The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-20
and there have been failures. partial or com
plcte. in other places as welt.


| and there have been failures. partial or COM
plcte, in other places as Welt
There have besn a good many troubles.
For one thing. there has been lack OF
standardization. Country butter for ex-
ample. varies very greatly in quality; while
some OF 1t is good, some OF it is pretty bad.
and the housewife that orders sight unseen
never knows what she is going to get until
she opens the package. The same thing is
true of fruits and vegetables.
The lack of suitable containers for the
transportation of the farmers products is an
other difficulty. Those available are subject
to manifold objections. They are too heavy
or too costly or too fragile, but always, for
some reason or another, they strip the farmer
either of his profit of the satisfaction OF
delivering his butter, fruits or vegetables in
good condition.
Moreover the canny agriculturist/ has
shown disposition to collect from the con-
sumer the prices charged by the city retailer,
thus collecting the whole profit. That always
| caused annoyance,
The truth is The Times Dispatch said
the other day, humanity has a tremendously
hard time separating itself from the middle
man. He has been on the job Il long time
and we have become accusto med to him We
don't like him, of course, but begin to
pine and anguish soon as he is removed
from our sight. Perhaps the government
will be more successful than other instruc-
tors in teaching us how to do without him
NInrse Henry's Retreat on Washington
'NYTHEN't was announced from Washington
w the other day that President Wilson
and Colonel Marse Henry Watterson were
waving emblems of peace at each other the
President using an olive branch for this pur-
pose and the colonel a sprig of Kentucky
IN int hpri ind In
lucky corn, it caused wonderment that this
particular time should have been selected for
the reconciliation
There were even some carping and in
credulous cynics who sought to cast doubt
on the bona fides Of the whole transaction.
pretending to believe that it was staged for
purpose, and that the President and the
colonel either had been friends for long
time or never would be friends again
In sense. the cynics were right The
true explanation Of the colonel's fight from
old Kentucky is revealed by a letter pub
ilshed i'll the Courier-Journal the very niorn-
ing that he departed. After reading it, there
is no longer wonder that Marse Henry felt
called on to flee nor difficulty in under
standing why the President, who has had a
few. such troubles of his own. was wiling to
save Il veteran Democrat and consented to
bear part in the pious fraud.
The letter is rather long one. but it's
concluding paragraphs arc as follows:
I would have a law passed to stop
such newspapers the Courier journal
and others from insulting the good
women OF the country who have done
such noble work the suffragist has
done by calling them slanderous names,
such crazy James. Sister Sallics.
suifragcttes, etc. You haven't any more
right to call suffrREettcs than
have to call you Cisrnans and allies.
Arc you antis giving the suaragis
massachusetts justice when you ,:oun,
all of the women that have not organ
lied for suffrage opposed to It? Your
article says there 10000 sutfragiss.
! have question to ask. You
answer ii and come of OF pcrch.
How many organized antisuffraI5 SITS
here in Massachusetts"
.t. sIS Iced wITHERS SMITH. ,,.
Marse Henry is a strategist. When he re-
ceived Miss Iced Withcrs Smiths letter he
held it for day or two while he perfected
plan. He decided that rather than answer
that question: ii would be easier for him to
come off his perch So he came, falling
back in good order, but by the fastest train.
Now that the coup has been successfully
| executed, it may be revealed that the sup
posed reconciliation with the President was
a mere ruse de guerre.