Chats With Virginia Editors
"The anti-reform element in Alabama," says the Bristol Herald-Courier, "are getting on to the methods of the same element in some other States. They have killed a judge." Yes, they seem to have a Carroll County down there! Says the Clinch Valley News; "Mr. Bryan has had the steamroller to flatten him just a little once or twice. He afterwards behaved admirably. Mr. Roosevelt has been flattened out as flat as a pancake. Will he prove himself as 'nice a man' as Mr. Bryan?" He has shown no indication of it so far.

The Newport News Press says: "The government will soon be in urgent need of transports and supply ships. But the transport and the supply ship which were assigned to the Philadelphia and Boston Navy-Yards, after the Newport News shipyard had bid low on their construction, are about half done. Had the work been assigned to the Newport News yard, the ships would have been put in commission more than a month ago."

Now that the public schools throughout the State have about all closed, we would like to say what we consider a word in season. We believe in athletics in the schools; but we believe in them only as an adjunct to education, not as the whole push. And we fear that is what it is coming to. In certain sections and under certain managements. There is entirely too much time devoted to baseball, basketball, and entertainments and not enough to that good, hard mental study, which trains the mind rather than the muscles. Northern Neck News.

Oh, I shake yourself up and catch on to twentieth century doings!  Proud to Fight!
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