Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 109, 18 March 1914 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEpNESDAY, MAR. 18, 1914

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RICHMOND CLAIMS i ASSOCIATION TITLE Local Y. M. C. A. Team Is Ready to Meet Any "Y" Five in Ohio and Indiana.

PURDUE SEEKS LEAD IN LEAGUE

UNIVERSITY LEAGUE STANDING. Won. Lost Pet.

Purdue 5 2 Princeton 4 3 Yale 3 4

"With the refusal of the Kokomo Y, M. C. A. basketball team to meet tie Ric hmond -Y" . champs, the local five now claims the association championship of Imliaua and Ohio. Kokomo has been Richmond's only rival in the Hoosier state, and with the forfeiture of that game, leaves tho locals a? c lear title for the Indiaaia race. SThat the local team has a just right to the claim in the Buckeye state is ctrtain. The Hamilton, Dayton, MidcHetown and Cincinnati teams are regarded as the fastest in Ohio, and as by games played with these teams and eomparative scones, the local five is r;ntd nhove tiu combinations of the neighboring state. 1 Kokomo b return to play the "Y" team is evidently a case of cold feet. Kokomo agreed to play here early in the season, and apparently intended to kep the agreement, but canceled the lxal game later, for the reason that the team intended entering the state meet at Indianapolis. After thai meet vas called off, Manager mining of the locals, wired Kokomo for a game. After some delay the up-state management sent a reply tp the effect that the team would like to plav here, but did not consider it advisable at this time, owing to the fact that one of their men was out of the game. When asked for a later dale Duning was informed that there was nothing doing. As Kokomo was the only Indiana leain standing in the path of the local outfit, the Richmond crowd nov claims the right to the rag of Indiana and Ohio Y. M. C. A. teams. The locals would like to hear from any other team in association circles r ' I-,p state that would claim the title.

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Lost Nights Results. Purdue, 12; Harvard, 4. Yale, 21; Princeton, 9.

Purdue held her lead in the University league last night by trimming the UflVirarH t - . 1 o J ... 1. f .1 ..ft Al 1 from

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winners, while Parish and Bescher didt

good work for the losers. T,ine-up and summary: Purdue. Harvard. Foster Bescher Forward. Dodd Retz Forward. Kennedy Parish Center.

Long Ross I Guard. j Peters Thornton ;

Guard. Fields Dodd, 3; Kennedy, 2; Fos ter, Ross Bescher. Foul Points None. Referee Rice.

ISSUES CHALLENGE TO LOCALjlGHTERS Elze Barnes, Farmer, Wants to Battle for City Lightweight Title.

CONSIDER THREE TEAMS FOR GAME

YALE DOWNS PRINCETON. Yale proved too fast for the Princeton outfit last night, winning by a 21 to 9 count. The team work of the Eli crew was of stellar order, and the Tigers were helpless throughout the game. Bonner and Woodhurst did effective work for the winners. Lineup and summary: Yale. Princeton. Cook Porter Forward. Bailey Gordon Forward. Fuller Stafford Center. Xearon, Woodhurst Morris

j Guard. 1! Bonner, Piatt Cooper

Guard. Fields Woodhurst, 2; Porter, 2; Fuller, 2; Gordon, Cook, Nearon, Bonner, Piatt. Foul Points Porter, 3. Cook. Referee Rice.

fFROM TRAINING CAMPS

Just what basketball team will meet the "Y" five here Saturday night, as tho mnnuBpmpnt of the locals has not

agreed to terms with teams under consideration, is problematical. St. ! Mary's of Dayton, Covington, Ky., or ; the Columbus (Ind.) quintet will be j billed for that night. j Although all three teams are high-i class organizations, the St. Mary'sij team would be a big card, as that j team deefated the Dayton Gyms, theti hlinch that gave the locals' their- only? defeat this season. I Either Columbus or Covington'CouldiJ tflvo thr locals a hie battle. Coluin-i

bus i6 a contended for the Indianajj

title of independent teams, dui re-, cently was elim'-ited by the Detch. Specials, of Indianapolis. Covmgtom has defeated the Middletown aggregation by an overwhelming score. Middletown in turn, held the local five to ai close count several weeks ago at Iiddletown.

The Indianapolis Indians celebrated St. Patrick's day by having a half day off duty. The Indians were honored guests at the auto races and athletic carnival held at Hot Springs.

Elze C. Barnes, erstwhile resident of the Panic Proof City, now working on a farm near Richmond, today asked the sporting editor of the Palladium to issue a challenge for him. Elze is out for the title of lightweight champion of Richmond and is willing to fight any time and to meet all comers weighting in at 130 to 133 ringside. Since Elze's return to the soil he says he has kept in training and that he feels in the pink of condition. He weighs 138 but he asserts he can easily take off a few pounds in case he finds any Richmond man who wants "to take him on." He is 28 years old. He wants to fight twenty rounds and wants to put up a little purse of $200 that he will come out winner.

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Tlte White Sox trimmed the Portland Beavers yesterday at Santa Maria Cal. Bill Lathrop did the pitching for the Sox. and the best the coast champs could do against him was six bingles. Bill Phillips and his squad of Hoosier Feds, last year's winners in the outlaw league, are working hard at Wichita Falls, with the intention of repeating the trick again this season. The Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs engaged in a swatfest yesterday at Jacksonville, Fla. The champs biffed the 'pellet for sixteen safe swats, which netted fifteen runs.

IS SATISFIED

The battery men of the Richmond high school nine held a strenuous work out at the playgrounds yesterday afternoon. Coach Nohr is well satisfied with the form displayed by the men, and thinks this department of his machine well taken care of. Hart, Hafner and Williams comprise the pitching staff, with Orbaugh and Grimes on the receiving line. Blondy Hart, the basketball star and foremost athlete in the school, gives the most promise in the slinging line, as he is older and has had more experience than the others. Williams is a veteran of the team, and will make good this year. Hafner, who is a freshman, gives promise of developing into a good athlete. T "Y" COMES BACK f ON ITS ALLEYS The Y. M. C. A. bowling team came back last night and walloped the Pan Handles three straigh games. Green was the only man of the Railroaders who could connect, while every man on the association combination did

fair work. A count of 191, by Erk, was high schore, but Green averaged the best in the series with scores of 159, 190 and 157. Scores: Y. M. C. A. Parke 146 172 132 Parker 128 176 134 Flood 147 154 loo Erk 148 191 136 Blind 140 140 140 Totals 710 823 698 Pan Handles. Green 159 190 157 Foster lift 123 141 Porter 140 140 140 Ringhoff 118 110 127 Gillespie 148 156 132 Totals 648 719 697

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If Richmond votes dry either 56 business houses will be emptied and will remain empty, or they will be re-occupied by other lines of business. If they remain empty, or even half of them remain empty,

it means a depreciation of the value of every business property;

in tne city, it means tne lowering 01 assessments and tnis means a higher tax rate. 56 empty business houses also means a "dead" city.

But the "drys" claim they will replace the saloons with other!

lines of business with shoe dealers, dry goods merchants, furniture stores, clothing concerns and other concerns. Of course, they furnish no guarantee of this. Of course, it doesn't happen that way in towns that have gone "dry". Kokomo has been dry for five years and has eleven vacant business houses right in the center of the city! But we will argue that matter later. Just for today, let us concede that the "drys" can pull off a miracle and induce 56 new business houses to come here in the face of 250 working men just being thrown out of a job. We say, let us concede that claim, for argument's sake. The "drys" also claim that $600,000 is now spent every year in Richmond for liquor. Don't know where they got their figures, but won't quarrel about it. It certainly is high enough, for if they could have added another dollar to their charges against

saloons they would have done so. So, now we have the situation as the "drys" claim it will be if they win. 56 saloons out. 56 new business concerns in. The $600,000 that now is spent for liquor being spent with these 56 new business concerns. That is an average of only $10,715 a year that will be spent with each of the proposed new business concerns. Less than $1,000 a month! Why that's a joke! The business man in this city who doesn't take in more than $1,000 a month can't pay expenses. He would go broke inside of six months. And this calculation is on the assumption that every cent of the $600,000 which the "drys" allege is now spent for liquor would be spent with these 56 new business concerns they claim they will bring here. It is a cinch that unless the "drys" can guarantee new business concerns at least a gross business of $1,000 a month, they are not going to fill these 56 rooms. And if they do guarantee it, and 56 new business concerns move in and get all the money that is now being spent for drink, where are the merchants who are already here going to be benefited? In view of the fact that they are going to lose the business of 250 men and families who are going to be forced into idleness and out of town by closing saloons, it looks like the very best the present merchants can hope for is a loss. And if the "drys" are going to give all this $600,000 to the new merchants who are going to come here, what becomes of their argument about the enormous increase there will be in savings accounts and building and loan associations? You know the man who spends all his money for clothing or boots and shoes can't put any more money in the bank than the man who spends it for booze. You can't both spend your money and save it. You can't spend this imaginary $600,000 booze bill on dry goods in order to get new stores to come here, and at the same time put the $600,000 in the building and loan. Isn't that plain? And if you don't spend it on dry goods and other commodities, then you won't get any new stores here. And if you get them here and give them all this $600,000 what have they got when it is divided up? Not enough to meet their expenses! Which means they fail and give the city's "panic proof" reputation a black eye! And if you get these 56 new stores here and they make enough to live on and become profitable, what becomes of the f-tores we already have here? Did you ever stop and think when the "dry" speakers and this anonymous "Citizens' Committee" tell you they will replace these 56 saloons with 56 new business concerns that they are promising to increase the business concerns of this city about 33 per cent, without adding a single customer. If they do this, and the new stores are worth having, it means they will get their share of the present business; and when you increase the stores 33 per cent and don't increase the buying public by a man and give everybody an even break, it means the stores now in existence are going to do only two-thirds the business they are doing now. Will that be an asset or a liability ? If the present stores of this city are to lose one-third of their

business because the "drys fill these empty buildings with new competitors, is it an asset or liability? Why, men of Richmond, this "dry" slogan "Vote Dry and Boom Richmond" is the greatest fake that has ever been introduced in this city. Who discovered this city was a "rotten" place to live? Who discovered that its being "wet" was injuring business? Who discovered that the policy under which this city has grown and prospered and become famous as a "panic proof" city, where hard working men owned their homes who discovered all this was bad for Richmond? It wasn't known January 20, 1914, just two months ago. when a delegation came here from Marion (the leading "dry" city in the state) to make an investigation as to why Richmond is so far ahead of Marion. 45 leading merchants and manufacturers of Richmond were at that Commercial Club banquet and several of them made talks. None of them apologized for Richmond. None of them said the city was "rotten".

What was the testimony of J. Wood Wilson, chairman of that delegation of Marion business men? "Richmond is one of the most progressive towns in the Middle West." It has never been proclaimed that Richmond is behind other cities until the last thirty days, when a lot of Anti-Saloon League orators from California to Massachusetts have come into the city and asked you to vacate 56 business houses, 250 dwellings, throw 250 men out of work, wipe out an annual expenditure of $235,000 among the business men and $14,000 with the municipality because your city is "rotten". Now which do you believe? Are the conditions under which Richmond has prospered and become the object of envy by sister cities an asset or a liability?'

THEN WHY ISN'T IT. STOPPED? "If the whiskey, which Mr. Gordon asserts passes through Richmond three nights a week, is really consigned to "dry" cities, its sale can now be prevented, just as any liquor." Prof. Russell. Then why isn't it prevented? The proof of the deed is its doing. If Prof. Russell hasn't been able to stop it by this time, how is he going to stop it after Richmond votes "dry"?

KILLING THE CIGAR INDUSTRY. The cigar stores of Richmond, outside of those which have factories connected with them, do not use Richmond made cigars. None of the drug stores of the city use Richmond made cigars. None of the news stands or hotels handle Richmond made cigars. The saloons don't handle many of any other kind. The cigar manufacturers are authority for the statement that threefourths of their trade is with the saloons. If the saloons are closed that business is wiped out, absolutely. It cannot be replaced. Last year the local cigar manufacturers, according to internal revenue figures, manufactured 1,334,000 cigars. These cigars wholesaled at $30 a thousand. That was $40,020. Three-fourths of that sum was sold to the saloons, which was $30,015. This will be wiped out if the licensed saloons are closed. The wages paid out to cigar makers last year aggregated $21,216. Three-fourths less business means at least three-fourths less work and wages. Three fourths of $21,216 is $15,912 that will be lost in wages to cigar makers if the licensed saloons are closed. This means that nine or ten of the cigar factories in Richmond must close, that all but a few of the local cigar makers must leave the city, and that at least half of the little cigar stores which make their own cigars must close. It means an immediate loss of $45,927 in wages and products. Is this an asset or a liability? Where is this campaign to drive workmen away from Richmond going to stop, if it once gets started? Once let a community get in the habit of legislating all business out of existence simply because a few object to it, and you have a return to the "blue laws" of the Puritan! Out in Kansas, where prohibition has existed for so long and has failed to produce morality and temperance, agitation is now going" on to close all pool rooms and billiard parlors, because people who insist upon their kind of morals don't like pool. In Philadelphia, proper, the blue laws prohibit the playing of golf or lawn tennis on Sunday even on private grounds. So it goes. But to return to the cold, hard figures. Let us revise the table of assets of the licensed saloon up to date. License fees and taxes $ 14.21 1.64 Annual rentals 34,104.00 To Municipal plant and L. H. & P. plant for light and power 7.682.72 To ice dealers 12.320.00 To fuel dealers 10.051.00 To meat dealers (for lunches) 21.220.00 To bakeries (for lunches) 14.144.00 To wages for employes (250 men) 131,210.00 To cigar dealers 30.015.00 To wages of cigar makers 15.912.00 Total $290,869.36 The voters of Richmond are asked to wipe out these wages, wipe out these expenditures, wipe out $14,000 of municipal revenue, wipe out the local cigar industry, and throw 250 men now employed at the Minck brewery and the saloons, and also the cigar makers of Richmond out of a job. Is that a business proposition? Is it an honorable proposition? Is it "booming" Richmond to do this? Is it hysteria or sanity?.

THOSE KANSAS CITY FIGURES. The World's Almanac for 1914, Page 686. gives the city tax rate of Kansas City, Kansas, as $1.64. That is the figure I quoted and my authority for it. Mr. Nicholson says that figure is a lie because he got a private letter from somebody which states the Kansas City, Kansas, city tax rate is only 67.6 cents! The "Citizens' Committee" has now endorsed Mr. Nicholson's private figures by embodying them in its advertising. Now if the "Citizens' Committee" will look over the files of the Item they will find that on March 4, 1914, just two weeks ago, they printed on page 8 of that paper, a statement given out by the "Citizens' Cfcmmittee" in which they quote a letter written by W. S. Hannah, secretary of the Kansas City, Kansas, Mercantile Club, in which Mr. Hannah told how the city tax rate for 1913 was $1.61! Now we leave it up to the "Citizens Committee" to get itself untangled on that Kansas City, Kansas, tax rate as best it may!