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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-25
THE WEATHER
HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY.

Forecast for Richmond and vicinity
Increasing cloudiness, probably
showers Friday; warmer Maximum
temperature, 66 at 5 p. m. Wednesday.
Ninimum temperature. 40 at 4 a m.
Thursday. Temperature at 1880, 65.
Barometer 8o.25. Direction and velocity
% wind. s. E.. Is miles an hour Rain
tall since yesterday 05.
STATE AND locAl-Showers and
thunderstorms tonight and Fri.
day. Warmer tonight
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-25

OSSTNING, n. T.. April z5.-Con-
vict laborers in three OF the shops
in Sing Sing have gone upon a
strike for better working condi-
tions
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-25

NEW YORK, April 25.-yoe. Sc
lig. aged 70 years. the oldest news.
boy" In New York, 10 dead.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-25

LOUISVILLE. KY. April 25-Col
John T. McCauley. retired theat-
rfcal man. has established a home
here for homeless pigeons.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
HYDRoTHERAPY FOR THE INSANE.
ro ,ha EDITOR of The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: A recent item in THE Journal of the
American Medical Association" states that
the New York state hospitals for the in
sane are oyercrowded, and the inference is
that insanity Is on the Increase. In the
last report for New York State there arc
recorded 80, ,3ll patients in our public and pri-
vate insane asylums. or these, l,O5l are In
nubIlc asylums, which cost the state annu-
allv nearly ss,OO0.OOo. Although much prog
ress has been made in the treatment OF the
insane I'm the last ten years, there is yet
much to be done.
The water treatment is OF immense value,
used both internally and as a bath. The
placing OF an excited insane patient In a
continuous warm bath. for half an hour
10 several hours will soothe and quiet him,
and frequently relieve active hallucinatjons
and confusion OF ideas Together with other
hygienlc and dietetic measures, the drink
ing OF moderately large quantities of pure
water is an Indispensable treatment OF the
insane. Water is a natural solvent and
eliminates from the system the poisonous
products OF dislntegration. When water
cannot be taken through the mouth It may
be administered hypodermically in the form
of normal salt solution. using as much
as four to six ounces at n treatment.
SAMUEL q. TRACY.
New York Feb, 29, 1912
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
on THE RIGHT TRACK.

The House Committee on Post Office
and Post Roads has supplemented its
readjustment Of parcels post rates with
a sensible provision for the creation Of a
commission TO report a plan for a mod
ern parcels post system, and especially
to inquire whether fat rate or zone
rate for parcels is preferabl The legis-
lation embodied in the postoffice appro-
priation bill will cut the domestic rate on
parcels from 16 cents pound to II cents
and increase the weight limit from four
pounds TO eleven pounds. 1t will extend
10 American citizens benefits now re-
served to the citizens and subjects Of the
twenty-three foreign countries with
which we have postal conventions. But
it is evident that the domestic rate will
still be diSproportionately high, since it
compels person sending a package from
Manhattan to Brooklyn to pay as much
as a person sending a package of the
same weight from Berlin or st. Peters
burg via New York to San Francisco.
To make the parcels post rs service
able in this country as it has proved to
be in Great Britain or Germany our
domestic rates will have to be lowered.
The British post carries an eleven-pound
parcel for % cents. and the German
post will carry such a parcel for u
cents. But the American charge, even
under the readjustment which the
House committee favors. will be 81 30.
For packages of over two or three
pounds the new rate will be only a
little less prohibitive than the existing
one is.
The United States is at disadvan-
tage, compared with Great Britain and
Germany, in that its postal service oper-
ates over so large an area If the Post
office Department lays a fat rate on
parcels it must be prepared to over
charge on the short haul in order to
compensate itself for the cost of the
long haul. Great Britain can easily
maintain fat rate, for all distances
covered are relatively short. Germany,
however, has adopted the zone plan for
heavier packages, aud under 1t can bet
ter apportion the benefits and costs Of
the service. If the United States should
adopt zone rates for all packages it
would probably. be able TO reduce
charges on parcels carried not over two
hundred or three hundred miles to some
thing like the European level.
The cheap rates in Germany have IA
cilitated the delivery Of farm and dairy
products direct to the city consumer, aud
have thus been Of great public advan-
tage in wiping out unnecessary middle
mems profits. 4 commission studying
the needs of our neglected parcels SER
vice would probably find In European
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
JApAN's TRIuNE RELIGION

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; | am at one with your correspond
ent Holman Holbrook in his rejoicing over
the proposed triune religion for japan. This
attempt at cooperation between Chris
tianity, Buddhism and ShIntoism is move
in the right direction and should be full CT
sIgnincance for those Interested In the
peace movement Also, II IS entirely fitting
that japan should be the first 10 consider
this step, holding, as 1t were, the balance
of power between the East and the West.
British statesmen arc realizing that the
assimilation of religious creeds In India Is
the best solution Of the problematic unrest
I'm that country, and consider that the work
OF the Theosophical Society at Adyar In Its
endeavor to accomplish religious unity by
teaching the Hindus the basic truths of
their own religion and their points OF
union with Christian religion rather tian
any attempt to proselytize them to Chris
tianity the clew to tho maintenance OF
peace In that country
BY her combination of intuition and in
tellect Japan is proving herself to be the
foremost nation I'm the world, for this, her
latest effort toward religious unity, shows
n disposition TO remedy the cause and not
the symptoms merely of political and So
cial disease. H. W. HENDbhsoN'
Brooklyn, n. Y, March 4, 1912.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11

foot In thickness on which the stream had
played only short time, a hole had been
drilled as neatly as If cannon ball had
nierced II. That Is a new one on mel
Chief Kenlon was heard to exclaim, as he
walked away.
French Teacher-Now. Tommy, what is
money in French?
Tommy-Argent. -
French Teacher-Good; ana "hat sehue'
Tommy-Femnine money talks.-satire.
4 HARBINGER OF THIS SPRING.
7 saw a harbnger Of spring to-day
AS I meandered by
The woods that gathered DER my way
And shut It from the SKY
II was a blue bird, first OF all to bring
Springs messages around
But. say, oh. say that harbinger OF sprlns
Was frozen to the ground.
w. ]. HAMPTON.
Fair crest-Then YOU absolutely deny,
general the possibility Of such thlls Do 40
platonic friendship between man anu
woman even in the case OF a phiIQsopnybb bso.
The General (slightly deatl-'es avan
lutely. There are no exceptl9hs, ho'
in The case of a field officer Punch.
MANY pecullar provisions are made Dy
testators i'm wills filed with the surroBa'e'
for probate. Hardly week passes "llhou'
some one being cut off with single doliai'
One of the most unusual provisions mace III
a will was contained in one hled ie"
days ago In this county. The tes'"
tor left his entire estate to his wire anu
nothing to his daughter. In another clause
he said that If his daughter contested the
will she was to get ST. However the con
test 10 get that dollar was unnecessary, as
the wife of the testator died before ne oiu
and the daughter will receive the entire es-
tate as the only next of kin"
In reading accounts OF the Junior Proms
held in Rutgers in the early days OF lts
history we read something ike TINS;
sauare dances. the ance B.
Virginia reel, etc. FROM all r.
norts modern accounts would read as fol-
lows. acknowledgements ~. ~
nyhugturkeytrotandBos sucm ,rta ptontias tdas
would at least convey more accurate ,. iuv t,nrs
as TO the nature Of the dancing.-Rutsers
Targum.
Although It il nearly two years SINCE W
order of the Third Assistant Postnlas'er
General. receipts for registered man were
discontinued, not a day passes on "hlc"
senders of registered letters do not INQUIRE
at the postofice why they have received no
recent from addresses. Receipt worry
said a postoflce official, may be avoideu
by marking letters. Registered receipt re-
ouested.' That all!terative line VIII bflhs
the same kind Of receipt as was sent ior
all registered mail before the change was
made"
Johnnie ito the clerical guest who mas mas
lust finished an elaborate grace l-ra ga aIiiei
The Clergyman-Indeed; and what ooeS
Johnnie-Well, yesterday he said: Hoou
Lord. what a meal"'-Sketch.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
4 COVER FOR CRIlIE.

Without wishing to qualify in that dis
tinguished company Of private detectives
which adorns fiction, we nevertheless
feel impelled to point out certain strik-
ing and suggestive feature, aside from
the use of the motor vehicle common to
all of the four "taxicab robberies" which
have so startled this crime-weary COM
munity.
The man who reads as he runs is al
ready convinced that Joe the Kid. the
Three Brigands and the other fre1uent-
ers Of the Thompson street saloon. now
awaiting trial for the recent $4,000
haul" had intimate knowledge of the
robbery and murder at Jacoby's iewelry
store, 18th street and Sixth avenue. last
summer and Of the two other highway
crimes taking place within a week of the
Trinity Place hold-up. A careful study
Of the details of these robberles will re-
veal many features which strengthen this
conviction.
The use Of the taXicab or touring car
and the seeming utter disregard of So.
crecy, of stealth, of any of those circum-
stances favoring the criminal. such as
deep night or desolation, usually sought
By the yeggman of every description, are
the distinctive points Of each one of these
four crimes-at first glance. There is
another feature shared by all, however
which sheds an entirely different light on
this chapter in criminoIogy and which
leads inevitably TO the belief that the
same cunning mind or group of minds
planned the entire series.
Every one of these robberies was car
ried out In the shadow of an elevated
railroad, the first in Sixth avenue, the
second in the Bowery, the third in Trim.
ity Place, the fourth so near Sixth ave.
nue. that the effect was the same. In
fact 1t is the fourth crime which more
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
HONORED BY FRANZ JOSEF
P. R. G. Sjostrom Gets Order of
the Iron Crown.

Emperor Franz Josef Of Austria-Hun-
gary has conferred on p. Robert G. Sjos-
from, treasurer of the United States
Worsted Company, the order of the Iron
Crown. This is a decoration that is usu-
ally given in recognition Of educational or
industrial work. In the case of Mr.. Sjos-
from it was given for his services in con-
serving the interests of Hungarian immi-
grants and residents here while he was
president of the Hungarian-American
Bank. an office which he recently resigned.
Mr. Sjostrom was born, In 1860, in Sws-
den, where his father was a successful
textile manufacturer and dyer. His par
ents moved to Canada in 1867, and Mr..
Sjostrom was graduated as Bachelor o.
Civil Laws from McGill University. Mon-
treal, in 1881 He went to Lawrence.
Mass, soon afterward and practised law
for a brief period, then went into the
banking business, and from that entered
manufacturing He was for twelve years
treasurer of the Lawrence Dye Works
Company before becoming secretary Of the
United States Worsted Company, OF which
he is now treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
JEWS TO HOLD JUBILEE
Big East Side Congregation Will
Celebrate Fiftieth Year.

The Sons of Israel Kalwaria, the East
Sides wealthiest congregation. Will hold
two days jubilee celebration Of the fftieth
anniversary of the founding OF the society.
beginning with services this evening In the
synagogue, at Nos. 13 and Is Pike street
The society first met half century ago
I'm small room at No. Baxter street.
After a year or so it was compelled to get
larger quarters on account of the increased
number OF its members and it removed to
No 50 Leonard street, and still later, in 1862.
TO Bayard street After several years spent
there the continued rapid growth Of the So
cIety compelled another removal, and this
time the change was made to Chatham
street There a synagogue was built, at
cost OF about 5000, but II was not occupied
long owing to the continual annoyance3
which the congregation suffered from resi-
dents of the district. The final shift to
Pike street was the last, where years ago
the present synagogue was erected, at
cost of $4,000.
At the opening exercises tomorrow even
ing Cantor Elchon Pramaslawsky VIII
chant the service assisted by large cho-
rus. and the full thanksgiving ritual OF the
Church will be performed as prescribed for
such occasions. On Wednesday evening the
members of the society and congregation
Will meet at the Royal Lyceum, In West
Hath street. for a dinner and reception
Israel Mordch Levy, eighty-three years old
and Rubin Rosenstein, ninety years old,
will sit at the head table as reminder OK
the early days of the society. They are the
two living founders Of the congregation.
Deputy Attorney General Joseph Edelson
will be toastmaster, and the speakers VIII
be Rabbis Abraham Mann, Margois, Wolf
Margolles and DR.. Samuel Schulman.
Mayor Gaynor and Commissioner Waldo
have received invitations to be present
In addition to its church work the So
c,ety conducts a Hebrew school In the base
ment OF the building and operates extensive
charities through the medium of the ladies'
auxiliary of the congregation.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
Up UNDER "SCIENIlfIC
M1NAGENENY"

The report Of the House Committee on
Labor against scientific management
in the government arsenalS would be
more impressive if there were not an
antecedent probability that no commit
tee of the House would antagonize or
ganized labor by its conclusions. Organ
ized labor unqueStiOnably holds similar
views to those which the committee en-
tertains As for the system criticised
the experience of the government ap-
pears not to have been uniform. In some
workshops of the War Department 1t has
been pronounced an entire success. In
others. we believe the conclusion has
been less favorable. The system is on
trial, but it is an experiment not TO be
cast aside because of such a report as
the House Committee on Labor has just
made.
What is condemned in that report as
the speeding up process in the "scien-
titic" or Taylor system is an attempt TO
supply in factory labor that incentive
which exists where man is working for
the effort is increased which is according
to the law of nature. No impossible task
is set and no hard taskmaster stands
over the workmen in scientific shop.
but, having determined what is fair
days work for an efficient laborer, the
employer offers a bonus for exceeding
that work. There is no penalty for not
equalling the standard output for day,
except that plainly inefficient workmen
will be weeded out; but the intent Of
every shop is to weed out its plainly in
efficient men. The man who voluntarily
exceeds the standard is paid for the ex-
cess. But that is precisely what hap
pens to the man who Is working for him
self and who works harder or more ef-
fectively than the average man. His re-
turn is larger. This is the incentive that
makes him put forth greater efforts than
the hired worker.
Before the days Of HE factory, when
a good many men worked for themselves,
the incentive TO work efficiently was gen.
eral. but who would say that humanity
suffered because Of the consequent
speeding up? Who would say that the
tailor or cobbler in business for himself
to-day, or the farmer having his own
small farm, was "speeded up" and suf-
fering accordingly, because Of the in
centive to work supplied by the possibil-
ity Of thus increasing his income?
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
THE NEEDS OF LETCHWORTH VII.
LACE.

1t is desirable that the Legislature
should make an appropriation this year
for the development Of Letchworth viii
Jage for the epileptic and feeble-mnded
The site for this institution was bought
in 1908, but the state, because Of the
difficulty in raising money, has prac-
tically let the project lapse, there being
now only two colonies in the village
each composed of fifty feeble-minded
boys. If the Legislature will make the
appropriation asked for buildings will be
erected at once for the accommodation
of 1900 patients, all the preliminary
work being already done.
The proper care Of the feeble-minded
and the epileptic is of Importance to So
ciety because they furnish many of the
criminals and because the chief source
Of deficiency is heredity. IF all the de-
ficients, of whom it is estimated that
more than $4,000 are at large in this
state, could be placed in proper custody
such as the Letchworth village will fur
nish, and be there segregated 50 as TO
prevent reproduction, feeble-mindedness
and epilepsy could be very largely
stamped out and with them certain
crimes which are Characteristic of the
defcients, such as, for example, arson
committed by pyromaniacs This is a
very practical sort Of eugenics, the pre-
ventiOn Of degenerates from furnishing
their quota Of the species.
The LetchwOrth village will supply
what all scientists agree to be ideal con-
ditiOns for the care of the weak-minded
The patients will have the outdoor life
and labor which are essential to their
welfare and will contribute by their
work to their own support. And small
buildings will permit Of the classifying
of the different types of patients. The
carrying out by the state of its plans for
this institution should net be longer de-
laVed
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
experience plenty Of ideas for develop
ing it as an economic agency of real
impOrtance.
PROGRESS WITHIN THE CONSTTTU-
TION.

President Taft hit upon the real diff
ference between himself and his Repub-
lican opponents when he classed himself
bv implication in his Chicago speech
among those who thought that reform
"micht come without destroying the
present structure Of our government
"and without affecting the guarantees OF
life, liberty and property Mr.. Tart
is Just as progressive as any one i'll this
country when it comes to the aim OF de-
stroying special privilege and making
the government truly representative OF
the people. But he believes that all this
can be accomplished without breaking
down the restraints Of the Constitution
or upsetting the system of checks therein
established And he is right Great
progress has already been made toward
fulfilling the ideal Of equal rights for all
and curing the evils which spring from
the undue influence of financial interests
in the government. What reason is there
for doubling that this work cannot go
on to complete success with no more
disturbance to the constitutional system
than has been necessary in accomplishing
the great reform already achieved? EX-
ecutiveS and legislatures are cleaner,
| hOnester and give more undivided service
to the public than they did few years
ago In some states it is the boast of
ardent Progressives that the people
rule" Yet this has been brought about
with little constitutional change the eX-
periments with the initiative, referendum
and recall coming after the cleanup Of
| their governments rather than cOntribut-
ing to it.
Attention of reformerS is now cOncen-
| trated upon the judiciary because the
popular movement that has made eXecu-
| tiveS and legislatures more responsive TO
| the people and more truly representative
| is affecting the bench more slowly be-
cause of the long terms for which judges
in general hold office and the natural
conservatism Of the judicial mind. \
| Legislature is remade every year or
! two. Governors serve only for short
terms. Such a moral awakening as this
country has experienced shows itself in
7
| the Legislature and the Governors chair
almost Immediately. But the personnel
of the bench changes slowly, though the
ideas that are stirring in this country
have surely not been without their i'll
fuence upon the courts. If the public is
| dissatisfied with the courts it has the
remedy in its own hands. Take, for eX-
ample, the highest court in this state,
whose decisions have been the special
| object of Colonel Roosevelts criticism.
In two or three years majority Of
! its members will retire. 1t will be re-
made almost as completely as the United
| States Supreme Court has been by PreSi-
dent Taft and it will be remade by the
people If the people do not fill the
bench with men whose decisions will
show a sympathetic understanding of
new social and industrial conditions it
will be the peoples own fault The idea
that the courts cannot be made sufii-
ciently progressive without weakening
the restraints of the Constitution is born
of imDatience and haste
New-York tribune., 1912-03-11
COLLEGE MEN FAVOR Law
Strong Preference Shown in Princeton
Statistics for Fifteen Years.

Princeton. n. j., March 1o.-Statistics
showing the occupations followed ty
Princeton graduates have recently been
compiled here by authorities of the unl'er-
sity In view of the recent agitation regard
ing the overcrowding Of the professions
These statistics show surprising prefer
ence for law. which leaves the othcr rro-
fesslons far in the rear.
The records have been obtained OF hiteeh
of the twenty-six classes graduated nom
1884 to 1909, the records for the nine mos.
popular occupations being as follows.
Business, 1,5l9; law. GA; engineering Wv
medicine, 2sS; ministry, PSI: teaching' -",
government service, i2o; journalism, 81 ana
farming and ranching, Sc.