Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 157, 3 July 1922 — Page 2
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DEFLATION OF PRICES, THE glorious fourth
SLACK MORAL FIBRE
BLAMED FOR FIRES fBy Associated Press.) INDIANAPOLIS. July 3. Unstable business, conditions and consequent deflation of prices Incident to the after-war reconstruction, attended by a weakening of the moral fibre, Is held responsible for the Increase in Incendiary fires In Indiana during the period April 15. 1921 to May 31. 1922, by G. L. Pugh, a deputy and chief Investigator of the state fire marshal's office, in a report submitted to State Fire Marshal Newman T. Miller. A statistical review of the activities of the arson dlclsion of the firemarshal's office, as reported by Mr. Pugh, follows : Number of cases Investigated, reported to be of Incendiary origin, 304;
confessions secured In examinations, 29; convictions, 31; acquittals and dismissals. 10; pending in court, awaiting trial, 36; cases to be presented to grand Jury, 11; insufficient evidence, 30; under investigation, 29; accidental, 27; explosion kerosene lamp, 1; overheated stove, 5; auto backfiring, 2; gas explosion, 1; spontaneous combustion, 6; lightning, 7; defective wiring, 6; origin undetermined, 52. Moral Fibre Weakens "Due to the unetability of business conditions and the deflation of prices consequent," Mr. Pugh's report says, "all incident to the reconstruction per-
led through which the entire country has been passing, there seems to have been a weakening of moral fibre and
a letting down of power of resistance
to temptation that has resulted in an
increase of fires reported to be of a suspicious nature until every resource
of the arson division of the state fire
marshal's department has been taxed
to the utmost.
Indiana ranks third In the number of arrests and convictions obtained over the period as compared with other states, according to the report.
"However," the report continues, "it must be taken into consideration that
each of these states employed a larger I force and expended more money than!
did Indiana. For instance, one of the states referred to employed a force of I fifty, including office and field men, and expended in excess of $115,000, w-hile Indiana had only 16 employes, including arson Investigators, inspectors and office force, with an expenditure of less than $50,000." Insurance Involved. The total amount of insurance represented in cases the arson department Investigated, during the period mentioned, is in excess of $2,000,000, according to Mr. Pugh, who declared a large amount of this sum was saved as a result of convictions. The legal department, in charge of Chester A. Davis, attorney, it was pointed out, brought about convictions in 81 percent of the cases prosecuted. "While the results of the investiga
tions as evidenced by the report submitted herewith have been gratifying," Mr. Pugh said, "the unprecedented ' number of cases of suspicious fires reported have made it Impossible to
complete the investigation in many Instances, with the force at my command, until a lull or a possible improvement in conditions comes to our assistance allowing sufficient time for a more detailed gathering of evidence and a more minute scanning and following up of tangible clues."
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, JULY 8, 1922.
By A. J. Trembath
ONLY ONEtAXORE H DAY
New Paris Miss Alice Ross and Mrs. Lillie Baird visited Mr. and Mrs.
Will Hartman Tuesday.. .Mr. and MrsJ
George Worley and family visited Air. and Mrs. Emory Hobbs of Centerville. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Clark and daughter Anna Marie and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pattie and daughter Pauline. 6pent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Orvllle Boyd and family Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hawkins and children visited in New Paris Friday evening ....Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomas and daughter Mildred visited Mr. and Mrs. Charley Veregge of Richmond Friday.
Giant Air Liners to Fly 400 Miles an Horn
(By United Press) PARIS, Juy 3. Four hundred miles
an hour will be the speed of the huge airplanes which the French propose to use in trans-Atlantic service be
tween Senegal, West Africa, .and South America, according to M. Bleriot, the French air authority. -Soundings of the upper air-ways are
to be made from ships and island stations and by kites and instrument-car
rying balloons, in order to find the best routes and altitudes.
Oxygen will be fed automatically to
the saloons and sleeping quarters on the giant air-liners, it is stated, so that
the rarefied upper atmosphere will not affect passengers or crews. Within a few years, the French declare, it may be possible to fly at an altitude
of 10 miles.
HUMORIST ELECTED
TO SWEDISH ACADEMY From the Detroit News For the first time in history the Swedish Academy, founded by King Gustavus II, In 17S6, a humorist and comic artist has been elected to that exclusive body. This honor has been bestowed on Albert Engstrom, one of the most popular figures in Sweden, editor of Strlx, a Swedish humorist weekly, writer of distinction and the creator of some of the funniest car
toons and character sketches that
ever came out of Scandinavia.
The Swedish . academy, popularly
known as "The Eighteen," for its membership is limited to that num
ber, was molded by its royal founder
on the pattern of the French academy for the special object of preserving, purifying and elevating the Swe
dish language. It3 motto is "Genius
and Good Taste."
Engstrom's popularity Is based on
his brilliant essays, principally on
marine subjects, as well as on his sympathetic sketches of the common
people, sailors, fishermen, longshore
men and country types. I
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Facts About Indiana (By Associated Press) . The general assembly of 1921 en
acted a law providing that no certificate of registration of any motor ve,'hicle or license plates shall be issued by the secretary of state unless the applicant bs granted an official certifi- . cate of title for such motor vehicle.
Indiana's attorney general receives a salary of $7,500 annually. Approximately 74 per cent of the school teachers in Indiana are women.
The net investment of the state in the Indiana State Farm at Putnamville is $294,154.44. Less than five per cent of the school teachers in Indiana come from other tates, according to a recent census conducted by the 6tate board of public instruction.
! The governor of Indiana receives an
i annual Ealary of 58,000.
Indiana's "blue 6ky law passed
both houses of the general assembly in a special session the summer of 1920 on third reading without a dis
senting vote. A residence to be used as the gov
ernor's mansion was given to the state by the city of Indianapolis several
years ago.
MILTON, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hlgham went to Indianapolis Monday to meet Mrs. Higham's sister, Mrs. Walter Haskell and son of Redlands, California Mr. and Mrs. La Verne Bragg of Lincoln, Neb., are spending the week with Mrs. Lydia Bragg.... The Willing Workers of the Methodist Sunday school realized $30 at their lawn fete Saturday evening. . .Mr. and Mrs. Linville Wallace and Mrs. Will
Ohmit visited Mrs. Frank Wallace at
the Connersville hospital Wednesday.! Mrs. Grigsby of Centerville spent Friday with her daughter, Mrs. Oliver Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Varn and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Helm and children of Indianapolis, spent the week end at their summer home in Milton Mrs. Maud Thurman and daughter Maragret of Hopewell, spent Thursday with Mrs. Lenna
Doty Mrs. John Abercrombe and
children of Rushville have been visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Moore.... Mr. and Mr3. Robert Connell have as house
guests Miss Stevens and Miss Richie of Covington, Ky Rev. Trowbridge
and family arrived home Thursday
from a three weeks auto trip through
Indiana and Kentucky. . .Mr. and Mrs
Robert Connell, Miss Stevens, Miss Richie, lias Bradburn. Mr. and Mrs. Will Seffrin and family and Mr. ana Mrs. Clarence Petman and family had
a co-operative supper with Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Templin and family
Thursday evening Howard Starr-
ton of Indianapolis spent Thursday
with Miss Barbara Kern and Mrs. Hen
ry Hussey. . . .Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Templin and granddaughter of Middle-
town, Ohio, came Friday to spend a
few days with Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Templin Mrs. David Nugent is on
the sick list Mrs. Rene Moore, Mr. and Mrs.-Glen Moore and family and Mrs. Otto Bussard and family of Rushville, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crawford Sunday evening The 500 club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Carrie Johnson. Mrs. LaVerne Bragg of Lincoln, Neb., wae a club guest. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Edith Belden Mr. and Mrs. William Higham of the Bentonville neighborhood have bought property in Milton and will make this their future home.
Camp Cassidy, of Roseburg, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Grant Rose Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lamott and family, of Richmond, spent Sunday . with Mrs. M. J. Weber.
CONDEMNED FOR DECLARING LINCOLN CAUSED CIVIL WAR ANDERSON, Ind.. July 3. Maj. May post of the G. A. R. passed a resolution drafted by Capt. F. M. VanPelt. patriotic instructor of the state department, condemning the action of Confederate veterans recently in declaring that Lincoln was responsible for the Civil war.
PHILOMATH, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. John Plessinger of Hope, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Emil Filby and son, of Centerville. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Holmes and sons, of Richmond, spent Sunday with Mrs. Jennie Plessinger and family Mrs. Rufus Lambert spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Emmett Dye, of Abington Samuel Fisher went to Liberty Wednesday Mrs. Jennie Plessinger and daughter. Virgil, spent Tuesday eveningwith Mrs. Rufus Stinson and daughter. Sylvia
GRATIS, Ind. Mrs. Zelma Moyer left Thursday for Mazurka, Pa., where she will be a director of music in a girls' college for the coming term.... Perl Focht returned home Tuesday from the Middletown hospital wheifc he had been operated on for appendicitis. He is getting along nicely. . . .
Mrs. Louella Furry and child, Marcus and Mary Apgar visited several days last week in the country with Mrs. Richard Apgor and daughter, Melva. .
..Mrs. Anna Furry spent part of this
week near Enterprise with her sister,
Mrs. Charles ulnch and assisted her
with her sewing. Mrs. Ulrich will spend some time this summer in Ken
tucky with her husband, Charles Ul
rich, who is doing farm bureau work there this summer. .. .Mrs. Clementha Dewger has been ill k . . . Betty Morris of Newcastle, Ind., is here spending
the summer the guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hink Morris.. Miss Hazel Wellbaum is visiting relatives at North Manchester Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Morningstar and Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton of Middletown called on their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Morningstar Wednesday evening Bruce Barklow, 19-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Barklow, living
south of Gratis has been seriously ill with appendicitis The following persons brought their lunches and as
sisted in the all-day sewing party for
Mrs. James Karicofe and family, who lost their possessions when their home was destroyed by fire recently: Mrs.
Dal Young and Mrs. Jennie Pugh of Eaton, Mrs. Cora Geeding, Mrs. Ella Fudge, Mrs. Clara Brubaker, Mrs. Daisy Coleman, Miss Bertha Yost,
Mrs. Ora Loop, Mrs. Roberta Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews. Mrs. Maud
Brubaker, Mrs. Agnes Francis, Mrs. Zola Fudge of Dayton. Mr3. Elizabeth Zimmerman, Mrs. Clyde Zimmerman, Mrs. Eva Zimmerman, Mrs. Sara Zimmerman, Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, Mrs. Bell Doty, Mrs. Laura Dull, Mrs. Leota Butt, Mrs. Ella Butt, Mrs. Anna Furry. Mrs. Lucy Kiracofe, Mrs. Lorinda Barnhart, Mrs. Anna Eikenberry, Mrs. Ada Kinnel, Mrs. Francis Kari
cofe, Miss Mary Mount, Miss Ruth Chrlstmer, Miss Margaret Bookwalter, Miss Louise Kinnel, Mrs. Agnes, Telles
and Mrs. Vinnie Kiracofe; these ladies enjoyed a fine lunch at the noon hour.
their dinnersand picnicked at Funks woods Thursday. Those in the party were: Mildred Hawkins, Edith Thomas, Esther Lindsey, Willard Thomas, Vivian Lindsey, Herbert Gates, Arthur Gates, Violet Hawkins, Mary Lindsey, Vara Lindsey. Fern Lindsey, Glenn Gates, Edith Daugherty, Marjorie Darland, Lowell Alexander, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas Mrs. Cleo Hardwick and daughter Anna Mae were
guests Thursday of Mr. and Mrs. Mumbower of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Frank Railsback, Miss Dorothy Railsback and Curtis Railsback visited Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Railsback, south. of
Wmld Soon to Honor Diptheria Discoverer From the Detroit NewsJ .The medical world Is preparing to
commemorate soon the centenary of Bretonneau's discovery of diphtheria.! The dread malady is not really so modern, of course, as the anniversary suggests. It was known as the ancients as the "Egyptian Evil," and appeared in frequent epidemics both in the British Isles and on the Continent during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. But it .was Pierre Bretonneau, of Tours, who first
identified the symptoms in a collective diagnosis and defined the disease In the celebrated treatise laid in 182122 before the French Academy of Medicine. The famous Tours doctor also gave the disease the name, of Greek derlviatlon, by which it is now known in medical textbooks throughout the world. The Bretonneau centenary will be celebrated at Tours during June under distinguished medical auspices.
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