The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-16
Chats With Virginia Editors

The Staunton Daily Leader hxes time limit
on the European war. to expire within year,
during which time more than 1000, 900 noncom-
batnnts In the war zone shall have expired as
the Leader figures It. Editor Opie saws: "Tho
Richmond Times Dispatch says 1t is willing to
be the goat, and asks pointblanlS how lon1r
the war in Europe is going to last we like to
be accommodating, here goes: Our opinion
is that the soldiers now killing one another Will
be turned loose In time to SOW next falls wheat
crop. that is. those Of them who are still alive
One reason why should expect a Termination
Of the war within year is that the civilized
world has never experienced such restitution as
will prevail tho coming winter Very likely Il
least million or more people will starve to
death in Europe before spring. This VIII tend
to melt a heart OF stone and the nations will
begin to ask themselves Why force this
terrible calamity to continue2 When they begin
to ask this question earnestly, they will find a
way to come TO terms and put an end to the
war"
1--WE ought to substitute the dove for the
eagle as our national bird Germany and
Austria could very appropriately use the
vulture,"" says the Charlottesville Progress
Which suggests the goat for Belgium
The Roanoke World News is evidently not
Informed concerning the movements of Governor
Stuart, as this editorial remarle makes obvious:
THE Goeernors active participation in the
Ninth District campaign to have come
suddenly to an end We wonder why" The
publicity given to the executives visits to
numerous other semioTcal and official appoint
ments should suffice to dspel the wonder At
any rate, 1t justices in Offering the sugges-
tion, without consulting him. that perhaps he
has an aversion to wasting ammunition on dead
ducks.
Far be 1t from to hold up as an awful
example the erudite editor OF the Newport News
Press. who digging ptfall for u.s. himself
falls headlong into 1t, witness this from the
editorial page of the Mp:
AS the heart paneth after the water springs
etc.--Richmond Times Dispatch.
why Will not young friend follow our ad :
vice and purchase concordance or a reference
Bible?"
We were about to make the obvious retort
thateif the correction in the quoted phrases is
taken from his textbook we can't see that we
need one like it when were oyertaken by
another issue of the Mp. and intercepted by the
following:
I'VE owe The Richmond Times Dispatch an ex-
PLANTATION and an apology. We copied its scrip
tural quotation precisely II appeared in the
editorial columns of our contemporary, but the
printer revised the copy and printed heart for
hart We are at pains to explain. for 1t ap-
pearcd that we had deliberately changed the
spelling of the word for purpose. We hope
that our. friend understands that we would not
take such liberty--not even in fun We
using the phrase water springs for water
brooks"
oh. for the profound knowledge of the Scrip
lures our good brother has absorbed. that we
might, by way of moralizng, quote with as
surance the biblical admonition to the effect
that "Who loveth the danger shall perish by
It," Sclah!