The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-15
Wayside Chats With
Old Virginia Editors

1--WE do not deny 1t is so. but 1t APP
pears to us that the Mexicans and the
mediators are for IIuerta, and the
| united States delegates for Carranza
Doesn't It look that way to your
| Thus queries the Newport News Times
| Herald. Not exactly: and vet IL Ia
but natural that the Mexican delegates
named by llucrta should be for him
That Is why they were sent. 1t Is
equally natural that the United states
| delegates. whose chief consented to
| mediation only on the understanding
| that Hucrta WAS not to be recognized,
should be against him.
who put tho mon In the Monroe
| Doctrine" asks the Newport News
Press. to which the Blackstone Courier
| replies: we don't know about that,
but we NIL know who put the roc In
It," Now. what do both of you mean?
Tho Petersburg Progress expresses
tho fear that the antitrust hills will
prove stumbling block In the SEN
ate They will not be proven" so:
they will ne made 80 by those who
desire to trip up the administration
but mark this: They are going 10
pass before Congress adjourns, and w
| w. isn't going to trip.
Quoting Tho Times Dispatch as ex-
pressing the expectation of reading
one of these fnc mornings of the
! 1ynchinE OF one of several English
militants. tho Emporia Messenger
agrees. "SicklY sentimcntality and
ultra humanitarianism have carried us
| far during tho present generation"
| 1t thinks. or the militant cutrares It
| says They have waged their war
| for suffrage with arson, destruction
~ 4
arrested they have refused to cat, and
| when the authorities release them
! rather than permit them to starvc
| they have been cmboldencd to commit
| other outragcs. These would bo
! martyrs cannot he controlled by easy
methods Tho natural ahhorrencn
which every man has to rough treat
mont to women Will have to be.over-
come" It probably will be over
| come, but the most distressing feature
of the matter Is that once lost 1t may
never he fully regained. Rough treat
ment to the militants may make for
| callousncss In the treatment of all
women. Does any sane woman really
! believe the vote. however desirable II
/ may be. and however necessary It may
/ seem. Is worth the cost at which tho
militants would purchase It?
The Stanton News admits that II
!
ways wins. but will not express an
opinion rs to the truth OF the saving
| we viii say" /; tells us, that wo
have heard as how It's true, but when
! 1t comes to vouching. the only thing
We Will vouch for is that somebody
IS going to lose, and that II won't be
| Richmond, either" Right YOU are
| There's ono game In which the limo
| cent bystander can't lose. We know
| that much about It.
"Bettor be a whale In country
| town than n tadpole In a big city" is
| the observation OF the Gordonsville
Gazette. So Bill Shakespeare made
julius Caesar say, or words to that
effect. but We have always believed
that the whale In the little town would
be moro than a tadpole In the city.
The Charlottesville Progress quotes
| this appreciation of President Alder
| man. of the University of Virginia
| from tho Review of Reviews: I'm the
| South the able leadership of Presi-
dent Edwin y. Alderman. excrted for
nearly ten years at the University of
| Virginia. has told powerfully In broad
ening and intensifying the relationship
or the university to the public in the
! Old Dominion. Here, too, the State Is
appropriating many thousands of dol
lars more than ever before for its uni
vcrsty At the same time the en-
dowment has been greatly Increased.
and the total income Is now twice
! what 1T was when Or. Alderman was
| inauEuratcd president. The institution
has kept Its place of leadership In the
Southern educational movement"
! To this the Progress adds: The
great work OF tho university bcyond
! It's campus has been largely recoc-
nized in many quarters. and yet 1t has
! just entered upon the service 1t In
| tends to render the State The near
future Will see even a greater contri-
hutton from our leading Southern in
stitution." Is II possible that tho
| Progress has any reference to the plan
| TOT coordinate college for women?