Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 68, 29 January 1914 — Page 4
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUIN-TELEliKAIH, TMUK5DAI, JAN. 29, 1914
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The Drug Fiend The recent discovery of an opium den in Richmond has startled us awake to the realization that one of the most serious menaces to our American society has entered our midst. The use of opium and its various derivatives is increasing with amazing rapidity. Last year 300,000 pounds was imported; of this large amount 240,000 pounds was manufactured into morphine and used by the poor victims of this merciless drug. These figures indicate that this nation is consuming fifteen times as much as Germany, Italy and Austria combined. New York City officials recently discovered a cocaine ring in operation in one section of that city. To their amazement the heads of this gang confessed that last year they sold $1,000,000.00 of the drug at $25.00 an ounce which means an average of more than 750 ounces a week. Several drug stores were discovered to be distributing the dope without requiring a prescription from a physician. Further investigation revealed the still more startling fact that while morphine using has honeycombed the under-world of New York, it is now beginning to make inroads on the better classes of the town. This is simply an illustration of the operation of that sociological law which ordains that the city w,hich does not destroy its slums will be destroyed by them. So great and widespread has become the habit of using morphone and cocaine the Federal Department of Agriculture has been making careful investigations throughout the country. This investigation has brought out the fact that in those states where morphine and cocaine are unobtainable, drug victims resort to the use of heroin. This devilish concoction is a derivative of morphine: in fact it is nothing but the alkaloid form of the drug. It is more dangerous than morphine itself and its victims find it more impossible even to break their thralldom to it. An over-dose of heroin is always fatal and coroners' reports in these states mentioned are showing an increasing number of such deaths. Pennsylvania is one of the states in which dope fiends are resorting to heroin. In one community of that state it was learned that a single drug store buys its supplies in 25,000 tablet lots. Many proprietary medicines contain heroin.
The Federal Department has warned users to read the labels in order to guard against unwit
tingly using the drug. They warn every person
r.gainst it and are planning steps to make the securing of it impossible except when ordered by a
physician. It seems that negroes are especially susceptible to morphine. This is due not to an especial
moral delinquency of the race, but rather to their
r.ervous structure. Conscientious negro leaders pre sweating over this problem and realize that the drug habit is one of the greatest handicaps on their race in America. A certain number of drug fiends become addicted during illness. When their suffering be
comes intolerable they resort to opiates and if
their malady lasts long enough they awake some day to find themselves in the clutches of mor
phine. Such victims are to be pitied and helped
rather than scorned and condemned.
Others resort to the habit from the influence
of friends. It is this that makes an opium den so great a menace. The resort becomes, as it were, the center of a contagion and no man can tell the
limits of its influence. The chief attraction of the drug seems to lie in its power to stimulate and expand the imagination. Perhaps this accounts for the hold that it has upon great minds in some instances. As is well known, such geniuses as Coleridge and DeQuincey were victims of the habit. This no doubt explains why the morphine habit spreads among the depressed classes. They find themselves under conditions so intolerable they fly to the dreamland of morphia for relief. This suggests to us that morphine is a sociological as well as a psychological question. The Menace of Japan According to recent press dispatches, it develops that Japan has secretly been supplying Huerta with the sinews of war. The Mexican Dictator's treasuries have long been exhausted as everybody knows. His credit has been worth nil owing to the refusal of our government to recognize him; but in spite of this, he has been able to continue prosecution of war and to hold his own in Mexico City. The source of his supply has been a mystery, but is now a mystery no longer if it really is true that Japan is backing him. In case this report is verified, it will surely be necessary for the American Government to take immediate steps and to resort to drastic measures in dealing with so critical a situation. The situation will be critical because if Japan has been assisting Huerta it is doubtless with the understanding that Huerta will f urnish the Japa
nese a naval base. And if Japan secures such a foothold on this continent, the gravest of results may ensue. ' For one thing, it will be a violation of our foreign policy built on the Monroe doctrine. Japan is a possible enemy; we may find ourselves at war with her at any time. In that event what a misfortune it would be to find one of our enemy's strongholds at our very door !
Of course a great many jingoes would scoff superciliously at the idea that a war with Japan would strain our resources. But sober minded and better informed students will look forward to such an eventuality with grave fears and apprehensions. We are much larger than Japan, but we are not so well organized for war. Japan now has nine modern battleships, five modern cruiser battleships, thirteen older battleships and twelve first class cruisers. With all our wealth to protect and all our coasts to defend, we have but seventeen modern battleships, fifteen older battleships and eighteen first class cruisers. At present writing, Japan has 250,000 enlisted men ready for the fray. We have only 85,000 men and of these only 25,000 are available for service on the field. Japan has 950,000 trained fighters in reserve while we have no enlisted reserve force at all. Japan is a people of military spirit and traditions. We are a people of peaceful spirit and agricultural and industrial traditions. Some argue that we can put an army of 500,000 volunteers into the field at any time; we could, but volunteers are of little use in present day warfare. War has become a science and only the specially trained can be efficient in it. It may be that the Japanese emperor is secretly backing Huerta merely as a protective measure to cover the interests of the many thousands of Japanese who are living in Mexico. But even that does not lessen the crisis because it means that instead of Japan having one foothold in our dooryard, she has many. Japanese, statesmen recognize that the Panama Canal is destined to disturb equilibrium of nations. In the long run alliances now in force will be broken and new alliances will be formed. And in event of a war between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente (a thing that is very probable) the Panama Canal will be one of the keys to the world situation. The fact that Japan is so anxious to establish a naval base within the Panama zone shows that she is anticipating such a situation and is determined to prepare herself against it. All these eventualities are more or less theoretical, but one factor in the present international situation is not theoretical and that is that the Asiatic nations, half starving as they are on their exhausted lands, are casting a, hungry eye on this Western hemisphere with its vast stretches of unexploited soil. It is our duty to stand guard with uncompromising firmness against the inroads of any of these peoples.
Caveat Emptor Can any good thing come out of New York? Let those who say "Nay" look into the findings of the Department of Agriculture resulting from a recent investigation of the New York poultry market. Much to the surprise of the kindly bureaucrats it was discovered that Gothamites annually pay out of their hard cash, $2,000,000 for sand when the whole Atlantic Ocean is at their door with all its beaches. This means that the people of the big town pay for sand and rock when they buy their Sunday chickens. Investigators discovered that chickens shipped into the city are fed very little and that in this famished condition in the freight yards of New York they are supplied a paste food which contains a liberal quantity of sand and gravel.
This sticks in the craw and adds a few ounces to
the weight. According to the number of chickens in an average car, New Yorkers pay out about $300 per car and each year pay chicken prices for about 300 pounds of rock. It not th is a beautiful example of our famous Yankee ingenuity? Men may talk as they please about the scientists who transmute base metals into gold: what are these compared with New
lork's poultry dealers who transmute sand and gravel into greenbacks! Of course it goes without saying that our poultry dealers don't attempt any such fowl eugenics. They know better! They have lived long enough in this community to know that Richmond people have all the sand they need. T POINTED PARAGRAPHS f a PROGRESS OF REFORM. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The lockstep is to be banished from financial as well as penal institutions.
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The writer has bo quarrel with Mr. Honeywell or the Christian people. This revival meeting has done a great deal of good In Richmond. They have helped ten thousand people to live better lives, and one thousand or more, we hope, to lead a new life in Christ. Bat this meeting is yet responsible for fifteen thousand souls in Richmond.. The writer hopes not to take a narrow view on this subject, but to Instill in Christian people and ministers their duty to the world that the seed of this revival meeting may not be sown or the rock. The people of Richmond are watching these revival meetings, and it has been spread broadcast that they are here for the money, and by the announcement of last Sunday evening by Rev. T. J. Graham, who said: "We want to see him get three times as much next Sunday as a Richmond minister earns in a year." Now, the ministers are always preaching against tainted money, and the dance, etc., but still they are throwing their influence against the church. While the charity organization has to depend on the dance, etc., for its money. The writer holds that a broader view must be taken, for tainted money need not come from the saloon, dance or gambling house. Money is tainted when it is made and taken for a selfish purpose. When a minister is capable of earning $2,000 a year, when, through sympathy and his ability to arouse people, he receives $3,500 a year, that $1,500 is tainted. Now don't understand me to say all money is tainted. You take a minister with $450 salary if his congregation gives him $800, that man feels he has earned it. A groceryman, if he gives fifteen ounces for a pound, the money he receives for the ounce it tainted. Now, from a business standpoint, the writer considers Mr. Honeywell and his party is worth $1,200 for these five weeks. I hold that all money over $1,200 or $1,500 will be tainted money, for Mr. Honeywell and his party have not earned it. If they should raise $5,000 next Sunday, some one will say he will use a great deal of it in his work. If that is true, let him use it in Richmond, and his revival meetings will preach to 25,000 people every day n the year. Now, I have a proposition to make, and I believe it will go far in settling the charity problem. Let the meeting next Sunday raise $6,000 or $10,000. Let Mr. Honeywell take $1,000 or $1,500, then say to the Ministerial Association: "You form a business club, loan this money at 5 per cent to the man who is down and out, like Mrs. Candler describes in Tuesday night's Palladium, where that fellow walked past her door four or five times before he came in." Now you church people, raise half that amount, and help those who are worthy. Open your churches, let the Ladies' Aid societies cook for the poor in the basement hold revival meetings. You ministers go out in the alleys and streets, take off your coats, roll up your sleeves and be ready for the work now on. Call the young giants of the world true and brave. Call the poor and needy; call the rich and say, let us dine together for we are brothers. Arouse your churches, stand true and brave, and men never falter in the ranks of Almighty God. Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. R. E. HAINDEL.
Religion of the Body
8ERMON BY A LAYMAN. Text: God la not a man, that he should Ha, neither the eon of man, that he should repent (and cancel any of His Divine dietary atatutes) hath he said and will he not do it- Or hath he spoken and will he not make it good? Numbers, 23, 19. How long, how long, O God, will mankind continue to hug the Insane delusion that God is a personal material lying man, and that one's living body is no more than a shaky, shackly machine, which, with the abomination of damnation "In their dishes," one can tickle the palate with damnable luxuries, and "torture the stomach with indigestion; please the palate with exquisite delacacies, and poison the system with autotoxins or self-made disease! The Actual Personal God, and Personal Devil. The one monstrous handicap of orthodox religion and so-called "Christianity" has been ,and is today, the teaching of a personal material god in a distant located heaven many million miles up in the sky, and a personal material Devil in an equal distant hell located in the "bowels of the earth." Which latter is the most reasonable, judging from the many and disastrous earthquakes and volcanic outbreaks; the devil certainly is the industrial major general of a business wholly in restraint of trade. A Sure-enough Personal God. is that one who, doing and living the
beatitudes every hour of all life activities, is of a varity god upon earth. "Neither shn.il they say lo! here, or lo there! For behold The Kingdom of God is Within You!" The Real Personal Material Devil likewise, is the one doing and living every hour of all life activities, the satanic character: Dishonesty, Immorality, profanity, debauchery, glutony with the broth of abominable things in their disheB. But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for such doeth the Father seek to be his worshippers. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. St. John 23-24. And he said unto them, I beheld satan (immaterial, impersonal evil) as lightning fall from heaven. Luke, 10,
1 18. The God-man Is a manly man, fearing to define God's earth-temple, for jthe temple of God is holy; which temi pie ye are. Not only keeping his mor
al commandments, but religiously obeying God's divine physiologic, food and dietary statutes. The Devil-man is a man-devil, not only transgressing all God'3 moral commandments, but with glvttonous debauchery defiling the living body, God's Holy temple. Then Let U Study More Diligently Food-Values. For this lesson we consider the food-values of an apple, a strawberry, and a banana; copied by permission from the (very excellent book in the
i hands of i every conscientious physi
cian who lias more at stake than dope and dollar; "Food And Dietics," by Robert Hutchinson, M. D., Edn., M. R. C. P. Published by Wm. Wood and Company,', N. Y. These ijhree fruits are good representatives of a large and most valuable as well as peculiar class of foods.
foods; hogging a basket full more or less of apples at any old time between meals will bring its reward with full interest In due time. One can easily make a hog of oneself but cannot thereby convert a human into a pig; pig-headedness can't make a pig, a hog will ever remain the animal hog. and the human-hog will ever remain the hog-human
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FIRST GOOD THING EVER SAID FOR IT. ' Washington Star. Official life in Washington preserves the sedate musical, let the rest of the world tango as it may.
WHERE ARE OUR JOURNALISTS? Memphis Commercial-Appeal. What has become of the poison-needle squad? Seems a long time since some beautiful girl was stitched into unconsciousness. .
LEAVE IT ALL TO BRO. BLEASE. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The South Carolina assembly adopts resolutions calling for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment. Why bother about the fifteenth amendment as long as "grandfather clauses" and Cole Blease are on the job?
NOT ATTRACTIVE TO SOME. Toledo Blade. Grape juice containing 9 per cent alcohol has been found in Chicago. But the per cent will have to show considerable increase before the old topers will admit
Mrs. Benjamin Myrick of Richmond spent Wednesday with her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Ahl and family. The Ladles' Aid society of the M.
E. church pave a surprise on Mrs. Almeda Dunbar Monday evening. A luncheon in two courses was served by Misses Letha Dunbar, Alma Hill and Norine Means. Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar left Tuesday to spend the remainder of the winter in Florida. Mrs. John Moulton entertained at dinner today. Her guests were Mrs. Paul O'Neal and children of Richmond, Mrs. Elmer .lackson and daughter ('barlene and Miss Letha Dunbar. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Woodard of Dublin visited Mrs. Eila Brumfield the first of the, week. Mr. and Mrs. David Revellee, Miss Mabel and Gordon Revellee spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William Miller at Richmond. Miss Laura Hill is remodeling her room on Main street, which will be occupied by a motion picture company. Miss Genevieve Home, primary teacher in the public school, has resigned to accept the second primary grade at Cambridge City. Mrs. Irene Walker spent the first of the week with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Land at Richmond. Mrs. Meek is seriously ill at the home of her son, Charles Meek, south of town. She suffered a stroke of paralysis. Miss Effie Blandenburg of West Liberty, O., is visiting Robt. Williams and family. Jesse Green of Fountain City, 'Visited his parents here Tuesday. Mrs. Smith of Muncie and Mrs. Geo. Boby of Cambridge City are here arranging to dispose of the personal property of their mother, Mrs. Nichols, who was buried here a few weeks ago.
The strawberry is usually considered by the uninformed a luxury, which is as luxuries go, when drowned in "rich" cream and interred in sugar, is a luxurious stomach-poisoner. Note that the strawberry contains a good proportion and perfect balance of all primary food value; besides more organic acid than an ordinary apple. Strawberries should be eaten only at regular mealtime with simply a slight sprinkle of sugar, and with plain cake or a slice of bread and butter
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No. 1. As in all other fruits, of first importance is the large percentage of (water) organized fluid, with only 1 per cent, of acid. When it is considered that the blood-stream or circulating blood in the body is alkaline, and the urine is acid because the kidneys must select and eliminate all acids, and most foods as well as fruits have more or less acids or acid forming materials, not only can be learned the lesson of marvelous Creative Wisdom in food-values and dietary balances; but how much the vital conservation of good health and efficiency depends on the religious observance of all God's Divine food and diet ordinances. Even very sour apples contain less than three per cent, acid, and this is not acid as made in the chemical laboratory, but an organized acid that will not, chemically combine with the
1 alkaline blood, but remains uncom-
bined and free until exoreoted from the blood-stream as it flows through the kidneys. Ray apples are a wholesome food, but like all other foods, must be balanced with other food-values, and eaten only at meal time in ennection with other properly balanced
The banana if properly eaten is a very nutritious fruit, containing besides 74 per cent, of blood making fluid, has twenty-two and seven tenths per cent, of carbohydrates or heat and energy making material. It is the national food of Italy, and the Italians are energetic and industrious. Like strawberries, bananas drowned in cream and buried in sugar, are indigestible, "taste good" and stop hard in the stomach. As all other fruit, they should be eaten only at mealtime with other foods. No fruit, or vegetable having acid, should be canned in tin containers; the acid slowly combining with the tin may result in a very poisonous chemical compound. Dried fruits are more laxative than green, or canned, especially if cooked without sugar, for then grape sugar which all fruits naturally have, becomes a tonic-laxative, and grape sugar as a rule renders them sweet enough; but if not, raw cane or table sugar may be used to suit one's taste. Let us pray: Father God so near us, we thank Thee far more than words can express, for thy Divine food ordinances so wonderfully and fearfully balanced to all necessary requirements of the Holy earth-temple. Father we
1 pray that Thy people may soon awake ! from their gluttonous animal stupidity and learn something of thy won
drous food ordinances; in Jesus name we ask it, Amen.
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