Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 42, 30 December 1912 — Page 4
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Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office 8s second class mail matter. New York Representatives Payne & Young, 30-34 West 33d Street, and 29-35 West 32nd Street, New York, N. Y. Chicago Representatives Pavne & Young, 747-748 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. Tha Association rfAjneir Prillliean Advertiser has exp !WM : I and certified f the circulation ef thU peblicalien. The figures of circulation contained in the Aociaion' report only ere guaranteed. Association of American Advertisers No. 16- .Whitehall Bldg. N. Y. City Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. RICH AND UNHAPPY. To the woman of the house: Are you tired of your daily drudgery? Does the monotony of your work, which is never done, wear you to the edge of revolt? Does the utter uselessness of doing things over and over again loom large? Are you wishing for riches and raiment and leisure and luxury and travel? Then consider this woman. Sophie Irene Loeb tells about her. She has abundant wealth and leisure, and yet she is discontented and dissatisfied. This woman has everything1 life can give save one thing happiness. She is never at peace. Her breakfast Is brought to her bed. A maid dresses her. Servants cater to her slightest wish. She travels much and has the most expensive staterooms in the steamert and on the train. She lives at the best hotels. But She has nothing to do. In consequence she is always discontented and wishing for something, she knows not what. She gets lonesome and feverish and fretful and is constantly asking, "What's the use of it all?" This woman says: "I envy the woman who works. Every hour of the day has a value, a reason. She fills a need. I wander about for a new interest, a new thrill." Why doesn't she go to work? "That's just it," she says. "Where would be the Incentive, the need? Besides, 1 don't know how to begin. I would have to make myself need to work, and I can't make believe." Do you see? This woman has more wealth and more leisure than she knows what to do with. She does not know the joy of the worker, the compensation that comes with a task well done. Which is the happier? You with your commonplace task or she with her leisure? ' You answer, of course, there is such a tiling as a happy medium between extreme wealth and poverty. And so there is. And you, probably, are neither poverty stricken nor rich. Can you not subtract from the sting of your discontent which, after all. is but occasional by this glimpse tuto the life of one extreme? HE GOT THE PICTURE. The Sporting Editor Put One Over on the City Editor. There is no more enthusiastic follower of the fistic gentry than Charlie Horan. Years ago he was sporting editor of a New York paper, which later went by the boards. During his connection with It the paper was run "upon the cheaps." Fenny paring was the chief occupation of the managing editor. As illustrations cost money, nothing short of a national disaster could force a picture in the paper. Horan was a firm believer in the star of Jim Corbet t, then matched to fight John L. Sullivan. One day Corbett visited New York, and Horan sent his staff out to get a photograph of the great man. None was available. Horan got angry, slammed on his hat and announced that he would get one himself. He found a full length picture in the lobby of the theater Where Corbett was showing, put it under his arm and started back for the office. In the meantime word had come to the city desk that William Windom. then secretary of the treasury, had died while addressing a dinner of the chamber of commerce iu Chicago. The city editor sent his men out to get a picture of Mr. Windom. By and by Mr. IToran appeared, bearing an enormous framed picture under one arm. "I got it." lie announced cheerfully. "When I go nfier a picture I set it" The city editor leaped for him. seized the picture and then threw it down noisily. "That," said he tersely, "is not a picture of the secretary of the treasury." "What do you cure alnmt the secre tary of the treasury?" replied Horan defiantly. "That's a picture of the next champion of the Morldr' Chicago News.
Lessons the Verdict Teaches. The jury in the dynamite conspiracy case did not return a verdict against union labor Saturday, for, as Judge Anderson said from the bench, organized labor was not on trial; the right to organize and to strike was not in question, the only issue being whether the defendants had violated the law of the land. The men convicted were undoubtedly principals in the greatest criminal conspiracy in the history of the United States, but they were not judged off hand. Their trial lasted for three months and an exhaustive investigation was made of the charges prefered against them, with the result that thirty-eight of the forty men who sat at the bar of justice were held to be guilty by a fair-minded, conscientious and impartial jury. The verdict is as much a victory for law-abiding and intelligent unionism as it is for government and industry. The principal lesson to be drawn from the outcome of the case is the senseless and criminal folly of employing violence in righting real and fancied wrongs. One of the most hopeless tasks ever undertaken was the "cleaning up' of San Francisco, for the corrupt gangsters who ruled that city owned most of the courts, still the men who led the reform crusade obtained their object not by employing dynamite and nitroglycerine but through the laws of the land. Labor unions serve an excellent purpose and, as a whole, are of the greatest benefit to their members, but if union men will take advantage of the lesson taught by the dynamite conspiracy trial verdict and purge their organizations of any vicious and criminal leaders their unions will be in a position to do ten times more good.
l Question Why Work? Many young men who have gone to New York to seek their fortunes in that great world market have apparently made a mistake of engaging in legitimate business enterprises instead of becoming Wall Street brokers or members of the Gotham police department. What opportunities this class of young men have missed is now just being revealed to them and the country at large by the Pujo "Money Trust" investigation, and the "Vice Trust" investigation of the New York AJdermanic Committee. The gentle art of "fleecing lambs" and gambling with money secured from provincial banks is mad? public in all of its interesting details by the former band of inquisitors, while the art of getting rich off of institutions you are paid to protect or suppress, as the case may be, is to be ascertained from even casual perusals of the accounts of the findings of the latter committee. The Aldermanic Committee has discovered that from the women of the underworld alone the New York police obtain $5,000,000 graft money every year. The following startling facts have been unearthed by the experts employed by the Aldermanic Committee: The 35,000 women in New York, of whom Mrs. Mary Goode has told pay many forms of tribute to the police. Most of the managers of disorderly houses are compelled to get permission from a representative of the police before being permitted to open the resorts. They are required to lease houses or flats through certain real estate agents named by the police representatives. They are compelled to buy at exorbitant prices the beer and wine from men who are collectors for the police, and who divide their profits with them. The managers are told to go to certain furniture dealers to get house or flat equipment, and are compelled to pay more than the regular market price. The persons who run the houses also are required to buy their food supplies from certain stores. This rule ; pp. its cliiefiy in tho tenderloin. Through the understanding between the managers of the houses and the police the inmates pay tribute by being charged triple and quadruple prices for all their clothing, which they buy from the official peddlers of the system. The women are required to buy jewelry through other peddlers, who chide with the poMce. In the same manner the purchase of cosmetics and drugs is made through certain drugstores that charge hi-jh prices and pay a dividend to police representatives. In the light of facta being brought forth daily at this time as to the extent of criminal dishonesty in "big business" and the alarming amount of official corruption the public is all the more convinced of tlu necessity of a political organization, such ns the 1'rogiesjive party, which advocates a legislative program aimed at the suppression of ail evils which have crept into our method of government and industrial system.
This Date in Hisiorv DECEMBER 30TH. 1769 Dartmouth College chartered. Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in NewYork. Born in Wales in 1713. 1819 General John Geary, governor of Pennsylvania 1866-72, born. . Died February 8, 1873. 1853 Louis Kossuth, the famous Hungarian patriot, spoke before the United States Congress. 1S53 The Gadsden purchase brought to the United States all of Arizona south of the Gila. 1861 Banks in New York, Boston and other cities suspended specie payments. 1862 The famous iron-clad Monitor foundered in a gale off Cape Hat teras. 1S90 Henry B. Brown of Michigan commissioned associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1903 Six hundred lives lost in fire and panic in the Iriquois theatre, at Chicago. The French Imperial Guard. The Imperial Guard of France waa created by Napoleon I. when he became emperor iti 180-L It was formed by a merger of the "guards," the "convention," the "directory" and the "consulate." It consisted at first of 9.775 men, but was afterward considerably enlarged. In the year 1S09 it was by the emperor's order divided into the old and young guards. In January. 1814. it numbered 102,706. It was dissolved by the Bourbon Louis XVIII. in 1S13, revived by Napoleon III. surrendered with Metz to the Germans and was abolished by the government soon after. Robert Browning. Of Robert Browning toward the close of his life Frederic Harrison in his memoirs has this to say: "He was all things to all men and all women, always at his best, always bringing light, happiness, generosity and sense into every society he entered. I think j him the happiest social spirit whom it 1 has ever been my fortune to meet." Hi Retirement. Friend I haven't seen you for some time. Poet Xo. Fact is I have become a good deal of a recluse lately. Friend I feared so. How much do you owe? He that speaks of thingrs that do not oucern him shall hear of things that Mil not please him. Arabian Proverb.
l his is Ny 43rd Uinhday
STEPHEN B. LEACOCK. Professor Stephen B. Leacock, one ' of the most widely known of Cana- , dian educators, was born in England, j December 30, 1869. He came to America in his boyhood and received ' his education at Upper Canada College and Toronto University. Later he took a post-graduate course at the University of Chicago. As a political scientist Professor Leacock is widely known. In 1891 he joined the faculty of Upper Canada College and later he became the head. of the department of economics and political science at McGill University. In 1907 Professor Leacock was selected by the Rhodes Trust, to make a tour of the British empire, delivering lectures on imperial problems. UMBRELLA HANDLES. In France They Shape Them as They Grow In Nurseries. Most-of the handles of canes, alpenstocks, parasols and umbrellas used in France are grown in nurseries. Ash, maple, oak, chestnut and other woods are used. In the early part of the first year after planting the young trees are cut near the ground to bring about the formation of numerous sprouts. The lower branches are removed, and only a plume of leaves is left. Early in the spring the sprouts are subjected to a surgical operation. Their bark is cut, and the wood is carved in different designs, which are swollen by the sap and grow in high relief as the tree develops. Special instrutnents are used for the cutting and j designing. Thus carved, the, sprouts grow for three years. At the end of the third year the forest of umbrella handles is cut, and the cuts are dried in the sun and then giv en a vapor bath, after which they are put into the hands of skilled workmen. who peel them with one quick move- ; ment. When skinned the peelers cut them to the required lenelhs and send them tn th nmhrelln maker, who varnishes l 111 li.l . . . I " ' V ...... (.'V 1 ' - - - or other open form a rinjr or oval or ; bound closely, ana leit to grow into ; e place. Harper's. Hardly a ComDliment 7 j Maid A gentleman to see you. mad-! am. Mistress is it. by chanc. my I cousin the professor? Maid No: hej doesn't look as clever as that. He i looks more as though be might propose i to you. Fliegende Blatter. I
CHARLES MYERS DEAD Cambridge City Man Sue-;
cumbed to Pneumonia. Palladium Spatial) CAMBRIDGE CITY, Dec. 30 Charles Myers, onp of the leading citizens of Cambridge City, died at his I i home on West Front street, at one ' o'clock Sunday afternoon of pneumo-' nia. The funeral will be held at the ' residence Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. J. E. Coffin having charge of the service. Burial in Riverside ; cemetery. ; Mr. Myers was born on a farm two (miles north of Cambridge City, June !J9, lsijO. He was the son of Klias and i Elizabeth Myers, liis early life was (spent on the farm, his later years be-i j ing engaged in stock buying and seljlinK. He was married January 0, lbM, to Alice Bowman of this city, i One child. Hazel, died in 1S9S. The widow, two brothers, Henry Myers of Dublin and Jacob Myers of this city, survive him. Mr. Myers was prominently identified with the K. of 1'. and I. O. O. F. orders. j Makes the stomach and bowels healthy and reculates the little one's, brings them healthful and natural sleep. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is the best family remedy. "5c. A. G. 1. uken fc Co. Advertisement.
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.".h.mlay, D-c. .10. Richmond ",rimandory. No. K. T. Special Meet'ng. vvcrk in Order of the Temple commencing at 1 p. m. Supper at C o'clock. Wednesday, Jan. 1 Webb Ixirice No. 21. K. & A. M. Called meeting, work in Ff-llowcraft degree. Thursday Jan. 2. Wayne Council, No. 10, 11. S. M., Stated Assembly ciiiii installation of officers. Saturday, Jan. 4. Loyal Chapter, No. V.4. O. K. S. Stated meeting and installation of officers. JEWELS MADE OF ROSES. How the Dainty Petals Are Turned Into Fragr ant Trinkets. . There could scarcely U n lovelier ift tlmii : stnuir of tlnv beads, an amulet or a trinket to slip among your kerchiefs and luces to keep them .... J 1 . A O-lv.WI-l sweet, made of roses and of the love and taste and patience that must go into the fashioning of such a gift. The making of rose trinkets is an ancient custom revived, and rosaries nnde hundreds of years ago are fragrant today. Gather the rose petals when the dew is on them and screen them clear of every foreign substance. Put the clean, dewy petals through a food chopper the finer they are ground the better and all the house will smell 01 roses. Spread the pulp on a china platter and set it in the sun for three days, stirring in a few drops of spring water now and again to keep it moist. When the pulp "works" in the sun and reaches tue consistency of a light foamy dough that can be pressed smooth without crumbling it is ready to mold.
'JUonar that has been spent, wisely or
die of the beads or amulets into a board and set the board in the sun for ten days, and they will grow hard and f'riicrr.iiit Throfid thf bends on a
strand of silk, the amulets on fine rib-!city and PP,e have heretofore paid boo. and the older they grow the : for- entering into the cost of reproduco r h. wtii mn rihristinn i tion, and the success achieved is val-
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Compared with mammals, parental 1 is based the rates to be charged the love is stronger in birds, in protecting , consumer for water, adequate to euptheir nests and young, birds often Dl' ProSts to the Richmond City Wa-
sbow courage and strategy, more or less of which is doubtless inherited. Kveu the so called dangerous mam-; mats, the bears, mountain lions, wildcats and other mammals that are best able to protect themselves, seldom make a staud against domestic intrusion. Harely do they attempt to entice an enemy from their home by ! strategic means, but at the first warning of danger they either hide or watch the intruder from a safe distance. Bui there are very few species of birds that do not attempt to defend their homes in some way. and even the most timid evince more intelligence than most mammals. Collier's. , Irate Patient. "You understand me well, doctor If yon amputate my letrs I shall never set f.of inside your door again!" Paris So u ri re. RSI Eif This is your very last on the market. Don't ichmond
FORUi I OF THE PEOPLE
Articles Contributed Jor This Column Must ,ot 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. yPalladium : j Assailing Mr. Dills reputation for . veracity is foreign to my intentions, i When he says, however, there is no watered stock issued by his company, he simply quibbles with terms. ; Mr. Dill would not deliberately itps- ! state a thing, but a mis-statem nt can be made and believed, in a measure, to be true. If I had ttated that "stock dividends" f Ji'iiii.iiiMi had been made, Mr. Dill would never have made the denial -I take the position that there is as much difference between "watered stoek" and "stock dividends" as there is between "counterfeit coin" and "spurious money." lioth are counterfeit. From the accountants record at the City Hall, the issue of JT.enn (as tho jt-jtin.niMi are in two issues t was paid for from the accumulated surplus of the company; if they were paid for in this way, then the records should show where and how the money has been j used to enhance the physical value of the plant to the equivalent of its face j aiue issue. 1 To demonstrate the legitimacy of the transaction. Mr. Dill, it will be necessary for you to show from vonr records that the accumulated surplus did actually exist, and the issue of stock was paid for from the alleged accumulated surplus, into the treasury of the company, and applied- to increasing the physical valuation of the plant the equivalent of the stock issue. In the absence of such information, the public are not to be blamed if th. y conclude that no money was paid in'o the treasury of the company for this stock, and its issue was for the lowering the percentage of profits' paid from the plants earnings, w ithout affecting the volume; also to ereate additional liabilities upon which dividends are to be naid If that isn't
watered stock. Mr. Dill, what is it? ;the profits when they reached a cerIn regard to the valuation of the tain figure; it was important that the plant. Mr. Dill says: "Both reports plant should be burdened with all poswcre approximately $700,000," mean-; sible charges to avoid the jossibIe ing Mr. Maury's and Mr. Alvord's ap- J reaching of that point, iiaisement. i If the amount allowed for deprecia-
1 Hcre nuain Mr. Dili side steps the , issue. I have never questioned the qualifications of Mr. Maury or Mr. Al- ! vord. on th contrary, I have quoted Mr. Alvord as an authority to establish ! tho injustice of the plants.alleged val - 1 1 f ue. i Against the protest of the board of works, the Richmond City W Yater to be lam's Works insisted that the method 1 employed in determining the p J value, must be on the cost of reproduc-
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tion, which means at the present da prices of all material entering into the plant, that has been in use, largely, ; ,27, years or more. 1 wjn again quote Mr. Alvord in ; whom Mr. Dill places such deserved) j confidence, and in so doing, will ask j Mr. Dill why he does not show the same confidence in his judgment on the injustice of the method of which Mr. Alvord speaks as follows: "That determining the valuation on the cost of reproduction logically includes, not only the cost of reproducing the plant, but also the cost of reproducing the revenue." This means the including of every foolishly, to increase the plants power as a revenue producer; it includes hydrants, meters, service pipes and material used in all extensions that the ued at $100,000 which is classified as "Going Value," all of which is sued tu coiiftiiiuie iuf valuation upon wuicu Money to Loan Use our money to pay your little outstanding debts. We will give you plenty of time to pay It back, from one month to one year. We make loans from $10 up on household goods, pianos, etc.. and all business strictly confidential. Mail or phone applications receive prompt attention. THE STATE INVESTMENT & LOAN CO. 40 Colonial Bldg. Phone 2560. Richmond, Indiana IE
TO BUY A
opportunity to purchase a Victrola machine, it being the only one in the city that is fail to call at your first opportunity.
Talking Machine Co. North Ninth St.
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TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGN
To Interest Farmers in Suear Beet industrThe United States Beet Sugar Industry Association has outlined plans for conducting a campaign to promote the raising of sugar beets by Wayne county farmers. Similar movements will be instituted in surrounding counties of the state. In outlining the plans of the assei.ttion. J A. Brock, of Washington. D C. stated that from twelve to fifteen million dollar- is sjttu annually for sugar in the state of Indiana T.sis made in Wa.wio eountv by the I'utdue University m lyT show that the soil and ( lunate here are favorable tor the raising of sugar beets If the soil were utilized for that purpose enough sugar beets could be raised by Indiana farmors to supply one half of the HpuI.ttiofl of the I r.ited States with sugar., says .Mr. uroek ter Works, upon investments made by the people Was there ever such a lop sided proposition? Tho "Going Value" of tho plant is supposed to represent the above" "par value," to any who may purchase the plant trom its prest nt owners: in this case It is converted into a dividend paving assot. without' sale. Mr Dill further states that I am ' mistaken in th amount allower for depreciation Springfield. Ohio, allows, 3 per cent for depreciation while the i amount allowed in Richmond is a frac- J tion over one half of one per cent, The average allowed by the different utilities from whom I have data gives it at 2'2 per cent. In this connection I would ask Mr. Dill if one half of one per cent is sufficient to deduct in determinlng the plant's value, whv did you provide for one and one half peri cent, for the same purpose in your ori-1 ginal proposal? ! The reason is obvious. Its provision! in the original contract would necea-' sitate a lived charge against the earn-! ings of the plant of $10,500 a year; j the citv was extvected to nrHrlnta In' tion is fair, then the above conclusions ! are not unreasonable. But Mr. Dill Knows, as well as I know, that the ; value of the plant is grossly exaggersateci ny the inadequacy of deductions , for depreciation. Against the accepti ' j 1 ; jy i I j December 30th 1C0 Stamps with one can 25 Stamps with one bottle 10 Stamps with one pkg. of Raisins 0c 10 Stamps with one pkg. Pancake Flour 10c 10 Stamps with one can of Cocoa 25c
18 lbs. Granulated Sugar ., Sl.00 25 lb. Bag Granulated Sugar SI.40 Have you tried our Cruthed Oat, 10 Stamps with 4 lb. Pkg., Large Amber Orange Bowl with one can Baking Powder, CQC (We have only a few of these left.)
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t-nce is seeena to tne necessity oi ( square deal Yours truly. A BAVIS. FLOATING A TOWN AWAY. Story ef the Origin of Commercial Street' In Provincetown. Commercial street in Provlncetown had an origin iu Looping with its present nautical air and appeal to the tina nation. The town originally stood on the spit of saiiv far out across the harbor, wtere the lighthouse now is Many years ajio the government bought Provinoetown. bouse and all in order to protect the harbor from th threatening sea. The I'rovincetownian went to the government people and asked what they were going to do mith the houses. "Pull 'em down, of course.' eald tho government. "Can't we have 'era T' inquired th late owners. "Mire, replied the government, "If you'll take 'em away." Surer" echoed the lTovincetownlans. Old wreckers that they were, they applied their technic to the problems of house moving. They bulkbcaded their dwelling' up. necklaced empty casks aNwt them In the way of life preservers, and one sunny morning the village of Provlncetown. true to Its maritime traditions, set sail, nchoolhouse sad all. and came floating gayly across th harbor to where it now stand v Near the railway track today they point out a certain store as the original seafaring school house. Metropolitan Magaxin, Tho Cards. Taw. can anybody tell fortunes hy cards?" "No. my son. Many a man wbo has thought he could has found by sutwequent experience that he didn't bold the right cards." Chicago Tribune. ELKS C Moat Evary ThursdayNight PIANO TUNING D. E. ROBERTS 15 Years Practical Experience. Formerly with the Steinway j House at Indianapolis. PHONE 3684 to January 4th Making Powder Extract ...50c ,.. 25c 10 Stamps with one bottle Pickles 0c 10 Stamps with one can SOUP JQC 10 Stamps with one can Cleaner jqc ASK FOR THEM Gold Crowns .$3.00 Bridge Work .....$3-00 - m m m m m m m m m m m m m m a . w.wu r""" ................ iiam up Inlay Work . Specialty. Examination Fre. All Work Guaranteed. We not only claim, but have indlcputa i.vfc intiiivy iiww w.vw ivi uiv uwniiii extraction of teeth. New York Dental Parlors 04V4 Main St. RICHMOND, INO.