Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 37, 23 December 1913 — Page 1

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Just as They Are in Real Life

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MRS. EDWARD B. McLEAN AND HER SON, VINCENT, WHO IS HEIR TO A FORTUNE OF $100,000,000. Mrs. Edward B. McLean, formerly a beautiful belle of Denver society, is planning a novel party for lier friends in Washington, D. C. Those who have received invitations to attend the moving picture party soon to be . held at her home, were puzzled to know just what sort of an affair it was. to be. The cat is now out of the bag. Unknown to the invited guests, MrsrMcXean has bad movingiJlctiires TOade.of. .them pic turing them as they really are in following their daily pursuits. These " pictures will be thrown upon a screen in the ballroom of the McLean residence. '

Y REACH AGENT COBB Donald Brooks, 13, First to Submit Essay on Seed Corn. Donald A. Brooks, 13, who lives at 16 North Seventeenth street, is the first boy to submit an essay in the Palladium's free trip to the state corn ehow contest. His manuscript reached County Agent Cobb yesterday afternoon. A number of other manuscripts were received today., Most of them were within the prescribed limitation of 200 words and all showed considerable knowledge of the care and selection of seed corn, which is the subject assigned by Mr. Cobb for the contest. Some of the manuscripts wax phil osophical in places, one boy starting his essay with the broad, unqualified assertion, "Efficiency is prolific of euccess." Another writer with a liking for figures of speech states: "The old fashioned idea that any kind of seed corn will do is a backnumbered as the elm peeler hog that could drink out of a jug." The manuscripts should not be. addressed to the Palladium but should be mailed directly to . Alex D. Cobb, Richmond, who will care for them until they are graded on Jan. 9. COAL THIEVES FINED C. & O. Railroad Officials Hope to Check Evil. Determined to stop the thieving of coal from cars on the company's sidings, the C. & O. railroad company has filed affidavits in police court charging John Hall, colored, and Ben Sanders, colored, with petit larceny. Complaint from coal dealers that cars are often short because people take coal from them, has caused the company's action. Hall pleaded guilty to taking 200 pounds of coal, and was lined $5 and costs. Hall was wheeling coal away from the siding in a wheelbarrow, according to testimony. Sanders pleaded not guilty to an affidavit charging that he got 1,000 pounds. He signified his intention of employing an attorney, and hearing of the case was set for Friday. BIG FIRE CAUSES $300,000 DAMAGE LOUISVILLE. Dec. 23. Fire today did $300,000 damages to the plant of the Laib company, makers of mill and plumbing supplies. SMALLEST INFANT. DUQUOIN, 111.. Dec. 23. The smallest baby ever born in this part of the country was born to Mr. and Mrs. Esora Brown at Christopher, east of herb. The infant weighed 2i pounds. Physicians said the child will live.

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CHIEF WANTS QUIET NEW YEARS' EVE Stay Within Bounds Is Order of Police Authorities. Chief Gormon has some ideas regarding the celebration of New Years. Richmond is not like gay New York with its hundreds of all-night cafes so Chief Gormon will not have a situation to contend with. The first rule is that all saloons shall be closed at 11 o'clock Wednesday evening and remain so throughout New Years Day. This is prescribed by law. It is customary for half the populace of Richmond to hold a midnight watch party on New- Year's eve and usher in the coming twelvemonth with a loud clamor of voices if no other means are at hand. Factory men often tie down the whistles for about five minutes before and after the official time is sounded. Then the ftre bells chime in with the activities of some church sexton who climbs in the back window to ride the bell rope for a quarter of an hour. This amusement is not protested by Chief Gormon but he hopes the instigators of this type of amusement will know just when to quit. Even, fire crackers will not be objectionable. Some Richmond young Americans stored away a few of the July crackers to fire off when the New Years breaks and about the hour of twelve the red sticks begin their sputtering. To sum up Chief Gormon's attituted with apologies to Riley is "Chief Gormon will git you if you don't watch out." EARLHAM COLLEGE STARTS VACATION Many Students Leave Today For Homes in Various Sections. Christmas vacation at Earlham college started at noon today. It will close Tuesday, January 6. Two weeks have been granted the students for the holiday recess so they may return to their homes and spend a few days before resuming their studies. By dismissing school two days before Christmas it will give time for the students to reach their homes. A- few of the students who live on the eastern and. western coasts will remain at the college. In order to make up classes which are not being held during vacation, the faculty decided to hold extra classes on the Saturday following the close of the holiday recess. A similar arrangement was made last Saturday,

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MUSSES INSISTENTLY PRAY FOR MESSAGE OF SOCISLSERVICE Methodist Minister Receives 275 Replies in Quest For Live Themes. 50 PER CENT FROM MEMBERS OF CHURCH Citizens Seek Discussion of Economic and Practical Political Topics. More application of social service in church work, the modernization of the church into a social center, where better morals, better citizenship will be preached and social and ecnomic problems of every-day life will be considered broadly and without prejudice, are the real needs of the church today, according to the views of practically every person who replied to the list of questions distributed a few weeks ago by the Rev. B. Earle Parker, of the First M. E. church. These interesting discussions of church problems, by men in every walk of life, were made public today by the Rev. Mr. Parker, and they will furnish him with material for six interesting sermons, to be delivered at the morning service the next six Sundays. The topic for next Sunday is, "The Message of the Pew to the Pulpit." "I distributed four hundred lists of questions and received 275 replies, from merchant, banker, journalist, student, lawyer, clerk, shop worker and day laborer," said the Rev. Mr. Parker. "Fifty per cent of these replies were from church people,, and most of the others were fair and friendly toward the church. All were demands that the church make a stronger appeal to the masses." f SocialWerk Needed. To the question, "Do you . believe that the churches of Richmond are doing the work that the church of Jesus Christ should do?" half of the replies contained the blunt statement, "No." The others said this work was being done only in part, while three persons expressed the opinion -that the church was satisfactorily performing this work. Denominational jealousy, factions within the churches, and failure to introduce practical social service into church work were almost unanimously declared to be the greatest weaknesses of the ch"rches of Richmond. In reply to the question, "What are the most helpful features of church life today?" most of the critics answered, religious education in the Sunday schools, the keeping alive of the spirit of reverance and the power of religious organizations as a standing protest against moral evils. "Make church work a man's work," was the general reply to the question, "What can we do to interest more men in the church?" Lack Proper Clothes. "Why are not factory men interested in the work of the church?" was a question that provoked long, interesting and pert replies. In the main, (Continued on Page Six) MAYOR ADVOCATES COMMISSION FORM May Be Candidate for Commissioner fi Case Law Is Passed. In Mayor Zimmerman Richmond has a staunch advocate of the commission form of government, and had not the state legislature killed a bill for an act legalizing commission form of government in cities of the third class, it is probable Richmond would give the oath of office to five executives instead of one. The mayor said today that he was much interested in the commission form of government, and would support a movement toward legislation to legalize the employment of that plan for governing cities. Should the next legislature reconsider and pass the commissoo form of government bill, there is little doubt but that Mayor Zimmerman will be one of the candidates for a city Commission. Mayor Zimmerman says he had intended advocating a change in the plan of government for Richmond last spring when the bill was before the general assebly. By the terms of the bill five commissioners would be elected from a ticket bearing an unlimited number of names, regardless or party. The commissioners would elect one of their number chairman, who would act in the capacity of mayor. WEATHER FORECAST j STATE AN DLOCAL Rain or snow followed by clearing and colder Wednesday. Partly cloudy. Colder Southeast portion. TEMPERATURE. Noon 37 YESTERDAY. Maximum 34 17 Minimum

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ELKS COMMITTEE DECLARES CHARITIES APPROVES COURSE Replies to Ministers Charge That Lodge's Relief Work . i Is Unsystematic. ORDER WILL SPEND $400 ON CHRISTMAS List of Deserving Poor Supplied By Mrs. Elizabeth Candler. The Christmas Charity committee of the Elks lodge today vigorously replied to the charge made at the meeting of the Ministerial association yesterday that lodge and charitable work was vnsystematic and a handicap to the practical work of the Associated Charities. That the charitable work the Elks have on every Christmas for several years was practical in every respect, and in no way conflicts with the Associated Charities, which organization approved of and co-operated with the lodge in its yuletide benevolences, formed the gist of the statement made by the Elks Charity committee. This statement follows: "From the comments of the members of the Ministerial Association as printed in Monday's Palladium, it is very evident they are not familiar with the plans of Elks' Christmas Charity. We are too considerate of the good ladies, who do practically all the real hard work of the Associated Charities, to impose upon them extra work and expense distributing to the poor on Xmas morning. Where List Was Obtained. "If the Ministerial Association will take the trouble and time to ask Mrs. Candler and Miss Bell of the Associated Charities, they will find out these ladies, supplied, us .with a list of the deserving poor, and ""further thanked us heartily for taking the burden off their hands. A similar list was furnished us by the Salvation Army. "We were also supplies with lists of needy by fche police department and principals of public schools. When any doubt existed Some member of our order personally visited the place. So our list has been carefully compiled and we hardly thought it necessary to submit this list for approval of the Ministerial Association. "The Elks never comment on policy of running churches, for we as a social organization consider it none of our business, but should we do so, would certainly be better posted than apparently our ministerial critics are." Directory Completed. In submitting this statement one of the members of the committee stated that the Elks charity list was probably as complete a directory of worthy poor families as can be found in the city. This year members of the committee have personally visited with Mrs. Candler the various families reported to the lodge. Those found worthy of support were placed on the charity list with the approval of Mrs. Candler, he said. "We also told Mrs. Candler that at first the lodge considered making large donation to the fund of the Associated Charities, but she told us she was glad we did not for we, in distributing Christmas relief, were doing exactly what the Associated Charities would havp to do if we did not," this Elk committeeman explained. "She said that the work we were doing saved the Associated Charities the heavy expense of distribution and that our work met with her hearty approval." Nearly $400 will be expended by the Elks lodge this year for Christmas relief and the lodge has also contributed to the Domestic Science association $100 for its fund for a visiting nurse for the poor. MUSICIANS FEATURE OF "Y" ENTERTAINMENT Boston Lyrics to Furnish Music At Association Building on New Years. Secretary Ellis Learner of the Y. M. C. A. is posting placards in store windows and on billboards announcing the New Year's day entertainment at the "Y.' The association is planning an entertainment on a large scale. The Boston Lyrics, a traveling company of three musicians, will be the feature of the afternoon. The party, consisting of two women and a man, has vocal and instrumental music and literary sketches on its repertoire. Bowling teams and basketball teams from the American Seeding-Machine company and Starr Piano company will "play on the "Y alleys and gymnasium New Year's afternoon. Refreshments will be served during the afternoon. Desirous of making the affair for the public. Secretary Learner has issued invitations to all Richmond people to visit the association building that afternoon. NEXT, PLEASE. CORNING, N. Y., Dec. 23. Local merchants have hired an aviator to deliver gifts to the cb.il4re

NO XMAS ISSUE OF PALLADIUM

There are two days in the year on which The Palladium does not print. One of them is the Fourth of July, commemorative of the birth of the American republic; the other is Christmas, held sacred because of the birth of the Savior of mankind. Apropos of this rule, no issue of The Palladium will be distributed Thursday, the management holding that its employes should spend the whole holiday with their families and enjoy the sentiments of a day. which with its deep religious meaning and general impulse for chanty engendered in almost all hearts, can be cele brated only with a mind freed from the toils and cares of every-day life. Christmas, the management believes, can be observed only when the individual has leisure to spend the day in the family circle or attending divine services. The readers of the Palladium, the management believes, heartily concurs in this sentiment. TANGO MISHAP. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. While danc ing the tango Mrs. Grace F. Conger slipped aud broke her leg near the hip.

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MISS ROBERTA BRENNAN. With her announcement that to be the mother of a perfect baby is sufficient rconijens. Miss Roberta Brennan, a pretty and exceptionally well-developed miss of this city, has presented herself as the official candidate of Georgia for the prize of $500 offered by the sociological department of the Medical Review of Reviews, for an ideal woman, mentally and physically, willing to mate herself with an equally perfect specimen of the opposite Bex as a eugenic experiment. The object of the experiment is to produce a perfect typo, of baby from such a rv'-riage. The man is also to receive $500 and an additional $500 will be paid just as soon as the long sought oau.yis born. President Frederick H. Robinson, of the Medical Review of Reviews, offered the reward on behalf of a number of physicians desirous of making. personal studies of the offspring of a perfectly mated couple, from a mental and physical standpoint. Up to this time, although many candidates nave presented themselves, there has been no decision as to who the couple will be.

HONEYWELL PARTY ARRI1UN CITY Louis Speegle, An Advance Worker, Makes Final Arrangements. One member of Honeywell's party is in the city and others, including the Rev. Mr. Honeywell, will have arrived by Saturday night. The revival party will stay at 37 South Fifteenth street. One of the features of the revival plans will be the nursery for babies. This will be in the Friends church. Louis Speegle, advance worker, announced today that the after results of the Honeywell meeting at Troy have been favorable. Results of the county evangelistic campaign conducted by E. L. Williams of Indianapolis have been paramount compared with any other movement of the kind. He will preach in Cambridge City tonight. Others Come Friday. . Mrs. Ada Page, secretary of the Honeywell party, soloist, and former secretary to Dr. Towner, head. of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, and Miss Lamont, Bible teacher, will have charge of the 3:15 o'clock hour and the women's work, assisted by Mrs. Coombs, whose husband is an assistant to Rev. Honeywell. Mr. Speegle spoke at Troy where Honeywell revivals were held and said the most flattering after results were found when he went there. Although the population of Troy is 7,000, there were 450 persons converted. The Baptist preacher received forty into the church there yesterday morning and almost as many at night services. The Christian church took in sixty in the morning and a number at night. One church which had not been officially connected with the Honeywell meetings, took twenty-two into the congregation. A delegation of 300 is expected to come here from Troy the third week of the revivals and hear Rev. Mr. Honeywell. SENDS GOSPEL TEAM Earlham Names Men to Extend Y. M. C. A. Work. Following the usual custom of sending out a gospel team to work near Richmond during the holidays the Earlham College Y. M. C. A. has chosen Horace Reed, Spearfish, N. D.; Riss Williams. Dunreith; Cyrus Lancaster, Carmel; Everett Davis. Fairmount; Harold Rogers, Pendleton; and Josiah Marvel, Richmond, to make this year's tour. The team which is headed by Mr. Reed, will take np activities shortly after Christmas at Spiceland, Ind. Mr. Davis will do the preaching for the delegation and the remainder of the boys will do the personal work. The team is chosen with the idea of getting men of varied lines of work so that the appeal may be general.

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By New POST OFFICE FORCE WORKS OVERTIME Fourteen Rural Wagon Loads of Mail and Parcels Taken -Out Today. OPEN EXTRA WINDOWS Postofflce employes are on the job early this week, and before 7:30 this morning fourteen wagonloads of mail and parcels had left the office, including the rural carriers' wagons. There is a force of twenty-nine ' men carrying mail out of the Richmond postofflce. The work has been systematized and there is no confusion in handling the rush of extra letter mail and par cel post packages coming in. The capacity of the big 'interior room has been exhausted and the office of Law rence Handley, superintendent of car riers, is being used in which to sort packages. Additions to Force There, are three extra wagons and five extra men working. Even "with the extra force, only incoming and lo cal mail and parcels can be handled during the regular - hours, and the force is working two hours overtime. I each man working ten hours a day. The overtime is devoted to outbound mail. The overtime work of all the men is equivalent to the work of eleven men with experience, says Superintendent Handley. Corridors Crowded. The six sub-stations in the city are doing a big business. They are also receiving many packages for parcel post. The postoffice corridor has been filled with persons waiting to mail parcels, bny stamps or to send registered mail or money orders. At no time, it is said, has the corridor been empty during the hours when the windows are open. There are sometimes sev-enty-i ve to one hundred in line at the windows, and yesterday and today it was necessary to open extra windows to relieve the congestion. JUDGE TO CLEAR CRIMINAL DOCKET There will be only a few criminal cases to be heard at the January term of the circuit court unless some new cases are brought to the attention of the authorities before the session adjourns. The January term will open the first Monday of the month. The criminal docket will be cleared the second week of the term. During this wekr all the cases awaiting trial will be wiped off the calendar, with the possible exception of the one against Donald Nestor, who will be held pending the outcome of the injuries of Richard Cook, whom he stabbed with a pair of scissors

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BEESOH RE-ENTERS REPUBUCAII RANKS Commissioner " May Again Seek Appointment to County Office. - Robert Beeson, retiring county missioner, whose candidacy " for road superintendent received a severe Jolt a few days ago through the announcement that the other " commissioners would not consider him for appointment as either road superintendent or head of the county poor farm, la reconsidering his action and may become an applicant. -- Incidentally, Mr. Beeson 'has announced. It was learned today, that he is henceforth a life long Republican and whatever future political preferment may come bis way will be under the spreading wings of the eagle. With two members of the new board of commissioners affiliated - with the Prograssive party. It Is considered hardly probable that Mr. Beeson as a Republican will come in for more consideration that he did before his reespousal of the G. O. P. was announced. . . ARRANGES EXHIBIT Miss Kiturah Parsons on Program At Teachers , Meeting. INDIANAPOLIS. . . Dec 25. The mightiest factor in shaping the future greatness of Indianathe Indiana State Teachers' .association, represented by nearly one thousand delegates from every nook and corner of Hoosierdom, are In Indianapolis attending the sixtieth annual convention of the organisation in Tomlinson halL The address of the retiring president, Charles A. Greathouse, was the feature of the opening session. The sessions will continue daily until tomorrow evening, when the members will scatter to enjoy the holidays before resuming their immense responsibilities of training the brains of future citizens. Miss Kiturah Parsons, of Richmond, president of the domestic science section, arranged for all sorts of good things for the visiting teachers of that department. - GETS DIVORCE Cora E. Hobbs of this city was today granted a divorce from Clarence S. Hobbs. Desertion and failure to provide were named as grounds of action in the complaint. - The couple were curried in 1909,

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