Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 300, 22 October 1912 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AN1 SDN-TELEGRAjI. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1912.

MEAT INSPECTION AGAIN CONSIDERED Council Hears Echo of Controversy. It Considers Many Minor Matters. An echo of the report of the councilmanlc committee that investigated the withdrawal of federal meat inspection at the Holzapfel plant and recommended the appointment of an expert butcher as inspector, sounded through the meeting of council last evening. The prospect of paying $900 annually for inspector's hire seemed to disturb the serenity of several councilmen. Mr. Weishaupt assured the body that the new ordinance provided a monthly and not an annual salary, leaving an opening for the city in case the government re-establishes federal Inspection. Councilman Von Pein minced no words in asserting that he believed it

poor business for the city to pay $1,000 annually for an inspector in view of the fact that Holzapfel could secure federal inspection, gratis to the city, if he would expend the $2,000 said to be necessary to meet the requirements of the department of agriculture. "Holzapfel ought to be public spirited enough and business man enough," 6aid Mr. Von Pein, "to make the changes and go after business as does Mr. Stolle. Why should the city be put to this expense. Mayor's Offer. Mayor Zimmerman interrupted at this point saying that he would give $1,000 to any councilman or citizen who would show that he had written or telegraphed the federal authorities crltising the Holzapfel plant. Nobody arose to try for the $1,000. The conditions of the Holzapfel plant was complimented by Councilman Kauffman. He said: "You cannot tell a thing about a federal inspector. No telling what they will do. Wagoner may make one suggetion and along comes another inspector and orders undone what Wagoner ordered." Evidently believing that the council was still under the belief that it could force the government to install federal inspection at the Holzapfel plant, Attorney Wilfred Jessup, In the place of City Attorney Gardner who was absent, explained that the Holzapfel plant was not entitled to inspection and that If it were established it would be a courtesy from the government. Defends Wagoner. He showed that the improvements made under the regime of Dr. Wagoner, inspector at the Stolle plant, were in accord with the rules of the department, but that there is constant development in sanitation, and hence there Is a justifiable reason for the changes ordered by the government from time to time. ' He insisted that some of the changes ordered by the government and to which Councilman Weishaupt took exception were in accord with sanitary laws. "For instance," said Mr. Jessup, "I uphold the recommendation of the government that the sewage of the lavatories at the Holzapfel plant not be drained into the killing room. The citizens are entitled to some sanitary protection. The statement of Councilman, Bartel that Dr. C. S. Bond told him that

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the changes at the Holzapfel plant de manded by the government, led council to request the physician to meet with the health board and the councilmanic committee Thursday evening to explain where he secured his information. The new meat inspection ordinance was not presented last evening. Its test will be determined at the meeting Thursday. Police Regulations. The committee on ordinances was instructed to draft a measure compelling saloons to place electric lights behind their establishments. Recent attacks by thugs and bums on citizens occasioned Councilman Burdsall to ask the enactment of an ordinance on this point. The storing of gasoline within the fire limits of the city by dry cleaning establishments and automobile owners was made the theme of discussion. The ordinance committee was instructed to draw up an ordinance regulating the evil. It was pointed out that there is serious danger from the presence of gasoline and Fire Chief Miller argued that all auto owners should be compelled to sink their gasoline retainers in the ground. Councilman Von Pein expressed the thanks of the employes of the Starr Piano company for the pavement on South D street and the construction of a concrete viaduct under the C. & O. tracks to safeguard their lives. He al-

so expressed his approval of the ac-pn the municipal fund $36,516.78; sinktion of the company and the board of j ing fund, $15,635.45; excess of cash works in ordering the construction of i receipts over operating expenses,

concrete steps leading to the switchback. Minor Matters. The attention of the council was called to the following minor matters. The depression in the street in front of 318 South Tweltfh street and on Main and South Twelfth left by excavations made by the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company; the practice of driving horses across the Main street bridge faster than a walk; the condition of the pavement at Seventh and Main and In front of 716 Main street, owing to negligence of the street car company; a depression in the street at North Fourth and D; the petition of citizens for an arc light at South Fifteenth and C; the need of ?n arc light at South Eighteenth and A street the scene of several accidents; cross walks at North Sixteenth and B; the condition of North West First from Randolph north, Kinsey street from Second west, South West Third from Main south and South West Second from Main south, the latter two due to negligence on the part of public service corporations; a large depression between Second and Third cn Main, left by the Richmond CityWater Works company; the poor condition in which Main street pavement

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Practiced Frequently Against Small Property Holders Who Are Not Able to Meet the Heavy Assessments Made Against Them.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Cruel injustices are often practiced by municipalities. When what is sometimes strangely known as "improvements" are in progreES. The opening of streets, in instance. The witness heard a story to the effect that in the opening of South Seventh street, the owner of a certain property will suffer seriously. Now this might follow the improvement of a street, and if the property owner was affluent, it might make little difference to him. Save in his unjust financial despoilment. But when it takes one old man's little substance which he has spent years in accumulating, then it matters very materially. The writer does not know who this man is. But the case is one of many. And is typical of the heartlessness of municipal corporations. And their seeming inexorableness. Hnwcvpr sr eraitine? nwnv and . . - n - ----- n " j - l i , i 1 . i l . bo last, mai 11 manes me social uouy a bit dizzy from that irresponsibility of the civic organization which has been one of its chiefest characteristics throughout the ages. The fact that one old man, no longer able to work, who, through long years of toil, has accumulated enough to buy a home, must be grist for the municipal mill thrown into the cropper and ground to pulp merely for what is sometimes anomalously termed the "larger good," Is passing. The individual right is becoming more insistent. Or, rather, the right of the social body to enforce injustice on the individual in the name of the law, Is being vigorously questioned. If this street, for example, has to be opened, the man should receive full value for his property. Instead, a property upon which he has been paying city taxes has been assessed as farm land.

The man is thus beaten out of his has the stamp and endorsement of sojust return for the property to be sac- j c'.ety at large. rificed. And, unable to meet the situa- j But the fatalistic philosophy which tion, must mortgage what property is j has for its tenet the immolation of the left. individual who gets in the way of the Now, whether or not he details are Juggernaut of what Is called progress, exact in this particular instance, they has few adherents nowadays, have been duplicated a good many j For that progress is merely in name, times recently in the improving of i No progress is deserving the name

this, and other cities. One man, who had his little all confiscated in this way, committed suicide. The writer was told by an old ser-

vant of her family that some neigh-! through official action, there will no bors who had, through years of painful longer be any stimulating force tolabor, accumulated enough to buy a j ward accumulation, home, had to give it up in order to j "What's the use of working all your meet an assessment for a cement side-: life for something only to have it takwalk and curb. ;en away from you when you need it And that It so disheartened one of the most." the elderly parents whether the fath-! So asks a younger generation, chafer or mother is not now recalled that I ing at the bit, and noting with obserthe former died from the effects of a j vant and calculating eye. sickness following the worry over the j Then the younger generation prosituation, j ceeds to evolve a dangerous philosoThese things should not be. j phy of its own. No city improvement is that neces- j The philosophy of "what's the use?"

sary. Certainly some system should be j growth of a community should not i leave a trail of individual devastation in its course. If a man's property is in the way of the onward march of local progress, then he should be fully recompensed for the former's despoilment. was left by the contractor who installed water in the new McGuire building. Smoke Ordinance. Owing to the impossibility of enforcing the smoke ordinance, several counj cilmen argued that the measure be repealed. Council refused to concur in the suggestion, holding that it would pave the way for a big nuisance. Fire Chief Miller said that he was in an embarrassing position, as complaints were registered with him against violators of the ordinance and he was powerless to mitigate the evil. Councilmen said the ordinance should stand as an incentive for factories to abate the nuisance. Light Plant Report. The Municipal light plant showed a net earning of $265.40 for September, according to the report of Superintendent Johnson. The sum of $2,833.60 expended for interest and commission cut into the earnings for the month. The total receipts for the month were $6,609.42; operating expenses, $5,951.78; building and equipment. $1,339.25; sinking fund. $660; total dlsj bursement3 $7,251.03; balance on hand

$ 265.40. factory. However, it is highly proba;ble that the building will have been Here is a woman who speaks from . erected and will be used before that rersional knowledge and long exper-! date, set by the South Side Improveience, viz., Mrs. P. H. Brogan of Wil-ment assoc'ation. son. Pa., who says, 'T know from ex- j The factory building is to be 64x perience that Chamberlain's Cough ! 180 feet. It will be two stories in

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Even at that, if this property happens to be a home, a mere monetary consideration cannot fill the vacuum which follows its destruction. But when a civic body nullifies the honest work of years by one stroke of the pen then it is time to give pause. The social body, when separated into its component parts, Is found to be made up of individual units. Of intelligent units. These units, fused, make the superstructure of the civic body. No organization is weaker or stron ger than its parts. A blow at the seemingly least important of these is a blow at the thing itself. It was through the long continued assaults on the private right of the French citizen that caused the bloodiest revolution in history. And it is to a series of acts kindred to the one here under consideration to which the present wide spread social unrest can be accredited. When the city of Richmond despoils an old man, unable to work, of his pro perty, accumulated, as just said through a long period of hard labor, it is no better than the government of Louis XVI. In fact not as good. For Louis XVI was the victim of a system and proceeded more or less unknowingly. Under our democratic form of government, however, the civic body knows exactly what it is doing. Therefore it is the more culpable. The less to be commiserated over criticism. It is this sort of thing that breeds anarchy. That intensifies discontent. It is injustice rank afid undeniable. "Well, how are you going to run the town?" asks Mr. Official. "Somebody's got to suffer. We've got to open up streets and if anybody's in the way, they'll have to get out." This Is specious reasoning. And the more fallacious because it which does not carry with it the advancement of every part of the whole. The foundation of a civic body is Its I thrifty citizens. If that thrift is to be nullified Which leads to social anarchy and degeneration. You can pooh-pooh at this all you want to. But it is just such seemingly unimportant actions as the injustice praciticed on this small property holder in the opening of South Seventh street that points the linger to the cry of the , day j Civic justice. JOHNNY EVERS TO MANAGE THE CUBS CHICAGO, Oct. 22. Johnny Evers, second baseman, has been picked to succeed Frank L. Chance as manager of the Cubs, according to a reliable authority today. That President Murphy has closed with Evers and will announce the new manager to the public within a few days was stated by this man today. Murphy believes Evers is a "second Muggsy McGraw" and also believes McGraw is the highest type of a manager. Evers is 29 years old and has been with the Cubs eleven years. He has agreed to move from Troy, X. Y., to make his home in Chicago in compliance with Murphy's demand that the new manager live in Chicago, was stated by the man who gave out the story. BEGAN WORK ON NEW BUILDING Work on the new building of the Veneer Door factory was started yesterday. The company has until May 1 to complete the construction of the height. A large basement will also be constructed. The building is to be erected between South M and N between Fifth and Sixth streets. mmall familii far ranm'roa.

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RICHMOND SELECTED FOR 191? SESSION Friends to Meet Here Publishing House of Paper to Be Established Here.

The 1917 session of the Five Year meeting of Friends will be held in Richmond. This city will also be the location for the printing plant and edas soon as the board of publication is . , I orgamztu aim me propt ny anu good I will of the periodical is acquired. Tentative plans for establishing the paper and a publishing house were accepted by the Five Year meeting in session at Indianapolis. The publication board is to act in conjunction with the advisory committee on ques-! ions pertaining to the church. The j policy of the paper is to be positive ! and constructive. It was stipulated hat a guarantee fund of 125,000 be -aised before the publication is be;un. President R. L. Kelly of Earlham L college was appointed chairman of he board of education. E. Gurney Hill vas placed on the foreign mission board. Adopt Report. - The report of tne business committee, introduced by It. M. Jones, was idopted. It recommended the appointment of a board of young Friends activities, to be composed of one member rom each Yearly Meeting and one Tember for eacb. 8,000 members of the congregation. The board is to serve intil the next Five-Year meeting. The young Friends also were empowered j 'o employ a secretary and to provide 'unds for his salary and the maintenance of his office. By amendments to the minutes of a orevious session, the board on legisla: tion is ot be the board on legislation ind temperance, and power is given -or the establishment of a central of-1 3ce of the Five-Year Meeting at Richmond, Ind. A general secretary to be mder the executive committee and supervise all departments of the FiveYear Meeting was appointed and the ?xpenses of his office are to be a part of those of the Five-Year Meeting. Objections Are Raised. The report of the committee on Bi-; ble school was adopted only in part Tt recommended the development of a Bible school as a recognized part of he church; the adoption of the inter national graded lesson system, with proper adaptations of courses to the work of the church; urged teachers ind officers to pursue training courses hat would be in harmony with the be lief of the society; advised the ap pointment of a board to superintend the Bible school and an active Held secretary to assist it. Objections were raised to the part

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zema- erysipelas, pimples boils run- j nine sores and a number of similar at-. . . ... . aIllCllOnS. All mt?3J iciuf u ir-autij iu I Dr. Simpson's treatment. And during the forty years this preparation has been on the market as Dr. A. B. Simpson's Vegetable Compound it has never Tailed in a single case. The very wor6t cases of syphilis have been j cured as well as all the other blood ; diseases named above and the same j compound has always given clear, clean complexions to those, otherwise , in T,-u-wi health It is sold at $1.00 a bottle at all drug stores. ( Advert i semen t of the committee's report recommending that supplementary lessons for the opening and closing of Bible school be adopted and it finally was agreed to leave the contents of the lessons to the approval of the board of publication. The report of Miles White Jr. of Baltimore, treasurer, showed the total re- j ceipts of his office during the fiveyear period to have been $16,118.56 and expenditures $14,876.89. Murray S. Kenworthy of Richmond, Ind., reported for the Bible school commission, showing an average attendance of 13,558 in Sunday schools for 1911, with an average collection of $77.81 for the same period. James Wood, former president of the American Bible Society, said that the Bible is being printed in 110 different languages, and that its circulation among the colored people and poor white persons of the South has increased greatly. The delegates were glad to hear a message from the son of Timothy JXicholson, one of their number, who was injured by an automobile last week. The message stated that Mr. Nicholson is suffering only from bruis es and is recovering rapidly. William Charles Bralthwaite, a fraternal delegate from the English Quaker Church, spoke last night on "The Essentials of Quakerism." He pointed out that while the delegates gathered here represent the main body of those who call themselves Friends they are as different from the first Friends in manner of life and mode of thought as the New Englander of today is from the pilgrim fathers. Mr. Braithwaite decried the enLowrli. Mam. Beers are Promptly! W. JESSUP,

croachment of formality and cold organization into religious worship, and said the great initial success of Quakerism was due beyond all else so far as human means went, to the traveling "publishers of truth" as they called themselves, who carried the message far and wide.

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