Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 59, 19 January 1916 — Page 12
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19, 1916.
LIQUOR REVENUE
DECREASES $800 FOR THIS YEAR Auditor Bowman Apportion? School Funds Amounting to $21,706 Among Towns and Townships. The revenue from liquor licenses, which reverts to the school fund of the county, dropped off $800 according to the statement of County Auditor Bowman. In 1916, at the January apportionment, it .was found that $5,400 will be turned into the school fund from the sale of liquor licenses in the county while in 1915 this sum was $6, 200. Increases In other school revenue, however, more than made up for this loss and the county auditor reported today that a larger per cent of the money turned into the state fund was returned to this county than has been done for the past few years. The practice of lowering the assessment oi property, in many counties has been discontinued through the effort of the state tax board and for this reason, Wayne county is receiving a more ust apportionment of the tax. The total revenue from the state fast year amounted to .$28,013, but in the January apportionment by the state auditor it is found that Wayne county will receive in return only $21,706.79. This money has been apportioned among the township, town and city school corporations in the following manner:
Foulke Raps Gray
Common Township Number school Total. of pupils Revenue Abington .. 131 $ 148.02 $ 343.19 Boston ... 227 430.70 594.68 Center 310 602.20 812.12 Clay -. 228 458.87 597.30 Dalton .... 97 194.33 254.12 Franklin .. 270 537.14 707.33 Greene .... 258 517.92 '675.90 Harrison .. 99 191.41 259.36 Jackson ... 256 519.92 670.66 JefferBon .. 231 448.35 605.16 New Garden 315 621.94 825.22 Perry ..... 183 374.20 479.41 Washington 323 579.71 846.18 Wayne 1,005 2.016.63 2,632.85 Webster ... 122 240.46 319.61 Total for townships 4,055 7,881.80 10,623.09 Corporations Cambridge City .... 434 891.06 1,136.97 Centerville. 186 369.70 487.28 Dublin .... 122 250.48. 319.61 Hagerstown 173 332.00 453.22 Richmond City 5,693 11,918.89 14,914.24 Spring Grove ... 30 62.86 78.59
Totals ..10,693 $21,706.79 $28,013.00
EVANGELIST INSISTS EVERY INDIVIDUAL REPRESENTS GOSPEL
The true spirit of Christianity was pointed out by Rev. William J. Sayers,
evangelist, who is conducting services at the East Main Street Friends
church last night. A representative
number of the congregation was present.
Ellsworth Robertson, a boy, who possesses an unusually attractive voice, will sing before a mass meeting of boyB and girls at the church on Saturday afternoon. Below are excepts
from the address of Rev. Mr. Sayers at the services last night:
The best argument for Christianity is the life of a true Christian. There
is danger of having too much church-
ianity and too little Christianity.
Some people work at a little bit of
church work and think they are serv ing God.
God wants the church to do big
things.
He wants us to be giants, to be
stronc. What kind of an argument are you Some people say, "I enjoy my relig
ion but do the folks at home enjoy
it?"
The only Bible some people read is
the Christian and some of us need a
"revised edition."
We are the ones to write the "Acts
of the Apostles."
People talk Christianity but don't do they take it out In talk instead of
walk.
People must see what we are
Christians are an advertisement of
the grace of God.
RAISE IN GAS
Continued From Page One. the gas case before the commission next June.
"I will, for my part, not agree to any such agreement," Bavis said. "I favor no meddling with the local gas rate until the commission formulates one based on actual physical valuation of the used and useful properties of the
local gas utilities. If the, company wants to appeal the electric plant pur
chase order, let it do so. The city would not be involved in such litiga
tion. That would be a matter between
the L. H. & P. and the state commis
sion.1'
Bavis also announced today that the
city had suggested to the cmmission that a committee of three, composed of the chief engineers of the two local electric plants and an engineer on the
commission's staff, be appointed to appraise the L. H. & P. plant's equipment added since last June for the pur
pose of determining the total purchase valuation of that plant. "Whatever additional equipment valuation such a committee would deter
mine would be accepted by the city
providing it met the approval of the commission," Bavis said. "This plan
would also prevent even the slightest
criticism on the part of those who are so prone to suspect graft In the every act of the city officials." It is understood that such an arrangement would also be acceptable to t Light, Heat & Power company.
that "the motor delivery system was established In Wayne county over his protest. Representative Gray further states that he sought modification of the motorization order to retain established routes out of all the smaller towns of
the county.
He asserts that he secured , the list
of applioants eligible for appointments as motor rural carriers-from the civil
service commission;.' at the 'suggestion of the postoffice department to facilitate the change in the service. -
He denied in his letter that in such
action he had violated the civil service law, declaring . that it has been the practice of the commission to furnish
members of congress with eligible
lists for fourteen years, even during
the time Mr. Foulke was chief of the
commission. "
He concludes his letter by declaring
that the two carriers out of Cambridge City, the two carriers out of Hagerstown, the Milton carrier, the Center
ville carrier, the Greensfork carrier and the Fountain City carrier were, in
each instance, the highest "local eligible." Carriers appointed to Richmond routes, A, B and C, he said, were the "highest eligibles in the county who would accept appointments," and
inai ine carrier or Route D was ap
pointed because he resided in the ter ritory served by him.
Mr. Foulke's second letter to Repre
sentative Gray follows: . January 18, 1916. Hon. Finly H. Gray, House of Representatives, Washington,' Dear Sir: Yours of January 17th received
Wften a man is "caught with the goods" his first effort is to raise a dust about some other matter and thus obscure the issue. These are your tac
tics. What you told mc was that you did not ask for the Wayne county eligible lists at all from the civil service commission, but that it was sent to you voluntarily. The commission answered this enclosing a copy of your letter of October 30 asking for this list and your telegram of November 1st, "Send immediately eligible t list, rural auto carriers Wayne county, Indiana." You were in a hurry. You wanted to get your men in quickly. You don't deny one word of this but when caught with the goods you say, "I will explain to you again that I acted on the request of the department to facilitate the appointments in order to begin the new service on December first." So it is not the commission which is .guilty now it is your Democratic post office department. You can change your base quickly, but not quickly enough to escape from that kind of a delemna, and if you were so badly "mistaken" about what you did or did not ask of the Civil Service commission, may you not be equally "mistaken" as to whether you opposed or approved of the rural motor system? How are we to know what to believe? If you were opposed to It, it is hard to understand why you were in such a hurry to get it established by the first of December, as you say. Repeats His Charges. Next you say that I have charged a violation of the civil service rules In your receiving the eligible list. If you will read my letter you will find that was not at all what I charged. Please recall my language. I told you that under Section 10 of the civil service law you had no right to make recommendations at all except as to residence and character and you told me you had found the character of every one of the applicants to be good, so there would be hardly any ground for recommending one above another in this respect. That is what I charged and my leter shows it, yet in your answer you try to twist this Into something else. That won't do. Our two letters speak for themselves. You might examine that eligible list for a perfectly legitimate purpose, for instance; to show that there was fraud or that the system worked badly and some new law was needed to correct it. But if you asked for that list for the purpose of making recommendations to the appointing officer you did what was a violation of the law for Section 10 provides "that no recommendation of any person who shall apply for office or place under the provisions of this act which may be given by any Senator or member of the House of Representatives except as to the character or residence of the applicant shall be received or considered by any person concerned in making any examination or appointment under this act." Gray Without Power. Now if the postoffice department had no right to receive your recommendation, you had no right to make it and you are bound to know this, for all persons are bound to know the law. You therefore used this list for an unlawful purpose. That was what you wanted it for when you telegraphed in such haste to have It sent "Immediately." The purpose for which you desired and used it was illegal. You say that it has been the practice and rule of the commission to furnish these lists since 1902, when I was myself a commissioner, and yo roll this as a sweet morsel under your tongue and repeat it twice on a single page. Now the rule passed by the commission on Nov. 12, 1902, to which you refer is as follows:
(Continued From Page One.)
Members of congress and appoint
ing officers or their ' representatives will be permitted to Inspect registers. The chief of the certification ' division will notify the commission If this priv
ilege is at any time abused." Now this privilege (which was a
proper one) is abused every time a congressman uses these lists for making recommendations, as you - have
done, and the commission had a right
to withdraw ; that privilege instantly if any abuse (such as you have been guilty of) were made.
Holds to Contention. Next follows this -ridiculous sentence: "I find that you cannot ex
onerate yourself from making this un
rounded charge even by pleading a failure to advise yourself of the rules of the Commission while a member of that body." As I have not made an unfounded charge, and as there is no rule of the Commission authorizing you to make these illegal recommendations, I shall not try to exonerate myself ; I do not need to You take up different Appointments separately and say that I have cited no civil service rule violated. In each and every case something more important has been violated than any mere rule and that is Section 10 of the Civil Service law Itself which says that none of your recommendations shall be received or considered. Therefore you had no business to make them and thus be a party to this
violation of the law by the postoffice
department as well as individually. The men you got in by your illegal
manipulation on the Richmond eligible
lists were all Democrats. You don't deny this and when you said you al
ways recommended the man who lived in the town where the route started you haven't answered why it was that you recommended for the Richmond route Foland who lives six miles away at Centerville. The fact that Foland made a higher grade than Logan on the county list would not have given him the place if you followed the rule you said you did of recommending the highest Jocal man. Vpointed Over Logan. You do not deny my statement that Starr, the Democrat, was recommended for appointment over Logan, the Republican, who stood higher on the list and who lived in Richmond, the town where the route started, but you try to crawl out .of this by making a
new side for yourself, saying; he was a resident of the territory served by the router. That was not the principle upon which you told me you were acting. It is perfectly plain that you manipulated . these : lists of three, like a three-card monte man to get the one you wanted and from Richmond you got a Democrat every time even though you had to go to Centerville to get him. t I want to congratulate you on the admirable success of your work: mail
undelivered for days and weeks; great masses of it-stuffed away in the cellar of the Richmond postoffice; carriers resigning in disgust and the entire county up in arms at the abominable service ever since the men whom you selected were appointed and went to work. I hope it may be a lesson, not to you, for I trust you will have no further opportunity to repeat such conduct, but to your successor from the Sixth District who will perhaps realize that it is better to keep bis hands off of this contemptible business of petty patronage and who will decline to make recommendations in violation of the statute. - - How are members of congress to expect that the laws which they make on other subjects will be enforced when they, themselves, set the example of law breaking? Yours, W. D. FOULKE.
DR. RAE SELECTED FOR BIG ADDRESS
KELLY BLAMES CHURCHES FOR
INDIFFERENCES
A comprehensive article on "The
Church and the School," gltten by President Robert L. Kelly orEarlham
college, and printed in the "Religious
Education," a magazine, . is re-printed in this week's issue of the American Friend.
The article contains a discussion of
the responsibility of the church for the religious education of pupils in public schools. President Kelly holds the ohurch responsible for the present condition. "The church must bear a considerable part of the responsibility," he writes, "for the present widespread tendency toward, the complete secularization of the public schools.
"The church may well reflect also
upon the aggressive manner in which
educational leaders have been setting
aside the ideals of religious education
and promoting practical methods of
procedure, church and gether."
The school - and the the home must work to-
PASTORS TO ATTEND LAYMEN'S SESSION
Most of the Richmond churches will be represented it is understood, at the Laymen's Missionary convention to be held in Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 9-13. The object of the convention is to give the average laymen a clearer vision of Christian service and hear all phases of church problems discussed by national and world leaders. J. Campbell White, organizer of the movement and twenty missionary experts will address the convention. A score of denominational meetings will be held in conjunction. Rev. E. E.-Davis, president of the Ministerial association will attend and a number of other pastors will be there.
WALKS ON CAMPAIGN.
NASHVILLE, Ind., Jan. 19. Elijah Lucas, 67, is making his fourth race
for ' recorder of - Brown -county. He will make the canvass on foot mm he did the other times. The first time he lost by fifteen votes, the second time thirteen and the third eight He ought to land pretty close on this attempt. ' At any rate he knows the "grotad."-,' 'v.
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Distinction and honor has been ac
corded Rev. J. J. Rae, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church in beine
selected to deliver the principal address at the annual Scotch Night observance of the Fourth Presbyterian church in Chicago under the auspices of the Men's club of that church Thursday night, Jan. 27. The Fourth Presbyterian church is the strongest of the denomination in Chicago and probably no Presbyterian minister is more prominent than its pastor, Dr. John Timothy Stone. The annual Scotch night is the biggest event of the year of that church and hundreds of men wil be present.
BUTCHERS MANY HOGS.
BROWNSTOWN, Ind., Jan. 19. Twenty-seven hogs were butchered at the Jackson county infirmary. One of the porkers weighed 800 pounds.
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