Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 62, 22 January 1914 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PAIXADTUn AMD SUN-TELEGItAM, THURSDAY, JAN. a. M

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The President's Message.

When President Wilson delivers a message to congress he wastes no time in denunciation or in

criticising present conditions. He goes ahead straightforwardly to offer his constructive policy. But if one will analyze his constructive suggestions he will find them very often to rest on the most complete condemnation of present usages in government or business. The very radicalness and sweeping comprehensiveness of his program itself takes for granted the existence of very unjust conditions. This is even more true of the recent message than of the four preceding ones. The assumptions on which the message is based will startle a conservative the moment he considers them. For one thing, Mr. Wilson assumes in this last message, which concerns itself with regulation of business, that new legislation must come in response to the pressure of the public's demands. In other words, it will not be as the result of a group of "hysterical" congressmen but of the conditions which have been so wide-spread as to drive the people of the nation to asking for a change. This is in sharp contrast to the attitude of Mr. Wilson's predecessor, who viewed with suspicion the demands of the masses. The president likewise assumes that there has been in the past a conflict between the government and business. The moment one thinks of this he realizes how startling is the condition which now obtains if the president is right. What

shall we say of a nation in which corporate busi

ness interests are at loggerheads with the laws of the land ! This throws a rather lurid light on

those charges so frequently made of the lawless

ness of labor.

Mr. Wilson also takes for granted that "big

business" i3 erected on monopoly, and that these monopolies have been built by sharp practices.

In this the president links hands with many of the most radical agitators. In regard to the railways, the greatest single industry, perhaps, in existence, the president is equally radical. He goes on the assumption that the present methocb of financing railroads are wrong and that the private owners of the systems are no longer capable of managing the finances of their own business but must hand it over into the hands of a federal commission. Another working principle which he adopts and which throws light on the assumptions on which his administration is built, is that the one way to restore competition in industry is for the federal government to regulate business. Mr. Wilson also assumes that the ambiguity of the Sherman anti-trust law is responsible for many of the confusions which have in the past so addled business conditions. With the underlying principle of that law he is in complete agreement, if we read aright the significance of his utterances. It might be noted in passing that the administration's program will throw an increasingly larger amount of business control into the hands of the courts. To extend the functions of the Sherman law can mean nothing less than that. The president also holds to the Rooseveltian doctrine that blame for the injustices of big busi

ness can be fixed on the shoulders of individuals. The assumption underlying his utterance concerning the ability of those individuals have to gain redress from wrongs committed on them by corporate business is one of the most startling of all. Mr. Wilson takes for erranted that as

thing are now a private individual of comparatively small means has no means at hand of getting justice before the law when a great industrial concern has wronged him. If the president's assumption here is a sound one, surely it is time we were all awakening to the fact that the nation which launched itself on the principle of . equality before the law has drifted far from its path. But most important of all the assumptions lying at the base of the new message is that in which the president takes it for granted that the economic principles on which our business system is established are sound and just. Over and over he assures his hearers that our economic system is right in its fundamental structure. This, we believe, is the most important public statement yet made by our chief execu- " tive because it definitely lines him up with the reformer who would readjust rather than with the revolutionaries who would reconstruct. This one utterance should accomplish much to dispel the cloud of ambiguity which has hung over the present regime and which has so much bothered the business interests. i

them, oftentimes, could pass the examinations themselves, they feel very learned sitting behind a table with books at hand qjAiring the pupils who sit in front of bookless desks. It would require much more effort on the part of the teacher to make a rational test, hence they have eiung to the easier plan. Bat that is no slam on the

teacher, because we are all as lazy as we dare be. It is simply a fact about human nature." On the morning after, one or two. school

teachers stormed onr sanctum with irate protestations. They denied the charge of 'laziness" and declared they were in no wise responsible for anything. They suggested that newspaper writers know too much about everything to know anything. And they advised that hereafter certain parties had better mind their own affairs. After such an assault what is a poor editorial writer to do? Had he better not crawl into that

hollow log of which the revivalists sometimes tell and wait for it to swell him in?

We confess we were grieved to think we had

fallen from grace with these estimable ladies because there are no ladies (outside the family cir

cle, of course) for whom we feel a warmer devo

tion than to the school marms. Do we not owe to them in a very large degree what poor fragmentary mental proficiency we do possess? We feel that the fault of the above paragraph lies, not in its intent, but in its ambiguousness. We fell

a victim to that habit so mercilessly scored by

the French wit using language to conceal our thoughts. In saying that the teachers themselves, oftentimes, could not pass the exams we had in mind the ultimate intent of the method. Is it not to reveal the degree of a pupil's mastery of a given subject? And is it not true that many teachers could not pass such an examination without special preparation who, nevertheless, are most proficient? And does not that show that merely passing a final exam does not reveal a student's real proficiency? In saying that the teachers are responsible for the long continuance of the final exam method we have in mind, of course, not the teachers of Richmond, but teachers in general. We have in our desk a recent letter from an eminent educator who has found, by actual investigation, that a majority of teachers the land over have opposed the abolition of final exams. The reason for this, we believe, is that a more rational and thorough method of testing the proficiency of a pupil will be so much more difficult, delicately difficult, one might say, and so much more burdensome that teachers oppose it unconsciously for that very reason. To estimate

the ability of a pupil by a truly psychological method requires far more patience, more tact and skill than to use the comparatively mechanical method of written test at the end of each term. Taking this fact into consideration, it speaks much for the teachers of our own schools that they have heartily concurred in the innovation. In spite of the fact that the new method will transfer so much more of the responsibility of testing a pupil to the shoulders of the teacher, our teachers have shown a rare conscientiousness in adopting the more difficult method with little or no opposition.

In the "Explanation," which he has had printed on the back of each report card, Superintendent Giles says : "In grading pupils the marks ' S ( en r i cPa rf nmr onrJ TT AintoiofnnfMr !

used to indicate the teacher's estimate of the pupil's work, not in terms of per cent, but with reference to his ability. A satisfactory grade means that the pupil is making a reasonable effort to do the work required of his class in school. "Neither is promotion based on per cent grades. Pupils may be transferred at any time from grade to grade in order that the work may be suited to their capacity. "Regular attendance is necessary to satisfy

school progress. Parents are urged to co-operate in every way possible with teachers in order to promote the health and efficiency of the pupils." This is very advanced ground. It gives a new test of school work; It places the whole ability of a pupil as the basis of estimation rather than

the work of some one faculty such as memory. And it brings the parents into the educational scheme and links the school to the home. Richmond may well congratulate itself in possessing so progressive a school administration and so active a group of teachers.

FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Artktm Contributed for Thie Column Must Not Be In Excess of 400 Wonts, The Identity of All Couthbuton Mmt Be Known to the Editor. Articles Witt BePrtntodtii the Order Received.

pocket m they appeared there,-would you not eome to bar an uncanny feeling similar to that experienced by even a akeptlo at a aeanee? This la what happens In the lauchable play "Stop Thief." -which Cohan and Harris company of comedians are solas to

rereal next Satnrday matinee and night at the OennetL At the Murray.

After the performance of The Par

ian Priest." at the Murray tomorrow

night the Francis Sayles Players win offer their first amateur contest which

promises to be one of the best events

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needed to make Morrtsson-Reeves Lib- number of entries and by Friday night rary more useful, and satisfactory to ! there will be many more.

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VISITS MANY HOMES With a long list of homes to visit. Miss Florence Benner, Richmond's rlsltlng nurse, suited oat early this morning. Mis Benner made calls at homes which had previously notified the Domestic Science association that they desired her alrrlees, and also on families which the association has been helping in a way for eome time. Beginning tomorrow Miss Benner win make her headquarters at the Commercial club rooms.

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

AUDITOR HOWARD BROOKS Candidate for Auditor of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. E. S. MARTTNDALE, Greensfork.

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ferred in Piscataquis, Me., mentioned Ind. Candidate for Auditor of Wayne

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n.H.n. .ii.t i. tttm MfAMHM 1 conaes CarDenter ana Bayers, in a oox- : . .. . . ' j

v.-.vv.v.-. .i . - . j T . . wnicn a mortgage was aiscnargea. department. . j ing contest, Ray Meuing and Joe Ash-

The librarian has work in her of-. """7 """8 j j. flee and work-room to keep her fully ; ies and Francis Sharley, boxing con- Ci rnnTlCE ii .h- et,. ... tiit. Miss Clara Parry and Co.. In a 11 ALLtn & rUUITAoLi

Vw u if lia j sax vuuu pui? vau 1 - w w - , only give general supervision to e Uttle sketch entl other departments. This has not j Feel at Home. Hafner, Shlnn and Et- JLJJJ .ati f,w Aiim'tPeoH-a, lit-

nroved satisfactory in the reference i ier in a biub'ub uiu uiug uu corn ana

rooms.

CLERK. CLAUDE KEEVER Candidate for

ter in a singing and talking act, and utm con and bunions of aUMin and oreen clerk of Wayne County Bubiect to th Evan Smith and Paul Minor, the Wi.ter,wr.and io..J i ayne ouniy suDject to the

I should be very much opposed to grave yard comedians. Beside the SSSStSSZ nthgrSatt comfort Progressive primary election.

raising the library tax before an ef- aoove mere win De outers auaea so 4troveryof the. Tryitfwoy. rtirt"rj fort has been made to infuse life into you can see that there will be lots of the oresent organization. ' tun as well as a big show for all. j pacaagajaddisss Allen S.olmiti,i hot. ..

Febru-

the present organization.

If the entire library is to be open to the public by all means delay another classification for a year or two. Less time and money will be required to classify the remaining volumes. My best wishes for a successful solution of the difficulties. Sarah A. Wrigley.

Stop Thief. How would you feel if every time a valuable piece of jewelry or some other equally expensive article missing in your household was found in your possession, or if not found, you were subjected to Interrogated looks and insulting remarks from the members of your family? No doubt that in

time you would become hypnotized

into the belief that you really were sh

an absent-minded creature who lifted" things much as one walks in his ; sleep unconsciously. If, then, they j

disappeared as rapidly from your

Ire Your Mantis Tied?

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Mrs. Fannie R. Brest, ef Bryant. Kelson Co., Vs., writes: "I believe I had every pain sad ache a woman could have, my back was weak, and I sufiered with aerrousness and could not sleep at night. Suffered with sorenees in my right hip, and every month would hTO spells and have to star in bed. I hay taken eight bottles of your 'Faverito Prescription' and see vial of your 'Plwuant Pellets'. Can now do my work for six in family, sad feel like a new woman. I think it is the best medicine in the world for women. I recommend it to sU my fricade and many et ttem have been greatly Benefited by it.

GRAY HAIR BECOMES DARK, THICK, GLOSSY Try Grandmother's Old Favorite Recipe of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compounded, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray; also ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling hair. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and troublesome. Nowadays we simply ask at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy." You will get a large bottle for about 60 cents. Everybody uses this old, famous recipe, because no one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as It does it bo naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking

one small strand at a time; by morn-'

ing the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, thick and glossy and you look years younger.

GEN NETT SATURDAY, JAN. 23, MATIN EE AND NIGHT Cohan and Harris Present the Funniest Farce of the Century Stop Thief ONE YEAR IN NEW YORK SIX MONTHS IN CHICAGO PRICES 25c to $1.50 Sale Seats Murray Theatre

FACTS AND FANCIES

As a result of the recent boom In south polar exploration a considerable supply of albatross wing bones, ordinarily excessively rare, has been placed on the market. These bones, when dressed, polished and mounted in silver, make ideal connecting stems for the best quality brier and meerschaum pipes.

MURRAY TONIGHT MATINEE SATURDAY The Hit of the Season, THE PARISH PRIEST Amateur Contest Tomorrow Night. Nights, 10, 20 and 30c. Matinees, 10 and 20 cents. Next Week "Sherlock Holmes"

Maid Is this paper from Mr. Scribbler's room was'te paper, mum? Landlady No. lie hasn't written anything on it yet. Judge.

GennetlTheatre Thursday, Jan. 22 The Original Studebaker Theatre, Chicago Big Scenic Production The Winning of Barbara WORTH By Harold Bell Wright Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50

Mrs. Hannah Greensides of New York, on her ninty-1

ninth birthday, calculated that she had slept 365,000 hours of her life away.

Footpad Your money or your life. Mrs. Tightly That's reasonable enough, Jake! You've got only 50 cents. Chicago News.

French equatorial Africa is about the size of the mother country, and has a population of nearly four millions.

Final Examinations Again In our issue for Monday night the following paragraph appeared at the conclusion of an editorial on "Final Exams": "It might be shown, we imagine, that the teachers themselves are responsible for the long i ii i.1 i ti -

continued use oi me meinou. li is as easy lorj Sixty thousand dollars a day is the estimate of the i is -I A 1 11 i .. . . . - . I

ttuem as lor tne pupil. Ana wmie very lew ofloss due to the recent smite in uuwin Ireland,

Prudent Wife What have you laid up for a rainy day, John? - ; A mackintosh, my dear. Christian Review. I

SPECIAL NO I ICE!

On Saturday, Jan. 24th, Cohan and Harris will present STOP THIEF at the Gennett Theatre the season's sensational success: I guarantee this company going from Richmond direct to the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, and to English in Indianapolis and the same company that played Chicago.

O. G. Murray, mgr.

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CHARLES POTTER Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progresses primary election, February 9. L. C. HARRISON Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election. February 9. PARK R. CIPE Candidate for Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court, subject to Progressive primary electioa, February 9. CLARENCE D. MOTE Candidate for Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court, subject to Progressive primary election February 9.

ANNUAL DAY DODGER PLAY

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BY PERCY MACKAY. Friday, Jan. 23, Lindley Hall, Earlham College Reserved seats, 35c. Balcony, 25 cents. Extra cars before and after the performance.

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Skating Tuesday and Thurday Evenings. Saturdays : Morning, Afternoon and Evening.

TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR. JAMES HOWARTH Candidate for Township Assessor of Wayne Township subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. J. C. DARNELL Candidate for Assessor of Wayne Gounty, subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9th. R. B. NICHOLSON Candidate frr Township Assessor of Clay Township, subject to Progressive primary election, February 9. 13-lt

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.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE.

J. O. EDGERTON Candidate for Townfhip Trustee of Wayne Township, subject to Progressive primary election February . JOHN DEITZ Candidate for Trustee of Wayne Township, subject to the Progressive primary election. February 9. CHARLES H. HOND Candidate for Township Trustee of Clay Township, subject to Progressive primary flee-

Q ; tion, February 9. 11' H

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REPRESENTATIVE. J. W. Jl'DKINS Candidate for resentative of Wayne County, suh.i. t to the Progressive primary elec.t u February !. CECIL L. CURK-Candidate f.-r Representative from Wayne Com:1 ' subject to Progressiic- primary Ution, February 9.

JUDGE OF WAYNE CIRCUIT COURT WILLIAM A. BOND Candidal, f.r Judge of Wayne Circuit Court. -,;. ject to Progressive primary eie;iiu February ?.

PROSECUTOR. WILL W. RELLER Candidate f.-r Prosecuting -Attorney 17th Judicial Circuit, subject to the Progressive Primary Election February 9.

Dressed Poultry to Order At All Times. Phone Your Orders John Hi Eggemeyer & Sons Maint! Two Stores Mi?n10St!

COUNTY COMMISSIONER ALBERT ANOKRSON. candidate for County Commissioner of Eastern District, subject to the Progressive Primary election, February 9. MARCl'S D. I REYNOLDS Candidate for Commissioner of the Mil-

Idle district. Subject to the Progres

sive primary, election, February 9. 20-Tt

CORONER. DR. R. D. MORROW Candidate for

! Coroner of Wayne County, subject to ; the Progressive party primary, Febru

ary 9. DR. S. EDGAR BOND Candidate

I for Coroner, subject to Progressive primary elecUon, February 9"'