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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-14
WEDNESDAY. ocroBER.14
THE TIMEs-DIsPATCH and Breakfast
ere served together with unfailinE regu-
lsrity In the Best Homes of Richmond.
Is your morning program completef
\ The Best Team Did Win

IF ONE thing more than another stands out
| of the series Of baseball contests for the
worlds championship that the Boston Braves,
on their home grounds, brought yesterday to
a triumphant conclusion it is that the best
team won. In fielding, in pitching, in bat
ting, in strategy, Stailings's men have demon
strated their superiority over their rivals.
The Braves were out for blood-and they
got it.
In the first game they took the Athletics
measure and destroyed the confidence that
before had been so valuable an asset. 1t was
crushing blow to pride and prestige when
the mighty Bender, like any recruit from
the bushes was batted out OF the box. That
game and It's result were the handwriting on
the wall Few competent critics doubted
thereafter what the outcome of the series
would be-
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Want. City to Acquire Park.

To the Editor of Tile Times Dispatch:
slr-Whiie every other section OF the CITY has
It's public park. the Southsde has no free nla "
space The city should own Forest HUI Parl;
rms property is SO held by,its provisional own
ers, the street railway company, that it can be
acquired, no doubt, at very small cost-if indeed.
the railway company would not transfer it era,
tultousiy. The sale contract under which the
company acquired 1t prohibits it from being used
Tor any other than park purposes The land
cannot be cut UP and sold building lots The
railway company can profit by II only a a ma RI,
that attracts passenger traffic
ProDably no other city in America would have
SO long overlooked the opportunity thus pre-
sented to acquire a tract OF 10S acres of the
most beautiful and picturesque park propertv in
me United States, Expert engineers who laid
out the park some years ago pronounced Forest
fiili, with It's magnificent groves OF oaks IFS
beautiful lake, picturesque glades nd dells and
tts twenty springs of pure clear sparkling lithia
water, the finest natural park in the United
States.
Forest Hill Park was leased to an amusement
company several years ago, but might be ac
CURED by the city at small expense. Colonel
j. III. Livingston, the head of the amusement
company. holding the lease, indicated his will
'ingness more than q year ago to release the
property IL the railway company desired to
transfer ii to the city.
with the gradual growth of Richmond this
park property must inevitably be taken over nv
the city. Why not now? G. r. IT,
Richmond October 12, 1914
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What VIII Il Profit?

a authority on strategy estimates that
a the Germans or the allies could lose
100000 men in one terrific action without
losing the whole fight True, he admits this
would be tremendous loss to either side.
but it would not he final, from the strategic
standpoint. He then goes on TO say that the
result will be exhaustion, not victory-that
these savages of civilization will fight until
they have dropped and can fight no longer
80. a beautiful nt,,l prospect! And what is the
Issue! Boiled down TO cold facts, the issue
is expressed in the dollar sign 1t is a
gigantic struggle for commercial suprema CIV.
for territorial control. for treasure and ag-
grandizcment. Bnt who will profit of this
generation? The widows and orphans of the
thousands killed little interested If
these savages fight to the point of physical
and financial exhaustion it will take at least
two generations for reconstruction before
the commercial advantage gained begins to
be realized by the victors So that all this
bloodshed and huge cost is for the benefit of
posterity, and has no fine principle behind il.
For we must maintain, who think in straight
lines that the sign of the dollar is not prin-
ciple but an ignobIe ambition.
Into this struggle Europe Is throwing first
her young and vigorous men, then her men
a little older, then her boys and patrarchs
The nations will be reduced to women and thu
masculine remnant, the blood and bone and
sinew of the best having been DESTROYED
Out OF this masculine remnant must come
: posterity. and. permitting Imagination TO leap
bounds into the possible and beyond the prob
able, that remnant will not be best fitted TO
trepopuiate the stricken cities, towns and
farm lands What sort OF a next generation
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The Nriddleman's Protest

TT WAS only the expected that happened
! when New York grocers green and
not-so-green united in earnest protest against
the city's establishment of free markets. The
city's entirely laudable purpose was the
reduction of the high cost Of living but the
grocers insist that one incidental consequence
has been serious reduction in their chances
ofNiving at all.
Moreover. they declare that the free market
plan, as now conducted in the metropolis is
large and ornate fraud, of which that un-
fortunate individual the ultimate consumer.
is one victim and they themselves are others.
They say that short weights and measures
are being used; that inferior articles of food
are being sold; that cold storage eggs are
being substituted for strictly FRESH" and
that, generally, the guleless seeker of bar
gains gets poorly-plated gold brick instead
1t may be 80. Life is made up of one
condemned thing after another" as some
philosopher remarks, and these efforts to get
rid of the mddleman never have been at
tended with much success. He made his
entry some cons before the dawn of civiliza-
ton, and he has been on the Job ever since
An expensive luxury, doubtless, and dis
agreeable fellow in many aspects, but some
how we don't seem to be able to get along
without him.
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Refugees

LOW would you like to burn down your
l own house to mako room for cannon
balls in the air, and then, looking back over
your shoulder at the flames, white-faced,
fearful, penniless. too old too young to
earn the starvation rations of q soldier,
become a refugee from that land that was
your cradle?
How would you like to be the King Of the
Belgians, fleeing Into Holland for your life,
perhaps--at least fleeing before hopeessly
superior force, from imprisonment, possibly
indignty? And how would you like to be
one of the least Of his subjects, fugitive with
600, 600 others of your little nation, sheltered
for day two in Holland, but threatened
with expulsion because Holland could no
longer feed you?
That's the reality of war for the noncom-
Blatant. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. yes. underdrawn!
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river the British engineers were nut
ting the finishing touches to a pontoon
brtdgc--a bridge they finished, all com
plotc. In about two hours. Our TROOPS
were already preparing TO cross. SO
swiftly does the British army move
that when we arose with dawn tho
next morning we found our troopa had
melted away in the night, Even the
pontoon bridge had disappeared
Ihat night we found quarters In the
Hotei de Paris, a little inn where
shells had torn away part OF the roof
ana whecr. even I'm our bedroom. wa
! mad TO plaster UP the windows, drilled
win rifle bullets. TO keep out tho
drausht Two German officers, whose
names. Won der Goltz" and "von Reut-
,cr, were scrawlcd in chalk on the
bedroom door, had had the room he
Tore us, and there were many evidences
oi hasty departure. The 'iandlady
tcld US that morning twcnty-siS Ger
nan officers had brcakfastcd compel
Ling her and her husband a.,d all their
them with the best the town could
provide before they took the Held.
Next morning we crossed the river
by boat. We found tho quarters Of tho
town on this side of the river IN a much
! worse stale, Tho British shells had
'orn great holes in tile houses, some OF
which were completely battered down
During the engagement the Inhabitants,
iot,ny Of whom had not had time 10
get away, took refuge In their cellars
rho Gcrnans had intrcuchcd them
selves III some OF the houses, closing
tho shutters and making loopholcs.
through which they fired There were
horrid sights In the streets | counted
about thlrty-hrc German dead with
hiackcning faces, s6me minus a head, a
leg, or an arm. Tho. villagers were
dragging the bodies away for BURIAL y
~, m
chateau In which the Germans had In
stalled their machine guns and which
had been shelied and set on fire by the
British.
The streets revealed Traces Of desper-
ate lighting at close quarters Pools
Of blood still stained the gray cob
blestones. The townHpeopIc told me
OF British soldiers firing down tho
narrow streets at Germans cnsconced In
houses. Many of the townsfolk had
picked uD-helmcts and arms which had
been left about the streets. but which
had all been cleared away by the time
VIC appeared on the scene. We were
told that the Germans had occupied
La Fcrte for few days. The officers
mostly paid for what they took, some
times with Belgian money. but there
was some plunderng by the soldiers.
Some shopkecpers who had had the
sense to place themselves directly un-
der the, protection OF the German mill
itary commander had received from
him notice in German something to this
effect: These people have nothing moro
to give Please do not touch"
That afternoon Thursday we left
La Forte. Outside the town we found
on hill the grave of Highlander.
do not remember ever to have read
more touching epitaph than that
which the dead mans comrades had
written in pencil on the rough wooden
cross. made of strips torn from an
ammunition box. This is it:
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Am erica for Me!

Oh hG 9hs air. Is mans town. there's power in
her hair
And it's sweet s, to dream in Venice and it's great
like home. 80
] know that EIropes wonderful, yet something
seems TO lack; ~.
The past is too much with her, and tho people
But the glory OF the present is to make the
future free
We love our e land Tor what she is and what she
Oh. IT'S home again. and home again America
rolling sea,
the ocean bars,
Where the air Is full OF sunlight and tho a, =
Is full Of stars
Henry van Dyke.
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AS one who hunts lions may
"Perfuncd be supposed to acquire an inti-
Collars, mate knowledge OF the habits OF
N.,.n.. H., the king OF beasts, It Is reason
-'S''Se' H"u' able to assume that Senator Reed.
as the pursuer Of trusts and
trust masnates, is an authority on tho appear
ance OF the latter. In a recent debate on the
CLAYTON omnibus trust bill, MIR. Reed attacked
that measure in its present shape as without
any value One of his assertions VAS that mo
rudc sheriff or Federal marshal can lay his
calloused hands on the pcrfumed collar of q
trust magnate." OF course. United States
senator Is an honorable man, and MIR. Reed
would not attribute to trust magnates the
haoit OF wearing perfumcd collars on mere
h9trsay' He comes from Missouri, n State
he must have seen these remarkable collars. the
use of which is, after their manner, monopoiized
'bS trust magnates. Perfumed collars however
feE OF US have ever seen ever even thought
possible, but In Missouri they may wear articles
OF mems attire that are In advance OF the
fashions OF the East.-Boston Transcript
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The Importance of Antwerp's Capture


Z FFORTS of French and British writer's to
IL minimize~or depreciate the Importance Of
the capture of Antwerp by the Germans are
alike futile and foolish. Not only was it
great feat OF arms-the reduction of this
supposedly impregnable fortress after SO brief
a siege--but it affords reasonable guarantee
oil the German line of communication through
Belgium and releases for the battle line along
the three rivers considerable force OF men
and guns. Il.
Ii 1t is followed, appears highly
probable, by the capture Of Ostend, Germany
VIII be In possession of great strip of Bel
gian coast, and an attack from the north by
a combined British and Belgian force on the
army of General Won Kluck, which had been
apprehended. will have been rendered vir-
tually impossible.
But at the same time, it is well mol to take
too much stock in this rehabilitated phrase
that describes Antwerp as "a pistol pointed
at EnglanHS heart AS The Times Dispatch
said on Monday, there Is little danger of Ger
many attempting to invade England, SO long
as the British fleet controls the channel and
the North Sea. Antwerp cannot be used for
such an attack without the invasion of Hol-
lands neutrality, as the River Scheldt, which
is Antwerps outlet to the sea, passes through
That country. The Belgian port, further
more. possesses no superiority for an attack
on England over Cuxhaven or Helgoland,
already fitted out as German naval bases
Opinions differ as to where the sympathes
of Hollands ruling classes lie but if the
Dutch should prove unwilling, the Kaiser will
not risk wantonly repetition of his experi-
ence with Belgium. The Dutch army num-
bers 100000 men, and is quite able to offer
efecttYe resistance, for a time at least even
to Germany's victorious hosts
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SONGS AND SAWS
What VIII TEDDY Dol

Oh. what will Teddy Roosevelt do? 81
And what Will Teddy say?
Now that Progressives. onco true blue
Flee fast across the way
Forsake the straight and narrow path
And Join the faithless men of wrath.
That he's been wont to nay.
OH what will Teddy Roosevelt say?
And what will Teddy do?
He can't forget that awful day
He has such cause to rue,
When he. upwillngly. was led on
The skids that ran TO ArmRgeddon
And to Salt River, too.
One thing, we know, II. II. will say
And say it witt VIM.
That those who take the primrose way
And leave his warriors grim
Should with old Ananas stand
And lead the Ananas band
In its unholy hymn
Yes, that at least I. r. will say
of those who strive to break away.
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Love Insurance Now on the Market


HERE were mighty few risks and hazards
OF this life. the world had thought that
some Venturesome person or corporation was
not wiling TO insure against misclancc
Ihere mas been fire insurance, and life insur-
ance and burglary insurance, and marine
insurance, and casualty insurance and acct
dehl insurance; insurance against storms and
hurricanes and insurance against disease; but
up 10 rev days ago nobody had offered to
insure Meeting and inconstant love-
Now the final chasm has been bridged
The Society for the Promotion OF Family
Happiness has been organized and applied
ior articles OF incorporation. Its objects are
these:<
no aid members in the training and
dlsciplinc OF their children and to prc
pare children for the practical duties OF
married life.
To help married couples lead proper
lives.
To prevent differences from arising
between married couples.
10 improve the mcntaliics of those
about to be married, SO that there will
he fewer foolish marriages.
Membership in the society is expected To
guarantee happiness. Among it's subsidiary
purposes according to the veracious New
York Herald is to aid ''in granting amnesty
TO husbands and heads of families who have
run away from the high cost of living and
loving The distinction the Herald makes
between husbands" and heads OF families"
implies delicate tribute, it is likely, to the
feminist movement But let that pass It is
enough we are to have some agency that will
make love perpetual and every marriage an
unending dream OF bliss. Whatever premium
is charged Will not be too high
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win 4. be. with All the best men killed Off N

will IT be- with all the best men killed Off N
their prime?
This is all drcam-all conjecture. Pos
sibly 1t is far too pessimistic. but there is
enough of reality in it to make one shudder.
for the awful days OF Reconstruction and the
pitiful days when the nations take their cen
sus of ,able-bodied men. The astonishing,
the astounding fact is that, with all our col
leges, all our training, all our pretense of
civilization, such holocaust could come on
millions of people by invitation, without the
slightest hesitation. Nations waste lives and
millions more easily than an individual would
waste q silver dollar. And yet we boast OF
reason and souls,
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Here lies Private -
No. -, - Highalnders.
Killed in action,
He was a good pal.

From the cross hung his srcatcoat,
inc back all torn by a shell
We proceeded in the direction of
Chateau 1'hierry. a few miles out
side we came across small British
convoy returning with batch Of 12O
German prisoners. including eight. Of
! iiccrs and Red Cross doctor The
British convoy consisted only Of
sergeant and six men. They told me
mat lhey were returning to fetch sup
| plies, when the detachment OF Ger
: mans came out of tho woods and stood
willingly accompanied the ludcrously
small British force, for they were starry.
ing and had surrendered to get food.
they were starving, and had surren
i dered TO got food.
! We presently deserted n lonely figure
hobblinS along the long, white road.
when VIC came up ii was a corporal
OF an Irish regiment. He had been
wounded in the foot, and was using his
going?" said. Sure, I'm going 10
the front" he replied, "now do YOU
expect 10 get there? It's about nifty
miles away" ".th. now, If can pel
to the next village maybe I'll be find
Ing wagon to give Inc lift; if not.
III go on tramping." | gave him to-
bacco and little money, and left him
hobblinG along. CHEEKY and content.
skirted Chateau Thierry, and from
there retraced my steps to. Paris. On
my way back traversed the battle
Held of McauX, where peasants were busv
with great funeral pyres. There were
miles and miles OF trenches, marking
The German positions. strewn with
thousands and thousands of cmptv
cartridge cases. About 6 o'clock OH
Sunday evening reached Lagny, where
II found enormous crowds of sightseers
from Paris In the. happiest Of moods,
walking to and fro over the pontoona
bridge across the Marnc, loud in their
admiration for the skill OF the French
engineers who had built IT, inspecting
houses In tho town and the broksn
bridges assexs the river,
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The Voice of the People

Leters 10 the Editor should NOT be over
$50 words In length, and the name ,ns "a
dress OF the writer must accompany each
csmn,unieafiont not necessarily for pubitca-
ttoh' hut a. an evidence OF good faith. Write
on one SIDE OF the paper, and incloAe STAN On
IL manuscript II to be returned, Partisa.
letters concernins the European war Mi, nor
be published,
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Chats With Virginia Editors

We do hope Brother Chats wasn't respon-
sibe for that editorial I'm The Times Disph tch
recently. urging the study of Spanish in our
Schools" the incorrigiblc Lacy remarks in his
Halifax Gazette. What's he got agin the Span
fish since the wars over. Quicn sabe?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-14
An Epoch in a Railways Life

HE southern Railway marked al epoch in
us lie history at the meeting of stock
holders held here yesterday. Election to the
directorate Of John X. Branch, of Richmond:
PRESIDENT Edwin A. Alderman, Of the Univer-
sty of Virginia; Bishop John G. KiIgo
OF North Carolina and Robert Jemison. of
birmingham evidenced the management's
purpose to make the road true to its name
The majority Of the board now are Southern
men.
IL is worthy OF note that these changes in
the personnel of the board accompany tho
resumption by the stockholders of the COM,
panys control, which for some wears has
been vested in voting trust The meeting
was open to the public there was consider
apie attendance, and discussion of the renort
| Oh PRESIDENT Harrison was free and exhaustive
TWO OF the new directors succeed George II
Baker, Jr., of New York, chairman of the
board of the First National Bank. and Judpe
H. H. Gary, chairman of the board OF the
United States Steel Corporation who had de-
clined reelection because of tho erow;n,
pubic sentiment against interlockine direc
torates.
me who'e spirit and atmosphere OF the
meeting and of President Harrison,s rannrt
were redoent of the new theory of corporate
management, which has it's basis in publicity
rather than secrecy, III responsibility rather
| than evasion. 1t is matter for Southern
pride that this great agency of Southern
commerce and trade should keep itself in the
van OF progress and OF modern thought
Some of the tired Progressives. who have
wandered in the political wilderness until
their shoes are worn out, announce thew are
going to rejoin the Republican party and try
TO reform it. That certainly is like the grass
WIDOWS second marriage-the triumpb of
hope over experience
! m rhan
fashion note With present styles in--hair
dressing, they usually hold few. strands that
are NOT their wearers own-except by right
or purchase.
The State Departments decision that cot
ton is not contraband came just in time IT
had begun to look as though the staple would
start war right here at home
Various journalistic war experts now pre-
may even be right---for once
IL must be admitted that when IL comes to
] what he is about.
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Business
Now is
Looking Up


Now Is trouble in discovering several
Iookinp In, signs OF Improvement in the
financial and commercial condi,
ton Of the country. One of them
Is 10 be round in the fact that, Notwithstanding
rather a free movement OF cotton which itself
must have the effect of liberating money and
credit. prices hold pretty we'll. They are ra thcr
higher now than they three or four DAYS
ago. which fact is evidence that the world is
coming to understand that the position Of the
cotton States is not SO dcfenseless as the antics
of the politicians naturally suggest Even a
stu more hope-giving sign is the gradually
lowering rate OF foreign exchange as quoted
In New York This means of course that by
restoring our credit balances in Europe The
reduction in the rate of exchange is evidence
OF n growing number of international accounts
which show the balance to be on the side OF
this country. This dimnshes the danger of
great drafts being made on our gold sunnI,
and as that menace recedes the financial institu
tons of this country will be more IiherolIv
disposed toward those who need credit-DaIias
News. -
Terrible teen years cost France $1,000
Cost OF 100000 Our Civil War expendi-
u,,1I w. ture of tho Federal government
~ amounted to $500 O0o 900 or
nearly thirteen times AS much n
year as Napoleon's. The Franco German War
indemnity of sl,00O,00000o. This same great
war, which lasted only 80 days. cost GERMANY
S4oOOO0.oOO for ali average fighting force or
100000 men. The other bis European war
OF the past half century. the Russo Turkish
War, cost Russia s7S6.l40,000 but she had two
years fighting for her money. The war in the
Far East cost Japan $6S0,0o0o00 and Russia
S123000,000. not counting lost slLjbs OnIv
toward the end had either side anything like
a million men in the Heidi Itaiys little war war
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-14

The evcr-cheerful Ben Fisher, OF the ever
sunny Eastern Shore Herald offers this suggcs-
ton to his fellow coumtrymen: would IL
not be fine idea for all our farmers to have
distinctive name for their farms? When asked
where you live, instead OF saying About blank
miles from Eastvlle.' or next to the farm of Mr..
DASH why not have name for your own place,
such as Maple Grove Shady Lawn and SO on?n
why not also advise what we, shall answer
to those automobile fellows whose cars are some
times towed into town from the roads around
the lierald's neighborhood, and who persist In
telling us that it happened near that dashed
Eastvllc
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Various journalistic war experts now pre-
act that Italy soon will join the allies They
may even be right---for once