Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 218, 22 July 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AND 8UN-TEL.KORAM.

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

lintered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Mall Matter.

How About Discriminatory Rates? The Palladium joins with Mr. Bavis in believing that the franchise that is to be granted the Allegheny Gas company for supplying natural gas to Richmond consumers is not a perfect one. It leaves out the very important provisions of quality and standard of service. Yet we do not doubt the truth of City Attorney Bond's statement that the gas company refused to come to Richmond if provisions specifying the number of heat units and the pressure of the gas were inserted. That is the usual "public be damned" policy of most public service corporations. At the same time it is well for the city to take the best it can obtain from this natural gas company if the new service represents a cheapening in cost to the eras consumers of the city. And

that is what appears to be the relation of forty cent natural gas to dollar artificial gas. The editor of the Palladium is interested in knowing what Mr. Bavis thinks of the provision in the franchise that allows the company to charge three different rates for the same service. One class of consumers composed for the most part of those of our citizens who are not multimillionaires must pay forty cents for gas. Another class composed of the business men and smaller manufacturers must pay thirty-five cents. A third class, those whose position as large manufacturers enables them to use very large quantities of gas, are to pay but thirty cents for the same service, the same quality of gas that is furnished to the other two classes. Mr. Bavis has never touched on this question of discriminatory rates in his discussion of the gas situation. Does he believe that one man, just because he is comparatively poor and a small consumer, should be compelled to pay a rate that enables the wealthy manufacturer to receive a lower rate? The Palladium believes this discrimination is vicious and simply licensed highway robbery. What does Mr. Bavis think about it?

malign action of the mob alone is murder ever adequately punished in this commonwealth of ours. And that is an exceedingly dangerous and sinister sentiment to cultivate."

I MURPHY NOW HAVING

VERY STIFF BATTLE

SOCIAL CERTAINTIES

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Making Justice a Mockery Not long since the Palladium protested

against the attempts that were being made to secure a pardon for John Knapp, the man who murdered Len Geisler, late marshal of Hagerstown. In justifying its protest the Palladium declared that where the life sentence was exercised in making an example of murderers instead of the death penalty, then to pardon a life prisoner after a few years was nothing short of placing a premium on murder. Governor Ralston has just paroled a man who committed a most heinous murder. It is another instance of cheapening the law and rendering the lives of all of us less secure through the feeling the murderously inclined have that after a few years spent in serving a life sentence, freedom will be the reward. The following remarks from the Fort Wayne News on the latest case of paroling a murderer of the worst type very clearly express the sentiments of all thinking and law abiding people on this vital subject: "A few years ago at Bloomfield, Ind., Dr. Gray while drunk walked out in the streets and

in cold blood butchered with a surgeon's knife the woman ,with whom he had long maintained illicit relations. The murder was wholly unprovoked and was without a single mitigating circumstance. It was simply a case where a sodden and debauched man with hell in his heart killed one of his intimates. The community was properly shocked, but the infliction of the richly merited death penalty was averted by mushy appeals in behalf of his heartbroken wife and his very respectable father, a misguided jury salving its outraged conscience by the assurance that the crime was too damnable ever to permit of the murderer's release from prison before his death. So Dr. Gray, the man who had thrown away a world of golden opportunities, disgraced a good father, proved faithless to a loving Wife, and finally murdered the partner of his filthy liason, was sent to the penitentiary 'for life.' It was not long before his wife, broken by the wreckage of her hopes and the enormity of the disgrace heaped upon her, died miserably, she being as fully the murderer's victim as was that poor creature whose life blood gushed upon the streets of Bloomfield from the wounds inflicted by her liquor-crazed paramour. But the father lived, and living spent his time and fortune working for the release of the son whose crimes darkened and embittered his life. And now success has come to him, for Governor Ralston, yielding to the 'pull,' has granted the parole against which outraged justice simply shieks. Incidents of this

kind are what make our laws laughed at, our courts despised, and our governors held pitifully weak. They do more, too, for they place a positive premium upon the commission of murder, by holding out the assurance that the punishment is never made to fit the crime. More and more men are becoming to feel that by the hellish and

"THE CONSERVATION OF SOCIAL ENERGY" By H. L. Haywood.

E AMERICANS are in a penitent mood. Now that our youth as a nation ia past we are beginning to regret our foolish youthful extravagances. We have been reflecting on the

matter, since the conquest of the continent is about complete, and have been making an inventory of stock on hand. In many directions the findings have been very reassuring and sufficient for self gratulation and confidence; but in other directions prospects are not so rosy. We see now where we made big blunders. Great tracts of farming land are lying almost idle because hasty and unreasoning farming ex

hausted the soil; we discover that our crude'

and thoughtless process of mining has cost us enough to stock up a fair sized nation; the timberlands, too, as they lie across Wisconsin and Michigan, hurt our eyes, the jagged trunks cut off at the snow line and the vast areas of burned lands bring home to us the folly of our feverish haste in the earlier days; and then, too, we find that much of our free land has been gobbled up by sharks and syndicates and that we have also been letting millions of horse-power go to waste at our water-falls. All this loss of natural resources has given us a pang of remorse and we are already showing the genuineness of our penitence by scheming out an elaborate plan of conservation. Nothing could be more admirable or more redound to our credit. But we shall find, we prophesy, that our conservation movement won't be able to stop at these points; there is a kind of national resource which more stands in need of conservation than our forests or water-power; that is nothing less than our social productive power. This is a form of human energy that means vastly more to us than all the forests and rivers combined. How to utilize that force to the best advantage is the supreme problem in the economics of any people. Our position and success as a nation depends on that jnore than on anything else. It will not be our constitution, admirable as that is, nor our patriotism, as much as that is needed, nor our theories, as fine as they all are, which will keep us strong as a nation, and fix our place among the top-line powers; it will be our efficiency in properly and economically applying our social productive energy. Already we are sending out a call for a new science, that of "national efficiency," and already we feel the pressing need of the discovery of the laws that bear upon this problem . If we are extravagant in our use of our human resources, nothing, not even our constitution or our patriotism or our theories, can avail to save us; as a nation we will be eliminated. This big problem will be made clearer to us by the use of a simple analogy from mechanics: the physicist

has a principle which reads, "work out work in. "In oth-1 er words, this Is to say that you can't get more power out of a machine than you have first put into it. This Is the principle, but in actual use one never gets as much out as he put in because in transmission much of the power is lost. And the standard of efficiency in machines is to get the moat possible power out proportionate to the amount put in.

Suppose we now think of society as a machine; human productive energy is the power we put into it; the items of use, such as clothing, food, houses, education, music, pleasure, and so on, are what we get out of it. The one great aim of statesmanship then becomes to so organize the social machine as to get the maximum out with a minimum of waste. We may even lay it down as a working principle that the most efficient nation will be that which produces the most with the least waste of energy. And we may hazard it as a further principle that in the competition of nations the extravagant and wasteful will be eliminated, even as inefficient business houses are crowded out. Up to now we have left the application and direction of our social energy in the hands of our captains of industry. Our theory has been that these men are specialists in that line, social engineers, so to speak, and would be ablest for the task, and we have rewarded them by a liberal stake in the outcome. Under the circumstances this was the very wisest thing to do and the experiment has had many admirable and fruitful results. But now arises the question: is this disposal of the problem adequate for the enlarged and more complex times into which we have enlarged? 'Our social engine has been so increased in size, power, and complexity, the amount of social energy has grown 60 prodigiously, and the production has become so enormous, is this method of choosing and managing our social engineers now adequate? Is not the whole method of control somewhat archaic and extravagant like store-keeping in the days

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State News in a Brief Form

Conncrsville Diving from a springboard, Edward Volz and Frank Davis

i struck heads, rendering Volz uncon-

! Warsaw Jack Power has a remark- ; able dog, which uses a tooth brush, so Mr. Tower says. J Fort Wayne Thirteen young woj men have been invested with the veil

and habit as novice of the Order or

j paralysis of the limbs. I Kokomo Clyde Walker, of New

"DO 18 r,QinS across me continent on . Poor Handmaidens of Jesus Christ. , his wheel to win a $5u0 wager, reach-; Newcastle The new hook a.nd laded this city yesterday. j der truck amvt.d here Monday mornBattle Ground Six Monon cars j in and wU1 Dtf installed at the central loaded with merchandise were derail-; fire gtation ed yesterdaynear here j War,awSecretarv of Stale Bryaa Columbut-Ohver Mellva.n ex- hu and a Kenerhibiting a gold nugget which he found , near the headwaters of Salt creek. j4US 8U f Greenfield-Hall Brothers will pipe Ambly. Sunday. Kas from the fields south of here to Salem Grant McCory. the town

i their class Dlant in this citv ! marshal of this place, has leen arrest ;

i , ,, , . ed on the charges of arson, swindling I Lafayette Dr. William H. Upjohn . . , , . , k..-4, .- ' . ... v. . an undertaker, felony and the burnti;

i u.iu iaL uip.ui iiuui tujui lea I t- ft 1 when his own car knocked him down j and rolled over him. Paralysis resuited. i Knox Because his mother scolded

him for drinking, Martin Strasburger.

Charles Francis Murphy successor

to Richard Croker as head of Tammany Hall, the dominant organization of New York State politics, has apparently met his match in Governor! William Sulzor, of that state, whom j he is credited with having placed in i voice. Sulzer has declared war on j all political bosses in genera; and on Murphy in particular. The fight must j

result either in the political death of Sulzer or the end of boss rule in New York.

li. killed himself and shot his mother, who will probably die from the effects of the wound.

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of buildings to defraud insurance coin panics. Crawfordtville The Chautauqua oifleers, who were charged with violating the city ordinance prohibitii-r; amusements on Sunday fur which ad

mission is charged, were fined $10 and

costs. least disappointing. His hearty laugh is infectious. Miss OUa Worth, as Let tv Preston. Dick's wife, was up to

! her usual standard. Miss Worth eni ters into her part in a most coinmend- : able manner. Of course. Mr. Sales, leading man. always popular, was one of the "hits" of the evening. He is

fast gaining favor with the Richmond j public. Carl G. Kuuyan. as Worth

Carew. was much better this week

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"Fun and more fun" is being furnished this week at the Murray theatre by the popular Francis Sayles players, who are offering "Brown's in Town" for the entire week. This is the first time to the knowledge of the

writer that the play has ever been pre- . han in the parl assigned nim m ..Pliui

meu in uib cn. i.asi exeinng ine;,n FuU - e was a tvpical Englishaudience was kept in a continual up- j man and hlg interpretation was above

roar oi laugnter Dy tne many

At the Murray. Week of July 21 Brown's in Town. Palace

"Old Mammy's secret code," a massive 3 reel broncho military production, will be the feature at the Palace today. This spectacular subject deals with an old colored woman who uses a pre-arranged code of wearing apparel on a clothes line to apprise the confederates of the union opera

tions. The film, a civil war story, shows many sensational and awe-inspiring battle scenes among which is the dynamiting of a huge bridge, a thrilling infantry charge, and a daring rescue of the southern army by the cavalry, which hurls itself on the advancing enemy. Broncho subjects are always popular and the one today is by far the best shown here in some time. The admission remains the 8ame 5 cents.

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situations which developed from time to time. The play is in three acts and is simply a farce from beginning to end. It is just the kind of a play that does one good and no doubt the theatre will be filled to its capacity at every performance. The children will like it and the "grown-ups" won't need to go just for the children's sake. Miss Leroy, as Susane Dacre, is exceptionally good and appears to better advantage than she has at any previous time. Her interriretation of her

part is excellent. Sam B. Wilson, who I left the company a week ago, would

have given an excellent characterization of the part of Arthur Howard. However, Mr. Joseph Schafer, who

was assigned this part, was not in the

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I 1VIASQNIC CALENDAR

Wednesday, July 23. Webb lodge,

No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree. Light refreshments.

Friday, July 25. King Solomon's

Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called meet

ing, work in the Mark, Past and Most

before the cash register and bookkeeping? Are we run-1 Excellent Master"s degrees, commenc-

ning our social engine like efficient, well trained engineers ? It is interesting to discover that all the civilized nations are wrestling with this very question. Those who understand social mechanics are beginning to see that there are great leakages of our power and that our methods of utilizing human energy is wasteful in the extreme. This is at bottom of the "social question," the "industrial unrest," which is at this time stirring things up everywhere. Take England as a case in point ; there is a great nation which trusted itself with unlimited confidence to Its engineers, turned everything over to them, so to speak, and gave them a free hand all along the line. But now that the returns are coming in she begins to question the wisdom of all this. There are a good many million unemployed, there are other millions unemployable, there are still other millions in pauperism, and crime, insanity, imbecility, and disease are piling up at an alarming rate. The English are becoming a nation of runts. All this Is another way of saying that England's human energy power is being wasted at an enormous rate. Rightly enough she is beginning to say, "For the bread I eat and the clothes I wear and the shelter I get, am I paying altogether too extravagant a price." There indeed is the crux of it all; the price. We usually talk with glib facility about this or that costing so much and so much in dollars; but dollars don't begin to give up the real cost. That was forever enunciated by Thoreau when he said, "The cost of a thing is the amount of life paid for it, immediately, or in the long run." That's the root of the whole matter. And that's the mainspring of the social unrest in this nation: we are beginning to feel that we are paying too big a price in human life for the stuff we get. We are wasting our natural resources. And that is the most short-sighted of all policies because it means to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. If to have more automobiles and steam launches today means less intellectual

and moral stamnia tomorrow, then tomorrow we can make fewer automobiles and steam launches. Those who protest against the waste of human productive energy, of the cutting down of brain and brawn are cried down by "practical" persons as sentimentalists: it is those who so degrade our national efficiency for private and immediate gain that deserve the epithet, they are the visionaries, the fanatics, they are the enemies of the people. Society cannot eat its cake and have it too. 0

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j the average. I Primrose Johnson, a cook, taken by Carl Adamson, was surely full of ; mirth provoking fun. He gave an excellent interpretation of a typical old ' southern cook. Charles Pullen as PolI lock, the gardener, was worthy of men- ! tion. Abel Preston was taken by J. J. j Flynn. He was the typical irate father

and seemed to be the cause of much mischief. Meta Eyferth was well suited to the part of Freda Von Hollenbeck and occasioned much merriment by her funny ejaculations. She was very good and added to the success of the performance. Taken all in all the cast Is well taken and the play is worth seeing. Next week the company will present "The Man From Home." E. R. T.

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