Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 32, 17 December 1912 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLAD1U3I AS SUX-TELEGRA:.i. TUESDAY. DECEMBER IT, 1913.

"AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?"

No, Says Society, and What's More, I'll Skin Him Out of Every Cent I can if It's to My Interest to Do So. The Defenceless Must Go to the Wall.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. This in a curious world. And self Interest Is rampant. But not quite as rampant as it has been. We're getting round to the humanities. Slowly and circuitiously. But the day is coming when we'll arrive. And it's bound to come. You can't sidestep or deny it. Whatever you may or may not think of it, you'll have to admit it. "Am I my brother's keeper?" Perhaps not wholly so but in part, yes. And we can't keep things going s they are. We're going to have to change our attitude. This vaguely careened across the mind of the writer yesterday morning as she sat in that portion of the city building that is apportioned off by the municipality to the Board of Public Works.

And listened to the vaporings of

those who were for and against the opening of South Seventh street.

However this latter statement must

be modified.

No one 1b against the opening of

South Seventh street.

But one or two against the way it's

going to be opened.

The matter of the Harmon Swicker

damages has been brought up here before. And it is brought up again. Since it has assumed the propor

tions of a municipal problem and

many people are Interested In it who do not know Mr. Swicker or exactly

understand his position.

The fact is that no matter how they

ballywhack around, the old man is get ting a dirty deal from the ctty.

And the present city officials are not

altogether to blame for It.

Because they are more the victims

Df a system than its originators.

But there can be no doubt about it Mr. Harmon Swicker is getting the

worst end of It. And Mr. Swicker Is honest. He's also shrewd. You can't fool him.

He's being homswoggled out of his

property unfairly and he knows it. So does everybody else. Mr. Swicker is not against the open ing of South Seventh street.

In fact he has distinctly stated that

he Is not.

But the amount of compensation he

receives from the city is not commen surate with the damages he sustains.

The board of works room was tilled with those living in that end of town who want the street opened and think

Mr. Swicker or say they think is be

ing adequately compensated by the city. The scene reminded the writer of a hunted animal In a corner surrounded by a pack of dogs. Ready to jump on the former and crunch Its bones. Here's an old man fighting for his home. The other people say sell it. Let him sell it. We've made him a good offer. But perhaps an old man and his wife who have lived in the same house for thirty-three years want to keep on living in it. The individual has some rights that the municipality is bound to respect. However this is the more sentimental aspect of the question. One of the property owners who wants the street cut through said it was "bosh." There are certain varieties of "bosh" however that make the world habitable. This is one of them. The balance of the man's property will not be beuefited sufficiently by the opening of the street to repay him for the amount lost by that which the city will take over. Mr. Swicker is a public spirited citizen and the first president of the South Side Improvement Association. He has not, as his opponents affirm, any other money save that represented by this property. He has no funds invested.

No income save that which comes

from the fruit and garden which are the property's product.

He is an old man seventy-four years

of age.

He Is too feeble to work hard. He has no children to assist him. The lots which will be left and

which will face Seventh street will not be especially desirable since they will be but seventy-five feet deep after the

sixteen foot alley is taken off and five

feet subtracted by the necessary terracing to the street.

These lots have no sewer connec

tion.

The board of works, the city attor-

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part of the proposition and wigwagged i full size package, postpaid. it round to obscure the real point.

The point is that, as Mr. Swicker

said, sewer connection can be made, but it will cost to do so.

Mr. Swicker did not say in his state

ment which he read before the board that sewer connection could not be made.

He said that it was not made and would have to be made. And that after it was done the lots would not pay for their cost. The whole thing was more or less

amusing.

That is the pother and dust raised by the authorities and the lobby. They seized on the sewer connection aside like a drowning man grabs at a life preserver. They begged the point at issue. The point at issue is this: Mr. Swicker does not object to Sev-

That the property owners, outside j the corporation who want to come tn, j want those on this side to stand the ! cost. Mr. Swicker will undoubtedly have j

to mortgage what remains of his home for at least $1000. He has no income and no wages. What he asks is an adequate compensation for the land the city takes away. There's no use dancing round the point. The writer says and will always continue to say that the city doesn't need any street opened bad enough to rob an old man of his property. The matter is simple enough.

Let the city pay .Mr. swicker in accordance with the damage they are doing him. And that's what they aren't doing so far.

Cured. A cat which had the habit of taking its food under the sofa annoyed its mistress so much that at last her husband said he would cure it of the trick. "Co off to bed. lass: lenve it rue." said he. "All reet. Ueorpe; but. mind you. d not hurt the iKr thing:" George was so lin;c downstairs that his wife was asleep when he turned in. The next morning, however, she asked how he had gt on with the cat. "Oh. 1 sawed its legs off:" said George. "What, the cat's?" "No. no; the sofa's"' London Express.

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HANDKERCHIEF DEPT. Ladies' fine embroidered handkerchiefs at 10c, loc and 25c. Men's fancy handkerchiefs at 5c, 10c, 15c and 25c.

SHOES FOR ALL THE FAMILY. Many nice things in Ladies' Fur Trimmed Slippers at 9Sc pair. Children's Red Felt Slippers at SOc. Children's Red Embroidered Felt Slippers at 75c. Children's Fur Trimmed Slippers, 98c. Men's Embroidered House Slippers at 50c. Men's Dong. Kid Slippers, tan and black, 98c to $1.25.

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LADIES' FANCY COLLARS. Silk and Embroidered Collars at 25c. Fancy Embroidered Collar and Cuff Sets, special, 25c. Fancy Silk Persian pattern Jabots at 25c. Special value Ladies' Embroidered Collars at 10c and 15c.

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