The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-15
Chats With Virginia Editors

In stirring appeal to tho residents OF Pc
tersburg to patronize the fair. which was omen
Ell In the Cockadc City last Monday, tho edi-
tor of the 1ndcX-Appeal who speaks We talk.
It, eN cathedra, settles the moot question
What shall we call resident of Petersburg %
nc says: or course, there will he a Peters
burg Day. when every Pctersburgan. without
regard to race, color or previous condition win
attend or course, there arc peoplc who
don't care what YOU call Petersburg man; but
II Is relief to find authority like the In
deN-ApDcal committed to the definite appela :
tive Petcrsburgan.' 1t is more guttcral than
Pctersburgite, though less musical than Pc
tersbWEer And Petrogradcr would never do
The Turkey is keeping her wings folded"
the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch observes That's
discretion. Hiding what's in her wlshbone
The Newport News Times Herald remarks
The Germans arc now saying in great glce
Next stop. England" In the light of recent
successes, why shouldn't the Kaiser's army he
sanSuine? Even thermometers are falling as
the Teutons advance.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance thus pro-
fcsscs Its deep sympathy for Belgium: .1be
world sings paeans of praise TO Belgium Even
from the days OF Caesar to this moment tho
Belgians have proven their loyalty Cor tho
land they love In this war Belgium is with
out onensc She guaranteed her neutral
ity by Germany, England and France Ger
many wilfully violated that neutrality" The
Made in Germany label.
The Nirginian- Eliot directs attention to the
fact that the revenue lnea sure proposes
to tax chewing gum among other things" An
other covert attack on the suffrarettes is thus
exposed.
In time of peace prepare for war" the
Lynchburg Advance urges in a column edi-
torial discussing the "unpreparcdncss of the
United States The Advance says This ma
ton believes im peace; it believes in settling
difficulties where that is possible, without re-
sort to arms; but, while that is the right way
and tho sensible way. it Is not beyond the
range OF possibility that the United States may
be forced to prepare for the settlement of diff
the apprehension expressed is disclosed in this
paragraph: And RICH, at this present minute
the manufacturers OF this nation engaged
in Herculcan effort to trade in Central
and South American countries which i'm times
past have gone to Germany and to England
an undertaking in which they will very prob
ably he successful. Does this very fact
carry in 1t the germ OF possible future trouble
with some foreign power?'' Food for thought
not found a decatessen menu.
l:ditor Showalter, who is the critic we
assume. of the larrisonburg News Record. is
apprehcusiYe for the safety OF John Bull and
his island. Reviewing the situation in the Eu-
ropcan war zone. hc says: The probn bilitles
are that there will be something doing toward
the end OF this month In the direction of Dover,
and thence toward London. that will cause the
English to hesitate about sending any more
men to France if IT does not, indeed, lead 10
the withdrawal OF some of her from there"
Regardless of this expert opinion however we
can't raise our imagination to the flight OF
fancy involved in hearing the Kaiscr's troops
singing in German, London Bridge Is Falling
down."