Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 23, 6 December 1912 — Page 6
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THE BICHHOKD PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAJI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1912.
FOULKE PLEADS FOR THE MERIT SYSTEM Asks for Civil Service in Administrative Department of Government.
William Dudley Foolke pleaded with the National Civil Service association fci Itc annual convention at Milwaukee yei'erday for the elimination of politics from tne administrative work and the substitution of civil service. Mr. Foulke said, in part: "The application of competitive methods to the Federal clyl, service is now drawing! near its consummation. If we can maintain the present classified service in its entirety, including fourth class postmasters; if we can apply it to other postmasterships and to collectorships and strengthen it still further in the consular and diplomatic service; if we can extend it to a few of the higher remaining offices Including bureau chiefs; if we shall perfect a complete system of promotion with appropriate efficiency tests for weeding out the incompetent as well as for rewarding the meritorious, we shall have done the bulk- of our work as far as the general government is concerned. "We can. have no thoroughly efficient state and municipal governments until we have everywhere a state service and municipal service in which every purely administrative official is selected and retained solely on account of his merits and his fitness for the place he is to fill and until politics is wholly eliminated from administrative work. Politics is more injurious and less beneficial in our cities and other small municipal units than In any other place. National politics as such has no right there at all. "We must have the best expert service if we would really reform our city governments. How shall we get it? We can not get it by popular election. The people should be supreme in all questions of city policies, but our citizens can not know the qualifications of a great number of persons whom they vote for on a blanket ballot. The choice of these men by the City Council, or even by the personal direction of the mayor, is so far controlled by political bias and personal prejudice, and sometimes by ignorance as to the qualifications of candidates, that bad appointments are often, if not generally made.
BOWLING NOTES
The Keystones dropped two games to the Bonesetters last night. Rockhill featured by knocking over 220 pins in one game. His average of 190 was the high score of the evening. Starrs and Travelers tonight. Summary: Keystones. Green 155 170 179 Porter 141 122 134 Broderick 197 141 156 Rockhill 161 222 186 Blind 177 158 134 Total 831 813 789 Conesetters. Dr. Markley 162 171 155 Eikenberry 156 180 174 Dr. Bond 164 135 189 Dr. Harold 179 171 156 Sprouse 176 119 179 Total 837 776 853 Standing. W. K Pet. Keystones 17 7 .708 Giants ..16 8 .667 Iiihtenfels Socks .13 11 .541 Colonials 12 12 .500 Bonesetters 12 12 .500 Starr Piano 9 12 .419 Slims 8 16 .333 Travelers 6 15 .286
A Difference In'fcumsrals. Great Britain clings to its own numerical system and regards a billion as a ra liu times a millon. But Amerca diflv.s, a billion in the United States belli- only a thousand million. This is perhaps the only Instance in which a thing is bigger In the old country than in the new. One has to go only a little way from England to Calais to find the billion lessened, for France dignifies a thousand million with the name of billion. They are wasting a word in France in this connection, however. Inasmuch as there is already a word, milliard, to designate this number. Detroit Free Press.
Filled With Wonder. "1 was once a passenger on a train that was held up by a lone bandit" "Didn't it make you feel rather cheap to have to hold up your hands and stand there helpless while be went through your pockets?" Xo; I wasn't thinking of that My wife was with me, and I was so busy watching her while she was at last being compelled to do as a man told her to do that I had no time for anything else." Chicago Record-Herald.
Dreadful. I beard the missus talking about us." said the cook. "What did she sayr inquired the chambermaid. "She said we was neither of us anv good." "Ain't it terrible the way ladies talk bout one another nowadays? Washington Star.
MERCURY DROPS A drop of twenty-five degrees in the thermometer was noted in Richmond between 10 o'clock last night and 8 o'clock this morning. The weather yesterday was reminiscent of spring weather, and the drizzle in the eventag accentuated the impression. Shortly after 10 o'clock the mercury began to drop and this morning the auMthr til decidedly of a wintry na-
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A GASHTLY SUICIDE
Man Leaps from the Tenth Floor.
Left to right: Jimmy Shackard and Dode Paskert. Sheckard, the great little left fielder of the Chicago Cubs, proved to be the best man in the National League for outguessing the pitchers during the season of 1912. He worked the opposing twirlers for 122 passes. Pasket, the fleet outfielder of the Phillies, was second, with 91 "walks" to his credit.
ture. It is believed that cold weather
will be the order of the day.
(National News Association) NEW YORK, Dec. 6. J. C. Mallory, a guest of the Hotel Manhattan, committed suicide today by leaping from the tenth floor of the hostelry. After the body, clad only in pink pajamas,
had lain on the sidewalk for half an hour, it was identified by J. P. Turner, a brother-in-law who said that the
Lutheran Ex- dead man waB a member of the Mall
ory ramuy wnicn owns tne jviauory steamship line. At the office of the steamship line
Boys day wili be celebrated at the i this was denSed-
vvnen Aiaiiory leaped aeiiDeraieiy from the window his body struck the sidewalk directly in front of a young woman. She was overcome and fainted beside the suicide's body. She was later cared for by a physician.
English Lutheran Sunday school next Sunday. Special music will be a feature and the event will be a rally day service. Five hundred circulars were sent through the mails today requesting the boys, whose families are affiliated with the church, to attend the meeting. All boys under the age of one day or over one hundred years are excluded according to the circulars.
Taxing His Resources. Old Jones Can you give my daughfcr the luxuries ,to which she has been jeenstomed? Cbolly (engaged) Not much longer. That's why I want to fet married. Chicago News.
Hard Work. "Plodder is looking pale. He's Just lining himself with hard work." "What's he engaged at?" "Inventing a labor saving machine." -Puck.
PRINTERS' UNION TO SHOW WELFARE FILM The Palace theater has been rented by the Richmond Typographical union for Dec. 11 and 12, on which days a feature Him entitled, "A Curable Disease," will be shown. The film is brought here to show the public what the union is doing in fighting the great white plague. The film depicts scenes at the tuberculosis sanitarium at Colorado Springs. A story about a linotype operator who has contracted the disease is the theme about which the film evolves.
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STEAL A RIDE AND ARE CAUGHT Two Boys Arrested Here for Beating Their Way from Cincinnati.
Edward Rick and Ralph Morrison were arrested this afternoon at the C. & O. depot upon a complaint from the train crew of passenger train No. 1. running between Cincinnati and Chicago that they were beating their way on the train. Patrolman Lawler arrested the two young men who are not more than twenty years of age. They boarded the train at CincinnaU where they concealed themselves on the trucks under the diner. The boys had not ridden more than half the way to this city when dicovered. They were colu and nearly frozen. They were taken aboard the train and the police were notified when they reached this city. They will have to be dismissed or sent to Cincinnati for prosecution as the offense was not committed in this county. The boys told Patrolman Lawler a pitiful tale of how they were trying to get to their home in Chicago to spned their Christmas with their parents. They were both fairly well dressed, but "broke." They told the police they
had beat their way from Pittsburg where they had formerly been employed.
Hadn't 8n Him. The Vicar Did you see a pedestrian pass this way a few minutes ago? Farm Hand No, sir. I've been workIn on this tater patch more'n a nower. an notter thing has passed 'cept a solitary man. an' he was trampin' on foot. London Telegraph.
PLAVS AT AHDERSDH High School Team Opens the Season in that City.
The high school basketball team
will play the Anderson high school team this evening in that city. Several high school students have announced
their intention of accompanying the
team.
A full team and two substitutes was chosen last night by Coach Dietrich. It
will be necessary that the Richmond t
team put up its best article of ball tonight as the Anderson team is reported a strong one and will make its opponents 6tep some to carry off a victory. The local boys have been practicing hard for the game as they are anticipating the hardest game of the seaeon. Unless changes are made at the last minute the following men will form the line up for tonight's game: Forwards. Mayer, captain, and Quigg; Center, Genn; Guards, Thornburg and Lyons; Ball and Hart, subs.
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To Buy and Sell Bonds,, Notes and Property. V Articles of association were filed in the county recorder's office today by the Richmond Home Builders, a company formed of three Richmond men and one Greenville, O- man. The papers state that the capital of the company is $10,000. The purpose of the company is to buy and sell state, county, municipal, personal and corporate bonds, promissory notes, bills, etc, and to rent, lease, buy and sell real estate. The incorporators are Edwin G. Kemper. Oren A. Miller. Charles SchumalTer. of Richmond, and Charles Herr. of Greenville, O. The principal office will be in this city.
Forbidden Marriagas. A curious idea among the Burmese Is that people born on the same day of the week must not marry and that If they defy the fates their union will be marked by much ill luck. To prevent these disastrous marriages every girl carries a record of her birhtday in her name, each day of the week having a letter belonging to it. and all children are called by a name that begins with that letter. It Is rather hard If the Marys and Marks of Burma fall la love with each other, as in this country. Unlike other oriental lands, the young people are allowed to marry as taste dictates, subject only to the birthday restrictions.
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