Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 10, 21 November 1912 — Page 8

THE UlCHiXOND "PALULDIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY. XOVE3IBER 21, 1012.

PAGE EIGHT.

QUEER ANGLE 111 A CITnHDIHAHCE Compels Residents to Take Out Licenses and Exempts Non-residents.

EVERYBODY CAN WRITE

And the Experts Say that Better Stuff Is Being Published by the Magazines Than Ten Years Ago, but the Public Wants to Be Shown.

That the city council has passed an ordinance which gives an advantage to non-residents of Indiana over resident merchants -was discovered at the meeting of the board of works this morning. The police department has been aware of the presence of agents soliciting pictures to enlarge. They have been doing a thriving business enlarging photographs. The agents take a small photograph and send it to Chicago where it is enlarged. Believing this act to be a violation of a city ordinance passed by council Oct. 10, 1910, the police Interviewed some customers of the agents to ascertain how the agents conducted their business. Chief Gormon then took up the matiter with City Attorney Gardner who

carefully investigated the ordinance

and the interstate commerce law. It was found that if agents are non-residents of Indiana,' they are not under the Jurisdiction of the ordinance. If the police attempted to stop the agents the authorities would be violat

ing the interstate commerce laws, ex- j we

plained Mr. Gardner. Chief Gormon holds that agents 1 working the scheme are likely to get jinto trouble when they sell frames. Kro sell a frame an agent must have a llicense. If an agent, when he delivers (the portrait, attempts to sell a frame ifor the picture he violates the city ordinance,-is the opinion of Chief Gormon. The ordinance passed by council ;provides for the licensing of itlneriant traveling and transient photographers making photographs and also persons canvassing for enlargements made in crayon, and fixes penalties for the offense. The ordinance may be changed by council, as it now compells a photographer or salesman of this city or state to pay for a license, while an outsider can do the same soliciting without paying a license fee. Many of the book agents who are selling their wares about this city are insulting, according to. Mayor Zimmerman, who further stated that he would like to see an ordinance passed which would prevent the selling of wares in this city by non-residents. The mayor would have all persons doing this work branded as trespassers.

SIGNAL MESSAGES.

and

Beacon Fires Were First Used,

Then Came Semaphores. Signal fire telegraphing, with its very limited scope of information contained. stms. to bare - been about tbe only mentis of communicating quickly across distances until relatively modern times. It wan not until the days of the French revolution that any material improvement Over the beacon tire telegraph developed. Three brothers named Chnppe devised the semaphore telegraph. This system got into active operation in 1704. and the first real mesHiitre ever spelled out and telegraphed serous country ' was in that year, and the test was as follows: "Conde Is taken from tbe Austrian." The same day the national convention, sitting in Paris, pent back the following reply to the army: "The army of the north deserves the gTHtitude of the country." The semaphore operators attained a

Med of three letters a minnte in One weather, with an average ot one a minute over long distance. Thl mndf, necessary the invention of condensed

codes, which came Into tashiou New York Telephone itevlew.

Nerve Rewarded. "Now. Klliy." said the yonng man' father, "I've tonnd a hue Job tor yon a Job which will. It you atteod strictly to business, give you a splendid cnaucM to rise." "Wbat ia the nature of the Job?" ' Voa've seen some or tbe big buildlugs in course ot construction, haven t your" " V es" "Have you ever noticed bow tbe great iron beams are lifted id their places V" "Sure." "Well, a friend of mine, who is a contractor, has agreed to use yon to stand ou the beams and balance them as they are hoisted. I told Uim about the splendid uerve you naa exhibited in sitting around and permitting me to support you. and be agreed that you would Ih Just the man tor tbe Job." Chicago Kecord-Herald.

A Difference. He Don't you think that some of her sayings are smart? She They aren't, but thev do Hronklvn Life.

BY E8THER GRIFFIN WHITE. Certainly the public swallows a lot of pabulum. Especially in its magazines. The other day the writer caw a statement from the head of some New York school of Journalism to the effect that better short stories were being handed into the periodicals nowadays than ever before in the history of this class of Action. That Robert Louis Stevenson and Maupassant are skinned a city block any day in the week. And that the art of the fenilleton is now at its apogee. This may be more or lesB true. It is, of course, up to the schools cf journalism to make It so. Since that works up trade. Because Monsieur the professor

stated it was largely owing to training. That the art of writing or rather the mechanics of writing is something anybody can learn. Come all ye ill-chosen and learn how to punctuate and make copy and

wMl turn you out a gentlemanly

Journalist at so much per.

Maybe schools of "Journalism" are all right. No doubt they are. Or so canny an editor as Mr. Pulitier wouldn't "have left a fortune to found one. All the same the best school of journalism is in a newspaper office. This column has some practical knowledge of these college trained newspaper men and never could see that they had anything on the unlicked cub that strayed in from the street and asked for a job. With the odds in favor of the latter. Because, with no preconceived notions to handicap him, he was more amenable to editorial discipline. And that is the thing the raw recruit has to learn. Generally, too, doesn't like it. Every city editor has his own Ideas of what constitutes a "story" and how it should be written. Especially as to how it should be written. His ideas may not be according to Hoyle and may, indeed, carry out ineffectually and ineffectively. But he thinks he knows. And he has the authority to enforce his dictums whatever they may be. The average reporter must therefore be a well trained soldier. He's got to obey orders or be shot before sunrise. Which being translated means that if he doesn't write as directed by his superior he will "get the can." Be thrown out root and branch. There is little dallying by the way when it comes to a clash between the reporter and his chief. "If you don't like it get out," says the autocrat of the city room. However, it's good discipline. Whether the city editor is right or wrong or only half and half in his manner of wedding theory to practice, it's experience that the cub gets. And it's experience that he needs. , There is something glorious about it, too. Exilaraflng. It gives tang and

zest to the game. i For the newspaper game is the greatest of them all. Once started in : the pursuit of its quarry always oc I the trail. And It's because life is seer I from every angle. Not one, as is that ' of the other professional man, who.

in the end, becomes biased or warped or set hard in a mold. The average newspaper worker if apt to be catholic in his sympathies. With a good humoured sardonicism that is not the least of his professional attractions. But this if off the mark. Perhaps it may be true that better magasine fiction Is being offered the editors and, in turn, the public, than ever before. But that it rivals that of Maupassant, say, seems questionable. For some of the stories this great Gallic literary artist has produced have never been equalled. As to Stevenson Stevenson was, in his way, tn incomparable artist. But It is not at all undenied, that this excessive SJevenson-mania is a trifle forced. The public is getting a bit weary of the effusions of his friends and the sky-rocketings of his admirers. It is to be doubted if his life was really worth so far as its influence on humanity is concerned all the ponderous volumes, the magazine tomes, and the innumerable publica-

j tion of letters. Another batch of which

has just been foisted upon the readers of a certain periodical. Stevenson's name will live.

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Children

Must Have Good light for Studying; A poor light strains the eyes, and the injurious effects may ; last for life. An oil lamp is best The light from the Rayo Lamp is soft and mellow. You can read or work under it! for hours without hurting your eyes. TU RAYO ie ctra ct.i ecUatfflemJy. Itietk

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But as the author of Dr. Jekyll and

Mr. Hyde not as the writer of his stories of adventure or his sea yarns.

Because the former embodies in its

narrative a universal human experi

ence.

Or, rather, a postulate that is as

wide as the universe and which has existed from the beginning of man.

It is this that makes a work of art live. It must have within it that which ramifies to the remotest human outpost. Art, In its best expression, is merely the vizualization or the concrete expression of that which is universal. Or impinges on canvas, in marble,

the printed page or through the harmony of sound something humanly poignant. Stevenson is a writer for the few except in one instance. And that's the Instance that will impale him on the pinnacle of fame. As to the pronouncement of the professorno doubt it is true after a fashion. Th magazines are full of good stories. Stories admirably written. Written much better than they were, perhaps, a generation ago when every college and university and, indeed, high school did not have an English department where the young of the species are taught how to do it. And this is well enough. If they would be content merely with the knowledge without trying to put it into actual play. Very few persons continue their laboratory experiments after leaving school. But the fact that they have a knowledge of chemistry, say, broadens their comprehension of life. It should be the same with the operations of the English departments. But it is not. It is curious how many persons think they can write. This has been animadverted upon before but it is worth commenting on again. Why anybody can write. They can't paint or compose or model but they can write. Pshaw! Hand me the pad and pen

cil, give me a seat at the typewriter , rriT?ATT?l? TTT TTIM TLf ATM

Prof? It's dead easy. And the magazines show it. For never before were they so

full

DIES FROM INJURIES

(Palladium Special)

MILTON, Ind.. Nov. 21. Friends

of short stories well told and about and relatives of Isham Gregory, a fornothing. ; mer resident of this place, attended

iNever were mere more perfectly his funeral at Crestes Monday. En-

constructed skeletons

Never was there such a comprehensive knowledge of anatomy. But the skeleton is not covered with flesh in which runs the red blood of life. The anatomical structure is not rounded out with that which gives it

its glory, its color

power. Everybody's doing it. But it only conduces to a high level of mediocrity. For, after all. the thing itself is as elusive as the dawn. And you'll get it through a human medium that has never been within the purlieus of an English department or a school of journalism. You will find it in the latter, of

course may find it. But you're just as apt to scoop it off the ash-heap. It's the thing Itself. That intense, splendid and wonderful essence that ends in creation. That bites and eats and corrodes. You- can't teach this in schools. You can't teach It anywhere. It's there or it isn't.

And it's the concentrated beauty of ,

the universe.

route from here where he had visited Mrs. Rebecca Lowrey, his mother-in-law, Gregory stopped at Indianapolis to visit his son. When leaving a street car he was thrown to the pavement, suffering injuries to his head that caused death. Some time elapsed

before his identity was established

and itS hVDnOtlC 1 I Jo o o iriontifiori Viv a inH tslon I

to a house which proved to be the one in which his son was living.

A Familiar Path. "Well. Jorrocks. I understand you are to lead Mrs. Wlntrlngham-Jones-Hmythe to the altar." said Bubbleton. "Not on your life." returned Jorrocks. Sh' knows the way. Tin just goiug along." Harper's Weekly.

CONTROL OF" TEMPER. Temper itself is not a bad quality. It is not to be destroyed, as we sometimes say. Without temper a bar of steel becomes like lead. A man without temper is weak and worthless. We are to learn self control A strong person is one who has a strong temper under perfect mastery. There is a deep truth here that our mistakes and our sins, if we repent of them, will help in the growth and upbuilding of our character.

WERNLE HOME IS GIVEN A LICENSE

The Jerboa. The Jerboa, which 1 found In the deserts of Nubia and Syria, resembles a very small kangaroo and has a rich brown fur. On tbe first alarm it leaps over the ground with lightning rapidity and disappears in Its burrow.

The state board of charities ia its final session at Indianapolis yesterday approved the recommendation of the license committee that a license be Issued to the Wernle Orphans' home, southeast of this city. Licenses are

j issued to all orphanages of the state

that comply with the regulations of the board. The committee accepted the report of the committee which investigated alleged mistreatment of patients at

j the village for epileptics at New Cas

tle. The committee found that reports of mistreatment were unfounded that the patients of the institution are la, good hands.

Tonight at the Coliseum, Capt. Ilobson and Ex-Gov. Hanly in joint debate. Subject: "The World Disarmed."

Clear Case of Bunko. During a New York performance of "Rip Van Winkle" by the late Joseph Jefferson, the theater manager, who was standing in the lobby, observed a countryman hovering about the entrance in an uncertain way. Finally, as with a determination to go the limit, the countryman bought a ticket and entered the house. A little while after the manager happened to be in the lobby again, when the countryman came out with an expression of Intense disgust upon his face. "Well, how do yon like the show?" the manager inquired, with secret amusement The irate farmer grew confidential. "Say. mister," he replied. "I'm goin' tow have a mighty hard time splnlnin tew Marandy what I done with them tew dollars, but you kin bet I won't tall her I paid it tew sea an old feller fill up on licker an go tew sleep when I could 'a' gone up tew ther tavern at ther Corners an' 'a seen old Bill Hardtree dew it fer no thin!' "

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