The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-11
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

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Professor Thompson has predicted
with some accuracy.
can see a tree here and there raining
down leaves as it does after frost
Still the city has taken no action to-
ward his suggestion of having them
sprayed.
On the ground that there is no ap-
preparation that could be turned this
way and no law under which monies
could so be distributed.
No doubt this is true.
No doubt, too, the city treasury is at
| low ebb.
However, the writer heard a council
man declare with great vehemence a
week or more ago at a session of the
municipal legislature that the town
was not bankrupt
That it was in good financial condi-
ton.
| That false notions concerning the
citys finances had become current
through the public's inability. or lack
of opportunity, to understand the exact
status of affairs.
! That if we were not clipping off
coupons in our booth at the safety de-
post, neither were we lodging the
collector or side-stepping the credit
man.
Still there are lots of queer things
doing, past and present.
Not exactly queer but Incompetent
sible by the rule of two and two
which as every body knows by addi-
ton makes the celebrated four-and
the simple rules of logic that guide the
daily destiny of the resident on the
BY the way can anybody explain
why two and two makes four?
| Because they do, or it does, says
somebody.
| Well there you are.
| Somebody laid down an arbitrary
rule once back in the protoplastic age.
1.-TWO and two makes four" he said,
hand it on"
Therefore everybody says two and
two are four.
| If some mathematical insurgent
would arise and resolutely refute this
statement it would only be matter
of a short time until all the arithme.
tics would say that two and two made
! five or nineteen or whatever the case
might be-"
i 1t does not at all follow that because
such a matter as tree spraying for the
destruction of pestiferous insects is
! io11 in
| ty-two, page eight hundred and sixty
nine Of the archives, and sealed with
the great seal of precedent, that the
said insects should be allowed to de-
YOUR unmolested the verdant LEAKAGE
of our great and good city.
Incidentally the art center of the
| Middle West.
For never forget we are an aggre.
cation of highbrows that eats art alive
and cries for, more.
Our ardor is such that we will give
one hundred dollars to the art exhibit
| for vague, If alleged philanthropic pur-
poses.
i Yet search our sainted archives from
lid to lid, con their pages DER and DER,
get an expert to make special ferret
at sixty-f1ve dollars and twenty-five
cents an hour, and still you won't fnd
any mention of appropriations for art
exhibits.
But that is different" cry our city
fathers writing in aesthetic ecstacy.
| Oh, very, very different-we admit
| it.
| And if local artist said but yester-
day the community's art ideal was ex-
emplif1ed by certain snoe-sign on the
] corner of Tenth and Main wherein the
buttons could be accurately picked out
at a distance of two blocks and whose
color was laid on with unb1ushing
frankness-what of that?
Does it not go merely to prove the
existence of that ingratitude celebrat-
ed by Mr., William Shakespeare and
anon in Holy Writ which says that