The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-23
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Then there is the person who can
tell you all about yourself" said Sal.
you're here too often, Sal, dear"
why not for long time replied
Sal in an injured tone.
Yesterday" affirmed the cynic.
'Oh, just at the tag end deployed
Sal.
Il thought it was at the police
court grinned the cynic.
Sir! How d-d-d-dare you'll"
I'D go there if 1 wanted to, how
ever,' she added. Besides l don't see
anything so awful about it. The may
or, you know, sits on a kind of
throne and lawyers have to gaze lat
him deferentially."
LOOK up, not down and lend a
hand" quoted the cynic idly.
You sound like don't worry mot
to-" said Sal.
well I've seen 'em lend hand all
right" murmured the cynic. But not
toward the higher life-exactly."
well, anyway, police court is more
interesting than bridge party" said
Sal Il intend to recommend it to
the teachers local study course this
winter.
IF we're going to vote we ought to
find out how things are run
cor not rum" interpolated the cynic.
Everything is run, said Sal "If
not in one way, why in another.
Now think we ought all to go down
to council meets and police court Sc
ances to see how democracy is put
on a working basis"
Pull the strings and see the wheels
go round-eh?" murmured the cynic.
Exactly" cried Sal. We're it and
it's u.s." she went on somewhat crypt
cally if ungrammatically.
my dear Sal-really, you know.
Have some regard for lucidity!"
What l mean," said Sal oracularly,
lis that we've got a false notion of
government.
1--WE think it's something separate
and apart. Made up of foreign and
alien elements.
"A sort of ma chine operated by
the chosen few.
Something that doesn't affect us
and with which we have nothing to
do"
c1m glad you said doesn't in
stead of DON'T" said the cynic in
the famed soto voce, for your lapses
are becoming entirely too frequent"
he continued severely
"Oh-pass it up. What's verb or
two. What we want to get at is the
basic facts"
81 don't give a hang about basic
facts this afternoon" replied the cynic,
I'D rather have drink"
your base and degenerate tastes
will take you to the police court some
day." said Sal
eff was slated for a too prolific and
joyous jag" said the cynic, would you
come and bail me out?"
Nothing I'd like better" said Sal.
Il never desert friend. But first I'd
have the mayor tipped to deliver you
long, loud and virtuous lecture. 1t
would be so amusing to see you
squirm.'
Your ideas of amusement are some
what peculiar" said the cynic. But
hand us out some more of that pure
democracy dope"
Its the truth" continued Sal, that
we know and care too little about the
manner in which our own affairs are
operated We have an idea that the
police court for instance is a horrid
place where feminine taxpayer
shouldn't be seen.
"A sort of dark-hole.
"a kind of moral pest-house.
when, after all, it's nothing but a
room with a desk, few chairs and
table or two.
Nothing is ever half as bad as We
think it is.
out of the same clay.
But" said Sal, what think ought
to be reformed"
Reformed Oh Sal, You sound
line the w. C. T. U.-or a suffrage
meeting"
Il said reformed and I'll stick to
it, went on Sal. Il think the thing
that should be reformed is legal pro-
cedure. 1t ought to be simple and
plain enough for the youngest police
man to understand. Why wind it up
in a net of verbiage until the very
medium through which it percolates
gets tangled in its meshes and STUN
bles round helplessly until it can on
" be rescued through a motion to ad-
iourn?
Too many lawyers trying to put