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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-12
COAL OPERATORS
HOME DYNAMITED

COLLINSVILLE. Ill, Oct 12-The
home OF William F. scully, superinten-
cent for the Lumaghi Coal company
OF st. Louis was partly wrecked and
its eleven sleeping occupants hurled
from their beds by two violent explo-
sions. supposedly of dynamite bombs
last midnight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-12
CARD OF THANKS.

We take this means to extend our
thanks to our many friends and neigh
bors for their kindness during the i'll
ness and death OF our beloved father
and husband.
Mrs. James NJ Stanley and family.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-12
BRITISH KILLED.
[BY LEASED WlRE.l

LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE admiralty
today made public the names of one
major OF British marines killed and
four other officers wounded in the
fighting at Antwerp.
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THE WICKED PRIMARY.

People in Pennsylvania who were
always opposed to the Statewide
primary election are now being put
to it rather hard to show wherein
the primary proved failure at the
recent initial trial. The most re-
markable argument adduced thus far
appears in Philadelphia newspaper.
1t says that
another proof Of the utter failure of the
Statewide primary to meet the eXpec-
tations of those who looked to IL as a
remedy for all the ills of party manage
ment Is revealed in the extraVagances
found by Attorney General Powell. ThS
discrepancies in the printing bills Of the
several counties show that not only
in the count of the primary vote is the
machinery Of the primary used for the
sluandering of the public money.
Then the comment proceeds to
show that in Chester county primary
ballots were printed for S1.73 per
thousand, while in Philadelphia coun-
ty the printing cost s52.12 per thou
Sandl
II that IS proof that the primary
system is bad, it is to be assumed
that the robbery of bank by yegg-
men is demonstration that banks are
vicious concerns which ought to be
abolished. Likewise the fact that
people die would be conclusive ar
gument in favor of enjoining all the
doctors against practicing their pro-
fession.
If anybody imagined that the pri-
mary was going to reform the tax
eaters of Philadelphia in single
hour, he was more optimistic than
any primary advocate we have
known.
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JUST MIONIIENT
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER
Compiled by John G. Quinius. The
Sunshine Mani.
In helping others We help ourselves.

In helping others We help ourselves.
II is sweet and comforting to come
to the close OF q day with the con-
sciousness Of having tried during the
day to oe what We thought God want
ed US to be.
Let me BE- the author of q little kindly deed
OF sacrifice and service for . fellow-heart In
Let me live a poem Of the seif-denyins will
To lend hand Of helping to a comrade UP
Let me be an artist OF the sunlight on the
To MI some brothers darkness with the
dream OF golden hours.
birds
Have set to arties. measures with the most
Let me be . captain Of the little hosts Of Joy
That lead US back In memory to the days
Let me be a ruler In the land Of los. delight.
With power to keep comrade from the
darkness Of the night
And II serve but lanely. and II my song
Ahi may it bear the blossom of green beauty
From lane and hill and hollow. until the
Grows like a dream of Eden with the bright
blooms round its feet!
God has SO arranged and ordered all
things, that His apparent change Of
purpose shall follow every true prayer,
and His nature of love and tenderness
be revealed to every humble and wait
ing soul. When our Affections have
wrought out in US the ends which His
wisdom and mercy have sought, and
brought US in a right frame before the
Divine truth and majesty. we shall be
able to discern notifications in His
treatment, which are as If our God had
changed His mind toward US, but which
are really changes In method proceed
ing from the same mind and purpose OF
mercy and truth. - Gods rod
comes in sickness, pecuniary losses,
family bereavements, false accusations,
and in many other ways. None OF these
come by chance. God Is behind each,
and, that, too, in love. Blessed is the
man who discerns this. Blessed is the
man who can reckon on the rod as part
OF his spiritual wealth.-Howard Cros-
by. D. d.
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stock or conducted for profit, or to for
bid or restrain individual members OF
such organizations, orders, or assocIa-
tons from carrying out the legitimate
objects thereof. and such organlzations,
orders or associations, or the members
thereof, shall not be construed or helu
to be illegal combinations in restraint
of trade under the antitrust laws
The question as to whether labor
organizations shall be answerable to
the antitrust laws is of fundamental
Importance. Of all questions of pol
icy as to what shall or shall not be
defined as acts in restraint of trade
it is the most easily answered, be-
cause it can be settled by eyes" or
by "no."
Those wishing to exempt labor or
ganizations and their like from the
antitrust law are told this practical
ly covers their demands. Those op-
posed to their exemption are told it
leaves them amenable.
Neither man, woman, nor child can
tell what it does mean. Whether it
simply recognizes the right of labor
organizations to exist, or denies the
Governments right to prosecute or
dissolve them or punish their MEM
bers as members or individuals, how
ever guilty they may be Of acts in
restraint of trade, no person can say.
Without reference to the merits Of
the question as to whether labor
should or should not be exempted,
such a clause has not the slightest
warrant for inclusion in a bill the
whole purpose of which is supposed
to be the clariication of the Sherman
act. If retained, it will give the Su-
preme Court a record nut to crack.
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serve their purpose, and published
where they will do the most good.
They can hire the ablest lawyers and
most eloquent advocates to make
their special pleas. On the pubGc's
side experts are few, and they are
commonly underpaid or not paid at
all. The average man doesn't have
much time to devote to such an un-
remunerative task as gathering, ar
ranging, digesting, and presenting
statistics and experience of such a
subject as municipal ownership. The
man who does that sort of thing, as
a rule. is paid to do it for some other
interest than that Of the public; and
that is why the Commissioners are
entitled to some especial recognition
for taking their stand with the pub
lie, and taking it so uncompromising-
ly as they did.
Congressman Winslow asked each
of the Commissioners whether they
had been believers in public owner
ship before they were appointed to
office; and being assured by both the
civil Commissioners that they had
long been believers in that policy, he
referred to them as "prejudiced"
when they came to the Commission
ership. Do we gather from this that
Mr.. Winslow would wish men with
out convictions on so important a
subject to be appointed Commission
ers? Or would he want men with
convictions headed in the opposite di-
rections?
Surely it is not to be accounted a
discredit to the Commissioners that
they have views upon and interest in
these great questions with which
their Office is dealing. Surely it will
not be attributed as an improperly
that the President appointed men with
definite convictions. There has been
cutie enough of administration
through instrupientalities without
convictions; the nation is demanding
more and more that men who want
public offices shall tell what they be-
lieve, what they propose to do in
office. 1t is ventured that Mr.. Wins
low told his Massachusetts, constitu-
ency a lot of things about what he
believed and what he would like to
do, before he got himself elected.
Incidentally, it would be interest
ing to know just how Mr.. Winslow's
public ownership views would sound
to some Massachusetts town that
have long been committed to the pol
icy and the practice, and with distin-
guished satisfaction and success. We
suspect that he would have some diff
ficulties convincing, for instance, the
city of Holyoke that his bitter oppo-
sition to public ownership is broad
and statesmanly policy. Holyoke
owns its water, gas, and electric
plants, and they are all eminently
successful. 1t might feel hurt to
have Mr.. Winslow treat it with the
contempt and discourtesy that he
displayed toward the Commissioners
at times when they were on the
stand
The Washington times., 1914-06-01

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Amendment to the legislative bill
Oh. R. 1879, as reported to the Senate,
May Is. 1914.
On page 147. under "Chfldren's Bu-
reau," in line three, after the fig
ures "S25.64a" insert the following
words:
Provided that the chief and assistant
chief shall be experts in child study,
and provided further, that the supor-
visory officers now or hereafter en-
pIoyed in the bureau, in Investigations
of infant mortality, diseases OF child
rem and similar subjects OF medical
nature shall have had a medical train
ing"
II the personnel Of tho Children
Bureau be properly qualified. the ABOVE
amendment will not affect them sucn
an amendment will tend to aid the WORK
of the bureau in many ways OF wnich
might be mentioned: -,
l. 1t will help toward general etrl-
cheney in the work.
. II will make it easier to keep IN
competent persons from entering the
service Of the bureau
Most important Of all, 1t VIII cause
the bureau to take up some Oh It's
basal work first: that is the study OF
children themselves, as well as tnsr
environment.
4 1t will avoid duplicating the WORK oi
other bureaus by doing this basal work.
and thus overcome a most serious op-
lection. that has been continually maze
against the bureau.
& BY the law or radiation. the ioea oi
such an amendment may suggest SINH
lar amendments for other bureaus "hen
needed. and thus help departmentai
service in general ,,,,o-,ant
As this is a new and most nnportdhit
bureau and as the study OF cniIuren -
comparatively recent, 1t Is all the Inore
necessary to guard against Incompetent
THE personnel Of the Children's Bu-
reau consists of one chief, one ASSIST
ant chief, one statistical expert anu
eleven subordinate employees.
The chief Is q woman nfty-sN year
of age and unmarried. she Is col,
Ieee graduate and has been interested
In various reform movements, mas maue
special study of the care OF the insane,
has spent much time in the HUI house
at Chicago. She Is doubtless Very
estimable woman and much interested
in humanitarian work.
The assistant chief is a college grad
uate and under the supervision OF q
statistical expert, was joint author
almshouses and Of the insane and
The Washington times., 1914-06-01
A QUESTION OF MEN.

Secretary Lane has proposed to
the Congressional Committees on
Territories that development board
of three members be named to run
Alaska. He would give them gen.
eral control of the natural resources
of the Territory, concentrating in
them much of the authority over
lands, mines, etc, that is now held
in various bureaus and offices of the
Department of the Interior. His plan
would require them to make head
quarters in Alaska.
The plan is an excellent one, pro-
vided it is not very bad one. Which
it is, depends altogether on the men
who might be selected. There could
hardly be a more efficient project
for promoting the looting of the Ter
ritory and monopolization of its re-
sources, provided the commission
were such an one as Secretary Bal
iinger and the Taft Administration
would have named.
President Wilson would NOT ap-
point a Ballinger commission, and
Secretary Lane would not recon-
mend one. But a lot of mistakes are
made in picking men; so many that
there is some doubt about the advisa-
bility of giving such vast material
interests into charge of limited
board. So long as Mr.. Lane is Sec
retary of the Interior, Alaska will be
in safe hands. NOBODY will get away
with it while his head is turned. A
commission located in Alaska would
be long way from headquarters and
from intimate supervision. Congress
will be chary of proposals to concen-
trate large powers in such body.
Moreover, the Government has an
Alaska railway commission, now at
work on preliminaries to building a
railroad system there. 1t has given
Alaska a territorial form of govern
ment, with a legislature. Add to this
a development commission; retain
over this the general control that
would have to be continued in some
of the departments in Washington;
and, finally, keep Congress on the
job with its authority to boss all
these sub-bosses, and there would be
complication such as would add to
the difficulties Of getting results of
the right kind, and might conceiv-
ably aid the skillful people who want
results of the wrong kind.
If Mr.. Secretary Lane were going
to be the head of the development
board, everybody would say amen.
But, as usual, he can't be spared
from the job he is in.
The Washington times., 1914-06-01
INTERNATIONAL OBJ
SCURITY.

The Sherman act, as it has been
construed and applied by the Su-
Dreme Court, covers and prohibits,
though it does not define specifically.
every act in eflectual restraint of
trade that the Clayton bill enumer-
ates. The sole reason for the latter
is a demand from certain quarters
that, instead of leaving the reason
ableness or unreasonableness of any
given practice in a particular in
stance for decision by the courts, the
law should define separately each act
that it prohibits, leaving the question
of intention or reasonableness out
side the courts jurisdiction.
If the bill is not specific, it fails
utterly of its purpose. In it has been
included this provision:
That nothing contained in the anti
trust laws shall be construed 10 forbid
the existence and operation of frateF-
nal, labor, consumers, agricultural, or
horticultural organizations, orders or
associations, instituted for the purpose
of mutual help and not having capital
The Washington times., 1914-06-01
What's on the Program In
Washington Today

Meetings. evening:
Central Labor Union. typographical Temple.
s o'clock
Masonic-Potomac Lodge. No. 5; benjamin
b. French. No. Is; Anacostis. No. 4: Pen
tslpha. No %. and Mt. Pleasant No. %:
plar; Ruth Chapter, No. !. Order OF the
Eastern Star.
ODD Fellows-Union Lodge. No. II. Covenant
No. -. Beacon No. Is and Lansdon, No
Is: Naomi Lodge, No. l. and Ruth. No. 2
Rebekah
Knights OF Pythias-Equal Lodge. No. II:
Amaranth, No. Is. and Century, No. 30.
annual meeting, stockholders. hall asso-
citation.
Public meeting to protest against discharge
OF members OF C. A. r from Government
service New Willard. s p. m.
Dinner by young ladies from National Ca
thedral School New Willard. p, m.
Get Acquainted Night" with Miss Mary
Louise Carr as hostess, Home Club, s
O'Clock. Musical program and special dance
music.
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I ruths By Women Who
Vrox1, Helping Lads Who
NllOW Help Themselves
The Working Boys Home z

The Working Boys Home is not dependents but boys
earning their living and ho nominal for
board and lodging In this they provided with real home
where they have good good food and other adan
ages
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman president of the Ladies' Board Of
Managers of the Working Boys Home Others who hare been among
the manays the home the late Rev. and Mrs. Chds and the
daughter Miss Fannie Chlds who the of the Ladies
Board Mr. and Mrs. William Ke Mrs. Charles M FfouLke the late
Bishop Macka-Smh Mrs. John Poor the Hon. and Mrs. Henry
B. F. Macfarland, and many others.
Read what Mrs. Tuckeran about the splendid work the
effort to make useful citizens of great republic
Bv MRS WALTER TUCKERMAN
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energetic. and ambitious outlook
taken by the majority.
Boys Earn Own Living.
One also thinks what q field thfs
Il for helping those who are will
ing and eager to help themselves"
For these are not dependents, but
boys who are making their own liv-
ings and who. out Of their earnings,
pay a nominal sum for their board
and lodging. often their only other
alternative would be some cheap
boarding or lodging house with the
mental, moral and physical disad-
vantages that go with low company
and poor food and unhealthfu sur
roundings.
home for these young citizens Of
Washington. and she Is greatly be-
loved and respected by the boys.
/ think a little incident overheard
this winter viii not be out Of place
here as an illustration OF the >
usual feeling existing between tn
Superintendent and the superfntend-
ed. AT one of these evening de-
bates it was proposed that the fol-
lowing Monday a mock trial should
be held. and the boys were making
suggestions as to the different parts
the prisoner, lawyers, judge, etAs
then up spoke one Of the boys,
propose Miss Tyson Tor JudSG
cause she's the fairest OF us aiiT
"No." cried another voice. we
can't have her, for she'd never SEND
a fellow downr" (Which means. OF
course. to PRISON.;
When YOU find little woman whom
,thirty-six and more boys admit SO
spontaneously to be Just and kind
hearted, although their superintena-
ent. there Is not much doubt that the
work Is in the right hands and that
these boys of every religion and race
wiz meet with q helping hand In
their efforts to become useful citi-
zens of great republic.
Government Aid Withdrawn.
some time ago the Government
saw fit to withdraw its helping
hand (the annual allowance It for
merly made), and since then II has
been a struggle to make both ends
meet The boys, when they ALL
have work, which Is, of course, not
often, meet about one-hah OF the
running expenses, and the raising or
the remainder, 5000 or 1900 year,
while not great sum in itself. ne.
cessttates constant work and great
energy on the part Of the ladies'
board.
With a larger membership or win
a small allowance from the Govern
ment, the load would be made m7ch
lighter, for there Is, alas. as yefl no
endowment fund for this really m
portant work
Through several years II seemed AN
almost hopeless task to keep the
home open, for there are so many
appeals for good work in Washing
ton. and the friends and helpers Of
the home are continually changing
and moving away. StiIl, through. We
can well believe, q special Provi-
dence which helps those in need.
there always have been some to point
the way and put their shoulders to
the wheel
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feeble-minded in institutions published
by the Census Office.
The statistical expert Is a woman.
thirty-eight years OF aga and unmar-
ried- She is a college graduate. also q
doctor of philosophy. and was special
investigator for equal suffrage in Colo.
rado, and also made report for the
Bureau Of Labor on women and children
in industry.
There is little or nothing to indicats
that the chief of the bureau has had
any training for. or done any work in,
the study of children themselves. Her
work seems to have been almost wholly
sociological. and mainly with youna
people and adults, rather than children
But, whatever the qualifications Of the
chief, It Is generally assumed that the
assistant chief should know all about
the subject But it does not appear
that he has had the least preliminary
training and experience in child study.
1t Is true he and the other officers
might read up on child study. but II
was hardly intended that the bureau
should become a training school at pub
l'c expense. Or the chiefs might en-
J. ... some one who did know about chill
dren, but there are already enough ex-
amp'es of people who do the real work
of the Government with very small
salaries, while those over them. who
large salaries
With the statistical expert, as with
the chief her training and work haN.
been not only sociological. but also ~
lated almost wholly to adults, and nS1
children.
1t seems that when the bureau wa
formed (mostly by transfer from othee
bureaUs). the question as 20 whether
anyone knew anything about children
was never asked. and the personnel
harfly "a h1ap,aA 70 fhaf
positions. Perhaps no one IS to be
criticised for the condition CT this
bureau.
The idea seemed to be that anyone
could take statistics about children and
interpret them The study OF children
themselves. their psychology. and their
physical nature. that Is, child stuIy,
which is the foundation work of any
children's bureau, seems to have been
ignored.
Child study Is the scientific side of
the work, and getting statistics about
children Is more of a sociological na-
ture. But scientific knowledge Of the
child itself Is fundamental aRi Is
necessary for competent sociological
work on children. Thus to know what
facts are important about children in
any relation. and after these facts arc
collected. to arrange. classify, and in
terpret them cannot be done properly
and adequately by anyone who has not
had training and experience in the
scientific study Of children.
TOM A WILLIAMS.
1Io6 n street northwest.