Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 88, 21 February 1913 — Page 4

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ByJAMESrAEDGERTON

NOW AND HERE. Cattle that Jump the fence cause trouble for themselves and others. There are people of the same brand. The breach? cattle evidently think the grass is greener in the next pasture. The people have a like attitude of mind. The desirable is always somewhere else or at some distant time. Their favorite music is "Far, Fat Away," "The Good Old Times" or "The Sweet By and By." Any other time but now; any other place but here. The grass Is always greener in the next pasture. These are the folks who think the lot of others is better than their own. They are filled with envy, repining and discontent There are two kinds of discontent, one helpful and the other hurtful. Helpful discontent is the kind that spurs us on to improve ourselves and our conditions. Hurtful discontent Is the sort that makes us try to run away from both. This is the discontent of the folks that resemble breachy stock. I wonder if these people ever reflect that any place they reach Is here, just as any time they attain is now. We cannot run away from the now . and here. It is ever with us. When we get into the next pasture we find the grass is not greener. It was only the distance made it appear so. True romance, true enchantment, true opportunity, are right at home. We have merely overlooked them, or they have grown so common that we .did not appreciate them at their real worth. There te a story of a man who searched all about the earth for a treasure and, returning home, found it in his own dooryard. Sometimes a change of environment

is necessary, but usually the distant

alluring prospect is simply a mirage that disappears as we approach.

If the time and energy used in making changes were expended at home

they would achieve Buccess. If we would win we must win here and now.

YESTERDAY IN THE ASSEMBLY

SENATE. Indianapolis teachers' pension bill giving fourteen former teachers the benefits of pension law, is passed. Thirteen new bills introduced, eleven passed. Senate roads committee hears objections to the Hawkins-G. W. Spencer road bill. Caucus fails to reach agreement on utilities bill and will hold another session Monday. Decides to pass constitutional convention bill. HOUSE.

House refuses to concur in appropri

ation bill as amended by Senate. Cra

vens and Bedwell named on conference

committee. Spencer bill authorizing county commissioners to add $1,000 to annual salary of county school superintendents in six counties passed.

Ensle bill increasing salary of Van' derburg County auditor from $6,500 to

$9,300 passed.

Weisman "shot flrer6" bill passed

with only three opposing votes. Riley bill, giving licenses, without examination, to druggists of ten years' experience, passed with bare constitutional majority. Dickinson-Koenig nine-hour day bill for women and girle pased on second reading, attempts to amend it being defeated. VanAuken Senate bill, increasing pay of jurors from $2 to $4 a day, passed.

Ordctls. It must be a terrible thing to go through the third degree " "It must be. indeed." replied Mr. Blngdad. "I'll bet It's even worse than trying to answer nil the questions a . twelve-year-old boy can ask." Washington Star.

The "Pork Barrel" Evil. The "pork barrel" bill appropriating for public buildings, recently passed by the house, was the most disgraceful and indefensible measure introduced in congress in a decade. It appropriates $25,000,000 , and it "takes care" of more than two-thirds of the members of the house, Democrats and Republicans sharing the "pork" equally. The members of the house who voted for this bill were the same ones who last year voted against a measure of national defense, an appropriation for two battleships, because "economy must be practiced." Consistency, thou art a jewel. The American people have no objections to offer if congress appropriates economically for public buildings in cities and towns where they are really needed, but they will, and are doing so now,

protest most vigorously against a measure which carries appropriations of $5,000 each for sites on which $50,000 or $60,000 buildings will be erected at each of the following places : Albertville, Ala., population 1,544, postal receipts, $4,496, Attalla, Ala., population 2,513, postal receipts, $4,516; Nogales, Ariz., population 3,1)14, postal receipts, $6,516; Brinkley, Ark., population 1,740, postal receipts $6,264; Toccoa, Ga., population 3,120, postal receipts $5,638; Canton, Ga., population 2,002, postal receipts, $7,573; Marengo, la., population 1,786, postal receipts, $7,086; Paintsville, Ky., population 942, postal receipts $3,753; Pikesville, Ky., population 1,280, postal receipts, $2,444; Murray, Ky., population, 2,089, and other places of like class all over the nation. This same "pork barrel" bill provides for the erection of a building at Jasper, Ala-, with a population of 2,500, to cost $100,000. At Arkdelphia, Ark., with a population of 2,745, the appropriation is to be $55,000. Thus it will be seen that a town of 2,500 gets $100,000 and a town of 2,745, $55,000. Rockville, Conn., with a population of 7,900, is to have a building costing $55,000, while Greenwick, in the same state, with a population of 3,800, is to have a building costing $90,000. Orlando, Fla., with a population of 3,800 draws a $60,000 building, and Las Cruces, N. M., with a population of 3,869, is to have a building costing $125,000. The bill is full of incongruities of this character. However, congress must not be given all the blame for the evil practice of its members currying political favors from their

constituents by securing absurdly expensive post office buildings

for all the towns, villages and hamlets in their districts. The day

when the American people cease to measure the standards of their

representatives in congress by the number of public buildings they 1

secure for their districts and the number of private pension bills they put through, then the "pork barrel" evil will be eradicated, the government will have sufficient funds to devote to purposes of general benefit to the nation, and our congress will be composed of statesmen instead of politicians. It may be well to advise Finly Gray, congressman from the Sixth Indiana district, that his constituents have long memories

and when he is again a candidate for re-election will recall the fact that he voted for the disgraceful "pork barrel" bill of 1913, which,

it is to be hoped, the senate will kill. Should the senate fail to take such action, President Taft should not hesitate in promptly

placing his veto on the measure. The Rev. Mr. Henry's Mistake. If we are not mistaken, the constitution of the United States

and the constitution of Indiana both confer upon the people the

rights of free speech and free press.

However, Lieutenant Governor O'Neil has interpreted both constitutions to read that a man must not be too free with his speech. At least this conclusion must be drawn from action of the senate's presiding officer yesterday in stopping the prayer of the Rev. Mr. Henry and sharply rebuking him for asking Divine guidance of the senate in dealing with the liquor questionWhen the Rev. Mr. Henry was called upon yesterday to deliver the invocation at the opening of the senate, he was for the time being an officer of that body and so long as he did not preach anarchy or treason, it is hard to see how his remarks could be legally censored by the lieutenant-governor. But if the gag rule is to be established in the senate, thp

Palladium suggests that it be extended to the army of lobbyists

who hang about the senate chamber like a flock of vultures, petitioning the legislators to pass bills inimical to the public good, but beneficial to special interests. The experience of the Rev. Mr. Henry should be a lesson to other gentlemen of the cloth who may be called upon to address the Almighty in the presence of those distinguished statesmen who hold down chairs in the senate chamber, and before asking Divine blessing on any measures or policies they should first determine just what the lieutenant governor believes the Lord's approval should be given to. And no minister should again make the mistake of hurling the liquor question bomb into the august upper house. A second offense may result in the presiding officer ordering that the offender be given a coat of tar and feathers and drummed out of the capitol.

EDITORIAL VIEWS

FIRE PROTECTION. (Evansville (Ind.) Courier) Three years ago when the fire insurance companies demanded the expenditure of large sums of money for better fire protection in Evansville the Courier opposed most of their demands as uncalled for. Now they are back with new demands. Some of them commend themselves to common sense. It wouldn't cost anything to put the firt department and the water works department under civil service regulations. As a matter of

fact, Mayor Boehne continued the fire chief serving under Covert and the present water works superintendent was appointed by Covert and has served continuously since. Civil service in the rank and file would add somewhat to the efficiency of both departments, but in a way that would have but slight effect on the actual fire loss. At brief periods throughout the week the fire apparatus is not fully manned. Some of the men may be away at their meals or taking their day off. But even in these cases they are near at hand and in case of fire are expected to respond. We doubt if it can be shown in a single instance that theseabsences have added materially to the fire loss. There houses, too, are in the parts of the city where fires are small and extremely rare. The fire alarm system must be antiquated. We have been told so for so many years and so often that we have come to believe it. Nevertheless it is giving every day of the year and some

times several times a day good and honest service. No system on earth is perfect. Errors are made on them all. Doubtless the present system will wear out like everything else, but it is not now by any means a menace. Its defects are more apparent to salesmen

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panies sustain losses on risks that ought never to have been taken. To find the cause of the high fire loss and the high insurance rate, one need look no further than to the fire insurance companies themselves. To spend more money to put out fires after they are started is going at the matter from the wrong end. Evansville is spending sufficient for that purpose. What is needed is a policy by the insurance companies that will not make the careful and honest property-holder pay for the improvident risks taken by the companies.

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TO CONSERVE STATE COURTS.

(Indianapolis Star. j Highly commendable is the undertaking to enlarge the renumeration of judges on the state bench. The sum of $7,500 a year is not too much for , the state judges. Indeed, if the state

were able to pay more, it is not enough. No official .function of representative government is hisher or more important than this. While it is true that the honor of the place often

of new system than to the ordinary ob- j attracts men of fine character and

server living here in Evansville. ability to it, the fact remains that the The gist of the whole matter is that pay should be kept at a point where it Evansville's high insurance rate is not : compares not too disadvantageous!) due to the fact that the municipality j with the rewards of private practice, does not spend enough money to put which have grown far beyond the stanout fires after they are started. The dards of an earlier day.

, city Is spending ample money in its j This legislative session might do an

fire fighting department. , other useful and benenciai tning tor ,.,,. ,,.. . v. . ' the state courts and even the circuit facts secured by the New York fire .... , . , department and by private investigat- beucvh: that ls' provid,e amendment ors show that a large part of the fire to tbe ?leUon, code wn"eby the

loss-probably one-half is to be blam- l"c ""7 . "I' .k ! more than once on the ballot. It is the 1 ed on the companies themselves. They earneet and praiseworthy hope of the fail to make proper investigation be-, better element in the legal profession

fore writing risk and the losses which to bring abuot nonpartisan selections they invite by their policy of taking on for the courts, often made by the Bar business at any hazsard is passed on I Association, designed to acquire the to the public. The man who takes ev-'best material for the bench and also ry precaution to avoid fires must pay to keep skilled and upright judges a high rate because the insurance com-, there in spite of mutations in politics.

An amendment like this would compass that highly desirable end. Sooner or later the question of a new constitution must be seriously faced; and It wUl be the further duty of the Bar Association to study how they may be influential to improve the status and efficiency of our state courts. One suggestion worth thinking of would be tbe appointment of judges by the Governor to serve durirfg good behavior, with some simple process for the removal of any found unworthy. The state of Massachusetts has this practice and it develops on trial a high sense of responsibility In the Governor. The judicial appointments of our Indiana Governors have been almost without exception first class. The farther the bench is removed from pol

itics the better.

FRECKLES

February and March Worst Months For This Trouble How to Remove Easily. There's a reason why nearly everybody freckles in February and March, but happily there is also a cure fr these ugly blemishes, and no one nec-l stay freckled. Simply get one ounce of othine, double strength, from Leo H. Fihe. and apply a little of it at night, and in the morning you should see that een the worst freckles have begun to diaipear. while the light ones have vanished entirely. Now is the time to rid yourself of freckles, for If not removed now they will stay all summer, and spoil an otherwise beautiful complexion. Your money back If othine fails. Advertisement)

Factory Saieiy Device. The management of a machine tool works In America has during the last several years kept a careful record ot all accidents and made a study of them in the endeavor to ascertain just when danger is greatest and what accident can be prevented b Tieans of itu proved safety devices. One recent! installed device particularly interwtin is an electrically operated control I vhich the power at tbe engine r can be stopped by pushing a butt anywhere in the works. Exchange

The Masonic Calendar

Friday, Feb. 21. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called convocation. Work in Royal Arch degree. Refreshments.

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