The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-01
Wayside Chats With
Old Virginia Editors

Speaking OF tho publication I'm tho
Dispatch OF ATTY years ago of the IA
nous message OF General Grants--"I
VIII hight 1t out on this line II IL takes
al snnmcr"--tho Ilarrisonbury News
record hopes for another SCOOP telling
OF tho settlement of the Mexican trou-
ole II will be no scoop for anybody.
bnt We have falth that II VIII hc
printed como d:y not so far In tho
future.
And speaking or General Grants
words tho Portsmouth Star correctly
states that despite his brave talk lie
did not tight II out along these linca''
al summer. General Lee read the dts
patch. and then decided 10 veto H. How
well he did It. Is history.
The great mass of our illiteratcs arc
old men and women" sapiently OBJ
serves the Danville Register True
enough. but they were not always old
men and women, and if the state had
had system of compulsory education
when they were young they would not
be illitcratc now. And IL "a ccmpui-
sorry education law is not enacted tho
old men and women of tho future VIII
nc jllitcratc. also.
The Petersburg lndcx-Appcnl WINCH
fac"tious. Commenting upon tho
'N'N'~.iN'N ~ lis tilItS-lplS IfiItn iItf
unless the powers of morality and JUS
uco' were cngraftcd on to pure in
tclicct tho Industrious ones of the earth
finally fell, our Coclsade Ci:y con
temporary remarks: From which we
are IL believe that General Lee failed
because he did not have morality and
justice grated upon his intellect or
because he lacked intellect TO balance
his morality and Justice" You can
believe II IL YOU wish; we don't Be
cause morality and Justice are ncccs-
sary for ultimate triumph il does nor
necessarily follow that they triumph
IN every specific incident. One were
foolish 80 to argue. The IndeX-Au-
peals deducttvc powers are out II or
der. To put tho case simply: All bis
cults arc bread. but all bread is not
biscuit.
As to the remark OF our friends that
Napoleon was the greatest apostle or
democracy the world has ever FRO
dnced, we want Il little more proof.
II Is true that lit was Napoleon who
demonstrated 20 Europe and the worlc
the ridiculous falsity OF the ngo-old
doctrine of the divine right OF kings"
and ono way In which he demonstrated
II was by assuming that because he
waI Emperor he could make kings out
or his weak brothers and foozling mis-.
crably In :hc attempt. Anyway, wo
have suspicion that old oliver Crom-
well put more dents into the divine
right theory than Bonapartc.
The Amherst Progress agrees with
The Titncs-Dispatch that there should
be y reform In a county disbursement
system by which treasurers receive
more for handling school funds than
the county auperintcndents. Quoting
The remarks OF Tho Timos-Dispatch on
the subject. tho Progress says: The
above shows great inequality III
what treasurcrs gct--too much for coll
Letting and distributing the school
funds--whilc school suporintendonts
who do or ought To do the greater part
OF the work, get much less"
The Williamsburg Gazette Is not too
emphatic when ii says that viii
Namsburg is face 10 face with Il crisis"
William sburG Is faco 10 face with dis
grace, ii 1t be truo that tho public
school system is about to 10 struck
down for want of funds. We take IL
that Williamsburg receives something
from taxes. 1t can use that for its
school system. Lot lights and pave
ments wait. BETTER physical than
mental darkness; better real mud than
the slough of Ignorance for children.