Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 228, 2 August 1913 — Page 4

v r pe Four THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2. 1912

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f Simon-Pure Prudery Three powerful, sincere and splendidly written articles on the sex problem have recently appeared in three different magazines, "The Tiger," In The Forum; "The Woman Who Tried To Be Good," in the Saturday Evening Post, and "In the House of the Living Death," in Collier's Weekly. These stories deal with, in a clean, effective and straightforward manner, the greatest of moral questions and no one who read any one of them could have helped being impressed by the lesson they taught the shame and degradation of our social system and the need of effective reforms. These stories are to be classed as beneficial literature, for they aim powerful blows at the public conscience, sadly in need of an awakening, and they probably had a greater influence on the thousands of people who read them than the preachings from thousands of pulpits. Notwithstanding all this a very prudish organization called The National Christian League for the Promotion of Purity has seen fit to work against the very principles it advocates by sending In a complaint to the postmaster general, urging him to establish a censorship over magazines to prevent too free discussion of the sex problem. This complaint was inspired by the three stories referred to. If suoh excellent and beneficial literature is to be suppressed is it not time to censor the publication of evidence presented to committees all over the land engaged in investigating social conditions ; to bar from the mails copies of the report of the so-called Rockefeller grand jury which inquired into the white slave traffic in New York ? LThe light of publicity has unfortunately been ept off this great question for many ages, but in this country, at least, an honest effort is now being made to study it and prescribe the necessary remedies. This great reform movement, however, is doomed to failure if it is denied the searchlight of publicity to expose the hideous spectacle and arouse the public to the need of prompt action. If Postmaster General Burleson acts favorably on the petition of the Purity League he will have taken a backward step and have delivered a crippling blow to the splendid men and women who are leading the great fight against one of humanity's greatest evils.

Castro on the Warpath Castro, the "Bad Boy of the Caribbean," is again up to his old tricks in Venezuela, where he has organized a fresh revolt, and has added another wrinkle to Uncle Sam's brow. Since the expulsion of Castro from the dictatorship of Venezuela five years ago, the Gomez government has administered the affairs of the state in a more or less just and intelligent manner and the unhappy republic has enjoyed a much needed era of peace. It will be to the Washington government's interest to sustain as far as possible this stable government by defeating the ambitions of the trouble-making Castro, who, it will be remembered, at one time nearly involved this country in a war with Great Britain. A strict blockade of the Venezuelan coast by American gunboats to prevent the shipment of arms and ammunition to the revolutionary forces would probably prove most embarrassing to the prince of South American trouble-makers.

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"EQUAL OPPORTUNITY" ' By H. L. Haywood IF ONE will listen patiently enough to the clamor that is going up today from the working and most of the middle class he will at last come to hear as the imperative demand making itself heard above the din,

Ithis, "Give us equal opportunity!" One

I might interpret the whole of our present so-

jcial crisis in the terms of this one expression.

I Men don't want to be clothed, or fed, or

moused by others, but they do demand an op

portunity to earn these things equal to that enjoyed by others. With Walt Whitman they are everywhere exclaiming, "By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their

I counterpart of on the same terms." And they

are also going further and saying that others

cannot be permitted to have anything which they cannot have the counterpart of, on the same terms. Reactionaries and the servants of God of Things as They Are are meeting this demand with the expected abundance, of smooth sophistry and hypocrisy. They are busy pointing out how every man does have opportunity and tell us stories of how Wanamaker started up delivering goods in a wheel-barrow, how Tom Johnson began by gathering 6crap iron, how David J. Hill commenced as a prairie telegraph operator, how J. p. Morgan got his start selling discarded guns and weapons back to the government, and they always wind up by reminding us of "Lincoln. If these men could climb to the top so can you, they declare with an oratorical flourish; America is the land of opportunity and any man may reach any rung in the ladder of fame or fortune he sets his mind to. In this contention there is a double fallacy. First it completely Ignores the multitudes who with ability and courage and perseverance second to none have failed. WgttjnhftiM want bankrupt. Graham Bell did not realize

j out of his telephone, Kli Whitney wasn't vulpine enough for his wolfish competitors. Van Camp failed with his i milk business at St. Louis, though he had made millions in Chicago, the Rumelys were snowed under . on Wall street, etc., etc. According to statistics over ninety per cent of business men fail at one time or another. When the advocates of the present regime tell us how ten per :ent can succeed they neglect to tell us how ninety per cent have to fail. In the next place this argument of the defender of 'th'i thing as it is ha3 completely misinterpreted the demand of those whose cry he has heard. He goes on the assumption that these are asking for OPPORTUNITY. ; They are not asking for OPPORTUNITY, they are asking

for EQUAL opportunity which is quite a different matter. Any one can see that each child born into the nation has a certain amount of opportunity but where is the man who has the hardihood to declare that ali have EQUAL opportunity? And it is nothins less than this EQUAL opportunity which we are now demanding. The unfortunates on board the "Titanic" enjoyed opportunity; each had a chance of being saved at the moment the wreck occurred; but, did they have equal chances? No. And for the Rimple reason that there weren't enough safety boats to go round. The victims of the "Iroquois" theatre fire had "equal" chances of escape; no person forbade any particular group from the use of the exits, no law was passed or edict proclaimed, making it impossible for any particular person to go out the door; but was that an equal opportunity to escape where in the very nature of the case only a few could gt out and those few in proportion as they happened to be seated nearest the door? Could anybody say that the man who sat next to the exit enjoyed no better chances of escape than the man who sat farthest away? and yet the man farthest away had the same abstract "right" to use the exits as the more fortunate who were able to get away. "Opportunity" and "equal opportunity" are quite different. Again, it is often argued as if the demand for equal opportunity were a Utopian scheme for doing away with the inequalities of nature. But this is a total misrepresentation of the real case. Nobody of intelligence can for a moment saddle on society the responsibility for the apparent caprices of nature. That I am born tall or short, light of complexion or dark is not mine or any other s fault. It will probably always be the case, at least for a

long time, that men and women are born equal and of varying capacities. But to say that we are born unequal through the operations of nature over which we have no control is by, no means to say we are justified in defending the artificial inequalities which are due to social and economic injustices. Nor does the demand for equal opportunity mean a plea for equal returns for labor, as is so often claimed by the stand patters. No just demand could he made for the equal sharing of those who work little and poorly with those who work well and long. And again, it does not mean a plea for uniform activity. Certain Utopians have dreamed now and then of a society which, would be organized on the military plan with all allotted to the same tasks irrespective of native ability or desires. Such a state of affairs would indeed be, as Herbert Spencer argued, a form of slavery. What the demand of equal opportunity does amount to is simply this, that every person shall begin the game of life on the line, and not one ahead or another behind. Oh yes, you may say, that is well and good, but isn't that just what we now have? In this land of the free and equal does not every child born have a chance to reach the top? That is indeed the popular notion but I am afraid it has little justification. Let us see if we cannot make the matter clear by an imaginary illustration. Let us suppose that I am a millionaire (wouldn't a millionaire preacher be a curiosity?) and also that I have a son (our boy is a girl but I have secured permission of my wife to call her a boy "for sake of the argument"). Next, let us suppose, that you, gentle reader, are a section hand on the C. & O. railway, working at two dollars a day, and that you also have a son the same age as mine. Now my son has done absolutely nothing toward the earning of the fortune which he is to enjoy, therefore there cannot possibly be any logic in giving it to him; your son has done absolutely nothing to deserve being born into a cheap dwelling along the railway, and therefore cannot be accused of being "lazy" or "shiftless" or "wasteful" and therefore deserving of his fate. It may be true that I have "earned" my million and deserve to have it at the hands of society and it may be true that you deserve to be in your position because you are a drinking man and not very steady. But what about our children? In what way can it be possible that they should deserve their fate? Is there any injustice in this, that one babe is born to millions and another to poverty? Is this equal opportunity? Your boy grows up like mine and enters school. He is as bright and studious as mine but you find yourself compelled to take him away from his studies before he has entered high school in order to put him to work to help pay for his "keep." You put him into a factory where he receives a dollar a day and not yet having reached the age when the mind opens out and craves development, he quits his books altogether and soon loses interest in them "for good." But my boy remains in school, goes on to graduation from high school and then enters Harvard where he receives the best instruction the land can give him. After that I send him for post-graduate work to Germany, where he sits at the feet of Ernest Heckel and Rudolph Eucken at Jena. When he is through he has received a complete and harmonious development of all his faculties and is in every sense a man. But your boy has now arisen to the dignity of two dollars a day and has married one of "the girls," has rented a cottage in the North End and started on the long grind with which you are already familiar. Where is the justice in this? is this equal opportunity? When your son was little you were obliged to give him patent medicines in illness or to employ a cheap doctor. He lived in unsanitary quarters, ate adulterated food, and wore poor clothing. His work, when he began at it, was dangerous and when he was crippled In an accident you were forced to send him to a free ward at the hospital. My boy has attended the gymnasium, had the best of food, care and clothing and has been to the Battle Creek Sanitarium more than once and there received the best care in the world. Is that equal opportunity? Your boy runs with a crowd that loves public hall dances, smokes cigarets, has learned to drink and has scarcely a companion who influences him for the best And all this for the simple reason that he was born to it and has never known better. My boy has access to the best society to be had; he has his own automobile and can go with any person he chooses. If he wishes he can join those circles which devote themselves to the best that is thought and said in the world and so appropriate to his own use all that makes for the best. Is that equal opportunity? Your boy was placed in a shop through necessity before he had learned a trade or the rudiments of business; there he will always remain confined within the narrow limits of his own trade. Never can he rise to the top unless he chances to have genius which won't happen once in fifty thousand times. But my son begins at the top and has every chance of staying there. He begins at the very rung which your boy could only possibly reach after the most onerous climb. And if your boy tries to oust my boy from his position through superior ability, my boy car crowd him down and keep him out because he is already in control of the citadeL Is that equal opportunity?

Guide

At the Murray. Week of July 28 "The Man From Home."

The Man From Home. "The Man From Home" which has been filling the Murray at each performance will be presented tonight for the last time. If you have not paid the Murray a visit this week you have missed one of the best plays of the season and each member of the Francis Sayles Players are seer, to better advantage ihan in any other play they have appeared in.

Fear He Will Be Slain in Prison

"Brewster's Mill-on." With Francis H. Sayles playing Monty Brewster, the Sayles players will give a delightful performance of "Brewster's Millions" at the Murray theatre all next week. The play has been made from George Barr McCufcbeon's story of the same name and which has been one of tha most successful comedies presented in America for years. The story of "Brewster's Millions" is bright and breezy and it embodies the very element of youth. It is an ideal comedy with the third act on shipboard and a storm at sea. Every piece of scenery that will be used in the production has been built under Mr. Sayles' personal direction and a first class performance is assured.

"Hello Bill." Theatre goers of Richmond like comedy so that is the reason that Francis Sayles contracted for "Hello Bill" to follow "Brewster's Millions." Mr. Sayles has used this play before and it has always pleased the audience.

Palace. For today's program the Palace presents three clever comedies and a thrilling western drama, "She Will Never Know," by the American company. The comedies are, "Willie and the Wild Man," a laughable Thanhouser subject, and a split-reel Majestic film, "The School Kids' Picnic" and "The Wild West Comes to Town," both by Fred Mace and full of good laughs. Sunday a Warren Kerrigan feature, "The Scapegoat," from W. Hamilton Osborne popular magazine story, said to be one of the best. Also will be shown, "Just Kids," a Keystone.

Wallace-Hagenbeck Circus Announcement is made of the coming of the Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Shows Combined to Rich mond, Saturday, August 9. Each of these gigantic amusement institutions were leaders in their respective classes several years ago They are now combined and their con colidation means that It is the largest circus organization intact. More people, more animals, more horses, more elephants and more railroad cars are carried with these shows than may bt found with any other so-called imitators. It will be the only circus of any importance to visit this year. The performance this season is en tirely new. Most of the 300 artists have been imported to this country from Europe. Among a few of the most important features are the Six Van Diemans, aerialists extraordinary; the Tasmanian Sisters, debutante acrobats; Iff 'lie Nadje, the world's most perfect formed woman; Herr Von Rit ter, who slides on his head down a slender thread of steel from the top of a lofty pole, the very cap sheath of human endeavor, together with Carl Hagenbeck's famous animal actors, numbering several hundred, which includes performing lions, tigers, pumas, leopards, elephants, polar bears, seals, monkeys ,etc, etc. Performances will be given at 2 and S p. m.

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bring la Uie, Then the room w.s j right. Now why not open tip the front room of Richmond; call in the neighbors and enjoy ourselves ? You ought to do it. Richmond ought to hare the reputation of being the meet hospitable city in this part of the country. You ought to get people la the habit of comlnx her to trade and to play. It would stimulate business and keep things moing ia all directions. Rjyers' excursions! That's the iJa. Make it worth while fcr the neighbors to take the trip. Thre are mrr as f doing I:. One way U to Iu a coupon vltli the railroad ticket ta be applied on the price t ! uy purc; a..e mud here. Another ay is to t'-ro Kk-hmond ep'n. with rett p un's for the women ard a club fcr t!.- nun. IKmi'i ov r- harge then in

the restaurants and hotels. llr.v? a b..ud coiicert in tlie park and a fair i:s the streets. Tlu-re are many ways of entertaining the ititors v ho x i'.l be aUJ t. ct.r.u, if you g aoout inviting them in t!.e riht a. Hut no one man can atUnd to th trade .xtun-iotiR all by hine!f. It t u!int be fair if he could, lluyers' excursions are souiethlnu the entira ctiy s-houkl hat an interest in. 1 happen to know that the Commercial ciub is planning a series f buyers' excursion!. The trouble In a few public spirited citljeiis have been per mitted in the pat to do all of th viork and stand all of the expense. That lsnt a square oVal. You ar going to benef.t by everything that benefits Richmond. Why don't you get out now and do your share! The first thins to do Is po down to the club rooms and ask to b enrolled as" a member. Or If you are already a member let it be knotn that in the future you are going to be oue of tha live-wires. Get the front room open.

ISADORE RADER. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Isadore Rader, self-confessed firebug, who is in the Tombs prison awaiting prison sentence, is on the verge of nervous collapse. The young criminal, who admitted to the grand jury the many crimes, ho had committed as a member of the "arson trust," expresses the fear that agents of this most dangeroos combine will find a way of killing him even while he is in his cell, for the unforgiveable crime of "squealing."

EXCURSIONS OF BUYERS ARE NEEDED HERE NOW

Redding Says Not to Overcharge in Restaurants and Hotels and to Hold Fairs and Give Concerts. BY LEO L. REDDING. Why not open up the front room? Why not let in the air and sunlight and have a good time? You remember, when you were a boy, what a depressing atmosphere there was in the front room, which was opened only when there was a funeral or a wedding, and some times when the minister came to make his pastoral call. Dismal, wasn't it? All the plush or horse hair furniture was placed just so. The wax work flowers under the big glass thimble on the center table between the family Bible and the big red album, reminded you of a "Gates Ajar." On the what-not in the darkest cor

ner of the room was a varnished pine cone, a broken-toothed music box that belonged to pa's grandpa, a big rockcandy egg that you could look into through one end when they would let you and see a Dolly Varden driving a swan. Grandpa's and grandma's crayon pictures hung on the south wall, and between them was a walnut-framed red-worsted motto, "God liies Our Home." Wasn't that a fearsome room? Weren't you glad It was kept closed? Didn't it give you a chill, just to Klance in on dusting day? No need of Its being that way, was there? All any one had to do was to throw the windows open, let in the sunlight and the air to drive away that musty funeral odor, and the room was all right. So, I am wrong. You had to take out the spirit depressing furniture, and you had to

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Brewster's Millions j

Dramatized from Geo. Barr. McCutcheon's Celebrated Story By Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley

VOICES OF THE PRESS "Rattling good. Brewster certainly hits the mark." N. Y. Telegraph. "Most laughable play of the season." N. Y. World. "A long time since we have seen such a jolly play." N. Y. Journal. "The play was well staged." N. Y. Evening Telegram. "The complications interested and pleased the audience undeniably." N. Y. Times. " 'Brewster's Millions' proved to be an unusually interesting play." N. Y. Pres3.

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-Matinees: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 and 20c Nights: at 8:15, 10, 20, 30c

Week of Aug. 1 1 , Another Big Comedy, "HELLO BILL"

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TODAY "SHE WILL NEVER KNOW" American Drama "WILLIE, THE WILD MAN" Thanhouaer Comedy THE 8CH00L KIDS' PICNIC and The Wild Wert Comes to Town Majestic Comedy TOMORROW -THE SCAPEGOATAmerican Drama.