Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 7, 14 November 1909 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND STJN-TELEGRA3I, SUNDAY, NOVE3IBER 14, 1909.

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COMMISSION GOVERNMENT v..-, j;-..-.- - KTHE EFFICIENCY OF A COMMISSION "Till now we have assured ourselves: 'A city is a business corporation' and run it with a legislature."

In a previous article we have seen how the removal of officials is placed directly in the hands of the people by the Recall. This must continuously, be borne in mind In the following discussion. For the people have always guarded the power which, they have cautiously bestowed u their public officers. They have since the beginning of this republic taken every precaution to keep a check on each department of government lest it get too powerful and overthrow the rights of the people for their own profit. If this has led to great evils In the national government it has occasioned even greater ones proportionately in city government. A city is a corporation, doing business yet we load it witii a balanced power which can do no business quickly and cheaply and effectively and which has at the same time afforded a good nesting place for all of the evils of American politics.

BAD ROADS

A local farmer, after listening to a

reformer on the subject of good roads

at a banquet, tood up and said: "What we are interested in is not good roads -but bad roads." There is. a lot to that remark. And at the bottom of this bad roads (question, like most other things, you will find that this is the fault of the system. Roads in America are built helter-skelter, under various supervision, under trying conditions of a", sorts, with indifferent money supplies and worst of all, by the remnant of the feudal system, called "working out the tax." It Is, therefore, with pleasure that we find Mr. Logan Waller Page of the "Director of the Office of Public Roads saying In World's Work: "The present system of taxation, tried upon an unfair basis, cannot be expected to produce the best results. It Is essential that the methods which are adopted for obtaining road reve nues, shall distribute the burden that all parties and Interests benefited shall contribute In proportion to their means and the advantages to be obtained This will necessitate a general revision

of road laws so as to provide for staie

appropriations to supplement county and township funds and an adjustment of taxation so that the cities, the great corporations, and the owners of auto

mobiles will bear a considerable por- j tlon of the cost. '. From time Immemorial localization j has proven a totally inadequate polic : i in the administration of public roads. ! The interests of most of the counties j and townships are too small and the ! available revenues too meagre to ad-1 mlt of the continuous employment of j skilled engineers and road builders to j direct this kind nf Internal Imnrnve- I

ment. On the other hand, a centralization of authority and supervision In a state official Is feasible and eco

nomical because the state can, for the , Vionafit nir all fho rnnntlp maintain fi !

corps of competent highway engineers who will systematize and properly dl rect the work in each county, the total cost of this state department being so widely distributed as to rest but lightly upon the individual counties. Centralization must, therefore, be n dominant factor in solving our road problems."

ONLY AN AD VER TISEMENT "Pure because of our sunlit sanitary kitchen, our own careful, watchful Inspection, and a plant inspected and approved by a government Food Inspector."

Not long ago we can remember somewhat of a squabble over the benzoate of soda question. There have been several over the pure food laws It has been a long, hard fight. Now and then determined, but misguided folk who have things to sell which are not worth the buying, and which are dangerous to mankind in their disease producing results fight legislation which seeks to protect the public. There is one manufacturer whose food is so clean that he aided the men who were determined to protect the public. Is it any wonder that people like to buy his goods? We are grieved now and then that people in various businesses have not the forethought to invite the inspection of their wares by the closest scrutiny possible. The people will pay five times as

much for the pure thing and buy more

of it. '

His Pride Rebelled. "Tea," said the woman of the bouse, ."I'll give yon a plate of victuals if you'll say nothing about it to anybody. I don't care to have it known that I feed tramps. You can eat on the back porch, you know, and keep it mum." "No, thanks. Tou kin keep it. mum!" answered Say mo Id Storey, tilting his battered hat forward, stiffening up and stalking majestically off the premises. Chicago Tribune.

The beginnings of city government in this country were from small villages. There were no great cities. The framers of the constitution of the United States did well when they made the constitution because they could draw from the vast experience of England and their own struggle against the mother country. But when it came to the town What was done it was shoved off to shift for itself without a model to draw from. Boston did not get a city charter until 1822 although it had been operating for two centuries previously. The development was from the village and the town. Listen to what Seth Low says in a chapter on Municipal Government contributed to Bryce's American Commonwealth: "Growing thus out of the town, it happened very naturally that the first conception of -the citv on the part of Americans was that which had applied to the town and the village as local subdivisions of the commonwealth. Charters were framed as if they were little states. Americans are only now learning after many years of bitter experience that they are not so much little states as large corporations. Many of the mistakes which have marked the progress of American cities up to this point, have sprung from that defective conception. "The aim deliberately was, to make a city government where no officer by himself, should have the power to do much harm. The natural result of this was to create a situation where no officer had power to do much good. Meanwhile bad men united for corrupt purposes and th-3 whole organization of the city government aided such in tlirowing responsibility from one to another." Now the question has always been, how can we elect men and give them all the power they want without giving ourselves into the power of unscrupulous men and handing over our rights which will be used to our disadvantage? This question having been settled by the Recall, by which the citizens may take the reins into their own hands at anytime, the thing is easy. Some thirty-five cities in various parts of North America have dispensed with the old plan of mayor, board of works, councils elected from wards and police commissioners, etc. They have said: "This way of doing business is too complicated. When we want any thing done, this is too cumbersome. When anything goes wrong we don't know who is responsible. What we want is a board of directors to run this corporation. And we want to be able to get rid of them when they won't do what we. the stockholders want."

The Des Moines Plan which we have already outlined is as follows: Sec. 7. The council shall have and possess and the council and its members shall exercise all executive, legislative and judicial powers and duties now had, possessed and exercised by the mayor, city council, board of public work, park commissioners, board of police and fire commissioners, board of water-works trustees, board of library trustees, solicitor, assessor, treasurer, auditor, city engineer, and other executive and administrative officers in cities of the first class and cities acting under special charter. The executive and administrative powers, authority and duties in such cities shall be distributed into and among five departments, as follows: 1. Department of Public Affairs. 2. Department of Accounts and Finance. 3. Department of Public Safety. 4. Department of Streets and Public Improvements. 5. Department of Parks and Public Property. "The council shall determine the powers and duties to b performed by, and assign them to the appropriate departments; shall prescribe the powers and duties of officers and employes; may assign particular officers and employes to one or more of the departments; may require an officer or employe to perform duties in two or more departments; and may make such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper for the efficient and economical conduct of the business of the city. "Sec. 8. The may-v shall be superintendent of the department of Public Affairs, and the council shall at the first regular meeting after election of its members designate by majority vote one councilman to be superintendent of the department of Accounts and Finances; one to be superintendent of the department of Public Safety; one to be superintendent of the department of Streets and Public Improvements; and one to be superintendent of the department of Parks and Public Property; but such designation shall be changed whenever it appears that the public service would be benefitted thereby. "The council shall, at said fir6t meeting, or as soon as practicable thereafter, elect by majority vote the following officers: A city clerk, solicitor, assessor, treasurer, auditor, civil engineer, city physician, marshal, chief of fire department, market master, street commissioner, three library trustees, and such other officers and assistants as shall be provided for by ordinance and necessary to the proper and efficient conduct of the affairs of the city; and shall appoint a police judge in those cities not having a superior court. Any officer or assistant elected or appointed by the council may be removed from office at any time by vote of a majority of the members of the council except as otherwise provided for in this act. "Sec. 9. "The council shall have power from time to time to create, fill and discontinue offices and employments other than herein prescribed, according to their judgment of the needs of the city; and may by majority vote of all the members remove any such officer or employe, except as otherwise provided for in this act; and may by resolution or otherwise prescribe, limit or change the compensation of such officers or employes."

Paying For High Protection

Women in the . Trades

While It is not difficult to name a number of things and several thousand persons of which and whom the New York Sun disapproves, it is hard to find anything which has its absolute indorsement. It is true that at times it has seemed to dislike our divinely inspired tariff, but it has always disapproved still more of anybody who tri-1 to get it reduced. It is, therefor", with gratitude that the following editorial comment is reprinted: Is there any part of the business of importing that is free from graft? Is there any graft in any part of the business of importing that is not extortionary on the part of the 6worn servants of the United States treasury ? Is there any ship that comes into our docks that can be unloaded without graft, the same payable to an official of the United States treasury? Does not the bulk of all demurrage charges on our water front depend for its mitigation upon the liberal payment if graft to somebody representing the United States of America? Here is an entirely truthful exposi

tion of part of the price we pay fot-

high protection.. A tariff may stimu

late Infant industries, and we are raor"

or less committed to the principle that it does do so. Unfortunately, if w.

give one section of the communitT I privileges over another, we upset th?

balance of our political system to exactly that extent. In fact, we throw the balance out of gear in such a way that it has a tendency to get worse instead of better. The appetite of the protected industry grows with what it feeds on. This is not the worst of it, and the evils the Sun points out are among the least of those which we have voluntarily brought upon ourselves. The great evil is the terrible -deterioration in the quality of what we produce, with the consequent degeneration of the worker who produces it. Ten years ago the Dingley tariff had been in operation for only a short time. All the protection that It could give had doubtless been appreciated, but its demoralizing power had not been realized. To take a simple instance, if any man will consider any article of attire, say his suspenders, and ask himself how much longer they lasted

at the same price ten years ago. he will get an idea of what the tariff has done. There is no department of industry to which this does not apply. It had. in fact, become so dangerous in the

manufacture of steel rails that the railroads had to bring the most activ? pressure to bear upon the manufacturers in the interests of public safety in order to secure an article upon , which had been expended a reasonable j amount of time and workmanship, j This is not to say that the principle of protection is bad, but to point out : how inevitably it has become cor- ! rupted, with the results which the Sun acknowledges. What it has done i.i I the way of debauching our legislators i

at Washington, no words can tell, an I the grim fact still to face is that the evil increases as the years go on. Already our tariff is embroiling us with the peoples with whom we trade. It is rendering our schemes of colonization abortive, and. last and worst of all. it is building up between the East and the West of our country a sectionalism which bids fair to become as bitter as that which existed half a century ago between the North and the South .Wall Street Journal.

(Dayton Journal.) According to the census, there aro 303 occupations in which the bread winners in this country are engaged. At least one woman or more can be found occupying places in all of them except nine. A recent report shows that of the unusual occupations for women, five are pilots on steamboats, ten are baggrewomen on steam railroads, thirtyone are "brakesmen" and twenty-six "switchmen" or holding positions as "yardman" or "flagman." There were forty-three women carriage and hack drivers, and 50S were listed as machinists. There were, according to the records. 100 women architects, and 150 women builders and contractors There were 167 women masons, and no less than 545 female carpenter. Forty-five women plasterers. 1.7"9 women painters, glaziers and varnishers; 126 women plumbers, and 241 women paper hangers show to what extent woman is entering the building trades. There were also two women slaters and roofers, but the number is so insignificant it need not be considered.

There are nearly five million wom

en engaged in bread-winning occupations. Of this number 44.2 per cent are under twenty-five years of age, and 22.6 per cent are under twenty-

one years of age. It would be hard to bring a more severe indictment against modern civilization than to

consider these latter figures showing as thev do the millions of Immature women who ere compelled to earn

their livelihood in the trades.

The worst feature about these fig

ures is that they are constantly in

creasing. The fact that there are only

nine bread-winning occupations into

which women have not entered, is it

self a tragedy, for there are a hundred occupations into which women should

never have been thrust. It may be

several years until the effect upon

the human race is seen, but it is

bound to have an effect, and that ef

fect will not be favorable. In the very nature of things these women in

the trades cannot make the best moth ers. That is to say, woman is so con

structed that laborous work interfers with child-bearing. Further, these women in the trades do not stand as

much chance of marrying and becom

ing mothers as women in the home.

While it is true that these women

in the trades deserve a great deal of credit for going into such occupations to earn their livelihood, now that such conditions have been forced upon them, the fact remains that it ought not to be necessary for any of them to have to engage in such occu

pations. Whatever we may tliin about woman's rights, and woman's independence, any one who has taken the time to think seriously of the matter is bound to admit that a woman's proper place is the home. Hence, any condition or svstem which forces her out of the home is a crime against not only the women themselves, but future generations.

Some Gossip on Paris Fashions

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KANSAS MAN LOSES

Marriage Following Courtship Of Only Three Days Ends Sadly.

WIFE IN THE COUNTY JAIL

(By La Voyageuse.)

Paris. Nov. 13. American women who are the possessors of handsome furs should rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for there has been a tremendous rise in the price of fine furs this season. In fact, each winter sees an increasing demand, which the dealers, as might be expected, say the supply cannot meet. Hence, the advance in prices. It is a condition not unpleasant for the dealer to contemplate, but one which is not altogether lacking in seriousness to prospective purchasers, except to those whose means are unlimited. Chinchilla, for instance, that most elegant of fragile pelts, and the best specimens of which come from Africa and from South America, is said to be so scarce in those countries as to bo well night extinct. Skins which sold for a dollar twenty years ago now command forty or fifty dollars, and are rare at that The supply of sable, too. is decreasing each year. Such skins from Russia, having the famous blue tinge, which it is impossible to imitate, bring almost fabulous prices. Seal-skin, also, is dearer. Ermine alone, which is regarded as a valuable fur, is less expensive than formerly. For this reason, if for no other, it will doubtless appeal to many as being smart wear, apart from its

softness and general suitability for a

variety of dress purposes.

Stoles, wide and narrow, long and short. Kinted like a shawl and again rounded and flounced with another fur, resembling the old-time capes worn by the beauties Fragonard so loved to paint, are being shown. Many of the long and somewhat narrower stoles are ornamented with heads in imitation of a dog's head, rather than that of the animal whose skin it actually is. These aro particularly stylish. The daughters of the north are fast acquiring, with their furs, the coquetry which their southern sisters display with theirs. Dainty and bewitching are the ways of wearing fur stoles and of dangling one's muff, which, by the way. are huge this season, but very light in weight, lined with the most entranc-

mgiy pretty ana softest of 6ilk or

chiffon. The stoles are so made that they can be worn in various ways. A model of pointed fox may be put on one day with the long, flat ends hang

ing down at the back and the fronts crossod upon the shoulder line be

neath a couple of fox masks, while the

next day. they may be worn in exactly the opposite manner. The characteristics of the fur must determine, to

some extent, the way in which the

stole is worn.

The Golden Rule and the Tariff

Now the average citizen can easily see from the above extract from the charter of Des Moines, that the five men elected by the people have all the power there is for any city government to have right in their own hands. Each man is responsible for his department and every thing which happens, which is neglectedis in that department, can be laid at his door. Moreover, when the man is in the daylight and can hide nothing, he is very careful particularly so when he knows the people can remove him from office. There is a man on the job all the time. And so it happens that when an ordinance needs to be passed, it is done by men who are actually in direct responsibility to the people even if there were not other provisions for the protection of the citizens beside the Recall. (The Initiative and the Referendum.) There can be nothing tied up between the mayor, the council and the board of public works in a quarrel between them caused by the jealously of one for the other. The result is that the city business is handled quickly and well by the same method that the business of other corporations of millions of dollars is managed.

But remember that these men have power only when the people are satisfied with their work. Under the present plan business can not be done quickly. The men who conduct the business have not enough power. And the people never get a chance when their interests are in danger.

(Harper's Weekly.) It has been held that the Golden Rule was fit for individuals, but unsuited to nations. Our tariff laws have been examples of that theory. They have been framed in times past without the slightest regard for any country but this, but the Payne bill makes a bashful curtesy to the Golden Rule in its concession to the Philippines, and squints at the same rule in its "maximum and minimum" provisions. Framed as our tariff laws have been, they have worked as might be expected, doing some damage to other countries, but their greatest mischiefs to ourselves. In so far as the present

one violates the laws of mutual advantage which must eventually govern the relations of the nations, it is a detriment to us and our progress and an obstacle to the world's peace.

Muncie, Ind., Nov. 13. The romantic marriage of Mrs. Cora Green. 2(5. of Whitely, to James A. Eakins. U1. n wealthy farmer of McPherson county, Kansas, after a three-days courtship, which occurred in this city on July 'J7, has turned out to be a complete failure. Mrs. Eakins returned to Muncie a few days ago and since that time has been celebrating her return frori the western country. The other afternoon the police were called to the tear of the Rohrs & Bath store, where they found the woman in a beastly state of

intoxication, in company with Harry

Cox, a local hostler. She was taken

to police station by rorce and wca later jailed for intoxication. Cox was

not held. When questioned at the police

station about her marriage Mrs. Eak

ins 6tated that after living with her husband for a few months she made

some discoveries about his character

that were displeasing and decided to

return to her home in Muncie. Sh?

refused to tell her reasons for her dislike of the western farmer. Mrs

Eakins was gayly dressed when arrest

ed.

CARD OF THANKS. I desire to express my most sincere thanks to our relatives and kind friends and neighbors for the sympathy extended to me in my sad bereavement in the death of my dearly beloved husband. John H. Lawler. also for the beautiful floral offerings, especially do I want to thank the mem

bers of the WT. M. A. U. of the Ameri

can Seeding Machine Co also the pallbearers and Messrs. Wilson & Pohlmeyer for their efficient service. His Bereaved Wife.

Penny Club Chicken Dinner. K. of P.

Temple, Wednesday. Price 35c. 14-

FHtxac: There's nothing like bread made from

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Tn Order of Importances "How's yer wheat?" "First rate." Tigs doin welir -Fine." "That puny colt come round right r "He sore did."

"Glad to hear thing la so likely.

BCL How'a yer wiftr Lottarviiia

Courier-Journal.

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Manufacturers of hat pins are said

to be seriously considering the ques

tion of reducing the length of these articles of feminine wear, as a result

of the general demand on the part of men whose health demands that the length of pins be shortened. There

The Greatest of Wars.

have been several cases, recently, of men whose eyesight haa been injured, even if not ruined, by the ridiculously long hatpins worn by many women. The most recent case waa that of a man who was in a crowd on one of

the boulevards during the Ferrer demonstration and who stood behind a woman who wore one of the "dag

gers" mentioned. She suddenly

stepped backwards and the point of the hatpin, which extended entirely

through her hat. piorced one eyeball of the unfortunate man. He gave -a scream of agony and fell to the

ground. An ambulance was called.

and at the hospital it was said that the sight of the injured organ was

gone forever. The woman was arrested and locked up. charged with as

sault with a deadly weapon. She waa

released on bail but is to be tried. Newspapers are flooded with communications from indignant men and not a few sympathizing women, who demand that a law be passed restricting the length of hatpins and providing means of punishment for violators. Those who defend the long batpin, because of the added security it gives women's hats, advocate protecting the point with a piece of cork. Paris, always attractive to women by reason of the fact that womankind the world over acknowledges It as the fountain head of style, is this autumn showing more handsome styles In dress and head wear, than ever before: and the woman who can calmly look on and see the entrancing confections in adornments for the form, that are shown in the best shops, must be a stoic, indeed. But to get them do not lose sight of the fact that the same requisite obtains which the great Napoleon declared was absolutely and forever necessary with which to make war money and still more money.

The greatest war the world ever saw

has been waged for the past five year3 without attracting more than the cas

ual attention of the reading public. The object of the slruggle is the actual control and practical ownership of half a continent. Hundreds of mil

lions of dollars have been so far spent in the conflict as much more U certain to be poured out before the

issue is decided.

The rival armies In the field aggre

gate tens of thousands of men. Each

army has its daring scouts, its spie. working in deepest secrecy, its great

generals whose far-flung plans are

more than continental Fighting ui! the finish among themselves, all the hostile forces are. besides, strangely fronted by a common foe. And it is only by defeating this universal enemy that they can hope to defeat their Individual opponents. This war has seen feats more daring, achievements more stupendous, courage more inspiring, skill more marvellous than any of the titan-battles which Homer sang or Creasy chronicled. Victory means loot of a continent; it means. China. Japan, Alaska, the islands A6la the exacting of tribute from half of the world. Of the great financial captains who plan the grand tactics of the war the Hills and Harrimans the Manns and Morgans the Sir William Van Homes and Sir Thomas Shaughnessys much has been written. This is to celebrate the work of the men actually In the field and on the firing line the work, rather than the men themselves, for they remain to the end anonymous the nameless gentlemenadventurers of the new democracy. From "The War with the Mountains." in the December Technical World Magazine.

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