Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 312, 8 November 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, NOV. S, 1913

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"Damaged Goods." "Damaged Goods" is a sermon in three acts with "My people perish for lack of knowledge" as text. One sits through it as if gripped in a vise, the whole being tingling as Brieux's tremendous lines dynamite their way into the consciousness. Its message is awful, terrific, and overcomes one as with a blow. But it is a blow that strengthens and heals, for "Damaged Goods" is as pure, and sane, and healthy as a mountain wind. Not one line from beginning to end carries the least suggestiveness or conveys one whiff of the spirit of salaciousness. Something of the playwright's own rugged virility has been incarnated into the piece, infusing it with an invigorating spirit. It sets up in public view with pitiless sternness one of the most loathsome, most vicious and repulsive of all evils, but does it as the sun does it, by throwing white light about it. It is time the scourge of syphilis were having some light thrown on it. Although it equals in destructiveness those other two members of the diabolical trinity of social plagues, tuberculosis and alcoholism, it has received scarcely any thought from the general public. Alcoholism has been continuously exposed for a half century and has pitted against it scores of national and international organizations; tuberculosis is beginning to receive the attention of society and has already been doomed by medical science; but around the blackest scourge of all we have thrown a cordon of darkness, and protected it with a conspiracy of silence. We have permitted it to spread along every avenue of social life in the name of decency. We have buried our heads like ostriches in the sand and professed not to see it while it has been dragging its slimy lengths from gutter to home, from house of prostitution to the cradle, from hospital to school. For fear of shocking the morbid sensibilities of the prudish and so be responsible for a pennyworth of evil we have turned loose this plague to do its poundworth of death. Surely it is time we were beginning to have courage to face the truth about it. The policy of silence so long tacitly agreed upon has utterly broken down. We must destroy syphilis or it will destroy us. The root of the whole matter is laid bare in Brieux's play. Why did the splendid young barrister fall a victim? "I didn't know!" Why did the French deputy permit his daughter to marry a man about whose health he knew nothing? "I didn't think!" Why did the fine young man fall into its clutches at the very gate of college ? "He didn't know!" Why didn't the poor woman seek medical advice before her cheeks were blanched with coming death? "She didn't know !" Why did Henriette give herself to a husband smitten with the black leprosy? "She didn't know!" And why are thousands and thousands of Henrietles, and youths, and young husbands, and French deputies everywhere writhing in secret torment, self flagellated with remorse, and compelled to wrestle daily with a

serpent mat lives in darkness : l ne answer is the same. Ignorance. We perish through lack of knowledge. And for ignorance there is but one remedy: knowledge. Somehow the youth, and the young wife, and the boy, and the girl, must be made to know the real facts about themselves : they must be made to see that there is nothing vile about the body, any part of it, and that nature's method of propagating life is as divine as an anthem. They must be taught as much about the mechanism of their own nature as any boy knows about the machinery of an automobile. They must be given light. How they must be taught is a question for each community to settle in its own best way. Whether it is the school, or the theatre, or the church, or the home which is to be the sovereign agency for the dissemination of this knowledge only can be decided by experiment and wisdom. But some way must be found. Those who witnessed the splendid production of "Damaged Goods" at the Gennett yesterday must feel that the theater may be made the vehicle for at least some sides of the message. When an engine of such enormous influence is set to work and directed against such an evil, it can't help but be of the very greatest service. And if the theatre were not able to measure up to such a play it would be a superfluous luxury too extravagant to be maintained. But whether we are to agree that the theatre is to have a part in this social schooling or not we must all agree that some means must be found to put an end to this plague. That constantly augmented procession of the syphilitic, those dreary forms, deaf, dumb, blind, twisted, distorted, idiotic, insane, with running sores, ant ghastly, hollow eyes must somehow be stopped Society must stop it or it will stop society.

Uncle Sam's Army Now that the war eagles are beginning to stir from their nests on the Mexican frontiers, Uncle Sam is taking an inventory of his available forces. The results of this stock taking thus far published are not such as to make one crazy for intervention. Mexico has a polyglot population of some 15,000,000; she covers a territory of 767,005 square miles, which is about one-fourth of the area of the United States ; she has few railways, few and poor public highways, and vast stretches of undeveloped, mountainous country over which traveling in the best vehicles is difficult and in which regiments of bushwhackers could easily find refuge. The climate is such that soldiers of these northerly districts would soon become devitalized and spiritless. At present, of course, Mexico has not much of an army and what she has is in a fragmentary condition, but danger from without would breed union within; at the first sign of Yankee invasion, according to all reports, divisions, factions, schisms, and hostile groups would amalgamate and present a solid front. With such a conflict imminent, Uncle Sam finds himself with a rather diminutive force. Exclusive of our coast defense, troops which could not be called on in event of war, we now have an available army of 53,000 men. Of this number 21,000 are stationed outside the country and couldn't be depended upon. When our foreign garrisons now under way are completed, they will demand about 8,000 more which leaves on hand at present writing a total force, available in event of Mexican war, of only 25,000 men. Immediately after a declaration of war the first step would be the mobilization of 50,000 or more volunteers. This was done in the Cuban war with the result that United States incompetence, mismanagement and criminal bungling was such that the public has mercifully been left long in ignorance of it. There is more of a gap between war methods of 1898 and 1913 than there was between 1898 and 1861. The army has become a highly specialized organization requiring special fitness and long training. Raw volunteers would be as helpless on a modern field of battle as a baby would be with a corliss engine. Of course, we could ultimately whip Mexico, but at a cost altogether disproportionate to the magnitude of the task.

Poison Prevention Taking his cue from the numerous cases of accidental poisoning from bichloride of mercury, Gilbert I. Stradola, a New York chemist, has invented a capsule covering of rubber and other similar ingredients which is insoluble in the stomach. Unless this sheath is removed the dose may be swallowed without danger. To prove this the chemist himself swallowed a tablet of violent poison and placed himself under the observation of a New York specialist. The capsule passed through his intestines and from the body unsoftened by the digestive fluids. When one is obliged to take a dose of poison done up in these fool-proof capsules, it is only necessary to tear off the covering. If these ingenious medical inventors keep on, they will become able to have a man's interior department taken out and remodeled while he sleeps. Up-to-date hotels will hang up cards: "Liver overhauled during the night while you slumber ; call bell-boy." "First class lung factory in basement; have a new set installed while you sleep; charges reasonable." "If your stomach lining can't stand the strain have a new outfit made to order; factory in rear." We are glad Mr. Stradola has invented his fool-proof capsule. It's infinitely better than spending so much time hunting remedies for folks who have been fools. An ounce of fool prevention is worth a pound of cure. It will be a sunny day for the world when the whole current of medical science turns toward prevention. It seems criminal to spend so many millions in money and brains and so many years hunting ways of curing folks who don't know how to care for themselves when half the labor and time might be able to prevent their ills. Perhaps some medical Edison will find a scheme whereby whisky may be bottled in insoluble capsules, or cigarets done up in India rubber "papers" or opium made smokeless, or marriage licenses be printed on divorce-proof parchment. We hope so. We even add a humble prayer that he will also find a spend-proof covering for pocket-books for ours, anyhow.

I "HAND-MINDED , "l like this echool because I never could have learned anything, and I am more use in the world." This is the way a girl pupil in the Elementary Induetrial School of Cleveland, Ohio, describes her impressions of the new kind of school work, according to a bulletin Just issued by the United States Bureau of Education. The Elementary Industrial School was established to give "hand-minded" boys and girls as good a chance as the "langnage-minded" have always had. Cleveland was one of the first cities in the United States to make a distinction between the two tpyes ot children those who take to books and those who do not. In Cleveland, as in most American cities, about half th children have been leaving school in the sixth grade. The Cleveland school authorities saw that much of this waste was due to the attempt to forc abstract intellectual effort on boys and girls whose interest was in doing things. The Elementary Industrial School was meant to meet this situation. To it boys and girls were admitted if they were over 13 years of age and were two or more years behind their grade in school. In this school one half of the timeis devoted tot English, mathematics, geography-history the two in close connection and to hygiene of a thoroughly practical character. The remaining periods are given tot manual and industrial work, including shopwork, to domestic economy and gmynasium practice. A poll of the pupils showed that with the girls cooking and sewing were favorite subjects; with the boys, mechancial drawing and woodworking. In other schools of the same type which it is proposed to have in Cleveland, it is probable that the course will be extended to include a year or more of definitely vocational or trade school work, in preparation for specific employment. The school has been successful, even in the face of adverse conditions. The enrollment has doubled in the past four years. Pupils who had lond since lost interest in school work of any kind, some to the extent of ?eing known as "dullards and incorrigible," have become eager and alert, not only in the hand subjects, but in the academic work as well. In speaking of the Cleveland work, Prof. V. N. Hailmann, author of the bureau's bulletin, says: "The ordinary school was born among and for the language-minded. Intellectual and physical culture not manual self-expression and economic insight was its aim. The industrial worker was practically excluded from It; he had no leisure for it, no time to engage in its play. This one-sidedness still clings to the school, and it is hard to eradicate. "The Cleveland Elementary Indus

trial School may not offer the best general solution, certainly not the only solution, of the problem; but it does offer a solution that !:- !" right direction, and one which is at K-a.xi a promising beginning

At the Murray. Week of Nov. 3 The Two Orphans

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At the Gennett. 15. "Little Women.

"The Lottery Man." "The lottery Man" which the Fran- ' cis Sayles Players will offer at the Murray Theatre all next week starting Monday night is simply built for laughing purposes, although it has a very good plot. That of a young re- ; porter, Jack Wright, who is to furuih a story for his paper, and to raise money to bridge over his diffi- . culties. offers himself as a prize in a : lottery, in which he agrees to marry the woman holding the lucky number. ; He purposely holds out a mimber of j tickets for Helen Heyer, the girl he loves in the hope that she will hold ,

j the lucky ticket, but like many seem-:

incly well laid plans this one goes ; wrong and the holder of the lucky number proves to be Lizzie Roberts, a servant of Mrs. Payton, and the scheme of Jack Wright, to get out of his promise to marry the holder of the lucky ticket furnishes no end of I amusement. j Mr. Schafer will be seen in the title ; role of Jack Wright, Miss LeHoy as the loving mother. Miss Eyferth as ; Helen Heyer, and Miss Worth as Liz-1 zie Roberts, the old maid that wins j the lottery man.

recognize the scenes as being perfect especially the dog teams used as a i means of traveling in that "Land of j the midnight Sun." Sunday a special ; program is being prepared for the ! benefit of those who visit the Murrette and from indications is sure to

give the best of satisfaction. hive special pictures will be sown. "Little Women."

No one knows how to bring up children, except those people who haven't any. I ought to put quotation marks around that first sentence because 1 have heard it so often. However, as an unmarried woman with ideas on the subject. I feel authorized to speak, for there are thousands of spinsters in this country of ours, who remain singue for various reasons, who would make idt'al mothers in my opinion, and actual mothers might well admit them to the sessions of the "Mother" J Club." My interest in the proper training of children is due. I think, to the role 1 play in Mr. Itrady's production of

"Little Women," dramatized from Ixniisa M. AKott's famous book of a half century ago. No one with the instincts of motherhood can be insensible of the charm and effectiveness in the methods practised by the mother of the March family, as told in "Little Women." Miss Alcott did not "create , the mother of the little women. As a matter of fact. Louisa wrote of her j own mother and the characters in the I book were her own immediate family i and friends, including herself. Uecause of this fact, each character rings true and especially is this so of "Marmee." j "Little Women" will be presented at j the Gennett theatre Saturday Nov. 15." i matinee and night. !

One of the largest forest nurseries in the United States is conducted by the forest service near Haueen. Montana. It is known as the Savenac nursery and has a capacity of four million young trees a year.

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"For Her Sake." "For Her Sake." a Russian melodrama in four acts will be the offering of the Francis Sayles' Players at the Murray all week following the Lottery Man. The play is said to be one of the best of the kind ever written and Mr. Sayles will give it a complete production. Murrette. "The Frozen Trail," a Klondike drama is certainly a wonderful picture and the advance reports from Indianapolis where the picture was shown Monday and Tuesday of the present week were in no manner overdrawn. The snow scenes were made in the Klondike country and are realistic beyond question. Any one who has ever.

visited the great northwest will easih

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ALL WEEK STARTING

Monday, November lOtli

The Francis Sayles Players In the Biggest Laugh Success of This or Any Other Season

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By Rida Johnson Young A Fusillade of Laughs from Start to Finish

YOU WILL LAUGH

WHEN THE CURTAIN GOES UP ALL DURING THE SHOW BETWEEN THE ACTS WHEN THE CURTAIN GOES DOWN ON YOUR WAY HOME GOING TO BED IN YOUR SLEEP BEFORE BREAKFAST AFTER LUNCH ALL THROUGH DINNER AND YOU WILL CHUCKLE EVERY TIME YOU THINK OF IT.

PRICES Matinees, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10 & 20c Nights at 8:15 10, 20 and 30c Week of Nor. 17th : "For Her Sake"

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