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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

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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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Nohr and the Mollycoddles Mr. Robert Nohr, Jr., the new physical instructor for the Richmond public schools, will have important work to do as soon as he assumes his new duties. Mr.. Nohr will discover in a very short space of time that during the past two years there has been very little encouragement given to wiholesome, body-building sports, especially in the high school, the students of which institution suand most in need of this branch of physical trayning. . Even with the improved style of football play, which-has rendered that strenuous sport less dangerous toUife and limb, it is still far from , being a parlor v game. However, it is not too rotsgh forV sturdy lads between the ages of sixteen, and nineteen, the average ages of boys attending theMhigh school. But thene has been a ban placed against this garoe int the Richmond high school. Our young man are entirely too delicate! Even bavsehall has not 'received' the proper encouragement;. aAnd track and field sports are prac

tically unknown to the average Richmond school boy. However,Wsince the athletic spirit has been permitted to dfe a lingering death there has been a remarkable number of pool playing experts developed among our school boys in the wholesome, invigomating atmosphere of billiard parlors and cigar sifores. Then, it is also true that while our youths have forgotten the crude art of making an end run or driving out a three-base hit, they have mastered the difficult steps of the turkey trot and the tango and ha vex became enthusiastic devotees of this manly and healthful pastime. Probably some day they wilB invade the field of needlework, now monopolized by their sisters, and again demonstrate the supremacy of man over woman. .... Our Studious Lawmakers Mr. Jensen, who was Progressive candidate for congressman in the Sixth district last fall, in making, his campaign took every occasion to advocate fiee text books in the public schools.

His opponents of the old line parties scoffed at this. When a bill providing for free text books was introduced in the late boss-ridden Democratic legislature it was promptly defeated as being impractical, paternalistic, absurd, socialistic, etc. That the ustual deep consideration and exhaustive study was given this subject by the highbrow politicians who make the laws of our fair state is borne out in the report of an investigation conducted in Michigan. This report was1 prepared by a committee of the Michigan State Teachers' association and is the result of two years work. A summary of the committee's findings followsc 1. Free textbooks make the public schools free in fact, as well as in name. 2. Free textbooks promote school efficiency and economy of time. 3. The free textbook idea has proved successful where it has been tried. No state that has adopted it has ever gone back to the old method. 4. The buying of textbooks by boards of education, instead of by individuals, results in a saving to the community estimated to be approximately 20 per cent.

SOCIAL CERTAINTIES

"THE CLAIMS OF THE FLESH"

By H. L. Haywood. A LADY, suffering from chronic melancholia, was taken to Dr. Lane, one of the most eminent of British surgeons and specialists. Every ' nerve cure" known to the science had been tried in

rain on this good woman. Her friends had made up their minds that she was ' born

stubborn" and "didn't want to get well." j

After a thorough examination the doctor decided to operate! He removed a section of her colon, cared for her in a quiet place, and sent her home in three or four weeks entirely cured of her "blues," as cheerful and bright a person as one could meet. This case suggests to us the close relationship between the body and the rest of

life, the mind, the character, and content or discontent, it also reminds us that the flesh has claims on the consideration of every social reformer because of its far-reaching and fundamental importance in shaping the conditions of any human society. Disease Is costly. When we take into consideration the labor time lost, the cost of medicine and medical care to the sufferer, the consequent dislocation of arrangements due to his dropping out for a season, and the lowered efficiency causing a decline in his production, we can see that society has a stake in every case of illness and has a right to demand that the causes of disease be reduced to a minimum. Even common "colds" cost this nation many millions of dollars each year. The flesh bears a very intimate relationship to character and morals; a sick people is sure to be a vicious people. Many a case of ethical degeneracy is really a matter of 111 health. Edgar Allen Poe has been severely criticized by moralists for his alcoholism, but it is now everywhere conceded that the unfortunate poet suffered from

"dipsomania. an abnormal condition as truly a disease as

smallpox. George Eliot is also a case in point. During her lifetime she often scandalized her friends by her "immoral" conduct in matters which cannot be described. But after her death the surgeon making the post-mortem examination declared she could have been cured of her "misdeeds" by an operation! And it is the ills of the flesh which lie at the root of insanity. For ages the insane were looked upon as criminals and "punished," for having "lost" their minds, but we know now that insanity is a disease, like a headache, for which one deserves as little to be "punished." The experiment conducted by Dr. Maurice Bucke at his hospital for the insane throws a flood of light on this. He made up his mind that a number of his patients were suffering from physiological defects rather than mental; from these he selected a hundred and operated on them. Ac a result, ninety recovered the normal use of their faculties. Truly the flesh is closely knitted with the mind! More striking still is the profound influence of bodily condition in rrime. Caresare Iombroijo and his Italian followers have rendered the race an inestimable service in Bhowing how criminality is almost invariably the manifestation in actions of an abnormal body. A friend of mine, eight years a penitentiary chaplain, assured me that at least ninety per cent of the criminals in the institution where he served were the victims of defective bodies. They needed medical care rather than punishment. To quote Woods Hutchinson, "Crime is. broadly speaking, largely a medical problem." Most of the crimes for which men are jailed and executed had their original inception in a defective heredity, in a vicious early environment, in bad social conditions and in over-strain. "It is precisely when the nerve forces are at low ebb that impulses of the animal nature, kept down and out of sight by the higher Interests of normal manhood, are apt to rush in upon the consciousness and endanger, sometimes to the wreckage point, the entire moral fabric." Surely, as ingersoll said, we have long enough been committing crimes against criminals; and it is time we were beginning to see that crime and insanity can be eliminated only by going very deep into the causes of physical degeneration. The claims of the flesh are still more imperative to the economist. Without health there can be no wealth. Illness consumes all and produces nothing. Health is, next to children, the very chiefest.of all economic assets. A nation's production, other things being equal, is in exact

proportion to its physical stamnia. A generation of weaklings can neither create nor sustain a system of produc

tion adequate to feed and clothe and shelter a great people. Money avails nothing when brawn is lacking. What Bacon says of war is true all along the line: "Neither is money the sinews of war, as is trivially said, where the sinews of men's arms is base and effeminate people are failing." And when the working population is overtaken with tuberculosis, neurasthenia and alcoholism the nation is truly failing. Sooner or later we will be compelled to learn that any process of manufacture which saps out physical stamnia is uneconomical and folly, and that nothing is cheap when it costs us human degeneration to produce it. And it is physical deterioration which lies at the base of most of the morbid discontent which ferments in society, especially in the large cities. In the long run and on the whole, only the healthy man is the happy man. Disease is sure to breed unrest. "Give me health and a day," exclaimed Emerson, "and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Nothing is more certain than that a normal society Is possible only when its members have normal bodies. Granting all this we have abundant cause for concern when we gather up the vital statistics of our own land. Our high mortality rate is appalling when we consider how much room we have to move about in and how much

air to breathe. Think of the thousands upon thousands of drug stores dotting the land; each year, according to the Government's statistics, we manufacture twentyfive million of drugs for export alone; What must be our

j domestic consumption of nostrums and dopes and what a

mass of maladies we must be suffering from to need such oceans of cure. And we are annually dropping into our society from our medical schools no less than twenty thousand physdeians, with their professional brothers already at work they make up a pretty fair sized armyf And how suggestive it is that we are sick, enough as a nation to needtsuch an army! Degenerative and organic maladies, seem according to our most reliable statistics to be on the increase while our hospitals and asylums are constantly expanding. And what a list of accidents do we suffer from! It i is actually computed that we needlessly kill and injure tin our Industries each year as many as were killed and wounded in the Russo-Japanese and Civil wars combined. In other words, industrial accidents and vocational diseases are draining us as rapidly as if we were carrying on two bloody wars constantly! And howmany there are with impaired vitality who have to drag one foot after another we shall never know. "There are twenty million neurasthenics in this land," said one doctor to me, and "all women and nine men out of ten are suffering from constipation,'-' said another very eminent medical authority in my hearing. These facts need to give us pause. Nothing would be more fallacious than to charge such widespread conditions to the individuals as is often done; such a state of affairs must be attributable to conditions beyond the individuals' control. The high tension at which we work, the crowding together Into cities where the air is polluted

and the strain severe, the use of adulterated foods and j

drugs, the carelessness of factory managers with consequent loss of life and limb, the general ignorance of the people regarding the simplest rules of health, and the nervous strain and worry attendant on living in a society where one must compete and struggle for every necessity, even the water to drink and a place to sleep all these and many others, into which we have not time to go. are the causes that make for physical degeneration. And when we have physical degeneracy we may expect all the other woes to follow. Speaking of Rome in such straits. Matthew Arnold said:

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play has bea secured by ta rraacis Sayles Players and will b glrrn as elaborate production at the Murray follow ins "In Wyoming." Ur. Sayl.s will appear in the part that was play ed by Mr. Russell.

-In Wyoming. "In Wyoming." watch the rraneis ayls players mill present at tha Murray theatre next week ts the brightest, snappiest and most life like play of the t ever .?n in this city. The play is repte mith intensely interesting and dramatic incidents, and presents a truthful picture of the trvat West tftjty years ago. Murrtt. Today and torn rro the Murrott wi'.l offer that knon fairy tale, Dick Whitticsiun and hU Tat." iu moving pictures The p; I jure shos the burning of the ship. The captain's Uudiug on strange chores, his interview tth the Sultan and all othnr lKim of interest so familiar to all who have read of the wonderful adventures of "inck Whittington and his Oaf." This picture uas hon recently in ,V Votk t'lty and mas personally endorsed by Mayor Gaxnor mho said the production wad an ideal one tor children, churches aud public schools.

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Guide At the Murray. , Week of Aug. 11 "Hello Bill."

Sayles players is certainly making good and pleasing large audiences at each performance. Each member of the company is specially cast for their fitness for the character which they impersonate, and the production is equal to any yet given by this excellent organization.

There will be another matinee tomorrow.

Minister Praise This Laxatlvs. Kev. H Stebenvoll. Pf Allison. Ia in praising Dr. King's New Life Tills for constipation, writes: "Dr. King's New Life litis are such perfect pill no home should be without them." N better regulator for the liver ant bowels. Kvery piuu guaranteed. Try them. Price 25c. at A. G. Luken and Co., druggists. ( Atvril9mrnt

The average ftr station is not a thtlng of architectural beauty, but when it became necessary to rert a station in the residential section of Portland. Ore., the chief of the fire department designed it on the lines of a bungalow. The interior is all furnished in mUton oak, and the firemen who occupy it made the furniture. The Fountain of Youth Has At Last Been Found in "Brownatone" Hair Stain-Tha 0n Perfect Stain that Is Entirely Harmlau and Sara to Give Best Results. You nd not tolrate army, atraakad or faded hair another Amy. It tas bat m law moments to apply "BrowMlont" wttb

littls "touchln bp" ones m 1 month should keep your hair

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A Bachelor's Romance. Most of the older theatre-goers will remember Sol Smith Russell by his excellent work in "A Poor Relation" and "A Bachelor's Romance." The latter

'On that hard pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell: Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell." If for millions of our population there are conditions at work making "human life a hell" it is high time we were beginning to take the thing in hand. So long as such conditions obtain it is idle to cite our tables of manufactories and our "abundant prosperity," these things are worse than worseless so long as there "are twenty million neurathenics" in the nation. And it is useless to expect that by scolding and punishing the victims of degeneration, (they may often be guilty) and by saying that they deserve what they are getting, we

.can remedy matters. Even if every individual, bv wrone

living brought decay upon himself, we would not be justified in ignoring the situation because the nation has a right, more, a duty, to protect itself against the ignorance of individuals. It is the statesman's duty to see to it that they are enlightened as well as situated in healthy conditions. Statesmanship has no higher duty than that. As Brierley says, "To keep a nation young is the highest task of social economv."

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Palace. For today's program the Palace is showing an out-of-the ordinary release in a powerful 2 reel drama, "The Fight For Right," a subject founded

on the prison labor contract system,

and written by the well-known champion of prison reform, James Oppenheim; produced by the Reliance Co. The picture shows many views of New York's penal institution, Sing-Sing, and has been indorsed by the trade unions of America. The leads in this super

ior production are taken by Irving j Cummings and Rosemary Theby, two j of the most popular photo-play players I in America. With this is shown Fred I Mace in a Majestic comedy, "The Devilish Doctor." j

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PALACE TODAY Special Special "The Fight For Right" 2 Reel Reliance Feature A picture indorsed by the Trades Unions of America. ' . FRED MACE in "The Devilish Doctor" Majestic Comedy

IVI urray ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles Players in in the Jolly Comedy "HELLO BILL" By Willis Goodhue Funnier than 'Brown's in Town PRICES Matinees Tues. Thurs. & Sat. 10 and 20c Nights at 8:15 10, 20. and 30c Next Week "IN WYOMING"