Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 148, 2 May 1914 — Page 4
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THE .RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1914
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"Voters Daze
The citizens of Marion County are doomed
fnr- on aHaoV nf that disastrous maUdV, "Vot
Ul MVVMM " -w - ers' Daze," at next Tuesday's primaries. On that day, they will be compelled to select their nominees for county and township offices from almost four hundred names. This means that a very small minority of voters will know anything at all about the candidates for whom they vote. It means that many unworthy candidates have secured a place on the ballots. It means that a political machine has had to draw up these bewilderingly complicated tickets. Above all, it means that a great many of these nominees have been virtually appointed by the political bosses. It needs not be said that all this cannot, except by miracle, result in an efficient county administration. The best remedy for "Voters' Daze" is the short ballot. Why should citizens be burdened with the selection of a long list of relatively unimportant officials? As it is, the political boss does the appointing. Why riot have that appointing done by a few responsible authorities? If the people have only a few officials to elect, they will be far more able to elect the right kind of men. Self-government is not a failure, but our oldfashioned machinery has broken down. We need a simplification of political methods. We need to put all our eggs into one basket and then WATCH that basket
nothing and whose influence on my own thoughts ' could only be morbid.
"The past week has shattered my common
sense intention because I have found that apparently the greater part of humanity in New
York city is in the grip of an emotional horror. Our Eastar time has been invaded by a nightmare. We are able to realize that capital punishment matters little as it affects a few murderers each year, hut that it matters greatly inasmuch as it pUutesthe imagination, fans the hysteria and shakes the faith in organized society among millions of people. "But what ought to concern us Americans is the survival of barbarism, of savage emotionalism, of the blood-theory of law, and of the black hideous Superstition, which is infinitely more pervasive in its influence today, when everybody reads, than it was in England when they hung
corpses by the roadside."
MILTO
N TAKES GAME
FROM DUBLIN BOYS
Washington Township High
School Baseball Team Clashes With Dublin.
Capital Punishment The execution of New York's four gunmen has re-opened the old debate on capital punishment. Never before has it apparently occupied so many minds as now. Penologists, editors, preachers, teachers, reformers, sociologists, all manner of 'ists and 'ologists, have joined in to
hold up one end or the other of the argument. That the argument has two ends is one that we ourselves concede though we have our own opinion about it. Perhaps the strongest utterance against capital punishment comes from the pen of no less a person that John Collier. We recommend his words to the consideration of our friends who can see only the "pro" end of the question : "Till last week I had kept the entire subject out of mind, as being one where I could effect
That Library Tax . In response to a general demand; a commit
tee was appointed by the Commercial Club to make investigations "to show why the library is not more "popular. That committee found that many of the methods used everywhere
in wide-awake libraries to increase the pub
lie s use and appreciation of that institution
were not employed at the Morrisson-Reeves li-j brary, and that principally because of a lack of revenue. It, therefore, recommended that the income be increased to such a proportion as would be adequate for Richmond's library needs. After a careful analysis of the committee's report and after investigating the situation with care, those charged with responsibility in its administration seemed to have agreed that a five cent levy is necessary. Hitherto the maintenance tax has alternated between three and four cents. This coming year chances to be a four cent year. Therefore a five cent levy would be an increase of only one cent. The Morrisson-Reeves library operates under a special law which permits it to levy a tax of only six cents. That thtf limit is very low is proved by the fact that the general law, under which almost all public libraries are operated, fixes the limit at ten cents. Many cities with a higher tax rate than ours are levying that full amount. A five cent levy is only one-half what the state's library authorities feel to be required for financing a successful library. They have slender ground beneath them, therefore, who characterize this as "high and exorbitant." It is not
high. It is shamefully low. And the surprising thing is that the library administration has been able to hold the institution to its present grade of efficiency on so meager an income. To ask for a five cent levy (it would cost the average tax-payer only about seven cents) is just what the board should do. The library has reached such a stage of development that the only possible way to economize is to spend a little more money on it. It is a case where we can no longer stand still, but must either go forward or backward.
Average Value of Furniture $56, Assessors' Books Show
Reports of assessors to County Assessor William Matthews this week show that the assessing of real estate and personal property in the county is progressing about as usual. It is believed there will be statistics at the end of the assessing period which will
be of great use to the taxation committee of the Commercial club in making its report on the needed tax reforms of the state. In the assessing of household goods, the average for the city of Richmond for more than 6,000 families, is $53. The minimum is $10 a room and rich or poor, almost every family in Richmond pays taxes on about that sum, unless there is a shrewd assessor who is able to distinguish especially valuable household furnishings. Automobiles, of which 300 in Richmond have been placed on assessment sheets, have been entered at an average value of little more than $250. More than a year ago, statistics were taken showing that there were 450 automobile owners in the city owning more than 500 automobiles. However, many more than 300 will have been entered for taxation by May 15. the close of the period, and this will be an increase over last year. Auto Owners Escape. It was on the point of assessing automobiles that members of the state
board of tax -commissioners urged special attention by members of the assessing corps. Last year, it was estimated, that only one-half the auto
mobiles were assessed and the assessed values were far below fifty per cent of the actual value. Although there are no figures as
yet on what the assessed valuation of all property in the county will be, it is interesting to note some of the values placed on personal property by the assessors. The highest value placed on any household goods is $92; the highest on horses $150: highest average for a
township on cattle $44; lowest value on cattle for township $24; lowest on horses' for township $56; highest average on sheep for township $7; lowest average $2; highest average on hogs $14; lowest average on hogs $6; highest average value on automobiles $360; lowest average on automobiles $71; lowest value on household goods $22. It is not Improbable that there will be many adjustments in assessments. It has been pointed out that the average hog In Center township, assessed at $14, is no better hog than the average hog of Green township, assessed at $6. The sam erule applies to household goods and other personal property. No report has been made on the real estate.
Job, and he has delivered the goods. Cabaret performers for one-night stands are difficult to pick up, and when it comes to landing and entire flock pf them, it requires unusual skill. Brother Gordon has closed with the J. Gomes vaudeville agency, of Cinnati, for six high-class cabaret stars, who will grace the stage during the convention banquet on Friday night of next week.
MILTON, Ind., May 2. A large num
ber of persona witnessed the baseball
game Friday afternoon. The Dublin high school played the township high school at Milton, and the Milton team won, IB to -3. A piece of plastering fell at the school house Friday afternoon, striking John Posey Jones, one of the pupils, In the bead, and inflicting t severe wound. Miss Hazel Murley is spending som.
time with Mr. and Mrs. Owen Murley at Kendallvllle. . Misses Cora Kellam and Miss Mary Sills will go to' M uncle to take a course in the Normal school. Miss Kellam is a graduateOf the 1914 class and Miss Sills of the class of 1913. ' James Napier was slightly injured a few day) ago while at work at the Westslde cemetery. A heavy rain and windstorm came up, blowing the cemetery tent from the ground, and a pole struck Mr. Napier on the head, making a severe wound. Leo Connell, little -son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Connell, is spending the
week with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy, south of town. Elmer Griffith, of Indianapolis, visited his sister, Mrs. Lute Lantz, Jr., and accompanied her to Connersville Friday to visit Mrs. M. E. Kinsey. Relatives here are in receipt of a. letter telling of the critical illness of Mrs. Thomas Boling of Arcanum, O. She is a sister-in-law of Mesdames Harrison Hicks, Willis Leverton and Clark Brattain. Harry Manlove is temporary rural carrier on Route 17 in place of Frank Morris, resigned. Milton Masonic lodge will confer the Master Mason degree on two candidates Monday evening. A number of visitors are expected. The seniors of the township high school have their class flag, navy blue and -old gold, floating from the flag staff at the school building. John T. Manlove, Sr., is again quite ill at his home southwest of Milton. Mrs. Clyde Miller has gone to Arcanum, O., to visit her aunt. Miss Audrey King of Centerville Is the guest of Jesse Moore and family. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Beeson and Mrs.
Charles Knlese were Richmond vis
itors Friday. Sunday Church Services. Methodist Sunday school at 9:15
The Epworth League will meet at the ! usual hour, as will also the Junior League. In the evening the Rev. F. M. Westhafer will deliver the baccalaaureate sermon to the graduates of the high school and the Eight grade.
Special music has been arranged for
the occasion by the united choirs of
the churches and the Methodist orchestra.
Friends Sunday school at 9: IB;
preaching by the pastor, Rev. Mary Mills, at the regular morning hour. There will be no service at night, owing to the baccalaureate services at
the M. E. church.
Christian Bible school at 9:15;
preaching at the regular morning hour 1 a. j a T Tl " . .
Dy me pastor, ine n.ev. r . nicvurmick. At the morning service the matter of business pertaining to the
new baseement-of the church building
will be presented for consideration. Christian Endeavor will meet at the usual hour. There will be no service at night on account of the services at the Methodist church. The school exhibit Friday afternoon was largely attended by patrons and friends of the school. The display was interesting. In the primary grade taught by Miss Emma Gingrich, models of animals and birds made from putty were shown. In the eighth year room, work in drawing, literature and cooking was on display. In the high school was shown work in drawing, literature, agriculture and history. In the domestic sciene room cakes and
pies formed the exhibit. On other tables sewing was shown.
Mrs. Wilbur Elwell entertained the Embroidery club Wednesday afternoon. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Albert Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Verner Wallace, who lived east of town, have moved to Connersville. Mrs. S. Templin has received word that her brother-in-law, Benjamin Hayden 1b very Bick. - Rev, Westhafer will preach at Doddridge cbapel Sunday morning.
Relatives and friends here have re-
thousand. Many who neglected to heed the warning that "no exemptions would be made after 9 o'clock Thursday night, were turned away disappointed yesterday. Although it will be almost a week before the exemptions are tabulated and totaled, it is believed the amount will run close to $1,250,000. The auditor's office was kept open until late to accommodate those who waited until the last minute. The filing of all mortgage exemptions in the county means a saving to
taxpayers filing them of a sum approximating $50,000 annually. The!
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A Happy Home (Read What Penma Did) Mrs. Jamee F. Summitt, No. lOOf Bast Eighth St, Muscatine, Iowa, writes: . "M health was mo miserable for years that X was practically an Invalid. We bad no family, owing to my ill health. I was Induced to alve Penma a trial, and found very qulcUff that It was nelpla me. .
ceived cards announcing the marriage j filing a mortgage exemption repres-
of Denver C. Harlon and Mrs. Lavene
Bowmaster of EastGermantown. The "jride is the daughter of the late Amos ind Katherine Morris Caldwell, and vas reared here. Venton Ward and Miss Laverna "leall were married Thursday afteron at the Christian parsonage, the iev. F. C. McCormick officiating.
I MASONIC CALENDAR I
Saturday, May 2 Loyal Chapter No. 49, O E. S.f stated meeting. Monday Richmond Commandery, No. 8, K. T. State conclave. Tuesday Richmond lodge. No. 196, F. and A. M. Stated meeting. Wednesday Webb lodge. No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting; wrk in Master Mason degree, commencing promptly at 7 o'clock. Refreshments. Thursday Wayne Council, No. 10, R. and S. M. Stated assembly. Friday King Solomon's chapter. No. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocation.
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sentingtthe maximum allowed by law, is $22.26 a year, under the present tax rates.
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Many in Final Rush for Exemptions.
Between five and six hundred mortgages have been filed, bringing the number for this were up to about two
Last call for the parade! You, Mr. PostC member, are in
eluded in this call if you have not fully made up your mind about the parade next Saturday morning, the
second day of the convention. It will
require but a short time and will give Post C the boost that it deserves.
Practically the entire membership of
the post should be In line that morn ing.
T. S. Hogan, of St. Louis, national
secretary of the T. P. A., and W. O.
Hudson, of New Orleans, national director, are two of the big guns of the organization whotre to be here next week. Secretary Hasty received word from Secretary Logan a few days ago to the effect that he and Mr. Hudson will be here Friday afternoon in time for the banquet, and will remain Saturday to attend the convention sessions. It is also possible that George H. Armstrong, of Merchantville N. J., president of the national organization, will be here. He has been tendered a special invitation, and if his arrangements can be made
j he will accept.
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Next week the big convention for which the membership of Post C has been waiting these many days, will take place, and the members of the several committees who for weeks have been giving much of their time to the good of the cause will see the fruitful results of their efforts. The convention 'has so completely overshadowed everything in connection with Post C affairs that real live gossip in the ranks of the boys has beten lost sight of. The program for the week will be found elsewhere in today's Palladium. The Rev. J. S. Lightbourn, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, has accepted the appointment as chaplain of Post C, and will officiate for the first time at the ceremonies opening the state convention. r Charles Morgan. Sr., was at the Post rooms this week for the first time in a month or more, having just returned from New York, where he was ' visiting his son. Charles Morgan, Jr,
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Perry J. Freeman, of the eonvention decorating committee, has been busy. Things have shaped up to such a degee that early next week many of the business houses will have the "fixin's" on. Beck & Sons, of Cincinnati, who were given the contract for decorations, have had representatives here during the past week, and they have done fairly well in the way of securing private contracts for their line of work. M. L. Osborn, secretary of Post B, Indianapolis, was a visitor at the post rooms Wednesday night. E. E. Aughe, of Kokomo, who holds membership in Post J, Joplin, Mo., has been here during the .week on business and was entertained at the post rooms Thursday night. A. Gordon, chairman of the cabaret section of the entertainment committee, which- has had charge of the plans for the state convention banquet, may soon blossom out as a full-fledged theatrical manager in addition to a traction official. When the post hoys decided months ago that the Richmond convention should be "different," and that a cabaret performance should be part of the "trimmings" for the affair, Alexander G., was put on the
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