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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Generally Speaking
Welcome. DIR. Alderman.

Shakespeare employs the WORD welcome Of
tener and with more heartiness than any other
writer Of English. We would borrow every
sincere, gracious or hearty Re makes Of it
to say how unaffectedy pleased that
DR.. Alderman Is again at home
Al homc-the spot where is treasured the
best that life holds for The words thrill
us all, no: madly, but profoundly, and so he
cannot read unmoved when write that DIR.
Alderman is at home and that he is welcome.
Home and we1come,-a happy marriage of
words, and happiness after,
We are glad to have DIR. Alderman to come
back to us His exile is over. Again the arena
There are famous things to do. and he ia
famous doer And there Is SO much to come
back to--a community that knows him and
appreciates the fine things in him and the great
things for which he stands--Charlottesvilie
Progress
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Democratic Party Found Not Wanting

President Wilson and Ma iority Leader Under
wood have exchanged fluctuations, and both
predict good times when the administration
measures become fully operative. There Is
mighty effort on the part of the minority stand
patters to make 1t appear that the present bust
hess depression Is due to Democratic misman-
agement, and more of this tlk be .x-
pected in the campaigns now being waged But
t would almost border an affront 70. the in ;
telligence IF the American electorate to dignity
such efforts by making replies. The actions of
the party power have spoken eloquently
that it Is safe to say that the fall elections will
not only return the greater number OF Demo-
Gratis to their seats in the National Congress.
but others will be added. The Democratic party
has accom- lshed more remedial legislation in
The short space of two years than has ever
been put the statute books in like period
hefE-e. The party has been weighed in the
balance and found NOT wanting.-Kinston Free
pres.s
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Among The Headlines

"McGraw's Stars Not to Join Federals"-Per-
haps not. but some of his discards Joined the
Braves.
"Brickey May Get In Game"-which means
Harvard ..... ~. .... ...... s.- az ..-..~...
Antwerp Was Easy, Assert Germans"-But
history may not be such a Grip.
New Star On Yale Eleven--Le Gore Making
Good with Rush at Fullback."-Seems to be
well named.
Army Navy Game Is Called Off"-In which
dollar diplomacy loses
Giants Are Due For Big shake-up This Win
ter."-Again? How about Philadelphia? NC
Graw Stays On T. Job."--But Rudolph and
Gowdy got off
Deaf and Dumb Fools Police of Newport
News and Bloodfield NO wonder they need
two police Justices especially when the news
story states:
The Negro Faced Justice Brown in the Police
Good Fame"
Let lis in, what's the crime?
The head'trers who keep writing about the
Carmen" trial probably think she must have
had an accomplce.
''Dr Cottrell Finds Automobile Gone -
Which makes the Doctor something of sleuth.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
CAPTAIN ROBERT II. LEE.

The Lee family, bearers of name made H.
ustrious throughout the world by one who bore
1t the heritage OF many generations OF hon
orabe forbears has lost one more of its num-
her in the death OF Captain Robert r. Lee.
There are few names in the nation or the
world that bring with them the distinction that
the name OF Robert Edward Lee conveys. 1t
would mean much to any man to bear the
proud title OF man whose life and death ex-
pressed so grandly the heroism OF section and
The spirit of a people. The greatness of Lee ,n
defeat as well as in conflict gave to the South
ideal in the place of that which was
broken, and the New South arose from the
old.
With the passing OF his nearest namesake,
Virginia loses another OF her heroes and comes
still nearer to the time when history that deals
tenderly with such names these will be the
great witness to their worth
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
PRESIDENT WILSON AND MIR. TAFT.

PRESIDENT WILSON AND MIR TAFT.
There is striking opportunity for those who
care TO noralize on the prospect of President
Wilson and ex-Prestdent Taft exchanging
friendly greetings and the ex-Presidsnt intro
ducing the President with easy grace to the
American Bar Association The striking feature
IT the incident is brought out more by contrast
than otherwise The contrast ia the unsports-
maniike attitude Of the only other living ex-
President. who, indeed addresses Mr.. Wilson on
occasion, but with sneers more often than ad.
vice, and with contempt more evident than as
sistance.
President Taft has probably done more to
win the coed favor OF the American people by
lis quiet acceptance OF "Things-as-theyar are" than
by any other course he might have adopted. He
seems TO realize fully the results that would
follow attempt 10 sing ditty of Things
as-I-would iikethem-to.be." or I-would make
them"
1t is never an easy thing to step from a
position Of highest authority into private life
and carry the Dignity-of having held office into
the humber position OF private citizen. 1t is
almost impossible TO perform the task grace
fully Yet-fof sll his penderosity OF body, and
seeming hesitation of intellectual movement, Mr..
Taft has accomplished the feat with good deal
more of grace than his immediate predecessor.
and in the two years of his retirement, has COM
ported himself with a good deal more dignity
than certain other parsonage has been able to
acquire In thrice the time.
We have Il kindly feeling for Mr.. Taft be-
cause he has carried through difficult situa-
ton well.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
THE THINNING LINE.

s The lines that have converged on Newport
News are growing thin They mobilize in quiet
mess and sometimes with sigh. Their music
comes family from the forty years of past
dat lie behind them. and echoes softly for the
~ short years OF future that lie before The
thin red line OF 'eroes" for is clothed in
&rey. but otherwise 1t is as kipling said
Richmond. too. will have within her
midst these great old warriors Of the bygone
days For the second time her gates will swing
<W1de in hospitality for those who through the
48ur sad years Of civil strife so strongly fought
III keep them clear. In the hustle OF modern
eeyentions and present day movements with
nnkert and bakers. with European war and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Saved.
.iLondon Daily Chronicle. }

.(London Daily Chronicle)
more than one thousand men have Joined the
colors from the Salvation Army Social Institu-
tion.)
a little chap in uniform. he took me by the arm,
His eyes was like melting bun. his voice was
like &. charm:
He says my friend, you're hungry. and your
clothes are thin and frayed:
Now. come along, says he. and join the King of
Kiugs brigade!
] SAYS. was soldier once. but now. no never
I'll see this country smashed says: I've had
my whack OF war!
You're down because you funked, now come
ana wash your spirit white.
Ho I've slung my sins behind me
And I'm marching to the front,
II old Satan wants TO and me
It's out there he'll have to hunt;
I've feel OF soap and water
And I'm in with Christian men:
Ho a bloke can stand some slaughter
When he knows he's born again!
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Sparklets

-~Tues day has been appointed Apple Day
when, b. concerted action. the people OF this
country expected to set upon. the biggest
apple crop in its history, and reduce the surplus
to the extent OF their Charlotte OBJ
server.
Wouldn't extent Of their appetite" Ca
pacity," "stomachs' be more in order?
Looks as II Virginia will have to change ,ne
name of Brandy Station says the Baltimore
Sun Would the leaders of the late so-called
Local Self-Government Association object to
Waterloo Bristol Herald-Cou-ier.
No. but the Statewiders would; they want that
name for Petersburg.
"Cowan seconds the call for a paragraphers'
union meeting In Charlotte. Do hear res
ponse from winston, New Bern. Columbia, Spar
tanburg, Greenville, Durham, etc."-Charlotte
News.
OF course, Ashevile Will want to bring the
prince of paragraphers' as guest Of honor
1.-The location Of Ashland Is excellent. We are
all Of tho advantages OF such without the dis
advantag es Hanover Progress.
Name them, please
The British certainly have the laugh on the
Germans Tor they carry flags into battle
to be captured."-Charlottesv Progress.
In which they are probably wise.
1T must have been the German submarines
that put the i'll in hurchill."-Columbia state.
Now wasn't it the chill?
Discussing the Value of a Kiss" the vir-
ginian-Pilot saws:
Another man who kissed girl has been
fined $40.
"A contemporary thinks the price high
That depends. The optics OF the Virginian-
Eliot have rested on maidens for a tough of
whose perfect lips miser might be glad to
give his boarded gold Then again there
others which fastidious mortAls might hold
dear-at any price. Such. however, was not the
opinion of Lord Byron. He held some to he
sweeter than their rivals, hut all to be sweet
for he has eft record his wish that
'Woma.hood had but rosy mouth
To kiss them all at once from north to
south "
Which was polite of the lord, but why couldn't
he Just say from ear to ear? We all know it's
big anyhow.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

floating about in 1t. but the deeper the
water the more of these solid par
ticles there are generally in II, 40
that 1t is impossible In most deep
waters to see the bottom. In some
places. however. the water Is 30 free
from floating particles that tho DOT.
tom OF the ocean can be seen at quite
considerable depths
From the Book of Wonders now
being distributed by this paper on
the coupon plan. The coupon gets
1t for YOU Read IL carefully. You
cannot afford TO be without this
book. II answers the many thousand
questions child can ask and Ii full
OF unusual pictures on timely sub.
jects which fascinate the eye and
mind.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
JUSTICE JOHN LEAVES FOR
A MONTHS NORTHERN TRIP

Justice John Crutchfieid left Rich
mond yesterday for a months va.a-
ton The "One John" expects to visit
New York and other large cities Stop
ping for a while with Detective Burns.
the noted detective. at his nome. IN
New York city 1t was only about .
week ago that Burns was In Richs
mond. coming here the, week Of the
American Bankers Association con-
vention During his stay in Rich-
mond Burns sat on the bench with
Justice John and saw him mete out
justice to the numerous offenders
against the city ordinances and STAB
laws who face him daily.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Mr.. T'ompkins.

Mr.. D. \. Tompkins Is dead the man who held
the ropes while Mr.. J, p. Caldwell made the
Charlotte Observer a big and great paper. Mr..
Tempkins had been iii for several years and
his death had been looked for some weeks the
end coming Sunday. shortly after noon at
Montreal. where he had summer home. 1t
can be said in all truth and justice that Mr.
Tompkins of the strongest and most
useful mer Of his day in the South He had
big brain and an industrial! hand and the man
worked faithfully and we'll for the upbudng
of his State, in fact. wherever he could do a
days work for humanity The State has lost
good friend and citizen in this good man
Salisbury Pest.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

We are glad that Richmond is to have civic
flag. Our ideas as to just what she is to do
with 1t rather hazy.- but II II really means
anything let's get that, too We believe the
idea with these special embems Is that they
come In chiefly when somebody else wants to
insult you. and your emblem is the thing
they utilize to do the job We don't remember
anybody just now who wants to insult u.s. so
1. will be all right for the mayor to approve
the ordinance and give us the emblem.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
4 Fond Delusion.

Mr.. George Med Blake, of Richmond. who is
in the business OF selling liquor in packages for
home consumption, thinks to have discovered
that the provisions Of the Enabling Act will
act bar to his continuance of such sales
after the date when the law goes into opera l.
ton, has. IN the slang language Of the period.
Another think coming to him" The langua ge
Of the Statute endorsed by popular vote Is ex-
plicit and it prohibits absolutely the sale OF
liquor in Virginia by wholesale. retail or other
way after November !. 1916, leaving 1t to the
General Assembly to determine under what con
dtions supplies may be had for medicinal and
industrial purposes, and pending such additional
legislation the verdict is total--Virginian- Pilot
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

Mexican rebellions resonnding throughout the
world 1t is well to steal while away for
our own cid heroes. and give them once more
free welcome to that they gave themselves to
save.
To the Sons Of the Confederacy, in session
at Newport News, we send a word of greeting
and a thought of other days.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

Forlorn Hope.

Richmond grocer who sells liquor in pack
ages holds that the prohibition law in Virginia
which is said to be aimed at the saloon does
not touch him The way the liquor men hang
on to foriorn hope is something surprising
News and Observer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
An Eve 10 Business.

An Eye 70 Business
Gentleman lin theater who for the fourth
time has wormed himself out from the middle
Of the row>-'Lady. am sorry to disturb you
so Often
Lady--'That's all right sir My husband
owns the saloon next door. Columbia Jester.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

The Germans while claiming that Antwerp
was easy would do well to remember that
scrap Of paper made 1t so.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
4 Difference.

Difference
The New Maid-'In my last place I always
took things fairly easy
Cook-"Well, It's different here They keep
everything locked up."-T1t- Bits
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21
Frightening 1t Up
A Wise Precaution.

PATIENT wish to consult you with regard
to my utter logs Of memory
Doctor--Ah, yes. Why-er--iE cases OF this
nature ! always require my fee in advance
philadelphia Bulletin.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

1T must have been the German submari
that put the i'll in hurchill"-Columbia Sta
Now wasn't it the chill?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

The British certainly have the laugh on tn
Germans. tor they carry no flags into battl
TO be captured."-Charlottesv Progress.
In which they are probably wise.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

1.-The location Of Ashland Is excellent. We are
almost . suburb of Richmond In fact. we have
all Of tho advantages OF such without the dis
advanta ges Hanover Progress
Name them, please.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-21

Discussing the Value of a Kiss" the Vir-
ginian- Pilot saws:
Another man who kissed a girl has been
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

There Is But Ono Morality.

From the Chicago Herald.
In his Labor day speech at Plattsburg,
N. Y, Samuel Gompers uttered this pat
riotic wish:
May our country prove to the world
that there is such a thing as an inter-
national morality. and may she help the
warning nations back to a plane of peace
and justice!"
May she do even more! May she not
only show that there is an international
morality, but a morality in the mutual
relations Of all divisions of our popula-
ton!
May no aggregation of men within the
nation, however numerous, get the idea
that mere numbers alter in any way the
moral obligation!
May no man who IS a member Of any
aggregation labor under the delusion that
1t is right to do things to promote the
success of that organization that are not
RICH to promote the success OF an indi-
vidual.
We have outcroppings Of this mistaken
idea from time to time. We see the IA
miliar tendency of bigness and number
to imagine that they are in some way
released from the moral rules that apply
to individuals.
This is all wrong. There is only ono
morality, and that applies to every nation,
race, tribe or organization and individual.
What's right is not a question to be de-
cided by numbers or size.
This country will not nave performed
its duty to the world and to itself until
it has proved not only that there is an
International but also an "inter-every-
thing morality.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
Britain Mothered Germany's Navy.
Frnn1 AnSrynre r nn1nr

Strange though the assertion may
sound, it is nevertheless literally and
absolutely true that the German navy
is the child of the British navy.
There are people still living in Ports
mouth who can recall seeing a little
boy in a sailor suit, who, more than
40 years ago. used to wander about
the dockyard. looking at the ships there
with eager curiosity and asking all
sorts of questions concerning them.
This little boy was none other than
the present German emperor, who in
those days was a frequent visitor to his
grandmother. Queen Victoria. at Os-
borne. The then newly created Ger
man empire had at tina time prac-
tically no fleet, and the child, old be-
yond his years. was frequently heard
to lament this fact.
When l crow up I will have ships
built like these" he was once heard to
remark, indicating with a wave Of his
hand the stately ironclads moving in
and out of Spithead. Meanwhile, S he
himself told US, he talked ships by day
n dreamt ships by night, while at
home in Germany his favorite recrea-
ton was to sail a beautiful cotton
model of a British frigate on the Havel
lakes near POtSdam.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
The AMERICAN WOMANS IMPORTED GOWNS,
Ida NJ. Tarbell, in the Woman's Home
COmDaui0n

Ida Nj. Tarbell, in the Woman's Homo
Companion.
What is the label on which we
American women pride ourselves? Do
we boast hat the silk in our gowns
came from Massachusetts, the cloth in
our coats from Rhode Island, hat our
hat was designed in Chicago and our
house furnishings In Grand Rapids?
Not we! There is scarcely a woman
of US between the Atlantic and the Pa
cific that does not owe the feel of the
word imported" on her tongue. What
were the frantic b~edraggled, moneyless
American women who fled from Europe
In early August hugging to their
breasts? Paris hats and Belgian
laces, French silks and Swiss embroid-
cries, Viennese gowns and German
hosiery. or all the tens OF thousands
Of American wornen who crowded
Europe when war seized her, there was
scarcely one that ~ not planning to
bring home all her income allowed OF
finery.
II is so every year. And what sums
ant, what stimulus TO art and ingen-
aity they leave behind though 1t is only
ny money we can measure 1t. What
that Is, look at their invoices n see.
1 have examined scores of them which
called for from $4,000 to $4,000 in
duties. And this did not include what
was not ACCOMPLISHMENTS in the
heel of a slipper, lace In a double
walled trunk. lingerie in a laundry bag!r
These personal importations are but
a bagatelle beside those cf merchants,
which in many lines run into the tens
Of millions annually. Hats and bon-
nets and feathers n flowers come into
this country to the tune of at least $780,
100000 a year; jewelry between $780,
100000 and $50, 100000; silks made up
800 - ~ - -. q nm nnn nm 49,
30 one might go on through the be-
Wiidering assortment OF articles which
make for our elegance.
Why do we do 1t? because any
woman OF taste and knowledge will
tell you this--"I can get in European
products more beauty of design, more
snap In style. more cunning in details
more durability in material" And
why?
Are American manufacturers and
designers incapable of this superior
craftsmanship n art? No, the truth
is that American women have never
given them a 5afr opportunity to prove
what they can do. Consider for a mo-
ment what it would mean to our manu-
facturers and designers il annually
their factories and workrooms were
visited by hundreds of women eXamin
ing their stock, suggesting designs en-
couraging experiments, giving liberia
orders. II is to Europe we give this
stimulus.
Moreover. IL these women had The
opportunity to choose between two
equally good pieces Of work. domestic
n foreign, they would every time
take the foreign. That is the fact of tn,
relation Of the woman In the United
States. who can influence these thing.
to her country's industry. She has littl'
sense Of responsibility, little loyalty o.
pride in this matter.
And what are the results of industry
Can Our manufacturers do anythin!
else than become makers of cheal
goods? Would they do otherwise IL
they could?
Il q been my business to go mucl
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12
Never Got That HIGH.

Speaking of the new French dresses
now on exhibition in the large Depart
ment stores throughout the country,
Eleanor Gates said in Boston:
Il am glad to see that the slit skirt
is abolished. The slit was too immod-
est, especially when it was a shocking
ly long slit. How those long Sits drew
all eyes!
"A Philadelphia debutante, provided
with a beautiful wardrobe in which the
slit skirt in it's most exaggerated form
figured extensively. spent the winter at
Palm Beach.
"One morning, in her white serge
gown from Cabot. slit almost to the
knee. she was leaving her hotel for the
beach when her sister called her back
and said:
"toh, Mary, you've got a big black
smulge on your nose!'
with an Indifferent toss of her head
the debutante answered.:
What difference does that makei
Nobody ever looks at my face when
I've got a slit skirt on"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-12

in the last few years among American
manufacturers One of the things
which has impressed me deepest has
been the men who wanted to make
good things; who apologized for cheap
wares.
I remember a Massachusetts wooden
manufacturer showing me three differ
ent pieces Of exquisitely woven stuffs.
They were GASES in cords of cotton
worsteds.
II make these" he old me, 'for the
pleasure of making a good thing.
Bradford can do nothing better; but
there isn't an American woman alive
who wouldn't prefer to say that Brad
ford made the cloth in her suit, rather
than Massachusetts,
! have had spread before me as beau
tlful designs for summer cottons as
We're ever made, and heard the manu-
facturer say, with longing in his voice:
IF we could but put these into fine.
soft fabrics! but the American woman
VIII not buy expensive domestic goods.
She demands the foreign mark"
AS pliable, durable and beautifully
finished silks as there are In the world
can be made here in quantities. But
where Is the American woman who
boasts that she wears American silks?
The day has corne for the American
woman to wake up to her duty to the
industries of this country