Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 137, 26 March 1911 — Page 4

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Tti Richmond Palladium tst Soi-Ttltsnm Publish and owned by th PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Im4 T dy each wk. vnlna ul Sunday morntnir. Office Corner North tlb and A atreota. Palladium and Hun-Tlrm Phonf Bualntaa Offttt. 2&M; Kdltorlat Kooma. 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Radolok O. Vmm KiM J. r. Hlockoff ! MMitrr Carl rakardt Aaaoelat KdHor W. R. rooodaloaw Nota ICdHer BUB8C11IPTION TERMS. In Richmond ft 0 .tar jrar (In ad vanca) or 1O0 par waak. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. On Tear, In advance If 22 Mis months. In advance One month. In advance RURAL KOUTKB Ono year. In advance 1 month. In advance Ono month. In advance Add.oa chanced aa often as dlred; fceth now and old addressee must be Ivan. Subscrlbera will pleaae remit with rder. which anould bo clven for a specified term: name will not bo eater, ort unlit nmvmmnt vl. Entered at lUchmond. Indiana, poat offlco as second class mall matter. New York ttpreBntattB Payne Tr aA.94 wt JSrd afreet, and 21 fl West i:nd street. New York. N. Y Yeunr. ?7-74l Marttuetto Uulldln. Chicago. III. TU AawrisHmw of Amareai sra Nw Yrk -.ty &mi aadeartltiedtotasciroalatloa 1 at taU pahtUattm. Oaly taw UaTVM A tnolatioa eoataUsd la tta rsysvt an 1 kf ths AssoeUUoa. J RICHMOND, J N DIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Ilea a population of 13.000 and la arowfit. It la the county seat of Wayne County, and the trading; center of a rich ag;rlcultural community. It la located due eaxt from Indlanapou C mllea and 4 inllea front tu State line. Klchniond la a cliy of home and of Industry. Primarily a manufacturlnx city. It la also Jho jubblnc center of Kastern Indiana and enjoys the retail traH of the populous community for miles around. Richmond la proud of Ita splen did atreeta. well kept yarda. Its cement sidewalks and beautiful shade treea. It has 3 national banks. 3 truat roni pan left and i building assoclatluna with comMn rcsourrea of over 18.000,000. Number of factories 125; capital Invested $7,000,000. with an annual output f t37.000.000. and a pay roil of $3,700,000. TM total pay roll for the city amounta to approsimately $t,300,0uv annual ly. There are five rallroau companies radlatlnc In eight different directions From the city. Incoming freight handled daily. 1.110,000 lbs.; outgoing freight lisndled dally. TsO.oOO lbs. YarJ facilities, per day 1.700 cara Number of passenger trains dally . Number of freight trains dally 77. The annual poat office receipts amount to $k0,000. Total assesaed valuation of tie city. lli,000.009. Richmond has two Interurban railways. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 12.000. Richmond Is the arrestee! hardware Jobbing center In the state and only second In general Jobbing Interests. It has a piano factory producing a high grsdo f ilano every 16 minutes. It Is the rsder In the manufacture of traction engines, and produces more threshing1 machines, lawn mowero. roller skates, grain drills and burial caskets thau any other city In the world. The city's area IS 2.640 acres; has a court noun costing $500.00; 10 public schools and has the finest and most complete hlah school In the middle west under construction: S parochial schools: Karlham college and the Indiana Rualneaa College; five splendid flro companies In fine hose houses; Ole Miller psrk. the largest and most beautiful park mond's annual Chautauqua; seven In Indiana, the home of Richlintels; municipal electrlo llaht plant, under successful operation and a private electrlo light plant. Inaurln competition; the oldest publlo library In the state, except one and the second largest. 40 000 volumes: pure, refreshing wster unsurpassed: 5 miles of Improved streets: 40 miles of sewers- 25 miles of cement curb and cutter combined: 40 miles of cement welka, and many miles of brick wslks. Thlrtv churches. Including the Held Memorial, built at a ciat of $110,000; Reld Memorial Hospital, one of the most modern In the atsts: Y. M. C, A. htilldlnaerected at a coat of $100,000. one of the finest In the state. The amusement center ef Raetern Indiana and Western Ohio. , No city of the else of Richmond helda as fine an annual art exMbit. The Richmond Kail Festlvsl held esch October Is unique, rto other city holds a similar affair. It Is given In the Interest of the cltv and financed by the business msn. Hucceas awaiting snvone with enterprise In the Panlo Proof City. This Is My 78th Birthday JAMES K. PATTERSON. James K. Patterson, who served More than forty years as president of Kentucky state, university and iluring that time built up one of the largest and most progressive uulversi ties In the south, was born in (alasCow, Scotland, March 2. 1833. As a boy be was brought by his parents to America and his education was recelv id at Hanover college in Indiana. Af ler his graduation in 1S5H he taught School for some years and in 1S he wag made president of the newly established agricultural and mechanical college of Kentucky. It was largely due to President Patterson's influence and exertions that congress passed the Morrill act In 180. providing for an annual appropriation of $25,000 to each state for the further endowment Of land grant colleges established un der the act of 1852. Last year Mr Patterson resigned the presidency of Kentucky state university on account Of a(e. a The Grotesque. Canon Alnger. biographer and editor of Charles Lamb, once uttered this pithy saylnr: "Too may preach like an turcU but If you can whistle on a tick people Ignore your preaching and sneak of yon a a the man who can jtrstatle on a stick.' -

About Newspaper Honesty An advertiser, wlio shall be nameless, gave notice the other day because this paper bad published the fact that a member of his family waa suffering from a dangerous disease that he would terminate his contract. The answer was that he might proceed to do so if he chose but that the policy of this paper was to publish the news. The news was gained in the ordinary fashion through the board of health and doubtless was everlooked by many who read the paper. The point simply illustrates the fact that the news and editorial columns of this paper are not subject to any but our control and that no orders are given to "protect" the advertiser or to treat him in any other fashion than we treat the every day man who buys the paper. In order to be successful a patter must print the news and express Its opinions without fear for upon that depends the good will which obtains circulation, which in turn is old to the advertiser.

An understanding of the fact that advertising is dependent on circulation, and the quality of that circulation is the common knowledge of every one in the advertising business. Men who are intent on getting results, and. therefore, business, out of their advertising know this and the better business man finds out all he can about circulation. Jut as today I here is a movement all over the country to stop the selling of adulterated articles of all kinds the pure food law the inspection of weights and measures and the standards of cloth, so the same thing has come about, in the newspaper business. The recognition of this fact must be made by the public, for it is meaning the emancipation of the press.

In that time when the newspaper was run as a charity it was a charity and did not give the results either to the" advertiser who bought its space or the man who paid his subscription. Too few citizens recognize what the placing of the newspaper business on a scientific business publice-sei vice basis means to them. It means their freedom. If they only knew it they owe to that fact the protest against corruption in every part of the government, national state, or civic.

Perhaps an explanation is necessary.

""""As long as a newspaper is dependent on charity either to its readers or lo Its advertisers it must be cringing and, in the phrase of the Street, "it can be reached." If it panders to any one it may soon try the larger game of making up lis deficit or its profits from the public service corporations, or the political machine or, if It keeps it up and maintains its independence, sell out. . Notable cases of both of these may occur to those who read national magazines and note policy that the magazines pursue toward the national administration and also toward their advertisers. Those papers that have the same standard of honesty In their business departments that they profess in their editorial and news columns are the ones which provide the fearless papers for the country and you know what that means. For the divorcing of the business and from news and editorial columns is only possible to those papers that insist that circulation and Its quality be made the sole relation between advertising contractors. Hence we have such papers aa the Kansas City Star and the Philadelphia North American insisting that the public, as well as the advertiser, understand that circulation and its qualities be the only relation between the advertiser and the paper. Such papers throw their circulation open to their readers, to their advertisers. Why? Ilecause it is the stamp of honesty. The paper that does not pursue such an honest course of business may find itself laboring under the constructive charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Sometimes this may only mean that the paper is still clinging to, the idea that it Is of no interest to the readers and is none of the advertisers' business, because the paper is not progressive In its business methods and is in incompetent hands. But the paper that is not progressive In its business methods is pretty apt to be down at the heels in other portions also. We have entered into this subject at length because the public not only has a right to know the policy of this paper but it is the livest subject before the people at this time. Within the last few weeks the columns of this paper have contained accounts of the fight of the free press of this country to keep itself from being muzzled. There Is at present a fight going on between the administration, which, for obvious reasons is trying to muzzle the American magazines. It is doing this on the plea that the magazines are granted a subsidy. To those who do not understand the underlying meaning of circulation in its relation to advertising it is not apparent that even if it were costing the nation a "subsidy" (which It is not) that advertising is a selling force so potent and so cheap that the administration would in effect, be putting a prohibitive tax on advertising, and therefore, on the selling force of the country to wipe out the magazines which told the truth about the administration. In the columns of a local paper there lately appeared the remarkable statement that the publicity of circulation and of advertising did not affect the public. With this remarkable statement we cannot agree as long as we have the idea of the public service to be performed by newspapers, as to their honest treatment of every relation in which they come in contact with the public. We would simply suggest that If the advertisers and the public are not conversant with the power of advertising and the meaning of advertising as to circulation Hnd its effect, that it would not long be possfble for newspapers to be any more than objects of charity or prostitution.

If the public does not understand these things so that the intimate relations between newspapers and advertising cannot be understood, then the power of the free press is limited. A paper which dejn?nds on falsified statements of its circulation, which tells its readers there is no connection between advertising and circulation, and that readers have no reason to be interested in the business honesty of a paper, or in the honesty of its circulation, is so backward that, granted it may be honest In its news columns, it may soon become so unprofitable that it will have to fall into other hands which are unscrupulous in every department. For such as desire to know what they are buying when they buy newspapers and the import of the subject that we have just opened, we recommend a series of articles written by Will Irwin, now current in a national weekly, which is the first real exiosition of what a newspaper is and should be, and the relation that it holds to the freedom of this country.

"THIS DATE

MARCH 26. 1624 Drury Lane theater opened, after having been rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren. 1790 First naturalization law in the United States enacted. 1827 Ludwig von Beethoven, celebrated composer, died in Vienna. Born in Bohn. Dec. 16. 1770. 1S60 Following a five months' war, Spain signed a treaty of peace with the Moors. 1S64 Paducah. Ky., captured by the Confederates. 1880 The Wisconsin state asylum for the insane opened in Milwaukee. 1883 Conflict at Duck Lake, marking the beginning of the rebellion in Northwest Canada. 1892 Walt Whitman, the pot. died in Camden N. J. Born in Suffolk county. N. Y., May 31. 1819. 1910 President Taft and the Canadian minister of Finance, in conference at Washington, reached an agreement in the tariff dispute.

IN HISTORY9'

CANADIAN TREATY ONE BIG SUBJECT That President Will Deal With in His Coming Message to Congress. 'American News Service) Washington, March 23. After advising with members of the cabinet and other close jersonal friends the president has practically decided to devote the message he will send to congress when it meets in extra session on April 4, exclusively to the subject of Canadian reciprocity. His

efforts will be concentrated upon the ratification of the agreement and in this way he expects to secure more satisfactory results. The president believes that by elim inating all other legislative propositions the chance is diminished of serious controversy over matters which have no relation to reciprocity and which would tend to prolong the ses sion and possibly complicate all legislation. When the president warned con gress last month that unless the Can adian agreement was ratified an ex tra session would be called he had in mind the reconvening of congress solely for the purpose of approving the treaty. Thus he has come back else congress may do must necessarily be of its own initiative. It is understood to be the purpose of former Speaker Cannon to fight the reciprocity agreement on the floor of the house and so will some of the other Republicans who voted against the administration bill when the bill was up for passage. TAKE TREATIES LIGHTLY. Washington, March 25. Members of congress who are beginning to gather here for the special session are apathetic over President Taft's plans for an arbitration treaty with England. France and Japan, which has for its ultimate end a limitation of armaments and world peace for all time. Judging from the expressions of a few senators who are identified with treaty matters, the upper house will hardly take the proposals so seriously as is being done abroad, although they may accede eventually to the plea of the president for a ratification of the instruments he may succeed in having drawn up and put through by the state department. More than one senator is inclined to the belief that while an arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States might some day prevent a war treaties, as a rule, are worthless when it comes to a demonstration in defense of a country's honor. President Taft has not yet conferred with any of the senators on his world's peace plans, with the exception of Senator Cullom of Illinois, with whom he has talked concerning the proposed theaties. Senator Cullom is chairman of the senate which are referred all treaties before the senate takes action on them. The senator said today that the president would transmit certain arbitration treaties to the senate and he thought the senate may consider them favorably. Supper at Christian church Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:3025 cents. 25-3t MISS CARNEGIE IS NOW 14 YEARS OLD (American News Service) New York, March 25. Miss Margaret Carnegie, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, has just entered upon her fifteenth year, having been born March 24. 1897. Though she is one of the world's greatest heiresses little Miss Carnegie leads a quiet and almost retired life, with no personal knowledge of the extravagant pleasures indulged in by the children of many of the wealthy families of New- York. She is fond of outdoor life and in this taste she has been encouraged by her parents. Judicious exercise, simple living and the bracing air of Scotland, where the Caniegies always spend the summer months, have combined to overcome almost wholly the frailties of constitution from which the young heiress suffered in early childhood. JEWELRY VALUES Be Sure About Them Our goods come to us fully guaranteed from the largest and best factories in the country. Therefore if ou buy from us you can rest assured that any article you select from the smallest beauty pin to the finest piece of 14K Jewelry we carry is absolutely what it is represented to be. CHAS. H. I HANER ! The Jeweler. 810 Main St.

Some Gossip Gathered From The Gay American Metropolis

(Palladium Special New York, March 25. The "moving j picture business," which has assumed ' enormous proportions throughout the, country during the past few years,; has reached a stage in New York,: which, in the opinion of many citizeus. j demands immediate attention and a thorough reform. There are more than 700 moving picture houses in ' New York city, and all of f.iem do a fairly good business. Most of the houses, especially those scattered through the slum and the suburban ; districts are in small, poorly ventilat-j ed rooms and the shows are tiudenia-! bly "rotten." In many cases they are so ban from an ethical standpoint, that , the children's society has started aj campaign against them and proposes to induce the state legislature to pass i stringent laws for the reform of this kind of entertainments. The owners of the moving picture houses contend that the absurd regula-: tions of the show business in New : York City are responsible for the existing state of affairs. The license for conducting a moving picture theatercosts only $25 a year, but the show place must not contain more than 300 ) seats. The license for any house con-: taining more than 300 seats costs $500 a year, a sum greater than these plac- j es could afford to pay. But. with only ; 299 seats in their place the owners of j moving picture houses cannot afford' to give good shows, lasting an hour or more. They must make their performances short so as to be able to refill their place several times to pay their expenses and make a fair profit. The owners of these small places do not deny that their shows might be improved a great deal, but contend that it is the fault of the regulation which limits them to 299 seats. Dr. George A. So per. President of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, has given out some interesting and rather startling information concerning the state of New York's sewerage system and its effect upon the waters of the East river and the Ing Island Sound. The facts presented by Dr. Soper would have made interesting reading during the recent controversy concerning the relative merits of American and English oysters. The defenders of the English mollusc would have been only too pleas'ed to avail themselves of the arguments supplied by Dr. Soper's statements. He found that, owing to the action of the tides there is practically no flushing action in the East river and the Sound. As a result immense quantities of poisonous sewage float for days in the river and bay close to public baths, bathing beaches, and the oyster beds of Jamaica Bay, from which 1,000,000 bushels of oysters are brought to the New York markets every year. Arc You? going to do some varnishing? Remember NO-FAULT the One Varnish for every purpose. Renew your Furniture, Floors, Stair-cases, Woodwork, Doors, Oilcloth, Linoleum, Refrigerators, Wicker Furniture, etc. FREE!! Brush with your first purchase of a quart or more of NO-FAULT, only at Pilgrim's Variety Store 529 Main Street Phone 1390

To think of it sewage-fed oysters! Horror! The great clan of the unwashed and unkempt denizens of the Bowery district and the exquisite and, probably,

not fully appreciated pleasure the oth-i er night of meeting, face to face, for the first time in history, the great and only Frederick Townsend Martin, the recognized leader of New York's exclusive society set. Mr. Martiu, whose life is devoted principally to society matters and functions, but who dabbles, in his spare moments, in sociology aud literature, had consented to deliver an address before the patrons of the Bowery mission. He came late, direct from a dinner at the house of Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, and presented a strange contrast Sn his faultless evening dress to the filth and rags characteristic of a majority of the mission patrons. Mr. Martiu spoke or preached on the text. "Chairty is Not the Solution of the Problem of Povert." Mr. Martin spoke at some length and with great seriousness, bur it did not require a mindreader to tell from the attitude of his audience that ahe Bowery missioners were only mildly interested and by no means convinced that money is really a curse unless earned by the sweat of the brow. While Mr. Martin was delivering his address a flashlight photograph of the unusual gathering was taken. The residents of Kissena park, Flushing, are greatly excited over the action of a house owner and former resident of that aristocratic suburban section, who moved away some time ago and has since offered his house and grounds for sale. It is not the fact that the man and his family deserted the precincts of Kissena park, that has so greatly upset the other residents of that section, but the curious fact that the owner of the property is trying to sell his house and grounds to colored people, to whom lie offers the property at an extremely low price and under the most favorable conditions. It is said that the family had no trouble with the neighbors and nobody is willing to admit that he knows of any reason for what is generally called a "mean piece of spitefulness." Outsiders are of the opinion, however, that there is a large and able bodied colored gentleman somewhere in the woodpile. The Little Church Around the Corner, the Mecca of many runaway couple, determined to be united by the nuptial knot in spite of adverse condi

When you are thinking of doing that Spring Painting, do not be induced to buy Cheap Paint, because in the long run it is the dearest. When you select a paint, select one that has stood the wear and tear of seasons, one that has been tested. One gallon of Old Reliable Stock Paint when mixed with two gallons of Linseed Oil, will make a paint that can't be beat, costing only about $1.35 a gallon. Old Reliable Paint Co. H. C. Shaw, Mgr. Phone2230. 10 & 12 S. 7th St.

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; i 1 1 i q I I I I i ' . ; i We are the agents for I the Indiana Brick Co. of I Anderson, who have the ' largest factory in the country. There are milI lions of Anderson brick in Richmond buildings I and there is no better brick in the market. Let I us figure with you. i ' Mather ' 1 Bros, Co. j

tions and influences, was the scene of a quiet little wedding the other day. The bridegroom was a man of 5S years for many years a widower and considered the wealthiest man In Lowerre, N. Y. The bride was a handsome girJ of 1? years, who up to the time of her marriage, had been employed as servant in her present husband's household. According to her story, she did the cooking and her dishes, especially her apple pies so pleased her employer that he fell in love with her and proposed marriage, an offer she did not hesitate to accept, notwithstanding the disparity of age. The young wife's step-daughter is many years older than she. The West Presbyterian church, one of the historical landmarks of Fortysecond street, in the old Murray Hill section, is soon to be closed for good and it is believed that its site will be

occupied by a large hotel or apartment house. The church was organized In 129 and among its members were scores of the wealthiest men of New York, including Russell Sago. Jay Gould, J. Hood Wright, E. H. Parkins, Henry M. Flagler aud many others. The church will consolidate with the Park Presbyterian church on 86th street, under the name of the West Park Presbyterian church. DON'T MISS THE CONCERT MONDAY NIGHT BY WABASH BOYS-AT HIGH SCHOOL. TICKETS AT Y. M. C. A. Chicago's recent direct primaries are said to have cost $696,000, of which the city pays one-fourth. Fine display of Millinery at Mrs. It. R. Van Sant's, Thursday and Friday, .March 30-31. BUY A WAVERLY Electric Harry Wood AGENT: -Phone 3044 POMTEK On