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HIS THE "POLLARD PLEDGE" FAMOUS POLICE JUDGE TO LEAVE A THE BENCH WEDNESDAY. to Save Drankards and Their By a Families Pinn'1 a St. Louis Magistrate Became Known InternationallyTaft Sent Him to England. May William JetST. Louis, Pollard will end eight years and ferson four months' service as a magistrate Wednesday, when he will be succeeded of the Dayton Street Police a8 judge Court by John Sanders.

Pollard was apby President Taft in 1909 as a pointed delegate to the International Congress on Alcoholism. A woman stood before a police court judge one morning seven years ago. A shawl half covered an infant. Another child she held with her left hand, and a third clung to her skirts. Earlier in the morning her husband had been fined for drunkenness and for beating her.

She had testified against JUDGE W. J. POLLARD, ORIGINATOR OF THE PLEDGE FOR DRUNKARDS." him reluctantly. She had said that he supported her, but that at times he drank, and that when he did her life and the lives of her children were 1 in danger. It was an old story to the court.

When the case had been disposed of the judge told the woman to remain in court. "These are your children?" he asked. She nodded. "Your husband is your sole support?" She nodded again. "And now that he must' go to the go workhouse, hungry; you because and he the drinks, children you must suffer.

First you are beaten, and now V0u must starve and see your children starve!" He paused and added: "And, because of these things, I must lose my peace of mind and lie awake nightsunless I can find a remedy." TRIED THE PLEDGE ON HIM. The judge forgot the woman. He thought of the long procession of husbands and wives and children that had passed before him since he had become A police court judge. The husbands he had sent to the workhouse; the women and children had gone--somewhere. He wondered where they had gone, and where the others that were to come would go.

Heavy punishments, light punishments, kindly advice, deEnunciation--all were alike SO far as concerned that procession. He had found that out. Now he would try a new experiment. He called a marshal and ordered the prisoner brought back into the courtroom. "You've been acting badly," he said.

"Your wife says you mistreat her, but it only when you drink. It may be that drink alone has caused you to do the things that you have done. If it is, there may be some manhood or decency in you, and if there is maybe I can find it. Now, I'm going to find out. will give you a chance and a choice.

Promise me you will quit drinking1'11 take your word--or go to the The judge was William Jefferson Pollard of St. Louis, and the scene was the inauguration of the "Pollard Pledge Plan," since has made its author Internationally known. Administering the pledge became an almost daily incident in the Dayton Street Police Court. PLEDGES FOR A YEAR. The period of the pledge usvally is ole year.

Within the first the signer must report to Judge Pollard twice weekly. He must bring his wife. or. if he is single, he must bring some responsible person who can vouch for him. The second month reports are made once a week, and after that monthly until the end of the period.

At least two London magistrates established the pledge plan in their courts, and it has been adopted in courts of a dozen other municipallies in England and Scotland while the National land Independent Temperance Party of Engis urging its adoption in all the police courts throughout the empire. Beaides, Holland, in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, parts of Australia and the Transvaal, newspapers have told of the pledge. POPE OPPOSES LISBON LAW. The Portuguese Church Separation Order Condemned by Plus. LISBON, May to a communication received from the Vatican, the pope has concluded an examination of the separation law and absolutely condemns it.

As it is not to be enforced until July 1, he will await that date before expressing his opinion officially, it 1g said, in the hope that in the interim the opposition of the Portuguese clergy to the law and their reto take stipends may induce fusal the provisional government to alter some of its most stringent clauses. It is reported that in event of the actual decree being enforced, many churches will be closed and the priesthood deprived of all property and duced to poverty. It is known in offdial circles that the government desires to avoid a rupture with the Holy See. END TO MRS. SIMPSON HOLLISTER The Widow of an Army Major Succumbed In Lawrence at 82.

LAWRENCE, May -Mra. Mary Hollister, widow of Major Simpson Hoblister of the Unted States Army, died here yesterday at the age of 82. She had lived in Lawrence forty years. Mrs. Holister WAS the mother of Mrs.

Charles E. Blackmar, 2924 Garfield Avenue, Kan888 City. LABOR WANTS CHARTERCHANGED Asks Arbitration and Mualcipal Ownerwhip Clause In All Franchises. Organized labor as composed of the Industrial Council will work for certain amendments to the city charter in regard to the granting of public utility franchises. A resolution to be sent to the mayor and city counell was adopted yesterday which asks that no public utility franchise shall be granted that does contain purchase clause which provides that the city may buy not, al the company at any future time.

It also asks that any franchise granted must demand arbitration between the company and men in any labor disputes. A committee composed of L. D. Tolle, the makers' union, J. representing of the bore pressmen's union and Miss Nan Willeston of the Women's Trade Union League was appointed to urge upon the amendment committee of the mayor's cabinet that these amendbe indorsed by them, The amendments committee of the cabinet is ed by E.

C. Meservey, president of the civil service board, and was appointed some time ago to draft amendments for the city charter. BONNER SPRINGS WILL PAY. Merchants Will Buy Bonds for Completion of Rock Road. The people of Bonner Springs will provide the money to complete the rock road from that city to Kansas City, this summer.

The Wyandotte County road fund is exhausted, but the law allows the county to issue scrip at 5 per cent interest for the completion roads already under process of construction. The rock road to Bonner SpringS has been built as far as Edwardsville. little more than three miles must be laid to ness Bonner men from Springs. Bonner A delegation Springs of was buse-, fore the board of county commissioners Thursday. The commissioners said that they were ready to issue the scrip, but the banks in Kansas City, were unwilling to purchase it.

"Then we will purchase it ourselves," the people of Bonner Springs said when the delegation Another delegation be before the commissioners this week and it will be Bonner Springs stand ready empowered to say that the merchanta.se the scrip for the road. The improvement will cost about $20,000. WILL STOP AT $50,000. Girls' Hotel Campaigners Confident They Will Get Block of Lots. With $6,000 in subscriptions obtained during the past week, the Girls' Hotel campaign fund has risen to within a few thousand dollars of the new mark The original intention was to get $75,000, but the directors of the fund believe they will be given a block of city lots late this summer that will be worth enough money to finish the $75,000.

Who will give the lots or where Luey are the campaigners will not say, but their belief in it 1s 50 strong that they have decided to quit when the $50,000 is "I am positive the man will give us the lots," Mrs. G. W. Addison, director of the campaign, said yesterday, "and we are counting on it so much that we will quit when the $50,000 is obtained. I don't know just when that will be, but probably very soon." The campaign has ben conducted quietly for the last two weeks.

Only five or six women have been working for subscriptions. TYPHOID MYSTERY SOLVED? Franklin School From Pupils of Well Across the Street. health department of Kansas The close all the wells in City, may section of the city near the Frankthe lin School, Holly Street and Metropolitan Avenue. Eleven children attending the school are suffering from typhoid and the health officers believe the fever, children were made 111 by drinking well across the street from the from a school. The children attending the school did take kindly to the bubbling fountaing which were placed in the school not for them to drink from and preferred to drink from the well across the street.

The well water was much colder than that which passed through the filters in the school. find that all who are suffering from the typhoid drank from Dr. Farquhard Campbell, health officer, said yesterday. "An analysis of the water will be made, and if it is found that it contains typhoid all the wells in this locality must be closed." BISHOP W. A.

QUAYLE TONIGHT. The Lecture on "King to Be Given at Independence. Bishop William A. Quayle will deliver his lecture on "King Lear" at 8 o'clock tonight in the Watson Memorial Methodist Church at Independence. THE ORGAN POPE OR KING SOME FACTS AND FANCIES AFTER A RECITAL BY EDWARD KREISER.

The Church Instrument's Position in Music Has Been Called Imperial, Yet Its Players Are Less Noticed Than Other Musicians. Good organists are always supposed to be either spoiled or slighted or bothspoiled by the congregations and alighted by the critics. And organists have, indeed, an unusual position among musicians A good organist is nearly always popular, Those whom the piano and violin, even the human voice, fail to move are seldom Indifferent when the organ speaks. An organist, too, is minister of the most impressive and least mandatory element of religious service, therefore, the most welcome. On the other hand, there is some truth, too, in the supposed relation between organist and critic.

Organ recitals, beautiful programs well played, are frequent in all cities. Yet they receive the fewest critical notices of any musical event. The reason is that the scope of the player, and with it that of the critic, is limited to an a unusual extent by the Instrument. A voice, a violin, a piano are things of infinitely varied possibilities; an organ either is equipped with the possibility of certain effects or it 1g not. It is often true to say that an organist has achieved perfection of inter pretation within the limitations of his instrument.

Of any other musician this would be nonsense. Temperament, that varying personal quality which makes a thousand readings possible and all true, is of less account in organ playing than in any other branch of the art. In sum, an organist who plays with reverence, understanding and smooth technique, who knows every stop and swell effect of his instrument and uses them with the proper discrimination, is virtually beyond criticism. POWERS THAT CAN MYSTIFY. This is the whole situation in the case of the average church or concert organ.

It is 50 to a certain extent with the most lavishly equipped instrument built. A visit to one of the older churches of Kansas City and then to one of the most modern, the Independ-! ence Avenue Christian Church, will make the difference clear to anyone with an ear. There are many beautiful instruments in this city, but none so that one. (Intricate, ob-1 serve, would not be a word of praise to use about any other kind of musical instrument.) Fortunately the Independence Avenue organ has a master who can manage it in all its seeming caprices of tone and temper. It requires a man of special build- one who will respect his instrument as himself, and its mechanical detail even as the delicacies of his art.

Edward is such a man. With the modesty Kreiser, a trainer giving credit where credit is due, he usually "puts it through its the paces," explains and exhibits in detail multifarious effects obtainable, before playing a recital program. This may detract art from the mystifying ers of his and what audience does not delight in being it is eminently fair and in a high degree educational. Yesterday afternoon, for instance, his one hundred and thirtieth fortnightly free recital--the number worth mentioning as indicating the Mr. Kreiser played one number steadiness of his favors to the would have been more of a surprise, or rather a series of surprises, than a musical delight, if he had not previously explained the various tone families of his instrument--the strings and reeds, the diapasons.

With that introduction all his hearers were in a position to enjoy the musical beauty of the second movement of Borowski's First Suite, as well as to appreciate the wonderful manipulation of the intrument. A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH. Incidentally Mr. Kreiser introduced a mention of the Kansas City Musical Club's plan for a symphony orchestra and elicited such hearty applause as should be an encouragement to those who are interested In the enterprise. In his comparison 10f orchestra and organ he was illuminating, His conclusions naturally were biased.

Not satisfied with the saying that the Orchestra is the emperor of music and the organ the pope, he claimed imperial honors for his instrument. Perhaps one might compromise by saying that the organ is the constitutional monarch, the orchestra the aristocracy. As to Mr. Kreiser's personal accomplishment no criticism will be expected after what has gone before. His mastery of the great instrument is apparently complete, although the instrument itself has been complete in every detail only a few weeks, Some passages seemed blurred or hurried, but that may have been due to the constitution of the monarchy.

They were in the transcription of the last movement of sky's greater symphony, considered by many the greatest of all symphonies, not excluding those of Beethoven--the Symphonie Pathetique, As a composer, too, Mr. Kreiser merits considerably more attention than he claims. A first hearing of his Concert Caprice, recently published by Novello, was one the most modestly allnounced numbers on the program. It 1s a piece of writing, bringing out skillfully the string and reed elfects of the organ in many interesting combinations. Another number mentioned, a8 well as the singing of George Deane, tenor, the assisting soloist afternoon.

This was "Finlanilla," a noble tone poem by Sibelius, full of the tragie dignity and aspiration of the country it celebrates. Played for the first time in Kansas City, it is only one of many compositions for whose first hearing 'here Mr. Kreiser is to be thanked. K. W.

W- iD- and shie You her MAN'S HEART GOVERNS, HE SAYS A Pastor Asserts That Neither Church Nor Bible Is Sent of Authority. "Neither the Bible nor the Church is the seat of authority in religion, but the individual," was the assertion of the Rev. Ulysses Sumner Milburn at the First Universalist Church, Tenth Street and Park Avenue, yesterday morning. He was discussing the question, "What is the Seat of Authority in "Ask a member of the Catholic Church," he said, "as to the seat of authority in religion, and he will say at once that it is the Church. Ask a Protestant same question and he will say the Bible.

Which 1s right, or are neither? The authority appealed to today in the formation of religious Deliefs and the foundation of religious life is neither the Church nor the Bible, but man's inner consciousness. The Church and Bible are both educators of the mind and heart, fitting them to understand the inner voice which speaks to all alike. "The Bible did not produce religion; religion produced the Bible. Men had religious experiences. And as he records these experiences he gives to the world the religious writings which can inspire, comfort and direct.

But the heart of man is the supreme court to which all questions are carried for final decision." THE COUNTY AS AN ICE MAN. Chicago's Poor WIll Be Supplied With Free Chunks of Coolness. CHICAGO, May ice will be supplied to the poor of Chicago this summer, according to plans by Peter Bartzen, president of the county board. He will offer a resolution at the meeting of the county board tomorrow, authorizing the superintendent of public service to advertise for bids for furnishing the ice. The ice will be supplied through the county agent.

Tickets entitling the holders to certain amounts, will be given to persons applying at the office of the agent. The holders will be allthorized to present the tickets to the contracting dealers. Mr. Bartzen announced, also, a plan for affording recreation for poor children at the park-like grounds of the new infirmary at Oak Forest. Several trainloads of poor children will be taken to the institution each week.

The first excursion will be held about July 15. WILL. MAKE THE SHOW LOCAL. Kansas City Merchants Will Have Most Exhibits at Household Show. Most of.

the space for the National Household Show in Convention Hall, opening two weeks from today, has been taken by Kansas City merchants and manufacturers. All of the exhibits are to pertain to appliances to save work in the household. A complete electric kitchen, from ice making machine to electric potato parer will be one feature. The Home Beautiful is to be shown, as well as the House Useful. Every day and every night a woman's charitable organization or woman's club will have charge of the restaurant and tea garden, receiving the whole profits.

The Girls' Hotel and St. Anthony's Home and the Perry Orphans' Home will be the chief beneficiaries. ODD FELLOWS TO THE CAPITAL. A Three Days' Convention Begins at Jetferson City Today, JEFFERSON CITY, May The seventythird annual meeting of the state lodge of the Odd Fellows of Missouri will convene here tomorrow morning for a three days' session. Two thousand visitors are expected.

The meetings will be held in the Jefferson Theater presided over by ex-Gov. A. M. Dockery. Governor Hadley will deliver an address of welcome tomorrow morning.

There will be a parade in the afternoon, and tomorrow night the governor and Mrs. Hadley will entertain the visitors with a luncheon at the mansion. The Southwest Limited Firmly established as the train giving the highest quality of service between Kansas City and Chicago via the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway New steel standard sleeping cars and compartment cars with "longer, higher and wider" berths, affording all the comforts of a real bed. Electrie lighted throughout with Mazda lights.

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The rates of only three newspapers in the entire try, it says, are lower---The Kansas City Star, The New York Journal and The Portland (Oregon) Journal. AND OF THESE THREE-AND OF THE 273, AND OF ALL THE REST OF THE NEWSPAPERS IN AMERICA--THE LOWEST RATE PER THOUSAND OF CIRCULATION IS THAT OF THE KANSAS CITY STAR. A THE THORNTON MINOR SANITARIUM ESTABLISHED IN 1877 FOR THE TREATMENT OF PILES, FISTULA Offices 1004 Oak AND RECTAL DISEASES, RUPTURE AND DISEASES OF WOMEN. Kansas City, Mo..