Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 304, 9 September 1909 — Page 8

THE RICmiOICD PALIAJIUM AWO SUN-TELEGRAH, THVItSD AT, SEPTEMBER 9, 1909,

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WOULD 0PEI1 SHOWS OH SABBATH DAY Wm. Bartel Makes Suggestion To City Council as a Business Proposition.

MOVING ynifftRE TRADE DE8IRE BY LIGHTPLANT AND MR. ARTEL WOULD GIVE SUNDAY jPRIVILEGES IK EXCHANGE FORTHIS BUSINESS. f ! Councilman William Bartel was full of ideis and suggestions! at council meeting last evening aifd suggested that tie five cent theate be granted the privilege of operating on Sunday ! afternoons, providing fney use the Meht and nower of the munlcinal light plant Te matter wa referred to the board of w8tks fortonsideratlon with the recommendation that the privilege be granted if the theaters will use city light. The theaters of this class are now using the light of the Light, Heat and Power company. The city wants this business and Mr. Bartel sees one way to solve it. He says that it is merely a business proposition with the city. 1NDUSTRIALPARADES Two Will Be Held During the Fall Festival, One in Afternoon, one at Night. GOOD PRIZES ARE OFFERED Plana for the industrial parade for the Fall Festival are now well under way, and at a meeting of the industrial committee last evening the matter was thoroughly discussed. An effort will be made to secure as many merchants and manufacturers of the city as possible to enter a float in the parade. The city will be laid off in districts and sub committees will be appointed to canvas these districts. Two parades will be held', one in the afternoon and another in the evening. The afternoon parade will be for the manufacturers and merchants to exhibit . their products, while the one in the evening will be for the produc ers, that is the men who work in shops, stores, offices and factories. Prises will be awarded for the finest and most unique display, the largest exhibition of floats and the most beautiful float in the afternoon parade. Nine $20 gold pieces and seven $10 gold pieces will be offered as prizes for this parade. The evening paraae lor the employes will have a tendency to show the prosperity of Richmond. Pour $20 gold pieces and two $10 gold pieces will be awarded for the largest percentage of employes representing one company employing over 150 men and to the delegation making the best appearance. A RUMOR. A rumor is going the rounds to the effect that two of our prominent young people, both clerks' at a local store are soon to be married. Here Is congratulations. We only hope that the bride to be will start housekeeping right by getting rub-a-lac for her Monday's washing. Dan Cupid knows there is nothing a husband so dislikes as a frowsy wife and a hot kitchen all ' day Monday. This Is impossible when rub-a-lac is used. Ask your grocer for it Wanted Machinist tb work at night. Steady work for first class man. Elliott Reid Co. "Did old man Jones lose control of bis sutor "Completely. The cook uses It all the time." Pack. C.S, Sells Best Portland Cement And (Genu Coal Heeling and Cooldng 04.00 PfiMMme 1303

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C O L L ARS Most of the successful styles appear first in Arrow Collars I jc. each a for sje. Clnstt, P embody ft Co., Makers Aamow Crrrs, Like Amow Collam, ai the Beit at the Fbice o.a Pais NEXT SESSION HERE Ladies of Golden Eagle Decide On Richmond for Place of Meeting in 1910. UNION CITY MEETING OVER Richmond was well represented at the thirteenth annual session of the Ladies of the Golden Eagles which was held at Union City on September 6th and 7th. Mrs. Mattie Bolser of the Quaker City Temple No. 14' of Richmond was elected Grand Noble Templar and Mrs. Cecil Austin, also of this city, was elected Guardian of Music. Several other members of the local lodge served on the different committees. Those in attendance from this city were: Mrs. Ettie Batchelor, Mrs. Dora Beverlin, Mrs." Mattie Brooks, Mrs. Lucy Nobbie, Mrs. Flor ence Bolser, Mrs. Mattie Bolser, Mrs. Cecil Austin and Mrs. Jane Herald. The grand temple session will be held in Richmond next year the first Tuesday and Wednesday in September. BLOT OF CHILD LABOR. Small Progress Made to Wipe It Out In the South. INFANTS IN THE COTTON MILLS Absurd Argument of a Medical Man That Toil It t Cur For the Hook worm Disease Where the Blame Liee Legislation Suggested. The southern states have done very little In the past year to wipe out the blot of child labor In the cotton mills. In North Carolina an agreement had been reached with the manufacturers on a compromise bill, but this was deliberately killed in the senate. In Tennessee a compulsory education law was defeated. In South Carolina the law which has been a dead letter was amended by providing for two inspectors, so there is some prospect of its enforcement. Within the past few months a child labor conference was called by Gov ernor SanUers of Louisiana to consider the adoption of uniform laws for the regulation of child labor in the south ern states. Eleven distinctively southern states were represented by governors and other officials. There were also representatives of employers and various associations concerned with indus trial development. If the word "abolish" had been the slogan of the conference Instead of regulate"- there might be more hope of good to be accomplished. An evil is not wiped out by palliating it. Still, the discussion and press comment brought the subject of child labor freshly to the mind of the public, and doubtless some good was accomplished by the conference. The press comment took a wide ranee on the subject. The Nashville American had the effrontery to justify child labor in the following language: Comulalnt htui been made, chiefly from northern sources, that children are being dwarfed and stunted and their lives hope lessly crushed in southern cotton mills. Such statements we believe to be exag gerated, though there may be instances in which they are true. In North and South Carolina and Georgia many fam ilies whose existence was a mystery have become fairly prosperous since the mills came. If the children are growing up un lettered it is no more than they were do ing before they had employment in the mills. Sometimes the whole family is employed except the old man. He sits around and whittles and smokes, elated with the thought that he is living better than he ever did before without working. The children are delighted with the op portunity to earn money and to have something to eat and wear, while the wife and mother is also satisfied with the new condition of things, for before the com ing of the mill it was seldom she got new dress or pair of shoes. Still more recently Dr. Stiles told a convention of health boards in Washington that child labor is a posi tive blessing in the south because 27 per cent of the children In a large part of the south have the hookworm disease, which is the cause of the ex treme laziness of the poor whites of the south. He claimed that the rush and bustle of the factory forced the children to an activity which made them forget the disease. No Tital satisfies were appended to show how many died of the factory treatment, but of course the hook worm argument is too absurd for se rious consideration.' Let children': wages be raised to that of adults and we would hear no more of the hook worm disease and the factory cure. Think of praising a system which takes the children from the outdoor play and the recreations natural to childhood and substitutes therefor the factory, - with the strenuous toll, its ceaseless whir of machinery and long hours of confinement, and then defending the factory system by saying that the children are at least no more unlettered than before! ;. They are Infinitely worse off than In their monn tain freedom, for the factory robs them f rn ti. nhTniful ftrrHopment

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wlileo'they migh'f get by'llvlng fn The open air, and they lose the education which they would absorb from nature If not from the schoolbook. Poverty in the mountalns-4s bad enough for the little ones but not so wicked as slavery In the factory. It Is pretty much the rule where children are employed in the southern cotton mills that the "old man sits around and whittles and smokes" and lets the children support him. He may be some monster Indigenous tothesouth f-ho can thus sell his children Into in dustrial Donaage, dut. ine employers and the law have much to do with encouraging this cruel and shiftless disposition. At any rate, where chil dren are forbidden by law to work at a tender age we find the head of the .house gets a job and supports them. If the sonth had the courage to abolish child labor it would find adult labor could be had, especially if living wages were paid. What horrid satire to assert that the children are delighted with the opportunity to earn money and have something to eat and wear." It is one of the most pathetic things about child labor that these little ones, in their unsuspecting trust In these who should guard and protect them, go cheerfully to the mill to wear out their little bodies and stunt their minds in the heroic effort to "help." How any one with a grain of conscience or sympathy can sacrifice these Innocent little ones to the greed of commercialism is beyond understanding. Grown people may 'suffer wrongs and injuries, but they are equipped to fight for their rights. The child who is forced to labor at an early age is deprived of the opportunity for normal physical development and also of the mental training and discipline which the school gives. Some YVonderfal Figures. Figures on the light and heat of the sun are the most startling that can possibly be presented The astronomers measure the amount of heat and light emitted by the sun by estimating that the earth intercepts about the two billion three hundred millionth part of it. Thus it is found that in every second of time the sun emits as much heat as would result from the sudden combustion of 11,600,000,006,000 tons of pure coal. It may be interesting to the reader to know that each portion of the sun's surface as large as this earth emits as much heat per second as would result from the com bustion of 1,000,000,000 tons of the best anthracite fuel. The LamadryauB. There is one branch of trade which j runs on In an even tenor regardless of prices and crashes. That is the laundry business. People who patronize laundries never economize on their linen. A man will average about so many shirts, collars and cuffs a week when he is cutting down on his drinks and cigars and his theater tickets. And this observation recalls the fact that the laundryman never has any innovation in his business. He will rain about so many shirts and collars and cuffs every three months and never say a word about it or make any deduction if you keep quiet.-hIcago Tfribune. The King James Bible contains sixty-six books. Toung mu. marry a homely girl If you are fond of good biscuits. AH a pretty girl knows about douh Is to

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THE FESTIVAL OFFICES Headquarters to Be in Murray Theater Building. Arrangements are about completed and the Fall Festival will probably open up its headquarters tomorrow at the corner of Tenth and Main streets, in the corner room of the Murray theater on the ground floor. A large banner has been suspended across Main street between the Westcott ho tel and the Murray theater announc ing that the headquarters will be there from now on. It was Intended to open the headquarters at the theater today, but owing to the fact that the floor in the room could not be completed in time the day of opening had to be postponed. DRIVES IN CEMETERY. Centerville, Ind., Sept. 9. The Centerville Woman's cemetery association will complete all the drives in Crown Hill cemetery this month. The contract for the work will be let September 15 to the lowest bidder. Specifi cations of the work can be seen at Dunbar's store. NEAT SCHOOL FROCK. One of the many pretty jumper dresses for young girls is illustrated here. The material is tan-colored Panama cloth trimmed with bands of dark green satin. The dress Is In one piece, as the waist and skirt are both fastened to the belt. This pattern is cut in three sues, 13, 14 and 16 yrs. Sise 16 requires 6 yards of 37-inch material. Price of pattern 436 is 10 cents. No. 436. Ki Address Sixe F0I out blank and send . to Pattern r"V I .L -

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DEEP GASH 111 HEAD Joseph Reddinghaus was arrested last night by Patrolman Longman for public intoxication. Reddinghaus when found was lying in the first alley south of Main between Fifth and flxth

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