Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 296, 30 October 1916 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, OCT. 30, 1916

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WANT EACH PERSON TO USE AT LEAST FIVE XMAS STAMPS

The Red Cross seal campaign was on today for the season, according to word received from 6tate anti-tuberculosis headquarters today by Miss Mary Kennedy, county educational nurse. Expecting Wayne to double her sale this year, state headquarters is preparing to eend 200,000 seals here this year, the letter said. The sale last year was about 60,000. "Every letter which leaves Richmond from the time the stamps are received until Christmas, must carry a Red Cross seal," said Miss Kennedy today. Either five or seven stamps per capita will be made a standard and incorporated in a slogan ior the year's activities. Last year, the average was me seal per capita in the county. According to the new method for apportionment, the county organization will receive 73 per cent, of sales to $1,500 and 80 per cent, of all above thnt, Miss Kennedy announced.

A new handbag for women is automatically locked whenever it is closed, the means for opening the lock being within the handle so that it is covered and protected by the hand carrying It.

The honest estimate of a man in public life is found in the

desire to get this man n or that . ten that they hold attention Our Prosperity. That the country is at the present time wonderfully prosperous no one denies, or indeed can deny. There are, however, many who insist that our prosperity is artificial, temporary in its nature and is likely if not certain to e brought to an end. possibly with a.. crash,- when "peace comes in Europe. But those who have mn.de a careful study of present conditions, without any political bias, are becoming increasingly indisposed to take thi3 view. In a Philndelphia dispatch to the New York Evening Post, it was said that "bankers and commercial inter eats in this market, without entering upon discussion as to which party is to be triumphant in November, have taken the stand that the present prosperity Is destined to continue," and that "practically all lines of business enterprise are proceeding on that assumption." "In this market," the correspondent goes on to say. "the fear that recently prevailed over possible business demoralization after the war has begun to wane, and a good many manufacturers argued that the country need have little apprehension on that score." Indianapolis News, June 20, 1916. Deserved Praise The truth is that our people were never more united than now, and they are united very largely because there is an administration in power that represents the nation, and stands for its noblest purpose and ideals. If we get any good out of the present war, and good often comes out of evil, it will consist largely in a demonstration to the world of our national unity, and of our abiding love for a nation with a welfare of which the freedom and happiness of the world are so closely associated. Men of all partieB, creeds and races, have thanked God that there was in the White House at the present critical ;ne such a man as Woodrow WilIf in the midst of the present ; .i of brute force we can actually win a victory for idealipm, the great victory of the war will rest with tho American people under their present enlightened leadership. Indianapolis News, May 14, 1915. President and Business. The president has shown great wisdom in consulting leaders in the business world in regard to legislation that must and is designed to affect business to a considerable extent. Those who will have to live and operate Hnder the proposed laws may very well bo -' " ;ive the president valuable 'pful advice. There are those who say that Mr. Wilson has already made up his mind, and. therefore, will not be moved by anything that may b said to him. No doubt he has made up his mind as to the general purpose to be accomplished, but he would hardly waste time In talking to business men unless he were ready to bo guided somewhat hy them in matters of detail. If they can point out any defects in the trust bills provided they are real defects we may be sure that an effort will be made to remedy them. There are, of course, men who pretend to believe that Mr. Wilson is engaged in a great conspiracy to wreck business. But these are few in number, and we doubt whether

received such general and generous approval as each ot his many acts, great legislative and business reforms and international complications which were taken up and

ment s let-up m this approval until the campaign ot personal abuse became violent, ihen to the same editors who praised, but who decided to follow the lead of Hughes

it is resolved that "whatever Wilson does is wrong. But this advertisement has to do only with the editorial views of The Indianapolis News, and these are of sufficient

BARSAROSA FAMILY

ROBBED OF PROVIDER Robbed of a provider by the sordid tragedy that made a murderer out of a father and husband, the family of Joe Barbarosa, 1022 North J street, i3 In dire straits. Investigation today showed that there was no money In the home and that a neighbor who has nine children of his own to support was trying to help the mother and the children. The attention of kind hearted citizens is called to the situation at' the Barbarosa home. Hitherto, there never has been a dearth of generous citizens to help a family in distress. Persons who are acquainted with the eituation believe that citizens will respond to the call and provide for the unfortunate ones. APPEAL NOT FILED "Advocates for the formation of a new school district around Dublin v.ovo ovMentlv droDDed the agitation," said County Superintendent of Schools Williams today. The time has run out when an appeal can be taken to the county superintendent over the decisions of the township trustees concerned who voted against the formation of the new district. . . ... man or this combination or to the end. even they believe what they say. Indianapolis News, July 8, 1914. Trust Legislation. At the conference not caucus held yesterday by the Democratic senators, it was resolved that congress should not adjourn until the trade commission bill,-the railroad securities bill, and the Clayton bill were disposed of. There is no question that they will pass in some form. The only doubt was as to whether they would pass at this session or the next. But the great thing is that the president and the Democratic senators are now in complete accord on the legislative program. They agree that there shall be no adjournment till the third great piece of legislation is put through. With the tariff question settled, the new banking and currency system established, and reasonably satisfactory trust laws passed, there need be no fear that business conditions will not rapidly improve. We think that business men themselves will see that it is better to have the pending bills in proper form passed at the present session, than to have the uncertainty prolonged for perhaps another year. What disturbs business is, not so much what congress does, as doubt as to what it may do. The decision of yesterday's conference will, therefore, be received with general satisfaction. When the pending bills have been passed all the more important questions that are related tfi business will have been disposed of. The knowledge that the job is to be completed ought to have a reassuring and stimulating effect. Indianapolis News, July 2, 1914. "Standing Like a Tower" After all we must remember that this is America, and we are all presumed to be citizens of the United States. With a great price has this distinction been achieved and not lightly will it be cast aside. We may safely trust the President of the United States, a profound student of history, and whatever we may think of him from a party point of view, admittedly one of the best products of our modern life. Presently we shall know his full measure. And we do not doubt that "still patient In his simple faith sublime" we shall 6ee him "standing like a tower" for the rights of humanity and the neutral world. Indianapolis News, May 11, 1915. A Terrible Panic Once again we see that the Roosevelt panic of 1907 was much more terrible than many people .today realize. In his testimony the other day, Mr. Roosevelt, In speaking of the acquisition by the steel trust of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, which was permitted by him, said: "The action occurred during the height of the panic of 1907. The prime interest of every citizen was that some measure be taken to stop the panic and restore confidence. In New York the situation was trembling on a hair as to whether every business would have to be shut up. One night I received notice that the next day Mr. Frick and Mr. Gary, of the steel corporation, would come to see me. I had received thousands- of appeals to do

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How to reduce the cost of living is being taught to students of the Wayne county public schools under the direction of Miss Grace L. King, county domestic science supervisor. , - "We teach them that more nutrition can be obtained out of ten cents worth of beans than out of fifty cents worth of oysters," said Miss King today. PROPOSES TO OUST NORTH END SALOONS Secretary of the Social Service Bureau, in an address, before the Men's Bible class at the First M. E. church Sunday said there was a crying need for driving out the saloons located in Riverdale, north of the railroad. These two saloons are in the third ward. That part of the fifth ward situated north of the railroad was declared a "residential" several years ago. He informed the members of the Bible class that it is now prdposed to extend the boundary of the Fifth ward to take in the sites of the two Riverdale saloons, an action which would automaticallycompel the saloonkeepers to close their doors. The plan met with the approval of the Bible class members.

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editorials of newspapers when editorial minds are not influenced or overheated with an

that combination in control or .i. i . i r something. They said the situation was acute and that if something wasn't done before the market opened the crash would come. I called in the newspaper men and told them of the action I had decided to take. The news was printed all over the country and the panic was stopped." : . - What a panic that was to be sure! There was, we are told, danger that in New York "every business would have to be shut up." That is worse than anything we have suffered from during the last year. For there has been no Tennessee Coal and Iron Company merger, and yet "every business" in New York has not "shut up." Naturally such a panic required a good deal of "stopping." Hence it was necessary for the secretary of the treasury to deposit in or lend to fourteen New York banks $37,967,000, of which sum the banks agreed to lend $23,500,000 to brokers; they actually lent $18,945,000. This also was forthe purpose of "stopping the panic." And, if we remember rightly, President Roosevelt congratulated Secretary Cortelyou on his success in "stopping the panic." And now we are told, as often before, that it was necessary to allow the steel trust to gobble the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, again in order to "stop the panic." That surely was "some panic." We are not quite sure whether it was stopped by the coal and irbn merger or by the turning over to the Morgan interests of millions of the government money to be lent at high rates. Possibly both influences were needed. If that is true, the Roosevelt license for the acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company was not the sole influence that stopped the panic. At least "every business" in New York was not forced to "shut up." At that time, of course, the Dingley tariff was in full operation. Possibly if the federal reserve law had been in force the situation would not have been so bad. As it was "the situation was trembling on a hair lest every business would have to be shut up." The Indianapolis News, May 1, 1915. Popularity There are certain people who seem to have succeeded in convincing themselves that President Wilson has suffered greatly in popularity, and that he has lost his hold on the people. We do not suppose that there is any man in the country who is less concerned that Woodrow Wilson about his personal popularity. He would, no doubt, be sorry to see his party suffer, but we imagine that he would rather see it suffer while doing the right thing than prosper by doing nothing. On the broad ground of principle the people are still with him. He has been loyally sustained in his Mexican policy. There Is an undoubted demand that some step be taken, and at once, in the direction of the solution of the trust problem. The banking and currency bill has been received with favor. The objection to the tariff bin Is merely the objection that would have been raised against any low tariff measure. Of course, the sluggishness in the business world will have its effect. For many of us have, not ceased to credit the administration in power with prosperity and to charge it with responsi

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NEED NEW SCHOOL

AT CAMBRIDGE CITY "The greatly increased tax rates in Jackson township and especially in Cambridge City present" difficult questions for school officials," County Superintendent Williams said today. "The Cambridge City school building is sure to be condemned within the next two years. Some plan must be made whereby the other tax rates can be cut enough so money can be raised to erect a new structure either for a new building for the, town or for a central building for the township." WILLIAMS IS ELECTED After being a member of the State Reading Circle board less than a year, C. O. Williams, county superintendent of schools, was elected its president at a meeting Saturday afternoon, x Mr. Williams was elected to membership on the board at the State Teachers' association meeting a year ago and assumed his duties, January 1, 1916. BUY ADDING MACHINE At a cost of $315.25, county commissioners Saturday purchased a new adding and listing, machine for the county clerk's office. ADVERTISEMENT

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Goodrich Rebuked for Dragging Institutions Into Partisan Polities (Indianapolis News Editorial, September 28, 1916)

Governor Ralston, Wednesday, gave to the public, the reply of the trustees of the Central Hospital for the Insane and Dr. George F. Edenharter, superintendent of the institution, dealing with the charges made by James P. Goodrich, Republican candidate for Governor, that the Institution was being managed in a wasteful, and extravagant manner. Mr. Goodrich in his recent speeches has seen fit to include the state charitable institutions in his discussion of Democratic extravagance. Among others was the Central Hospital for the Insane. Mr. Goodrich in spreading his attack on state expenses to include the state institutions has violated a precedent long since established in Indiana. The state charitable Institutions have for many years been regarded by the public as apart from other departments of the state government in the matter of political association. It has been expected of all governors on entering office that they shall make their appointments to the charity boards on the line of fitness and good citizenship and without regard to political expediency. The standards set by long custom require that the heads of these Institutions shall be men of professional fitness as well as of business capacity, and their selection is supposed to be made without regard to political affiliations. bility for depression. Having no personal ambition, he can not be influenced or controlled by fear that haunts those who have such ambition. It may, after all, be found and it will not be a new discovery that the surest way to win popularity is through faithful and fearless service of the people. The intriguers and plotters, the men who are thinking and dreaming only of 1916, may have a rude awakening in store for them. The man who honestly tries to do his work without a thought of the effect on his own fortunes, is bound to make enemies. There is nothing to indicate that the American people have ceased to look on Woodrow Wilson as their president their special representative and champion. Indianapolis News, May 26, 1914. Henry Lane Wilson as Huerta's Ally There are some, perhaps many, people who think that the prompt recognition of Huerta by President Wilson would have brought peace to Mexico that with such recognition the dictator could soon have suppressed all movements against him. Those who argue this will, we think, be somewhat surprised to learn that Henry Lane Wilson, our former ambassador, never shared that view. On the contrary, he urged that recognition be extended only on certain conditions conditions of the utmost Importance.

PASS ON CANDIDATES

At a special -principal's meeting to morrow afternoon, . all petitions from boys asking that their names be plac ed on the Boytown election ballots will be carefully considered. The principals will have to pass on the names before they will be placed on the ballots'. JOSIAH GGLVIN DIES SOUTH OFJATON, 0. Josiah Bennett Colvin, 81, a native of Abington, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.; D. C. Stevens, three miles west of Eaton Sunday morning. Until a few weeks ago the deceased made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Elmer Hale, of near Abington. Besides Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Hale, another daughter, Mrs. Jesse Paddock, of Anderson, and two sons, Frank Colvin, Anderson, and Nathan Colvin, of Abington, are the immediate surviving members of the family. The deceased also leaves two brothers, Thomas Colvin, of Allendale, Mo. ; fad Robert Colvin, of Abington, and one sister, Mrs. James Brown, of Webtser, Ind. The funeral will be held Wednesday from the home, at 12:30 o'clock and from the Elkhorn church at 2 o'clock, sun time. Burial will be in the Elkhorn cemetery. flDl r im i . tt.i i ot Woodrow Wilson there has It is of the highest importance that the state charitable institutions shall be maintained on the high plane established by public opinion through many years in this state. Any political leader who seeks to gain advantage by dragging these institutions into public notoriety for political purposes should suffer the condemnation of public opinion. Mr. Goodrich is a man of high intelligence and long familiarity with our state business, and, therefore, can not plead the excuse of lack of knowledge of the public viewpoint mentioned above with regard to the state's charitable institutions. It is to be hoped that he may be prevailed upon to content himself with limiting his discussion of those departments of the state government whose efficiency is not based on professlonaf standard and to not have to do with the dependent wards of the state. A thorough examination of the reports furnished by Dr. Edenharter to the board of control of the Central Hospital for the Insane in compliance with the order of the Governor shows that no finer exhibit of business analysis could be made. If the other charitable institutions of the state can make a correspondingly good showing the public need have no apprehension as to the conduct of its institutions having control of the state's dependents. The whole story is told in a special dispatch from Washington printed elsewhere in this paper. Mr. Henry Lane Wilson virtually advised military co-operation with Huerta for the subjugation of the country. So far from thinking that recognition would be sufficient to establish Huerta's power Mr.- Wilson did not expect him to control a foot of territory north of the twenty-sixth parallel. There was even doubt about that, for It, was one of the conditions of recognition that Huerta should "furnish evidence of his ability to restore peace and order up to the twentysixth parallel." Beyond that nothing was looked for from him. And It was doubted whether he could control the territory south of the parallel. Such was the "government" that it was proposed to recognize! As to the territory north of the twenty-sixth parallel the ambassador said : ' Recognition should not be accorded unless an arrangement can be made by which the American government, in co-operation with the , Mexican government, will be permitted to cross the border and aid the federal authorities in restoration of order down to the twenty-sixth parallel, always giving ample stipulation for the retirement of our troops whenever order and peace shall have been established, in the Judgment of the United

TAGORE ONCE WROTE POEMS OF PASSION

Sir Rablndranath Tagore, the Indian poet, who is to lecture in Richmond on Wednesday evening, Nov. 1, at Earlham, under the direction of Esther Griffin White, has not always been the teacher, the seer, the near-saint, that be now is. Those who know his earlier works, especially in the Bengali, remember him as a writer of youth, of love songs and love poems, that breathed the very passion of the East and which so roused Bengal, itself, that the people, especially the yonng, sang his poems by the roadside, at their work, in their playtime. In his writings was a rare gift to move his fellowmen that those of the West have only just felt in the reflection of translation. At about forty, though, a great change in his life came, when the death of his wife and son ended the life h had lived, and he turned to a broader world and to more serious meditation.

SPEAKS AT INSTITUTE

John Collicott, superintendent of the Indianapolis city schools, will make an address on "The Indianapolis School System" at the Wayne county teachers' institute, the second Saturday in December. The speaker for the November institute has not yet been selected.

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disposed interest States and Mexican commissioners duly appointed. What was proposed was, not so much recognition ot Huerta, as an alliance with him. The fclan involved putting the army of the United States at his disposal, and a temporary partition of Mexico between Huerta and the United States. We should have been forced to embark on a campaign for the pacification of the whole of northern Mexico. War would have necessarily followed recognition on such terms. We should have pledged ourselves to make war on the Mexicans in order to establish the authority of Huerta. In the light of this record, it would be foolish to argue any longer that recognition of Huerta in the beginning would have saved us from war. No mere recognition was, as we have seen, proposed. Ambassador Wilson did not advise it except on conditions of an impossible character, conditions which themselves proved that he did not for a moment imagine that recognition would solve the problem. On the contrary, recognition would have been simply the first step In a military campaign, with Huerta as our ally. Indianapolis News, May 9, 1914. The President With feelings of the utmost consideration for those including the suffragists who think, and perhaps with reason, that they have important business with the President, we insist that this is a mighty good time to leave him alone. For he is engaged in the most critical business in which any President has been engaged since the days of Abraham Lincoln namely, of keeping the country out of a war that now seems likely to be world-wide in its scope. Mr. Wilson's paramount duty, therefore, is to keep this country free from the scourge of war. We have no doubt that he will succeed in this task. But he will need all the time- that Is at his command in which to deal with the problems that are pressing on him from every side. The nation is looking to him for wise guidance through the complications that beset it. There is no imaginable question that compares in importance with that of maintaining peace on this hemisphere. If it is true, as is believed at Washington, that there .is a deliberate effort to involve us In hostilities, that fact if it be a factmakes it all the more necessary that the President should be, as far as it is possible, the master of his own time. Every power that Woodrow Wilson has, has been exerted and will continue to be exerted lo accomplish that mission. so there Is no reason whatever why the President's mind should be diverted from the business of the hour which Is the maintenance of peace. If he Is, as we believe he will be, successful In this, the United States will, when the war is over, be the most powerful nation in the world, powerful financially, commercially, morally and even from the military point of view. Our people should keep this vision constantly before their eyes. The leadership of the world is within our grasp, and it will be, if ever real

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GETS TERM ON FARM

When evidence was produced in the circuit court today showing that Walter Vickery, Cambridge City, would not have stolen a buggy whip, a robe and a line from J. S. Chapman also of Cambridge -' City, had he not been drunk. Prosecutor Reller dismissed the charge of petit larceny on which Vickery had been held since September 16. The prosecutor immediately filed an affidavit charging Vickery with intoxication. The prisoner was given a sentence by Judge Fox of thirty days in the penal farm and with a $25 fine.

KELLY ADDRESSES - PEOPLE OF-DUBLIN

Dublin's community betterment movement was initiated yesterday, when President Kelly of Earlham colege, made an address dealing with the principals of playing together as they have affected Indiana. ..The address was of a centennial nature. Dr. McKee was chairman and the Friends church, where the meeting was held, was well filled. "The citizens of Dublin believe tfcey are doing something unique im the way of unifying the town,, said President Kelly today, "and I believe they are. The movement is general. Every church was represented, as well as other interests."

the public an unexplained . . every act of. Nor was there a mo-

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and so exceedingly well writized as It may be a leadership that will bless the world. Other causes and -policies can wait But if we are to continue to enjoy "the benefits of peace, we must not only uphold the hands of the President, but leave him as free as possible to meet the great responsibilities that now rest on him. Under the most favorable circumstances he will have no more time or strength than he needs for the discharge of his vast responsibilities. Indianapolis News, May 7, 1915. The Voice of the Nation The note addressed to our state department to the German government is a clear and direct presentation of the American case, which in itself, be it said, perfectly clear. As to the law there can be no question. If there was a doubt in any mind, it certainly should be dispelled by the Amerlcsn note. The only question, therefore, is whether the German government will disavow the lawless acts, give assurances that there will in the future be no more of them, and make whatsoever reparation is possible or as the note puts it, "make reparation so fars reparation is possible for Injuries which are without measure." We have said that this admirable note is the voice of the nation. It is more thatUhat namely, the voice of the neutral world. Indianapolis News, May 14, 1915. America and Its Evils American citizens have been writing to foreign newspapersmostly English holding their own government up to scorn, and those newspapers have rejoiced in the utterances, and tuade the most of them. This government has been guilty of but one "crime," and that is its effort to deal farily and honestly with all in this war, and to keep out of it because of our love for peace. And we are trying as is the president to keep out of it today. The administration and the American people alike have been very patient under the slanders spoken and written of them. They have been patient because they knew that they were right and that time would vindicate them. It is well that the president spoke as he did. Indianapolis News, February 2, 1916. If we had a jingo in the White House this country would now be at war with Germany. Professor Taft. Naming no names, of course. Indianapolis News, June 4, 1915. What Wilson Stands For Let those who shudder at the thought of war consider carefully just what the stand of President Wilson means. Is it a Etand truly representative of thl3 peace-loving nation, and one in which we, as peace-lovers, can give him our loyal support? War at its best borders hideously on anarchy. That war as It Is now being practiced by all the participants in the pres- -ent world conflict has proved possible In this twentieth century has shocked and sickened the hopes of those whose aspirations were for peace. , The stand taken by President Wilson is not against progress, either in invention or In humanity, but against a lapse of anarchy. Indianapolis News, June 12. 1915. CENTRAL COMMITTEE.