Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 28, 5 December 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIC3I AND SUX-TELEGR AM, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1909

llz Bicfcaond Paltejlcm ami Snn-Telecram . Published and owned by the . PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning. Office Corner North 8th and A streets. Home Phone 1121. y mcuWoND. Indiana. Rudolph CJ. Icds. Editor Cbarlea M. M,r(i . . . Maaaslas Kdltor Carl Berahardt Associate Kdltor W. It. Ponadstoae News Kdltor. SUKSCniPTION TERMS In Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance $3.00 Six month, in advanim 2.H0 One month, in advance 45 RURAL ROUTKS. On yar. !ti advance $2..r0 fcfx months, in advant-e 1.50 Oite month, in advance 25 Address chang-rd an often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is received.

Entered at Richmond, Indiana, pout office as second class mail matter. " " --- (New York City) has sTirtsui sai ii Utlil ths slranlatt t m pa hMsstlea. Only taa Sum t satslsil la 1U rtpext an inrt a nt. 7V jIA'GEl A DISGUISE As Americans, we are disposed to believe more or less in Opportunity. Our Teutonic ancestors the savages, with the war paint and the decided views on luck are back of all this. Tacitus, In his Germania, gives us two pictures which stand out from all the rest. ,These are the ancient belief in luck and the sacred laws of hospitality. Where the barbaric ancestors drew lots before adventuring with the fortunes of war we invade the stock market and gamble with Fate in a less romantic manner. And we like to think that our ideas on hospitality have kept pace. On perhaps two days of the yearThanksgiving and Christmas, we hold high festival and gorge ourselves with the fat of the land. We invite in our kith and those whom we call ou. friends and the Stranger within or -gates. After our good progenitors the barbarous and wandering tribes, bent on the spoils of war, and the pursuit of the chase, had housed themselves in towns and had exchanged Odin, Thor, Balder and the rest of the hierarchy, for the White Christ, his angels and a ' very real Devil, they had to adjust certain customs and beliefs. Forthwith out of the minds of the people in the folk tale, there came a curious mixture of the views of luckand hospitality, which we met in Tacitus' account of the German tribes. Our medlaeval Germans invented tha Angel in Disguise. He appeared now and then, but particulaarly on Xmas. And whether wol meet him in Grimm's Tales or in the sublimated version of Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal you will know the story by its pedigree. The man who wrote the ten penny version of the tale If Christ Should come to Chicago was not touching on Virgin Soil. These are the days when the hospitality of all the world is at its high tide. The Stranger within your gates may be the Angel in Disguise. ONE OFF THE INVENTORY At any rate, another stag has murdered his rival at the Glen. This is quite within the natural law as interpreted by those who believe in the survival of the fittest. By thosa who merely say it is the common prac tice of stags to make war on each oth er, the death before an interested gal lery of females, it would commonly be admitted that a little separation might do some good. As this separation is a trifle dangerous to any would-be sep arator In the heat of mortal combat, it might be done before time. In other words, why not keep the pugnacious stags in separate compart ments. The inventory lately prepared of the city live stock, should be properly checked off, Cervus Sylvae Rlchraondianae to Profit and Loss. Next time, why not charge admis sion? .... V;:v,cr;'- . The thirsty portion . of Richmond may rejoice about four-thirty soon. He mz Gathered in From Far and Near Not Hankering For Such a Fate. Charleston News and Courier. Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, declares that he wanted to live in Ohio, but his wife refused to go there, saying: "I will not bury myself in that old Ohio." . Doubtless she had heard of Foraker, and she has good, ground for a divorce. Anxious to Please Everybody. Houston Post.- If the boys at the forks of the Democratic creek do not take kindly to Mr. Bryan's suggestion of prohibition as a party issue, we

This is addressed to twenty or more men. These men are merchants who during the Christmas season are the largest employers of young girls and boys. We ask you first to read what a Philadelphia paper has in its news columns:

"No large department store in this city will remain open more than five nights preceding Christmas. This is a concession from the tennight shopping strain gained by the Consumers League, which has been heartily supported by thousands of shoppers, and which will win the gratitude of salespeople, who have each year regarded the holiday season with increasing distaste. This new rule makes the warning of the Consumers' League doubly necessary, and shoppers are again requested,

DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY

It means that the danger of breakdown from overwork will be mitigated in the case of shopgirls, that the risk of tuberculosis and kindred ills engendered by continuous work in the vitiated atmosphere of crowded stores will be lessened, and that Christmas will be a season at least of thankfulness for them. The change has been welcomed by the management of the big stores which have been kept open heretofore because the precedent was established and shoppers demanded the extra chance to buy their gifts. In its bulletin issued on this subject the Consumers' League asserts that night store keeping is a relic of provincialism and that the better and bigger shops in New York long ago abandoned the custom. v It begs the public to give its unqualified support to the "stores by shopping early in the day and in the season in order to make the closing order permanent in the future and help to make a true Christmas possible to hundreds of workers who have heretofore regarded it with terror." How would that sound in Richmond? We ask these twenty or more men having the largest trade to shut their places of business on Dec. 21 and Dec. 23, after 6lx o'clock in the name of humanity to overworked clerks who labor with their heart's blood a sacrifice to Merry Christmas.

If these men will close their places of business at 6 p. m. on the Tuesday and Thursday preceding the Christmas of Saturday, the Palladium will give these merchants the fullest explanatory publicity and urge patronage to be directed to them. The Palladium feels confident of the attitude of the people of Richmond in this matter, in saying the people wil be glad to patronize those merchants who close, rather than those who do not.

We will be glad to hear from every merchant who will be willing to close on the evenings of Dec. 21 and Dec. 23.

To the citizens of Richmond we say: Do your shopping early and patronize those merchants who seem to deal most fairly with their employes. Otherwise, Christmas were better condemned as a heathen sacrifice of innocent women, girls, boys, men and horses, instead of the most joyful commemoration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

We should like to see every employer of labor which is not a vital necessity give his employes a really Merry Christmas-voluntarily. Even for the man engrossed in results we would suggest that he will get more out of his employes.

EVERYONE CAN HELP TELL HIM! SHOP EARLY!

CHRISTMAS IS COMING Do your shopping early and in the day time. Buy your gifts of merchants who are fair to their employes. If you see a girl, boy, woman, man or ihorse tired to death by Merry Christmas speak to yourself, your friends and the employer. Don't give presents to those who don't need them. Give mostly to children. See if you can't find an Angel in Disguise. Remember that smiles and small courtesies help- to make a real Xmas. Also, Christmas is the festival of the birth of Jesus Christ.

suppose Mr. Bryan is ready to offer transmigration, predestination or infant baptism, if any of these appear to be more satisfactory. Will Have to Produce a Brass Tube. Chicago Record-Herald. Dr. Cook has a case of nervous prostration, but the National Geographic society may decide not to believe it unless better proof than he has yet furnished is presented. Always Had His Eyes Shut. Kansas City Times. According to Leslie M. Shaw, it is unwise for a person in the public service to. discover frauds. By this test Mr. Shaw is one of the wisest men who ever held a cabinet portfolio. Behold! How He Loves Them. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Uncle Joe" Cannon continues to hammer the "progressives" in a style that shows how a freebooter hates anything approaching a free-trader. It's an III Wind, Ac. Washington Post. The gloomy silence now surrounding Chancellor Day can be explained on the theory of a sudden paralysis of the vocal cords. Not if He Has a Good Memory. New York World. When "the return from Elba" takes place, will Loeb hold him up at the custom house and search him? Not Doing it for His Health. Los Angeles Times. It pays Senator La Follette to defend the "peepuL" He charges $1.50 a seat to do it. Will Not Silence Loeb's Firing. Boston Globe. Mr. Maxim has submitted his new gun silencer to the government.

YOUR MERCHANT AND SHOW

THE PUZZLE PICTURE The chief feature of the puzzle pic ture is its ability to keep a grown man working at it long after he should have thrown it out of the window. It does this by defying him. As a rule, the man who hasn't been stricken with a disease is frankly scornful of it and can see through its foolishness The ailment developes in three stages. The primary symptoms may be quoted as follows: "What is the fool game like any way?" At this point the doomed man is merely a spectator; soon, however, he enters the secondary stage, which is more pronounced and stubborn. It may be expressed as follows: "I'll just see how big an idiot I can make of my self on this thing tonight." From this stage there is no return. The pa tient grabs the puzzle and moves swift ly to the tertiary or final stage, In which he exclaims: "I'll get this dashed thing or stay up all night!" That set ties it. - wnen you touch a man s pride you have got him. Hundreds of men in America are sitting up all night with puzzle pictures because they re fuse to be beaten with a half peck o? measly wooden blocks. Their fighting spirit scorns defeat The manufacturer of the picture puzzle has merely found a way to harness that fighting spirit and get dividends out of it. George Fitch in Collier's. Stung For 15 Years by Indigestion's pangs trying many doctors and $200.00 worth of medicine in vain, B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside. N. C, at last used Dr. King's New Life Pills, and writes they wholly cured him. They cure Constipation, Biliousness. Sick Headache, Stomach. Liver, Kidney and Bowel troubles. 25c at AG; Luken & Co. 1

Woodrow Wilson on the Short Ballot

(From speech by Woodrow Wilson at Philadelphia City Club.) Political reform is not with us in America any longer a question of motive, but a question of means. The reason for the existence of a political machine is the elaborate political processes now necessary in the nomination and election of candidates for office. These processes are so elaborate as to need the skill of those who make their use a profession. Our attacks upon the machine are for the most part futile because they ordinarily take the form of still further elaboration of process. We invent some new form of primary, we introduce the practice of the "initiative" and "referendum," we create the privilege of 'recall," and before we are through we have given the voters so many things to do that tbey need the assistance of professional advisers in doing them, and can easily be outwitted by those very advisers in the very processes which were meant to free them from control. The whole of the matter is clearly enough displayed in the circumstances of our ordinary elections. We give the voter so many persons' to vote for that the ballot becomes a complicated thing which he has not time himself to prepare, and which he can not thoroughly understand after it has been prepared for him by the professional politician. It is very rare that a ballot put in the hands of the voter contains less than twenty-five names. One ballot that I have seen contained seven hundred, was printed like a newspaper in compact columns, and was much larger than a single sheet of a newspaper. And the ballots devised even by ballot reformers throughout the country differ from this extraordinary ballot only in the number of names, which run from the scores to the hundreds. Of course it is impossible for the ordinary voter to make discriminating choices among the multitude of names presented to him of persons unknown to him, and about, whom diligent inquiry will disclose very little. It would take a small volume to set before him the records of. all the persons he is asked to vote for, and he is helpless in the presence of the task set before him. If he tries to make nominations of his own, a single name of his own and his nejgh bor's suggesting will be lost among the multitude on the ballot; and if he tries to make up an entire "ticker," he will find himself daunted in a thou sand ways by the difficulty of the un dertaking. It is plain that the way of reform lies in the direction of simplification If the voter is to know what he is about, the number of persons he is to be called upon to vote for must be reduced to a minimum. When it is so reduced, both nomination and election will become direct, simple and intel ligible. I believe that the short ballot is the key to the whole question of the re storation of government by the peo pie. Its salient principles are these: First, a governing body as small as is consistent with efficiency; second, full administrative responsibility lodged in that body; third, the e'.ec-' tion of that body by voters who are given only one or at most two persons to select for candidates and to vote for as officers. A Better Use For Portraits It is the custom of banks, hospitals, universities, schools of medicine, and public buildings such as city halls, state houses and federal halls to col lect portraits of their representative leaders, whether known as presidents, directors, benefactors, or originators of measures which have marked them in some special way as friends of the institution or of the state. These individuals are commemorated frequently enough in these various organiza tions, by portraits that tend to keep their memory green. How are these portraits placed? Do they serve any aesthetic purpose? None whatever but they amy do so. Would not these buildings gain in dignity and beauty if the portraits were given a mural setting that contributed to the en richment of the halls and chambers of the structure? English country houses, guild halls college buildings at Oxford and elsewhere, as well as many places on the Continent, have successfully employ ed this kind of decoration. It may be owing to a kind of divination of future greatness that first impelled the English to encourage portrait painting, and it remains a fact that the country is particularly rich in iortraits. These are preserved with much care and become, in some cases a feature of decoration in ?reat houses, pointed to with pride. They stir the imagination, foster a sense of dignity in the descendants of the originals, and pique the curiosity of the student of character in tracing attri butes of some past , representative through inherited lineaments or mien There are collections of portraits owned by municipal and state build ings which could be readily made available for really handsome decor ation by removing the frames, which are often ugly objects in themselves. and with an architectural purpose ar ranging these pictures as a frieze above a high wainscoting. An acquaintance who is, planning a country house tells me that he is real ly building his house around the portrait, which he highly prizes, of his father. It is placed, set in, over the dining-room fireplace, and may be approached through a suite of rooms and seen at a distance of ninety or one hundred feet. Scribner's. Gems of Ceylon. There are known tn k than 300 precious stone mines in the land of Ceylon. is-

Andrew Carnegie on Disarmament

Nations are only aggregations of men. and all human experience proves that men unarmed are less likely tj quarrel than men armed. Hence in civilized lands they are debarred from arming. Two neighbors -have a difference which a friendly interview would have solved; but one acts upon the principle, "In time of Peace, prepare for War." and buys a pistol. Hearing this, the other promptly "prepares." The first decides he is insufficiently prepared." and buys a six-chambered revolver, an action that is immediately followed by his neighbor. With every additional weapon purchased the premium upon their lives would be promptly raised by insurance companies. These "prepared" men have only to meet by chance, when a word. a gesture, misinterpreted, results in bloodshed, perhaps death. Exactly so with nations. The causes of wars, both between nations and men, are generally of trifling moment. So much depends upon their attitude to each other, friendly or unfriendly. If th former, no dispute but can be peacefully settled; if unfriendly, no trifle but tan create war: the disposition is all. Hence the folly and danger of nations arming against each other, which must always arouse mutual suspicion, fatal to friendly relations. Andrew Carnegie, before the Peace Society. TWINKLES Success. (Chicago Record-Herald.) "I think." he said. "I have at last found the key to success." "Well," his wife replied, "if you are going to fumble around with it as you generally do with the night key there will be a long wait before us yet." A British Inventor Gravelled. (New York Sun.) King Arthur had just invented the Round Table. "Fine!" they cried; "but could you invent a bureau which would have as many drawers for a husband as for a wife?" Sadly, he confessed himself incapa ble. It Depends. (Detroit Free Press.) "Is marriage a failure?" she asked. "It all depends on the amount of ali mony you can get," replied the woman of experience. War Is Now On. (Judge.) Howell Do you think we shall ever have universal peace? Powell I had hopes of It at one time, but that was before the north pole let itself be found. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. (Atchinson (Kan.) Globe.) You can't work and worry at the same time to good advantage. A man who worries throws rocks at his troubles and hits himself. It is as important to keep out of court as it is to keep out of debt. There is an unusually large number of ten cent heads this winter wearing $oO hats. An old man's idea of a good preacher is one who roasts the young people who sit on the back seat and giggle. When you are riding along the road with a slow horse, to encounter a dead automobile makes you reel more friendly toward your horse. The man who shouts most for good government Is the one figuring on be coming an active, salaried part of it. Stealing the County Blind "I was now convinced that the county was being robbed, .but I was not convinced that the commissioners were aware of the robbery. So that after noon I wrote a letter to the chairman of the board asking him whether the commissioners knew what was being paid for these supplies, and what should have been paid for them. I re ceived no answer. I waited, hoping to hear ultimately that during his silence he had been honestly looking into the matter. I waited ten days. Then I wrote again, telling him what I had discovered and asking him what it meant. "This brought Mr. Fred Watts, a member of the board, to ask my se nographer: "What the devil's the mat ter with Ben? Hasn't he got any grat lt.ude? Ask him what the hell he means?" It brought also a number of political friends with the same question. One of them said: "Judge, those fellows may be guilty, and I believe they are, but it's not your place to show them up. You were appointed to your office by these men originally and you ought to stand by your friends." I went to a fellow judge and told him what I had discovered. He replied: "I don't, don't want to know about it. I don't want to be in any way responsible. You had better let replied: "I don't want to know what politics are in this town. It's the district attorney's place to inves tigate not yours." I did not believe that District Attorney Lindsley would investigate, except under pressure, and I asked this judge if he would join me in demanding that Lindsey should investigate. He replied: "No. No, I'll have nothing to do with it" Oth er judges made similar replies. county official said: "Undsey, those men appointed me to my office here and I don't give a d If they 6teal the county blind. It will ruin you if you have anything to do with iL Keep out of it if you want to have any f ture in politics." Judge Lindsey. In Everybody's Magazine. "

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Steam Heat Cause For Divorces

This Is the Charge Made by a Principal of .a Chicago School In Lecture Delivered to Students.

Chicago. Dec. 4. Steam heat is the cause of all our civilized woes. Divorces, scandals, war in the women's clubs, and that tired feeling, all owe their being to the hot air. Men. wom en and children are steam heated. and a little moisture in the air mould solve many of the problems of mod ern times. Such is the philosophy of William E. Watt, principal of the Graham school, given to the world In a lecture on "Hot Air In the Family," delivered before the Union Avenue Methodist Woman's club. This steam heated condition which is held up as the real dyed-in-the-wool story of Pandora and her box of troubles is a scientific proposition which Mr. Watt has run down and saddled upon the poor janitor. Air Is like rubber, he says; when warmed, it expands. When it expands, there are interstices. When these Interstices cannot suck up any convenient water, they suck up dust and disease germs. Dust is as bad as gunpowder. according to government .reports cit ed by Mr. Watt. It causes mine explosions and miniature forms of these explosions wreck homes, start rows among otherwise good citizens,' and cause all sorts of disagreeable things. At school, said Mr. Watt, thin blood ed teachers bamboozle the janitor and make him raise the temperature of the rooms. The janitor makes it warm for the teacher and hot for the children. Girls and boys become women and men and continue to be steam heated until they get Into trouble and then they blame every

Kills Pet Dogs For the Minister t Pittsburg Society Leader Said to Have Sacrificed Canines So as Not to Interfere With Marital Bliss.

Pittsburg, Dec. 4. That she chloro-. formed all of her beautiful dags .".-1 OuO worth as. one of her weddin preparations, is the charge which Pittsburg society today makes against Mrs. Carrie Hays Dilworth. who In New York became the wife of the Rev. Samuel Craig of Ebensburg. Pa. Among the dogs killed were some blue ribbon winners of years ago. Whether the minister husband of the very rich Pittsburg woman bad also objected to dogs, as did George Griscom of Pittsburg, to whom the woman was once engaged, is not known, but Ehortly before closing her house here Mrs. Dilworth announced that she had lost a good husband once through her dogs, but that she would never permit them to interfere ith her happiness again. Pittsburgers recall how the beautiful Miss Hays, four years ago was having her wedding rehearsal the night before she was to be married to George Griscom. and bow some trouble over dogs occurred and the wedding called off. Since that night Griscom and Miss Hays never spoke, not even after she became Mrs. George Dilworth. Pittsburg friends were notified to

thing but the steam heat the guilty thing, the crafty criminal, the home wrecker, love destroyer and dissension-maker. "There are many men who are simply steam-heated, who think they are tired because they are past 40 or 50," said Mr. WatL "There are steamheated women, who acknowledge their nervous systems are wrecked by the demands of society, who are suffering only because their vitality has been undermined by warm, dry air. "When you cannot attend your club without being enraged at what Is said or done by other steam-heated women, do not upbraid yourself or them. Remember that the club Is steam-heateJ. made up of women from steam-belted bona eg and run by those, who are driven to desperate measures by tha kind of air tbey subject themselve to. "The schools all over thia land are warmed without being given the humidity nature demands. Is It any wonder that teachers become vituperative and that children are often devilish in such atmosphere? "The steam-heated woman is not satisfied with 70 degrees of temperature. She learned at high school that her house should be between and 70, but in practice she runs It to 75 and on up the scale to the insane asylum. "Divorces and scandals hang on this warm air. Incompatibility of teroier and disposition abound In this unnatural air. Death and disease hover over the steam-heated family."'

day of the death of the Dilworth dogs. Some of the close friends of Mrs. Dilworth, hearing that she was to be married and live abroad for some years, bad put in a request for some of the fine dogs. To this they received an evasive reply. Reading today that she had been married in New York yesterday, the friends began to inquire foi their dogs, only to find that tbey bad all been chloroformed by their - rk-fc owner some time ago. "If I can't have them, no one els sbalL" is what the woman of million is said to have remarked about th? time she decided to kill her pets, sine she could not take them with her Intc matrimony. Pittsburg friends are now partleu larly anxious to find what caused the postponement of the Dilworth-Crais marriage In New York last Saturday for which time it had been arranged No explanation has been given of why they waited until Wednesday. Friend of the bride have beard that she will never return to Pittsburg. No woman who uses ten words wbn two would do. should be allowed in a business house until after' workiss hours.

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