Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 198, 25 May 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PAULAUIUM A5D 8CW-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY. MAY 25, 1900.

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liMur morning. Office Cornr North 9th ud A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND, ZXDZANA. 4ela O. Charles M. m...... Miust ...Hewa Batter. , 8UB8CRIPTIOM TERMS. la Richmond fs.ee par year (In advance) or Ito par week. MAIL SUMCRXPTXONa ' One year, la advance $S.M Ms seeatke. In advaaca .... S.Sf One month. In advaaca RURAL ROUTE . Ona year. In advanea Sf.oS Bis months. In advanea LIS One month, In advanea .......... .IS Address cbaaaed aa often aa dealred; both now ana old addressee muat be given. flubscrtbers wtl! please remit with order, wbieh ehould be given , for a peel fled term; urn will not bo entered until payment la received. Kntered at Richmond, Indiana, pott office ae eecond cLe.ee mall matter. The AeooHaUon of (New York City) baa and certified to tke etrealatlea ef this psaaoatiea. Only the tUrnres et i la its report am tke AeaeeUtUa. Nevertheless Taft is still smiling. Anyhow some of the corn is planted. Another health hlnt-let Beveridge -' - care of the tariff. In spring the young man's thoughts lightly turn to baseball and the Cubs. Now that the Sugar Trust has been exposed it will of course stop its machinations. Another day has passed and only two new animals have been found in Africa. Kermlt is taking a vacation. Aldrichs bill will undoubtedly pass the 'Conference then it will have to pass a review at the white house. Those who asked Senator Cullom to make a speech forgot that he did not come from Indiana or Wisconsin. Admiral Dewey has just announced that the navy is all right. He ha3 relieved many people by his comforting statement. After a few more men are read out of the democratic party Mr. Bryan may find the circulation of the Commoner decreasing. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. We, of the Northwest Territory now the five states of the Middle West-are Just beginning to think over our bistorical ancestry. Once we were French once we were English and then we became and still are, Americans. And the man who made " this "American territory was George Rogers Clark.' Out in Quincy, Illinois, they have erected at statue to him. The man who by his march from Kaskasia to our own Vlncennes, made us . subsequently a part of the union. A. monument is a good thing it represents the expression of appreciation for future generations to gaze upon. But every community cannot have a mon ument to George Rogers Clark. It would be better If the school children of the Middle West were made to know that all the history of the country is not the story of the Pilgrim Fathers, nor yet is it the story of Virginia cav aliers. Such things are very slovenly told in the school histories of com mon usage in the public schools. Few of .us appreciate that we of the Middle West have as fine a back ground in our history one as replete in romance as any of the other 6tates in the Union. From the days of the French explorers with the Jesuits the days of La Salle, Tonti, Marquette, Joliet and the romancer, Father Hennepin down to the battle of Tippecanoe we have our share. - - Of Anthony (Mad Anthony, by the way) and the aristocrat. St. Qlair all of tola. With this for ak background the people should be particularly proud of George Rogers Clark and the Napo leonic march in , the . back . woods of what is now Illinois and Indiana. A march on his own initiative, which could not have been better done it he had been receiving orders from Wash ington by wireless.' It is this trait of Clark which makes him as really great a general as if he had been com mending myriad battalions. There is something analogous to the con- ' quests which Julius Caesar records in his Gallic warthe same idea of con quest. " 4 . '-- No one knew better than Clark the diplomatic and statesmanlike side of military operations he secured the neutrality of the French and Indians or used them on occasion for his ad vantage- v , Indiana owes with the. rest of the Middle West, a debt of honor to the BCrvf muv eu unto uwv.ui. v - That debt can best be expressed by

THE STORY OF THE PALLADIUM " Its Progress and its Policy v. THE TEMPER OF THE TOWN The same idea which led us to pay particular attention to the rural circulation as a means of bringing the town and country closer together in other words the idea of co-operation and cohesive force was the moving force in another line which has done much for the town along the lines mentioned.

To put it in general terms, there was (and still is to a considerable extent) a division in the town along optimistic and pessimistic lines. . There is always this division in every community. Sometimes one type is dominant sometimes the other. In Richmond, unfortunately for the town, the dominant force has been until lately the . pessimistic view point. Not only has this tendency manifested itself along lines of industries and business, but even social. It has done more serious harm than any other thing in the community. APATHY There was a general apathy toward new situations for the town's development Men would not work together for the good of the town because they were afraid it would help their competitor as much as themselves. The greatest and most destructive activity which was expressed was in cut throat competition. There were some notable exceptions to this some men braved the storm and took a part in the building up of the town out these were the exception and not the rule. Under these conditions in all parts of the town there began to be dissatisfaction expressed among men who rebelled at the pessimistic outlook. AN OPTIMIST It was an Optimist one of our advertising men who brought . the matter to a focus. It is his business to keep in close touch with the business men of the town and to think up new ways for bettering the town from a business point of view. And one night, the Optimist came in and said: "Why can't we get up an organization in which men can work together for the best interests of the town? The business men can't do anything as long as they fight each other and don't fight for the trade which is going to other , places." A BEGINNING He went to work on this idea last Spring. It was hard work to fight the old idea of pessimism. It was hard work and the management of the paper knew it, so we backed him in every way we could. At last there was a meeting of about half a dozen merchants who were in accord with the idea of co-operation,, at the Westcott Hotel. They got together on the proposition with the management of this paper. After many ups and downs, days of persuasion and pleading in which there was a struggle against the apathy which we have previously mentioned, there was a little light ' " The organization finally took form. That was the beginning of the Young Men's Business Club You know the rest. THE YOUNG MEN'S BUSINESS CLUB We do not claim the credit for the success that the club has made, ex

cept that we' have done our part in helping it along. The idea, as we have said before, was to effect an organization in which there should be co-operation. If we were to claim- the credit for all of it we should be fighting the co-operative idea. It is an orgaizatfon for all men who are interested in the growth of the town who are interested in. co-operation who are interested in making the county and town a part of a working whole. The club has succeeded because men have laid down their differences and worked together for a common aim. And that is what we wanted in the town. ; " "' -! ' .. '- . "

CO-OPERATION

In this day and generation the spirit of co-operation is the thing which makes enterprises succeed. That is the spirit of construction. Bring a number of men together and the question is immediately what shall we do? And this we have worked for. ' And so, though the very success of the Young Men's Business club, has, from its very nature, not been our work any more than it has been the entire work of any one, our idea prevailed. The old idea of pessimism and antagonism has lost ground. Whatever may happen we will continue to adhere to the policy of making this paper an agent in the betterment of working facilities for the advancement not only of the town but of the whole community.

putting him in the proper niche in historythe monuments 'will come then as a fitting expression. Items Gathered in From Far and Near P.ilgrimage to St. Mary. From the Baltimore Sun. Today the members of the Maryland Pilgrims' association, in number about 400, will leave Baltimore for a visit o the site of the first settlement of Lord Baltimore's colony in Maryland. The object of this visit is to stimulate interest in the early history of the province. It is a most praiseworthy object and it is the custom of the association to make the pilgrimage four times a century. Before the landing of Lord Baltimore's settlers a party from Virginia, under William Claiborne, had settled on Kent Island another party on the Suspuehana, but these- were only trading posts and St. Mary has always been considered the beginning of the colony of Maryland. The ancient "city" of St. Mary was situated in a beautiful and fertile park-like region on the banks of the St Mary river, a tributary of the Potomac. It was for more than sixty years the capital of Maryland, but it has disappeared utterly. The spot is marked by a monument erected by the state in honor of the founder of the colony. After the seat of government was removed to Annapolis, near the end of the seventeenth century, the ancient capital speedily disappeared. Samuel Clemens' Latest Sin. From the New York Sun. It may be worth observing that the Hon. Mark Twain's masterly argument for the Baconian theory of the authorship of the plays called Shakespeare's has greatly stimulated the Bacon-Shakespeare literary prospectors. Their business it is to explore the long suffering text and to extract from it those cryptic arrangements of letters and numerals, those acrostics, those palindromes, those pregnant paginations, those ingeniously : hidden meanings which Francis Bason, as we know so well, spent his leisure nights in weaving into the first folio and which now establish bis case with such wonderful clearness and completeness. - We ourselves have not given much attention to this particular, form of intellectual activity since it was our honor, several years ago, to evolve from the first folio text, by the conscientious application of the cipher which Ignatius Donnelly discovered, the immortal

principle of the invariable ,proximity of the white horse and the red-headed girl.

Virginia Battlefield From the Boston Herald. There is still a lot to learn from those Virginia battlefields of forty years ago. The War .College officers will , also keep the lecture platforms and the maga zines going. Popular Picture. From the Augusta Herald. Since Grover Cleveland's picture has been put on the twenty-dollar bills a whole lot of people who never did care much for him have developed a fondness for having his picture in their possession. Flghtless Wars. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. The smokeless, mastles3 navy is the latest proposal. But' the shipless navy is what the promoters of universal peace are after. Good Hunting. From the Baltimore American. Capturing the south is a far better oc cupation thaa shooting giraffes. The Chimera. The chimera was a fabulous mon ster with a lion's and a goat's bead, a serpent's tail and a goat's middle, which Inhabited the dreadful mountain of Lycia, in Greece, and defended itself against attack by vomiting flames of ore. it was at last conauered bv Bel lerophon. the god of war, who mounted it on the famous horse Pegasus. The strange combination of the form of the chimera was evolved from the fact that the terrible Lycia was partly a burning mountain, with here and there a desolate wilderness, the resort of lions, and occasionally a few fertile spots where goats did congregate, while at the foot of the great bill was . a swamp Infested with snakes. From this curious creation of superstition sprung the origin of the wore "chimera," In designation of an idle fancy or a foolish creation of the brain. New York "Telegram. Didn't Miss Him. I don't see anything: of Coonskin Charlie up here." said too new arrival In the great north woods. : "No," sighed the native; "the pooi guide has passed in his checks. "Gracious! : How we city , hunters will miss him.; "Yea, but that's the trouble. Some of you ... didn't miss hlm."--CBlcago

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By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.ight. 1908, by Edwin A. Nye YOUR aWS niCfUtTY. If yen gve your boy a pig when it is small and it become father's hog when it grown big. a little lamb that grown into father's sheep, a small calf that grown Into father's cow, why, you are confusing year boy's sense of property rights, and yon may make sf criminal of him. Is the statement strong? Did yon ever stop to consider the moral value involved in ownership snd its effect on your boy? Listen: Eighty per cent of all criminals are PROPERTYLESS people who have never been taught to do things skillfully! Here, then, Is a place to begin in making good citizens, because . when you help the bey to own things and to make his own living he has respect for the property of others and is willing to let them make their own living. Our very civilization rests on the basis of property rights. Break down these rights and you have anarchy. It has been a long road by which humans have come to the knowledge of the difference between MINE and THINE. , f Onr stone age parents came to treasure a carved bone or a crude tool, a club or knife or hammer, or what not, and thus developed the sense of property. You can see the beginnings of that In your baby boy. Let another infant get into your son's high chair and note the primeval bowl of the property owner! Let another child try to capture your baby's toys. There is social conflict at once. , Now, this sense of ownership and respect for property are strong la your boy, and if be grows up right they must be developed in him not for his sake alone, but society's. Let the child have some something of bis own his own chicken, his own spot in thft garden, his own tree. It will develop in him not only a pride and care of ownership, but will teach him to respect the property of other people. And the latter respect is vitally necessary in the moral development of the boy, because . mere desire for property may easily land a man in the penitentiary! Therefore the importance of making the boy or girl, for that matter the owner of something, however small. Ownership is a magic wand for open ing the moral side of a man. . iiiiilEIii. DO SOMETHING FOR. SOMEBODY. Recipe for unhapplness: Think only of yourself, care only for yourself, labor only for yourself. Mix and nse dally. If yon doubt the formula, look about you. Note the effects of self love from ennui to suicide. new, clean play now being produced in New York city Illustrates the extreme effect of selfishness: A rich old man has lived a self centered life. He thinks only of his ills. He takes fright at every symptom of disease. He concludes be Is In a bad way. Learned physicians confirm his fears. He decides to commit suicide. The miserable old man takes a room in a cheap tenement on the east side and prepares to blow out bis brains. Just as be raises the pistol to his temples a ragged, forlorn young girl steps into the room. She tells the old man of her troubles real troubles, troubles that harass the mind and barrow the heart. But she says she Is not complaining; she is making a brave fight to save her womanhood and Is hopeful of victory. The old man becomes ashamed of his troubles, which, after all, are largely imasinarv troubles. ' He becomes Interested in the girl's brave and hopeful fight He throws away the pistol. And the sequel of the play is the restoration of the old man to health and the success of the girl. In helping 'another the old man helped himself. ' Which is the law of life. The play ia but another repetition, ia fact, of the old story of the man who, noting that his comrade Is freezing to death, forgets his own growing numb ness and works to restore the other. with the result that both are saved. So that the recipe for happiness ia the reverse of the other one. It 1--Think of others, care for others, work for others. Apply liberally. Fortunately for society, we are so constructed that to be happy we must make others happy. Selfishness carries its own punishment Generosity is Its own reward. Trite and commonplace? Yes, but true! Self luxury leads to actual misery. Selfishness i such a burden that men will drink to drown it or kill them selves because of it The recipe is correct Do something for somebody. Do something worth while and be happy. Do nothing and be miserable. Caught Them All Around. A Moslem ruler spoke to his people one Friday from the pulpit in the market place. ".;'-.. .' "People, what shall I preach to yon about today r -We do not know,' they replied. "Well, if yen dont know I shall not tell yon." And down be came from the pulpit There was ne sermon that Sabbath. The next week the eld inquiry was made, and the people rejoined. Wc know." When the royal preacher said, "If yon know yon do not need me to tell yon." And again an abrupt close to the services. . The third week the people were wary and replied. "Some of us and some do not know. And now i bey expected to trap the man. but be was wiser than they thought "Let those who know tell those who do not know. came his utterance, and the people

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,1 TWINKLES A Change Explained. "Don't they run any more accommo dation trains on this line?" said the man who had been away for some time. i "Huh?" rejoined the conductor. "I don't see any accommodation trains mentioned. t Don't you stop at the small stations any more?" "Certainly we do. But the trains that make the stops are called locals. This is a conscientious company and the word 'accommodation' might lead the public to expect too much." The Autocrat of the Auto. "Bllggins worries me by his imperturbable assumption of superior wisdom." "Well," answered Mr. Chuggins, "he'll get over that He's bought a new motor car, and a few haughty glances from the chauffeur will convince him that It is not his place to offer any suggestions." eseasemaanass To Avoid the Ananias Club. Speak kindly, whatsoe'er men do, And you may live contented; For compliments, e'en though untrue. Are never much resented. Arithmetically Demonstrated. "A man should sleep at least eight hours a day." "It can't be done," answered the weary-looking citizen; "not when one of your neighbors runs a phonograph till midnight and another keeps a roos ter that crows at S a m." Grim Conditions. - 'There was no excuse whatever for that last massacre," said one Turkish official. "Yes, there was," answered the other. "The census taker had served notice that unless his work was made easier he would resign." Messages of Cheer. When gloom o'ershadows . the daily news And tempts us all to a state of blues; When war is threatening, far and wide And the home team falls to get its stride; , When trusts reach forth on every hand And speeches are hard to understand Turn o'er a page, and then be gay. As you read what the advertisers say! There's nothing at all that can't be -cured; Nothing that cannot be endured; Nothing you cannot buy or sell If you know how to describe it well. Your business methods you may extend .... -If you seek to borrow or wish to lend. No matter what may afflict your mind. Where they print the ads you may always find Of glad assurance such n list That you can't help being an optimist MASONIC CALENDAR. Friday, May 28. King Solomon's Chanter No. 4, R. A. ML. Work in the

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