Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 102, 4 March 1912 — Page 8

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HOLD JOIIFEREIICE Plan to Combine All Mechanical Trades on All Western Railroads.

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It Isn't Necessary for Your Whole Life to Be Platted Out" and Published Either in the City Directory Or When You Get Married.

(National Ksws Association) KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 4. Delegates representing the shop trade on erjr western railroad are to bold a conference here this week with a number of prominent labor leaders and representatives of the various other branches of organized railroad labor, to perfect the details of a gigantic combination or confederation of all the mechanical trades on the railroads west of the Mississippi River. A great deal of preparatory work has been done already, but there is still much to be done before this far-reaching plan can be brought to full maturity. In a general way the complete plans

contemplate the formation of a territorial organisation of railroad employes that will include every railroad operating west of the Mississippi river. Before this ultimate result can be achieved. It will be necessary to perfect a system of federations of the various organised cfarts of every one of the western railroads. Heretofore the mechanical trades of the various railroads were not federated with the other trades of their respective lines and in rase of a strike they bad no support from the other trades. The railroad companies, having n understanding among themselves, belped each other and the strikers were Invariably defeated. Realizing

that their weakness was due to the lack of a thorough understanding between the railroad employes, a movement was started to bring the various trades into closer touch and to form not only federations of the mechanical trades of all western railroads, but also system federations including combinations on every railroad between the mechanical and the trafflc trade of that railroad, In other words a federation of the shop men with the engineer. f1",nn inductors and brakeknen of each system.

After lufcMti juuiib have been carried to full completion, the labor leaders believe, the mechanical trades will be

In a position to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the railroeds to obtain from them the growing of their wage demands hitherto refused. Demands win be made on all rnilroads In the same territory at the same time, so that all these railroads will be involved at the same time, should a Strike be called. Even if the railroads should bo inclined to resist the demands of the shopmen, they will, it is believed, be compelled to yield. If the hop men are fully supported by the

brotherhood organizations 01 the otner branches' of work on the same railroad system.

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Stepmothers. The statement was made by a physician at on inquest In London that all sttpmotbers are Instinctively cruel to stepchildren. A false accusation I The American who reads It will re

call at once the boyhood t Abrahams

Lincoln. Be had a stepmother. Night after night ftbe used to take him upon bor knee in tho rude frontier cabin and teach him to read by the flickering light of a Are log. She It was who, in pit of the opposition of the father, crimped and saved that Abe might go to school. No natural mother ever surpassed her aa tho guardian angel of a child. 8ally Bnsb Lincoln was not unique. There were other kind stepmothers in her time, and there are kind step- , mothers today, tho Eogllsh doctor to ' the contrary notwithstanding.--Boston Globe.

The Turbine.

Tho first steam turbine fitted vessel was constructed by die Hon. C A.

Parsons at his works at Newcastle-on

Tyne. Tho Tnrblnla. a small vessel, n hundred feet in length, made her trial

trip Not. 4. 1804. The system rapidly developed owing to Increased speed of tho vessels fitted with turbine engines and tho economy effected in coal. Im

provements were mad In their construction, and today the turbine ship is popular the world over. Cheering Her Up. "My dear, congratulate mo." Whit has happened r "Jack Darlington has asked mo to bo his wife." "Oh, I'm not going to congratulate yon on that account. Be was almost tho worst husband I ever had." Chi. ,esgo Rscord-HsraML

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Upon what psychic principle are city directories compiled. How far can their compilers go in their ruthless raids upon the defenceless. Innocent and entirely private citizen without danger or assassination by the latter? Why should we be tagged, docketed and flung into the alphabetical pigeonbole without our knowledge or consent? The individual has a right or two to be respected. City directories are useful and. Indeed necessary, but not compulsory. If the residents of a given house .on a given street in a given town don't happen to be at home at the ftrst or even third or fourth, call of the gentle

men getting up the directory for his own emolument, what vested privilege has he, pray, to put down the former as "any old thing."

There is no law compelling a city directory to ferret out the occupation of every person in town and set it down opposite his name in the city's residential roster. With business, of various character this is information that Is both interesting, convenient and desirable, and desired as well. But with the registering of the great mass It Is an Impertinence to placard them individually. And certainly their consent should be first obtained and an inquiry made

as to the correctness of th designation. And if an objection is made to including anything more than the name and house address, this objection should be absolutely regarded. For it may be based upon considerations of importance to the individual

which are not divulgible and which, if they were, are, in common parlance, "nobody's business" either the public's or the gentry compiling the directory. Why, in instance, label people "la

borer," "domestic," "grinder,' "neip-

er," "school-teacher," "stenographer, "clerk." "barber," "stringer." "molder." "chalr-caner," "apprentice," "machine hand." "bar-tender," "janitor," "oiler," "peddler," "charwoman" and the like. Often this is a humiliation. An individual's temperament, education, birth or social status are not invariably indicated by his occupation. Necessity compels many persons to be ground down by distasteful and repugnant tasks. There are men In the shops of this city, for example, that are the Intellectual1 peers of some of the town's resolendant pillars of society.

It is a mere accident of fortune that they are where they are. And yet the city directory may tag 'em "laborer" and throw them into the social discard. What Is a "laborer" by the way? Everybody who works at anything is

a laborer. Its hard labor to write books, in instance. "And sometimes to read m!" interpolated the cynic. Nothing requires more labor than giving a party. The ilhyBical strain is sometimes so

great at a woman's bridge that the a-uests return home in a state of col

lapse. Scraping the streets is child's play in comparison.

The hardest laborers in tne worm

are the so-called "society people.

The women go Into retreats to re

cuperate and the men retire to Mul-

doon's e,yrie. Nothing is more strenuous labor

than "practical politics." The President of the United States Is the hordest worked laborer in the Union. There are other outrages perpetrated by the insane and Impudent American desire to pry Into the affairs of everyone from the mansion to the hovel from Fairview to tho Glen, from Ooosetown to Beallview. One of them is the publication of the ages and occupations alleged or otherwise which are set forth in marriage licenses. Whatever the law with regard to the pre-matrimonial lineup, and however rigorous and exacting the statute

in Indiana, in instance, and however

efficacious toward eliminating the unfit

from survival it only applies to records made for social, statistical and political political In the larger sense purposes. Only such publicity as is given through the medium of the official rec

ord is required or desired. To publish these facts in detail in the dally press or the weekly for that matter Is an impertinent intrusion into the private affairs of the individual as unwarranted as it is frequently malicious and invariably humiliating. It also leads to falsifications which would not occur if publicity in this way were not feared. Nine out of every ten women will lie about their ages. And justifiably so. Whose business is it how old anybody is? Why should the public be advised as to the manner in which two people have put in the time just because these

two people have decided to get married? Why publish that "Margaret Mason," who 1s the party of the other part in a matrimonial engagement announce

ment, is a "domestic," or "seamstress" or anything elBe, for that matter, and her age of twenty or thirty odd flaunted before the town for their amusement and gossiping comment? The Jaw does not require the publication of these details. Many people are not aware of this. They think it is a necessary discomfort attendant upon getting married. It can be stopped by anyone who refuses to have such facts "put in the paper." The institution of marriage suffers enough as It is is mocked and jeered and sneered at. is debased to the level of vile and indecent ridicule but to

make it the target of jokes and raillery in specific cases, as is done by the publication of all the facts included in a license, is inexcusable and not consistent with the ideals which govern the social procedure of this country.

Chautauqua last summer too witter

had to make six trips each day three out to Glen Miller, three in. During the ten days that this Interesting religions vaudeville continued.

from two to five of these trips were' "footed" on account of an inability to make an adjustment to vague and erratic wanderings of the public conveyances. It has been said that the reason for the decrepit and ridiculous oars is the lack of patronage which does not justify the company in putting in a more elaborate equipment. It might be, on the other hand, that the lack of patronage was caused by the miserable system and the uncomfortable and unclean cars.

Nobody in this town rides if he -can or is able to walk. Our street-cars are, as stated, a disgrace, and make the town a laughingstock and a mockery. They're the flrst things subjected to

the jeers and ridicule of visitors and the last thing to be used by its citizens. Surely the company isn't so ground down by poverty that it cannot fit the town out with a. respectable set of cars. If it wasn't doing business at a profit it wouldn't be "operating." Business organizations are not philanthropists. Presumably the street-car company of this city Is not losing anything since it keeps going. In the language of the "kids" "you ought to be ashamed of yourself."

(IftTIOIl -WIDE POLL SHOWS ROOSEVELT

IS FAVORED BY A MAJORITY OF VOTERS

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NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. State of Indiana, Wayne County, ss. Estate of Harry Minck, deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Wayne Circuit Court, Administrator of the estate of Harry Minck, Deceased, late of Wayne County, Indiana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Dickinson Trust Co., Administrator.

(Paladhan &odai.) WASHINGTON. D. C March 4. The most significant and conclusive proof that Col. Theodore Roosevelt is the choice of the people is contained in a nation-wide poll of voters in every state in tho union, just completed by seventy or more newspapers scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Canadian line to the Gulf of Mexico. This poll shows that out of every 100 voters in the United States, 65 are progressive and 35 are inclined to conservatism. Out of every 77 voters. 30 want Roosevelt, 15 want Taft, 10 want Wilson. 5 want LaFollette, 4 want Clark, and 4 want Debs for President in 1912.

The paper which took part in making the poll are of all shades of political opinion and among them are the Scrippe-McRae newspapers and the Clover Leaf league of newspapers. Lists of names, non-political lists such as city directories, were taken and every thousandth name (or some other multiple was selected so as to apportion the names selected in proportion to the population of each

state. Return post cards were sent to i

Tho returns from tho aox

tlcntarly encouraging for tosomu In every state but two ho led the field. His total first choices from IS southern ttM wa 4 sift aasinet Harmon's

sas City Star, which Showed Roosevelt 1 1942. Clark's 1502 and U&dsrwood's

more than two to one favorite out of 1 2,532, while Bryan's total In tat

more than 100.000 returns. That poll states was 1819.

these addresses and tho results care-

If you go to the vaudeville every Monday, week in, week out, year in, and possibly year out. one of the stock "local gags" is the crack taken at our

justly celebrated street-car system. The street-cars of this city are a disgrace. Not only to this town but to any. Attenuated by extreme age, shaky, paralytic, doddering, they bump, amble and careen along like a man suffering from St. Vitus dance. They are uncomfortable, frequently dirty and generally unsanitary. Either all the windows are up or all

nailed down. There is no happy medium. No ventilation or open to the four winds of heaven.

And the schedules upon which they

make their infrequent appearances are cryptic and veiled in deepest mystery.

Tn -writinar ud the sessions of the

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fully compiled. The result does not j show the sentiment of any particular ; newspaper's readers, but is as broad I

and impartial as a general election. Voters were asked to express their first, second and third choices for President in 1912. A total of 87,963 first choice votes were cast as follows: Roosevelt 30,454 Taft 15,896 LaFollette 6,898 Hughes 1,448 Cummins 736

Wilson 10,820

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was confined largely to Missouri.- Kansas and Nebraska. The nation-wide poll confirms the Star poll in these states, but does not find the same ratio in all parts of the country. The progressive sentiment in both the old parties is indicated by the combined vote cast for candidates believed to be progressive Wilson. l,Follette, Roosevelt, Cummins. Beveridge, Folk, Foss. Marshallas against Taft. Harmon, Underwood. Hughes, Knox and Harrison and even counting Clark's strength as more conservative than progressive. T,ne total vote for progressive republican candidates was 37,231, progressive Democratic candidates 16,996, conservative Republican 17,451, conservative Democrat 11,914 or total progressive vot 54,227, an-' total conservative 29,365. The p also Indicates that progressive sp . . x. e-

i is mora active among me itepuDiu

voters than the Democrats. One of the remarkable things abo by the poll and which could not tabulated was the widespread disi gard for party lines. Thousands votett were cast where the first, bi ond and third choice would ret "Tsdt, Harmon, Hughes," or "Harmo.

The showing of Roosevelt. Taft. and :

La FOUette in the prvot states oti Maine, Massachusetts, Now York, Ohio, Indiana. Maryland, Kentucky. Missouri. Wisconsin. Nebraska, and Colorado is as follows. First choices choices going: Roosevelt 8,734; Taft 5,342; LaFollette 2.861. In this group Wilson received 1901 votes to Harmon's 1,484. Clark's 1.620 Bryan's 1.459 and Underwood's 376. In New York Taft ran ahead of Roosevelt, 1.389 to 861. and Harmon ran ahead of Wilson. In Ohio, the President's home state. Roosevelt beat Taft, 1,176 to 903. in spite of Lafollette's illness bis friends cling to him and bo makes the best showing of any candidate of any party as alternate candidate.

Napolsen and Wellington. Napoleon was a much greater military genius than Wellington. The man who was accidentally overthrown by Wellington and Blocher at Waterloo was one of the three or four greatest military geniuses that the race ha? produced. If it had not rained on the night of the 17th of June Napoleon

would have had Wellington beaten to Underwood 2,931 a finish long before Blucher's arrival, j Debs 4,371 and the history of Europe and of the : Scattering 754

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different thing from what it is. Wellington was a good general, but Napoleon was more than that. He was a supremely great battle winner, as much above Wellington as Wellington was above his privates. Exchange.

The heart of the wisetnan should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being suUiea by any. Confucius.

Numerous polls have been publish

ed recently, showing sentiment in various cities, counties or states, on railroad trains, in office buildings, ect. The largest poll was that of the Kan-

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