Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 14, 26 November 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUf -TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, ma

The Richmond Palladium

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The Mayor-Elect; His Job. Those who expect a sudden transformation of our city administration one week after Mr. Robbins' accession to office are necessarily doomed to disappointment. The naive supposition that all the trouble and inefficiency of the past has been due simply to the carelessness or incompetency of two or three officials is groundless and gratuitous. The waste and poor management has been due primarily to a system of administration fitted for nothing bigger or more complex than a country store. Mr. Robbins will be compelled to begin with the dilapidated machinery left by his predecessor. And he will have to transform that machinery at the same time he is running it. The task is somewhat like that encountered by the engineer who must tear down an old bridge and build a new without stopping the trains. On top of that Mr. Robbins has less to do with than the preceding administration. Owing to increases in salaries and to the resumption of light payments, the new executive will have an added expenditure of some $17,000 or $18,000 and yet will have no greater income. He must make the same suit out of that much less cloth. And he must do much more. With less material he must even make a larger garment. Wljen one contemplates the task which the city has set for its new mayor nothing less than "herculean" comes to mind as the appropriate adjective. And if anyone considers "herculean" a bit overdrawn let him consider for a moment what the new mayor's commission is. He must even establish a desk for himself in city hall. The former mayor used his office as a little "side line," as the traveling men would say, and didn't even bother to have an executive office. To establish the mayoralty desk means to re-organize the city's entire system of bookkeeper g and record keeping so as to have reports of departmental affairs going up to the mayor at frequent and regular intervals. This is necessary for any executive if he is to govern efficiently. Purchasing methods, cost keeping records and daily time records are a few of the departmental activities which must be wholly recast. One department, the Health, must as soon as possible, be overhauled from top to bottom. And every other must be re-organized on efficiency method lines. All told it looks as if Mr. Robbins will have no trouble earning his salary. How Wall Street Controls the Situation. Our banking and currency system which, as was explained in this column last evening, pyramids the nation's fluid capital in Wall Street, is so arranged as to throw the control of the country's money and credit into the hands of a very small circle of men. And with this control of credit and money also goes, as there is no need of saying, simultaneous control of business and commerce. These banks are so close to the Stock Exchange as virtually to be the Stock Exchange. If their monopoly of current capital were to be broken the Exchange would go to pieces. Nothing but the huge accumulations of credit placed at their immediate disposal enables the specula

tors to carry on their interesting but somewhat costly experiments. It goes wjthout saying that the Stock Exchange performs services, useful and legitimate. By furnishing a ready market for securities at any time it has greatly stimulated industrial enterprise and by caring for the marketing of securities has enabled numerous industrial concerns to make a start. But these functions may be retained by other organizations after the Wall Street Stock Exchange has become a memory. At present the Street has so gripped the throat of the country as to become what Mr. Bryan called it. the chief factor in the increased cost of living. And it can do this, as has previously been explained by attracting the surplus credit and currency into its vaults and using this in financing and so controlling a big percentage of business. One means of attracting this credit is by offering pay for the use of credit which otherwise would lie inert and not drawing any interest. What would be a useless surplus to a Richmond bank may be loaned out from day to day for speculative purposes by a Wall Street institution which thus becomes able to return to the bank a small interest for use of its surplus. Wall Street banks are also often abb to share with scattered small banks the handling. of securities for some big enterprise. A slice of such a melon is always highly prized by the small banker and elicits a feeling of gratefulness for his New York benefactors. This gratefulness is, like everything else the New York Midases touch, immediately turned into capital. For, by tying the country's 25.000 scattered banks to themselves, the Wall Street

bankers and money lords often are able to pull j off a deal otherwise impossible. At the present time the supposed universal

opposition of the banks to the Glass-Owen cur-' rency bill is nothing but a shadow of Wall Street ' control. And the small city banks across the ! country are so intimately linked with the Wall Streeters these last are able to use them as handy instruments for fighting federal regulation. The opposition of the bankers to the pending legislation which' was the feature at the recent bankers' convention was nothing in the world but the concealed opposition of Wall Street using its friends as a stalking horse.

MRS. JOHNSTON TO LECTURE ON ART

WILL ISSUE BONDS TOTALING $S6,000

At the Murray. Week of Nov. 24 "Human Hearts."

Tonight Nov. 27Dec. 3

At the Gennett. -Grand Opera. -"Perk's Bad Boy. "Little Boy Blue. '

Mrs. M. F. Johnston will begin a series of lectures that will carry her in all parts of the country during the next two years when she goes to Madison. Wis., next Monday for a lecture. From this place she will go to Chicago and thence to New York to attend a reception of the art chairman of the New York Federation of Women's clubs. While in Chicago she -v ill select a number of paintings for the American artists exhibit which begins in Charlestown. 111., in January.

Bond issues of fSS.OPO will b made by the county commissioners to pay the cost of the Barton and Haas roads The work will befiin on the nw highways at once.

Rates grounds national will be

for meals served on the of the Panama Pacific InterExposition in San Francisco reasonable. Fach coucession-

Exploiting the Child.

! Murrette. ! "Between the Rifle Sight." a thriil-

. ,. , . ... ing Selig production is one of the pieAccording to a recent report Of truant Officer j tures at the Murrette today. This Bishop there are now more than sixty children f ?Iy mountaineers, "Between the , , Rifle Sights" has plenty of thrill to

hptweon Una arroc nf fniirtoen cnH civtoon tV-io u Keels Safety, an Kssanay drama

" j and A atersoaked Hero, a eomedv

ciy jjcxhju uuniig which uiw rcwpunisiuimies ui a 111 complete rne Din. c oming soon

position and the drudgery of factory work are most disastrous to a developing person. This certainly is a deplorable condition. Somehow, it seems to throw cold water over many of our pet enthusiasms for the panic-proof town. These scores of child toilers (of course there are many now at work permitted last year or the year before) seem to cast a chill shadow over all our boasting. The children are not to blame. Very few of us but will recall that there was a time when we, too, had the fever for work and looked with disgust on school life as a waste of time. We didn't know much about the world then, or have very clear ideas about the future. It was nothing but the compulsion of our parents that kept us at the desk. These factory workers are like all other children at a certain age and "know not what they do." Their parents deserve a large part of the blame. In many cases it is merely a bit of greediness, carelessness of base cynicism on the part of father or mother which will remove the child from school to be sent to a factory at so much a week, although in many cases it is understood that the parents themselves are victims of circumstances over which they have little control.

Our present system of industry has much to gin a hoy Thursday. The PennJ J sylvania offices will be open a few

answer tor. 1 he barbarous notion that Child hours in the morning. Fasenger ser

labor is profitable and economical still holds with certain troglodyte minds. All leading thinkers on industrial matters have long ago shown how costly child labor is in the long run. For the time being money may be made by exploiting tho child, but in the long run society pays dear for its cheap goods. It is like the present practice among farmers of killing veal calves; the immediate profit is great, but the ultimate consequences are that the high cost of living is raised. But the public school system itself deserves a large share of the blame. There is no reason in the world why school should not be made as attractive to a healthy growing child as a circus. So fascinating are Gary schools most of the children (and many parents too) stay from eight in the morning until nine at night and resent the very offer of a holiday. When local schools are made equally interesting nothing but force will wean the pupil away to some stuffy shop or noisy factory.

MASONIC CALENDAR

Wednesday. Norember 28 Webb lodge. No. 24, F. and A. M Called meeting Work in Fellowcraft degree.

, aire will be under contract 1th the I exposition to provide everything on bills of fare at agreed price. The restaurants and cafes on the grounds will ! cater to al! tastes, and will range from ' those with simple, inexpensive menus to those with dishes on a par with th best in the world's largest cities, but at fair prices. Several restaurants will . provide dinners at fifty cents.

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"The Last Days of Pompeii." Georgt

Kleme s spectacular photo drama in six reels will be shown for the first and only time in Richmond. Gennett. One of the funniest shows ever seen in Richmond will be presented at the Gennett theatre tomorrow matinee and night in the form of "Peck's Bad Boy," as a proof of this being one of the funniest comedies ever written. The fact of its having been seen on the stage for the past 20 years explains that tact. New specialties are introduced each season, keeping the comedy up to date. The company appearing here Thanksgiving day is said to dp one of the best that has ever presented this play. Murray. "Human Hearts," the offering at the Murray theatre this week is proving popular. The players are giving an excellent performance. A Thanksgiving matinee will be held tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock. NOTICE, RED MEN. All members of Osceola Tribe. No. 15, I. O. O. R., are requested to be present at the Wigwam Thursday, Nov. 27, 1913. at 7:30 p. m. Business of importance demands vour attention. H. L. DICKINSON, (26-2t) Chairman Committee. MANY TO GET HOLIDAY Officials and employes in all departments except the operating, will be

hours in the morning.

vice will maintain its regular schedule. Local freights leaving Richmond will be annulled Thanksgiving. VISITS HERE J. S. Davis, Pennsy fireman, of Logansport. is spending a few days in Richmond. PORTERS ON TRAINS Within the next few days all Richmond division passenger trains will be attended by a corps of porters. Previous to the decision by the officials regarding the placing of porter on trains, only the big trains were furnished with these aids. The men will be uniformed. SHOWS INCREASE By the annual report of the C. ft O. railroad it is shown that the Indiana division had an increase of 27 per cent in operating revenues, despite the large expenditures necessitated by the spring floods. Its expenses decreased 8 per cent.

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Old Age Utopia. v At a recent meeting of the People's Institute

of New York City, David J. Lewis, Representa-: tive from Maryland and a member of the jointcommittee of the parcels post spoke most feelingly of that institution. With a fervor that makes George Stuart see mcold and unfeeling, with an

eloquence that throws some doubts on the supposed standing of Mr. Cicero, this solon painted i a picture of the lovely times we will all have after j the parcels post has been in operation a few j years. J Just think, he told them, how, after a life of J toil in mine, shop, office, or store, after the fires , have been consumed on the altars of profession-

al activity, the worn out old veteran of sixty can, because of the facilities of the post, retire into the country and take up truck farming in his final decades: In this way old age destitution may be done away with and poor houses be sent up Salt Creek forever ! As one contemplates this beautiful scene he falls to wondering if some new Bergson has discovered that after all there sleeps in the depths of human instinct the ability to do anything under heaven if circumstances but be propitious. We suppose that after a man has been a mere lawyer for forty years carrying about in the background of his mind during the period a faint recollection that cabbages don't grow on trees he may suddenly blossom out into a full fledged gardener, a trade which requires only ten or fifteen years for learning. We are also somewhat embarrassed by the consideration that there are some of us a bit shy on capital. Land doesn't hang around on Christmas trees nor do horses wander seeking an owner. How to get one's tentacles on that farm might be somewhat of a problem to many veterans of sixty. And on top of this the sparkling scene wherein the necktie salesman stoops lovingly over the onion bed using muscle that disappeared from the earth many decades since is simply enchanting. It is almost impossible for us to wait for bald pates and sclerotic arteries in order to retire to those bucolic retreats made possible by the gracious parcels post. But until then wt shall beguile our weary yratrSj by : reflecting or the march of time and the fact that, while Congressmen are always hard pressed with heav; duties, still a few remain "V--"' able to sli away for a little seance wit&VLj?ipe of dreams

It is estimated there are 3,424 guagea and dialects in the world.

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MURRETTE Today "The Wheels of Safety" Two-reel Etsanay Features "A Water-soaked Hero' Comedy "Between the Rifle Sights" Selig Drama COMING SOON "The Last Days of Pompeii" Greatest Pictures Ever Shown Except "Quo Vadis"

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On Thursday mornings skates will be furnished free to beginners. Mr. Fry and Mr. Shute will instruct the ladies. Skating Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Morning Afternoon and Evening.

GENNETT Thanksgiving Day Matinee and Night Peck's Bad Boy The funniest comedy on the road this season. Popular Prices. Seat sale now, Murray Theatre.

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IVIU F R A V WEEK NOVEMBER 24 Fareweel Week of The Francis Sayles Players In "HUMAN HEARTS" PRICES Niflhta. 10c, 20c, 30c: Matinees, 10c, 20c. Special Thanksgiving Day Matinee Don't Forget Reception on the Stage Saturday Matinee.

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