Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 321, 26 September 1909 — Page 4

THE BICimOITO IIaa21UM AND SJX-TEL1SGKA3I, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1909.

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Hanoi G. Leeds Editor Charles M. Moraraa . . . Maaaelas; EdMer Carl Bernhardt. ; Associate Editor W. R. Poaadatoae ...News Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance ,.$5.00 Six months, in advance ..2.60 One month. In advance .46 RURAL ROUTES. . ' One year, in advance ....$2.50 Six months, in advance 1-50 One month, in advance ' .25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be riven. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be a-lven for a specified term: name will not' be enterad until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post Office as second class mail matter. Tk Association of (Now York City) feast Omlf (a Ocnw of i la tta j INDIANAPOLIS, TOO. 'The Palladium announced some lit tie time ago its policy in regard to the commission form of government. The Iadianapolis Star of yesterday carried an editorial article which we herewith reproduce. We are particularly glad to see a coincidence of opinion on this matter. I "A recent article in these columns on the subject of departylzing municipal elections seems to have attracted con siderable attention. Among independ ent papers especially the desire to see mayors chosen somehow by citizens and not by national party organiza tions meets with earnest response. "The answer some ' papers In the West and Southwest made to The Star's argument Is that under the com mission plan of city government this nonpartisan arrangement is : secured. This end is achieved by having candl dates for the five commissioners named by nonpartisan petitions without any reference or mention whatever of their national politics. : "Perhaps this is an Important reason why the commission plan . is growing in favor. Originally starting at Gal veston as an outgrowth of the emergency Incident to the great flood, the example has spread, first to Iowa, then to Kansas. . From the Kansas City Star, Itself an able champion of the movement as well as of all efforts toward municipal Independence, we learn that Coffeyville has Just voted to adopt the commission plan. It goes on to say: . Leavenworth, the first city in Kan aas to adopt the new rule, is now in good company indeed. Wichita, Kan sas City, Kas.; Independence, Hutch inson, Anthony and Coffeyville hav? already adopted the "Leavenworth plan. Elections have been called, al so, in Topeka and Parsons, and Otta wa is preparing to vote upon the new rule before the time for electing the new government In 1010: - The Star would like to see this com mission plan tried in Indianapolis Where it has been put to the test it appears to supersede the scramble of ambitious politicians for office with, a circumspect casting about on the part of the citizens for five able men to handle the city's affairs, exactly as the stockholders of a corporation select a board' of directors. The arrangement really amounts to the choice by the municipal corporation's stockholders of a board of directors to run the corporation's business. Incidentally much good Is accomplished by lopping off a good many elective offices that now encumber the ballots, confuse the voters and perpetuate party machines In power. The commission plan lias been tried long enough now to be out of the realm of experiment. . In actual practice it produces a situation in which five able business men are selected, without ref erence to national politics, to manage the city's affairs. No city that we know of, once having tried the 'plan has abandoned it; but many, observing its' workings ' in neighboring places, have adopted it Surely there is no place more fitted by prevalence of in dependent municipal sentiment to take hold of a plan like this and bring It to pass. If our civic organizations will press the matter upon the next leglsla ture there need be little doubt that the commission system would be given us in time for use at the expiration of the mayor's term for which Mr. Shank or Mr. Gauss is about to be elected." Items Gathered in From Far and Near ;v Marvelous! Prom the Boston Transcript. The world moves rapidly in these times and within a few days has passed quite a series of records and caught up with a number of novelties. Or vlll Wright made ; the highest aero plane flight, 765 feet; a White Star liner, steaming sixteen knots an hour, stopped, backed and rescued in twenty minutes a seaman who had fallen ov erboard in mid-ocean; on a bare plot of ground m St. Louis a one-thousand three-hundred-dolur cottage , was "completed" In eight and a half hours, sixty-one mechanics being employed "tha" first aerial Masonic lodge was formed - in a Massachusetts balloon floating at an elevation of some 7,000 feet; a New York coroner's physician

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OMMISSI0N GOVERNMENT FOR

RICHMOND.

' Editors Note: This is the first of a aeries of tutorial articles on the commission form of city government. The Palladium had at hand a considerable amount of data on : this subject. Tomorrow it will 'publish an analysis of the charter of the city of DesMoInes.

'." '"Till now we have assured ourselves: atlon and run it with a legislature."

Commission government is at the same time the oldest and the newest thing in municipal government in this country. On the one hand you have the select men of the old New. England towns and the ratification of their acts In town meetings; on the other you see Pes Moines with the commission form of city, government with the checks of initiative, referendum, and recall in operation to Guard the almost supreme power which has been delegated .to the five men who manage the, city's affairs.-

Five men about a table each the manager of a department, a president and four" others they make the whole government of this new form of municipal management. The whole government? No. The people are the real government. That is where the Initiative, the referendum and the recall come in. For if the managers of the city affairs refuse to pass any matter which the citizens desire, a petition of a certain percent of the voters forces them to take action. No franchise grant may be made without a vote of approval of the citizens. Even an ordinance may be protested by a certain percent of the voters. If it is protested it must receive Its ratification from the citizens before it becomes effective. . But the greatest thing which has to do with this new form of government Is that any or all city officials may be recalled from office in case it shall appear that they are incompetent or have turned against the. interests of the people in any way which makes them unsatisfactory. Thus with the initiative and the referendum and the recall the details are left to the five commissioners who do their work without red tape and freed from the inertia of the usual, city government. The people know exactly who is responsible. There is no hiding of one behind another. If this is attempted It is easy enough to recall the whole lot of them. And they know it.

It therefore Is possible even with Incompetent and dishonest men in office to have good city government for it is, only whn the people are callous to their rights and interests that there can be any corruption and mismanagement. The fear of the recall makes men do the bidding of their constituents. The referendum prevents commissioners from working hardships on the town and granting away valuable franchises. The initiative makes possible anything which the commissioners, may not desire to do. There is no ether plan which simplifies the actual working of the government and giants to the city officials so much power while they are in- sympathy with the wishes of the people, and takes all that power back when the city officials have turned their ears to others than the people. This is the best cure for graft, corruption, franchise stealing, incompetency, and mismanagement that has yet been found.

Furthermore the commission plan we have outlined does away with the present party system. It says to the people: "Here i your chance to elect men because they will do the work well and not because they wear a party collar." The day has passed when a man's views on the tariff should make him eligible for the city building. But there will always be party government until some other form of city government than our present one is adopted. For it is impossible to get men to step over their party allegiance to any great extent except on the most extraordinary occasions. For this reason, in this plan, there Is no such thing as party. Even the primary has no such thing as party. There is no party emblem on any ticket. What you vote for is the man. Hence it is that there is more likelihood of getting men in office for their own fitness and qualifications. And when It Is remembered that in addition to this the features of initiative, referendum", and recall are added it will be seen that unless the whole people of any town are oorrupted there will be good government in that town ' It is for thia reason that the Palladium is in favor of the commission form of government with the addition of the recall, the referendum and the initiative for Richmond. It has worked well in numerous places. Notably in Des Moines "and Galveston. We believe that if all the citizens of Richmond, with the aid of the newspapers, the commercial organizations, the business and professional men will take this matter up they will in the end secure the best form of city government for Richmond. This will stamp Richmond as the most progressive city in the state. The co-operation of the commercial clubs- all over the state may be necessary andd will be desirable. In this way a general law may soon be passed in the state legislature permitting those cities desiring this form of government to obtain it.

performed an autopsy upon an armIasir man whose kidneys had : been practically non-existent from birth, and whose heart had tor mteen years heen eaten by a cancer, yet who died of old age; New Jersey farmers ex perienced a chicken thief who travels in an automobile and sends a collie dog to rob the roosts and fetch out the poultry without killing it; also m Kw Jersey, four trees yielded eight bushels of plums. Does the reader nrotest that these occurrences nave no natural seauence or normal rela tion? Let him remember that "it takes all kinds of people" and events "to make a world " A Vacation's Advantages. From the Detroit News. One of the benefits accruing from a vacation trip is a renewed relish for home. . Has Helped Some. From ' the Chicago Tribune. Perhaps it Is Dr. Cook's mission in life to make Brooklyn famous. Children Demand Proof. Prom the Brooklyn Standard-Union. The children, of course, will demand from any claimant an authentic inter view with Santa Claus. Cook Is a Democrat. From the Houston Post. The indications now are that Texas will give Dr. Cook's side of the controversy 378,000 majority. " Tain much" use o argumV said Uncle Eben. "If you's talkin' to a man dat has mo sense dan you has, de bes' thing you kin do is to keep quiet an listen. Ah If you's talkin to one dat aln got as much sense as you has, you's wastln' yoh time tryin to pass around amachure education."

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TWINKLES (By Philander Johnson) Lack of Judgment. "Bliggins is a most kind and considerate man." . "Yes, but he has an unfortunate way of showing it. He is the sort of person who will ring your door bell at 6 a. m. to ask you whether the crowing of his rooster disturbs you." Outdone. In silence now the polar bear Must simply sit and sulk and scowl; With such commotion in the air, : What use Is It for him to howl? Sordid Considerations. "Will your new playhave a happy ending?" asked the friend. "I won't be able to say," answered Mr. Stormington Barnes, "until I balance my books at the close of the season." The Final Transaction. "Father." said Little Rollo, "what is the ultimate consumer?". , , "He is the last person, my son, that an article reaches in its commercial existence." . .."',.., "I know what you mean. He's a man who goes into a hotel and orders chicken hash." ., , A Crisis in Affairs. ' , There's a time of subtle sorrow for the ordinary man '.That the poets somehow never paused to note, , A mist of melancholy gathers o'er this earthly plan And the shadow of a sob la In your

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i Kansas Farmers Find an Es cape From the Exactions of Miners. NEW FUEL IN FACTORIES GREAT ECONOMY IN OPERATION HAS BEEN REPORTED A3 A RESULT OF THE CHANGE OIL RATES ARE LOW. Topeka. Kans., Sept. 25. Kansas farmers are using the Standard oil to hammer the coal operators. They are installing oil stoves for cooking purposes and hundreds of them are even putting in oil furnaces for heating purposes. Notwithstanding that Kansas has some of the largest coal mines In the central west in its eastern border counties and the Colorado mines are only a short distance from its western boundary, the price of coal is regarded as excessive, especially in central and western Kansas. From " Hutchinson and Salina west the people pay as much for soft lump coal as eastern people pay for anthracite. Two years ago suit was brought before the interstate commerce commission to reduce coal rates, and after a hearing a 50 cent per ton reduction was ordered on Colorado coal. The railroads put in the rate, but the state railroad board says it has information from the western farmers that the coal companies have now lifted the price of coal to 50 cents a ton, which simply absorbs the amount the freight rate was reduced. It also contends that the coal mines are owned by the railroads although operated by Independent com panies and it is investigating the mat ter with a view of laying the facts before the interstate commerce commission. Oil Company Well Satisfied. In the meantime the farmers are switching from coal to oil for fuel. This is satisfactory to the oil trust. Kansas has extremely low freight rates on oil, both crude and refined. They were fixed by a legislative enactment some years ago, when the agitation against the oil trust was at its height and when the railroads were believed to be in cahoots with the trust. The rates bring little profit, but.the roads never have taken them Into the courts. Since the advent of the automobile. and of gasoline street lighting lamps. the oil trust has had trouble supplying the demand for gasoline. At the same time the kerosene had been piling u.o at its western refineries until it hadn't any more space to store it In. What to do with kerosene bad become a problem with the trust. - It had evolved all sorts of schemes, patent lamps, patent stoves and patent everything else, that would tend to Increase the consumption of oil. It had hammered long and hard to sell its oil. And it was meeting with only indifferent success until the coal operators lifted their prices, especially in the western half of Kansas. That solved the question in a large measure. The farmers began to buy oil stoves and ranges and the coal business was dull. Crude OH Largely Used. "The crude oil trade is developing even faster than the refined oil," said State Oil Inspector Joseph Longshore today. "The farmers are using oil burners in their homes, which consume refined oil, but the manufacturers are using crude oil in their factories. One factory alone, the Garden City sugar mill, reports that it is making a net saving of $250 a day during its campaign by using crude oil as a fuel instead of coal. the big flour mills are Installing crude oil burners. With the new avenues for trade opening up the oil trust should soon be able to get rid of its surplus products stored in the oil fields M J fMrlitliAwin Anil wTn an oi JVaXl5A9 auu rv lauuuia, auu wu-ii Ithis happens, oil operators ought to receive an advance for their output." throat When fortune, always fickle, has been more than ever rude,. And the study of your wardrobe brings dismay. As you take an inventory anJ reluctantly conclude You must wear your Sunday clothes for every day. Oh, the tatter past all trimming and the shine that won't come off And the break that now defies the needle's art Confront you with a picture "that's pathetically grim; : A picture of old friends compelled to part. The tailor, as you seek his shop and carelessly walk through, Has nothing that's encouraging to say. And you know that he is thinking of , that little balance due You must wear your Sunday clothes for every day. '' . This gala raiment, once the garb of laughter and of song. Becomes a mournful uniform at last. Oh, better far were sackcloth and the penitential thong Than this mockery so sleek of pleasures past. ; Ah, what will be the next relief when this has had its prime, And seam by seam It finally gives 'way? , You know that fate's toboggan has you ; . scheduled for a climb When you wear your Sunday clothes for every day. 'American Miss ;uldyn-Bocks has a very Imposing figure. . The Connt Tew. somealng like tea million. 1 t --" Weekly.

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The following article concerning the late Rev. Dr. Wakefield was printed in a San Jose, Call., exchange: Dr. J. B. Wakefield, rector emeritus of Trinity church, passed peacefully to his eternal reward yesterday, after an illness which has extended more or less continuously over a period of three years. This announcement will bring to hundreds of people in this communi ty, and in other parts of the county, where Dr. Wakefield labored lovingly and faithfully to those entrusted to hi tare, a sense of deep personal loss. The deceased was the active rector of Trinity church for fifteen years, be ginning in 1SS4. Since his relinquish ment of the rectorship he has been held in highest esteem as rector emer itus, and while he has not, a great deal of the time, been able to enter very actively Into the work of the parish, his earnest life has been an inspiration and his efforts have always been ou the side of what was Inspiring and uplifting and helpful. Dr. J. B. Wakefield was born at Greenmount Place, the home of his parents, in the suburbs of Be. fast. Ireland, December 7, 1820. His parsati were persons of culture and wealth: his mother greatly interested in philanthropic works. His Education. At the age of 0 Mr. Wakefield was sent to school in England where he continued his studies until at the age of li. as a result of overwork, his 1 health broke down. The three succeeding years Mr. Wakefield and his mother, his father having died whea he was an infant, spent in travel on the Continent. In 1840 and after the death of Mr Wakefield's mother, he came to America, journeying by stage and canal boat to Cincinnati, O. While there he became Intimate with a most godly man. the Rev. George Fiske. through whose influence he entered the ministry and in 1S55 was ordained priest. His first parish was St. Paul's Richmond. Ind., of which he was rector until 1884. a total of 20 years. Upon his resignation from St. Paul'3 he became rector of Trinity church, this city, and continued so until failing health decided him to give up active duty. So on September 1. 1808. he resigned the rectorship and soou thereafter the vestry of Trinity church conferred on him the hono--ary title, rector emeritus of Trinity church San Jose. For several years after giving up active work Dr. Wakefield and his daughter, Miss Wakefield, traveled through this country and Europe. Upon his return in 1903 he purchasei the home, In which he died, on South Tenth street and has spent.a good part of his remaining years there. Stricken With Paralysis. Three years ago while visiting at Pacific Grove he was stricken with paralysis and since then he has had to spend some of his time in sanitari ums. Eleven days ago he was taken seriously ill and lay most of the time In a stupor but without any 'pain. When aroused he was able to recognize his family up to within a few hours of his death. Dr. Wakefield leaves his devoted daughter. Miss Wakefield and one son. George F., who was recently married in the East to the daughter of an old friend of the family. The tale of Dr. Wakefield's ministry in this city is a story of progress in th3 church, of a faithful and earnest ministration, and of the attainment of a recure place in the love and esteem not only of his parish but of all the people in this city who came In contact with him. - During his rectorship important improvements were made in the church building itself and the furnishings of iL The somewhat- barren interior was fitted with most of the present beautiful habiliments of worship. Vested Choir Organized. It was during his rectorship also that the vested choir was organized. This has come to be a moat important part of the beautiful service of Trinity church. A debt of $4,000 was pail during this period. One of the most helpful workers in all departments of the church during the Incumbency of Dr. Wakefield was his wife. Mrs. Isabella Wakefield. She was especially felt as a helpful influeence in the teaching of the bible and in the work among the young people and the women of the church. Mr?. Wakefield preceded her husband to the grave. HELP TO BUSINESS New York, Sept, 23. The latest Invention to facilitate the work of busi ness men is on exhibition at the eleventh annual business show now in pro gress at Madison Square Garden, in this city, is a wireless typewriter, "by which one operator can manipulate many typewriting machines in the same cty or building by working upon oe keyboard. The liveliest interest has been developed in the typewriter speed contest?, wherein sixty operators from all over the United States and Canada and England are competitors. The present championship title is held by Miss Rose Fritz, a New York girt, but a new candidate In the person of Miss F. F. Eccles. of Connecticut, is regarded as a possible winner this year. The competitors are observing the same training, as do athletes for their feats. In that they diet, follow keyboard exercises twice a day and otherwise keep to a severe routine to perfect them for their contests.

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Prehistoric Skeleton In Cave San Antonio. Tex., Sept. 25. That parts of their ossular systems should ever repose in a neat glass .book case in the office of Mayor Callaghan of this city, may never have occurred! to the beings whose remains were discovered in a cave in the limestone hills to the west of this city. But such is the case. Over 1,XX fragments of bones, large and small, are now deposited there, awaiting scrutiny from the eyes of scientists and near scientists. So far. only the latter have gone over the bones, and the most of them have given it as their opinion that the bones, even though they be. longed to prehistoric man. are just bones. The fact remains that the people whose remains have thus come to light were unusually tall. The fragment of a bone, now difficult to identify, but having formed part of the leg. or arm, leading to this conclusion, is still over fifteen inches in length, notwithstanding the fact a considerable portion of it must be missing, according to the lines of formation of the bone. The only bones that could bi identified as having formed the skull of the individual were also found la parts. They seem to conform, however, to the brachlcocephallc index. The jaws are those of an adult, . are comparatively well preserved and are somewhat massive. The chin Is very strong and. protruding. Teeth found in the cave and in the jaws are somewhat below the average size. No InPLAN AIR SHIP LltlE (American News Service) Berlin, Sept. . 25. A passenger airship service for Germany is being planned and from the present outlook it appears that the Kaiser's realm will have a regularly established air ship service in operation not later than May -1910, carrying passengers between Berlin and the principal cities of the Empire. The Air Navigation company, which has been organized to establish and operate this service, has the financial backing of not less than twenty financial institutions and men of wealth, numbering among its shareholders Prince von Fuerstenberg. Count TieleWinkler, Prince von Donnersmarck, Herr Isadore Loewc, the General Elec tric company and several leading banks. , It is proposed to buv several Gross, Zeppelin and Parseval dirigible balloons and some of the Wrizht aero planes, if the latter are proved available for cross-country travel, and while the promoters do not expect to make money enough to pay dividends, at the start, they hope that tourist and other travel will pay the expenses OClcc day Diseases. Female Disease. Loss et

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Found Near San Antonio cisors have been noticed so far. but molars rather flat in shape and having small roots were found In considerable number. The teeth, like the bones, crumble easily, though permeated by the properties of the llmestonforming the cave. It Is now thought that exposure to the air will complete the process of petrification they hav undergone. The limestone of that region has the characteristic of being extremely soft when found and hardening rapidly in the air. The small pieces of bone examined closely show them to have been practically converted Into stone of the same consistency as the surrounding material. The remains were found in a cave of the Upper Cretacian formation closed by alluvial deposits of the Pleistocene period. The material adhering to some of the bones shows that the cava was then so located that vegetable mould could could enter It or form in It. The possibility that the bones an those of Indians Is very remote for the reason that the entrance to the little cave lay many feet under the surface of the ground and they could not know of its existence except by chancing upon it while digging a grave. The cave being at too low a level tor tnl. the possibility that the remains are modern is not very great. Since the deposit of the remains In the cave must antedate In this case the Pleistocene period the death of these Individuals must have occurred thousands of centuries ago. of the company almost from the beginning. If the plans of the coranany mater ialize as outlined, as now seems highly probable, the organisers ballevo that Germany will be the first country in the world to hive a regularly established airship oassei:ger service. Night On Bald Mountain. On a londy night Alex. Benton of Fort EdwarU, N.A., -climbed Ball. Mountain to the home of a neighbor, tortured by Asflima. bent on curing him with Dr. King's New Discovery. that had cnsOd himself of asthma. This wonderful medicine soon relieved and quickly iredhis neighbor. Later it cured his ion' wife of a severe lun j trouble. Millions buieve Its the greatest Throaj and LunB cure on Earth. Coughs, dblds. CrouV Hemorrhages and SoreLungs are surely cured by it Best fpjLHey Fever. Grip and Whooping CoughTSOc and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by A. G. Lukea Co. Nell Sbt uiM-d tu truast that she waa one of the charter members of the Woman's Suffrage club. She doean't appear to be as proud of It now. Belle Oh. she's just as proud, but you know, the club was organised eighteen years ago. and she must bare been at least twenty when she Joined.

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