Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 320, 24 September 1911 — Page 4

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Ssa-Telejresi Publfahed and owned by the , - PALLADIUM rfUNTINO CO. Issue I day a each wk. venlnss and Sunday morning Offloo Corner North th and A streets. I Palladium and Bun-Tlram PJionea jBualnaaa Office. 2SC0; Kdltorlal Boomi, I RICHMOND. INDIANA R4IB O. Lmii. .Editor SUBSCRIPTION TERMS In Richmond 16.00 per year (In ad vam-o or 10c per week RURAL ROUTES One rear. In advance ? 2? Six months, tn advance On month. In advance Addyeaa changed aa often aa dealred; both now and old addreaaea must bo lvn. ... Subscriber will pleaao remit with order, which should bo lven for a apeclflod term; name will not be ente.od until payment la received. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS One year. In advance 5 22 Six montha. In advance On month. In advance . ... Rntared at Richmond. Indiana, post 'office aa second claas mall matter. New York Rwprwnwntatlvea Payne A Young. 10-84 Weit 13rd atreet. and 293 Weat I3nd street. Nw York, N. Y. Ch leas' o Reprenentatlvea I'ayne & Young. 747-748 Marquette Building-, Chicago, 11L I Recipociiy's Defeat If the overwhelming defeat of re- '. ctproclty by the Canadians means our neighbor to the north has taken the ! plunge Into the sea 'of high protection, (she will emerge Sinbad-Ilke, twenty years or so hence, with the old man lot the sea swollen fortunes wrung from watered securities, intolerable i conditions for industrial workers on account of greed for large dividends from stocks of fictitious value, and a disagreeably apparent problem of abnomally high living costs firmly fixed on her back. Inasmuch as history is fairly consistent In repeating Itself, that prediction is not far-fetched. It is based on conditions present and pressing today In the United States. We are in the last throes of our twenty years' high tariff debauch and are Just beginning the struggle to unseat our old i man of the sea. The United States, despite a Justifiable feeling of disappointment over the nonacceptance of its reciprocity overtures, can, as President Taft says, view the future complacently and "continue doing business at the old stand." Our country can do more it can be more progressive In its conduct of business at the old stand. Scientifically eliminating our high protective barriers together with effective control of the trusts as well as continuing, with renewed vigor, the educational program of teaching our farmers scientific methods of greatly enlarging the crop yields of present acreages, will go a long way towards ' ' bettering our living conditions and off- ! setting the advantages we may have Host by Canada's refusing reciprocity. The situation, as it now stands, Is ; we must draw on our own resourceful- ' neas to overcome our difficulties We must still depend on our own self rei llance. Viewed from this point the : Canadian defeat of reciprocity probably will prove a blessing in disguise. New Whitewater Bridge A New York engineer is authority for the statement that the proposed South End bridge over the Whitewater, If constructed of reinforced concrete, will cost at least $160,000. The est!- ' mated cost of a steel bridge is $75,000, . and the county commissioners are un derstood to be in favor of the cheap er structure. Rome's glorious 2000 years' old ruins contain many examples of the lasting . qualities of concrete construction. Enough, it Is safe to say, to show that , the first cost of a concrete structure is the last. Wayne county's experl nee with the dilapidation and ab- . normally high depreciation of the ! Main Street and Doran steel bridges ' should be a sufficient argument .against any more such structures. If ' further argument is necessary it is ' right at our doors. In all its new con structlon work in our county, the Penn- . sylvanla railroad has built all its new bridges of concrete. A new steel bridge over the White water means a higher tax rate for us and for future generations. A new reinforced concrete bridge . over the Whitewater means a reduced tax rate for us and for future generaHons. Wall Street's Break In three day's time genuine and teri rifle liquidation carried the price of ' the common stock . of the United States Steel corporation, from $68 to . $51.25 a share. The only explanation so far given is that there Is wldei spread fear that, like the Standard ' Oil company and the American Tobacco company, the Steel corporation is to be forced by government to dls1 solve. Government, in Its campaign to dis- , solve the combinations, presents a pitiful aspect of weakness and Imbecility. It is deliberately attempting to destroy one of the greatest economical achievements of the times, a means for better and more economical methods of production and distribution. The return to smaller industrial ' units will necessitate duplicating all the elaborate machinery of dtstrlbujtion and management needlessly, as 'well aa thrusting the Increased cost of this Melees duplication on the peoplethe animate consumer. Government evidently would rather panlo than adopt a rational

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their evils. It would rather try destructive dissolution than honest and scientific tariff revision and government control over the issuance of stocks and bonds, to prevent exorbitant profits and fictitious capitalizations. Special Session 's Cost The defeat administered to reciprocity by Canada serves as a reminder that the special session of congress, just closed, foots up on the books of the nation as a total loss. Called by President Taft to pass his reciprocity bill, the members of congress, fresh from their constituencies and with the desires of the people uppermost In their minds, not only passed the 'reciprocity measure but also placed before the president the farmers' "free list" bill and revisions of the cotton and wool schedules. Despite his characterization of the two latter items, as "indefensible" under the Payne-Aldrich law, and the fairness of the farmers' "free list" as a justifiable companion to the reciprocity measure, President Taft vetoed all three. The reciprocity bill alone was graced with his signature and it now lies buried under the votes of the Canadians. The special session carries with it a far greater loss than its mere cost in hundreds of thousands of dollars. There Is the loss of confidence In President Taft, due to his instability and inability to steer a straight and true .course. "LIES" The Richmond City Water Works company, being cognizant of the desire of an overwhelming majority of the citizens of Richmond to municipalize the water works system, has announced Its willingness to sell to the city for the actual investment in its plant, $350,000. President Taft Is going to call an other extra session of congress to re vise downward the wool and cotton schedules and has announced his intention of not vetoing these measures unless he changes his mind. Victor Berger and Ray Van Vorhis are in favor of private ownership of all property and a property qualification to guard the sacredness of the ballot. The MacNamara brothers will plead guilty to the charge of having perpetrated 397 dynamite outrages, in order to save the expenses incident to a trial to the state of California. Roosevelt is well satisfied with the manner in which his succession is carrying out his policies. At the next council meeting the wa ter works company will voluntarily produce its books, a copy of which bound in embossed full Morocco will be presented for convenience to each councilman. The waterworks company In Its present proposal to the city did not try to enter into a partnership with the high cost of living. Richmond's municipal electric plant is such a monumental failure that it is self evident the city could never manage successfully a municipal wa ter works. 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. HIGH COST OF LIVING. Editor Palladium: For illustration, take the oasis with its exhaustless springs in the midst of the vast desert. A cavalcade of people with their beasts of burden are making a bee-line for those springs. Midway there is gathered a band of robbers, armed, ready to attack these travelers, but an American, a practical business man dissuades them from this. "There's a better way," he says; "rather hasten to take possession of that oasis and assert your ownership thereof on priority claim; then you can charge everybody what you please for the water, and in this way you get a goodly part of their wealth." In the matter of the necessaries of life we have similar conditions. We have entrusted to a class of men the function of supplying our needs, whose interests seem rather to lie in keeping us down to the short allowance mark. Local conditions are the result of conditions world-wide. Ve are doubtless familiar with the incident of ' the householder who bought a barrel of apples for $4. who on opening the barrel found the following note written by the farmer raising them: "Mr. Consumer, I got 75 cents for this barrel of apples. How much did you pay?" Between the producer and the consumer there are operatives that smack of the porch-climbers and the highway robber. Nature is not to blame for these conditions, for she is bounteous with her treasures to mankind. Human greed is clearly at fault, through the system of rent, interest and profit, resulting from the private ownership of the means of production distribution and exchange. Large quantities of food are annually destroyed by capitalistic adventurers In order to create artificial scarcity and so enhance prices. Coal mines shut down to "regulate the output." Lots of fruit rots on the grounds or is dumped into the river rather than let the people enjoy it at a fair price. The farmer, then, is not blamable for high prices, as too often claimed, aa between him and the consumer there are the useless go-betweens.

Justice of Richmond's

In this week's Saturday Evening Post there is an account of the work of the Wisconsin commission which deals with the public service corporations. If Indiana had such a commission the many causes of friction which now exist between the public service corporations of Richmond and the citizens would be eliminated. Portions of this article were reproduced in the Palladium of yesterday. One of the most striking paragraphs is as follows: So the policy has been to regulate the return of private capital, allow it to earn attractive dividends and let it go at that. As to waterworks there are reasons, they think, why municipal ownership is best. That applies to Richmond. But by far the most interesting statement is that which has to do with the valuation of public service companies. We quote a few which seem to us to be the whole crux in the Richmond City water situation: Franchise values? Nothing allowed for that unless the franchises were bought, in the first place, from the people. The commission takes the position that the people should not bo taxed in rates to pay returns on the value of something the people gave freely to the corporation. AND, IF IT WAS BOUGHT, RETURNS ARE BASED ON THE AMOUNT PAID NOT ON THE INCREASED VALUE CAUSED BY MUNICIPAL GROWTH. The utilities strenuously argued with the commission that they should be allowed to earn returns on the value of their good-will. When one sells a store he puts in its good-will, which is merely the expression in money of the habit customers have of going back to the same old shop. The commission said that, this habit of using the same Btreet railroad, or steam railroad, or telephone, is about like that of a convict using habitually the same jail a matter of necessity rather than choice. "Nevertheless," said the corporations, "we are entitled to pay on the value of our good-will. It's an asset in all businesses." "Well," caid the commission, "if good-will is an asset ill-will must be a liability; and if we add the value of the one we'll have to subtract the lien of the other." It must occur to every one that this shows why the books of the Richmond City Water works can be examined in all fairness to the company. It is the only way in which this community can tell what was the amount actually paid by the Richmond City Water Works instead of what Mr. Maury may estimate the worth of the plant now "caused by municipal growth."

The basis of the city's conception of what the plant cost the company is best arrived at from the books of the company itself. The question as to whether the earnings on the investment are too great or small is to find out first what the investment was then to find out what the actual earnings are. Again this can only be done by the production of the books of the company which is the basis on which the Wisconsin commission does business. More than that the State of Indiana has not conferred this power upon any commission but on the city council. But because the state has not granted this to a commission is no reason why the city councils should not use what power has been given them. AH the public service corporations in the state are now fighting this McGinnis law of 1909 which is the nearest approach that Indiana citizens have to power approaching that of the Wisconsin commission. This furnishes another reason why the law should be used to Its full limit For failing in the upholding of this law which has never been taken to the highest courts it may lead to the establishment of a commission and laws such as the citizens of Wisconsin enjoy.

There's your commission and cold storage men gathering up food supplies and holding them for years for higher rates, sometimes rendering this food unfit for use. Even our commercial ethics has rendered the Scriptural text as follows: "The earth is the landlord's' and the fullness thereof." There is enough wasted, under this regime, to maintain many families in comfort a long time. The remedy? Listen: Collective ownership of all the means of production and distribution, aa set forth in the Socialist platform. Every worker would then receive the full value of his product "or services, or its equivalent, which he could exchange with others for theirs, thus eliminating the wastage and stealings from which our parasites are fattening. Every community could have its emporium through which these exchanges could be effected, through the use of money as a medium of exchange, instead of being controlled by financial jugglers. M. Ritchie. This Is My 59th Birthday JOSEPH MARTIN. Joseph Martin, the Canadian-born meber of the British parliment who returned to Canada and took an active part in the recent election campaign, was born in Milton, Ont., Sept. 24, 1852. After leaving school he became first a telegraph operator, then a teacher, and then a barrister. It was when practising at Winnipeg that he entered politics as a member of the Manitoba legislature, sitting continuously from 1883 until 1892, and becoming successively attorney-general and railway commissioner. In 1897 he went west to Vancouver, and, not content with both practicing law and owning and editing a newspaper, he entered the Provincial legislature, and passed from the offices of attorneygeneral and minister of education to that of premier. In 1909 he went to live in London and last year was elected to the British House of Commons for the constituency of East St. Panchas. To Make a Seidl.fz Powder. To make a seidlitz powder mix together two drams of rochelle salts and two scruples of bicarbonate of soda; put these into a blue paper and put thirty-five grains of tartaric acid into a white paper. To use put each into different glasses and quarter fill with water, then pour both together and drink at once while In a state of effervescence "THIS DATE

SEPTEMBER 24. 1755 John Marshall, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, born. Died July 6, 1835. 1829 First public school in Baltimore opened. 1839 Robert Y. Hayne. famous South Carolina statesman, died. Born Nov. 10, 1791. 1S46 Monterel surrendered to the American army after a siege of three days. 1863 Territory of Arizona organized. 1869 Financial panic known as "Black Friday" resulted from an attempf to corner gold. 1890 The Governor-General of Canada was petitioned to veto the' anti- . French bill passed by the Manitoba legislature. 1902 After a nine hours' trial at Buffalo, Leon Czolgosx. the assassin of President McKinley, was sentenced to death. -1910 The Saltan of Sulv arrived in New York on a visit.

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RELEASE SUSPECT IN SEXTUPLE MURDER (National News Association) COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept. 23. Arthur Burnham was released from custody today after the sheriff and police had failed to connect him with the sextuple murder of which his wife and two children were among the victims. Henry Wayne, his wife and baby, of Medaryville, Indiana, were the other victims. Mystery still surrounds the case. Joan of Arc's Bell. In the cathedral church of Notre Dame, Paris, there is a bell which dates from the days of Joan of Arc "the blessed bell" which sounded the tocsin when the Maid of Orleans appeared in August. 1429. and Paris was besieged by the English. This historic bell, referred to by Vctor Hugo in "Notre Dame de Paris." was given to the cathedral In 1400 by Jean de Montaign. It was refounded in 1688 and then rebaptlzed under the name of Emmanuel Louise Therese in honor of Louis XIV. and Marie Therese of Austria. London Globe. Hs Knew Jim. Jim had made an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the world and came back to the Tennessee town dirty, worn out and hungry. "Uncle John," he said melodramatically, "I came home to die.' 'No, dod gast you," said unsympathetic Uncle Jim. "you came home to eat!" Success Magazine. It Surely Will. . "And you like chicken, Sam?" "Gee! I certainly does, boss." "And you get 'em once in awhile?" "Oh. sure, boss. I gets 'em." TIow do you get 'em. Sam?". "Well, boss, you know dat oP sayin'. Love will Statesman. find the way.' " Yonkera Quick Time. Ada Men are slow! It took him nearly two" hours to propose to mc last night Floss And how long did ii lake you to accept him. dear? AdaJust two seconds. Consolation. Binks Confound it! I've gone and eat down on that chair I varnished this morning. Mrs. Binks Well, fm Mice you've stuck to ycur work. Bos Ion Trail script. A new insulator for use in electrical work is made by condensing phenol and formaldehyde. It Is said to resemble Japanese lacquer. IN HISTORY"

WAR ON FIREARMS

WAS DECLARED BY I1A MEETING Joins with Western Yearly Meeting in Condemnation of Firearms Sale, as Conducive to Crime. (Continued from Page One.) duke Gluys, and the honorary degree of LL. D. upon William Cullen Denis. Reorganization Made. In the more restricted sense of edu cational progress, the greatest accom plishment of the year, perhaps, was the thorough-going reorganization of the requirements for graduation. For many years the College has required each candidate for a degree to choose a major subject to be pursued for at least three years of daily recitations. In addition he was required to take certain prescribed subjects, the bal ance of the work being elective. It was felt by the faculty that this sys tem might be improved. The chief objections to it were that it encouraged too early specialization; that the j amount of "work required in some of the prescribed subjects was so small as to be practically valueless, and that the elective subjects were frequ ently, if not usually chosen because of reasons not educational in their na ture. Under the eld system, at one ex treme, students have graduated, not so much from Earlham as from a single department of Earlham, and at the other extreme, Btudents have "made enough credits to graduate," without any clearly defined reference to subject matter or sequence of study. Ow ing to the extreme elasticity of the system the demands of real scholarship, and, therefore, of real efficiency.

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A STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT JEWELRY There are six qualifications that determine the standing of any jewelry store. Without all of them and one more honest dealings no jewelry store can ever hope to succeed and gain the good will and confidence of the public. The qualifications are these

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Eliminate any one or more and the customer is in doubt perhaps he or she will buy, but the opportunity of making a permanent patron is practically lost.

It is our business creed to live up to the highest standard of modern merchandising. No detail is too small to escape our attention. We are anxious to serve our customers better. We never slight quality in order to name a low price, yef we quote prices that are really money savers. Our cases and shelves are constantly being replenished with new goods. The years of experience we have had have taught us to discriminate between tawdryness and real art. No store shows a greater variety and values are never questioned here. We would be pleased to have you a customer of our kind of jewelry store. May we? 1 ' ; . E. L. Spencer

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were frequently evaded in diametrically opposite ways. Poor Investments Made. A very partial survey of the field brings to light the fact that many Friends within the limits of Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings have made poor -investments of their means. Property has been left in wills to various enterprises that have not proved permanent or fruitful, and much money has been wasted. Often large sums are left to children who prove unworthy or incapable, and in this way fortunes have been dissipated. We are all

acunta-e for cur stewardship, it is cedure for every person to make a will, and in doing this, friends of Earlham should remember that the College is a permanent institution, that it will go on blessing humanity through countless generations, and that any amount placed in the hands of the En dowment Trustees will multiply in fruitfulness. During the year some wills have been made in which Earlham has been remembered, and we would encourage this means of contributing to the Master's work. The report also tells of the successful campaign waged last spring to raise the college debt of $50,000. HEATING PLANT AT COUNTY JAIL SMALL Because of the small size of the boilers connected with the jail heating plant, the county commissioners have found that there will be difficulty in heating the insane ward of the structure which will be erected this fall. Larger boilers are needed, the commissioners were informed, if the manufacturing concern is to guarantee them. The board has not determined on what course to pursue, but it is believed new ones will be installed. Two Effects. Mr. C What are you crying about, my dear? Mrs. C I have Just been reading the old love letters you sent me before we were married. Mr. C That's funny. I was reading them myself the other day, and they made me lanch

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KRAMER WILL WAS

ENTERED SATURDAY The will of the late Martha Kramer, who died on September 16th was filed for probate in the Wayne circuit court on Saturday. The ' personal effects are of the estimated value of $2,000 according to the letters issued to the Dickinson Trust company as executor of the will. By the terms of the testament, her grand niece, little Miss Mary Alice Collins, receives the decedent's piano. Her husband, William Kramer, shall receive what articles of household furniture and fixtures he may desire, and the remaining articles the late Mrs. Kramer wills to her sister, Emma H. Walters, and her nieces, Mrs. Edith H. Collins and Mrs. Alice H. Waldrip. The real estate is to be apportioned equally among the husband, her sister and her two nieces. The Elbows. Cubbing the elbowa with warm almond oil every evening will In time eradicate all roughness of the skin. e WESTCOTT A WINNER! WILL MONEY HELP YOUt IF SO, CALL ON US. We will loan you any amount from $5.00 up and take your personal property as security such as household goods, pianos, team, wagons, etc. Your loan will be arranged in small weekly or monthly payments to suit your' income and so small you will hardly miss the money. If you have a number of small bills' outstanding, call on us and get the money to pay them all up and have one place to pay. All business is strictly confidential. 1 Phone 2560 Take Elevator to Third Floor.

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