Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 34, 21 December 1917 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAMr FRIDAY, DEC. 21, 1917.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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Not Your Bit But Your All

The Saturday Evening Post of this week has a

piece of fiction entitled "Kamerad ; or Camouflage," with a parenthetical amplification, "The

Impressions of a Soldier of France." The story

is worth while spending five cents to read. The theme informs America that she is not going into this war with might and main, but so far has dabbled about the edges, deceiving herself into believing that she . is doing a man's work when in reality she has not done a good sized boy's work. The author asks us to do not only "our bit" but "our all." It strikes us that he is hitting the nail on the head. Read the story. '

When one sits down to soberly and earnestly ponder over the time precious months that may have cost us victory that has elapsed since we declared war, and the comparatively little that we have accomplished in the way of direct results, we are filled with shame at our small conception of the work that has been cut out for us. We talk about doing our bit Who of us thinks about doing his ALL? Ver

ily, only he who enters the army to fight, to meet the German face to face, to rush into his machine gun fire, to go over his trenches, to fight until Berlin is taken. Of what does our bit consist ? Verily, the word BIT answers the question. The next time you invest a dollar in a Red Cross membership fee, or contribute a few paltry dollars to a patriotic cause, and salve your smug conscience with the observation, "I have done my BIT," look up the meaning of the word in Webster's Dictionary to get a jolt that will make your conscience feel cheap and galvanize your think

ing apparatus into working overtime. Here's the definition of that much overworked and misused word: ' "A small piece, portion, or quantity of anything; a little, a mite; hence, the smallest or an insignificant amount or degree ; an iota ; a jot ; a tittle ; a whit." Isn't it true, you are doing your bit, and that's all that you're doing? You are not doing your full duty, you are not doing all you can do. No, you are doing only your bit.

jt by merely doing our bit. And we should hare been crushed, and the English after us, if England had kept on being content to do her bit." "Well," I said, I guess you're right. Britannia sleeps hard, but she's a stiff-necked old pary once .she gets going. I get your idea, though, and that is that America could save a lot of time and expense by cutting out this do-our-bit stuff and throwing her whole weight into the collar right off. Well, that's what I sort of feel we are doing, my boy." - , Gaston's war face had set as tight as a plaster death mask.; , "In that case, monsieur," he said. "The Allied cause is as good as won."

Do you get the point ? If Belgium had been satisfied to do only her bit, the Kaiser would have overrun all her possessions; if France had been contented to rest when she did her bit, the Kaiser would have annexed her. territory ; if Great Britain had rested after she did her bit, the Kaiser might today be

flying his banner over London. It wasn't the doing of their bit that saved these countries, but the willingness to do their all that checked the inroads of despotism. They have accepted this war as a call for complete, absolute, unqualified unconditional and supreme surrender of every interest to the one great object, namely, to crush the foe.

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That's the way we Americans must look upon this job. We are no longer in the "do our bit stage" but in the "do our all stage.!' . If we do not wake up to this fact, we will be defeated. As individuals we must learn this truth, and our representatives in Congress must understand that that's how we feel about it. The. revelation made in the congressional inquiries in Washington regarding the ordnance department illustrate the point. We don't want officials who are "doing their bit," but men who will "do their all" to see that our fighting strength is made a potential factor in the great struggle at the very earliest moment.

If red tape has to be cut, cut it. If incompetent men block speed and efficiency, displace them. WE MUST BE IN THIS WAR TO DO OUR ALL.

JUST AS HE EXPECTED

"Rather than ask anybody and have

em find out that we didn't know,'

chirps the editor of the Macon Tele

graph, "we looked, in the Twentieth

uentury Dictionary, to see what a bridgehead is and discovered that it is a tete-de-pont. We will say, though, wo thought that's what it was before

we looked it up."

vv isconsin, according to report, makes 365 trainloads of cheese every year. And, occasionally, she turns out

a cneese statesman. SUPERFLUOUS ADVICE Dr. Wiley tells people to eat less and they will be more healthy. T. R. advises everybody to turn in and help the government. There is no way of setting out of It. Read the war tax list. Mr. Rockefeller says people should save . 10 per cent of their Incomes. But suppose they are not making that much. WOODROW, SPARE THAT CIRCUS How dear to my heart are the shows t of my childhood, When fOnd recollection presents them to view The hippo, the tagger, the tangle snako charmer, The pink lemonade that my infancy knew. A good many of the railroads will refuse to transport circuses next summer on account of the war, and thus another horror of the world conflict is thrust Upon us. Meatless day? Yes, cheerfully. Wheatless day? Positively. Sweetless day? Nothing easier. Circusless day? Impossible.

Now read the appended clipping from the story : "But there never should have been any such days with their country at war, monsieur JFrom the very start everything has depended en their doing not their bit but their all! That Is the only way In whleh this war can possibly be won. Our enemies were the first to appreciate that fact." "Yes," I admitted; "they sure beat the Allies to it in that respect not the Belgians and the French of course." "We invaded countries had no choice, monsieur," Gaston interrupted: "for the Belgians to resist as they did was sheer greatness of soul, knowing that they were certain to be ground to powder between the millstones, no matter what happened in the end. We French had at least a fighting chance, but we never should have had

Where the Censorship Hinders

From the Kansas City Star

HE censorship ha& been blamed in Washington for

suppressing facts whose publication would have stirred the ordnance bureau to greater activity. An

interesting instance of the way the censorship has operated conies in the New York Times. In July a statement on the airplane situation was given the representative of that newspaper by "one of the greatest of French generals." It was an appeal for the United States to hasten its aviation program. It cited figures on the airplane situation on the battle front, and told what the United States mus prepare to do to meet this siuation. It contained just the sort of information the

American people needed to awaken them to the necessity of pushing the aircraft program to the limit. This statement, the Times says, was first held up at General Pershing's headquarters. Later, through representations made to Pershing, his permission was obtained to send it. Then it was offered for cabling, but was suppressed again by Ambassador Sharpe. Finally, five months after the preparation of the message, it was printed in the New York Times last week. That sort of censorship is evidently conducted by men who have no conception of the importance of public opinion in a democracy. We have the soldiers, but we haven't the enormous mechanical equipment necessary for a modern war. Unless public opinion is kept informed and aggressive we shall not have the skilled workers in the right place to furnish the equipment. We shall not have the

support that Congress needs to push the required legislation. We shall not have people gwing up the luxuries that they ought to give up in order that labor may be put into war industries. A censorship that ignores public opinion may do an enormous amount of mischief in a time of crisis.

For ways that are dark And ways that are tricky, Forget the ChineeNote the Boleheviki.

Now that the "Appeal to Reason

is backing up the president, it seems to be unanimous except for Pompa

dour Bob, Gronna and the other kul turists. . . , ,

The" railroads are abolishing observation cars. ' v It is no time to make observations. It is a time to work.

At a drug investigation in New York one woman admitted she was forty years of age. Sure sign she was a drug victim. Otherwise sue would never have admitted that. WE GATHERED THESE PACTS FROM OUR GROCER Canned corn is very scarce and expensive, not on" account of a shortage of the corn crop, but on. account of a

COMPLAIN OF ALLIES

PECTROGRAD, Wednesday, Dec. 19. Tbo Bolshevik newspapers are complaining that the presence of the allied military missions in the Ukraine is encouraging general Kaledines, loader of the counter-revolution against the Maximalist government. Answering this complaint on behalf of the American military mission, of which he is chief. Lieut. Col. W. V. Judson says that all American officers are in Petrograd.

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Dinner

Stories

j little Waldo. Don't you know any j songs about sanitary drinking cups?"

A prosperous farmer of the old school had made a proud boast that he Hadn't drank a glass of water for

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twenty years. Wilst on a journey one day, the train was wrecked while crossing a bridge and plunged into the river. They pulled the farmer out with a

boat-hook, and when they got him on

snore one or his friends rushed crying: "Are you hurt?"

.no. me farmer snorted. "Never

swallowed a darned drop!"

A golfer by way of a joke dropped

a golf ball into a nest his parrot had

built in the corner of its cage.

roily sat with exemplary patience

on her novel egg and appeared pretty

well heartbroken when the weeks

went by and she found herself un rewarded. At last the parrot could stand it no longer. A terrible screeching brought her owner downstairs at 3 a. m.. .

"What's the matter, Polly?" he asked, as he noticed the bird's beak was chipped in trying to get at the egg's interior. "Matter:" screeched the bird. "Great Scott! I'm bunkered!" "When we drank from the same canteen," roared the old veteran. "Grandpa," .interposed his granddaughter, "the sentiments of that song are praiseworthy, but I fear they may tend to counteract certain health rules. . I have been trying to teach

The junior partuer of the Wall street firm was indisposed and the senior partner was calling him up every two or three minutes. "Why do you telephone Bob so often?" inquired a friend. "Is he seriously ill?" ... "Oh, no," was the reply, "but his temperature fluctuates considerably and some of our customers are speculating on the fluctuations."

Without masculine advice or help, Miss Edith McGee, of Monroe county, five acres which she planted to corn. Miss McGee is eighteen and asks no odds of men when it comes to plowing.

Red Blooded People Live The Longest

Red blooded people retain their youth and vigor until late in life because red blood ages slowly. A child with impure blood seems old, while an old man with pure red

ironlzed blood seems young. Impure blood clogs the system with waste matters, rapidly aging body, mind and spirit. Pure blood is red blood, rich in Iron and phosphates with power to rid itself of waste matter and abie to carry life giving oxygen. to every cell and nerve. It makes both young and old, bright, happy, .keen and interested in life. This is the blood you need, every day of your life, the rich red blood made bv Dure food, fresh air. restful

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Phosphate Iron is prescribed by leading dactors for ail who are worn out, run down, nervous, weak and'

thin blooded people in all walks of life, they have learned to depend on it for honest results. Special Notice To insure physicians and their patients receiving the genuine Phosphated Iron, we have put in capsules only, so do not allow dealers to substitute pill or tablets, insist on the genuine, in capsules only. For sale in Richmond by Conkey Drug Co. Adv.

Skin troubles

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shortage of the tin crop. AH the Un is being shipped to Europe to bo made Into gnng and armorplate." Preserved figs are fifty cents tor six because preserved flgs are being consumed in tremendous quantities by soldiers. There is no sugar on account of the boll weevil epidemic in Alabama and Mississippi. The boll Xeevil, it appears, has a sweet tooth an no longer confines his attentions to cotton. Chipped beef is expensive because all the sheep Id Idaho died off last spring. Eggs are sixty cents a dozen because so many hens are being run over and killed by automobiles.

BETHEL, IND.

Mrs. O. V. Little of Richmond is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs.

Isaac Van Nuys Mr. and Mrs. E. N.

Thompson, and Mr. William Hdye spent Sunday evening with Mr. Jehu Boren and family... Mr. and Mrs. Herman Thomas spent Sunday with Mr. and Mr3. Carrie White's of near Whitewater Ray Wolfal and family were Sunday guests of Reese Wolfal and family Mrs. Sarah Anderson spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hyde. .. .Chester Arnet and Miss Hazel Tharp called on Mr. and Mrs. " Lafe Anderson Sunday afternoon. ... .'Humphrey Mlkesell sold his farm last week to A. B. Hannah, and then bought Newton Bunker's farm near' Chester The. Red Cross society will meet at the Red Caoss room Monday afternoon, and again Thurs

day afternoon Raymond Knoll of Whitewater is here at the home of his

parents, the Henry Knolls. He Is very

sick. . . .No.- 2 schoolhouse west of

Bethel, burned down last uesday morn

ing. ; Miss Miriam Woods was teaching there. . ; '

PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY

Esther Cleveland To Marry Officer LONDON,' Dee. 21. The engagement is announced of Esther, daughter of Grover Cleveland, to Captain Bosanquet of the Coldstream . Guards. Captain Bo6anquet, a son of Sir Albert Boeanquet, has been decorated with the Distinguished Service Order. Miss Cleveland came to London in June of last year after having qualified a a nurse and instructor of the blind and took up work as a volunteer at St, Dunstan's borne for blinded soldiers.

LEWISBURG, 0.

Anna Wilson and Florence Ruff visited In Dayton over Sunday. .. .Salem Lutheran Sunday school will give their Christmas entertainment Sunday evening December 23. Everybody is welcome. .. .Edith Sweeny and Ethel Beam were Dayton shoppers Saturday. Grace McGriff spent Saturday and Sunday with Simeon House and family. . . .Mrs. Dan Leichleider and Mrs. Henry Brown were Dayton shoppers Friday Mrs. John Longnecker and baby of Dayton spent Saturday and Sunday with her aunt and uncle, Frank Antrim and family Gladys Hoerner of middletown was home Sat

COAST NEAR QUOTA

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21. Estimates based on partial returns from California, Arizona and Nevada showed that 335,150 new members had enrolled in the red cross in the first three days of the red cross Christmas membership drive, according to ft statement made public today by Chairman of the Pacific division.

urday. ...Clifford Locke and little daughter Marguerite spent from Friday until Monday evening in Middletown, the guests of his sister, Mrs. Lulu Barry and family Ethel Beam spent Sunday with her uncle. Perry Brock and wife.... Mrs. Joseph Sweeny is still suffering with appendicitis.

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