The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-18
Fearing Anglo German War,
1900 British Unemployed
Are to Be Trained.
GOES INTO RETIREMENT.
DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH
GOES TO PICTURESQUE LITTLE
VILLAGE OF DUNkIRk TO
MAKE HOME.
BY RICHARD ABERCORN.

BY RICHARD ABERCORN.
London, Oct. 17.-Ostensibly to re-
1ieve the suffering among unemployed,
but in reality to get the necessary num-
Der of men to carry out his army plan
and provide suitable defense for the
much feared Anglo-German war, in
Haldane, the British secretary Of war
has offered to engage 1900 able bod
led men to undergo six months mill
tary training this winter.
The proposal has attracted wide
spread attention and on the whole the
plan has been widely and cordially ap-
proved by all parties, but there is al
ways or nearly always as the English
ray, a f1oy in the ointment and on this
OCCASION it appears to have been pro-
vided by the labor party. OF course
they want something else and they
would rather have their followers suf-
fer and go idle all winter than not have
their own way. The labor party will
have no kind of drafting even for the
shortest term of service, not even dur
ing the winter months or to reduce the
ranks of the ever-growing army of I'M
employed.
asked Mr.. w. Steadman, one of the
labor members of parliament, why he
was against the scheme and received
this answer: why we might as well
have general CONSUMPTION at once. Per-
haps Mr.. Haldane is short of territor-
ials or maybe he intends to strengthen
the militia. But whatever he proposes
to do with the men, we shall be dead
against the scheme or any scheme
which takes advantage OF prevailing
unemployment to Increase the army.
OF course If the men enter the serv-
ice Voluntarily 1T is their own business.
The expenses in that department are
already far too high There are far
better schemes to help the unemployed.
We should have more farm colonies.
and l would also propose that instead
of buying up the London dock COM
panies the government should dredge
and deepen the channels and erect
deep water jetties so as to enable ships
to dock at all periods of the tide. Such
work would of course cost millions, but
besides providing work for men of all
classes it would be OF permanent ad-
vantage to trade generally.
The site for the new home of the
Royal Automobile club in Pail Mall is
now cleared and ready for the building
operations which will not be finished
before September 1910. When COM
pleted the club will be the finest of it's
kind in the world. The front will be
22S feet long and so feet high, running
In line with the Carlton club, while
the depth of the building will be 100
feet. The entrance will be an impos-
ing one planked by pillars 40 feet high.
The design has been taken from the
buildings in Place Vendome in Paris,
and is strongly reminiscent of the head
quarters of the Automobile Club de
France In Place de la Concorde Paris.
King Edward as patron of the club,
has approved of the proposed arrange
ments OF this palace for automobile
which, when completed will have cost
nearly $1,5OO.OOO. On the ground
floor will be magnificent hall and
stairway and beautifully furnished
waiting, writing and reading rooms.
Besides the usual club rooms the build
ang will contain a restaurant, a suite of
tea rooms a sale de fetes overlooking
Carlton Gardens, a Photographic stu
do and dark rooms and a barber shop.
These will be 100 bedrooms, 60 bath
rooms and a large swimming pool. At
present the club has $3.50 members Of
whom nearly 1000 are Americans.
Two ladies opposing each other for
seat In the London county council is a
possibility in the coming elections at
Hampstead.
Miss Susan Lawrence. a suffragette,
has announced that she is candidate
and this announcement has struck ter
ror into the ranks of the sentative.
A prominent conservative leader
said to me the other day: "If Miss
Lawrence is really adopted as a candi-
date we shall have to put forward a
lady to fight her. A man would be
disadvantage. Hampstead leads the