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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-02

bill OF standard Orpheum excellence IL
running. Some OF the acts on the pro
grammc are regarded as the best OF their
kind seen this year.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-02

Big and delighted audiences are the
rule at the Orpheum this week. where a
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

is also a picture of the little girl taken
shortly after her rescue.
on the same wall hangs a photo
graph OF the inspiration" written by
Henry Bergh, evoked by Mary Ellen's
case. II reads as follows: THE under
signed, desirous Of rescuing the un-
protected children of this city and
state from the cruelty and demorali-
zation which neglect and abandonment
engender hereby engage to aid with
their sympathy and support the or
ganization and working of a children's
protective society having in view the
realization of so important n purpose"
II is signed by Henry Bergh. Elbridge
T. Gerry and John u. Wright.
Recommended by Roosevelt.
The measure providing for the es-
tablshment of a federal childrens bu-
reau places 1t under the supervision Of
the department Of commerce and labor
Its commissioner will receive a salary
of "a 900 a year, and his two assistants
are to have s2,500 each Clerical aid
also is provided for.
The establishment OF the bureau was
recommended to congress by President
Roosevelt in a special message on Feb
IS. 1909, seventeen days before he re-
tired from office. The former presi-
dent has repeatedly expressed his in
terest In the welfare OF the nations
children. and in this he is heartily sec
onded by President Taft. The bill pro-
viding for the bureau may be said to
be In part the outgrowth of the con-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

and most minute details about COM
morcial and material things" said the
late Thomas +. Walsh, head of the
Colorado Humane society and one of
the advocates Of q federal children's
bureau Corn. pigs and other COM
mcdities of commerce are wisely
watched over with parental care, but
no time or money is given to the child
crop of the country. Viewed from any
standpoint. the protective care and
bringing up of the children and the
building up of the best citizenship pos
sible is the most sacred duty of our
governments and our people, and in
this great work our national govern
ment should take a parental lead"
viii Investigate Mill Child Lebor.
Not alone in the cities where the
hordes of foreigners congregate and
the living conditions of many children
are inconceivably bad, but also In the
country there Is need for the work of
n federal childrens bureau. DIR. Charles
p. Neill, United States commissioners
of labor, has met with severe criticism
of late for his vigorous denunciation of
the conditions among the children in
the cotton growing and cotton spinning
regions of the south II is asserted
that he has exaggerated the badness of
the conditions and that the children at
work In the mills are better off than
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

which contribute to II came the dawn
of a better day for the little ones.
The Case Of Mary Ellen.
The first organized movement for the
protection and care of children-the
first in the world as well as in Ameri-
ca--was the establishment of the New
York Society For the Protection of
Children in 1874, This great and noble
work was started by an apparently in
significant incident. A charity worker
in New York, visiting a dying woman,
was asked to rescue a helpless little
girl from a cruel stepmother who was
torturing her daily After unsuccess-
ful appeals to the police for aid the
charity worker went to that great
friend of dumb animals, Henry Bergh.
Mr.. Bergh and his counsel, Elbridge T.
Gerry. successfully prosecuted the case
sent the cruel stepmother TO prison
and rescued the girl. Mary Ellen. The
latter is now the wife of a well to do
farmer in New York state and the
mother of large family.
In one of the rooms of the society's
eight story building at Twenty-third
street and Fourth avenue. New York.
ia a picture of Mary Ellen, showing
her pitiable condition when she was
rescued. and the shears with which the
cruel woman beat and cut her. There
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

those on poor, rundown farms, where
they cannot acquire habits OF industry
and frugality. Whether DR. Neill has
proved his case that the children OF
the mills are shamefully overworked
deprived of their birthright of happy,
joyous childhood and stunted mental
ly, morally and physically or whether
his critics are In the right is one of
the matters on which the federal chill
dren's bureau Is expected to throw
light. Educational statistics are avail
able now, as their collection Is part of
the function OF the federal bureau of
education. But national figures relat-
ing to the lives of the children in other
respects than education are lacking
and will remain lacking until the bu-
reau publishes the fruit of it's first la
bors
II is only within the past three dec
AIDES that consciousness OF respon-
sibility for children has manifested 1T
self In the American public mind. Be-
fore that time they were regarded as
individual assets or liabilities, to be
disposed of according to the ideas and
aspirations Of their individual "own-
ers" With the awakening of the pub
lie to realization of the facts that
the children Of today are the men and
women of tomorrow and that human
life Is greater than any Of the things
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

reference. They profess to fear the
effects Of Capitalization.
Value Of Statistical Information.
Asserting that the work outlined for
the bureau is purely statistical, at any
rate for the present, the supporters of
the bureau, among whom are numbered
many of the most famous sociological
workers In the United States, declare
that 1t will interfere in nowise with the
usefulness OF the state and city So
cieties. They point to the fact that
there never has been anywhere in the
United States a central bureau of In
formation about children to which la
borers in this field could turn for facts
and figures In furtherance of their
work. Statistics relating to child Ia
Dor, child delinquency, child mortality,
etc, are now to be collected and col
lated and made available for COM
parison and use.
The basis of modern philanthropy is
figures. without accurate information,
say the men and women. amateur and
professional, who devote themselves to
the good Of others, little can be done.
The first step. therefore, in the cam
paign for the uplifting of the country's
children is the assembling of statistics
about them.
"Our government Is fully alive to the
Importance OF giving out the fullest
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

other Offices by appointment. The
voter has just one man to choose, and
in consequence even the sleepiest citi-
zen rarely gets fimfammed Citizen
ship there is not a profession, but a
simple matter which every voter
masters without conscious effort"
The short ballot advocates say they
have no quarrel with the politicians,
because these professional citizens are
absolutely necessary while we have the
cumbersome long ballot. At present
the politicians hold power in an in
formal manner, without the possibility
of the location and enforcement of re-
sponsibility That is where the chance
for graft comes in. good politician
who refuses to accept the chances for
graft which are thrown his way Is dis
placed by the bad politicians who have
bigger Incentives to work because of
the money they can accumulate
through working the public.
Opponents of the short ballot con-
tend that II means perilous concentra-
tion of power and the granting of large
appolntive powers to a few men: that
It therefore endangers the principle of
popular government; that no practi-
cable bound can be set to the possibility
of corrupting small body of elected
officials, whereas bribery of a large
number Is difficult and more easy to
detect; that no small body of elected
officials can be relied upon to exercise
wisdom and care in appointing all the
men needed 10 conduct the multifarious
business of a large state or municipal
ity.
other opponents suggest that II Is
undemocratic, to which the short bal
loters reply that II is the long ballot
that Is undemocratic, because II Is so
elaborate that II practically disfran-
chises everybody except the politicians,
The short ballot they insist, is not
only democratic, but It Is the only plan
OF election that Is really democratic
woodrow Wilson. president of
Princeton university, is at the head of
the short ballot movement. and II has
been indorsed by Governor Hughes of
New York, Governor Fort OF New Jer-
sew. President Emeritus Eliot of Har-
ward william Allen White, Winston
Churchill clinton Rogers Woodruff and
many other noted reformers.
President Roosevelt In one of his
ESSAYS on American ideals has written,
Governmental power should be con-
centrated in the hands of a very few
men. who should be so conspicuous
that no citizen could help knowing all
about them, and the elections should
not come too frequently"
ARTHUR j. BRINTON.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29
New York's Splendid Public Library Completed

placed in position. The slightest flaw
was enough TO cause rejection.
New York met the question of hous-
ing It's great public library in no mig
gardly spirit, The cdiflce represents
an expenditure of no less than S10,-
100000, exclusive of the value of the
site. II stands on the west side of
Fifth avenue, between Fortieth and
Forty second street, the place formerly
occupied by a reservoir.
When the new library and all its
rooms are thrown open 10 the public
It will be found to house one of the
greatest collection of books in the
world The number OF volumes prob
ably will reach 100000 The collec-
ton will comprise the books now con-
tanned in the Astor and LenoX Libraries
and those purchased with the money
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

ference on the care OF dependent chill
dren held in Washington Jan. 26 and
26, 1909, in which delegates from many
children's societies and sociologists Of
note from ell parts OF the country par
tlcipated. g
During the last days Of June and the
early part OF July Of the present year
the second general meeting Of the ma
tional child conference for research
and welfare will be held at Worcester,
Mass. The conference had its birth at
Worcester last year. 1t aims 70 be
central clearing house for information
and for definite action looking TO the
welfare OF children In all departments
OF life II Is expected that the leaders
of the conference will approve heartily
OF the establishment OF a federal bu-
reau to do officially what they have
been aiming to do unofficially The
president OF the conference is @. Stan
ley Hall who is also president OF
Clark university. There are ten vice
presidents, They are Judge Ben B.
Lindsey the famous Denver "children's
/ friend" and advocate OF children's
courts: DR.. c. w. Stiles. the hook
worm fighter" Miss Patty s. Hill of
/ Teachers college. New York; Hastings
/ II. Hart OF the Sage foundation, Mrs.
/ Theodore Roosevelt, Professor Irving
Fisher OF Yale university, famous for
his advocacy OF the conservation Of
health and personal efficiency; Clifford
Pinchot. president OF the National
Conservation association; Jacob A.
Riis whom President Roosevelt called
Americas most useful citizen" Mrs.
Emmons Blaine, founder OF the school
of education of the University Of Chi
cago, and Mre Robert NJ. La FNsilette.
wife OF the Wisconsin senator. D
THE time has come" runs a resoiu
! ton adopted by the conference ast
I year. when all efforts for the arne-
/ lioration of the conditions of childhood
of charitable and philanthropSc na-
ture should be based upon and so far
as practicable guided by the reyu1ts OF
scientific child study and that only
thus may the various lines be given a
more scientific and workers a more
! professional character"
The same idea underlies the estab-
| lishment OF the federal children's bu-
| reau, and the same arguments we're
used to convince the national legisla-
| tors OF Its need.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29
The Case For and Against the Short Ballot

The average voter
outside of coun-
try districts cam
not name half the
offices on his bal
lot from memory.
The politician at
tends to all these
things for him.
THE long ball
lot with its string
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29
BY CHARLES N. LURE.

NDERy the eagles wing are to
be/sathered all the nestiings
of the eagles brood After
many years the federal gov
ernment has awakened to the necessity
OF doing something" for the children
Of tho land. The Something has
Jtnken shape in the federal children's
bureau provided for In the bill in
troduced in the senate and house by
Messrs. Flint of California and Par
sons of New York respectively. Happy
augury for the future of the federal
children's bureau is found in the fact
that itS/sponsors In the national legis-
lature hail from two sections of the
ooE ery so far apart as the Atlantic
aVl the Pacific coasts
While the work OF the children's bu-
roam Is to be purely statistical, devoted
TO- the gathering of figures showing the
conditions surrounding tho country's
little ones, small doubt is expressed
that 1t will widen It's sphere of activity
In harmony and conjunction with the
various agencies, state and municipal.
which now look after the welfare of the
child. The establishment OF the bu-
reau has been urged strongly by the
nat onal child labor committee, of
wHch Owen r. Lovejoy is the general
Incretary; by the Organized Charities
of New York. one of the prime movers
In which Is DR.. Edward T. Devine, edi-
tor OF the Survey, and by other organ
lied philonthropical ard sociological
bodies On the other hand. the So
cieties for the prevention OF cruelty to
children oppose the bureau. asserting
that the work Of caring for the chill
dren OF the nation Ia best left in the
care OF the individual states. These
socleties. like their parent organiza-
tion. the New York society, are state
bodies, with charters granted by the
various legislatures. They declare that
the effective work they have done in
the past In the matter Of child rescue
is ON earnest OF Its successful contln-
uation In the future without federal in
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

III OSS to New York of long stand
ing cynical jest and gain of
splendid building mark the
As--sss bringing to completion by
May 1 Of the new public library of the
metropolis. For several years the
actual use of the library has seemed to
New Workers something to be classed
with an event like the coming of the
millennium or the installation of salts
factory service on the city's transpor-
tation lines-an event to be wished for
devoutly, but hardly to be expected
within the lifetime of the present gen
Grafton. It was very pleasant surprise
for the citizens of New York when II
was announced that there was a possi-
bilty of setting a date for the dedica-
tion of the library.
In reality, however. the seeming de-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

length by 246 feet in depth, inclosine
two, interior courts The library OF
congress Ia 40 feet IN length and SAC
feet in depth, inclosing four interior
courts and a central rotunda covered
by a dome. The Boston Public H.
brary IL 22s feet long and 225 feet
deep, with a central court.
Every modern feature OF library con
struction is embodied in the neu
building It's total book capacity 10
100000 volumes The main reading
room provides seats for about 1,ooe
persons, three times as many as the
seating capacity Of the famous read
ing room % the British museum. There
are in addition about thirty other read
ing rooms,
The library is very easy Of accest
from all parts of the city. Within s,,7y
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

\
with grating and give us public on
cisls with eyes turned squarely and
pnly toward the public good Maybe
II will purify our politics until the very
words graft" and CRATER" shall be
marked "ohsolete," or. at the very least.
"obso'escent," In the dictionaries
But hold n minute-maybc II win
concen trate power IN few hands
and thus defeat its own purpose VIZ
and reason for existence. M
Probably in this matter, as In
SO mary others. the truth lies In
the golden mean Whether good
or bad, the short ballot seems to <.
bo on its way hither II numer-
ous Ind enthusiastic friends count
for anything It viii soon be
as familiar to the voters of America
az tho old mammoth. universally dis
credited voting ticket is now. In Its
support the cid saying about the blade
OF grass IN reverSed Dean Swift
wrote, whoever could make two ears
of corn or two blades OF grass to grow
upon a spot OF ground whore only one
grew before would deserve better OF
mankind and do more essential service
20 his country than the whole race OF
politicians put together" The short
ballot mon believe that whoever can
make one name bloom upon ballot In
place OF two is a public benefactor,
And II Is the race OF politicians" that
they arc after
The short ballot comes close on the
hecla Of direct -,rimaries and hand In
hand with the much advertised conf
mission form OF government for cities.
N n
iGca, but simply a very old piece OF
common sense.
..The reason we have corrupt and
unreshpnsive government In our cltieo
ana states" say the short ballot advo-
Gates rs because our country Is not
democracy, but Is an oligarchy--gov-
ernment by the few! One per cent or
the people practically control the gov
ernrnent and the government Is con-
Quoted primarily In their interest. This
1 per cent consists OF class known as
politicians. The reason they control
|. because we have made our political
business so elaborate that citizenship
has become one OF the learned pro-
fessions. Tho ordinary voter doesn't
count az ne ought to In the control Of
tho government. because TO be effective
at present he must go into politics and
rive up lot OF time and energy and
hard work to the task OF being an ef-
fective citizen.
>Afost OF the officials that are now
chosen by popular vote are not subject
10 any Vide public discussion At all,
W. elect county clerks, state treasur-
ere, coroners and auditors without ever
talking aboSt them or looking them up
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

lay in the construction of the library
can be blamed partly on the swiftness
with which events move In the me-
tropolis II is only seven years and a
half ago on Nov, 10, 1902, that Mayor
Low laid the cornerstone of the New
York Public library Astor Lenox and
Tiden foundations" The delay in the
construction of the building Is at
trlbuted largely TO the dificulty in OBJ
tanning material OF the proper quality.
with the single exception OF the ma
tional capitol In Washington the New
York Public library is the largest mar
hlc building IN the world Every bit
or the stone supplied for use In It's
construction has been subjected TO tho
most searching scrutiny before being
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

A very good cruiser with cunning
cabin. thirty TO thlrty-ive feet IN
length, and with a modest but service
able engine, can be bought for from
81 900 to $1,000 nowadays. Such a
craft is suitable for cunning excursions
along the coast or on any OF tho larger
lakes. and the cost is not much IL any
more than that Of sail cruiser.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

OF obscure cleo
tive officers sim
ply himhams the
people. II gives
them so many
things to watch
that they can't
watch them. The
longer the ballot
gets the harder IL
Is for the people
to control.
"On the Other
hand, the shorter
II becomes tho
more surely dc
the people contro'
and the less nee,
there is for poll
ticians Tho wov .
10 keen tho groft-
ers out is 70 turn
the searchlirht on
them befo-e e,eo-
tion If there are
scores of omces
10 be Allied the
CRATER gets lost
IN the shadows.
but n there ware
only n few omces
20 be flled at
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

choice but to put
up good men all
along the line.
"The sanitary
effect of limelight
in politics Is seen
in the English
cities, which are
the best governed
in the world d.
There the voter Is
rarely called upon
to I'll moro than
one office at a
time. He elects a
member OF the
city council from
his ward. and the
council runs the
city. filling all
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

walking distance are subway elevated
and trolley lines. Some OF them, with
the Fifth avenue line OF stages, pass
the door
In his invocation at the laying Of the
cornerstone of the new library the late
Rev. W. r, Huntington, rector ot
Grace church. referred to II as -wis-
dom's home" In laying the corner
stone Mayor Low, himself the donor OF
a sl.oOo.ooO library building TO Cohim-
bia university, said
"Great libraries are the storehousss
Of human knowledge. and az suoh they
are the granaries out OF whose rioh
aocumula tions come the seeds that are
TO frectify the years that are TO be-"
q THOMAS 4EfMLUY.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

left for that purpose by Samuel ]. Til
den. The president of the library
trustees Is John Bigelow, now ninety
two years old. former minister to
France.
How the New York Public library
compares with the Boston Public IL
brary and the Congressional library in
Washington may be seen partly from
n statement of the cost OF the three
buildings. Taking s1o,ooO.O00 as fair
estimate OF the cost of the New York
building, II has cost sS,655.000 more
than the library OF congress- and 81
$4,000 more than the pride OF Boston
Neither OF tho last named buildings Is
of marble. save In interior construction
The New York library IL s66 feet In
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

sequence the poll
ticians pick a
good fgurehead
for that office. II
all elective off,
cials could be
subjected to the
same test of thor
ough public scru-
tiny, politicians
would have no
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-29

VT Is a panacea for our public Ills,
n say the advocates OF the short
ballot 1t Is undemocratic. say
q ITS opponents.
, MPybe the short ballot will do away
with grating and give us public on
cisls with eyes turned squarely and
pnly toward the public good Maybe
II will purify our politics until the very
words graft" and CRATER" shall be
marked "ohsolete." OF, at the very least,
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