Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 290, 14 October 1913 — Page 4

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fHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 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.

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Entered at th Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Mail Matter. Richmond's Dairy Inspector Dr. Zimmerman is a lover of horses, if his recent exhibit in the Festival street parade signified anything, and undoubtedly employs the best veterinarian obtainable to protect them against illness. He is satisfied with nothing less than a scientist in the particular work of caring for pure blood equine stock. But when it came to selectin s a man to stand guard over the city's health he didn't use the wisdom that led him to choose an expert for his horses, but appointed Mr. Charles Flook, whose only qualification, it would seem, was that he had faithfully served "the good old cause" during the campaign. Mr. Flook may have been an excellent employe of the factory in - which he was formerly employed, he may be a very honest and estimable gentleman in every way, but it has been demonstrated that he is hardly up to grade as a dairy inspector. In fact, it would be a rather difficult matter to discover in just what ways he is qualified to hold his present position. Perhaps Dr. Zimmerman may have hoped four years ago to see his appointee developed into a first class inspector with three or four years' experience. The public educates young men in schools, why .nay it not also educate them for office? Especially after they have been appointed to a responsible position. Our mayor has shown a great deal of confidence in an office's ability to fit a man for it after appointment, as a number of appointments will evidence. The city's recent experience with thirty cases of typhoid traced to one insanitary dairy is the little bill it pays for such a schooling.. It also shows that the schooling given Mr. Flook for four years has not percolated very far into his cerebrum. He seems to know no more about dairy inspection than he did when he began his education. Here was a dairyman, as the state's investigations have shown, whose well stands in the inevitable path of seepage from manure piles and

all other barnyard filth, whose spring was anj

open hole covered with boards between the cracks of which dust and dirt may blow any day, who washed his bottles in an old wash boiler in the house, who has utensils in his milk house so filthy the screens had turned green with verdigris, who was peddling milk produced from such an equipment to dozens of Richmond homes. Mr. Flook visited this man, according to his own statement, not less than once per month. What did he do with the well standing in the path of pollution? He left it there. What did he do with the spring which was found full of deadly colon bacilli by the state chemist? He left it there. What did he do about the old wash boiler? He permitted its continued use. After having been appointed to see that the babies of this community could receive clean milk he countenanced the selling of it under such conditions. And the only reason Mr. Flook has given for such actions was that "Mr. Hartman is a nice old man, (which we don't dispute for a moment), and that we ought not to be too hard on him !" Which is to say, that because it would cost the dairyman ik little money and a little trouble it was not wise to compel him to care for his milk under sanitary conditions; that since it would inconvenience Mr. Hartman a little to bring his dairy up to the requirements of the state law and the city ordinances it would be better to continue jeopardizing the lives of men and women and babes ! And then, after two state inspectors have condemned the place as unsanitary, after the state authorities have identified it as the source of the epidemic, and after Mr. Flook's own superior officer in the local department has also given the opinion that the lack of proper sterilization at Hartman's dairy was responsible for the spread of the disease, Mr. Flook reveals a further streak of patriotism by making out an affidavit charging Mr. Tucker with misrepresentation and the Palladium as "unjustly criticizing the dairy." That is to say .after all the authorities agree in fixing the blame where it belongs, Mr. Flook still persists in his four year old policy of "nursing" the dairymen and carrying them along in spite of their being below grade. The real'reason Mr. Flook has not relished the publicity given the matter is because he knows it reflects on him, because he knows it will reveal how poorly he has attended to his work and how little qualified he is to continue it. The tap-root of this inability lies in the fact that Mr. Flook is not qualified to tell the difference between a clean dairy and a sanitary dairy. A milk house may be shining like Spotless Town and at the same time reek with disease germs. Properly to inspect such would require a trained man, which Mr. Flook is not, and an equipment which he does not possess. It is just such affairs as this that are everywhere revealing the utter breakdown of party politics in the administration of city affairs. Mr. Flook is a symptom of a widespread disease? To repay a little favoritism political officeholders

and bosses have been in the habit of appointing unqualified men to responsible positions. Some

of these days the people will awake to the fact ! and do away with such absurd conditions for- j ever. They will discover it twenty times cheaper to pay five times the price of Mr. Flook in order j to secure a trained expert who knows his busi-! ness and can prevent such costly epidemics as j that from which we are now suffering. !

Fixing the Blame It has come to be a popular saying that American railroads kill and wound unnecessarily armies of persons. Reading statistics of fatalities is almost like studying battle history. Prof. Josiah Strong estimated that as many are annually killed or wounded on American railways as were killed and wounded each year in many large wars. Public sentiment has become aroused to the point of popular clamor and everywhere is heard a demand that someone be made responsible for this unpleasant state of affairs. Just how it may be done is not made clear nor is there agreement as to who is to blame but the public seems pretty well satisfied that whoever is held responsible will belong to the railway camp. But now along comes Marcus A. Dow and reveals by an incontrovertible argument and inviolable statistics that the public itself is responsible for at least three-fourths of all fatalities on the tracks. Of all persons killed or injured all but one-fourth are persons trespassing. Where twenty-five are killed in accidents seventy-five are crushed out of existence while walking on the company's grounds. For this there can be but one remedy a stringent national law making trespassing a penitentiary offense; only that way can it be stopped. "We are the only civilized nation in the world," says this expert, "that has no national law prohibiting, under the penalty of a penitentiary sentence, trespassing on railway tracks. The total number of employes and passengers killed on our railways each year is less than the total number of trespassers killed ;and if it is worth while for the railways to spend million of dollars to install and improve safety devices to prevent the killing of their own employes and passengers, why, I should ask, is it not worth while that some effective legislative action be taken by our government to save the lives of more than 5,000 trespassers annually?" 1 THE VOLTURNO. f Chicago Tribune. The dramatic marvel of the wireless to the rescue of human beings in extremity on the sea was exhibited again in the burning of the Volturno. Without the magic of this telegraphy the Uranium liner might have added another mystery to the Atlantic, or a raft or a lifeboat might have been picked up with a few passengers to tell the story of a disaster more complete, if of less magnitude, than that of the Titanic, which itself was relieved, teo far as its tragedy could be relieved, by the same mir'acle of science. With regard to the features of culpability presented by this latest revelation of the dangers of the sea, a conjecture based on insufficient evidence would condemn the British board of trade rules, to which the Volturno conformed. Even the fate of the Titanic seems not to have persuaded this conservative organization that the right of life is superior to the right of property. In fire protection the Volturno was not up to the American standard. It was the tragedy of the Titanic that sufficient lifeboats could have saved the passengers and crew, and were not there. Actually the people on the Volturno seem not to have been robbed of life by insufficiency of lifeboats. Eleven ships called by wireless stood by unable to aid because of the gale. There were boats on the eleven in plenty. Further, it is indicated that the loss of life was caused principally by the attempt to put out from the burning ship in the gale, the boats being thrown against the ship and crushed. Such a circumstance entered largely into the excuses made for the lack of boats on the Titanic, it being contended that ordinarily a ship in distress can make small peril is a greater peril to small boats, use of lifeboats because the conditions that creates her Obviously this was not true in the case of the Titanic, and it is not true, necessarily, in the event of fire or collision. It was the ill luck of the Volturno to have to contend not only with a fire but with a gale. It is reported, also, that the Volturno had insufficient appartus for the fighting of fires; in its case a still more serious fault. The fact that builders have obviated the perils of tempest, that foundering in a storm Is, for the great steamships, a danger not to be considered, makes It the less excusable that they should be destroyed by man made dangers. The Titanic ran into an Iceberg, but the collision was a man made accident, due, undoubtedly, to high speed when there had been warnings given of Ice. The Volturno met another man made danger fire. Steamships can be made superior to the elements, but evidently not superior to the danger of human error.

At the Murray. Week of October 13 "The Confession."

At the Genhett Oct. 15 " Uncle Tom's Cabin." Oct. 16 "The Rose Maid." Oct. 18. "The Divorce Question." Oct. 20 Minstrel show.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

NOBODY KNOWS. Philadelphia Press. The world series baseball games have practically broken up business in congress. But, by the way, what business is congress in now, anyhow?

GRAPE-JUICE BRAND OF DIPLOMACY. New York World. President Poincaire's refusal to witness the bull fight arranged in his honor at Madrid was humane. But was it diplomatic?

When George Evans offers his new program of minstrelsy at the Gannett theatre, Monday, October 20th, it will be found that he has fortified himself strongly for his sixth year as a star in minstrelsy. The porduction. scenery, costumes, music, songs and many of the people will be new. and the entire production will be found bristling with entertaining novelties by a company admirably suited to bring out the best points in the producer's efforts.

is said to be exquisite style in its costumes. The modish gowns in every changing scene of "The Rose Maid'' .sre always favored with a praise that none but feminine appreciation can express.

"Uncle Tom'a Cabin." In many respects Kibble and Martin's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is the most important of the season's productions. The pulpit has endorsed it as a moral teacher wort)? of mankind's support, while the board of education in many of the lare cities has encouraged scholars in witnessing the dramatization of tlw story that was instrumental in lking our country free. At the Gefinett theatre tomorrow, matinee and night.

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Murrette. The Murrette will open a varied bill for today. "The Drummer's Narrow Escape" and "Going Home to Mother," two very funny picturess, ((The Girl and the Outlaw,' a western drama full of thrills and "The Chieftan's Sons." That wonderful picture "Lost. eMmories" will be at the Murrette soon.

'The Divorce Question." Wingfield and Ridings, will present "The Divorce Question" by William Anthony MeGuire at the Gennett theatre Saturday, October 18, matinee and night. The splendid success of this play at McVicker's theatre in Chicago, where 125 performances were given proves conclusively the merit of this attraction and moreover gives ample evidence that the public of nowadays want a serious play one that will benefit them educationally and will give the moral code of the public an opportunity to reflect on the evil of divorce and its attendant misery.

An Important Cast. Sweet as the fragrant bloom of the rope, and "fetching" as the pretty girl pictured in the title part, "The Rose Maid" operetta comes to the Gennett theatre Thursday, C"tober 16, indorsed by thousands who laughed with its comedy, kept time to its Irresistible melodies and applauded its stirring choruses during over six months run at the Globe theatre, New York. There

Palace. I'nique in plot and strong ':i .u tion the two part Broncho headliner, "The Forgotten Melody," showing at the Palace today, offers an entirely new story of life in the early west. The subject deals with an old musician and his daughter, who, by the beautiful western sunset's and wonders of the plains, is inspired to compose an opera. Attacked by the Sioux Indians, the little band of voyagers are defeated and the father and daughter separated. In later years they are finally reunited by the beautiful strains of an aria that had become lost from music during the battle. On the same bill is a clever Reliance comedy. "The Buffer." a delightful story of a honeymoon, featuring the Broadway star, Charles Dickinson.

Chicaco mail order houses have : benefited very little by parcel post so ; tar as breaking into Richmond is concerned, as is shown by the record of parcel post receipts and shipments that is now being tabulated for the i first fifteen days of this month, at the Richmond postoffice. ; Richmond is just without the last' zone where the charges for such ship- ' nients are less than the rates charged b the express companies for packages of the sue usually sent out for fp.st shipment by the mail order houses. A vast majority of the parcels post shipments from this city are in the one to two pound class and sent to zones, one. two and three Recently. . however, the seven pound package to, Use eighth zone has picked up. considerably due to the vise of the parcel post in making shipments of repairs to harvesting and threshing machinery to the far northwest.

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Going Home to Mother Lubln Comedy The Girl and the Outlaw Edison Drama The Chieftian's Sons Blograph Western COMING Lost Memory A Wonderful Picture

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