Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 106, 14 March 1913 — Page 7

THE RICH3IOJTD PAIXADIU3I AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, FRIDAY, MARCEL i-l, 1913.

PRESIDENT STANDS FOR MERIT SYSTEM

It Is Settled There Will Be Na Spoils Under Wilson Administration. .

WASHINGTON, March 14. It is settled that there is to be no revision to the Bpoila system under this administration. Persons ,who thought they knew their man were confident that the new President would prove himself a firm suporter of the merit system as applied to the public service, but there -were a good many Democrats who up until the last few days "were still expressing the conviction that Mr. Wilson would, in some measure at least, yield to the demand of the spoilsmen. Persons who held that view are now willing to admit they were wrong. It is to be the policy of the administration to strengthen the merit system by improving the civil service laws. Would Extend Classified Service. It may be safely predicted thus early in the new administration that if President Wilson can obtain the support of congress, the classified service will be further extended. There is every reason to believe that he would like to seall postmasters, collectors of custojB&Jnlted States marshals and all collectors of internal revenue brought within the classified service. Whether this step can be accomplished during his term of office will depend on the legislative branch of the offlce.rtor the chief executive is without lauthdrity td bring these classes of office .holders under the civil service law, by' executive order. There, were intimations today that within the course of a week or two the administration would be prepared to make an official announcement with respect to its attitude toward the merit system. Question Already Up. The question as to the policy to be followed has already arisen in connection with the order issued by President Taft last October, bringing within the classified service those fourthclass postmasters who were not, put under the civil service law five and one-half years - ago. , The question as to the precise policy that shall govern has also come up in connection with thousands of , applications for appointments to the consular service. The. fourth class postmasterships are not to be .turned oyer, to the spoilsmen. It is barely possible that the fourth class postmasters who were placed in the classified service by the order of last October may "be required to pass an examination for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are qualified to become permanent : servants of the government. Indiana Not Affected. A requirement of this kind would not affect the fourth class postmasters in Indiana, for the Taft order applied only to fourth class postmasters in the south and west. The order of five and a half years ago transferred to the classified service the fourth class postmasters north of the Ohio river

and east of the" Mississippi river. ' It is within the range of possibilities that a test of some sort may be provided for applicants for presidential . postmasterships. This has never I been done. Both the President and postmaster-general feel that before a I man is appointed to a presidential ' postmastership the government should through some means or other, ascertain whether he is qualified to fill the position. It is a question whether, under existing law, the postbfflce department could make a, requirement of this sort. Unquestionably it Is to be the policy of the. new j administration to "work for legislation j which will eventually make it possible for, President Wilson to bring all

presidential postmasterships under the civil service law. More Than One Term.

There are now 8,227 presidential postofflces, and in round numbers 50,000 fourth class postoffices. Most of the presidential postmasterships j throughout fitew Country have served'

more man one term, it was the nxea ; policy of the Taft administration to j continue efficient postmasters in of- j fice. For instance, of the 1,970 presidential postmasters appointed during j

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the last year, 1,404 were reappointments. It is safe to say that if President Wilson were free to do the thing he would like to do, presidential postmasters who have given to the public efficient service would be continued in office, but in view of the fact, that, with rare exception, the presidential postmasters are Republicans, the administration would not undertake to make a practice of reappointing them. Feeling of Democrats. The Democrats everywhere naturally feel that they are entitled to some of the offices at least, and it will be the policy of the administration to satisfy the cravings for office where it can be done without weakening the efficiency of the public service. There is to be a general overhauling of the civil service law as soon as the President and the Democratic congress can get to the work. The aim will be so to revise this law as to obtain greater efficiency in the government service. The dead timber will be wdfeded out and undoubtedly some plan of superannuation will be provided. The ten members of the cabinet will shortly receive instructions to take up the study of this problem as opportunity affords, with the view of being able later on to assist the President in making recommendations to the legislative body.

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CHILD LABOR FOES HOLDING MEETINGS A Large Number of Delegates Attend the Congress At Jacksonville. (National News Association) JACKSONVILLE. Fla., March 14. Child labor conditions in the South was the topic before the National Child Conference here today. Addresses on this subject were delivered by Professor Joseph A. McCullough, of the University of South Carolina, Mrs. Edward L. Bailey, of Jackson, Miss., W. H. Swift of Greensboro, N. C, and the Rev. C. E. Weltner, paator of the Lutheran Mission among cotton mill operatives at Olympia, Columbia, S. C. Dr. McCullough quoted at length from the last report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for South Carolina upon which he made the following comments: "It appears from the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture that there are now 4,253 male children under 16 years of age employed by the textile industries of this state, and there are 3,237 females thus employed. There are 2,848 male children and 2,225 female children from 14 to 16 years thus employed. There are 2,164 male children and 1,455 female children from 12 to 14 thus employed. Mr. Dawley and other enthusiasts of the system say that all of the children employed in the cotton mills are remarkably healthy specimens. At least this is an inference. The charge is made that Dr. McKelway and others have photographed and pictured only the anaemic ones. The charge against the doctor admits that there are anaemic ones. If so, these anaemic ones are entitled to protection of the law. "Our effort to raise the age limit in South Carolina is not intended as a reflection upon the humanity of the mill presidents. We recognize the fact that as a rule they are men of broad sympathies and kind hearts and they do a great deal for their employees, in the way of providing comfortable homes, and providing for their intellectual, spiritual and social welfare. Perhaps it is not to be expected that they should voluntarily en-

Mothers of Puny Children May Find, Help In This Letter. "My little daughter ever since her birth had been frail and sickly, and was a constant source of worrlment. Several months ago I secured a bottle of Vlnol and commenced to give it to her. I soon noticed an improvement in her health and appearance. I gave her In all three bottles and from the good it has done her I can truly say it will do all you claim." J. Edmund Miller. New Haven, Conn. The reason Vinol builds up weak, ailing children so quickly is because it contains in a delicious combination the two most world famed tonics i. e., the strength creating, body building elements of cod liver oil, with all the useless grease eliminated, and tonic iron for the blood added. If you have a weak, puny, ailing child. Try Vinol our offer to return your money if it fails to benefit your little one. Leo H. Fihe, Druggist, Richmond, Indiana. P. S. If you have Eczema try our Saxo Salve. We guarantee it. (Advertisement)

force a higher age limit, since they have not done bo heretofore, and fo that reason legislation is necessary." Rev. 'C. E. Weltner, also a South Carolinan stated that, "Welfare work among cotton mill operatives is a perplexing problem because of the illiteracy and the transient character of the mill population." Despite this handicap Mr. Weltner said that remarkable results had been reached by certain groups of cotton mills in South Carolina that have supported churches, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., nurses, domestic science teachers, kindergarten work and day and night schools. "The greatest needs of the present," continued the Speaker, "are a statewide compulsory school attendance law, a fourteen year age 'imit for working children, and a birth registration law. The vagrancy law should should be made impossible for a lazy and drunken father to draw the earning of his children. Also, we need to have a labor union of cotton mill op

eratives whose leaders hare brains, hearts and consciences." Mrs. Edward L. Bailey said: "But Mississippi's most difficult child labor problem at present is that of the little oyster shuckent on the Gulf Coast. These children are nomads, coming on oyster luggers from the North Atlantic Coast to the Southern coast for the winter oyster packing season, and returning to the Chesapeake Bay canneries for the Summer. The children are with their parents parents without mental ability or moral standards with no conception of right living, and no interest beyond their daily food supply. "Whether the case is for the law or the gospel, local charities or national philanthropies. I confess I can not determine. Perhaps a measure of responsibility rests on each. True it is, however, that humanity not less than

j Christianity demands that intelligent

effort be put forth in behalf of 'the least of these our little ones. " Mr. W. H. Swift of Grensboro, N. C, in speaking of child labor conditions in his state said: "What we need in North Carolina and in the whole South is somebody who will shake up this factory population as our farmers have been shaken up. And if this committee can devise means by which every man and woman in North Carblina, as well as in other Southern States, can be brought face to face with this very serious problem, the outcome will be definite as fate. The trouble with us is that our people do not consider. If

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Gray, faded hair turned beautifully

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and draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. Those whose hair is turning gray, becoming faded, dry, scraggly and thin have a surprise awaiting them, because after just one application the gray hair vanishes r.nd your locks become luxuriantly dark and beautiful all dandruff goes, scalp itching and falling hair stops. This is the age of youth, gray-haired, unattractive folks aren't wanted around, so get busy with the Sage and Sulphur tonight and you'll be amazed at your youthful appearance and the real beauty and healthy condition of your hair within a few days. Inquiry at drug stores here shows that they all sell lots of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur" and the folks using it are enthusiastic.

EAT

Choice Fresh Meats of all kinds; also a fine large lot of Smoked and Salted Meats; all kinds of Sausage and cooked prepared meats, Lard, Etc. Let me fill your order for anything choice in the meat line. With a delivery wagon and 2 good boys with bicycles, I'll insure you prompt delivery from this market

Geo. C. Schwepiaini 309 S. 4th St.

Established 1890 Phones 1084-2204

Established 1890

A NICE LOT OF DRESSED CHICKENS FOR SATURDAY

stZs EGGEMEYER'S grocery specials sr.

Weekly Table Economies

MACKEREL Breakfast Size They Are Small, but Fat NORWAYS 5c Each; 6 for 25c

FLOUR Pride of Richmond You Know What It Is Milled at Home Two Days, 25 Lbs., 69c

PEACHES Fancy Evaporated Yellow Stock Fresh and Clean While They Last 2 Lbs. 19c

COMB HONEY Finest White, Pure Clover Elegant Goods One Pound Average to Section 19c per Section

LENOX SOAP Always Dependable Look at the Price 100 Bars, $2.90 50 Bars, $1.50 25 Bars, 75c; 8 Bars 25c

LAWN GRASS SEED Fresh Supply Just In Clean, Trusty Stuff Large 25c Packages Buy It Now 19c per Package

SPLIT PEAS In Packages Fancy Quality They Are Fine for Soup Try One 10c per Package GINGER ALE Extra Dry, Sparkling Cliquot Club Brand Special Price 2 Dozen, $2.25 i Dozen, $1.15 6 Bottles, 60c

GOLDEN DATES In Packages Dromedary Brand Full Pounds Clean and Wholesome 2 Pkgs., 19 Cents

PIMENTOES Spanish Peppers Regular 15c Cans Two Days 12 Cans ...$1.15 6 Cans . . 60c 2 Cans 22c

MACARONI Golden Egg Brand A New One and a Fine One Full One Lb. Pkgs. - Priced to Introduce 2 Pkgs 15c GELATINE Nelson's English Oldest on the Market Regular 20c Size 1 Dozen Boxes, $1.45 6 Boxes, 75c 3 Boxes, 40c

EXTRA SPECIALS IN LIMITED QUANTITY To Clean Up a Few Slow Selling Special Items

27 Cans 20c NATCHEZ FRESH FIGS 20 Cans 15c KOWEBA COOKED HOMINY . 9 Cans 15c LAKESIDE PORK AND PEAS 17 Cans 15c STRAWBERRY JAM 14 Cans 15c BAKED LIMA BEANS 12 Cans 15c COOKED NAVY BEANS

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Fresh Strawberries Fresh Cauliflower Green Cucumbers Fresh Spinach Young Spring Carrots

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th community only knew the -worth of children and could only pla.ee the proper estimate upon child life, children -would come into their own at once. The one thins which palls upon me is the absolute indifference of our own mill people to these problems. It loks all right to them to see little girls hurrying along at six in the morning to spin all day long and neTer know the pleasure of Jumping the rope in the glad sunshine. They even think it is a good thing to be

giTen an opportunity to place their fifteen-year-old-daughters at all night work, forgetful of the moral risk in such business."

Liverpool's Chinatown. Liverpool. England, boasts of quit an extensive Chinatown. In this quarter of the port are to be found numerous Chinese shops, sailors' boarding bouses, several restaurants and a Chinese seamen's mission.

The Effects of Opiates. THAT INFANTS are peculiarly- susceptible to opium and its Tarkms preparations, all of which are narcouo, is well known. Even in the smallest doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the functions and growth of the cells which are likely to become permanent, rausiag imbecility, mental perversion, a craving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. Nervous diseases such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying power are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet in their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should nevr receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and only then if unavoidable. The sdministration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials. Soothing Syrupa and other narcotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strongly decried, and the drugrist should not be f party to it. Children who are ill need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to dose them willfully witn narcotics.

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United Doctors:

Greentown, Ind, Feb. 22. 1912.

It gives me pleasure to let you know about the benefit I have received from the treatment you gave me. I was taken sick some five years ago, became worse last April and gradually getting worse until I saw you two weeks ago. I suffered with dizziness all the time, could not walk only a few feet without resting; had general dropsy, the Teasels In my hands, face and neck would become ingorged and black with blood and ft was almost Impossible at these times to get my breath. I was attacked also with nervous spells which affected me all over and kept me from sleeping. At this time the dropsy and nervous conditions have left, heart is better, face and neck decidedly improved and I can get about without any distress and am able to do some work. I am sure from what yon have done, I will get entirely, well. Tours truly, ; (Signed) Mrs. Anna Tennell, Greentown. In R-R-Ko. 1

Maybe we can do as much for you. It will cost you nothing to call and be told frankly about your case. As a business proposition we cannot afford to accept Incurable cases, but yours may be curable by our treatment. We treat diseases of the nerves, blood, skin, heart and liver, including rheumatism, paralysis, neuralgia, goitre, constipation, catarrh, epilepsy, indigestion, dyspepsia, weak back, bloating, - eczema and scrofula. As an introductory offer, to prove what the united treatment will do in relieving chronic, deep-seated diseases, we make the following free offer of free examination, free consultation and free treatment (medicines excepted) to all who call before March 15.

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