate there speech,
no opportunity for the, type OF political speak
CT who can't open his mouth without putting
his foot in it, And the foot and mouth disease
is deadly to the Bull Moose.
Retrograde movements by the Germans
when reported from Petrograd evidently are
dstrusted by the Petersburg IndeS-Appears
critic, who says: The Germans are re-
treating but the Pctrograd Liar has establish
cd his reputation so securely that didn't
believe it until Berlin said So Reports of
Japanese successes read yellow" to the In
deN-Appears military expert, doubt.
The Lynchburg Advance thus comments
upon the last cruise OF the German cruiser
Emden, the voyage to Davy Jones's locker:
after career which would have made glad
tho heart OF Captain Kidd. Sir Francis Drake
or any of the oId-time privatcer captains. 4he
cruiser Emden is breaking up the beach of
Cocos Island, a shattered hulk" And now, at
q
ace to navigation, the ruling passion strong in
death"
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what's to he Donet

These learned physicians can't agree
On cures for cancer, thrice malignant;
One says that rodium should be
In many cases most benisnant,
While others swear this theory
or airy fancy Is Pigment.
What shall tho hapless public do
When doctors get In such stew?
THE TATTLER.