Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 124, 4 April 1914 — Page 4

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Flood Prevention in Ohio. After having been in the field for several months, the Ohio Flood commission perfected a "Hrv reservoir" rian for controlling future del

uges in the Miami valley. This plan was adopted by the state legislature and incorporated in the now well-known conservancy law, pronounced "the most perfect statute that has ever been put on the statute books of any state in the union." Reservoirs will be built (and numbered according to the order named) at Taylorville, above Piqua; at Port Jefferson, at Englewood, above Dayton, and above Germantown. Valleys are narrow at .these points, and great dams fiftyfive feet high in the center, and more than five hundred feet wide at the base, will be thrown across from hill to hill. In the middle of this dam a subterranean channel will be cut sufficiently large to permit the stream to flow through unimpeded when at its normal height. But in times of flood the water will be automatically backed up behind the dam and permitted to cover several hundred acres. A great concrete drainage grill will be built at the point where the

stream shoots into its underground tunnel. Huge concrete monoliths will be built in a semi-circle above the drainage board. These pillars will prevent the clogging up of the river tunnel by driftwood. This means that, in case of a large flood, the cultivated land inside the reservoir area will be inundated. According to the law, farmers will be compensated for whatever damage done them at such times. If they do not agree to such a proposition, the land will be condemned, taken over by the state, and by it leased to farmers. This land can be used for farm purposes during most of the time, because floods generally occur before spring planting. It is simply a case where the farmer agrees to loan his land to the state for flood prevention purposes on condition that he is to be paid a certain nominal sum for such use. The estimated cost of this project is only seventeen million dollars. Even if it ultimately costs twenty-five million, the protection will be cheap when the great damage caused by inevitable floods are taken into consideration. Against this indebtedness, bonds will be issued covering thirty years years. All property which comes within the protected area will be

assessed in proportion to the degree of protec

tion enjoyed

benefited by the plan pay for it. To dredge the channels and build dykes, as was first proposed, would have cost several times as much as the "dry reservoir" plan. Where this

probability that their answer is blinded by ignorance or warped by provincialism. All the signs of the time point to a deepening of religion. Eucken says our contemporaneous religious life is one of the shallowest things imaginable. Many are becoming dissat

isfied with it and are seeking something more

likely to answer the needs of a being so many sided and so profound as the human spirit., . Paul says of the Jewish laws of morality and ceremonialism1 that they are the "schoolmaster" to "lead him to Christ." There is a

sense in which this thought of Paul's may be applied to the world as a whole. Its functions seem to be to awaken and stimulate the sense of needs which the Infinite alone can satisfy. The world stirs our love of beauty. Its sunsets and sunrises, its far vistas, its night of stars, its day of wonderful skies and clouds, its feast of sound, "which are all music to a healthy ear," the shapes of flowers and the songs of

birds, the call of the human voice and orchestral music these all create in us a hunger for beauty which is ever appeased until it is fed by Him "who hath made all things beautiful."

The world arouses in us a desire for wisdom. Human intellects often amaze us by their power. The accumulated knowledge of the race is stupendous. Science and philosophies are vast in their extent and inspire us with awe. Nevertheless the world's wisdom arouses in us something it can not satisfy, and, in spite of all its power, does little more than create in us a desire which can only be met by the perfect wisdom of the

Absolute. So also is it with friendship. Contact with others cultivates a love for them and a desire for their companionship. We grow more and more to need friends and to desire them. But

who have friends and lovers among men capable of filling up entirely their need for companionship? They have aroused in us the passion for friendship which can not be satisfied until we have learned "to call Him friend." The world is not to be despised. Its life is real and well worth while. It deserves to be loved as God loves it, but its utmost efforts

! avail only to arouse in us the sense of needs

which the divine alone can satisfy. It is a schoolmaster leading us. The more it progresses and improves, the more it has to offer, the more powerful are its appeals, the deeper will be the needs it creates, and the more will men be driven to God. After all, the manifold efforts of the race are all inspired by the instinctive seeking for the life "that is life indeed." As Augustine said in his great prayer, "Thou hast made us for thyself and we are restless till we rest in Thee."

committee very, wisely did away with the scheme and has promulgated the order, that there will be no special raiment required. All that is desired Is the full membership to be In line and under this rule there should be no difficulty experienced. It is a far cry from last fall to May 8 and 9 next, but the convention committee has been hard at it since the first date named and will be only finishing Its labors with the departure of the last gue3t at the convention. There 1b plenty of work doing when

a PoBt arranges for a litter social af

fair, but when it comes to planning for the entertainment of from five to eight hundred out of town T P. A. boys, with their wives, sisters and sweethearts, there is something doing for sure. Chairman Otho Harrington and the heads of the various sub-committees have never slept at the switch an Instant and when the various visitors come trooping into town' next month they will find everything "set." From the parade and business sessions to the banquet, nothing has been neglected that will contribute to the

pleasure of those who come to be the guests of Post C. Elmer E. Lebo, director of the Indiana Division, attended a meeting of the board at Evansville a few days ago. Incidentally there was a little

campaign inaugurated for membership and sixteen fortunates were added to

the Evansville post during the stay of I

the board members. Brother Lebo has been one of the real workers for the home post as well as the Indiana Division, and his candidacy for re-election before the coming convention is looked on with favor, not only by Post C delegates, but those from the Division at large. Post C has lost a valuable aid by the retirement from the Press "job" of Otho Harrington, who has faithfully and ably kept Post C in the glare of the public gaze for a long period.

Because of other duties which have encroached on his time, he has been forced to abandon the journalistic pen for a period, at least, and the substitute who will endeavor to hold down

the job in the meanwhile begins the

task with fear and trembling. If Post members are really anxious to see the T. P. A. column shine, they may lend assistance in the way of tipping off the things that are or ought to be whenever the scribe is within hailing distance. A. D. Gorrell, of Marion, President of Indiana Division, was here during the past week on business, and incidentally took an inventory of prospects for the convention in May. He put the stamp of approval upon the plans and promised that Marion's delegation would number two hundred or more.

Interstate Oratorical Contest to be Held at Earlham College

More Than 4,000 Persons From Various Sections of Middle West Are Expected Here Track Meet Also to

Be Held.

ing a strenuous effort this year to have Us manuscript accepted and get a place on the floor. The judges of delivery who will b In Richmond to hear the seven orators and award the first three prises, are: Prof. E. MV Hopkins, University of Kansas; Prof. A. C. Terry, Northwestern university, Prof. J. A. Winans. vnAt ...lAialtT ProoiAnt Tn Kn Ay

Earlham college will be the center f th iTnirersity of Cincinnati, and

of interest In college In at least seven i one more to be selected.

states on the night of May 15, when It is ten years since the contest

the interstate oratorical contest will' was held in Indiana. In 1904, Notre be held in Richmond anil Kariham win I Dame held it and since then It has

, , , , , , been held In the other states reprehave her annual home-coming of old ,- n ,. w

students. More than 4,000 persons i tl Z?' Za mnr tha a fn

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sons attended, so great was the in

members are John. Cox, Glenn Wood and Fred HollowelL

The affair will be well advertised in every state represented. In addition to this, all old students and alumni will be notified and urged to attend the home-coming. The dual - track meet with Rose Poly will draw a big delegation from the engineering school-

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from all over the middle west are expected. The following day will be the

dual track meet between Rose Poly and Earlham, finishing the biggest week of Earlham's 1918-1914 year. The history of the Interstate oratorical contest Is interesting. Not only are the judges among the greatest educators in the country, but many men who are now famous have competed. Senator LaFollette and Albert J. Beveridge have both taken first place at different times. William Jennings Bryan represented Nebraska years ago while the association was still young, but was able to take only second place. The states entered are Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. Two of these will hp ellmin.

ated by the judges on manuscripts and ! of the fite contest recently, will rep-

seven colleges will take the floor. resent tnts state ana nao suommea

nis manuscript to tne guageB. ir me manuscript qualifies. Butler college will turn nut on mnasA and Cfimp tn

in Richmond but are now judging the . Karlham in serial cars.

manuscripts at whatever places they I

McMinn an imicer. Howard McMinn, an Earlham sen-

terest that all high schools in Southwestern Ohio were closed to give the students an opportunity to hear the contest. Special trains were run from many points. The guests probably will arrive In the morning. In the afternoon a business meeting of the Interstate Oratorical association will be held, followed by a dinner at Earlham for all connected with it in any way. At night the contest will be held in the Coliseum which is expected to be Hlled. Saturday noon another dinner will be held at a hotel. -The track meet will be held in the afternoon. A demonstration probably will last until late in the night.

Lawrence Bridge, of Butler, winner

Judge Manuscripts.

are located. They are Prof. J. M. Thomas, of the University of Minne

sota; Prof. E. B. Shurter, University ! ior, is vice president of the Interstate of Texas; Prof. J. Milton O'Neil, Uni-i association and will be one of the

versity of Wisconsin; Dr. Benjamin A. Wheeler, president of the University

managers of the contest. He has the entire Earlham student body and fac-

of California, and Prof. E. W. Smith, j ulty back of him in making arrangeof Colgate university. ! ments, indicating the degree of sueLast year Nebraska was disquali- cess which w ill attend the- gathering fled from entering because the state j here. McMinn is chairman of the exdid not send its delegates. It is mak-j ecutive committee, of which the other

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Taxpaying. During the next few weeks thousands of persons will file through the county treasurer's office to pay their taxes. How many do you suppose will be able to tell what that money is used for, how much is used for this or that, and in what manner it is used? Taxpaying, to a majority, is like dropping money through a knot-hole. All they know is

The idea is to have those directly ""V illvc tu ll" "1U "e WI"

unpleasant task is done, rneir interest m it ceases the moment they receive their receipted voucher. Taxpaying is a necessary evil. Why is it business men are so careful in all

latter plan can be completed in three years, theother connections to know to a cent how their

former would have required twenty years to build. Straightening the channels would have necessitated many costly changes in railways and bridges; the adopted plan will leave them where they are.

The conservancy law, in which the

Hood prevention program is embodied, is one of the. finest achievements in the history of law making, and is as great a monument of public wisdom as of engineering skill.

A Lenten Meditation. In a questionaire, sent out by the Philadelphia North American, we find the following: "Does your observation of the present time lead you to believe that some sort of spiritual awakening or upheaval or fresh expression is impending or imminent? It has large significance that this question was answered with an emphatic affirmative, and it has still further significance that the greater majority of these men and women of affairs, scattered across the land. When so many in widely separated localities agree, there is little

money is spent, but in paying taxes never take

the trouble to ascertain how it is used? Public officials are employes charged with the responsibility of collecting and spending the public's money. Business interests make it imperative

entjr'that the public know how and for what its tax ' - . A J A 1 . i

money is spent, just as it is imperative tnat a board of bank directors knows what their cashier is doing. The public's indifference to the administration of its own business affairs is one of the chief causes of incompetency and dishonesty in office. When an employe knows he must give an account of himself to his employer, he is very careful what he does. But the public's employe is seldom brought to time. His records and reports are published in such form that only an occasional person pays any attention to them. What we need in city and county government is that every person who pays taxes may know what his tax money will be usued for and how it will be used. When that time comes there will be less growling by the public at "higher taxes" and less carelessness on the part of public officials.

evening, being chaperoned by Secre-1 try it Apply a little in the nostrils tary Hasty. He was introduced to the and instantly your clogged nose and mysteries of the game of rhum as ; stopped-up air passages of the head played by Post C members. Being a ; will open; you will breathe freely; novice at the art, those assembled dullness and headache disappear. By about the table ga've knowing winks j morning! the catarrh, cold-in-head or and indicated by other signs that a . catarrhal sore throat will be gone, victim had been coralled. To shorten I End such misery now! Get the

the narrative, it might be said in the j small bottle of "Ely's Cream Balm" at briefest way that what Mr. Bramhall any drug store. This swee.t fragrant did to the rhum experts assembled j balm dissolves by the heat of the noswas sufficient. What cigars he did not consume on the spot, he had

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There is one sure way that never falls to remove dandruff completely and that la to dissolve It. This destroys it entirely. To do this, just get about four ounces of plain, ordinary liquid arvon; apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning most, if not all. of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications will completely dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find, too. that all itching and digging of the scalp will stop instantly, and your hair will be fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft and look and feel a hundred times better. If you want to keep your hair looking rich, do by all means get rid of dandruff, for nothing destroys the hair so quickly. It not only starves the hair and makes it fall out, but it makes it stringy, straggly, dull, dry-

brittle and lifeless, and everybody notices it. You can get liquid arvon at any drug store. It is inexpensive, and four ounces is all that you will need. This simple remedy has never been known to fail.

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Post C has reached, and clambered ' beyond the 430 membership mark, the last "poll" showing fully that number safely within the fold and a few applications pending. I

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T. P. A Notes

By DECO

With the "inauguration" of President Theodore Hill last Saturday night, Post C, begins a new year with every prospect of achieving success in every avenue of endeavor. The same co-operation that has been given other presidents of Post C will be accorded President Hill and there simply is nothing to it but success. Major Marcus A. Hasty, who will again take up the secretary's quill for the ensuing year, has been on the Job before, hence there are no misgivings as to the quality of his work in behalf of Post C. Not only will the

post affairs that fall to the secretary be looked after well, but the club rooms ought to flourish like a green bay tree.

The blue room, the red room and the other variously colored and decorated rooms of the white house, Washington, have nothing on the newly decorated rooms of Post C. To the member who has not climbed the stairs to the post room in recent weeks there is a revelation coming and to visitors at the approaching state convention there will be intense surprise and undoubtedly sincere appreciation. Post C has quarters unrivalled in Hoosierdom in T. P. A. circles; unrivaled also in T. P. A. regions the country over, with one or two exceptions. The taste displayed by the committee in charge is to be complimented. The big, roomy double pkrlors have wall coverings of brown, with panels and "cut-out" borders that reflect the paper hangers' art in no

uncertain way. There are different coloring and designs for the various rooms. Floor coverings are in keeping and when the new, richly upholstered furniture is installed, Post C will have the most luxurious home of its kind that may be found in any organization in this or any other city of equal size. The ban has been placed on the white uniform propaganda for the members of Post C in the parade during the coming state convention. Owing to the fact that here and there would be a member who failed for some cause to make connection with the regulation uniform, the convention

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