Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 277, 29 September 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AND 8UN-TELKGRAM.

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 cents a week. By Mall. In advance one year, $6.00; six months, $2.60; one month, 45 cents. Rural Routes, in advance one year, $1.00; six months, $1.25; one month 25 cents. Kntrd at tk Post Offtcs at Richmond, Indiana, aa Second Class Mall Matter.

The New City There died a man in Chicago in March, 1907, who was the first white child born in the city.

At his birth time the town consisted of Fort Dearborn and five houses besides. When he died

the city numbered two million.

Such was the rapid growth of one town as

measured by one human life of eighty-five years, j And what is true of Chicago is true in varying j proportions of the modern town. Nothing is more characteristic of the past half century than this unprecedented growth of urban life. When the Nineteenth century entered the running only 4 per cent of American population lived in town ; but when the Twentieth got under way no less than 33 per cent of us had come to live in the city. It is this rapid and extraordinary increase in the size of towns which has given us the peculiarly modern problem of municipal government. And all our troubles may chiefly be traced to just this, that we are trying to run a twenty-five thousand soul town with an administration system designed for a five hundred soul village. That, is surely the whole matter in a nut shell. When towns were small and everybody knew intimately everybody else, town government was a simple problem. Almost any person of ordinary capacity could take care of the affairs of such a community. Almost anybody could handle its

finances, its roads, its jail, its poor, and its courts. There was little to be done and what was done was simple. The problem at that time was how to avoid control by one man or one group of men. Everything was therefore designed to spread the authority of administration over as big a territory as possible and divide it up among as many citizens as possible. This gave rise to the federal plan of city government whereby each little ward or precinct has its own representative, whereby the administration is carried on by cumbersome legislative bodies and boards. The central theory of this plan is adequate representation in order to avoid

clique or personal rule. This worked very well in the old town hall

meeting days when everybody was an authority on town affairs but it is refusing to work for us now that we no longer meet in town hall gatherings and have grown so inordinately large. And in growing large we find all our affairs grow more and more complex and specialized. Any villager could scrape off a dirt road but it requires an expert engineer properly to lay an asphalt street. Any store-keeper could handle the financial budget of the old fashioned village but only an expert financier or accountant is equipped to cope with Richmond's three hundred thousand dollar budget. Public sanitation was not much of a problem when the country broke through at all points but now that we are living in flats and narrow lots with houses jammed as close as possible only an experienced and scientifically trained sanitarian can hope to save us from plagues and epidemics. In short, the modern city, like the modern business, has passed under the law of the division of labor. 'Where functions become hopelessly

complex and specialized one man must devote all his time to one portion in order to manage it. It is this which we must be ever more keeping in mind now that we are approaching a time when the city must once more express its will in its own management. No longer do we fight over the question of personalities; no longer is it a question of "our side against yours"; it is a question as to what system of city administration we need. If we placed an angel in office and compelled him to use an obsolete and leaky method of administering the city's affairs the waste and incompetence and inefficiency which has made city government a laughing stock among business men will go on as before. "Inefficient government is primarily due to badness of methods rather than to badness of men ;" so says the nation's leading expert in mu

nicipal affairs, William H. Allen, of the New York Bureau of Research, and says truly. The common sense business man, the thoughtful citizen, will no longer permit a crowd of irresponsible demagogues to excite him into voting to put THIS OR THAT MAN into office, he will vote to install an efficient and scientifically planned system of city management. And if he finds the thing still tied up with national politics he will choose the party that gave the most hopes of it in the prayer that the day will speedily come when the tariff and the currency question and such problems of national life will no longer be obtruded into our local affairs.

nounced: "I don't believe this woman had a bite to eat for four days before her baby was born." The starving mother, according to the press report,

is thirty years old and said that in all the big city she ' had been unable to find shelter or food. j Think of it! New York is a city of more than six mil- j lions of souls. It is probable that among these the un-1 fortunate girl might have found aid, might have found ! food and shelter, but she did not. She tried, but all doors j

were closed to her. Who shall measure the extent of this

tragedy, a tale grown old? Who shall plumb the depths j of the suffering and despair which this lone soul sounded j

Ut I KJl 3 BIH3 WCUl UU V 11 laC d ' 1 - .7 CAVI Wl5 DUBUUn Ul death on that deserted pier, an abandoned, rejected animal seeking a corner in which to die? And she fulfilled woman's destiny. We cannot know her story. It may be that of the wronged and deceived, or of the vicious and depraved. Does that make a difference? Where are charity, mercy, human kindness and the love which saves where dwells this divine sister-

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At the Gennett Tonight "iWthin the Law. Oct. T "Broadway Jones." Soon "The Rose Maid."

New York and Chicago, where she had a remarkable run; also one season playing only the larger cities. The piay has only been released for stock for a few weeks, and Mr. Sayles is one of the first stock managers to secure It, and no doubt the Richmond theatre goers will pack the Murray at each performance, and Mr. Sayles could not have selected a better play for the many visitors that

will be in Richmond this week for the'

Fall Festival. Starting tomorrow, matinees will be riven each day. On Thursday the matinee will not start until the rarade is over.

that keeps it astride the mark maintained in all Mr. Cohan's efforts.

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Beverly of Graustark.

Gennett. i it is a nlpssnrp to Mr. Kavles and

t1njD.tnrni.TU.Pay niSLht ?.nwdcOIHhi company to announce that followtinuing throughout the week with mat-1 , ... . tnees daily and two shows at night, in& "A Woman s Way the offering the Miss Colorado Grant Wild West 'will be the beautiful costume play. Dog and Pony show will be the at-"Beverly of Graustark." In the vottrOftinn frlnrinn Vice Pj-iTrtfoIi ' i 1 IT rflTlfRt fhf first lf thp KOSSOn thl9

hood? Must we drool on and on, satisfied with patient : r.at fn w ,.,,.,.,,,' , i:,v wns in the load for nutte a while.

and her high school horse Topsy." sand Mr. Sayles has only teen aDie This show carries twelve head of) to secure the play for this one week, horses, besides a number of educated j Mr- Sayles. who is now in the East trick and clown dog?. contracting for plays for the winter Bert Miller the lassn kintr who haJ season, will return to the cast in this

platitudes which tell of these things in the abstract? Is a

civilization worth while that so fails to conserve the greatest asset in the world? Must motherhood be debased to its lowest brute level, while we rub our hands and enlarge our phylacteries and return thanks for the goodness of God to us? Starving, alone, under the shadow of church and cathedral spires, this mother gave birth to a daughter. As though her cup were not filled to overflowing, passionless, immutable Nature sent to her impotent arms another of the weak sex, another who stands in danger of the fate of her mother, or one that is worse, if there could be a worse fate! Waifs of the world are these. We reject them. They have caught desperately at elusive happiness and have failed. To fail is to sin; and forgiveness of sin rests on the knees of the Lord! Mother and daughter and all such mothers and daughters what will become of them? Is there a darker door through which they must pass to the oblivion of the poor and the outcast?

Palace. In today's program the Falace offers "The Lion Hunters," a wonderful two-reel wild animal film that was taken in the heart of Darkest Africa, filmed by the Gaumont company. This exciting subject has their excellent photograph, making every view clear and sharp, which is a rare bit of work, when the difficulty of taking is considered. Besides the hunt, many other good views of South Africa are shown, while through the film runs a splendid story, well handled, which works up to the tense scenes of the hunt, when two big lions are killed in full view of the camera. On the same bill is a Majestic comedy, "The Aesthetic Match," and another split-reel subject.

cal postmaster will recommend one for the vacancy. Lawrence Handley is conducting the examination.

CASTOR I A For Infant and Children. The Kind Yea Hais Always Bought

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WEARINESS.

O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; Where toil shall cease and rest begin, I, nearer to the wayside inn Am weary, thinking of your road! O little hands! that weak or strong, Have still to serve and rule so long, Have still so long to give or ask; I, who so much with book and pen Have toiled among my fellow-men, Am weary, thinking of your task. O little hearts; that throb and beat With such impatient, feverish heat, Such limitless and strong desires; Mine, that so long has glowed and burned; With passion into ashes turned, Now covers and conceals its fires. O little souls! as pure and white And crystaline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lucid looks this soul of mine! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ridden horseback from Chicago to New j P'av-

York, thence to Jacksonville, Fla., I where he performed for eight weeks "Broadway" Jones. at the ostrich farm, will give free j Local theatregoers are looking for exhibitions in front of the theatre. ' waPd with kon imprest to the com

l ne matinees win he given directly

after the parade has passed.

"Within The Law." "Within the Law, Bayard Veiller's new play. of absorbing heart interest which The American Play Company is to offer as the attraction at the Gennett theatre tonight, is an exciting drama of contemporaneous American life in a metropolis, replete with thrills and surprises. The heroine, Mary Turner, develops from a timid, shrinking girl into a woman of extraordinary daring and resourcefulness, living by her wits and evading the law, and using the law to protect herself. Clara Joel, a gifted young actress of fascinating personality, will be seen as Mary Turner, while the rest of the corripetent cast provided by The .. J .. TJ 1 I 1 1 i V.

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ing of "Broadway" Jones to the Gennett theatre Tuesday, Oct. 7, as Mr. Cohan's new play created a veritable sensation in New York, where it had a run of an entire season, playing to capacity business, and is conceded to be the greatest comedy this brilliant young author has yet produced. Mr. Cohan's latest effort is a comedy devoid of slang, as that vernacular is popularly defined, but it nevertheless contains enough smart breezy chatter to keep the four acts in which it is written whizzing along at a pace

Eight applicants are taking the ex animation for the position of rural carrier out of Boston. From the three who make the highest grades, the lo-

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PALACE TODAY "GAUMOXTS" 2 Reel Feature "The Lion Hunters" Sensational and Exciting Drama of South Africa. ALSO 2 GOOD COMEDIES

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The scenic equipment, which is unusually elaborate, is guaranteed by the management to be identical, even to the smallest detail with the production employed in New York and Chicago, in both of which cities "Within The Law" was applauded by the critics as the most entertaining American drama of the year.

A Woman's Way.

The Francis Sayles players will begin their twenty-second week at the Murray theatre tonight when they will offer for the first time here Miss Grace l George's delightful society drama, "A! Woman's Way." I The play is by Thompson Buc hanan ' and was used by Miss George in both !

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IVI U RR AY ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles Players In Grace George's Delightful Comedy A WOMAN'S WAY Matinee Every Day (Except Monday) Prices Matinee. 10c and 20c. Night, 10c, 20c and 30c. Next Weeek "Beverly of Graustark.

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Prices 25c to $1.50 Seat Sale MURRAY THEATRE.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

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O WELL, LET'S NOT WORRY ABOUT IT. Minneapolis News. What do you suppose will happen when the six months' permission to our warships to stay in Mexican waters has expired and Mexico refuses to extend the time?

PROBABLY BLAMES HIS WIFE. Pittsburg Dispatch. The women will enjoy telling their husbands that the first violator of the Wisconsin law against gossiping was a man.

Gennett Theatre

TUESDAY, Sept. 30 and all week Mi as Colorado Grant's Wild West Dog and Pony Show 3 Shows DailyPrice 10c to All

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TTaSGsdlay Evening Sept 5ilhi Harry E. Paris Prescntc ORVILLE HARR0LD, Tenor

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LIKE OTHER REFORMERS. Springfield Republican. Cynics who always doubt the disinterestedness of violent reformers in politics will have their say now that Francis J. Heney has expressed his desire to be chosen to the United States senate from California.

CAUGHT ON THE FLY. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Viscount Chinda is not easily discouraged. He finally found Mr. Bryan in his office and delivered Japan's sixth note.

LIVING IS CHEAPER IN ILLINOIS. New York World. Governor Dunne, of Illinois, with his household expenses at $20,000 a year has not yet arranged a Chautauqua course in order to supplement his salary.

MAIN ATTRACTION TO SOME. St. Paul Dispatch. Some of the club women object to the gossop that features the average meeting of a club of women. Supposing it to be true that gossip does feature some of these meetings, there are many women who will insist upon regarding it as the spice rather than the essence of the gatherings.

SCRAP AT HAGUE WOULD LOOK BAD. Baltimore Sun. The new Dutch cabinet at The Hague in announcing its determination to grant the vote to women, shows that at The Hague there must be peace at any price.

HOW DO WE DO IT? Washington Star. An Ohio man claims to have produced an odorless onion. It will require some expert explanation to show how the thing can be odorless and still be an onion.

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REFORM SWEEPING THESE DAYS. Springfield Republican. Now that the kaiser has started a war on beer drinking in Germany we may look any moment for news that Japan is to give up tea.

BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL

Dayton JournaL Over in New York, the other day, on an ocean pier, abandoned, despairing, and alone, a young woman gave . tlrth to a baby a daughter.

OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED. Chicago Record-Herald, The government report on the cost of living destroys our last hope of discovering that it has all been a bad dream.

CONSERVE YOUR ENERGY. Manchester Union. 1 Tis a waste even to kill two birds with one stoae, un-

She was taken to a hospital, where the doctor an-less the birds are worth killing.

RICHMOND Eastern Indiana's Greatest Event

and Home Coming Oct 1-2-3

Hundreds of Sights to See Mammoth Street Parade, Unsurpassed Exhibits and Beautiful Decorations

Brindley, "The Bird Man

99 FLYING IN A WRIGHT AEROPLANE

Great Haficla Carnival Imdw Will be here all week with a varied lot of excellent attractions No One Should Miss Coming to Richmond This Week

EXTRA SPECIAL WEDNESDAY 8:30 P. M., AT THE COLISEUM

THE GRAND FESTIVAL BAIL