Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 300, 5 September 1909 — Page 4

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Tte Richmond Palladium and Son-Telegram . Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning. OfficeCorner North Sth and A streets. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Hadolpfc a. Leeds... .Maaaslaa Editor. Charles M, Mercaa Maaaarer. W. It. Poaadatoae ..Ntm Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. . In Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL, SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance ........... .$5.00 Sir months, Jn advance 2.60 One month, in advance .45 RURAL ROUTES. Ona year. In advance .....$2.50 Blx months, In advance 1.50 One month. In advance 25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment is. received. Kntered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. Tk. AssoHation of Ntw Ywk City) has aatrtitladtataas(KalatJeal slthls Only ta Bents 4 tains la Its rrsert ait tytaa AaMsUUoa. THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES We should like to see the appeal of the Associated Charities answered in a very substantial manner by the citizens of Richmond. Every one must know that th- price of household commodities has gone up, taxes are going up, which also eventually means higher rent, clothing is higher in price. Wages, which were good a few years ago are not what they once were in actual buying power. These are facta. We are promised good times and things are already getting better. But The simple fact is that there are many people in this town whose incomes are so delicately adjusted that an unusual expense such as sickness, child birthror a few days of enforced Idleness means much. It may mean the loan shark or other difficulties It may mean aeml-starvation if the man does not want to get into debt It may mean that he will be started down the wrong path. These people are not paupers and we should resent just as they do any imputation that they belong to such a class. These people need just such treatment as will or ought to be accorded them by - the Associated Charities. These men are commonly known ( as the 'deserving poor.' But we object to such a classification. These are not the sort of people for that Idea and if they are approached In any such manner they will starve before they will avail themselves of such assistance. On Christmas Day and New Years, your dinner will taste considerably better if well you ought to know the rett. It is better to give to an Institution such as the Associated Charities than to send some one something at Christmas time just to be giving.. The Associated Charities to the best of our information works all the year. RIFE Yesterday,-Rife, tried by a jury of twelve of his peers and sentenced to electrocution without any recommendation for leniency, stands ready for the chair, with no appeal for a new trial. That Is an unusual occurrence in this day and generation. Collier's Weekly has Just been calling attention to the difference in judicial proceedure, particularly in murder cases, in England and America. The affair would have been commonplace in English courts, It Is noteworthy in comparison with the abortions of justice In this country. Such is the Rife case. It seems hard to speak in a cold and judicial manner of a man's death by electrocution or hanging, yet, according to the traditions of our ancestors and the apparent common good, is it not a far healthier attitude than the sham and tinsel sentimentality over- criminals and the weakening of the respect for law and order which is becoming more and more apparent? Whatever one may think: of the question; as to whether or not Thaw is guilty or innocent, even those who believe him guiltless can not defend' a system" which makes a farce out of the provision for the criminally insane. If a man Is guilty let him have the fullness' of the law and not maunder over it in a white livered fashion and release htm or commit him to an insane asylum. v-' It is: a relief, therefore from this point of view, to think that local conditions are such that, a definite decision free from technicalities, employed by skillful attorneys, has been honestly and incisively arrived at. For when courts do hazy and halfhearted work, it does not mean the removal of a cloud from a man's reputation when 1 the courts free i htm. That is the gain of real decisions In courts of justice. It is a debt to the man who' is innocent.

Honi SoitQui Maly Pease "Evil to him who thinks evil." The Palladium yesterday carried the story of the punishment of a young fellow by a girl who alleged that he had been engaged in the spreading of false and malicious tales concerning her. Now of the merits of this particular case we do not pretend nor desire to sit in judgment. On the face of the story we are glad that it has happened.

The subject is not a new one. The circumstances are not unique. The same conditions are to be found everywhere. But there should be a campaign of this sort of thins carried on until fear and trembling have brought discretion, if not the veneration of women, into being. If you will watch and listen you will become aware of what is going on in our midst Stop in some cigar store, billiard room. In a knot of young fellows or their elders anywhere in fact. You will not have to wait long until some girl's name comes up. What is said does i not matter so much half the time, as the way in which the thing is said. It will appear from the conversation that every one of these young fellows has an absolute and infallible knowledge of the morajs of every woman and girl in town nay, he knows from personal research and investigation he himself says so. What proof could be more conclusive? And so the story grows.

It would be a good thing if there were a reversion to that rule of the gentlemen of the old school to mention no woman's name in a public place. In certain old-fashioned clubs in the courtly South a woman's name may not even be spoken and a reprimand is sure to follow him who disobeys the rule. Nor is this sort of thing confined to certain sections of the country or to men of a certain clique which may be regarded as effete or supersensitive. You will find it in that wild rough place called the Frontier, where there are men quick on the trigger, and with their fists. You can find it in the Bowery Tough (see that interesting piece of biography My Mamie Rose). In short where men's blood Is still red and their souls are not yellow one may still find true gentleness. -

Nor is this alone a matter for men. There are women who make a business of gossip or prying into affairs and of intermingling their imagination with the truth. Very often these are prudes women of shallow minds and idle thoughts. In former times the ducking stool ,

Yet there is another side to this. Watch the girls by twos and twos who go up Main street past these same boys who are busying themselves with toying their names. Watch what they do with their eyes, do they ever overstep the boundaries of propriety? Ask any policeman about the girls on the street.

At the risk of being old-fashioned and even at the expense of making life a little less interesting for those who are not yet of age it might not be entirely Inadvisable for mothers to keep their daughters off the street and for fathers to assert what little authority they have left over their offspring who suddenly develop the 'man of th world,' 'about town', attitude from data picked up in cigar stores and on street corners when they are not busy trying to persuade some bartender that they are of age. A sociologist with many titles and degrees appended to his name has remarked In a recent book "that a desire for reputed prowess is marked in the leisure class." If some of the idlers with the "Younger Set LeisureClass" bug in their craniums cared not so much for the reputation of prowess with the other sex and would think more about getting a job they might be tired enough at the end of the day to desist from scandal mongering.

In the meantime without pretending to judge of the merits of the case the individual method of reformation employed recently in Richmond has some very healthy points for consideration.

WE ARE GLAD TO SA Y We call the attention of Mr. Harry Paschke of speeding fame to the manner in which Mr. John F. Davenport averted an accident the other night by smashing the front end of his car to avoid running into two people. Mr. Paschke when sojourning in this city did not show the consideration for others which marked the actions of Mr. Davenport or any other careful driver. In fact If he had been up against the same proposition and had to choose between smashing his car or running over the people he in all probability would have had no chance to display his presence of mind the momentum of the car would have done the rest The Palladium takes this occasion not only to compliment a very meritorious performance on the part of Mr. John F. Davenport but to make good bur assertion that the drivers of cars are as a rule careful. The car. of Mr. Davenport was under complete control as events proved. The Palladium is particularly glad to call to public notice the careful drivers as well as the speed maniacs and their machines. Hems Gathered in . From Far and Near OUR POLE. Boston Journal. Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue, the first national colors to be raised at the goal reached by an American after a race lasting hundreds of years. And three cheers and a tiger for Cook! - A Chance for an Argument. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Yet it will be worth much to Dr. Cook, just to have "been thar." It is a good brag. Philosophers will have to account for the tropical trees and animals, drifting southward in ocean currents from the Pole, on some other hypothesis than that the Pole is a hole through which oceans roll. One question, however, he must leave unsettled : Was the Garden of Eden located at the North Pole? Long May Sh Wave. Atlanta Journal. The practical benefits of the discovery will be of the negative kind, but 30,000 square miles will now be charted on what was hitherto marked on the map as terra incognita.' ; , , ; Coming x so soon after the winning by an American of the grand prize for navigating the air, the successful eftort of Dr. Cook places this country in

a commanding position which she can never lose.

The Knockers. Chicago Inter Ocean. It seems strange that a reputable man's claim to have accomplished such a purely sporting feat as the discovery of the North Pole should be questioned in angry language, showing all the traces of envy and malice. It seems not without significance that the carping comes from men who have failed in similar enterprises and from arm-chair and laboratory scientists. Prize Went to An American. Chattanooga News. Dr. Cook has been successful until the contrary is proved. He has always believed that an American would get the honors. That is far more patriotic than the voice of the small fellows who are expressing doubts p.n to the truth of the story. It is a great achievement, and we believe that Dr. Cook will convince even Walter Wellman. A Needed Lesson. Buffalo Times. "Yes, the North Pole is found. But what is the use of it? What does it amount to?" That is a strictly practical line of questioning, and we would say in answer that the achievement of Cook ought to read a lesson to Americans on the evil of the national habit of being too practical and granting too little to the grand the monumental, the imaginative. An Unequaled Feat. Springfield Republican. As a feat of adventure pure and simple, the first discovery of the North Pole is unsurpassed. If not unequaled, in all time. The name of the explorer will endure while the earth continues to be a habitation for the human race. Of the scientific value of the achievement, one cannot speak in such unmeasured terms. Cook, American. Atlanta Georgian. The world's far thest north by Cook, American! Americans may well read that sentence through a dimness that stings, in which is blended love of country, pride of race, glory of conquest, and, for the gallant souls that have tried and failed, a mistiness of true regret. We Have plenty of Ice Now. ' New Orleans Times-Democrat Dr. Cook announces that e discovered land far to the north, and this land, of course, belongs to the United States by right of discovery. But as we have ample ice in Alaska, it is not probable that the new acquisition will ever amount to much. "My sou. man. -is anxious to Uiuiut- a pugilist- I'm doing my beat to prevent him." "Let him go ahead." said the friend of the family, "and bare some one pound him. You'll nod a pound of cure worth more than an ounce of prevention. Philadelphia Record.

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TWINKLES SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. (Atchinson (Kan.) Globe.) The only thing most people acquire is old age. What has become of the old-fashioned boy who played a Jew's harp? Men may begin the marrying tallc, but It is the women who keep it up. A man never shows much fondness for his kin until he gets an office, and needs deputies. A girl who Is truthful about everything else will fib about the number of her admirers. We have observed that a husband is less careful than a lover in concealing the fact that he chews tobacco. Nothing makes an old widower quite so mad as an intimation that some designing woman will "rope him in." Don't resolve to be better to the world; limit your desire to be more patient with your family and neighbors. Sympathize with any woman because of her hard work in raising a family, and her husband will look injured. Doesn't he Pay the Bills? Surround a mule with a hundred bushels of oats and he will eat just enough and no more. Isn't It too bad that man hasn't that much sense? THE BRAVE MAN'S PRAYER. (Chicago News.) I am human. Lord no more; Tm lucky to be that. I've boasted oft, with poor excuse; in mourning sackcloth I've sat. My cosmos much to ego runs; when disciplined I chafe and yelp, And, like the rest of humankind, I've frequent hunger for your help. But, heed me, Lord, that I may put into this plea my utmost zest! Please do not start assisting me until you see I've done my best. Many a time and yet again I've fooled myself along this line Have thought myself exhausted quite and sore in need of strength divine, Until within me something stirred, some hidden power sprang to light, And, like Paul Jones, my spirit cried: "We have not yet begun to fight!" Help me remember this, dear Lord, when I come whining round the throne Lend not your everlasting arm while there's a stroke left in my own. You know, O Lord, just what I mean; I need not choose my words with you. You know full well if what I say with what is in my heart rings true. I do not ask because I fear if I ask not you will not give You taught me fatherhood; my child need never plead the right to live But from my soul the cry ascends and gushes from my very lips in speech Give me no aid t howe'er I plead, for tasks within my mortal reach! Kt i v. . . . . .ES. If a portion of your turnips are too small to pare boll them first and then rub the skins off with your hands. The next time you use gasoline to clean any delicate fabric add a little cornmeal. The meal will scour out all the spots. If food is scorched in the cooking remove the pan from the stove and place it in a larger pan of cold water Then place a dish towel over the pan. The towel will absorb all the scorched taste from the steam and when placed on the table there will be no taste of the scorching. If you have never tasted potatoes baked tn the following manner then you have never really tasted baked potatoes. Before baking let them stand in a pan of cold water for about an hour, then place them In the toven and bake in the nsnal manner. The steam so generated will make them cook more rapidly. Though the average housekeeper apparently isn't aware of the fact that a waste basket in the kitchen is a useful thing the fact remains that it is. Try one under your kitchen table in which to throw all wrappers from parcels and other odds and ends that cannot be placed in the garbage or In the ash pall. It is also a good idea to hang a small bag over the kitchen table and use it as a receptacle for odds and ends of string and cord. Packing Hats. In packing your hat for the summer vacation see that the crown is well stuffed, so it will not become crushedIt Is not necessary to use tissue paper for this. Stockings, handkerchiefs and other soft articles of clothing will answer the purpose quite as well. If the hat boasts of ribbon loops see that these, too. are kept in shape with crushed tissue paper. !In the hat carefully into the trunk, a it will not slip around in transit

Freak Laws of Washington Ignored by the Officials

Seattle, Wash., Sept. 4. With Gov. M. EL Hay issuing a formal statement justifying himself for violating the anti-tipping law in giving a waiter a lO-cen? tip, with one member of the supreme court openly puffing a cigarette every evening in the lobby of his hotel at Olympia, despite the anti-cigarette law, and with every state official sleeping nightly under sheets that are less than nine feet in length, as required by law, general official disregard of freak state statutes is apparent. More or less contempt has been expressed on all sides for these statutes, but it remained for Governor Hay to give official expression jf contempt for a law which he had taken an oath to enforce. A Spokane paper published the statement that he was seen to leave a ltVcent piece on the table for a waiter. Next day the governor issued a statement saying In substance that he had certainly violated the anti-tipping law and that he had done so believing it to be unconstitutional. Every man his own lawyer in determining the constitutionality of crim SAYS RAILROADS WILL BACK TAFT Lucius Tuttle Declares Need Of Many Reforms Is Conceded. CALLS SOME IMPOSSIBLE HE STATES INTERSTATE COMMERCE SHOULD NOT BE COMPELLED TO GO OUT AND WORK UP MOST OF CASES. Beverly, Mass., Sept. 4. That the railroads of the United States will be behind President Taft In many of the reforms which he proposes as amendments to the Interstate Commerce act is the conviction of Mr. Lucius Tuttle, Railroad and one of the best known railroad men in New England. Mr. Tuttle is not in sympathy with J all of the reforms which the President has directed his law commission, headed by Attorney General Wickersham, to investigate. As a practical railroad manager he doubts the feasibility of accomplishing some of the changes which have been suggested. In an interview with a correspondent Mr. Tuttle said: Most Harmless Part. "From my point of view the most harmful part of the Interstate Commerce law is that which gives the commission the duty of working up by investigation, detective service and in other ways the cases which they will try. The law makes it necessary for them to do this in the line of their duty. The commission is In aH practical ways a court. A railroad goes before it and, in a way, the rules of evidence are observed, and it deals with the road as a court and makes a decision.- This decision is the law until it is upset through an appeal. "It is well known that no man can Investigate a complaint in an ex parte way without forming an opinion and practically arriving at a decision. One able and influential member of the commission said to me not long ago that most of the cases they were called upon to try were prejudged before they were heard. He did not mean that the opinions of the Commissioners could be changed, but that they start in at a hearing with them al ready formed. This is not fair to the Commissioners, the railroad or the complainant "If the President can find some plan by which cases can be worked up by the Department of Justice and decided by the Commissioners he will hare produced nearer absolute ujstlce than can otherwise come. We do not complain of the working of the law, but I believe that railroad people feel that where the commission is called upon to do the detective work ths judgment WANTED Two experienced girla at the Eldorado Laundry. 18 N. 9th. 3-3t

inal statutes may succeed in the antitipping instance, but it has proved a costly failure in the case of the anticigarette law. Hundreds of arrests hare been made under that statute and thousands of dollars in fines have been follected. In several sections of the state the county judges have held the law unconstitutional, and In those sections It is being disregarded by cigar itores and smokers, while in other sections it is being rigidly enforced and fines imposed and collected without appeal to the supreme court. Three .rases only have been appealed, but at the usual rate of disposition they will not be decided for two years. The boldness of one of the supreme court justices in violating the statute is widely heralded as an indication that the law will be held unconstitutional.'

None but traveling men have sought to enforce the nine-foot sheet law. but two complaints having been lodged under this statute. Of all the freak statutes enacted by the last legislature the one requiring physical examina tion before marriage is the only one completely enforced. is prematurely formed. This is not a weakness in the law. Public Should Support "I believe that in urging this change the President will have the support of all well informed railway managers. He ought to have the support of the public and . the change should not be opposed by the commission. We 'all know that the commission is today overworked. I do not think It would be If It had no other duty than hearing evidence and making decisions on the facts as they appear. If the President's co-ordination of the work of the Interstate Commerce Commission with the Department of Justice and perhaps the Bureau of Corporations could be accomplished along this line, we would get speedier opinions in place of the present delays and uncertainties." Mr. Tuttle's personal opinion Is that physical valuation of railroads can never be fairly accomplished. Good will cannot be accurately estimated. A railroad property may be worth a certain amount a mile under certain conditions resultant from good management or fail to pay anything upon the investment under adverse circumstances. He would have the restriction which now prevents representatives of different roads from getting together and agreeing upon a joint rate removed, subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, believing that this does not accomplish the result at which it is aimed. "There should be the right to reach a stability of rates," Mr. Tuttle said. "Nothing is more harmful than a fac-

TL ABMDI1S You are invited to attend the celebration given under auspices ef

CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL at

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Ctb. ADDRESSES WILL BE GIVEN BY THE FOLLOWING:

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of this city, the well known young Attorney, and Rm J0M F. OTOE of Indianapolis, Ind, Editor of the Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine.' MUSIC BY UNION BAND DANCE IN THE L O. O. F. HALL IN THE EVENING In case of rain the exercises In the afternoon will be given In '. the Coliseum. 'C

tional warfare, which occasionally occurs. It la demoralizing to business, upsets the prices of merchandise and can do no good to anybody. I woutt have the law amended to permit the

fixing of rates for stated periods, subject to the approval of the commission.' This is said to be one of the reforms in the interest of the railroads which the President "desires. Service of Directors. There is grave question among raillng service of the same directors upon competing lines. It is held that the right to vote stock is an inherent property right which could not be taken away. Any attempt at such 'control, it is held, would be followed by so many subterfuges as to make it undesirable from any standpoint While the regulation as to the holding of stock in a competing line Is n-ia oy raiiro&a nrn not 10 oe nrcnsj sary. they believe that If such a refrs latlon were to be made It should be limited to cover cases where harm would be found to result from such holdings. Turning to the proposal that the Interstate Commerce Commission be divided and hold court as Individuals in different parts of the United States, that dolaj 8 may be in part avoided. Mr. Tuttle gave this plan his disap proval. "It Is highly advantageous. he said, "that important hearings be held before a number of Commissioners. Were one to become a court in Boston, another in Washington and a third in Chicago, neither the shipper nor the railroad would have the advantage of the combined opinions of all. The Supreme Court and many other courts do not give causes to one Judge alowe; they hear causes as a whole and decide by majority." "Would you amend the law giving; the shipper the right of appeal? "Certainly. If the railroad has the right of appeal the shipper should also have if STRIKE OF THE HATTERS. Long Drawn Out Contest Fee the Right te Uss th Labsl. There Is ground for the belief that the strike or the United Hstters of North America Is approaching a satisfactory concliiMlou. v . . The strike of the batters has been. In a sense, every body's strike, for It Involved the use of the union label. If the label shall be thrown out of the factories In their case the way for like procedure in all cases where label are union trademarks will be smoother; hence organized labor general!. throughout the country faithfully stvt by the batters and contributed to thr-lr support as best it could iu fact. I dolug so now and will no continue until the end of the last act. j ue money inus rcceivea ana aw. from members who are working In t'.w capitulated and4 Independent shop, who are assessed by the union. gim to pay for the support of the strikers at $5 per week for married men aud $3 for unmarried men. With the ounihrr now employed, adding the receipt from outside sources, the officer n claim uui hiuc urnrnni van nt paiu inunnitely. Ir average wages of the batters range betweeu $18 and 3U per week, and some of the more provident among the striker have uever either applied for or received benefits. The strike began upward of seven months ago In a Boston factory which demanded a cut In the bill of prices. The proposition was laid before a committee of arbitration, but Its findings were out of harmony with the Arm's notions, so to aroij breaking Its agree-uit-m. io aoiae Dy tne decisions or arbitrators on questions of disputes the factory moved to Philadelphia. The change of base, however, only intensified the strain, and then the Associated Hat Manufacturers' association was brought Into the case, with the result that the open shop was demanded all along tbe line. This, of course, meant the throwing out of the label. Upon this question the fight has centered, and the results thus far. the hatters claim, hare greatly encouraged them. ' GIRLS WANTED. Wanted Two experienced girla at the Eldorado Laundry, 18 X. 9th. 3-3t

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