Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 75, 8 February 1917 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, FEB. 8, 1917

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Sts. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, Mgr.

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Read American History ; While important pages are being written in the history of the United States, the citizens of this nation might obtain a useful stock of knowledge by reading American history. The Bureau of Education has just added a reading course in the history of our nation. ( The announcement, coming in an hour of grave international complication, serves to recall the stormy scenes of the days when the colonists threw off the British yoke, and formulated an independent nation. Dr. P. P. Claxton; commissioner of education, declares: "All American citizen's should know more of the history, of their country than can be learned from the meager outlines of the textbooks used in our elementary and high schools. That a large number of people should have such general and comprehensive knowledge of the country, its life and growth and the form and spirit of its institutions, as can be gained only from reading at least several of the standard histories is essential to the welfare of the Republic. -At every national election and at many State and municipal elections the people are called upon to vote on policies which cannot be intelligently determined

without such knowledge. Legislators and other!

representatives of the people are constantly in need of it. Only out of the history of the past can come an understanding of the principles1 by which they must be guided if they are to work wisely for the future. To read extensively and deeply in the history of the country becomes therefore a patriotic duty. Only thus can one love his land with 'love far brought from out the storied past,' 'used within the present' and transfused through future time by power of thought.' "Those who have learned to read history find it the most interesting form of literature. The story of any country or of any great movement of any people, fitly told, is interesting, especially when the reader has learned to understand the relation to each other of the thought and feeling and purpose and action of the people. No country has a more interesting history than the United States, which, from its beginnings in the scattered settlements of immigrants from European vshores three hundred years ago and less, has grown through colonial and national life till it has become the greatest, wealthiest, and most powerful and most prosperous, the freest, the most self -controlled and self -restrained, the most cosmopolitan and the most firmly united nation the world has ever known. The story of the United States is the story not of dynasties and courts, but of the people, their life, their industries, their aspirations and the democratic institutions through which they have sought to attain these aspirations, and every line of the story throbs with present interest and future meaning."

V The Schoolhouse For many years Americans overlooked the latent possibilities of ; "the schoolhouse. 1 The building was accepted as a place where children were to receive their schooling and not as a community, center where adults might discuss and settle problems of citizenship of particular interest to them. Recently the movement of making schoolhouses community centers and forums of citizenship has swept over the country, bringing with it marked results in social betterment. It is becoming more and more apparent that if the residents of certain sections of a city meet regularly ai a designated meeting place, the schoolhouse, for instance, to talk about questions concerning public . improvements, taxation, poor relief, public utilities, etc, they will acquire a knowledge of municipal affairs that will guide them intelligently in their actions and decisions. The same observation holds true regarding the attitude they will take on questions affecting the interests of the state and nation. The use of schoolhouses for public meetings of this kind have been endorsed by Ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft President Wilson when he was governor of New Jersey said: "It is necessary that a simple means be found by which, by an interchange of points of view, we may get together, for the whole process of modern politics, the whole process of modem life, is a process in which we must exclude misunderstandings, exclude hostilities, bring all men into common council and so discover what is the common interest. This is the problem of modern life." Pointing to the opportunity which the common schoolhouses offer to answer this common need, the President said, "They are public

buildings. They are conveniently distributed. They belong to the communities. They furnish ideal places in which to assemble and discuss public affairs. They are just what we need." : 1 1 1 1 1 ii i ii ii i iii The Growth of the Manager Idea

Management of municipal affairs by a City Manager has been tried with success. The experiment i3 now being tried in county and state government. H. S. Gilbert in the February number of the American Review of Reviews writes about the growth of the idea. We quote several excerpts. "Under the Maryland amendment, the Governor, in financial matters, virtually assumes the role of state business manager, investigating, initiating, executing policies but always under the control and subject to revision by the representative body." "As the year 1917 opens, a definite movement for the reorganization of counties another definite by-product of 'commission' government in cities-r-is well under way in several States. In Washington it comes partly from an official source, the State association of county commissioners, who out of their own practical experience, have come to realize the ineffectiveness of the organization through which they have been

attempting to redeem their responsibilities. An influential group of progressive leaders centering in Spokane, is responsible for a vigorous demand for a constitutional convention, actuated in very large measure by a desire to secure the privileges of home rule and simplified government in counties. In Kansas the county question comes before the Legislature with at least the nominal support of both the Republicans and the Democrats, who are committed to an attempt to secure a better county organization, if need be, by constitutional amendment. Governor Capper emphasized the importance of this demand with considerable vigor in his message to the Legislature in 1915. Throughout Kansas, by the way, commission government has been adopted by a larger proportion of the cities than in any other State."

Foulke Describes Visit to Volcano

Sees Boiling Basin of Molten Lava

SEEK ECONOMY TO ADD STRENGTH

(By Asdoo.iated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 The Housekeepers' Alliance of Washington today started a campaign for economy in

domestic management as a means of

strengthening, the financial condition of the nation. ' "How to put American housekeeping on a. war footing." will ho discussed at a public meeting Friday.

Masonic Calendar

Thursday, Feb. 8 Webb Lodge, No. 24, F. apd A. M. Called meeting; work in the Master Mason degree, commencing at 7:00 o'clock. Friday, Feb. 9. King Solomon's Chaptar, No. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocation

IF HAIR IS TURNING GRAY, USE SAGE TEA

Here's

Grandmother's Recipe Darken and Beautify Faded Hair.

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That beautiful, even shade o" dark, glossy hair can only be had by brewing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Your hair is your charm. It makes or mars the face. When it fades, turns gray, streaked and looks dry, wispy and scraggly. Just an application or two of Sage and sulphur enhances its appearance a hundredfold. Don't bother to prepare the tonic; you can get from any drug store a 50 cent bottle of "Wythe's Sage and Sulphur Compound," ready to use. This can always be depended upon to bring back the natural color, thickness and lustre of your hair and remove dandruff, stop scalp itching and falling hair. Everybody uses Wyeth's. Sage and Sulphur because it darkens so naturally and- evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. Tou simply dampen a songe or soft brush with it and draw this through the hair, taking one small strand t a time; by morning the gray hair has disappeared, and after another application It becomes beautifully dark 9 and appears glossy, lustrous and abundant Adv,

BIRTH OF NATION COMES HERE AGAIN

"The Birth of a Nation." D. W. Grif

fith's mighty masterpiece, here two days, Feb. 9-10 at the Washington, a limited return engagement. This will be the farewell tour of the Griffith spectacle. In every city where return engagements were played last season the attendance was always as large and often larger than the first time. Audiences that tested the capacity of the theatres were in evidence at every performance both North and South and East and West. Never before have such cheers been heard in a theatre. Ordinary applause, was evidently not a sufficient outlet for the enthusiasm of the audiences daring the big scenes. This wonderful spectacle of the American military era is eminently suited to the present with the echoes of the Great War in every ear. Civil strife that grew out of misunderstandings; battles fought over far-reaching areas; the great, all-loving heart of the President and the machinations of the little men who after bis death thwarted his far-seeing and penificent plans; the victory of the North and the terrible aftermath of Reconsruction these furnish a succession of

themes the working; out of which impinges as vividly upon 1916 as 1863-'G5. Never before has America's greatest war been thus comprehensively put on stage, film, panorama or canvas. It is the biggest patriotic entertainment ever devised and It Inculcates the lesson of national solidarity with sledge

bam ner strokes. .

TAKE OVER U.S. FOREIGN AFFAIR

fEy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. S. Minister Ritter of Switzerland, was today instructed by his government to take over German diplomatic interests in the United States including the German embassy here and twelve consulates throughout the country.

OPENS REVIVAL SERIES

ELDORADO, O., Feb. 8 A series of revival meetings will begin at the TJ. B. church here next Sunday. Rev. O. Arnold, of Dayton, will assist the regular pastor, Rev. E. S.-Weimer during

tne series.

. BY WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE : The City of Honolulu is a charmer! Beautiful houses, some of them low bungalows, others more pretentious and in every style of architecture, currounded by luxuriant tropical trees and shrubs of every sort, and with smooth green laws and gorgeous flower beds, all this close to a sparkling sea, and with picturesque and rugged mountains behind, forms a combination of Vare attractiveness. I take up my quarters at the Moana Hotel three miles from the business centre of the city and right on the Waikiki beach, where the bathers spend hourB at a time in the warm surf or sunning themselves upon the sands, riding the surf-boats or paddling in parties of five or six young men and women in the long narrow native dug-out canoes with outriggers to keep from tipping in the waves. Soft Air Perfume Laden The air. is soft and laden with a peculiar delightful sedgy perfume. Tou lie on the beach and don't want to move or think, but just to dream and watch the rich tropical scene around you. Tou feel like the man in one of Watt's Hymns who says: , "My willing soul would stay In such a scene as this, . And Bit and sing itself away In everlasting bliss." This does very well for the nice, clear beautiful day when you arrive, and when you see the departing guests of the Hotel on their way back to the ship all encircled with long garlands of flowers in Hawaiian fashion, and wreathed in 6miles as well. But

the next day it rains cats and dogs pretty much all day and you realize that even in the Sandwich Islands life is not one uninterrupted round of enjoyment. Do you remember what Thackeray says of some tropic isle, lying in the balmy deep, where the skies forever smile, and the blacks forever weep? It seems to be the other way here. It is the swarthy sons an J particularly the swarthy daughters of the tropics who do most of the smiling and it is the skies which do all the weeping. Names in Hawaiian Tongue Nearly all the names of places hereabouts are in the Hawaiian tongue. Whenever you try to read and .pronounce the words of an unknown language, difficulties of all sorts beset your way. Who has not writhed under the tortures of that unpronounccble fortress in Galicia which the Russians took and then had to give up again? Indeed Polish, as I have heard it spoken in Warsaw seemed to me like a succession of variegated sneezes, all sorts of consonants being mingled together in wild luxuriance, unrelieved by a good, clear vowel anywhere. Now the trouble with Hawaiian words is just the reverse. It is nearly all vowels and. you have to think a minute or two after uttering one of them, to be sure which vowel comes next. Hawaii itself and Oahu, the principal islands are examples -rothing but vowels and an aspirateJust try these words and see how they go Waianuenue Street, Honaunau, Laupahoehoe, etc., etc., and then wonder if an old-fashioned English damn would make a good variation. Takes Passage on Mauna Kea I took passage on the "Mauna Kea" one of the little inter-island steamers for Hilo in the island of Hawaii to see Kilauea, the great volcano-crater. It is always active but just now there is a particularly brilliant eruption. Now this crater is not at all what one expects to see' in a volcano. Ordinarily you have a great conical peak end the top, instead of coming to a perfect point, is a little flattened to outside appearance and if you climb to the summit you find within a great cup-shaped hole with fire and smoke and vapors coming out of some hidden place at the bottom. Where Variation is Found. That is the regular, normal, orthodox volcano such as Vesuvius or Aetna or Papocatapetl, or the Fire and Water volcanoes of Central America. A cloud of, smoke and steam rises from the apex and floats away into the sky. A variation of this orthodox type is found in volcanoes where the main crater is at the top and there are little

enmo nf tho o-ettnrt nra molten lake

BOWMAN MAKES ADDRESS

County Auditor Bowman addressed township trustees in session Wednes

day at the county superintendent's of

fice on "Township Poor Relief." Employes In the dveine trad in thA

English counties of Torkshire, Lanca

shire, cnesair and Derbyshire have been awarded a wage increase.

HARD AND SOFT OR ANY KIND OF CORN Tells how to loosen a tender corn - so it lifts out without pain..

Severe Cold Quickly Cured "On December first I had a very severe cold or attack of the grfp-as it may be, and was nearly down sick in bed," writes O: J. Metcajf Weatherby,r Mo. "I bought two bottles of Chamberlain's. Cough Remedy and it was only a few days until I was completely restored to health. I firmly believe . that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is one of the very best medicines and will know what to do when I have- another cold."'. Obtainable everywhere. . r-

Tou reckless men and women who are pestered with corns and who have at least once a week invited an. awful death from lockjaw or blood poison are now told by a Cincinnati authority to use a drug called freezone, which the moment a few dops are applied to any corn, the soreness is relieved and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts out "with the fingers. - It is a sticky substance which dries the moment it is applied and is said to stmply shrivel the corn without inflaming or even irritating the surrounding tissue or skin. It is claimed that a quarter ot an ounce will cost very little at any of the drug stores, but is sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus. Tou are further warned that cuttingat a corn is a suicidal habit .

such a sort of volcanic rash, or a series of volcanic boils broken out on all parts of their bodies. I recall the volcano of Pico in the Azores as an example. We might' consider these as moderate dissenters from the true faith in Vulcanology. But Kilauea is more than this. It Is an arch heretic, a rebel against the true doctrine in volcano construction. For the great crater is not at the top at all but comparatively near the bottom. Mauna Loa (Long Mount

ain) Is 14,000 feet high, and the crater

of Kilauea is on one of the sides of this mountain and only 4,000 feet

above the sea. Mauna Loa, -although

nearly three miles high rises so gently

tnat it naraiy looks like a mountain at all and you only recognite it as snch frim Hilo (where you land) by the great white field cf snow at the top. Snow in the tropics means great altitude, otherwise you would hardly know this for a mountain at all Mauna Kea the other great volcano on the island (now extinct) is only a few feet higher yet you can clearly see that -this is a biff mountain for it has several peaks that glisten- in the sunlight In both cases however the ascent is so gradual that you can ride a horse to the summit. At Top is Active Crater. At the top of Mauna Loa there is an active crater called Mokuaweoweo, that is it becomes active every few years sending vast streams of , lava down to the plains. A number of years ago one of these streams came slowly down close to the town of Hilo which was some forty miles away fronv this upper crater. The inhabitants became alarmed, some of them left the town, others, more pious, went to the princess Ruth, a woman of some 250 pounds weight, and a daughter of the old Hawaiian dynasty. They brought her up to the lower crater of Kilauea which was sacred to Pele the Hawaiian fire'god. There She besought the god for deliverance and sacrificed to him i white chicken and a black pig, throwing their bodies into the molten lake, when, wonderful to relate, the stream of lava thirty mile3 -from this "point j stayed its course and Hilo was saved! j

; The pious procession of Christian supplicants with, images of saint and virgin have not always been equally successful in arresting the lava streams on Aetna and Vesuvlusc in their destructive paths. I am told that even today, if an native Hawaiian visits Kilauea he will generally make 6ome first offering to the volcano. If he takes his lunch on the crater-rim he will first throw a piece of the meat a piece of bread a drink or whatever Jt is. into the boiling lavaor if he has nothing else he will take out his handkerchief and sacrifice that. Land at Thriving Town. We landed at Hilo, a thriving town of some 8,000 inhabitants and started in an automobile up through the sugar fields and then through forests and endless groves of fern treets, for some thirty miles to the Volcano house at the edge of the crater. As we rode on someone in our company asked, "Where is the mountain?" for there was no evidence of any in the vicinity. It seemed rather to be one vast plain. But without noticing it we had risen gradually some 4,000 feet now we began to see steam rising from the bushes and rocks around us and a smell of sulphur and then, suddenly emerging from the woods we found ourselves at the Volcano House on the edge of the largest active crater in the world, nearly eight miles in circumfer

ence, and on an average 600 feet deep enclosing an area of some 2,650 acres, the floor being made of hardened lava, partly smooth and partly rough and often wrought into all sorts of grotesque shapes. Steam and sulphur are pouring out from many places.

But within this great crater, a little southwest of the middle, there is another one, something over a thousand feet in diameter filled with the boiling lava. This is called Halemaumau, "Jhe House of Everlasting Fire." After lunch, we drive thither, a ride of seven miles still in our automobile, passing on the way Kilaueaiki and

Keanakakoi, two extinct craters (of which there are many hereabouts), eplendid natural amphitheatres with smooth brown lava" floors and verdure growing up the sides. Descend Into Crater When at last we descend to the great crater, cross it and reach the rim of the smaller one within and look over the edges of that, a scene is presented which surpasses belief or description. I think nobody can

quite form an idea of it who hasn't

seen it. With many of the wonders of nature, Niagara, for instance, or the Grand Canyon, I have heard people say, "Well, this is great; it is tremendous, but it is not quite as great as I expected." I certainly did not feel like that in looking for the first time on this terrific sight, a visible and" boiling hell right at my feef. The wall of this inside crater is generally 600 feet deep. It was 'that deep last May. But the lava has been gradually rising since that time till the fiery lake is now less than a hundred feet below the rim, and it is rising still,

though higher now than it has been

for many years. In the middle of this lake is a black rough irregular shaped promontory which looks like an island. The top of it is now about as high as the rim of the crater. But the pro

prietor of the Volcano House (a Greek who rejoices in the combined glory of the names of Demosthenes and Lycurgus) tells me that a few months

ago this island wa3 500 feet lower than it is today, that it has gradually been pushed up by the molten mass below. , Would Not Like to Be Near I would not like to be near when it topples over like an ice-burg, which

it may do if the lava keeps on rising, i Around this island and against the cir-! cular walls of the crater, the fiery j flood rages and seethes, sweeping gen- j erally toward the left (while I was j watching it) as it circles within this j tremendous cauldron. Now, there is j no actual flame as you see when a ; house burns down or a forest is con- i turned. It is not like that at all. But j if you have stood near the door of a j blast furnace and seen the molten j metal run out and gradually become j black from contact with the air and ! then more white and red metal fol-

lowing, you can form a better idea of

Tet that compari

son is inadequate. Tou would have to multiply the furnace thousands of times and then you would not see half the things going on in this crater.

The lava that floats around is dark

with fringes of bright red. Then from the midst of it leaps up a great fountain of bright red liquid fire and scatters in all directions sending its gleaming spray thirty or forty feet high.

then another.fountain rises, and then a third, then the fountains begin to I

move, approaching the rim of the

crater and dash against it like waves of the ocean,- and. you hear a roar

like the breakers on a rocky beach. Then more red lava boils up, then more, then there is quiet for a few seconds., then all breaks out again. We spent the whole afternoon here at the crater and then staid on into the night. If . it be terrible in the daytime it is doubly overwhelming at night when all you can see is the fiery embroidery of the black floating mass, then the outbreaks, the fountains of fire and the great waves dashing on the circle of rocks around the pit. . Has Not Taken Great Toll Tet this volcano, so dreadful in appearance has not taken the toll of human lives, which has made the names of Aetna and Vesuvius so frightful. The guide-books tell you that not a single traveler has ever perished here. There are Some who occasionally descend into the pit itselt where there is a Jittle promontory at one point where you can stand close to the burning lava. Five of our party started down, two of them young girls, though the guide, a Chinaman, was at first unwilling, but finally consented to accompany them. It seemed that a little while iago there was a' place where you could slide, but now the burning Like has risen and eaten that away. Then some people from Honolulu went down on a rope ladder a few days ago but we had no ladder. But there

was still- a place where you could"

scramble down over some steep tumbled lava blocks and down we went, though I did not go as far as the

.others iocd- Z -found - the climbing a

little too strenuous in my present )

state of health. On the rim of the crater above, it was quite hot. A cold wind was blowing across the mountain-side, bat we could warm ourselves by the fire and then when our backs got cold. and our faces began to 6mart with the heat we could turn around in the comfortable way that a man does in front of a blazing hearth. Sees Spectacular Outbreak We were just on the point of leaving for the hotel and a number of us

were -walking toward the aotomobll (which was only a tow hundred feet away), when I saw the most spectacular outbreak of all and called the rest back to enjoy it The biggest Fourth of July fireworks that man ever saw might be more variegated and artistic, but it couldn't bold a candle to this in the great mass of material Involved. The scene was so fascinating that even the pangs of hunger were 'forgotten and though we bad had nothing to eat since an early lunch it was hard to break away.

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Political Announcement

Soap should be used very carefully.

If you want to keep your hair looking

its best. Most soaps ad prepared i

shampoos conlain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and ruins it. The best thing for steady use is Just ordinary mulslfied cocoanut oil (which is pure and greaseless) and is better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use. One or two teaspoonfnls will clean the scalp and hair thoroughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and nib it in. - It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves the scalp soft, and the hair fine and silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at any pharmacy, it's very cheap, and a few ounces will supply every member of the family for months. , adv.

DR. W. W. ZIMMERMAN Candidate for MAYOR Subject to Republican Primary, March 6, 1917

HENRY ENGELBERT Candidate FOR MAYOR Subject to Republican Primary, March 6. 1917

BALTZ A. BESCHER Candidate for CITY CLERK Subject to the Republican Primary Election, March 6, 1917

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