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THE RICH3IOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910.

The Richmond Palladium aod Sin-Telegram Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evening's and Sunday moraine. Office Corner North tb and A streets. 'Horns Phone 1131. RICHMOND. INDIANA. Bndolph G. "Leeds Editor Charles M. Morsaa . . . Maaaslaa; Editor Carl Bcrmhardt Associate Editor W. H. Poaadstoae News Editor.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond 15.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, In advance '522 Six months, in advance Z One month, in advance RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance T52 Klx months, in advance ISO One month, in advance Z5 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, which ahould be g-lven for a specified term: name will not be entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post office as second class mall matter. Tht Association of AdvsrnWs (New York City) ha j srauac 10 r--e euxsjaan f ttte MkUaMiea. VJm tUvas si slrsvtnVw soart lined i its i roar act 1 mw assosaanoa. lUms Gathered in From Far and Near Uninspected Meats. From the New York Times. Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal industry at Washington, tells in his annual report of the prethalf ty state of affairs. He declares that half the meats eaten in the United States are not inspected by his bureau but that the states and cities, which are supposed to protect their citizens from the traffic in poisonous food within their limits, neglect their duty. One of the results of the federal inspection, the report says, it to "cause the diversion of deseased and suspicious-looking animals to the uninspected establishments, where they are slaughtered for the local market." ' The federal government provides at packing: houses doing an interstate business a competent veterinary and sanitary inspection at the time of slaughter. Is that the policy of this city and state with respect to their , vast local trade in meats? Dr. Melvin says it is not merely a question of examining the meats offered for sale in. the markets, since, in the condition of the meats at the time of " sale, it is "usually impossible to detect disease." Punishment of Morse. From the Philadelphia Ledger. If any one ever really believed the frequently repeated accusation that this country has "one law for the poor and another for the rich," the experience of rich men in the last few years must have dispelled the illusion. "While not all of the large thieves have been detected and punished, no more have all of the small thieves; but large thieves as well as small have been sent on the way to jail of late with a ruthless impartiality that recognizes no distinction of class or condition. The sentence of Charles W. Morse to a term of fifteen years' imprisonment, for violation of the national banking laws, is a conspicuous illustration of the futility of wealth and influence as a defence against the decrees of public justice. A Scrap Worth While. Frora the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. It Is announced that Secretary Ballinger may meet Chief Forester Plnchot in St. Paul next March. If this can be arranged we care not who may get the Jeffries-Johnson affair. Canal Experts. From the Philedelphia Inquirer. Prof. Percival Lowell takes the tar out of his opponets by reporting the discovery of three new canals, just completed. We wish a few Martians could be imported to Panama. Pay Up. From the Detroit News. True courage will be exemplified in those who pay the bills without a murmur. The Common Excuse. From the Birmingham News. Up to Ibis writing Poet Watson has not made an explanation on the ground that he was misquoted. Too Many. ' From the Springfield Republican. Lynchings decreased in this country last year, so take heart. There were eighty-seven too many, however. TWINKLES From the Very Beginning. "I'm sorry you've got to leave Eden end go to work simply because I gave you the rest of that apple," said Eve. "Never mind, answered Adam. "The ultimate consumer always gets the worst of it." . "Hopefulness," said Uncle Eben, "is a grand thing, ; but it don't take de place of energy. De man det sits aroun' waltln lor a tnaw is de one dat has to be dug out'n a snowdrif." , . A Practical Application. "Do you think hypnotism has any - real value In the practice of medicine?" asked the student. ,"It might have," answered the proI esaor. 'If its use could be ethically

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Mr. PINCHOT-DISMISSED No one, least of all, Mr. Pinch ot, was surprised at his dismissal. Mr. Pinchot deliberately chose to disregard the executive order of the President (which he knew was issued on bis account). Mr. Pinchot must have known when that muzzling order went into effect, that the time was close at hand when something of this sort must occur. And a perusal of the President's letter to Mr. Pinchot will not disclose anything which the people and Mr. Pinchot did not already know. In Pinchot's letter to Senator Dolliver, which precipitated a long expected crisis, his plea was not for himself but a plea for the three men, Glavis, Price and Shaw, whose crime consisted In telling the public that their lands are in danger. Likewise, Mr. Pinchot's crime consisted in coming to the rescue of these three men, evidently because he feared that the "whitewash brush" would be used on their enemies, and that they would be left in the lurch. Therefore, he deliberately wrote the letter, knowing what he was doing and that his dismissal would follow in the hope thai his action would give needed aid to the men who had worked hard under him, under fearful odds, in the cause of the people.

Mr. Pinchot's action then, and his dismissal, is no reflection on his integrity or wisdom or honor or loyalty. His action springs from a higher sense of duty than the obligation to observe techicalities, whose true meaning he fully understood and whose non-observance he knew the consequences of. His action shows a combined loyalty to the people and to his fellow workers inspired by the same motive. And by this he should be measured by the people he sought to serve.

For Gifford Pinchot represents the highest type of American manhood. A man of wealth devoting his life work in which he is an authority to the people. Of splendid intellect, a man who has been the moving force in the fight against the "special interests" of greed and selfishness. This man stood up, as might be expected, when he had been muzzled by an executive order, (having seen the consequences of the action of his subordinates in daring to cross the path of Ballinger in their defense of the interests of the people) and dared to say that the men were in the right. Thi3 being so, there was nothing else for Mr. Taft to do no one, not even Mr. Pinchot will deny that. But, was there anything else for a man, who has kept his position at personal sacrifice from a sense of duty to the people, when he saw his duty to be on the side of the people?

The technicalities are on the side of the administration the moral issue is on the side of Pinchot and his fellow-workers. The retirement of Pinchot means far more than the halting of the work in the Forest Service and even in the work of actual conservation. But in the end the cause of the people must triumph and Pinchot's stand will be found to have been for its furtherance.

IT MIGHT HA VE BEEN Cannon might have appointed a Special Committee in the House to investigate and "white wash" Ballinger and the Cunninghams. The people may remember that a whitewashing of these same interests occurred before and was dropped from the records in the Senate by senatorial courtesy! Cannon appointed Mondell to be chairman of the Committee on Public Lands after Mondell had been found guilty of locating a fraudulent claim in Wyoming. It might have been! But in this case there is no sadness, but only rejoicing in those who are on the side of the people and the Square Deal.

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To those who rejoice in the triumph of representative government; to those who 'rejoice in the discomfiture of the "organization" which Cannon has built up at the behest of the "interests"; to those who rejoice in a real investigation by the people and not in "whitewashing" which Cannon had planned for the Ballinger affair; the vote depriving Cannon of the power to appoint the committee to investigate the Ballinger-Pinchot affair will appear the most significant since the Insurgents refused to vote for the Payna-Cannon-Aldrich tariff. 149-146! What a victory for the people! Times are better when the "whips" of the interests (vaster than the people have the slightest inkling of) cannot intimidate more than half the congress to "stand pat" for Big Business and the Whitewash Brush. 149-146! A victory for the people! A victory for the Insurgents! For the fight of the Insurgents is for the people.

recognized. The only way to get some people to pay their bills would be to mesmerize them." Poetic Prospect. St. Valeutine will soon draw near, And lovelorn bards will pass their nights Composing verses e'en more queer Than those that Alfred Austin writes! A Suspicious Program. "Santa Claus is the 'great representative of generosity and self-sacrifice." "I don't know so well about that. He manages to have a good time and get away before the bills come due and the worst of the winter weather sets in." Joy of Uncertainty. E'en though the truth you seek to hold In estimation great, 'Tis sometimes comforting, we're told, To be inaccurate. And say, when prophets bring distress With their predictions blue, Deep in your inner consciousness, "Perhaps they won't come true." They tell us food will grow so dear That we must learn to fast; That railway men will persevere And own the earth at last; But even when the weather man Tells doleful tales anew. We whisper, as their words we scan, "Perhaps they won't come true." Stories About People Root on Hiding of Evil. Elihu Root, at the annual dinner of the International Young Men's Christian association in New York last month, said that evil courses were more difficult to conceal than men generally believed. "Take the case," said Mr. Root, with a smile," of John Bodewin. John was a lawyer's confidential clerk, and he had the pernicious habit of going to a neighboring saloon every morning at 11 and taking a small glass of whisky. He was not proud of this habit; hence, after the whisky, he always took a clove. "But one morning it happened that there were no cloves on the bar. and John, having considered the matter, swallowed a small raw onion from the free lunch tray. That would destroy the telltale whisky odor, no

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doubt, as well as the clove had always done; and so thinking, he returned to his desk. "It was a double desk. At it he and his employer sat face to face. John, on his return, was soon aware that his employer noticed something. The man's nostril quivered, he sniffed, and finally, with a grimace of disgust, he broke out: " 'Look here, John, I've stood whis ky and clove for nineteen years, but I draw the line at whiskey and onion.' " Detroit Free Press. President Taft on Discontent. President Taft, in one of his ad dresses to the farmers of Florence, N. C, told a story about discontent. "No man," he said, "can really understand chronic discontent after having eaten one of these famous pine stews of North Carolina. Chronic discontent, however, exist. Now and then we find a case or two among farmers when the weather goes wrong. " 'Ah, yes, Joseph, you have cause to complain, a lawyer said to a farm er. 'The harvest has been very bad no doubt of that. But you should re member that Providence cares for all, and even the birds of the air are provided for. " 'Yes, said the discontented farm er, 'so they are off my potatoes. " Washington Post. Gaynor as a Physician. "In Mayor Gaynor's early days on the bench," said a Brooklyn lawyer, "a prisoner's counsel said, in the course of his speech: " 'Medical witnesses will testify that my unfortunate client is suffering from kleptomania, and, your honor, you know what that is. " 'Yes, said Judge Gaynor. 'I do. It is a disease the people pay me to cure."' New York Sun. The only paper money that is accepted practically all over the globe is not "money" at all, but the notes of the Bank of England. These notes are simply printed in black ink on Irish linen, waterlined paper, plan white, with ragged edges. The notes of the Banque de France are made of white water-lined paper printed In black and white, with numerous mythological and allegorical pictures. They are in denominations of from 25 francs to 1,000 franca.

Letter That Cost Pinchot's Job A Public Servant, Says the Forester, Must Risk Reprimand or Dismissal in Doing What Duty Requires.

Washington, Jan. 8. The following is the text of the letter written by Gifr'ord Pinchot to Senator Dolliver. the reading of which resulted in his dismissal from the Forestry Service yesterday. "In accordance with your request, I am glad to make a statement concerning certain actions of Messrs. Prince and Shaw, chiefly in reference to claims for coal lands located within the Chugash National Forest. By indirection they have prepared an official report upon the subject, which I am transmitting at once to the secretary of agriculture. This report shows that Messrs. Price and Shaw made public certain officail information regarding the so-called Cunningham claims for coal lands in Alaska. The effect of the publication was to direct critical public attention to the actions of the Interior department. "It shows also that they countenanced the publication by L. R. Glavis of certain facts concerning these claims after he had been dismissed from office, and that in other ways they endeavored to direct public attention to the imminent danger that the Alaska coal fields, still in government ownership, might pass forever into private hands, with little or no compensation to the public. Property Made Public. "The report makes it clear that the information in reference to the Cunningham coal claims (in Alaska) made public by Price and Shaw was properly within the knowledge of the forest service, because these claims lie chiefly within a national forest. This information was also of ?. nature proper to be made public, unless there are se-. crets which the people of the United States are not entitled to know concerning the source, nature and progress of claims made for portions of the public lands. "The rumor that the Glavis report to the president was prepared in or by the forest service is incorrect. At Glavis's request I sent Shaw, as it wa3 proper I should, to Chicago to assist him in erranging his material for submission to the president. No material contained in the Glavis report was contributed either directly or indircetly by any member of the forest service. "Messrs. Price and Shaw were confronted by an extraordinary situation. Information had come to them which convinced them that the public interests in a matter within the line of official duties were in grave danger at the hands of fraudulent claimants to these coal lands. Action through the usual official channel, and finally even an appeal to the president, had resulted (because of what I believe to have been a mistaken impression of the facts) in eliminating from the government service, in tho person of Glavis, the most vigorous defender of the people's interests. Furthermore, the refusal of the secretary of the interior to assume responsibility in the cases had left the conduct in the hands of subordinates, each of whom was apparently committed in favor of patenting these claims. Acted From Sense of Duty. "Finally, from the report as a whole It is abundantly evident that the action of Price and Shaw was taken with the single object of protecting the property of the people of the United States. It is clear not only that they acted from a high and unselfish sense of public duty, but that they deliberately chose to risk their official positions rather than permit what they believed to be the wrongful loss of public property. "You asked me what recommendation I would make to Secretary Wilson as to Price and Shaw. Without hesitation I shall take the position that their action violated a rule of propriety as between the departments. It deserved a reprimand and has received one. But I shall recommend, likewise without hesitation, that no further action in their case be required. My reasons for this recommendation are as follows: "The action of these two men was most unusual, but so was the situation which called it forth. The best proof is that congress itself has been asked to take the extraordinary step of investigating the department of the interior, notwithstanding that it is a part of a co-ordinate branch of the government This action of congress can not be ascribed to the conduct of two subordinate officials. "Price and Shaw successfully directed attention to national danger. They increased the people's interest in the people's property and powerfully fostered the desire to conserve it. There is now far less chance that Alaska coal fields will pass into the hands of fraudulent claimants than there was before they acted. They acted on what they believed to be trustworthy information. Many conciderations, which had not been brought home to the President's mind, as apepars from his letter of Sept. 13, had weight with them. Rules Only for Efficiency. "The rules for official decorum exist in the interest of efficient administration, and of that alone. If they axe used to prevent an honest and vigilant officer from saving the property of the public, their purpose Is violated and they have become worse that useless. Price and Shaw concede that they did transgress propriety. But measured by the emergency which faced them, by the purity of their motives, and the results they accomplished, their breach of propriety sinks well nigh into Insignificance. "I disclaim any Intention or desire to shirk any part of my own legitimate responsibility for what was done by Price and Shaw, who were selected by me, and trained in the forest service. If they appealed to radically to public opinion, it must be remembered that they belong to a service which has been, and now, "most wholly dependent upon enlightened public approval. "I have known Mr. Price for about fifteen years and Mr. Shaw for about

seven years. They are honorable men of great experience and high efficiensy in their work and of peculiar value to the government. They endangered their positions and their chance to continue their life work for the sake of protecting the interests of the people in this country in a matter of vast public importance. They deserve no further condemnation. "What Price and Shaw did raises a question of principal which should not be obscured either by personal consideration or possible mistakes on their part. This question relates to the duty of a public officer. It may be answered thus: A public officer is bound first to obey the law and keep within it. But he is also bound, at any personal risk, to do everything the law will let him do for the public good. Must Risk Dismissal. "In taking unusual steps under this principal of public duty the faithful public servant may risk reprimand or dismissal. So may any man who does his duty under difficulties. Jefferson said in justification for the unusual action of tae Louisiana Purchase: j " 'The executive, In seizing the fugitive occurence, which so much ad-! vances the good of their country has done an act beyond the constitution.

The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties and risking themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it.' . ; "When Price and Shaw forced pub licity concerning the Cunningham claims they broke no law, and at worst were guilty only of the violation of official propriety. Without question they did for the people of this country what the people would have done foK themselves had they been in a situation to do it." YOU.MG MEN WANTED GOVERNMENT PAYS RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS $800 TO $1,400 A YEAR. Free Scholarships Are Offered. Uncle Sam holds spring examinations for railway mail clerks in this vicinity. The job is for life; hours are short, salary twice monthly and vacation. To any young man this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Thousands of appointments are to be made. Common school education is all you need; city and country people have equal chance. Start to prepare now free information. Free scholarships this month. Write Immediately to Central Schools, Dept. 232, Rochester. N. Y. Business College Notes Mr. Frank Brant has taken a position with the statistical department of the freight office of Chicago. Messrs. W'illie Collins, Earl and Clarence Creek, Louis Ebyk and Errol Archey enrolled in the bookkeeping department thi9 week. Miss Mary Taube is doing temporary work for the Sidel Buggy Co., for a few days. Clayton Jordan, Fred Hill and P. A. Zendorf, who were former students, have returned to complete their course. Rollie Phillips has taken a posltfon with the Hardwood Finish Co., of Athens, O. Mr. Phillips was enthusiastic and saw a pleasure in his work and he has every wish from the faculty for his success. Mary Faul has been absent a fewdays on account of illness. Mr. Edgar Brown has taken a position with the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Esrella M. Coates and Guy Taylor entered the shorthand department this week and Alice McManus and C. II. Turner, former students, resumed their work in the same course. Moving pictures of the flight of insects haie been made with exposures of 1-42,0 H second. Another photographer has made a kinematographic study of the action of weapons and projectiles v employing tor illumination electric tparks of a duration of oneten millionth of a second, and obtaining pictures of four hundred successive phases of the operation of the firing mechanism of an automatic pisj tol, although the entire operation oc- ; cupied only about one-tenth of a sec ond.

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