Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 120, 2 April 1917 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY,; APRIL 2, 1917

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BY EDGAR ILIFF , , ., !, When you awoka that morning ths tun was shining in your eastern windows and flooding with gold the picture of your mother. hanging on tbfl wall. Your first thought was,-"And this is my birthday. Does anyOus on earth but myself know it? Will it occur to any persons that I have reached another milestone ?" ' This was egotism, of course. Why should anyone be taxed with the memory of your or my birthday? Birth days are as common as death and taxes and as sure. A persons owns his birthday absolutely: No one, no corporation, no government, however powerful, can take it away from bim. No One Else Wantt It. No one else would want it and no one else would take it as a gift,- especially if it is a little shopworn or ancient. You must attain it yourself. Just as you are notified scripturally that every man must work out his own salvation himself. s - Your mother gave you the right . to win birthdays and you will keep on attaining them until well, I will not say until death comes, for we do not know aa yet what death is,' besides I prefer the Oriental phrase, "Until the Destroyer Delights and the Sunderer of Companions visits thy house." Woman's beauty is not the ' only thing veiled in the Orient. Persian and Arabian literature softens . the harsh and ugly in life. Flowers, fruits, the lute, and cool refreshing fountains are pictured to us instead of ghastly realism. The women are as fair as the young radon, that delicate silver crescent hanging in a pale blue sky. Hates Brutal Frankness. " I hate that brutal frankness found in the representative novel of ; this age, "The Rise and Fall of Susan Lenox." I shrink from it as one would from alazaretto or a leper. I hate the universally described xiying scenes found in the realistic novels of Arnold Bennett, His "Old Wives' Tale" is morbid. Then there is "Camilla, and Tolstoy's "Death of , Ivan Illyitch." There are horrible pictures of physical decay of dissolution, of fresh corruption, the last dying gasp, the rattle in the throat, the stark and staring corpse. These are facts of course but the world does not live upon facts but demands truths. Facts are for science and truths are of the things unseen and made up of eternal verities. It is not the fact that makes you free; it is the truth. Fact and truth stand apart. Fact binds, truth liberates you. Fact is in chains; truth is free as the air. "Best Sellers" Diseased The real fact i3 that current, "best srtlers" are diseased: they have microbes, germs of decay. The average picture show is no, better. There are books that should never taint . the soul of man or woman and picture films that should never be exhibited. "Susan Lenox" faithfully portrayed in 4he moving pictures would be as shameful, as putrid and etinking as a Kf-ver. And yet the book i3 scattered '-o-dent through public libraries and !--ksoro3. It reveals life in sll its 1 iJo-'s aspect. It takes the lid off "f hell. It is more horrible than Dante's Inferno. It inculcates paesim'sm. It shows the success . of the bonst, the failure of the lamb. It taches that there is no hope for the honest and virtuous poor, and success and money and respectability and power and comforts and luxury for the "Wiae," however crooked. If you will take up any Persian or Arabian tale you will see many stories ending like this:, . , According to Persian Version "Then they abode in joyi and pleasure and good cheer WI the Destroyer of Dlight3 and the SUnderer of Companions came to them, He, who layeth waste to houses and palaces and peopleth the" sanctuary of the tomb! So they were removed from the world and bscame of the number of the dead and glory be 1c thriving One who tieth not and in whose b"and are the kevs of the Seen and Unseen." I may aa well confess that. T am not a worshipper at the shrine of that breed of science assuming to be the whole thing. When everything is reduced to scientific measurements and soundings, end the laboratory puts its stamo upon the sweetest sentiments of life, there won't' be any more peonle or rpmances, or songs, of the nteMingale unJer the jindens. or Midsiiramer Nights Dreams, or hitching your wagon to a star, or the leaps and bounds of joyous young souls. Then we shall be deeply educated in the letter, in the fac.te of life, and then wp shall have deatlr, for surely the letter killetb. while the spirit alone givest life. Neglect Small Amenities. French and German critics, speaking for two races of people who make much of the small amenities of life, say that we Americans have no real family affection. The French and German observe all birthdaya in young and old. making merry over the anniversaries of mother, father, child, grandchild and grandparents. vThey charge us with neglecting these, little amenities of home life. We are too busy for such trifling things. Our very names prove ' our cold indifference. We speak of grandmothers as

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granny," of mother aa the "old worn-, an." The German term "grossmut'ter" means the "great mother." With them "grand mother" is the "grand old lady." Our father Is the "old man" or the "governor" or "dad." ; We have coined some terrible words such as a "has . Been," or a "back ; number." Someone said if an American amily has -ten dollars to spend for clothes the daughter got five dollars, the son got three dollars, the mother got two and theold man got his hat, brushed. With us there's many a mother s grave unmarked! . There are many a child and parent whose birthdays are cad and solitary, and iu that vast solitude which surrounds every neglected and forgotten soul many a one says; "It is the aad old story of King Lear and his ungrateful daughters and Balzac's '!Pere Goriot" and his cruel "society" girls.. "' - : " : ". ., Compare Modern Portraits. Compare the portraits of public men a century ago with the faces of our public men today. See the marked difference. Take Washington, Franklin, Samuel Adams,. James Otis and put them beside Pierpont Morgan and others of his kind. A new species has arisen. The older portraits express Ideality, something to live for. The mother's eyes and her sweet mobile mouth are seen in these patriot's faces. Humanity and a love for liberty shines In their faces. " The modern face Is harsh, big jawed, stern, cruel, selfish. The back of the head Is bull necked. The expression is that of elemental force with no more conscience or human sympathy titan a locomotive. It says, "Get out of my way! I will succeed, I must, money is the only God!" It is a day of mourning when old men not longer dream dreams or young men see visions. On his twenty-third birthday, Emerson recorded In his Journal : "This is my twenty-third birthday and I already fear that my years are passing away. Infirmities are stealing over me that may be deadly enemies that are to dissolve me to dust." Tone ia Different Later That was the tragic, the morbid, the dying-calf or pumpkin-age of youth. But forty years later he wrote: "I see 710 men of old age. While ws concern ourselves with what's above us we do not grow old.- Within me I do not find wrinkles and used up heart, but a reservoir of unspent youth." Well, whv should we divide life into minutes, hours, days, years? Life is a unit, the same as sky, air, oceanr fiId and forest. These care nothing for our worries.". . -..;.- - ' I could spend my birthday In the royal splendor of health and rose-red dreams. "Give me health and a day," said Emerson, "and I will make the pomp of emperora ridiculous.',' '.. I cov.ld spend . them with cakes ; and wine, or over the wassail bowl-of reunited loved ones; or at. tournaments, or amid-o riental plahin Jawntain s, th music of lutes. and calling up tales of vanished' loves. Any place or condition would suit me if only the good eld hearts of oak were with me. How to Spend Birthday ' If I were alone and no one remembered the day, I could yet feast with royal souls in memory alone of those - - - ' ; L I, it, "h RICHMOND FEELS BREATH OF SPRING - Richmond enjoyed; a real breath of spring weather. Saturday after a week of varying temperatures chalked up at the waterworks pumping station as follows: i Max. Min. Sunday 65 f 36 iloaday..-. 71 44 Tuesday ........ 48 ' 32 Wednesday ............. .57 30 Thursday ........... .. V. .49 27 Friday : ; v .............. 61 25 Saturday . .. . ; 78 47 BOOSTERS TO HEAR FARM EXPERT TALK MILTON, Ind, April 2. An Illustrated lecture will be given at" the Boosters' club Thursday evening by H. W. Willis, who is a member of the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau . of- Animal Industry. Everybody is invited to hear him.

regal dead who joined, the "choir invisible" long ago, and who had ."lived in pulses otirred", to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with, self, in thoughts subline ; that' pierce . the night like stars and urge man's search to roster issues." ; , . I could eit over my birthday cake alone and eay: : : "Soul, thou &ft. home at last from the wars. ' Thou are a veteran in the great army -.of struggling men and women, triumphant in many bitter conflicts. Put. up the sword. Be quiet in thine inn ,and. wait, there for the Destroyer f Delights and the Sunderer of Companions.'"' "'.".

LUTHERAN CHURCHES CONFIRM CHILDREN

Nineteen children were confirmed in two Lutheran churches yesterday. Six boys and six girls from Wernle Orphans' Home .were confirmed at St. John's church and four boys, and three girls took confirmation vows at St. Paul's Lutheran church. ; List 'of children- confirmed follows: St. Paul's Howard. Wagner, Clarence Niebuhr, Harold Bloemke, Harry Steinbrink, Katherine . . Klate. Ruth Burkhardt and Ruth Lindermann. St. John's-'Irene Baldschun, Aldine Baldschun, Ruth Kochenberger, Hannah Dobrung, Eleanor Hatcher, Viola Kuhlman, Warner . Schwartz, Chester Kreidler, Carl Kims, Lloyd Kuns, Cecil Hutton and Eugene Miller. ..

SENIORS TO ENACT . TWO HUMOROUS PLAYS SATURDAY

Painters pi Duiide'e, Scotland, have gone on . strike for-. more pay and shorter hours. ' -

CENTERVILLE, Ind., April 2. The Senior class of the"Centerrllle high school will present two plays at the town hall on the evening of April 7. The class is composed of nineteen members and all will take part In at least one of the plays. Verl Nichols son, a Junior, will also assist. One play is entitled "A Perplexing Situation." . Those taking part in this play are: Verl Nicholson, Esther Morgan, Harry Foley,. Wyota Cook, Nova Shadle, Elsie Smith, Etta Lamott. Frances Colvin, Paul Duke, Mabel Taylor, Ivan King and Alden Reynolds.. . "Whiskers" is the title of the second play. .The following will appear in this play: Ruby Casteter, Mary Wilson, Geneve Hunt, Esther George, Marjorie Hurst, Josephine . Barton, Mildred Driffel, Alden Reynolds, Paul Duke and Ivan King. .

FRESHMEN OF MIAMI DI8CARD GREEN CAPS

OXFORD, a, April 2. The green caps which Miami university freshmen have worn since the beginning or the school year, are gone forever. With the class insignia in a coffin, the "freshles," attired in bathrobes, marched solemnly around a huge bonfire and consigned the caps to the fire. The fu-

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