Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 192, 18 May 1910 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, 3IAY 18, 1910.

Tta Rlctaoad Palladium , and Sin-Telegram Published and ownd by th. PALLADIUM PHINTINQ CO. Issued 7 days each week, evening and Sunday morning. OfficeCorner N'orth tn and A streets. Horn Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Ratfolph G. I.ed. ............ ..Editor Lft J.aea ........ BiialaeM Carl Brahar4t ........ Aeaoclate Editor W. R. Padstoa........Xrws Editor. BUBSCIIIPTION TERMS. In Richmond tS.Ofl per jar (In advance) or 10c per -week. MAIL. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance $5 00 Hlx months. In advance 2.60 warn montn, in advance RURAL ROUTES. One year. In advance 2.50 Fix months,. In advance l.g One month, in advanco 26 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be lven. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should be (riven for a specified term: name will not be entered until payment is received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post office as second class mall matter. '-"LSJP.tJ.".e IMMIMMMPMy ' 1W Association of American J AaWtisers (Now York City) has tzaaiaed aad etrtttlsd to the ctreulatfsn 1 V of tats pobUootloa. Only the lia-ures of 4 oawalstloa nnntslaert la its resort an L miffs H Association. a a s m RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Has a population of 23,000 and Is growing. It is the . county Beat of Wayne County, and the trading center of a rich agricultural community. It is located due east from Indianapolis 69 miles and 4 miles from the state line. Richmond Is " a city of homes and of Industry. Primarily a manufacturing city, it is also the Jobbing center of Bastern Indiana and enjoys the retail trade of the populous community for miles around. Richmond la proud of its splendid streets, well leapt yards. Its cement sidewalks and beautiful shade trees. It has 8 national banks, 2 trust companies and 4- building associations with combined resources of over 98,000,000. Number of faetorl 126: capital invested 17,000,000, with an annual output of 927.000.000. and a pay roll of 93.700,000. The total pay , roll for the'eity amounts to approximately 96.300.000 annually, j There are five railroad companies radiating In eight dlf- . ferent directions from the city. Incoming freight handled dally, 1,750,000 lbs.; outgoing freight handled dally, 750,000 lbs. Yard facilities, per day 1,700 cars. Number of passanger trains dally, 89. Number of . freight trains dally 77. The annual post office receipts amount to 980,000. Total assessed valuation of the city, $15,000,000. Richmond has two Interurban railways. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 12.000. Richmond Is the great-., est hardware Jobbing center In. the state, and only second In general Jobbing Interests. It has a piano factory producing a high grade piano every 15 i minutes. It Is the leader in the manufacture of traction engines, and produces more , threshing machines, lawn mowers, roller skatoa. grain drills , and burial caskets than any other city In the world. The city's area Is 2.440 acres; has a court house costing 9500,000; 10 public schools j and has the finest and most complete high school in the middle west under construction; 3 parochial schools: Karlham coller and the Indiana Business College; five splendid fire companies in fine hone houses; Glen Miller park, the largest and most beautiful park in Indiana, the home of Richmond's annual Chautauqua; seven hotels; muntctpal electrlo light plant, uni der successful operation, and a private electric light plant. Injuring competition; the oldest public library In the state, except oho, and the second largest, . 40,000 volumes: pure, refreshing r water, unsurpassed; 65 miles of Improved streets; 40 miles of . sewers; 25 miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 miles of cement walks, and many miles of brick walks. Thirty churches. Including the' Reld Memorial, built at a cost of ; , $250,000; Reld Memorial Honfiltal. one of the most modern n the state; Y. M. C A. build- ;. Ing, erected at a cost of 9100.000, one of the finest In the state. The amusement center of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the else of Richmond holds as fine an annual . art exhibit. The Richmond Pall Festival held each October is unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It Is given in . the Interest of the city and ,' financed by the business men. Success awaiting anyone with enterprise in the Panic Proof City. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Away With the Tollgate. From the Baltimore American. One of the problems which, the state road commission should work out with as little loss of time as possible is the elimination of the tollgate nuisance. The delegation of farmers reaiding along the Liberty turnpike that appeared before the commission last week declared through their spokesman: "We farmers want the road built by the state and we want it done a soon as the commission can do it; but what we want right now is some plan whereby the tollgates will be eliminated." The tollgate ought never to have been; it was a bad scheme in its Incipiency and certainly the lime has come when every road In the state should be a public highway in fact as well as in theory. In the argument made before the state road commission for the speedy taking over of this long-standing toll route known as the Liberty road, it was stated that there it property along that road not two miles from the city which is not payins; one-halt of 1. per cent. There can be no doubt whatever that the toll road system has operated to the discouragement of farming enterprise and to the depression of farm values. It has imposed a troublesome. and obnoxious tax upon every farmer every

"FA UGH"- SA YS FOULKE. In the fall of this rear will be celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of Wayne County, one of the three original counties of the state of Indiana and today a leader In the whole commonwealth through the force of its splendid record and the patriotism of its citizens. The west is peopled by men who have ties that bind them to this county men whose fathers came through the Cumberland Gap Journeying toward a land of. promise ;true Americans and not the later influx from an effete East. These men and their friends and families in the surrounding counties which were formed from the original county of Wayne have a heritage of splendid ' Americanism which may well be celebrated under the most inspiring circumstances that all may more fully realize their duty to the state and the republic. It was with this idea, doubtless, that the Fall Festival committee which has charge of this celebration of the centenary cabled to Theodore Roosevelt without ostentation or blare of trumpets, asking him as the most distinguished American citizen, a true American, to address the thousands of men, women and children who will be gathered in Richmond on this notable occasion of a young civilization.

With this Idea Mr. William Dudley Foulke was asked to co-operate by using whatever personal influence he might have to tell his friend Theodore Roosevelt that the people of this community for counties 'round and the many who will come home from all over this western country at this time cherish the ex-President of these United States and would welcome him. The first thought of Foulke was not of respect for the people of this community, not a thought of the magnitude of this western civilization of which he is not a part, not a feeling of pleasure that Theodore Roosevelt should be honored by this part of the country nor that he in turn should honor it no, hi3 first thought was of himself. "Why was not I consulted?"

"Faugh:" The thought is nauseating that the people of this community dared to ask Theodore Roosevelt to come here as their guest at the time of their first effort to celebrate their citizenship! "Faugh!" In 'that one word Foulke sums up his whole attitude toward this community. He will have none of it. He will not enter in on the same plane as everyday citizens. He despises it now and he has contempt for its heritage. But on the occasion of the last Fall Festival, Mr. Foulke seated at the side of the Governor of this Commonwealth declared that it was an inspiriting thing for the Governor of the State of Indiana to be here as the guest of the people. Did Mr. Foulke regard him as being "advertising adjunct to a Fall Festival or any other kind of county fair." If so Mr. Foulke was the only one who did. It was not advertised it was on this assurance on the part of the Fall Festival committee that the Governor came as the guest of the whole people and In truth did refuse to go to a money making money grabbing fair elsewhere. And because the committee observed the amenities governing such cases simply good manners to Theodore Roosevelt behold Mr. Foulke discovers a plot conceived in all secrecy because forsooth, he was the first one on whom the committee calls for help he attacks them because hs was not consulted. "Faugh!" Indeed!

Since Mr. Foulke holds; the office of ex-President in such high regard does it not occur to him that the office is less prostituted by an ex-president who comes as the guest of the people to help them celebrate their splendid heritage, in Influencing them to greater ideals and service to the state and nation than one who came to this city to squabble over a will case that his office should Influence a jury? Of this latter case Mr. Foulke is the best qualified to judge.

And finally does Mr. Foulke set himself above other citizens? Has he a greater claim on Theodore Roosevelt than the feeling of affection cherished by the everyday folk that he, fought for? Or has a change come over Mr. Foulke since he was a friend of Roosevelt years ago? Roosevelt, we are sure, does not consider himself too good to be the guest of the common people of the West; nor as any man's personal property. So long has Mr. Foulke played the part of Sir Anthony Absolute that he is in danger of degenerating into a common scold; harboring nothing but jealousy toward all men and nursing wounded feelings because he has by bis scolding reduced his judgment to the point where it is disregarded by busy people with no time for squabbles over nothing. If Mr. Foulke desires the place in this community of advisor which might easily have been his if he had shown a disposition to be as others and not vaunt himself, he more nearly fill his ambition, a Nestor whose advice was sought by the Grecian youths In contrast to Priam who sat by the gates of Troy, a man of fluent speech, unapt for the task, chattering with violence like a grasshopper. In this situation until Mr. Foulke shows some other attitude toward this community than one of disgust, his Influence will be exactly what his contempt for the community has made it in his infinite regard for his own opinion. "Faugh!" says Foulke.

time he has delivered a load of produce to his nearby market Trees on School Grounds. From the Providence Journal. In the providing for the planting of trees on the Doyle avenue and the Althea street school grounds, the residents of the Second and Eighth wards have set precedents which should be followed in other parts of the city. But it is not enough to set trees in the ground; they require care to insure strong growth, and during the summer water should be used when there is no rain. School pupils also should be interested in tree culture. A few words on the subject may prevent damage to young trees, for every boy does not stop to think of the results of attempting to climb trees of insufficient size to withstand rough treatment. The Restaurant. From the Los Angeles Express. If the Department of Agriculture is determined to make people happy by teaching American women how to cook it ought to extend its generosities to American restaurants, where so many Americans pass so much of their time developing Indigestion . and grouches. Wants Peace From New Orleans Times-Democrat. After his hearty indorsement of world peace in Norway, the regulars are doubtless more than ever convinced that Colonel Roosevelt will not come home and encourage the insurrection in his own party. "Hon.' From the Atchison Globe. A man may be a great success in business, and never rise above the title of "Mr." but it does not take long for almost any kind of a man to become "Hon." in politics. The Outlook. From the Indianapolis News. ; The president Is firm, the stand-patters are firm and the insurgents are firm. : Looks like a long session of congress, doesn't it?

MASONIC CALENDAR. Wednesday, May 18. Webb lodge, No. 24 F. & A. M. Stated meeting. Saturday, May 21. Loyal Chapter No. 49 O. E. S. Stated meeting.

All Her Fault. Mr. Peevish Where is that book of mine? You know I told you last night where I bad put it for safe keeping. Mrs. Peevish Yes, dear, but I don't remember where you said you had put it. Mr. Peevish Well, I declare! Women can't remember a blessed thine! The Proper Course Information of Priceless Value to Every Richmond Citizen. How to act in an emergency is knowledge of Inestimable worth, and this is particularly true of the diseases and ills of the human body. If you suffer with backache, urinary disorders or any form of kidney trouble, the advice contained in the following statement will add a valuable asset to your store of knowledge. What could be more convincing proof of the efficiency of Doan's Kidney PilU than the statement of Richmond citizens who have been permanently cured? Martin Bulach, tailor, 433 S- Eleventh street, Richmond, Ind.. says: "In tbe spring of 1902, I suffered from a weak and lame back and other symptoms of kidney trouble. Learning of Doan's Kidney Pills, I procured a supply at A. G. Luken & Cq's Drug Store and their use brought me prompt relief. Since then I have had no further need of a kidney remedy, as my cure has been permanent. I gave a public statement recommending Doan's Kidney Pills, after I had used them with such good results and I still hold a high opinion of them. For sale bjr all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.

Year's Work of "Richmond's Best Investment" President Sharon E. Jones of the Locat X M. C. A. Tells m His Report the Work Accomplished by the Association.

At the annual meeting of the Y. M. C. A. last evening President Sharon E. Jones of the Association made a most interesting report on 'Richmond's Best Investment." It is as follows: Report of President. Three years have passed since the Richmond Young Men's Christian association incorporated, two years since the corner stone of our building was laid, and one year ago last January, the building completed. Sixteen months of association work have been done and with most gratifying results in nearly all of the departments. Like all new enterprises it has gone through the stages of excitement and enthusiasm and is now settled down to business. The newness has worn off for those who live in and for excitement continually, and these are not availing themselves of the privileges of the association, today, but are seeking for enjoyment in the usual way offered by competitors of the Young Men's Christian association, and the competition is keener than ever in our city. Amusements of all kinds and in places of all kinds have been opened up and are enticing many of our young men. Membership of 500 In spite of this the Young Men's Christian association has a membership of over iXK) in good standing: by this I mean that they have paid their dues for 1911 and are making use of the' association privileges. The reports of our secretaries will show the following which to the unobserving seem almost incredible. In 40 dormitory rooms over 60 men make their homes. These living quarters have become so popular that theue is now a waiting list and it Is safe to say that had we 100 rooms they would all be filled. This is due to the fact that these quarters are homelike, clean sanitary, convenient, cheery, looked after daily by a competent, painstaking, motherly matron and assistants. This department furnishes a profit to the association. During the past year lodging accommodations have been given to 1,000 transients. This is done by crowding several into a room, using cots, etc. Spa the Popular Place The Spa too, has always been and is today the most popular place in Rich mond among men and boys to get dinners and luncheon. Since its opening 35,000 times has some one been served with food. The popularity of this department Is due to the cleanliness and cheerfulness of the quarters, the wholesomeness of the food, which of course is due . to the skill of the cooks, and here too cramped quarters only prevent doubling or tripling the patronage. This department also furnishes a profit to the association. The social and game rooms have been reasonably well patronized, but not as liberally as it should, although the quarters and furnishings are of the best and complete. This department has not been appreciated, and I believe this Is due largely to the com petition of other things going on in our city, and our failure to organize committees composed of men who would be willing to spend time and effort In popularizing this feature of association work. And yet 20,000 games have been played at one or the other various kinds. Physical culture is a popular feature of the association and is likely to always be so as long as it is in the hands of so competent a director as Mr. Horton. It is not confined to gymnasium exercises, but embraces athletics and field sports, and is an all-year-around work. Enlargement of plans already made as noted in the physical director's report. This department insures the association of growing popularity and patronage because of the direct benefits derived by everyone who embraces its privileges. Four hundred and eighty one men and boys enrolled in the classes and classes conducted 700 times means stronger and healthier bodies, and it may be the dispelling of disease and longer and more useful lives to some. This department and "the, (new) swimmin hole" and the shower baths have great hygienic value. The director's report shows that about 70,0(X persons were in attendance in use of all the physical privileges. Educational Department. The educational department: Here

If yon Inst only stop and think, your vacation time will soon be here, and yon will need one of these. We've quite a variety ot hand bags also that range from 50c up to $12.50

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we have a splendid free reading room complete In furnishings and literature and It is enjoyed by many regular visitors. The educational classes have made a start and promise to yield good returns. The boys' department is the real life of the association. It would not be worth the money if we could not hear the merry laughter, the shrill warwhoop, the clatter of the feet like so many horses, the musicless muSician at the piano player, the splash of the diver, the escaping of surplus steam from the chest of the lusty youth, whether in Imitation of the nightingale the steam engine, or the honk, honk, of the auto. These may come for the fun only, but under the wise supervision of a wise director, they are led into manly ideals and spiritual paths, the boys' bible class last year took first place in the United States for the number taking examination, and this year conducted 11 classes of 2 SO lessons with an attendance of 2,416. Women's Auxiliary. The Women's auxiliary, or as I would call it, the Y. M. C. A.'s better half, has been of inestimable value to the association in assistance at our social functions, in looking after and supplying needs of the association work. We owe a debt of gratitude to these noble women who give of their time, money and ability regularly and unsparingly and cheerfully, and who have accomplished so much and are planning for still greater things for the comfort and protection and strengthening of the young men who come within the Influence of this association. Last but not least, but Indeed, the greatest of all, is the general supervision of this great institution, requiring the experience, ability, patience, tact and undivided time of our worthy secretary, Mr. Goodwin, and to him belongs the larger part of the credit for a building most complete in a.l of its appointments, the planning of the work for all departments and much of the success of the association. It is with much regret that we were compelled to accept the resignation of Mr. Goodwin to take effect at the close of his year, viz, September 30, 1910, and I am sure that the whole association wish him the greatest success in the field to which he is called. Brunson's Resignation. They say that troubles never come singly. It is true with us at this time for the resignation of Mr. Brunson has also been forced upon us, and he leaves us in the summer to resume his education at Columbia university. New York. We hope to be able to fill these important positions with capable, up-to-date men, and competent committees are now looking after this matter. As your retiring president, I want to recall some of the past that we may take courage for the future. Three short years cover the history of our present organization. In this time the canvass for money, the selection of site, completion of building and a year of profitable work have been ac

complished. Does it not even now seem all like a dream to many of you? An impossibility made a possibility, a valley of dry bones made alive, and everlasting monument erected in the name of God to the use of mankind, an evidence of the inward and outward expression of the hearts of the people of Richmond, 4400 hearts made better, stronger, truer, because they helped in this greatest of all Richmond's undertakings. Mistakes have been made by our secretary, employes, board of directors, and they will be made in the future (when we get beyond the period of making mistakes there will be no need of Y. M. C. A. buildings), but we have benefited by our mistakes and will try to not make the same over again. A Laundry Equipment During the past few months we have added a steam laundry to our equipment to do our own laundry work. This will be a saving to us and reduce the operating expenses. The rooms and halls of the third and fourth floors have all been neatly decorated with paints and made attractive and cheerful. These improve ments cost about $2,000. We have done nothing toward raising the deficit on our building fund for the reason that it seemed impossible to get

For next Saturday we have some more exceptional bargains. f We will offer thi nice 24-in. hand bag on that day for 98c We also have some that arc larger and have the straps around them, made of prepared leather and genuine leather handles.

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people to subscribe so soon after paying their first subscriptions to the

building. ' I think it will be wise to take this matter up at once and map out a plan by which It can be raised and that plan vigorously applied until the whole Indebtedness is wiped out, which at present is $16,500. Some subscriptions are in hand already made constitutional on the whole amount being raised. The association can be made self-sustaining if this interest is cut out of the budget and the membership raised to 1,000. I recommend an immediate canvass for members until every man and boy in Richmond has been solicited for membership. A Good Investment. it Is truly "Richmond's Best Investment." What other institution throws open Its doors day and night and offers free to any boy or man any privileges whatever? What other institution shleters at a very nominal price sixty young men, giving them decent, Christian, homelike environment? What other institution meets any man on a common level and helps him to help himself, gives him a free education, secures for him employment? What other institution looks arter our boys when they break their mothers apron strings and teaches them the same lesson of morality and manliness she has? What other institution employs several specially trained men whose lives are devoted to the building up of character in the boy to manhood? What other institution takes each individual boy or man and tries to make the best possible piece of physical, moral and spiritual manhood out of him? What other institution appeals only to the good qualities of our boys and develops that, enabling them to overcome evil tendencies?' Protects Young Men. What other institution stands between the parent and the world to warn and protect the young man from evil influence? I answer, There is none. I do not say tonight that the Young Men's Christian Association of Richmond has done all these things fully and effectually and that we have proofs of many cases, but I do say that we are doing this work and that we have some concrete cases. We do not hear of all the good we do, but we quickly and publicly hear of anything wrong we do, even if it be so small a misdemeanor as throwing an egg. Remember, there were ten lepers healed, made whole, translated from the most loathsome disease of the body to perfect physical manhood, and to this day only one of them has made public mention of it Leaves Good Taste. Sixty-five men under this roof and the, influence of these surroundings caanot be made any worse by these environments. Thirty-five thousand eaters In the Spa would come in contact someway, somehow, with somebody or something here that would, at least, leave a good taste in their mouths. One thousand transients seeking j and obtaining shelter over night might see the difference between a Christian organization and a dive or bothel where some might go to spend the evening were the Y. M. C. A. not open. These 20,000 fellows who played some game in these rooms might have missed a thousand traps that were laid to catch them somewhere, that would result in their dawnfall. The 70,000 who spent an hour in physical exercises here might each have filled a want of nature that enabled her to dispel disease and the time was well spent In good company and was followed by good sound sleep. Study of the Bible. The 2316 boys snatched from their play to an hour's Bible study will never feel any harm from It Let us thing to ask those boys fifty years hence, and they will tell us that the influence of the Y. M. C. A. were next to those of the home and were a great help to them all their lives. Now, my dear friends, I am afraid that we have not yet awakened to the fact that here is Richmond greatest Institution, Richmond's best investment. We, who seek and find good investments, are sure to tell every man we meet and advise him to take an in- j

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terest in it But how many of us have really spent thirty minutes the past year trying to bring this association to the attention of a single boy or man? Is it so popular that it does not need your personal influence? No. it needs the influence of every member, every subscriber, every man, woman an t child in our city. It needs It more now than ever before. The young man needs it more today than yesterday. Richmond needs It more this year than last. Just as I sit at the window writing this message, I see a young man staggering drunk, likely in the early stages of the habit for he seeks relief by vomiting. Whose boy is he? Any man in my hearing would say if that were my boy. I would sacrifice

; my time, money, and all I have to re deem him. If we keey another boy from going the same road. It will pay to keep up this institution if it be your boy. Resctfully submitted, SHARON E. JONES. STATE COMMITTEE WILL RESPOND TO 'S CALL (Continued From Page Three.) repeal it if they get into power. The only thing that can prevent the repeal of the eounty option law is for the republicans to control the next legislature. The brewers know thi4 and that is the reason why they are pouring their money Into the democratic fund this year just as they did two years ago. The financial plan of the republican state committee has not yet become known. That some plan will have to be worked out to get money for the campaign is certain. Chairman Lee has appointed on his advisory committee this year one man from each district and they are all good business men, well known in their districts. Undoubtedly among them they will be able to conceive some plan by which the funds can be raised with which to make the fight this fall. A state campaign costs a great deal of money and it is'always a task to raise it NATURE'S REMEDIES FOR DISEASE. Nature provides more effective remedies in the roots and herbs of the field than were ever produced from drugs. v : Thirty years ago, Mrs. Lydla Pinkham of Lynn, Mass.. discovered and gave to the women of the world a rem edy made from roots and herbs which has proved more efficacious in curing women's diseases than any other medicine the world has ever known, and today Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is looked upon everywhere as the standard remedy for woman's ills. - r If you are troubled with tick headache, constipation, iadicestioo. offeo:re breath or aoy disease arising from stomach trouble, get a Sue or fl bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It . positively rusmnteed to cure voo. SittOFftiiifir r Goods Full line of Base Ball and Tennis Goods. Tennis Balls, 15c up. Play Things . For Boy s ' Express Wagons, Hand Cars, Automobiles, Velocipedes. Indian Suits, 75c up. Croquet Seta, 60c up. English and Collapsible Ooll Go-carts. We cai ry a complete line of tops. Bicycle tires $1.95 up. Line of Flower and Garden Seeds. The Geo. Drehtn Co. 517 Uila St 0ZiLg 925, 927 and 929 MAIN