The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-25
THE. PUBLIC PULSE
Editorial Expressions From Leading
Newspapers
A NordIcn Memorial.

The project to erect memorial TO Nine.
Nordica in Central Park Is good one. Whether
the memorial take the form of statue. is
proposed at present, other shape. II
should have the sanction of the authorities and
the encouragement of the public
Nordca, American girl with typical
American equipment Of grit and intelligence.
her artistic position, such perhaps other
American singer has had Her Aida. her
Brunnhlde, her Isolde splendid creations.
given TO this city when she the height
OF her powers. and they her the affection
of the city's music lovers. 1t is especially hitting
tina, the city erect a memorial to her as artist
and American.-New York Tribune
Certain New York County Progressives yes
terday assumed fine die hard" attitude. II
the Colonel attempted to make them indorse
Human, there would be riot" The thing to
do was to nominate straight out Progressive
ticket from top to bottom, scorn all compromises
and alliances. and then down gloriously 10
defeat with the banner of Social Justice donantly
flying This Is magnificent but II is not the
Oyster Bay idea of AS the Colonel is
reported to have said Harvard. 1t is
not his nature to get satisfaction out OF being
hope is enough for him. And If he makes up
his mind that there is hope OF the Progress
sive party raiiying and winning. he will be sure
to do his own rallying elsewhere Teltale out
givinss from Oyster Bay make 1t pretty Ilcar
that all his thoughts, for 1916 at leasr. of a
Republican Progressive union, with tn, en-
phasis on Republican. In line with this is the
intnation that he feels under strono cblic:i E.
ton TO grid himself and go out and attack ;he
Wilson administration. Nobody Is doing il wi, Il
sufficient ginger" 10 satisfy the Colonel And
II he once gets fairly into the old JOY of
OF forgetting all those Progressivcs who refuse
to follow him back into the Republican fold
New York Evening Post.
IN. l. T. 1. A. l.. s.
one OF Europe's most popular indoor sports
Is "slangins" the American Every summer 1t
breaks out with new force display our
choicest citizens of the Middle West for it's
inspection The English. in particular. like to
estimate civilization lack Of 1t by the
meteoric rush of our poor Cook's-toured
trymen. Yet In their anxiety to convict us OF
blind hurry enterprise" and all that sort Of
thing. they have ignored a very grave charge
that might be brought against We don't
save words. We very far from enterpris-
Ing in our economy of printed language. We
stop to express ourselves at full length even
In the daily press The furthest we will stoop
in that abbreviating of public speech which
saves the typographer's time Is IT r." Il w.
W. "Y. NJ c. A." and IVY. C. T. u"
But what about the English? The American
reader needs glossary to get through a
column or news In even sedate paper as
the London Times He comes upon such things
this
'"rhe y. A.-who have done so much other
remarkable cleaning of those Augean stables,
the British roadside hotels. The R. a. c. Is
lotus eating In it's Pail Mall mansion. The
c. T. c. Is apparently in a siesta.
The T c. +. has so impressed me, etc"
or g" medical OFFICER to the L. C. c.. at a
c. o. s council meeting" Somewhere else he
encounters debate headed &c. B. S. vs. G. *
C., while across the papers In the political
and M P.'s' In n "P. NJ G. Special" Over in
the travel column he learns about the "P & o."
and the Ct w r." and the IN. u. D." and the
"R. NJ. S p" all carrying the malls OF the &c
+. O." 20. III. NJ. s." II the American reader
fees to the society columns the Court Cal
endar Tor sanctuary. the heaviest blow Of all
falls upon him. There he encounters Field
Marshal Viscount Kitchener X. r.. G. c. b.
o. NJ, g. G. 5 L., G. G. NJ. c.. G. C. l. E."
If the English could only read their news with
an alien eye. they might transfer to themselves
that terrible charge of hustle" that falls upon
Americans We at least do not live the Abbre-
Waited Life.-Boston Transcript