Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 77, 9 February 1914 — Page 4
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Getting Down to Business. From the report of the Cabinet meeting held in the City hall last Thursday night by Mayor Robbins and his department chiefs, it is fully evident that the new spirit in city government has hit Richmond hard. Taking into consideration the fact that the administration has been in office but a short period it has already made an excellent record. If it continues to have the same enthusiasm two years from now and if it carries out into every detail of the community's affairs the same business-like methods already adopted, Father Richmond will awaken some morning to find himself a new man. The thing for the rank and file of us to do is to get into the game and boost. Why shouldn't we? It's our game and we are to be the winners or the losers. The city officials are not in office to do our duty but rather to be our leaders. One of the most reassuring things about this cabinet session is that the new administration understands that its business is the public's business and is willing to give full and free publicity to all its undertakings. That is a step in the right direction. As leaders in municipal reorganization are everywhere and always asserting, there can be no public government until the people are brought into the business and are given complete and accurate information on every detail of the city's affairs. It is this full and free publicity which will prove to be in our town one of the mightiest engines of creating a public spirit and a first-class city government. To carry on this publicity, it is not sufficient merely to print a thing now and then in some formal fashion but rather to keep urging upon the minds and the attentions of the people that this work of organizing and running a city government is theirs and that they must buckle down to it and do their share in it.
The Power of the Crowd. Gustav LeBon, the well-known French physicist and psychologist, has won a permanent place among present day scientists by his remarkable books on he psychology of crowds. His newest volume, just published, is a work entitled "The Psychology of Revolutions." The object of this study is to enable us to understand the mental processes through which revolutionary movements, such as now going on in Mexico, come to be. This volume is simply an extension and application of the principles enunciated and worked out in Professor LeBon's previous and better known work "The Psychology of Crowds." After devoting years of study, not only of present clay social mass movements but also of those of the past, he has worked out a definite and well balanced philosophy of the action and character of crowds which may be described in a simple manner as follows: When an individual is seized by the spirit that controls a crowd, he becomes a changed person. He is no longer a self-poised man, completely under self-control, but becomes submerged and a mere unit in a mass. Henceforth as long as he remains under the power of this crowd, he i? no longer regulated by his own principles of right or wrong but is controlled by the dictates of the mass. The chief effect of this condition is to swamp the higher faculties of the mind. He descends to the moral status of a child or savage. Judgment, discretion, respect of the personalities of others and all these highest qualities are inoperative; under the crowd's spell he becomes guilty of acts which sober reflection causes him heartily to regret. This means that for a time he has descended beneath the sway of a kind of mass hypnotism. All this means that a crowd is not the sum total of the individuals in it but something entirely different, and that ten wise men in a crowd will not be ten times as wise as one man but may not be wise at all. This is the reason that mobs in highly civilized communities, such as a modern city, are often led to commit atrocities which no individual member of the mob would even dream of committing. It was this which led cultured Boston crowds to drag Abolitionists through the street at the tail of a cart and which earlier led to such indescribable atrocities as the St. Bartholomew's massacre. Professor LeBon also points out the influence of the power of the crowd in legislation. An example of this may be found in the laws passed during those terrible periods of the French Revolution, when the halls of assembly were controlled by irresponsible mobs. His theory also, he holds, accounts for the power which demagogues are able to exercise over people. They take advantage of the fact that a man ceases to be himself when in a mass
and are thus able, by the hypnotism of their
spell-binding, to blind his reason and arouse his passions. ' But this darker Bide of the power of the crowd is offset by a' brighter side. Were we amenable only to this brutal control when caught in the mass, civilization would be in a bad way; but on the contrary, jrat as an individual may often be too selfish or narrow-minded to do great and liberal things, he may be swept along with a crowd to perform the noblest and most heroic acts. This accounts for the success of such Middle Age leaders as Savanarola in drawing on the street rabble of Florence to deeds of magnanimity and self-sacrifice. It accounts also, our authority declares, for such phenomena as the Crusades in the beginning of this mfflenrum. The practical upshot of this psychology of the crowd for each of us is that a sensible man will be very careful of being drawn into the whirlpool of mass action lest he be betrayed against his own judgment into the hands of a demagogue who can then use him in the interests of base purposes. The political lesson from Professor LeBon's book would be that the more we can eliminate the power of the crowds from the enactment of our laws, the more sane and reasonable will our laws become. Professor LeBon's book, if we are willing to accept its conclusinos, gives us great hopefulness for the future of the public government. Now that we are able to understand how masses are going to act, even though they may be composed of intelligent and high principled individuals, we can protect ourselves and our society against them.
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The Utilities of Art. The greatest enemy to art itself, as well as the chief obstacle across the path of its popularization, is the almost universal fallacy that it is a kind of ornamental superfluity, serving very well as a plaything of the rich and idle classes but useless for any purpose of the poor or laboring classes. This piece of superstition is fostered by the habit of thinking of art as being merely a matter of pictures, statues and bric-a-brac and by our custom of quarantining these various art things in museums and expositions. Art is anything in the world but a piece of ornamental superfluity. It is as practical and necessary as bread and meat. An artistic thing is one that fulfills its purpose and which expresses a joy taken in its creation by the worker who made it. It can no more be separated from the common purposes of daily use than breath can be divorced from the lungs. All classic and ancient art was produced in response to daily and common needs. Those examples which we prize so highly, left to us by early prophets of the beautiful, almost entirely consist of things then in constant use : the vases, pictures, stools, garments, brass and iron work, which we now place in glass covered cases, were by them used just as we use pots and pans. Even t he paintings and statuary were a part of the daily utilities of church and temple. Art is in the home and the workshop what light is in the skies. It suffuses the glow and play of the wonderful divine human spirit over everything about us. Without it work and life fall to the level of a brutish existence. William Morris was a great modern prophet
of this essential and vital conception of art. He, :
more than any other, showed us how a carpet on which we tramp and grind continuously, a chair in which we sit to read or sew or talk, a curtain hung at the window, or the leather cover of a pillow, may be made genuinely artistic. It was he who launched the "Individualistic Movement" that resulted in so many organizations in Europe which foster this popularization of it and which seek to make art and work twinsisters. The Outlook reports a further extension of this movement in New York. John Cotton Dana has there organized a "Democratic Movement" in wrhich he hopes to get the masses of people to take more interest in the ministry of beauty. One of the unique methods evolved by him for realizing this aim in what he has called a "Circulating Art Museum." This museum is managed after the fashion of a library. One may borrow from it such pieces of pottery, textiles, woodwork, or such pictures and statues as he may desire and use them in his own home for a limited period. This scheme may fall through and receive no support, but the spirit of it is fine and admirable. If such enterprises and movements as this can be made successful, if art can be brought home to the business and bosoms of men, it will mean a deepening and enrichment of our social life. It will add to our existence a sincerity and s joy. It will keep us perpetually, reminded that we live and move and have our being in the Eternal World. Art is as much a manifestation of the divine spirit in the universe as a sermon is. A thing made beautiful is a kind of prayer formed by the hands of a worker. It is as much a "means of grace" as anything else can be.
Editor Palladium: ' - currant namfcer of the Cincinnati Enquirer contains an article quoting excerpts from a sermon by a Presbyterian minister in which he declares It is the duty of every man to marry. As Richmond contains a very large number of unmarried young- men, it seems to me if you would print-a oopy of the article, it might do some good. The article says: "A man has a publio duty to marry and rear children. He ought to marry Just as he ought to vote, pay his taxes and engage in some useful calling," declared Rev. Frederick Nelson MoMillin. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,. Walnut Hills, last evening, in his sermon, "Why Men Who Are Fit To Do So Should Marry." He said in part: "Borne men cannot support a family. But most men are both able and fit to marry. A great life insurance company is authority for the statement that there are in the United States 9.000,000 of unmarried men of marriageable age. Because some marriages prove unhappy and disastrous is no good reason why a reasonable man should refuse to. marry. A man has a public duty to marry and rear children. He ought to marry just as he ought to vote and pay his taxes and engage in some useful calling. "A bachelor, unless he can prove a good alibi, ought to be ashamed to call himself a good citizen. There are moral reasons why a man .should marry. These are evident to all. Married men have better health and live longer than bachelors. "Men ought to marry so that women may have the chance to marry. The unwritten law of our social life is that men must make all the advances looking toward marriage. Many attractive, good and kind-hearted women who would make the best of wives and mothers never marry simply because thousands of men do not marry. This is not natural and it is not right. Since so many vicious, ignorant and incompetent men marry, men who are upright, Intelligent and competent have the greatest obligation to marry." MARRIED WOMAN.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO BANQUET FEB. 20 The first annual banquet of the Wayne County Democratic club has been arranged for Friday, evening, February 20, at the Westcott. Hotel. The reception committee Is composed of .Richard Allen. William Study and Joe Walterman; organization committee, Ed Fulle, Alvin Threewits of Centerville. Mike Kelly, George Harris of Fountain City, Frank Gar son of Hagerstown, Harry Miller of Cambridge City, Charles Shank, Milton. Nelson Wolley, Williamsburg, Frank Lashley, Centerville, Dr. Clawson, Boston, and William Seaney, Fountain City. Joshua Allen heads the program committee with George Bayer and William Drischell as the other members. The house committee includes O. O. Smith, Ben Drischell and Alfred CoUett The club has extended Invitations to Judge Duncan, of the Indiana Publio Utilities Commission, and Judge Caldwell of the state appellate court and other prominent Democrats.
MASONIC CALENDAR I
Monday, Feb. 9 Richmond Commandary No. 8, K. T. Special conclave.
; Work hi Red Cross degree. I Tuesday Richmond Lodge No. 196, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree. ! Wednesday Webb Lodge No. 34, F.
& A. M. Called meeting. Work In Fellow Craft degree commencing at seven o'clock. Friday King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocation.
Monte Cristo. Starting tonight at The Murray theatre the Francis Sayles' Players will offer a beautiful production of James O'Neil's most successful play, "Monte Cristo." Every one is familiar with the story of "Monte Cristo," and no time, labor or money has been left undone to make this the banner production of the season. In addition to the regular cast of players a number of supernumarles have been employed, which will make this even a bigger production than "The Two Orphans." The regular matinees will be given. Following the performance tonight the usual country store will be given, there aro many useful presents tonight and also lots of fun again for alL
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SELLS BIG SHIPMENT OF PORKERS AT $8.50 MILTON, Feb. 9. Will Johnson sold his hogs Saturday. He bad 28 head. Of these, two made a weight of over 1200 pounds, total. The remaining 26 made an average weight of 325 pounds. He received $8.50 a hundred.
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HAD HIS SAY ANYHOW. Brooklyn Eagle. . A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind. The suffragist United States senator, -who deliberately preferred to make his prepared speech rather than have his suffrage bill passed, will never be criticised by any normal woman.
NO BOYS WOULD TAKE ANY. St. Paul Dispatch. Philadelphia has a school In which pupils are given shower baths as needed. The Montessori methods, which insist on permitting a child to do what he is interested in evidently are not in vogue at that school.
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The undersigned will sell at public auction on the 10th day of February, 1914, at 2 o'clock P. M., a good frame house located on the North half of the South half of Lot No. 38 in that part of the City laid out by Jeremiah Cox, known as No. 1 18 North Sixth Street and now owned by the heirs of Ann Hassard. This property is a good renter and is desirable as a small home or as an investment. Terms: One-third cash down, one-third in nine months, and the remaining third in eighteen months from the date of sale deferred payments to be secured by a first mortgage 'upon said real estate drawing interest at the rate-of 6 per cent per annum, the same will be sold free from all taxes and incumbrances excepting the taxes of 1913 payable in 1914. 0RLA B. FULGHAM, Commissioner Shiveley and Shiveley, Attorneys.