Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 87, 3 February 1909 — Page 4
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TIIE RICHMOND PAM.ADIU31 AND SUN-TEL.EGRAM, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1909. PAGE FOUR.
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and we shall hare to swallow it wheth
er it meets witn local approval or not
According to the local sentiment it
does not seem to matter much just what is done bo long. as the expenses are-cut down. Everyone has a different scheme. No one man in coun-
Hudolplt G. LeecSi
Charles M. Moras
O. Owen KbbD'
Managing Editor.
Business Manager.
Xcm Editor.
ell the other night had the same views ' coming when city government Will be
bettered. Indiana can not afford to be laggard in this matter. It is dollars and cents in the pockets of the people.
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on tne subject, une would aboiisn
the office of controller, another the
city treasurer, another would put the
two together, still others would abolish the board of works and vice-versa all through the list of officials.
It is quite probable that the various
opinions on the matter as expressed
by the common council are fairly representative of the views of the citizens
FEED WIRES ON MAIN STREET.
It would seem that the Terre Haute
St Eastern Interurban company is playin with the council. It is the policy
of eVery public service corporation to
go ahead and do Its own sweet will
and then; either by legal escape on a
technicality, or by beguiling those in
juthority" do exactly as it always in tended.
In the present case of the feed wires
on Main street the company as repre
eented by Mr. John J. Appell has be
come strangely humble and plead
ing. It avers that the wires now on
Main street are perfectly harmless and that the company will be put to great
Snconvenience to remove the same
According to Mr. Appell the feed wires are not high tension because they do not carry more than 525 volts. The company says that this voltage will
not kill a man though It may give him a shock. The company further states that the wires if removed from Main
street will Wve to be tapped in every
three hundred feet. This they say
will increase the number of poles.
It is too bad that there has always
been friction between the council and
the interurban company. But at the
same time the interurban company
has not always been perfectly lamb.
like, docile thing that it is now. The
feed wires in question were put up sur
reptitiously in the middle of the night
and some officials prominent . in the
government were told that the ar
rangement was merely temporary.
But behold! Not many hours had gone
by when the company through its em
ployes announced that the feed wires
were up to stay. That is the same com
pany which is now so sweetly asking
a small favor from the town.
When it comes to the fine art of di
plomacy as she is played there is noth ing like the T. H. & E. I. Co.
The Palladium believes that if the
wires of the town are to be kept off
Main street It is unfair to allow the
company's feed wires to stay there, As to the talk about voltage, what in
telllgent citizen can tell by walking along the street whether there are 325 or 15,000 volts in the wires? Who knows when the company may take it Into its head to put more than 525 volts into their wires. Who can prove . that they, do or do not? ' : No, the wires ought all to be- undergroundespecially In the business district. - This should be done to, help the reduction of insurance rates. Sooner or later it will have to be done. But as long as the movement has teen started, the feed wires of the company ought to be off Main street. These feed wires should be out of the business district and conveyed to the trolley wires through "conduits under the . ground. That can be done
without disfiguring the town with.
poles in every city block. All the evidence that is introduced Into this case has been introduced by the traction company. It comes from no other source. It is not the way to conduct affairs to believe everything that is set forth by an interested corporation , without verifying the" facts from other sources. The question Is not so much how much this will cost the company. It is how much the city can be benefited by the removal of the feed wires. Sooner or later the wires will have
to be put under ground and the soon
er this is done the sooner Richmond
will reap the benefits. It makes no
difference what other cities let the traction company do. It is a question of what is beat for Richmond.
government or freedom from graft It can however, put the power in the .people's hands. Then it is" up to the people. The stand taken by the council for a less expensive government is encouraging. Richmond" will stand back of council in this matter. The time is
FORUM OFTHE PEOPLE
Winchester, Indiana, Feb. 1, 10U5). To the Editor of the Richmond Palladium, Richmond, Ind. A Drominent citizen of vour citv has
of Richmond. They are certainly rep-t au m nr-min the nf tu
resentative, when they speak of reduc- abolition of the saloon upon the busi-
ing the number of salaried officials.
It would seem that it were foolish
to have two sets of men to take care
ness in our city and I very gladly answer the question in the light of personal observation and of such information as I have picked up by investiga-
J! r.i "akjrF
GRAPES, from their moat healthful properties give ROYAL its active caul principal ingredient
of the city s business, for in many ( tion into the matter, and let me an-
points the work of council and thejswer first, generally, that is in some
board of works parallel each other. There may also be some question as
to the value of three councllmen at
large. The man who has the most
instances I have found that the saloon was not a factor at all, the business, so far as the parties interrogated were concerned, having been equally pros
perous both before and after the abo
to do is the controller. And this office I lition of the saloon, but in every such
case where a difference was admitted
seems to ba about to be eliminated by the Stotsenberg bill. And so the affair runs.
There is only one thing which
needs emphasis. That is that all unnecessary cost be eliminated and that
this town go on record as opposed to the needless expenditure of money for salaries. In a large municipality
there may be need for a variegated
system such as is provided.
But Richmond has no need for many
departments subdivided into infinitesimal complexity. The simpler the sys
tem the better. Those who actually
do the most work should have the larg
est salaries and then it is up to the
people to see that the men are capable and do the work. The people) can if they will get capable men to do the
city's business, but they can not increase or lower the cost of salaried of
ficials. That is why a determined
stand must be taken if we are to decrease the cost of the government.
The Palladium believes and hopes
that after experimentation the towns
and cities of the state will find that the present system and modifications thereof are too ineffective and expensive. The most modern plan is the Galveston and DesMoines plan of government by commission. This has the
advantage of giving the people a chance
to intervene when things are not their
liking and is also far cheaper.
It Is true that the Des Moines plan does not remove city government from politics. For in the city of DesMoines itself the very men who had composed the machine were reinstated. But
there was one marked difference.
These men who had previously been feeding at the public crib have not the field for their operations which was formerly theirs. For they know that at any time a few citizens have the power to ask for an election. A plan, of government can never insure good
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ADVERTISEMENT
Enjoy Your Meals
By Simply Eating a Little Pleasant
Tablet After Each of Them.
COUNCIL'S RESOLUTION.
At the last meeting of the common .ouncil of this town a resolution was discussed and passed unanimously
praying tne legislature to uo something in connection with the cities
and towns bill which will lessen the
cost of salaried officials to the city.
As everyone knows there Is before the
legislature a bill to change the pres
ent condition of cities fathered by
Stotsenberg..,'-''"-.';'
It may easily be that the legislature will pass " this . bill as It has , gone through the senate and been favorab-
ly reported in the , lower branch. In
that case the bill will become a law
A TABLET DIGESTS A MEAL.
When digestion is perfect the fluids
necessary to this process come natur
ally to the aid of the stomach. They
are of right proportion and do their work speedily and well. When indigestion and dyspepsia are prevalent, these same juices come slowly if at
all, are weak and insufficient or are
filled with strong acids and alkalies.
When such a condition exists each
meal is a hardship upon the digestive organs. The meal should strengthen the juices, but on the contrary it weak
ens them, so that man by the very
act of eating causes conditions to arise which of themselves bring him pain and loathing for the next meal.
By eating one of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets you mix the tablet with your
saliva and it goes into your stomach a strong, vigorous fluid, many times more powerful than the natural digestive juices. These tablets are made up from natural vegetable and
fruit essences and are composed from
Hydrastis, Golden Seal. Lactose, Nux, Ascetic Pepsin, Bismuth and Jamaica Ginger. There is the formula and one grain of it will digest 3,000 grains of food in any stomach. Beside digest
ing the food it will give the blood the power to enrich the digestive fluids so after a time nature will take care
of itself.
Though you have no stomach trouble one of these tablets after each meal is a powerful assistance to nature and is an excellent habit to make.
.Go to any druggist and ask his opint
ion of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets. We
will abide his answer if he be an honest man. They sell for 50c per pack
age. Send us your name and address
and we will send you a trial package by mail, free. Address F. A. Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Bldg., Marshall, Mich.
it was in favor of the abolition of the saloon. Almost every grocery man interviewed without exception, said that his business had been better in every way since the abolition of the saloon. A number of them stated that
their collections never had been so sat
isfactory and that customers in particular, with whom they had had trouble in making collections because they had spent their earning with the saloon, had, since the saloon had been abolished, been very prompt and were among their best patrons. They further state that a visit to the homes of these people will reveal evidences of comfort which were not found therein while they were the patrons of the saloon. The business of our dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe merchants has not only not been injured by the wiping out of the. saloon, but has, on the contrary, gradually increased until today there is not a single one of these men who would be willling to go back to the old order of things. Furthermore, there is not one of them but will tell you that their collections never were so satisfactory. It i6 true that some money left the city immediately following the abolition of the saloon and that some parties who could not and can not get liquor here went elsewhere for it. It is also true that the wiping out of the saloon left a few empty business rooms for a time but as business readjusted itself to the new and better order of things these matters righted themselves. When the saloons were first wiped out many men were very bitter and vehemently asserted that everything was going to the. dogs; that in less than two years men would be glad to take one half what they could then get for
their property, but as they have stood by and seen their property actually advance in value and its rental value increase by from one-third to one-half,
in many instances, their prejudices have given way to the onward march of better things until today actually some of the most vehement of these
men at that time are now the staunchest supporters of this era of a righteous prosperity, and the old adage that it pays to do right though the heavens fall, is being more and more verified. On last Friday men who two years ago were loud in their condemnation of the course which they asserted would ruin our fair little city, were the earnest supporters of the movement to put this county in the ranks of those in favor of local option. Old Wayne county from whose bor
ders have come many of our staunchest citizens, from whom we have learned much that was pure and good and
patriotic, can not afford to take a backward step when she is given an opportunity to put herself on record in the matter of temperance and we believe she will not. W. O. SMITH. Pros.. Atty. Randolph Co.
CORD CULTURE TITLE OFLECTURE BY PROF. CHRISTIE
This Afternoon the Noted Pur
due University Corn Expert Delivered a Very Interesting Talk.
GOOD SEED BED QUITE ESSENTIAL TO WORK
Last Evening Prof. Christie Gave Instructive Address On Visit to Omaha National Corn Show.
most interesting and instructive lesson of the entire course. The carcasses of a hog and beef were cut up. Each piece as it was cut was discussed by the eminent educator. He showed just how valuable this piece was from a market standpoint; how desirable from a palate standpoint, etc. He spoke of the desire of experts to make
the desirable parts of cattle and hogs more prominent by the elimination of the less desirable. Therefore the animal with the greater amount of choice cuts demands the top market price, he said. At the Masonic temple where the domestic science branch of the school is being carried on. practically all the women of Centerville and many from Richmond and the surrounding places attended the lecture on "Something About Bread," by Mrs. Virginia Meredith of Cambridge City. The demonstration by the fireless cooker was also practical, interesting and demonstrative of the fact it is a useful household article.
To the Editor of the Richmond Palladium: On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1909, the following appeared in the editorial columns of the Richmond Item: "Hagerstown has today a blind tiger that is equal to any saloon that she voted out. Boys are getting drunk in Jefferson township that never did before, and more of them are drinking. We have information from fathers of that community who know whereof they speak! Where is the public sentiment there?" The information given concerning the sale and use of intoxicants in Hagerstown and Jefferson township since the saloons closed, as charged in the above extract, is greatly exagqerated. The conditions are many times better since the saloons have closed.
SESSION LAST NIGHT.
Prof. Christie
Lectured Show.
on Omaha
SUDHOFF CASE IS SETF0B HEARING Oral Argument in the Appellate Court.
The case of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railway company vs. Sudhoff has been set for oral argument in the Appellate court February 24. The defendant is Mrs. Mary Sudhoff, of this city. Her husband was killed in a railway accident and a jury in the Wayne circuit court awarded her $3,000 damages. The railroad company took the case to the higher court upon appeal and it now has been set for hearing after about two years of delay.
MASONIC CALENDAR.
, Wednesday, Feb. 3. Webb Lodge. No , 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting, Master's Degree. Refreshments. Thursday, Feb. 4 .Wayne Council. Xo. 10, R. & S. M. Stated Assembly. Saturday, Feb. 6 Loyal Chapter, Xo. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting.
Centerville, Feb. 3. The lecture this afternoon was on corn culture, by Prof. G. I. Christie. It was one of the most interesting addresses of the course. It was interesting to the farmer and the visitor as well. Many members of the Young Men's Business club attended the lecture. Prof. Christie said in part: "In corn culture the securing of a good seed bed is essential. Such a bed is best secured in a thoroughly drained soil. Where possible, soil should be tile drained. This permits the quick drying and aeration of the soil. It increases the feeding area of the roots. Soil drained by tile permits a greater development of the bacteria of the soil. Makes Corn Sturdy. "It has been found that on such soil
the corn is not so easily blown down by the high winds. It also carries the
corn through a drought much better than when the land is not drained except by its natural fall. This is due to the fact that the plant is able to throw out its roots in the soil further than where the soil is more compact, as in cases where the natural drainage is the only means of getting rid of surplus water. "Where fall plowing can be done is advisable. Many soils do not permit this for the reason that they are rolling and wash badly during the period of late fall and winter rains. Other soils are lacking in humus and therefore should not be fall plowed. Fall plowing is advisable where possible because a better seed bed can be
secured. The physical condition of the soil is improved. The mineral plant food is also liberated by this method. Fall plowing does much to retard the effect of insects on the crop. This is an important factor and must necessarily receive the attention of Indiana corn growers. The Disking Question. "The question of disking the ground before planting is an important one also. There are advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are that the organic matter is more thoroughly incorporated with the soil. In this way the capillary movement of water in the soil is improved over that where organic matter is plowed under without first being incorporated with the soil. The disking does much in assisting in the preparation of a deep seed bed which is essential. Land which is disked before plowing breaks less power to operate the plow." Other phases of the question showing when is the best time to plant corn was considered and discussed, at some length. In the course of planting much depends on the locality, the season and other points. This lies principally with the farmer. Crowd Stock Pavilion. Following Prof. Christie's address on corn culture the students, visitors and members of the domestic science course crowded the stock pavilion and listened to a lecture and watched a practical discussion of the dressing of two carcasses. Prof. Cochel of the live stock department lectured as the Centerville butcher trimmed the car
casses under his direction. This work was interesting even for the man who does not care a rap about farming or farm conditions. It was probably the
Centerville, Feb. 3. Last evening
the second day of the farmers' short course was concluded by an illustrated lecture on the Indiana corn growers'
trip to the national corn show at
Omaha last November and December,
by Prof. Christie. He made a few com
plimentary remarks about the school
SIGNED BY FATHERS AND VOTERS : Adam Geisler W. M. Stahr (hardware) Clarence Stewart Clarence Williams S. J. Pressel miller W. O. Cleveland (farmer) Andy Smith (farmerj Jake V. Allen (farmer) Joshua H. Allen (att'y-at-law) Robert Allen M. L. Gebhart (grocer) L. C. Allen H. J. Roush (miller) J. F. Pattison (general store) R. A. Deeter C. T. Knapp (monuments) M. W. Grills J- M. Knapp John A. Geisler Chas. Woolard (Supt. of Schools) Thomas Clark (miller) T. L. McConnaughey F. C. Lamar (physician) v J. M. Worl (hardware) John Dixon R. 8. Worl (hardware) G. W. Fulkerson Grafton Stewart (farmer) Daniel D. Hoover (farmer) Aaron Woolard (farmer) Hugh Allen A. S. Deeter (farmer) H. J. Day E. M. Wisehart (farmer) H. W. Keaggy (lumber) Vance Reece N. F. Canady (physician) Frank E. Hay (farmer) Albert Dines Luther Wisehart (farmer! B. F. Mason (att'y-at-law Earl Stewart (farmer) Ed Mason (insurance) Alonzo Daugherty (teacher) B. F. Jewett James Wilkinson (farmer) Martin Worl (farmer) W. T. Leaved (farmer) Clarence Foutz Carmon Sells W. C. Bookout (farmer! Levi S. Oilling (farmer) M. T. Fox (farmer) Francis Bowers (farmer) David Sells (farmer) H. H. Johnsonbaugh (farmer) Jesse Ghant (farmer) Samuel Dcerstler Martin Werking (dry goods) Harry R. Thalia W. H. Pitman Balser Eikenberry (farmer) E. S. Wikoff , Mont Miller (farmer)
This was tendered The Item at advertising rates yesterday and refused.
this week, but for years and years to come. Energy Is Needed. Farmers will have to realize, and are beginning to do so in fact, that it requires the eame amount of energy and nush in their business as it does in any
He enthused over the results of the other, declared the speaker. The farmfirst day of practical work and the er haB to brush up against a neighbor possibilities of the remainder of the and 8ee what he i8 doing. He said weelt- there was no better way than by atThe program last evening included" tending corn schools, and live stock eeveral musical numbers and a reclta- shows, such as the national corn show tion. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Krone. Mr. at Omaha. He then had the lantern Lacey and Mrs. Gormon. all of Rich- gHdes displayed. Each slide was exmond, rendered several vocal numbers piained by the speaker. Pictures of in a most pleasing and faultless man- Dri.6 winning corn, the growers, the
ner. There were in addition eeveral orchestra numbers by a local organization. Miss Bessie Buhl on a recitation entitled "Corn." carried off the honors "of the evening.
Will Mark an Epoch. In his peroration Prof. Christie stated that the course would mark an epoch in the history of agriculture in this county. He is confident that a great interest has been instilled into the minds of the young men In agricultural, and the young women in domestic science. He declared the course would result In the creation of better business men among the farmers and that it would directly result in the removal of any petty jealousies which the ruralite and the person living in the city. He declared that the school was bound to be a success not only for
prizes won, and many other Interest
ing views were displayed
JUDGES ARE FARMERS
Not Connected With Purdue Uni
versity.
The impression has been gained that
the instructors assisting Prof. Christie
in the judging and scoring of corn
were in some manner associated with
Purdue university. These men. in
eluding Joseph Helms, of south of the
city: Mr. Pailin. Mr. Kerlin. Mr. Vogler.and Mr. Brown, are all farmers like the students, but little bettter versed on the growing of corn. They were selected because of their reputation by the Indiana vorn growers' association of which organization they are
members. As a matter of fact the Indiana corn growers association is
booming a school as much as is Purdue university, and this association has contributed much to the success of the school. A Generous Qift Professor Munyon has just isned a most beautiful, useful and complete almanac. It contains not only all the scicctific information concerning the moon's phase, in all the latitudes, but has illustrated articles on how to read character by phrenology, palmistry and birth month. It also tells all about card reading, birth stones and their meaning, and gives the interpretation of dreams.- It teaches beauty culture, mam.-nring. fives weights and measures and antidote or poison. In fact, it is a Magazine Almanac, that not only gives valuable information, but will afford much amusement for every member of the family, especially for parties and evening entertainments. Farmers and people in the rural districts will find this Almanac almost invaluable. It will be wit to anyone absolutely free on application to the Munvon Remedy Company. Philadelphia. Pa, The collector objects of art and vertu was showing bis collection with much complacency. This." he observed In a bushed voice, "is a little thing I picked tip in London." "Indeed?" remarked the Irreverent friend. "Who dropped It?" Tasitba: . Gold Medal Flour leads them an. BOSSTtte.
ADVERTISEMENT.
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YES
Shall the sale of intoxicating liquors 2s a beverage be prohibited?
To vote "wet" put cross in square csrked "No."
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REMEMBER, TO VOTE AGAINST SALOONS, GROSS THE UORD "YES"