Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 66, 27 January 1915 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27,' 1915.

The Richmond PaulaiiIM

AND SUN-TBLBOZUM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Sts. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

In Richmond. 10 cent i tNt By Mall. In adrano one year, $6.00; tlx month . $1.60; one month. 46 cents Rural Routes. In advance one year, $2.00; six months, $1.25; one month 25 cents. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Second Class Mall Matter. I Justice for the Railroads. Eight years ago our state legislature enacted a law reducing railroad passenger fares from three cents per mile to two cents per mile on all railroads operating within the boundaries of Indiana. Following this enforced reduction of thirty-three and one-third per cent in the railroads'

income from passenger traffic, our state legislature from time to time during these eight years has, by legal enactments, increased the operating expenses of the railroads by forcing them to adopt various measures looking towards the greater safety of the traveling public. From the demands of the public, of our state legislature and the Interstate Commerce Commission, Indiana railroads have been compelled to equip themselves with the far more expensive steel coaches, automatic block systems, increased train crews, decreased hours of work per day for train crews, the beginning of grade crossing elimination, etc. During these eight years, Indiana railroads have been afflicted in other ways as well, and among these by the identical economic disease that has been afflicting Indiana citizens: namely.

the higher cost of living. Besides the expensive improvements enumerated above, our railroads have been compelled to pay greatly increased wages to their employes, as well as encounter increasing prices for their coal, new equipment and maintenance materials. The Interstate Commerce Commission, which has made an exhaustive study of the railroad situation in the entire United States, recently granted to the railroads the right to increase their interstate passenger rates from two cents to two and one-half cents per mile. At the same time, it advised all railroads operating in states having two cents per mile laws to appeal to the legislatures of those states for the right to charge as much per mile for intrastate traffic as they are now allowed to receive for interstate passenger business. Acting on this advice and driven by the very necessities of their situation, railroads operating in Indiana are asking our state legislature to permit them to increase their passenger rates in the state from two cents per mile to two and one-half cents per mile.

The arbitrarily reduced passenger Income andV

the arbitrary as well as economic increases in

operating expenses and fixed charges have help

ed to place Indiana railroads in a position where

their most precious possession, their credit, is

jeopardized. During their last fiscal year, sev

enteen of the principal railroads operating in In

diana suffered a net loss of over $12,000,000.

Railroads are huge borrowers. They have to be. They are compelled to borrow millions of

dollars at stated intervals to retire old loans fall

ing due and they are forced to borrow millions

more in order to pay for the constantly increas

ing requirements of the growing country they

traverse. The true basis of their ability to bor

row these vast sums, the very foundation of their

credit ,is their earning capacity. If railroad net earnings are good, then Invest

ors will buy their bonds and other securities, be

cause they feel their principal and interest is se

cure. Ji railroad net earnings are very low, or

absolutely non-existent, as when losses and de

ficits occur, investors under no circumstances

will part with good money -to buy their bonds or

other securities. In the first case, the railroads' credit is good because their earnings are good. The railroads are in position to buy freely the things they need and to employ all the men they should to operate their lines at top-notch efficiency. In the second case, if their net earnings are low or non-existent, the railroads must perforce curtail their purchases and reduce their working forces in an endeavor to live within what income they have, to meet the interest charges on their outstanding obligations and so avoid receivership. In the one case, the railroads are enabled to contribute their mighty share towards the general prosperity of the entire nation. In the other they are compelled to add fuel to the flames of

business depression and labor unemployment. We have been compelling the railroads to become just and unarbitrary in their dealings with the traveling public and shippers. The force of this expensive and much needed lesson will be lost if the traveling public and shippers in their turn are unjust to the railroads. Therefore, The Palladium trusts the members of the state legislature at present in session will bear these facts, in mind when they come finally to consider the justice of granting the petition for higher passenger rates for the railroads operating in Indiana. It hopes our state lawmakers, guided by the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission which was arrived at only after years of study and investigation, will repeal the present two cents per mile fare law and pass a two and one-half cents per mile fare law. In this way Indiana can contribute her share towards improving the credit situation of the railroads of our country and thereby aid them in doing their share to speed the return of highly prosperous times alike for capital and labor.

Farmers Flay Jones

Highway Superintendent's Charge of Petty Graft Arouses Protest.

A storm of protest from the farmers has followed the statement by County Highway Superintendent Jones In which he charges the farmers with petty graft in working out their road tax. The following communications, have been received in answer to the interview with Mr. Jones: Editor Palladium If you will give me space in your forum I will answer a few charges made by our road superintendent in which ho accuses farmers and supervisors of grafting in their road work. I do not know of more of an insult that a man could heap upon hia neighbor and fellowfarmer. I have the highest regard for this official. But In this case I believe he should be made to substantiate or retreat on his accusations. Some time ago I had the pleasure of having a conversation with him, and told him that the farmers wanted to work on their roads, and if they were turned over to the county they would not have that privilege, and he replied they would have to come to it sooner or later. It looks to me as

if he wants to heap something on the farmers they do not want. Gets Needed Supplies. The road superintendent seems to get everything he wants. Give the road supervisor the necessary machinery and funds to do the work with and see If you don't have better roads. Htf also made the assertion that roads in the townships were not being graded. I personally know that some of the roads in Jefferson township were graded in 1914. He says that supervisors have teams standing idle a good part of the time. To this I want to say that the farmers help each other load their wagons even if there is an extra

shoveler, and often times the pit is too small to allow more than two teams in at one time. One of his assistants hauled out of one of our pits and did his own shoveling and hauled it on county roads. Now I suppose that is all right, owing to whom it may be. During the campaign of 1914 one of the candidates came out here to do a little work for his party and himself. He made a most desperate plea fcr county supervision of all township roads, and he met with a vigorous rebuke, which stopped his tantalization of the farmers. This same candidate acknowledged that farmers would cease working the roads. Becomes Political Issue. . I believe in this case it is more of a campaign issue. The superintendent also wanted taxes raised and partially suceeded in having them raised 2 per cent for 1915. I think the farmers should make a reply to these charges and prove that they are competent to work and- put their own roads in shape. A READER.

and we will keep them in as good shape as you will the county roads, and you may have the jail-birds on your side. A PARMER.

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DEMANDS FAIR PLAY. Editor Palladium I saw the interview with Mr. Jones in your paper about the flaws in the road system which the farmers worked out. It seems to me Mr. Jones has a poor opinion of the farmers. He speaks as if they were all grafters. Now I think if Mr. Jones would play fair with the farmers he would find out that he had about as many grafters in his employ as the farmers have. I don't like the way Mr. Jones sizes the farmers by the man who spent one hour hauling scoops and got $3.50 for It, or one day's work. I wonder how many times Mr. Jones or his superintendent went out and worked an hour or two or even a half day and charged for a full day, or sat In his office with his feet upon his desk smoking cigars and charging $4 a day for same? Watch Real Workers. I believe if Mr. Jones had been with me last fall where I was spreading gravel, raking stones out with a rake and putting them ahead for the next load with a scoop shovel, he would have though I was coming as near earning my $2 a day as he was earning his $4 a day looking on. Now, Mr. Jones, please don't size up our industrious farmers by the poor, weakest one we have. I am afraid he is giving us farmers

a bad name in the eyes of his city ; friends. Now, Mr. Jones, I will agree that we get In some poor supervisors, . but you can't blame the farmers fori

that altogether. Now, Mr. Jones, you must recollect the foundation of the roads you are looking after was made before you were born, and the roads the farmers work out their road tax on never had any foundation. You give us the township roads with as good foundations as the county roads and the same amount to spend on them,

County Deaths

CAMBRIDGE CITY Hiram Elliott, 80, one of the oldest residents of Dublin, and for many years connected with the affairs of the town and county is dead at his home. Mr. Elliott, who, with his aged wife, resided on Main street, had risen from his chair and gone into an adjoining bedroom, when he fell across the foot of the bed, stricken with cerebral hemorrhage. The widow, two sons, Frank of Dublin, a mail clerk on the Pennsylvania; Edgar of Milwaukee; two aged sisters, Tamir and Emaline, and a granddaughter, Rolene, of Dublin, survive him. . . . .

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Milton's Social News

MILTON, Ind., Jan. 27 The funeral

services' of the late Sanford Little, 64, were conducted from the house, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. F. M. Westhafer, pastor of the M. E. church gave the sermon and the Rev. Mary Mills of the Friends church gave

the prayer. The selected singers were

Albert Newman, John A. Brown, Mrs.

J. A. Brown and Miss Cora Brown. There were many beautiful floral tributes of respect The interment was at the Lutheran cemetery, at East Germantown.

Mrs. J. A. Brown was called to Rich

mond, Tuesday by the Illness of her

sister, Mrs. L. M. Gentle. Mrs. H. M. Heist, who is also an aunt of Mesdames Brown and Gentle, also went to the bedside of her niece.

Mrs. Benton Wagner was a Rich

mond visitor Tuesday.

B. F. Connelly of the Doddridge

neighborhood, will have a public sale of stock, farm implements, vehicles, and harness and corn and hay, and household goods at the farm known as the Frank Eby farm, four miles south of Pennville and a mile north of the Potter shop, Wednesday, February 3. The sale will begin at 9 a. m. and a

luncheon will be served by the ladies of Doddridge chapel.

The Rev. Mr. Propst gave an excel

lent sermon at the Friends church,

Monday evening, taking as his text,

'How long, halt ye between two opin

ions: If the Lord be God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him."

Mac c Beeson of Indianapolis, was

the guest of his sister, Mrs. Ella Hoffman. Tuesday.

Visits Her Brother. Mrs. Delia Hurst is spending a few

days with her brother, Frank Connelly, of the eastern neighborhood.

The Country Thimble club of the

Bouth neighborhood gave Mr. and Mrs.

! at the sale given by Harry Ginn, near

East Germantown, Tuesday.

xne Rev. Dr. Powell, field reprosentatire of the Methodist hosi ital at

from Milton M. E. church of $80 of this

Doddridge

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chapel congregation gave

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uew uome in Cambridge City, Monday evening. The ladles were accompanied by their families and those present were Mr. and Mrs. Frank DuGranrut and son. Mr. and Mrs. John Coyne and daughter Miss Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Will Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wallace and Miss Ruby Leeds. The company formed a bobsled party and carried oysters and Winnies with them to serve as the supper. A pleasant evening was enjoyed by all. Paul Fink's Bister Mrs. Fred. Hosier, of near Centerville, is thought to be improving. The hostesses of the coming Priscllla club meeting met with Mesdames Frank and Harry Doty, Monday afternoon to arrange for the meeting which will be on Monday afternoon, February 1, at the home of Mesdames Frank and Harry Doty. The hostesses are Mesdames Doty, W. L. Parkins, James Doddridge and Charles Davis. The Teachers Training class mt with Mrs. E. P. Jones Monday evening. The country roads have been cleared mif With tha lorirn ..

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