Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 127, 8 April 1914 — Page 4

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Workingmen s Amusements. Charles Stelzle, in the current "Outlook," reports the results of an investigation conducted by George E. Bevans of New York City, who made an effort to learn how working men spend their spare time and spare cash. The results of this personal investigation made of more than a thousand workingmen are exceedingly significant. Since twenty-nine nationalities were represented in the group, one hundred and sixtyfour occupations, the various religions andwage scales running from less than ten dollars a week to more than thirty-five dollars a week, since all types and conditions are studied, the generalizations probably hold good of any average American city. The motion picture theatre is the American workingman's first choice as a form of amusement. "There is no doubt," writes Mr. Stelzle, "that the motion picture show is American's most popular form of recreation." Sixty per cent of those recorded were more or less habitual attendants at the movies and it is suggested that the men who work the longest hours and receive the least wages, spend most of their time in these shows. The saloon, the moving picture's most formidable rival, claimed as its regular patrons thirty per cent of the more than a thousand workingmen. Here again it was found that the longer the work day, the less the wages, the more time

iinH mnnpv rln men srjend at the bar. Those who

are married (let the wives note) most frequently are found in saloons, especially if they range between thirty-six and forty-five years of age. And it is the English, rather than the Germans, this investigation shows, that like the saloons best. It was found that of all money spent for things other than necessaries, thirty-five per cent goes for liquor.

Of those attending church with a degree of regularity, it was found that those whose work days are longest and salaries least and especially such' as are married, head the list. Strange to say, the church has the weakest grip on the men who work eight hours or less and receive the highest wage. And it is the youngsters between seventeen and twenty-four who take the least interest in religion. "Reading newspapers," Mr. Stelzle declares, "occupies a larger percentage of spare time than does any other single feature and it is men in the highest wage class who read newspapers the most. The same class read twice as many books as the lower waged men, although these latter spend the most time in systematic study and patronize libraries more faithfully." The report, as a whole, shows that vices increase in proportion as poverty increases. It is the "most exhausted men who are the most dissipated. They take to vices in proportion as their working and living conditions are disagreeable. Education and higher wages go together. And the popular notion that it will not be safe to give workingmen more leisure lest they grow more dissipated is shown by this report to be the exact opposite of the truth.

about us. To them, their own environment is the very essence of commohplaceness and they can't fathom the intent of the tourists who pay so much money for the privilege of walking their streets. ; "All outdoors is Olympus." : The , same sun shines here that glows upon Italy. Our skies, too, are full of dreams. From this point in space the heavens may be seen. Here, if we will but realize it, is what has given glory to the ends of

the earth. Richmond can be a Rome, if we will but make it so. The greatness of the city is in the soul of its people. But the rank and file of us do not believe this. We cannot be persuaded that here is that capable of inspiring the supremest genius. We pass up and down our streets. We drive through our countryside". We look upon these familiar scenes. We stand on our bridges. We sit in our parks and we are unconscious all the while that we move amidst a perpetual romance. , It is the artists who are born to see and feel these things. Their .eyes, unlike ours, are not beholden and they find about us here in Richmond materials that inspire and satisfy man's ineradicable appetite for beauty. To visit the exhibit of Richmond views is not to do the conventionally polite thing because the elite are doing it ; it is not to gaze a few moments at the "pretty pictures" as one would stare at a curiosity in a museum, it is not to pretend to be "cultured" above the many or initiated into the mysteries of Bundy's genius, or Girardin's or the others ; it is to discover Richmond as it really is, Richmond as the true home and abiding place of the soul, the city that has within it the potentialities, if we but unlock them, that have made all great cities great.

Art Critics Declare the Present Exhibit Best Ever

J. Elwood Bundy Heads List of Sixteen Local Artists with Fifteen Winter Scenes on Canvas, of the Total Number of Eighty-six Paintings at Gallery This Week. Other Artists Show Efforts with Brushes. Exhibit Open.

Richmond and Art The special exhibition of Richmond artists which opened last night in the High School gallery is one of the most characteristic events of the city and deserves more than passing attention. It is owing to this annual event, more than to anything else, that Richmond has come to be known as the "Art Center of America," and it is very largely due to the energetic and persistent

labors of Mrs. M. F. Johnston that this has been! To know everything is a nrivileire Dossessed bv

made possible to Richmond, as well as to her sis- j stupidity alone. None are so conscious of their ter Indiana cities which have followed her lead, i ignorance as the learned and wise. They know The good effects of such an exhibition can! how little anybody knows, how uncertain everyhardly be exaggerated, either to the High School ! thing is, and are not willing to browbeat those pupils in whose building the canvases are hung or who disagree with them. to the community at large. ; To be guided by facts and reasons rather than

It is one of the chief functions of art to reveal i desires or prejudices, to see events in a broad

A Twentieth Century Mind In the recent death of Jonathan Brierly, the English Essayist, the world has lost a leader who has been of inestimable benefit to the people of this day who are trying to think for themselves. Any subject of whatever nature, when treated by him in one of his characteristic essays, acquired a surprising luminousness. But this is especially true of religious questions and there are few men who have been of such great service in leading the spiritually minded through the fogs of doubt and disillusion. In the religious world, like Washington Gladden, Charles Edward Jefferson, George A. Gordon and others, he has served as one of the mediators between the great thinkers and the people. "Ourselves and the Universe," "Religion and Experience," "The Common Life," and other volumes of essays have come to many a bankrupted soul as light in darkness. Take him as a whole, Brierly was one of the finest examples of the twentieth century mind we have had. This means he was possessed of a scientifically trained brain. The medieval method was to start out with assumptions and theories and attempt to make facts and experiences fit those assumptions. The scientific method is first to get the facts and then to arrive at the conclusions. This demands that one throw his prejudices overboard and believe what facts teach him rather than what he would like to believe. Brierly also possessed the historical sense, another characteristic of the twentieth century mind. We all recognize the importance of the past and would be quite helpless if it were not possible for us to make use of it. But it is a wide spread weakness to read back into the utterances of our fathers and forefathers the opinions of today and to argue about past events as if they had occurred in present conditions. In some European galleries are paintings made by Italians during the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent, which depict scenes in the life of Christ. The figures in these canvases are clothed in the costumes of the artists' own day, thus showing they had no appreciation of the changes in conditions which fifteen centuries had wrought. A great many of us are like the artists. We clothe the minds of those who lived a thousand or two thousand years ago with the mental equipment of our own times and thus make them say the things we want them to say. This is carefully avoided by the twentieth century mind, which tries to look upon each age as if it had lived during that age. Tolerance is another hall-mark of this mind.

. Comments by the city's best art criticB, who aided in arranging the home exhibit of artists, are that the present display in the high school art gallery, which opened Tuesday, is by far the best ever collected from Richmond artists. It is the best from the standpoint of quality of paintings and the number of artists represented. The exhibit will be open to the public for twenty days. As usual, J. Elwood Bundy, father of the Richmond colony of painters, leads the list of exhibitors. He has fifteen canvasses, the majority of which are winter landscapes. The old Hawkins ice pond, north of the city, during one of its busy days, furnishes the subject for one of his most interesting and unique scenes. Probably the best two pictures ever painted by the master artist are ones depicting river scenes during the past cold weather. The "Winter on Whitewater" is classed by Mr. Bundy himself and those of the little circle of critics who have viewed the canvas, as one of his best. Canvases Show Dash. The paintings made this winter are more of the dashing, freely painted type, with plenty of feeling, generally devoid of the minute detail which had characterized his previous paintings. Many days of labor in the snow and dashing February weather has given Bundy the true conception of coloring snow and breaking ice scenes. Heretofore Mr. Bundy had confined his exhibits to large paintings, but this exhibit is marked by the introduction of many small canvases. One of the best of the smaller paintings is the one painted while Mr. Bundy was sojourning In California and is enUtled, "On Top of the Sand Dunes." It is a picture of his Southern California bungalow set close to the deep, blue waters of the Pacific ocean, just behind are sand dunes topped with patches of sage brush. The picture itself is a charming, breezy portrayal of atmosphere abounding in the southern climates.

Every artist has what he calls hit pets, that is objects or animals which

mey SKetcn in many positions and conditions. In a painting fitly named, "The Old Beech In Winter," Mr. Bundy depicts his-favorite tree in its winter clothing. The dean of local artists has flashed upon the canvas the pictures of the beeches in many climatic conditions, but the winter scene of the special tree is probably one of the most realistic of bis copies. The very atmosphere of the painting is sullenness, which characterizes the winter season. The glimpse of the somber leaden colored sky between the bare boughs of the background trees adds much to the conception of winter atmosphere. "The Duck Pond," a rakish, blackish, brown sketch 1b one of the best of his small paintings. At this time Mr. Bundy has three canvases at the Grammercy Park studios in Washington, D. C, and intends to take the two winter scenes, "Breaking Up of Winter" and "Winter on Whitewater," to eastern exhibits following the close of the Richmond gallery. Sixteen Artist Exhibit. There are eighty-six canvases on exhibit which represent the work of sixteen different artists. A revised list of the artists is : Margaret Anscombe, George H. Baker, J. E. Bundy, Charles H. Clawson. W. A. Eyden, Maud Kaufman Eggemeyer, F. J. Girardln. A. W. Gregg, W. A. Holly, Alden Mote. Ellwood Morris, Anna M. Newman, Thomas M. Nordyke, Willard Sharp and Bessie Whltridge. The exhibit may be divided into three classes, oil, water color and miniatures. A portion of the oil paintings j are portraits by Maud K. Eggemeyer and the remainder are landscapes. J Many of the water colors are direct pictures while others are of the wash ' varieties. The miniatures are by Bes- ! sie Whltridge, three in a glass case

form the exhibit. Willard Sharp is one of the new ones to enter in the exhibit. He has a copy water color In browns.

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Pest of Health on April 20. ! I INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., April 8. War ! on the 1914 housefly has been declared In Indiana. The hostilities are scheduled to begin on April 20. There j may be a few skirmishes before that ' date, but the big guns of the war are ! to be fired on the date, when a price j will be put on the household pest. Public school children in manv cities ;

of the Btate have ben enlisted in the campaign of protest against the deadly insect this spring. Preliminary sur-; vey is being made of twenty representative blocks in Indianapolis to ascertain the Ban 1 tar y conditions with reference to fly breeding places. The pupils of the local schools will be supplied with blanks which will be filled with statistics of the districts inspected. Methods of disposing of garbage and sewage will be graded on a basis of 100 points for a perfect score. An uncovered garbage can detracts ten points from the marking. From April 20 to May 17 prizes will be awarded for the largest number of pounds of flies killed in Indianapolis. The "game" will be weighed at the Manual Training high school building every Saturday morning by three checkers, at the end of the "opon" season for flies a committee of judges including Mayor Bell, Rr. J. X. Hurty, Dr. H. G. Morgan, city sanitarian, and

J. G. Collicott, superintendent of the city schools, will award the prizes, amounting to $265.

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the beauty that lies hidden in familiar things. The light and glory on a painter's canvas is not a mirage of his own fancy but the depiction of something that really exists, albeit unnoted by the majority; and it is this faculty for lifting the veil from the wealth of line and color in the

most commonplace objects that so perpetuallvi

astonishes the laymen. "I can't see that in thisL compMmeruary.-jack u-.-i.j.x -, !helr- How pretty it is."

lanuscape, xeuiarKeu a uysmnaer io .turner, as

perspective, to be tolerant of a different view and to believe the Spirit of Truth has not been monopolized by any age or locality: this surely is akin to the ideal and warrants one in believing such a man as Brierly to have been one of the truly great men of his age.

-"I was just admiring Mabel's

Mabel's Rival "Oh, she has some prettier than that." Boston Transcript.

he watched that illustrious artist at his work. "Don't you wish you could!" was the laconic response. Faraway things and places are romantic. It is distance that most appeals to the imagination. "The cities beyond the sea," we believe, "must be full of wonderful scenes. Rome and Naples,

.Florence and Atnens Ille must De worth living j business: "Well," he said, "I didn't have much else to there. But this town of Richmond, set off here i do- 80 1 rented an empty store room and painted Bank in the midst of the continent, this town is dull and i on the window- The flr8t day 1 was open for business tedious " - f a man came in deposited a hundred dollars with me; ' arm-' j.t.fi j. tne second day another man dropped in and deposited The eyes of the fool are on the ends of the hundred and fifty; and so, by George, along about earth." The inhabitants Of Rome and Naples, of the third day I got confidence enough In the bank to Florence and Athens, are thinking just that;Put 111 a hundred myself." Everybody's Magazine.

It Was Easy. Before the passage of the present strict banking laws in Wisconsin, starting a bank was a comparatively simple proposition. The surprisingly small amount of capital needed is well illustrated by the story of a prosperous country-town banker told on himself, when asked how he happened to enter the banking

Editor, The Palladium. Apropos ihe reirencnment of the Pennsylvania railroad, the New York Central Lines, the Erie and other roads famous for mixing railroads and politics, and the absence of retrenchment, accompanied by good business on the C. & O. and some other roads in the same territory, the following from a recent issue of "Life" may be illuminating: READY FOR A RAISE From Life The great magnate summonel his private secretary. "Have you attended to all the increased prices that I ordered?" "I have, sir." "Did you order my steel company to ask for more steel rails and other material that enters into railroad construction?" "Yea sir. That has been provided for." "Has it been arranged that my locomotive works shall increase the price of engines and that car factories shall increase the prices of freight and passenger cars?" "Yes sir. That is also thoroughly understood by our different boards of directors." "Have you seen to it that my coal mines have tacked on a good round increase in the price of coal which my enbines burn?" "Oh yes. We have been pushing up the price of coal steadily." "That's good, and have you arranged that my lumber companies charge me more for ties than I have been in the habeit of paying?" "Yes. Your lumber companies are charging so much for ties that your railroad companies can hardly afford to buy them." "That's good. And, of course you have seen to it that my banks are refusing to lend money to my railroads except at a much higher rate of interest than has prevailed heretofore?" "Yes sir. Your banks have informed your railroads that money is very scarce and that no financing except on short time notes at high rates of interest." "Well, then T guess we're about ready for our next move. Have a pe-

tition prepared to the interstate commerce commission setting forth that owing to the greatly increased cost of running railroads, it will be necessary for us to have a substantial increase in frieght ami passenger rates. Understand V "Yes sir. Anything else, sir?" "Nothing else, except of course, to notify my newspapers to support this proposition valiantly in the name ol the public and to listen to no arguments against it." Of course all this loud proclaiming of retrenchment at this time when the rate hearing is on at Washington is merely an accidental co-incident. Yours Truly, Charles A. Sehl

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