The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-08
WINDY DAYS CALL FOR OILED STREETS
Papers and Debris Fly Over Town Like Snow-storm
Going to Show Ordinance Is Not Enforced
Impressive Good Friday Services.

And this dust was made up of all
the off-scourings of the winter
People breathed into their lungs the
offal of the town.
At no time during the entire year
was oil needed on the streets more
than within the week just passed.
While many persons objected to the
oil at the first suggestion they see
it's advantage now.
But certainly If the streets are oiled
they should be done in their entirety.
The effect is lost if half a block is
oiled, the other half left unoiled
This form of dust laying is becom-
ing widespread in use
On the great outlying boulevard
system of Boston, oil is in constant
service
And if it is to be used in Richmond,
the practicable thing would seem TO
be to put it on the streets all the year
round. For in the winter and early
spring, before the streets are cleaned
the dust is greater nuisance than in
the summer
1t is to be hoped that the oil deposit
ing process will begin soon.
Lent is becoming more universally
observed each year.
Even the non-ritualistic churches,
as said day or so since, take cogni-
Zance of this season of religious con-
temptation and abstinence from social
gayety.
And in services celebrating or COM
memorative of the great events of the
supreme climax of Christ's passion.
Notwithstanding the frequent pro-
test against the Catholic church, in
the secessions from it's ministrations
and the formation of other less ritual
istic bodies, this church remains
! throughout the ages, the great refuge
of the weary-laden
And the reason is simple.
It's foundation is faith
There is no question. Only belief
This is the reason that great intel
lects, after ranging the philosophers
and religions of the world sometimes
return to the church.
1t soothes their spiritual agitations.
1t asks nothing of them but faith
which they can anchor, forever pro-
tected from the spiritual and intellec-
tual storms which lash the human
ocean.
In this city Lent is observed in many
of the churches with impressiveness
and sincerity, both in the Catholic and
nom Catholic.
Good Friday as we'll as Easter-day
On the former day sacred concerts
were given in two of the leading chur-
ches, the First English Lutheran and
st. Paul's Episcopal, both of which
were largely attended.
In the former Stainer's "Crucifxion"
was. presented with musical and reli-
gious effect, over thirty-fve being in
cluded in the chorus with four soloists,
among them some of the best known
musicians in the city.
The stately music, with its subdued
and climatic harmonies, was descrip-
tive of the greatest event in the his
tory of the Christian religion and sym
bolic of the spiritual suffering of hui
mainly, of it's most intense, concen-
trated and exquisite passion and
emblematic of the material manifesto
| ton of the redemption of the world.
ST Paul's gave THE Seven Last
Words a sacred cantata which sym
bolized the same emotions and events
as those of the "Cruciixion,' with
impressiveness and musical eclat,
the presence of notable tenor from
Cincinnati giving the solo numbers
distinction.
These musical events, both in their
presentation and their raison d etre