Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 21, 28 November 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA3I, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1909.

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Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mail matter. Til -' O (Now Yerk Cttyl aadsartUtedtetlM Oaly tM THE REPORTFR A certain local attorney, not long ago, was engaged in a criminal case. He placed upon the stand a prominent man, who became somewhat confused and as a result proved, to say the least, an indiscrete witness. A reporter heard his remarkable testimony and straightway incorporated it In bis account of the trial, and it was published. The reporter's statement as to the testimony given by the .prominent witness was substantiated by the official court reporter's records, but that did not prevent the attorney referred to, the day following the publication of the article, from informing the reporter that his article was incorrect. By doing this the attorney adhered to the usual custom of blaming the public mistakes of the average citizen onto the usual "goat," the hapless reporter. Speaking on this subject the Dayton News has the following editorial: An article in the Century Magazine rails for "A League for the Suppression of Abuse of the Press," claiming that the reporters for the daily papers have made life almost unbearable for a part of the community. "Even in decent society one who declines to yield to their demands." says the article, "is put upon the defensive." Another expression is that "arts of this modern Inquisition" are said to range "from deception down to blackmail," and so on. It is not the first criticism of the kind that has been heard in the land, and it will probably not be the last one. But it is as unjust and as unfair as anything that could have been penned. Instead of "a league for the suppression of abuses of the press," what we need in this country is some kind of a league that will tach people that a reporter is a human being and an exceptionally fair and impartial and discreet one at that. If the reporters of the country were to write one-half what they know about people, then there might be cause for a league to suppress them. Or if they were to quote the people they Interview in the identical language given them, it would put a lot of people out of business. Certainly It would call attention to the fact that the average man. in an average conversation, used language he would be ashamed to see in print. The frequent denials one sees of Interviews is not the fault of reporters. It Is a fault of the party interviewed. A man makes a statement to a reporter and it is printed in the paper, and forthwith there is a howl from some quarter. The easiest way out of the dilemma is to claim tha reporter incorrectly quoted the statement, or to deny ever having seen a reporter. Every reporter has had that experience. He has many a time been told a story and had the party relating it, after he saw the effect of it, deny that he made any such statement. Such things have happened in no less important places than the White House, and they are constantly happening in other places. In contrast with the article in the Century, here is the statement of a gentleman who was frequently interviewed by American reporters recently. During his visit to this country Gross-Admiral von Koster of the German navy, came in contact with the newspaper people every day, and conversed with reporters at frequent intervals. In leaving this country and in thanking the reporters for their consideration, he took occasion to say: "Not one got me wrong, not once was I misrepresented. Often I mentioned things in confidence, and in no instance was the confidence bet rayed. The reporters whom I met in the United States, treated me with delicacy and afforded me a feeling of sense of fair play, which I admire and appreciate." But the American reporter really needs no defense. He is capable of taking care of himself, anywhere, any time. His lot is a hard one, it is true. He is overworked and underpaid. He is expected to put knowledge into the mouth of the man he interviews and to meekly take the condemnation that is visited upon him when the remark - happens to be unpopular or indiscreet. He betrays no confidence, and when he writes a lie it is for the purpose of helping some unfortunate fellow

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THE ADVENT OF CHRISTMAS When that first little flurry of snow came the other day, the small children of the town took renewed heart and commenced to clamor for Christmas. The delightful prospect of Santa Claus and his annual festival was put again before them. Yes, it is just about one month and we will all be eating Christmas dinner. It calls, up pretty visions of what is coming. We are all glad that it is the holiday season, the spirit of kindliness is quickened, the pulses rebound with the splendid heart blood surging with something which is not entirely the effect of the colder weather's reaction. That something is the spirit of the season. And the spirit of the season is in everything. The very horses and the dogs move about as if they knew something of the holiday spirit. The shop windows and the shops are decked out with splendid things calling for attention. They invite the purse and conjure up desires that long have lain dormant. Even the cross old party that sees naught but displeasing things through his green spectacles is moved to cast a sidelong glance of approbation at the children and the youthful grown-ups who stand in front of the toy shop windows in admiration of the brilliant toys. More than likely he will overpay the next newsboy on the corner by as much as three cents on the strength of it being Christmas time. Everyone is happy.

With that there comes a spectacle of another sort of Christmas last year's Christmas. An undercurrent, a background, what you will of Badness on which the brilliance and cheerfulness was builded. At twelve o'clock on Christmas eve last year the stores were yet open. The tired girls with great purple and yellow marks under their eyes due to the Christmas your Christmas your merry Christmas! All day the shops were crowded with people, standing, waiting to have their wants attended to, and complaining that they did not receive attention. Sooner or later they lost their tempers and went elsewhere, and probably in the heat of vexation, bought what they did not want, or they did not buy at all, resentful that the shop girl could not supply what someone else had bought. And so well that is a part of your merry Christmas! Even the horses, sweating and steaming, slipping on the ice, were worked until they fell, cutting their knees while their driver cursed them so that is your merry Christmas! Go 'round to the telegraph office. Ah! you say, the boys are used to staying up at nights. For in tho seven days of expectation they have been busy delivering packages. Yes that too is a merry Christmas!

And yet, on Christmas day we think we celebrate the birth of that Christ Child who of all others was thoughtful of his fellow men. And in honor of his birth we wait till the week before his festival. We, in honor of his birth think of far different things give to rich who do not need it; give to those overladen with the world's supplies, that we may get something of the world. And, you say, that is the Game. That is the way that things are built in this day and generation. Forget the Game. Forget this day and generation. Remember that Eve on which the Wiso Men came to the Inn and found in the manger the little Child of lowly parentage (according to the notion of the world.) Remember that in this day and generation though the way may be hard there is Some One Else. Then, do you think that you will wait till the day is over? Then, do you think that the day has come when the shop girl and the horses and the men are all wearied, to celebrate the birthday of Him who ?

Well, there are several ways of looking at this. Of course, if you look at it in a cold blooded and cynical fashion there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't buy your Christmas presents at 11:59 on Christmas Eve. But . Even if you are tired of it, even if you are cynical, even if you really don't care for any one else on the face of this little earth, SHOP EARLY!

out of trouble, and not to get anyone into trouble. His sins are all on the side of humanity, and his thanks for his pains are too frequently such articles as that appearing in the Century Magazine. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Our Forefathers' Fault. From the Albany Journal. Also in the matter of Thanksgiving turkeys, the present generation has ti suffer because former ones made extravagant and wasteful use of natural resources. For be it known that the turkey, that noble bird which is to the American stomach as dear as the eagle is to the American heart, was once as numerous in the forests of this country as the buffalo was on the western plains. But like the buffalo, it was slaughtered to the verge of extinction, by our forefathers, whom, otherwise regarding with esteem and a degree of reverence, we cannot quite forgive for their failure to leave some of the wild birds to multiply in the woods for our delectation. Only in a few of the wild, because inaccessible parts of the South and West are wild turkeys any longer to be found, and then the comparatively 8"M"fr4 UinUI Y CCCIPIPMT HIGHLY EFFICIENT FORMULA FOR KRVOlS MUX AD AILlMi WOMEN. Coming from a source of unquestioned authority on the ailments of men it is presumed to be infallible, while the profession' generally endorse the ingredients and prescribe them in many different forms of various disease.. The following formula is highly efficient in quickly restoring in nervous exhaustion, melancholia, anxiety, timidity in venturing', dizziness, heart palpitation, trembling limbs, insomnia, thinness, cold extremities, tired-aill-in feeling and general inability to do those natural and rational acts upon which depends a man's success and happiness in social and every -day life. The instructions for mixing at home secretly so that no embarrassment may be felt, are as follows: First get three ounces of syrup sarsaparilla compound and one ounce compound fluid balm wort; mix and let stand two hours. Then add one ounce compound essence cardiol and one ounce tincture cadomene compound (not cardamom), and mix all together. The directions are to take one teaspoonful after each meal and one when retiring, until bounding health and full strength are restored. Even a few weeks will witness most wonderful results. Astonishing nervous force and equilibrium follow the treatment, no aaatter how serious the case. This USntalns no opiates what-ever and may also be used by women who suffer with their nerves with absolute certainty of prompt and lasting benefits. f TTTTf TTTlfTTTI

few residents have them all to themselves. With proper protection the wild turkeys might have remained in considerable numbers to round out the insufficient supply of tame birds, which are harder to raise than most other fowls. As it is, we have to rely on the latter alone for the Thanksgiving feast, and at prices anywhere from 24 to 30 cents

a pound, such reliance holds out no bright prospects for many. Less Dangerous. From the Memphis Commercial Appeal It is only a question of time when the wise man will open a garage for aeroplanes. There is one consolation in the thought. Pedestrians are at least safe. The speeding automobile has made Poplar and Madison avenues a funnel of danger. The speeding aeroplane can have the skies and a clear field, and collisions between each other will be the only danger. The walking world won't care much for that. A Passing Fancy. From the Syracuse Herald. Every year about this time th? minds of several million men turn to turkey-raising as a get-rich-quick scheme which seems to have been gen erally overlooked. Fortunately, be fore the after-dinner stupor of Thanksgiving day has worn off most of them have forgotten it, so the other trades and professions are in no danger of being forsaken. Kongo Compared. From the Galveston News. Meetings are being held in England to protest against cruelty in the Kon go. Conditions in King Leopold's equatorial domain are believed to be little better than in some of the Tex as convict camps. TWINKLES (BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.) Self-Sacrifice. "Of what benefit are you to soci ety?" "I'm a good deal of pertection to a lot o folks." answered Plodding Pete. "De mince pie an cold turkey I'll take care of in the next three or four days will mean less indigestion fur a number of folks." Spellbound. "Why don't you go on writing my speech?" said the orator. "I'm spellbound," replied the typist. "Has my eloquence such an effect?" "Yes. sir. I never worked for a man who used so many words I can't spell." Sarcastic. "You will admit that a court is a necessity, said the judge. "Yes," answered the audacious attorney. "But I don't like to be so frequently reminded of the adage, 'Necessity knows no law.'

Beveridge on the Fifth Wheel

It is common knowledge that the vice-presidency has been used to "harmonize" the party by giving to the weaker faction the nomination of the second officer of the republic. Just where does this lead us? As our party system has evolved, there has been developed within every party two sets of opinion almost as violently opposed to each other as the principal opposing ioliticaI parties themselves are opposed to each other. Let us sup-pot-e then, that the immense majority of sentiment in a given party is highly couservative in economic policies; or. if economic policies are not to the front, that there is a strenuous difference of opinion as to certain foreign programmes. Very well. A candi date for president who vigorouslv hoids to the views of the majority is nominated by his party. Thereupon. in order to make sure the election, a vice president is nominated who just as tsaunchly holds to the views of the minority of the party. Both are elected, but the president, having bogun to carry out the policies thi strength of which among the peopl-3 secured his nomination, dies or is incapacitated. The vice-president, rep resenting antagonism to these policies thereupon becomes president. Imme diately he reverses the policies of his predecessor; or. If not immediately, he eenainly reverses thtm in the end. But, alas! it is not practical to tall: of eliminating this fifth wheel, which was originally thrust into our governmental mechanism by little states and by little men and for little reasons and which has been a source of annoyance and apprehension from that day to this. So what is the next best thing to do? First, the powers, of the vice-president should be enlarged, either from an executive point of view or from a legislative point of view. The office should be exalted in real importance. The vice-president should no longer be the "queen bee kept in reserve," as Mr. Oliver picturesquely described him; he should no longer be an "heir apparent" calling for the morning papers at every sunrise to find whether the events of the night have raised him to the throne, and with nothing to do meanwhile except to let this corrugating thought dwarf and malform his soul. He should be given a substantial, tangible, powerful part either in the executive or legislative branch of the government. Either might accomplish the supreme purpose of compelling political conventions to nominate a vice-president with the definite thought in mind that he may become president, instead of with the thought of "harmonizing" a party; and insure the nomination of a man in complete and perfect harmony with the president whose possible successor he may become. The Century. Judge Lindsey' Crazy (Everybody's.) The criminal law is founded on vengeance. It treats all criminals as born criminals, incorrigible and unforgivable. It is designed to save property, not to save men: and it does neither; it makes more criminals than it crushes. I believe that the methods of our Juvenle court could be applied to half the criminal cases on our cal endars. The majority of our crim inals are not born but made and ill made. They can be remade as easily as the River Front gang was remade. if we use the methods of Christianity on them and not those of a sort of fiendish paganism that exacts "an eye for an eye," and exacts it in a spirit of vengenance. Does this read as if I were "crazy V Do not think so. It is a conclusion based upon years of thoughtful expert ence. I have obtained a law in Col oradothe first of its kind in the his tory of jurisprudence, if that be any thing against it by which an adult accused of crime can be tried as our children our tried and aided and cor rected by the state, as parens patriae, just as our children are aided and cor rected. And I am willing to stake mv faith on it that if our courts and prl3 ons ever learn how to work under such a law vou will see not only children. but grown up men and women going from the court rooms with their com mitment papers in their hands and knocking on the gates of prisons to b admitted. Crazy? When I first told one of our deputy sheriffs that in fu ture I should send boys to Golden without him. he said to my clerk: "Well, I've always heard Lindsey was crazy, but I never believed it till today'." And when a hardened young criminal went from my court 2.TO miles to the Buena Vista' reformatory alone and presented himself at the gates of the prison, "the sentry" (as I was aft erward toldi "almost fell off the walls.' Crazy? Do you know that over half the inmates of reformatories, jails and prisons in this country are under twen ty-five years of age? (Some authorties say under twenty-three.) Do you know that an English prison commis sion not long ago reported to Parliament that the age of sixteen to twenty was the essentially criminal age? Do you know that the Earl of Shaftesbury, after much study, declared that not two out of any hundred criminals in London had formed the habits that led to criminality after the twentieth year? I may be very crazy, and yet not be as crazy as the people who. in the face of these facts, believe that the criminal methods of our civiliza tion are anything but a gigantic crim' and a stupendous folly. Some day our descendants will read of our methods of handling criminals as we now read of how our ancestors imprisoned the Insane in chains and used the methods of a Siberian jailer on the inmates of the madhouse." The Wintry Setting. The world's a stage, as poets past Have said. And this is likewise aure; , Although it keeps the self-same cast, The scenery, just now, is poor.

THE HETCH-HETCHY

(Collier's.) ' On no subject have misapprehen- i sions been more diligently diffused than on the Hetch-Hetchy. As all citizens recall with pride, the Yosemite National Park was set asidj from the public domain some twenty years ago. Came along a railroad wanting right of way one corner of the park was sliced off! Came along some minersanother corner was sliced off! Not a word of protest from a living soul in the United States! Now before the park had been created, small holdings inside its limits had been patented as farms and ranches, which did not deface the park in any way and were undisturbed: but s.m.e of these sites offered good locations for dams and reservoirs: and. very vnostentatiously, unknown investors be gan to buy out the ranches. Not a word of protest from a soul in the United States! Then the power companies got an act through couj;rejs granting rights across public parks. Still not a word of protest, as was right and proper! Are not streams for using? Note well one of these pow. er companies is chiefly backed by the heaviest stockholder of the Sprin Valley Water Company, which supplies San Francisco with water. Meanwhile. San Francisco, whose supply of water by the Spring Valley company has proved utterly inade quate, and who can obtain water nowhere else the "water hog" holding all the holes, holding some holes for $1;,mmhnm for which he paid onlv $lto,KX plans bringing her city watr supply as a municipal and power project from the Hetch-Hetchy and Lake Eleanor of the National Park. Sud denly, at once, a chorus of protests, a unanimity of shouts rends the country from one end to the other! What desecration to the park! (It isn't des ecration for the power companies to get rights of way.) Destroy the wonderful falls! (The dam San Francisco plans building will not come within one hundred feet of the falls.) The Government gave away part of the Hetch-Hetchy ? (As a matter of fact, the government is not asked to give anything away. San Francisco owns an old ranch in the bottom of th.? Hetch-Hetchy and for the few addition al acres needed as reservoir is trading the government acre for acre.) (It's all right for the power companies to get right of way: but its unpardonable for a city short of water to get a permit for right of way: so the Siern Clubs are all stirred up by gross falsification of facts to protest against San Francisco obtaining a permit for her needed water. The Interviewer Barnard Says. "What do you think will be the most important matter before congress this fall?" the Sixth District Representative was asked. "Well, its hard to tell. The tariff is practically out of the way for the next session. I suppose the financial legislation will occupy most of the time of congress. The monetary commission will report and most of the session will be devoted to a repairing of our currency laws." "Do you think the tariff commission plan by Senator Beveridge will receive much consideration?" "That is something I cannot answer. Personally, I am in facor of an expert commission as outlined by Mr. Beveridge, and I wish such a commission was at work now. We need it badly. and if such a plan reaches the House it will have my support." Beef and Shoe Prices. A man who has been in business in this city for GO years, said the other day that the small consumption of beef was causing a scarcity in hides, and this in turn was causing an Increase in shoe prices. This merchant had only a short time before received a letter from the shoe manufacturers of the New England states, saying that the supply of leather did not equal the demand. "This was caused." the letter said, "by the high prices of meat. The American people are not consuming the amount of meat they did in l'.xT. This accordingly decreases the supply of leather and increases the cost of shoes." "I don't know what will come of this." said the merchant, "but the people usually have the power of solving such problems. Business does not seem to be seriously affected by it, for our sales are running ahead of the previous years." Price of Meat Lower? When Assistant Professor Hirsch of Earlham College was asked about what effect this would have on the prices of beef and veal, he stated that it would have a tendency to lower the price. "When the demand for leather becomes so great that the abattoir can no longer meet the supply, then the prices of beef will decrease." Mr. Hirsch studied for some time at the University of Chicago and Is a good student of economics and sociology. Going Up. Dr. Dennis of Earlham. says that if he had another son he would send hira to college until he was twenty-five, years old. "I would give him an education." said the biologist, "that would send him to the too of the ladder. After four years at Earlham I would send him for five more years to a big university and then I would defy another man to get his place on top." "If you want to reach the North Pole or climb Mt. McKinley," said Dr. Dennis, "now is the time to begin. Do what you have to do, now. and do it your best, then when you do something no one else has done later on. the world will not question your right." "One trouble wif human nature," said Uncle Eben, "is illustrated by de fact dat a man is alius prouder of winnin a turkey in a raffle dan he is of

doin a day's work fur de price,

Roosevelt On European Rule

(Serlbner's.) The English rule in Africa has been of incalculable benefit to Africans themselves, and indeed this is true of the rule of most European nations. Mistakes have been made, of course, but they have proceeded at least as often from an unwise effort to ac complish too much in th way of beneficence, as from a desire to exploit the natives. Each of the civilized nations that has taken possession of any part of Africa has had its own peculiar good qualities and its own peculiar defects. Some of them have ion?

too much in supervising and ordering ((he ustates and assessed at forthe lives of the natives, and in inter-; ,v.four cens a j and sUly lering witn their practices and cus-jftnl ad valorem taring apparel toms. The English error, like our' , .hu , niirt ... -

own under similar conditions, has, if anything, been in the other direction. The effort has been to avoid wherever possible all interference with tribal customs, even when of an immoral and repulsive character, vd to do no more than what Is obviously neces- : sary. such as Insistence upon keeping ;the I?ace. and preventing the spread Excellent reasons i can be advanced in favor of this pol j ic' and lt nuist always be remembered that a fussy and ill considered benevolence is more sure to awaken i t-sc;iiiijeiii man crueiij useu; mie the natives are apt to resent deeply even things that are obviously for their ultimate welfare. Yet I cannot help thinking that with caution and wisdom it would be possible to pro - ceed somewhat farther than has yet been the case in the direction of pushing upward some at least of the East African tribes; and this though 1 rec - ognize fully that many of these tribes are of a low and brutalized type. Havlng said this much in the way of crlt - icism I wish to Pdd my tribute of un - olwneu ttu.m.al,c.u lor me uisimeresicu auu enicieui worn neing aone. . ,1 j f r l I . . , i I alike in the Interest of the while man ! and the black, by the government of-j ficials whom I met in East Africa. They are men in whom their country has every reason to feel a just pride. Thanksgiving. Thankful for the good luck that has saved me from reverse: Thankful for the bad luck 'cause it wasn't any worse; Thankful for the sunshine that comes smilin' through the trees: Thankful for the chill that isn't cold enough to freeze. Thankful for prosperity, e'en though my share is small; It's lots more satisfactory than havin' none at all; Thankful for a chance to toil, likewise fur rest at night. An' principally thankful for a firstclass appetite. NOTICE F. O. E. There will be an election of Three Trustees and other officers on Wednesday night, Dec. 1st. 1909. FRANK HARTZLER, Secy. Franklin Moore, Worthy President. 27-3t

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Officers

JOHN B. DOUGAN, President. D. G. REID, Vice-President GEO. H. EGGEMEYER, Vice-Pre. C. W. ELMER, Vice-Pres. S. W. GAAR, Cashier W. C. SEEKER. Asst. Cashier

Aldrich's the Gum Shoes

(The Congressional Record.) Mr. Dolliver. It will Interest mwt people to know that the gum boots ia which the farmers of America are wading around in the snows of winter are lined usually with wool, and that when a box of them appears at a port of the United States they are not troubled by the thirty percent duty on manufactures of rubber. Why? Because they are otherwise provided for. How? This law which we refuse even to look at with a view of correcting errors and absuridities. transfers this merchandise bodily to paragraphs Intended to protect woolen clothing, and we see the fine vaudevil'e sketch of a pair of rubber boot betug colemnly I welched ii n in the custom houses of Mr. Aldrich. Mr. President, does the senator mean to state that any such importations have ever been made, and that any such duties have ever been charged? Mr. Dolliver. Certainly no such Importations have ever been made. This is now, 1 take it. for the purpose of making that everlastingly certain. ; Certainly nobody would ever start on an enterprise like that. Mr. Aldrich. Mr. President, rubber ! are cneaper ln ,h Unltc4 $tate8 (Dan in any oilier country hi world j Mr lvnlver. Then why u there an luclcase from tMrty to thirty-five per. cent on mannucUircil of rubber? Mr Aldrlcn. Because manufactures i0j ruDDer include Mr. Deliver. If thev are cheaper !a the United states than anywhere else, ! , ,ntend to move to put hcn, oa lh tree, ltst j Mr AIdrlch. There ar. niany o,hor manufactUres of rubber besides rubber jhoQU j Mr" Dolliver. I will single out th .n , tn nilt ,h-m th free list. I am on the side of the citizens who sometimes have to walk la the mud to the polls to vote the republican ticket In Iowa. Mr. Aldrich. We have automobile tires made of rubber a great quant ity of them. Mr. Dolliver. lt would not requlr very much sagacity to separate an automobile tire from an ordinary sura boot. Besides, automobile tires seem to be down on this bill in tho metal schedule, at forty-five percent. Substantial Msrits. But," said the impecunious forcljni fortune hunter, "my dear Miss Goldilocks, why should you prefer another to me? I am a man of titles." "So is your preferred rlvsl." smiled the woman. "He Is nothins but a plain American commoner." sneered the nobleman. "Indeed, he is a man of titles, too. returned the heiress. "And my father has had all bis titles examined by a competent trust company. Your title are but words; his are deeds and tfl some of the best property In the state." Baltimore American. assembling a Watch. There are more thau 2.000 distinct operations in the work of assembling a watch. Richmond

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