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PAGE FOUR THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, DEC. 9, 1913 The Richmond Palladium AND SUN-TELEGRAM. tublihed Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Masonic Building. Ninth and North A Streets. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr. In Richmond. 10 cento a week. By Mail, in advance one year, 6.00; six months, $2.60; one month, 45 cents. Rural Routes. In advance one year. $2.00; six months, $1.26; one month 25 cents. FORUMOf THE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for Th.s Column Must Sot Be m Excess ot 400 Wcrcs. The Identity of All Con ir.bu'ors Must Be Known to tht Editor. Articles Wilt Be Printed m tin Order Receued. Bntr4 at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, a Sec ond Class Mail Mattar. A Municipal Disease and Its Cure. Three parties enter a municipal election race and work hard to elect a city ticket. Perforce, each of these must build up some kind of an or ganization with which to wage its fight. This means a political machine, good or bad, and a chance for jobseekers to find a place next to the candidates and in the good graces of the leaders. National issues do not enter into local elec tions, and voters become confused. A man may have very decided opinions about the tariff, yet find no local issue paralleling with that at all. Therefore, the local race narrows down to a per sonal fight between rival candidates. And since the voters are so confused, the candidate who can get control of the individuals with most vote getting influence will win out, other-things being equal. The candidate, realizing this state of affairs, will make strenuous efforts to secure as his boosters men who can get votes. In order to win their services he pledges himself to give them a job, if he is elected. This is not buying votes with money, but it amounts to the same thing morally. When the lucky candidate takes his office he places in subordinate positions these friends who have worked hardest for him. And their hard work usually may be attributed to promises held out at the beginning of the campaign. Thus it falls out finally that the offices of a city are filled by those ambitious office seekers who need the place and its emoluments. In other words, the shrewdest and the most ambitious men, and those who struggle hardest for the places, get the jobs. The personal ambitions of a candidate settle a city's fate for four years. This is the typical experience of all Indiana cities where national parties still rule in local elections. Those who are rankling with the dis appointment of Richmond's mayor-elect's ap pointments and see how prominent a part person al ambition and pre-campaign pledges have played in it, will feel that this has been our ex perience. And they will feel that this experience is just me more proof of the futility, the folly and the extravagance of party rule of city government. "Therefore," says an enthusiastic reformer, "let us hereafter see to it that we nominate only good and honest men for office. That will cure our ills." But it will not. These evils inhere in the very structure of the party system. There is only one thing that will cure them, and that is the commission government with expert adminis tration of all offices requiring special knowledge and skill. This is not to say that commission government will prove a panacea, far from it, but that it will be as great an improvement over the present methods as the postoffice system of today is an improvement over the pony express. And in commission government we should, of course, include the initiative, referendum and re call. If a mayor-elect were confronted with the recall he would be less eager to appoint his friends, regardless of their fitness, but would see in an efficient subordinate a danger to his own head. But the most urgent need in Richmond, in view of the fact that a commission government is necessarily impossible for at least four years, is a bureau of research. Our disappointment with some three or four of the appointments has been because of their utter lack of preparedness for their new posi tions. We do not charge them with malfeasance or with graft far from it. We believe they will do the best they can to make good. And it is for this very reason we are so in hopes of a bu reau of research, for that would furnish to these men the very thing they lack, expert knowledge, and we are sure they would be the first to wel come such an aid. ! pense of the city and often throwing his fam-; 1 ily on the mercy of charity or township aid, as J according to our highly intelligent method, pris oners are set to work. Thus far they have pro duced over $200,000, and not only paid for their ' own keep, as they ought to, but have also helped pay for their indigent families outside. Not content with all this, the hustling munic ipality started a probe into the conditions of j woman and child labor, and thus saved itself j much uneasiness by not depending on probes ' ; made in other and dissimilar towns. Dance halls , have been placed under as rigid a survellance as saloons are in other places, and thus many girls have been kept from shooting Niagara in the exciting, but fatal, manner so characteristic of I public dance halls. Last of all, a movement is ; 8UU ',vas risen- the' weIe a u u: ui f i because they had no , I withereu away. And others fell upon ing, and the way these canny Kansas Citians ! the thorns, and the thorns grew up have dealt with other knotty questions leads us ! fhnf choied them: and others fell upon J M , the good ground, and yielded fruit, to expect great things from this endeavor. i some a hundred fold, some sixty, some It seems to us a town which has displayed H hal haIIs to do wlth marked an ability for coping with municipal prob- bodily religion? Everything, us- lems might be hired by the federal government j fann J? SMt to go alter national questions which now baffle the solons of congress such all-important prob lems, in instance, as the high cost of eggs. RELIGION OF BODY. Behold, the sower went forth to bow, a: d as he sowed some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds came ar.d devoured them: and others fell upon the rocky places, whfre tl.ey had not much earth: and straight away they sprang up because they had no deepness of earth: and when the scorched; root they "The Will of God." In a certain old story a scene is described in (which a mother sends her small daughter on a long trip through the woods to a friend. After bundling her up against a snappy fall morning the mother fetched from the house a slip of pa per with directions written inside and pinned it on the little girl's coat. "There," said the mother, "that is my will for you. Have Aunt Betty Brown read it. It tells what your are to bring back and how long you are to stay." The old-fashioned theologians use to teach us that God's will for a man was pinned on to him externally in the same way. They conceived of it as something coming from without, as foreign to man's own natural being, and to be obeyed in the same child-like and unquestionable manner in which little Betsy was to obey her mother's will. But under the tutelage of modern science and modern philosophy erected on that science we are coming to understand that God's will for a man is not something extrinsic and pinned on from without, but is rather something built into a man's very nature at the beginning of his ex istence. According to modern theology God's will is shown in the way man is made and is expressed in the laws and the shape of one's being. The laws of our body, the laws of the mind and the emotions, the laws of the volitions and of charac ter, the laws of the great human society in which we are set, and the laws of that mysterious na ture that everywhere surrounds us like an en vironing sea, all these taken together and in their totality represent God's will for a man. If sin, as the theologians have always said, is the disobedience of God's will, it therefore be comes easy to define it and to recognize it in one's own experience. The man who eats, drinks, sleeps, walks, breathes and lives in such a way that the laws of health are broken is committing a sin, as much a sin as lying or stealing; the man who so lives that his mental faculties are unde veloped and misused is guilty of a sin as great as that of breaking the law; the man who puts out the eye of character is as much a sinner be for natural low as a wife deserter. The will of God, as the old word has it, is very near to us, and he that doeth it shall abide in strength and power. of its deep meaning as when the Man of Galilee spake this parable. Even His disciples asked Him what this parable might be. He said to them: "Unto you it is given to know the I i , a matter of fact, not necessary hre to j ! explain at length, a certain amount of I I a definite kind are essential to good ! health, and even the virulent or dis ' ease producing kinds are harmless to produce disease if. like the sower's seed, they do not fail upon "tin5 ood ; ground' or within a debauched and depraved body. Like fhe grains found in Egyptian catooonibs. these disease : seeds will lie dormant for ar j. and ' j when finding a proper poll, grow and ! result in uiseas. earn after us own kind." Tuberculosis grms. ilyphth. -ria germs, etc, have been kr.own to lie dormant and harmless tor more than fifty years and then cause di-, ease. i The farmer well knows that the fy '. bst freed wheat, or corn, or even pumpkin, can not produce a crop ex cept a Rood soil is properly prepared and th s-rd planned ;t the proper season. There are certain se vens of , the year that some disease n- t pre vail, according as eondUion- c o 5i v- ing body changes with the - -isons. Now- all this means that the soil for; disease seed to flourish depends on I the sanitary care of the body; one j must have a proper soil within before one can have a serious ailment; in other words, we do not take disease, we make disease! Honest people do not take thines that do not belong to them, and dis ease does not belong to any one who is honest with one own wonderful liv ing body, the most sacred gift of God to man. the religion of the body At the Murray. All Week Vaudeiile. "The Mitttr Mind." At the Ge-inctt theatre on Monday Deo l.". Edmund Prese w il' be seen ia Hanie! 1. Carter's startling play, "Tiie Master Mind." The pl.i has aroused unusual com ment by the remarkable p;;-al;-'. ia the eyes if the pat'Lc at the present lime. S'range as tt may seem. ;he piay was written letiL. before either f the pi sod es were enacted ia re;,i life. The principal character in the p!a. "The Master M:::d." seeks revenge and plans the poit'itai ruin v a p.iMie .f ticiai. The wiie of the official incrimi nates herself in a great effort to pro tect her husband. FAIRFAX SILVER mysteries of the kingdom of God; but teaches the greatest science of all sci- r FACT AND FUN In the present year the United States has exported 21, 000,000 dozens of eggs. The Man in the Chair Have you seen that poor Bobby Blank has been run over by a car and killed? Willie I'm not surprised, d'you know; he was not looking at all fit when I saw him the other day. Sketch. Germany has more members of trades unions than any other country. A Live City. What the people of a community can do for themselves through co-operation and by means of a first-class administration is strikingly shown by Kansas City, one of the foremost municipal ities in the country. During the past few years the city has or ganized a municipal pawnshop and put loan sharks with their extortionate interests out of business. It has set up a free legal aid ureau. where the poor man can fid legal advice, and thus be enabled to secure that justice which only high priced lawyers usually are able to get. An employment agency was started and op erated on a large scale, giving employment to twenty-seven thousand persons during last year alone. A rock quarry was purchased by the city, and work is thus furnished to men who would otherwise go jobless through the winter or other off seasons. The town also bought a large farm for penal purposes, where prisoners are given wholesome work and reclaimed in a scientific manner. Instead of placing a man in jail at the ex- "So you think it takes only one person to make trou ble, do you?" "Certainly. It is only necessary that some one person shall acquiesce in the desire of another for a quarrel." Buffalo Express. Missouri school teachers may form a union and agi tate for higher wages. "So you've decided not to get that new gown that you had ordered from your dressmaker?" "Yes. She's so busy that she coudn't have it done for at least three weeks, and by that time it would have been out of style." Chicago Record-Herald. "That man who paid a fortune for a bogus rare book must be a very indignant bibliophile." "Well," replied Miss Cayenne, "there are bibliophiles, and then there are what Josh Billings would have called bibliophools." Washington Star. I POINTED PARAGRAPHS i USED TO THAT KIND. St. Faul Dispatch. The Mexicans live so close to Texas that they think, no doubt, that Wilson is only a big bluffer. AGREE WITH MOTHER. j Philadelphia Inquirer. Mrs. Brickley says she doesn't approve of her son i playing football, but, then, neither does Yale for the ! matter of fact. GARRY'D CONTROL IT. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Why couldn't Cincinnati have a popular primary and 2lect a manager for the baseball team? the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. For nothing is hid that shall not be made mani fest: nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light." In other words, there is no mystery, and nothing supernatural in any phe nomena or occurrence from the least to the greatest, either in the world that can be seen or In the world that can not be Been. It is man's own gross ignorance and superstition that makes mystery and 60-called "super natural." There are things above and beyond material phenomena; they are ences, namely: how to make the liv ing body a fit temple for the earthly dwelling place of God's holy spirit: for the temple of God is divine, "which temple ye are." if you make it so. for in so doing you glorify God in your whole body and soul or life and In your spirit. Let us pray. Our Father in heaven very near unto I us and within us if we will have It. we thank Thee for these vital realms, not hand-made machines, but temples not made with human hands; wonderfully and fearfully created vital kingdoms. Father, teach us in Thy divine wis dom to keep these body's blameless Murray. The vaudeville offering at the Mur ray for the Urst half of the week Is very good and pleased two fair-sized audiences esterday. First on the bill came Jerome and Carson, a clever pair, that made cood with their audi ences. Miss Carbon wears some at tractive gowns, and Jerome is a clev er performer. Whipple. Houston & Co. gave a very amusing travesty en titled "Spooks." Miss Whipple makes an attractive appearance and wear beautiful costumes Case and Kogers present a sketch. "The Baggageman." RHEUMATIC PAINS AND SWELLINGS GO Rheuma Acts Quickly and Money Back as Quickly If Surely It Fails natural, but superphysical, not super- unto the coming of that michty truth natural, for one God maketh all. , of Christ, that a double portion of Thy Disease Seed and Disease Soil. 'holy spirit may dwell within us. lead It remained for modern science to ing us into all truth, and nicely bal reveal and bring to light the long ancing and harmonizing our triumvl hidden mighty "truth of Christ," in rate existence of body, soul and spirit the deeper import of this simple para- nto one glorious being, triumvirate Die or me sower ana tne seed, l ne man. Amen. A LAYMAN germ theory of disease, or the well known fact that all diseases are pri marily caused by micro-organisms or Constipation Poisons You. 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The Tairfax silver designed and manufactured by the Durgin Silver wire company of tt .s city, has proven the biggest seller in the history of the trade since it was rut oa the mar ket, and another bocm Ux it has been created through the action of the Uni ted States senate in purchasing a com plete s.t a a weeding gift to Miss Jessie Wilson, the diifhtcr of the President. Since the d s:gn was l.tmu hed two ani one-half yers ago it has gene all ever the world, and Barton P. JrnKs, the h.ad 'f the Concern, estimate that the sales of the flat cn spoons, knive.-. and fvrk. ana oiher small pieces alone have totaled $1 ..'.00.000. lespite the fact that the design ha been extensively copied by manufac turers all over th country, the sales are showing a steady increase month by month and the factory !s steadily employed in meeting the orders pour irg in from all sections. Recently in quiries were received from parties in Empire, Isthmus and Panama, as to the silver, and Mr. .tenks is lookinc for a giHnl business In that country once it is introduced there. The Fairfax pattern Is sold exclu sively in Richmond by Jenkins and Co.. and is by ar the most elegant and popular silver ever offered here. Adv. QUIGLEVS COLD AND LAGRIPPE TABLETS They will relieve a cold while vera s'eep. Use them for Coujrhs and Colds, Lagrippe, Headache and Ma laria. Price 1$ cents. QUIGLEY DRUG STORES D. E. Roberts Piano Tuner & Repairer Sixteen years in the profession. Estimates furnished for repairs. My Work Will Please You. Phone 3684. i MURRETTE TODAY ! "Terrors of the Jungle' Two-reel Animal Feature. "A Terrible Lesson" Kalen Drama. "For the Sake of a Girl" Luben Cemedy. Keystone Comedy With Fred Mace. "Robbin Hood" Coming Soon: MURRAY TODAY ! Jerome and Carson Eccentric Novelty Duo Charles Bennington Monopole Comedian Whipple Houston & Co. Comedy Singing Travesty "Spooks" Case and Rogers Comedy Sketch "Baggage Man" Juggling Cromwells Keystone Comedy Featuring Fred Mace Christmas Money brought to your home any amount from IS to $100 on household goods, pianos, teams, etc.. without removal. Call, write or phone and our agent will call and explain our low rate. Private Reliable The State Investment and Loan Company Room 40 Colonial Bldg. Phone 2560 Take Elevator to third floor. Richmond, Indiana. LET US TALK Mnltigraph Letters to you. If you have use for form letters In lots of from 500 to 50,000, we can make you prices that will astonish you. We have Electric Driven and Automatic Feed Machines. We can also print your ENVELOPES and LETTER HEADS L R. T0NEY & CO. Southeast cor. tth and Main St. RICHMOND. INDIANA.