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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

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A Life Well Lived It is wrong to accuse providence of undue interference in human individual's affairs. To accuse providence of some things would make of it an unwelcome and abhorent power. Therefore, not providence but fate intervened and so tragically brought to a close one day last week the existence of a woman, as to throw her life into high relief against the back ground of ordinary, humdrum lives. Adaptability, courage and energy shine forth in unsurpassed brilliance in the life of endeavor and accomplishment brought to public attention by the regretable accident that ended the days of Mrs. Andrew E. Jones. Handicapped all her life by constantly increasing deafness, this woman years ago manfully shouldered the responsibilities of provider for a family. First as department head in a store and then as a canvasser of useful household articles she earned her family's living. More, she earned a surplus and capitalized it, lovingly, tenderly and far sightedly, in splendidly educating a daughter. She not only assumed the cares of her own generation ; she intelligently responded to her share of the responsibility for starting right the next generation. How cruelly fate prompted her the day she met with the accident. As she made her house to house canvass that day she told her old customers that it would be the last time she would make the round. A daughter now employed at a good salary, grateful and not forgetful of enjoying advantages paid for by a mother's loving sacrifices, was henceforth to take upon younger and willing shoulders the place of family provider. The memory of the pride and love in the voice with which was told this reason for dropping the old occupation should be sweet consolation to the one who belied the old German proverb, "Ingratitude is the world's reward." And what encouragement and example are given to all of us in our struggles with life, from the knowledge of how this woman lived and achieved. Her message to humanity is to adapt oneself to circumstances, to battle with life's problems courageously, to do whatever one is seeking to accomplish with indomitable energy. Truly, a life well lived.

The Palladium Free Ice Fund You have all been sweltering in the heavy heat. All of you, however, have not suffered alike. Some have sought the cooling breeze of the swiftly moving automobile. Others have enjoyed the comfort of the electric fan as they languidly sipped a cool, refreshing, iced drink. And the little ones, the babies they have all suffered, but not in the same degree. Some, clad almost in "birthday" clothes, have lain in a shady nook on a cool lawn. Their little bodies have been liberally treated with talcum powder to soothe away fretting perspiration and minimize the chance of heat eruptions of the skin. A watchful mother, secured in her leisure, or a faithful nurse, provided for out of the family abundance, has hovered around and watched over the little, helpless charge. The milk has been more closely guarded against contamination than is some sovereign shielded from assassinations through poisoned viands. Carefully selected from the best and cleanest dairy, it has been kept sweet and pure in a liberally ice stocked refrigerator. And the invalids, whose suffering is so intensified by stagnated, hot days some have fared better than others. Cool, clean bed linen, the sick room's air stirred into motion electrically, plenty of loving attention as well as scientific nursing, ice with which to balk fever or make the thirst quenching drink more enjoyable their's is almost a vacation. But picture the others. The invalid whose infirmities have interfered with earning power and opened the door to the debt wolf. Unable to buy attention, yet probably nursed by her who promised "for better or worse" and uncomplainingly tastes the bitter. Body ravaged by fever, tongue parching from thirst, no ice in the refrigerator may be notable to own such a necessity. That's no vacation. That's Hell on earth. And the babies of those others, just as precious and as dear to their mothers' hearts as the little ones into whose mouths fate thrust golden spoons they suffer dreadfully these hot, muggy days. ; Their little bodies blotched in heat's red, fevered, suffering, indoors on a bed; unresting, unattended mothers so busy and can't hire help no ice, and it's warm milk they're fed. Warm

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best sellers In his THINGS Chicago Tribune.

SUSPICIOUS OLD CUSS. Atchison Globe. One old sport offers odds of eight to three that a sur

prising percentage holes in the toea. A Mrs. Beck to?" Mrs. Peck "I'm

Hamlin "Wifey told me to be home early, as she ha something she wants to talk to me about."

Buggs "My wife

the things she ha9n"t got." Chicago News.

milk! The perfect food for all germ life; contamination's medium, Death's delight. Life is too short to go through without holding out the helping hand. The Palladium feels, in establishing its free ice fund, that there are many in this community who will gladly take advantage of this means to help supply so important a necessity for relieving the sufferings of those who can not afford it. Securing proper distribution of the ice that will be purchased with the money contributed, will be assured through the readily granted co-operation promised by a well known charitable organization, the Penny Club. Whether it's a nickel or a dime, or no matter how much, you who can afford to contribute to this fund and do so, will enjoy better your own devices for making summer's hottest days more bearable by having helped alleviate the condition of your less fortunate fellow beings.

LOSS

By Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Once was the need of you A pain too great to bear, And all my heart went calling you In work and song and prayer. 13 tit now dull time has brought A sadder, stranger lot That I should look upon the day And find I need you not. Harpers

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

BILL COULDN'T GIVE 'EM AWAY. San Francisco Bulletin. Well, nobody has stolen the plans of Secretary Bryan's twin battleships. Friendship and Fellowship.

SOMETHING LIKE AN EDITOR'S. Kansas City Star. Since the Frisco Railway went into the hands of receivers Mr. Yoakum, the chairman of the board, la out of a job and his $75,000 a year salary may be lopped off. Instead of stopping his pay entirely, why not reduce it to a mere pittance say a couple of thousand dollars a month?

NICK CARTER NEXT. Ft. Wayne News. Some of the country's minor Democratic authors aro

why President Wilson favors only the appointments. HAVE BEEN PRETTY WARM.

Still, firing 39 employes bodily out of the weather bureau seems to have had some effect.

IT MIGHT BE WORSE. Charleston News and Courier. While mourning the wickedness of the present age, It la well to remember that If we had lived In another age we would be dead now.

THE WAIL UNHEARD. Cincinnati Enquirer. The wail of Ohio's jobless still fails to reach the inner sanctuaries of the white house.

IN OUR INNOCENT YOUNG DAYS. Kansas City Times. A dispatch from Wichita says the farmers near there are harvesting wheat by moonlight, which is no new thing in the line of gathering certain crops. Everyone will be able to remember that gathering watermelons by moonlight waa a favorite pastime.

o these transporent silk hose have SMILE OR TWO

"He's a deep thinker." "I guess so. None of his ideas ever get to the surface," Detroit Free Press.

"What party does your husband belong the party." -Boston Transcript.

"Is young Mrs. Oldboy in mourning for her husband?" "I'm no mind, reader how do I know?" Baltimore American.

He "I know I a:n not two-faced." She "Why?" He "Because if I were I'd be losing the other one."Cornell Widow.

Visitor (to facetious farmer) "I'd like to know why on earth you call that white pig 'Ink.'?" Facetious Farmer "Because he"s always running from the pen!" Town Topics.

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He told the shy maid of his love. The color left her cheeks. But on the shoulder of his coat It showed for several weeks, Cornell Widow.

Griggs "Your wife no longer objects to your staying out nights. How did you manage it?" Briggs "I began smoking in the house the cigars she bought to keep me at home." Boston Transcript.

Mr. Young "My little girl is nearly two years old, and hasm't learned to talk yet." Mr. Peck "Don't let that worry you. My wife says she didn't learn to talk until she was nearly three, and now " But Mr. Peck's voice at this point was choked with sob:;. Stray Stories.

"What is your idea of a radical?" asked the young man who is studying politics. "My observation," replied Senator Sorghum, "is that a radical is usually a man who wants to muss things up in the hope of establishing himself in circumstances sufficiently comfortable to, warrant hi becoming a conservative." Washington Star. "'.-.

WHEN the dream of socialism comes true we shall have the millennium, for socialism promises to de

stroy all poverty, all jjlvfW,'! crime, all vice. There fit 'M V will be no jails, no poor houses, no asylums of any kind. We shall have no drunkards, no tramps, no prostitutes. There will be no rent to pay, no landlords, no banks, no money. There will be IK, ' ' ' ! no lawyers, and no courts. There will be no alcoholism and no drunkedness with their attendant evils, because "it is overwork and small pay that makes drunkards and criminals." Thus the Socialist sees everything from an economic point of view, forgetting that after all we are still the same stumbling and weak "pore critters" as Widow Bedott said. Does this not seem like those "dreams which are the children of an idle hour begot of nothing but fantasy?" And this is the promise offered by the late Prof. Kelly of Columbia University in his book called "Twentieth Century Socialism; What it is; What it ia not; How it will come." Perishing Dreams. According to Prof. Kelly the triumph of socialism will bring us to a condition promised in the old hymn "There'll be no sorrow there." This ia a consumation devoutly to be wished and every man should help it on. Dreams and ideals have been powerful agencies in human progress. Some dreams have come true; thousands have perished. Among the perishing dreams the vast majority have been based upon perfect human beings. Young men have had visions and old men have dreamed of "ideal commonwealths," euch as Plato, Lycurgus, More, Bacon, Companella and Bellamy have imagined. Among dreams that have come true are the practical effects of the declaration of independence; the elevation of woman from a low state of a slave drudge to the modern conception of one woman and one man in a state of monogamous marriage; the modern idea of no class before the law, the protection of animals; the abolition of human slavery. Dreams that never come true are those that do not go with the great evolutionary streams of progress; those that reverse and go back to what is called "the natural state" by Rousseau; those that put a pastoral or agricultural condition of an earlier time upon an industrial system of our time; those that try to put new wine into old bottles. Abolish Money. The first step, cays Prof. Kelly, to bring about the socialistic millenium is to abolish money. This was the idea of Lycurgus long ago, and the apostle said the love of money ia the root of all evil. In the place of money he would issue orders on state department stores. Instead of reading "payable in gold or silver" or "good for one dollar in gold" the. script would read MARRIAGE LICENSE ACT IS APPROVED Judge H. C. Fox of the Wayne circuit court, highly approves the action on the part of Pennsylvania officials who accepted the "eugenic marriage" license act for that state. Last week

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Socialism Wrong Its Wild Dreams By Edgar Iliff

"Good for $1.00 at the Socialist Store." Every farm, every store, every bakery, j every meat shop, every drug store, ev- ' ery kind of business would be socialized and run by state appointed managers. If the municipal baker didn't ' take good bread he would be "recall- ! ed." Incredible as this seems Prof. ! Kelly actually advocates such non1 sense in his book on page 332. J No farmer would be permitted to j raise more than the public required, i No baker would be allowed to bake I more bread than the state officers deSocialists see everything from the economic point of view. They forget we are still weak and stumbling "pore critters." Socialism is impossible dreams that never come true are those that do not go with the great evolutionary streams of progress. Socialist Prof. Kelly dreams of the country organized on a huge penal colony plan. cided would be "sufficient unto the day," because socialism is opposed to over-production and the greatest crime of all crimes is for any one to have a surplus or more than he can eat or wear each day. Stable Currency, An Achievement. Now as to money, we can lay it down as an indisputable fact that the greatest achievement of modern organized society is a sound and stable currency, a single gold standard as a measure of all values. Store-checks would be a return to the crude state of barter or a medium of exchange as shiftless as wampum, tobacco or shells. Another wild dream of socialism la that farmers would be required to pay their taxes in produce. The state will receive eggs, butter, hay, corn, oats, pumpkins, etc., for taxes. The state would sell these things in the public stores and sell them for orders on the stores. How lovely! What opportunities for graft! The state would get all the rotten eggs! But one of the most insane dreams of socialism is this: As the state officers will always know before hand just how much machinery and farm products will be needed, work will be so adjusted that men will have to work only two hours and a half each day of the 8ix working days. In the eight cool months of the year men would be required to work In the shops; in the four hot months they would be sent to help the farmers. Also in the winter months, the farmer "being idle," would be compelled to go to the city and work in the factories. The state will always know just how much the factory would produce and how much every farmer must raise, thus the state will always know how many men will be needed every winter in the factory and how many In the summer on every farm. A Penal Colony Idea. Certainly the Socialist Prof. Kelly waa dreaming of penal colonies and Pennsylvania accepted the act which passed the House several weeks ago and waa favorably acted upon by tha Senate June 25. The act prohibits the issuance of a marriage license to persons afflicted with a transmissable disease and specifies that no license shall be granted when either of the contracting parties The Silk Sale

penal farms instead of a country of common-sense Americans. It is safe to &ay that under such a state of storechecks, taxes paid in eggs and pumpkins, and nu-:i compelled to ko hither and thither, there wouldn't be much Joint; an) where until society had a lucid interval. Prof. KeSh dt-t.n-'s the "bourgeois" 'class as those who have property either in house, store, factory it farm, and who employ a servant, a clerk, a farm band or a bookkeeper. He lit-tines the 1 "proletariat." as a class which owns no property of any kind anil employs neither servant, clerk, bookkeeper or farm hand. Ho proposes to transfer all political power from the laborer who has earned a home, a farm or a business, and thereby employs a helper for , his wife, or a clerk or a farm hand in his business, over to those, who liavc ; made no advancement In life. No wonder socialism means that the industrious and thrifty shall "divide up" with 1 the irlle and wasteful. That is just .what Prof. Ke!y proposes and it is

what the Auarchist-Socialist Kropotkin proposes also. On behalf of American socialism Prof. Kelly also says: "The capitalists are in possession of the army, the navy, the police, the militia, and, above all, the weapons with which to arm all these. Hecourse to bullets seems unnecessary and dan- ; gerous when our enemy has bullets and we have not." A Policy of Kill." Here he calls the capitalists "our enemy." So every man, laborer, commercial man or farmer who employs anyone is the enemy of the employed, and the employed would be fully justified in killing off the police, and "our enemy" the employer, if the "proletariat" only had the bullets. I have studied socialiem from the sympathetic point of view. I wanted to know, so 1 read and studied Socialist books and pamphlets and platforms. I have talked with Socialists and listened to their speakers. I haven't a single prejudice against any party that la honestly trying to make this life better worth the living. If socialism can bring about a better civilization, then Godspeed. With the desire of many honest Socialists to raise the standard of comfort for all I am In hearty acord, but I can't believe that the creation pf imaginary classes and then arraying them one against the other, thereby fomenting rancor, hate, prejudice and a desire to destroy life and property can ever elevate a people. When class was arrayed against class in the French revolution, and ev- j ery guarantee of personal liberty waa swept away, then arose the Tribunal 1 of Accusation. To be suspected of be ing a "bourgeois" or anything but a "proletariat" was to be guilty. With every court destroyed, with all the powers of government transferred to the rabble and scum of Paris, nothing could prevent the Reign of Terror. This Is a prospect that every patriotic American must look upon with horror. is an imbecile or under guardianship as a person of unsound mind. It further provides that no male person shall be permitted to marry who Is or has been within five years an inmate of any county asylum, unless it satisfactorily appears that the cause of such condition has been removed and that such male applicant has be-

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! NEWS NUGGETS I (National News Arlstlon) PITTSBURGH Because she heard him whistle his favorite song out of tune, as was customary with his musical efforts, Mrs. Phoebe E. Turner, in divorce court here declared she knew her husband, William M. Turner. & wealthy florist, was in the apartments of Miss Elizabeth Gay, corespondent named in the action for d:oroe. ROME. Italy Three fcundred telephone girls here "pJaaiptly availtnl themselves of th recent order which permits them to wed. The post master general, who granted the permission, was askod by nearly every couple to act as best man. NEWTON. N. J. While trying to swim the Jaullinskill river here with a catch of forty pounds of fih strung around his neck. Harry C. Pitman, 18. was drowned. Friends nearby thought hla cries for help were In fun and laughed at him as he sank. NEW YORK In a bowling match here nine blind men rolled up an average of over 100. The highest individual score was 174. rolled by August Steneck. If a pin or two stood up after the irst bull, pinboys shouted directions to guide the bowlers in their second ball. NEW P.EDFORP. Mass. After racing one thousand miles to the bedside of his dying wife. Captain Horace P. Smith, of the whaler, A. M. Nicholson, spent a few days with her and then fell dead. PITTMANY X. J. With a hen for their foster-mother, a brood of English pheasant fledglings la thriving in the barnyard of Harry Landers, near here. Landers found the eggs in his grain field and placed them under the hen. She was on the eggs only a day when the strange looking chicks popped ouL come physically able to support a family. The act has been Indorsed by medical authorities throughout the country.

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