Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 48, 6 January 1914 — Page 4
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, JAN. 6, 1914
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The Theatre. We entertain the best of feelings toward Rev. Truman Kenworthy but even our friendliness does not restrain us from taking issue with his recent wholesale denunciation of the theatre. It comes with a shock of surprise that a public spokesman should be found so completely out of sympathy with one of the mightiest public influences that has ever been created by man. A condemnation so unmodified argues not so much an uncompromising moral principle as a lack of familiarity with the subject in hand. Twenty-five hundred years ago the people of the Grecian peninsula were in the habit of assembling for games and music. These sports
will. It gives satisfaction to human needs that seem as permanent as human nature itself. Why should we want to destroy the theatre? It is the most democratic instrument of culture we have. Not everybody can understand sermons, treatises, and books but any child can understand a play. Civilization would now be many centuries behind where it has come to had it not had the theatre as one of its mightiest engines of public influence. The stage has given us Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Beaumont, Fletcher, Shakespeare,
Ben Jonson, Moliere, Hugo, Racine, Bernard Shaw, and a host of the greatest geniuses of all time. It has given us Agamemnon, The Eumenides, Oedipus Tyrannus, Everyman, Faust, Hamlet,
She Stoops to Conquer, The Middle Class Gentleman, Servant in the House, Man and Superman, Candida, and hundreds of the most precious masterpieces of human thought in our possession. Such men as Goethe, Schiller, Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, R. L. Stevenson, Arnold Bennet, Thos. Hardy, Longfellow, Lew Wallace, and countless others (we name them wholly at random) have been glad to present their works of genius on the stage.
And the players themselves! Can any other
profession name a nobler lot than many of them? In recent years we have had a Sir Henry Irving,
an E. H. Sothern, a William Faversham, a Julia Marlowe, a Maude Adams, a Sarah Bernhardt
and others too numerous to mention.
To condemn an institution so fruitful in great
FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received.
ownership of the trusts by the whole people Socialism. Yours truly, CHARLES A. SK1II. 849 South Seventh Street.
I To the Kditor of the Palladium. I As every worthy cause haH more
than one view poi
fair that the publ
a large number
who have been prom
ing of a visltiting nurse to our city
tare in perfect sympathy with the I views expressed by Prof. Russell, in
the article published a few nights
CONTRACTS SICKNESS AT FUNERAL A WEEK AGO; NOW SUCCUMBS CAM BKIINJK CITY. Jan. 6.-Pneumonia, contracted a week ajjo at the
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Tuesday, .Ian . 1 115. Richmon 1 IxkIro No V nd A. M. Stati meeting Annual Installation of officers.
WediieriOay. Jan. 7, 1!14. Webb lodj:
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nt, it seems only i f sh,lhv vilIp. th' EraIlnmother of ' v. . 1 meeun.
ic should know that ' ... - - .. ... . wora in rnw i rn acKrw. suuulu kiiuw Minn Irfiie Smith, citv librarian, eaus- .. .. . . .....
nf the club women j I, ----- . - - - r nnay Jan. 5. ivi. rvi&K aoiomon
oters in the bring- ; uXun nf vin.. " j napter. .n.. 4. it. a. m. aien i on-
were intertwined with religious observances, es
pecially with praise and offerings to their god of results seems to us a rather highhanded piece of
business. The theatre has had its crimes to an
swer for, it has sins peculiar to itself which are coming home to it with avenging power, it is
stained with vice and crime ; but what human in
stitution isn't?
We have always thought of plays as we have
of books ; some are thoroughly bad, some are in
different and some are very good. To throw all plays to the void would be a vandalism comparable only to an attempt to burn the world's libraries.
Editor The Palladium: Dear Sir: Now that the Holidays
are over and the irony of "Merry slnce ln the coiumn8 of the Palladium. Christmas and "Happy New Year" I 'e all know that many a good
has had time to sink into the souls ' cause has been hindered by misman
agement. Moreover, t'ror. Kusseii has not suggested a plan at all foreign to the policy adopted by our neighboring cities. The Women's Department club of Indianapolis, has taken pleasure in do-
dience New Years Day to bring to tQ the Soc,a, Servl(.e department of his collection pan tomorrow one dol- the State University, with headquarter from each man. fifty cents from j ters at Indianapolis, each woman and twenty-five cents ! m Th-, visiting nurses which have
Uffll lui lilt; ji d i. irn i rai n diiui itru
of the working class of this city, I
would like to call their attention to new diversions.
For instance, we have with us a religious mountebank who told his au-
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from each young person.
by prominent dubs in Dayton are now
This in spite of the fact that the ma-1 being supported under the manage
jority or his auditors are of the work-' ment of (he new municipal governing class and as a class they were nev- j ment, so much lauded at this time, er poorer or nearer the precipice of Any social reform undertaken by destitution than this winter. j the club women of Richmond, if it With a great number of them out of 1 shall reach the highest efficiency dework and most of the others working i served by the public and the pe pie short days, an appeal of this kind be- j who have contributed to its promocomes preposterous. tion, should be undertaken from the Still many of these people will bring ' purest motives of accomplishing the forth the desired cash, even though best good for the public, and not for salvation is free. And they certainly ! the personal aggrandizement of any should do their best for the revivalist, woman or group of women. The true
the vine and the orchard, Dionysis. In a long
procession young men with olive wreaths in their hair and young women with armfuls of fruit and flowers made their way with chanting and dancing to some shrine of the god and there performed their rites in his honor. As this habit of religious processions developed, the crowd gradually came to form into some kind of order, various members began to take singing parts and finally, speaking parts. One group danced, another sang, another repeated verses in honor of the deity. Out. of this spontaneous and uncalculating religious abandonment the theatre began. From one step to another it finally made its way to become almost the greatest single public institution in Greece. Once each year the state offered tempting prizes for the greatest play. It was from this rivalry that Aeschylus and Sophocles sprung. Politics and religion, art and social matters were presented on the stage as they are now done in the pulpit and the press. What a part it played in the development of the highest .form of ancient culture no modern scholar has the power to calculate but be know it was enormous. i After the breakup of the Grecian civilization the theatre was transplanted to Rome, but here, in response to the genius of the people, it became the Roman circus with gladiatorial games and festivities taking the place of comedies and tragedies. As Rome became debased all her institutions declined with her, including, as was
natural, the circus. So corrupt and so degrading
had it become when Rome fell into the hands of Christianity that the early bishops placed it un
der the ban and forbade any further performances. But in spite of this ecclesiastical excom-i munication the theatre and the instincts which j gave it birth continued to function in secret. Strolling players, solitary minstrels, and roving bands of detached mimics went about through the country districts giving little performances to delight and please the simple rustic population which at that day could neither read nor write. In spite of the condemnation passed on the institution by the highest power in society at that time, in spite of the fulminations hurled at acting by priests and bishops, the instinct 'which demands the theatre would not down and finally, with that unconscious sarcasm often displayed by historic movements, emerged inside the very organization which had sought to quench it. The populace at that day was sunken in an ignorance which it is difficult for us even to imagine. Preachers came to find that their sermons made no impression on so illiterate an audience. But it was discovered that the most stupid dolt could understand the message of a picture, consequently pictures came into wide use. It was at this time that stained glass windows with their depiction of religious subjects came to be installed in the churches. And from pictures in the windows it was a short step to animated pictures. The priests argued that if the people could understand a Biblical story when pictured they might also easier understand it when acted. It was thus that the morality and miracle plays of the Middle Ages originated. Priests and nuns were the first actors. The church altar was the first stage. Religious literature was the first source of the drama. It was from this beginning that the present day stage finally developed. From morality and miracle plays it was not a long step to the moving stage in Ben Johnson's , day or to the permanent theatre of Elizabethan times. From the Elizabethan stage with its heroic mouthings the theatre emerged into the more intimate Queen Anne playhouse with its conversational drama. And from the Queen Anne
drama it has been a short step to the New York Springfield Republican.
, .. i j 4 v. in4 t I A Baltimore traveler accused Boston women of be-
At every stage of this progress the theatre has had its enemies. Just as the ecclesiastical authorities sought to destroy it in the older days the Puritans tried to put it out of business in Milton's day and religionists are trying to put it out of business now. But the theatre has survived every attack ever made upon it and always
The Wilson Program A congressional committee of which Mr. Pujo was chairman, issued a report in which it was shown that a very small group of New York financiers practically control the industry of the country. Through the Morgan company alone this group controls corporations with an aggregate capitalization of twenty-two billions. Their method of control has been through a
system of interlocking directorates
they have kept a death grip on credit, have monopolized great natural resources, and by occupying a strategic point in the nation's industrial
development, have been enabled to lay their taxi down
across the shoulders of every person in the land. Beveridge called this small class "the invisible government." Roosevelt described it as the "power of predatory wealth." Bryan spoke of it as "monopoly through vested interests." President Wilson frequently refers to it as the power that "shackles trade." All politicians and leaders of the more progressive type have looked upon it as the chief menace of a democratic coun
try, with its free institutions. The Democratic party pledged itself before Blection to oust this class from its position of control. The president began by setting himself resolutely to the carrying out of this anti-monopoly program. Feeling that it had entrenched itself behind the tariff he first directed his energies against that ancient bulwark of privilege. Believing that another foothold of monopoly wras furnished by an inelactic currency system, he then concentrated attention on that. These two achievements to his credit, he now turns to a more direct battle with monopoly. He determines to destroy it root and branch by legislation aimed directly at it. Just what his program is, nobody, as yet, can feel certain, but it is pretty generally understood that he will want the interlocking directorate system destroyed, any restraint of trade defined as unreasonable and a more understandable interpretation made of the Sherman anti-trust law. Many will doubt if this program will avail to accomplish its end ; many will fear that the president will not find as easy sailing in his next undertaking as in his last, but all must feel that he has thus far undertaken his difficult task with a straightforwardness and energy most com-commendable.
said "any woman can bring fifty cents, it doesn't matter how she gets it." 1 should think it ought to make all the difference in the world how she gets It. Again we have a minister taking the stand that the entire city should stagnate in order to provide an audience with dollars, halfs and quarters for the aforesaid mountebank. He said from the pulpit last Sunday that the theatrical stock company was brought back to harass and compete with the revival. One would think public sentiment could have been moulded beforehand so that everyone would have wanted to spend every evening (and every dollar, half and quarter) at the tabernacle. Then it could have been erected in the street downtown, say facing Main on South Tenth, and the theatre could have been converted into a nursery. I, in common with most other working people, would like to be a church member, but so long as the churches devote themselves to such practices, they will Dotice our absence. If the money and energy that is being spent in this semi-religious revival were used to educate the masses in economics so that they would free themselves from this worse than industrial slavery under which they at. present exist, the churches would not suffer for want of interest or recruits, nor even for dollars, halves and quarters. With the foremost prophet of capi-
In this wav I taliam, Ed. Iliff, reminding us that the
Democrats useu iu kiu me nepuuucans about twenty cent bacon and that, bacon is now twenty-eight cents, it i would seem that some of us ought to I
conclude that capitalism is breaking
function of the Domestic Science Association or any other women's club is to its members, as is a college to a community, an institution of education and culture to its members, and when it shall fail in this it haB failed in its mission. Reforms come to a community only as fast as the public demand them, and the club, the school, the press and the church are the nioBt potent factors in educating the public demand. Unless the public shall demand a mere efficient health department, the
visiting nurse cannot accomplish the good which she herself shall desire, or that those who have the management of her are hoping for. Until the laws of our state can be changed, providing for a just compensation for a city health officer, what more logical arrangement can be made than that proposed by our present health officer and also by Dr. Hurty in his recommendations to the D. S. A., i. e. a health officer, a deputy who shall be a scientific sanatarian, and a visiting nurse. If a spirit, of co-operation can be brought about by those who have recently agitated the organization of a health league and child wellfare association in connection with the visiting nurse and associated charitie.-i, all charitable work in our city will .soon take on a brighter' outlook and fruits of systematic and efficient organization will be borne. A CLUB WOMAN.
Acording to a report of the U. S. Bu-
of the principal articles of food in reau of Labor Statistics, retail prices forty important cities had increased on the average fifi per cent in the fourteen years, 1899 to 1913. These prices compared with the period 1890 to 1899 show an advance ranging from 139 per cent in the case of bacon, to 38.8 per cent in the case of milk. Round steak had risen 108 per cent, eggs 66 per cent and butter 41 per cent. Sugar alone had fallen in price, being 2-3 per cent cheaper. Tinkering with the tariff is an exploded theory. Currency reform will be soon. Then some other "reform" will suggest itself and hold the stage awhile. Anything to stall off the inevitable and only remedy that is.
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I POINTED PARAGRAPHS EVIDENTLY PAYS IN ADVANCE. Columbia State. It takes Christmas to break the Solid South.
NEVER FAILED YET. Washington Star. The opinion that the D. A. R. can find enough topics for debate without introducing woman's suffrage seems justifiable.
FOOD VS. FREE LUNCH. Philadelphia Inquirer. Jane Addams says that instead of knocking out the free lunch, saloons should be required to furnish food. Maybe that's the point. Knock out the free lunch and require the saloons to furnish food.
AND THEN THERE ARE OPERATIONS.
ing able to talk on but six topics the weather, divorce. Christian science, the race problem, the civil war and scandal. But almost any one of these can be made to go a long way.
"By the way, old chap, I need a little money." "You may consider yourself fortunate. I need a whole lot." Boston Transcript.
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