Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 12, 19 November 1909 — Page 4

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Items Gathered in From Far and Near

Where Intelligence Is Not Needed. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The psychologists of George Washington University have decided tha. monkeys cannot attain the highest degree of mentality. It is suspected, though, that some of them may be educated to the point where they will do for Cannon congressional supporters.

Bet on a Pittsburger, Eh? Nashville American. When Daniel Frohman made a great actress out of his wife Margaret Illington he didn't realize what a fine wife she was about to become for a California millionaire.

Patriotic, as Usual. St. Louis Republic. It was mag iiaiiimous of Mr. Cannon to decline tbe presidency when he imagined that ono voter out of some fifteen millions offered it to him.

Will be a Strenuous Job. Richmond Times-Dispatch. It is barely possible, however, that the determined Ignoring of Senator Cummins may keep Mr. Aldrich working about 22 hours a day.

Can Run Things in Any Position. New York Telegram. Of course, if "Judge Gaynor is to be the next "president the Man Returning from Elba will have to be content with the vice presidency.

No Different From Any Other Man. - Birmingham Age-Herald. Emperor William is not only Chancellor-pecked but also hen-pecked, for his wife has forbidden him to go up in an aeroplane.

Finish of Another "Angel Child." Philadelphia Inquirer. Mrs. Steinheil is officially "not guilty," but !t ia likely that gentlemen of sporting proclivities will give her a wide berth In future.

Sure, Whatever That Is. Pittsburg Dispatch. If we understand it correctly the charge is that the Roosevelt element is attempting mental malpractice on the Taft administration.

Ought to Console Marse Henri. Atlanta Constitution. Our merry contemporaries are informed that tho mint julep President Taft passed up didn't go begging.

Hookworm can certainly be quickly conquered malaria more slowly and consumption most slowly, but almost as completely. Consumption is virtually the same great, sweeping destroyer In modern cities of science

that it was a century ago, say in Lon

don. Indeed, since the great grip

epidemic of 18S1 consumption seems

worse than it ever was before and

the grip epidemic of twenty years

ago did not make things any better.New York Press.

About one million persons in the working period of life in the United States are on the sick list each year. The cost of their illness is aboutfl,000,000,000 a year, of which at least one-half is preventable. Therefore, the estimate, considered low, of the preventable loss from disease and death in this country is 1.500,000000. Professor Irving Fisher.

Nature's Remedies for Disease. Nature provides more effective remedies in the roots and herbs of the field than were ever produced from drugs. Thirty years ago, Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn. Mass., discovered and gave to the women of the world a remedy mads from roots and herbs, which has proved more efficacious in curing women's diseases than any other medicine the world has ever known, and today Ldia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is looked upon everywhere as the standard remedy for woman's ills.

Alcohol was discovered in the thirteenth century.

MASONIC CALENDAR. Saturday, Nov. 20 Loyal Chapter, No. 19, O XL S., stated meeting.

COMMISSION GOVERNMENT -VII.A REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT Have you ever stopped to think how we elect our city officials? Yes, we have a primary, in which the people select the men who are to represent their party at the election. Disregard the party element for a moment and deal with the question of primaries. The candidate who receives the most votes in the primary is elected to represent his party. And we say the majority rules. Take an instancedoes it? THE OLD PRIMARY There are, for example s sake, four candidates and three thousand partisan voters. The successful candidate in the primaiy receives 1,000, and the three others receive respectively. K, Coo, and 45o. The man who is nominated is the choice of J, and he wins, but what about the other :,? Is two-thirds a minority or a majority? Under ordinary arithmetical conditions we believe that our readers will agree that U.ooo is more than l,otx. And so, wo believe until the primary. Then we say the majority rules. MINORITY RULE But let us pursue the matter still farther. Granted that both parties are of approximately the same strength, that makes about six thousand votes. When the election is over, ft is found that the man who won tho primary received the highest nuniter of votes. We again say that the majority rules. But the fact btill remains that the man is only the choice of l,ooo voters in the primary. The old plan -the one which is used everywhere, is therefore, the will, not of the majoiity, but of the minority.

PARTY WOOL Add to this minority rule that you are pretending to elect men to man age a business a corporation. Wlnt do you inquire-.' The question yo'i ask is not whether the man is likely to make an efficient city official -honest and capable. Under the present system you ask: "What party does he belong to?" In many cities if. amounts to asking which "gang" the man belongs to. In fact, it would be more honest. What possible difference in the actual administration can it make, whether a man is a Republican or a Democrat? (It would, in truth, matter more, in municipal government if he were a prohibitionist.) PRACTICAL POLITICS There is a reason, from a purely political point of view, a practical one, why the appeal to party in city politics will almost always be a successful one. That reason is, that if the party machinery is disarranged in the city election, it will really work a hardship on the state, congressional and national party machinery. This is undeniable. The party workers will, sooner or later, realize that the time is on its way when it will be an actual benefit to the national, state, and congressional organizations to have the party emblem off the city election. For it is increasingly hard to carry the ticket on purely partisan grounds. Then the city election will give the party a comparative freedom from its most, embarrassing problem. HELPING THE PARTY It is further true that by the elimination of party from city elections, it is equally fair for both parties. And the effect in those places where non-partisan city elections have been in force, has been to strengthen the party by the elimination of the floating vote. The man is first taught to scratch his ticket and to hold the party emblem in contempt when he is urged to vote for some total unfit man for party reasons, whom he knows is unfit to hold the office. The people are tired of seeing men put into office under the emblem of the party, when party name is used as a cloak to accomplish the grabbing of a franchise under the old plan. SECTIONALISM ABOLISHED Nor is the party system the only thing which keeps the present plan from being representative of the people. The ward system also works a hardship on the whole town. The councilman being elected and therefore responsible to their constituents, do not feel responsible to the whole town. The result is, that trading of interests often follows, which works a hardship on the whole town, in which sectional feeling rather than a feeling o! citizenship enters in. THE DES MOINES PLAN The Des Moines system does not recognize any obligation in the city government except to all the citizens. Neither party nor sectionalism is recognized. The will of the majority of all the citizens alone, is taken into account. The Des Moines Charter provides for a non-partisan council, elected at large, by a primary, conducted as folows: Each candidate must present his candidacy, signed by twenty-five citizens, qualified to vote. He represents the whole city. He represents no party. The two candidates for mayor in the primary, receiving the highest number of votes, becomes the candidates for mayor. The eight highest candidates for councilmen, become the candidates for council. It can be seen that, as a result of this primary, the majority is really represented. It comes more nearly amounting to proportional voting, 1st, 2nd and ;ird choice, than anything else. The will of the majority, and not of the minority, is represented as a result of the primary. The election resolves itself in a choice between the two candidates for mayor, and the four candidates for council, of the eight receiving the highest number of votes are elected. This method is far in advance of the old method in electing men by majorities of all the citizens rather than under the present minority system.

The man alone, is the issue under the Des Moines Plan.

Some weeks ago. the Milk Inspector. Mr. Stewart, declared that the conditions surrounding the dairy of Mr. Horning, a dairyman, were unsanitary. Presumably, to sat'eguard the citizens of Richmond, the Milk Inspector, under the powers given him by the ordinances of the city of Richmond, notified Mr. Horning , the dairyman, to better his conditions under penalty of having his license revoked if he sold milk without regarding his orders.

The dairyman, Mr. Homing, according to Mr. Stewart, did hot comply with the orders of the Milk Inspector. Thereupon, Mr. Stewart, the Milk Inspector, under the powers given him by the ordinances of Council, presumably, for the protection of the citizens of Richmond, revoked his licence. According to Mr. Stewart, he has evidence in his iossession to prove that the dairyman did not comply with his provisions, and sold milk in defiance of the revoked license. The City Attorney has made no attempt to prosecute the case, which Mx. Stewart claims against Mr. Horning.

The people of Richmond have every right to knowthe answers to these questions: If the City Attorney does not think it his duty to prosecute the case of

Mr. Horning, ana uphold the Milk Inspector, what are his reasons? Are the ordinances not to be enforced? Is there insufficient evidence? If so, what steps has the City Attorney taken to ascertain what the evidence is? Does that evidence disclose the fact that Mr. Horning sold milk after ha had his license, revoked? Does that evidence show that the Milk Inspector was unjust in revoking the license of Mr. Horning? Does that evidence show that Mr. Stewart properly condemned thJ Horning dairy, and that Mr. Horning complied with the requirement of the ordinance? Has Mr. Horning been unjustly treated? Is the ordinance so weak that it is not worth prosecuting? Is .the ordinance a farce? Is the milk pood or dangerous? Is the inspection good, bad or indifferent, and conducted for the benefit of the public? Why the reticence of Mr. Study when asked about the matter? Either Mr. Study, Mr. Horning. Mr. Stewart or the Ordinance, is at fault. Which? Some one is being done an injustice. Who is it?

TWINKLES

Proof. (New York Sun.) Knicker Think thty had football in

ancient Greece?

Bocker Yes. indeed; look at the mutilated conditions the statues portray.

His Vague Idea. ( Pittsburg Pot. i "What is this statute of limitations, hubby?" "I think it means that all campaign pledges are outlawed in three weeks."

VERY IMPORTANT IS THE MEETING

Civic Federation to Consider Problem of Incapacitated Laborers.

Honeymoon Over. (Detroit Fret; Press) She sobbed: "Our honeymoon is past, I'm not his angel any more; He barked his shin upon a chair. And then, while I was standing there, 'Twas terrible the way he swore."

New Light on All Happenings, (Kansas City Times.) The mother of Achilles was bemoaning the hero's fate. "1 thought I had made him invulnerable by dipping him in the river Styx," she said, "but I hadn't thought of the hook-worm." Now wo understand why Achilles was a quitter in the Trojan war.

Sunflower Philosophy. (Atchison (Kan.) Globe) What has become of the old-fashioned woman who called them "batter cakes." A good many important events occur in the course of a veer, but very few of them originate in . mass meeting. It is a good thing to have a large number in a church choir; it makes it so much easier when they divide the blame. When guests are asked to register at a little hotel, they always feel that the proprietor insists upon it, largely out of curiosity. A few people say a baby never cries unless something hurts it. But the great majority know that babies frequently cry because they are mad. Observe long enough the man who complains that luck is against him, and you will note that luck is in collusion with laziness, carelessness, impoliteness, intemperance or some other controllable fault.

IT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM

AELEST STATESMEN IN EUROPE ARE NOW CONSIDERING THE QUESTION AND AMERICA WILL FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE.

COLD I COLDER! COLDEST! The best coal ever discovered for the furnace is IPDOltollll It has the lasting qualities, burns up e'ean and makes no soot It is cheaper than the cheaper coal, therefore cheapest of all coat There is a difference in the quality. We handle C C B. and Flat Top the best of all mines, and we sell it at the old price--$4.50but can't promise it much longer

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For a good, wholesome, cheap breakfast, always buy Mrs. Austin's pancake flour. Your grocer has a fresh supply.

Trees Shrink and Expand. Perhaps it is more interesting than strictly useful to know that the diameter of trees not only varies from summer to winter, but from day to day.

i They are larger from noon until twlj light next morning than from twilight

to noon; tney are smaller in winter than in summer. Low temperatures, as well as high, promote evaporation. Tbe trees evaporate from their branches in winter, and so the colder the weather the more they shrink.

MERELY AN INQUIRY The Common Council of Richmond has ordained a milk ordinance, presumably for the protection of the citizens of Richmond. There is also a Milk Inspector, presumably, for tho purpose of passing on the conditions of dairies under the terms of that ordinance, and given certain powers of revoking licenses to enforce his inspections. The City Attorney is employed by the city, presumably to enforce those ordinances passed by the Common Council.

7ne Milky Way. A gentleman one day in talking to ' several farm laborers on astronomy thought he could give the farm hands a poser. "Can you," he said, "tell me i what made the Milky Way?" The j farm hands studied a minute, and then ? one of them said: "Yes, I think I can: '. It was the cow that Jumped over the moon." !

(American News Service) New York, Nov. 19. What shall be done in the I'm cd States with tho aged, the sick, the disabled wage-earners, whether emi.loyt.ii in pri.j-.t enterprise of by nmni-'pal, stat-; or national government; These are the problems which the best statesmen of every nation in Europe are trying to solve. To learn the so r.iions pr poeJ by foreign countries: to hear w':at is ing done in this cuntry, and to consider what ought to be the nxt step in the United States a'ong these lines.

will be the topics for discussim. at the annual meeting of the National Civi Federation, to be ln-id in this city November -"J and 2:5. Financiers, statesmen, philanthropists prominent in the public life of America will be p. ( sent at the meeting and the subject of "old-ag pensions" will be considered from ever.' possible viewpoint. Not Overlooked Here. It is true that the greater poverty in other countries compelled an earlier consideration of these problems, and, furthermore, their forms of government, permitting federal legislation for industrial employes rather tb"ii requiring legislation by -it! separate states, as is necessary in this country, very much simplified the situation. However, the questions have not Ven

! overlooked here. Solutions are bel'is;

attempted by a number of laic? railways and commercial organizations, and by several of the large industrial insurance organization. Special funds have also been set aside by a number of private citizens for this purpose, and several states have appointed commissions to make a study of the problem. The official commissions appointed by the governors of the states of New York. Minnesota and Wisconsin, and several voluntary commissions studying the same subject, will be the special guests of the federation. Among the participants will be Hon.

; A. H. Gill, and J. R. Clymes, members

i of the English Parliament; Major A. E. ' Piorkowski, representing the Krunp i Co.. at Essen. Germany: Franklin j MacYeagh, secretary of the treasury: Senator Root, Samuel Gompers;, Andrew Carnegie. Henry R. Towne. pfesI ident New York Merchants' association: George B. Cortelyou. John Mitch -j ell. Warren S. Stone, Haley Fisk". I vice president Metropolitan Insurance Co.: John Hays Hammond, George M. Gillette, Minneapolis; Chas. P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor: Franklin K.

The monthlv report of the state board of health, just compiled from the statistics ami reports of health officers in al' parts of the state says: Typhoid fever was reported as the most prevalent disease and the same was true in October. 19os. Typhoid i& self inflicted and is a filth disease. tYaiiei fever has prevailed ill miM turni in many parts of the state, but no serious epidemics have been reported. There were IS deatus from tl.t disease. The following order of prevalence existed: Typhoid fever, tonsilitis. bronchitis, rheumatism, diphtheria and croup, scarlet fever, intermit fever, pneumonia, diarrhoea, influenza, cholera morbus, erysipelas, typho-malaria fever, smallpox, cholera infantum, cerebro spinal meningitis, puerperal fever. The total number of deaths was 2.831. rate 12.2 and against 2.67-1. rate 11.5 in October last year. 357. or 13.3 percent or the total deaths were among infants under 1 year of age, and 835 or 30.7 percent were deaths

among people 65 and over. Consumption caused 307 deaths, typhoid 155. diphtheria 80, scarlet fever whoopius c-.w-h 13, pueuuit nia 165. diarrhoea! diseases 132, cerebro

spinal meningitis 10, influenza 5. p ierperal fever 7. cancer 143 and violence 190. Pneumonia prevailed in every county in the state. There were 105 deaths. Marion county had 24 deaths iiom this disease. Lake county had 12 and Elkart 8. Pneumouia prevailed to a greater degree in the central counties of tho state than In the northern or southern counties. Consumption wrought its usual havoc, 307

deaths in all, 153 males. 154 females. 197 or 64 percent of the consumption C aths were of people In the age teriod of 15-50. The city death rate was 15.3 and the county death rate 10.2. The deatU rates of certain cities were Indianapolis 13.4; Evansville 16.6: FL Wayne 13.4; Terre Haute 20.9; South ltend 20; Anderson 15.7: Columbus 16.5; East Chicago 34.3: Elkhart 22.1; Hammond 1S.2; Lafayette 24.5.

Only One "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Look for the signature of K. W. GROVE. Used the World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c

Lane, interstate commerce commission: Louis K. Brandis. Boston: Dr. Lee K. Frank. Sage Foundation Fund. Pennsylvania leads the world In buckwheat flour. Walter's heads the list. One trial convinces. At your grocer's.

The present wave of agitation for the amendment of the British copy-

j right law is gaining strength from the i discovery that a great-grandson of i Robert Burns is now making a pre

carious living as a mender of pots and pans.

Half the Battle. Self confidence is half tbe battle, but tbe other half generally makes jou lose It. Puck.

FORCED INTO EXILE. Wm. Upchurch of Glen Oak, Okla, was an exile from home. Mountain air, he thought, would cure a frightful lung-racking cough that had defied all remedies for two years. After six months be returned, death dogging his steps. "Then I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery," he writes, "and after taking six bottles 1 am as well as ever." It saves thousands yearly from desperate lung diseases. Infallible for Coughs and Colds, it dispels Hoarseness and Sore Throat Cures Grip, Bronchitis, Hemorrhages, Asthma, Croup, Whooping Cough. 50c and $1.00; trial bottle free; guaranteed by A. G. Luken & Co.

"Once More" To Cincinnati Via C C & L It. R.

Boaad Trip

Sunday. Nov. 21 Train . leaves Richmond 5:08 a. m. Returning leaves Cincinnati, 10 p. m. For particulars, call C. A. BLAIR, Pass. & Ticket Agt. Home Tel 2062.

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Through Ventlbuled Trains between Chicago and Cincinnati. Double dally nervlce. Through sleepere on train Nog. 3 and 4 between Chicago and Cincinnati. Fine buffet service on trains 1 and 2. Ali trains run daily. For train connections and other Information call C. A. BLAIR. P. & T. A. Home Phone 2062. Richmond. Ind.

Cheerfulness. 1 Cheerfulness is one of the universally i understood attributes. It is accepted j at its face value the world over. It j Is the gold coin of disposition. Indeed, ; It is such a large part of disposition i that it would almost seem to constitute the whole of it. I

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We live longer than our forefathers, j but we suffer more from a thousand 1

artificial anxieties and cares. Bnlwer.

ITCHING ECZEMA WASHED AWAY. Is It Worth 25 Cents to You to Be Cured of That Terrible Skin Disease?

Is it worth 25 cents to you to stop that awful, agonizing itch? Surely you will spend 25 cents on your druggist's recommendation, to cool and heal and soothe that terrible itching eruption? By arrangement with the D. D. D. Laboratories of Chicago, we are able to make a special offer of a 25 cent bottle of their oil of wintergreen compound, known as D. D. D. Prescription.

Call nr vrito 1n.nA . ?

Drug Company. We absolutely know that the Itch is stopped AT ONCE by D. D. D. Prescription and the cures all seem to be permanent.

Through hydrophobia has been stamped out of Britain, it is still rampant in Germany, where every year over 2.500 dogs and cats afflicted with the disease are destroved.

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F O R S A V I N G S

On November 1 st, our semi-annual interest . period, we paid to the depositors of our Savings Department! the above large sum in interest at on their deposits. If you did not have a share in this great distribution of earnings, we invite you to open an account with us and share in it in the future. Dickinson Trust Company is the SAFE and CONSERVATIVE bank for Savings Depositors. Let us serve you. Leading Trust Company in Eastern Indiana.

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