Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 50, 10 January 1917 — Page 4

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TOE RlQfofOffD PALLADIUM AND STJNTELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY,, JAN. 10, 1917 .

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM , ' AND 8UN-TELBQHAM ''.

Published Every Evenine Except Sunday, Dy Palladium Printing Co. Palladium BuiMinjr, North Ninth and Sailor Sta. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris. Mgr.

Entered at the Post OCOcc t Richmond, Indiana, aa 8e osd CJaaa Mali Matter. . 1 : "" ' j'4 , " . , Reform the Legislature . ! The Indiana Legislature is in session. The usual flood of bills will be poured into the legislative hopper and the usual number of poor laws will be added to an already overcrowded statute book, the result being that instead of gaining beneficent legislation from the session of the General Assembly the state in a few months will be that much worse off. This sad commentary on the Indiana law makers is applicable to the other states of the "Union. All of them are suf fering from the same ailment. The Legislatures themselves need reformation. The system is antiquated and the men who constitute it are not trained for the work. Here can be found the weakness of the system. A century ago when parliamentary government was young, the Legislature answered the needs of the sparsely settled state for which it made laws. Conditions have changed wonderfully in a hundred years. A thousand problems confront the law makers today instead of the hundred that the Legislature had to consider when the state was first admitted into the Union. The problems of today are not simple ones either, but so complex that .financial, business, industrial and professional experts are needed to solve them. The profundity and the complex nature, of these problems require that a centralized tody weigh them, draft the measures, and present them to the General Assembly. Instead of this mode of procedure, bills affecting the most vital interests of, the state are referred to committees composed of men who have had little if any experience in the questions,, at. issue, the. result being that committee action is not based on a comprehensive knowledge of the bill. Under the very best circnmstances an important bill is seldom thoroughly understood. We see this in the operation of the present public utilities act, designed to protect the interests of the people against the corporations, but in reality favoring the corporations to detriment of the . people, as the experience of Richmond and other cities conclusively shows. Had this bill been drafted by men who had had a far reaching understanding of the points involved, had municipal experts been on the committee that reported it for passage, had students of the state's welfare been in the two houses that passed it, the present law would have had a different; complexion. This instance could be multiplied indefinitely to show that the present committee system of handling bills is inefficient. The hundreds of small bills, thrown into the legislative hopper by

legislators and intended for purely local needs and problems, would never be enacted into law, if a legislative cabinet outlined the., legislation for the session, and ruthlessly threw away every measure that was not of paramount importance to the whole state. The present committee system leaves the whole legislature in practical ignorance of the contents of bills that are up for passage. No member : the legislature can read- and investigate a!" '. ae. bills that are piled on his desk, hence, the report of the committee favoring: passage or indefinite postponement of a measure practically settles its fate. In its last analysis

this means that committees and not the legisla

ture, pass the bills. .

If the men sent to the legislature were

trained in public affairs there might be some re

lief for these evils, but the average legislator ha3 had absolutely no preliminary training for the work. There, is no inducement for a young man

to study public affairs and to train himself for

the important work of making laws for Indiana.

The Legislature is in session only sixty days, the pay is small, the chances of re-election slim. Usually a man wants to go to the Legislature for personal reasons, either because he wants the few dollars or, wants the honor and the power attending the election. The only guide to his decisions which the average legislator has is his own personal conscience. If this is highly developed he will be honest in his convictions and spurn the schemes that are often used to force bills through the Assembly. In this day, a legislator, however,

needs more than a good conscience. He needs a

trained intellect to direct his conscience. He may be the acme of righteousness, but if his intellect is hot sharp enough to detect the vicious elements that sometimes are introduced into bills, he will vote against the best interests of the state. The members who constitute our Legislature are drawn from all classes of life. On the one hand, most of them are honest and upright, on the other hand, they are not efficiently trained for the. task, hence, their rectitude often is defeated by their lack of knowledge. If a man had to hire the manager of a $100,000 utility, he would not choose a carpenter, mason, banker or doctor in the haphazard manner in which we select men for the legislature, but he would look about for men who are trained in the particular work for which he needs an executive. And yet, we elect men to handle the biasness of the state of Indiana, who have had absolutely no knowledge of the affairs of the commonwealth,' no grasp of the conditions that demand remedial legislation, no training in drafting bills or enacting laws, and we expect them to handle the problem with intelligence and business acumen. Is there any wonder that laws such as the present public utilities act is enacted? Is there any wonder that our statutes are cluttered with useless laws? Is there any wonder that the people distrust the Legislature, distrust the laws that are made, distrust the efficacy of American institutions, and gradually are losing faith in our form of government?

LUCIAS MORGAN DIES AT ANDERSON HOME

CENTERMLLE, Ind., Jan. 10. Word was received here last week of the death of Lucias Morgan, Anderson, a brother to John and Gilbert Morgan of this place. Mr. Morgan formerly lived here and is well known by many of the older residents. Both brothers went to Anderson to attend the' funeral Mr. and Mrs. Geo. ' Kutehe left Sunday- Cor Indianapolis, to remain there during the winter on account of Mr. Kntthes health. -The "Cosy Restaurant" is left in the hands of Mr. Haveland who recently camp here from the southern part of th state to operate 4be Old Trails picture show. : . . .Mrs. A.. M." Barr is confined t6 ber ,h6me with the grip. .... Charles Skinner and wife of Richmond, visited Mrs i Skinner's mother and father Sunday. Entertains for Bride. Mies Bessie Ttownsend entertained ite a mlscellaneots shower a number of the friends of Mrs- Robert Morris j (nee Miss Inez Eliason) whose marriage occurred New Years day. The 'afternoon was spent socially and in sowing, a quilt was put together for

Mrs. Morris duriajr the afternoon. Refreshments were served.. Those present were: Misses Edith Spahr, Mable Hosier. Grace Towi6end, Mrs. Lincoln

! Jones, Mrs. S. P. Pike, and children.

Ula and Byron, Mrs. John Eliason and Elma and Walter, Mrs. Nellie Eliason, Mrs. Robert Morris, Mrs. Herbert King, Mrs. Howard Cook. Mrs. John Ernsberger and Mrs. Earl Lundy, Cambridge City.

UNIQUE MEETING HELD

NEW PARIS, O., an. 10. The regular meeting of the Sigma Landda Rho was held the past week and was a Browning-TeBnyson session. Roll call was answered with quotations from the works of the two poets. Mrs. Henrietta "Hawley gave a review of the book, "Enoch Arden,"- and Miss Effie Eby gave an excellent paper on Browning. Miss Zelma Nunnamaker conducted the devotional portion of the program. The program committee in charge of the meetings will make announcement later of the next meeting. After the program delicious hot chocolate and wafers were served by the social committee and assistants. Sveral interesting contests were conducted, this part of the program also being highly educational and instructive. .....

OXFORD BANK ELECTS

OXFORD, O.. Jan 16 These officers and directors of the Oxford National bank were elected yesterday: President, George C. Wellivef; vice

president, G. C. Manns; cashier, C. A. Shera; WV F. Baughman, G. Burkffardt, R. J. Brown, Dr. R. Harvey Cook and C.T.Jones. Assistant cashies named were W. M. Shera, P. D. Shera and Charles A. Shera.

China yearly imports $4,000,000 worth of various kinds of leather.

For Dinner

ENTER THE BREAD CONTEST . To be held at ' Reed Furniture Co.'s Store 10TH & MAIN STS. ... RICHMOND, IND. TUESDAY JANUARY 30, 1917 Enter a loaf of your bread in this contest. You have a good chance of winning a prize. Competent judges will decide the winning loaves. Ten Prizes for the Best Bread Baked of VALIER'S ENTERPRISE FLOUR Buy a sack of Valier's Enterprise Flour of your grocer today arid be ready to enter the contest. RULES FOR CONTEST 1. Bake bread your usual way at home and send one loaf to Reed Furniture Co.'s Store, Tuesday, Jan. 30th. Bread received from 2 p. m. until 6 p. m. on that day. 2. Be on hand the next day at 2:30 p. m. after you send your bread, and see the bread judged. 3. Bread must be baked of Valler'e Enterprise Flour. 4. All women who bake bread may enter the contest. THE PRIZES. For the best loaft one barrel Enterprise Flour. For the second best loaf, half barrel Enterprise Flour. For the third best loaf, 48-pound tack Enterprise Flour. For each ef the next seven best loaves, 24-pound sack 4f Enterprise Flour. Sold by all Richmond Grocers. OMER G. WHELAN, Wholesale Distributor, Richmond, (nd. Valfer A Spies Milling Co. St Louis, Mo.

Wherever you dine whatever your sup

I roundings what a

complete finish to the day's meal is a cup of coffee the amber fluid ofenergy ready

I with its little message

of joyous happiness, to urge your lagging machinery into action again -a tonic for the whole system good for the stomach the digestion the brain. To get all this magic at its best, buy HEEKftTS COFFEE ',-; Insist be firm a good grocer will not substitute.

The JAMES HEEKIN CO.

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WOMEN TO EXERT VIGOROUS PRESSURE FOR DRY MEASURE

Mrs. Manr Harris Armor, the

"Georgia cyclone," who addressed the W. c T. tf. mass meeting at the East

Main Street Friends ehurcb. some time

ago, will return to Richmond the last

of January to address a "dry" 'mass meeting similar to the one held in the

Reid Memorial church, Sunday,

Mrs. O. N. Huff. Fountaifl City, president of the county W. C. T. U..

made the foregoing announcement

From present indications, the meeting

will be held, Sunday afternoon, Jan uary 28. ,

Plans are being laid for even a

larger meeting than that held in the

Reid Memorial church, Sunday. If interest enough is manifested the meeting will be held in the Coliseum- . Will Exert Bin Pressure.

The purpose of this meeting will be

to get the "dry" forces of the county together to brine pressure to bear upon

representatives and the senator of this county in the state legislature to vote

for the prohibition measures. People in sympathy with the "dry" cause will at this time be asked literal

ly to "swamp" Representatives Bartel

and Lafuze and Senator McConaha

with telegrams and letters the day the

bill comes up for consideration.

"We will make no discrimination in sending these communications," said

Mrs. Huff.

ANNOUNCES CONFERENCE

Rev. L. F. Ulmer has announced the

last Quarterly meeting of the confer

ence year at the Williamsburg Methodist church, Sunday. Dr. Somerville Light; district superintendent, will

preach in the morning.. .-At noon , dinner will bfc served in the church base

ment. Conference will be held in the

afternoon.

The Happy Way

to Health" is not through mountains of pills or rivers of dope. It is through proper selection of food, pure air and rational exercise. If you have health you can keep it by eating Shredded Wheat, the food that supplies all the nutritive material needed for work or play and in a digestible form. Keepyourstomach clean and your bowels active by eating Shredded Wheat, the food that supplies strength and builds healthy tissue without overtaxing the digestive organs. Always the same price, always the same high quality. A delicious, nourishing meal for a few cents. Made at Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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the tooth paste that is fighting the most general disease in the world. Use it twice daily. See your dentist twice yearly. ,

Get tube torfav. mul

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case, and its gym p torn s ad start tk Sesteco treatment tonight. 25c at you dragsiaU. For ample sead 4c, stamps or coin; to The Sentanel Remedjea Co Cincinnati.

Ohio.

dentists Formula

VEGETABLE CALOMEL

Vegetable calomel, extract of the root of the old-fashioned may-apple plant, does not salivate. As a fiver stimulator, it's crest. It's a per feet substitute for ordinary calo mel (mercury)) in fact, it's better, because its action is gentle instead of severe and irritating -rand it leaves no mean, disagreeable aftereffects. Physicians recognize thia and prescribe may-apple root (po dophyllin, they call it) daily. Combined with four other stand ard, all-vegetable remedies, mayapple root may now be had at most any druggist's in convenient sugarcoated tablet form by asking for Bentanel Laxatives. If you forget the name, ask for the box that has thepicture of the soldier on it. These tablets are small; easy to take and are really, wonderful little performers. . They quickly clean out the poisons that are causing you headache, constipation, sour stomach, : biliousness, dizzy spells, bad breath and coated tongue. They t are mild. They neve gripe. And they are a bowel tonic as -well as a cleanser and liver regulator. . A 10c box should last one several weeks. A Physician's trial package (4 doses) will be mailed you free if you write mentioning this advertisement. The Sentanel Remedies Co., 80S Madison Ave,, CvyjBgtOQf &t

BURIES WIFE SUNDAY; MOTHER DEAD TODAY

HAGERSTOWN, lad., Jan. 10 Mr Viola Jinapp. mother of Martfn Knapp, whose wife was burta Sunday, died at her home on East Main street Tuesday. ; Death resulted from pneumonia, Mrs. Knapp bad attained the age of 89 years. She is survived by three sons, Martin, Charles and John and one daughter, Mrs. Jennie Cray of Publin. In addition there are seven graadcnanldren and five great grandchildren. Services will be held at the home at JO o'clock Friday. The Rev. Mr. Wischmter will officiate.

INCORPORATE MISSION UNpgR INDIANA LAWS

For North

the purpose of making Fourteenth Street Union

the Mis-

Cold Gone! Head And Nose Clear First Dose of Tape's Cold Compound" Relieves All Grippe Misery. Don't star stuf fed-up! Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of "Pape's Coid Compound" taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold either in the head, chest, body or limbs! . It promptly opens clogged-up nostrils and sir passages; stops nasty discharge or tiose running; relieves sick headache, dullness, feverishness, sore .throat, sneezing, . soreness . and stiffness. "Pape's Cold Compound" Is the quickest, surest relief known and costs only 25 cents at drug stores. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, and causes no inconvenience. Don't accept a substitute. adv.

sion clearly .an inter-denominational project, it wilf he incorporated under the state laws. A meeting of the Administrative . Board has been called

for, Monday evening, Jan. 22, to be

held at the. mission property to se

lect trustees and make final plans for the incorporation.

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If Economy Counts Tell your grocer to send you Aristos Today. ." It's the flour that goes farthestIt is milled from Red Turkey Wheat ; ' Selected and tested and is richest in strength, flavor and nutriment. It is good for all home-baking and every sack is covered by our Guaran tee of Satisfaction or money back. Send for Aristos Cook Book it is free. THE SOUTHWESTERN MILLING CO., INC, KANSAS CITY. MO.

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CHIROPRACTOR If the spine Is right the man is right Knollenberg's Annex, 2nd. Floor.

Investigate. . Phone 1S68.

Buy Your

THEWivensxt CAB And Do It Now Ford cars were never so scarce at this season. The demand is general and unprecedented. The Ford company is many, thousand behind in its orders. kiLS ;-- "".. t ."; i --.: . Avoid the certain shortage in the Spring by purchasing your car now. An enormous shortage of Fords in the Spring is certain. Deb"i:? will be most indefinite. . .V-. . .ij - -. - . . . . Buy your Ford now, and get delivery as soon as fjossible. If you have already placed your order, get delivery as soon as possible. Only Ford agents with orders for immediate delivery are being supplied with cars, ? v'-,-: s ' ' 5.' Ford Prices: Touring Car, $360; Roadster, $345 ; Coupelet, $505 ; Town Car, $595; Sedan, $645 all F- O. B. Detroit.

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