Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 97, 24 April 1922 — Page 16

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1922.

FOR CARE OF ROADS IN STATE THIS YEAR

INDIANAPOLIS, April 24. Augmented facilities for maintaining roads in the state highway system this year with a view of giving users the best

The High Grade Grafter By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24. There are a great many ways of making money without working for It and without giving anything real for the money received. There are the time worn gold brick schemes and other hoary old tricks of the past of which, however, the public generally never

Dossible service and to keep highways

open to traffic under the most trying appears to become aware, because conditions, are rapidly being whipped they go on and on turning in rich har-

into Bhape, Lawrence Lyons, director vesta of gold to the crooked promoters

cf the 6tate highway commission, said today. Four new division superintendents and one district engineer have been added, making thirty-one superintendents and six district engineers engag

ed in the maintenance department. District headquarters at Columbus will be moved to Crawfordsville with C. C. Newsom, formerly at Columbus, In charge. All district engineers employed for highway maintenance have had four yeara college training iu civil engineering, Mr. Lyons said. There are approximately 3,500 miles in the state system at this time, and of this mileage 240 miles are of earth, 2.800 miles of gravel and stone, and 400 miles of brick, conci-ete, bituminous macadam and surface treated macadam. The patrol system worked to snlendid advantage this winter, Mr.

Washigton, rather than New York,

probably furnishes the best field for this kind of dishonest work of a high grade if that term can rightly be applied to it. In the unpublished history of Washington for the past 30 or 40 years, if it could be written, are some amazing and often amusing incidents of this sort. One source of revenue has sprung from the fact that often there come to congress men of wealth who have little else to commend them. One of these men and he did not come from the backwoods, but from very close to

Broadway and Forty-second street was so gulible that he paid a good round sum to unscrupulous men he met to "buy" the influence and goodwill of certain Washington news-

j papers. Iseed'ess to say, tne newspa

Lvons said, and by regularly dragging j pers did not know that their f riend-

the heavily traveled roads three and, ship was being sold on the streets ot

four times each week, and less heavily

traveled roads at least once a week, there were only a few places impass-, able at short periods. The maintenance department now has at its disposal two hundred road graders and four hundred motor trucks. On May 4, the commission will receive proposals for various kinds of maintenance equipment. Rains Damaging Due to unprecedented rains in the past six weeks and abnormal flood conditions prevalent in lowlands of the state, all roads with the exception of rigid types, were subjected to unusual deteriorating conditions. The commission has received complaint from some citizens inclined to think that road improvements are responsible fnn Viiirh wotor flnndlnp thc!r nron-

erties, according to Mr. Lyons. An in-J

vestigation was conducted by A. H. Hinkle, chief maintenance engineer. He said he found that in most cases the trouble is in cities where new additions have been added and that during building and construction the natural drainage courses were closed. Unprecedented rainfall cannot be taken care of by inferior drainage, but in no instance Is any highway construction or maintenance responsible for

the inundation of private property, highway officials say. j Thl3 spring's flood also has taken toll from state highways and bridges. Half a dozen smaller bridges, some on important lines of travel, have been swept away. A few can be reclaimed, but in most cases, new structures must replace them. In the south part of the state, a 72-foot span steel truss bridge washed 200 feet down Sycamore creek, which rose 15 feet in a few hours. This bridge was four miles from Martinsville on the Mar-tinsville-Brooklyn road. A detour has been arranged around the Bluff Road. A bridge two miles south of Milton, in Wayne county, on the Milton-Con-nprsvllle highway, swept down stream, also a structure east of Balnbridge on the Danvllle-Rockville road. Several points along concrete state highways in southern Indiana were inundated for days but have withstood the flood pressure, according to reports from district engineers.

Washington, and if they exhibited any goodwill toward this particular man, it was by saying nothing about him. Another and in this one, members of congress figure as well is to secure the Introduction of some resolution or bill proposing drastic action or laws of some kind. Then the alarm is

sounded, and money often rolls into

the coffers of the originator of the

scheme, who organizes a society to

fend off the awful threat contained in

the piece of proposed legislation. It

can be assumed that the congressman

is innocent of duplicity in this matter.

Memberships in the society ars sold,

probably at a dollar apiece

There is another case of a consid

erable amount of money being made

out of a diplomatic appointment. When this ocurred this particular diplomatic post was going begging. No one

seemed to want it. There was a gen

eral impression that because of conditions existing then, no one could acquit himself with much credit and glory in the position. Sure Thing Gambling In this situation, the man who ultimately made money out of the deal suggested to the wife of a certain wealthy man that he seek the appoint

ment, men tne manipulator gave careful directions how to proceed. Dinners must be given, with a carefuly selected guest list. No mention must be made of the vacant post in

the diplomatic corps. All of this was done. In the meantime, this manipulator, who really did have certain standing and influence here, had ascertained beyond doubt that the post would go to anyone who so much as Intimated that he would accept it. Naturaly the dinners meant nothing.

That was just to make the thing look hard, and as if influence were at work

under the surface to obtain the job

At the proper time the appointment

was made. By prior arrangement

not with the man appointed, but with his wife the manipulator of this thing was paid a sum rumored to be no

less than $25,000.

All of these things most of them, at any rate are quite within the law. No criminal statute is fractured by the operations. It is just "slick" work.

There is the instance of a certain event that' was to occur in a LatinAmerican country in which the American Government has been forced to take a sort of elder-brotherly interest. '

Disorders were feared. It was felt that only the United States could guard against this. One faction of the politicians in this country had a private representative In Washington. He sought out an obscure but supposedly influential man to help him. This man did have a wide acquaintance, and was able to ascertain quickly that the American Government had made up its mind months before to take the desired action. This man had to make the job look hard, of course, and made daily reports of fancied developments to the representative of the LatinAmerican country. In the fullness of time, the thing for which he had been engaged naturally transpired, and he

collected his fee that is, he got half of it. Some hitch developed, and it was his frenzied efforts to get the rest that brought the transaction to the attention of a few people, at least. There is a well remembered case of a newspaperman in Washington who abused the confidences and privileges which all of them enjoy. Naturally, a great many newrspermen in Washington often are the possessers of information in confidence which would be

of great value to certain corporations if they could learn it in advance of general publication. A congressional investigation brought out this man's connections. He was drawing down, in retaining fees from big corporations, a sum in the neighborhood of $30,000 a year, an excellent income for any newspaperman. Naturally, throwing the light of publicity on this man's efforts made him of no further use to these corporations,

at least in the same capacity, and the

newspapers with which he had been connected soon let him go. But in

the meantime he had accumulated a nice little nest egg, enough to permit him to start a perfectly honest business in which he is reported to be doing nicely. To return to Latin-America, the incident related a few paragraphs above was trifling compared to the "clean up" made by another man in Washington in much the same way. A certain one of the American republics was anxiously awaiting formal and favorable action by the state department on an important matter concerning that republic. Quite by chance

this man learned that the state department had fully made up its mind to this course, but that action would not be immediate. Accordingly, this man got in touch with the president of the Latin-American republic through the proper channels, and made a deal with that government whereby he would get a considerable sum of money it was said to be $100,000 for influencing the American administration to take the desired action. Then this man

sat tight, sending occasional cablegrams to give the impression of doing

something and waited until this large

plum dropped Into his lap, which it

did in a few weeks after the arrange

ment was completed. Another trick which has been turn

ed from time to time in Washington

is done by outsiders, men whose names

are high in the business and financial

world. That is planting false "news to influence the stock market, and cleaning up on the consequent depression or inflation of particular stocks.

Once it was done in this way: One of the members of the staff of the

Washington bureau of one of the press associations was sent for, and the information given him that the oil wells in a certain rich field would be exhausted, and yielding nothing but salt water in a short time. This was the confidential report of experts who had

examined the field, the reporter was told. He was also told that under no j circumstances was he to divulge the source of his information. The man who gave out this information is nationally known and generally respected. The reporter didn't like the sound of the tale, and while he was debating with himself in the hotel lobby, he saw on of his conferres from a metropolitan daily entering the hotel. He found out this man had gone straight to the man he had just left. Evidently it was by appointment. He became more suspicious. An hour later another newspaperman came, evidently to keep an appointment with the same man. The consequence was that the wise young man from the press association refused to handle the story. However, one or both of the other men used it, the stock was depressed considerably by the rumor Wall Street is highly susceptible to rumors and presumably the crowd on the "inside" who had gone short of this stock made a killing.

First Settlers On Island To Be Named After Prince (By Associated Press) HONOLULU. T. H., April 24. The first settlement on the island of MolokaL to be established in the endeavors

to rehabilitate the dying Hawaiian race will be named "Kalanianaole," in honor of the late Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, former delegate to congress, whose efforts resulted in the adoption by congress of the statute

providing for the rehabilitation efforts.

The first settlement will comprise

24 Hawaiian families, each of which will be given approximately 20 acres

of land, the Hawaiian Homes commission, which has charge of the project, has decided. Prince Kalanianaole was the first member to be appointed on the com

mission by Governor W. R. Farrington. Soon after his death last January

his widow, the Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole was chosen to succeed him.

EXPECT

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a phrase frequently employed by the G. O. P. craftsmen. On the other hand,

the Democratic leaders are just as Industrious at this time in assembling

arguments to show, from their vlewpoint, that the first year of Republican control of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government has been notable for its lack of achievements. , The words "we deplore" will proba

bly appear frequently in the platform

which the Indiana Democratic conven

tion will adopt.

Watch Indiana Race. The New-Beverldge contest in In

diana still continues to absorb polit

ical interest m wasnlngton to the exclusion of all other political events. A month ago political observers here gave the edge to Beveridge. The majority of them at this time, however, are of the opinion that there is a strong trend toward New and. they anticipate his renomination. All are of the opinion that the contest will be en exceedingly close one. The Indiana situation is admittedly a source of considerable worry to some national Republican leaders. They are fearful that the senatorial contest in that state will reopen quite

a few old party sores, threateninz

party solidarity at the polls in November. Democratic leaders view the same situation with considerable gratification. They realize that development of factional troubles in the Republican ranks will, combined with the presentation of a string Democratic candidate for United States senator, per

mit their party to enter the lists against the G. O. P. next fall, on even terms, at least. They anticipate that Samuel M. Ralston, ex-governor, will be the Democratic senatorial nominee -and they also believe that he will meet all the requirements for a "strong candidate." Leaders Are Calm. There are other Republican managers in Washington who view the Republican senatorial contest in Indiana without any apparent anxiety. They say the Democrats are looking through rose-colored glasses in their gaze into the future. These Republicans say that whoever is the victor In the New-Beveridge contest, the necessity of keeping Indiana in the Republican column wiil have its effect on the Republican voters in November. It might be said, however that those same Republican leaders who have not been perturbed by the senatorial contest have exhibited some uneasiness over the lively milling over the Republican state chairmanship.

That contest is one which the politicians are participating in almost exclusively. If the edge is worn off the harmony which has existed among the Republican party workers in Indiana, iuture trouble is being stored up, compared to which factional differences among the rank and file are inconsequential, as some leaders view it.

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Monday, April 24 Richmond Commander y No. 8, K. T. Drill. Tuesday, April 25 Richmond lodge No. 196 F. & A. M. Open at 6:30; work in Master Mason degree, one candidate. Followed by roll call and

refreshments. All Master Masons in

vited.

Wednesday, April 26 Webb lodge No. 24 F. & A. M. Called meeting.

work in Entered Apprentice degree; 7 o'clock.

Thursday, April 27 Masonic club will give a dance to the Masons and

ladies.

Friday, April 28 King Solomon's chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Rehearsal in

the Most Excellent Master's degree.

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