Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 301, 27 October 1913 — Page 4

I'AGE FOUR

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

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The New Philanthropy. The late Benjamin Altman, founder of B. Altman and Co., New York's famous dry goods firm, left about $40,000,000 to his employes, gave a $15,000,000 art exhibit to the Metropolitan museum, but left to his relatives and heirs only $800,000. The author of this extraordinary will was a bachelor living in seclusion with a very small circle of friends and dividing his time between his business and his wonderful private art museum. This latter contained a number of the world's greatest paintings, some of which are said to have cost the connoisseur a million apiece. Chief among them were five or more Rembrandts. But the truly extraordinary thing about Benjamin Altman was his leaving $40,000,000 to his employes. "It is to these," he said, "I owe my fortune. Their industry and faithfulness has created my fortune and my business. I feel they are more entitled to it than my relatives, none of whom have assisted in creating my wealth." Mr. Altman takes his place among the pioneers of the new philanthropy. The old philanthropy sought the failures and cripples and outcasts and gave them assistance; the new philanthropy assists the fit. It bases on the theory that in the long run most help is done by lending a hand to the capable and active man who is thwarted by circumstances or hemmed in by conditions over which he has no control. A dollar spent on the failure is worthy and desirable and needfl but it brings back small returns to the race as a whole in comparison to the dollar spent on the fit who is able to return the gift many times compounded.

away. The city which has no objective point, no goal, can never arrive anywhere because it isn't going anywhere. A city with a well defined plan being realized through the use of scientifis, efficiency methods is a city that can save money on present expenses, avoid future unnecessary expenses, and develop its own resources to the limit. The efficiency administration of city affairs has now been tried out in over five hundred towns and cities and everywhere with astonishing success. Efficiency methods have been tested in the furnaces of criticism and experiment seven times heated AND THEY HAVE STOOD THE TEST. They eliminate guesswork, they keep the public alive to what is being done and Tney bring every department of city life up to a 100 per cent level. ASK DAYTON IF IT WOULD RETURN TO ITS OLD WAYS. ASK DES MOINES PEOPLE HOW THEIR METHODS HAVE SUCCEEDED. LOOK OVER GALVESTON'S RECORD. EXAMINE HOUSTON'S ACHIEVEMENTS. ASK CEDAR RAPIDS, KANSAS CITY, HUNTINGTON, WICHITA, JOPLIN, or any others of hundreds of towns. They all tell the same story. Everywhere is economy, development, progress, prosperity, increasing public health, new industries, and a declining tax rate. There is no reason why Richmond cannot join the procession. Commission government is a good thing, the business-manager plan is good, but the use of efficiency methods is the best. Mr. Upson said: "You Richmond people do not need to wait for commission government. The form of administration is not the most important thing. You can have an efficiency city with your present form. All you need is to use the efficiency methods." AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY PLEDGES ITSELF TO THOSE METHODS.

Stock Market Weak According to Clews

How the City Can Save $25,000 in a Year. "RICHMOND CAN SAVE $25,000 NEXT YEAR BY THE APPLICATION OF EFFICIENCY METHODS TO ITS ADMINISTRATION; IT CAN SAVE $10,000 ON ITS STREET DEPARTMENT ALONE !" This is what L. D. Upson said after he had analyzed the city records. And L. D. Upson is a man who knows. He is no dreamer. It was he who gave Dayton its new charter and directed the re-organization of the city government. It was he who directed Mayor Hunt's campaign which has created a new Cincinnati. He is one of the greatest municipal experts in the world, a man sought by dozens of live cities at this time because of his expert ability and thorough knowledge. It was his verdict, not the opinion of some visionary or enthusiast, that Richmond can save $25,000 next year and install a complete efficiency system at the same time. The Zimmerman machine has not pledged itself to the efficiency system. The Democratic

party has not pledged itself to it. The Socialists have not. The Progressive party is the only organization in the field that has contracted with the people to apply the efficiency methods elected. THAT'S WHY THE PALLADIUM IS SUPPORTING MR. ROBBINS AND THE MUNICIPAL PROGRESSIVE TICKET. This is not a morality race. No informed person can believe that any man, however honest and conscientious he may be, would be able to betetr conditions much with the existing administrative machinery. The issue is not between Robbins and Zimmerman ,or Robbins and Farwig, the issue is between efficiency and non-efficiency. A vote for Zimmerman means a vote for personal rule and present extravagances and a lumbering, bunglesome policy that gives taxpayers fifty cents worth of service for one dollar in taxes. A vote for Farwig means a vote for a man who will have to use the same old personal methods of rule with the same old milldewed methods of administration. A vote for Robbins is a vote for the use in Richmond of those same methods which have in hundreds of other cities utterly transformed municipalities.

Robbins says: "I don't want the citizens to cast a vote for me because they like me personally, but because they believe we should have here the same plan of city government which has worked so well in other wide-awake towns. IF I DON'T MAKE GOOD IN APPLYING SCIENTIFIC METHODS AND THE EFFICIENCY PLAN TO RICHMOND, I SHALL VOLUNTARILY STEP DOWN AND OUT. THIS IS MY CONTRACT WITH THE PEOPLE." What Richmond needs above all else is a clean-cut, definite, business-like plan. No city can ever get anywhere which doesn't know where it is going. No architect can build a house until after he has made his plan. No engineer can build a bridge without a blue print. No city can be an effective city without a city plan. A drifting city is always wasteful and extravagant. Through its leaky methods or lack pf methods, thousands of dollars of taxes leak

"Crowds." Gerald Stanley Lee has written a wonderful new book about crowds. From the first page to

I the last it palpitates, thrills and throbs, and is J as much a distillation of genuius as anything j Ruskin, or Carlyle, or Goethe ever wrote. I Most generations have had to die before anyj body could understand them, but this generation

has been more fortunate. It is able to understand itself because a few great souls have given it books to understand itself with. An age which has such books as "Crowds" written about itself, and such books as "Leaves of Grass," "The Promise of American Life" and "Christianity and the Social Crisis," in which to know itself has not the excuse other ages have had for blundering off into the tomb, disgraced, defeated and ashamed. In "Crowds" the present generation becomes conscious of itself. Through "Crowds" its most liberal energies will find release. Out of it shines the light that makes our darkness aware of itself. Lee has the visions of a Wordsworth, the sublime aloofness of a Landor, the mental strength of a Kelvin, the spirit of Jesus, but he has made himself a child of his own times, entered down into the depths of his own era, shouldered its blunders, and stupidities, and sins upon himself; has wrestled with it, struggled with it, mastered it, and has now emerged with it purified, glorified, translated and done into a book. To Lee the great problem of the age is its moral problem because even the industrial problem, which occupies the surface of the times, is moral at bottom. The question he puts is, How

can the age purify itself without surrendering any of its industrial gains? His reply is most significant. The age can purify itself, he says in substance, by being faithful to its own genius, by keeping right on with its industrial developments. If the men who are exploiting our material resources will only remain true to nature's own economic laws the process will right itself because it will be found that morality inheres in the very essence of things. If the various processes are kept free they will work themselves out into righteousness because in the long run nothing can succeed except righteousness. As Bishop Butler's great saying has it, "Morality is the nature of things." As Lee sees the present situation we are in imminent danger from two contrasted extremes: State Socialism on the one hand, and Monopoly on the other. These are the Scylla and Charybdis between which society must now steer its course. And the essence of their danger lies in this, he

believes, that both interfere with the natural order of development. State Socialism because it is an artificial thing built by society in its own interests, and Monopoly because it is an artificial scheme built by small classes for their interests, thus warping evolution out of its Nature ordained path. Whatever we may think of Lee's solution of the pressing problems of our age no reader can escape the charm of his pages. They hold one spellbound like the eye of the Ancient Mariner. One Chicago business man didn't stir from his chair until he had read the last page and then went forth in his enthusiasm to purchase pages of advertising in the great dailies and the most prominent monthly magazines to tell his countrymen what an extraordinary book Gerald Stanley Lee had. written about them.

TOO TRUE. Washington Star. The most courteous town forgets its kospitality vhen a visiting club gets out on the ball field.

Baltimore Sun. Governor Cole Blease says that is to say he says, and says, and says.

NEW YORK Oct. 27 The advance whhih began a week ago was too rapid 1 to last, and ended by bringing on a fresh selling movement. There is no ; denying the fact that financial sentimem is more or less depressed, and that impartial analysis of the situation . shows very plausible reasons for this , state of feeling. The credit situation the world over is unsatisfactory. After several years of intense activity in England. Germany, France, India. China, Japan, Canada, etc., there are multiplying signs of contraction and trade reaction. The weakest links in the chain are the first to give way. Hrazil and India being the latest points to exhibit indications of unsoundness. The panic at Bombay, though not serious, arrested attention as a general symptom. The financial strain in Europe has of course been intensified by the Balkan war and militarism. No collapse happened, because of the steady restraint on credit imposed by European banks. The great financial institutions of Europe, however, are , still bent upon strengthening their re-: sources, and financial prospects on the other side are anything but satisfactory. There is still an enormous pres-' sure of new capital issues, sufficient in fact to have forced London bankers into a concerted movement for withholding the same until more favorable ; opportunities. At home the money situation while improving is far from comfortable the restriction of credit provoking a good deal of complaint in commercial circles. Had it not been , for the timely aid offered by the Sec-, retary of the Treasury we might even !- now be facing a financial crisis, which ' happily has since disappeared. j Business conditions in the United:

States are not encouraging, and there are symptoms of slowing down in many directions. This is partly due to the contraction of credit, and partly to a loss of confidence, which imposes a restraint upon all new enterprise and expansion. For this Washington must take considerable blame; the radical tendencies in evidence there being an effectual check upon confidence. The new tariff, while it has stimulated same lines of trade, has injured others, for the reason that it is quit..'1 likely to put out of business a number of small and inefficient plants. In regions where crop damage has ben serious there are also complaints of business. IVrhaps the most significant feature in the business situation was the reaction in the ir'on and steel trade. This industry has been running at top sf. ed for several years, and a slight reaction would do no harm; but the sharp do dine in prices and the failure of the railroads to come into the market because of their well known inabilities had a decidedly depressing effect upon the steel trade, though reports of shut downs are decidedly premature. Struck by legislation on one side find by labor demands on the other, the industrial and railroad interests of the United States are facing difficulties which, if not averted by a return to reason and fair play, will soon show itself in a lessened demand for labor an draw materials. When wisdom and moderation regain their sway, there will be a fair chance for continued prosperity, but as long as prejudice and ignorance rule in political and industrial affairs capital will be disposed to remain timid.

At the Murray. Week of Oct. -t' House of Thousand Candles."

Nov. 1 Nov. 7

At the Gennett. -"Bought and Paid For.' - "Damaged Ooods "

"The Barrier" Tonight. At the Murrnv Theater tonight

, when the Francis Sayles" Tlayers onter into their twenty-sixth week, they will offer for the first time here Hex

Beach's romantic tale of the Alaskan Cold Fields. ' The Barrier "" "The Barrier" had a long run in both New York and Chicago and will no doubt proe a popular play with t he theater goers of Richmond, as Mr. Sayles considers it one of the best plays of the season Mr. Ernest Kast will make his first appearance before a Richmond audience tonight, he having joined the company last week direct from The Majestic Theatre Stock company. Philadelphia. Puring Mr. Sayles" visit to the East a few weeks aeo he witnessed a performance of "The Barrier" in Philadelphia and also engaged Mr. Kast for the part that he will appear in tonight.

Saturday afternoon. Ft err year he make a four months" stay tn the California climate.

DRINK MORE WATER IF KIDNEYS BOTHER

Eat Less Meat and Take Salts for Backache or Bladder Trouble Neutralizes Acids.

Wilson Lauds Peace in Annual Thanksgiving Day Proclamation

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 President Wilson has issued his Thanksgiving day proclamation, setting Thursday, November 27, as the day. The president says: "We not only have had peace throughout our own borders and with the nations of the world, but that peace was brightened by constantly multiplying evidences of genuine friendship of mutual sympathy and understanding and of the happy operations of many elevating influences both of idea and of practice. "The nation has not only been prosperous but has proved its capacity to

take calm counsel amidst the rapid movement of affairs and deal with its own life in the spirit of candor, righteousness and comity. We have seen the practical completion of a great work at the Isthmus of Panama which not only exemplifies the nation's resources to accomplish what it will and the distinguished ability and capacity of its public servants, but also promises the beginning of a new age of new contract, new neighborhoods, newsympathies, new bonds and newachievements of co-operation and peace."

GRANTS CIAIM

A claim of $220.50 against the es tate of IK my c Murray, deceased

was granted to Fred Murray. The j money is due Murray for services ren-j tiered Henry Murray during the Lit-j ter's life, the complaint says. The, CMSe v n heuril hefrr Tu,1i?o l-V,T in

circuit court.

RAILROAD PERSONALS

Pennsylvania Fireman C. E. Myers

has returned from a week's stay with'

his parents in West Virginia. W. E. Bell, for a number of years manager of the Henley Roller Skating

hiiu .Macnine orKs, sianeo ior nis winter home in Los Angeles, Cab,

Sneezing? (jj3

l here's no need of it. Sniff a little

Kondon's. the original and genuine Catarrhal Jelly, up the nostrils. Its soothing, healing properties quickly relieve you. Best thing for hay fever, colds, catarrh, sore throat, catarrhal hradache. nose bleed, deafness, etc. Relieves the condition which causes snoring. Sold only in 25e and 60c sanitary tubes by druggists or direct. Sample free. Write Kondon Mtfj. Co-. Minneapolis. Minn.

Hello, fast eater! is your friend! It does double duty makes up for the short rations of saliva

you swallow with your food

and adds the anaiitann'aiQ aid to digestion- fresh mint leaf juice. No wonder people "Chew it

after every meal"

Look For The Spear

Avoid Imitations

BUY IT BY THE BOX

Trie acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lump of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder Is irritated, and you may be obliged to seek relief to or three, times during the night. When tha kidneys clog you must help them :lush off the body's urinous waste or you'll be a real sick person ahortly. At first you feel a dull misery In tho kidney region, you suffer from backache, sick headache, dtiitness. stomhch gets sour, tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinges when ttaa weather is bad. Kat less meat, drink lots of water; also get from any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water befors breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lit hi a, ami has been used for generations to clean dogged kidneys and stimulate hem to normal activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot Injure; makes a delightful effervescent hthia-water drink hich everyone should take now and then to keep th kidneys clean and active Druggist! here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it Is only trouble. Advertisement)

TIME IS MONEY Filing Devices save lots of time Let us make you an estimate on hat you

need.

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LIVERY AND FEED REASONABLE PRICES See me for your livery and feed. Honest Dealings. Taube's Barn, North Sixth St. W. A. RICH,

First Time In Richmond OPEN TONIGHT 7 p. m. World's Museum of Anatomy For one week only. An interesting, instructive and educational exhibition 15c to all parts of the house, including the lecture. 428 Main St.

of twenty package it coat leaa of any dealer and stays fresh until used

IVI JJ RR A Y ALL THIS WEEK The Francis Sayles' Players Will offer Rex Beach's Roman tic Story, The Barrier A Clash In Four Acts. PRICES Matinees Tues, Thurs. and Sat., 10c and 20c. Nights, 10c, 20c and 30c Next Week: The Two Onrnans.

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