Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 34, 13 December 1910 — Page 1

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PROGRAM ISSUED FOR OF HIGH SCHOOL Will Be Held Friday Afternoon and Evening, December 16, the Latter Being Open to the Public. TO BE AN ADDRESS BY NOTED EDUCATOR Pres. McConnell of'DePauw To Speak in the EveningFormer Superintendent Study Will Attend. The official program for the dedication of tho Richmond high school building, not only the newest, but conIdered the best In the state. ai announced on Tuesday by Superintendent T. A. Mott. The dedication will be on Friday evening, December 16, In the auditorium of the new building. It will be preceded by exercises In the afternoon which the atudents will attend. President Stephen S. St rattan, Jr., of the board of education will preside and In behalf of the school city, make a short address. The dedicatory address will be given by Dr. F. J. McConnell, president of DePauw university, and regarded as one of the leading educators of the United States. FollowDr. McConnell's address there will be remarks by Superintendent J. N. Study of the Ft. Wayne schools, for many years In charge of the Richmond schools; by Superintendent T. A. Mott, as the official head of the local school system, and by Wilfred Jessup, selected to represent the alumni association of the school. Mrs. Emma Hasty, patriotic Instructor of the Woman's Relief Corps, will present an American flag to the school in behalf of the O. A. K. and the W. R. C, and It will be accepted by Prof I. E. Neff, the principal of the school. Afternoon Cxerelses. The afternoon exercises will be In charge of the school faculty and tho school board. Principal I. E. Neff, Assistant Principal J. F. Thompson, Superintendent T. A. Mott; Lee BA Nusbaum, treasurer of the board of education: Stanley Llndstrom, president of the senior class, and Attorney Oustave lloelscher, a graduate In will speak. The high school orchestra will take a prominent part In both the afternoon and evening exercises. At the conclusion of tho evening exercises, the new building and the old Garfield building, which Is now a part of the high school, will be thrown open to the public for inspection. The program follows: Exercises 7:30 P. M. Marcla Drillante The King's Hussars High School Orchebtni. Invocation Rev. K. G. Howard Stephen S. St rattan. Jr., President of the board of education, chairman. Address Dr. F. J. McConnell Overture Caliph of nagdad Orchestra Remarks.. Superintendent J. N. Study Remarks... Superintendent T. A. Mott Remarks Mr. Wilfred Jcssup '94 The Alumni Association. Presentation of Flag from W. R. C. and G. A. R Mrs. Km ma Hasty Acceptance of Flag Principal I. E. Neff Potpourri Memories of War Orchestra Dedication prayer ....Dr. S. II. Lyons Postlude Festival March, Mendels sohn Orchestra School Exercises 2 P. M. Spirit of Symposium - Principal I. E. Neff Invocation ....Rev. H. Robert Smith Overture Caliph of Bagdad Orchestra Remarks ..Superintendent T. A. Mott 'Cello Solo Adagio from . Clarinet Qulutet Hubert Smith Remarks Stanley Llndstrom Piano Concerto, Op. 40. Allegro Moderato Mildred Schalk, Luclle Townsend. FART II. "Hail to R. H. 8." Richmond II. S. Song. Music by Will Earhart Words by Jessie 8ands. The School and Orchestra. Remarks '. .- Assistant Principal J. E. Thompson Clarinet solo Andante and Polonaise Brilliant ...... Roland L. Nusbaum Remarks ....Gustavo Hoelscher, '03 Edrts and Hyperion A Love Legend Orchestra Remarks Lee IS. Nusbaum Address President R. L. Kelly Postlude Festival March.. Orchestra SEEK REGULATION FOR INTERURBANS '(American NfWi Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 13. With a view to lessening the chances for a repetition of the trolley car wrecks which cost many lives In Indtana the past summer. Governor Marshall today held a conference with the executive and operating officials of tho chief in terurban lines doing business in the State. The members of the State railroad commission were also present at the conference, which discussed meas ures to be presented at the coming session of the egUlature for the regu latlon and control of the intcrurban traffic.

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RICHMOND DIVE QUE OF DUPES DF CLEVER SWIIIDLER

J. Wilbur Chapman, Now Famous Evangelist, Trapped by the Wiles of a Notorious "Boy Broker." EVA BOOTH ALSO A VICTIM OF SHARPER And It Is Reported Jacob Riis, Friend of Col. Roosevelt, Fell for the Fugitive Crook's Game. (American News Service) Boston, Dec. 13. That Robert E. Davie, the missing boy broker who is alleged to have swindled his victims out of $500,000, numbered among his dupes Jacob Riis. friend of Theodore Roosevelt. J. Wilbur Chapman, the noted evangelist, formerly of Richmond, Ind.. and Eva Rooth, commander of the Volunteers of America, was revealed today. Further evidence of the methods he used to dupe his victims is shown in his correspondence with the Rev. Chapman and Mr. Riis. In a number of Instances in his correspondence It Is shown that he followed a definite plan of seeking to make his victims feel Indebted to him by lavish enter talnments or other favors and under course of this feeling to induce them to let him make for them the "Invest ments" which never seemed to yield a dividend. Eva Booth met the young man through the Rev. Chapman. Under date of March 16, 1909, Mr. Chapman gave to Davie a note to Miss Booth reading as follows: "My Dear Miss Booth: I want you to know Mr. R. E. Davie of Boston. He is my special and true friends. I told you about him in Springfield. It is be who gave me the privilege of the auto mobile and many other things. Yours, J. Wilbur Chapman, Friendship For Riis. Davie's friendship with Jacob Riis was expressed in other ways than banquets to which distinguished Bostonians sent letters of acceptance and to their self satisfaction sent regrets. On March 28, of this year, he sent to Mr. Riis, a beautiful Easter lily as a token of his appreciation, and was rewarded with the following letter: "It Is as I said when we went down the steps of your house. Your kind hospitality makes It difficult to deal with you on a business basis. It Is one of the hardships of life that has to be endured. At present I have to. Perhaps tho time may come when I cau bo your guest without having to put a price on my coming. No one will be more pleased to. Yours most sincerely, Jacob Riis.' Mr. Chapman, In his letter of Intro duction to Miss Eva Booth, mentions the fact that it was the young broker to whom he was Indebted for the automobile's use. A Boston firm paid for the wear and tear on the machine, MILTOII HAS VERY YOUTHFUL FORGER Fifteen Years Old Lad Raises Check for 20 Cents to Ten Dollars. (Palladium Special) Milton, Ind., Dec 13. Believing his pay was too small for pumping the pipe organ at a local church when tendered a check calling for twenty cents, Delmar Griffiths, aged about 15 years, who has a mania for making bad and Increasing good checks, raised It to ten dollars and cashed It on Monday afternoon In Cambridge City. The check was on L. N. Warren, who employed Griffith and expected to pay him twenty cents for his services. Two offenses last week of a similar nature except that he attempted to pass checks with forged signatures of wealthy citizens were overlooked because of the. boy's age and the fact that tho conditions at his home are said not to be the best. Those on whom these checks were drawn lectured Griffith and felt that he would mend his ways. However, since the game has be come so fascinating to him it was de cided that the authorities should be notified and on Monday afternoon he was placed under arrest by Marshal Dan Drlschel of Cambridge City, and SherifT Meredith. He is now In jail in Richmond, being quartered apart from the other prisoners. He proba bly will be arraigned In the Juvenile court and sent to the Institution at Plalnfleld where he undoubtedly will remain until he is of age. THE WEATHER STATE Fair tonight. Unsettled and warmer Wednesday. LOCAL Fair and warmer tonight and Wedneccsy.

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REPORT PREPARED BY SECRETARY OF WAR IS WITHHELD So Graphically Did It Relate How Much at the Mercy of Warlike Power U. S. Is, It Was "Killed." IS SUPPRESSED FOR BUSINESS REASONS Rep. Tawney Was Afraid Re port Would Be Like a Bomb and, in Consequence Affect Dollar Getting. ' (American News Service) Washington, Dec. 13. The United States is almost wholly unprepared for war, and the Atlantic, Paclic and Gulf coasts would be at the mercy of any of the powers should our navy be defeated. The regular army is inadequate, and the militia not effective. This startling information was prepared by the war department in answer to a resolution adopted by the house last session. The resolution was offered by Representative James McLachlan of California and called on the secretary of war to furnish the house with a detailed statement of the preparedness of the United States to repel a foreign invasion and to protect our coasts, and to state the condition of the armed forces of the United States. This was carefully done by the war department and would have been forwarded to the house today but for the interference of Representative Tawney of Minnesota, chairman of the house appropriations committee. lie learned of the war department's intention and at once sought Secretary of War Dickinson. He told the secretary that to send the Information to the house would be like exploding a bomb. It would cause a big stir and might result in business depression. Congress, he said, would largely augment the army and navy. To Increase Defenses. The picture painted by Representative Tawney of the possibilities that might follow the publication of the true condiUon of the country's armed forces caused the secretary of war to ponder, with the result that it was decided not to furnish the house with the Information asked for by the Cali fornia congressman. The deficiencies In defenses are to be corrected, however, and the safety of the nation assured, the plan being to establish by congress a permanent council of national defense, to be composed of members of the legislative and the executive branches of the government. Representative Hobson of Alabama, who is familiar with the situation, is now at work on a bill providing for the counciL He expects to have the measure in shape this week, when he will Introduce It in the house. Members of the house say no time is to be lost in providing for adequate national defense.

MEXICO IS QUIET SO LETTERS STATE Friends Missionaries Write to Phariba Stephens the True Conditions. According to letters written by American Friends' missionaries, now stationed in Mexico, which have just been received by Phariba Stephens of this city, secretary of the Mexican Field committee, of the American Friends' Board of Foreign Missions, the press reports of the Mexican revo lution have been greatly exaggerated. E. E. Morgan, at Matamoros. Mexico, writes, "Everything Is quiet here and has been all the time, regardless of yellow journal reports to the contrary. I enclose a specimen of what has been circulated in the North. This is absolutely false, as Matamoror has never even feared a battle, nor has communication been Interfered with in the least. The Mexican gopernment is in complete control everywhere. "Have you ever heard of the battle reported to have been fought at Matamoros last Wednesday V writes Lydla E. Pyle.Do not be alarmed as there is not a semblance fef truth in the report. All Is in peace here, as I told thee before. Mr. Arrese, a prominent citizen, said to me Friday that all the disturbance there bad been la the whole state of Tamanlipas was that two drunken men on the streets here cried. 'Live Madera.' 'They Immediately arrested these two men. Perhaps I wrote before that the government had all the firearms removed from all. the stores here to the customs office, so that there would be no danger of any citizen buying them. Also a few soldiers have been sent each night to patrol the river bank as a precauUon against possible danger. Thus it is that President Diaz prevents trouble. It is true that in Mexico City, Puebla, Torreon and the other Matamoros., which is near Torreon, and In a few other places, there were attempts at a revolution but Diaz is too strong for them. Perfect order is restored and there never occurred all that was reported in the United Statts papers the one-third part . . . . , 4

TUESDAY, EVENING, DECE3IBER 13, 1910.

LAFOLLETTE HOW COURTED BY WILY CHIEF EXECUTIVE Warlike Wisconsin Senator Having His Pompadour Smoothed the Right Way, But He Is Unbending. PATRONAGE CHUNKS HANDED HIM TODAY President Taft Is Anxious to Have Judiciary Appointments Confirmed but there Is Opposition. (American News Service) Washington, Dec. 13.--President Taft is baiting Senator LaFollette. He would bring the strenuous little insurgent back upon the Republican reservation if possible and induce him to lay aside his tomahawk and sheath his scalping knife. To that end the LaFollette pompadour is being stroked the- smooth way by the deft hand of the executive. Taft urged LaFollette to come to the White House and confer about supreme court appointments. LaFollette refused. Then Taft dangled before him a supreme court appointment by asking LaFollette, through Senators Cummins and Borah, to let the president know what he, LaFollette, thought of Chief Justice Winslow of Wisconsin and Associate Justice Quinlan. LaFollette pent word that both were good men, but remained away. Today Taft sent to the senate the nomination of G. Edgar Schultz, recommended by LaFollette, a year ago, for collector of customs at Milwaukee. He also asked LaFollette to recomend a man for postmaster at Madison, the capital of Wisconsin. A year ago LaFollette was denied an audience with the president. His recommendations for office were also held up. President Is Worried. President Taft, before today's cabinet session conferred with Senators Hale and Lodge and urged them to secure speedy confirmation of judicial appointments sent to the senate yesterday. The senate yesterday, as a senatorial courtesy, Chief Justice White having once been a member of that body, immediately confirmed his promotion. The president today asked the senators to act with dispatch and conf rm the appointments of Associate Justices Lamar and Vandeventer; the five judges of the commerce court and the two new interstate commerce commissioners. Anxiety Is Felt. There is some anxiety at the White House today over these confirmations. The president has heard that there is much feeling among the Republican senators over the fact that so many of the judgeship appointees are Democrats. He heard enough to cause him serious alarm. Senator Depew of New York, a member of the judiciary committee of the senate called today at the request of Mr. Taft. As he left the senator said that the question of confirmations was the subject of their conference. He gave the impression that opposition might be expected to the slate nominated by the president yesterday. Some Republican senators feel that two supreme court judgeships out of three were enough for the Democrats, without adding two more out of five appointments in the commerce court. It is also pointed out that out of the two interstate commerce commission appointments made one went to a Democrat. There is no opposition to the general policy of a non-partisan judiciary, the Republicon senators who called at the Wihte House, said, but they intimated that even that policy might be carried too far. FOLLOWING TRAIL OF.STANDARD OIL (American News Service)" Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 13. A case against the Standard Oil company, charging violation of the North Carolina anti-trust laws, was called in court for trial here today. The company is alleged to have cut the price of kerosene in Raleigh from 10 to 7 cents a gallon In order, as the State charges, to destroy the competition of the Indian Oil company which, recently has established tanks in Raleigh and other cities of North Carolina with a view to doing business on a large scale. Pdtedima's Total Daily Average Circclation (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary lists, for Week Ending Dec 10, 1910. 6,469 City CircnlaUon showing net paid, sews stands and regular complimentary list does not include sample copies. 3,561

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HATTIE L (American News Service) Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 13. Hattie LeBlanc, who has been on trial for her life, charged with the murder of Clarence F. Glover, may know her fate late this afternoon or tonight. So confident are her friends that she will be acquitted that they have planned. a reception upon her return to freedom after a year in jail. If she is freed she will go back to her birthplace at West Arichat, Cape Breton, with the family priest. Attorney Melvln Johnson, counsel for, the, defense concluded his argu-l ment toaay. He renewed his arraignment of Mrs. Lillian M. Gfover, widow of the murdered man, referring to her again and again as "vampire," and spoke of Hattie LeBlanc's experience in the Glover home as "white slavery." He referred to Hattie LeBlanc as an innocent girl of 14 years who had been brought from West Arichat and ruined in the Glover household. He said that

Social Chasm Bridged Last Evening A t Coliseum Dance

The social chasm in Richmond was bridged last night a unique event even in a democracy and Mr. and Mrs. Prosperity danced on the same floor with Mr. and Mrs. Smallwages and Mr. and Mrs. Deadbroke. The dance was held at the Coliseum, beautifully decorated with American flags and Japanese lanterns, and representatives of the various branches of society, from the bon ton down to the Saturday night social crowd, danced their two-steps to the inspiring music of a brass band and their waltzes to the dreamy harmony of an orchestra. The band and the orchestra were separated by the length of the dancing floor. The dance was given by the local Musicians' Union for the benefit of the Fall Festival deficit fund, and about $400 was realized. The music was perfect, the floor ideal, the dancers numerous and happy, and the balcony and gallery packed with spectators. - Milwaukee boasts of its municipal dances given by the Socialistic administration. Mayor Seidel leading the grand marches, but Richmond does not have to give an inch to her Wisconsin, socialist-loving sister. The only thing Milwaukee has on Richmond is an official introducer, but that defect will be overcome. It is rum SPLENDID EXHIBIT BY YOUNG FARMERS The exhibit by members of the Wayne County Boys' Corn club at the office of county superintendent, - C. O. Williams in the court house is one of the best corn displays ever shown in Richmond.- There are seventy-five exhibitors and it is expected that by Wednesday all the . members of the club, including a hundred and sixteen boys, will have exhibits displayed. The corn is shown in lots of ten ears and each, lot will be graded on Thursday and Friday by Joseph. McMahan, a corn expert living at Liberty. Thirty points will be given on scoring. The fifty boys from the county who cave the best grades. will be sent to the short course at Purdue university from January 9 to 14, free of charge. The other members will receive agricultural books. There are several boys who raised enough corn on their quarter acre plots to average better than a hundred bushels to the acre.

Decided Today

E BLANC the reason the defendant wa3 noi put upon the stand was to avoid such an exhibition as was afforded by Evelyn Thaw. A great crowd sought admission In the court room for the last day of the trial. Women stood for hours in the cold to secure a place in line. Hundreds stood in line and then found that they could not get into the courtroom at all. ! V Hattie LeBlanc appeared cheerful and confident as she passed on her way from the jail to the courthouse on the journey which was to mean that she might be condemned to death in tho electric chair, or that she' might walk from the courthouse a free girl, declared forever innocent of the crime of murder that had been charged against her. She walked with spright ly step, but when she took her seat jn court she appeared rather nervous as if the strain of the trial was very se vere upon her. ored that Mayor Zimmerman is being groomed for the job. The mayor knows everyone in the city by his or her first name, consequently it is believed he would be the Ideal party to introduce ' Mrs. or Miss Moneytoburn to Mr. ".Badly bent; or Mrs. and Miss fCoinless to Mr. Scadsworth. The may or would probably accept the job" if he could be convinced he would not have to change his politics. He still prefers being a Republican to being a Socialist. When the . walling notes of, a holdtight waltz trembled and gently died as St. Andrews' church clock dolefully announced the birth of a new day, the police reporter reluctantly released his clutch on his dancing partner, the young and brilliant Mrs. Prosperity, nee Miss TJppercrust, and asked her what she thought of dancing in the same hall with her cook, and brushing shoulders with the boy that delivered groceries to her home; by the back door route, "Why really, I have had a most delightful evening," she replied with a bewitching smile. Jim Nearlybroke, said it was his first experience with the bon ton at a social blowout and he had had "one of them best times." Concluding, he said, "that swell - society outfit ain't half as bad as its painted." PLAN TO BEAUTIFY AMERICAN CITIES (American News Service) Washington, D. C, Dec. 13. Comprehensive city planning and the preservation of natural scenery will be exhaustively discussed by the American Civic association at its annual convention beginning in this city tomorrow. The gathering will be attended by delegates from many cities of the United States and Canada. A WIFE MURDERER TO BE EXECUTED American News Service) Perth, Ont, Dec. 14. Unless granted a respite, Rufus Weedmark, convicted last October of the murder of bis wife, will pay the death penalty for his crime tomorrow. In a drunken quarrel Weedmark choked his wife to death. The feature of the trial was the evidence given by the murderer's fourteen-year-old daughter, who was an eye-witness to the tragedy.

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COMMISSION 'PLAN OF GOVERNMENT ft SPLENDID SYSTEM jSays Charles R. Lane, Form er Newspaper Man, Formerly with Palladium, in Address Last Evening. BUSINESS MEN MUST AID IN GOVERNMENT If They Will Help in Management of Public Affairs There Will Be Minimum of Graft, He Says. "When good men can be won away from private business to manage public affairs there will be a minimum of graft and the sword of Damocles In the'recall will hang by a chain instead of a hair. The change is not a flight to evils we know not of. It Is a flight from, evils that mean civil disaster. The commission plan of government filters the politics of cities. Let us give it a trial." So spoke .Charles R. Lane of Ft. Wayne, Ind., before a large number of local business men at the Commercial club rooms last evening in concluding a splendid address advocating the adoption of the commission form of government for American cities. Mr. Lane is now engaged ' in the trade mark business, but for a number of years was in the newspaper business. A number of years, ago he was connected with the Palladium., Later he was connected with the Indianapolis Journal and the Ft. Wayne Gazette. He has given a most careful study of the commission form of gov. eminent plan, consequently is most competent to speak on that subject. He said, in part, last evening: Cities Are Really Corporations. Cities really have no functions . of government. They are corporations created by state laws for the management of certain matters, local and peculiar to them. ' They are creatures of convenience,; not of sovereignty.!: Tho officers of, a city may be changed at will by the legislature. Their terms of office nxJteshortened or lengthened or thft nffli'm'ma ha iluiHshail the midst of the terms of those elected to the offices. Voting for city offices is purely a privilege and In no sen he a right, except as' created by law; what the law creates it can destroy as far as city management is concerned. There is, therefore, a wide and all important difference between theL. exer cise of a sovereign vote in affairs of state and a privileged voice in affairs municipal. v :':P-'r ' It is idle to talk of abolition of parties in state and government, but It is wisdom to recognize their, demonstrated inefficiency and therefore, to consider their abolishment as factors in the management of cities. We may not all agree that the commission is the right sort of agency for municipal management, but it is difficult to frame up a real good defense for party management of cities of the Indiana size. It would not be difficult to apply the commission form' to any city in Indiana. Whether cities like New York and Chicago could sucessfully use the commission form is not now. to the point. You will recall that the first change is that of substituting a new form of nominating and electing members of the commission for the system of party nominations ; and elections. This means that instead of the Democratic party and the Republican party meeting in convention or separate primary vote as tinder the present law f n Indianapolis or Fort Wayne, there would be provided by law a single primary election for tho nomination of twice the number of candidates, regardless of party, to be voted for at a later general election. Under the Iowa law the name of any citizen may be placed upon the primary ballot whose petition for such place is signed by 25 citizens. There is but one primary ballot and this contains the names of all those suggested for nomination, arranged In alphabetical order. The primary is held and as each voter reaches the voting booth, the ticket is handed him with instructions to vote for ten of those named as bis candidates for the general election two weeks later. There are five offices to fill and ten men to be nominated. The 10 receiving the highest number of votes at thA nrfmarr -ela. tion are declared the nominees. Nothing But the Ballot. There is nothing on the ballot to indicate how the men named on the primary ballot vote in national or state affairs and ; so those nominated are presumably selected as candidate to be elected at the general election for reasons of personal fitness only and not political. It is entirely probable that the primary ticket may contain a half hundred names of citizens more or less well known.' At any rate the 10 who stood highest in the primary election are the candidates at the general election. The five high men win. They may not have received much of a plurality or even a large per cent of the total Tote cast at the primary election, but when it comes to the general election, the successful candidates must receive a majority. This is a feature of the system that must commend Itself to all those wEo

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