Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 286, 9 October 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, OCT. 9, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

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"We Suffer From the Bad Citizenship of Good Men." Josiah Strong

Our Dairy Inspection The recent typhoid scare has once more thrown our dairies into the lime-light. Twentyseven cases of a dreadful and unnecessary disease resulting from the mismanagement of one dairy is enough to arouse the indignation of the public and to justify the demand that we make an inventory of our health department to see if we have been asleep on the task of protecting ourselves against epidemics, suffering and death. Such a state of affairs also warrants the city calling its dairy inspector on the carpet to ascertain if he has been negligent of his duties. The man who carries the health of a city in his hands has no slight responsibility1 and must not resent being called to account when evidences point to

a remissness on his part. He cannot expect the!

indulgence of the public when a too easy policy in scoring dairymen results in the serious illness and perhaps death of little children. But after all there is another side to the dairy story and one which it will be well for us to take into account. The local health department does not work in a vacuum but has to deal with actual conditions and men with wills and interests of their own. These difficulties of the situation are too often overlooked when the public sets in to "score" the department. There are at least four classes of dairymen to be dealt with by the city department. One is made up of dairymen who are ignorant. They have little or no understanding of sanitation and never heard of germs or bacteria. Such men are logs across the path of progress in public health and must be dealt with in patience and perseverance. Close to this type is the indifferent: dairymen who know better, but "don't care" and are willing to let the public suffer rather than make a few changes about their premises. More reprehensible are those who, through avariciousness, deliberately thwart just and reasonable attempts to regulate the business in the interests of the public welfare. These men deserve no pity and should have short shrift. They are enemies to the public good and should be dealt with as such. The man who, for selfish purposes, deliberately jeopardizes the life and health of hundreds of persons, most of whom are little children, stands in the same class as all other murderers and manslaughterers. A health department which tolerates such men is criminally remiss in its duties. But perhaps the most perplexing problem on the hands of a health department is the poor dairyman. He would install the right equipment if he could. He means well, but lacks the means. Poverty makes him a law breaker against his will. To complicate the situation is the imminent danger of a milk famine. This has become a chronic danger and must ever hang over the head of a health officer like the sword of Damocles. Even now there is not enough milk adequately to supply Richmond markets and all indications are that it will become scarcer still. The dairy inspector is thus tossed on the horns of a dilemma and on the one hand fears to be lax in his requirements while on the other he dreads lest, in becoming too strict, he shuts off a part of the supply. Further than this the inspector is first of all a human being and naturally dislikes being too harsh with dairymen lest he make his relations with them permanently unpleasant. He argues himself into believing that by being patient with them he can succeed in leading them to make improvements to which they never could be driven. " Because of this and because of his fear of a shortage he carries poor and unfit men along and carefully guards from public scrutiny his records. To publish the shortcomings of a man would be to ruin his trade and drive him from the business. In order to help him get himself in shape the inspector will tolerate evil conditions and risk the public health in the interests of the public's demands. To handicap the department further is the constant shortage of funds. Richmond spends but two cents a head for public health each year if we may trust the comptroller's records and this amount, as one can see at a glance, is woefully, criminally small. Dayton spends eighteen cents a person and yet is far below the average. We cannot expect a competent health department if we are unwilling to, furnish it with the necessary funds. - Because of the shortage of funds it must perforce do its work with an inadequate equipment. It would be enough to ask an inspector properly to attend to the dairies alone, but we crowd on

him a dozen duties besides. A health department in such a city as this should have its own laboratory, two or three expert specialists and leave to take the initiative instead of lamely following along in the wake of epidemics and unclean conditions as in the past. And it should have behind it an informed and awakened public. We fear a majority of our citizens still dwell in darkest Africa so far as their knowledge and interest in public health matters are concerned. We have a disgraceful record in public sanitation and should hide our heads in shame to contemplate the easygoing tolerance of the city as a whole when its most vital interests are jeopardized. To make matters worse still there intrudes into the administration of the health department the shadow of national politics. What the tariff issue and the currency problem and similar questions of national polity have to do with proper inspection of dairies and butcher shops we are at a loss to guess, but too often such intrusion is

made. Often a city administration will coddle and protect business interests in order to secure their political support. Whether this is done covertly or openly matters little. It is the policy in either case and lies at the very root of the failure of our municipal administration. Let us abolish national politics from our health department root and branch, establish it on the basis of efficiency and expert knowledge and take it altogether out of politics where it never has and never will belong. THE HOUSEWIFE. f It is she who makes ready the army when the day is at hand, When the bugle of labor is blowing its mighty command. Oh. fierce are the feet of the workers who answer the call, Hut swifter and fiercer the toil that hath weaponed them all.

Do we boast of their brawn? Do we trumpet the cause of the fighter Who marches at rise of the sun? Lo! look to the woman! The heat of her labor is whiter! Ere the work of the world has begun She is up, and her banners are flying from yard and from alley, The roofs are a-flutter with eloquent streamers of snow, Oh, not for a moment her passionate fingers may dally, Till the soldier is shod and is fed and made ready to go. Oh, weary the heart of the host when the battle is done, But the woman is laboring still with the set of the sun. Does the worker return? She is able and eager with bread. Does he faint? There is cheer for his soul and delight for his head. Do we trumpet our gain? Do we sing of our land and its thunder Of factory, quarry and mill? Lo! look to the womati! Her love, it hath compassed the wonder, And the army swings on at her will. For hers is the whip, and her spur is the fighter's salvation In the strength of Jehovah she comes. Her faith is the sword and her thrift is the shield of the nation, And her courage is greater than drums. March, march, march, to your victories, O Man! Fight, fight, fight, as you've fought since time began. But she who hath wed you and fed you and sped you, Fulfilling Eternity's laws, It is she who hath soldiered the Cause! Angela Morgan in The Designer.

MAKE PLATFORMS MEAN SOMETHING j

Philadelphia Times. The Hon. Augustus P. Gardner went before the people of Massachusetts and in an open primary won the Republican nomination for governor. In his campaign he told the people he was in favor of certain propositions, and if nominated would fight for them: 1. We favor a minimum wage for women and more power for the minimum wage commission. 2. We favor the restriction of immigration; but not on racial lines. 3. We favor the use of the state credit to assist suburban homeseekers. 4. We favor compulsory publicity of the facts when demanded by either party to an important labor dispute. Being nominated, Mr. Gardner took his pledges just as seriously as he did before he was nominated. He meant what he had promised. When the Republican state convention met, however, it declined to write any one of these four planks into the platform! It seems unaccountable that a Republican convention, in view of some recent lessons that party has had administered to it, would take such a position. The reckless incapacity to understand the moral obligation of pledges, the cynical willingness to re-ject the plain mandate of the people and substitute that of the machine, were the very things that did most to bring the old Republican party to its present low estate. It might have been expected that the party's convention in Massachusetts would realize these things; but it did not. So, after a hard fight by Gardner in convention, his planks were rejected. Gardner did the right and manly thing. He tore up his speech of acceptance, went before the convention, and told it that he was going to stand on his own platform, the one on which the people had nominated him, and not on the one it had made for him.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

SAFEGUARD FOR SOCIETY. Philadelphia Public Ledger. If the insanity of a few murderers could be discovered before instead of after the fact it might give society a little more confidence.

DOWN TO ABOUT 50 PER CENT PROFIT. Philadelphia Inquirer. The American season in London having ended, hotelkeepers over there will now have to be content with regular profits for the remainder of the year.

THEREFORE IT MUST BE TRUE. New York Mail. An astronomer has discovered that the universe is 6.S34.951.680.000.000 miles in diameter. And you can t deny It, because you can't say it.

COMMON IDEA OF STATESMANSHIP. Atlanta Constitution. The real statesman saves the country for the people, but he'd hardly consider himself a statesmau if he failed to reserve a good slice for himaelL

EARLHAM PROFESSOR BUSY ON EARLY STATE HISTORY

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PROF. HARLOW LINDLEY.

Classification of the historical manuscripts of the state is being pushed rapidly by Professor Harlow Lindley, head of the department of history at Karlham college, who, under an act of the 1913 general assembly, was appointed director of Indiana history and archives. Professor Lindley spent the summer at the state library in Indianapolis, of which the historical department is an integral part. He devoted his vacation to finding, organizing, classifying, and making accessible the manuscripts which for years have been in the big

library, unknown even to some of the best historians of the state. The purpose of the department of archives is to collect all the manuscripts that pertain to the social, religious, political, industrial and educational life of the state, classify them, and place them in shelves where they will be within reach of the historian. Prior to thf esablishment of the new office. Prof. Lindley was active in ascertaining the whereabouts of historical data, and his efforts in interesting persons the state over in the purpose of the department met with signal success.

CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS

Abolishing the crossroads one-room school and establishing consolidated or centralized schools is advocated in a bulletin just issued by the United States Bureau of Education. The bureau recommends this wherever it can be done without too great expense and without breaking up or disintegrating existing communities. The bulletin is an educational survey of Montgomery County, Maryland, where conditions are fairly typical of the rural school problem in general. It is hoped that by a close view of one rural district, other rural communities may be encouraged to investigate their school systems and make them more efficient. That sentiment in the country districts is not everywhere ready for the consolidated school idea is freely admitted by the authors of the bulletin. In Montgomery county a majority of the school patrons expressed themselves as opposed to the idea. They realized fully the deficiencies of their rural schools, but they were not yet willing to accept consolidation as the remedy. The writers of the bulletin endeavor to show that most of the defects complained of by the school patrons Poor teaching, low salaries, lack of thoroughness in the common branches, few special subjects; work

not advanced enough are inherent in a system of one-room country schools, and the way to remedy the situation is to have fewer and better schools, with transportation furnished to pupils living at a distance. It is pointed out that the rural school conditions found in this Marylaud county are by no means peculiar to it, but are typical of what is still found in country districts elsewhere. In several respects Montgomery county is superior to other rural localities in its educational facilities. It has, for instance, a school year of 160 days, as compared to terms as low as 4' days in parts of some states; and like every other Maryland county, it has county supervision of schools, which educators consider the most effective means of building up rural education. To make the one-room schools as efficient as possible, but to do away with them by consolidation wherever practicable. Is the motto the rural school improvers have adopted. Constant improvement is reported in the facilities offered by the ,one-room rural school, particularly in relating school work to farm needs, but side by side with this improvement has gone the movement for consolidation, until there are now several thousand consolidated schools in the United States.

Editor of the Palladium; Your r;idtrs. most of whom are Republicans, will be :lad to siv .i contradiction to jour statement that Reports on tn probable success of the Republican ticket at the election next month which have b on turned in to Republican headquarters the past two weeks hae been so gloom that a number of party Naders have frankly confessed that a Progressive victory seems almost certain unless Zimmerman is gotten rid of " There has not been the slichtest shadow of gloom among Republicans On the other hand everything points to the success of the Republican party and the election of Mayor Zimmerman by an overwhelmina vote. Out meetings hae been largely attended

and full of enthusiasm. We hae lost but one 'prominent Republican" since our reorganization. His sore place is merely a personal bitterness against Dr. Zimmerman. The "prom inent Republican" deserter is the only individual we can get a focus on among the great body of sincere Republicans in the city of Richmond. If you know any more please publish the list. EDGAR 1L1FK, Chairman Republican Committee.

ing at the Bijou theatre, Broadway. New York, on its successful run, will be the offering of the Francis Sayles Players next week.

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Murrette. For a change from the customary drama a Kalem comedy will be seen at the Murrette today entitled "And The Watch Came Back." "The Counterfeiter's Fate," and "The Struggle" will also be offered. "The Rose Maid." "The Rose Maid" is one example of the Viennese operetta without a prince for its hero. Ever since the introduction of these imported musical entertainments. Princes have played the leading roles. "The Rose Maid" will now be seen for the first time in this city at the Gennett theatre on Thursday. Oct. lti, and every music lover will have an opportunity to enjoy the fascinating work while its melodies are still new.

At the Murray. Week of October 6 "Beverly Graustark."

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At the Gennett Oct. 11 "Merry Burlesquers." Oct. 15 "Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Oct. 16 "The Rose Maid." Oct. 20 Minstrel show.

trials and hardships finally reunited in America. The exquisite setting of this subject is one of its principal features. The scenes being laid in England, on the Atlantic ocean, and in America. On the tame bill is the Majestic drama "The Man of the Wilderness," a gripping drama of the North woods, built up on the Jack London type of story.

The Divorce Question. One of the widesn discussions ever made in an American play is considered by Win. Anthony McGuire in his latest dramatic effort "The Divorce Question" which will be seen at the Gennett Saturday, Oct. IS.

Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Gennett Theatre will have on Wednesday, October 15 Kibble and Martin's mammoth production of the immortal American drama "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

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