Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 267, 17 September 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 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.

In Richmond. 10 crati a wek. By Mall, In advanceone year. $5.00; aix months, 12.60; on month, 45 cent. Rural Routes, In advance one year, J2.00; six months. $1.25; one month 25 cents.

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Hall Matter.

An Example of Inefficiency. City Health Officer Davis' statement that the Richmond municipal crematory has been able to dispose of only half the garbage collected during the summer months serves to again call attention to the deplorable condition of the city's finances. The transfer of the $3,000 appropriated to enlarge tthe crematory to another city account aptly illustrates the inefficiency of the Zimmerman administration; that no provision was made in the 1914 budget for this necessary improvement emphasizes this fact all the more. Other glaring examples of inefficiency in the management of city affairs under Zimmerman administrations are the placing of approximately $28,000 belonging to the special street improvement fund into the general fund, which sum the

city now has to restore to its proper fund; and the policy of refusing payments to the municipal plant for street lighting. Next year there is a provision in the budget for paying the plant the actual cost of its current used for street lighting during 1914, but the plant will wait in, vain for the $50,000 it has charged against the city for service rendered during "the best business administration Richmond ever had." The Palladium believes Dr. Zimmerman has conscientiously tried to administer the affairs of the city government to the best of his ability; but his ability along such lines falls far short of measuring up to standard. Efficiency apparently is unknow to him, for he has never introduced it into the executive department of the city government, over which he has assumed direct control ; he has played the part of a mere figurehead in the deliberations over important issues, and in many cases his appointments to city offices have been merely to reward political supporters without consideration of their qualifications to perform the duties intrusted to them. Summing it all up it is time to dispose of the Zimmerman form of city government in Richmond and to induct into the executive office a man competent to introduce the efficiency system into the affairs of our government. In William J. Robbins, the Progressive candidate for mayor, such a man is available to perform this important work.

LEW SHANK, ECONOMIST.

Indianapolis Star.

When Mayor Shank ordered several carloads of potatoes last year and sold them at cost direct to consumers he proved nothing conclusively because he failed to count either the interest on his investment or the cost of handling which, in that case, was done by city employes. Now, it is reported, Mr. Shank wants to establish in each city of the country an organization whose purpose shall be to provide cheaper commodities and so reduce the cost of living. His enterprise is commendable and if he succeeds he will at once achieve fame as a national benefactor and the greatest of public economists. To bring together the producer who, for one reason or another under present conditions, can not market his goods to advantage, and the consumer, who now pays profits to several middlemen, would, indeed, be a desirable achievement, but how will he do it? Obviously, a certain amount of capital must be invested in each community. Somebody must stand responsible to the railroad company and to the shippers of the products. In the Indianapolis experiment, as the Star recalls, Mayor Shank himself was responsible and was also somewhat out of pocket in the end because of certain losses through errors of measurement, inferior potatoes left on hand and other expenses unprovided for. He can hardly expect to find in each community a philanthropist, or even a group of them, willing to assume euch losses. Does he expect to organize a co operative system or what is his scheme? The country will wait expectantly.

tlCOUNTIES FIGHT SHY

OF VOTING MACHINES

itself to the most magnificent stage adornment.

Wildfire. "Wildfire" Is a play with such big. fat lines that it all but plays itself. But that doesn't mean there was anything the matter with the company as the Francis Sayles Players are sure

All 4 U ""L giving a great pertormance oi mis All the Chicago iN eWSpaperS play at the Murray theatre this week.

The production was an even, one

wiith praise coming to everybody for.

Fought Project Before Purchase.

OTHE RCITIES DELAY

aMny Indiana Counties Deterred By Cook County Scandal.

THE MEMORY OF THE HEART

If stores of dry and learned lore we gain. We keep them in the memory of the brain; Names, things, and facts whate'er we knowledge call, There is the common ledger for them all; And images on this cold surface traced Make slight impressions and are soon effaced. But we've a page more glowing and more bright On which our friendship and our love to write; That these may never from the soul depart, We trust them to the memory of the heart. There is no dimming no effacement here; Each new pulsation keeps the record clear; Warm, golden letters all the tablet fill, Nor lose their luster till the heart stands still. Daniel Webster.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

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HERE, TOO. Washington Post. The governor of Tennessee doesn't know when to let well enough alone. He has called his legislature to meet in special session.

INCOMPLETION WAS DESIGNED. Cleveland Leader. It is said the Perry monument at Put-in Bay cannot be completed within the appropriation. It was designed to be unique, but not so unique as all that.

BUT MANY DO. Public Ledger. As a general proposition, it is no compliment to the child to say it resembles its father.

A COMPLETE REASON, Toledo Blade. "Why are men's shirts nearly always made with the sleeves too long?" asks the Boston Globe. Perhaps it

The Case of Philadelphia. Philadelphia is beginning to celebrate the achievements of Mayor Blankenburg and his administration. The Civic club of Philadelphia, of which the late Mrs. Owen Winter was president, has issued a pamphlet on "Some Achievements in City Government Since January, 1912." According to this widely quoted report the Blankenburg regime got down to business in January, 1912 and has since effected in the city, which Lincoln Steffens branded as "corrupt and contented," "nothing less than a veritable revolution." Owing to the efforts of the reform administration, it is claimed the mortality rate was so reduced that 1647 fewer deaths were reported in 1912 than in 1911. "Ninety-two per cent of the saving of lives was due to reduction in mortality from preventable diseases, such as typhoid, tuberculosis, and children's diseases. Sixty per cent , of the saving was in children under five years of age." The report goes on to describe how the school teachers, doctors and preachers

of the municipality were led to join in the crusade and to co-operate with the city authorities. Boys were taught how to hunt rats out of the cellars and girls were shown the proper method of screening windows, disposing of the kitchen garbage, etc. One of the effective methods, it is claimed, was the organization of a "cleaning week" in which the whole city was enlisted in the work of cleaning up. As a result 100 vacant lots were cleaned and 27,000 cubic yards of waste was removed. The report says the city administration during the reform regime has cancelled a number of unnecessary and extravagant contracts entered into by the former administration. A school for police has been organized and scientific instruction in police duties is being taught the blue-coats. Manuals have been issued to each member of the force giving in simple language a digest of city ordinances, rules of the department, etc. As a result of the success of the Blankenburg regime, the report claims, business men are growing more courageous and are losing their fear of the authorities at City Hall. They begin to feel that corruption in city affairs is eradicable. The Civic club is endeavoring to persuade the citizenship to adopt as the motto wof the coming year the slogan, "Economy and efficiency in public service." To make good on this, the club is urging the adoption of a carefully worked out and comprehensive plan for the coming year.

I is because they couldn't be lengthened if they were too i short.

MAKING MONKEYS OF US. Chicago News. New York city is relieved to discover that it will not haveto wrestle with eighteen-foot ballots this year after all. The big ballot makes a monkey of popular government, and New York is to be congratulated.

IMPETUS TO IMMIGRATION. Springfield Republican. A certain American novelist comes home distressed because Europe seems to think "we are a nation of Jack Johnsons and Harry Thaws." Yet the European immigration continues to be heavy.

A VERY GOOD REASON Public Ledger. The only reason there is not a duty on limburger cheese is that so many of the customs houses are already in bad odor.

Those following the voting machine question will be interested in that portion of the testimony submitted to the Butts commitee, which has been making a prolonged invesigation of the voting machine fraud in Chicago, which throws light on the experiences and attitude of those municipalities which have purchased the machines or which have given them a trial. Wapello t'ounty, Iowa, in which is situated Ottumwa, a county seat of about twenty thousand inhabitants, has persistently refused to purchase voting machines In spite of the heavy pressure brought to bear several times. Evidence was submitted to show that Mr. Barr, representing the Empire company, made advances to three leading citizens in an effort to "persuade" them to have the election commissioners take up the question again. Society Active. Had it not been for the unflagging zeal of this same Mr. Barr Chicago would not now be in the predicament she is. Hitherto all the Chicago election boards have considered the voting machine unsatisfactory. The Chicago Bureau of Publicity has consistently blocked as far as it was able every attempt to place machines in the city; its investigations into the subject it is claimed have convinced it that the devices are impracticable. All the Chicago newspapers have opposed the introduction of the machines save Mr. Hearst's Examiner. La Porte County, Indiana, has recently been having the question under consideration and was almost ready to invest 130,000 in Empire machines but was deterred by the revelations made at the Chicago investigation. South Bend Fights. St. Joseph County, of which South Bend is the county seat, has had a prolonged and bitter struggle which is not yet concluded. Columbus, Indiana, was thrown into a turmoil several years ago through the use of the machines. 1,169 votes were contested and an election upset, according to the report. It was brought out at the investigation that the cost of using voting machines is far above the first estimates. On the stand, Mr. Taylor, one of the three commissioners, admitted that it would cost Chicago $4,000,000 for the machines before they would be through with them, and then that they would last barely twenty years. The first cost, in this case, was $1,000,000.

goers. The subject deals with the New York secret service and the Italian Mafia life in New York's underworld, and the secret service men trying to break up this world-wide organization is shown. As the play unreels is shown the working of the New York police force and the way these people live in this world of which we read and seldom see.

at the Gennett theatre Tuesday night, September 23.

Mutt and Jeff" Travels.

The new version of Bud Fisher's in-

their excellent work, andxspecial meu-H lmitable character creation "Mutt and

uon snouia oe maae or tne gow4 oi the ladies of the company. Funny' situations and funnier repartee kept things lively through three acts. A race track play always has attractive possibilities and in such an atmosphere nearly anything is plausible.

I MASONIC CALENDAR ' Wednesday. Sept. 17. 1913. Wrbb Ixnlge No. 24. F. and A. M. Stated meeting.

Jeff" shows the popular idols at Panama, lending aid to the big Panama Canal project. The production is entirely new excepting the title. The book is upon entirely new and original lines and is the work of Owen Davis and Bud Fisher. The musical

Palace. 4. ka -,n-l- t v.

The Message to Headquarters, a , Q b p R bb A mas. he IJr Th TTT1?9 ! ve scenic production showing Jackthe feature at the Palace today. This j is an entirely new kind of story for the i souville. Florida, where our heroes Thanhouser company, whose clever I have as usual been "flattened" at the comedies and dramas have become j race tracks, is carried. "Mutt and

very popular to Richmond photo-play-1 Jeff in Panama" will be the attraction SLEEP DISTURBING BLADDER WEAKNESS BACKACHE-RIIEUMA TISM, QUICKLY VANISH

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At the Murray. Week of September 15-

-"Wildflre.

At the Gennett September IS 'The Light Eternal." September 23 "Mutt and Jeff."

A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. Chicago Tribune. The potato crop is reported to be short 100,000,000 bushels. When the price of potatoes goes up to join the price of beef, what will the country do for hash?

IS STILL FAITHFUL Kansas City Star. Another reason why the country can't spare New England Is that it couldn't get along without Maine's elections as a political barometer.

BAD BOYS, THESE. Toledo Blade. "Skirts got so tight they just naturally had to split,"

says tne loungstown xeiegram. tmt tne strange part of i "esn air and

it is they split where least expected.

"The Light Eternal." It is always good to look upon robust young men, theatrically clad in

golden brestplates, chain mail, roached

helmets, tunics and eirt about, with

short swords carried beneath banners on which appear the world-conquering initials S. P. Q. R., meaning the senate of the Roman peopleeaoinunun ate of the people of Rome in the days of the Caesar. Such a display is made in a masterful fashion in "The Light Eternal," the big spectacular drama, which was the Christmas attraction in this city, and which returns to the Gennett tomorrow evening. This inspiring drama of Christian martyrdom in the time of Emperor Diocltian, lends

STRIPES AND THE MAN. Terre Haute, Ind.. Tribune. It has been some years since prison stripes were abandoned in the penal institutions of this state. Ward-

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The abolition of stripes is so just and reasonable a measure of reform that one is rather surprised to find a state still clinging to the habit of branding prisoners with the old conspicuous badge of dishonor. Yet Georgia has only now reached the point of abolishing stripes. The prison commission of that state concludes that the ancient convict uniform interferes with the work of reformation. As the commission says: "By putting him (the convict) in stripes you so degrade and humiliate him as to make it almost hopeless to effect any reformation in his character." It is interesting to note in this connection that public opinion in Georgia has been recently aroused over the number of murders for which no adequate penalty is exacted. It is claimed that in the state, with 3,000,000 people, there are more homicides than in England with more than a dozen times as many inhabitants. Some may ar-

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"Murrette Pays the Bill" of three trips to the Bermuda Islands, with all expenses paid, and $20 in cash with each ticket, leaving Richmond by rail to New York City, thence by steamship to the Islands (a delightful ride of fortyfive hours), four days on the islands, and then return. "Murrette Pays the BUT Five votes are given with each admission, and on October 1 1 the three ladies having the largest number of votes will each receive a trip. Several names have been entered. Is your name in the list? "Murrette Pays the Bill"

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MURRAY ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles' Players In Lillian Russell's Racing Comedy,

"WILDFIRE

Prices: Matinees, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10c and 20c; nights at 8:13, prompt. 10c. 20c and 30c. Next Week: "The Third Degree.

PALACE TODAY A Thanhouser Thriller, "THE MESSAGE TO HEADQUARTERS" A Tale of the New York Underworld. Admission 5c

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TODAY ! "The Green Eye of the Yellow God" Edison Drama "The Tiser" Vitagraph "The Lady in Black" Biojraph Comedy Coming; Soon: Pennsylvania Railroad Wreck in Motion Pictures

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