Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 284, 20 August 1911 — Page 4

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JEDDDS III FAVOR OF BETTER ROADS Well Known Inventor, Former Richmond Man, Tells of His Experiences. -Twelve parties of automobilists, one C. Francis Jenkins and wife ol Washington, D. C, who passed through Richmond earlier in the summer enroute to the Pacific coast, will form a permanent organization at the national capital, the purpose of uhlc'i will be to encourage the government to build a coast to coast model road according to Mr. Jenkins, who with Mrs. Jenkins stopped here to visit relatives while enroute home. - The tourists started from Washington more with the idea of a pleasure journey but contact with many poor reads oon influenced them to decide to work for good roads and encourage their building. As It was the dry sea sou In nearly every district through which they passed, they found the highways which they traveled to be passable at -all points during most of the trip, in good condition. In Western States. This aide of the Mississippi river the roads were made but on t'ue western lap of their journey thero were many places where the highways

would correspond to the ordinary lane

.here. As they proceeded west, Mr

Jenkins said, the more Interested they became and In many places they were

received as heralds of good roads.

They were banqueted In several towns

And cities.

On October 1, the autoiats, -including some forty people In twelve large cars will meet In Washington aud formulate a plan for the improvement of roads. Mr. Jenkins believes that the government could do much better to

spend millions of dollars in the con

struction of good roads than In improving the Inland waterways. In other words . he believes the roads

should receive the government's at

tention before the inland waterways do. A wonderful road from coast to coast could be constructed. In his ni-

lnion, for what the government proposes to spend on the inland wattr

routes $50,006,000. He anticipates that In event the or-

ga dilation nukes any headway, it will

meet with opposition from tba railroads. Onoe the opposition of the rail-

ways is downed, he believes the gov

ernment wllPbe forced . to seriously

take up the matter.

ine xaiionai road which passes through Richmond, and which was a part of the route selected by the auto

party, be believes, should be a part of

this proposed coast to coast highway.

Mr. Jenkins is well known In this city where he lived for several years. One of the most popular inventions of the age is accredited to him. It is the moving picture machine, one or more of which Is located in every town in the United States.

A Qualified Recommendation Yesterday afternoon the county commissioners recommended to the county council an appropriation of $21,000 for 28 voting machines at $750 each. But the county commissioners inserted in their request this qualifying language: "Provided that as to the appropriation requested for Voting machines purchase, rep-ir and installing," under item 82, the commissioners represent that they have not fully Investigated the merits of , voting machines and are yet undecided on the question of their purchase." . The county commissioners are to be commended for stating that they have not fully Investigated the merits of voting machines and have not made up their minds on the merits of the proposal, ye ourselves do not regard the representations of Mr. Davis of the Empire Voting . Machine company as conclusive. Our objection to Mr. Davis's i roposal being accepted and the county set well on the way toward being bound by the terms which the Empire Voting Machine company submits is not that the company -is not making it very easy for the county to becon e tied up. It is certainly a very successfully conceived plan to have this county tied up with voting machines and not only voting machines in general but the Emplro Voting Machines in particular. Evidently the county commissiners felt this when they said in their recommendation for voting machines that they had not fully investigated the matter. It is also evident that they did not care to assume the responsibility of such action and put it up to the county council as to whether there really was need of entering into this. A representative of this paper presented evidence yesterday morning concerning the tampering with voting machines. These points were brought out. Mr. Davis admitted that the evidence showed that voting machines could be tampered with. He admitted that the Columbia voting machine the patents of which are now owned by his company and used In hie machine could be and had been tampered with. THE ONLY THING THAT MR. DAVIS DOES NOT ADMIT IS THAT THE MACHINE THAT HE REPRESENTS IS CAPABLE OF BEING TAMPERED WITH. Mr. Davis is, we assume, a good enough salesman to stand up for the product that he sells. Again we reiterate that the voting machine like all other machines can be tampered with and the vote of every man is in jeopardy when voting machines are used. Mrs. Davis also admits that there is serious trouble brewing in South Bend where his company was not handed over the contract and has not yet received it. The agent? of other machines there were perfectly willing to tell how HIS machine could be tampered with. In South Bend the agents asserted that every other machine but the one he happened to represent could be tampered with. : "Before this county enters into any sort of an agreement or makes any introductory proceedings based on the plans of the Empire Company why not learn the truth about voting machines from the agents themselves. This is not a matter of giving the other voting machines a trial only it is a matter of giving this county a square deal. There has been no conclusive evidence submitted as to why voting machines should be forced on the people of this county. An agent of the Empire Company comes here and succeeds in getting a lukewarn and unindorsed request for the perfunctory consideration of an appropriation by the county council. If the county council considers this at all seriously to the point of appropriating money for voting machines, we hope that this will not be tied up so that one company shall run off with the contract. That is not the contention of the county commissioners in their very qualified recommendation to the county council.

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.

THE PALLADIUM IS NOT YET CONVINCED THAT VOTING MACHINES ARE NECESSARY 'OR DESIRABLE. IN FACT WE HAVE IN OUR POSSESSION EVIDENCE MOST DAMAGING TO VOTING MACHINES SUPPORTING OUR CONTENTION THAT THEY CAN BE TAMPERED WITH. DAVIS ADMITTED THAT HIS COMPANY IS USING PARTS OF THE MACHINE WHICH OUR EVIDENCE ABSOLUTELY SHOWS CAN BE TAMPERED WITH. THE FACT THAT OTHER VOTING MACHINE COMPANIES SAY THAT VOTING MACHINES CAN BE TAMPERED WITH EVERY ONE BUT THEIR OWN WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE US FIGHT TO THE DITCH TO KEEP THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTY FROM BEING ROBBED OF THEIR VOTES AS AMERICAN CITIZENS ON THE SPECIOUS ARGUMENT OF ECONOMY WHICH ITSELF HAS NOT YET BEEN DEMONSTRATED." . UNTIL THIS SO-CALLED AND SUDDEN "NECESSITY" FOR VOTING MACHINES HAS BEEN PROVED, WE SHALL CONTINUE AS IN THE PAST, TO OPPOSE THEM.

GOTCH WILL LOSE 'SAYS RUSSIAN LION (National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 19. Confidence reigns supreme in the Hackenschmidt training camp, where the Russian Lion has begun his final training for the bout labor day with Frank Gotch, the champion of the world. Hack is in fine trim. News from Humboldt, la., where Gotch is training, was encouraging. It was said Gotch's defense was weak.

JOY RIDERS THROWN UNDER A TRAIN

This Is My 54th Birthday

"FATHER VAUGHAN" Rev. Bernard Vaughan. or "Father Vaughan. as he Is popularly termed, the distinguished English Jesuit who has announced his intention to pay another visit to America at an early date, was born at Courtfleld. England, August 20, 1847, and was educated at the Jesuit college of Stoneyhurst. After bis ordination In 1876 he spent eighteen years In religious work in Manchester. Then he went to London, where as a worker among the poor and a preacher lie. attained international fame. Ae a writer be is slso famous, and in his books as well i as his sermons he has Inveighed t against the sins of fashionable society. He is a brother of the late Car dinal Vaugkan. Last year Father Vaughan was one of the most distinguished and prominent participants in the International Eucharistic Con-

te Montreal.

(National News Association) PEWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 19. Three persons are dead today as the result of an automobile wreck two miles east of here shortly before midnight.

The victims were Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Ferguson of Chicago and W. J. Cunningham of Lynchburg, Va.

The machine was 6truck by a freight

train on a St. Paul railroad crossing

and turned turtle, hurling the occupants under the engine.

A Dangerous Mistake. A hobby is all right as long as you don't mistake it for a principle. Chicago Record-Herald.

A PELLAGRA VICTIM DIED ON SATURDAY

(National News Association) LEXINGTON, Aug. 19. John McLean died today at Middlesboro, Ky., of pellagra. There are several other cases in Middlesboro and it is reported that 500 cases exist throughout the state. Dr. Grimm, a government expert has assumed charge of the situation.

WIDOW OWNS FIVE CHICAGO THEATERS

(National News Association) CHICAGO, Aug. 19. Mrs. Caroline Kohl, a widow of the late magnate has purchased five theaters in Chicago and thus becomes the largest holder of theatrical property in the city. She intends to manage all of them herself. The purchase was announced today and includes the Majestic, Olympic, Chicago Opera House, Academy of Music and the Bijou.

To the Public: , i During the present week you have; witnessed in" police court the trial of a man charged with provoke. The prosecuting witness was and is a patrolman on the police force. The defendant a switchman in the local Pan Handle yards. A jury found the defendant not guilty. The patrolman, Mr. Bundy, t admitted assaulting the defendant, Mr. Diltz, buf sought to justify his action by bringing a charge of provoke. This charge was disproved, therefore Mr. Bundy stands confessed guilty of unprovoked assaulc and battery. The trial brought out the fact that Mr. Bundy allowed his temper to control his actions, and make of him a trouble hunter instead of a calm officer of the law performing his duty. It was shown that he had words with Mr. Diltz at the 12th street crossing of -the Pan Handle, that he was wholly aggressive at that time, that he walked to 13th street and talked to the conductor under whom Mr. Diltz was working, that he said he "would get that brakeman," and after a few minutes returned to 12th street. That he again opened the conversa

tion and with no word or act to justify such language, again abused and

cursed Mr. Diltz. That Mr. Diltz of

fered himself for arrest, but protested

against being cursed. This was not because Mr. Diltz is "an angel," as Mr.

Ladd in his "back home sarcasm termed him, but because he Is a lawabiding citizen first, and because he has too much sense under his hat to attempt to fight a bigger man, who is armed with a gun and loaded club as well as the "majesty of the law," whatever that is. Immediately on making this protest Mr. Diltz was struck a smashing blow along the side of 'the face and head by Mr. Bundy's mace. Mr. , Bundy says that Mr. Diltz sat down after being struck. No reason for such peculiar action on Mr. Diltz's part was assignen, but Mr. Bundy left us at liberty to suppose that Mr. Diltz sat down to think over what had thus far transpired and to decide on the logical thing to do. Mr. Diltz and three witnesses state that the blow knocked Mr. Diltz down and that Mr. Bundy assisted him to his feet. Another'witness did not see the blow delivered but testified to hearing it struck and that it - sounded like "felling a beef." He proved to Mr. Ladd's satisfaction that he knew how they fell beeves in Ohio and that there is a bare possibility of the sound being similar, whether at Camden, O., or Centerville, Indiana. Mr. Bundy then arrested Mr. Diltz, charging provoke. How far is such conduct to be carried before raising , a public protest? This is not the first indiscreet

clubbing Bundy has been guilty of.

anl everyone remembers his uncall

ed for action in shooting to death

young Charley Moore a few years ago.

He was saved from the penitentiary

that time, but he should have been

removed from the police force at least. To the disgrace of this city he was not.

Is there among you a man or wo

man with red blood in your veins who could sit down and truthfully tell that story to a visitor and not feel heartily ashamed of your city?

And now that Mr. Bundy has again

proved to everyone's satisfaction that he does not possess that calm, cool judgment which a policeman above all others should possess, are you gen

ing to let him continue on the force

or are you going to demand his re

moval? Are you going to have it said that

in Richmond, a city which goes before the whole world and boasts of its culture and refinement, its attainments

in the world of art and music, its per capita wealth and Its general attractiveness and stability, the police force contains a man who uses the weapons he is allowed to carry as a patrolman to beat up unoffending and unarmed citizens? Think that over. Won't you be ashamed to recite this case just as you now are the other and more serious one? How do you know who will be the next to incur the displeasure

of this armed and uniformed bully?

It may be you, or your father, your

son, or brother.

Would the savagery of the whole

thing be brought home to you then?

rather think it would. Window cards advertising the Chau

tauqua contain pictures of a police

man's uniform and coat labeled "law and of a red flag marked "lawlessness." This is the title of a lecture by one who has a cure for the latter. Will you tell him that one of your officers who wears the coat "law is in the habit of constituting a law unto himself and quarreling with and cursing citizens and then using his weapons as a ruffian, as a representative

of the -lawless" element, similarly equipped, might do? That is, to sat

isfy personal spleen.

If you tell the lecturer that and he

ever returns to this city, he would

probably decide to use some other emblem for "lawlessness" ill chosen, but will not attempt to force any opinion on that before you. Whether you are a business man or woman or a work-

ingman or woman, (and the great majority of you are the latter,) you want your policemen to be be men above al lelse. Cool, level headed men with lots of horse sense. You cannot use a hot tempered officer who admits that his actions were impelled by anger. Therefore, the officer in this case, Mr. Bundy, should be removed from the force. Let us hear from you, Mr. Public. Charles A. Sehi.

VOTING

MACHINES

MASONIC CALENDAR

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1911 Webb lodge No. 24. F. & A. M. Called meeting, work in Entered Apprentice degree.'1 Thursday, Aug. 24, 1911 King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Special Convocation. Work in Past Master's degree

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY1

' AUGUST 20TH. 1776 Fight in the Hudson River between American fire-ships and British men-of-war. 1795 Commodore Robert F. Stockton, a distinguished American naval of- . fleer, born in Princeton, N. J. Died there, Oct. 7, 1866. 183S Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the U. S., born in North Bend, O. Died in Indianapolis, March 13, 1901. 1S58 The Danubian Principalities constituted. , 1864 Gen. Grant withdrew his troops from the north side of the James River. " ." - . ' 1865 Final proclamation of the cessation of hostilities in the Civil War. 1886 Eight of the Haymarket anarchists sentenced to death in Chicago. 1890 The battlefield at Antietam. Md., converted into a national park. 1S9S Imposing naval demonstration in the harbor of yew York in celeoration of the ending of the Spanish war.

MAY BERJRCHASEO Merits of Machines to Be Investigated, Declares the

Commissioners.

ADJOURNMENT FIXED Leaders Decide to Close on Tuesday. (National News Association) , WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Just after the adjournment discussion in the house today Senator Penrose and Vice President Sherman came over and held a conference with Rep. Underwood. At Its conclusion Senator Penrose said that a resolution would

be introduced fixing the time for the adjournment about five o'clock, Tuesday. Rep. Underwood assured the

senator and vice president that would wind up the business of house a, day sooner If possible.

next rar CURD Promoter McCann to Pull Off Bout, Labor Day.

he the

124TH IND. INFANTRY TO HOLD REUNION Veterans of the Civil war belonging to the 124th Indiana Infantry have been notified that the annual reunion will be held at Winchester on September 20-21. There are several in this county who are members of this regiment The program will include camp fire meetings and musical selec-

Promoter Hugh McGaaa who staged the boxing contests held recently at the Coliseum here, is completing his plans for another and more elaborate

affair on the night of Labor Day. He

expects to draw several of the best boxers in the middle west to the contests, and is already sure that ho can secure a good biU. The only, bout for which the arrangements have been completed so far Is a ten round encounter between Young Sweeney and Jimmy Anderson. Sweenev was seen

here In the last performance, and tt Anderson is at ali in his class, a live

ly bout is certain. Two or three othea

contests will complete the program. McGann investigated the picture films of the last Gotch Hackenschmidt wrestling bout, but they did not appear classy enough tor hi show. He therefore, has decided not to present these, but to sUge a wrestling bout in their place.

Swimming and Running. To cover a hundred yards takes as

expert swimmer about sis

long aa a champion sprinter.

"Provided that as the appropriation for "voting mahcines purchase, repair and installing,' under Item 82, the

commissioners represent that they

have not fully investigated the merits of voting machines and are yet undecided on the question of their purchase." The foregoing is a statement handed to county auditor Demas S. Coe by the board of county commissioners about 3:30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon after the board of commissioners heard protests and favorable comments relative to the subject. It was a long drawn out discussion, involving almost the entire morning and afternoon with the board finally determining to recommend the appropriation

and investigate the utility of the machines afterwards. So far as honoring the recommendation of the board, which makes the total budget of county expenses for 1912 total somewhere between $150,000 and $175,000, this matter concerns the county council which organization will meet in September. The commissioners are expected to estimate the yearly expenses for the ensuing year and recommend so much be set aside in the county treasury for each purpose and if the council sees the proposition in the same light, this body endorses the recommendation. The board will set about to ascertain the utility of voting machines and likely will have further recommendations to make at council meeting. It was with this idea in view that the board inserted the clause "have not

fu-ly Investigated the merits of voting machines and are yet undecided on the question of their purchase."

CHENEY, LOUISVILLE PITCHER, PURCHASED (National News Association) LOUISVILLE, Aug. 19. Owner Grayson of the Louisville team, today announced the sale of Pitcher Larry Cheney and third baseman Lennox to the Chicago Cubs for delivery at the season's end. Cheney was released by the Indianapolis team because of indifferent pitching due, he claimed, so some sort of a hoodoo. Louisville grabbed him and he has since won three-fourths of the games he pitched which put him in major league class. The summer school, which the Y. M. C. A. has kept through the heated part of the year, closed on Friday after the most successful season in its existence. Prof. D. , D. Ramsey who has conducted the work is well satisfied with the results obtained. Only three failures out of thirty-eight courses taken, were reported. In the final examinations which Superintendent Mott gave, Verlin Ballinger received a grade of 100 in arithmetic, while several others were marked high. Seventeen students took the work, and those who passed the tests will be credited with the work in the public schools. Much more interest was amnifested this year than last, and the school seems to be an established institution in Richmond.

' A ddress on A dvertising' ' tBy William C. Freeman, 'The Exponent of Clean Advertising" given at the Convention of the Associated Advertisers Clubs of America, in Boston, Mass., last week. (NEWSPAPERDOM) (Continued from Saturday; FourtK Newspaper 'advertising rates are pretty generally discredited by the better class of general advertisers and by the better class of advertising agenciesi Newspapers as a whole have the reputation of selling their space at bargain prices. Here and there, of course, there are some notable exceptions newspapers that arc doing what the great weekly and monthly publications did a long time ago, namely, made their rates uniform, made their discounts uniform, made their commissions uniform, and then they let the whole world know about them. The . knowledge that newspaper rates can be stretched to meet any emergency has hurt the development of newspaper advertising in the general field. It has kept advertising agencies from advising their clients to use newspapers. What advertiser or agent wants' to feel compelled to bargain with a publisher in order to get a right rate for the business he wants to place? Who knows, after he has bargained, when he has really struck the bottom rate? Doesn't a newspaper that makes concessions in its rates always weaken itself in the opinion of the advertising agency as well as in the opinion of the advertiser? We newspaper men must do all we can to correct this unfavorable impression as to the stability of our rates, and the only way we can correct it is to get every newspaper to stand by its rate card, to create confidence in the integrity of that rate card. It should not ever be possible for an advertising agency to write to a newspaper as follows : "'We are about to place another appropriation for Mr. Blank and hope to be able to use your columns, provided we can mutually agree about the matter of price and location. Then follows a description of the space to be used, the position wanted, the number of insertions per week, and this concluding paragraph: vFor this service, if finally ordered by us, we can pay you so-and-so much.' "Now, if this advertising agency knew definitely that newspaper rates were fixed, it would not waste any of its time in sending out such a letter. It would write to the newspaper telling what was wanted; it would consult the rate card as to what it would have to pay for the space wanted; and then it would send in the order. But agencies do not have faith in newspaper rates, because they have bargained before and got concessions. "The good newspaper that is straight, in its advertising rates gets the same kind of a letter that is sent to the newspaper that isn't straight, which makes the straight newspaper sore and rightly so. The agencies should have enough discrimination to separate the Wheat from the chaff the newspaper with its straight rates from the newspaper with its bargain rates. .(To be continued)

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