Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 56, 15 January 1914 — Page 6
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The Underwriters Label.
Slowly the world is coming to realize that good intentions are never good for much in business unless they accompany a considerable
auantitv of judgment and technical knowledge
To be well versed in economic principles and to understand the working out of the complex
forces in our economic system is almost as neces
sary as to mean well and work honestly. This is strikingly demonstrated by the case of the Na
tional Board of Underwriters, and its action in
placing labels on all brands of hose approved
bv it.
Its intention was that cities might be able to
purchase fire hose that had been tested by ex
perts and thus avoid being deceived in buying something about which so few persons know any
thing. This was admirable. But the thing has not worked out as well as they hoped. For one thing, they have cramped the activity of rubber manufacturers, who do not care to give away their secret process. This means a damper on invention and ingenuity. For another thing, it gave an unfair preeminence to the first few brands approved and advertized. Cities often buy hose simply because the Underwriters have recommended them. Further than this, the board exercises an unhealthful influence over insurance rates in a city. If a town buys a brand not recommended the insurance companies are notified, and they straightway raise the rates in that town. Worst of all, the plan has shifted the responsibility from the shoulders of the manufacturers to the shoulders of the Underwriters. They have set a minimum standard at which any brand will be endorsed. This means that competition is destroyed because the various concerns now strive merely to make a hose that will pass the standard instead of trying to make a belt r hose than any other maker.
here. This fact is significant not only of the
stupidity of many of our state laws, but also of some things that must be done by the people of the community in the interest of their own Belf-protection.
Even without a professional sanitarian every
body can turn his attention to public health ques
tions, can inform himself about them, anjd can put
into practice in his own circle the methods of sanitation and hygiene.
The people can do more than that; they can
cheerfully and sensibly co-operate with Dr. Smel-
ser in seeing that his health orders and ordinances are scrupulously obeyed. If every man and woman in town would come to feel that the maintenance of public health is as much his business as it is the health officer's, there would be little danger of epidemics and little need of having constantly on hand a smouldering threat of scarlet fever. It would be a good thing, it seems, if the new administration would have a health survey made of the city. That would arouse public interest as nothing else could, and it would make effective work on the part of the new officials ten times as easy.
PIERIAN
High
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III 1914
School Pupils Print Annual.
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The Health Department. If the people of this community could only come to realize that the health department is the most vitally important branch of the city's government, and if they could only know just what constitutes a really efficient public health service, and what things are essential, and why they are essential, they would speedily come to the conclusion that our present equipment for doing the
work and our present appropriation for carrying
on the work are pitifully meagre. According to the recently approved appropriation ordinance the health department was given a total of $8,365. Of this, $3,360 will be divided among the salaries of six paid employes. The Home for Friendless Women will receive $500, end Reid Memorial Hospital $3,000. This leaves only about $1,500 for the real work of preventive medicine in this city. When we have made such inadequate provisions for this all-essential work we have no need to feel surprised to find epidemics of scarlet fever and typhoid visiting us with frequency. The wonder is that we escape with as little sickness as we do. Not one single case of typhoid was developed inside the limits of the city of New York last year. That sounds incredible, but the record verifies that assertion. But that was due to the business-like and effective means used in the health department. It was also due to the fact that its citizens paid in taxes per capita for the support of public health work 65 cents. Newark, N. J., pays 51 cents per capita, Jersey City 46,
Baltimore 36, Philadelphia 33, Dayton 18, and Richmond well, you may figure it out for yourself. ! Acording to the duties laid down upon him by the state laws, our health officer is obliged to be a very busy man. He must keep records and make reports (not a small matter), superintending quarantining and all epidemics, superintend disinfecting of premises, attend meetings of the state board, must assume charge of cases of illness where no physician can be called in, must abate and condemn public nuisances, superintend the disposal of all garbage, superintend inspection of slaughter houses, inspect water supply, superintend inspection of food, superintend inspection of dairies, supervise in a general way the sewerage system of the city, shall issue burial permits, initiate and plan health ordinances, must give his work all necessary publicity, etc., and all for the munificent, the magnificent, the enormous salary of $500 per year!
This little shriveled-up bagatelle of an income means that the health officer must depend on private practice for a living, and that means that he will give to his public health work as
little attention as possible. The situation is analogous to the sentinel on guard over a sleeping army who must at the same time keep digging trenches and erecting tents. A man cannot serve his own business and protect the public health at the same time and do it well. Were it not that the state laws forbid, the new administration would have engaged a professional sanitarian to take charge of the work
"Socialism or Your Life J" Pancho Villa is now in complete control of Chihuahua, one of the largest Mexican states. After taking charge of its capital city he immediately set to work and confiscated, in the name of his "constitutional government," street car systems, stores, breweries, clothing factories, banks, railways, and even the gambling joints.
These enterprises he re-opened (they had been closed by former owners while the going was still good) and operated in the name and for the benefit of the people.
Villa is himself the superintendent-in-chief
of the whole state. His word is the only law, and like the orders of the Medes and Persians, changes not. If he threatens to kill a man the man may as well settle up his accounts; if he promises to benefit, the man may bank on his word. So strict is Villa's rule and so rigidly loyal to his conception of fair play, he has any man, high or low, shot without trial, who is found grafting. : To work one's way through years of effort to the head of a large state and to have so despotic a control over it that not a person can leave or enter without one's written permit is a Napoleonic achievement for any man, though it would require a lifetime. But this kind of an achievement fades beside the splendor of Villa's suden rise,- because this man was an escaped prison refugee in El Paso barely eight months ago. It was while serving under Huerta that he was jailed for insubordination, and it was after Madero's ascendency that he managed to escape. He left El Paso a half-year ago, one dark night, with a price on his head and a borrowed
horse beneath his saddle, a six-shooter and $7.50 in his pocket. Today he is absolute ruler of a powerful state and commands 10,000 men who
yield to him in unquestioning obedience.
Villa can read and write, but he has not gone
very deeply into academic studies. This is clear
ly shown by the fact that he holds his rule to be an example of Socialism. After confiscating all
property of any value ha assumes charge in the "name of the people," and is now operating in their supposed interest. The only thing he lacks for a well-ordered government is a mint. This he determines to have. With the mines now in his possesion and the banking outfits left intact, he is determined to issue currency as "good as money anywhere." "It was the system in Mexico that made me a bandit," he says. "I am a bandit, but I never stay up after bedtime to gamble, and I let wine and women alone' This is a shot at Huerta. How Alexander Dumas would revel in the story of this romantic career! This man who took to the mountains after shooting a Spaniard for insulting his sister, who has carried his life in his hands for years, who shoots down a foolhardy wretch that crosses his path with as little compunction as killing a woodchuck; who rules a great state as an ordinary man rules a household; who holds his six-shooter to the temples
ot a hundred thousand people and says, "Social
ism or Your Life!" One might prefer death to Villa's Socialism, but he would be obliged to say with one student of the man, "His career is one of the most remarkable in all the annals of time."
Enough subscriptions . for the 1914 high school annual have been taken to insure Its success. More than 100 pupils have placed their names on the subscription list. The seniors, who always have this matter in .charge.
seemed anxious to attempt the work again this year and the matter was taken up with the school board of control at a special meeting recently, and
the permission to issue this book was given provided enough students would support the issuance. The seniors have worked hard for
subscriptions with the result that over
400 persons have signified their will
ingness to purchase the work when it comes from the press the latter part of May. The editors and managers
of the publication have not been de
cided upon.
The annual is known as the "Pier
ian" and is in the form of a maga
zine and gives accounts of all the happenings of the past school year, with pictures of the various classes and departments. All the work is done by
the students. The students are boost
ing Robert Jackson '14, for editor-in-
chief but the appointments are made
by the board of control and the stu dent body has no voice in the matter.
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I MASONIC CALENDAR I
Thursday Webb Lodge, No. 24,
F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work
in Master Mason degree. Rrefresh
ments.
DR. KELLY SPEAKS
BEFORE CONVENTION
While at Washington, D. C, attend
ing the Council of Church Boards
Dr. Robert L. Kelly, president of Earlham College, spoke on the "Rela
tion of the Church to Public Educa
tion" and "National and Internation
al Methods for Christian Education.'
to graphed on the exact spots used In I
the original novel. "David Copperfleld In motion pictures will be shown at the Mnrrette tonight and tomorrow.
COMMERCIAL COURSE IN TOWN HIGH SCHOOL
The Tollers The Tollers has certainly been
pleasing large audiences the first two days of the week at the Murray, and
the Francis Sayles' players are giving
a grand production.
The big scene ot the play comes at
the finish of the second act, where
the strike takes place and is one of the most sensational scenes ever seen on the Murray stage. "The-Toilers"
will continue for the balance of the week with another matinee tomorrow.
also one on Saturday.
Gennett, In "The Winning of Barbara Worth"
the big Klaw and Erlanger scenic production which comes to the Gen
nett next Thursday, among other strong scenes, there is given a picture ; of the desert without a blemish. It j is a scenic achievement of a moving j order, for the producers realized that I
the fauna and flora, and the human 1 life in all its achievements and aspira- i Hons, are essential factors. From the !
cry of the babe for water until the sandstorm wipes out every vistage of the great tragedy that left Barbara
nameless, the desert scene is awe in
spiring. David Copperfleld. This 6,000-foot production, brought into this country by the Classisc FeaFilm company, is bound to occupy a niche in cinematroeraDhv from whioh
it can not be ousted. It 1b a worthy
motion picture version of the famous story by Charles Dickens, adapted by Thomas Bentley, who is famous as an actor, and as an expert in things Dickensonian. It is both beautiful and authentic. All the scenes are pho-
CENTER.VIL.LE, Jan. 15. At the beginning of this term bookkeeping has been introduced Into the high school. The class being taught by Professor Kuntz.
COMB SAGE TEA IN HAIR TO DARKEN IT
It's Grandmother's Recipe to Keep Her Locks Dark Glossy Thick.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
HADN'T NOTICED IT OUT HERE YET. Wanders Abendblatt. Now that Christmas is over, doesn't the elastic currency make you feel good?
LIFE'S MIGHTY UNCERTAIN. Portland Oregonian. Chinese provinces agree with Yuan to abolish parliament. They will next be trying to abolish Yuan.
ONE THING TO KEEP STILL ABOUT. Memphis News-Scimitar. ( A newspaper may be "a perfect lady," but when "a perfect lady" openly proclaims her own virtue she merely arouses suspicion.
ANYBODY EXCEPT HIS CONSCIENCE. Washington Herald. Dr. Grayson seems to have more influence with President Wilson than anybody else In the country.
MUST HAVE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. Hartford Times. New York threatens to boycott eggs, and might do it if there was any way of making a silver fizz without them.
WOMAN IN
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For Correct Glasses go to MISS C. M. SWEITZER Optometrist.
9272 Main St.
Phone 1099.
NO GAIN BY EXPERIENCE. Charleston News and Courier. Most towns now know what a carnival show is, yet the carnival show still liveth.
ALL THIS WEEK MATINEE SATURDAY The Great Labor Pay, THE TOILERS. Nights, 10, 20 and 30cents. Matinees, 10 and 20 cents.
Next Week: The Parish Priest.
The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair is grandmother's treatment, and folks are again using it to keep their hair a good, even
color, which is quite sensible, as we
are living in an age when a youthful
appearance is of the greatest advan
tage.
Nowadays, though, we don't have the troublesome task of gathering the
sage and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready-to-use product called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy" for about 50 cents a bottle. It is very popular because nobody can discover it has been applied. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, but what delights the ladies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur is that, besides beautifully darkening the hair after a few applications, it also produces that soft luBtre and appearance of abundance which Is so attractive; besides, prevents dandruff, itching scalp and falling hair.
NOSE CLOGGED UP FROM COLD OR CATARRH OPENED AT ONCE
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balm dissolves by the heat of the nostrils; penetrates and heals the Inflamed, swollen membrane which lines the nose, head and throat; clears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and a felling of cleansing, soothing relief comes immediately. Don't lay awake tonight struggling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping Into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless. Put your faith just once in "Ely's Cream Balm" and your cold or catarrh will surely disappear. CAdrertisemenO
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Skating Tuesday and Thurday Evenings. Saturdays : Morning. Afternoon and Evening.
Thursday and Friday An immortalized visualiziation of Dickens Masterpiece, David Copperfield IN 7 PARTS. 5 and 10 Cents
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
AUDITOR HOWARD BROOKS Candidate for Auditor of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. E. S. MARTINDALE. Greensfork, Ind. Candidate for Auditor of Wayne County, subject to the Progressive Primary Election, February 9th.
CLERK.
CLAUDE KEEVER Candidate tor Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. CHARLES POTTER Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. L. C. HARRISON Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election. February 9. PARK R. GIPE Candidate for Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court, subject to Progressive primary election. February 9. CLARENCE D. MOTE Candidate for Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court, subject to Progressive primary election February 9.
TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR. JAMES HOWARTH Candidate for Township Assessor of Wayne Townahip subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. J. C. DARNELL Candidate for Assessor of Wayno County, subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9 th.
TREASURER. ALBERT N. CHAMNESS Candidate for Treasurer of Wayne county, subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9.
SHERIFF.
JACOB BAYER Candidate for Sheriff of Wayne county, subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9.
TOWN8HIP TRUSTEE. J. O. EDGERTON Candidate for Township Trustee of Wayne Township, subject to Progressive primary election February 9. JOHN DEITZ Candidate for Trustee of Wayne Township, subject to th Progressive primary election, February 9.
(PENNETT TSSH y Thursday, JAN.
The SEASON'S BIGGEST EVENT THE ORIGINAL Studebaker Theatre, Chicago, Production
i winning of
BARBARA WORT
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A PLAY BY MARK SWAP From the Book that Thrilled the World BY HAROLD BELL WRIGHT
THE ONE PARTICULAR BOOK PLAY THAT MORE THAN PLEASES THE READER OF THE STORY
Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 Seat Sale Tuesday Mail Orders Now
REPRESENTATIVE. J. W. JUDKINS Candidate for Ren-
fresentatlve of Wayne County, subject
to the Progressive primary election. February 9. CECIL L. CLARK Candidate for Representative from Wayne County, subject to Progressive primary election, February 9.
JUDGE OF WAYNE CIRCUIT COURT WILLIAM A. BOND Candidate for Judge of Wayne Circuit Court, subject to Progressive primary election, February 9.
PROSECUTOR. WILL W. RELLER Candidate for Prosecuting Attorney 17 th Judicial Circuit, subject to the Progressive Primary Election February 9.
LairDS At Legal Rate 2 Per Cent Per Month on Household Goods, Pianos, Livestock, Etc., from $10 to $250. Home Loan Co. 220 Colonial Bldg. Phone 1509, Richmond, Indiana.