The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-20
Are You Chinese?

Are You Chinese?
In his native land, the average Chinaman
doesn't scrupe to use public property for his own
private advantages. He will cover a highway
with his drying rice. He will pile his crops in
the streets. He will stable his donkey or bullocks
in the alleys and will order his housewife to
stretch her clothes across the public thorough
fare
This doesn't hurt his Chinese conscience bit
because to a Chinaman there is almost no such
thing as public rights. If Chinese farmer takes
notion to change the course of the public high
way, he doesn't hesitate to do it. His principle
is to get all he can out of everybody and to put
what would consider public property to as
much private as he is able. His attitude to-
ward the community as whole was very admira-
bly, expressed by that famous American gentle
man whose watchword was 1.-THE public be
damned"
But the Chinese mind is not confined to
China 1t crops out here and there and every
where. One even find it in Richmond
The man who doesn't clean the snow and ice
off his sidewalk has the Chinese point of view
Merely to save twenty-five cents or avoid fifteen
minutes work, he lets the thousands who 20 past
his dooryard wade through slush and mud until
the sun, after many days, has cleaned his walks
i for him.
The man who lets stable manure accumulate
IN the alleys until it's righteousness and fly
breeding capacity have become a nuisance to the
neighborhood is a Chinaman at heart And he
who permits garbage and rubbish to accumulate
alongside his back fence belongs to the same
class If the odor and ill effects of such careless
ness could be kept within his own fences, nobody
could possibly forbid him the right of being un-
sanitary, but the flies and the smell won't stav
inside his own yard. They go abroad to plague
the neighbours And it is just because the man is
willing to say "Ny neighbors de damned" that he
ought to wear a queue.
/ The fellow who throws trash on the streets
from whence it will soon blow around into the
|private yards is another criminal of the same
type, and SO also is the family which forgets to
remove the remnants of it's lunch from the pub
lie park
similar victim of this spirit is the landlord
who lets his property to seed and forces his
tenants to throw their Stops and garbage on the
ground. Of course he would have perfect right
to own any kind of house he wanted to if
the evils of his bad housing could be con-
fined to his premises but inasmuch
as the evils go abroad to plague the neighbor-
hood, the careless, unsanitary landlord ought to
move to Foo Chow or Hingwa where mediaeval-
ism still reigns.
| These are but few instances in which man
can play the Chinaman. One needs only to call
these to mind to understand what nuisance
this attitude is.
} But one of the most reassurng things about
our own local condition is that we are RAPIDLY
, reaching state of development in which the
f Chinese mind is going to be eliminated The an
ti-neighborly spirit is doomed. It is not fit to
live in modern city and some of these days it is
going to be discarded like all other nuisances.
| 1.-THE public be damned is giving way to the
new watchword, "The public be served "Re-
member your neighbour is the new spirit of the
/ times and since in Richmond we are all neigh
bors, the time is rapidly coming when the sell
fish, unneighborly spirit will perish in vacuum,
! Went Too Far.-Quzzer- "Whats the matter old
man? You look worried.'
! Sizzer-"I have cause l engaged a man to trace
my pedigree"
/ Quizzer-"well, trouble: Hasn't he been
successful?"
! sizzer-"Successful l say ne has, m pay
ing him hushmoney."-Yale Record.
II BaIky Tom.-"Run upstairs, Tommy, bring babys
:. nlghtgown," said Tommys mother
Don't to-" said Tommy.
"Oh Tommy! If not kind to your little
sister put wings fly back to heaven"
Tommy's reply came
II "Wel, put her wings fly upstairs for
, her nightgown!"--New York Mail.