Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 211, 16 July 1914 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1W4

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itself to the status of a debating club which stage is usually next door to total inocuousness. so far

as executive efficiency is concerned. If it wishes

to justify its existence, it will say to the mayor something like this :

"Your honor, you have in hand ideals which

you wish to realize: many objects which you

wish to attain. Let us help you find means to translate those ideals into practice. Give us a share in working out the best and cheapest methods for attaining the objects. The city council tells you what to do. We will help you make your plans for doing them."

Advice for the Advisory Board The story of the doings and sayings of the mayor's new advisory board in its second meeting, which was held Monday evening, reads more

like the account of a popular indignation meeting

than anything else. Members seemed to vie with each other in finding various things to talk about and kick about. Streets, trash, garbage, oiling, public toilets, newspaper reporters, economy, housing, this is a portion of the dizzy list the eager advisers galloped through. And it seems

they paused at each subject only long enough to

take a kick at it and go on.

What good will all this do? Have we not

already a sufficient number of organizations

only too willing to point out the city's needs and

to agitate for improvements ? According to pop. ular understanding, the new board was called in

to existence not to show what ought to be done, but how things may be done. It is the mayor's advisory board, and the mayor is the city executive, which means that he is the overseer of the city's work in putting its plans, policies and ordinances into effect. It is the city council's duty to decide what should be done: it is the executives' duty to see that these things are done as they should be. A board designed to assist and advise the mayor, it follows, would advise him as to ways and means. Mr. Blickwedel urged his fellow advisers "to preach the doctrine of good streets." This is just what an advisory board should not do: it should not preach any doctrine. If Mr. Blickwedel aches to see a new street policy adopted, let him set to work preaching at council. After council has adopted a policy, it will refer it to the executive department in order that it may be carried into effect. Then would be the time for the advisory board to advise with the mayor as to the best ways and means of carrying it out. But for the members to use their time in haranguing the city officials and in advocating a thousand-and-one reforms is for it to reduce

The Forum

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To Keep Good Men In Much has been said about ways and means of

getting bad men out of office. It is time something were being said about keeping good men in. When an official has proved himself efficient for his position, it is as desirable that he retain his place as that an inefficient man be removed. The public feels the need to protect itself against the rapacity of individual crooked politicians. It is quite as needful that it also protect itself against the rapacity of a political organization. It is just as bad for a political party to remove a good man because he has other political affiliations as for a political party to appoint a bad man because he has satisfactory political affiliations. The Democratic party, in removing Edward H. Schmidt from office, has removed a good man from public service merely because he chanced to belong to another party. As United- States marshal for the district of Indiana, he has proved himself so capable as to merit the praise of all citizens regardless of party. And yet Senators Kern and Shively have secured his removal eleven months before the expiration of his term and for no reason whatever.

They didn't even pretend to charge him with any

fault that would have justified his political decapitation. The reason for this weird procedure was sim

ply that Mark Storen, a faithful Democratic machine politician, wanted the job. He got it not because he was better fitted for the place, but because he was a Democrat, a fact that throws rather sarcastic light on his party's brave declaration of faith in the Civil Service system and its platform pronouncement which reads as follows: "Merit and ability should be the standard of appointment and promotion, rather than service rendered to a political party." This will furnish Mr. Honest Citizen one more apparent justification for staying out of politics. But isn't this rather one of the chief reasons for Mr. Honest Citizen taking himself and his honesty into the gp.me?

Trippeer Makes Denial of Charges on Road

Editor of The Richmond Palladium: An article appeared in your paper under date of July 10, reflecting on me as the contractor on the Middleboro pike. In reply I wish to say that the statements as made in that article so far as I am concerned are absolutely false and untrue and I defy the party who made them to go before the board of county commissioners and prove them. The article states that we were using an inferior grade of material and a portion of the roadway had been condemned and the work Btopped by a Mr. Frank of the Universal Portland cement company. Such statements are not true, as no part of the work has been condemned and ordered stopped and Mr. Frank has not condemned any material as he has not been on the work since the contract was let last year or has not seen any of the material we are using. As I have said before every statement in that article which says that we are Bhunning the job Is absolutely false and untrue. I would like to know the motive of the party who gave you the information for that article. If his intentions are good and he really thinks we are trying to shun the job and he has some information which the public and the officials should have, why does he refuse to let his name be known. Now Mr. Knocker, why not come out in the open and let the people know who you are and what good service you are doing by explaining all the crooked deals instead of going at it in a round about and sneaking way? We will only be too glaa to have the board of county commissioners make a thorough investigation of the work being done and have the results of the investigation made public. We would like to have Mr. Knocker given an invitation to help make the investigation and when completed we wish that his name be 6igned to the report that the public may know wnat an enterprising citizen he is. Mr. Knocker seems to be in close touch with the cement trust as he calls it, and could it be possible that he is sore because the Universal Portland cement is not being used? Is he in any way connected with the so-called cement trust? If he has a personal grudge against me because I am not using Universal Portland cement, why should he undertake to belittle Mr. Peacock, the engineer in charge of the work, by saying that

the specifications were not written by him but by the cement trust, when as a matter of fact, a number of people know that Mr. Peacock did write them. Why does Mr. Knocker also say that Mr. Peacock permitted inferior material to be used until Mr. Frank, a representative of the Universal Portland cement company came here and ordered the work stopped, when as a matter of fact Mr. Frank has never been on our work or seen any material we are using. Now then, Mr. Knocker, let us be honest and sincere in this matter and let us have a statement from you over your own signature as to your actions in giving the newspapers the information you did and refusing to let your name be used. If you do not make this statement that all parties interested in the construction of that road may know the facts concerning it, I will, as I think I know who you are and you have no right to make such false statements about our work. A. O. TRIPPEER.

ed the funeral of his father near Winchester, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller and Mr. and Mrs. John Carr of Anderson, were guests Wednesday at dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Sherry. Mrs. Henry Adams of New Castle, and Mrs. Ella Presbaugh were guests Tuesday of Mrs. Exum Copeland. Visit in Richmond. Miss Laura Mason and grand-neice Helen Jones, and Miss Frances Smith were guests Wednesday of Mrs. Mary Winnings and Mrs., Erma Winnings at Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Salisbury and children- of Economy, spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Benbow. Mrs. Edith F. Smith spent Wednesday in Richmond.

WOMEN GIVE PICNIC. FOR FIFTYORPHANS Hagerstown Families Entertain Many Children From Knightstown on Outing. HAGERSTOX, Ind., July 16. A picnic was held Tuesday afternoon in the Teetor grove west of Hagerstown, for the children from the Orphans Home at Knightstown, who are here for a week's outing. The families of each of the homes were present making a hundred or more in attendance. A picnic supper was served at six o'clock. Mrs. Ollie Hatfield of New Castle, spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. George Monroe. Miss Pauline Hostenpiller is the guest of relatives at Portland for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Helmsing and daughters Esther and Gladys, attend-

murray Reared rev. e. w. niles

Editor The Palladium In reading the editorial headed "Strange, Isn't

It?" in Monday's Palladium, I was reminded for the hundredth time that your editorial writer has that boresome babit of all reformers, that is, be merely scratches the surface. This time be refers to the coal miners' strike around Bellaire, Ohio, mentioning the obvious facts, "the strikers are foreigners, taken advantage of by the companies, forced into peonage,

etc." Thus the operators forced these men to combine for self-preservation. They are ready for anything; they have been victims of the worst kind of anarchy and are willing to retaliate. An organizer comes to help them get together, to solidify them, to unionize them. This time he happens to be an I. W. W., none other than Joseph Ettor, whom the woolen mill operators of 'Lawrence, Mass, tried to send to the gallows a couple of years ago, which action terminated in an expose of a frame-up, conviction of a poor tool (Breen, the school director) of planting dynamite, and the suicide of a "higher-up" when called to testify. Again Ettor 1b branded an agitator and a firebrand, and though I have no sympathy with the tactics of the I. W. W., I want to say the same things would be said of an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America or any other man or woman who came in there to help these "ignorant foreigners." The Bellaire trouble is only a skirmish in the world-wide class struggle between the owning or capitalist nonproducing class and the prolatarian producing class. And the fact of the strikers being foreigners and I. W. W.

makes not the slightest difference in the world. It is a brutal struggle for the product of the workers. The capitalist has every advantage, chief among which is control of the governing powers, backed by the militia, and, if need be, by the federal troops. Second to this, and making his hold on the first more secure, he controls the news associations and newspapers,

excepting only an occasional old party paper and the Socialist press. He can poison the minds of the community of the state and of the nation against the intruding "firebrand" and the rioting, destroying, ignorant foreigners." When we read of the New Haven road paying $20,000 to a Boston paper to stimulate it in forming public opinion, when we who read widely know so many paper's "policy" depends on who are its large advertisers, when we know that the continuation of this robber capitalist system depends entirely on the ignorance of the workers,

can we doubt that much that we read

about "agitators" is made of the whole cloth? Why do not more people who know that these conditions will continue so long as one man or set of men are allowed to own or control the means of

life of another man or set of men, come out squarely for abolition? Abolition of wage slavery through socialized ownership and democratic management of industry, of the means of life. Why hang on to the coat tails of the parasites, a parasite on a parasite, when it must be self-evident to all that this rotten old capitalist system is just now in its death struggle? Evolution is bringing on a revolu

tion, and never again will the promise of a full dinner pail, of the free

("'""?J of silver, of high or of low

tariff, of this reform or that reform

excite the workers.

They have hitched their wagon to a star, and though, progress is slow it is always progress, and through strikes,

lock-outs, riots, hanging, burning of

women and children and worse, the working class will continue to struggle

toward political and economic freedom,

and even now the dawn of a brighter

day is breaking. A few years ago Clarence Darrow

wrote an article for the American Mag- ! azine on "The Close Shop." A short extract will now why almost all miners are "foreigners" and why these same are crowding ua in every city, even in our conservative Quaker City. "The effort of the capitalist to get labor as cheaply as possible makes him encourage immigration of men and women with lower standards of Hying; makes him bid for. the European instead of the American, for the Asiatic in place of the European, the woman in place of the man and the children

instead of the woman; while the constant invention of machines has made the method of production simple and done away with the need of learning a trade." Already industry is socialized in all except ownership. While our work is

ever tending toward specialization,

thus making each more and more de

pendent on his fellow workers, doing

away with the skilled artUan and fill

ket was in 1900, but I only attended

Saturday afternoons and nights and I

could bring my produce down there on

the market and It only cost me ten cents for a stand that afternoon and

night to sell my goods. You could get a stand then for the season from $1 up to $10. It payed a fanner to at

tend and he could sell his produce then very cheap. I sold my young chickens then for 35 and 40 cents, and for 25 centa you could get a big basket of vegetables, where now that much stuff would cost the people in

Richmond 60 or 75 cents. Then the

market stands were all in use, on both sides of the street on A street and all

around the market house and even on Fifth street the people had stands. 1

was in town one Saturday and I was on the market and I heard one of your leading gardeners say that it would not do to have a free market

because the farmer would bring in so much food stuff , such as chickens.

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paring for the socialistic state. When the workers shall socially own the means of life, ignorance will vanish because there will be no need of keeninEr neonle lirnnrant? nnvertv will

Vflfilsh hfrQuea tha vunrlrara will ro. I

ceive the full social value of their labors : child labor will vanish be-

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non-producing class, industry can supply every need of the world with a few hours' work daily by the ablebodied adults; anarchy will vanish because every one will be assured of justice, and only injustice breeds an

archy. I Seven thousand alleged anarchists ! gathered in New York City last week i to attend a funeral. The fact that j many avowed haters of all government j coming together should cause one to ; ask, "Why are they haters of all gov- j eminent?" Then look at any govern-1

ment in the world over and youhave your answer. In conclusion I will say your writer is

missing his mark. Why ask such questions as "Strange, Isn't It?" and not at-

tempt to answer. He complains of i conditions but offers no remedy. Let's t have a remedy, just once. j

CHARLES A. SEHI, j 849 South Seventh Street, j

Fountain City, Ind. Editor, The Palladium:

As I have been reading about the discussion of the city market, I thought I would write my opinion, and if you think it is worth publishing for , the benefiit of the Richmond house-1 wife, all right. I used to stand on the market my-1

self. My first experience on the mar

that the gardener and commission man

could not compete with them. This goes to show what a free market would mean in lessening the high cost of living. City officials know what made

the rent of stalls so high. It is not for me to explain that

M. E. P., Fountain City, Ind. R. R. 27.

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George W. Murray, one of the eight colored congressmen South Carolina has seated since the Civil war, who will speak here Monday night on the "Spiritual Man," was thirty-five or forty years ago, a school teacher of

Rev. E. W. Niles, a colored pastor of i

t-ts city. Rev. Niles was reared in South Carolina and was educated by the 'j. former congressman. Mr. Murray is making his stay while in Richmond with Rev. Niles at his home in Earlham Heights.

BEES FIND $97.

PLEAS ANTDALE, N. J., July 16. When a swarm of bees entered George Desmond's barn and attacked a mule the animal's heels went into action, dislodging a portion of the wall. A rusty tin box fell out of the opening, containing ?97 dollars in bills.

Chicago EXCURSION

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Saturday Night, July 18 $3.25-Rourid Trip-$3.25 Train leaves Richmond 8:13 p. m. Returning leaves Chicago Sunday night (midnight). For particulars call

C. A. BLAIR, City Ticket Agent. Home Telephone 2062.

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THAT IS, something is wrong with baby, but we can't tell just what it is. All mothers recognize the term by the lassitude, weakness, loss of appetite, inclination to sleep, heavy breathing, and lack of interest shown by baby. These are the symptoms of sickness. It may be fever, congestion, worms, croup, diphtheria, or scarlatina. Do not lose a minute. Give the child Castoria. It will start the digestive organs into operation, open the pores of the skin, carry off the foetid matter, and drive away the threatened sickness.

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the starved, shrunken, run-down tis

sues and build them up. The thin per

son's body is like a dry sponge eager J and hungry for the fatty materials of j

which it is being deprived by the failure of the alimentary canal to take them from the food. The best way to overcome this sinful waste of flesh building elements and to stop the leak

age of fats is to use Sargol, the re- j cently discovered regenerative force j

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We Have Dt Mill Feed

CAR ON TRACK Thursday and Friday Get w Prices IT PAYS Omer G. Whelan THE FEED MAN 31-33 S. Sixth St. Phone 1679

35c

LIP

Seed per lb

JUST FOUR DOORS WEST OF SIXTH STREET.

Rapp's Cut Price Store Clothing and Shoes 529 Main Street.

BETWEEN FIFTH AND SIXTH STREETS.

For Clothing, Furnishings ai d Shoes for the Whole Family Cut price means that we sell good, seasonable merchandise the year through. What the other merchant calls a clearance sale, or money raising sale at the same prices you can buy of us every day in the year. Below we quote a few prices on shoes and oxfords and our prices are the same every day:

Men's $4.00 Shoe $2.98

Men's $3.50 Shoe $2.48

Men's $3.00 Shoe $1.98

Boys' $1.75 Shoe $1.48

Boys' $2.00 Shoe $1.69

Youth's Shoes 98c, $1.25, $1.39

Men's Tennis Oxfords 69c

Women's and Boys' Tennis Oxfords 59c

Women's $3.00 Shoe $1.98

Women's White 2-Strap Oxfords 98c

Barefoot Sandals 49c, 59c, 69c

Women's 2-Strap Oxfords $1.69

Trade Here and Save the Difference.