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THE RICHMOXD PAliLADIUJI AND SUX-TELEGRAM, WEDXKSD AY,FEBRUA UY 5, 1913.

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Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. New York Representatives Payne & Young, 30-34 West 33d Street, and 29-35 West 32nd Street, New York. N. Y. Chicago Representatives Payne & Young. 747-748 Marquette Building, Chicago. 111. 7 . , . k k no ftiean Advertisers k eatJ i A .,rl -rlificd to u- .'rioa of this pub lication. THefisiresofcirculau aonteined in tito Associations report only are guaranwed. taiation cf American Mvefusws - . ski ftA.. N Whitehall Bins., h i. .? EDITORIAL VIEWS BLUE SKY VARIETIES. No little public sentiment has been crystallized behind a demand for the enactment by the Nebraska legislature of what is known as a "blue sky" law. The suggestion comes origanally from Kansas, where venders of stocks,, bonds and other paper securities are compelled before offering them for sale to get the approval of the state authorities as a safeguard Against the coining of their "blue sky" into good currency of the realm. That outrageous imposition has been practiced, untold hardship imposed on unsuspecting victims, and much money poured into distant ratholes which could, and should be used for legitimate enterprises at home, can be easily established, and the argument in fovor of a"blue sky" law Is incontrovertible. But there are numerous varieties of "blue sky" palmed oft as the genuine article in other lines besides the sale of stocks and bonds. The essence of "blue sky" is also there when a real estate dealer works off a section of the saDd hills by representing it to be fertile loam or unloads a bottomless pit for a valuable city building lot. The essence of "blue sky" is likewise there in greater or lesses degree when a' merchant dumps shoddy goods on ignorant customers at watered stock prices or fills an order for a custommade suit of clothes with a ready"Blue sky" is a very expansive and elastic conception, and after we tal'.e the "blue sky" out of stocks and bonds there will still be plenty of it left. Omaha Bee. A NEW DANCE CODE. It may be a . good thing that the turkey trot, bunny hug, dizzy liz and the whole list of dances with objectionable names, came into existence. They appear to have stirred the country about dancing In a way that all the preaching against it has never been able to do. Not that all the fuss Is going to stop dancing, or restrict 't to any extent. It. has directed atention to objectionable possibilities In dancing and bids fair to reform it. Tn a way it has emphasized all that Billy Sunday and a long line of severe moralists have been saying against dancing. And for that reason it is a good thing that these sensational capers have so excited the country. For example, up at Weliesley college, If reports in the papers are to be credited, the faculty have drawn the lines pretty tight. Dancing has not been abolished, but it has been reconstructed, as It were. New rules have gone into effect, and the faculty will see to it that they are enforced, we are told. Young men dancing with the college girls are not permitted to be closer than three inches. They must under no circumstances so place the arm around the young lady's waist as to afford an opportunity for a surreptitious hug. There are other rules as well. To many they sound absurd. They may be Impossible of enforcement, and again they may be the start of a new code of dance etiquette. It Is entirely proper for a young man to shake hands with a young woman. It may be shockingly improper to kiss her. Why is it not possible to educate boys and girls to n sense of the proprieties in dancing? Dayton News. Coeur Le Lion Lodge meets every Tuesday night Next Tuesday Feb. 4th the district deputy will be present to exemplify the secret work of the new ritual. ELKS ) r Meet Every J Thursday Night

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M unicipal Franchises.

Two or three weeks ago the Palladium urged that the board of public works defer action on the bid of the Richmond City Water Works company for a new contract until the legislature had taken action on the public utilities commission measure, which advice was followed, for it reflected the general opinion of Richmond people. It now appears that the board acted more wisely than it at first anticipated, for there are provisions in the commission form of government bill, which has passed the senate and will undoubtedly go through the house, which affect a radical change Sn the disposition of municipal contracts, grants and franchises to public utility corporations, and it is the humble opinion of the Palladium that the new system proposed under the Stotsenburg bill is a vast improvement over the system now obtaining. Richmond people are showing the greatest interest in the bill which is to change the form of government for this city, and the Palladium, from time to time, will set forth the important features of the Stotsenburg measure. It has previously explained how elections are conducted under the proposed law, and what the duties of the mayor and the four commissioners would be. To explain the method provided for the issuance of municipal franchises, contracts and grants, and the control of the same, it is best to quote the bill directly: No franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges or public places in any city shall be granted, renewed or extended except by ordinance; also no franchise or grant for interurban or street railways, gas or water works, electric light or powerplants, heating plants, telegraph or telephone systems, or public service utilities shall be granted within said city; renewed or extended, except by ordinance; be-, fore any such ordinance shall be granted the same shall be approved by a majority of the council (the mayor and the four commissioners) and published twice each week for two weeks in two daily newspapers of said city of general circulation and said ordinance shall be finally approved after such publication by two-thirds vote of the council of said city. Such publication shall be paid for by the person or corporation receiving such grant. Any such franchise or grant shall remain on file in the mayor's office for a period of forty-five days after its approval by the council, subject to a referendum vote as hereinafter provided. Sec. 17. Such council shall have the right and power to require compensation to such city for any franchise, license, grant or contract for interurban or street railway, steam railway, gas, water works, electric or power plant, heating plant, telegraph or telephone system or other public service utility within such city, which compensation shall be paid either in cash at the time of the acceptation of such franchise, license, grant or contract, or in installments annually during the continuance of the same. Said council shall have the right and power to sell any such franchise, license, grant or contract for cash, after at least a thirty (30) days' notice of such sale has been given in such public newspapers as such council may order. And said council in the ordinance covering the same shall provide for a minimum price therefor, and no bid for less than such minimum price shall be accepted by such city for such grant. Sec. 18. Any ordinance concerning a franchise, grant or privilege required by section sixteen (16) hereof to be published before its final passage shall not go into effect within forty-five days from the time of its final approval; if during said forty-five days a petition signed by electors of the city equal in number to at least twenty-five per centum of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding municipal election at which a major was elected, protesting against the passage of such ordinance, be presented to the mayor, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going into operation; it shall then be the duty of the council to reconsider such ordinance and if the same is not entirely repealed within ten days the board of election commissioners shall submit the ordinance to a vote of the electors of the city, either at a general or special municipal election to be called for that purpose, and such ordinance, shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority of the qualified voters voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. If the petition shall be found to be sufficient the board of election commissioners shall make or cause to be made publication of notice and all arrangements for holding such election. The election shall be conducted and the result thereof declared in all respects as are other city elections. The commissioners shall fix a day for holding the city election not less than sixty days or more than ninety days from the date of the filing of said petition with the city clerk. The ballots used in voting upon the said ordinance shall contain these words: "For the ordinance." "Against the ordinance." (State the nature of the proposed ordinance.) If the majority of the qualified electors voting upon the proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of the city, otherwise it shall be deemed void and shall not go into effect.

Fighting ihe Navy Again. An effort is to be made to have the Democratic caucus in the lower house of congress declare for a "no-battleship" program this session on the grounds of economy. Such action would be about as economical as to abolish the treasury department to reduce the number of government employes. The American people are sick and tired of the idiotic and unpatriotic policy certain majority leaders in congress have pursued in regard to national defense, for the people have realized that the United States can no longer maintain its position as a world power on mere bluff. No American is ambitious to have his country rival Great Britain as a naval power, but those who take a sensible view ofthe question of national defense know that so long as a small army is to be maintained the United States must keep on the seas a navy which can at least measure up to the strength of the German and Japanese fleets. If congress declines to appropriate for battleships at this session it is to be hoped that the flag will be hauled down in our insular possessions, the Panama Canal neutralized and the Monroe Doctrine thrown into the waste basket. All are dependent on the efficiency of the naval arm of our military service. As to those persons who argue for the decrease in the armaments of this republic on the ground that it will never have another war, let them remember that every foreign war the United States has engaged in was forced upon this country.

This Date In History FEBRUARY 5. 1783 Sweden recognized the independence of the Unitrd States. 1788 Sir Robert Peel, famous English statesman, born. Died July 2, 1850. 1813 Admiral Warren, of the British navy, declared a blockade of Chesapeake Bay. 183" Dwigbt I... Moody, famous evangelist, born in Northfield, Mass. Died there, Dec. 22, 1899. 1867 City of Mexico evacuated by the French troops. 1901 L. P. Erodeur elected Speaker of the Dominion Hous of Commons. 1912 King George and Queen Mary arrived home from Inaia. This is My 55th Birthday M anion Pitney, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Morristown, N. J., February 5, 1858. He obtained his early education in the schools of his native town and entered Princeton College in 1875 and was graduated in 1879. Upon graduation he at once began the study of law in the office of his father, Vive Chancellor Pitney, who was then practicing in Morristown. lie was admitted to the bar in 1SS2 and opened a law office in Dover,

where he remained until 1889, when he returned to Morristown. Mr. Pitney was elected to Congress in 1894, as the Republican candidate in a strongly Democratic district. After serving two terms he retired from Congress and in 1898 he was elected to the New ersey senate, of which body he became presidentin 1901. In the same year he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of New Jersey and In 1908 he was appointed chancellor by Governor Fort. On February 19. 1912, President Taft named Justice Pitney to fill the vacancy on the supreme bench occasioned by the death of Justice Harlan.

CONGRATULATIONS TO. Rear Admiral Charles T. Hutehins, U. S. A., retired, 69 years old today. ? Simeon E. Baldwin, governor of Connecticut, 73 years old today. , Bryant B. Brooks, former governor of Yoming, 52 years old today. j John Walter Smith, United States ! senator from Maryland, 68 years old I today. . i Maxine Elliott, one of the most pop- j ular actresses of the American stage, 42 years old today. Sir Hiram S. Maxim, famous for his ; inventions of firearms and explosives, l 7S years old today. The English of It. He Too have bad a week' now to think of my proposal of marriage. She -Yes. and the more I think f It the! t tiJtik of It-Cincinnati Kd-

Have Color in Your Cheeks Be Better Looking Try Olive Tablets

If your skin is yellow complexion pallid tongue coated appetite poor J a bad taste in your mouth a lazy, j no good feeling you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets a substitute for calomel were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. These Olive Tablets oil the bowels yet have no oily taste. They are a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. If you want a clear pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feling of buoy ancy like childhood days, you must get at the cause. Olive Tablets act I on the liver and bowels like calomel yet have no dangerous after effects. : They start the bile and overcome constipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. "Every little Olive Tablet has a movement all its own." Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing results. The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, Ohio. ( Advertisement) r The Masonic Calendar Wednesday Webb Lodge No. 24. F. & A. M. Called Meeting. Work in Master Mason Degree. Refreshments. Thursday Wayne Council, No. 10, R. & S. M. Stated Assembly. Friday King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called Convocaton. Work in Royal Arch Degree. Refreshments. JEER AND BULLETS. 3eriou3 and Ugly Wounds From Which the Animals Recover. "If all deer that are wounded in the course of the hunting season and succeed in getting out of the way of the hunter should wander away and die the woods wonld contain many more dead deer than are taken away," said an old hunter. "But all of them do not wander off and die a loss to the hunter. "Deer hare great recuperatiTe powers. It is no sign that a deer is doomed to go off and die because it is badly wounded. I have killed many a deer that gave evidence' of having been so severely wounded that its having survived to take the range again seemed almost miraculous. "I once shot and killed a buck that had a rifle bullet encysted near the 6kln of the left shoulder, but there was no wound on the outside of the skin to sliow that it had entered the deer there. Investigation showed a wound. ! long healed, near the top of the right shoulder, unmistakably made by that rifle bullet, which must have passed clear through the deer to the left shoulder, where its speed was spent and it lodged just under the skin. "Besides that severe wound that deer had been pretty well filled some time or other by buckshot, for I took oat nine from one side of him. where they had broken several of his ribs. These two ugly wounds had been inflicted at different times, and in spite of them he was in splendid condition and I had to give him two shots from a Winchester before I stopped him." New York Sun. An Empty Honor. "I hear the ladies of your church got up a purse for the parson," safd Wiggleton. "Yes." said Dabbs. "And was the old gentlemanpleased?" "Well no. Yon see." said Dabbs, 'after they'd got up the purse they couldn't raise any money to put in it" Huiper's. Vague. "My husband Is really rerj attentive. Yesterday be bought me a dozen veils." Meggendorfer Blatter. Etwt norae seeds Sani-Flush tor the health inJ comfort of those in it. It deodorizes, disinfects, makes sloset bowls sanitary. Shake a little ? this powder into the toilet bowl twica a week. Sani-Flush deans Water-Closet Bowls Makes them clean and white u new. Cannot hart the plumbing. 25c a can At yemr trerr I Meet Me at I Caskey's Stock Sale ! I Wednesday, Feb. 12 !

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They Are in Favor of An Eight Hour Law Even if Employers Say They Aren't. If Christianity Were Christian We Wouldn't Need Legislation.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. i A progressive movement always 1 meets with opposition. No matter what its character. And the eight hour law for women is no exception to the rule. Local employers have been quoted in the public prjnts to the effect that "working girls" don't want it. It has been stated that the girls themselves have so expressed it direct. No doubt the statement by employers is true enough. Girls who have to make their living and are dependent upon the whims of an employer would naturally say, if asked by the latter, that the present state of affairs suited them well ! enough, or evade a direct answer. Why? For fear, jtossibly. of losing their "jobs." And for other reasons of policy. Some have been quoted as saying they would prefer a nine hour working day with a Saturday half holiday. But this is provided for in the proposed law. That is. the law has been so amended that it covers provisions of this and kindred character. So that this statement would mean nothing in particular. . " i The truth is that, if a poll were taken, very few girls or women would be found to vote against the eight hour law. Eight hours, as has been stated, is long enough for anybody to work at anything. The labor unions recognise this. And their eight hour propaganda is based on sound economic and physical reasons. An individual's efficiency is equal to his physical endurance. A man in good condition can do twice the effective work in eight hours that one unfit physically can do in ten or twelve. An employer's output may, therefore, be increased or made more valuable by the adoption of the eight hour system. Legislation governing working schedules will continue to be enacted. Or attempts in that direction made. Society is evoluting toward a different ideal than set by industrialism. It is begining to see the value of leisure to humanity. It is groping toward a readjustment of social values. Its efforts result, of course, in chaos and entanglement. But it is all moving in the right direction. And the end will be an equilibrium that is not now possible to imagine. The world has see-sawed back and forth, the pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other but a balance has never been hit. And never will be hit under present conditions. And only when the spirit of Christ prevails will the balance be struck. Humanity has been long in coming to this realization. Long in seeing that the philosophy of the one Perfect Man is that alone which can govern its activities. We have had eiclesiasticlsm, we have had puritanism, we have had agnosticism and other fermentings of the human animal in his search for spiritual manifestation and religious adjustment. But we have never had Christianity. There is a thing we call Christianity. It is supposed to govern the national and racial activities of the civilized world. What is, also termed "civilized." It dates from the foundation of the Christian church. Which was formulated by the followers of the Perfect Man. And is presumably actuated by His spirit. But it isn't.

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For if it were there would be no racial or national demarkation. no religious creed, no class distinction. The spirit of Christ is the great human leveler. It is the purifier. It is the crucible through which human passions are strained. If it prevailed we would have no need for legislatures. No occasion for passing eight hour or any other laws. There would be no wars. No armaments. No battle-ships. No gun-powder. Political parties would not exist. Industrial wrangling would cease. There would be no such condition as that symbolized by Labor and Capital. Bitterness and feuds and ugliness and horror would disappear. For "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." is its slogan and the Sermon on the Mount its creed. The ten commandments have ruled society long enough. It is ready for something else. Something positive. Not negative. It is grasping toward the "do" not the "do not," For there is nothing either good or bad. It is merely the "thinking" that makes them so. And. under the reign of the spirit of Christ, all the thinking would be the good. And the bad would not disappear. It simply would not be. For it has never existed. It is a fulmlnation of the human

Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know It Weak and unhealthy kidneys arejey of kidney disease. While kidney

probably responsible for more sickness and suffering than any other disease, therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble is permitted to continue, serious results are sure to follow. tion-but your kidneys most, because they do most and should have aMen - ' 1 i ion first. If you feel that your kidneys are the cause of your sickness or run down condition commence taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, because as soon as your kidneys begin to improve they will help all the other organs to health. Prevalency of Kidney Disease

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brain a fantasy a blur a blot on the 'scutcheon. There is nothing sillier no spectacle more sardonic than the foregathering of the "good' to pass upon the iniquities of lb. -bad." Everybody's good nobody's bad. Everyone's bad no-one's g codIt's the simplest thing in the world take the Perfect Man as a model.

' his philosophy as your guide and j The whole social fabric wllf be adjusted as easily as jelly roared into a moid. When the church when the churches realize this, we will have Christianity. As long as they continue in tbeir j ' t rsi ut va vv 9) cv . " viii tin its. ! The church has little effect uowa- ! days. j That is that symbolized thing we icall "the church." The Roman Catholic church perhaps comes nearer realizing a cer'ain religious ideal than any other. But the sects are an absurdity. And the whole religious scheme of i things this thing called Christianity ! will have to In HTmeated with the spirit and philosophy of Christ before positive spiritual progress will be made by humanity. ! "What's this got to do with the eight hour law," inquired the man at ithe next desk. I "Nothing at all or everything, as ! you may hapien to look at it," replied the other person. TRY CASCA-ROYAL PILLS TONIGHT. Constipation. biliousness. bad stomach, coated tongue, languor and liver trouble are quickly corrected by Blackburn's Casca-Royal Pills. Better than castor oil. 10c and 25c at all drug stores. - Striking Clocks. According to historians, the first striking clock was imported into Europe by the Persians tout S(X1 A. 1. It was brought as a present to Cbarlemagne from Alxlella, king of Persia, by two monks of Jerii!alem. disorders are the most common diseases thatprevail. they are about the last recognized by patient or physician, who usually content themselves with doctoring the effects, while the original disease constantly undermines the system. A Trial Will Convince A.iyone. The mild and imedlate effect of Swamp-Root, the great kidney, lirer and bladder remedy, is soon realised. It stands the highest for Its remarkable results in the most distressing ; cases. Symptoms of Kidney Trouble. Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything but If you are obliged to pass your water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation in passing, brickdust or sediment In the urinr, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, 'T!?' . i""1" , v. V v.,.. t flam ivsn-i ta evs hlAatlna ispltaMlttw tlsm. lumbago, bloating, irritability. Jwornout feeling, lack of ambition. maybe loss of flesh, sallow complexion, or Bright' disease may be stealing upon you, which is the worst form of lddney trouble. Swamp-Root Is Pleasant to Take. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, yon can purchase the regular fifty-cent and