Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 222, 26 July 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 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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A Unique Movement Unique in the history of political parties in the United States is the movement recently launched by the executive committee of the national Progressive party. This is called the Progressive National Service and its sole purpose is to stimulate the great crusade for good government on a non-partisan basis. This service is interested in measures, not in offices or office seekers. It proceeds without prejudice and not in the heat of political conflict. It is calmly but steadily at work the year around investigating and putting before the people facts touching the province of good government. It looks to the time when every American votei shall base his vote upon knowledge and a clear sense of personal responsibility. It is evident that such an enterprise will attract and command the finest American Manhood and Womanhood and that these will use the most effective means to promote their cause. What is more natural than that the lyceum and chautauqua, which has been called "The University of the People," should at once be chosen as an agency to disseminate knowledge and inspire action? The bureau of education of the Progressive National Service announces its lyceum and chautauqua service under the direction of Montaville Flowers of California. The object of this Department of the Service is to bring to the American people through regularly planned courses of conferences or lectures a general acquaintance with the meaning and significance of Government and its service under the social, economic and industrial conditions of the present day; to aid in the development of functions of government to meet these conditions. These themes are big and tremendous. They are national and international. Several hundred of the most scholarly and commanding speakers of America have already enlisted for service in this campaign of education. Some of these speakers will discuss Social and Industrial Justice; others, Conservation, Child Labor, Equal Suffrage, Workingmen's Compensation, Tariff, Finance, Cost of Living, Betterment of Country Life, and so on through every department of specialized effort and knowledge. These speakers will discuss these things, not in the flamboyant rhetoric of the campaign orator, but with the calm and deliberation of the investigator and the scholar, and in the spirit of the friends of man.

A Correction The concluding paragraph of Mr. Haywood's article in last night's paper should have read : "What is all this but to say that every unproductive factor must be eliminated and that we all rise or sink together?" Due to a typographical error the "un" was left out before "productive" completely destroying the real sense.

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SOCIAL CERTAINTIES By H. L. Haywood. "INDIVIDUAL OWNERSHIP."

YOUNG Hobbledehoy was hoeing in a potato patch: his straw colored hair protruded in hanks from ripa in his straw hat his pantaloons were

patched profusely and he carried the air of considerable indifference. I noted that he was merely skimming the ground with his hoe and working very carelessly. He seemed to be doing his stint in the spirit of a second-class machine. "How does it come," I queried, "that you take so little interest in your work?" He returned me a look with some amazement as if he couldn't see why one should ask so idle a question,

"Why should I care a rap 'bout that tater patch; I don't own it. do I?" There's more sound economics In my friend Hobbledehoy's reply than in all Mill's, Bentham's and Itieardo's books combined. It lets us into the very secret of the whole perplexing problem of individual ownership. And when we consider that this is the storm center of our politics and sociology today, that is no unimportant matter. It makes all the difference whose potato patch one is hoeing. The fruit of one's toil, the quality of that toil, the spirit in which one does it and the reactions on one in doing it these things are all important and they are determined by the conditions of ownership. Individual ownership is one of the everlasting permanencies in human society. A social system in which it sinks to zero is unthinkable. So long as man remains man to own and to possess will be one of the supreme motives in his life. And any plan of reform that leaves this out of account "reckons ill." It is in one's permanent possessions that one develops Individuality. These materials which I can call mine are the stuff out of which myself is fashioned. What marble is to the sculptor, what pigments are to the artist, belongings are to a man; without them he lacks the materials of self-creation. Without them he establishes no permanent individuality, but passes across the earth like a shadow. I find I incarnate myself in the things that belong to me and by means of them arrive at my better being. Just as the moisture of the upper air will gather about a speck of dust and thus form a rain-drop, so does a man's conscious life need to have a permanent bast about which to crystallize The craving for persona: ownership, says Vida Scudder, "leads to the extension of

personality, for a man's possessions are the outward expression of the slow-going, precious sense of selfhood." Where there is no individual ownership there can be no efficiency. There is much philosophy in the common saying that if we will have our work done well we must do it ourself. When one runs another's machine, working with another's raw materials, and turns his product over to another for disposal, he is not going to take much interest in the process; the whole thing is too remote from the springs of life the transaction has little significance to the worker. And there is no use to scold and complain because men don't take as much interest in jur work as they would in their own, they are simply icting In accordance with the deepest human instincts; ..o long as man is what he is, that's the way it will '.iuve to be. The destruction of individual ownership means the .laath of art. There is a peculiar notion abroad that art is the specialty of a few select individuals we call "artists" who produce canvasses or oratorios for the use of leisure hours; this is wide of the mark. Art is the result when one takes joy In his work and there can be no art in a nation when the people go about their toil like my friend Hobbledehoy. It was this lifeless and mechanical way of doing things in our modern world that led William Morris to rebel and turn Mediaevalist; "life is not worth the living," he asserted, "where men take no joy In their labors." But how can a man take much joy in his tasks when those tasks and the machinery and materials with which he works are all another's? A clerk in a store will run for his hat at the stroke of five-thirty while the proprietor will stay at night and work Sundays, and like it. Why? For the simple reason that the proprietor owns it. When individual ownership is destroyed there will be a sadden decline in responsibility. Men who have nothing to lose have little sense of tlie "sacredness" of property. No material so quickly fans into the flames of rebellion and riot as a horde of propertyless men. As .Hobert Hunter so well says, "Without the security which corses only with the ownership of property, without a home from which they may not be evicted, without any assurance of regular employment, without tools with which they may employ themselves, they are pathetically dependent upon their physical efficiency, their health and strength, and upon the activity of machinery owned by others, and worked or left idle as the owners consider it wise or profitable. "Nothing so ballasts a man as to give him a holding in ownership. Then he becomes a factor for stability and order. Worst of all, when individual ownership is destroyed a people becomes a pack of cowards. What does the flag mean to a man when it waves over nothing that is his? Trying to hold a nation of hired men and tenants together is like trying to hold up a barrel without hoops, and one may pour gallons of "patriotic talk" into them without one ounce of results, for it will all spill out on the ground. Give a man possessions in the land and he will fight for that land with his last breath; but let him be a mercenary in it, a mere hireling, and he will melt away like a summer cloud. One reason the patriots were able to win the Revolution was that England sent an army of hired soldiers against them. "The hireling fleeth, BECAUSE he is an hireling!" Any system of society now running or proposed which does not or cannot make provisions for universal individ

ual ownership carries within itself its own

France before the Revolution was an illustration of this,

Ireland today reveals the tragedy that comes when a few own and the many own not, England is finding some difficulty in getting her affairs adjusted since her farmers and her mechanics have become a lot of tumble-weeds who can't take root anywhere because the privileged classes have pre-empted. "Desire for property has been the chief force that has led man on from savagery to civilization," and a man will not care a snap of his finge for any land where it becomes impossible for him to strike root in material possessions and become an owner. There are grounds for believing that we are fast approaching the practical extinction of individual ownership in this country Already manufacturing has become a system of serfdom: not one factory operative in a thousand does or ever can own a cent's worth in the machinery which he uses. Little wonder we have so much unrest and so many mountains of shoddy, ill-made goods! Commerce is concentrating with equal rapidity. The man who owned a little store yesterday is a floor-walker or clerk today. Before many years combination will have swallowed up the majority of small business concerns. And as soon as our Money Power has reached the limit of investment in industry it will turn to the land, consolidate the farms, install expensive power machinery, and transform the majority of our free farmers into tenants. A great economist said to England, "In your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of your population. Its existence for the few is solely due to its nonexistence for these nine-tenths." And that word will be true of America in ten more years!

Surely the time has arrived for us to look into the whole matter without prejudice or malice, to face the facts as they are and blink none, to rid ourselves of the can't and silly superstition that whether or no America will come out all right. If we learn, as it appears we will learn, that the institution of individual ownership is steadily being done away with we must go to work and restore it, in a form adapted to the changed conditions, or we shall have to shoot Niagara and if we ever do perform that interesting act, we shall, as Walter Rauschenbusch said, "get there ahead of schedule time."

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To be Produced Soon. "A Woman's Way." "The Battle," "Wildfire" and "The Traveling Salesman" will be early offerings of the Francis Sayles players at the Murray. Each play will be staged correctly.

Palace. For today's program tne Palace precnts two rt-al laugh makers In the comedies, "Brethren of the Sacred

' Fish," a Thanhouser ribtickler that

! bubbles over iih gjol. hearty laughs, . bvins a tale of secret tipn and ls-

: nals With it is shown the creamini( "Brown's in Town." i majestic. " The Pajama Parade," a "Brown's in Town." the funny farce story of frolicking girls. Thre ia alsa comedv that has been pleasini: eapac- s-1 own a splendid drama Sunday, an-

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

j it y house at (be Murra zll week. .will be presented tonicht for the last time. If ou like a good laugh and have not seen this excellent comedy, ; clou t fail to tee it tonight.

"The Man From Home." One of the most attractive feature about the play "The A! an from Home." written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, which the Francis Styles players will offer at the Murray all next week, with the regular mati-m-es. is the humorous blow it strikes at the folly of international marriages.

other Keystone. "The Peddler." is scheduled, and also two good dramas.

MRS. LAWRENCE PERIN. BALTIMORE, Md., July 24 Friends of Mrs. Lawrence Perin, who, as Miss Eliza W. Perine, was one of the most popular belles of Baltimore society, are certain that their fears for the welfare of the young woman have been sustained. She is now seriously ill with diphtheria in Paris, where she became suddenly stricken while In the midst of a more or less disastrous honeymoon. Miss Perine and the eccentric millionaire were married last February. They eloped from Baltimore to Philadelphia. Soon after they started on their honeymoon the bride lost $200 in cash and several valuable pieces of jewelry. A number of other disappointments have marred their honeymoon. Perln's first wife, with whom he eloped, committed suicide. He has long been known as a spendthrift, and was several years ago committed to the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, following a series of escapades in Spain.

CRITICISM ON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Current criticisms of the public schools are discussed in a report just

undoing. lj,B8Ued by the United States Bureau of

Education. Among other things, the contention that the "three R's" are neglected in the modern school is answered with an emphatic statement that the "three R's are better taught today than they were 50 or 60 years ago." "We frequently hear that there are 'too many subjects,' 'too many fads and frills,' and hence neglect the three R's," says the report. "The critics who utter this sort of criticism seldom agree on exactly what the fads and frills are, but they invariably look back to a golden 'past when the so-called 'fundamentals', reading, writing and arithmetic, were taught in such a way as never to be forgotten. As a matter of fact, the syetem of today is immeasurably ahead of the school system of the past. The growth has been steady. Whatever may be said against the enrichment of the course of study, its 'fads and frills,' the contention that the essentials, so-called, have suffered in comparison with the past, falls flat. In discussing current criticism generally the report finds that much of the criticism of public schools of today Is due to a marked change in the purpose of education. 'The change of

plete transformation in the idea of what the public school should do. "Those who criticize the bookish curriculum of the public school, whether elementary or high school, are really striving for what they conceive to be the changed purpose of education: To reach all the children of all the people with the kind of training that will make them not merely intelligent in respect to things that are in books, but will equip them directly for the kind of life, economic and social, which they will lead when they leave school; while those who oppose the innovations do so because they do not concede this broader though apparently more specalized purpose."

ITALIAN COLONY QUITE INDIGNANT An article appeared recently in the

11 Corriere dell. Ohio." an Italian newspaper published in Cincinnati, to the effect that tho money to defray the cost of manufacturing the fire1 works used in a display at the home of i Frank IV laro. Richmond, on the j 4th of July, was paid for by Frank

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lected by popular subscription among the Italian citizens. Frank IV Iarvo. who made the fire works at his home, donated his time, and the cost of the materials was raised by popular subscriptions, ranging from 25 cents to $1.00.

falls The authors have deliberately set forth, it is understood with the iila of heaping ridicule upon this form of republican insanity, and according to the success of the play in Chicago. New York and Philadelphia, where it broke all records, have more than made good their object. The concensus of opinion it these cities Is that no more delightful and entertaining play has been seen in recent years, and that its success Is due in a great degree to the homely spirit of truth, and to its clean and wholesome nature. The four acts are laid at the Hotel Geg'na Margherite at Sarrento. Italy, and the chief figure, that of a lawyer from Kokomo. Ind., stands forth with unusual brilliancy by the reason of his foreign setting. The underlying spirit of the piece Is a true republicanism that should come as a distinctly refreshing note amid the, plays of the present day.

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besides. Mr. Sayles will be seen as Daniel Voorhees Pike, the part that was played by Mr. Hodge. Three new members will open Monday night in

this play Dell W. Sherrand, J. Wohlfield and Guy Harper.

turn out only the best of hand work. A. B. Harned. Cor. N. 10th and E.

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"Brewster'a Mllliona." "Brewster's Millions," a dramatiza

tion by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley of George Barr McCutcheon's ! humorous story of the same name, will ! be the offering of the Francis Sayles! players at the Murray following "The

Man from Home." "Brewster's Millions" has been popular with play goers of this country for several seasons. The story sparkles with witty dialogues and is filled with the most amusing and original situations. The

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I MASONIC CALENDAR j 4

Tuesday, July 29 King Solomon's

a curriculum 'behind the times,' and ! Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Called the demand for vocational subjects, ! meeting. Work in the Mark, Past and represents no small call for different j Most Excellent Masters' degrees. 6chool subjects as such, but a com- Light refreshments.

A SMILE OR TWO

"Henry, it says here that Mr. Jackson pelted the pill for three sacks. What does it mean?" "Good heavens, Mary, can't you understand plain English? It means that he slugged the sphere safe and landed on the third pillow." Chicago Record-Herald.

The sweet young thing was being shown through the Baldwin locomotive works. "What is that thing?" she asken, pointing with her dainty parasol. "That," answered the guide, "is an engine boiler." She was an up-to-date young lady and at once became interested. "And why do they boil engines?" she inquired again. "To make the engine tender," politely replied the resourceful guide. Pennsylvania Punch BowL

Future generations will think I am the President of the Annanias Club,"' the shade of General Sherman moodily remarked. "What's the matter?" asked Xapileon. "Why, Carnegie has abolished war and the theologians have abolished hell," replied Sherman. Cincinnati Enquirer.

SOMEWHAT EXTREME. Detroit Journal. The fellows who are trying to pass Confederate money in Detroit are carrying that blue-and-gray reunion sentiment too far.

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Week of August 4th"Brewster,s Millions"

OH JOY! OH GLADNESS! CIRCUS COMING TO TOWN

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M'LLE NADJE 6 VAN DIEMANS Human Birds, without Me- The most perfect formed chanical Assistance. woman in all the world. Champions of all champions She's a Circus Venu3. 1,000 PEOPLE 1,000 3-RAILROAD TRAINS-3 600 HORSES 600 21 Acres of Tents 21 400 PERFORMERS 100 10,000 SEATS 10,000 FIFTY CLOWNS TASMANIAN SISTERS With Manv New and Up-to- fre" J?1' ?U: . , . tante acrobats in evening date Pantomime Novelties. costume.

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GRAND FREE STREET PARADE Reserve seats on sale at Tnistlethwaite's Drug Store, 6th and Main, at the same plices as charged on the show grounds.