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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Standing Together

n MERlCANS close up the gaps of parti-
1 sanship when mutual disaster knocks
at the door. That has been evidenced in the
proceedings before Congress for the past few
days, when Republicans, Bull Moose and
Democrats have united in smoothing the way
Tor the measures Of relief drafted Nv thu ad :
ministration.
In the House and Senate there has been a
remarkable unanimity of opinion and action.
occasionally. some carping patriot let his
spirit of criticism and caution get the better
or him. But he has had precious little en-
enlargement from his brethren
me government machinery, as a whole has
also worked smoothly and with a gratifying
absence or friction. In momentous times
such as these, 1t has sometimes developed in
american history that members of the Cabi-
net, foreign diplomatic representatives and
others on the inside have not SCRUBBED to
make trouble from within Discussions
nearly fatal In both the Lincoln and ia Wis
administrations. not to mention administra-
lions OF the united country, are illustrations
FOR the concert OF action that has char
actcrized the situation to date great and
controlling credit Is due President Wilson.
AL every turn this man appears more marvel
GUS ana sunlcient to the needs of the hour
lhey iirst sneered at him as a mere college
president. He quickly proved that he is a
statesman Tho politicians and practical
business men once called him academic. He
mas demonstrated that he knows how to mix
the concrete with the abstract in wav m
get final and gratifying results
less strong man in the White House at
this juncture might have provoked material
disaster.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Americas Position Strong

THE banking and financial position of
1 America Is sufficiently strong in face of
the present European crisis to allay all cause
for fear at home. The banks are thoroughly
able to hold their own, and. as complications
abroad are ironed out, domestic trade should
assume practically it's normal proportions.
Under the Northumberland act the banks
Of the country can Immediately have at their
disposal new currency to the amount Of $780,
100000. That great volume added to our
present command of resources Will effectual-
ly control the situation. Clearing house GER
tificates will lend additional strength and
safeguards.
Three distinct factors will have TO be
solved by the cooperation of the government
with the financial centres of New York:
l. Arrangement for movement of the
crops, soon to begin its normal proportions.
2. Stoppage of the food of gold exports to
Europe.
g. Prevention Of stagnation Of interna-
tional business by the tying up of the foreign
merchant marine, since practically all our
foreign trade of Importance is carried in bot
toms not under American register.
The first two factors must be cared for by
extraordinary measures. If it becomes even
necessary to place an embargo gold. that
will be done. The United States will re-
spect its foreign financial obligations to the
farthest point Of practicability but then will
home
If the European nations can be Gained
long enough for conference, there is little
doubt that some form of agreement can be
reached whereby ships conveying necessary
passenger rafic, or the necessities of lfe
will be declared exempt from search and
seizure. Other emergency measures can pick
up the loose strands Of the situation.
BY and large, there is no reason whatever
for Americans to entertain alarm or panic
We are to-day in better condition to stand
strain than any nation in the world. Our
gold reserves, even to-day, are large. Our
crops mainly are Of bumper proportions
The underlying conditions Of business are
healthy. While Europe Is scrambling for
cash and food with which to feed its armies
we can prosecute path very nearly approx
mating the normal.
The chief thing. the patriotic thing, for
every man, woman and child to do is to re-
member that we are faced by a condition un-
precedented in modern civilization; that we
all are in the same boat; and that with pa
thence and sef-control the situation will
work out.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
.Autocracies Demand War

ClGNIFICANT of the desire OF the people
~ Of the world for peace in the world is
the fact that the conflict into which all
Europe has plunged has been forced by two
countries in which autocracy still reigns,
while participation in the avoided
rs long as possible by the two countries
that blessed with actually representative
government.
Germany is ruled by monarchism and mill
tarism Austria Hungary by monarchism and
aristocracy, while France is n republic and
England republic in all but name. If it
was for the preservation and defense Of their
respective nations that the autocracies OF
Germany and Austria Hungary united in pre-
cipitating war, it was none the less for the
preservation and defense Of autocracy itself,
threatened by the rising tide Of world free
DOM
And Russia. allied she is to free coun-
tries In this battle of tho nations, will yet
have to render an accounting to her people.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
"Give peace In Our Time. O Lordw


God Of the Nations. Lord of Hosts, Who sttest
upon the Throne OF Judgment and Mercy, hear
US. Thy servants. safe through Thine infinite
Kindness from the terrors OF battle. while we
pray:
Look down, beseech Thee. o God OF Ages
upon the agony and bloody death now
pressed 10 the lips OF Thy children overseas:
turn from them this cup OF by filing the
hearts OF their rulers with tho love of Thee
and OF them. Kid tho kings and captains of
mortal hosts call back their armies and call
home their ships that they who travel over
land and sea may go in safety and in peace.
Before IL be too late, Lord God, write deep
upon their angered hearts the message that
Thy Son hath brought: peace earth, good
will toward men; and the nations to
dwell in love together.
Or else. Almighty Judge, II 1t be Thy VIII.
strengthen the strength of tho right. and grant
them 10 conquer soon and mercifully in Thy
Name those who. forgetting Thee, would Cypress
them: and so guido the of this. Thy
troubled world, Captain, that when the battle
ends and tho conflict ceases. Thy Kingdom will
reign over all the Kingdoms OF the earth and
the that lie between.
And this We ask for the sake OF Thine only
Son, Who died that Thy Peace might live in
us. Amen
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Demagogtsm and sectionalism

GOLFERS WEEKLY, in general defense
- of the harvester trust. and condemna-
ton Of members Of the Democratic party who
have sought notoriety by attacking it upon
all occasions and upon any and no provoca-
ton, remarks that such line OF action is more
useful in the South than discussion of peon-
age and child la Dor. 1t is also apparently
more useful to Golfers Weekly to attack
child labor in the South than to attack child
labor In New York. And why intimate that
most Of the demagogic attacks on the har-
vester trust are made by Democrats and
Southerners? Senators Borah, Weeks ct
ais. are not Democrats, and Senators Reed
and Hitchcock not Southerners. Dema-
Gogism is no worse than blind sectionalism
and partisanshlp.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
The Presidents Sorrow

THE heartfelt sympathy of the whole ma
tion goes out to President Wilson this
morning. To vexatious delays In the COM
pletion Of his ambitious program to tho
weight of the Mexican problem, to dangers
of great strike, to the difficult questions.
foreign and internal, raised by the European
war. is now added the greatest personal be-
reavement man can suffer through no fault
Of his own. While his wife lay upon her
sick bed, thls man compelled to frame
an offer OF mediation to the warning powers
OF Europe. In moments of the greatest
anxiety, he had no choice but to devote his
attention to the settlement Of a great indus
trial quarrel. At time when his best be-
loved demanded all his time and attention
the call OF duty rang loudest and most per-
sistenuy. Greater sacrifice has never been
demanded than that which President Wilson
has bsen compelled to make. He has made
it as man should make 1t, and with tho
sympathy extended him there is mixed the
greatest admiration.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07

ties when the money to pay them must come
from somewhere. and when the enormous
drains take just SO much away from the
worlds productivity?
These considerations have in the past made
European nations chary about general con-
hict. And. as time goes on, they will be
compelling agencies for peace. The politi-
clans will not be the first ones to urge them,
for politicians, as rule. are proverbally
selfish. 1t will be the masses, the taxpayers.
that protest against this Insane economic
waste, and that will insist upon its stoppage.
Thus 1t comes that, not In our time, per-
haps, but in day not far distant, Mars will
commit suicide.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
THE PUBLIC PULSE
Editorial Expressions From Leading
Newspapers
War Chockmntcs Russian Revolution.

Which, tho Austrian ultimatum was delivered
at Belgrade, Russia was In tho throcs of Il strike
comparable In extent to revolution. The smo-
dcring elements had burst into flame, as they
nave done so often before In Russia. In a
nation that rallies to tho colors the flower of
Rll male inhabitants by forced draft tho value
OF a foreign war TO prevent domestic revolution
Is obvious. In addition, In all European Russia
sympathy for the Slavs In the Balkans Is real.
The Gear could not have deserted the Scrvians
without nurturing the spirit OF discomfort
already prevalent Ho might In other circun =
stances have acquiesced even In Austria's design
10 reach south for the Russian treasury Is not
piethoric nor has the country had time to re-
cuperato entirely from the Japanese War. The
Russian autocracy has little TO lose by the
cataclysm. and II has strengthened its hold
apprcciably at home. There may have been
avldity for peace in Paris and London but
there was none in st. observation-disclosures
CONNIE rcial- Appeal.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Keep in touch with home news during
vacation by reading The es-Dispntch
Treaty Violations

a FEW months ago Europeans say
~ ing harsh things about the propensity
of the United States to give scant considera-
ton TO treaty obligations. Some Of II was
true and much of it was false. But what
of European violation of treaties and treaty
rights? Treaties on that Continent appear
now to be much worthless paper, and tho
most popular pastime in which a nation can
engage Is to tear it all up and throw it into
the wastebasket. II European treaties. were
not made for the purpose of having some
thing to break, what were they made for2
Certainly, that is the only use to which they
are now being put
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Protecting All Intcrcsts.

Tho action OF the banks OF the great cities
IN promptly adopting, In the present crisis the
Ing all interests in great financial emergencies
viii be approved by all good citizens.
The financial systems of Europe disor
ganized. foreign exchange facilities have broken
down and the intcrrclations of credit and
finance between this country and Europe are
such that the suspensions of payments and OF
contracts abroad cannot fail to affect this
country's business affairs
Under such conditions the wise thing for the
banks to do is TO conserve their cash reserves
and require the whole country to do business
on credit basis.
AS a matter Of fact % per cent of tho
country's business is done with the transfer
OF credits bank books in ordinary times
and the emergency policy adopted by the banks
merely has the effect OF continuing this practice
and of preventing the scnseless withdrawal and
boarding OF cash that tmd people always
practice in unsettled times. to the detrlment of
the whole community.-kansas City Star.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Chesterfield. Va. August 8.
Grow More Grim.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-To the farmers we would say and urge:
raise all the grain and meat can. These
viii certainly be needed than tobacco
cotton and peanuts, and will certainly bring
better prices. both at homo and abroad AL
ready tho railroads refusing exports and
as wo rely what export In cotton and
tobacco for our main markets and profits would
IL not be we'll TO curtail these and raise the
ecessities-grain and meat? The time for
sowing wheat Is almost upon us. and 1t is not
100 early to begin plans for corn plant
ing FOR another year. Now is also the time
10 prepare to build fences for pastures and to
select the stock from which to raise the meat
both hogs and cattle.
IF this horrible foreign war will teach us
but one thing, and that to raise more grain
and ineat--food stuffs--we will have been taught
a valuable lesson.
We need triple entente" of the farmer
wire-fcnce man and banker VS. the "trinle
alliance of the farmer. fertilizer man and com
mission merchant. In order to hold tho balance
OF peace In pocketbook and stomach.
Richmond, August 5. s r.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Airshlp HYunoeuvrcs.

Many stories Will find their way into print
with regard to the fascinating subject OF aerial
activities In the pending that will rest
upon slender foundation. Nevertheless. the fact
remains that the deepest dread OF this novel
means of lighting is felt Paris. From the
capital to the border tho upper reaches of
space are Illuminated by the sweep OF search
lights, whose combing Of the skies brings 10
knowledge any Zeppelin that tho Germans may
send across the border and to Paris for the
purpose of dropping bombs and OF setting fire
TO the capital of the French.
Two can play mt the airscout and bomb
throwing game. and this tends to neutralze
the agency of the airship to reduce very
much the Importance OF It's part IN tho strife
that is no won. sun 1t Is a factor of wide
Importance. and this war will demonstrate the
fact as has not been possible before.
The Zeppelin ships have nothing OF the
mobility of tho aeroplane but they have
advantages OF carriage that are insuperably
beyond those of the l!ghtcr-than air craft, so
that the contest VIII 60 far toward determin-
ing the respective war service ability OF the
two types.-Balt!more American.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
The Three Emperors,

The shade of Napoleon stood watching the strife
OF nations in battle array;
He saw the dim hosts ne marshaled in life
lie heard ghostly mhltitudcs say:
Forward! To victory!
Into the fray!
Crushing the enemy
For Frcnchmcn's play"
The shade of his nephew stood watch by his
feet:
Saw nations in grapple of death
Ho viewed the great hosts he had led in
defeat,
And mumbled meath quaverng breath:
Forward! To victory.
led the fray
Crushing the French
For Germans was play!"
The shade of Old William was scanning the
scene,
He, too, heard grim wars gaunt alarms;
he watched armed camps fields blooming
green
His grandson he heard call to arms:
Forward! To victory!
Into the fray!
Fighting. for Germans
Is only play"
Philadelphia Public Ledger
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Mars Will Commit Suicide

CONDITIONS in Europe suggest the com
make itself impossible. Pardoning the ex-
preston, ii will commit suicide. 1t will be-
come so nconccivably murderous, so stipend
ously costly, that IN sheer sef-preservati on
the nations Will be driven to peaceful ways
Of arbitrating their differences.
The prophecy may at this moment seem
far-fetched But II is nearer fulflment
than the superficial thinker imagines An
embattled Europe is a Europe facing desc
laton and decades OF crushing debt
Whether the triple alliance or the triple en-
tcnte win in a monster grapple; whether the
trouble is localized" to two nations; or
whether II spreads over the European map,
the result in the long run will be the same
The late Senator Bacon, Of Georgia, esti-
mated that the Balkan War destroyed values
TO the extent OF 500, 900. Now, values
are real and not ethereal entities When a
dollar is burned up, whether by FIRE or war
on the stock exchange or in a railroad acct
dent, 1t is gone forever. And the dollar, af-
ter all is only symbolic--that is, symbolic
OF the value. The dollar gone, the value is
gone, the producing power tina, adds TO the
ease OF the world, that feeds and clothes
and houses. is gone.
European war. If the Balkan struggle
frightened up money IN this country by re-
fex action, what would the vast destruction
OF values In a Continental struggle aggregate {?
The thought is almost bewilderng
OF course, nations can exact ransoms
But what benefit ara ransoms and indemni-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
In Mexico

he dlherences between Provisional Presi-
dent Carbatal and ConstitutionaEst
Ch>ci Carranza on the one hand and he
tween Carranza and Villa on the other. need
not bring despair Of final peaceful solution
OF Mexican affairs. There is no doubt that
ooth Carbajal and Carranza desire the neace-
ini occupation of the capital by tho Consti-
ta''ona iis's' and this phase Of the question
should be the less difficult OF solution. The
Impending quarrel between Villa and Car
rhhZa furnishes more difficult problem. but
remembering that in the past II was Carranza
ana not villa who showed the smaller dis
position 10 listen to advice and to accept the
good offices of this government there is no
reason why we should lose hone that tho
united States will be able to reconcile the
uiHerences between the two rebel leaders
Ihat the Mexican problem has not been set
tied permanently is clear II was clearly an
when Huerta fled the country But that II
Will be settled is more than matter of faith
mere Is work TO be done and hard worl
but latest developments are not at all in the
nature or things unforeseen, and are not
necessarily. or even probably, disastrous n
hopes of peace In Mexico
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Dr.. Brady's Health Talks
LOOSE CARTILAGE IN KNEE.

Baseball and football players min
ers who work in a crouching position,
commuters clumsy about detraining on
the move. and sometimes ladies trying
10 turn somersault getting of a
street car. experience a sudden twist of
the knee Joint. followed by locking,
SO that II IL impossible TO straighten
out the leg
There Is great pain. often enough TO
produce fainting. Some one begins TO
pull and haul at the injured limb.
tort to reduce the 'dislocation." sud
denly there Is q snap. and the knee re-
gains it's full power OF movement again.
Trinins Things Cause Trouble.
But this Is only the beginning OF
the trouble. AT once there is more
or less swelling and soreness. which
VIII disappear after few days of
rest. Later on. however the patient
is pretty likely to suffer recurrence
or the accident under slight provoca
tion, such as n sudden turning about
on the street. or even turning over i'm
bed. This time. and at many subse-
quent times. the patient will probably
succeed In overcoming the locking or
the joint by weighing the leg. Stepping
on a car. stumbling on a curb, or even
an effort to cross the legs while sit
ting In n chair, may be enough to pro-
ducc locking, which will cause great
embarrassment 10 the patient. one
patient suffered the accident while I'm
Il swimming pool another fell upon
spiked fence and was seriously in :
Jured In an effort to save herself from
falling when her knee locked
Prolonged rest and careful support
of the knee after the initial Injury is
the best preventive measure against
loose cartilage In tho knee. But when
the first Injury has healed. leaving a
portion OF the cartilage movable and
so subject to pinching between the
heads of the bones. then the wearing
OF some form of elastic bandage or
brace for the knee is advisable.
In the case Of a laborcr or an ath-
lcte who is anxious TO continue at
his regular occupation, and even In
the case OF woman who has suf-
fcred much trouble from loose cart!-
laGe, an operation may be done. =
few years ago surgeons disitked the
idea of opening the knee joint-the
largest Joint in the body-but to-day,
under aseptic technique. the operation
Is qG!te safe. The loose cartilage may
either be stitched in place. or, what t..
customary, removed. This gives COM
plete relief.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
The Press.

The press is mighty
Still the peoples voice.
Leading the battle for tho rights OF
Vivid as lightning. thunderous for the
truth:
FREQ as the winds to know and cry
aloud,
whene'er it seeks the hills of higher
The press is mighty.
Forbid that any man should forge a
chain
To bind it like a cringing slave TO
block Of stone;
That it should jabher like a shipper
ing ape,
IIcelins Its master, with no esr,S,
To scan the crags and see the threat
cning storm.
The press is mighty
II must reflect the age
giant mirror hurting back our shape:
Let no man crush It in his sullen hate.
Lest we should lose ourselves and
Grope too far,
And come to magnify our bases
selves.
The press is mighty.
Still the voice OF deeds:
Calling all history from its silent
grave
To bear grim witness to the curse of
wrong;
Vibrant with warning, dagger-keen
and swift
AS cleaning thunderbolts hurled from
the Jovian cliffs.
John Jordan Douglass in tho Co.
lunbia State.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Not Worth the Cost.

To the Editor Of Tho Times Dispatch:
Sir,-Your editorial Not Worth the Cost" is
eNcenent sound as bell. clear az crystal. and
covers the whole question Glory for the few
who do not enter the fight themselves; poverty
for the thousands who risk lifo and limb in
the forefront OF the battle. And the new
freedom set back many, many years.
If the money power, now fairly we'll organ
ized and centralized, would withhold the coin
from the directors OF the war, and If men
would but see that they have nothing to gain
in the furnishing of their bodies as food for
powder, the end would soon appear. The world
Is getting wiser. however, and the dav f. surely
not far distant when two mon cannot
bring about tho slaughter OF thousands OF
human beings. Speed the day
4 II
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
Could We nn ~

AT Eastern military academy the night
guard heard a noise. Halt! Who goes there%'
nc called in accordance with army regulations.
IT was another student bent midnight frolic
and he answered. Moses" This frivolous and
utter disregard of military rule brought back
the command the guard probably suspcctng
the others identity, Advance. Moses and give
the Ten Comman dments."--Argonaut
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
WAYSIDE CHATS WITH
OLD VIRGINIA EDITORS

Russia blames Germany and Germany
planes France. and every nation is trying to
fix the responsibility of the war upon some
other fellow" says the Newport Nows Times
Herald. No one of them is to blame. but greed
and ambition and avarice.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-07
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Virginia Antiquities.

To the Editor of The Times DISPATCH:
Slr,-Please give me the name and address OF
the president or secretary of the Association
for the Preservation OF Virginia AntinquIties
c. T. ALLEN.
kenbridge, Va, August s. 1914
President-Mrs. ]. Taylor Ellyson, 10 East
Franklin Street.
Secretary-Mrs. J. Enders Robinson. lI3 South
Third Street