Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 238, 14 August 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 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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Battered at the Post Offlc at Richmond. Indiana, aa See 4 Class Mall Matter.

Desperate Democracy Spoils, in the shape of fat public jobs, for the

Indiana faithful have been so few and far be

tween that the pie-hungry Indiana Democrats are almost desperate. The fattest public job generally allotted to Indiana's share of patronage is a membership on the Philippine Commission, which pays $15,000 a year. The Indiana patriots who have been scrambling for this most desirable appointment number a legion. Therefore, join in their sobbing chorus, if you have a heart, over the tip that has gone abroad that Newton W. Gilbert, of Angola, Ind., a staunch Republican, is to be reappointed to that office on his efficiency record. If the president persists in handing out such disappointments, in place of offices, that word "efficiency" will shortly have the same effect on all loyal Democrats as a red flag has on a bull. The next most desirable job in Indiana's old patronage list is the consul generalship to London, $12,000 per year. The post is now held by John L. Griffiths, formerly of Indianapolis. Notwithstanding the fact that the consular service is now supposed to be under the merit system, great pressure is being brought to bear on the white house, led by Indiana's two senators, to have Griffiths ousted and his place filled by some Hoosier henchman serving in the ranks of Democracy. Senator Shiveley has announced that Griffiths' appointment was a partisan one and that each campaign since he has been in service he has returned to the United States to work in the interests of the Republican party. This is all perfectly true, but if our foreign service is ever to be established on a sound basis under the merit system, political appointments to posts in the service must be done away with. Probably there are more Republicans in the consular service now than Democrats, but a return to the spoils system means more Democrats than Republicans a change made at the expense of the efficiency of the service. If any Republican consuls are incompetent, they should be removed, but their successors should be appointed through the civil service, not through the white house. As to the case of Mr. Griffiths, he has had several years' experience in the consular service and has been a very valuable and competent official. Being an experienced man in the work he is engaged in (and our government needs all the experienced and competent men it can retain on its payroll) it would be unwise to replace him with an inexperienced man. At the same time the civil service should rule strictly against members of the consular service engaging in politics. Such a rule would undoubtedly be popular with not only Mr. Griffiths, but all other members of the service he is in.

Where the Credit Belongs The Indianapolis Star today editorially lauds Richmond city officials and members of the Richmond Commercial club for their work in bringing about a merger of the two local gas companies in such a way that the Richmond people will be guaranteed natural gas at a rate over a half less than what they are now paying for artificial gas. The Star announces that Richmond has set an excellent worthy example to the Indianapolis city officials, and denounces them for their inactivity in bringing about a similar merger of gas companies in that city. For the benefit of the Star this information

is supplied: If the Richmond people had waited on the mayor and his board members to take the initiative in securing cheap gas in a way that the public would be fully protected, negotiations to have natural gas piped into this city would not yet have been started. The only city official who took an active part in this work was City Attorney Bond, and he was ably and effectively assisted by the members of the public service committee of the Commercial Club. These men alone are responsible for 40 cent natural gas in Richmond. The Star should apply the spur to the Indianapolis Board of Trade, not the Shank vaudeville administration, if it wants Indianapolis to accomplish the results obtained in Richmond.

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OUR SIMPLE PLEASURES. Topeka Capital. It is probable that you will be unable to secure a prominent part in the drama of life: But you will always be able to avail yourself of the pleasing alternative of criticising those who do.

POPULATION ABOUT USED UP. St Louis Post-Dispatch. Arkansas has had four governors since the first of the year. It almost looks as if she would have to send Out.

SOCIAL CERTAINTIES

"THE PERSONAL EQUATION" By H. L. Haywood. MY DAUGHTER has at her disposal a typewriter, a telephone, a bicycle, and a considerable number of books but to date she has never yet hammered

out a single line, or sent one message over the wires, or ridden a hundred feet, or read a single page. And that simply because she is only nine months' of age. Therefore,

though all these things are as much "hers"'

as anybody's, she does not own them at all because she is incapable of using them. Before she can enter into Dossession of them

' ji so as to wr'te reams oa the machine and

taiK oceans over iue jjuune sue musi s through a long and laborous process of edu

cation and development. In this, we take it, there is a lesson for reformers. Among a certain class of social theories very much current at this day one will discover as a basic idea the theory that to lift the submerged, the oppressed, and the otherwise unfit classes to the proper level of health and efficiency we need only surround them with an adequacy of material things and conditions. Give them enough wealth, tools, and food and they will rise, like cream, to the top. We may call this, if we must tag it, the theory of social determinism. Summed up that theory amounts to this, a man is made by his conditions. This theory, we said, is widely current and exercises a potent influence on the reform literature of our day, but it is as complete a fallacy as ever crept into the befuddled mind of man. Nothing is farther from the truth, either to human nature or to history, than that a man will somehow be automatically remade if the necessary "advantages" are placed about him. In Francis Bacon's day little nations and principalities would put up the excuse after they had been beaten at war that they had not enough of the Munitions of that trade and. would have turned the scale to the other side had more forts, chariots, spears, swords, etc., been at their disposal, on which the founder of modern science comments In the following pithy sentences: "Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in lion's skin except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike; nay, number itself in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil salth, 'It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.' " In other words a great deal depends on the "breed and disposition," that is, the personal equation. One might have at hand all the necessary equipment for a booming nation and turn out with a hord of nincompoops for citizens. e According to this theory of social determination, it goes without saying that all vice, sin, wickedness and

crime is to be explained by a lack of "opportunity" or of

the proper necessary materials. From this it is deduced that to give all sufficient clothing, food and shelter would transform the race into ' a congregation of angels. Under such conditions education, moral teaching and religion would be superfluous; everybody would be good because "society" would be perfect! But along comes Prof. Peabody and says the right word to all this, "No arrangement of Industry can be devised which is beyond the possibility of being utilized for evil by unscrupulous and designing men. "The devil, according to Milton, was born in Heaven, and we hazzard the guess that he was not the last of his breed to see the light of day there. All theories of reform which go on the supposition that to have the material conditions right is to determine that everything else will be right, leave out consideration the personal equation, those disturbing elements and influences which the individual takes with him wherever he goes and which he found goodness knows where. And it it also to forget that a baby can't run a typewriter. There are so many proofs and illustrations of the pow

er of the personal equation to be found in the story of man that one is at a loss as to what to choose, but there is much light to be had on the matter from the history of scientific discoveries. But one example will have to suffice here for lack of space. When J. R. Mayer was prac

ticing in Java he noticed that the blood which flowed from an incision was much darker than he had observed in Europe. Now blood in Java had been dark for nobody knows how long and nobody knows how many had seen it but until that time no person was ever able to see in it what Mayer saw. It led him to the formulation of the scientific principle of the conservation of energy. He brought something to the material fact which nobody before had been able to and therefore found something in it not before discovered. The personal equation again! According to our social determinists, to make your scientific discovery you need only let it be seen that blood is

dark in Java, but they leave Hamlet out of the play in forgetting that you must also have your Mayer there at the same time. One may see the same fact crop out in the history of Inventions. The Chinese discovered printing and gunpowder long before our forefathers left the moot hill in Scandinavia, but what did they make of their find? Noth- j Ing. They did not take to it intelligence and skill and ' experience sufficient to enable them to make anything out ! if it. Hew built a steam engine a hundred and thirty i years before Christ, but nothing ever came of it be- I cause the people of his day were unable to see anything j

in it.

The gift of machinery and material advantaees to a

people, either from chance or a superior nation, which i is unable to make use of the same, is as futile as trying I

to carry on a conversation with a babe. Our American

Indians have had access to all the appliances of a civilized society for a hundred years and more but what have they made of their opportunity? Nothing. They cling to the wigwam through thick and thin and even run away to the woods after a course in college. They have been given for their uprising and advancement all that the most thorough-going social determinist could ask yet it has availed them not one whit. Plainly the personal equation plays a large part in these matters. This is not to say that machinery and the paraphernalia of a society are not of the very utmost importance and moment, It is only to say that we can't expect society to advance on one leg only. It has to go up the steep all along the line. In other words, it is the complete development of the people that is needed, the development of their body, their mind and their morals. We will deceive ourselves if we lapse into the dream of the social determinist and fondly hope to see reform all along the way merely from the proper distribution of material facility and advantages. Such an eaey climb into the kingdom of heaven is not possible. The individual must be developed as well as the conditions about him. And for the civilization which we are hoping for in these modern days he needs more than ever a complete development. Because of the extreme complexity of that civilization every individual is more than ever in need of a thorough intellectual training. There is as much difference between our present state of affairs and the Middle Age village as between the steam engine and a hoe and as much more knowledge and skill is required to live now as then as is required to run the engine as compared with the hoe. And moral development is more than ever needed. To steal in a community may not mean much if food be plentiful, but to steal a sack of potatoes in Chicago may mean some person's starvation. One might get oa a spree

PLAN AN AUTO TOUR

(Palladium Special) CAMBRIDGE CITY. Ind.. Aug. 14 The business men of this city are planning an all-day auto tour in the near future. This will, "not be an advertising trip, but a pleasure ride with a picnic dinner in some shady grove at noon. All automobile owners in Cambridge City and the surrounding

country will be invited to Join the ! tourists. The route to be traveled j has no bee selected. The committee in charge of the arrangements is : sparing no efforts to make the trip j

pleasant in every way. A band will be taken to furnish music.

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FEROCIOUS DOLPHINS.

Marina Monsters That Art Known a Whale Killers. There really is such a sea monster is the whale killer. It is one of the largest and most ferocious of all 'the dolphin family. It al.no la known as the grampus. It Is characterized as a genus by its large size and tbe conical and depressed bead, devoid of a beak. The back fin is of great length, especially In the males, and the flippers are large and broadly ovate. The teeth are comparatively few in number, varying from ten to thirteen on each side of the jaw, and are much larger than in any dolphins yet noticed, being often an Inch or more in diameter and having an oval section. The coloration is striking, the upper parts and fins being black, while tbe lower jaw, chest and under parts are whitish. The white area of the under parts does not however, extend to the flukes, but ends posteriorly In a trident, of which tbe lateral and shorter prongs extend obliquely upward on the flanks. There is a large white streak above and behind the eye, and frequently at least a purple cqfscentlc area extends across the back behind tbe fin. Tbe killer attains a length of at least twenty feet St. Louis Times.

Montevideo, Uruguay, now population of 362,299 persons.

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"MISTER. GIMME A FLOWER 7 Out of the ferry bouse that receives the boats bringing the suburban passengers to a great city comes a stream of men and women. They hurry off in all directions intent on reaching thetr day's work in time. Some of them carry bouquets of flowers plucked in country byways to brighten city streets. One of the hurrying men has a dozen roses wrapped In paper, the beautiful blooms smiling and nodding at the city folks as their bearer hurries along the street His way leads him through mean streets. As he passes there spring up In his path city children, to w hom flowers are rare treasures. The cry goes up: "Mister, gimme a Cower." "Mister" wanted his flowers to adorn his own desk and those of his office friends. But he cannot resist the appeal of the children. Who can? Before he reaches his desk the roses are gone. In their stead he carries la his heart the memory of children's faces made happy, lie has won by the exchange. To you. to me, tbe children of the city cry: "Mister, gimme a flower." True, we may have no garden wherein to grow flowers. We may be ourselves poor city dwellers and in our courts and alleys grow no roses. But there are other flowers. There are blossoms of tbe heart to be plucked afresh daily and bestowed on the little ones. There are the smiles, the kind words which grow in the garden of the Lord. They are not costly. They may be cultivated by whosoever will do so. He need not be an expert gardener. He needs but to water the plants from the spring of love which lies in the breast of each of us waiting to be touched. Of course, if you have a real garden, so much the better. Would it not be worth your while, when your business does nr press, to load yourself down with roses and hollyhocks and pansles and violets and take some of them to the city poor? They do not need bread alone. They need food for the soul, which hungers and thirsts In tbe great cities. Bring tbem flowers.

HONOR JOHN MAN1NG

(Palladium Special) ECONOMY, Ind.. Aug. 14. John Maning was elected president of the Old Settlers' association, which held its annual picnic at Pierce's Lake Tuesday afternoon. The other officers elected were: Secretary, Charles Mendtnhall; and treasurer, Wade Kennedy, Gaylord Sounders won the gold medal contest, the judges for which were the Rev. B. E. Parker of the First Methodist church of Richmond, delivered an address in the afternoon. The balloon ascension by Arthur Martin, band, and vocal music provided amusement for the many persou on the grounds.

MAN BURNED BY RED HOT METAL (Palladium Fpecla.1) HOLLANSBURG. O, Aug. 14Word has been received here of the painful injury of Prof. Chartes PuMars. former principal of th local schools. Prof. DuMars was working in a shop In the east, when a rlece of red hot metal struck him. cutting through his clothing and burning the flesh under hi arm.

Australia raises nearly ten million acres of hea; a year.

SANCTUARY IN ENGLAND.

The Principle Still Survives to a Limited Degree. Much watr ha flowed under I .on don bridtce ninoe the British criminal could defy the strong arm of the law by the slr.gle expedient f escaping t the nearest church or hospital and claiming the protection of the "sanctuary," for dwn to the early tuart days Great Britain had thousand of Just such refuges for the criminal, from cathedrals and royal palaces to scores if townn and cities. wher tbe man guilty of felony could laush with Impunity at tbe officers of law n:nt justice for a period ranging up to forty days. If within that time be chose to go before the coroner, clothed In penitence and sackcloth, ami confess his guilt, he was free to quit the realm without any hand daring te stay him. Although no such asylum exlt today for the criminal, the principle of tbe ''sanctuary" still manages to survive. This privilege refers only to civil offenses and not to crimes as in the ollon days, and yet the privilege are of considerable value. No clergyman can be arretted within the walls of hi church or while he Is going to or returning from his duty. Bishops and archbishop are Mill more protected, for not one of them can be haled before a magistrate even though the cause is a crime, unless the kins especially commands It. Nor even tip to the present time has any warrant nn effect within the precincts of ny of the king's palaces. Chlcngo Trb une.

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on Crusoe's island and injure nobody but one's self, but the railway engineer who gets tipsy may hurl a hundred to their death. All things go to show that the civilization we are now; approaching is not going to be any fool's paradise where dinners grow on bushes, but is going to be' far more exacting in its requirements on the individual than ever before. We shall never have a civilization until each man becomes civilized. "Freedom," said the wise Goethe, "is a fatal gift until one has learned self-government." All of which is not to say by any means that we are to underestimate the part material conditions play in human development; it is simply to say that we must not overlook, any of the factors that make for more complete men

and women. Buckle wrote a history in which he sought to prove that a nation's character and peculiarities may all be deduced from its climate and geography; Carlyle wrote a book in which he defended the thesis that great men are the creators of history. On laid all the stress on social determinism, the other on the personal equation. Both were right and both were wrong. The two are but the- opposite limbs of the same organism and society can't get on without both. But just now, when It seems to be in the air that society is everything and the Individual nothing, we need more than ever to lay emphasis on the personal equation and once more to remind ourselves that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and that a horse can't travel any faster than its legs.

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