Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 218, 31 July 1916 — Page 4

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New Jersey Highways Indiana, which is now searching for information to be utilized in establishing a state highway department, has opportunity to learn from "New Jersey, much smaller in area, but densely populated, and consequently with more traffic. In the last nine years the twenty-one counties of New Jersey have spent between $15,000,000 and $16,000,000 in road repairs. New macadam roads are constantly being built, but there is no system, no policy, and consequently the returns are not commensurate with the expenditure.

In a report issued by the state Chamber of Commerce it is recommended that trunkline roads be built and maintained by the state, connecting roads to be built and maintained by the counties and branch feeders to be built and maintained by the townships. With only minor reservations, all control is to be vested in the state, and even in the case of obscure township roads nothing can be done out of line with a policy to be adopted by the state. "The question," says an analysis of the report, "is whether or not the system shall be changed There are twentyone counties in New Jersey; each county has a system of its own; it has its own plan and ideas of road construction and maintenance. Shall we continue these diverse systems of twenty-one independent road-builders to construct the roads across the state, or shall we consolidate them into one head, namely, the state, and have the state given the full power to mark out main highways, with full power to finance and construct them, and be given the responsibility of ever thereafter keeping them in repair? Or shall we leave it to the hodge-podgo of county control and supervision which now exists, and which has given such unsatisfactory results ?" This "is the question in Indiana. Instead of twenty-one counties we have ninety-two, with hundreds of townships. This plan has cost the people millions of dollars. Indiana should be encouraged in its efforts toward reform to learn that other states, with similar problems, are like

wise making struggles to center responsibility;

for highway construction and -repair. Indianapolis News.

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JANE COOPER IN " VAN DER DECKEN." Find an old man. Answer to Saturday's Puzzle. Upper left corner down, nose at left arm.

EDGAR ILIFF DESCRIBES OLD SALEM

News of Bethel

By Florence Boren.

EY EDGAR ILIFF. Salem, Mass., was once the chief port -of New England. Old colonial Salem Is vividly pictured in the opening paragraph of Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter"; "A throng of beaded men in sad colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes." This was the rude prison which Hawthorne calls the "black flower of civilized society." But the fertile imagination of Hawthorne put a wild rose bush blooming beside the ironspiked door "in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be tlnd" to the poor creatures condemned by a hard and cruel age. Hawthorne's gentle heart elsewhere dictates that "there are few uglier traits of human nature than the tendency to grow cruel merely because men possess the power of inflicting harm." Sec Beautiful City.

Hill," where nineteen witche3 were hung. The clerk of the court politely shows you the "witchcraft documents and relics." Here are the manuscript records of testimony taken at the trials, the death warrants of the judges and the returns of "Sheriff Corwin." This sheriff in one of his return records has: "I caused her to be hanged until she was dead and buried." This is grim horror for you. The Essex Institute contains a vast collection of historical effects. There are manscripts, documents, portraits and books. There are 85,000 volumes, 302,000 pamphlets and 700 volumes of manuscripts. The Instruments of torture are frigh'ttul, such as thuinbsciews, iron boots to crush one's bones, pressing machines, needles and pins to stick into your flesh. The brain of man was exhausted in devising instruments of torture so as to give exquisite pain. No wonder that the gentle soul of Hawthorne looked with horror upon that fiendish.. tendency in man tar inflict suffering merely because he had the power of "legal right" -to do so. And yet we have

Now, we do. not see "the throng of j official idiots todav who are adveeat

bearded men in sad colored garments . ing the restoration of the whipping and gray steeple-crowned hats in , FOst and the keen lash. The man, Salem tcc'.cy. We see o beautiful city ! woman, or child has not vet been born which has fcohin and prosperity in j who was ever made better bv private, the humanity and charity of this more j public or legalized brutality!

dence than now. -However great human error may be, ' however gross superstition, however frenzied or fanatic a belief, however abnormal a great social evil, there will always be "professionals" who will condone, teach, uphold, trade upon it and prostitute their very souls for the rewards In cash! So in old Salem, if a man's barn blew down or his cow went dry, the professional witch-finder camo and said he would for a fee find the witch who caused it. There are always the poor and defenseless to barter away. Some queer old woman was tortured and hung or drowned. Some poor, half-witted boy was put in the "sweatbox," and, upon confession, burnt alive. Let us not be too hard upon our barbaric ancestors. Perhaps the historians of the twenty-first century will line us up on our civilized barbarisms. Perhaps they will speak of our age as a cruel one. Or they may call it the golden age of human welfare. The spread of scientific thought has done wonders so far, anyhow.

'humane age. Beautiful are the well

dressed colonial houses, pure white with green shutters, and hospitable, smiling, inviting "colonial doorways." Every house emphasizes the word "Home." One fancies if he peeped in he would see fair colonial dames with their "curtsies," and young gentlemen of the old school who never swore or smoked in the presence of their mothers, and who bowed low to "my lady love" and reverently kissed the dainty hand. One Is set to dreaming of peaceful, '.quiet lives led in these old mansions", but' his dream is" shattered when he sees in the Essex Institute relics of ancient Salem ducking stools for women scolds. The nagging shrew Is eternal. Even Eve had her "spells" and upset Adam terribly. Relics Fill Salem. Salem is full of Hawthorne relics. The Salem Custom House, where he worked as surveyor of the port, and nraid his desk duties fancied the plot of his 'Scarlet Letter," is Interesting to see. Here Hawthorne performed

his desk drudgery like Charles Lamb did his as a poor clerk in the East India House in London. Lamb dreamed at his work and enriched English literature with his tenderness, pathos and humor. Hawthorne, the shy, shrinking and sensitive genius, dreamed also and bequeathed to America an ocean of weird, strange and beautiful tales which give us more glory as a nation than all the wealth of Tierpcnt Morgan or Rockefeller. Sea Washes Up Wrecks. . The sea washes up its grewsome relics of wrecks and disasters. So does the ocean of time cast upon our shores the hideous records of past ages ages so cruel that we wonder and shudder. Salem is full of relics m the witch mania and the horrid fate of the poor witches. There is the "Witchcraft Jail of 1612." where the wretched awaited torture and death. They show you the very spot where the last victim of the witchcraft insanity, Giles Corey, was "pressed to death." You are shown "Gallows

The average weight of the hogs received at Chicago was 219 pounds during 1915 and 231 in 1914. The corresponding averages at Kansas City

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Recalls Witchcraft. Let us think a little over the witchcraft delusion. Our doctors are telling us today that we are breathing deadly microbes through our nostrils and mouths, and that we are always at the mercy of this common enemy. Earth is said to swarm with trillions and septillions of these destroyers. Now, our ancestors believed that earth swarmed with millions of demons of both sexes, who increased and multiplied at a fearful rate. These demons were of thin air. These devils could pass through the hardest substances with ease. They stayed in no one place, but were tossed to and fro in the immensity of space. When thrown together in great multitudes they excited whirlwinds in the air and tempests on the water. These demons were happiset when they were destroying beauty and tearing down what man built up. Their numbers were increased by the souls of infidels, atheists, still-born children, women who died in child-bed, jokers, laughers, suicides and men killed in duels. The air was full of them, and

men and women drew them by thousands into their mouths and nostrils

at every breath. Thus these demons

like the modern microbes, lodged

themselves in the bowels and torment

ed their victims with pains and fright

ful dreams. They concealed them

selves in all good things to eat, hid in

playhouses, lurked in novels and play

ing cards. You couldn't swallow a

thing without gulping a whole regi ment of them. Ancestors Firm in Belief.

Now our ancestors believed all this more firmly than we do in the germ or microbe theory, because they believed in it religiously. When they believed

that certain persons could invoke

these demons and use them to cause

disaster, the professional "witch-find

er" appeared, and he made money just

like some detectives catch criminals and take the reward today. It wasn't any harder then to manipulate evi-

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Mr. and Mrs. Homer Heck of Sharpeye spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Rosa Tharp and family Mrs. John Horn of Cincinnati is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Horn

Mr. and Mrs. Berl Hyde and son, Herman, of New Madison, called on Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hyde Wednesday The Loyal Workers class met at the

home of Miss Wyrona Hyde Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Joseph .Har

lan and family returned to their home in Fort Recovery Monday after spending a few days here Mr. Eber Brown of near Whitewater spent Friday with his Grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Harlan Miss Ina Harlan of Fort Recovery spent Sunday night with Miss Florence Boren.

Lynn News Letter

By Mrs. J. O. Martin

LYNN. Ind., July 31. Miss Margar. et Fowler and son have returned after a three weeks viBlt with relatives and friends at Richmond S. C. Westlake left the first of the week for Northern Michigan on a real estate deal Mrs. E. B. Hopkins returned from Portland, Ind., where she has been visiting for several weeks Mrs. Roy Starbuck left Tuesday for Indianapolis where she will undergo an operation.. .. .Miss Dora Hill is visiting relatives at Terre Haute.

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ECONOMY, Ind., July 31. Rev. Ray Ballard and family and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cain and son Kenneth were Monday evening guests cf Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shirley of Sugar Grove Rev. Prestion PolhemuR and son Merril made a short stop on their way from Liberty to their Muncie home at

Thomas Cain's Tuesday afternoon,! They were riding a motorcycle and j were making splendid time. Rev. Mr. j Polhemus was pastor of the M. E.

church here for several years and is well known in this county as a highly educated man and as a brilliant Eibical teacher... Willie Williams, of Texas, Mrs. Nora Gibbs of Illinois, Mrs. Hannah Kimball and Mrs. Edith Cain of here motored to Winchester Wednesday Edwards Bros, and

Miss Grace Garrison. were at mond Wednesday afternoon....

Sch'eld of Cambridge was here Thurs- i

day Mrs. Myrtle Eberweiss returned to her home at Indianapolis Thursday..... Mr. and Mfs. .Lestei j Williams and son visited O.i li. Hlatt. and wife Wednesday evening.. ..... 4 Lawrence Hlatt and son Wilbur wer here Wednesday and returned . tc Fountain City in the evening.. " 'l

A REAL FRIEND. "Are you a friend of the family?" "Yes, ma'am. I'm guarding: the wedding presents for 'em while they're taking care of feeding the guests."

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind., July31,

Will Medeari of St. Louis and his sis-' ters, Mrs. Kate Myers and Miss Alice Medearis were the guests of their niece, Mrs. May Boien Thursday Father Roell and Father Zyp of Rich-j mond spent Thursday afternoon at j the St. Elizabeth parsonage Mrs. ' Emma Spahr and Mis3 Sangston of Indianapolis will spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John and daughter, Mrs. j Reba Whitley. .. Mrs. Mary Kiser and; Mrs. Carl Chapman spent Thursday j with the former's son, Harry Kiser! and Mr. and Mrs. Rich of Centerville Move Heme to Lynn Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jones will go to Lynn next week for residence. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have been in charge of the Royal Theatre and go to Lynn , where they have purchased a picture; show A number of ladies in this city have received invitations to a five- i

nunaxea party iu ue giveu xueouaj, August first, at the home of Mrs. Lycurgus Beeson of Milton. .... The engagement of Miss Florence Hopkins Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bell, of Robinson, 111 and Mr.

Bernard H. Clawson of New Castle,' formerly of Cambridge City, was an

nounced Tuesday at a luncheon given got good results and I now feel better by Mrs. Joseph McElroy, at Robinson, ! than I have felt for years and I am gainthe marriage to take place in Septem-; ing in weight. I can gladly recommend ber. Mr. Clawson is an employe in it to all women." Mrs. George W.

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