The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-18
palladium Specially


New York, June 17.-Superintendent
A. ]. Demarest, of the public schools
of Hoboken, is president of the Civic
Pride association of that city. He is a
great enthusiast and thoroughly con-
WINGED that the people of Hoboken
have great deal to be pround of. He
also believes that the process of in
ly. For that reason he made deter
mined efforts to get the children in
Hoboken public schools interested in
the objects and aims of the Civic Pride
association. To keep up the interest
Mr.. Demarest sent to buttonmaker
in Newark and had 10000 buttons
bearing the insignia of the associa-
ton and the words "Hoboken Civic
Pride" made. The buttons were dis
tributed among the children, and boys
and girls proudly displayed their badg-
es of Civic Pride" The other day,
however, all the buttons were called
in by Mr.. Memarest, who promised the
children that he would soon furnish
them with new buttons. The reason
for this action was that several days
after the buttons had been distributed.
the discovery was made that each one
Of the buttons bore upon the reverse
side the legend, Smoke Sweet Capo-
raj Cigarets.' The firm which had
furnished the buttons explained that
in some unaccountable manner a mis-
take had been made and promised to
supply the school children of Hoboken
with new buttons. devoted exclusively
to the advertising of Hoboken's
Civic Pride
The severe manner in which magis-
trates have been dealing recently
with rowdies who caused disturbance
| in subway or elevated trains, has
taught the rowdies wholesome les
! son and such cases of rowdyism have
become greatly less frequent lately.
Now the magistrates should poin in
determined warfare against the abom-
+, Unable male flirts or Washers" who
hang around street corners or stroll
| through the downtown streets and in
suit women by speaking to them or
trying to flirt with them. Magistrate
House, in the Night Court, has set a
|
these male flirts who was brought be-
fore him to ten days in the workhouse.
The members of the burglars and
hold-up mems fraternity in Nav York
are working overtime. They are SO
| busy that the nights are evidently not
! long enough to give them a chance to
finish their daily pensum. Daylight
burglaries and hold-ups are getting
quite common in this city and the
crooks do not ever respect Broadway
in their nefarious trade. But all this
will soon be changed; at least SO the
citizens are assured by the police au-
thorities. The new regime promises
great reforms and tas taken the first
step in the direction of reform by Or
ganizing 'vice-squad," consisting OF
police agents, who are to mingle free
ly with the criminal elements and OBJ
tain all the information they can be-
fore they are found out by the crimi-
nails and put out of the way. The iden-
tity of the members of the vice
squad is to remain a secret to every
body except the commissioner who ap-
points them.
Some men are awfully "easy" and
it is really not surprising that there
are so many unhappy marriages and
domestic troubles in this world. The
other day the courts united martial
knot which owed its existence to the
fact that the man in the case liked the
taste of chocolate cake SO much that
he married the girl who baked it. OF
course, love could not subsist entirely
on chocolate cake and disenchantment
soon followed. In another case thresh'
ed out in the divorce court it was
brought out that the couple had be-
come acquainted at party and the
man had proposed to the girl because
she danced SO well.
But for the fact that he has a wart
behind his left ear, lost urchin pick
ed up by the Brooklyn police the other
day would still be in the hands OF the
Children's society in that borough as
an unclaimed waif. Completely dis
guised by clean face, the youngstel
was not recognized by his parents un
til they visited the society's shelter q
second time and made more careful
inspection of the boy. When the boy
who is only three years of age, wa!
found, he was so dirty that the matror
of the Children's society found it nee
essary to give him a good scrubbing