Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 76, 7 February 1913 — Page 4

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EDITORIAL VIEWS

IS IT A JOKER. (Lafayette Journal.) The Indiana senate has passed the Stotsenburg bill which, if it becomes a law, will permit the cities of Lafayette, East Chicago, Hammond, Elkhart, Logansport, Marion, Muncle, Richmond and New Albany to adopt the commission form of government. The bill is unreasonable and illogical. If the commission form of government is good for nine cities of the state it is good for all cities. The action of the senate in naming only nine cities is jiot" understood and it arouses suspicion. ' There is little likelihood of the bill becoming a law. The Democrats have prospects of controlling all these cities and using each as a cog in the political machine. The Democratic house will doubtless think twice before voting to weaken the Democratic organization. The commission form of government makes party organization in local affairs almost an impossibility. The Stotsenburg measure is modeled after the Des Moines plan. Included in it are the initiative, referendum and recall. At a primary election the people would nominate two candidates for mayor and eight candidates for commissioners. These nominations are made irrespective of politics. There is no limit to the number of citizens who may be candidates in the primary. Consequently the opposing candidates for mayor may belong to the same party and eight candidates for commissioner might belong to the same party. Each commissioner becomes the head of a city department and is a member of the board of which the mayor is president. The commission form of government is founded on the theory that party government in cities is corrupt, that it interferes with public business and should be destroyed. If the Stotsenburg will should become a law the people of Lafayette will have an opportunity to vote on adoption of the system. But one can't help suspecting some political scheme in designating only nine cities on which to try the commission form. It is reported that the Stotsenburg measure was rushed through only to block a far more popular bill that would include all cities. Under the circumstancs there is no occasion for entering into a serious consideration of the commission form of government.

A Backward Step.

the Hughes highway commission bill. There may have been some features j of the measure which were not satisfactory, but as a whole the plan provided I

was an excellent one and its minor defects could have been remedied by amendments. For years farmers have been demanding good roads, but it was through their efforts that the bill prepared by the Indiana Good Roads association was defeated, so our highways must be neglected for two more years at least. There is only one way to maintain a system of good roads and that is to place them under the supervision of competent experts. Just so long as farmers and railroad contractors are permitted to care for the highways, Indiana will retain its reputation as a state of bad roads, for it matters not how many laws are passed for the building of good roads, such cannot be obtained so long as the state refuses to maintain them after construction.

Heart toHeart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

Those London Ladies.

The tactics being pursued by the militant suffragettes of London in their strenuous efforts to secure the ballot for their sex are not so unnatural when one pauses to consider that all of them come from good , Anglo-Saxon stock, which race has had a habit of fighting for its rights for many centuries. These London suffragettes exhausted all the diplomacy at their command to secure votes for women, and, failing, resorted to the characteristic Anglo-Saxon recourse war. A few hundred years ago King Charles I of England became exceedingly unpopular with most of his subjects and carelessly failed to heed their protests, so they buckled on their swords and conducted the short-sighted Charles to a block where his head was skilfully removed. Since that time Englishmen have had very little trouble with their monarchs. Two centuries ago certain Anglo-Saxons residing on the North American continent became dissatisfied with treatment accorded them by Anglo-Saxons who made up the population of the "tight little isle" across the sea, so they proceeded to give their cousins a sound beating. Since that time the American people have governed themselves. No taxation without representation for them. Never! Of course the sex war now raging in London is not being conducted along the recognized lines of masculine warfare, but so long as the embattled ladies of London cannot carry magazine rifles and operate machine guns to secure that institution so dear to the male members of their race the ballot then no objections should be raised if they employ weapons most adaptable to them. American men can flatter themselves on being somewhat shrewder than their English cousins, because in nearly every state in the union where the women have demanded suffrage they have gracefully yielded before a declaration of hostilities was threatened. Stubborn as Englishmen are it is a safe bet that they will make an unconditional surrender to General Pankhurst's army before the cruel war ends.

Pork Before Progress.

Mark Sullivan hits the nail squarely on the head again in Collier's this week. He writes:

The curse of Congress is local interest. Communities judge Congressmen by the amount of pork they' bring back home, not by their patriotism, not by their advocacy of great national causes not by their services to the country as a whole. However, no amount of exposition of just what happens at Washington could be as clear or eloquent as a single case in point. This paragraph was printed in the New Orleans "Picayune": "If Southern navy yards do not receive fair treatment under the Democratic Administration that will soon come into power, it will be the fault of the Democratic Representatives from the South in Congress. A determined stand on their part against any battleship increase, unless the Southern naval stations are accorded proper and fair treatment, would do more to bring the Navy Department to terms than any other course of procedure. It would also be well for our Louisiana Congressmen to use every endeavor to block any proposition looking to the improvement or extension of the useless Guantanamo plant that the Navy Department is so bent on creating. The clostng of the Southern navy yards was for the purpose of providing a proper excuse for the building up of Guantanamo; in fact it was part of the plan to remove the big floating dock from Algiers to Guantanamo, as well as to dismantle several of the Southern stations, and transfer the tools and equipment of such plants to the worthless enterprise on the south coast of Cuba. Only a bold and open attitude of hostility to all naval grants that do not include the restoration of the Southern stations has any real hope of success." The merit or lack of merit in battleship increase does not matter in this discussion. The "Picayune" doesn't inquire about that: fight everything, regardless of merit, until the Navy Department promises to spend a lot of money in Louisiana. Does this utterance of the "Picayune" represent the real sentiments of New Orleans? Or are the people of that city as ashamed of it as any other American must be?

IMPR.OV1NG THE TIME. Hundred of thousand of dollars are being spent in the effort to find one sixteenth of a second that is missing In the calculations of the world's astronomers. A special building fitted with apparatus was erected because In the hour glass of time one small grain of sand was missing! The fraction nrnst be found. Because the world's longitude Is calculated on the sun's time ss recorded at Greenwich and Paris and Washington, so that every calculation must account for every atom of time. If not? If not every meridian line on earth would need to be shifted, every boundary line between countries and states changed and every map of the world made over. And the movements of the planets would be variant! Do you see the tremendous import of an instant of time? Time Is now! All there Is of time or ever will be Is comprehended in that now. The past is nothing; the future la not born and never will be. So far as humans are concerned there 1b absolutely nothing save now. Therefore: Let us utilize the only thing we hove. We cannot turn back the dial, neither make the -un stand still. We cannot measure the value of the time we have lost nor compute the value of that which has not yet come to us. The present is potentisl. He who best Improves what he has best appreciates its value. Therefore you will And upon the desk of the busy man this motto: "Do It Now." He is too busy for regrets over the last chance and does not put off until tomorrow the only thing he has In hand. N-O-W spells opportunity. Today is the day of salvation. Today you have the desire to do. Today you have the strength to perform. Today you have the hope of accomplishment. Today you have the time to succeed. To it today. Sufficient nnto the day Is the evil and the good thereof. Yesterday holds nothing but a memory: tomorrow nothing but a promise. Today is the only day. Do it now!

This is My 71st Birthday

M. RIBOT. M. Alexandre Felix Joseph Ribot, who was a prominent candidate in the recent election' of a President of France, was born at St. Omar, February 7. 1842. At the age of 22 he was laureate of the Paris Law School. He entered at once into practice. Since that time his movement upward has been rapid. He was attached to the Paris judiciary just before the war of 1870, and from 1S75 occupied a high position in the Ministry of Justice. He entered parliament in 1S78, and there he remained for some thirty years. In 1890 he entered the Government as foreign minister under Freycinet. and he continued under the Loubet ministry of 1892. At the end of that year he became prime minister for the first time, and in 1S95 he was again prime minister for several months. In addition to being a successful lawyer and politician he is known as a brilliant journalist. Several years ago he was elected to membership in the French Academy. The wife of M. Ribot ia an American woman, daughter of the late Isaac M. Burch, a prominent banker of Chicago. Congratulations to: Francis Wilson, the well known comedian, 59 years old today. Robert J. Gamble. United States

senator from South Dakota, 62 years old today. J. B. R. Fiset, a member of the Senate of Canada, 70 years old today. Robert B. Mantell, the noted Shakespearean actor, 59 years old today. Rt. Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, forme British colonial secretary, 56 yean old today.

Truth. Trnth is mighty, but If coodlj share of It were not choked into silence this would be a sorry world. Puck.

A Practical Girt. He When are you going to raise my hopes? She When they raise your salary. Boston Transcript.

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- Hard to Please. Wigg Bjones Is pretty " hari to please, isn't he? Wagg Almost as hard to please ns a college graduate looking for his first job. Philadelphia Record. There i hope for all who are R0f tened and penitent. There is hope fol all such. Dickens.

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SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS. (Indianapolis News.) The push for a seven-day week for certain theaters raises many interesting questions. Incidentally it may be remarked that the move is not indorsed by all the theater managers, as is proved by the letter of Mr. Fred J. Dailey, of the Murat theater, which was printed in the News yesterday. We hear a great deal of the educational value of the theater, and we are far from questioning it within limits. But, after all, the people go to the theater primarily for amusement. And no fair-minded manager will deny that a good deal of what is provided is devoid of educational value.

But people, of course, have a right to be amused. And amusement is what they chiefly demand and get from the theater. This raises the question as to whether the business of amusement may not be greatly overdone. It is notorious that it is becoming increasingly difficult to get our young people to attend night school they must go to the show. Society is offering advantages to the people, with both hands, as it were. Yet they are scorned. Young people grow up, fall in life, and then complain bitterly because, as they think, they never had a chance. They play baseball every Sunday afternoon in the summer time, go to shows every night, join an athletic club, and then wonder why it is that they do not get ahead in life. Of course the church has no place in all their thoughts. Men who win in this world do not so ordei their lives. Men who do order them in this way can not hope to win. It seems to ns that there is already sufficient provision for the amusement of the people. With theaters every week night, and all day, it is hard to see what more can be demanded on this score. Worse yet, the appetite grows by what it feeds on. People who get the theater habit in this aggravated form lose all capacity to dtal with the things of life from

the serious side or in a serious way. People who live simply to be amused do not get very far.

j It seems to us that this question is one that should have a special inter- ; est for parents. They are right in de- ! siring that their children shall have "a good time," but they are wrong in ! so far as they fail to impress on those children the fact that life'B prizes are only, as a rule, for those who fairly j earn them. Some little attention I should, therefore, be paid to the mat

ter of discipline. Never in the history of the world was knowledge as freely offered to men as it is today. Yet it can not be absorbed without effort. There must be study and self-culture. In our passion for amusement, to which the theaters so ceaselessly cater, we are losing all taste for serious reading, and all conception of its value. Therefore, the argument for a 6even-day week for the theaters based on the theory that the people need the amusement is utterly preposterous. For they are over-amused as it is. What the people of this generation need almost more than anything else is a greatly reinforced capacity to amuse themselves. Those who are without this capacity are simply grown-up children. Of course, the motive back of this latest raid on the rest day is purely meroenary.

This Date In History

FEBRUARY 7. 1807 First day of the battle of Ey-

lau, in which Napoleon defeated the Russians in one of the most bloody j contests of the war. 1812 Charles Dickens, the famous ! English novelist, born. Died June 9, : 1870. 1853 Robert Lucas, first territorial !

governor of Iowa, died at Iowa City. Born in Virginia, April 1, 1781. 1855 The Palmerston ministry en

tered office in England. " 1861 Choctaw Nation decided to adhere to the Confederate States. 1878 Pope Pius IX died. Born May 13, 1792. i 1893 Direct telephone communication established between New York and Boston. 1 1901 Marriage of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. j 1912 Myron F. Herrick of Ohio is named as United States ambassador 1 to France.

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