Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 56, 17 January 1917 — Page 1

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ARTIFICIAL GAS ALONE MAY BE AVAILABLE NEXT VINTER; NATURAL SUPPLY D I MINI S HES AT A LA R Ml HG RATE THIS YEA R PRESSURE DROPSTO LOWESTPOINT UNDER TUESDAY' S PEAK

Richmond's natural gas supply went to Its lowest ebb about 6 o'clock last night when a pressure of only one find seven-eighths onuces was registered. For the greater part of the day the pressure was normal, which Is approximately seven ounces. At one time In the early afternoon, .the pressure registered maximum normal, elebt ounces. Light, Heat & Power company employes late in the afternoon had the artificial gas plant ready for operation as Manager N. H. Johnson thought that the city was going to be cut off from its natural gas supply, which is obtained from the West Virginia fields. Supply Is Diminishing "While the protracted cold spell has much to do with the reduction of the gas pressure the fact remains that our gas supply is steadily becoming exhausted and I doubt very much whether Richmond has any . natural gas next winter," Mr. Johnson said today. . Indications are that late this afternoon the gas pressure will drop as low as It did yesterday but Mr. Johnson believes that a fairly satisfactory gas supply can be furnished the city until the close of the winter, prepare Artificial Plant Mr. Johnson fired a broadside at the city administration today over its recent action in ' appealing to the Wayne circuit court the order of the Indiana Public Service commission establishing a seventy cent ' natural gas rate for Richmond, the city contending that the commission's valua

SOUTH SIDE CIVIC BODY FAVORS OPTIONAL RIGHT FOR ALL CITIES TO CHOOSE KIND QF GOVERNMENT

South ' 81de Improvement association vent on record last night favoring . legislation .making it optional with cities of Indiana to retain their present form of government or, by a referendum, adopt a commission or city manager plan of government The legislative committee was instructed to draw up resolutions faVoring such legislation to be presented to Governor Goodrich. A special .session of the board of the association will be called to pass on the resolutions when- they are completed. This action was taken by the board after the advantages of the city manager and of the commission plans had teen outlined by Rudolph G. Leeds. Believes Goodrich Favorable "1 am reasonably sure that Governor Goodrich favors making it op

BOND BRINGS BACK REPORT OF STILL FURTHER INCREASE IN RICHMOND WATER RATES

City Attorney W. A. Bond went to Indianapolis yesterday to demand of the public utilities commission an order rescinding the Richmond City Water Works company's meter rental charge which amounts to $2.00 per year. ... Mr. Bond returned today with the information that there was an excellent prospect for another increase in water rates and practically no chance of the meter rental charge being eliminated. The city attorney learned when he appeared before the commissioners that commission accountants who had examined the water company's books recently had reported that by collection of meter rentals the company waa not receiving quite all the revenue the

ILIFF DECRIES CHARITY WHICH SQUEEZES OUT HUMAN PITY BY USE OF COLD Heart Is Sickened with Disgust over the Cold Magisterial, , Arrogant, Despotic, Pompous Management of Poor which Proceeds on the Assumption that Criminal or a DrunkRichmond Writer Impugns Motives of Those Who Give Alms from the Housetops "to be Seen of Men" and Carry Megaphones Hangers-on Who Are Jostling and Crowding about the Pubhc Corncrib Arouse Righteous Wrath. These Men Would Barter Away Independence and Public Opinion to Curry Favor of Voters.

BY EDGAR ILIFF I am tired tonight I am tired of seeing power hold its brutal sway and weakness forever crowding against the wall, covering its rags and shame with the shadows of night I am tired of seeing vice hedged about by the divinity of wealth and the poor hustled into swift punishment under the name of crime. I am tired of seeing men living upon the credulity and ignorance of their fellow-men like wolves feeding upon their prey. I am eternally tired of some kinds of professional practices called "business," where men bleed, freeze out, pinch and squeeze tha credulous and trusting. I am ifctretf of "cure-alla" and . "specifics"

tion of the company's property, upon which the rates were based, was excessive because the artificial gas plant had been figured into the valuation a3 a "used and useful" unit ' Twice this winter the artificial riant has had to be made ready for operation when it appeared that the city was to be cut off from its natural gas supply," Johnson said. "Suppose the natural gas had given out last night, wouldn't the artificial plant have been regarded as a 'used and useful' unit?" It i3 generally believed that next

WANTS COUNSEL TO KELP PROBE "LEAK" PUZZLE WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Today's session of the Aleak" hearing was suddenly postponed as it was about to open. The postponement was made so the committee might ask the house for authority to employ counsel. Wit nesses were notified to appear tomorrow morning. . tional with cities to adopt commis sion or city manager systems of gov eminent he said. , f w He explained that under the present plan of city - government there is a division of responsibility. Ward conn1 cilmen, four councilmen-at-large, a mayor and city clerk are elected. The mayor appoints his board of public works. This is in keeping with the old idea of checks and balances which has blocked progress for the past hundred years. "The lack of centralized authority Is the worst fault of the present plan," fa SAM. Mutt Be a Politician Mr. Leeds explained further that a plan like the present one makes it difficult for an efficient officer Lto get Continued On Page Ten. commission had decreed it was en titled to, approximately $103,000 gross. Would Mean a Change. The discussion brought out the fact, Mr. Bond reports, that if the meter rental charge was abolished then the deficit would have to be met by a re-adjustment of rates. Another item which figures into the water company's returns from users of automatic fire protection sprinkler systems. Despite vigorous protest the commission last summer established a readiness-to-serve charge for snch systems and ordered all of them to be metered. Says Revenue Shrinks. The charge for these systems was figured on the basis of six-inch conContinued On Page Five. and "movements" and "crusades" and "leagues' and "committees" organized and pushed by fair means or foul to bring about the millenium. I am tired of laws and enactments based upon sentimental emotions and not Justice; great tides and swells of laws which are never enforced and can't be enforced; laws' at once relegated to the museum of Legislative Curiosities to look at as we look at mummies that stand for the dead past and not for living men. Lack of Protection . I am tired of the great "cures" with "testimonials" against which the scientist and the worthy physician have no shadow of protection. I am tired of seeing horses abused.

summer the Light, Heat & Power company will ask the public service commission to establish a schedule of rates for artiicial gas. At this time there is no artificial gas schedule.' Manager Johnson intimated today that if artificial gas is again used it will be a real luxury as the cost of manufacturing gas has increased approximately 100 per cent in the past year. Reports- from cities north of Richmond which obtain the same natural gas supply as Richmond show that conditions there are much worse than in Richmond

15 CENT PROFIT ON EGGS AT 55 CENTS REVEALED WHEN GROCERS OFFER TO BUY EGGS OF POULTRY RAISERS AT 40 CENTS

Profits on a dozen eggs as bought and sold by some Richmond grocerymen today ranged from 5 to 15 cents. , The consumer who blames old H. C. L. for eggs, quoted to him today, at 55 cents a dozen was surprised to learn that his farmer friend was selling those identical eggs to grocers for 40 cents a dozen. Forty-cent eggs which retail at 55 cents rival Bethlehem steel as an investment for financiers. With such rapid progress into the realms of finance it would not be surprising to learn that eggs had become a factor in the speculation on Wall Street. That many grocers were making a profit of 15 cents on each dozen of eggs was revealed when an investigation was made by persons purported to have eggs for the market and by others purporting to be prospective purchasers. The same grocer who offered to buy eggs at 40 cents, quoted his selling price a few minutes later at 55 cents, allowing for a difference of 15 cents.

INDICTED LICENSE HOLDERS FACE STRUGGLE TO, MAIN. RENEWAL BY COMMISSIONERS

Saloon keepers convicted under indictments returned by the grand jury for violation of the liquor laws or other criminal codes will meet some stiff opposition when they petition county commissioners for renewals of their licenses, it was reported today. Commissioner Seaney declined to discuss the report and all that he would say . was : "We will meet the propositions when we get to them. Because of the present contest which is being waged to get state prohibition, it is the duty of public officials not to make any statements which might in any way be used as arguments by either side. . When problems of this kind have come before the board at other times, it is known that efforts have been made to solve them in the way which will be best for all concerned." Some May Lose Licenses. The commissioners, if they believe that a man is not a fit person to hold

TEACHERS ASK HIGHER WAGE THROUGH THEIR FEDERATION; PRESENT SALARIES INADEQUATE

A report drafted by a committee of three teachers of the Richmond public schools advocating an increase in the salaries of all teachers will be submitted at a meeting of the City Fed eration of Teachers, tomorrow afternoon at the high &chool. A general demand on the part of pushed and goaded on although old and weak, exposed to sleet and rain, a cold and hot sun without water or food. I am tired of seeing litUe children whipped for tying when their fathers and mothers are living lies. Why can't men and women gladly hear the truth and tell the truth to their children? I am tired of seeing the simple minded sheep continually taken in by the "slick" people who travel through the world upon their "respectability." I am tired of heresy hunters In bot'a politics and religion. I am tired of seeing worthy and honest men condemned for their belief, condemned for their open candor and bad men courted for their pious demeanor. I

CAPTURE MECHANIC WHO GOT UNSIGNED CURRENCY OFF TRAIN

H. Grady Webb, a handsome young mechanic who became known here last summer, has been arrested in Kansas City by federal authorities w-ho are holding him on a charge of having robbed a train in West Virginia two years ago of $100,000 of unsigned bank currency. Webb, who has been known to postal inspectors almost since the time of the train hold-up, has been most successful in eluding his pursuers, although he apparently did not hide. He came to Richmond frequently until about August, it is believed. He was seen in the independent auto hack station first and the report almost led to his capture here. a liquor license judging from his past experience have the right to refuse to grant one after a fair trial in commissioners' court They can take into consideration court records and in case a man has violated liquor laws twice within one-year the law sneci fies that commissioners cannot grant a license. Any aDDlicant has the right to appeal to circuit court and it is anticipated tnat in case any saloon keeper is refused a license, a hard fought legal battle will result Prosecutor Strayer said today that investigations of the liquor law violations being made by the grand jury are causing many persons to condemn him because they are coming at a time when the prohibition movement is at its height He said that the grand jury has made its investigations because attenContinued On Page Five. teachers for better pay resulted in one of the standing committees of the organization taking up the question some time ago. It is said that most of the teachers who appeared before the committee members urged the commitContinued On Page Ten. am tired of piety without principle, pretense without practice, preaching without pity. ' I am tired of seeing men tolerated who commit every offense in the decalogue just because they pay a feigned adherence to a creed in a church or to a party cry, while men who are square and upright are denounced because they will not crook their knee to false gods. I am tired of seeing truth forever hissed and wrong forever dined, supped and serenaded. , Tired of Being Duped. . I am tired of- being a fool and dupe among fools and dupes. I am tired of policy. I am tired of white wash and sugar where the lash should fall and of seeing ,the . lash . fall where there

CADETS PAY HONOR TO ADMIRAL DEWEY AT FUNERAL SERVICE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Funeral arrangements for Admiral Dewey were partially completed today. Orders were issued by the navy department tp bring all the cadets at Annapolis and all available bluejackets from the Norfolk and Washington navy yards to attend the funeral here Saturday. Secretary Baker will order all available army units to participate in the ceremony. Ranking officers were engaged today arranging the details. A guard of honor, composed of bluejackets from the gun boat Dalton and the presidential yacht Mayflower was stationed at the Dewey home. LINDLEY CITES SOCIAL UNREST; TRADES CAUSES Professor Harlow Lindley of Earlham college, in an address in the Commercial club rooms last evening before the members of the Woman's Franchise League on "The Need of a New Constitution in Indiana," stated that the recent rapid growth of the Socialist party was due for one thing to the inability of the governing forces to recognize the radical social changes that had taken place within the past half century which were a natural evolution following scientific discovery and political enlightenment That the conditions which confronted the makers of the Indiana constitution in 1850 were different from those of today which cause a demand for a new constitution to meet the latter, should, Professor Lindley stated, be Continued On Page Ten. nil WATCH US GROW" Population Jan. 1 27,453 Population yesterday ..27,453 Gain today. 14 Loss today. ................. 1 Present population. . . . .27,466 CONVENTION BILL MEETS WITH FAVOR INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 17. The house bill providing for a constitutional convention was favorably reported today by the committee on ways and means to which it had been referred. The committee was unanimous in its report recommending passage of the bill. . THAWS CONDITION IS HELD SERIOUS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 17 Physicians at the hospital where Har ry K. Thaw, who attempted to commit suicide here last week by slashing himself with a razor, is a patient said today that Thaw was not recovering as rapidly as had been expected and expressed concern both as to his mental and physical condition. I Weather Forecast I For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Probably snow tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat warmer. Temperature Today. Noon 23 Yesterday. Maximum IS Minimum 2 below For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Occasional snows and not so cold. - General Conditions The cold wave which has been settling southward is gradually losing strength. Temperature was two below zero last night and fifteen above this morning. It is decidedly warmer over the far northwest and snows are eeneral over the middle Mississippi valley and central states. should be mercy and tears. I am tired of seeing things done "to be seen of men" and for notoriety's sake. Iam tired of seeing every good and noble cause Unpaired and disgraced by promoters , who carry private axes to grind. ; I am sick and tired of charity and reform whose , managers have managed to squeeze out every bit of human pity by the use of cold statistics. I am heartsick at the cold magisterial, arrogant, despotic, pompous management of the poor which proceeds on the assumption that the impoverished man who, like little Oliver Twist, asks for more, is either a criminal or a drunk. I am heartsick at those who give their alms from the housetops" to be seen of men" and car-

EIGHT VESSELS TO GERMAN RAIDER IS

Through the operations of a German raider, presumably operating in the south Atlantic, eight British and two French merchant vessels, including the long missing steamer Voltaire and Georgic, are known to have been sunk and two British steamers captured, London advices state. A German raiding vessel recently has been reported in those "waters. So far as is shown by the British announcement the raider is still at large. Apparently she has been operating off the coast of South America. First News of Raid. The first news of the raid was received with the arrival at Pernambuco, Brazil, on Monday evening of the Japanese steamship Husdson Maru which had on board the Masters and 237 men of the crews of vessels destroyed between December 12 and January 12. In addition the British steamship' Yarrowdale one of the captured, vessels was sent off with about 400 men who were to be landed. No news of these men has been received as yet Th point at which the Hudson Maru put in makes it appear probable that the German raider has been operating off the coast of South America. The British admiralty announced on December 8 that, a report had been received that a disguised German vessel of the mercantile type was sighted in the North Atlantic on December 4. It was reported from Halifax that a strange vessel believed to be a raider was intercepted on December 2 off the northwestern coast of Scotland but was permitted to proceed under the impression that she was the Dutch steamship Gamma. Later it was learned that the Gamma was at Kirkwall on that date. The Voltaire and Georgic, long over due, had been virtually given up for lost The Voltaire left Liverpool November 28 for New York and was not heard from again. ' She was believed to have beep sunk by a mine or a submarine. The Voltaire was a vessel of 8,618 tons gross. She was 485 feet long, 58 feet beam and built, at Glasgow in 1907, . .She. was owned by the Liverpool, Brazil . 'and River Plato steam navigation company. KARGH IS SENTENCED TO OHIO REFORMATORY; STEALS FINE GOWNS Harold Karch, . 18-year-old son of Isaac Karch, 900 North D street Pennsylvania railroad conductor, yesterday was sentenced to a term in the Ohio reformatory by a criminal judge at Cincinnati following his alleged confession to robberies in several Cincinnati suburban homes. The boy's young wife, wearing a handsome coat which she believed her husband's parents had paid for, appeared in court and she was absolved when the judge learned she was facing ma ternity. It was announced that she Z L tyilSlK lchmond t0 hve with the Karch family. Karch, who has a police record in Richmond, was working in Cincinnati as a telegraph operator when he met the girl it is said. She told the court that he had represented that his family was wealthy and after they were married bought her the expensive gifts which he had taken In his alleged burglaries. She was fined $100 on a charge of having received stolen goods and the fine was suspended. REPAIR WARSHIPS AT REPAIR YARDS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. . 17 There is unusual activity at the Philadelphia Navy -Yard due to the great amount of repairs to warships now in progress. Five of them, including the battleship Maine and the cruiser Minneapolis, are under the mechanic's hammer, and there are several waiting to take their places when these two are finished.

UNSYMPATHETIC STATISTICS Every Impoverished Man Who Asks for More Is Either a to Sound Out Their Own Praises. Party ' Leaches and Freedom and Become Straws before Every Wind of

ry megaphones to sound out their own praises. - - I am tired of seekers of office, the hunters for place, the party hangerson,' the leaches who always crowd around the public corncrib. For the sake of office and appointment they will be all things to all men, say green is yellow, or white is black, subscribe to anything and barter away the dearest thing in life independence aud liberty. As soon as man starts on th'.i kind of career he is stricken blind, deaf and dumb. He will not see what he ought to see, he will not hear what he ought to hear, he will not say what he ought to say. He becomes the slave of every wind, the crawling thing before every public clamor. He

FALL PREY SEA RAIDER; STILL AT LARGE

The White Star freighter Georgjo sailed from Philadelphia, December 2 for Liverpool with a general cargo. The White Star agents said some time ago that her destruction must be conceded as 'she had never taken more than 15 days to cross the Atlantic in winter. Her gross tonnage waa 10,077. She was 557 feet long, 60 feet of beam, and was built in 1895. The Dramatist. 5,421 tons gross and 410 feet long, was built in Glasgow in 1913. She sailed from Seattle November 9 and San Francisco November 18, arriving at Cologne December Z and 8t Lucia-December 10, the last report of her movements. The last movements of the Radnorshire have not been recorded. She was a royal mall steam packet steamship of 4,302 tons gross. She was 385 feet long and was built in Sunderland in 1913. The Netherby hall, 4,461 tons gross, was 381 feet long and was built in 1905 at Newcastle. She belonged to the Hall line. When last reported she was on her way from India to Cuba. The King George sailed from Philadelphia on November 24 and Wilmington November 29, for Manchester, being booked for a return trip to Philadelphia. Her gross tonnage was 3.852. She was 350 feet long, was built in 1906 and owned in Glasgow. The Minieh's recent movements are not recorded. She was owned in London, was built in 1876 and was 351 feet long, of 2.890 tons gross. Left Late Last Year. The Mount Temple sailed from Montreal previous to December 3 for London. She was owned by the Canadian Pacific railway company of London and was built in 1901 at Newcastle. Her gross tonnage was 8,790. She was 485 feet long. The Asnieres was a French four masted bark of 3,103 tons gross, built in 1902 at Havre. She sailed from Bahia Blanca on November 29 for Pauillac. the three masted French bark Nantes, 2,679 tons gross, was built in 1909 at Rouen and owned in Nantest. She sailed on October 9 from Iquique. Chile for London. The St Theodore, which has been captured, is a British steamship rf 4,992 tons gross. 405 feet long, built in 1913. She was owned in Liverpool. She sailed from Norfolk December 5, for Savona, Italy. t .The other captured steamship, the Yarrowdale 4,652 tons gross, and 390 feet long, was built in 1912 and owned in Glasgow. The last report from her was her arrival at Havre from New York previous to January 3. ON EASTERN FRONT The Russians who recently have Lbeen giving evidences of increasing power of resistance to the oerman pressure along the Sereth line in northern Roumania, have now taken the offensive. Advancing near the Danube end of the line, they have recaptured the town of Vadeni, six miles southwest of the Roumanian Danube port of Galatz, according to an official announcement from Petrograd today. - France German troops attacked the On the Somme front in northern German line near Clery and Biaches, that were repulsed according to the French war office. The other operations on the Franko-Belgian front, so far as reported. 66 ALLIED PLANES WINGED IN MONTH BERLIN, Jan. 17. Sixty-six aeroplanes of the entente powers were shot down on the various battlefronts in the months of December, according to the German official statement issued today. Twenty-two of these machines are in the possession of the Central Powers. The losses of the Central allies in the same period were seventeen machines. is no longer a man. Better a free and independent life in a cabin and a few acres than to be a supplicant for men's favor. . j ' '. ' I am tired of seeing slings and arrows of outrageous fortune stinging men and women to death; tired of the eea of troubles that engulfs so many, tired of the heartaches and the thousand shocks the flesh is heir to; tired of the whip and scourge of time, tha oppressions of wrong, the proud man's contumely, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that the patient merit of the unworthy taker. Now I am tired of saying how completely tired I am of saying now' fired I