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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 17, 191V.

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This Is My 44th Birthday

JOHN D. PRINCE. John Dyneley Prince, professor of Semitic languages at Columbia university, and one of the foremost philologists of America, was born in New

rTork City, April 17, 1868. He is a great-

grandson of the late Reverdy Johnson, the Maryland jurist and at one time United States minister to Great Britain. Professor Prince was educated by private tutors and later took a course In Semetic languages at the University of Berlin. Prior to joining the faculty of Columbia university he had been attached to Johns Hopkins university and New York university. In 1888 he was the representative of Columbia

;ttniversity on the expedition to Southern Babylonia sent out by the University of Pennsylvania. In addition ;to his reputation as an educator. Professor Prince is well known for his interest in public affairs. He has served several terms aB a member of the New Jersey legislature and two years ago was elected Speaker of that body. Congratulations to: J. Pierpont Morgan, America's greatest financier, 75 years old today. Charles H. Parkhurst, noted Presbyterian clergyman and reformer, 70 years old today. Charlemange Tower, former United States ambassador to Germany, 64 years old today. "William R. Day, Associatde Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 63 years old today. Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 53 years old today.

The Greater Issue.

Nimrod Johnson, superintendent of the light plant, takes the ciew that he is in favor of cluster lights providing the city pays out of its treasury for the lighting of the city streets. He objects that the city plant cannot bear the expense which must be placed on its customers If a considerable additional sum of money is expended on cluster lighting. Nimrod Johnson is right in this contention and it is far more important than the cluster lighting of Main street We believe that those who wish cluster lights, (of whom Nimrod Johnson is one) can get together. The practice of making a city plant pay for itself, making it pay for the street lights, which should be paid by all the citizens, may be highly gratifying, but it is poor business and unjust to the people who patronize the plant. Eventually it can lead to nothing but turning all the desirable and profitable business over to the Light, Heat and Power company, while wrecking the city plant. It is unfair to make the consumers of city light pay for the street lighting while those who do not use it pay nothing toward street illumination. We commend Mr. Johnson for his wisdom in using the cluster lighting to call attention to the heavy burden which is placed on the plant.

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He Couldn't Answer. In a debate at the Wichita high Bchool woman suffrage was nnder discussion. "It would be unwise to give woman the ballot," declared a budding Daniel Webster in attacking the proposition. "Woman could not be relied upon to exercise good judgment In voting. She changes her mind far too often." The next speaker was a young woman. She arose and cast a pitying glance at her opponent. "I would like to ask my honorable opponent," she cooed sweetly, "if he ever tried to change a woman's mind once It was made up?" The young woman got the decision. Kansas City Star.

The income of the American Federation of Labor from all sources during the last quarter of 1911, was $42,634.90. The seventeenth biennial convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is to be held in Washington, D. C, next September. More than seven hundred motormen and conductors in San Francisco, Cal., have joined the International Street and Electric Railway Association within the last six months. The number of volunteer organizers commissioned by the American Federation of Labor in 1911 was 1,594. There are now 1,647 volunteer organizers commissioned by the federation. The total funds of the Boot and Shoe Operatives' Union of Great Britain now amount to $669,000, which is a gin in the last half year of $23,000 The membership of the union is 32,928. The average wage received by bricklayers in England is $9.72 a week for fifty-two and one-half hours. The bricklayers in Germany receive $7.."0 a week and are required to work fiftynine hours. There are 125,000 women and girls in Chicago, who work in factory or

j shop. The ten thousand who belong

to the Woman s Trade Union League are planning a campaign to unionize the remaining 115,000. Most of the master painters in Bostton have granted the increase in pay demanded by their employes, and only a small number of men are out on a strike. The new rate provides for 5o cents" an hour to painters and 60 cents to house decorators. The number of persons employed in the coal mines of the United Kingdom is 1,067,213, while the output of coal for 1911 was 271,878,924 tons, as compared with 264,417,588 tons in 1910. The number of underground workers in Great Britain is 863,512, including 112,200 in Scotland. According to the last quarterly statement for the year 1911 the aggregate membership of the organization that were affiliated with the American Federation of Labor during the last month of the quarter was 1,831,587, an Increase of 115,638 over the corresponding month of 1911. The cork industry in Toulon, France, pays a wage that is very small. Girls engaged in counting and sorting earn as little as 15 cents a day, while those working the hand operated knives receive 30 to 40 cents a day. The wages of most of the higher paid employes do not exceed 75 to SO cents a day. A new agreement, providing for a slight increase in wages for electrical" workers in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona and Idaho, has been negotiated by the Pacific district council of electrical workers. The new agreement dates from Janu-

DIET AND HEALTH HINTS By DR. T. 3. ALLEN Food Specialist

NUTRITION IMPAIRED TOO MUCH FAT IN DIETARY.

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CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY CAPE GOOD HOPE DISCOVERED BY MISTAKE. By A. W. MACY. For many centuries the need of a water route from Europe to India was keenly felt. Portuguese navigators were especially active in search of one, and In 1487, five years before Columbus set out on his voyage of discovery, Bartholomew Diaz rounded Cape Good Hope, at the southern extremity of Africa. He did not know It at the time, being too far out at sea. When the crew discovered they were on the wrong side of the mainland they became panic-stricken, and insisted on returning at once. They carried their point, soon caught sight of the cape. Thus it came that Diaz discovered the Cape cf Good Hope while sailing homeward. If he had had a bolder crew, and had kept on sailing eastward, he might have reached India and thus solved the problem he had In hand. Ten years later Vasco da Gama, another Portuguese navigator, also doubled the cape. His crew was likewise cowardly, and rebelled; but he evidently was a man of more force than Diaz, for he quelled the mutiny and kept on sailing east, ward until he reached the shores of India.

.Copyright. 1311. by Joseph B. BowlesJ

"Too much fat Is a frequent cause of trouble, and many children are often unintentionally overfed with fat," says Dr. John Ruhrah in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "These are cases of malnutrition in which large quantities of butter, cream, cod-liver oil and other fats are given with the idea of fattening the child and restoring its normal condition. The result is that the nutrition is not improved but is usually made worse." Fat prevents the access of the saliva to the starch in the mouth and stomach and also interferes with the action of the gastric and Intestinal juices upon the proteids. The standard dietaries give two ounces of fat as the required amount In the daily ration of the average man doing moderate work, but none is furnished the horse, except the small percentage he may get In oats or corn. The cow that makes four per cent in her milk gets none in hay, and It has been shown by recent experiments that calves do better on milk with little fat. The Invalid is always advised to take toast without butter, and certainly bread is more digestible for the dyspeptic without butter, However desirable it may be to cater to the taste.

(Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

ary 1, 1912, and will hold good for one year. The general executive board of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners is holding its Spring session in Indianapolis at present. Among the matters to be considered by the general executive board during this season are the Chicago strike and the plans for the erection of a home for aged and infirm carpenters and for the sick and disabled members of the organization.

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Captain Monte, of the Italian army, has the distinction of being the first aviator to be wounded in actual warfare. While dropping bombf on an Arab encampment near Tobruk he was severely injured by a rifle ball, and his aeroplane was hit four times by bullets. He managed, however, to fly back to camp.

"THIS DATE N HISTORY '.

APRIL 17TH. 1689 Governor Andros fled to the Castle, Boston, for safety. 1754 The French captured the Virginians, erected a stronger fort and called it Fort Du Quesne (Pittsburg). 1763 First newspaper in Georgia, the "Georgia Gazette," issued at Savannah. 1786 Walter Forward, secretary of the treasury in President Tyler's cabinet, born in Connecticut. Died in Pittsburg, Nov. 24, 1852. 1790 Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia. Born in Boston, January 17, 1706. 1837 Joseph Anderson, Revolutionary soldier and U. S. senator from Tennessee, died in Washington, D. C. Born in New Jersey, November 5, 1757. 1856 Quebec became the capital of Upper and Lower Canada. 1892 Alexander Mackenzie, former Canadian premier, died. Born January 28, 1822. 1907 William J. Bryan declared in favor of the initiative and referendum. 1911 France rushed troops to Morroco to quell a rebellion among the tribesmen.

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The Palladium: I have been more than ordinarily in-! terested in your editorials apropos the i advisability of installing cluster light ! along our. Main street and agree with j you that such an innovation would not ! only add to the general up to date appearance of our city but would be a j strong advertising medium for our merchants and a boon to the iedes- j trians and shoppers in general. J Supt. Johnson however is not desti- i tute of some good reasons for opposing the idea. There is a possible dagger of its being the "last straw that broke the ! camel's back insofar as the additional ' cost would be an increased factor ten-! ding to reduce future profits to the remotest minimum and would there by absorb the surplus that should be carefully guarded and set aside for future emergencies in the proper upkeep of i the plant to the perfect physical condition necessary. j As long as the city fails to pay its ! city light bills, it would be decidedly unsafe to add any further burdens to , the light plant, for its future success j must depend upon the proper conservation of its physical and financial resources of today. j I believe the city administration is living under a mistaken conception of j

its obligation to the Municipal light plant. The failure to pay the cost of illuminating our city may work advantageously to the general success of the administration, but mark you well.

there is a great danger of the Mur.ici-' pal light plant being put unon the sacrificial altar in order to create a FALSE impression as to the ccono-' mies exercised by the city government.

Mayor Zimmerman would have himself credited with the marvelous feat of having accomplished more public improvements in 1911 than was ever done in any one single year in the history of the city, and that too, without borrowing a dollar for gueh improvements. It would be well if the public would secure reports of the city controller for 1911 and turn to page 37 where you will find this item:

"Amount due from city for lighting j during 1910 $20,243.30." j

Aiiiuuiu uutj num iui jiuimg during 1911 $24,248.16. Total' $44,491.46. In the controllers report for 1910,

page 21 in the summary of the work completed during the year 1910 we ! find the total of public improvements ! rendered, $18,597.31 of which amount i the city paid as her part $3,255.18. i

In the report of 1911 page 25, "Summary of work completed January 1, 1911 to January 1. 1912, is $120,574.71, of which amount the city paid as her share $25,409.13, or for the two years 1910 and 1911, the city's share of the improvements was $28,664.31. As stated above the general fund of the city profited by the failure of the city to pay its light bill, to the amount of $44,491.46 so after paying the city's share of public improvements, which was, for the two years, $28,664.31 there Is left a surplus of $15,827.15 from the savings of the light bills after the city's share oi public improvements have been paid for. It can readily be seen therefore that Mayor Zimmerman and his administration is willing to lay the burden of public improvements on the earnings of the light plant, instead of paying for such improvements from the general fund, and thus try to create an impression that he is doing more than any other mayor ever did in the way of conducting the affairs of the city with

out resorting to the vil expediency of borrowing money. Had the city paid the light bills it is evident one of two things must have shown itself, either the administration of Mayor Zimmerman is not the administration of economy he claims for it, or no public improvements could have been rendered (which is practically the same thing without absorbing the surplus in the general fund.' While it is true $20,421.54 has been added to the general fund surplus during the two years it must be considered the street department spent less in 1910 by over $15,000.00 than previous years and add to that $15,827.15 surplus from the omitted light bills (after raving for public improvements) together with $8,543.50 vehicle license (which previous administrations never had) thus it can be seen that the surplus of $20,421.54 is derived from the "nest egg" of $39,370.60. Why should they borrow? If the present administration desires to go on record as being progressive, let them pay their light bills and boost the project of cluster lights, if on the other hand they consider their reputation as economist is of more value, even though such a reputation has to be bought at the expense of the Municipal light plant, let them oppose the cluster lights. The day of reckoning is near, however, and a strict balancing of accounts will be imperative. Yours truly A- BAVIS. 411 N. 13th St

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