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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31

But when the question of paving the same street
is gotten home to the same people in simple,
attractive and understandable form, things are
different. Everybody will become interested in
that paving question.
city administration that uses publicity
will be able to get the people awake to all city
affairs, will bring them to cooperation with
city officials, will give them an intelligent I'M
derstanding of affairs going on, will enable them
intelligently to oppose or to endorse, to embrace
or to reject, proposed measures and enacted
laws. In other words, publicity will go far to-
ward creating community consciousness and
making the citizen feel his bond to the city as a
whole.
What has been done by publicity in other
cities is too long story but it is one that will
be re-enacted here if the voters are as wise in
next Tuesdays election booths as they have
been in using straw ballots.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31

complete laboratory for chemica
bacteriologic examination and analys
of milk. water, food stuffs and q
other necessary work of a scientifi
laboratory The secretary of tn
board of health should be a traine,
scientist in all departments of publ.
and private sanitation, and have
least four trained experts in the diff
ferent branches OF this important de
partment. each devoting his entire
time and energies to his special
branch: one meat. market and pure
food inspector: one dairy inspector,
one house-to-house sanitary inspector,
ouore e-rS.~+io-. o-e -ate- svDD'~
H,,r~Nrra o~o-~-,'~. "ro., ~-''r hart
rupt the city in three months"
Let us figure a little and see what
We do see.
In 1912 the city's department OF
health cost $9,66SS1 Now. remember
these figures. and watch the following
Secretary or city health officer, $4,000
Neat market and pure food in
spector 100
Dairy INSPECTOR ........... 1000
Water supply inspector ........ 1900
House-to-house. streets and al
leys inspector .............. 1000
$4,000
At the city building or at the court
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
Bavis Smashes Campaign Lie.

The Zimmermanites, driven to resort to des-
perate measures, have started about town the
report that Mr.. Robbins has decided to appoint
Alfred Bavs to the board of public works. This
was done, as everybody understands, in order
to complicate the issue and side-track the cam
paign from its real path. Mr. Bavis lands on
this report squarely between the eyes in the fol-
lowing words printed in his contribution of
last evening:
IT am not seeking political preference, cleo
tive or appointve. What l am most anxious to
see is city government in keeping with the i'm
portance of the city | am proud to ascribe as
home"
These words show how fallacious has been
the story so seduously circulated.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31

WORSE THAN QUEER, FACT
Detroit Free Press.
a queer world If the contractors aren't tearing
the street the ioyriders are.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
Finly Gray, Hoosier.

Finly Gray, representative from this dis
trict, commented the Houses action IN con-
tributng toward a wedding gift for Miss Will
son, in the following words: Il think this move
ment is in bad taste, indiscreet and unwarranted
assumption by members of this House. l do not
think that we should tender trinkets to this
lady. Most of us are strangers to her and it is
bad form for us to intrude.'
The citizens of this great state are called
Hoosiers. When Indiana pioneers RATED down
the Mississippi to New Orleans their behavior
won for them the nickname "hoosher" This is
a Creole-French term and means person of bad
manners"
There are some Hoosiers left.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
Publicity in City Administration.

tale is told of two men who had never be-
fore seen or heard of each other but who fell to
fighting at the very moment of meeting. Wheth-
er this ever happened not it is illustrative of
deep grained trait of human nature What
we are ignorant of we very often oppose just be-
cause ignorant of it and are afraid it may
carry hidden within itself some fatal jonah.
when man is not up on thing" says Fra
Elbertus, "he usually is down on it,"
This characteristic of human nature is the
rock across which many political administra-
tons are broken. 1t is the obstacle across the
path of many needed reforms.
When city council passes an ordinance to
close street or pave an alley it encounters at
once a determined force of opposition. Often
when health department gets out a new ordi-
nance fixing certain quarantine for scarlet
fever say, protecting the public against flies,
or insanitation, what not, mass of citizens
will rise up in protest and brand the legislation
fad or folly.
Even after ordinances have been enacted
and orders issued every administration falls
foul of this same human trait. Because folks
don't understand thing, because they haven't
learned the value of a measure, because
they are suspicious of some new departure, they
refuse to obey the law. And that is even wrose
than to block the making of it.
This stubborn opposition of uniformed citi-
zens paralyzes the efforts of the best intentoned
officials oftentimes and freezes the zeal of wide
awake folks anxious to conditions improved
To conquer this stubborn inertia of hostile
public is often the very hardest task of an ad-
ministration. Any mayor who doesn't know
remedy for it will find himself sooner or later
the rocks.
But there is a remedy Publicity
Publicity is the cure for the grouchy fault
Under who bucks every move for the better. Pub
lefty Is the remedy for public Indifference 1t
Is the A-ray lantern that exposes the SOW bugs
and corruption fostering under rotten political
planks
Publicity is quite different from publication
Publication merely announces the facts. Pub
lefty carries home the facts and renders them
effective Publicity is publication for purpose
and with its working clothes on. A city admin
stration may be giving all its deeds to publica-
ton and at the same time may never so much as
heard of publicity.
When Mr.. Lindemuth. almost with tears in
mis- eyes, protested that DR.. Zinmerman's Off
cials had published all their contracts some
times as high six times, and then asked with
force, isn't this publicity enough to suit any
body?" he was laboring under a misapprehen-
sion.
1t is not publicity at all. It's merely publ
cation.
Publicity, such as Will Robbins has pledged
himself to- is getting facts to the people in such
a way as to be effective. When a contract for
paving a mile of street is published in the usual
form not one in hundred will read it because
1t is so uninteresting and often so unntelligible
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31

St Louis Globe-Democrat
Reading trashy novels after the is the most
harmless diversion that could be pursued about the
only one that does break down the health
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
VENICE.

There is a glorious city in the sea;
The sea is in the broad the streets,
Ebbing and flowing and the salt sea-weed
Clngs to the marble of her palaces
No track of man. footsteps fro,
Lead TO her gates The path lies the sea.
Invisible; and from the land went
AS to the floating city-steering in,
And gliding up her as in a dream
So smoothly, senty-by many dome,
Mosquelike, and many a stately portico,
The statutes ranged along an azure sky;
By many a pile in than Eastern splendor
OF old the residence of observation-disclosures
The fronts of some-though time shattered them
Still glowing with the richest hues of art,
AS though the wealth within them had run DER
Samuel Rogers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
FORUMOE IHEG EOHLE

Articles Contributed TOR This Column
Must Not Be IN Excess OF 400
Words. The Identity OF All Con-
tributors Must Be KRoW1 10 the
Editor. Articles Wa Be PrUted IN
The Order Received.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
For Dandruff
Use ZEMO!
A Remarkable Remedy
Stops Itching Instantly
Prevents Badness
Get a 25c Bottle Today and Prove t.

ZEMO makes dandruff disappear in a
wonderful way. It's clean. acts fast, con-
tains no OIL Every speck Of dandrufY is a
warning that thin, ltfeless, gray hair and
early badness are already started. It's on
the way It's really scalp eczemai That
is why ZEMO stops it, as we'll as all SCALP
itching, crusting or soreness. SO promptly.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY

Y.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Chinese offers reward of 81 SO for
the capture of DR.. Sun Vat Sen. The Chinese have
hendishly clever ideas in line of insults
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
ORIGIN OF THE POLKA.
First Danced by Austrian Maid
Servant Tired of Kitchen Work.

Recently there has been considerable
discussion in the Autrian press con-
corning the origin of the polka, and it
appears that at last the question is
settled and the origin of the dance fl
nally determined.
1t appears that the polka was the
improvisation of an Austrian maid
servant who, tired of kitchen work,
began to dance at her own sweet will,
singing the while a native folk song
as accompaniment. Her master and
mistress caught her in the middle of
her dance and made her come into the
drawing room, where she danced it
again before musician named Neru-
da, who Transcribed the music and the
time. That all happened in 1880.
Five years later in 1885, the dance
was introduced to Prague. Here it re-
ceived the name polka" on account
of its half step, polka" being Czech
word meaning "one-half." Four years
after, in 1885, the polka was introduced
to Vienna, where it Immediately be-
came the one fashionable dance
Naturally from Vienna there was only
one step to be made to the capital of
Europe. This was made in the next
year
In 1910 a dancer from Prague by
name Raab danced the polka for the
first time in Paris at the Theatre de
TOdeon. The dance took Paris by
storm and was Immediately establish
ed forever. Such is the now authenti-
Gated history of the polka.-Westmin-
lister Gazette.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
ISLE OF MAN
Presents Many Curious Features None
More so Than Its Laws.

The Isle of Man presents many Gu
rious features, not of which is more
curious that its laws. For instance.
the legislature is called the house of
keys, and was in other times judicial
body charged with the duty of inter-
preting the laws. Any person so bold
as to Islander this house of keys was
liable not only to fine in the amount
of e10. but to the loss of both his ears.
Two deemsters were once ap-
pointed to execute the laws which be-
fore the year 1417 We're uncodified, and
these were known as breast laws, for
the reason that they were impaired
to the deemsters in secret, to be kept
by them within the secrecy of their
own breasts as long as they chose. or
during their whole service. though
they were authorized to impart and
explain to the populace as much of
these special laws as should at any
time seem wise and expedient.
Certain of the Manx laws, as set
down after the eodiieation, are ex-
tremely quaint. Here are a couple of
extracts from the Manx legal rulings:
IF man steal a horse or an OK it
is no felony, for the offender cannot
hide them: but if he steal a eapon or
a pig he shall be hanged"
In case of theft, if it amounts to
the value of sixpence halfpenny, it
shall be felony and death to the Often
der; and under that value to be whip
ped or set upon a wooden horse which
shall be provided for such offenders
The arms of the Isle of Man, which,
though it may sound like an Irish bull
to say so, are legs three legs bent at
the knee and apparently kicking OUT
ward from a common center in the
midst of shield-have provoked a
number of jocular descriptions, of
which the best declares that one leg
spurns Ireland, one kicks at Scotland
and the third kneels 10 England.
On July 5 of every year the laws of
the Isle of Man are still read aloud to
the assembled people from the top of
Tynwald HILL This is said to be the
most interesting and archaic legal GER
emory observed today in Europe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
EXERCISE YOUR MIND.
Good Hard Thinking Will Help You
Mentally and PHYSICALLY

Exercise your body II you will-that
cannot harm you and is pretty sure to
do you great deaf OF good-but,
whatever else you do or neglect to do
keep thinking. The we'll established
law of the physical universe that a
machine tends to rust out more quick
ly than to wear out holds equally good
in the psyphical sphere.
1t is no mere coincidence that most
of the great thinkers of the world,
whether in philosophy, science, indus
try, literature or the arts, have lived to
be old men despite the fact that III
youth they We're in many instances
physical weaklings. Significant too, is
the fact that the majority of them be-
gan to think, began TO exercise their
minds along the lines in which they I'LL
timately achieved greatness, while
they We're still young. There is here
a pregnant hint for parents.
Whatever aptitude, whatever special
interest. your child chances to display
encourage him in it. Don't deaden his
desire for knowledge, his instructive
tendency TO think, by indifference by
failure to answer his incessant bonn
bardment of questions. Rather thank
Goa that your child has an active mind
and set about training him in the prop d.
er use of it. Teach him the principles
OF observation, of analysis, of synthe-
sls-the principles, in short, of truly
eHective thinking. Accustom him to
thinking things out for himself and
seek to interest him in whatever il is
wen Tor MN to know. You need not be
AFRAID that he will overtax his mind.
NO childs midland no mans either
is oVertaxed by anything in which a
real interest is taken.
Inc trouble with most of us is tbat
we are not really interested in anv-
thlng. We have interests, to be sure.
Out they are diffuse, thin, weak-thev
no not grip us. That is why compare :
livery rev of us ever think in the trno
sense OF the term. That is why when
we are called upon to do anvthinp IN
me nature OF sustained mental effort
we are overwhelmed by doubt. fear.
"oiry' and mayhap have finally To call
III tfe doctor with his sage pronounce :
iiehI Poor fellow, he has been think
ing 100 hard" In point of fact VIC
nave not been thinking at all simply
because we have not been interested
enough to think.
Let us get truly interested in Soma
thing, no great matter what If 10 ond
We shah md that we can think about
easily enough. And. thinking about
.,-aenniteiy, tirelessly, earnestl,
a an,ihlhg about tive shall find our.
ae'Nes grow both in mental and bodil,
sur--H. Arlington Bruce in New
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14

signed nine days later, Mexico coded
the war between their respective coun-
lrles. IN that pact, signed nine DAYS
later, Mexico Including the present
Nevada, Utah. Arizona and parts Of
Colorado and Wyoming to the United
States. But neither they nor anybody
else in either nation dreamed of the
treasure house thus transferred, or OF
the significance of that find" near the
foothills of the Sierra.
Although suffer, Marshall and their
workingrnen attempted to keep the dis
covery a secret, it gradually penetrat-
ed to other settlements by the Pacific
coast, and made its way by ship to-
Hawaii, Australia, China, Mexico,
South America, the United States and
Europe. From the four corners of the
globe wild stampede started for the
valley of the Sacramento, with the re-
suit that nearly 100000 people We're
there and in regions Immediately sur
rounding by 1850, and California knock
cd for admission as a state before the
congress at Washington had time to
organize it as a territory. It's admis-
sion, as part of the compromise of 1850.
broke the balance between the slave
and the free states by giving the lat
ter the preponderance, gave new inn
petus TO immigrat ton from Europe and
the eastern and southern states to the
west and northwest, started the chain
of events which precipitated the con-
fiict between the north and the south.
which abolished slavery. killed the doc
trine of secession, transformed our
country from a league into Il ma zion,
and made the United States an indie
structible Union of indestruetible
states IL .eSlips
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
CASH MARKET co.
WATER STREET GARDINER. MAINE.


The following list will convince you
here and trial of our goods will con
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
al. r" MEDICINE
Used BY Three Generations.

In thousands Of families all through
The cities and towns of the State.
Though the science of medicine in aid
ing nature to bring about cures is
sometimes said TO be an experiment.
Il. F." Atwood's Medicine as a re-
lief for constipation. Indigestion. in.
active liver and other similar troubles,
is SO sure and the results so beneficial
that IL has become standard remedy
for restoring health throughout New
England.
Read what M. j. Lothrop says
II think your L. f. Atwoods Medi-
cine the best for Dyspepsia Of any
thing ] ever used. My mother took it
20 years ago; my father uses it all the
time and would not think of getting
along without 1t. ! use it in my fam
ire. NJ. J. Lothrop, Notch, Me.
Large bottle IS cents at all stores.
Il. f." MEDICINE CO.. Portland
Mains.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Ways and Means to Read.

Reading is act 80 choice an accom-
plishment IS Ii once was. A compara-
lively fDN generations ago clerk.
whose sole claim to elevation in life
rcssed in his ability to make neat cop
les CT records. was able to earn flat
tering wages. Today he exists no long
er in such capacity except as he is ex-
humed from the pages of old books.
In the days of the early Georges read
ing was a rarity in England. Few had
the ability, and of those few even a
smaller number had the inclination To
bore their way through a poorly print
ed, massively bound volume, heavy
with prefaces and postscripts and lib
orally sprinkled with footnotes. Books
are much easier to read today. They
are lighter in weight, and not few of
them are much lighter in merit.
The book-a day habit is gripping
the American people. The growth of
public libraries and penny day
stations" with their innumerable drug
store branches, are within reach of
every city home. Even the farm IL
brary table, which once carried only
the church paper and the hog journal,
now is no stranger to the best selling
fiction exploited by means of the most
judieious reviews. The ways different
people read are as varied as their
tastes. We may like politics ana
economics and the "weighty'' things
generally, While our neighbor may
prefer plot to syntax and interest
constantly sustained to the most ex-
quisite style. There was once boy
whose high school boast was that he
had read The Merchant of Venice"
through five times, each time redue-
ing the time consumed. The record.
unreached for months in the school by
other ambitious readers, was twenty
minutes.
During the last year a number of
excellent books We're written, but they
came. as we have acknowledged.
mostly from abroad. What we need
in this country is Almost discriminat-
ing taste in literature, or perhaps
reading matter should be the term
employed. Where person-gener-
ally a woman-turns to the back of
the book. reads the final chapter and
then skins through the earlier ones to
glimpse the story, there is not much
chance for assimilation or for the
growth of literary judgment. Unless
a writer of more than ordinary cour-
age who can set his ambition dead
against the best seller idea is de-
veloped we probably shall have to
wait until tickle public fancy changes
before the style of our reading"
changes for the better-Indianapolis
News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Where U. S. Gets Coat of Arms.

Social climbers are not the only ones
who require a bought and paid for
designer of coats of arms. Uncle Sam
himself needs such services time and
again-needs them so frequently. in
deed, that he has a regular govern
mental heraidist ON the job all the
time, paying him a big salary II
months out of the year to design coats
of arms wherever called for.
Uncle Sans heraldist is Mr.. Gaillard
Hunt, and his office is in far corner
of the massive 100000 marble and
gold library of Congress. AS BELTS his
calling, he is a historian, and one, in
cidentally, of international reputation.
The Government seals and designs
always see stamped on official docu-
ments are his work.
1t was he who designed the coat of
arms for Porto Rico, after its annexa-
ton. It was he who designed the coat
OF arms for the Philippine Islands.
Again it was he who designed the seal
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, said by experts to be at once
the most simple and the most symbol
icaily striking of all those used by the
Eevernment. And, finally, it was he
Swho designed the gorgeous, combined
aseal and coat of arms of the new Pan
Tama Canal Zone.
= In addition to these he has made
scores of other seals and shields And
&then, to cap the climax, he has de-
Ayoted every possible minute of leisure
flor 25 years to a search for the miss
wing great seal of the Confederacy.
THAT search ended only few fort
.s<xl,t hon hf frnn to
Hprivate residence of Rear Admiral
AHigginson, U. S. N, and persuaded
that officer to give it TO the Confed-
serate Museum, in Richmond, Va,
where it now lies.
Uncle Sans official coat of arms
maker is peculiarly fitted for his job.
He has devoted nearly 40 years to a
Study OF heraldry. A few years ago
Uncle Sam detailed him to write his
tory of the great seal of the United
StatesAand he unearthed all sorts of
strange, little known facts relating to
our national coat Of arms and its de-
signing (which took piacesin 1852.
This side of the shield bears apc-
ture of a pyramid-shaped pile of ma
sonry. the peak of which terminates
in rather sleepylooking eye, gazing
somnolently ont through mass OF
sun rays Above the eye in a feFd OF
azure intended TO represent blue sky
are the words, 'Annuit Coeptis.
across the base of the pyramid is the
date l776 in Roman numerals. Under
meath this is a picture of a rather
scraggy field out of which a few
scrubby punches Of grass are growing
tistlessly. over the field winds g
golden scroll on which is the inscrip-
ton 'Ncvus Ordo Seclorum."
Mr.. Hunt had to go far back to the
archives of the earliest days of Tho
Republic to ind the significance Of
this almost unknown side of the shield
Eventually he found an explanatory
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Elk Eating Colorado Ranchers' Hay

Ranchers throughout the country are
beginning to complain OF the on
slaughts being made by hungry elk and
deer upon their haystacks. The recent
severe weather drove them to the low
lands by the hundreds in search of
food, and not finding it. owing to the
heavy snow upon the ground, the fren-
zed animals are making free use of the
rancners' haystacks.
There is fine of $500 for the killing
of each elk, which makes the ranchers
hesitate long while before offering
violence to them. The persistent beasts
refuse to be driven off. An appeal to
the State game department will be
made. Denver Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14

ma Canal Zone was designed by him
III the request of the Panama Com
mission. all of the requests, of course,
being hacked up by Congress and the
President.
The coat of arms, flags and seals
that Hunt has designed for Uncle Sam
are extreme in their simplicity. Any
child could draw them. Simplicity, in
deed, according to the government
tai coat of arms maker. is the one and
just about the only set law of herald
rv which must be observed-Kansas
City Star.