Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 15, 27 November 1913 — Page 1
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TURN MEXICO INTO ftince 1910 Southern Republic Torn By Anarchy and War. LOSES PROUD ESTATE Barefaced Grafters and Disgruntled Office Seekers . Sap Nation's Wealth. WRITTEN FOR PALLADIUM. From affluence to poverty, from peace and order to anarchy and massacre. From one of the great nations of the world to one of the semi- barbarous countries that has been the history of Mexico for the last three years. Mexico stood at the apex of her glory on September 16. 1910, the centenary of her independence from Epain. Porfirio Diaz's government was the only Latin Americn power eave Brazil to maintain an embassy as distinguished from a legation, at Washington. With a population of thirteen million and an area equal to the United States east of the Mississippi (leaving out the New England States and New York) she stood fifth among the gold and first among the silver producing nations of the world; and her immensely rich agricultural resources were being scientifically developed. But Mexico's peace and prosperity had fundamental weaknesses. It was dependent upon the hand of a monarch, and its funds for development had come from other nations. The United States had invested nearly $1,(100,000,000 in Mexico; England nearly $320,000,000; France $143,000,00 ; and other foreign countries $118,00.000. Her own citizens had invested only $800,000,000. "Cientificos" as Grafters. Furthermore, a group of colossal, hare-faced grafters had gathered about Porfirio Diaz, the Iron Man, in his old age. They belonged to the "cientificos," and scientifically they extracted their percentages from every project set on foot. The foreign capitaliets, naturally, had to transfer this burden of graft to the returns they extracted from their businesses hi Mexico and the money finally came out of the pockets of the common people. Then there was the land situation. A few hundred proprietors owned practically every acre in the country. While the cost of living increased, as In every counry of the civilized world, the great land barons evaded their share of the taxes altogether. This last oppression was especially felt in the northern tier of states, where Americans and other foreigners were particularlp numerous, and where the Mexicans could look across the border to the north and see a happier land. There developed a yearning for democratic government In the far north of Mexico, which re sulted in the candidacy of Francisco 1 I. Madero, son of an immensely j wealthy and infiuental family, for the presidency, in 1910. He drew up a , echeme of reform, known as the "Plan j of San Luis Potosi." He was beaten in the election a farce, of course was thrown in jail and probably would 1111 have been "shot escaping." according to the pleasant little Mexican custom, bui not hu f-imilv been r infiuental As it was he was allowed to go to j the United States, and there straight- j away organized a revolution. His j father and his many brothers supported him. The Waters-Pierce Oil Company, shut off from anticipating in the development of Mexico's oil fields by the favors shown in Lord Cowdray (Sir Weotman Pearson) by Diaz, supplied the sinews of war. Washington Wakes Up. Washington finally woke up to the fact that American residents in Mexico might be murdered and Americn investments destroyed in the conflict. With much announcement, President (Continued on Page Four) iwlilupoNS ARE COMING TO YOU? rp- XT - C , U r i"uc ncdi iu EjAi-iiaiige x ustil Qorino-i ftr TT i UU OdWIlgS lor U. O. Rfinrls: Three days remain in which depositors of the postal savings system, may file application to exchange all or part of their deposits for United States registered or coupon bonds in denomi nations of $20, $100 and $500. bearing , . . . interest irom January l. i;i4, at two ana one nait per ecnt per payable semi-annually, and able at the pleasure of the annum. redeemI'nited States one year from the date of issue. Postal savings bonds are exempt from all taxes and duties of the United States, as well as from taxation under state or municipal authority. Deposit Changes. Application for the conversion of deposits is made twice a year, in June 'anil December. Many citizens take at image oi uu oppoiiunuy to get non- taxaoie uouus. as suown oy me records of Assistant Postmaster Deu ker Last June applications were filed for the conversion of $1.9S0 of deposits into bonds. Although the in - formation and notice of time for filing was only mailed out yesterday. Mr. Deuker said already applications for $1,500 in bonds had been filed. He expects the bonds issued on January 1 to amount to almost $2,500. Folders containing complete infor - jmation regarding the bond issue are 'being distributed by Mr. Deuker.
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m MARRIES WITH JAIL ersiTrupr nwrn nrxni oLiimM uven ncHu 1 Tr II 1 1IT.JJ.J ! JOnn Ityan, iSlirgiar, euaetl ' 4- ( t- A J? 4 ' JUSt UUlSlCie tUtUOn Toil WqII ' STOUT IS ALSO HELD Young Men Who Robbed Aged Couple Sentenced to Reformatory. EATON", O ., Nov. 27. Even though Jtfhn Edward Ryan languishes in the county jail awaiting commitment to the Mansfield reformatory for confessed larceny, his marriage to Miss Alice Horrigan. 20, was solemnized today by the Rev. Fattier James M. Hyland, rector of the Eaton Catholic j church. , Permission was granted to have the ; ceremony take place outside the cold 'jail walls, and the couple were acIcompanied to the parsonage by Sher- . . : iff Wertz. While the 1 love each new 1 or ,ne other has continued through the troubies 0f Ryan, the ceremony 'P sa'd to have been hastened by the delicate condition of the girl a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick I Horrigan. well-known residents of Dixon township. James F. Stout, an accomplice o Ryan in burglarizing the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Loan, near Campbellstown. is also confined in the ' 00u,n.ty : The lads were shown leniency by Judge Risinger and were allowed to plead guilty to larceny, although the charge against them was larceny and ; burglary- and each was given an in-1 : ut itM mime sfiiifiie m iuf siaif ic- ; formatory. Conviction on a burglary i charge in Ohio now carries with it! i i-.e imprisonment in the penitentiary. COMMISSION HALTS POULTRY SHIPMENTS wiJiiivn.Tnv va- 7 The in - , temate commerce commission has ; ,m ,w .3 mnt r,t : uiiiivuui u tnui v imitis.iv.o tuut nr (1., J,,,trv r fPMn ,tii the commission has made an investiga - ;tion to ascertain whether permission should be srranted the Erie & West - ern Transportation oomnanv. which tiled schedules barrine butter eggs; and meat products was notified to make no chances in its shirring ar - irangements until April 1. 1914. : A number of other roads and trans- ' portation companies are similarly jfected. af
f said day, and hereby soliciting religious societies n TjJj'j
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EXTRACT FROM GOVERNOR R ALSTON'S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
"Let us not fail to thank God, out of full hearts, that a long step has been aken quite recently in our beloved State, toward securing peace and justice in industrial centers through the arbitrament of reason, thus preferring the striking of palms to the striking of bludgeons. "And may we not pray blindly when we ask, with our faces to the stars, that the divinity in man may, at no distant day, impel an affectionate and indissoluble union between the two indispensable factors in the world's progress Capital and Labor."
FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION ISSUED IN INDIANA. Jonathan Jennings, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Indiana. To all who shall see these presents, Greeting: Whereas the General Assembly of the State aforesaid, by a joint resolution approved the 31st day of December last, appointed and set apart the second Friday of next month to be observed as a day of publick supplication and prayer to Almighty God that he may avert the just Judgements impending our land and that in his manifold mercies our country may be blessed with fruitful seasons and our citizens with health and peace. Xow therefore, be it known that in compliance with the joint resolution aforesaid, I have issued this my proclamation, requiring the good people of this state to abstain from all servile labor on said day, and hereby soliciting religious societies
denomination to keep ana observe tne
Turkey Has No Divorces So Says Grand Opera Star
! BY BETTY R. THOMAS. I To know Mile. Johanna Kristoffy is !a privilege; to talk to her is an event. i And to hear her relate her exnerlence . , m m C onstantinople curing tne reign oi i the deposed Sultan is almost as great" ia pleasure as to hear her sing. Those j wno beard ner sing Salome at tne tren- : this statement. Madam is Vienese.
Her quaint use of English and her : would take a ride. Come, always, the sweet accent add piquancy to all she; two guards along." She polished her says. g ! cheek with the blending brush until "You will excuse me if I make up?" jit was the proper pink as she eontinshe asked placing a chair for me in ued: '"It is only from the soldiers that
her dressing room; "I must go on soon." She took a stick of grease paint and went to work on her eyelids. She finished one eyelid and looked at me. The effect was funny and we both laughed as she replied. "Before 1 sing always, on the other side. Pans, Milan, Vienna, Constantinople." "Constailtinople?" "Yes, for the Sultan m his palace. I sat up. This was growing interesting. "What sultan?" I asked, "When? tell nie about it?" "The old Sultan. It was all very in - i teresting in Turkey, but different oh, very mnerent trom anywhere else, "You see, there a woman can never go alone on the street. If you will want some groceries, comes the groeery man with a boy and the boy, he Vinllar nn tn the uiniinw Thpn vnn "r . T ... ......... ""r. - iook out ana tne man ten you wnat ne have. If you want something you must let from the window a lettle basket ;AP0PLEXY STRIKES MINT F Lewis Harimer Dies While Feeding Stock, Near Milton. MILTON. Ind., Nov. 27. While at work on his farm yesterday Lewis Harimer, 50. a well known and highly I respfec0tfet f"ra i west of here, was stnckei three miles en witn apopi lex- ana Glea suaaemj. ne s leeu- : ing some stock at the time and was : arTpmnitTiif III raise a heavy object i wnen tne attacK came- ne 19 sumvea ! y a widow, one daughter. Miss Marie ; Harimer, and a son Irvln Harimer, all : ,v funeral services wni De Held i - Ti - ; day afternoon at 1 o'clock in the late : residence. The Rev. F. C. McCormick A;wm have charge of the servlces In. j ferment will be made in the Westside
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down with the money and the boy bring the things up. It is the same ; if you want a ribbon. A man cornea 1 and sells it on the street." i .... . . wives newara ot Bravery. "The streets are dark at night and I must go, always, to the theatre with i two guards ny me. h.acn nave two lan-1 ' Austrian consul. It was the same if I ! : one must be afraid. They are stupid. just like brutes. If you go on the, streets they pinch you with their , hands so. All they know is to fight, j ; That is because of every man they kill '. in battle they get in heaven so many ! wives." , It a man were in many battles I d .think he would soon have more than j he could manage. "I said. Her eyes : opened very wide as she answered, gesticulating with the brush. "Oh, but j this is in heaven, after they are dead, i That is different." ' "I suppose it is," I agreed. "Doe ' the average Turk have more than one. iwire: ' "Oh. no: it is too expensive. For in - stance, if a man has three wives he ; will buy for one a diamond ring for $5,000. then must , be buy for the othpr two. also, a rilliT to cost 55.00. and . i. li.' .. exacu line ine nisi, i nui is uie ia. There is one wife and never any di - vorces. flEAL TO INSPECT SCH00LSJ COUNTY State Official to Spend Several Days in Wayne County. A. C. Neal. state high school inspec tor. will come to this citv December S and spend part of that week in inspectlon of all the high schools of . , -. 1 me county except tne ricniaona nigu jaj njgh school inspector is new this jear, ine went naving oeen aone u members of the state board ot ecumembers of tne cators heretofore ""clUiUlc- . Mr. Neal will take three or four days in visiting the hieh school County superintendent Williams will make his semi-annual inspection of the same schools with Mr. Xeal. President Robert L. Kelly of fc-ar!- ; ham COege and Pettis Reid. both of this city, are members of the st3t? board of education. President Kelly formerly made annual school ins pec tions. having served on the board a j nuniber of years. Mr. Reid is a new
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1,200 SPECTATORS WITNESS DRILLS . Modern Woodmen, Eagles and Red Men Teams Please MOVEMENTS INTRICATE Each Organization Receives Purse of Twenty-five Dollars. Exhibition drills, given under the auspices of K. of P. Uniformed Rank. by Modern Woodman, Eagles and Hokendauqua tribe of Red Men attract - ; ed twelve hundred spectators at the ; Coliseum last evening. The drill was j not competitive but each team receiv - ; od a purse of $25 for participating in the affair. The drills of the three teams were
similar owine to tne tact that the(tnese conditions in tne ruture. , same standard of drills is used by all I Wants Tuberculin Test, ; of the lodge teams. The teams exe-j Asked by a Palladium reporter what I cuted the most difficult and intricate he thought about the tuberculin test, . movements and counter marches with : he said: "It is very essential that
! pnmn-jrativa ; "S" "" ine Eagles and Modern woodmen ; were dressed in their natty blue and white uniforms and nresented a neat ' appearance on the floor of the drill hall. Members of the Red Men team was dressed in the garb of Indians, which is used in the regular degree work of the lodge. Each team received hearty applause when it marched cn the floor for the ! preliminary drills. The Modern Woodi men scored a hit when the initials of ! the lodge were formed by the march- ! ing men The Red Men's team conj fined itself to difficult cross movel ments. The Eagles team drilled well ' and came in for its share of the cheer- , ing and applause. Following the drill an informal dance was enjoyed by about two hun- ; tired and fifty couples. PASS IT ALONG I nTIICDC vrrn TT UlllliUO .EiCiLT it WASHINGTON. Nov 27 Currency reform and the Mexican situation ; were put m tne DacKground vesterday at the white house by the per-Pif-xir. e question as to which turkey should be dished up to President Wllson s family. South iniiioi?. cuifi clerk of the house and Democratic Democratic leader of Kentucky, presented the president with a 40-pound turkey, and Horace Bose of Rhode Island, who has long na!'i turkeys to the white
house made his yearly gift. Presi- he is to lower the price of eggs and dent Wilson attended the Pan-Ameri- other food, and u this can be aceomean mass today at St. Patrick's catb- plisbed through an adjustment with draL J the dealers. It will be done.
"WE EAT TOO MUCH" ARGUES DR. HURTY
Health Authority Tells the Methodist Brotherhood to Check Appetite. RUIN OF RACE AHEAD Prevention of Disease and Insanity Better Than Hospitals and Asylums. American stock is degenerating from wrong habits of living, and will, if the present rate continues, become extinct within a lew generations, was the declaration made :y Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, to an audience at the First Methodist church last evening. "We are headed for an iceberg," he said. 'Tnless we change our course, disaster awaits us. Degenerative maladies are constantly increasing. Cancer, heart failure, diabetes, Uright's disease and insanity are maxing rapid strides. We must wave the red lantern. Society Is bound for collision with nature's unalterable laws!" Arguing that, as Des Cartes long ago said, hygiene and public sanitation can save the race, he said that the lirst and essential step In gaining control of these conditions is vital statistics. Want Health Records. "Vital statistics is a form of human bookkeeping. It is more Important that we have, a complete record of the human beings in Indiana than that the bankers have a complete record of the dollars and cents In the state. We can t tell what is destroying us or ever know how far we Have succeeded toward eradicating it unless we have definite and accurate data to go by. "These old folks about us are helpless. Nothing can save the gray heads. They are probably beyond re call. But we can save the children. O we must save the babies. That is the hope, of the race good breeding of first-class human stock. I be lieve in segregating the defectives to prevent their reproduction. Our char ity at present is only half charity. and unless it goes farther, will do more harm in the long run than good Six Thousand Insane Persons. "Just think! We have six thousand insane in our Indiana hospitals. Dur ing the past twenty-flTe years we have increased their average length of life eight years, and that means alt told 48.000 years of insane life. You see Our charity is merely piling up the burdens on our shoulders. Some day those shoulders will break under the burden we ourselres have created. "Of course, we must take good rare of these people; that goes without saying, but we must not depend on cure. Ah, that's the root of the whole matter." j When he came to his favorite theme of preventive medicine, the doctor grew more tense and earnest. "Listen." he said, leaning forward and jabbing the facts into his hearers with short, quick jerks of his fist. "Listen. This attempt to cure these diseases is the most insane thing society is trying to do. It is insane, foolish. llv. And these so-called practical siness men who advocate more hos pitals, more asylums, more idiot inI stitutions, more cure, cure, curt, are j Utopian and short sighted. Why won't blockheads to the state legislature to Iliafe ia w a uu limit;:' auuui v m, u iurj understand nothing, why don't they have experts who are well informed make their laws! We Eat Too Much. "We are a foolish people. We eat ourselves sick; we drink ourselves into the grave; with our gluttony, our stuffing, our ignoring of nature's laws. we are preparing ourselves for the wrathe that is to come, not on the other side of tlfe grave it won't wait that long but on this. "One of our biggest problems, and ane about which scarcely anybody takes the trouble to give a thought. ! is how to eliminate the unfit. Its own iexcreroent is a deadly poison to every 1 living organism; and the unfit, the in1 competent to live, the defectives are i society's excreta and society is de- ! stroying itself by its own poisons. 1 Let us not try to stop it by curing (the condition onlv. Jet ts set to work at prevention and avoid repetition of i we take that nrecaution aeainst loss . oi our uaoifs. omi'uiwi ihhuiuk i? a good thing too: ought to be done by all means. No restaurant should he permitted to sell milk as a beverexcept in small bottles. This i"'" o iupn's ihb. i spreads unease. The Methodist Brotherhood, before which Dr. Hurty appeared, will discontinue its meetings during December and January on arcount of the Honeywell revival, but has secured the Rev. Dr. Barnes of Fostoria. O. to give a lecture on "The RainbowFarm" at the meeting on Wednesday. February 25. COLD STORAGE MEN DEMAND A HEARING I WASHINGTON. Nov. Anorut) General McReynolds that he would in - . . .. . . vestieate the cold storage plants, deal ' er8 in fd stuffs have wired to the department of justice requesting a hearing before coun action is bgun. Cold storage men who come to Wash -
ington with facts about their business, -j-jj tWQ rPCent burglaries were that and their relations with other con-iof tne Quigley drug store and Rey-
itiua "in nut luiutru u department, it was announced, but denartroent. it was announced this will not halt the investigation.! This was pointed out yesterday that' the attorney general is not so eager t to prosecute the cold storage men as'
BUSINESS MEN ASK INVESTIGATION INTO EFFICIENCY SYSTEM I Enthusiastic Over Practical Program Outlined By Dayton Bureau Head.
WANT BUREAU HERE Mayor-Elect Robbins Believ es Organization's Work Is Excellent. -1 r - -. Many of Richmond's most fcubstaa-! tial business men who heard the address of Dr. 1 D. Upson, director of I the Dajton municipal bureaa. at ttaj Commercial club banquet Toesdajr night, are so enthusiastic over the; practical program he ouUined for th' introduction of the efficiency system into the city rnernment m-tifrh h and his associates have already don at Dayton, that a movement along such lines in Richmond has already begun to take shape. The project of organising a Riehmond municipal bureau, to be floured by local citixens. is already being seriously considered, and it has already been determined to investigate thoroughly the work of the Dayton bureau. Dr. Frank D. Garland, a prominent resident of Ihtyton and president of the municipal bureau cif that city, will be invited to come to Richmond and speak oa the work wnich the Gem City bureau has been able to accomplish during the fourteen months of Us existence. He has been largely instrumental In the work of reorganizing the government of the city of Dayton and placing it on an efficiency basis, and has been a most valuable lieutenant to Dr. Upson, the director and expert of the bureau. Can Be Done Here. "What has been done tn Dayton can be done in Richmond." Dr. Garland told Charlea Jordan, secretary of the Illchmond Commercial club, a few days ago. And the business men of Richmond, after hearing Dr. Upson's address, are firmly convinced of the truth of this statement. "Thousands of dollars can be saved in the administration or the affairs of our city government." said Secretary Jordan today, "if the efficiency system is established here. Dr. Upson has convinced me that such a system can be placed In operation in Richmond through the public spirited cooperation of our citizens, even though Richmond continues to be governed under the present federal system. Wo have a chance now to assist the new city administration in a most practical manner, and the movement must not be permitted to lag." Mr. Jordan says that through the establishment of a municipal bureau in this city the efforts or the Robbins administration to provide a better sys-. tem of government would not be embarrassed, and. as a matter of fact, such a bureau would be of incalculable benefit to the administration, for it would be able to render the city government expert advice In reorganIz'ng the various departments and in carrying out the efficiency program. Rebbins Also Convinced. Mayor-elect Robbins is also convinced of this fact, for he recently visited the Dayton bureau and learned first hand of the excellent work that organization has done for the city of Dayton, and perceived what a valuable ally a similar institution in this City would be to him in carrying out hii pledges to give Rirhmond a business-like administration. S. E. Swayne. president of the Commercial club, like Secretary Jordan, is enthusiastic over the plan for providing a municipal bureau for Richmond. He said Dr. Upson's address was a most remarkable one and a revelation to the big majority of th citizens who heard him, and he expressed the hope, that the movement now launched for a po polar co-operation wit. the new city administration to bring about needed reforms In the city government of this city would not be permitted to lag. MERCHANTS EMPLOY SPECIAL WATCHMAN Burglaries Cause North End Business Men to Si?n Petition. Two burglariee of stores on North K street within the last to months, caused the employment of Georgt Kettler, 1140 Boyer street, as merchant patrolman, by twenty-sevei north end merchants. Kettler vai sworn in and given his commissioB last night by Chief of Police Gormoa At the request of a number of mer chants, Kettler had a petition madi out several days ago and circulated i
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Fnrt YA'avne avenue Ffhth Vinth and Tenth streets. The merchants read Mlr signed the netition and agreement il ' . ,v, . to Day a cerxain amount lor uic r ary of the special watchman. Kettler expects to have a numbei of other signers before he takes np 1 , c. n,r, him rrocerv. Both were committed v m.re hovs 25 FARMERS GET WEALTHY. MOXTEVILLE. N. J- Nov. 27. John Van Ripen Is getting wealthy br charging New York "sportsmen" fifty cents each to shoot rabbits In his fifteen acre preserre.