Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 249, 27 August 1913 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLAPIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 1913.
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FAVOR CHAUTAUQUA HELD AT THE GLEN NOT THE NEW PARK
Board of Works to Be Asked Privilege of the Glen For Next Year. IiXJaHJxv 1E AiN 55VV EiKEilJ ! ' . J ; llirASfnr2 Sav Mnrfnn Taflr i Will Not Be Ready for the 1914 Event.
jare full of children and young women i who toil twelve and fourteen hours a Chautauqua directors will appear, day and receive a small wage. The before the board of public works time has come when the women who Thursday evening and request permis-' toil sha11 have the ri&ht to regulate . .,,., c m tne hours and wages. Equal suffrage sion be extended for the use of Glen : . . A .i. v. lU , has been opposed on the charge that Miller park for Chautauqua purposes ; the WOmtu are unfit to vote. Has the next year. 'other half of the population always The directors think that it would been capable? The morals of a na
be unwise to announce at this time that the 1914 Chautauqua will be held at Morton park, as many of the pat-1 rons think that the new park will not be in shape for such purposes next year, which would materially affect the sale of tickets. While the promise has been mads that the street cars will be run to the new resort before the time set for next year's Chautauqua there is no positive ; assurance that the extensions will be completed by that time or even that the park itself will be completely equipped. Jordan Takes Exceptions. Exception Is taken by C. W. Jordan, secretary of the Richmond Commercial club, to the statement of Mayor Zimmerman that the directors of the Chautauqua promised last year upon receiving permission to use Glen Miller for Chautauqua purposes that the same privilege would not be asked again and that the people do no want it held there. He also objects to the inference made by the mayor that after the expense of policing the park and putting it back into shape after the annual entertainment has been there, there is little or nothing left for the city to use in meeting park expenses. Mr. Jordan states that in the ten years that the Chautauqua has been in existence over $3,500 has been turned over to the city for park improvement purposes. This money was to J have been applied to the construction , of a pavilion in the park to be used ; for housing the Chautauqua crowds ana omer large meetings, r art or tnis money, nowever, nas Deen used ror the construction of an entrance to the park. No individual makes any money out of the Chautauqua as all cash that is , - left over after the payment of expen- . Bes, is divided equally between the . M. C. A. and the board of public works, to be used for park improvement. None of the men who give their time and energy to making it a success receive one penny for their labor, but are even required to purchase tickets the same as the rest of the peo-! pie in the city City Has No Expense. All the expense of policing the ground is borne by the management, with the exception of the salary of one patrolman who acts as chief of the
force. The cost of cleaning the park $90000 for the protection of its game when the annual event is over is alsp ; and fish and nnly $17000 for the mainborne by the promoters of the Chau- , tenance of her board of health. If the tauqua. ; women bad made such an expenditure The mayor objects to permitting : as tnis thev would neVer have heard the Chautauqua to be held in the park the last of it Tn Philadelphia there because he thinks it is not right to are ,0 000 more sohool children than conduct an entertainment, for which geatg in the school houses can aecomadmission is elided, in a public park. imo(latet nnd Vet at the same time that The directors, however, point out that fitv spent $20,000 to entertain the a merry-go-round is being operated j js there under precisely similar circum- "
stances. A GOOD ENTERTAINER 1 i Enos Bacon Pleases Chau-i tauqua Crowd. Enos Bacon, the English vocalist
fend entertainer, gave a delightful se- from "Nicholas Nicholby," which tells ries of songs and readings before the i of the departure of the school teacher, afte noon audience at the Chautauqua ! His initation of the dialet of the nayest'rday. Mr. Bacon has an unusual j fives of that community was excepcont'ol of his voice and he is able to ; tionally good. He also gave a very
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VOTES FOR WOMEN, SPEAKER'S DEMAND Mrs .Redding Cole Says That Equal Suffrage Would Benefit Nation.
SHE ATTACKS TEDDY lifp " cm attk t r oh h n c rvio s her address last evening at the Chautauqua, on "Women Who Toil." fcacn or us nas our part. A nation which neglects its children goes to ruin. Men and women alike must study political economics so that they tion seldom rise higher than those of its rulers. Lawmakers Incompetent. "Our lawmakers and men in office are many of them incompetent, it is one of our common faults. They are also intemperate. The morals of Washington are fifty per cent better when congress is not in session. Our public men are subject to bribery, but the time must come when we can send men to congress who cannot be purchased. Our public money is unwisely disposed of. Every woman in Richmond who owns a lot should have a i voice in this. These are some of the I general reasons why the women should vote. Such conditions are existing in a country where only half of the population is represented, and every serious thinking woman is opposed to them." I She Attacks Roosevelt. Mrs. Cole took a stand directly ifrninst Pnlnnpl Roosevelt nnrl scorned his racfl Ellicide theory. "Multiplica tion is not necessary in civilized tribes and the slogan of the country should be not more children, but better ones. T'ntil the lid is removed from the ballot box the fewer babies in the cradle the better. "Our friend, Judge Lindsey, has faith in the American boy. I have faith in the American elrl. She is the most splendid creature in the world , j am here tQ agk for her rights ,t has been gai(1 that women BhouM not vote Wause she cannot bPar armg Jf thp nninber of men who were unflt to bpar arms were disfranchise(1 the pols would be as onesome as a bathing beach in December. Many Men Unfit for War. Out of 1.000 editors 745 are unfit to bear arms, and out of the same number of ministers 954 are unflt. Whencci (i c i v i i v i 10 uut u u, V7 1 1 tail i iono , ... , , . , , . . 'her life, and for years she does picket , . . . . Tf . . duty around his cradle. those who oppose us that woman's suffrage would increase the ignorant vote. Now statistics show that there are eight times as many educated wo men as men. ine heautnui sentiment - t. BBV,' ' ,th hnnA thnt ropks thp rade rules ;he worl(V would be tnje if women could vote, but any politician will tell you that it is the hand the cradle rocks which does the ruling now." "It is said that women are incomnptptit Tn Wisconsin the state snent J correctly imitate a soprano without resorting to falsetto. Aside from this he has a very good baritone when he . cares to use it and sometimes he uses both voices in the same song, which gives a bewildering and most unusual effect. He sang several songs in this manner. His accompaniments were played by Miss Ruth Shera. Aside from his vocal ability. Mr. Bacon is a reader of more than usual ability. He recited a short chapter
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CHURCHES OF CITY TOO CONSERVATIVE Rev. Howard Says This Condition a Reflection of the Local Spirit.
DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY Rev. Lyons, However, Says Churches Here are Same as Any Other Place. "I have no doubt that the young man was right," said the Rev. E. G. Howard, pastor of the First English Lutheran church, this morning, in commenting on the Palladium's interview Tuesday with a young stranger in the city, who received scant welcome in Richmond churches. "The conservative spirit upon which the city seems to pride itself is no doubt reflected in its churches. This spirit is deeply imbedded in the social life of Richmond. I personally knowsome very nice people who left the city after a stay of short duration because they could not endure the spirit of utter indifference manifested here." The Rev. S. R. Lyons, pastor of the Reid Memorial church, thinks that the churches here are no worse in their treatment of strangers than elsewhere. Churches Not Perfect. "The churches are imperfect," he said. "It is not strange that they should be, for they are meant not for the perfect man but for the growing man. It is possible that the young man mentioned in Tuesday's paper unluckily chanced to visit churches at inopportune times when everybody was particularly unthoughtful." "If the young man who decries the spirit of the churches of Richmond is sincere in his church life, he should h'ave made known his identity to the pastor of his own church immediately upon his arrival in the city," said the Rev. C. Huber. of the St. Paul's Lutheran. "I have been located in Richmond for almost twenty years and I am well acquainted with all the ministers of the city, and I am sure that the ministers and churches are at all times glad to meet and greet strangers." GREENVILLE FAIR SPECIAL TRAIN. Leaves Richmond at 8 a. m., August 27 and 2S. over Pennsylvania lines. Returning leaves Grenville at 7 p. m. (20-22-25-26-27) interesting and amusing poem telling the tale of the three blind mice, and then repeating it presumably as written by some of the great poets. Burns, Browning, Tennyson and others. The style of some famous poem of each of these was faithfully copied, even to the extent of the rythm and the choice of adjectives. This was especially amusing to those in the audience who were acquainted with the various poets and their works. Mr. Bacon also gave two readings entitled "Dollars, and Dimes" and "The Soul of an Old Piano." DECIDE YOURSELF ;The Opportunity is Here, Backed by : Richmond Testimony. i ' Don't take our word for it. j Don't depend on a stranger's state- ; ment. Read Richmond endorsement. Read the' statements of Richmond citizens. And decide for yourself. Here is one case of it: C. M. Wilson, blacksmith, 220 South Ninth street, Richmond, Ind., says: "For years I have known of Doan's Kidney Pills, and it is a pleasure to let others know about them. My kidneys were irregular in action, and the kidney secretions contained sediment. I had pains through the small of my back, and it was hard for me to straighten after stooping. Doan's Kidney Pills made my kidneys strong and removed the pains." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and taken no other. Art vert Isementl Giving a
MUTUAL RELATIONS AND INTERESTS OF THE BELL SYSTEM AND THE PUBLIC
The suit brought by the United States questioning the purchase of certain telephone properties in the northwest, as well as the pending Interstate Commerce Commission telephone investigation, have caused many inquiries. Without taking up anything going to the merits of these proceedings, it has seemed to us proper to state generally what has been our policy and purpose in the conduct of our business. We have found, or thought that we had. that our interests were best served when the public interests were best served; and we believe that such success as we have had has been because our business has been conducted on these lines. We believe that our company has an ! i interest as vital as that of the public in the proper administration of the problems of electrical inter-communication. The success and prosperity of our company depend upon a solution of these problems which shall be sound from both the standpoint of the company and the public which it serves. Following our own best judgment, supplemented by the best obtainable advice, we have endeavored to do what would best serve the public interest; wherever possible our plans have been disclosed to the public in advance, and what has been done in carrying them out has been along ordinary business lines, with the implied, and generally, with the expressed approval, authorization or consent of the municipal and state authorities directly interested. Our effort has been not only to obey the law, but to avoid everything which might even have the appearance of an attempt at evasion. Our business methods and policy, and practically all of the details as to the transaction of our business, are matters of common knowledge and are, and for many years have been well known to the government. We will willingly furnish the government any additional information which is in our possession or under our control, and will cordially co-operate with it in obtaining such further information as it may require. Every possible assistance will be given by us to the courts in their effort to determine whether our policy is or has been inimical to the public interest. We desire that anything wrong be corrected; we will voluntarily rectify any wrong that may be pointed out to us; and, so far as it may be determined that our policy or any act under it is against the public interest, we will promptly conform to such determination. We believe that if each of our exchanges were made an independent unit and if each connecting line were put under a separate control, the effect upon the telephone service of the country would be a condition so intolerable that the public would refuse to submit to it and would immediately require such physical connection and common control of these various units as would amalgamate them into a single system. Physical connection in the case of telephone or telegraph does not mean transfer of messages from one line to the other. It means such a connection as will permit one person to have the actual possession of the particular line of communication from on? end of it to the other and this can only be given efficiently by exchange systems and connecting lines under a common control; and that is what the Bell System is. In this connection, and for general information, we will restate the policy which controlled the building up of the Bell System, and our belief as to what a telephone system should be, and what are its relations to the public. We believe in and were the first to advocate state or government control and regulation of public utilities; that this control or regulation should be by permanent quasi-judicial bodies, acting after thorough investigation and governed by the equities of each case; and that this control or regulation, beyond requiring the greatest efficiency and economy, should not interfere with management or operation. We believe that these. bodies, if they are to be permanent, effective and of public benefit, should be thoroughly representative; they should be of such character and should so conduct their investigations and deliberations as to command such respect from both the public and the corporations that both will without question accept their conclusions. We believe that the public would in this way get all the advantages and avoid all the manifest disadvantages of public ownership. We believe that centers of business and population exist for the convenience of the public as a whole, and that no such center can prosper without sufficient and efficient means of intercourse with other centers and tributary territories; that such means can only be afforded by prosperous utility and service companies and that fair rates are essential to prosperous companies. We do not believe that any public either desires or can obtain, nor can any service or utility furnish, permanent and efficient service at less than cost, including capital charges.
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We believe that ultimately the public either directly or indirectly pays the losses involved in the efforts to furnish such service at less than its fair cost, either through the loss of the capital involved, the losses incident to poor service or the necessary increase in charges required to pay for duplication of capital. We believe that the highest commercial value of the tt lephone service depends on its completeness on the extent and comprehensiveness of the facilities for intercommunication, not only between individuals but between centers of population; that no isolated section can be considered independently of any ether section or of the whole; that rates must be so adjusted as to make it possible to obtain the maximum development by making it possible for every one to be count teed who will add to the value of the system, thus giving the greatest value to the greatest number; that the interdependence of the telephone service and the value of complete and universal intercommunication justify and require some services partly at the expense of the whole for the benefit of the whole. We believe that this highest commercial value can only be attained by one system tinder one common control and that it cannot be given by independent systems unless they are operated under agreements which result in one common control and one common interest, irt effect making them a single system. We believe that rates should be so adjusted as to afford the company sufficient revenue to pay such wages and compensation as will secure the most efficient service: to maintain the very highest and most advanced standards of plant and apparatus, to carry on such scientific and experimental research and inventions as to apparatus and methods as to insure the highest standards, and to carry to reserve and depreciation such amounts as will enable the company at any time to replace old plant and old methods with new plant and new methods as fast as they may be developed and found to be to the advantage of the service. We believe that in addition, such fair charges should be paid upon the investment in plant as will enable the company at any time to obtain money necessary to provide the plant required to meet the continuing demands of the public; and in order that waste and duplication of effort may be avoided and uniformity of purpose and common control be enforced, that there should be a centralized general administration in close communication with and having general authority over the whole on matters common to all or matters of general policy. We believe that any surplus beyond that necessary to equalize dividends on a fair basis should be used by the company for the benefit of the public and should be inalienable for any" other purpose, and should be either invested in revenue-earning plant until necessary to substitute plant which may become inadequate or obsolete, or should be used to make the service cheaper or better. We believe that under proper governmental control and regulation the profits from promotion or operation allowed to be distributed should not bo so large as to warrant or tempt complete duplication of plant and organization, with its duplication of its capital charges and its organization, operating, maintenance and depreciation expenses; and we do not believe that utilities giving at fair rates an efficient and sufficiently comprehensive universal service should be subject to limited competition, not giving such service. Competition which ignores the obligation to furnish a complete an comprehensive service is not competition, is not for the benefit of the public in that it does not reach the whole public interested. If, therefore, complete duplication, with its dual exchange connection and dual bills for service, is a prerequisite to complete competition, government control and regulation cannot go hand in hand with competition. We believe that the record of the Bell System will be accepted by the public as fully in accord with these declarations. Consistent adherence to this policy has given the public of the United States the best, most comprehensive and cheapest telephone service in the world and made the Bell standards the standards of all nations. To remove any possible excuse for misapprehension on account of the many misleading statements which have been circulated as to the alleged unnecessary and overcapitalization and excessive charges of the Bell System, the following statistics are given. Except where stated, the figures are for the Bell System; that is, the American Telephone and Telegraph, and its Associated Companies. The entire Bell System on June 30, 1913, had. outstanding in the hands of the public obligations (i. e., notes, open accounts, bonds and shares) to the par value of $776,000,000. The book value of the total tangible assets, which is considerably less than
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their replacement value, amounted to $St0,t0i.OO0. Many appraisals of propt-rty included in these assets have been made, and most of them under the direction of public authorities. In no ease has the value as it stands on the books failed to be sustained, and in most cases it has been very largely exceeded. The total dividends and interest paid during the year 1912 amounted to only 6.1 on the average of its outstanding obligations, and to less than bc on the average value of its assets. The actual cash which ha been paid into the treasury of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on account of the capital obligations now outstanding amounts to $22.00.0tM more than the par of such outstanding obligations. The Associated Companies collected from the public and paid back in taxes over $10.000 .000 during the year 1S12. The steadily increasing necessities of the public not only for additional but for new telephone service can only be met by new construction, involving capital outlay. To meet these demands during the six and one-half years from li07 to June. 1313. inclu
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sive, the increase in telephone plant was as follows: Toll line wire lacreased from 1.460.KH miles to t4Z.000 miles: exchange wire increased from S.tH0.000 miles to 13.000.000; the number of exchange stations in creased from ;.T30.000 to 5.T0O.OOO; the number of stations of independent companies connected with the Bell System increased from 33.000 to Z.620.000. The number of Independent companies connected mith the Bell System is about 25.000. The number of employees in the Bell System, not including the employees of connected companies, on December 31. 1912, vu 111.000. During this same period the number of shareholders of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, not Including either the associated or connected companies, increased from 17.000 to about 54.000. About 47.00i shareholders hold less than 100 shares each: 6.500 shareholders hold from loo to 1.000 shares each; 347 shareholders hold from 1.000 to 5.000 shares each, while there are only 16 shareholders of 5.000 shares or over In their, own right. A majority of the hareholders are women. American Telephone and Telegraph C THEO. N. VAIL. President. ( Advert isemenO
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