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The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Scholarship for Mayors Son.

The annual award of a scholar
ship at Swarthmore College by the
Trenton Swarthmore Club has been
made to Frederick Stockham Donnel-
ly, SOC Of Mayor Frederick w. Don
nellf. The scholarship is for two
yeats. For second honor, Walter w.
Maale, a student at George School,
waa chosen. Young Donnelly gradu-
ate3 from the State schools with one
Of be best records. He is popular.
has been active in athletics and a
dilis student. He will study law,
it expected
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
FIees Asylum and Seeks Death.

Mrs. John Baker, Of P~lainfeld,
walked away from the State Hos
pital for the Insane with two other
inmates, Miss Elvira Dean and Mrs.
Ida Hummell. Reaching the Della
ware and Raritan canal Miss Baker
jumped in in an attempt to end her
life, but two men got her ashore
after a desperate struggle. Mrs. Hum
nell added to the excitement by lead
ing three policemen a dash of several
blocks, but she was finally captured.
The women had been allowed the
freedom of the grounds.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05

intelligence to Captain Walsh that
the Empress had gone down, said:
ship gone"
A special train was dispatched from
here at $3.50 Friday morning to Father
Point to bring back the survivors.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Former CLERKS TRANSITION.

When J. Wellington Sproat resigned
as a ribbon clerk in a local depart
ment store, he went into the ministry.
After a short service he went on the
stage and now has branched out as
the proprietor of a tea room at a
fashionable Asbury Park hotel.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
One Old san Hanny.

Father Neptune Ito group Of mer-
maids)-Well, girls. / must say it's
more comfortable, now / can wade
around under an American a of war
without cutting my feet on broken
bottles."-Judge. :
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
"MoP" AvERrs RECEIVER.
GouIds and Speyer & Co. Advances
$5.OOO.0nn NeedAd-

100000 Needed.
New York.-There win be no Mis-
souri, Pacific ~receivership. At the last
moment Speyer and Co. and the Jay
Gould Estate agreed to purchase out
right any of the 5 per cent notes
which came due and which had not
been deposited for extension, or which
may not be deposited. the time for de
posting notes having been extended
in order to afford time for the Speyer.
Gould syndicate to get 5000, 900.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Horse Thieves Get Two Rigs.

Aine horse and buggy, which stood
in front of a Broad street park house
was driven off by two lads, about Is
years old. The team, owned by DR..
George F. Harker, who conducts a
livery, and hired to John Culver, was
traced as far as Yardville. The Tren-
ton police were notified that a horse
and buggy had also been stolen in
Cranbury.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Not So Economical.

Alexander c. Yard, who retired a
few weeks ago as postmaster, was
noted for his economical administra-
ton of the post office. Many citizens
called it parsimony. 1t is said that
Mr.. Yard refused to ask an increase
Of the force of clerks and carriers
because it would involve expense, but
it has just been discovered that his
last official act was to certify to the
names of a dozen men as substitute
carriers and four for positions as
clerks in the office.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Jersey rroopa to camp.

The proposed maneuvres of the
United States army in conjunction
with the National Guard Of New Jer-
sey and other States having been de-
clared off, the New Jersey militia
will camp at the State grounds at
Sea Grit.
Under the plans Of Adjutant-Gen-
eral Sadler the Second and Third
regiments from the southern part will
be in camp together, and the three
regiments from the northern coun-
ties will be at Sea Grit at the same
time.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Grafters Out of Prison.

Grafters Out of Prison.
By grace of the Court Of Pardons,
the grafters from Atlantic and Hud-
son Counties who entered the con-
vict lists last December, made their
exit from the State Prison, after
serving about six months of their
sentences. The higher courts had de-
cided against all of them on appeal.
Louis Kuehnle, former boss of At
lantic City, and County Engineer
Rightmire got away early, an auto
mobile calling for them soon after
midnight. No cars called for the
others, who waited until morning and
went home by trains.
Since their pardon the group have
not been called grafters but political
prisoners"
Kuehnle went to his bungalow at
Little Beach, ten miles below Atlantic
City, where he will remain two
weeks before going back to business.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Boy, II, In Prison.

One of the youngest inmates of
State Prison is Charles Wholsiffer,
y years old, who was sentenced to
a term Of tx years on several
charges of burglary and for carrying
concealed weapons. The youth has
served time in the Railway Reforma-
tory and at ~Jamesburg. Ilhka Chuba,
of Somerset County was recently re-
ceived to serve from five to ten
years, with a fine of $1,000, for man.
slaughter. Maud Jordan, a Camden
negress, is another of the inmates
recently received.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Appointments to optometry Board.

Governor Fielder has made the fol-
lowing appointments to the State
Board Of Optometry: Louis A.
Rochat, Upper Montclair, three years;
Lindell c. Ashburn, Cape May City,
two years; Freeman C. Leaning,
Trenton, two years; Harry E. Pine,
Bridgeton, one year; Benjamin Bloch,
Elizabeth, n year. The Governor
has also appointed John B. Niven, of
has also appointed John B. Niven, of
State Board of Public Accountants
to succeed John E. Cooper.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
81 10000 BULLION IN WRECK.
impossible to Salvage 100000
Wreck, Says Expert.

Wreck, Says Expert.
Rimouski, Quebec.-In the opinion
of Commander Tweedle of the British
cruiser Essex, it will be impossible to
salvage the Empress of Ireland, which
was valued at 50, 900. Commander
Tweedle believes that it will be neces-
sary to send divers into the hull, plant
charges of dynamite and blow the ship
to pieces in order to recover bodies
and enable divers to bring up $1,000
900 in silver bullion.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
Scents Plan to Gust Him.

T.. Simpson S%tanderven, who was
suspended as City Clerk of Pater-
o by Mayor Fordyce, has filed an
affidavit with the Supreme Court in
the certiorari proceedings by which
he seeks to be rednstated. Stander-
ven claims that under the charter
provisions of Paterson unless he is
.reinstated in two weeks, the office
of City Clerk will be vacated. The
Board Of Aldermen is practically OPP
posed to him and his charges will
allow the two weeks to pass. Stander-
ven. was suspended for striking
Charles S. Gall, clerk of the Board
of Aldermen, during an argument in
the City Hall.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
No ExEMPTIoN, SAYS WILSON,.

Clayton BIZ Defines What Labor Can
Do, He Declares.
Washington. President Wilson
does not consider that on the agree
ing to the labor amendments to the
Clayton antitrust bill he has given
labor unions blanket exemption from
the operation of. the Sherman anti
trust law.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05

Unless you bear with the faults of
a friend you betray your own.-Syrus.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
BANK ROBBED OF $500.
Five Bandits in Auto Loot Institution

Five Bandits in Auto Loot institution
at Mahomet, III.
Champaign, Ill.-Five robbers en-
tered the village of Mahomet in an
automobile believed t o have been
stolen. While four stood guard the
other blew open the safe in Buys
Bank and took $500 in currency. In
a few minutes the party sped out Of
town with the villagers too terrified to
offer resistance. Pursuit was taken up
by deputy sherifs in an automobile,
but the trail was lost near Monticello.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-06-05
vANlTIE WINS FIRST rRYour

heroism and a better job.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26

efficiency in these departments places an enor-
nous tax on the country as a whole.
According to the State Auditor, Indiana spent
during 1912 total of $1O995 ,OO8 on it's highway
systems. This grand total was more than for all
other expenditures combined. Such a vast
penditure was demanded by the unusual mileage
of roads in the state, $4,000 miles of which are
improved and $4,000 miles unimproved.
But in spite of the extreme Importance of the
transportation system to the state, in spite of the
great amounts of money involved each year,
ment so awkwardly organized and so Inefficient
ly executed our public roads system.
The worst feature of the Indiana method of
highway supervision is that politics is in con-
troll. Public policies regarding roads must al
ways be matter of politics. Such policies as to
what share of its total expenditure the state
should devote to roads and such policies as to
whether or no certain roads should be built must
be decided in the State assembly or by the coun-
ty commissioners. To this extent our roads must
be kept in politics.
But when it comes to building roads, to main
tanning and repairing and to supervising this
work, politicians should have nothing to say.
That is matter for expert engineers alone They
should be put into office for personal fitness
ly and should hold their place as long as they
remain competent.
The probabilities are that the Shackelford
Bill, which devotes $4,000, 900 of government
revenue to highway improvement throughout the
United States, will pass the Senate. 1t has al
ready passed the House. If that measure goes
into effect, Indiana should be entitled to almost
million dollars of it, but just because of our
obsolete, awkward highway system in this state,
the federal authorities would not give it to US.
1t seems that what we need first of all is a
public highway commission somewhat like the
public service commission which has charge of
public utilities. If it is necessary to have nom
political commission to supervise and regulate
traction lines, it is difficult to see why it is not
equally as necessary to have public highway
commission to supervise and regulate the annual
expenditure of S1O,OOOOOO on roads.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
CAMBRIDGE CITY

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Verborg have
returned to Logansport, preparatory
to moving to Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kerlin will at
tend the funeral of Caleb Williams, at
Richmond, Thursday afternoon.
The government thermometer at
this point registered IA degrees below
zero at an early hour, Wednesday
morning.
Mrs. John Ingerman has returned
from Indianapolis, leaving her broth
err, Lon Modlin, who has been critical
ly i'll, improving. Mrs. George Pagan
accompanied her home for a short
visit.
Mrs. James Van Meter is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. George Hodge, of
Richmond.
Born, Tuesday afternoon to Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Barnett, a son, weight
ten pounds.
Mrs. John D. Green is very critical
ly i'll with bronchitis at her home in
Germantown.
Miss Myrtle Van Meter Of Indian
apolis, spent Sunday at her home in
this city.
Mrs. Eta Witte has returned to
Richmond after several days spent
with Cambridge City friends.
Miss Gaynelle Hageman will spend
Friday in indianapolis.
Mrs. Will Judkins spent Wednesday
in Richmond with her sister, Mrs. En-
DRY Wolford who is very sick.
Miss Blanche Boyd is singing each
Sunday in the Christian Science Tenn
pie at Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Krone have
returned after several days spent in
Richmond, on account Of the illness
and death of the formers sister Miss
Clara Krone. His sister, Miss Laura,
is very seriously i'll.
Mrs. Ed Anderson and children of
New Castle, are spending the week
! with Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Brewer.
Charles Neff is moving from farm
i near Hiser's Station, to Centerville.
Miss Neva Hazelrigg is spending the
week in indianapolis, the guest of her
| sister, Miss Flossie.
Mrs. Jonas Miller is improving after
an Illness of several weeks.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26

possibilities Of direct instruction in cit
izenship.
Present methods OF teaching civics
will be carefully Investigated. Wheth-
er it is sufficient that children should
know how the president is elected. or
that they should be able to recite the
constitution; to mhat extent modern
social and civic questions clean
streets, pure water, milk supply, fire
protection, means of transportation,
cooperation, suffrage, divorce. etc
are to be considered. These are the
sort of questions to which the new
corps Of investigators will have to give
some attention.
Special effort will be made to report
the many attempts on the part OF pro-
gressive communities to give all the
school subjects a more definite civic
value. In Kansas City, Kansas, for
example, the chemistry course in the
high school is in effect a course in
practical civics-such things as water
and milk analysis, with their signifi-
canoe in community life. are empha-
sized, and high school students serve
in the municipal laboratories. Cleve-
land teaches municipal problems in
the biology course. indianapolis has a
course in community arithmetic" in
the elementary schools. Vocational
education and school hygiene both
have civic phases of immense import
ance These and other practical mat
tiers in citizenship training will be
carefully examined.
In announcing the Bureaus new
work Commissioner Claxton points out
that in the larger sense all education
is really education for citizenship; that
not only is citizenship training coex-
tensixe with effective education in
general, but that the final justifica,
ton of public taxation for public edu-
cation lies in the training of young
people for citizenship"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
Plans Citizenship Training

With the cooperation of the Nation
al Municipal League, of which w. ID.
Foulke of this city is president, and
other organizations long interested in
the problem Of education for citizen
ship, the United States Bureau of Edu-
cation is undertaking a comprehensive
study Of the whole problem of civic
education. The work will be under
the immediate direction Of Mr.. Arthur
w. Dunn. now of New York, who made
for himself national reputation some
years ago by his work in this subject
in the public schools Of Indianapolis.
In this field of activity the Govern
ment bureau of education hopes to do
officially and Systematically what has
heretofore been attempted by a num-
Der of organizations working independ-
emily. Many civic associations through
out the United States have been agitat
ing in behalf of education for citizen
ship; valuable results have been OBJ
tanned; and many communities have
made important experiments in i'm
proving citizenship through the schools
and through other agencies. The
bureau will seek to coordinate these
hitherto separate efforts; to bring CO.
operation where independent action
has prevailed; to make known every
where the results of civic education so
far accomplished; and to formulate a
constructive plan for definite work in
this important field.
Must Train Teachers.
One of the most pressing problems
in citizenship education is that of prop
erly equipped teachers. There are few
teachers that have had the requisite
special training. 1t will be one of
the vital tasks in the new work to
find out what can be done to train
men and women, whether already in
the service or just preparing to teach,
for the definite responsibilities and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
Indiana Roads

On reasonably well-kept, hard-surfaced
road to haul one ton mile in horse-drawn
vehicle costs eight cents. But since so many of
our roads are not hard-surfaced or well-kept we
find the average cost of hauling one ton one mile
is twenty three cents. In some sections where
roads not improved at all, the average cost
per mile runs high fifty-four cents.
1t costs the people of the United States every
year for wagon transportation $11 100000 600
This is based on the average ton mile cost of
twenty-three cents. But if all roads were
we'll made and maintained so that the price could
be brought down to eight cents, we would have
an annual saving of 81, 500 100000 This amount
would be sufficient each year to build twenty
Panama Canals.
1t will be seen that good roads enthusiasts
are not by any means fanatical dreamers chasing
q hobby. They are men with keen business sense
and have their eye on the almighty dollar The
more good road faddists' we have the more
of those almighty dollars can we store away in
the bank.
No part of our government, state or national
is more essential more important than those
branches which supervise our transportation sys-
TENS. Because Of the vast amounts involved in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
State Press

The Indianapolis Star commenting
editorially on the result of the local
option election at Connersville, in to-
days issue says:
Law-defying saloon keepers may
learn something to their advantage by
studying the election returns from
Connersville, where a wet majority
of thirty-six three years ago has be-
come wet" majority of $50.
Public sentiment in Connersville
has inclined to the license system as
opposed to municipal prohibition for
the ordinary reasons where license
system is well enfnrced-the advant-
age of revenue, the preference for le-
gal as opposd to Illicit barrooms and
the natural repugnance felt by philo-
sophie minds toward the propaganda
of abstinence by compulsion.
But saloons will be continued at
Connersville for the more instructive
reason, in addition. that its saloon
keepers have tried to conduct decent,
orderly places in accordance with the
law. There is a lesson here for the
whole tribe of irresponsible and pes
ulential diyekeepers by whom the
liquor business in Indiana and else
where has been all but outlawed and
destroyed.
Civilized man resents the proposal
that the decent and decorous use Of
intoxicating liquors. especially in their
milder forms and for table use. must
be forbidden to all because inferior
individuals are deficient in self-re-
straint. The regulated liquor traffic
need have no fear of prohibition ex-
cept as it is stirred up by unscrupu-
lous and stupid members of the trade
itself. When il is conducted in an
orderly and reputable way. il may
look for popular verdicts like the one
at Connersyille.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
Eugenics: Its Method

Contrary to popular IDEAS the eugenist has
no intention of breeding men and women as
stock-men breed cattle. Such thing would be
utterly absurd and is not taken into considera-
ton by any except the most extreme "faddists."
Neither do eugenists mean that defective ba-
bies will be killed nor that governments will reg
ulate the birth and death of individuals.
Eugenics does not aim to increase the birth
rate. The mere idea that can make progress
by having larger number of babies born is
fallacy.
The entire method of eugenics may be sum-
med up in two words-prevention and education.
There are two means by which it can pre-
vent the degeneration of men and women. One
is by sterilizing hopelessly defective persons so
that they cannot propagate their kind. AS
things are, prolonging the life of in
persons eight years longer than BEFORE
This means they have that many more opportuni-
ties to bring forth other insane people into the
world This is a thing, argues the eugenst
which must be stopped. AS to how it must be
stopped, he cannot yet be sure, but he feels GER
tain some satisfactory method can be found
Another method of prevention is by segrega-
ton of the sexes. This was used with excellent
success in Aosta, Italy. Ten years ago that town
notorious for the large number of cretins,
KIND OF human mOnStrOSlty, which freQuented its
streets. These poor deformed idiots were per-
mtted to marry and raise families. In almost
every instance their children were cretins also
But through the activities of few strong
minded persons, these hopelessy incurable hu-
man wrecks were housed up, the males in one
institution, females in another. They were not
permitted to propagate their kind and today they
are unknown in that town.
But the eugenist pins his hope more largely to
education He is carrying on all kinds of inves-
LEGATIONS in order to discover how various factors
and conditions influence children and the unborn
He believes that if these facts are rightly pre-
scented to men and women, they can finally be led
themselves to such precautions will pre-
vent the distorting of human beings in the
future
This would in no wise interfere with love
matches smack of stock breeding methods. It
would merely bring people to see that mans re-
sponsibility extends to his children not yet come
into the world and that by wrong act he can
blight them and by a right act can bless them
The reason present knowledge is so inef-
fective is because it has been scientifically
developed or clearly presented. People are still
very much in the dark concerning the influences
of heredty and environment on children The
supreme aim Of eugenics is to dissipate that dark
ness and enable people to prepare for the future
generation intelligently as they work for the
present.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
To tn Palladium

Reading in your paper of SO much
suffering of the north end, l want to
tell you what l think. I know of one
family where the husband and father
is working, three sons are working
and they have one boarder Still the
Penny Club gives that family new
shoes, new stockings, new hats, new
underclothes and other charity work
ers hands outgood clothes to them
just because they have a god stand in
Why not give that poor little girl the
shoes, that has to go barefooted.
Why not stop giving to the ones that
has men working and has money to
spend on shows and give to the ones
that have no work and keeps show
money for bread.
Charity is all right and l believe in
1t If they give it to the right ones.
what | have said is true for l have
seen it with my own eyes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
Dramatic Mems and Comment

and span. everything new but the but
tons, to clean up the coin again as it
has done for the past two years. The
irrepressible Gus has evidently kept
tabs on every line, thrill, laugh song
and situation during the entire nearly
century of theatrical experience.
Mutt and jeff" with the big fifty
thousand dollar production, come 10
to the Gennett tomorrow night. You
wouldn't wish your worst enemy such
luck as to miss Mutt and JEFF.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
THE BEST OF ALL LAxATIVES

When the proper dose is taken the
effect of Chamberlain's Tablets is so
natural that you do not realize that it
has been produced by medicine.
Mrs. F. j. Braun, Fort Wayne, Ind,
writes: Last fall l used a bottle of
Chamberlain's Tablets and have new
er seen their equal for constipation.
Sold by all dealers.
(Advertisemertp
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26

The metal hands on the municipal
clock at Springfield, Mass. are TO he
taken off and wooden hands substitute
ed because of the difference in weight
The metal hands weigh one hundred
pounds each, while the wooden ones
would not weigh more than fifty
pounds.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
Arcade.

No. of that wonderfully interesting
series The Adventures of kathryn
is on at the Arcade theatre tomorrow.
The story itself is by Harold McGrath
and is running in the Chicago Tribune
every Sunday. The Arcade and the
Murrette theatres are alternating the
pictures. The Arcade runs Nos. one
and three and Murrette. Nos. two and
four and so on. Don't miss No. to-
morrow.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-02-26
Mutt and jeff"

With a sensational meIo-dramatic
story under the title of Mutt and
Jeff in Panama" Gus Hills perennial
success of that name, reappears spick