Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 161, 15 May 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Masonic' Building. Ninth and North A Streets. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

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Many and Few Both to Profit This year there will be 93 students graduate from the Richmond high school. Of this number 34 have announced their intention to enter colleges in the fall. In other words 36 per cent, of the local high school graduates will derive the full benefit of a public school system that lays Igreatest emphasis on college preparation. SixtyIfour per cent, of the graduates will have been trained along the same lines needlessly, for they will go out into a world where they will have to give up valuable time learning vocations beyond the ken of present college preparatory courses. ! Still, 36 per cent, intending to enter colleges ds a gratifyingly large number, though, as Superintendent Mott says, Richmond is far ahead of other cities in this respect. Looked at from a Jdifferent angle, however, the 34 students actually intending to enter college assume a much 'smaller proportion. This year there are 480 students in the first grade in all our common (schools, and only 93 in the high school graduating class. The percentage in this case is respectively 19.4 that obtains a high school education and 80.6 that does not. On the same basis the 34 who will have a college education lare but 7.08 per cent. The 7.08 per cent, are not to be begrudged their college education. Those who succeed in the realm of higher education come back to us

las our well trained and efficient doctors, lawyers,

rchitects, engineers, teachers, scientists and

bnanagers of industries. The services of such are well worth providing for by having proper courses in the public school system for college preparation. The 92.92 per cent, are not to be begrudged their vocational training courses in the public school system, if expedient and wise, a higher vocational training school. The inauguration of this latter great advance in educational methods will not only affect favorably the fortunes school system and, if expedient and wise, a highcrease the effectiveness of the work of the college graduates. The doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, teachers, scientists and managers of industries will have a more efficient and intelligent class of" helpers to carry out their ideas.

The Eight Hour Day Organized labor and intelligent and far sighted manufacturers are waging the campaign for an eight hour day for all labor. Would not all laborers and all manufacturers mutually benefit in a far greater degree if all labor were guaranteed a minimum of eight hours work in every working day with a minimum wage for a standard reasonable minimum output, and the question of a bonus for greater individual skill producing more than minimum output requirements, as well as not limiting overtime work, were left to the individual worker to decide himself? ' Today organized labor says "yes" to the first and "no" to the two latter propositions. It says if a man in an eight hour industry works overtime or accepts a bonus for using productively his talent of more than average skill he is a "hog." Under existing chaotic industrial conditions regarding the treatment accorded many laborers, organized labor is correct in its contention. If every laborer in the land, however, were guaranteed eight hours employment in other words, government non-employment insurance

under the conditions specified above, the Pal-!

ladium believes organized labor would be in the unenviable position of cutting off its nose to spite its face if it interposed objections to greats er rewards for more than average individual skill or overtime work. Under this arrangement it would be impossible for the skilled laborer, capable of producing more than average output, or the overtime laborer to be accused of "hogging" another man's share of the common supply of work. Under the conditions specified all laborers would be employed for not less than eight hours every working day and would be receiving a fixed compensation for a fixed minimum output. Furthermore, under marketing conditions governed by the law of supply and demand regulated competition , increased production, due to the more skilled laborer or overtime worker, would result in lower prices for the products all laborers must" buy. In other words, labor's purchasing power and its capacity for the enjoyment of luxuries as well as necessities would be continually enhanced under such a system.

popular government, which took definite shape with the launching of the Progressive party last August. This popular revolt against the evils which have crept into our governmental system Mr. Cannon frankly recognizes as a powerful and comprehensive movement, but he labels it a menace to our republican form of government. To comprehend the viewpoint from which Mr. Cannon gazes upon the question of whether there shall he no alterations in our national government, or whether reforms shall be introduced, an article appearing in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post, a sketch of the career of Representative Victor Murdock, should be read. Victor Murdock of Kansas is the Progressive floor leader. His first three years in congress he spent as a "regular" Republican and served the organization faithfully and without complaint. Then he discovered a discrepancy in the method of paying the railroads for the transportation of mails, by which the government was needlessly expending $5,000,000 per year. He brought this to the attention of the post office committee of the house and after a hard fight had the committee report favorably on a plan rectifying this matter. It was promptly killed in the house by the Cannon machine and since that time, Mr. Murdock states, Mr. Cannon has not spoken to him. But Murdock won his fight. President Roosevelt issued an executive order adopting the economic Murdock plan for the payment of mail transportation. Mr. Cannon stands for a system of government which recognizes such a fraud as the one brought to light by the fighting Kansan, and refuses to correct it. Mr. Murdock by the action of the Cannon machine on this postal matter became, to quote him, "a raging insurgent." He has been promoted to a high place in the councils of the Progressive party because he advocates and fights for the square deal in everything pertaining to the affairs of government.

JURY BAITING. Jury service, at best, is a distasteful, if essential, civic duty. Hence it behooves the officers of justice to see that it is made as little irksome as possible. An official whose practice does not comport with this view Is Federal Judge George "W. Ray of the Northern District of New York, recently cited before the Grievance Committee of the New York State Bar on charges preferred by the Cayuga County Bar association, specifying, among other things, browbeating and abuse of juries. It is perhaps significant that Judge Ray is himself, both by public record and in other respects, unfit to hold judicial office. The present charges, however, do not go Into this phase, but cite instances in which the accused has been guilty of jury baiting. In a trial in Auburn there was a disagreement of the jury, a majority voting for acquittal. Although the men constituting this majority were reputable citizens of good character, Ray, from the bench, denounced them as being unfit for jury duty and ordered their names stricken from the list. This in the face of the fact that a second defendant was about to be tried on the same evidence. The second jury convicted. "What else could we do? You know what that other jury got," said one of the jurors. In another case Judge Ray bitterly attacked an individual juror for a perfectly Innocent and open remark, saying to him: "You ought not to show your face in a court of justice again." And again he villified a jury which had failed to agree, declaring a part of them "unfit to be citizens of a decent country." One wonders what the result would be should some juror courageously rise in his place and say to the blackguarding Judge: "I am a sworn officer of this court, doing my duty as I see it, and in threatening and abusing me you are yourself grossly violating the proprieties." 'Doubtless a fine for contempt of court. Doubtless also prompt remission of the fine, for this species of judge would hardly dare face such an Issue were it contested. Indeed Ray has "roared as gently as any sucking dove" since the action of the Cayuga Bar. Not every bar association has the temerity to take such action as this, risking the displeasure of a powerful judge, in defense of the helpless twelve in the box. Yet It is a most sorely needed reform. "Taking one consideration with another," as Gilbert might have sung, "a juror's life is not a happy one." Under a judicial bully of Judge Ray's type, it is superfluously arduous. Collier's Weekly.

A PRAYER By Louis Untermeyer

A Comparison of Two Men Two or three weeks ago there appeared in the Saturday Evening Post an article from the pen of ex-speaker of the house of representatives Joseph G. Cannon, in which he discussed the various political movements in this country since he has been in public life. He devoted much space to the latest movement for the restoration of

God, tho this life is but a wraith, Altho we know not what we use, Altho we grope, with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose. Ever in conflict let me be; Make me more daring than devout From sleek contentment keep me free, And fill me with a buoyant doubt. Open my eyes to visions girt With beauty, and with wonder lit'; Hut let me always see the dirt And all that spawn and die in it. Open my ears to music: let Me thrill with spring's first flutes and drums; But never let me dare forget The bitter ballads of the slums. From compromise and things half done Keep me, tho all the world deride, And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me etill unsatisfied. Century Magazine.

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Bacon "Huxely said that an oyster is as complicated as a watch." Egbert "Well, I know both of them run down easily.'' Yonkers Statesman.

Louise "Has Pauline's husband a horror of debt?" Julia "No; she is most happily married." Judge.

Mrs. Gramercy "Whatever will you do if business ceases to be profitable in a year or so?" Gramercy "Don't be alarmed, my dear. By that time we'll have sold all the stock in the company to the public." Puck.

"I see," said the idler, "that Mr Wilson has dropped the name Thomas." "I'm not bothered about that," said the worried officeholder. "What other names is he going to drop?" Pittaburg Poet,

FORUMOFTHEPEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed it the Order Received.

Editor of the Palladium:

If you had been asked confidentially j about a certain reporter's ability to work on the Indianapolis Star, and if! you had declared, also confidentially, j that Richard Roe had " a good nose for news,'' and was an enthusiastic, I conscientious man, but you felt that j

no was not quite conservative enough to suit the policy of the Star; if then, your questioner had (accidentally, let us say) let your confidential reply be made public, how would you feel? In pure justice to President Kelly, I think wo ought to put ourselves in his place. I, for one, feel sure that when President Kelly expressed an opinion about Mr. Brown's fitness for the superintendency in Richmond, he did it under just such circumstances as suggested above. Mr. Brown himself evidently felt that President Kelly would be consulted, and why should he not be? Is there any one in Richmond better able to know about school men, their ideals and their practical work than President Kelly, who, as a member ot the state board (not as president of Earlham college) is required to investigate these things? Besides, what did President Kelly say that we raise such a howl? Did he say anything against Mr. Brown personally or against Mr. Brown's ability? No; he merely stated that, according to his (President Kelly's) private opinion, Mr. Brown was overdevoted to the vocational side of school work. . Well, what of It? Many, many people believe tho vocational side is being overdone in our schools, if you only realized it, as probably President Kelly does. The school board or members thereof, asked for a personal opinion, not a public statement, and President Kelly believing in the trustworthiness of the board, made his declaration. How was his confidence and asked for confidence, remember treated? It was so abused, it seems to me only justice

to enter a protest against such carelessness or treachery. We,, as taxpayers and parents, ought to be Interested enough In this to see that the blame is put where it belongs not on President Kelly, but upon that betrayer of confidence. There can be only two reasons for such an act: either there is a personal dislike for President Kelly, or that member of the school board does not know how to keep business secrets. If the former is the reason, let the rest of the board gag him; if the latter, let the council get him out of this responsible position, or else he will have the 'board in inexplicable difficulties most of the time. AN ONLOOKER.

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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

MAYOR. E. G. McMAHAN, Candidate for Mayor, subject to the Progressive nomination. WILL J. ROBBINS, Candidate for Mayor, subject to the Progressive nomination. CITY CLERK. BALTZ. A. BESCHER, Candidate for Clerk, subject to, the Progressive nomination. V

' MASONIC CALENDAR ; Thursday, May 15 Richmond Lodge, No. 196. F. & A. M. Called meeting; work in Master Mason degree. Refreshments. Friday, May 16 King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called meeting; work In Mark Master degree. Saturday, May 17 Loyal Chapter, No. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting.

SENATE. Met at noon and resumed debate on Penrose-LaFollette amendment for public hearings on tariff bill. Woman suffrage committee ordered favorable report on Chamberlain resolution for constitutional amendment to give women right to vote. Works bill to direct geological Burvey to locate water supplies in deserts and arid lands reported by public lands committee. Nomination of George W. Guthrie

j as ambassador to Japan reported fa

vorably by committee. Vice President Marshall read a cablegram from Shansl Ivinctal Assembly, thanking United States for

! recognizing Chinese republic.

O'Gorman bill providing reimbursement of contributors to ransom of Elleu M. Stone favorably reported. Bill appropriating for expenses of delegates to International Congress on Alcoholism at Milan favorably reported. Memorial read from Massachusetts Legislature, urging that no tariff bill, unless based on protective principles, be passed. Senator Ransdell had read, over protest of Democratic leaders, letter from

"original Wilson man of Michigan, denouncing the sugar schedule ot the Underwood tariff bllL Chairman Simmons of finance committee made unsuccessful effort to get vote on Republican amendment for public hearings on tariff. Adjourned at 5:50 p. m. until noon today.

HOUSE. Not in session; meets at noon today.

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A Man of High Principles. Scotsman (up to London for the week end. who has been asked by his friend to go to a music ball) Na, na, mon! D'ye no ken I never visit a music hall on th Saturday, for fear I should laugh in th kirk on th' Sawbath? London Opinion.

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