Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 193, 21 May 1911 — Page 4

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Satorod at Richmond. Indiana, yomt offlc aa ateond claaa stall mattr. Mow Trw RoprontaUPayn Ytng. -14 Wilt llrd otroot. and ftfct Woot Stad otroot. Now York. N. T. Chicago RrniaMv wn YiwiS. ?- Uarquott Building. Cnieage, XII. Usartissrs (New Yerk City) has j ttttestnaUtlnS aiy US EgVM of la its topers sbb ItatytH ii RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Haa a population of 22.321 and Is growing. It la tho county; ooat of Wayne County, and tho trading contr of a rich agricultural community. It la located duo at from Indlanapolia . mlloi ind 4 milea from toe 4 auto line. , Richmond la a city of homea and of Industry.' Primarily a ' manufacturing city. It la alao the Jobbing center of Eaetern In-- . elan and enjoys the retail trade , of th populous community for mllea around. Richmond la proud of Ita aplendid atreeta. well kept yarda. Ita cement aldewalka and beautiful shade treea. It has three nation- ' , al banks, on trust company and four building aaaoclatlona with a combined resource of over .- , O0O.S00. Number of fartorlea .124: capital Invested 17.000.000. with an annual output of J7.000.000. and a pay roll of 93.,700,000. The total pay roll for th city amounta to approximately 13.400,000 annual. -. There are five railroad companies radiating in eight different directions from the city. In- . coming freight handled dally. 1.714.040 lb., outgoing freight bandied dally. 750.000 Tba. Yard facilities, per day 1.700 cars. Number of pasaenger tralna dally SI. Number of freight trains ally 77. The annual post office -receipts amount to 180.000. Total aaseased valuation , ot the city, $16,000,000. Richmond has two Interurban railway a. Three newspapers with - a combined circulation of 12,000. Richmond Is the greatest hard--. war Jobbing center In the state ; and only second in general Jobbing Intereata. It haa a piano factory producing a high grade fdano every II minutes. It la the eader In the manufacture of Traction engines, and produces ' more threshing machine, lawn ' mowers, roller skate, grain ; drill and burial caskets than . aay other city In the world. Th city's area Is S.440 acres; haa a court house costing $500.000: 10 public achoola and has the finest and moat complete high school In th middle west; three parochial schools; Karlham college and th Indiana Business College; five splendid fire companies -In fin hose houses; Qlen miller park, the largest and moat beautiful park In Indiana, the home of Richmond's annual Chautauqua; seven hotels; muni- . clpal electric light plant, under successful operation and a private electric light plant. Insuring competition; the oldeat public library In th state, except one and the eecond laravst, 40.000 ' volumes; pure refreshing water, unsurpassed; SB miles of Improved streets'. 40 miles of aewers; 24 miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 mllea of cement walks, and many mllea of brick walks, Tnlrtjr churches. Including the Tteld Memorial, built at a , coat of 1310,000; Iteld Memorial Hospital, one of the moat modern ' in the atate; Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a coat of 9100.000, one of th finest In the state. Th , amusement center of Kastern Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the also of Richmond hold as fine an annual art exhibit. Th Richmond Kail Festival held each October is unique, no other city holds a almllar affair. It Is given In the interest of th city and financed by the business men. Kuccess awaiting anyone with enterprise In th Panto Proof City. , 7 his Is My 66th Birthday CHARLES E BESSEY. Dr. Charles E. Bessey. president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was born on a farm la Wayne county, Ohio, Mar 21, IMS. . After graduating from the MichIgSB Agricultural College in 1869, he went to Harvard and spent several years In study with Dr. Asa Gray, the celebrated botanist After completing his studies he returned to the west snd became professor of botany at Iowa Agricultural college, which position lie filled for fourteen years. Sines 1884 Dr. Bessey has been professor of botany in the University of Nebraska, and for a number of years served as acting chancellor ot the university. He is the author of a number of books snd ." reviews on botanical subjects and is an active member ot many of the leading scientific and educational societies of America. A cow with seventeen horns, born sni bred In the lower section of Greenville county, wss brought to Grenvill yesterday by H. R Bealf. of the Conastee Migbborhood. Mr. Kcalf stated tfcst the cow is an excellent tsilker, crtt3 approximately two gallocs of xsOk n day. She has seveateca kerns along her back between her tbsuliers and her tail. Greens-

Whose Fault ?

Councllmen blamed the board; th board blamed Gran; Oenn blamed the police and now Superintendent Gormon "take a tall out of the councilmen and the street commissioner. Mayor Zimmerman refuses to get la the contention, claiming he knows nothing about the matter. News item from Saturday's Palladium.

Well. That is the point Evidently the city government of Richmond has no anxiety to take the responsibility. Cynical persons might remark that it there were any credit to be passed around that none ot the aforesaid and mentioned Individuals would refuse to take it , But' . Just because the alleys happen to be dirty instead ot clean makes a difference.

As a matter of fact the Palladium has already taken the position that any city official who is In any way able to help the situation is thereby and for that reason responsible. The remarkable thing about all this is the similarity between this slfe. nation 'and that of every city in America that has not adopted the Des Moines plan. r .. - In the Des Moines plan it is settled just who is responsible. People know it. When the Palladium two years ago told of the story of Des Moines in practically the same languagepeople were aghast that such things could be yet that was the case before the commission government was adopted. Richmond seems to have a better city government as far as personnel is concerned than Gary or Marion both these towns have had their franchises handed right and left to private corporations against the wishes of the citizens.

Richmond has been spared this.

But the city government of a town canjiot be said to be good when one branch of the government passes on the blame and when it is only praise that is wanted. Here was a simple proposition Th alleys were dirty. What was the answer of the city government? Again we Quote the news story j The statements of Councilmen Engelbert and Weishaupt at the meeting last Monday night seems to have stirred up a big "row" at the city hall, for all departments are seeking to put the blame for the alleged bad alleys .- onto some other department Councilnjen blamed tho. board; the board blamed Genn; Genn blamed the police and now Superintendent Gormon "takes a fall out ot" the councllmen and the street commissioner. Mayor Zimmerman refuses to get in ' the contention, claiming he knows . nothing about the matter.

, If you read that delectable City and Towns act thought so desirable by many you may agree with the gentleman 'who prepares advertising copy for a certain beverage. ' " : . "There's a reason.!"

Pure Gain

Reunions of civil war soldiers this year are likely to be more significantly celebrated than In former years because this happens to be the 50th anniversary of the first call to arms. This ' augmented interest in such reunions will be more noticeable in the state department encampments, and it 'Is fortunate that the Indiana department chose for its meeting place' in 1911 so patriotic and progressive a community as Richmond. The veterans will be well cared for in that flourishing ' city, which is the capital of the county of Wayne, the native home of Indiana's great war governor, Morton, and which in-the trying days of civil strife gave the" executive full measure of loyal support. Elkhart Review.

The G. A. R. Encampment is not like a Fall Festival which In Its way Is a financial Investment bearing a return of good will. Many of the men' who came to Richmond will never return. But the assemblage ot these many men under such happy circumstances will pay dividends In the point of true friendship. The Elkhart Review had no occasion for going out of its. way to call Richmond a "progressive and patriotic city" unless it felt that Richmond ' deserved the title. There are very few of the men who came here who did not feel that way. That was a gain which is worth everyone's while for every one helped.- .'.,,'....-.-'.'-."., -,..:-

BOSS COX FREED ON CHARGE OF PERJURY v - . (American News Service) Cincinnati, May 20. Judge W. L. Dickinson today quashed the perjury indictment against George E. Cox, the Republican boss of Cincinnati. Manhattan's postoffice is growing more rapidly than any other postoffice in the world. It is now delivering on the island an average of 3,500,000 yetters every working day. .

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MAY 21. : . : 1650 Marquis of Montrose, who led the Scots against King Charles I, executed In Edinburg. Born there in 1612. . . 1780 Elizabeth Fry, a pioneer advocate ot prison reform in England, born. Died Oct 12, 1845. 1832 First so-called Democratic convention met in Baltimore and nominated Andrew Jackson tor president . , 1862 John Drew, noted actor, died in Philadelphia. Born in Dublin, September 8, 1825. " 1864 First express .trains run between New York and Buffalo. 1890 House cf representatives passed the McKlnley tariff bill. 1902 The Haultain government returned to power in the Northwest territories, v 1910 Jacques de Lesseps, a Frenchman, crossed the English Channel in a monoplane. ..

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FIRE DEVASTATING NORTHERN JAPAN (American News Service) Tokio, May 20. Half a dozen villages have been destroyed by a chain of forest fires devastating the Kokkaio Islands in northern Japan. There is practically a continuous wall of fire sixty miles in length.

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FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received.

Editor Palladium: The editorial in The Evening Item of May 12 under the caption "A Friendly Warning" is so unfair to Socialist propaganda and to organized labor that it compels an answer. His attack upon the Appeal to Reason will not be answered here except to say that if "it is an appeal to every diabolical passion in human nature, with reason left out," then the passions of humanity are not what they should be and human nature and this country are in a bad way. The Appeal is going to alnlost half a million subscribers weekly, and this on a paid in advance subscription list It is beyond a doubt the most widely and carefully read paper published in America, so we will take it for granted that the people are in a mood to listen to "a diabolical appeal." Next, in an effort to prove his argument (out of the mouth cf the enemy), he quotes from a recent issue of the Appeal, but has used the blue pencil with telling effect He has carefully cut out that part of the Appeal's arti cle which would show his readers there is cause for labor's protest In the McNamara case. ' His statement of facts ( ?) covering the cause of the arrests does not meet with approval among men inclined to be fair. He states positively that the Times build ing was destroyed by dynamite placed there for the purpose. Since it is a question whether it was a dynamite or gas explosion, and since practically all other writers have recognized that doubt, we must con clude that he expects to delued his readers, or else that he possesses information that would be ot value to the Merchants and Manufacturers' association. His other fatts (?) are on a par with this. He attempts to warn labor lest by allowing itself to voice its col lective protest against the manner of arrests, and the trial, the unfairness of which recent events tend to forecast, it lose the sympathy of the pub lic. After admitting that the manner of taking McNamara from the state of Indiana may have left something to be desired, he attempts to show why the course taken was the proper one ut his argument lacks sincerity and fails to convince. He asks: "How can the unions And It in their hearts to condemn the kid napping of a man, believed to be guilty and yet say nothing in reprobation of this awful slaughter?" The workers are not judging the slaughter in this wave of protest which he deplores. If anyone feels for those who suffered in this or any oth er recent slaughter, it is the workers every time. They are the slaughtered and the sufferers, and the carry the weight of sorrow and deprivation caused. Those who lost their lives in the Times explosion were workers. And the bomb which we are told was meant for Gen. Otis was found at his home "just in the nick of time." Doesn't it ocur to you readers that there is enough intelligence among the workers to bring about a more 'fitting climax, granting such to be their desire? :-: Speaking of slaughters, who is to suffer as a result of the Triangle shirtwaist fire? Will it be the owners of the factory, men who violated the laws of God and man in the erection and conduct of their factory, and who are directly responsible for the horrible death of one hundred and twenty-five girls and twenty men, or will it be the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sweethearts and lovers and in some cases the children of those who were trapped like rats and forced to choose between roasting alive or leaping to the. street ten stories below? The owners had their building and stock fully insured, so they suffer ed no great loss financially. Moreover these owners are notorious union haters, and the world bf labor has in this factory a concrete illustration of the conditions existing in shops where the workers have no volce ln governing conditions. Labor's protest in the McNamara case Is against the manner of the arrests, the duplicating of the infamous tricks of the Moyer-Haywood kidnapping case of six years ago. The working class cannot and will not sub mit to such tratment Every similar case oniy tenas to empnasize tne tact that there is one law for the toller and another for the capitalist-employer, y , Mr. Item takes the stand that "If the iron workers are held innocent until proven guilty, as we assert, then so also must the kidnappers." Does any man who claims reason doubt that the right men were charged with kidnapping? Or that it is manifestly a harder proposition to determine who, if anyone, is guilty of blowing up the Times building. Has the class whom we must call the masters shown a solid front in this fight for fight it will be. Or have they -allowed themselves to be swayed by a cool, Impartial judgment of the case on its merits? Emphatically No. Are the kidnap-

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figure a means ot collecting a few dol lars to defend them, or is that the condition - of the workers only. He would have us recall our leaders. We elect them by ballot and they are amenable to recall if occasion arise. Therefore they are much more representative than are the leaders of the employing class. Those who lead the employers, those who have taken all individuality from them, are leaders by weight of dollars invested; and by their ability to extract ever more from the workers and consumers. In re gard to the "social revolution," you are witnessing the skirmishes of the advance guard at each election. Mil waukee, Butte (Mont), Berkeley (CaL) and Flint (Mich.), are all bat tle fields that will be recalled by old veterans as they meet in ye rs to come. We do not advocate violence (and we are inclined to believe you know we don't) but we advocate the revolution at the polls and that is where we will fight until we win.' , In closing he asks "if it were not better to continue to work together, employer and employe, alike in friendly effort to secure a larger measure of justice for the workers?" If their interests are Identical, and they are all to work together, who then is to be the opposing force? Who is bringing all this injustice to the ones who toil? Is it the politicians of the old parties?' We are led to think you be lieve so by the editorial of May 13, headed "False Friendship to the Work ingman." Is so who are the masters of these politicians? Surely not the workingmen who by their votes elected elected them. No, the masters are the capitalists, the employers of labor and owners o these professional politicians. So it would appear that the only relief for us to elect working men to office and to allow labor to reap the product of its toil. Until this comes to pass .workers as a class need expect scant justice. Committee Local Richmond Socialists. Got What Sh Wanted. "I can stand for some things, but not for everything." said the clerk as he watched a stylishly dressed young woman leave the store. "What is the matter?" asked the proprietor, who bad walked up unobserved. "That woman who just left hustled up to the counter and asked to see men's shirts. I showed her every style and color we carry. After Inspecting the entire stock she rose and thanked me sweetly, adding: 'I didn't wish to purchase any. You see. I am making my husbaud some shirts, and 1 wanted to be sure I was doing them right My husband is very particular about the finish of his shirts.' And they say married women are so considerate." The boss smiled and walked away. Boston Traveler. ' Th Sun. It is computed that the temperature of the sun would be expressed by IS.000 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, or about ninety times the temperature of boiling water. This is about five times the temperature that man is able to produce by artificial means. The light given off from the surface of the sun is reckoned as being 6.300 times more intense than that of the molten metal In a Bessemer converter, though that is of an almost blinding brilliancy, or. if we compare It with the oxybydrogen flame, the sun sheds a light equal in brilliancy to 140 times the intensity ot the limelight Plant That Fign Dath. In South America there is a plant a species of mimosa, which resorts to death feigning, evidently for the purpose ot preventing grass eating animals from eating it. In its. natural state this plant has a vivid green hue. but directly it is touched by a human finger or by any living animal it collapses into a tangle of apparently dead and withered stems. Among British wild plants the most sensitive to touch is the insectivorous sundew of English bogs. London Globe.

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ENGLISH COLONIAL HEADJMUOIIDOII Dominion Representatives Are to Attend Imperial Conference.

(American News Service) London, May 20. The arrival of the distinguished representatives of the self-governed British colonies to the Imperial conference which is to be formally opened here next Monday has aroused intense interest in the important conclave. Everything is in readiness for the conference, which promises to be the most fruitful ever held. The last previous conference was held in 1907 and it was then provided that the meetings should be held every fourth year. Every one of the dominions sent its representative and in most cases they were accompanied by small parties consisting of members ot their families and important officials. From Canada came Sir Wilfrid Laurler, Prime Minister; Sir Frederick Borden, Minister tor Militia and Defense, and Mr. Brodeur, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, accompanied by their secretaries, Messrs. E. J. Lemaire, Charles I Panet and George O. Morrissett, and several ladies, including Lady Borden and Miss Borden. From Australia came the Hon. A. Fisher, Prime Minister; the Hon. E. L. Batchelor, Minister of External Affairs; the Hon. G. F.' Pearce, Minister for De fense; Mr. Atlee A. Hunt, CS. M. G., j secretary ot . Department of External Affairs; Mr, G. T. Allen, I. S. O., Becretary of Commonwealth .Treasury; Commander S. A, Petherldge, secretary of Defense Department; Mr. M. L. Shepherd, secretary to the Prime Minister; Mrs. Fisher, MrB. Batchelor, Mrs. Atlee Hunt and Mrs. Shepherd! The Union of South Africa is repre sented by the Prime Minister Gen. Louis Botha, Sir David Graaff, the Hon. J. G. Findlay, K. G.; AttorneyGeneral and. Colonial Secretary and their wives. The government of New Foundland is represented by the Prime Minister, Sir Edward Morriss, who is accompanied by a small party. As on the occasion of the Imperial Conference in 1907, the Ministers and officials will be the guests of the government until the close of the con ference. On the termination of the conference the Prime Ministers will case to be the guests of the governmnt, but will remain in the Hotel Ce cil, where they are quartered as the guests of King George until after the Coronation festivities. Many questions of the greatest im-

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between, the home government and the self-governing British Dominions will be considered at the conference begin ning next week. In answer to a re-, quest ot the Colonial office all the doroonions. with the exception of Canada sent in programs suggesting subjects to be considered at the conference. In Its answer the Canadian government agreed to the discussion of any sub- -ject that may be brought up for consideration, adding merely, that it would welcome "cuggestiona looking to uniformity in the Naturalisation laws. v; The British government will suggest the discussion of the following subjects: The Position of British Indians in the Dominions; Labor Exchanges in Relation to the Dominions; Uniform Design for Stamps; the Arrangements for Expulsion ot Undesirable aliens. New Zealand proposes the creation of an Imperial council with . representatives from all parts of the Empire, a secretary ot Imperial at- . fairs instead ot a colonial secretary, seperate departments for the dominions and the crown colonies, and high commissioners raised to the status ot ambassadors. South Africa's amended proposals relate to the discouragement ot shipping combines and a claim for a share , of Income-tax on investments in the Dominions. The Union also proposes . that wherever votes in favor of monetary contributions toward Imperial naval' defense are made by ; the overseas Dominions, any naval service ren- -dered or provision for local coast defenses made by such Dominions with approval of the Admiralty be borne on such votes, and that It is desirable to review the principles underlying the draft bill tor Imperial naturalisation before its details are discussed further. Newfoundland's program includes a proposition for a line ot steamers, subsidized by Great Britain, Canada and Newfoundland, to link the three closer together. In addition to the subjests mentioned others of importance will come up for consideration, among them the publicity qf proceedings; interchange Qf Civ SePvantg. establishment of an "All Red'' route around the world; the creation of an Imperial Court of Appeals; the declaration of London and universal penny .postage. Losing Their Charm. Vicars Daughter I suppose the rain kept you from the funeral last Tuesday, Mrs. Blogg? Mrs. Blogg Well, partly, miss: but to speak true, wot with the rbeumatls and doln away with the 'am and the cake afterwards, funerals ain't the jaunts tbey used to be for me! London Opinion. The change of fashions is the tax that th industry of the poor levies on the vanity uf the rlfh. Chnmforr. FiwiuiFC ee nntfflTi m,

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