Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 298, 14 December 1922 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, I ND.: THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1922.
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Christmas Mail The spirit of Christmas should assert itself during the days preceding the arrival of the holiday just as much as on Dec. 25th itself. One way in which we may make a large group happy is by mailing our Christmas packages early. The employes of the postal system have a gigantic task ahead of them these days. They are expected to move many thousands of letters and packages in addition to the normal amount of mail. The Christmas mail is important, because it contains messages of the good will and the tokens of love and esteem which are being sent from home to home. Delay in the delivery will mar the happiness of Christmas day.
So the post office works diligently to see
that every Christmas package and letter is
moved quickly to its destination. This is a herculean task, which can be accomplished successfully if the department receives a little of your co-operation. One of the best ways to help it
is by mailing your Christmas packages now. Do not wait until two days before Christmas. That means that the post office will not be able to give you the service it would like to give. If the thousands of offices are swamped with mail, they simply cannot dispatch and distribute
it. If this load is distributed over the next ton days, the employes will be able to harldle it with an assurance of good service for the public.
Making Christmas Fireproof Under this caption the state fire marshal is asking the public to heed the following points: Set up the Christmas tree firmly and several feet away from a lighting or heating fixture;
cotton and paper decorations are highly danger
ous ; do not use candles if you can avoid it.
Smokers should be careful about the disposal of their matches; parents should keep matches
away from youngsters.
Toys involving the use of alcohol, gasoline
and kerosene should be avoided or carefully
watched.
If a Santa Claus is present, the impersonator should avoid long cotton whiskers and keep
away from lights and open fires.
Where public entertainments are held, those in charge should see that all fire prevention measures are enforced and that exits are kept
clear. In the home a bucket of water or a fire ex
tinguisher should be kept near the Christmas
tree.
After the holiday trees should be removed
before they are completely dried out.
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If you want to give to your hody a worthy setting, set out by foot or rail for the great rising white-browed giants that make up our earth's mountain chains. But if you want to sit quietly in your study or home and expand your soul read Walt Whitman. For it will not be long then before you will find yourself out in the air, the sunshine and the loveliness of Nature walking as he walked to feed his mind, his heart, and his soul. Could you suspect anything else from such an exquisite line as this which Whitman long ago gave to the world: "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain." Get this as your heritage and every step of sod becomes sacred ground to bear you nearer to the Maker of all. I like to think of our mortal selves as freely fluid creeping, like a spilled-over dam, to all of our kind, far and near. Typifying inherited knowledge that has to be stirred by human contact and sound effort, however, before it becames a plain fact radiated through the power of influence. Ah, what a sordid thing is gain unless melted into love and beauty and made to smile back again into the heart-face of the stars, the blue sty, the standing, solid strata of rock, the waving, bending, high nodding miles and miles of trees, and the earth's great lap of flowers. Is there freedom anywhere else? Is it any wonder that we must depend upon our poets for a visualization of greatness? They who have eyes and see! You may feel very poor in earthly material but, my friend, you have God's free out-of-doors. Wash you soul in it every day, and "become clean.
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Answers to Questions .Any rpader cin Rft the answer to any question by writing The Palladium Information Bureau. Frederick J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau does not give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, r:or to undertake exhaustive research on anv subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents ln-stamps for return postage. All replies are sent direct lt the Inquirer. Q. In a bugle drum corps of 20 members, what is the proper proportion of instruments? H. L. E. A. A member of the United States Marine band says that probably the best division would be 12 bugles or
trumpets, seven snare drums, one Dass drum and cymbals. Q. What is the difference between the prohibtion amendment and the Volstead law? M. M. A. The eighteenth amendment, known as the prohibition amendment, is now part of the constitution. The Volstead act is an act passed by congress over the president's veto for the purpose of providing a means of enforcing the. eighteenth amendment and defining what constitutes intoxicating liquors. Q. In how many cases are people executed in proportion to the total number of murders? C. F. H. A. In 1SS5 there was one execution to 16.7 murders in the United States. According to murder statistics of the Chicago Tribune during the seven years from 1912 to 1918 there were F.9,377 murders. The rate of murders to executions in 1918 was 90 to one. Q. When was the small Indian bead penny first made? A. T. F.
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Supreme Court Relaxes Boyhood Days Sometimes Recalled by Jurists in Cases Coming . Before Grave Jurists
By FREDERICK J. HASKIil WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14. The most austere and dignified body in i.hUnited States unquestionably is the Supreme Court. From the days of Chief Justice John Marshall down to the present this great tribunal has represented to the American people all that is solemn in Governmental affairs.
The popular conception of this a-
Fruchter, his Guardian ad Litem and the connected case of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Petitioner, versus Sam Fruchter. With all this imposing title, garnished gravely with Latin terms, tha opinion is nothing more than the rather pathetic story of a little boy who went bird-nesting and got hurt. The
gust body is of a grave group of eler-j grave, juridical opinion might be primly gentlemen who think only in terms ed on the children's page of a daily
TIMOTHY HEALY Slightly less astounding than his appointment was the precedent-smashing method by which Timothy Healy wag inducted into the office of gover
nor-general of Ireland. After years ' of strife between Ireland and Britain, in which Healy has been prominently
i d e n t i f ied sometimes as a hero and sometimes as the most hated man in Ireland, the Free State became a reality. The naming of Healy to the post of governor - general was nothing less
than a sensation. Then King George cast precedent to the winds and announced that for the first time in his- . . . i , . i : . . . . t 1 - ; .Va 1 . ; . . ' .
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nana in tne royai connnes oi uucKingham palace as the formal acceptance of the post would be dispensed with. Instead Healy became governor-general on the receipt of cabled orders from King George, received at his Dublin residence. --. Healy started his political career as a secretary to Pamell. Later he became estranged, politically, and developed into his bitterest opponent. For nearly 38 years Healy sat in the
British parliament as a Nationalist
Lessons in Correct English The couple HAS been lost for two hours. The Jones family HAS owned this farm for many years. The team of horses WAS there today. The . number of cattle ARE taken into account. His family WAS kept waiting. SAY: The couple HAVE been lost for two hours.
The Jones family HAVE owned this
farm for many years.
The team of horses WERE there
today.
The number of cattle IS taken into
account. His family WERE kept waiting.
of law and who speak a good deal of
the time in obscurj Latin phrases. The Supreme Court is visualized by the average American as a remote realm where technicalities of torto and trepasses, of writs and injunctions, hold sway to the exclusion of the
homely every day affairs with which the ordinary mortal must deal. But occasionally something occurs to emphasize the fact that after all the members of this high court are like other men and that the technicalities of the law are hvlt up very largely on common sense in a word, th?t the- Supreme Court of the United
States is a part of the every day
world. Such an occurrence was furnished
the other day when the Justices of
the Supreme Court, dressed in flowing black robes of office and invested with all the dignity and solemnity that officialdom can muster, handed down their opinion in the case of the New York, New Haven and Hartforl Railroad Company, Fetitioner, versus David Fruchter. an infant, by Jennie
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9- "wo1LJ? L PhilUpS ppen- delegate. During that period he rep-
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A. He is 56 years old. Q. Can the adjective "straight" be compared? J. K. R. A. Straight cannot be compared any more than can the words round, perfect or uninue. Q. When did Caesar use the expression veni, vide, vici? A. F. A. This epigramtic statement was made in his account of an expedition into Pontus. It was not in connection with the Gallic wars, as it is often ascribed. Q. Who was the first woman to be ordained as a minister? A. T. M. A. The first women preachers were Quakers. The Rev. Antoinette Brown was the first woman in America, and probably in the world, to be ordained as a Congregationalist minister. Latrr she became a Unitarian. She was graduated from Oberlin college in 1848 and 50 years later she received the degree of doctor of divinity from the theological seminary there.
resented various constituencies.
At all times a radical independent, a master of parliamentary practice with commanding eloquence, he repeatedly indulged in bitter personal fights with his Irish colleagues. But whether they agreed with Healy or not all admired his ability. He. is a lawyer by profession, highly educated and a brilliant writer.
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A man who is not. usually a reader of fiction was found to be absorbed in "If Winter Comes," and to be re-reading it. When asked the cause of this obsession, he first looked furtively
around the room to assure himself that
nobody was within earshot; then he
said, solemly. "I married a Mabel!"
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For hours they had been together on her front porch. The moon cast Its
tender gleam down on the young and handsome couple who sat strangely far
apart. He sighed. She sighed, Finally: "I wish I had money, dear," he said. "I'd travel."
Impulsively, she slipped her hand
into his; then, rising swiftly, she sped
into the house. Aghast, he looked at
his hand. In his palm lay a nickel.
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Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today
POSTMASTER Haas received $200
to be used for the installation of the
parcels post system 4n .(Richmond.
He has not decided m what manner the parcels post deliveries would be made. In some cities the postmaster had used the appropriation for horse hire. Preparation for the service was
going on.
Musings For The Evening A young woman who !s a hustler in the book selling game rushed into an
office the other day and cried: "Buy
a book quick. I throw epileptic fits." Salesmanship plus.
Lecturer at the Brooklyn academy advises women to return to shore skirts. Well, she may be right. One of the main objections to politics is that there are too many politicians in it. Seattle lad of 15 weighs 215 pounds and is six feet tall. He has never eaten meat. The question is now how much would he weigh if he had eaten meat. We never realized fully why to many words were invented until we read one of Old Sam Blythe's articles In the "Post" about the political situation.
THE NEW YEAR Now the New Year is advancing with the noice of bells and drums, and we find its shape entrancing, and indorse it as it comes. We have recollections hateful of the year that's in decline: for the new things we are grateful, old
things must takte in their sign. With a new year in the saddle there is due a brighter day, and we'll gambol and skedaddle gladly on our sunlit way. It will be a fruitful season, and the gentle rains will fall on the ground we planted peas on, and the vines that climb the wall. Everything we touch will flourish, in the new year's warming smile, and the gaudy dreams we nourish will come true in gorgeous style. We'll have credit at the baker's and a standoff everywhere, and the coin we sent to fakers will come back, with some to spare. For the new year comes to burnish every hope we have possessed, and our setting hens will furnish eighteen chickens to a nest. Oh, the new year is a winner, it's with fairy traits endowed, and we'll purchase from the tinner limousines that make us proud; and no ills will come to peeve us, in our luck there'll be no hitch, and our maiden aunts will leave us legacies that make us rich. So we gambol and we chortle, fill the air with happy whoops, for the new year's at the portal and the old one loops the loops.
newspaper, a magazine, or might even
be ' inserted in a child's book, for it is just a eimple story. No one could tell it more simply than the dignified member of the Court who wrote it
Mr. Justice Reynolds, former Attor
ney General of the United States. Opinion Tells ' Story Graphically. Dispensing with any legal or other
wise involved phraseology, the' Justice begins his opinion, just as he would if he were writing the simplest story- 1 "Since 1908," he says, in the official opinion, "One Hundred and FortyNinth Street, New York City, has been carried over and across the tracks of the New York, New Haven and
nartioru Kaiiroad cy a public municipal steel truss bridge of a standard construction. The bridge is 54 feet wide, 270 feet long and is formed of posts, beams, girders, et cetera, connected and strengthened by trellis or lattice work. The top girders or beams, are 23 feet above the street. The local law imposes upon the railroad the duty of maintaining the frame-work; the municipality is r? quired to keep the roadway in repair. "Fastened to the Tcp girder at the end of the bridge are two upright steel lattice towers, posts or struts. Cross arms attached to these six feet above their bases support bare wires carrying electric current used for operating trains. Tbe nearest wire is 19 inches from the strut. "With considerable difficulty and
much danger active boys can climb
to the highest parts of the bridge. They did often climb upon it; some reached the struts." One can imagine :he grave Justic3 writing this opinion and thinking back half a century to his own boyhood when to be an "active boy" perhaps the most "active boy" in the neighborhood was his ambition. One ca'i read much betweetn the lines of the opinion. The Justice says: "They did often climb upon it; some reached the struts." One can imagine th? Justice saying to himself of those particularly active boys who wer3 strong and fearless enough to reach
the struts, "Good kinds!". The official opinion continues: 'They were frequently chased away by a policeman and the railroad guard, and seem generally to have understood that to play there was forbidden; when an officer came in sight they kept off. At each corner of the
bridge there was a notice board displaying the words: , 'Live Wires. Danger. Keep Off.' " Between these lines one can real that the. Justice fullj understood that to the "active boy" the occasional presence of the policeman and the very sign itself made the game of climbing the bridge much more fascinating! He proceeds:
"In June, 1916, the plaintiff, David Fruchter, eight years old, by using the trellis work . climbed from the street to the top of the bridge in quet of a bird's nest. He. then saw a bird on the wire above it and to catch it climbed up the strut and reached out; the bird flew away; his hand touched the wire and severe injuries resulted." One can read through this paragraph all the grave Justice's appreciation of
the romance of active boyhood. - Willim Shakespeare has devoted immortal lines to the boyish sport of bird-nesting. Why should not the Supreme Court of the United States take it into
consideration? It is clear that when
the boy saw the bird on the wire,
he saw a bit of life which he recog
nizee, tie Knew that the little winged creature was a living, virile thing
There was a sign, to be sure saying that the wire also was alive, but the
contrast was too sharp for the boy to ba convinced. That the dull, leaden strand of wire should be more alive, so far as harmful properties are concerned, than the bird that darted through air, was inconceivable to the eight-year-old boy. The opinion continues: "At the time of the accident the boy was attending school." The Justice mentions this to indicate that there was a fair assumption that the boy could read the warning sign. "He further states," says the opinion, "that before cl'mbine uDon the
bridge he looked to see whether a policeman was present and admitted that if one had been there he would not have gone up. "The court accepted the theory that the jury could have found the structman or mechanical, constituted neglious and attractive to children and that failure to supply proper guards, huure was well known to be both dangergence within the doctrine of Railroa!
t ompany versus Stout, 17 Wallace 657, and Union Pacific Railway Company versus McDonald, 152 U. S. 262." The Justice gives the impression of making every effort to exonerate the child from responsibility for the accident whic'j befell him. He proceeds. Precedents Cited by Jurists. In United Zinc and Chemical Company versus Britt we pointed out the theory on which liability may exist for injuries suffered by an infant although the circumstances would give no cause of action to an adult. 'Infants have no greater right to go upon other
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people's land than adults and the mere fact that they are infants imposes no duty upon landowners to expect them to prepare for their safetyWhile it js very plain that temptation i3 not invitation, it may be held that knowingly to establish and expose, unfenced, to children of an age when they follow a bait as mechanically as a fish something that is certain to attract them, has the legal effect, of an invitation to them although not to an adult.'' Try as he will to give the child the best of it, the justice must return to the common-sense practice of everv day where men and women must move among practical affairs and not in th imaginative world of childish entertainments. After all, the Justice concludes, railroads must be run to carry food which men and women eara for their children and so it it a part of the hazards of life that active boy who can climb to the highest struts sometimes get hurt. The Justice cor.cudes: "There can be no general duty on the part of a landowner to keep his land safe for children or even free from hidden dangers, if he has not di-
recny or Dy implication invited o licensed them to. "Considering the peculiar circumstances of the present, case, it is clear that if the plaintiff had been an adult he could not recover; and we ar3 un able to find any sufficient evidence from which the jury could have properly concluded that the railroad com
pany, either directly or by implication
invited or licensed him to climb upon
the strut to a poini from which h could touch the bare wire 30 feet
above the street. The motion for a
instructed verdict snould have been granted. The judgment of the court below is reversed and the cause remanded to the District Court for further proceedings in conformity wit.) this opinion." All of which means that little Davy loses his case and cannot collect damages from the railroad company which owned the live wire, but the opinion proves also that evtd the grave anl solemn Supreme Court of the United States takes into consideration all the circumstances of bor?' escapades an i follows the line of common sense as well as Latin phrases.
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