Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 262, 15 October 1915 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ANJ SUNTEIGSlAl PfflDAY; OCT.-15, 1015 ,v -. - -

IRITONS ANGRY AT WAR WASTE BY GOVERNMENT

LONDON, Oct. 15. There are beard many complaints these days of the large amounts of money wasted by the army officials. Supervision la clack, is the widespread feeling. While Individuals are asked to economize in their household and other personal exr perfditures, according to an oft heard comparison, the government spends money with more abandon than in the piping times of peace. A writer in the Times in a dispatch from Salisbury gives details of one incident connected with - the . vast armies on Salisbury Plain. He says: "During the past nine months thousands of men have been employed on Salisbury Plain to build huts for the troops of the new armies. I have spent two days going about the area where the huts are being or have been erected, and the general opinion is that nowhere in the country could the virtues of economy and national organization be more urgently required than In this district. Waste Money for Horses. "To take first the need for economy. When the construction of a certain camp which lies over the hill some distance from the railway . was begun the government bought up for the purposes of transport a large number of farm wagons. The price paid for the wagons could hardly be described as a competitive one, but they had not been long in-use when it was lound that the steepness of the road to the camp made horse transport undesirable. ' - "Traction engines were then hired for the work at a price 60 per cent, higher than would bo asked in normal times. These engines drawing heavy loads quickly ruined the road and repeated repairs have cost the local authorities nearly $200. Now, when the camp is practically completed, work has been started on a light railway which will connect it with the main line. People are asking why the railway was not built at the outset. "While there is discontent upon this matter, feeling runs highest over the apparent waste of money incurred in the building of huts for the troops. It was admitted in parliament early this year that much of the labor employed on this work was of an unsatisfactory character, and if one-half the stories I have heard of idleness and a determination to make an easy and well-paid job last as long as possible ore true, then the labor engaged has remained unsatisfactory, and because cf its inefficifcncy has been woefully expensive to the country. Men are Lazy. ' "Anger in the villages is all ,the keener because the worst slackness has been observed among unmarried men of military age. There were recently at work in one locality 3,000

rhen of whom it was estimated that 1,300 might have enlisted. Among a considerable section of them laziness seems to, have been .developed Into an art, and any display , of energy by a newcomer to the gangs has been resented. ; -"' - "Astonishing cases of shirking have been told me by people in. responsible positions, and the Impression gained as I watched the but-building going on this morning was that the stories could be accepted as free from exaggeration. I saw for myself groups where one man worked and several others looked on and chatted while he leisurely carried through his job. Sturdy young fellows pushed wheelbarrows or carried plans with almost studied slowness. y "A farmer upon whose land many of the huts have been erected told me that the men engaged on the Job were lazy in the extreme. It was quite a common practice among them to turn up , for work an hour and more after the whistle had gone. I could not tell you, he added. how many times I have seen the men sleep under the hedges when they were supposed : to be working. They are detached in small gangs and there have not been enough foremen to look ' after them. Owing to the scarcity ( of labor, too, they don't care very much for the foreman. Half-a-dozen men were discovered taking a nap one day, and when they were hauled from the hegebottom they said they were tired and had done enough. The matter was overlooked.' "Another farmer told me the 17-year-old son of one of his men came home after his first day on the work and said that he had been in trouble because he took off his coat. "A laborer remarked that the war was the best thing that happened and the kaiser was the best briend they had. A farm hand disagreed with him and knocked him down. "A number of unmarried youths banging around an uncompleted hut were asked why they did not enlist. Their reply was, 'Let the married men go and fight. They've got something to fight for and we haven't, and we are not going to chuck up good pay and an easy job." "

DLACRSr.'ITMS HAKE PROFIT DESPITE CARS

As a future, remunerative business nothing would pay a young man more than the study of veterinary and its practice in connection .with the personal ' management of a blacksmith shop in the opinion of Tom Butler, blacksmith. . Mr. Butler expressed his- opinion that : while the automobile has cut materially into the profits of the horseshoeing business yet the cut now is as far down ' as it will drop. He

saM that special, attention - was now being given the breeding of three kinds i of horses, race .." horses, show horses and draft horses. EOTorts -are belnjr made" generally he said - to breed a better .grade of these kinds and the extinction of the "hackers" or'; cheap, .'middle-grade work,borse, will be the result, j , ;

MURDERER FOUND GUILTY.

COLUMBUS, Ind Oct. 15. After 11 hours the jury in the case of James Henry, found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter . for killing . . Thomas O'Havre. t Henry has not . been 'sentenced. His defense was based. on a plea of self defense.

STATE LINE

Eppie Duvall was a Richmond shopper Friday afternoon. Mary Parks visited at the C. J. Cline home Thursday afternoon. Edna Cline and Rhea Brower visited Dist. No. 1 Wednesday afternoon. Dan Brower and family spent Sunday with John Brower "and family. Mary Parks spent Wednesday afternoon at the home of Hughes Lybrook. Mrs. Albert Brower and Alice Brower spent Friday afternoon at the C. J. Cline home. , , Misses Ethel Clara, Alice and Glenna Brower, Mary Cline, Mr. and Mrs. Will Brower, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brower and Ira Brower went to Cincinnati Thursday. Dortan Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Parks and son Oran, shopped in Richmond Saturday evening.

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1.7C1 ACCIDENTS- IN-STATE

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 15. According to a list compiled b y th new Industrial board . of Indiana, 1,7S accident occurred n .' industrial ' -plants throughout the state during September. Nine of these accidents proved fatal. Automobile factories headed the list with a total of 14. r Steam railroads were second with a total of 146, while coal mines were third with 113. No report was made by. electric roads of the state to the board.; ; .....

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