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RICHMOND PA nn AND SUN-TEUEC.RAM RICHMOND, IND.. WEDNESDAY EVENING. DEC. 17, 1913 3V SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS Vol. xxxix. no. 32 DESTITUTE FAMILY PLEADS ELOQUENTLY FOR VISITING NURSE FARMER BOYS READ PALLADIUM'S OFFER GIVEN LOVING CUP IN WORLD CONTEST REFUSES TO CALL G, 0, P, CONVENTION TO REFORM PARTY One of Uncle Sams Sea Fighters . rv Approaching Brooklyn Navy Yard ADAIR AND MOSS NOW IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR'S CHAIR ' Purdue Trip for Best Article on Seed Corn Se- ! lection. Mother 111 of Tuberculosis Bakes Bread to Earn Livelihood. National Committee Takes Upon Itself Task of Reapportioning Delegates. Prominent Democratic Congressmen Aspire to Be Chief Executive. i J v NO EXPENSE TO YOU .? .t Xli'0- -
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MOSS TAKES POSE OF COUNTRY MAN
Fifth District Man Commonly Called "Blue Jean"
Hoosier. . ; ?TrVr (Palladium Special.) WASHINGTON, Deo. 17. RepreeentativeAdair's ambition to be governor of Indiana is well known, and it now appears certain, judging from Bome inside facts obtainable here, that he will have "a competitor in the person of Ralph W. Moss, his colleague from the Fifth Indiana district. Mr. Moss is understood to be making plans quietly to become the candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. Those who are in a position to knowBay that he will be put forward, under very favorable auspices, as the candidate of the farmers of the state, especially--a sort of fitting representative of the rugged, honest "131ue Jeans" Williams type of Hoosiers. Many Pose as Farmers. Undoubtedly Mr. Moss is now the most distinguished, as well as the
most distinctive type of
in public life in Indiana
farmer now
If the farm
ers of the state want a candidate tor
the Democratic nomination for governor, Moss is their man. Other Indiana statesmen prominent in the public eye may pose as farmers, but as a matter of fact most of them practice law or do something else to enable them to support the farms which they own as a side line. Moss, on the other hand, is a farmer that's all. He farms with his own brain and hands, and if any one wants to take the trouble to look he can find cal
loused places in his palms, which even the comparatively soft life iu Washington never entirely eliminate. And, to use a common expression, "he alnt no dude." He has little or no use for care- " fully pressed trousers, and it is commonly reported that he combs his hair with a towel. He comes as nearly being of the "Blue Jeans" Williams type aa any man in Indiana. Railroad Violate Law. Apparently as a forerunner of new demands from the interstate commerce commission that the railroads of America prove their efficiency of management or submit to new regulations, the commission today issued
a report showing that the roads bad violated the hours of service law for trainmen in 261,332 instances during one year. That is 261,332 members of train crews had been forced by traffic delays which the report declares were wholly preventable to work move than the legal limit of sixteen hours continuously. Great pains are taken to set forth the argument of the commission that since these violations of the statute were avoidable, the public will expect them to cease. The investigation leading up to this summary has been under the direction of Commissioner MeCord. It has gone into the record of every delay of any train in the country, so far as shown on the books, and has brought
viE-oronslv to the attention of manv I
rjillmarl officials thu failure nf their razas families was officially proclaim
companies to report some of these de-1 ed. The rebels cheered their leader lays. One .of the points emphasized 1 at every opportunity, and at times the is that the accidents leading to the enthusiasm became so boisterous that working of the trainmen from sixteen j the street patrols had to make ar
ia sixty-five hours continuously have i rests
aij a rule occurred early enough in i the period of the run to allow the j sending of relief crews. This has, j Therefore, been denied by the roads.
The four worst ffenders, as shown by the report, are the Baltimore 8s Ohio, the Illinois Central, the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg and the-Kew York Central.
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FATHER OUT OF WORK j Palladium Offers Prize For CHILDREN SUFFERING ! Three Boys Writing the
Best Paper.
Need of Phthisis Hospital Daily Becomes Apparent to Charity Workers.
WATSON HEADS LIST
OF REACTIONARIES
Letters to Santa Clans written by two north end tots, pathetic appeals for a share of the universal Christmas joys, have been the means of exposing terrible conditions existing in
eight persons live
Wavne cnut.tv farmer boys, here's ;
your chance to take a nice little trip. Th Palladium next month i going to send three boys between the ages of
twelve and eighteen to Lafayette to at- j fend the state corn show. The paper j will furnish each boy with his trans- ; portation and pay all his expenses ' while he is there. This will be a high class corn show j
the paper wants to send the uoya
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a iiuu- v.i.i t-.r-v-.,.-, ...cr ... aim ,ne paper wants to senu me uu a j The objeot of tne contest was to stimmisery. sickness and destitution unde r j best fitted to appreciate it. The show j l2ate readers of the magazine to the the shadow of the irrim while nlacue. I ni va fnr a.h hnv to ! studv of their advertisements, with a
improving
The flagship of Rear Admiral Badher, in command of the Atlantic fleet, was caught by the camera near Brooklyn fridge on her way to the Navy Yard. She comes with the Arkansas, the Utah and the Florida to allow her men to spend. one holiday here. Aboard the -Wyoming as -she passed up the East river was her dying commander, Captain - Frederick Chapin. fie. was taken critically ill a few days ago.. - .
VILLA CONFISCATES TERRAZASJSTATES Rebel Leader Enriches Constitutionalists Five Hundred Million.
EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 17. "Viva Villa!" was heard on every side in
Juarez today when the confiscation of j ..c-,.,to ,f tho Creel and Ter-. &
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SUNDAY GETS NEARLY
$240 FOR A SERMON " . .v Evangelist Leaves Johnstown Pa., With a Check for $17,000.
The father of this North Thirteenth street family is out of work and out of funds and he hopelessly listens to the snarls of the wolf of poverty on his doorstep. The mother, who some time ago contracted tuberculosis, has been confined to her bed for the last two weeks with pneumonia and one of the six children, all girls, has well developed symptoms of tuberculosis, aalthough she is only five years of age. Sells Bread For Living. And when this care-ridden, hopeless and plague-stricken mother gets out of her sick bed, if she ever does, she will resume the baking of bread, which she will sell to patrons about the city. "These letters to Santa written by those pitiful little youngsters are the most powerful pleas for a county tuberculosis hospital and a visiting nurse that I have ever read." said a Main street business man today after he had been shown the scrawled epistles to childhood's patron saint. "To think that we who flatter out-
selves as being enlightened and pro-
time
come home and tell his father how the experts pick out their corn for planting so that the father may lie able to use the boy's advice before he plants his corn next spring. Here is the way the boys to make the trip will be selected. Kvery boy in the county who wants to visit the big university anil attend the school 's invited to write a paper of not more than 200 words on "The Care and Selection of seed Corn.". Mail To Cobb. These papers must be miled to A. I. Cobb, County Agent, Richmond, before January 8. 1914 Each paper will be judged by Mr. Cobb and County Superintendent Williams. Literary merit will count ten per cent and knowledge displayed iu the subject will count ninety per cent. The papers will be graded and the names of the winners announced in the Palladium on Januarv 8.
The Indiana State Corn show will be
held at Lafayette on Jan. 12 to li. There will be lectures on all kinds of
J. A. CONKEY.
Coukev. proprietor of the drug i The report that the Republican n.v
stor" which bears his name. Las betiiitioual committee had voted against awardtd a silver kning cup by thejllu, nol(lins ot ;i national con tntion Midland Druggist and Pharmaceutical, . , ,, , ' , v , . , i. r next year for the puritose of iv-organ-Keview, for the best written ader- 1 tisements submitted in the world's j izing the party, and would attempt contest, conducted by the magazine, j that work itself, proved gloomy read
ing for the rank and file of the Wiyor county Republican organization this
view to pow er."
their pulling
NICHOLSON REFUSES CITY APPOINTMENT
Hands Back Offer of Serving on Sinking Fund Board to Robbins.
NO REASON IS GIVEN
morning. That the proposed plan to reorganize the tJ. O P. on progressive principles had never had the endorsement of the national leaders of th party, and that this fact proved josterday by the action of the national committee, was the assertion of all local Progressives who commented on the subject. "Indiana Republicanism was certainly well represented before the national committee at Washington, wasn't it?" sarcastically remarked Progressive City Chairman Brook. "That the state party is controlled by real, sincere men of progressive tendemies is shown by the fact that th Indiana delegation consisted of Jim Hemenway, Jim Watson. Jim Goodrich and Joe Healing. Oh. what m. joke!" Fears Progressivism. Brooks added that it was his belief that the national committer had re-
gressive have permitted such condi-1 aSrl- 'uuu,ai smujev. tions to exist anri snre,l throughout mestic science tor those who cai
have nag
PRINCIPAL ARRANGES
After Villa succeeds in holding the great wealth that he has declared has been confiscated, the treasury of the Constitutionalists will be swelled by a vast sum. variously estimated at from $500,000,000 to $700,000,000.
CHRISTMAS
PROGRAM
MEXICAN BANK TOTTERS MEXICO CITY. Dec. 17. Saved from immediate danger of attack as a result of a double defeat inflicted on Zaitatista's rebels at Alta Mira and
i Lake Richimlco. the government to
day turned its attention to financial conditions. These are becoming worse daily, one bank is already- tottering and its fall is like to drag others down to ruin.
Pickell Announces That Dr. Lyons Will Give School Address.
An excellent program, appropriate to the Christmas season, has been
arranged by Principal Pickell for th
chapel exercises of the high school
next Friday afternoon, instead of Friday morning, as Is the custom. Dr.
S. R. Lyons will deliver the address.
i ne scnooi cnorus, unuer tee uirection of Prof. Sloane, will make its first appearance this term. "Be Nor Afraid," from "Eiijah." by Mendelssohn, and a selection from "The Rose Maiden," and "'Tis Thy Wedding Morn," by Cowen. will be given. The orchestra will also give several numbers. Following is the program:
March,
WILL PUT PRESENTS ON CITY XMAS TREE
(Palladium Special. 1 JOHNSTOWN", Pa., Dec. 17. With check for between $16,000 and $17,-
000 in his rocket. Billy Sunday left
' Johnstown today for Winona Lake, J Ind., after six weeks of meeting here. Men in charge of the taking of the
j collections for the eva'ngelisc estimated when all of the fund is collected J Sunday will have been paid at the rate ' of practically $3,000 a w eek during ihis stav in Johnston, j Figuring that he averaged 13 sermons a week. Sunday received between $220 and $240 per talk for his work. His record here both in point : of the number of converts and the total of the final collection was far more than those of both South Bend, , Ind.. and Steubenville, O., where his i last two campaigns were held. .At Steu- ' benville about 8.000 were converted and he received approximately $11,000
for his work. He was paid practically the same amount in South Bend for 6,400 converts.
our community, while we
gled over the question of expending a few thousand dollars for a tuberculosis colony site where this worst menace to the public health could be successfully combated!" For good reasons the name of this unfortunate north end family is withheld from publication but necessary information has been placed in the hands of cbarrtwWe w whei'w.ud -the name and address will be furnished to those who desire to aid them. The two letters written to Santa by younger members of the family follow: Two Letters To Santa. Dear Old Santa: I am a little girl 11 years old. I live
at No. North Thirteenth street and Dear SantaM would like for you to come and see us this year as my mania
nas heen very sick with pneumonia for 2 weeks and is not able to work. She does baking to help make a living when she is well.and I am sure Dear Santa I would like to have and need badly but will be glad, and oh so thankful for anything you may bring now. Please don't rorget little Alice, the one who has tuberculosis for she would be so disappointed if she gets nothing. I w-ill go to bed early and be a good girl. Your Little Friend Ellen . Dear Old Santa: I am a little girl 9 years old. I live at N. North Thirteenth street and
hear them. There w ill be an opportunity to see Lafayette and have a glimpse
at a real university that is Known all over the United tSates. Get to work on your paper at once. Don't try to get a government bulletin and crib from it, because Mr. Cobb knows those bulletins by heart. Let it
be your own work, w ritten in your ,
own manner, uet to wont at once aim besur that you rq.ail your paper so that Agent Cobb can receive it by Jan. 10.
John H. Nicholson, president of the Nicholson Printing and Manufactur
ing company, who recently accepted ! fused to call a national convention be-
on do-! the appointment as a
e to ! t.jty sinking fund commission
member of the
under
RUMELY FACTORY OPENS JANUARY 8
Employment Given Twelve Machinists and Twenty-five Engine Builders
No definite working schedule, it was
said today, for the coming year had j as yet been received by the Oaar- j
Scott branch of the M. Rnmely company, and when this schedule -will-arrive is not known to the local officials of the corporation. Orders have been received for the
go to school every day I can. 1 love my ; construction of twenty tnreshing mateacher Miss Kate Morgan, dearly. I j chines which are to be exported to try to be a good girl and would like for j Russia, and work on them will begin
you to bring us children all something the first of the year.
nice tor Christmas as my papa anu oldest sister are out of work and
I have five sisters, aged 16, 13, 11, t and 2. 1 would like to have a pair of overshoes, sized 8l? a suit of underwear, pair of black mittens with some candy and nuts, and little Eva would like some blocks, a little red wagon and a doll she can't break and a Teddy bear. Also a. little broom for her. And Alice and I will go to bed early and be good girls. Ana Dear Santa bring what you can. I will thank you very muh. Your Little Girl Viola .
the Robbins administration, today announced that he had tendered his resignation to Mayor-elect Robbins. Other than to say that he did not desire to serve on the commission. Mr. Nicholson gave no explanation for Ills resignation. He paid his letter of resignation was brief, and that if the mayor-elect desired to make it public he had no objections to offer. It is reported that the cause behind the action taken by Mr. Nicholson was dissatisfaction with some appointments made by the mayor-elect, and that he believed he could not serve in the administration with as hearty a
I spirit of co-operation as would be exi pected of a city official, because of
this fact. Nicholson Silent. However, Mr. Nicholson would not make any statement concerning this report. Mr. Robbins said he had received Mr. Nicholson's resignation and had accepted it, but had reached no decision as to whom he would now ten
der the appointment. Mr. Robbins said Mr. Nicholson's letter of resignation was brief and contained nothing of public interest, being entirely formal. Questioned if he knew the cause of Mr. Nicholson's action, the mayorelect stated that he was under the impression that Mr. Nicholson took hte action be did because if he held public office his firm could not accept any of the city's printing business. A few days ago Mr. Nicholson informed a retiring city official that he was considering tendering his resignation, but his action would not be influenced for business reasons aa his
cause it was feared the urogrest ct faction of the party would control it and adopt wave and moans for rehab
ilitation the party which mould b highly objectionable to the conservatives who now dominate it. Republican City Chairman lliff had no statement to make. "It has been the general cry of the politicians who own the Republican party, body and soul, that its present sorry condition is due to the action of the Progressives bolting the organization." said a prominent Progressive today. "It wag convincingly shown at Washington yesterday that this is not true. The whole trouble with the old party is that it is absolutely controlled by a gang of unscrupulous, reactionary politicians who, before relinquishing their control of party affairs would rather e the organization dead and burled. "Those men who sit on the national committee and their camp followers, like Watson and Kealing. must be shorn of all powers before their I a union of tho Progressive and Re- ( Continued on Page Nine.)
COMMENCE WORK ON SCHOOUNTERIOR P a i n t ers and Decorators Hope to Complete Finishing By Jan. 1.
,i j Committee Meets Tonight to
Consider Detail Plans For Affair.
NO RECOGNITION AS YET.
little municipal patronage.
Meets New Board. Mayor-elect Robbins last evening held a meeting with the three members of his board of public works. Alfred Bavis. John McMinn and Charles
Marlatt. but he said no administration
Since the municipal Christmas tree is an established fact. sentiment among people for the giving of pres
ents is growing Many have suggested that the tree be made the base for j distributing gifts and supplies. Lodge members have suggested that
Stars and Stripes Forever" gifts lert oer from their (. hnstmas ; times characterizes the
Sousa j trees be placed on the municipal tree, j fei,sjonal revivalists.
Other plans advanced are that toys Thp r(,niar faculty
Earlham Takes No Action on HoneyweM Revival.
Whether the Honeywell revival j
services wiu oe given otticiai recognition by Earlham college is yet a
jmatter of speculation. It has been 'customary for the college to hold 'special revival services each year for its student?. Should the faculty lend I its co-operation to the Honeywell
campaign the college services will not be held this year. Members of the faculty are loath to abandon the college meetings because they have been productive of much good and have never heen followed by an undesirable reaction which some-
work of pro-
Orchestra. Scripture Reading Overture, "Pique Dame".. Yon Suppe Orchestra. Piano Duo, "Petite Suite" Esther Coate. Dorothy Land.
'"lis Thy Wedding Mom, "Rose Maiden"
Chorus. Address Dr. Lyons. "Be Not Afraid." from "Elijah" Mendelssohn Chorus. March. "Entry of the Gladiators"..
trom . Cowen
Orchestra.
and books, which people have to give, be distributed at that time. That clothing be presented to some organization for presentation to the needy is another idea which the committee dill consider. Chairman W. H. Bartel, Jr., has called a meeting of the committee at the city building tonight to prepare definite plans. The Craighead and Crane electrical companies have signified their willingness to furnish the bulbs and wirin for the tree. A little comedy iu the nature of
Fincke I "stunts" probably the committee.
meeting
will not be held until the opening of college the second semester but it is probable that the matter will be threshed out before that time. Should the college join hands with the churches, it may mean a curtailment of study hours and recitation periods for the students.
"JAG" MAY DO GOOD. PITTSBURGH. Pa., Dec.- 17. Ac occasional "jag" may do good, according to Dr. Carl H. Homberg. It has been known to relieve the nervous
will bearrenged by 'strain of men working under pressure, tays the physician.
TRADE IN RICHMOND LABOR'S WATCHWORD Appeal to Boost City Will Be Printed By Central
Labor Union.
It was reported today that the factory would re-open January 8 with a w'orking force of twelve machinists and from twenty to twenty-five engine builders. These men will con
struct the machines which are to be'
sent to Russia. Whether more men will be employed later can not be predicted. Disappointment Keen. There is general disappointment that the big local factory of the Rum-
ely company is not to re-open next policies were mapped out and no dermonth with a force of six or seven j lnite conclusion on any subject under
hundred men. for it had been gener-; discussion was reached, ally reported that this action was ioj The new mayor also announced tobe taken. ' day that he would shortly announce The officers of the Gaar-Scott fac-1 the appointment of market master and tory now are William Campbell, man- custodian of the city building. He ager: Ray Holton. assistant euperin-; said that his appointment of a dairy tendent, and Clem Kehlenbrink. office j Inspector would be delayed until counmanager. ' cil had taken action on the new dairy Heads of various departments of inspection ordinance
i their offices at La Porte, are to move testing of dairy herds, providing such I to Chicago soon, where the company tests will not result in the raising of ' will have its main offices. As soon as I the price of milk," Mr. Robbins said. i possible all the employes in the main j i offlfps of 'he company will be trans-
, ferred to Chicago.
Interior work on the Joseph Moor school building In West Richmond ban been started and January 1 a janitor
company had in the past received very will be placed in chargeof the school
house. It will be dedicated th latter
i part of January and will be ready for
occupancy February 1. While the painter and interior decorators are working, the furnaces will be lighted in order to dry out the build ing. The pupils who will attend th school ar in classes in the Baxter
school now.
FOX SHOWS LENIENCY
Harry Wiggs Released on
Trade at home and help boost the ;
city will be the appeal of the first ; paper issued by Richmond Central Labor T'nion as a New Year's greet-,
ing The paper, a four page sheet, j Own ReCOSmizanCC. will be prepared by W. C. DeMiller, i formerly with the edUorial depart- I
ment of the Indianapolis Sun. Labor men intend to show the merchants where they stand on the subject of mail order houses, said Mr. DeMiller. They realize that they are paying the large dividends which the country's large mail order houses declare each year. This money, they believe should be spent in their home city where it is earned. Home Trading Campaign. Not only have laboring people been buying fram mail order establishments, but families of professional men buy extensively, many also going to other cities for their clothing. After the statement of the union s attitude, Mr. DeMiller said the campaign for trading at home would be carried on among the members. Mr. DeMiller has had charge, of the preliminary arrangements for ihe sessions of the State Federation of Labor for the last eight years.
ARCOLA MINISTER MAY COME HERE
RAMPOUMS DEAD Famous Prelate Goes to Final Reward.
Harry W;ggs. a barber on North Eiehth street pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny today and was released on his own recognizance. Wiggs while intoxicated- stole a watch and
seven dollars in money and left the ; city. Upon his return he was arrested ; and placed in jail. Prosecutor Reller recommended le-1
niency of the court in the case owing to the fact that it was his first offense and h has a wife and child dependent upon hira for support.
ROME, Dec. 17. Cardinal Raropola. formerly papal secretary' f Mate, died lastnight at the age of "o years. H was an Italian nobleman, being in addition to his position as a prince of th Roman Catholic church. Marquis del Tindaro. Possessed of a large estat and much wealth, he was known for his large charities. The Carninal was born at PolSzi.
! Sicily, in 1843. He was educated at th j Co legio Capranico. the Jesuit College Rev. W. S. Rounds Appears pn Rome an'1 xr aVh Acca1CT . . idei Nobili Ecclesiasticl. Before First Christian i Before becoming CardinaJ in 1SS7. j-,. . i he had been councillor to the pepal Lnurcn 3iemDerS. 'embassy at Madrid, secretary of th ! propaganda for eastern affairs, and in A successor to Rev. S. W. Traum otM "?rtary of ecclesiastical - It was he who suggests the Pope as the First Christian church may be - meliator between Spain and Germany chosen tonight when Rev. Walter S. ; n dispute over the Caroline IRounds of Areola. 111., to whom a call j lands. has been extended will appear before j In the year 1S7 h was made papal
a meeting of the church. Rev. Traum ! f ecretary of ftate
; has not decided where he will locate 1 after be leaves the First Christian
FILES STATEMENT
i church here. His resignation, tenderi ed in November, is effective January II1 Rev. Rounds comes highly recom-
' mended from Areola. He was a school j The last statement of election ex- mate of Rev. Traum. who also spok ! penses was filed today by Frank Ritch-i favorably o him. The meeting tonieht ie. Ritchie said he had no expenses ; was called by Sharon S. Mills, chairand had made no promises. With the j man of the board of trustees. The exception of Ritchie all candidates trustees and directors met recently but ', made their statements before Dec. 4, made no recommendations as to their the time limit set by law. choice.
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FOR INDIANA Cloudy tonight and Thursday. Probably ralru
WEATHER FORECAST i
TEMPERATURE. Noon 42
YESTERDAY. Maximum Minimum
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