Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 104, 21 February 1911 — Page 4

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THE ZXICimOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGKAM, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1911.

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RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY"

Hae a population of 23.000 and la crowing. It la the county seat of Wayne County, and the trading center of a rlctt agricultural community. It Is located due east from Indianapolis miles and 4 miles from the Stste line. . . Richmond Is a city of homes and of Industry. Primarily a manufacturing- city, it la alao the jobbing renter of Kaatern Indiana and enjoya the retail trade of the populoua community for miles around. Richmond is proud of Its splendid streets, well kept yards. Its cement sidewalks and beautiful shade trees. It has 3 national banks. 3 trust companion and 4 building aseoclattone with combined resources of over 18.000,000. Number of factories 126; capital Invested 17.000,000, with an annual output of 137,000.000, and a pay roll of 13,700.000. The total pay roll for tho city amounts to approximately 91,300,000 annually. There are five railroad companies radiating In eight different directions from the city. Incomingfreight handled dally, 1,760,000 lha.; outgoing freight handled dally. 760.000 lbs. YarJ facilities, per day 1.700 cars. Number of passenger trains dally 39. Number of freight trains dally 77. Tha annual poat office receipts amount to 90,000. Total assessed valuation of tha city, 116,000.000. Richmond haa two Interurhan railways. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 13,000. Richmond la the greatest hardware Jobbing center In the state and only second In general jobbing Intereats. It haa a piano factory producing a high grale r ilano every 1C minute. It Is thn eader In the manufacture of traction engines, and produces mora threshing machines, lawi. mowers, roller skates, grain drills and burial caskets than any other city In the world. Tho city's are is 3.440 acres; lias a court house costing 1500.000: 10 puhllo schools and has llio finest and moat complete hls;lt school In tho middle west under construction; 3 parochial school; Karlhajn college and tho Indiana Business College; five splonriid fire companies lit fine lioaa houses; tllen Miller park. t!i Urgent and mom beautiful park mond's annual chautauqua; seven in Indiana, the home of Richhotels; municipal electrlo light plant, under successful operation and a private electrlo light plant, insuring competition: tho oldest pub! In library In the state, except no and the second la r gout, 40.000 volumes; pure, refreshing water, unsurpassed: 05 miles of improved streets; 40 miles of sewers; 28 miles of cement curb and gutter combined: 40 miles of cement walks, and many miles of brick J".'"1, 'hui'ches. including tha Reld Memorial, built at a cost of 9360.000; Held Memorial Hospital, one of the most modern in the state: Y. M. C A. building, erected at a cost of 9100.000. one of the finest In the stste. The amusement center of Kaatern Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the sis of Richmond holds as fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Fall Festival held each October la unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It la given In the Interest of tha city and financed by tha business men. Success awaiting anvone with enterprise in the .Panto Proof City.

More Facts

This Is My 45th Birthday

EZRA RIPLEY THAYER. Ezra 'Ripley Thayer, dean of the Harvard Law school, was born in Milton, Mass., Feb. 21, 1S66, tho son of Professor James Bradley Thayer who was lone a member of the Harvard law school faculty. Ho studied at the Cambridge high school and also received private Instruction at Athens, Greece. After graduating from Harvard In 1SSS be served for a time as secretary of Justice Horaco Gray of the supremo court of tho Uuitcd 8tates and in 1891 mas admitted to tho Massachusetts bar. He began practice In Roston and soon attained position of prominence In bis chosen profession. While engaged In his private practice be lectured frequently at the Harvard law school and in 1909 he was selected as dean of that Institution to succeed the late Prof. James Barr Amos.

MASONIC CALENDAR

Tuesday, Feb. 21 Richmond lodge. No. 196. F. A. M. Called meeting, work In Fellowcraft degree. , Thursday, Feb. 23. Webb lodge. No. U, F. A A. M. Called meeting. Work U Ksttred Apprentice degree.

The Palladium has promised to back up Its statements that the postal delcit Is not caused by the magazines. Later In this article the figures appear. But before any further statement Is made let us cite still one further example of what the intent of the rider attached by Hitchcock and Taft to the postal appropriation bill amounts to. . A brief summary should precede it. Max Pam, a Chicago corporation attorney has been representing the President personally in this postal-magazine controversy. The controversy went on finally Pam told the magazine owners that there was no need for the controversy to go further for the administration was ready to drop It. The magazine owners naturally agreed. On February 8, Tart sent for Hitchcock. "Sunny Jim" Sherman and Senators Carter and Crane. He demanded that the postal rates Bhould be raised to include magazines. The four hurried from the White House to where the postal committee was Bitting. They obtained a ready hearing. The next day this was suddenly reported out by the committee. And that is all the notice that the magazines got after dealing with the accredited representative of the administration, Mr. Max l'um.

Another chapter: When the storm of protest went up all over the country, much to tho Burpriso of Hitchcock and the president tho administration began to hunt around for some way to head it off. They had misjudged the amount of interest that was being taken!. The farm papers began to take it up (and we are going to show later what tho Farm Journal did). Hitchcock went to these men and told them that he would give them Immunity. He promised that there should be no advance of 400 per cent as far as they were concerned. That proved one thing! It was the national magazines and not the deficit that Taft was after.

Taft has all along been claiming that the national magazines are responsible for the deficit of the postofflce which the American people are commencing to see bas been brought about by faulty business management regarding the railroad and express graft and a service shot to pieces by "bureaucratic intrigue from up above. Read this and see what you thing of the postofflce departments own igures! If Mr. Hitchcock and the president are not dealing out punishment to those magazines that are telling the truth they at least should be the last persons on earth to say (since the order) that Wilmer Atkinson is moved by personal animus to such an extent that these figures taken from the postal reports and equally trustworthy sources, do not prove something, 'even if Atkinson is the editor of the Farm. Journal with, 3,000,000 readers. These give the lie direct to the charge that the magazines are responsible for the deficit: In 1860 the postal deficit was $10,652,543; in 1910 it was $5,848,566. The postage rate was four times greater in 1860 than now. Coming down twelve years to 1872. the total weight of second class matter was, that year, less than 65,000,000 pounds. Now it is 817,428,141 pounds, twelve times, greater. Then the postage rate was more than double what it is now. Then the gross revenue was $21,915,426; now it is $224,128,657, over ten times as much. Then there was no free delivery; now that system costs $36,923,737. Then there were no registered letters; now there are 42,053,574 a year. Then there were issued $48,515,532 of domestic money orders; now there are issued $547,993,641. Then postmasters were paid $5,121,665; now they are paid $27,514,362, and their clerks are paid $38,035,456.62. Then city delivery cost but little; now it costs $31,805,485.28. Observe that the weight of second class matter is 752,428,141 pounds greater than in 1872, costing therefore (according -to some official mathematicians), more than 9 cents a pound for transportation, or a total of $67,718,532.69. The deficit for 1910 Is almost identical with that of 1872. As late at 1885 the government income from the issue of stamps, stamped envelopes and wrappers and postal cards was $39,924,137.70; in 1910 It was $202,064,887.96. more than five times as much. The number of registered letters issued in 1885 was 11,043,256; in 1910 it was 40,151,797. The amount of money orders issued rose from $117,858,921 in 1885 to $498,699,637 in 1910. The total postal receipts rose from $42,560,844 in 1885 to $224,129,657 In 1910, an increase of $181,567,813. The postage rate on second-class matter in 1885 was double what it Is now. During the intervening period the weight of second-class matter had Increased about 600,000,000 pounds.

'Now we will get down a little closer in this business and see what has happened within the last five years: In 1906 there was a gain in weight of second-class matter of 41, 674.0S6 pounds; in that year the deficit was $10,516,999. In 1907 there was a gain in weight of 52,616.336 pounds. 11,000,000 pounds more than in 1906; the deficit was reduced to $6,653,283. In 190S there was a loss Instead of a gain in weight of second-class matter of 18,079,292 pounds; tho deficit went up to $16,873,223, an increase over the year before of more than $10,000,000. In 1909 there was only a slight gain In weight of 28,367,298 pounds; tho deficit went up to $17,441,719. In 1910 there was a gain in weight of 94.S6o.884 pounds tho largest ever known, and the deficit dropped to $5,8I8,566.8S. From 1906 to 1910 there were 19S.S63.3S7 pounds increase in the weight of second-class matter; tho deficit was $4,668,432.12 less in 1910 than In 1906."

The impression is prevalent that the amount paid for railroad transportation was cut down thd past year, but the truth is that the railroads were paid $44,654,514.97; the railway mail service and tho postorflce car service cost $24,06.218.88, a total of $68,719,733.85, which Is more by a half million than was paid in 1909 and over $7,000,000 more than was paid in 1906. In the whole history of the postofflce department, neither an Increase of second-class matter nor a reduction of the postage rate has ever Increased deficits, not matter what burdens have been piled upon the service in the way of an extension of city delivery, the establishment of rural free delivery, the multiplication in number and increase of pay of officials, increase of government free matter, increase of railroad and other transportation charges, nor an increase in the obstructive energies of postal officials directed against the publishing business.

It has come to be generally understood and conceded that secondclass matter originates mail of the other classes. The postal commission testifies that: "No sane man will deny that second-class matter Is tho immediate cause of great quantities of fir6t-class matter." Mr. Madden and Mr. Lawshe said the same thing. Mr. Meyer said that: "It is known that second-class matter Is instrumental in originating a large . amount of other classes of mail matter." To what extent this is so cannot be determined with exactitude, but the official figures given throw a flood of light on the subject. There are four classes of (paid) mail matter first, second, third and fourth. The first comprises letters and postals, the second newspapers and periodicals, the third circulars and the fourth merchandise. How, of themselves, could the first, third and fourth classes develop faster than the growth of population? Does not this extension depend upon the business energy and the' intellectual activity of the people, and in turn do not these depend very largely upon the circulation of the public press?

Will It, therefore, bo deemed unreasonable to conclude that of the $202,064,887.96 of stamps sold for the first, third and fourth classes of mail matter last year, $150,000,000 of It originated immediately, remotely, and cumulatively from tho second class? How else than in some such

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way can we account for the prodigious development of the postal business, which has outrun population six-fold or more? The late Senator Dolllver, at the American Periodical association's banquet at the New Willard Hotel at Washington a year ago. said: "I look upon every one of your little advertisements as a traveling salesman for the industries of the United States.' The amazing development of the industries of the country is in a large measure due to secondaclass matter; the great increase of secondclass matter is due to the low postage rate, and the wonderful expansion of the postal establishment is based chiefly upon the widespread distribution of newspapers and periodicals. The foregoing figures are official, and their significance can be interpretated by any Intelligent and -thoughtful person. In the presence of these figures, is it too much to claim that the gevornment has never lost a dollar in transporting second-class mail; that it is by far the most profitable of any, and that, wre it withdrawn or greatly curtailed by an Increase of rate, tho postal establishment would collapse into bankruptcy? . Those figures give the lie to Hitchcock. Is there any doubt now as to whom the bill now beforo congress is aimed at. And why? Also if Hitchcock can promise immunity to any periodicals does it not make him censor of the press? Why should the owner of the bureaucratic steam roller be the controller of the press of America? Is this the beginning or the end of the American despotism? Let's kill it now. This may be the last chance.

DIVER INJURED WHILE WALKING Lebanon, Ind., Feb. 21. L. M. Mil

ler, a submarine diver in the service of the United States army, was found

unconscious at a street crossing of the faig Four railroad. He had walked to this place from Indianapolis, consuming two days in the journey and sleep

ing two nights in the woods. At the

crossing he was climbing between two cars when ttfey were pulled apart and he was thrown to the ground and badly injured. He wore a medal for bravery in the Cuban war, and carried' a picture of his wife and a letter of recommendation from the quartermaster's department of the United States army. He was .recently with the engineering corps at the scene of the Mexican insurrection. Miller's wife and two children are living at Highwood, 111., and he was attempting to reach that place.

There are about three thousand weddings every twenty-four hours, taking the entire world into consideration.

EVOLUTION THEORY WORRIES BALD HEADS

Columbus, Ind., Feb. 21. Ralph H.

Spaugh, prosecuting attorney, believes In the evolution of dogs. He has a Bhort-tailed dog, the father and mother of which had tails of the usual length. However, for three generations the ancestors of this dog have had their tail cut off. Finally fate evidently decided that a painful operation would be saved by allowing the dogs to be born without tails, and the fox terrier owned by Prosecutor Spaugh is right in style without having to undergo an operation. Spaugh told about his dog. in the circuit court room here and his story created alarm among the bald-headed lawyers. They have expressed a fear that in a few generations their children, grandchildren, and great garndchildren will be having less and less hair until about the third generation will see all of them wholly bald.

KILL PAVHIG BILL Measure Denounced as Menace to the Citizens.

A Distinction. What's your boy learning at college?" "I don't know. 1 can only tell you what he's studying." Exchange.

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY"

(Palladium special) Indianapolis, Feb. - 21. Forty-two members of the house of representatives heroicly heeded the plea of Representative Thornton, Monday afternoon to "save me cheild' although Representative Maas assured them the child was in no danger and furth

ermore it was not the offspring of the man who claimed it. The infant in question was the Thornton paving law and the danger from which its parent sought to shield it was the Maas bill making it possible for property owners to pay for the paving of street intersections. By a vote of 42 to 30 the house indefinitely postponed the Maas measure. Seeing in tho Maas bill a blow at the homes and firesides of the state,

Representative Thornton dramatically appealed to the house not to permit ,i . . : . . J . . t t

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men again to get a grip on the poor i man's throat and hold up the Thorn-

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ards. By economical methods, he said

, the cities which complain of depleted i treasuries could save enough money

'to pay for the paving of all street intersections.

Representative Mass hotly accused the gentleman from Floyd with misrepresenting his bill and openly charged that Thornton is neither the Author nor the father of the law, which bears his name. He told how street Improvements in Indianapolis and other cities have been held up by the provisions of the Thornton law which requires that the paving of street intersections must be. paid out of the city treasury. He declared the people who are compelled to live on muddy streets because their cities bavn't sufficient funds to pave the intersections, are demanding the passage of his bill and denied that Jt is in the interest of material men or paving contractors. But the pleading

of Thornton secured enough votes to

kill it.

KILLS MOONSHINER WHILE PREACHING Jasper. Ga., Feb. 21. Carter Lingerfelt, reputed moonshiner, , was shot

and killed in Mt. Pixgah churchyard, near Palona, by W. J. Kimmon, a Baptist minister. . Two brothers of Kimmon also took part in the affray.' one of them being seriously wounded. These brothers are ministers. The "conference meeting of the church was In progress when Lingerfelt kicked down the church door and broke up the meeting. The three ministers asked the man to go on his way.

saying that they were there to worship. Ungerfelt had previously threatened to drive the three ministers out of the county if the continued to preach against "moonshinlng,"

The Klmmons continued their crusade from various pulpits against the

illegal manufacture and sale of whis

ky. The tragedy was the culmination of a long continued fight made on tho , alleged moonshiner.

TO PREVENT THE GRIP. LAXAT1VK BROMO QUININE removes the cause. There is only one "BROMO QUININE" Look for signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.

The excess of births ever deaths throughout France was only 13,242. in 1909, an increase of the population of France of three to ten thousand. Tho increase of population in 1908 was 46,-411.

FEBRUARY 21. 1677 B..de Spinoza, celebrated as a defender of the doctrine of atheism, died. Born in 1632. 1711 Charles Craven commissioned as colonial governor of South Carolina. 1813 Ogdensburg, N. Y., captured by a force of British , and Canadian soldiers. 1829 Virginia general assembly passed a resolution condemning the first high tariff bill as unconstitutional. 1848 John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the U. S., died In Washington, D. C. Born in Quincy, Mass., July 11, 1767. 1849 British under Lord Gough defeated the Sikhs In bloody battle at Geojerat. " 1834 Czar of Russia proclaimed war against the Turks. 1856 Roman Catholic diocese of London, Ont., was established. 1882 Charles Bradlauga expelled from the British 'House of Commons. 1891-;-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman buried at St." Louis. 1910 The new British Parllamentwas formally opened by King Edward" with a speech from the throne.

GARY POLICE FIRE VAGRANT NEGROES

Gary, Ind., Feb. 21. As the result of the numerous hold ups and robberies, Chief Martin bas issued orders for

the police to drive all negroes out of town who are unemployed. During the

last week twelve negroes have been

arrested and found guilty of robbery

and bold ups; the postofflce at Tolles-

ton was robbed ; the ticket office of

the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Interurban company station at Miller was entered and robbed of all tickets and $10 in money. Muro Petervoce was held up by two negroes and robbed of $50 and a gold watch. The city is filled with floaters in search of work, all brought here by the news that the steel mills were about to re-open.

Froo for Stomach and DoiJOls

We are in receipt of letters from Mrs. Eva Gaskins, 304 Madison St., Topeka, Kans., and Mr. P. II. Gavellas, Wagoner, Okla., as well as many others, telling about the wonderful results they have secured in the cure of their stomach and liver troubles by the use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. This remedy, aa all readers doubtless know, has been before the public for a generation and Is now being- mors extensively used than any other remedy for stomach, liver and bowel complaints. According- to reliable testimony, it seems to be a very quick and lasting; cure for constipation, indigestion and dyspepsia, liver trouble, biliousness, headaches, sour stomach, gas on the stomach, drowsiness after eating and similar disorders. It is a liquid with tonie effect, and so mild and gentle In action that a child as well aa a grown person can take It, in fact. It has no equal for children, women and old people. : , , " : It arouses the flow of gastric Juice, and by a peculiar action trains the stomach and bowel muscles to again do their work naturally, and in time medicines of all kinds can be dispensed with. A free sample bottle can be had for trial by sending your address to the doctor, for in this way Mrs. Gaskins, Mr. Gavellas and many others first learned of the cure. Later, when satisfied it is the remedy you need, do as others are doing and buy It of your druggist at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle. . Dr. 'Caldwell does not feel that the purchase of his remedy ends his obligation. He has specialised In stomach, liver and bowel diseases for over forty years and will be pleased to give the reader any advice on the subject free of charge. All are welcome to write him. whether for the medical advice or the free sample address him Dr. W. B. Caltwell. Ml Caldwell building, Monticello. I1L

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