Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 189, 17 June 1913 — Page 4

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The Reward for Honest Service A competent and trustworthy man, Dr. M. F. Johnston, was retained in the city's service last night by such a majority as to reflect credit on the council, but not until there had been furnished an excellent illustration of why it is difficult to keep responsible men in the public service. Fortunately for the city of Richmond, Dr. Johnston was enough interested in school work . to be willing to continue to give it the benefit of his valuable services, even though the price was the airing of unjust charges and insinuations against him, with the resulting publicity. H. H. Englebert led in the cowardly assault on Dr. Johnston last evening. He made no direct charges. Had he done so it would have been an extenuating feature of his opposition, showing that no matter how unwarranted his attack was, he was at least sincere in the belief his position was well taken. But Mr. Englebert did not choose to come out in the open in his efforts to defeat Dr. Johnston. He chose the worst form of character assassination, the retailing of back-fence gossip without offering any authority for his statements. In his opposition to Dr. Johnston this same weapon was also employed by County Superintendent Charles Williams. He had "heard" charges which as a taxpayer he would make public, if requested, at a secret session of council. Council, however, decided that if Williams' twice told tales could not withstand the limelight of publicity at an open session, they were not worthy of consideration. And in this action council made no mistake. How many men have been utterly damned by &uch cowardly attacks on their character will never be known. Dr. Johnston is not to be enrolled upon this lengthy list, however, for the insinuations directed against his integrity were abruptly and effectually answered. They are destined to have no more influence in the community than the men "who unleashed them at the council meeting last evening.

In Keeping with the Arch Council last evening gave its approval to a plan the board of public works has under consideration that of placing a merry-go-round in Glen Miller park to inaugurate a project of making the park "self-supporting." The suggestion of such a desecration of the most beautiful natural public grounds in the state would be amusing if it was not quite so serious. For years this paper and other friends of the park have been constantly urging legitimate attractions for it, such as a play ground for children, ponies to rent at nominal charges, and expansion of the zoo, but it is discouraging, at least, to see the fruit borne as a result of this agitation is in the shape of a wheezing merry-go-round with its ear-splitting organ. How consistent, also, is this latest inspiration of Mayor Zimmerman, to make the park selfsupporting in view of his tireless opposition to the holding of Chautauquas at the park because they were profit-making affairs. What distinction is there, Your Honor, between the city sharing in the profits of a merry-go-round and sharing in the profits of a Chautauqua? If the board seriously has in mind the placing in operation of the plan approved by council last evening it is high time that the people of Richmond take vigorous action to defeat it. The placing of a merry-go-round in the Glen would be a signal for the invasion of this beauty spot of nature by similar attractions, many of tar worse nature, and the purposes for which the park was established would be no longer served. However, if the mayor and his board are determined to carry out the proposed project, and there is no way to defeat them, why not establish a beer garden on Honeysuckle hill ? Surely this would prove a splendid profit-making enterprise for the city.

Save the Babies How to save the lives of babies in the summer will be the subject of a bulletin soon to be issued by Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the recently organized federal children's bureau. Every mother of young children should read the excellent advice given in this bulletin, and for that reason the Palladium reproduces some of Miss Lathrop's most practical suggestions: Milk Stations. A constantly increasing number of cities of all sizes are establishing milk stations and disfield. pasteurized, or sterilized milk to mothers of babies pensing milk, whether pure Jfiole milk, certified, modithat must be bottle fed. Somelof the cities In which such Institutions are maintained are: Albany, Baltimore, BosIon, Buffalo, Chicago, Dayton, Detroit, Hartford, Honolulu Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mo.; Lawrence, Mass.; Louisville, Lowell, Milwaukee, Newark. New Bedford, Hew Haven, New York, Peoria, Pittsburgh, Providence, Rochester, St Louis, Springfield, O.; Waterbury, Wilkesbarre, Worcester, Yonkers, Utica. The milk station is simply room sufficiently large to accommodate the

patrons and equipped with a large ice box, a desk, some J

chairs and a able. An ordinary store is suitable for a station and sometimes, as in the case of the station at Utica, N. a schoolroom may be used for the purpose. The station is usually under the charge of a nurse, and a physician is in attendance at stated hours.

Little Mother Leagues. The value of training school girls who are caretakers of little children in the care of babies is regarded as of immense importance not only in the improved care which is given to the babies in their charge, but in the influence which it cannot fail to have in the prevention of infant mortality in this and the next generations. The organization of the "Little Mother leagues" or "Little Mother classes" forms an important part of the welfare work in most large cities.

Destruction of Flies. The house fly as a death' distributer is only recently receiving the attention it deserves. Flies carry infection not only to exposed milk, but directly to the baby's mouth, or to the nipple of its bottle. Insistence upon screens for the baby's rooms and for the baby's bed is a part of the campaign against infant mortality, and the work should go even further than this and should include the destruction of flies by every known method and removal of the breeding places. Whether or not the stable fly is the only carrier of the germ of infant paralysis it is certainly one, probably the principal carrier. Upon the opening of summer a thorough listing of all horse stables and livery barns, whether public or private, is made by such cities as Seattle and Indianapolis, and complete measures for the control of the fly breeding places are instituted.

RAILROAD REGULATION

In the Minnesota rate case decision the supreme court, the New York Times says editorially, has definitely fixed the authority of congress as paramount and "in response to conviction of national need" it may "displace local laws by substituting laws of its own." That is the first warning to the states, and we should say It is one from which the railroads should derive great comfort. The second warning is the familiar one that rates do not allow a fair return will be considered confiscatory and set aside. Private property put to public use "rests secure under the constitutional protection which extends not merely to the title, but to the right to receive just compensation for the services given to the public." It states where the radical and adventerous spirit prevails, where parties or politicians seek their profit by harassing the corporations, there may be some trouble ahead for the railroads. The court has pointed to their means of defense, it has given them assurance of adequate protection. And in the period upon which we have now entered, where definite principles of public regulation have been laid down and applied, and after a long series of enlightening decisions have made clear the rights both of the public and of corporations that serve them, it is to be hoped, It Is practically certain, that very soon the people in all of the states will perceive the folly, the wickedness, the waste, the great loss and injury to themselves and all their interests of policies of wanton persecution of corporations. Undoubtedly the time is past when very high returns from railroad investments can be hoped for. The setting up of machinery for careful regulation and the establishing of the principle of reasonableness in rates have practically done away with speculative opportunities in such investments. It would be sheer blindness to ignore the offsetting advantage of greater security. Immune from confiscatory rate-making, protected against the demands of shippers for favors and rebates, delivered from the free pass burden, and brought altogether within the domain of the law, the railroads have acquired a stability of rights and of position that in the long run will be found to be worth a great part of the privileges and immunities they have lost.

ALADDIN.

When I was a beggarly boy And lived In a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy. But I had Aladdin's lamp; When I could not sleep for the cold, I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold, My beautiful castles in Spain. Since then I have toiled day and night. I have money and power good store. But I'd give all my lamps of silver bright For the one that is mine no more; Take, Fortune, whatever you choose. You gave, and may snatch again; I have ifothing 'twould pain me to lose, For I own no more castles in Spain. James Russell Lowell.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

HISTORY HOLDS OUT LITTLE HOPE. New York Tribune. Is It too much to hope that eome time somebody will invent a simple, self-interpreting, ten-word supreme court decision?

HE MAY HAVE HUMAN ATTRIBUTES. Washington Star. Possibly Provisional President Huerta may feel himself justified in manifesting a bit of dullness in the ear that is nearest the Americans who are asking for protection in Mexico as long as Uncle Sam is so extremely deaf to his intimation that he is ready to be recognized.

WE NEED 'EM NOW. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Michigan 8000 men and 4000 teams and 730 automobiles built in one day 250 miles of good roads, passing through 44 townships. Why refer the national good roads problem to posterity? Turn the population of the whole country loose on it for a day.

RATHER POOR INVESTMENT. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The legislature cost the people of the state $200,000. And to think that part of the money was spent in proposing constitutional amendments for seven senators and a dog tax.

NO DOUBT OF THE RESULT, ANYWAY.

Louisville Courier-Journal.

Maybe it is not fair to Governor Blease to say that he frequently makes an ass of himself. Possibly Providence created him an ass and turned him loose In South Carolina, where there seems to be a public demand for the type.

T. R. MIGHT BE INTERESTED New York World. The English polo players who would substitute tea for highballs at afternoon "teas" recommend a radical innovation in American social uses.

HARD ON LOAFERS. Toledo Blade. Holidays are not popular with chronic loafers. When nobody is working they lose their identity.

IN "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century," that great work by Houston Stewart Chamberlain which has made such a stir in Germany, the learned author says that socialism and individualism are the two poles of society which are always see-sawing with each other, now one in the ascendant, now the other. An orthodox Marxian socialist would doubtless resent this statement because it throws the banner of the movement over so many warring theories, but nevertheless it does contain an essential truth. Under the head of Individualism one could group all those social theories represented in the United States by the Jeffersonian Idea of democracy. That Is, if the Individual is left unhampered to 6eak his own private ends It will be found that his own individual interests will coincide with the Interests of the state so that both automatically fulfill themselves. Under the head of socialism would then come all those theories which hold that individual interests and collective interests do not always coincide, but must each come under the regulative governance exercised by the will of the nation represented in the national statutes. Perhaps this is in both cases altogether too wide a definition but it contains truth at least and helps us to see that socialism Is not a nostrum of modern invention but has been from the beginning, and is now simply shaping itself to correspond to the conditions of the present age. Capitalism, Point of Departure. The differential characteristic which distinguishes the present from all preceding ages is unquestionably our mode of producing and distributing wealth. This mode for convenience's sake we call the capitalistic, though the name is sometimes misleading. One of the quickest and easiest ways to arrive at the socialist point-of-view as a citizen is to use capitalism as the point of departure. The essence of capitalism is that one man owns the instruments of production even though those instruments are operated by many men. Because he is owner he possesses the natural right to control the products of his machinery. This being the case it is also natural for him to keep as much of the wealth produced by means of his machinery as circumstances will permit him to. He produces his wares &s cheaply as possible, he markets as economically as he can, and be gets

ADDITIONAL SOCIETY

MARRIED THIS MORNING. The wedding of Mr. William H. Hutchins and Miss Glenna Buffington, of Muncie, Indiana, was celebrated this morning at seven-thirty o'clock at the parsonage of the United Brethren church by the Rev. H. S. James. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins will reside In Anderson. The bride wore a pretty tailored suit with hat to correspond.

PARTY THIS EVENING. A dancing party will be given this evening in the pavilion at Jackson park by members of a club. Announcement of the affair appeared in yesterday's edition.

SOCIALISM "Socialism From the Citizen's Point of View" By H. L. Haywood

his men to work for as small a wage as they are willing to accept. There may be exceptions to this but it is the rule as industrial history will abundantly prove. After he has met these various expenses from the wealth produced by his machinery he finds he has a surplus left; this surplus he calls profits. All his efforts henceforth are directed toward increasing that surplus; he will improve his machinery, adulterate his goods, reduce wages or employ cheaper labor, or use secret methods for stalling off a competitor. When his surplus has grown to a certain point he is able to buy off his competitors aud is thus able to add to his own in

state or national statutes so he is compelled to twist the laws to suit his interests. He bribes the law-makers, seduces the legal interpreters, and coerces law-enforcers. Thus, through the urgencies of his own economical interests he is driven to corrupt legislatures and courts; and the money power in his possession is the best of all weapons for the work. Legislative corruption is therefore made possible because capital is in private hands. Close to the courts and assemblies is the political party. Since the capital

ist finds that his interests will be jeop

ardized if a certain party or candidate succeeds to office he is forced to step into the party councils and demand

Individualism individual interests will coincide with interests of state. Socialism individual and collective Interests do not always coincide. Capitalism One man owns the instruments of production that many men operate. The capitalist must control the law and government. The socialist, realizing wealth is the controlling factor and is steadily concentrating Into a few hands, would crush this rising plutocratic power and restore self-government to the people. To do away with this corruption the socialist says to take away the corrupter's weapon, surplus value. To do this, the right to surplus value should vest only in the state.

come that which they had been receiving. Sometimes he forces them by unfair means to sell or finds other ways of extinguishing. Through this process we see that industry and the control of wealth has been falling into the hands of a steadily decreasing number so that today a very small group of men practically control the wealth of the nation. Corruption Through Private Capital. The consequences of this evolution to our political institutions and our social life will be at once apparent. To secure his own interests the capitalist is obliged to secure the control of many factors of influence in our common life. One of these is law. His business Interests come into conflict with

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that. men be placed In office who will subserve his own interests. With the wealth placed in his hands through his control of the machinery of production he is able to buy his wishes. Political corruption is traceable to the baneful influence of the "interests" in control of the party councils. Restoration of Self Government. His control of society extends much farther than this but this will be sufficient to understand the point-of-view of the man who is a socialist because he is a citizen. He realizes that wealth is the controlling factor, he sees that wealth is steadily concentrating into a few hands, he sees that the wealthy secures himself by corrupting and controlling for private Interests the very

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institutions that hold a democratic society together. Furthermore, he feels that a plutocracy, a government by the rich, will destroy a free nation as surely as a monarchy, an oligarchy, or any other form of undemocratic rule. Consequently he rises as a citizen and says. It is my duty insofar as my influence extends to crush this rising plutocratio power and to restore self-government to the people. How will he do it? Will he destrop capital? That would be ruinous. Capital is to a community what memory is to an individual: it is the bond of continuity which makes progress possible. Will he reduce all men to a uniform waise? That would crush out initiative which is the spring that keeps the world going. If he is a sensible man he will bethink himself, of the capitalist and his surplus valueJihe surplus value, profits, were made possible because the capitalist was able to keep a certain amount of the proceeds of industry after all expenses were met. This h claimed as his own. And it has grown to enormous proportions because ot the increased productivity of improved machinery. Swollen surplus value, that was the weapon by means of which tha capitalist was able to gain control of society. How can that control ever b taken from him so long as its means is left with him. That is the question the citizen will ask himself. And there Is no answer to that question. So long as capitalists pursue their own gains they will hava to corrupt the institutions of democracy, and so long as the surplus products of the machinery of production pile up in their hands they will have the means of corruption. To do away with the corruption, therefore, wa have only to take the corrupter's weapons away from him. How can we do it? That Is a question which alone can be answered by experiments In practical policies. Rut the socialist says that society must take possession of its own surplus wealth or it will be ground to pieces by the very power which it has create ed.

(Editor's Note Tomorrow, "Socialism From the Worker's Standpoint will be Mr. Hayward's theme. Reader of this Interesting and concise series about orthodox socialism are again urged to heed the law of continuity and not skip a single article of tha series.)

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