Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 103, 11 March 1914 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 11, 1M4
M REBECCA CQNDO Testing of Seed Corn Explained to Farmers ADVERTISEMENT. WMik Sifosvilil Hit M7W3jvilG&e& PASSES B7TH MARK
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., March 1L -Tiie eighty-seventh birthday annlersary of Mrs. Rebecca Condo was.
b the cuBtom each year, celebrated
T a family dinner Sunday at the orae of her daughter, Mrs. Harriet 'aimer, of East Germanto-wn. Thlrty-
ne relatives and friends narticioated.
fhe dinner at noon assumed the pro-
ortions of a feast. Durins: the day
he Misses Ruth Palmer and Hazel Upe entertained the company with
everal piano duets. The guests were lr. and Mrs. George Stambaugh, Mr.
no Mrs. J. L. McDaniel, Mr. and Irs. J. W. Beard, Misses Amy Mc-
panlel and Gertrude Edington of Cam-
riuge City. Mrs. Tobias Murray and
Irs. Prank Murray and son of Riehaond, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Murray and
augrhter, Violet, of Knightstown, Mrs.
rownsend of Marion. Miss Nora A.
ampbeU of Milton, Mr. and Mrs. wilam Condo, Mrs. Kate Reioor and
on Curtis, Mrs. Barbara Brown. Mlsa
Hazel Gipe of Germantown, Mr. and
ire. Uriah Morgan, Miss Olive Mor-
;an, Prank Hoffman, Dubun, and .Mr.
nd Mrs. Samuel Kinsinjrer and m
Drville, of Stranghna.
Harry Beard is sick -with soartet
erer at the home of Mrs. Beard's
barents, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Griffin.
Relatives and friends to the nxrm-
ker of thirty gave Mrs. R. W. Whar-
rm a pleasant wrprise Sunday, tne
Msoasioa of her fifty-fifth birthday anpreraary. An elaborate dinner was wired at noon. Mrs. Wharton re
eled a number of nice gifts.
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and Mrs. B. C. Stanley, f Wb-
atr, Ind. spent Friday and Saturday
Wtth Mr. and Mrs. Delhi. The Stan
's are enronte to their new borne in
Mrs, TJreala Larrison and grnilaoghterr, Kathertne, spent the week tad wtth Mr. and Mra. Prank Hodge, it Springfield. Onfo. Mr. Btnd Mrs. Z. II. PaJehtmi fctvre movl to the William Hill farm ritrlefe they recently purchased. David Dixon waa called to Dayton
Saturday by the death of his uncle, 3oy Dixon. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Prettyman and eughter, Gene, of Cincinnati, and sa Edith Miller, of Columbus, were ireeK end guests of Mr. aad Mra. W. T. Miller. W. E. Jones and daughter, Mildred, ipent Saturday and Sunday with relaStcb at Bradford. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moon and baajr spent the week ond with Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Killbourne. Miss Irene Tlmmons was entertained at dinner Sunday by Mies Henristta Shinkle. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Spencer, of Bethel, Ind., and Mr. find Mrs. E. H. Young, spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary Young.
Mrs. L. J. Reid entertained Sunday
Misses Leota Walsh and Pari Clare, pf Richmond.
Move to West. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wood, of Willamsburg, who recently sold their
farm, spent Friday and Saturday
kvith Mr. ar.d Mrs. V.. A. Nelson, en-
toute to . Washington state, to .make heir, future home.
Mr. and Mrs. 13. I... McKee enter-
rained at a family dinner, Mr and Mra.
Elmer JicKec, of Richmond, Miss
Eva McKee. of Katon, Mr. anil Mrs. A. C. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
IWalley, Mr. and Mrs. C. U. McClure
kind daughter, end Mrs. Nancy A.
IWalley.
Mr. and Mrs. George W . Miller
entertained Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
Uolin Aiken and haby of Richmond.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Grubbs and J.
R. Miller, cf New Madison, Miss 131r. nche Brawley and J. E. Morrison.
Charles W. Baker has taken a po
sition with the Mc-Kelvy-Hine com
pany, at Piqua. cud left Saturday to take up his work.
C. E. Crane wcwnt to Enon, Ohio,
Monday, after a week's visit with Mr.
and Mrs. George F. Crane.
Mis3 Sylvia Paugherty and Harry
Morgan, of Rtahmonrl, spent Sunday
afternoon with local friends.
Mrs. Clara Mills Smelker, of New
Madison, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mills.
The seed corn testing campaign of A. D. Cobb, collaborator of the United States department of agriculture, started Tuesday with, his first seed com speech of the spring at the Economy high school. Not only member of the agricultural class heard the speech bnt many farmers also were present. The corn growing contest of toe Commercial cmb was explained there and the rules were given out. School children were requested to take to their homes any information they received at the school. Mr. Cobb warned the farmers that the eye is not keen enough to distinguish good seed corn from the unproductive and that every unproductive ear planted means a loss of $6 or $7 at harvesting time. Various kinds of seed testers were described and the rag doll and open box methods were recommended. It is probable that the latter will be used most during the season. Make Box Teeters. Members of the wood working class of the Economy schools as well as of other schools have made box testers and prepared them for testing. In order to make the work of the school children valuable to the farmers, it has been announced that the seed corn of any person applying will be tested at the schools and a careful record of germination kept. Mr. Cobb Is issuing letters to all Wayne county school teachers as follows: This Is the month to test seed corn. I am going to give a talk on Seed Corn Testing In as many schools as I can reach daring the month. The indications this spring are that much of the seed corn will be bad, and in order that some idea of the existing
conditions can be obtained, I am ask ing the help of the school children in doing some seed testing. This will be an interesting Btudy for the children, and will be of great good to the farmers. Where it is possible. I am asking that the school make a tester, and teat 10 or 15 ears for each farmer in the neighborhood, that desires the privilege. The fanner should be instructed not to pick out his best ears, but take them just as they come in his seed supply. The results of the test will show him whetehr or not his seed is good, and whether it will be necessary for him to make a complete test of his corn. A fairly good method of testing is described on pages 138-139 in Davis Productive Farming, but do not let the test run over seven days. Only ears that throw off a GOOD, STRONG germination in that time, are fit for planting. A standard tester is described in Purdue circular No. 25.. Send for it. The pupils will be asked to report the result of the test to the farmer at my office. I will complete a report of the results in. time lor it to be of use before planting time. If you can help in this work, get the pupils or a neighboring farmer to make one or more festers for your school, and let the pupils ask the parents if they wish the corn tested. I am having a helpful poster sent you from the Crop Improvement Committee, of Chicago. I hope that you will be able to cooperate with me in this work, and I will be glad to have you call on me for any help. Sincerely yours, ALEX D. COBB. Approved: C. O. Williams, County Superintendent.
week on account of the serious Hiness of Mr. Kempton's sister, Mrs. Russell. Mrs. Mary Parker and daughter, Elizabeth were gueets of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Teas the latter part of the week. Miss Marie Jackson is visiting her sister ,Mrs. R. Schuman in Connereville. John Dynes was painfully injured Saturday In alighting from his buggy. His foot slipped and be was thrown violently to the ground, breaking several ribs. C. B. Jackson is spending sereral days with relatives in Greenield. Edward Lane and family of near Fountain City, spent Sunday with N. A. Stevens and family. R. W. Koontz spent the week end with his parents at Laporte. Mrs. Edward Perfect returned Monday to her home in Robinson, I1L, after a visit of several weeks with T. B. Jones and family. Misses Opal Carver and Ethel George, high school students, are out of school on account of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. C. Davis and family spent Sunday with relatives near Ab-ington.
HOLLARN TO RUN MERRY-GO-ROUND
Permission to operate a merry-go-round in Morton park was granted Edward Hollarn, former superintendent of Glen Miller park, by the executive committee of the organization last night. The Richmond Lake and Park company will share in tifte profits. The executive committee consists of Ray Robinson, Richard Sedgwick, George Seidel, Charles Jordan and Alonzo Gardner.
The whaling season of 1913 has eclipsed all previous records, the total yield of oil for the world in that year being estimated at 800,000 casks.
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CHNTERvTLLE, Ind.. March 12.
The basketball team will go to Bloomington to compete in the basketball tournament. The team sceduled to be played is Vincennes.
The seniors won rrom tne jniuors
Monday night. 27 to 23.
The funeral of Abner Clawson, an
aged resident of this place, was held Tuesday at one o'clock from the late residence. Burial was in Earlham cemetery.
The Williams sisters have moved
from their fam into the Strickland property.
H. H. Feeii spent tne week end with relatives in Lynn. Mr. and Mrs. William Kempton were
called to Indianapolis the first of the
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By J. BENNETT GORDON. Arthur Capper, publisher, of the Topeka, Kansas, Daily Capital, is being quoted by the Anti-Saloon League as an authority upon the effects of prohibition in Kansas. Within the past week The Evening Item printed a letter from him-in which he states prohibition "is one of the grandest blessings ever bestowed upon this state" and "at the end of nearly a generation it may be truthfully said the prohibitory law has never been so well enforced as now." Therefore, I am right in presuming that the Anti-Saloon League and the "dry" leaders here are willing to take Arthur Capper as a good authority. Arthur Capper says: "The state (Kansas) consumes 3.69 gallons of liquor per capita a year, at a cost of $5,000,000." .The United States census for 1910 shows Kansas to have a population of 1,690,949. Multiply the population by 3.69 and you have 6,339,601, which is the number of gallons of liquor which even. Arthur Capper admits the people of prohibition Kansas consume every year.
And Mr. Capper only knows of the liquor which is sold through channels in the state of Kansas that must pay the government tax. His figures do not take into consideration the amount of liquor which is smuggled into Kansas by whiskey mail order houses and by other routes. However, we arc willing to let Mr. Capper's figures stand as they are. Kansas is known to have the most stringent prohibitory laws of any state in the union. Furthermore, it is known to have more effective enforcement of these laws than any other state which pretends to have prohibition. Yet, Kansas consumes
over 6,000,000 gallons of whiskey a year! We say whiskey, because liquor in Kansas cannot be sold for anything but medicinal
purposes, and whoever framed the laws doesn't consider beer!
a medicine.
in which minors are not allowed, or the cigar store, pool room, drug store or restaurant, so-called, where boys can congregaU without suspicion and get a drink "on the quiet". I ask this question of men. How many of you who drink even only semi-occasionally, took your first drink in a public bar room? Where do you think your boy will take bis? Will he take it in a saloon such as we have here, or will he take in a blind tiger, with its innocent and respectable surrounding and appearances, where other inducements such as pool, or baseball returns, or just a "loafing place for the crowd" are offered, where boys are welcomed and the things in which they are interested are discussed? It is these places that flourish as sooa as well-regulated law-abiding saloons go out. Now what are you asked to do? You are asked by tne Anti-Saloon League to take the business of selling liquor from the regulated, public saloon and turn it over to the legal blind tiger which knows no regulation or morals. You are asked to help it drive out moderate drinking in the regulated saloon and to help it confiscate the property of a man whom you have licensed, who is obeying his license, who Is not selling to your boy, who is a property owner and a law-abiding citizen, just because he is selling liquor by the drink without any hypocrisy or falsification and to turn thi3 business over to the fellow who surreptitiously sells it by the quart. The Evening Item says it wants me to give "facts." The AntiStiloon League advertising managed by its paid ofFiciaL S. Edgar Nicholson, says they want me to give "facts". The above are facts. Not only the G,33S,G01 gallons of "booze" annually consumed in "dry" Kansas prove them facts, not only the increase of the consumption of whiskey keeping pace with the increase
in "dry" territory prove them facts, not only the experience of every "dry" community prove them facts, not only the experience
nf W TastlA unrl Winchester and Marion and other drv cities
This brings us right down to the nub of the issue here, I in Indiana prove them facts, but the common knowledge of every
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vasterday facintr a future in this city under the present system
of regulated saloons which prohibits minors, or a regime of "blind tigers", boot-leggers, whiskey drug stores and "club rooms" that make a specialty of boys. That is the issue. And when the saloons go out every kind of liquor goes out except whiskey. Whiskey is the goods of the "blind tiger" because it is not bulky; because it doesn't require icing to keep it salable ; because it can be sold in small quantities that are easily concealed. Whiskey is the stock that is sold in the whiskey drug stores, because the Anti-Saloon League law-makers always very kindly exempt whiskey when they define medicinal drinks that drug stores may sell. This latter faet explains why it is that every whiskey distillery, whiskey wholesale house, and whiskey mail order concern in the United States are found working side by side and hand in glove with the Anti-Saloon League to make territory "dry." It may explain why it is that this great organization of paid agitators and attorneys will not make public where it gets its enormous funds to carry speakers all over the country, hire halls, send out millions of sheets of literature, rent expensive quarters, buy liberal space in all newspapers, buy street car advertising, buy bill board advertising and pay for expensively printed lithographs to go on the boards, hire a corps of crooked detectives to "frame up" cases at the opportune time and otherwise spend money to force communities dry insofar as the sale of beer is concerned. It has been asked to make public its receipts but it wouldn't. It has been openly and categorically charged that the "whiskey ring" is financing the Anti-Saloon League, and no evidence is submitted to disprove it. Be that as It may, whenever Anti-Saloon League law-makers frame up prohibition law ,or a local option law, or a "blind tiger" law they very considerately leave it so that drug stores can sell whiskey. And drug stores very promptly go into the business of selling whiskey as soon as the licensed saloons are voted out of a community. S. Edgar Nicholson talks about the number of new business concerns that would occupy the forty or fifty buildings in event the saloons are forced to close. But he doesnt tell you that probably half of them would be new drug stores that would be nothing but whiskey agencies. He doesn't tell you that in the state where he was superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League for awhile, the state of Pennsylvania, cities that are "dry cities smaller than Richmond, have as high as forty and fifty drug stores in them and that nine-tenths are nothing but whiskey joints.
It is a great campaign of "education" S. Edgar Nicholson is waging with his transcontinental speakers, his street cars, bill boards and army of workers. Nowhere have we seen in his advertising, nowhere have we heard his speakers give utterance to this statement : "Yes, men and women, if you close the salons
If it is facts the Item and tha Anti-Saloon League really want
they now have enough to demand their attempt in some way to answer them, or else adopt their usual tactics of simply yelling "liar" and talking about something else.
THAT "HELL OF A PARADE" IS ALSO WATER THAT HAS GONE OVER THE DAM. I know of no better time than now to take up the Item's editorial of last evening which reprinted an editorial I wrote in August, 1908, entitled "A Hell of a Parade" and commented upon it. Its discovery by the tditor of The Evening Item wa3 no doubt quite a shock to him, and he thought he had found some incriminating evidence against me. That editorial is water over the dam. I wrote the editorial, believing it was true. I changed my opinion about the matter when I found it was not true, and for that I owe no apology. Of course men who are bigoted enough to maintain wrong is right just because they once were wrong can never understand how any other man who keeps his mind open to the truth changes his mind. They immediately attempt to belittle and discredit him by quoting against him his former statements. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". The editor of The Evening Item is not answering the facts and argument I present today by quoting something 1 said nearly six years ago. What I said six years ago in the editorial "A Hell of a Parade" were not facts. They were nice sentences, for even the discriminating mind of the Item's editor says it was a" classic". Most "classics" are fiction. So was that ; which is probably why it w?as embalmed in the permanent literature of the AntiSaloon League, and is still doing sorry service in that cause of hypocrisy. I know that the licensed saloon as it is conducted tn Richmond, which is the saloon which I am defending as against the conditions that would ensue here if it were voted out, is not filling penitentaries. I know the saloons we have here are not connected with brothels. I know that the ranks of the "down and outs" in this city are not any greater than in cities that are "dry" or in states that have had prohibition. I know that the worst enemy to the working man is whiskery and I know the "blind tiger" and "boot-legger" cause more wreck than the licensed saloon of the type Richmond has. I know that hundreds of men working in the shops of Richmond have been accustomed all their lives to drinking beer to and from their shops or at mid day. I know, from the experience every "dry" city has had, that when the saloon with its glass of beer and its hot lunch is voted out there will appear the little whiskey bottle oa, the hip. I know that poor houses are not filled with the product a the licensed saloon, nor eighty per cent filled, nor half fiHed.
I know that the licensed saloon does not wreck aa manyi
homes as other agencies. More homes are mortcatred to birr
you will stop men getting a single drink ot beer or ale, but the j automobiles than to buy booze, more girls are ruined by beinsr drug store will go merrily on lawfully selling whiskey by the j pushed into "society" than are ruined by the licensed saloon, quart, selling it without a physician's prescription, merely upon The moving picture show and the skating rink alTord more oppor-t the written application of the man who wants to buy it." j tunities for the youth to go to the devil than the licensed saloonJ Voting this city "dry" will stop the brewery selling to pri- I know that the miserable wages paid by those who tterexj vate families. Sure, it will drive Demon Beer from the tables 'see inside of a saloon, by men who sit high in the synagognfli of hundreds of families of Richmond, homes where nothing ex-land thank God they are not like other men, has wrecked morel
homes and driven more girls to sell their virtue than fl& thei
saioons. , I know that the owners of tenement houses, the employar
of child labor, the proprietors of sweat shops are neither sale
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cept soberiety is taught and drunkenness is never thought of.
But what of that! In the minds of these Anti-Saloon Leaguers all families who have beer in their homes are drunkards, undesirable citizens, a menace to good governmnt, a handicap to t he town.
So the Anti-Saloon League is now spending money right and j t know that in everv citv where the "red light" district has
left in this city not to stop the sale cf liquor, not to bring about- j exposed, the owners of the building3 who form the white star
temperate ccncuions, dui io vuie ir.e weei oui oi iuwn ana vote-; traffic system are inose wnose names are iamuiar m una oesQ whiskey, cheap whiskey at that, in town. And they are doing j society and very frequently they are prominent in church -workJ this in the name of temperance, doing it in the name of religion, ! I have been "keen enough to discern and man enough toj doing it in the name of President Kelly's boy and your boy. 1 portray" the truth as I have learned it. I am now here doinaj Voting out regulated saloons that sell by the drink! Voting! that very thing because that is what I believe. Of course I ami in drug stores that sell by the quart! being paid for my services, but not for my convictions. There!
Remember the experience of lew Castle five years ago?is a distinction and a difference. Every man gets paid for hi
It listened to the Anti-Saloon League reformers and voted "dry"
while Richmond refused and voted to keep the regulated saloon. What happened? New Castle became a moral cesspool. Drug stores multiplied and grew rich. Drunkenness multiplied. And let President Kelly and Professor Pickell stick a pin here for the first time in New Castle's history there was a general debauchery of school children. They were found drunk in school buildings. They were found drunk at "parties". Boys and girls in high school were enticed into these "blind tigers" and besotted. One drug store was proved to have sold something like 1500 quarts of whiskey in a few months, and others were as bad. How's that for saving the boys, the children of plastic age and mind? Yet the law, the law h the Anti-Saloon League of this state stands for, permits this. The same law exists today. Under it blind tigers are flourishing in Winchester, in Kokomo, in Marion. Under it the distilleries of the United States are increasing their business in this state by hundreds of thousands of gallons a year. I am appealing to men in this campaign, men of Richmond, who have their eye teeth cut and who have nothing at stake in this fight except their own welfare and the welfare of their families. To such men who know the world out of the fullness of their own experience, I ask which they regard as the greatest menace to their boys of Richmond the licensed, orderly, law-abiding,
regulated saloon we now have, situated facing on a publie etreetjtign. It vrU, ba Mh Ji$gyj!
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services even ltoneyweu am; n.agar .Mcnoison aoes; preacners; do; the editor of the Evening Item does. But that does notfcnplyi they perform services contrary to their convictions. I am going to tell the people of this city what I honeell.r, believe will be the best for them. I have that right And let me tell the editor of the Item now that I have probably its Iceeivan interest in the welfare of the city as he has, and one that i probably as unselfish if he cares to take up that issue. Lefcj me tell S. Edgar Nicholson that I am no more an interloper here than he is, and that my record will stand the spot light for -integrity quite as well as his. As for the editor of the Item's fling about my being a hireling of the brewery for a few dirty pieces of silver, permit me to say that the dirt of the money 1 am taking was not ao filthy that he didn't grab it when it was offered to him for advmfSslntr space, nor it isn't so dirty that merchants in this city yA aretrying to put the licensed saloons out of business dorft take- it' when it is passed over their counter. At least I am not taking my money with one hand and tariff ing the man who gives it to me with the other. I have mora honor than that. If I have no use for a man or a business, I havel no use for their money. With these few comments more or less in personal defense. I shall refrain from any personal controversies regarding my.
appearance here or my integrity or sincerity until after the alac-i