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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
TRUSTEES TO co TO
STATE CONVENTION
May Seek Amendment to the
Present Election Law.

A number of the township trustees
of this county are planning to attend
the state convention. which will be
held at Indianapolis December II and
Is. 1t was arranged last year to hold
this convention in December, SO that
the newly elected trustees might at
tend and have the benefit Of the ex-
perience of those. who leave office.
1t is expec ted, also. that the conven-
ton will take some action toward
providing an amendment to the pres
ent law governing the election of
township trustees. At present they
are ineligible to succeed themselves.
The law states they can not hold Of
flee but once in eight years. 1t is
proposed to change the law making re-
election possible.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
SQUABBLE TO EMO.
New Traction Franchise Siqn-
ed by Board Will Be
Ratified.
c. B. HUNT HAS SCHEME,

"If council will refuse to ratify the
Dayton & Western franchise agree
ment when it is brought before council
Monday night, then you councilmen
will have q chance to square your
selves with the citizens for permitting
a traction line to be run through
Glen Miller park" is the statement c.
B. Hunt is reported to have made to
one of the council members.
I'VE don't have to square ourselves"
was the heated reply. Council sane
toned the placing of the line through
the park because lot of citizens who
were opposed to having freight cars
run along North Twentieth, North
Twenty-first or North Twenty-second
streets petitioned us to have the line
run through the Glen, and, Mr.. Hunt,
your name is on that petition"
1t is stated that Mr.. Hunt then con-
cluded his interview with the irate
councilman with the statement that
1.-The petition was a very unfortunate
move and much to be regretted"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
POSTAL EMPLOYEES WILL
HANDLE MANY PACKAGES
Long Hours of Service Are in
Prospect.

The sale of stamps at the Richmond
postoffice during the holidays is ex-
pected to be largely increased over
that of last year. 1t is believed BIZ
postoffice attaches that although the
merchants will not use as many
stamps for letters at this period as
they do in the spring and the fall of
the year, this loss Will be more than
made up by the number of packages
sent through the mail.
The registry department will be one
of the busy departments at the post
office, as already the clerks are kept
busy. Last year these men were COM
PEELED to work fifteen and eighteen
hours in order to finish their work, SO
that every one could have their mail
on Christmas morning.
1t is now expected that the money
order department will also be busy.
For help in the office one clerk has
been added to the force by Postmaster
Spekenhier.
1t is hoped that the new allotment
of stamps will arrive for the Christ
mas trade. The new stamps make a
very neat appearance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
A CONSPICUOUS EXAMPLE.

In this day and generation when
muck-rakers abound in plentitude
and the papers and magazines are full,
not only of stories of the abuses, but
the follies of people who have store
of this worlds goods, it is refreshing
to find that all is not bad in those
quarters. While the robe of the fed
eral authorities is reaching under the
white bandage which conceals the cor
ruption of the Standard Oil company,
another trial is going on at the other
end of the country, where the circum-
stances are slightly different.
The trial of the San Francisco graft
cases would not be going on now were
it not for the money of a young mil
lionaire in that town named Rudolph
Spreckles. The details of the graft
and the dramatic climax Of the trial,
oocasioned by the shooting of Heney,
the courageous, have rather thrown
into the shadow the man who made
all this possible.
Spreckles has been the moving force
on whom persuasion, threats and ct
tempted bribery have had no effect ex
cept to spur him on. The facts are
too we'll known to need comment But
whileall this scandal is being unearth.
ed about the holders of great fortunes
until the very mention of some mems
names has become nauseous to their
fellowmen, 1t is we'll to remember thai
here and there. doing good, where the
opportunity is afforded. are rich mer
who use their power. not for greed
graft or mere social exploitation
There are many people who think tina
the clearing up of governmental plague
| spots is a little more commendable
than giving millions to charity and ed
ucation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
THE TERMINATION OF PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.

The arraignment of the American
school system by President Stanley
Hall Of Clark University, has a famil-
lar ring. All this year and part Of
last, this gentleman mas been partic-
ularly vociferous in his remarks on
what he calls the 'feminization of the
schools" In scientific circles Stan
ley Halls name is one to conjure with.
Heis the most eminent psychologist in
the particular field which is his spec
ialty: adolescence.
The main points of his criticisms
are briefly:
That there arc not enough school
days in the year.
Teachers are poorly trained, not of
high class and are suffering from
dry rot.
The control of American schools by
appointive boards means school man
agement by many incompetents.
There is too much legislation con-
corning education; If it were all en-
forced 1t would lead to chaos.
The schools are suffering from fem
imitation, with the result that boys
arc becoming "sissified."
There IL too much patcrnalism in the
general management of schools.
There Is to omuch retardation. In
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
ARE Up IN ARMS
West Siders Object to Heavy
Sewer System Assess
mentS.
APPEAL TO CITY COUNCIL.

The property owners in the south
section of West Richmond, are up in
arms over the assessment just made by
the board of public works for the
southwest sewer system, just complet-
ed, and Monday night they will storm
council and give vent to their disap-
prevail. 1t appears that these proper
ty owners do not object to the amount
they have been assessed for the con-
struction of the sanitary sewer swstem
but they loudly protest against being
assessed to pay part of the cost of
constructing the stor msewers and the
filtering beds.
They state that the city has always
paid the entire cost of constructing
storm sewers and that it is unfair to
make them help shoulder the expenoe
of the filtering beds. They point out
that property owners in other sections
of the city are not called upon to meet
the expense of this improvement, but
when filtering beds for the other sewer
systems are constructed, which they
will eventually have to be, they have
no assurance that they will not be ask
ed to assist in defraying the expense in
Cured by the construction of these fill
tering beds.
The total cost of the southwest sew
er system, including the sanitary and
storm sewers and the filtering beds.
amounts to $55,O77.65. The city will
pay S13.76941 of this amount. The
remainder of the expense is shouldered
onto the affected property owners by
the board of public works. The ap-
! proximate cost of the storm sewers is
$1,000, and the approximate cost of the
filtering beds is $1,000. The cost of
these two improvements amounts to
about $4,000 and this amount-all of
1.-THE southwest Richmond people
think should be assumed by the city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
SOCIALISM MORE
FORMIDABLE FOE
Bryan Says Republicans Have
FoStered Belief.

Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 5.-"The Growth
of Socialism" is the subject Of the lead
ing editorial In this weeks issue OF
MIR. Bryan's Commoner. Bryan warns
the republican party that 1t must Jet
deal with socialism, and that IL il no
trivial problem. He says:
The socialist IL an honest and an
earnest man. but a mistaken man.
Seeing abuses that ought to be cor.
rected, he seeks to overrurn the satire
industrial system.
THE republican party by creating
abuses, by falling to remedy them and
by defending the principle and prac-
tees Of private monopoly, has fostsred
and encouraged socialism-not inten-
tionally, but efiectually.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
Heart TO Heart
Talks.
Copy. light, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye
THE STATE CUT OFF HIS ARM.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

THE STATE CUT OFF HIS ARM.
Joe Bulanda, aged fourteen. is lit
tie citizen of Chicago.
Joe's right arm was injured. Be
cause Of the virus in his blood gan
creme set In. The doctors said the
arm must be cut off or Joe would die.
Joe's father said he would not con-
sent to the operation.
He isn't much of a father as you
and I esteem fathers, but he knew Joe
would have a hard time to make his
way even with two arms. He said it
would be better for Joe to die than to
lose one arm.
And Joe also objected-said he would
rather die. Poor kid! The world he
knew was the kind that always pushes
a boy down.
Here the state of Illinois stepped in.
1t got an order from the court order
ing Joe's arm to be amputated.
So the big state forced Joe on to the
operating table. The boy fought the
doctors and the nurses. They smoth-
cred him with chloroform until he
quit struggling. Then they cut OF the
Now
1t matters not about the lingo Of the
lawyers In this strange case. They
said the state Of Illinois stood ''in loco
PARENTS is to say, the state
acted In the stead Of Joe's father.
The state did not cut OF Joe's arm
to defy Joe or noes father or to show
its power or to punish. 1t amputated
the boys arm in order to save Joe's
life-for Joe's good.
So far SO good. But
What had the state-the I'VE" OF
poisoning himself physically and NOR
ally? 1t gave him bad air and insani
tary surroundings and a vicious envi
ronment. 1t put the saloon on the cor
ner near the tumbledown tenement III
which Joe lived and the dance hall up
stairs and the dives and the gambling
resorts. 1t did this either by license OIL
by sufferance. 1t made Joe's gangrens
possible.
And
Having cut OF his arm. it win take
care of the boy until his stub Is healed
and then it will turn him out in these
same surroundings and let him hustl,
with one arm or beg or steal.
Well. some day, some sweet day, In
stead of cutting OF gangrened arms
the state-.'we"-will create condition.
that will prevent such fostering sores.
| Some sweet DAFT
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

that too many children are behind
grade
Textbooks are poor end are getting
worse constantly.
Children are not taught enough
good, pure English; they are constant
ly tending to the use Of "slanguage"
rather than language.
Moral education is neglected, where
as something of the kind is urgently
needed.
The American public school child
has not thephysical stamina Of former
times.
1t will be seen that the field has been
pretty we'll canvassed from the parent
and the school board to the textbook
the teacher and the child himself, by
Stanley Hall.
To the person who would seek the
crux of the situation, tits doubtful, If
the question of pay does not play a
larger role than any other in the teach
ing problem. Teachers are indeed
poorly paid, and the situation is the
same from college professor down.
The clergy itself is suffering the
| same depletion of its ranks that is no
ticed in the sphere of pedagogy. Young
| men want to go into business if they
have much ambition about them, and
SO most of the competent men are not
to be found, and will not be found in
the ranks of the teachers. This being
true, it logically follows that women
must take their places. The wonder
is not that there are SO few men in
the schools, but that there are as many
good ones as there are.
1t will only be when people come to
realize that the function of the teach
Der is the most necessary one in our
national development, that there will
be adequate pay and efficient teachers
for the young of the human animal.
Until a sufficient amountof money
is paid to secure efficient men, the
public must beware how they dlsplace
competent women with less competent
men teachers. A. poor teacher is q
poor teacher the world over and a pail
Of trousers as qualification fol
teaching and drawing higher pay is alb
surd.
DR.. Hall is quite right In saying thai
there is danger of Termination in the
schools, but he must also realize tha
the most competent teachers at thi.
time are women, and will remain sc
until there is enough money to ge
good men teachers. The most incom
potent teachers of today are men who
have been put into our schools to sat
isfy the fad for men teachers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
Exiled Monks Treasures Found
Discovered Chicago Warehouse and Consigned to Client
Under Fictitious Name Valued at $50, 900.

ed at $4,000. Their value may, how
ever, be much greater.
Robinson, to whom the goods were
consigned, is said not to be known
here and is believed at present to be in
Europe. The Government did not
seize the consignment, but merely Or
dered 1t held for appraisement News
of this action did no, become public
property until today.
While the government agents desire
to have an explanation of the appar-
ent discrepancy between the listed and
the appraised valuation Of the prop
erty, no charge of any kind has been
made against any one.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
$500 Reward. $500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
constitutional disease. requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system thereby
destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength
sisting nature in doing its work The
proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that IL
fails TO cure Send for list OF testi-
monials.
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo.
Ohio
Sold by Druggists 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
NATHAN
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

Chicago, Dec. 5.-Church robes, tap
estries and ecclesiastical antiques
which may prove to be treasures scat
tered when the monks were driven
from their seclusion in France have
been discovered in the warehouse Of a
are said to have entered this country
from France some months ago, ad-
dressed TO one IS. Robinson in care
of the warehouse of Wawem & Nc
Laughlin. Their listed valuation was
$500, but recently they were apprais-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
RATLIFF WRONG.

Walter S. Ratliff, representative
from Wayne county to the state legis-
Iature has declared that he Is in favor
Of doing away with the office Of state
dairy inspector. According to Ratliff,
the public will be in favor of such a
move because it is believed the increas-
Cd price of milk and dairy products is
duo to too much dairy inspection. Rat
lift further states, that dairymen are
already putting into effect the reforms
advocated for diaries and that the start
made will be sufficient to keep the
matter going for all time to come
without state dairy inspector.
The Palladium believes that il Mr..
Ratliff follows out his intention in re-
gard to this matter and if sufficient
other members of the legislature in
cline his way to secure the abolish
ment OF the office of state dairy in
spector, grievous wrong will be COM
United against the citizens OF Indiana.
In one sense, laws regulating diaries
and dairy products can not be too
strict for the good Of the public health.
Az far as milk is concerned, it is the
greatest food for deadly germs known.
Typhoid, scarlet fever, tuberculosis
and other germs revel in milk-when
they can get at it. And it is for this
reason that diaries must be kept scru-
pulously clean and sanitary, and that
there must be laws requiring such
cleanliness and officers to see to 1t
that these laws are observed.
The enforcement OF these laws may
compel dairymen to spend a consider
able amount of money for improve
ments about their places, thus adding
to their cost of production and necessi-
tating a consequent increase in the
price of their product to the con-
sumner. But for the sake of more
healthful conditions in the communi-
ty and also the enormous sum saved
In the aggregate through less doctors
bills and funeral expenses, etc, it is
we'll worth the consumers while to pay
the increased price in order to be more
sure Of getting the purer product.
It is true. AZ Mr.. Ratliff states, that
each county has its own dairy inspec,
tor. acting under the authority and or
ders Of the county health authorities,
who, in turn. are responsible to the
State Board OF Health. But that is no
argument why the office of state dairy
Inspector should be abolished. On
the contrary, It Is all the reason In the
world why that office should be re-
tanned. II the county health officers
become dereliot In the performance o.
their duty regarding the dairies, then
the State Board OF Health, through its
state dairy inspector. Is able to step in
and right matters.
We would suggest, therefore, thai
Mr.. Ratliff be more careful hereafter
and not seek to tamper with measures
or offices Of the utmost help in guard
ing the public's health. In fact, We
would advise him to conserve all hi.
energies against that day when the
democratic majority In the coming leg
isiature may seriously threaten tn,
existence OF that law he so valiantl,
fought for and voted for, the count,
local option law.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

"At the sound of the shot," says a
writer In the Strand Magazine, de-
scribing alligator hunting in Egypt.
the whole of this bank Of the river,
over the extent OF at least a quarter
of mile, sprang into hideous life. and
my companions and I saw hundreds
of crocodiles. of all sorts and sizes,
rushing madly into the Nile. who's
waters along the line of the shore
were dashed into white foam. exactly
as If a heavy wave had broken. 1t
could be no exaggeration to say that
at least a thousand of these saurians
had been disturbed at a single shot.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
TWO FIRE ALARMS.

Two fire alarms from box 81, located
at Twelfth and South B street, within
three hours, called the fire depart
ment yesterday to the residence of
Thomas Thompson, 1115 South A street
and Timothy Wilson, 1877 South
Twelfth street. No damage was done
except to the wall paper at the
Thompson residence. At the Wilson
home a rubber tube became detached
from hot plate and the fire ignit-
ed the wall. The loss was about S25.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
FACTORY TO MOVE.

Watt and Keelor. casket manufac-
turers, have leased the factory building
on North Sixteenth street, formerly
occupied by the old City Mill works
and have already begun moving into
their new quarters. For some time
Messrs. Watt and Keelor had been ne
gotiating with the Pennsylvania roail-
road for a lease on the property.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
RATLIFF GETS REWARD.

reward for information leading to the
arrest of Albert Turner, young
horse thief. The reward was offered
at Troy Ohio. Ratliff and Patrolmen
Lawler and Wierhake appeared as wit
nesses in the case. Turner was ar
rested near the Ratliff home.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
TRUSTEES NAMED.

The certificates of the election of the
following trustees of the Fountain City
A. M. E. church, has been filed with
the county recorder: W. d. Mitchell, c.
e. Thompson, Walter Bragg, James
Chavis and Fred Evans.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
CINDERS ON BRIDGES.
Street Commissioner Is a Friend Of
The Horse.

Cinders have been distributed upon
the roadway of the Main street
bridge. This morning the floor of the
Doran Bridge was being covered. Each
winter the street commissioner has
these cinders placed to prevent horses
slipping. The concrete block foor Of
the Main street bridge, is especially
treacherous
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

The Ladies of G. A. r. will give a
Bean Supper at G. A. R hall Satur
day night, December IL. Tickets. 10
cents. From 5 to s. cost
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

return mail. Try It, II will positivel,
cure so that you will be welcomed In
stead of Stunned by your friends.
c. E. GAUSS. Marshall. Mich Fill
out coupon below.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
QUARTERLY MEETING.

Special Services at U. q. Church SUM-
day.
The second quarterly meeting for
the First U. B. church will be held
Sunday night and Monday night. Rev.
j. T. Roberts, D. d. of Indianapolis is
the presiding elder.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

There are now in the schools OF
New York city nearly $500 more
DQDos than there were one year ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05

A French army officer has invented
eyeglasses which enable the wearer
to see on all sides and the rear.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
MASONIC CALENDAR.

Saturday, Dec. 5.-Loyal chapter
No. 40 o. e. S., stated meeting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
MUST BE RETURNED.
Henry County Farmer to be Placed in
Easthaven.

William Wiseman, who resides near
New Castle will be re-committed to
the Eastern Indiana hospital for the
insane, west of this city. Unmistak-
able signs of wiseman's insanity are
said to have returned. wiseman is a
former patient and was dismissed as
cured.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
SPECIAL SERVICES.
CenterviIIe M. e. Church to Hold
Quarterly Meeting.

The third quarterly meeting of the
M. E. church at Centerville will be
held Sunday There will be special
preaching both in the morning and
evening by the Rev. j. o. Campbell.
Holy communion will be held in the
All the members and their
friends have been urged to attend.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
SERGEANT RIDES GOAT.
Scott Winters Now Member Of White
water Lodge.

1t was a big load the Odd Fellows
goat carried last night, when Scott
Winter rode into Whitewater lodge.
Scott is night sergeant of the police
force and all his friends" were out
to see him butt in.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
DILL is IMPROVING.

Underwent Operation In indianap-
oils.
After undergoing an operation At In
dianapolis. Howard A. Dill. superin-
tendent OF the city water works COM
pany, is improving. A growth from
Mr.. Dilfs nose was removed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-05
GAIN OF $500

vember Filed.
The postoffice report which has
been completed shows a gain of $500
as compared with the month of No
vember of last year. The total receipts
at the office were $5,472.57. OF this
amount, s1.025.95 was sent to the sub
treasury at Indianapolis.