Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 249, 23 August 1912 — Page 1

FA ABIUM A. AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVII. NO. 249. RICHMOND, INDM FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 23, 1912. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS. VALIDITY OF NEFF LICENSE SUCCESSFUL Leader of Gotham Gangsters OIL COMBINE DING SAYS EXPENSIVE BURIAL TO BE GIVEN A DOG SENATE TOLD TOO JEALOUS IS

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1 PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON NEFF T6 Clear Himself of Impugnation of Not Having Passed Examination to Secure a License. Has Isaac E. Neff, principal of the Richmond high school, held the position two years under an illegal license? Are the members of the Richmond city school board personally responsible for the salary Principal Neff drew from the school corporations in this interim? Where did Principal Neff get the license he now holds? Why will he take the state examination in the office of the county superintendent next Saturday? Answers to the questions are held to be in order from citizens who are acquainted with parts of the myBtery hanging about the alleged license under which Principal Neff has presided over the high school. County Superintendent Williams today refused to discuss any angle of the problem, merely stating that Principal Neff had a license dated August 10, 1910. Mr. Williams assumed his office October 1, 1910. The license was issued under his predecessor, Charles W. Jordan, now secretary of the Commercial club, and last Monday appointed member pf the Richmond city school board by the common council. , Williams Blameless. Persons acquainted with the case say that Superintendent Williams is in nowise involved,, and he has been exonerated from any guilt that may be attached to the alleged irregularity. When Principal Neff was engaged by the v'RIchmondr"schoot "board it ras done on the Implicit assurance of City School Superintendent Mott, -who investigated Mr. Neff 's career at South Bend, that the latter was qualified in every respect to hold the position and that there was no flaw either in Principal Neff's career or in the validity of his credentials. It is known positively that pressure had been brought to bear on Principal Neff in the last two months to clear himself from the impugnation of not having passed the state examination entitling him to a license and the consequent right to teach in the public schools. Under the stress of developing opposition the principal recently produced a license issued by Charles Jordan, former county superintendent, dated August 10, 1910. Persons making the investigation then established the fact that Principal Neff did not take the state examination prior or since August 10, 1910, in the office of the county superintendent, entitling him to the certificate. Holds Exemption License. Principal Neff Is listed in the bulletin of Wayne county teachers as the holder of a class B, "Exemption" license. This certificate, under the Indiana school laws, can be granted only to teachers who have taught six years in the same county and hold a three years license. Principal Neff came to Richmond in the summer of 1910 from South Bend, St. Joseph county, this state. His Wayne County license bears the date of August 10, 1910. The principal was not a resident of Wayne county, much less a teacher in the county schools, six years prior to this date. The discrepancy between the class of license which Principal Neff holds and his residence in the county, created great surprise, it was learned, among members of the Richmond school board. Had No Transfer Right. Inquiry made at the office of Chas. A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, showed that Mr. Neff had not passed the state examination in St. Joseph county, so that he could have transferred his license to Wayne county. When no records were found in the office of the county superintendent nor at the Indianapolis office showing that Principal Neff had passed the s state examination, inquiries were made of County Superintendent Williams regarding the issuance of the license. The records in his office showed, that the principal's license had been issued prior to Mr. Williams' occupancy of the office. Former Superintendent Jordan at first disclaimed issuing the Instrument, but later remembered signing a license for the principal. How Principal Neff secured the license without taking the state examination has not been explained, as far as could be ascertained today. The school board, it is understood, Insists that Principal Neff satisfy the provisions of the law. Principal NefTs decision to take the . state examination Saturday Is inter-

"BIG JACK" SELIG, THE NEW YORK GANG LEADER, - Who is alleged to have furnished the gun-men who killed Herman Rosenthal, and who has offered to tell District Attorney Whitman all he knows concerning the murder.

EARLHAM COLLEGE WILL BE CROWDED Many Changes Required to Accommodate the Students for Fall Term. Extensive changes to provide a'dditionardoraltoi7urthav : been made at Earlham college this summer. Inquiries for entrance into the college and admission to the dormitories indicate a large attendance at the Quaker institution this fall.. (Between twenty and thirty rooms have been added to the dormitory facilities by concentrating the hospitals of Bundv and Earlham halls on the fmirth floor nf 'Rarlhftm hall The ! boys' hospital was formerly located on the third floor of Bundy hall and the girls' was situated) on the third floor of Earlham hall. (The domestic science department has been removed from the third floor of Earlham hall to the basement of Perry hall.Here a room has been equipped with a complete kitchen outfit. A fully furnished ' dining room with all modern appointments has been added. Fire escapes have been added to the south side of Earlham hall, which with the equipment on Bundy hall induce the college authorities to believe the dormitories have been efficiently safeguarded against fire. New underfeed stokers have been installed in the boilers of the engine room. Some of the buildings have received a coat of paint. It is estimated that the improvements this summer have cost the institution between $4,000 and $5,000. J TIMES IS SARCASTIC Calls Progressives "Republican Half-breeds." The New Castle Times, Democratic, calls the Wayne county Progressives "Republican half-breeds" in the following editorial: The action of the Wayne county Progressive committee in deciding not to place a separate ticket in the field but to support the Republican county ticket, should be heeded by the Democrats of that county. It is a plain admission on the part of the Bull Moosers over there that their organization is part and parcel of the Republican party a mere tail to the G. O. P. kite. Certainly no thinking Democrat will be attached to such organization. It is ... unfortunate that there is no Democratic newspaper in Wayne county to expose the trick of the schemers there who are trying to get Democratic converts to a Progressive movement and then turn them over body and britches to the Republican organization. In Wayne county the Progressives have decided to be half-breeds, that Is, half Republican and half Bull Moose. So long as they feel that way about it there will be no defections from the Democratic ranks In Wayne county. THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in

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TELEPHONE TRUST Suit to Dissolve the Bell Interests Under Consideration by U. S. (National News Association) iCmCAGO,Aug3.---Snittei dissolution of the Bell Telephone interests, headed by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, is contemplated by the government. The suit will be a civil action brought under the Sherman anti-trust law. It will be filed either in New York or Chicago, probably in the latter place. Special government inspectors have been working securing information about the telephone "combine" for some months and are now ready to make a complete repprt to the department of justice. It is Baid the company will be given a chance to dissolve itself before suit is begun. The suit will charge that the monster corporation is a trust and it will be alleged that the Bell company has absorbed the independent companies and that it maintains a virtual monopoly in the telephone field. Its partial control of the Western Union Telegraph company also will be shown in the suit and it will be pointed out that through the Western Electric company the Bell interests enter the manufacturing field. What Company Owns. The American Telephone and Telegraph company owns, according to latest available list, $405,358,400 par value of the $441,733,402 total stocks of thirty-seven companies. Among the larger telephone companies in the country which the parent concern controls is the N. Y. Telephone company. The capitalization of this company is $50,000,000 and of this stock the American owns $32,215,700. Of the Chicago Telephone company's $27,000,000 of stock the American owns $14,049,600. , v Of the New England Telephone and Telegraph company's $35,624,000 stock the parent company holds $20,807,900. The American owns practically all of the Southern Bell Telephone company's $21,400,000 of stock. The American owns $12,047,700 of the Western Electric company's $15,000,000 of stock; and it owns $32,884,300 of the $41,550,000 stock of the Bell Telephone company of Pennsylvania. Likewise it owns over ten millions of the $19,680,000 stock of the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company. It also owns a majority of the $18,000,000 of the preferred stock of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company,, and also of the common of thsi western corporation. TWO WERE INJURED IN AN AUTO SMASH (National News Association) " NEW CONCORD, Ohio, Aug. 23. Mrs. William Barnett, of Zanesville, was probably fatally injured and her sister-in-law, Mrs. D. w. .Barnett severely hurt as the result of an auto accident near here. The car which contained - Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Barnett and' their baby, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Barnett and chauffeur, all of Zanesville, in trying to pass another on a narrow road, skidded over an embankment, turned turtle and plunged into a v creek. All

Judge T. Archbold Says that

$125,000 Was Donated to 1904 Roosevelt. Campaign, but Has No Receipt. OIL MAGNATE TOLD AN AMAZING STORY Big, Business Shows Its Hand in the Plot Concocted with Reactionaries to Discredit Theodore Roosevelt. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. That the Standard Oil company contributed $120,000 to the national campaign of 1904 on the assurance of C. N. Bliss, Republican national committee treasurer that year, "that Roosevelt would take a conservative view of the tariff and not attempt to injure the business interests," was the assertion of John T. Archbold today before the senate committee, headed by Senator Clapp, which is investigating expenditures In the last two presidential campaigns. Statements fell from Archbold's lips that held his auditors spellbound. Never before have assertions of direct connection between Big Business and a national party been publicly made by so commanding a figure in the inancial world as Mr. Archbold. No Evidence Exists. The witness said that Mr. Bliss had solicited the donation. One hundred thousand dollars was given to the national fund and $25,000 -was sent to Senator Penrose for use in Pennsylvania. The bigger donation was paid in currency at 26 Broadway, New York. No documentary evidence exists of the payment, Archbold being unable to find the receipt he claims he received from Mr. Bliss for the $100,000. Senator Penrose was present at the hearing, although he is not a member of the committee. He seemed to regard Archbold's amazing statement as personal vindication of his own asser-ttona-.that Colonel Jgooserelt.knew .of the" Standard's Interest in his 1904 campaign. Nothing was brought out, however, in the cross questioning of Mr. Archbold to indicate that Roosevelt had any knowledge of Archbold's transaction with Bliss regarding campaign contributions. In answering questions Archbold said there was nobody pres ent beside himself and Mr. BUsb when the $100,000 was paid over, nor at any of the conferences he had previously had with Bliss, except possibly on one occasion, when he thought that H. H. Rogers (now dead), also an officer of the Standard OH company, was pres ent. Archbold declared that Mr. Bliss had sent him a receipt for the $100,000. and he hoped at- some future time to be able to produce it. After several conferences with Mr. Bliss Mr. Archbold said he consulted other officers of the Standard Oil company and the contributions aggregating $125,000 were agreed upon. $25,000 For Penrose. "We decided that $100,000 would be given to Bliss," said Mr. Archbold. "After that I had a consultation with Senator Penrose, during which he assured me that the party needed money badly, and we then decided that $25.000 should be given Senator Penrose." "Was this the money of the Standard Oil company or the money of its directors?" he was asked. "It was the money of the company," Archbold replied. "Did you have any other conversations with Bliss?" he was then asked. "He called at my office a week later to receive the contribution. I said to him then T want to say to you that I want it known to Colonel Roosevelt that we are contributing this money and I don't want to make the contribution unless it will be gratefully received,' said Archbold. "What did Mr. Bliss say to that?" "He told me that I need have no apprehension on that score," answered the witness. "Did you refer to Roosevelt by name?" "I did. and Mr. Bliss then said to me 'I will undertake to represent you personally with Mr. Roosevelt." W Kept a Secret. The money was paid in currency rather than by check. Mr. Archbold said, because it was more convenient and the money had been drawn. This avoided drawing up a check, he said, and averted the necessity of its passing through the clearing house. "You were not anxious that others than the powers-that-be should know of this contribution, were you?" he was asked. "No," he replied, "I don't believe that either side was anxious to have it known at that time." Archbold said that later Mr. Bliss visited his office and asked for another contribution of $150,000. He outlined the details of the campaign and said It was necessary to have more money. "Did you inquire if Mr. Roosevelt had knowledge of your former donation?" "Mr. Bliss gave me the assurance not only that past donations had been

Says It Is Unfortunate that So Many Local Natives of Fatherland Fight Good Movements.

MAKES HIS REPORT TO STATE ALLIANCE Advocates Germans Teaching Their Children the Native Tongue and Teaching German Songs. in his annual report to the German State alliance, which convenes at Lafayette, September 2-3, William H. Duning, Jr., delegate from the Richmond Maennercher and Militaer Verein, advocates that- Germans teach their children the German language. He is a member of the school committee of the alliance, which last year investigated the extent to which German is taught in the public schools of Indiana. The report of this committee will favor the teaching of more German in the public schools. His report in part, follows: "The Richmond Maennerchor and the Militaer Verein count 150 members. It is our purpose to work for an increased membership and to oppose4 the formation of further German societies in Richmond. We believe that two strong societies will be able to accomplish more than a number of small ones. It is deplorable that many Germans are obsessed of jealousy and instead of fighting for the cause, oppose all good movements. They lack national pride and a desire for lofty ideals. To Attain An Ideal. "As a national society we have engaged in a "Kulturkampf.' ' To attain our ideal we must never cease teaching our children German. We are glad to note that the subject has been agitated in our socities and hope that the topic will be discussed thoroughly M-tfeLBtate meeting. German can also be taught by concerts. "Besides advocating the teaching of German, I again call attention to the necessity and value of teaching German songs. The work of the Maennerchor makes for this ideal. German instruction, song and poetry and German courage facilitate our work. "Relative to personal liberty, I wish to state that I am opposed to the manner in which intoxicants are sold in America. If the laws of the state do not soon insist that saloons be operated without curtains to hide bars, the time will come when those of us who favor personal liberty will oppose the Baloon system. "Many German societies would join the alliance if they were acquainted with bur principles. For this reason we should publish frequently the principles for which the alliance stands and the ideals for which it is striving. . "I wish to add that all our societies should assist In the movement to celebrate the Wagner memorial." William H. Duning, Jr. TRAGEDY FOLLOWS A OA HOLDUP Lone Bandit Who Robbed a Train Shoots Himself and Is Dying. (National News Association) TOPEKA, Kas., Aog. 23. An unidentified man who robbed the mail car on a Union Pacific train after it had left Kansas City last night, then went to the sleeping car and demanded a berth, is dying from a wound made by his own revolver. ' The man is in a hospital here with a bullet over his heart. Physicians say he cannot live. Since he has been in the hospital he has been unconscious. The robbery occurred shortly after the train, the St. Louis. Colorado limited, had left Kansas City. The bandit Is believed to have climbed on the blind baggage at Kansas City and to have entered the mail car and conceal ed himself before the train left the Kansas City yards. A short distance out he appeared and with drawn revolver forced the clerks to stand back while he r'fied the mail. Then, after forcing them to bind each other, the man left the mall car and went back to the Pullmans.' and went to bed. Word of the robbery was wired ahead and city patrolmen and Union Pacific detectives met the train here. Conductor Smith, and Patrolman Sanders went to the bandit's berth and pushed back the curtains. The man had a revolver in his hand. Smith grasped his hand, the revolver was discharged and the robber was shot just above the heart. A letter addressed to Mrs. Will S. Lonsberry. Med ford. Oregon, was found

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- . CHARLES W. GATES. NEW YORK. Aug. 23. When Charles G. Gates returns from an inspection trip over his properties In Wyoming he will arrange to have "Blondy. the pet, prize-winning Bos ton Bull Terrier, and constant com panion of his father, the late John W. Gates, removed in a private car to Port Arthur, Texas, and there have the body of the dead canine placed in a marble mausoleum. At present the deceased "Blondy" is reposing in a vault on the estate of a friend at Scaredale, X. Y. For three days the blooded canine which had accompanied the elder Gates on many of his trips to all parts of the world, lay in a silk lined plush casket, of about the stse used for dead infants, in the Gates garage on West Seventy-fourth street. His head lay couched upon his paws, and about his body and neck was entwined the Ruesian Morocco harness and the gold collar and gold bells which Mr. Gates had made for him in Paris. The coffin rested on a mahogany table banked on all sides by expensive flowers. On the third day the dog was taken to his praeent resting place at the head of an automobile funeral procession. LEEDS "MAKES CALL" FOR AJONVEIITIOII District Convention of Progressives Will Have a Hundred Delegates. The call for the Sixth district Progressive convention to be held in Richmond, August 31, at 10 o'clock, was issued today by District Chairman R. G. Leeds. The convention will nominate a congressional candidate to oppose Finly Gray, Democrat, and Will Risk, Republican. Delegates to the convention have been apportioned in the same ratio as was done for the state Republican convention. The exact place of holding the meeting has not been determined, but it will be either the Coliseum or the Murray theater. A prominent Progressive speaker o f Indianapolis, will address the delegates. It is planned to raise the funds for the campa ign by charging spectators an admission fee. The sale of reserved seats, it is proposed, would be limited to a certain time, probably a short time before the opening of the convention, then the seats not disposed of would be given over to the public without charge. By this method all Progressives would be given an opportunity to contribute to the cause for which they are fighting and the people who did not desire to contribute would not be barred. County Chairman, A. E. Smith, will issue a call Saturday for ward and township meetings for the purpose of electing delegates to the district convention, the county convention and the joint representative convention. . The district convention will be composed of 100 delegates apportioned among the several counties of the dis trict on the basis of one delegate for each 500 votes cast by Republican, Democrat, Socialist and Prohibition parties, for their first elector-at-large at the presidential election held in November, 1908 and one delegate for additional fraction of 250 . votes or more cast as aforesaid. Said counties shall be entitled to select an alternate for -each delegate so apportioned as follow!, viz.: ' Counties Total Vote Del. Payette 4,289 Franklin 4.3S7 9 Hancock 5,680 11 Henry 7,948 15 Rush . ...... .1 5,850 12 Shelby 7.911 1 Union ....165 4 Wayne 11.721 23 . Total number of delegate. 100.

First Program Offered This Afternoon Before Large Crowd, Gives Promise of Many Treats.

NEWSBOYS' FRIEND "GUNCK" A SPEAKER Story He Told Was a Most Entertaining One. Musical Events on Program Were Big Feature. BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. The tenth session of the Ricnmond Chautauqua opened today under favorable auspices as to weather conditions and with one of the largest attendances for an opening day in Its history. There are more campers than at any previous session. The first order for tents, state the managers, was duplicated twice and there are but one or two sites remaining. Everything, in short, points to a brilliant, successful and enjoyable Chautauqua. Tile formal program opened this afternoon with a concert at half past one by the Cambridge Players, a quartet of musicians who made an agreeable impression In their first appearance. John Gunckle. The feature of the afternoon was Che appearance of John Gunckle. or "Gunck," as he is known among news-, boys the country over, in an address concerning the great work of The Newsboys' Association which he founded and which has branches In various quarters of the world. Mr. Gunckle is neither, an orator nor a polished speaker. But he is more. He has a story to tell and tells it in simple language from the heart. He at once Impresses with his sin- , cerity and his catholic sympathies. Mr. Gunckle gave a history of the origin and development of his work among the newsboys, stating that for twenty-nine years he was. a ticket agent In the railway offices In Toledo, becoming gradually involved In the' propaganda among boys of this class until It assumed such proportions that it took all of his time. Mr. Gunckle believes In the "badboy. In fact doesn't believe that there is sueh an entity as a "bad boy," but that his supposed badness Is goodness distorted by wrong direction through unfortunate environment. No boy can become a member of the Newsboys' association unless he had a bad habit While this may seem an anomalous condition to make for an entrance qualification it is the basis upon which this organization has founded and enlarged Its field of usefulness and which has made its achievements in the making of men of such value to both home and state. After Bad Boy. "The Sunday school goes after the good boy. The Newsboys' association after the bad one," said Mr. Gunckle, going on to illustrate in what manner these alleged "bad" boys had been metamorphosed and had had all their manly and gentlemanly qualities developed into accentuation. The Newsboys association started at the World's Fair in St. Louis, in 1904. and now has a membership of 26,000, having five hundred members in China. Mr. Gunckle. however, began the movement in 1892, in Toledo, with an organization of 102 members which -now numbers eight thousand. That the value of Mr. Gunckle's work is recognized by Toledo citizens is shown in the fact that six hundred people of that city erected a building for the occupancy of the Newsboys Association at a cost of $110,000. This is the only exclusive newsboys building in the world and has one of the finest auditoriums In the country. It contains a library, reading and reception rooms, a large, modern equipped gymnasium, a swimming-pool, game and billiard rooms, association ball and a play-ground adjoining. Boys between eight and seventeen are admitted to membership, and "once a member always a member. No resignations are accepted; bo Initiation fees, no dues, no assessments. Self government is its motif of administration and it has sixty-six officers. In addition to the $110,000 building erected by the Toledo citizens, they endowed it with enough money to run it for five years which shows the confidence with which Mr. Gunckel Is regarded and the esteem in which he Is held. The Newsboys association is one of the most remarkable and successful agencies for the making of valuable citizens which the country has and reaches a class not touched through any other medium of social propaganda. Altogether Mr. Gunckel's appear-' ance was one of the most tnterestins the Chautauqua will have, the speaker holding his large audience with his

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