Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 134, 22 March 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MOXD AT, 3IARCH 22, 1909.

Tb nictoond Palladium as4 San-Ielecrani - Published and owned br the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evoning-s and Sunday morales. Office Corner North 9th and A streets. Homo Phone 1121. .- RICHMOND, INDIANA.

Rs)elfc G. teds....MaaasIas Edtter. Charles M. Morcaa. ..... . . ...Maaacer W. K. Paads1eae........Xews Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. Ia Richmond $5.00 per year (tn advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Ons year. In advance $5.00 81s months. In advance 2.60 One month, in advance RURAL ROUTES. On year, tn advance RM noiui, in advance .......... On month. In advance .23 Address chanced as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be " slvsa. -....- Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be aiven for a pao fried term; nam will not be entered nntll payment is received. Entsred at Richmond. Indiana, postoffice as second class mall matter. Tfc AssecUHon of Amorican ti Juisnissrs insw ins wij i Danaitasa sad esrtfflsd to the elrcnlatloa 1 nafTiii munrsnrm vuiinomnni MUM ia us rayon an j tat Association. BRING THE CONVENTION. If Richmond people want to, they can bring to town thousands of the members of the Knights of Pythias for their annual encampment. The only thins which Btands in the way is the money. And this money is a much mailer sum than will return to the town, a fraction of what the Knights will spend in the town. Sooner or later that eame money will be distributed among Richmond merchants and Industries. The town will more than get its money back. Is it , possible that we are losing ground and that there should be the slightest hesitation about , bringing these men here? Is it possible that we are back to that old pessimistic, individualistic view, when we were just on the threshhold of optimism and cooperation? 1 Have we gone back to the 'knocking' period and the time of the standstill? :v i It has , been urged that the necessary funds to bring this encampment here will cripple the Fall Festival. If It be true, it ia indeed a matter for serious consideration. One opinion Is as good as another in most things, but we would remind the citizens that this tains' of finding some excuse for not bringing money, men, and life into the town Is the same sort of thing which the pessimistic ones urged before the Good Roads Congress and the Fall Festival Itself. This has the effect of discounting the objection, were there no other way of getting a line on the proposition. The only way that this will not Interfere with the Fall Festival is by .getting out now by the means of personal representatives (not circular letters or telephone calls) and putting the affair right before the eyes of the merchants, and Interested persons. Get the money in the spring and there will be no difficulty about the money la the fall for the Fall Festival. We are of the opinion that not to have the encampment will hurt the FtoJI Festival, and more than that, not to have it will hurt Richmond. This is a surprising statement., As a matter of common knowledge it was not a mere sum of money that made a success out of the venture last Fall. It was the spirit of enthusiasm, the spirit of co-operation which made it a success the money was a byproduct If you are going to stifle every good thing that comes along, which in its way is quite as good for the town as the Fall Festival, do you not see that you are killing the spirit which made the Fall Festival a success ? You are saying in the most peseimistio way: "Richmond is so much of a jay town that It is impossible to have anything going on except at one time in the year and that in' the fall." And you can see perfectly well that the ultimate effect of such an idea is not one of building up, but of undermining confidence and enthusiasm. Once confidence and enthusiasm are gone where is your Fall Festival? The friends of Richmond will have to get together, not to call the pessimists names, but to reason with them and show them where they are wrong. Show them that the pessimistic view never did anything for the town hut hold It in the shackles of gloom and incut-throat competition. Before the fall festival you could hear the same talk of doubt. You do not hear it now because the thing demonstrated its own .worth.' And now the same fall festival, which should have been an inspiration, and incentive to going ahead on new plans for growth. Is held up as a scare crow to frighten - the timid against more things of the same kind. To those friends of the fall festival, we say. if Richmond plays the 'quitter now the fall festival will indeed

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be the failure they are trying to make the optimists believe it will be if the encampment is brought here.

FIRE PROTECTION AGAIN. We will not say "We told you so." But just as we had been talking about fire protection and insurance rates and the like, one of the large factories of the town burns down. You see we can have fires in Richmond under adverse circumstances which are of more importance than the burning up of a wood shed. And while It did not burn the whole town down nor devastate a whole section of the city, it di, wipe out thousands of dollars wortt of property and will throw many of the employes of the concern out of work. We ask: Is this the thing to instill confidence in the minds of those who would invest in the new companies on the outskirts of the town? Is it the sort of thing which will help insurance rates? And doesn't it rather point to a weak spot somewhere? We are just as convinced that there should be better fire protection for the town as we ever were and hope that the citizens will incline a little more to our way of thinking. The fact that the plant was insured has only the effect of bringing up the closely allied problem of fire insurance rates. It is a matter which 6hould interest every citizen. To the Indianapolis Star which is saying that Wayne county is in the nature of an experiment station for Marion county, we would point out the obvious fact to anyone who knows anything of saloon and law enforcement conditions here and there that the well regulated saloons and strict law enforcement in Richmond are not parallels from which to reason about Indianapolis. And should this not be believed we would not have to retract should the Star care to investigate by sending its representatives over. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Highways Not for Sport. From the Boston Herald. The warning of the state highway commission against the violation of laws and ordinances in automobile road races will not interfere with the full enjoyment of legitimate automobiling. Speed contests as a sport may still be held if promoters and enthusiasts are sufficiently interested to provide the necessary tracks. But the highways belong to the public, and should not, even occasionally, be monopolized for any sport. Tests of endurance in all the legal road powers of an automo bile may be made. Speed competitions within the limits of the law should be as interesting as tests of machines and drivers for all practical road ser vice as are contests which put a prem ium on speed forbidden by law. Automobiling for business or pleasure will not suffer by the enforcement of the law.; Automobiling as a sport has no place of rig'at on the highway and its devotees should not complain if they are forced to seek special grounds, as other sports have been reauired to do. The Early Birds. From the Hartford Courant. The birds are- here all rieht: that is thev are here, and so we suppose It is all right. Most of the arrangements of nature are so considered. On every lawn these crisn morninRS the black birds are abundant, and the robins are about as plenty. If the ordinarv wava of the climate prevail we shall have at least one good, solid snowstorm; we always get It after the birds that leave in 1he fall return to their sum mer homes. Start Right, Grow Right! From the Boston TranscriDt. What S fine city Boston might be if we could only start over again with its construction is made reasonably clear by the report of the metropolitan district commission. The Insurgent. From the Brooklyn Standard Union. An insurgent Is a man who has dis covered the great truth that everv minority ought to be more numerous than the majority. Used to Harder Work. From the Omaha Bee. Still, hold ing down a job like that of collector or. tne.port or New lork must seem very much like loafing to Mr. Loeb. No Advantage. From the Omaha Bee. Xo atten tion should be paid to the proposition to change the inaugural dav from March 4 to March 17. Neither date has a satisfactory weather reputation. Soon! From the Chieasro Pnst now the last recalcitrant hs bail star will come back to the reservation ana spring win be with us. THE SALVATION ARMY. We are holdlne meetinss in nnr hall 402 Main street every night in the week. All are heartily invited to attend. We have meetings for children Wednesday evenings at 6:30. and Sunday mornings at 10:30. MASONIC CALENDAR. Wednesday Evening, March 24 Webb Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M., called meeting, Entered Apprentice degree. ' Friday, March 26 King Solomon's Chapter. No. 4. R. A. M. Called meetIns. Mark Master Degree.

PROPOSES NEW FLAG DESIGN FOR NA TION Washington, March 2 A new "Old Glory" is proposed In a bill recently introduced by Representative Aneberry of Ohio to amend the section of the revised statutes which relates to the design of the American flag. A new formation of the stars is suggested. They would be arranged in "five arcs in combination, the centers of the arcs to be the apices of a regular pentagon, the radius of the arcs to be equal to one side of the pentagon." Ae to the size of the stars the bill prescribes that their raidus shall be equal to "one-fourth the distance of the stars from center to center." Provision for adding new stars for new states might be made by extending the arcs.

TWINKLES Time Saving. "Do you approve of chemicals and other foreign substances in food?" "Certainly," answered the imaginative scientist. "I am now engaged in experiments by which a cure for dyspepsia can be introduced into every pie." Not Standing Together. "You should hesitate about disparagement of a man in public life." "I never do any disparaging. If I disapprove of anybody I wait for another ms-n in public life to disparage him and then indorse the sentiment." The Fault-Finder. No medal ere answers Man's practical wish; Too big for a scarfpin, Too small for a dish. The Inevitable Consideration. "What's dis talk of a free breakfast table?" asked Meandering Mike. "It's another political dream," answered Plodding Pete. "It's something dat'll never happen as long as dere's wood to be chopped." "Dar is two kinds of arguments," said Uncle Eben, "dem in which you is tryin' to enlighten somebody an dem in which you is tryin' to fool somebody." Heart to Heart 7 alks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copy.isht, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye WHO KILLED THE BABY? Baby Bremerman of Washington wa killed by poisonous gas. The Bremerman family was poor. It used a cheap gas stove which leaked and poisoned the family. All recovered except the baby. Investigation showed that the polonous gas was carbon monoxide. It was not coal gas, the merchantable gas, at all. It was a mixture of 25 pei cent coal gas with a product known es carbureted water gas. You see, it is cheaper to make gas of water than out of coal. So long as no one makes objection the water ga serves the same purpose as coal gas and the gas company gets bigger dividends. But The mixture of the two gases produces a percentage of carbon monoxide, one of the most deadly gase? known to chemists. So that the people of Washington are receiving through the gas pipec into their homes a deadly poison. This poison does not "asphyxiate" people, ae does coal gas. It strikes them down suddenly when they get a whiff of it If the people happen to be poor, likt the Bremermans, and there is a leak .in the pipes or the stove, there is a tragedy. i wi Who killed the Bremerman baby) 1 The Washington Gas Light company contracted with the Bremermans to give them pure coal gas. Presumably they paid their bills. Now, If after making this contract 'the gas light company substituted a .cheaper product which was poisonous common sense would suggest that the Igas company killed the baby. The department of justice says no. ) It says there is no liability on the part of the company for the results ol its carbon monoxide. Because, say the lawyers, congress did not say the company , should not make and sell this poison (sic), thereforewhy, therefore the company had the undoubted rlSht to poison Bremer man's baby. But, nevertheless, say the lawyers. I the company did not kill the baby. Who, then, did kill the child? ! The parents because their cheap ga? overleaked, or the company that botched the 6tove In the making, or the gas'fitters, or congress? I Who killed Bremerman's baby? l The name of its murderer is GREED Dickens Character. ATT Vtrose elements that disgust Mr. Pugh In Dickins, the clowning and caricature, the preposterous figures and the practical jokes, Mr. Pickwick getting into the wheelbarrow and Tony Weller hardly getting Into his waistcoat all this is simply the life and laughter of the actual English people. One has only to go down the Battersea park road on a Saturday night to hear it G. K. Chesterton In London News. Couldnt Fool Johnny. Widow Jones How would my little Johnny like a new papa? Johnny (aged five) Oh, yon needn't chore the' responsibility on to me, ma! It Isn't a new papa for me, but a new husband for yourself, that yon are thinking of. Boston Transcript. Our Helpful Maids. Louise I'm In an awful boat After I started to bleach my hair I found I had only enough to do half of It, and Kelson la coming tonight Julia Never mind. dear. Let hint ait on Ota perox-stde. Harper's

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SAID BE Of BIG I E Morton S. Hawkins of Indianapolis Comes. to Defense of Richmond Man and Gives History of Case. ROOSEVELT A FACTOR IS ALLEGATION MADE Stated That for Political Reasons He Asked Dismissal of McNutt From Vatican Storer Figures. Morton S. Hawkins of Indianapolis, former government employe, and a well known man, has come to the de fense of Francis A. McNutt of this city. He claims that the Richmond man was dismissed from the Vatican as the result of a consDiracv bv Italian i catholics and because he was the vic tim of an intrigue of President Roosevelt and Bellamy Storer, who was the American ambassador to Rome. A few days ago the Palladium printed an explanation of the incident by Mr. McNutt, which was published in the Indianapolis Star. Yesterday the Star published the letter by Mr. Hawkins, which is exceedingly interesting and Is as follows:. Resents Explanation. The manner in which The Star publishes and accepts the explanation from Mr. Francis A. MacNutt and the spirit shown is a matter of much regret to the friends and connection's of Mr. MacNutt in this country, and especially in Indiana. Certainly an Indiana man is entitled to better treatment from a home paper. So far as I know the true story of the persecution of Mr. MacNutt has never been published,, and as I happen to know the facts as they appear to a disinterested party who investigated the matter I ask you to publish them. Strong Prejudice. My knowledge of the matter waa gained from a friend of his who seemed to be in a position to know most of the facts. It is first necessarr in considering the matter to remember that Mr. MacNutt is a converted Catholic, and that in Rome among the Italian Catholics, especially th'e officials of the church there, there exists a prejudice against converted Catholics, and even more of those holding office in the church. Therefore, so my information goes, when Mr. MacNutt. a converted Amer ican Catholic took up his residence in Rome, bought one of the finest palaces and started to entertain extensively, and finally became an intimate friend of Pope Leo, and was appointed to the highest office that a Catholic layman can aspire to, that of honorary chamber Hn to the Pope, and the first American who ever attained that honor, why then the jealous Italians at the Vatican began to exert whatever influence and power they could to undermine MacNutt and thrust him out of his office and honors in disgrace. Storer Incident." About the time that this statement began the celebrated Bellamy Storer incident was started, several years before it became a public matter. As I understand it, there is no doubt but what President Roosevelt had given much encouragement to the Storers in their scheme to have Archbishop Ireland created a cardinal, and when the project was started the Storers went to Rome and went at the matter with very much like a political campaign is run In this country. "Having no knowledge of the way such things are done in Rome, the Storers met with repulse after repulse, and finally miserable failure and defeat. Not having consulted MacNutt or asked his help or advice, the Storers. in looking around and trying to account for their failure, figured that MacNutt being a person of much Influence at the Vatican, an officer of the court and intimate friend of the Pope, had been the cause of the failure of their plans. Roosevelt Takes Hand. So they accordingly reported this fact to the president at Washington and requested that he ask the papal nuncio at Washington to report to Rome, that MacNutt's presence at the Vatican was distasteful at Washington. At this time, before the Storer row became public, the president, being in fact interested in the success of the mission of the Storers, made the' request, and when It reached Rome, in connection with the machinations of the Italians in the Vatican, who were jealous of MacNutt. resulted in disgrace. This, so I am told by disinterested people. Is the true story of the false charges made against Mr. MacNutt, which were later entirely disproved. So the fact is that through mis re ptations to President' Roosevelt

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"A The Auto Inn SC Mr. MacNutt was discredited, the president later finding that the Storers had misrepresented the affair. But on account of the president wishing not to be understood to have been acting with the Storers he never was able to recall his action concerning MacNutt and probably would not have done so if he could, as such action would be an admission on his part that he hsd assisted the Storers. Had No Right to Mix In. I understand that the blanks in the Storers letters that were published referred to MacNutt, but his name was never printed in connection with the affair. So this was the ending of a business that the president and the Storers had no right to mix in. and shows how sometimes such things can do an injustice to innocent people without cause. It is said, however that Archbishop Ireland never gave active assistance to the Storers and really was not responsible for their efforts. 1 I make this explanation so that no injustice be done to a brilliant Indiana man, grandson of Jo'jn M. U. MacNutt and Alexander Scott, who has served his country well. Is a credit to his native state and who promises to make a brilliant career as an author. There is no doubt that Mr. MacNutt and hi? Influence was of great benefit to Judge Taft In the settle ment of the friars' claims, and during the six weeks' stay of Mr. Taft in Rome Mr MacNutt gave him every assistance in making a satisfactory settlement with the Vatican. On account of Mr. MacNutt's Intimate relations with the Pope it was very easy for Mr. Taft-to make a satisfactory settlement of the matter. The death of Pope Leo was the death of Mr. MacNutt's influence at Rome, and the best friends of the present Pope will admit that the latter's influence and policies are the re verse of those of Leo XIII. When Pius came into power the influence of the American party was particularly extinguishedMORTON S. HAWKINS. Indianapolis. rts Smart as His Boy. When Sir William Gilbert was twenty-seven and was known to the world as a promising writer, his father, who was a retired naval surgeon, wrote a seml-me1aphyslcal.v semi-medical book entitled "Shirley Hall Asylum." bis first book. Edith A. Brown, wben preparing a biography of the younger man. having heard that the son was the lacentive from without which spurred Into action the inherent but dormant literary talent of the father, asked if such was the fact. "Yes." replied the author of the "Bab Ballads" and the wittiest librettos ever written. "I think the little success which had attended by bumble efforts certainly Influenced my father. "You see." he added, with a suspicion of a smile, "my father never had an exalted Idea of my abClty. He thought if I could write anybody coukL'and forthwith be began. Antieuity ef Death Masks. Although there is no mention of death masks in the works of Homer or in any of the later classics, modern explorers have satisfied themselves that in the early burials of all nations It was the custom to cover the beads and bodies ef the dead with sheets of gold so pliable that they took the impress of the form, and not Infrequently, when In the course of centuries the embalmed flesh had shriveled or fallen away, the gold retained the exact cast of the features. SchUemann found a number of bodies "eorered - with large masks of gold plats In wpoasse work," several of which have been reproduced by means of engraving In bis -Mycenae." and he asserts that there can be no doabt whatever that each one of these represents the likeness of the deceased person whose face It eorered. The man who Is standing vp for ye soon gets tired and alts dowa- Atcfcf rm Boose .

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Phone 1925 SUPERSTITIONS. They Find a Placs In the Minds ef Cu.. flmm Um. A man more absolutely governed by pure reason than Lord Macanlay could not well be found. But in his diary he refers to an after dinner talk about the feeling which Johnson had of thinking oneself bound to touch a particular rail or post and to tread In the middle of a paving stone, and he tdds, "I certainly have this very , ctrongly." In one of his Hibbert lee tures Max Muller said to the student: "Many of you, I suspect carry a ha'penny with a hole in It for luck, I am not ashamed to own that I have done so myself for many years. Charles Dickens refused to lie down unless his bed were placed doe north and south. He gave notice of the rale before arriving: at a friend's bouse or a hotel, but a compass waa always handy In his baggage to make sore. Miss Justin McCarthy has .told-how Parnell gravely checked her stirring coffee "the wrong way" and Insisted that she should take another cnp. A gentleman of Portrosh sent Lord Roberts an old horseshoe wben things looked ill ia South Africa. Gratefully acknowledging it, the general added that be would keep this horseshoe In company "with one I picked up the day I entered the Orange Free State and another I found at Paardeburg the day before General Cronje surrendered." Pall Mall Gazette. Hsr Own Work. "Tour husband," said Gaddle, "appears to be a -man of great self control." "Yes." replied Mrs. Peckham. "he Is." "I suppose," Gaddle went on, "be Inherited that quality from his father, the judge?" "No," she replied significantly, "it'a a virtue he has acquired since his marriage." PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY. n MONDAY Wash da jNever mind the wine housewife no longer -dreads the extra work for the kitch en scouring In so lightened by the use of Whim that it more than makes up for the washIns:. To scour aaytfclaa? jut apply a little Whix. water rub rinse and For the Farmers We are now ready to contract for corn and tomatoes for pack 1909, and we would like for evcrybdy that is thinking about growing the two above crops to call at our office or phone us so we can have all ef our acreage In by the first of April. D. C C28rC Sex Canners

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The Auto Inn Political Announcements Advertisements in This Column Cost Ten Dollars. WOK MAYOR. KZNRY W. DECKER la a candidate for mayor, subject to the Republican nomination. ' a ft m.YYV ft . . . . . sAnuui jv. sunuan, candidate ioc Mayor, subject to the Republican nomination. " EDWARD H. HARRIS Is a eaadtdat. for Mayor, subject to the Republican nomination. FOR CITY CLERK. BALTZ A. BESCHER Is a candidate) for the office of city clerk of Richmond, subject to the Republican nomination. ' There b netting QGoIier Breed Fcr sale by all Grcccro Deer Ye! Czcr Ye! All whs need CKO OATS or CLOVER S3ECD ehowld remember we can supply them Immediately in any quantity. Have received another car ef NORTHERN OATS. OILIER G. lVDELAN 7. VcUvisS to ReOthers hare failed to repair. It yon have such a watch let as give yoa aa estimate ef cost of repair. Oe E. P!atf rtir-rCn - Diamonds Mounted. CGrjT.

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