Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 93, 9 February 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PAlIaDIUM AND SUN-TEIiEOIlAM, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 10CD.

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Radeleh a. l,efis Maaeat Belter. Cfcerlea M. Mergse Bastneas Nmw. O. Own Umbo i Xwi Editor. ' SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. ' ! In V Richmond 15.00 per year (In advance) or 2 So per week. -MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance . . ...i8.oe fllx months,. In advance .......... 2.60 One month. In advance .......... .41 i RURAL ROUTC& One roar. In advaneo ... 11.00 0lx months. In advaneo 1-ZS One month. In advaneo .. ......... .Si Address ehang-ed as often an desired; both now and old addresses must be driven. Subscriber will pleas remit with order, . which ' should t given - for a specified term; name will not do tenter d until payment it received. , Entered at Richmond. Indiana, post (flee as second cites mall matter. THE UNCO'QUID AND THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. , There Is nothing more common In thls'llfe than the splitting of hairs on the Question of Sunday, observance. Many a man who would not get a train to go sixty miles will hitch up bis poor tired horse on the Sabbath day and drive ten miles and back to take dinner .with his friends - and I1BISUVUI9. 11UI IB O. Ul V. HllIlOn occurrence. The man would defend his action on the grounds that he disaproved of the railroad company doing business on Sunday. There are other men who will not write a business letter on Sunday but Who will use the telephone to make a business appointment the next day. There are men who will not subscribe to a Sufday paper who will read their neighbor's paper the next day. ' And there are men who will not advertise in the Sunday newspaper who will keep a window dresser busy till 11:59 on Saturday night and light up the windows to display his goods on Sunday night so that the church goers are enabled - to see what the man has for sale on Monday. . , -. Don't smile at these subtrafuges. The men probably believe that they are entirely right. The truth about the whole business Is that- the ' newspaper has become a public utility. ; If the newspapers in this ' country were all to go out of business at one time there would be all sorts of trouble immediately. The . Sunday newspaper is a part of th&t Institution and no amount of continuance In the hairsplitting line is likely to put it out of business. ' The majority of people can distinguish between real and fancied evils.' The contention that people, should not read newspapers on the Sabbath la as absurd as the contention (which Is scarcely ever adhered to) - t'aat there should be no talk of what is going on In the world. ' For the newspaper tells of the dealings of the world. ' It . would be better for this country If the newspapers were in the hands of more people on the day of rest, tt would let them know more about tile problems of life. Most of the tremble In this world Is caused by Ignorance. There is no educational force so potent in this country as the newspaper. ; To- our mind -there Is too much rel&onln this country which will stoop to any thing during the week and wilt put on lta sanctimoniousness with its Canday clothes. - There ,, is nothing more objectionable in the Sunday napar than there Is In the week day pa-W-It is this hairsplitting business which is bred of intolerance which is so ' mistaken. A hundred years ago 1ft Scotland if the records of the Kirk are to be believed, there were people who were fined for having watered flowers or things equally wicked' on the Sabbatbi We smile at that now. We shall soon outgrow the foolishness about the Sunday newspaper. If a man ha any Intention of going to church the Sunday paper will not keep him away. And if having heard tie) theory of life from the lips of a luaui wuw imuu iu ten uiu auoui It be pays a few cents to learn of the life around him all over the world Is that not worth while? ' : Right - here In Richmond you may hear theoretical persons say that they will not take the Palladium because the carrier boys are deprived of Sunday school. As a matter of fact most of the carrier boys are attendants of Sunday school and several who have the hardest work to do are prize winners for attendance. I The fact is that ta ooys get-up eariy. enougn to go to Sunday school. There are many men . who win advertise in a street car (also a public utility) which runs on Sunday, from early in the morning till late at night, wbo wit not advertise In the other public utility the newspaper' which is printed Saturday night and delivered early on cunday moraing. , . ' It was oely yesterday that a leader to the canity loctl option light on bis jrsy to XX mftiwttrial meeting stopped ti frii tZLa r. trulred after a r ' t: l?eal c'sa .article which ap-

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OF THE WINDY CITY MAYOR BUSSE. stated that he had not seen it because he did not approve of Sunday newspapers. This is hair splitting to an Infinitesimal degree. We do not mean to shatter the high ideals of any of pur citizens nor to corrupt their morals. At the same time morality is not intolerance nor are , ideals concerned with hairsplitting. , : - CIGARETTE LEGISLATION. An amendment to the cigarette law is before the senate. s It is the shape of an obliteration of the present law which as every- one knows, is not enforced. The amendment provides that it shall be unlawful in any way to place' in the hands of minors any cigarettes or cigarette papers.' For the first conviction the fine is not less than $25 nor more than S10O and costs. For the second offense tbe fine is inCreased to not less than $100 and not more than $500, or Imprisonment for six months. As can be seen the reason for the amendment is to do away - with the law which stands idle and unenforced and provide a stringent measure against cigarettes being , . sold to minors. - A Strange as it may seem there are some dealers now in the habit of selling cigarettes who wish - that the amendment would not be passed. They say that it would hurt their cigarette sales. Is it fair that, the violators of the law as it stands at present should reap the spoils which the law abiding tobacconists are deprived of? . The present law has been said to protect the minors and may have in some instances. But it is almost as common to see a small boy with a cigarette as it used to be. A law like the present cigarette statute Is dangerous to have on the statute books because It is not and will not be enforced. It would be better if we had fewer laws and enforced them. The cigarette law was one of the most foolish of blue law legislation. Some of it was so foolish that the courts of the state had to declare it unconstitutional. -That there is a prejudice against the cigarette no one need deny 4 but the prejudice has by no means a sure foundation. However Insidious the cigarette habit it has not been found that the drastic law had any effect except to throw the trade into the ' hands of dealers who were willing to disobey the law. : it would be better to have a strong law such as the limitation of sales of cigarettes to minors than to have a general law which Is easily evaded. - It has been practically Impossible to enforce the present law if any one wanted to, while the amendment could easily be enforced. FAMILY COUGH SYRUP Cures Any Cough In Five Hours. NEW PRESCRIPTION HERE. Here is given the meet effective cough prescription known to the medical world. It is a mild .laxative, too, and this is what a body needs when suffering with cough and cold on the lungs. - A cough , or cold indicates poisons in the system, causing inflammation and congestion. Nearly all cough syrups relieve, but make the trouble worse by their constipating effects. This prescription not only relieves quickly, but it cures any cough that is curable. Get one-half ounce '-fluid -wild . cherry bark, - one ounce compound essence cardiol and three ounces syrup white pine compound. Mix in a -bottle.-. ..Take for acute" cough' or . bronchitis " twenty drops every half hour for four hours. Then; one-half ' to " one .' teaspoooful three or four times daily. Give children less according to age. A few hours .. treatment will cure and heal the throat and lungs of all but consumptives. Cut this' out and give it to some friend who may need it to be saved from an early death by consumption. :.' lie How did . their marriage tarn oat? She As asaaL Each one disappointed the farnHv of th nh m

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FARM LIFE NEEDS TOLD IfJ MESSAGE ; . OF f HE PRESIDEI1T (Continued From Page One.)

The president's messaje Is as follows:' To the Senate and House of Representatives: ; - I transmit herewith tbe report of the commission on country life. At the outset I desire to point out that not a dollar of the public money has been paid to any commissioner for bis work on the commission. The report shows the general condition' of farming life in the open country and points out its larger problems. It indicates ways in which tbe government, national and state, may show the people how to solve some of these problems, and it suggests ' a continuance of the work which the commission .began. Methods 'of the Commission. Judging by thirty public hearings, to which farmers and farmers' wives from forty states and territories came, and from 120,000 answers to printed questions sent out by tbe department of agriculture, the ' commission ' finds that tbe general level of country life is high compared with any preceding time or with any other land. If it has in recent years slipped down In some places, it has risen in more places. Its progress has been general, if not uniform. Yet farming does noC yield either tbe profit or the satisfaction that it ought to yield and may be made to yield. There is discontent in the country and in places discouragement. Farmers as a class do not magnify their calling, and the movement to the towns, though, I am happy to say, less than formerly, is still strong. How Farmers Can Help Themselves. Under our system it is helpful to promote discussion of ways in which the people can help themselves. There are three main directions in which the farmers : can help themselves namely, better farming, better business and better living on tbe farm. The national department of agriculture, which has rendered' services equaled by no other similar department in any other time or place; the state departments of agriculture, the state colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, especially through their extension work; the fetate agricultural experiment stations, tbe Farmers union, the grange, the agricultural press and other similar agencies have all combined to place within the reach of the American farmer an amount and quality of agricultural Information which . If applied would enable him over large areas ' to double the production of the farm. The object of the commission on country life,: therefore, is not to help the fawner rsise better' crops, but to call his attention to the opportunities for better business and better living on the farm. If country life is to become . what it should be and what I believe It ultimately will be one of the most dignified, desirable and sought after -ways of earning a living the farmer must take advantage not only of the agricultural knowledge which is at his disposal, but of the methods which hare raised snd continue to raise the standards of living and of intelligence In other callings. Those engaged in all other Industrial and commercial callings have found It necessary under modern economic conditions to organize themselves for mutual advantage and for the protection of their own particular interests in relation to other Interests. The farmers of every progressive European country have realized this essential fact and have found In the cooperative system exactly tbe form of business combination they need. Now, whatever the state may do toward Improving the practice of agriculture, it is not within the sphere o! any government, to reorganize the farmers business or reconstruct the social life of farming communities It is, however, quite within its powei to use Its Influence and the machinery of publicity which It can control for caning public attention to tbe needs and the facts. For example, it is the obvious duty of the government to call the attention of farmers to the growing monopolization : of water power Tbe farmers, above all, should hare that power, on reasonable terms, for cheap transportation, for lighting tbeit homes and for Innumerable uses la the daily tasks on the farm. Farmers Own Work Needed. It would be Idle to assert that life on the farm occupies as good a position in dignity, desirability and business results as ' the farmers might easily give it If they chose. One of the chief difficulties is the failure of country life as It exists at present to satisfy the higher social snd intellectual aspirations of country people. Whether the constant draining away of so much of the best elements in the rural population into the towns Is due chiefly to this csnse or to the superior business opportunities of city life may be open to question. But no one at all familiar with farm life throughout the United States can fall to recognize the necessity for bnilding np the life of the farm upon Its social as well as upon Its productive aide. It is true thst country life has Improved greatly in attractiveness, health and comfort and that . the farmer's earnings are higher! than they were. But city life Is advancing even more rapidly because of the greater attention which Is being given by the citizens of the towns to their own betterment. For just this reason the Introduction of effective ; agricultural cooperation throughout the United States la of the first . Importance. Where farmers are organised co-operatively they not only avail themselves much more readily of business opportunities and improved methods, bat it is found that the organizations ' which bring them together In the work of their lives are used also for social snd intellectual advancement. , 1 - Tbe co-operative plan Is - tbe best plan of orgazdzatlott wherever men save tae ngfct spirit to carry It out.

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The foregoing will, I hope, make It clear why I appointed a commission to consider problems of farm life which have hitherto had far too little attention and the neglect of which has not only held back life In the country, but also lowered the efficiency of tbe whole nation. The welfare of tbe farmer is of vital consequence to the welfare of the whole community. The strengthening of country life, therefore. Is the strengthening of tbe whole nation. . The commission has tried to help the farmers to see clearly their own problem and to see it as a whole, to distinguish clearly between what the government can do and what the farmers must do for themselves, and It wishes to bring not only the farmers, but the nation as a whole, to realize that the growing of crops, though an essential part. Is only a part of country life. Crop growing is the essential foundation, but It Is no less essential that the farmer shall get an adequate return for what he grows, and It is no less essential Indeed, it is literally vital that he and his wife and his children shall lead the right kind of life. For this reason It is of the first Importance that tbe United States department of agriculture, through which as prime agent the Ideas the commission stands for must reach the , people, should become without delay In fact a department of country life, fitted ' to deal not only with crops, but also with sll the larger aspects of life In the open country. . . Three Needs of Country Life. From all that has been done : and learned three great general and Immediate needs of country life stand out: First. Effective co-operation among I farmers to put them on a level with the organized Interests with which : they do business. ; 1 Second. A new kind of schools In the country, which shall : teach the children as much outdoors ss indoors, , and perhaps more, so that they will prepare for country life and. not, as at j present, mainly for life In town. , I Third. Better means of communica tion, including good roads and a parcels post, which the country people are everywhere, and rightly, unanimous In demanding. To these may well be added better sanitation, for easily preventable dls eases hold severs! million country peo ple in tbe slavery of continuous 111 health. Organization Is Neossaary. The commission points . out and 1 concur In the conclusion that the most Important help that the government, whether national or state, can give is to show tbe people how to go about these tasks of organization, ed ucation and communication with the best and quickest results. This can be done by the collection and spread of Information. One community can thus be Informed of what other com m unities have done and one country of what other countries have done. Such help by the people's government would lead to a comprehensive plan of organization, education and communication and make the farming country better to live in, for Intellectual and social reasons as well ss for purely agricultural reasons. . The government through the department of agriculture does not cultivate any man's farm for him, but It does put at his service useful-knowledge that be would cot otherwise get. In the same way the national, and state governments might pat Into the people's hands the new snd right knowledge of school work. The task of maintaining and developing tbe schools would remain, as now, with the people themselves. Money For Expenses Asked. The only recommendation I submit is that an appropriation of $23,000 be provided to enable the commission to digest the material it has collected and to collect and to digest much more that is within its reach and thus complete Its work. This would enable the commission to gather in the harvest of suggestion which is' resulting from tbe discussion it has stirred up. The commissioners have served without compensation, and I do not recommend any appropriation for their services, but only for the expenses that will be required to finish the task that they have begun.To Improve our system of agriculture seesss to me the most urgent of the tasks which lie before us. But It cannot. In my Judgment, be effected by measures which touch only the material and teclv ical ride of tfcfi sub-

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Ject. The wcore nosinebS snd lite of the farmer must also be taken Into account. Such considerations led me to appoint the commission oa country life. Our object should be to help develop in the country community the great Ideals of community life ss well as of personal character. One of the most important adjuncts to this end must be the country church, end I Invite your attention to what the commission says of the country church and of the need of , an extension of such work as that of tbe Young Men's

Christian association in country communities. Let me lay special emphasis upon what the commission says at tbe very end of Its report on personal Ideals and local ; leadership. Everything resolves itself in the end Into the question of personality. Neither society nor government can do much for country life unless there Is voluntary response In the personal Ideals of the men and women who lire In the country. ....... - - Plea For Farmers' Wives. In the development of character tbe home should be more important than the school or than society at large. When once the basic material needs have been met. high Ideals may be quite independent of Income, but they cannot be realized without sufficient Income to provide adequate foundation, and where the community at large Is not financially prosperous it is Impossible to develop a high average personal and community Ideal. In short, the fundamental facts of human nature apply to men and women who live in the country just ss they spply to men and women who live in the towns. Given a sufficient foundation of material well being, tbe Influence of the farmers and farmers wives on their children becomes the factor of first Importance In determining tbe attitude of the next generation toward farm life. The farmer should realise that the person who most needs consideration on the farm Is his wife. I do not In the least mean that she should purchase ease at tbe expense of duty. Neither man nor woman Is really happy or really useful save on condition of doing his or her duty. If tbe women shirks her duty ss housewife, as home keeper, ss the mother whose prime function it is to bear and rear a sufficient number of healthy children, then she Is not entitled to our regard. But If she does her duty she Is more entitled to our regard even than the man who does his duty, and the man should show special consideration for her needs. I warn my countrymen thst the great recent progress made in city life is not a full measure of our civilization, for our civilization rests at bottom on the wbolesomeness, the attractiveness and the completeness as well as the prosperity of life In the country. The men and .women on the farms stand for what Is fundamentally best and most needed in our American life. Upon the development of country life rests ultimately our ability by methods of farming- requiring the highest intelligence to continue to feed snd clothe the hungry nations, to supply tbe city with fresh blood, clean bodies and clear brains thst can endure the terrific strain of modern life. We need the development of men In the open country, who will be in tbe future, as In the past, the stay and strength of the nation la time of war and Its guiding and controlling spirit in time of peace. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, Feb. 9, 1900. L0GICAL ECZEMA CURE ENDORSED BY PHYSICIANS After treating eczema for years as a practically incurable blod disease. the medical world is greatly interest ed in the discovery that it is not a blood disease at all, but Is due to a parasite in tbe skin itself. This parasite is easily destroyed by the external application of a compound of oil of wlntergreen, thymol, glycerine, etc. Thlswill quickly kill all eczema germs while soothing and refreshing the skin. Dr. R. A. Folkerts, of Duluth. Minn., tells of the success in treating patients: "There was a man ' here suffering from eczema for the last fourteen years, and I applied the D. D. D. treatment. ' I also applied It to a man of West Duluth. Minn., .who has been suffering with Rheumatism for four teen years, and Eczema in his feet, and the second treatment in both cas es cleared the skin almost absolutely. The first application is a balm, and its soothing effect is beyond expression. I shall never be without it, and shall . use it among my patients alto gether." No matter how terribly you suffer from eczema, ' salt rheum, ringworm, etc., you will feel instantly soothed snd the Itch allayed at once when a few drops of this oil of wlntergreen compound is applied. Tbe cures sll seem to be permanent. For sale by all druggists. Dottie, aged six, was playing with her dolls. She was heard to remark. "Now, Rosamond, you put on your things snd go. down to the grocery and get some groceries for me. and then If you want to yon can stop at the courthouse and get courted awhIle."-Delln-eator. . Turks believe the ceranlnm wee nri lnally a swallow and that Its existence was changed by touching the robe of Aionammea. - -. MASONIC CALENDAR. Tuesday, Feb. 9 Richmond Lodge, No. 196, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Entered Apprentice Degree. - Wednesday, Feb. 10 Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M. Called Meeting. Entered Apprentice Degree. ' Friday, Feb. 12 King Solomon's Chapter. No. 4, R. A- M. Stated Con vocation. Also work In Royal Arch degree. Refreshments. - -

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