Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 259, 10 September 1921 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND. IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1921.

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BONUS AND POLL TAX ISSUE IN ELECTION ; HELD IN OHIO SOON tBjr AanocI&Ud Prest) COLUMBUS, O., Sept 10 Although there will be no state or regular county officials on the ticket at the coming Novemoer election, voters will find several things of Interest on which to express a choice. On the state ticket there will be three constitutional amendments: soldier bonus, poll tax and senatorial redistricting. Probably the first question of state importance Is the soldier bonus

amendment, which would authorize the Issuance of $25,000,000 in bonds

to pay former soldiers, 6ailors and

marines who were m the service during the World war $10 for each month

Ferved, total not to exceed $250.

The American Legion Is expected to make a vigorous campaign for adop

tion of the amendment and its passage by the voters is regarded in most quarters as practically assured. Similar propositions in a number or other states have passed by large majorities. May Rearrange Districts. Politicians generally will be interested in tho proposal to rearrange the state senatorial districts. Most of the present districts would be considerably altered by the re-grouping of counties. Opposition to the amendment is expected from some localities affected and its adoption is regarded as by no means assured. The redistricting would, it is generally contended amons legislators, throw the senate Republican in normal Republican years and Democratic in normal Democratic years. The poll tax amendment was the only taxation proposal submitted by the last legislature, it being the only item that the two branches of the legislature could agree upon." For the first time in many years there will be no prohibition amendment or prohibition enforcement law up for the approval of the voters. See Spirited Contests. . While there will be no regular county officials elected, county elections are expected to be enlivened by the selection of three members of the county boards of education under a law passed by tho last legislature. Reports from a number of counties in

dicate spirited contests in the election

of these new official. For anumber of years, county education board members, five in num

ber, have been chosen by the presi

dents of the local boards of education within the counties. There was much

opposition to this system and rural

legislators, during the last session

succeeded in amending the law so that hereafter these officers will be elected

at large.

Candidates for the positions were nominated by petition, the time limit

for filing the petitions expiring Sept

9. Only three of the board members

are to be elected ths year, it being

provided that two of the old members Fhall hold over. In the cities and towns, mayorality

WOMAN SWIMS 153 MILES FROM ALBANY TO N. Y.

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE . Copyright. 1321, by Harper & Bros- Published by special arrangement with The McClnre Newspaper Syndicate. -,

Miss Mille Gade. Miss Mille Gade, Danish swimming star and instructor in the New York Y. W. C. A- recently swam from Albany to New York, approximately 153 miles aa she swam it.

elections and the choice of school board members and other city officials are expected to arouse considerable

interest. Besides, there will be a number of local bond issues up for

ratification. Taxing districts will also select assessors.

Mancie Man Will Head Letter Carrier Association (By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS. Mo., Sept. 10. The National Association of letter carriers f t their convention today, elected Edward J. Gainer, of Muncie, Ind., presi

dent. P. J. Walters, New York, was named vice president to succeed P. J. McNabb, New York. Edward Cantwell, Brooklyn, and CD. Duffy, Chicago, were re-elected secretary and treasurer, respectively. Providence Rhode Island was selected as tho convention city for 1922.

The average output of the world's gold mines is now more than $350,000,000 a year.

Ryder,' passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you it Just as it happened," sir," said he. "When Horner had been arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; and for all that it was a cold night, the 6weat was pouring down my face before I got to Brixton Road. My sister asked me what was the matter and why I was so pale; but I told her I had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would be best to do. "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad and who had just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they could get rid

of what they stole, "I knew that he would be true to me, for I knew one or two things about him ; so I made up my mind to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. But how to get it

to him In safety? I thought of the agonies I had gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time, and looking at the geese which were waddlins round my feet, and suddenly an idea came into my head which showed me how to beat the best detective that ever lived. "My sister had told me some weeks

before that I might have the pick of her geese for my Christmas present, and I knew that she was always aa good as he word. I would take my gooso now and in it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds a fine, big one, white, with barred tail.. I caught it and prying its bill open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger could reach. The bird gave a gulp and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and fluttered off among the others. " 'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. " 'Well,' said I, 'you said you would give me one for Christmas, and I was feeling which was the fattest.' 1 "'Oh.V says she, 'we've set yours

aside for you Jem's bird, we call it. It's the big 'white one over yonder. There's 26 of them, which makes one for " you, and two dozen for the market.''Thank yon, Maggie,' says I; but if it is all the same to you, I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' '"The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she. 'and we fattened it expressly for you.' "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' says I. ..... . "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. "Which is it you want, then?' . , . ,

"'That white one' with the barred tail, right in the middle of the flock.' " 'Oh. very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Well, I did what she said. Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed until he choked, aid we got a knife and opened the goose. My heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone,, and I knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, rushed back

to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There .was not a bird to be seen there. " 'Where are they all, Maggie, i cried. "Ereckenbridge, of Convent Garden.' " 'But was there another with a barred tail? I asked, 'the same a3 the one I chose?' "'Yes, Jem; there were two barredtailed ones, and I could never tell them apart.' "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my feet would carry me to this' man Breckenbridge, but he had sold the lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they had gone. You heard

him yourselves tonight. Well, he has always answered me like that. My sister thinks I am going mad. Sometimes I think I am myself. And now and now I am myself a branded, thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which I sold my character.

God help me! God help me!" He burst into convulsive sobbing, with

his face buried in his hands.

There wa3 a long silence, broken

only by his heavy breathing, and by

the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes's finger-tips upon the edge of the table. Then my friend rose and

threw open the door. "Get out!" said he. "What, sir! Oh, heaven bless you!" "No more words. Get out." And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running footfalls from the street. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. If Horner were in danger, it would be another thing; but this fellow will never

appear against him, and the case must collapse. I suppose that I am committing a felony, but it is Just possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him io jail now, and you make bim a Jail-bird for life. Besides, it is the season for forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whlmsicfal problem and its' solution is its own reward. If you will have the goodness to touch the bell, doctor, w e will bbgin another investigation. In which, also, a bird will be the chief feature."

where the money was, and taking It ruthlessly. The war tax law wa3 passed in the spirit of the draft act It partook of the nature of a commandeering of money. In the emergency of war this was proper enough, but to keep up this form of taxation in the same degree during peace time, would, of course, be intolerable. The time is too short and the government's need of money too great to turn around immediately in this regard, but I express the hope and expectation that soon we shall be able to change our system of taxation so as to raise less of our revenue through burdensome income taxes and more of it through some other form of direct tax on the production or consumption of goods." As to quantity of taxation, Senator Smoot's prediction that it is likely to be increased,' is not received with aa much credence as hi3 usually careful statements generally are. All the

commg conference for limitation of operations aireaay menuoneq in me

armaments, and it does follow this present article should result in reduc

NO DRASTIC (Continued from Page One.) a marked reduction in our appropriations for military and naval armament. It is hoped that this will follow the

also will enable us to reduce the quantity of our taxation appreciably. If these three things should happen, then it . is likely that next year will

see . a proposal for a fundamental change in the form of our taxation, a

change which may reduce the amount

collected on income taxes to about one-half the present sum, and which may introduce a sales tax or some other form of direct tax to raise the balance. Quotes Hays' Speech On this point there are some significant sentences in the speech which a member of the cabinet, Mr. Will Hays, made - at Cleveland Tuesday night. He 6aid "It is the idea of those carrying the largest responsibility that for the immediate present the method of raising revenue can probably not be fundamentally changed. After the refunding of our public debt, which must come in due season, It will no doubt, be possible to devise a method for the ultimate collection that will stimulate rather than in any way retard business, and spread the burden in right proportions to every man and woman in the country, who are all beneficiaries of the results for which the money was spent. Personally, I am willing to say most emphatically that this country cannct go on and must not attempt to go ou indefinitely during peace time with either the form or the degree of tax

ation which originally was devised to j

meet the emergency of war. Our colossal income taxes were adopted with an eye single to one thing, namely, the raising of money in the largest quantity and with the greatest speed. We took the device of going straight

tions of our taxes. Senator Smoot, in

Masonic Calendar

Monday, Sept 12. Richmond Commandary. No. 8, K. T. Special conclave; work in the Order of the Red Cross; 7:00 p. m. Tuesday, Sept 13 Richmond Lodge No. 196, F. and A. M. Called meeting, work in Entered Apprentice degree,

beginning at 4 o'clock. Supper at 6:30. Wednesday, Sept. 14. Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in the Fellow Craft degree; 7:00 o'clock. Friday, Sept. 16. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called convocation; work in Royal Arch degree. Light refreshments. Saturday, Sept 17. Loyal Chapter No. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting.

GRAIN SHOPS LOOTED - IN SERIOUS RIOTING (By Associated Press) ALLAHABAD, British India, Sept. 10 Serious rioting, marked by the wholesale looting of grain shops, occurred in broad daylight at Meerut 35 miles northeast of Delphi, yesterday, it is said, in a telegram received from that city. In the course of two hours the entire stocks of the shops were removed by the rioters. A similar outbreak occurred at the corn mills at Meerut, and the losses are estimated at approximately $120,000. The trouble started when two grain merchants were arrested on a charge of swindling a purchaser, the incident being aggravated by the present shortage of grain. Several of those who participated in the disorder were arrested.

PEANUT CROP POOR (Br Associated Press) PETERSBURG. Va.. Sept 10 Virginia's peanut crop this year will be less than 50 per cent of normal, and in some sections will be a total loss, according to reports of the Virginia peanut growers' association. The decrease is attributed to the drought

The affix "cester," or "Chester." prominent in names of English cities, is a corruption of the Roman word "castra," a camp.

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