Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 304, 30 October 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, THURSDAY, OCT. 30, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

AMD 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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Those Juggled Light Funds. Dr. Zimmerman's withholding of the city's rent for street lights from the municipal plant is so characteristic of all his past methods and at the same time of such significance to taxpayers and property owners the whole matter deserves one more recapitulation. During the past four years the city has paid no rental for its street lights. At the rate formerly in vogue this would total for four years about $80,000. This means that Dr. Zimmerman kept in the city's treasury $80,000 legitimately belonging to the light plant. In endeavoring to explain this astonishing procedure the mayor has claimed a desire to pay off a debt left by Schillinger without raising tax rates or leaving a deficit. If this is the true explanation, and we don't doubt it, his action was very surprising indeed. For it amounts to nothing less than this : Instead of taxing all the citizens of Richmond he taxed only patrons of the municipal plant ! They were compelled to meet a debt contracted by the whole city! And why did he do this? Because he knew

an increased tax rate would ruin his chances of reflection. And why didn't he leave a deficit as his predecessor had done ? For the same reason. This desire to make as good a showing as possible at election time is the thread that will lead one through most of the tortuous labyrinths of the doctor's strange methods of carrying on the city's affairs. It was for this that streets were laid with a thin veneer of macadam on top. The more miles of street laids the better his record would appear. It was for this the health department was kept to the bare bone of insufficient funds, the garbage disposal plant left inadequate and the street cleaning department made a farce. In all these cases the mayor has cried "economy, economy," which mean no economy at all in the long run but a desperate attempt to be able to present a bold front to voters at election time. The fact that the municipal light plant has been able to make progress and save money in spite of having been milked by the administration reveals that it could have made the same cut three or four years ago it plans to make next January. Had it not been robbed of its own funds it could have given its patrons their long desired decrease. This means that every patron of the plant has been paying all this time 25 per cent more than necessary. The average family paying about $1.50 per month for lighting might have saved in four years $13. At the same time if the municipal plant had cut its prices four years ago the Light, Heat and Power company would also have met the decreased price. Therefore, its patrons have also suffered. But while their money is shipped off to the east in the form of dividends the municipal plant customers have seen their money used in paying the city's share in "public improvements." And what are "public improvements?" Improvements used by the entire public.

All of which is to say that the patrons of the municipal plant have in four years paid $80,000 more toward improvements used by everybody than have all other taxpayers. Dr. Zimmerman has spoken of the municipal plant as one of the glories of his rule. It may be, but the way he has bled the supporters of that glory in order to have a clean bill at election time shows he doesn't extend to the patrons the same consideration he professes for the plan. Education for Life. That Hampton and Tuskeegee, schools for negroes, are valuable not merely as excellent schools for the colored race, but for their important contribution to the present vocational education movement, is the declaration of the United States Bureau of Education. In a pamphlet just distributed by the bureau, entitled "Education for Life," tribute is paid to the work of Hampton Institute and particularly General Armstrong "t founder, who is looked upon by educator? a a pioneer in the field of practical education. "Generr.l Armstrong possessed to a remarkable degree the gift of educational prophecy," asserts Prof. Peabody in the introduction to the pamphlet. "He foresaw and foretold with extraordinary precision the tendencies and transitions which within the last twenty-five years have practically revolutionized the principles of education. The training of the hand and eye as well as of the mind, the moral effect of technical skill, the conception of labor as a moral force, the test of education in efficiency, and the vanity, of education without discipline in thrift, self-help, love of work, and willingness to sacrifice, all these famliiar maxims of modern vocational training were set forth by him with all the assurance of a social prophet.'

Is the Church a Failure7 The pastor of a prominent local church has sent out several hundred questionnaires to men of all closses and conditions. The general tenor of these questions is, In what way are the churches of Richmond failing? This is a symptom of a changed condition in church affairs everywhere noticeable and prophetic of much improvement. Churches are no longer self complacent. They begin to take

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To The Editor: The Republican City Committee,

which Mr. EdKar Iliff is chairman. haa !

themselves more seriously and to examine their j seen fit to cause the re production of :

virtue

feels licensed to brand me a three fold liar, and is careful to cause a free distribution of the sheet containing the

charge, in the hope of misleading the ; of facts.

peopie or menmond as to the true conditions existing resultant of Mayor Zimmerman's laxities in the handling ! of the city business. Monday, Oct. 20th. the Palladium contains a communication from me, offering to deposit $25.00 in the Second National bank, to be given to any ! charitable institution of the city if i

mt. inn could prove his charge. The correctness of my statements to be determined by a committee of five business men. Could I make a fairer offer? I have waited, hoping Mr. Iliff would avail himself of the opportunity to so prove, or at least prove himself sufficiently honorable to retract. It would seem that character is nothing to Mr. Iliff compared to the perpetuation of Ztmmermanism at the city building.

It is hardly conceivable that would stoop so low.

I wish now to state, notwithstanding Mr. Iliff's declaration that I have

iaisined, that I have gone over the to pay entire data and find I have no chances I tornev

a man

own claims for existence. They look about and ! an article written by Mr. ma which j outside themselves in order to discover new K5r ?naesa itnTiseSS, Yn fields of usefulness. An organization that de-jthat 1 have charged against the city a. -j. ir -a- i x xi x i government county taxes.

iuoci a. vuuovicii bivuoijr , voy ovii.-1 3i r. i hit as a paragon of

examination is far from that decadence of which it has been accused. Is the church a failure? That can never be answered until it is first settled to what is a church and what is failure. Preachers of today are studying the New Testament more keenly than ever before. They read there the descriptions of the early Pauline churches which turned the "world upside down" and marked a new era in human history. They

contrast these marvelous institutions to the church of today. And then they are ashamed. This discrepancy between the Christian church of today and the Christian church of the first century is one of the main grounds for condemning the church as a failure. But is this quite just? Any person who will carefully make a catalog of the activities and functions of that institution called a church by Paul, will immediately be struck by this, that the early church fulfilled many functions now fulfilled by other organizations. It was school, hospital, social center, a political force, a charitable institution, library, missionary board, Sunday school, theological seminary, house of prayer, place of preaching, and even in some cases comprehended banks, stores and factories.

In other words, in the Pauline sense, the church is simply the organized forces of society making for the betterment of society. If Paul were here today he would recognize the college, the school, courts, charitable institutions, Y. M. C. A.'s, libraries, factories, stores, newspapers, and all similar enterprises insofar

as they make for the furtherances of the race, J

as parts of the church of Christ in the world. That which we call church is only a fraction of what Paul meant by the term. "The church is a failure," may then mean either that the houses of worship which we know by the name are failing, or that the institutions of civilizations are not making good. Before the question can be answered this discrimination must first be made. No one, surely, can condemn the Christian church of today in the Pauline sense. As to whether the institution now called church is failing is another question.

If it is failing it is because it is not co-operat-'

ing with the other institutions which make up the great church of the world. No one should accuse it of failing because it is not doing something it was never intended to do. It would seem that the really crucial questions for the church to face today are, What is my own peculiar function in the life of today? How successful am I in fulfilling that function? and if not What are the means needed to do so?

more concerned in, is. Why does it ! cost Dayton, a city 5 times as larpe as ' Richmond, less money to maintain its street department than Richmond. ! To be specific, are we sure that we know Just what it does cost us to ' i maintain the street department? For, j instance: Street Commissioner CVenn's report ' I for on pace S. the fourth line ' frc-m the top. (Mr. Iliff please notet. f-hows: "City's part, streets and alleys

j Ac, $10,776.64." This presumably is ' meant to represent the city propor- ; Gf j tion of improvements for that year.

On page 1:1 (Mr. ma ajcam please note under the heading of engineering department, is a summary of the work completed for 1910 showing the city's proportion for improvements to be $3,255.18, or a difference of $7,521 - What the public is entitled to know is. what does the discrepancy of $7,521.46 mean? There is no insinuation, or innuen-

io about this, it is a plain statement

If the amount shown in Mr. Genn's

expense account is supposed to cover the improvements by contract, then there is an over charge of $7,521.46. If on the other hand it represents improvements other than what is done by contract, surely it is large enough to be classified. The question is: Where was the improvements rendered that cost the city $10,776 64? On page 7 of the controller's report of 1110, under the heading of disbursements, the expenditures of the "Finance Departments" is $19,214 87. On page !) of the same report the expenses are shown as $2S.615.24. Another difference of $7,394.37. These discrepancies may be all right, I hope they are, but they stand out as evidence that something is wrong, either in the system of book keeping, of the system in vogue is not intended for the public to understand. While we are dealing with the street department, it might be worth while

one moment s attention to AtLindemuth's explanation as to

into J6.S25 96 he will find thst the city paid for vaing the crossings $22. Ta per foot while the balance of the street only cost il.M per foot. Now the question arises, why should the city be charced $22.75 per foot and the property owners $l '.4? There is one other little matter con-

! nected with this department that has been referred to by the Palladium, that is. ihr fact that Street Commissioner Genn's boy Frank, is on the pay roll, and has drawn in pay. while ; poir.g to school and working for other parties the modest sum of $S50 47. There are no "insinuations" or "innuendoes" about this matter. 1 have the xoueher number for every dollar drawn. It Mr. Iliff has any doubts , about it. they can be produced. Gtting down to brass tacks, the best interest of the city is to be weithed on one side of the balance, ' with a continuance of the present conditions in the ether side The weighing takes place next Tuesday. What are we going to do? 1 Yours trulv, ALFRED BAV1S.

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to make, or at least if any changes I why North E street should cost $1137-

are necessary. It is to add to the deplorable conditions further evidences of incompetency. The writing of the series of articles which was so offensive to Mr. Iliff, was not a pleasant duty by any means, but a duty nevertheless. It must be self evident to the people of Richmond that Mr. Iliff is unable to show where I have juggled wit.h county and city taxes and served tuem out as city responsibilities. No one knows better than Mr. Iliff that every statement is true.

iir. ma iurtner says: As soon as

66 a square more than it cost to build

North 13th street. Mr. Lindemuth, with that attitude of "the very idea" says: "Any 15 year old boy would know- why it cost more to build North E than it did North 13th street, there are crossings and intersections on North E street and none on North 13th. If I had a 10 year old boy who could give no better reason than that offered by Mr. Lindemuth, I'd pass him up as a mental delinquent. There are 6 squares of the street built and as I said above, its cost was

Mr. Bavis came from England and set-1 $1,137.66 per square more than North

A Big Fortune. Adolphus Busch, late head of the AnheuserBusch Brewing company, left $75,000,000 to his heirs. This vast fortune was accumulated during his own life time and represents what it would require 125,000 men to earn working at $2 per day each for a year. If one man were to receive $5 per day it would take him 50,000 years to earn what this German accumulated in a single life time. Of course, editors the country over have been moralizing of Busch's fortune and on the question of great wealth in general. For the most part these comments are rather critical and represent somewhat the increased suspicion of large fortunes which is coming to be so char

acteristic of our day. Paul has been quoted, "Love of money is the root of all evil," and lusting after filthy lucre has been pretty generally condemned. But is the mere fact of possession to be condemned? It would not appear so? Money in itself is no more good nor bad than an engine. Its effects depend entirely on its use. Money is power. It is like dynamite and may be used to upheave the most ancient fixed conditions. A man with $75,000,000 of it is mightier than a general with an army. The great danger from wealth lies in having men around with so much power lying at their own private disposal. This is its social menace. Its danger to the individual lies in its reaction on his nature as a whole. He becomes so obsessed in accumulating he loses interest in everything else. Money becomes a mania. Other matters fade from view. Dollars fill the universe. It is this, we believe, which is the greatest danger. A man warped into monomania by money is in as deplorable a condition as any other monomaniac. He belongs to the class of sexomaniac, cigarette field, alcohol victim and religious fanatic, and loses all sense of proportion and sanity. His wealth grows out of him like a great wen on a person's neck and makes a monstrosity of him. He becomes deformed. It is in being a lopsided, malformed human being that constitutes the worst penalty of lusting for wealth.

tied in Richmond he began to ask if we had a ciy government and when being told we had said then "I'm agin it."

Such puerile twaddle is unworthy of being noticed. I will say however. If Mr. Iliff had exercised care in collecting his data, and had cared to be truthful in its use, he would have found that my citizenship preceded my coming to Richmond by 17 years. I will also say for Mr. Iliff's delectation that he is slightly mistaken regarding the first question being, "have we a city government?" My first question was: What are my rights as an American citizen? I found the answer in the 14th amendment to the constitution which says: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of teh state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which Bhall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." What I desire most emphatically to say is, that if the state cannot curtail my enjoying the full benefits of citizenship, I am sure no man, especially of Mr. Iliff's calibre, shall interfere. The writing of those articles can be charged to an honest effort on my part to live up to all that the term "Citizen" implies. What does it matter to the people of Richmond where I was born? I am not seeking political preferment, elective or appointive. What I am most anxious to see is a city government in keeping with the importance of the city I am proud to ascribe as "home." What the people of Richmond are

J 13th street, or a total cost for the b

squares of $6,825.96. There are 6 crossings and intersee-! tions which means 300 feet of paving for the crossings and the few brick . that goes into the Intersections. i If Mr. Lindemuth will divide 300 '

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