Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 228, 25 June 1909 — Page 4
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LITERARY WORLD
A TELEPHONE NEWSPAPER. American telephone subscribers are familiar with the uses of the central switchboard operator for the dissemination of news. Any good natured operator will give one the time of day upon request, and in the smaller towns one can often And out where the fire is, and whether or not they have caught the man. who broke into Squire Miller's barn. But it has remained for Budapest, way off in telephonically barbarous Europe, to make the completeet use of the telephone as a news bureau. The scheme is a news service which is turned on at stated times throughout the day. In the morning the day's program is announced so that the subscriber may take up his receiver and listen whenever the things that he is Interested in are on tap. There are hours for stock! quotations and business news, parliamentary news and weather forecasts. In the late afternoon cafe music is turned on and in the evening opera. Thus does the Budapest '.; telephone company make eavesdropping and gossiping on the wire a source of profit to them, as they charge $7.31 per year (2 cents a day) for this service. It is as if the whole city were on one party wire with every body else listening to what is going on. It is not likely that America will soon adopt the Budapest plan. With our newspapers coming out every hour, our "tickers" with business and sporting news, and our omniscient, all-wise American "hello" girls, the need la fairly well met. Success Magazine.
TWINKLES
A Cruel Jest. "Mike," said Plodding Pete, "dere's wuss rings dan gold bricks." "What's happened?" "De lady up de road said dat if I'd chop an armful of wood she'd gimme a cake." ! "Didnt she keep her word?" , . "Yep. She handed me a cake o' soap."
Style's " Freakiahness. "I want to be dressed in the height of fashion." said Mr. Suddenroll. "Ill see to It that your clothes fit you perfectly,' replied the tailor. "But. that's what I'm in doubt about. Is it fashionable just . now to have your clothes fit?"
Grim Contrast. The pace so quick Which gilded glee Adorns with curious . capers Does not seem "chic" When people see The details in the papers.
.. Debts and Considerations. "Don't you want posterity to take an Interest in your deeds?" "I don't care so much about my
deeds,"; answered Senator Sorghum,
"but I shouldn't want posterity . rummaging about through some of my old mortgages." A Question Barred, "No pugilist ever asks anybody if it la hot enough for him," said the merry , jester. "Why not?" "It might start a real fight."
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Ac&ct tsi Fait Art Eature't ; T7u&i2i of Trouble Ahead.
Mental and physical sickness are ex. actly Ilk the brea.kiaa down of the loaded coal wagon across the car tracks. The hindered traffic represents the state of mind or body under diseased conditions. Oar aches and pains are nature's waning that we have violated the laws of life and health and oea w amset pay aalen we heed. Most 111: can b traced directly or Indirectly to the stomach or digestive tract. -Bat right and it's Id to 1 that you will be right U health, and health ineaM wealth -v ...-;.. Dont load your stomach with heavy foods such as meats and bread sad po- - tatoes In the morning. Try K-C Cora Flakes or Bgg-O-See Wheat Flakes with good milk or cream and perhaps a little freak or stewed fruit. You'll like It it's good m crisp and delicious easy ,to digest ready to serve. Children grow strong and healthy oa It ; Invalids - And It acceptable and nourishing and busy men and women finer they aa de a days work with- ; eat the hindrance of a sour stomach or an aching head,: If thev eat it. R.
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so easy to dlcest.
The Ignorance of "Good" Citizens "What is the debt of your city?" , I don't know." . .. "Is there a legal limit to the bonded debt, and bas it been reached?" "Indeed I've forgotten." . - .. ' "Do you remember the tax rate?" ' "Er, well It's pretty high." 5 "What is the total valuation or assessment for tax purposes?" f "Let me see; I think it is about no I don't remember." "Do you know what the basis of the assessment is?" ' "It seems to me it is about full valuation. Wait; no. It's seventyfive percent, I think. . I'm not in politics."
- These are vital questions as far as any town or city is concerned. Can you answer them? The probability is that your answers will be the same as those given to J. H. McFarland of the American Civic Association, who asked them in another western town.- .,,..' """' '
And yet most men are interested to some extent in the city in which they live. ' This is proved by the fact that when any one cries "Graft! Graft! Graft!" in a voice loud enough to be heard, all the respectable citizens In a town start to point the finger of accusation at who ever is in power. And if in cases there happens to be graft whose fault is it? Isn't some of the blame to be laid on those who are ignorant or careless of the city's affairs though they may not be In office?
Those who cry "Reform! Reform!" when some one else is shouting "Graft!" are very apt to be quite ignorant of the affairs of the city. Or to take a minor case, those who want the city's money to be expended on improvements which they think will benefit the town have not the slightest knowledge of what the condition of the city's finances is. :y- :-- :.: .-.v - - What is needed is not so much reform as real knowledge of, the primary principles of city government.
How can any man who does not know the assessed valuation; the city debt; its rate of interest; the sinking fund provisions; the constitutional debt limit; the tax rate and its .divisions among the various departments of the city, school, county, and state uses, justly complain of being robbed or having his money carelessly handled? IC is his money. That is certain. But does he show any real proof that he cares? Does he show any knowledge of whether he is getting his money'B worth? Does some one else have to take him by both ears and pour facts and figures at him? And also, does he know whether this person is telling him the truth? Does he know when there is mal-administration? Or does he take someone else's word for it?
And after the good citizen has informed himself on the thlnsrs we have mentioned above, he will do well to inquire into water rates, paving assessments, park main tenence, gas rates, the granting of public utility franchises. c Then he may have some excuse for his "good" citizenship.
The good citizen is, only-to be measured by what he does and is willing to do for his town. v This has nothing to do with the rectitude of his private life and affairs, it has notbins to do with the number of times he is seen in public worship. It has nothing to do with so-called reforming hysteria. - It is simply that the man takes enough interest in his town to know ' what is being done. Public officials have very little encouragement. No matter what they do, they are openly and privately criticised, not in particular, but in general. :, ,.).:'. Sometimes this criticism is just sometimes it is unjust. But whether the official is accused or not accused, he always feels that the public not only doeB not know but does not care.
Is this true or not? Ask the first man you meet the first good citizen, ssk him the state of things ask him what he will do. Will he go to council twice a year and form a part of a committee which really knows what is going on in the 'town? Will he talk to the board of works?
No.
In nine cases out of ten he is too busy or he has another engagement. , . What we need is not reform. We do not need hysteria. We need men who have knowledge of affairs. ' The commercial organizations of the city of Cincinnati have organized a municipal bureau. This Is nothing but a committee of disinterested men. They are not organized for political purposes and as far as the bureau is concerned it makes little difference to them whether one party is In power or the other.
But this they do do. I
They find out. They know. . - " They have the facts. They publish the facts. Publish the fact about tax rate and the condition which causes an increase in the rate. If it is unjust it will not take long to decrease it. Public officials are for the most part honest. They may be mistaken. But there are few men who would not like to go out of office with the seal of approval of their work put on it by a disinterested group of men who are above reproach?
One hour a week spent by five honest men with the cooperation of the commercial organizations in the town would do a great deal. In time it would prevent debauchery of the public funds, carelessness and graft. It can accomplish more than "reform." It would overcome eventually the ignorance not only of all citizens, but of good citizens. .
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taken as covering a full total of the victims of the national catastrophe.
THE CAPE COD CANAL.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Advocates of another ambitious pro
ject fof shortening the distance for water borne traffic between Boston and New York and the commercial points south of New York have repeatedly predicted that the "old Cape Cod
canal" project would never be carried
through because of the insurmountable obstacles created by the unproetcted approaches to the canal, and by the differences in the tidal levels In Buzzard's bay in the south . and in Cape Cod bay on the north. Nevertheless, these obstacles have been set at naught by experienced engineers and ignored by owners of capital, and actual work has been begun, after more than two centuries of more or less continuous discussion upon the
cutting of a ship canal which 'Is' to effect a saving in distance of from BO to 115 miles for the coastwise traffic entering and leaving Boston, and to afford a safer avenue for commerce than that outside the wreck-strewn Cape. ' ' ' ;
BLOWS HOT AND COLD. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. The weather man is certainly an extremist.
cony in;
Milton, Ind., Jane 25. The ttlltom Buggy company has just finished two fine jobs In the way of a funeral car and ambulance for an undertaker at Charlottesville. They also have a fine job In for an auto top for an Indianapolis party. ;
Items Gathered in From Far and Near
K NATIONAL CATASTROPHE. From the Boston Advertiser. Little less than a year ago a great catastrophe fell upon this land. In a single day, as the result of a common and long tolerated practice, there were received injuries followed by deaths of no less than 163 Americans, many of them helpless children, all of them stricken , down without a moment's warning. In like manner, over 6.000 other victims not actually killed outright, but injured or badly maimed, were sacrificed. In thousands of homes this tremendous catastrophe brought tragedies whihc can never be forgotten. Mothers have had the rest of their lives embittered by the knowledge that this sacrifice of life or limb was wholly
unnecessary, that it came about through the criminal neglect or indifference of the community. The 5,500 children who were killed or crippled as the outcome of the disaster of that one day might and probably would most of them be alive and whole today if the community had cared enough about them to take measures to safeguard them from known danger. If this sacrifice of life were all the case would be serious enough; but In addition, property to the value of many millions were endangered. Many persona who were seriously sick at the time suffered " so severely- that their deaths followed soon afterward, although they were not Included in the totals given above. In other eases while no deaths resulted, the torture was indescribable. Horses were frightened Into running away, and persons were injured as tho result of collisions with fire apparatus. It proved Impossible to; a teare an data tint could be
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PESO GRAMME
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