Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 212, 11 July 1912 — Page 8

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THE RICH3IOJO FATiT.ATlUM iM) SUX-TE1.EGRA3I, THURSDAY. JULY li, 1912.

PLAYGROUNDS HELP TO THEJJBRARiES Miss Andrus in Lecture Today Urges Encouragement to Movement.

What libraries can do in cooperation with playgrounds was the subject of the third lecture before the special class of librarians at Earlham yesterday morning. There are eight cities in Indiana with twentyeight playgrounds, nearly all of which are established in up-to-date principles and are properly supervised. The playground idea has grown rapidly and since the movement has been taken up by the women's clubs

in Indiana, it is likely to develop still more rapidly. Where there are no playgrounds, said Miss Gertrude Andrus, in the lecture before the Library summer school today, the librarian might well take a lead in a movement for their establishment. The need of proper play,-intelligently supervised, is well established. No town is too small to b Interested. There should be, in fact, Miss Andrus thought, a recreation commission in every city to promote the proper use of waste time such as the Fourth of July for example and of waste space such as vacant lota and dump-heaps. The library can cooperate with the playground officials by taking books to the playground shelter house, and lending them to the children. The object is Irst, to make it easy for the children to get books; second, to give the librarian or assistant a chance to get personally acquainted with a group of boys and girls and third, to make of these boys and girls regular patrons of the library when the playgrounds close for the winter. Stories may be told at the playgrounds for similar reasons. In Seattle, Miss Andrus said, the library sends worn books to all the playgrounds in the city. The playground supervisors are ry glad to have them there for the books bring the children. In the afternoon lecture Miss Addrus talked about story telling. She explained that in some places this feature of library work had become a sort of fad, and stated very plainly that in many libraries in her opinion, the story hour was not needed; especially Is this true in cities where the schools give much attention to stories. "The story hour that does not lead the children to books is a failure," said Miss' Andrus. That is the main reason for having the story hour at all. Otfcnr reasons are to give children a familiarity with good English and a standard of good literature; to establish friendly relations between children and librarian; to develop sense of humor, and to give clear impressions of certain definite moral truths. The story is an excellent advertisement for the library and if used in the right way, will accomplish good results. Prof. Harlow Lindley of Earlham College lectured today before the summer library school class on local history collections in public libraries, making a plea for more attention on the part . of the librarians in small places to the saving of every newspaper, pamphlet or other historical material that is frequently allowed to disappear.

All OUNCE OF PREVENTION

Is Sometimes Worth a Thousand Times the Pound Cure for, in Some Cases There Isn't Any Cure. Why, Then, Not Spray the Trees?

FOR THAT ALL IN DOWN AND OUT FEELING

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Siberia is to have in 1913 at Khabarofsk, an exposition which will celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary ofthe Romanoff reign in Russia. Oxygen constitutes one-third of the solid earth, nine-tenths of water and one-fth of the atmosphere, and lis thW08t abundant of all substances.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE, Professor Thompson has predicted with some accuracy. Take a walk around town and you can see a tree here and there raining down leaves as it does after a frost. Still the city has taken no action toward his suggestion of having them sprayed. On the ground that there is no appropriation that could be turned this way and no law under which monies could so be distributed. No doubt this is true. No doubt, too, the city treasury is at low ebb.

However, the writer heard a councilman declare with great vehemence a week or more ago at a session of the municipal legislature that the town was not bankrupt. That it was in good inancial condition. That false notions concerning the city's finances had become current through the public's inability, or lack of opportunity, to understand the exact status of affairs. That if we were not clipping off coupons in our booth at the safety deposit, neither were we dodging the collector or side-stepping the credit man. Still there are lots of queer things doing, past and present. Not exactly queer but incomprehensible by the rule of two. and two which as every body knows by addition makes the celebrated four and the simple rules of logic that guide the daily destiny of the resident on the side streets of Richmond, Indiana. By the way can anybody explain why two and two makes four? Because they do, or it does, says somebody. Well there you are. Somebody laid down an arbitrary rule once back in the protoplastic age. "Two and two makes four," he said, "hand it on." Therefore everybody says two and two are four. If some mathematical insurgent would arise and resolutely refute this statement it would only be a matter of a short time until all the arithmetics would say that two and two made five or nineteen or "whatever the case might be." It does not at all follow that because such a matter as tree spraying for the destruction of pestiferous insects is not specially mentioned in volume forty-two, page eight hundred and sixtynine of the archives, and sealed with the great seal of precedent, that the said insects should be allowed to devour unmolested the verdant leafage of our great and good city. Incidentally the art center of the Middle West. For never forget we are an aggregation of highbrows that eats art alive and cries for more. Our ardor Is such that we will give one hundred dollars to the art exhibit for vague, if alleged philanthropic purposes. Yet search our sainted archives from lid to lid, con their pages o'er and o'er, get an expert to make a special ferret at sixty-five dollars and twenty-five cents an hour, and still you won't find any mention of appropriations for art exhibits. "But that is different," cry our city fathers writhing in aesthetic ecstacy. Oh, very, very different we admit it. And if a local artist said but yesterday the community's art ideal was exemplified by a certain snoe-sign on the corner of Tenth and Main wherein the buttons could be accurately picked out at a distance of two blocks and whose color was laid on with unblushing frankness what of that? Does it not go merely to prove the existence of that ingratitude celebrated by Mr. William Shakespeare and anon in Holy Writ which says that

"sharper than a serpent's tooth," etc.?

Go to, oh local artist. What if thou canst not sell a picture for a song or anything else. Dost not

know we have an appropriation for our art exhibit? And yet the relative importance of the trees and the art exhibit to the city's life are as one hundred to one. After the wire and cement people have each respectively and repeatedly "done their durndest" comes along the noxious insect to complete the work of tree destruction. People are going to "fool along" although why apologetically place this in quotation marks since it is good, healthy English and expresses a situation with ginger and effectiveness until what's left of our former beautiful tree system is gone the way of many another good thing. And gone by the same route. Indifference and neglect. If the city is not in a position to follow its city forester's recommendation and a scientific city forester who serves without salary by diving into our financial tank and hoving to with a handful of cash, it might have the trees sprayed on the same basis upon which the streets are oiled. Have it done and let the householders pay the bills first ascertaining that the latter would not cast you into the tax-payer's discard. Certainly this is one of the most important aspects of the surface of municipal life the conservation of our trees. Unless official action is taken by which systematic and universal spraying will be inaugurated, nothing effectual will be accomplished for the simple reason that it will be sporadic and have no continuity. Certain insects are killing certain classes of trees in various parts of the country. And official action is being taken to prevent the dire finale. And action must be concerted. Not by fits and starts, or here and there. But straight down one street and up another. Its a little trouble but the fabled ounce of prevention is worth a lot sometimes. And when we reach the place where we go up one treeless street and down

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TIPPING AN ARTIST.

another ugly, hot or wind-swept, as is the season then we'll "wish we had." For, with trees, ' there isn't any "pound of cure."

Sovereigns to the number of 30.041,328 were coined by the British mint last year, an i ncrease of approximately 800,000 over the year before.

A Great Painter Whe Wh Not Abova Earning an Honest Quarter. Trias low Homer was a great painter who had the unusual good fortune to have his merit appreciated early In life. But no one ever presumed less on a wide reputation. Affectation was a weakness from which his sense of humor saved him. In his biography by Mr. TV. H. Downs Is printed the story f a w Tork gentleman of wealth and artistic tastes who made the journey to Scarboro. Me., where Homer bad his studio, to make the artist's acquaintance. On bis arrival he found the studio door locked: the owner was nowhere to be seen. He wandered about the cliffs for awhile until he met a man In a rough old suit of clothes, rubber boots and a battered felt bat. who carried a flshpole. He accosted the fisherman thus: "Say, my man. if you can tell me where I can find Winstow Homer I have a quarter for yon." "Where's your quarter?" said the fisherman. He handed it over and was astounded to bear the quizzical Yankee fisherman say, "I am Winslow Homer." The sequel of this unusual introduction was that Homer took his new acquaintance back to the studio, entertained him. and before be left sold him a picture.

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