Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 285, 4 October 1912 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SX3N-TELEGRA3I. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912. - - -:. - - - . . . , .... ..-'
FOUR SCHOOL BOYS DN DARING RIDE Hang onto Street Roller and Narrowly Escape Being Mashed to Death.
Four young boys attending St. Andrews' parochial school yesterday had a narrow escape from death or serious injury. The boys were banging on the scrapers of the street roller, in jsuch a position that they could not be Been by the operator of the machine. iThey were able to remain in their position as long as the machine was going forward, but when it was reversed the children were almost thrown under the machine. They were noticed by Street Commissioner Genn. He hurried to the machine and the operator seeing his 'hasty approach stopped the machine. Had the machine gone a few feet ifarther it would have been thrown inrto reverse, and probably would have backed over the boys. Queen Mary, of England, was much impressed by the London production ;of "Everywoman," and as a result, it jis said, Arthur Collins, managing director of the Drury Lane Theater, will !be knighted on the King's next birthday. (Advertisement) Want to Feel Young .It's Olive Tablets For You! Beware of the habit of constipation, fit develops from just a few constipated (days, especially in Old People, unless you take yourself in hand, i Coax the jaded bowel muscles back i to normal action with Dr. Edwards' jOJive Tablets, the substitute for calo!mel. Don't force them to unnatural action with severe medicines or by merely flushing out the Intestines with nasty, sickening cathartics. Dr. Edwards believes in gentleness. persistency and Nature's assistance, j Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets oil the 'bowels; their action is gentle, yet positive. There is never any pain or gripling when Olive Tablets are used. Just j the kind of treatment old persons ! should have. Take Olive Tablets mixed with Olive ;oll and have no trouble with your bowels or stomach. "Every little Olive" Tablet has a movement all Its own." 10c and 25c per box. . . .' The Olive Tablet Co., Columbus; O'.
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The tract of land at South Eleventh Street, Twelfth Street and J Street, long recognized as beautiful, high, healthful and sightly for high class homes, has been subdivided into good sized lots, surface graded, trees to be planted, and it will be made , An Exclusive Residence District Restricted to good homes. And the opportunity is now offered you of securing a home site on an elevation higher than the court house, commanding a view of the entire city.
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Plenty of ground for garden, fruit and flowers. Crestview is the natural building spot in all Richmond. The wise speculator will soon see the opportunity of Profit by taking on lots, as Crestview lots are directly in line with the city's growth and are certain to increase rapidly in value. Buy your lot at our ground floor prices. Remember that the good investment may equal a lifetime of labor. - The man who is guided by judgment, who weighs facts, and who looks ahead, will never pass up the opportunity of buying at ground floor prices. A home site in the peerless Crestview Addition. iBARQAIN- PRIGESThee big lots $1187 to $35(0) each on small payments, $5 to $10. down, thee only one dollar a weeko no interest or taxes for one year, no mortgages, no payments while sick. In reach of all if you can save a dollar a week. This is to you who have worked a lifetime and are still in the clutches of your landlord. Start now, when the opportunity is afforded you to become independent and free from high rents. Save $1 per week for a good home site in Crestview. ' "
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THE MINIMUM WAGE
A Much Misunderstood Economic Measure that Is Altrurian in Concept and Which Would Result in the Exaltation of Efficiency.
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Much confusion exists in the public mind as to the exact intent of the minimum wage for women. A confusion necessarily attendant upon its hitherto limited operation. It has, in fact, been actually tried out but in one place in the civilized world in the state of Victoria, Aus-j tralia. In certain industries there it has been put on a working basis since 1896 and has succeeded. It has not, as its opponents predicted there and predict otherwhere now, resulted in industrial depression. On the other hand it has conduced to industrial peace, to the elimination of strikes and to a general elevation of efficiency. So beneficial have been its results that it has the support of the employer, the employe and the state. Tentative attempts have been made in England toward the introduction of the minimum wage for men as well as women but its operations have not been uniformly successful because not Intelligently applied. It is the theory of a certain school of political economists that disastrous results would be attendant upon its universal adoption but this has not been borne out. In the mining industries in England for example, It is said that it would be impossible for a man to earn the minimum wage on account of the handicaps of mining operations, and that to pay wages on this scale would necessitate the closing of the mines from the fact that the latter are worked on only a slight margin of profit. But this is an exceptional case. In this country the principle has not yet been put Into actual practice, the only state that has suggested a law regulating the matter being Massachusetts. In 1911 a commission was created to make a thorough investigation of industrial conditions among women. This was done. And a report made to the Legislature of 1912. This report embodied a recommendation for a permanent Wage Board which would examine into the status of evry industry employing women ascertaining whether or not a fair minimum wage was being paid. If not, the Wage Board to have authority, under the details of the law the commission recommended, to notify the managers that they must adopt a certain scale and if the latter did not comply they were to be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of the measure. Whether or not this bill passed the Massachusetts Legislature it was in-
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troduced last January is not known to the writer. But it is the only attempt that has been made for state regulation of the woman's minimum wage. The difficulty, as has been pointed out, with the State Wage Board
would be its impossibility to prevent the industries in the states where no similar Board existed from under-cutting and out-bidding the same class of industries in the states where these boards had been created through legislative appointment. So that the only solution of the Wage Board would be its Federal adoption. The principle of the minimum wage, however, is simple. The "minimum wage" means merely the least amount upon which a woman, who has to work for her living, can live decently and comfortably, under present social conditions.
In the meeting of the members of'fflCjncv
the Progressive League on Wednes day evening where this question was discussed, the latter was not taken into account. Present social conditions are what they are. They are the result of our latter day civilization and cannot be changed through legislative enactment or moral suasion. This much we must accept. We cannot change the sun in its course. Nor the onward sweep of humanity toward its goal whether the latter be Utopian or end in social degeneracy. So that in the consideration of the adoption of the minimum wage for women, this fact must be taken into account. Living conditions are as they are. It takes more to live nowadays, than it did a decade, two decades, a quarter century or more ago. This Is admitted. It is a universal economic postulate. Therefore, what is the least amount upon which any 'woman obliged to earn her own living, can live upon with decency and comfort barring luxuries? This Is the question society asks. The minimum wage must give the answer. Conditions vary, of course, in different communities. In the big cities conditions are not the same as those in a town like Richmond, in instance. Every reader of current literature knows that on account of the beggarly wages many girls receive in the great industrial centres, evil moral conditions exist. It is toward the elimination of these yotm get The Dickinson Trust Company.
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When a woman who has to earn her living is paid enough to enable her to live as every individual must live un- j j der present social conditions, always remember then the day of the moral parasite will be ended. But this wage will have to be created through and enforced by law. For human greed and industrial competition are so rabid that the minimum wage can only be achieved through the medium of the law. In the theory of the minimum wage no compulsion is included. At the meeting just referred to. this was confused with the operations of the minimum wage. It was said that it put a premium on inefficiency. This would not be the case. It would, on the contrary, tend to exalt efficiency. For no employer would be compelled to employ Inefficient women to do his work. For there is no compulsion attached to the theory of the minimum wage. If an employer had to pay a certain rate of wages for certain work, he would necessarily, as a good business man, demand that the' services rendered would be consistent with the rate paid. He would, in other words, demand The result would be that inefficiency would gradually be eliminated because it would command no price. It would naturally follow that the inefficient element, which acts as a dragnet on every industry and In every business, would finally disappear, or be absorbed into other phases of social activity. For it remains that women, because of their sex not because of lack of ability or efficiency, do not receive equal pay for equal work with men. And it is the opinion of this column, that the operations of the minimum wage for women should be made active in the businesses and profes sions as well as in the industries. Efficiency, in the two former, nowadays, counts for but little. Women cannot depend upon chivalry in the business world. Men care nothing for a woman because she is a woman when it comes to business. What the average employer is after is a human machine to do his work for him. And it is useless to deny that many men, morally impeccable -in as far as any man can be so will grind a woman down to the last farthing in the matter of wages or salaries. Nor can it be denied that many employers deliberately employ inefficient women because they can get them cheap. This is notoriously the case with stenographers. A man will "put up" with a raw, uneducated, half-baked girl, who should be scrubbing floors or washing windows and no dishonor in the doing either rather than pay an educated one decent wages simply because he can "get her for less." Such a state of affairs exists right TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
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here In Richmond. The average employer, whether directly or indirectly, puts a premium on inefficiency. And hence all employments suffer. The minimum wage is intended and destined to remedy this very thing. So that honest employers who want efficient help but who find it impossible to get it. can have the opportunity to have their work well and intelligently done. Although there is no prevailing min
imum wage, there are certain Indus tries in which women are protected by the labor union and in which she must receive a certain scale of compensation. Women members of the Typographical Union, in instance, receive the same pay for the same amount of work as men. A woman lynotype operator receives as much as a man. And while women, usually, do not operate a lynotype as expeditiously as a man. they are apt to do so more accurately, so that what is lost in setting up the original copy is more than made up in the less time it takes to correct it. The question of the minimum wage, for either men or women, is an interesting one. But that for women is bound to come. After that. then, let the women adjust the professional compensation. And remedy that condition where college-bred women get less than the men who clean the streets. For the minimum wage, jthen! And its attendant conditions will adJust themselves. He that runs out by extravagance must retrieve by parsimony. From the Dutch. Water Bills due October 1st. take iw s it CD
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Ismail Pasha's Whim Was Costly and Short Lived On. Ismail Pasha, former viceroy and khedive of Egypt, in spite of his European education and association, maintained throughout his life an oriental love of lavishness and display. While traveling in France he was entertained at Bellean. the country estate of his friend Bravals. The host had made his entire fortune from Egyptian concessions and consequent ly exerted himself to his utmost to make his noble visitor's stay a pleasant one. Bravals succeeded little better than he liked, for the khedlTe. after admiring the estate, offered to buy it. The proposition came as a shock to Bravals. who did not wish to offend his patron and yet had no idea of parting with his beloved estate. "But. sir." he said. "Belleau is not for sale." "Yet I wish to buy it." replied lsmal. unperturbed. "How much?" Bravals. believing to put an end to an embarrassing situation by naming an impossible price, said jokingly. "Ah, if your highness were to offer me 2.000,000 francs" They are yours," Interrupted the viceroy, "and Belleau is mine." Ismail Pasha extended his Tislt and during the next week continued to express his admiration of the place, although he did not allude to the previ ous conversation. Bravals began to hope that he bad forgotten It. On the day of his departure Ismail was about to step Into his carriage when he turned to his host. "My dear Bravals." he said. "1 never break my word. Here Is a check for two millions. As for Belleau. I give it to yttu." Arthur Meyer In "What 1 Can Tell.LOT
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