Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 243, 20 August 1913 — Page 4
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1913
The Richmond Palladium
AND SUN-TELEGRAM.
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Heed Mexico's Plea. Very few people in the United States except the jingoes and they are never conspicuous by their presence in the forefront of a fighting line desire war, and that is what intervention would amount to, with Mexico. The temper of the American people is decidedly against war. At the same time, however, the long continuance of internal hostilities in the neighboring republic with the consequent loss of life to citizens of this country and the destruction of their property is decidedly resented by this country. So far, though, all efforts on the part of our government depending on moral suasion to aid in restoring peace in Mexico have failed. And all our efforts expended in aiding one faction by stopping shipments of arms and ammunition to the other just because that other happened not to be in possession of the City of Mexico and therefore was termed "insurrectionist," have been futile. The present "government" of Mexico was born of murder and assassination and depends for its sustenance upon the land barons or monopolists of that country. The "insurrectionists" are composed mainly of peons in revolt against the actual enslavement of themselves and their wives and children. Our own great civil war is being enacted over again in the sister republic to the south. The principles that were behind the one are those underlying the other. And our government so far has extended aid and consolation to the Mexican slave owners and handicapped as far as it dares the just efforts of the enslaved peons. This morning's press despatches carry a message from the revolting peons which if answered favorably and justly by our government would result in a speedy settlement of the Mexican situation. The "constitutionalists" as the rebels term themselves, ask that the United States life its embargo against the shipment of arms to their forces. "If you do this," they say, "we will promise a speedy termination of internal hostilities in Mexico." And it would be speedy. Once given free access to arms and ammunition the revolting peons or slaves would soon sweep Huerta and the forces of enslaving monopoly from Mexico. When that is accomplished a reform of the land laws there allowing the breaking up of the enormous monopolistic holdings of land 87,000 families own all the land of Mexico would soon guarantee lasting peace by removing the cause for revolt. Disposing of Thaw. The sensation hungering public probably will hope in case Harry Thaw must be returned to the United States that his return will be by the way he came through the state of New Hampshire. Should this be done there is a good chance that Thaw could be released in that state under habeas corpus proceedings pending the question of whether he could be extradited from New Hampshire to New York. Should he be returned to this country from Canada through New York state his name will very quickly disappear as a headliner from the press of the nation. All necessity of trials determining his extradition would be out of the question. Once in New York, state the authorities, would simply return him to Matteawan. And that is where he belongs unless justice is to be mocked.
them, agitated for them and started a movement that has swept the entire country. It began.in the East. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey being the pioneers. Today it reaches from coast to coast. The farmer has taken up the movement, the rail
roads have awakened to its value. The economic side jof the question has become foremost. It is nothing else but the problem of transportation the very initial art jof the problem of transportation.
fc.very one knows the story of the country road. It has been the constant joke of the city man. Every one has struggled with the ruts; has straddled the "hogback" piled up with sod in the middle; has splashed through the pools of water and grown wrathy at the insufficient and slip-shod methods. The day of a change is at hand'. Most of the work under the old system was done in the spring. It was done not at the best time of the year for such work, but done at a time when the farmers could work out their tax. It was a spring picnic for the people of the country side. 'Out came the road machine and the process of what they called turnpiking followed. The work, but it is chargeable with a multitude of sins through improper use. With it many a country road has been butchered to make a highway holiday. Some-times when gravel was available and the road has been heaped up high in the center, gravel was put on top of it, which served to make conditions worse. The road then was almost impassable. In course of time the gravel was squashed out from the center and was of no service. Little or no attention was given to surface or lateral drainage to carry off the water, the great enemy of a road. In most cases the working out of a road tax was a farce. The overseers were supervising work done by their neighbors. Instead of hauling a fell load of gravel and working eight 4iours a day, about a yard of gravel to the load was hauled and a half day's work was done. Of course, the overseers were not in position to demand full service. The building of roads is vitally a question of proper construction. The building of wagon roads is an engineering problem just as much as the building of a railroad. It involves all the elements of the latter. A good road must be properly located, it must be well constructed, it must be maintained. The first element of a good road is a good foundation, then proper construction; then the road must have sufficient crown to carry off the water to the side ditches. The surface again should be made as impervious as the materials at hand will permit in order that it may shed the water. The surface has been called the roof of the road. It must be properly drained by ditches at the sides. These are problems which require the services on supervision or advice of expert engineers. A railroad would not permit a crowd of local farmers to lay its grade or build its line. The building of a road involves the same engineering problems. Happily, however, the era of inefficiency is past and the era of efficiency of good roads has arrived.
Society Punishes Vanderbilt in lis Own Peculiar Way
Slavers or Enslaved? The details of the Diggs-Caminetti case now coming out in the trial at San Francisco suggest one of the two judgments on these two men. Either they are the black hearted white slavers their two girl accusers claim or they are representatives of that fairly large class of men who easily fall victims to the wiles of pretty and unscrupulous women and generally pay blackmail for the rest of their natural lives. The loyalty of the wives of the two defendants suggests that at least in their minds the latter is the case. Nor would that be a surprising or impossible conclusion despite the youth of the accusing girls. One has only to glance about at the crowds on Main street sidewalks at night to see many a youthful girlish countenance smeared with paint and denoting wisdom in the wrong ways of the world, brazonly inviting the weak and unwary of the other branch of the species.
EFFICIENCY IN ROAD BUILDING
Francis A. Cannon in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Some one has said that a road is the first sign of civilization ami that a good road is a sign of an advanced civilization. A transformation is going on right under our eyes and few people are aware of it. It is one of the greatest movements ever undertaken. Strange it is, too, that it was not the farmer who brought about the good roads movement the one most vitally interested in it. It was the city man the motor car owner. Necessity became the mother of betterment. Tho motor car needs good highways, the owner demanded
f Who's Got a Job for the Panama Gang?
Here we are gentlemen; here's the whole gang of us, Pretty near through with the job we are on; Size up our work it will give you the hang of us South to Balboa and north to Colon. Yes, the canal is our letter of reference; Look at Culebra and glance at Gatun; What can we do for you got any preference, Wireless to Saturn or bridge to the moon? Don't send us back to a life that is flat again, We who have shattered a continent's spine; Office work Lord, but we couldn't do vaat again! Haven't you something that's more in our line? Got any river they say isn't crossable? Got any mountains that can't be cut through? We specialize in the wholly impossible, Doing thing "nobody ever could do!" Take a good look at the whole husky crew of us, Engineers, doctors and steam-shovel men; Taken together you'll find quite a few of us Soon to be ready for trouble again. Bronzed by the tropical sun that is blistery. Chuckful of energy, vigor and tang, Trained by a task that the biggest in history, Who has a job for this Panama gang? Berton Braley in Collier's.
I POINTED PARAGRAPHS I . HERE'S HIS TITLE. Baltimore Sun. Governor-as-it-were Glynn of New York has begun to unreform some of the reforms.
WITHOUT VALID EXCUSE. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. At Marietta, O., a surgeon went mad and proceeded to vivisect a patient. But what of this compared with the performance of the numerous surgeons who, without going mad, insist on cutting out everybody's appendix?
MASSACHUSETTS WANTS TO BE CLEAN. Minneapolis Journal. Massachusetts arrests and fines all aviators falling within the state without a license. It musses up the landscape. Aviators must go over into Rhode Island for their falls.
MUST BE SOMETHING PRETTY BAD. New York American. Wonder What Tammany's idea of "high crimes and misdemeanors" really is.
JUST THE PLAN FOR 'EM. Central City (Ky.) Argus. Hopkinsville has barred the turkey trot, tango and bunny hug, and it strikes us that Hopkinsville is the one town in the state where these dances should te allowed. The state insane asylum is located there.
WE HAVEN'T MUCH HOPE, HOWEVER. Newark News. Now that the parcel post is to carry packages weighing up to 20 pounds, we may expect our fishermen friends to send home some of the big fish they tell us about.
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I YESTERDAY IN THE i SENATE AND HOUSE!
SENATE. Met at 11 a. m. and resumed cont'.d-
eration of tariff MIL taking up sugar schedule.
Democrats, at request of Represen
tative Clayton, decided to caucus tomorrow on his eligibility as successor of Ute Senator ohnston. of Alabama.
Senator Ransdell gave notice ta later would introduce amendment to strike out of tariff bill provision making sucar free in 1916 Bristow amendment to sugar schedule proposing graduate duty defeated. 34 to S Bristow amendment tf abolish immediately the Putch standard sugar test adopted. Considered nominations f executive mansion Adjourned at 6:11 r ro to noon today.
HOUSE. Met at noon and considered miscellaneous bills lxbby committer continued its inquiry. Adjourned at 12:5S p. m until noon Friday. Democrats caucus on currency Mil Representative Kindel introduced resolution for Investigation of Union racitic-Southern Pacific dissolution Representative Harrison introduced h bill for creatton-of a customs guards service. Representative Towner Introduced concurrent resolution proposing mediation in Mexico by Argentina. Brarll and United States. Representative Kagle introduced substitute for administration currency bill. Speaker Clark appointed members of joint commission to Investigate Indian bureau and of commission to investigate tuberculosis among Indians.
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CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kind and helping band during the sickness and death
of our darling boby. Yours with love.
Mr .and Mrs. George Coalter. (20-lt)
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, who recently gained the summit of Mt. Me Klnley, Alaska, has been engaged in missionary work among the Alaska Indians for five years. Prior to his residence in the northwest he lived in Dallas, Texas, where he was dean of St. Matthews cathedral. He is a member of the National Geographical Society.
RESINOL HEALS ITCHING SKINS
(Aborve, Mrs. Margaret McKim Vanderbilt; below, left io right, Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt, his first wife.) Here are three central figures in the great drama of outraged society's vengeance upon a man, who, even though he be master of a hundred millions, is being systematically punished for daring to spurn its conventions. The drama is just now being played at the exclusive social colony in Newport, but will be repeated in New York if Vanderbilt and his wife have tte temerity to follow the society procession there in the fall. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt incurred society's unending displeasure when to gratify a caprice, he discarded his first wife, Mrs. Elsie French VanderbiR. now leader of the Newport colony. He later became infatuated with the beautiful Mrs. Florence Hollins McKim, a Baltimore divorcee, wnom he married. The pair have spent most of their married life on the other side, knowine of the unpopular position in which they were placed by Newport society leaders. But this summer tl ey returned to America in the hope that the old feeling had passed off. If anything it is more bitter than ever I'nder the leadership of the former Mrs. Vanderbilt, Alfred G. and his wie have been ostracized, and it is doubtful if they will ever make another attempt to regain their former place in American society.
At the Murray. Week of Aug. IS "In Wyoming."
of the most pleasing comedies this theater has shown for some time. The scenes are laid in one of the great amusement resorts on the Pacific
j coast, and plenty of good laugh proi ducing situations are shown. On with I this is shown "Runa Plays Cupid," a
clever Reliance drama, featuring little Runa Hodges and the Ajnerican film, "The Mystery of Tusa." Lady photo-fans should get the Mutual observer, given free today at this theater.
I MASONIC CALENDAR
Murrette. Four reels of pictures, including the film taken of the parade of the famous Wallace-Hagenbeck circus, recently sen here, comprise the offering at the Murrette today. A stiring story of Western frontier life. "The Tenderfoot Sheriff," in which the popular photoplay artist, G. M. Anderson, is seen to advantage, will be shown. A Selig comedy, and the Edison society drama, "The Robbers," make up an evenly balanced program.
The island of Juan Fernandez will
' be turned into a mid-ocean wireless i station.
Wednesday, August 20, Webb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Stated meeting. Webb lodge. No. 24. Free and Accept Masons will hold an important meeting -Wednesday evening, at which all members are urgently requested to be present.
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A Viennese composer has written an operetta intended for use in the films only. The characters in it will not be heard. They will be seen, while an orchestra plays the rausl Intended to illustrate their story.
She Was it a simple wedding? He Yes: two poor "simps." Boston Transcript.
Gold production in the Philippines increased from $1S9,953, in 1911, to $570,212, in 1912, and is expected to be three or four times that amount this year.
For handlirig baggage in hotels there has been invented a truck with rubber-tired wheels to save the carpets and with handles that fold when used in crowded spaces.
IN WYOMING. "In Wyoming," which the Francis Sayles players are presenting at the Murray theater this, week, is the brightest, snappiest and most life-like production of a western play ever seen in this city. The play is replete with intensely interesting and dramatic incidents, and presents a truthful picture of the great west as it was twenty years ago. The stage settings are unusual and the first act gives one the breadth of all out-doors, with the freshness of the west and the feeling that here one will find ozone indeed. Each member of the company handles their parts well, and no doubt the play will fill the Murray during the balance of the week. Another matinee will be given tomorrow.
Exports of manufacturers from the United States in j
the last fiscal year were valued at $1,200,000,000, and of manufacturers' materials $740,000,000.
A BACHELOR'S ROMANCE. At the Murray theater all next week, when the Francis Sayles players will offer for the first time here Sol Smith Russell's beautiful play, "A Bachelor's Romance," Mr. Sayles will again be seen in an old man part, but one that is entirely different from any he has ever appeared in. An elaborate production will be built and a Srst class performance is promised.
An ocean steamer of the first class going at full
speed, cannot be brought to a standstill in less than j
three minutes, in which time she will have traversed a distance of about half a mile.
. PALACE. "A Chip Off the Old Block." a joyous, rib-tickling Keystone farce, being shown ak the Palace today, is one
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MURRETTE T0DAY1 Circus Day in Richmond
If you were on Main Etreet during the parade of the Hag-enbeck-Wallace Circus, you are hi this picture.