Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 141, 25 April 1918 — Page 6

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND tfUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building.. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, aa Second Class Mall Matter. MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the us for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and alsj the local news published heietn. All rights of republication of speal dlspatcua iiereia are air reserved.

Too Much Talking German spies have little trouble in getting in

formation because we Americans like to talk.

Our government has warned us since the outbreak of the war to keep silent about our .war

preparations, but neither civilians nor the gov ernment itself has taken the matter seriously.

Maj. Gen.. E. D. Swinton, inventor of the "tank," has addressed a few words of criticism

to Americans that we might take to heart.

"One thing you Americans must do," he says,

"and that is not talk so much about your war preparations. I see now some talk about build

ing a gun to shoot 100 miles. Well, if you build such a gun, build it, but don't talk about it. The same is true about your airplane program. Let the Germans have their first taste when they see

your air fleets in the air over their lines." That's sensible advice. Think of the public

ity and grandiloquent bombast Washington sent out regarding our ship program and air fleet

construction. We were led to believe that ships

by the hundreds and airplanes by the thousands

would be turned out in a few months. Germany was to be overwhelmed by thous

ands and thousands of airplanes this spring, and hundreds of ships, turned out en masse in our shipyards, were to spell defeat for the submarines. And 'yet how disappointing is the achievement in these two phases of our work in comparison with the glowing advance notices that were put out. Eventually we shall fulfill the promises of the paid publicists in Washington, but how much better for all of us, if we had followed the course laid down by General Swinton. He kept his "tanks" under cover. Germany knew nothing about their presence on the battlefield until they came smashing across No Man's Land, bringing death and destruction to the foe. Again, Germany did not hire a paid publicity

agent to advertise its 70-mile gun. When the clay came, the crash of the projectile proclaimed the deed. j We need to learn self-restraint and balanced judgment. Our Allies, knowing our weakness for self-adulation and a pompous pronouncement of what we are going to do, overlook this trait of our national character, but Germany, our foe, uses the information for her own military ends. Is there a man who does not believe that Germany began speeding up her airplane production when she read the grandiloquent announcements of what our fleet of thousands of machines intended to do? Does any one believe that Germany disregarded our flamboyant predictions of defeating her submarine campaign by our shipbuilding program? A good example of working without telling the world all about its plans is the navy. This branch ha3 done work from the outset of the war which has merited unstinted praise from our Allies and competent critics at home. The navy was prepared for action. A rigorous congressional investigation could find nothing to criticise and much to praise. It has gone ahead, day by day, doing its work and getting results. It does not proclaim its plans from the housetops nor lead the nation to expect wonders. Officials and citizens of this republic ought

to learn the lesson of silence in war times. Sil

ence is golden, says the proverb. It can be applied with no greater potency than to the war

situation. Don't tell all you know, for the man next to you may be a German spy or agent. Keep your information to yourself. Every bit of information that you unwittingly utter in the presence of a German agent means so many casualties which you indirectly have inflicted on the American army, for spies seek facts in order that the German general staff may use them to kill Americans. Silence is golden and will have its reward in helping win the war.

Centerville Destroys Literature Centerville adopted the right course when it destroyed by fire copies of the "Kingdom News" and instructed colporteurs not to return to that center of loyalty. There is no law to handle men and women who distribute literature that offends the patriotic dignity of a community, but there also is no law to stop a community from preventing the distribution of such literature or from destroying such literature, or from telling the colporteurs not to come back. Residents of the town, intimately associated with the life of Oliver P. Morton, Indiana's great war governor, did the right thing in the right way. They were aggressive enough to show that they meant business, and conservative enough to prevent an unlawful exercise of force. The strangers were wise enough to acquiesce in the wishes of Centerville's patriots. If they had not complied, loyalists would have employed pressure to make them do so. Every so often a community is called onto

take heroic action against a movement that displeases the majority of .citizens but cannot be disposed of by process of law. In this case, there was no statute to prevent the distribution of the literature. Centerville's citizens decided, however, that they were strictly within their legal rights when they escorted the strangers to the town's corporation limits, set fire to the offensive papers, and instructed the colporteurs not to return. And so without violating the law, Centerville handled a situation in a masterly and highly commendable manner. Members of the sect now know that Center

ville's citizens do not want the "Kingdom News"

or any literature that is not strictly loyal. Centerville has made its position on the matter known in unmistakable terms. If Centerville

does not want to be molested by members of the

Associated Bible Students' association, it behooves them not to invite trouble by returning to

that community.

By HAL POD A Richmond man -who was over at the Lexington, Ky., races recently

showed us a card upon which was printed. "Firefly 100 to 1."

"What's that?" we asked. "The relic of a lost race," said he. The cub reporter came into the office the other day and laid the following items on the city editor's desk: Mrs. So and So got onto the Indianapolis train this morning. I guess she was going there. Mrs. So and So got off the Dayton, O., train. I think she had been there. It's true that this may be a one horse town. Anyhow, on Saturday afternoons we see about 22 autonfobiles to one horse.

"While fixing some telephone wires in town Tuesday Homer Smith fell quite a distance across a bar on his stomach and hurt himself," says a small town sheet in a neighboring town. "This is fine oyster soup," said the customer in a local restaurant the other day. "There 'aint an oyster in it?" "What's eating you?" demanded the waiter. "There 'aint no dogs in dog biscuits either, is there?" A small town paper near here the other day in describing a musical concert In town said, regarding the vocalist's execution, "Her voice would frighten any gathering." No doubt the printer meant to put a b where he put the f, but it looks pretty bad in black and white print.

The first battle of the Civil war, according to one of the grade school students, was the battle of Bay Rum.

If looks could bore, the clock in our office would be full of holes about ten

minutes before quitting time.

According to history, women were not exceptionally bright in the old

Roman days when Caesar trod the

earth. According to one of the high

school pupils in class the other day

they haven't changed much.

If we would take the E off of Dame

Rumor that would about hit most of

the kind that's been going the rounds

lately.

If some men could get things into

their beads they'd have it all in a nut

shell.

"How many of you guys are in that

cell?" asked one of the jailers over

at the county jail the other day.

"Five," came back the. answer from

the inside of the cell.

"Alright, half of you come on out," ordered the jailer. We're kind of short on funny stuff today. A goat came along and ate up most of our jokes. There's one goat, anyhow, that's full of fun. "What is a cone, Johnny?" one of the grade school teachers asked a pupil recently. It's a funnel stuffed full of ice cream," replied Johnny, who really ought to know.

DINNER 5TORIEi A nnwnhrnVar In & Small COUDtry

town waa awakened in the middle of

the night by a furious knocklnc at

his shop door. He opened his window

and looked out. "Wh-wh-what's the matter?" he asked. "Come down." demanded the stranger. "Who ar " "Come down!" Interrupted the other. The pawnbroker hastened downstairs and peeped round the door. "Now, sir." he demanded. "I wan'sh to know the time!" said the bibulous one. "You blinking idiot. Do you mean to .say you woke me up for that? How dare you?" The midnight visitor looked injured. . "Well, you've got my watch," he explained. New Smoking Volcano

Discovered in Alaska

(By Associated Press.)

western Alaska has a new smoking

volcano, according to advices received here today by mail from Valdes, Alaska. The latest addition to the

northern territory's half dozen or more, is -on the mainland near Cape Douglas, about fifty miles east of the tiorv Mount Katmai whose crater is

said by scientists to be one of the

lareest of the elobe.

The advices here said so far no reports of lava or ashes from the new volcano have been received, but earthquake tremors are of frequent occurrence and an eruption is looked

for at any time.

BERLIN BANK DEPOSITS

NEW YORK, April 25.- The Berlin savings banks received deposits in January amounting to 32,000.000

marks, total deposits at the end of

January being 540,000,000 marks, ae

cording to the Berlin Tageblatt.

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Into a New World

Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post

ISTORIANS and political philosophers understand

better now: after three and a half years of war they can look back upon the old dead Europe of

1914 almost as they can look upon the Napoleonic Europe of 1S10 an era eo completely past, so thoroughly done for, that they regard it with detachment. That sense of detachment from the good old days we knew in 19Mand 1913 grows upon one who observes Europe in this sad period of 191S until he comes instinctively to regard the commonplace apparatus of the 1913 civilization, which surrounds him all about, a little as one regards the relics of Roman life at Pompeii. That old world is gone forever. What kind of world will come out of this melting pot we do not know, though some of us are trying dimly to guess. Though the war is not yet over, the social, intellectual, political and economic reconstruction has already begun. We have entered the new house of thought; the door is closed; we' cannot go back if we would. That is why we can look now upon 1914 almost as we can look on 1814, and see what was the matter with the European world from which we so suddenly and so violently emerged.

OncSpur. Moment

It is customary for actor folk to ppeak of their salaries in "four figures" a week, and it Is the ambition of every man to become a "four-figure" artist. The other day we met our old friend Nick Stark on the street. Nick has played everything from Uncle Sam to Dr. Lavender, and has played everything well, but has never been better than a "three-figure" actor on the salary list. "Well," he said, "I am finally a 'fourfigure' actor. I have a new part in a vaudeville sketch, and I get $47.50 a week. Four figures, do you get me? One German spy arrested says: "There is no justice in this country." If there were, he would be decorating a lamppost. . THE HUN'S ADVANCE IN WAVES. BUT BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES. SUPPRESSING THE MULE The mule, while one of our greatest blessings, in many ways has become, a positive menace to his friends aloug the western front. It is an unfortunate habit with the mule to raise his voice in song about every so often. Over in France he has quite unintentionally revealed the whereabouts of our troops by his Carusoesque interpolations. But science Is wonderful. It has come to bat with a cure for braying. A slight operation is performed on the nose of the mule, and he can no longer emit loud tones. He may sing, but hi3 song is a song of twilight a hushed and well-modulated croon, not At all penetrating. ' Of course, there is the old way that of tying a large rock to the tail of a mule. That operation stops his

song because no mule can sing when his tail is fastened down. But the trouble has been that the American mule has volunteered for service in such large numbers that there are not enough rocks in France. Hence the invention. Great is science. The best way for a man to show that he can manage the affairs of this land is to get out first and successfully manage a backyard garden. A GOOD MANY YOUNG MEN WTHO START OUT TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE FIND THAT IT IS MADE OF ASBESTOS. THERE ARE VERY FEW CONVICTIONS FOR ARSON. One of the regiments in an eastern cantonment one on Long Island to be explicit was very anxious to go over to France and get busy. The men of the regiment were very much disappointed at the likelihood of having to undergo several more weeks of training. Two of the boys managed to have themselves transferred to a command that left for France at once. Then the regiment hoisted a new service flag with two stars on it.

At Camp Upton there are 250 women workers helping to keep the troops in the highest state of efficiency.

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No More Socks Will Go f to 13, S. Soldiers in France

(Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 25. -Socks are so plentiful in the ranks of the American expeditionary forces that the ban on th parcel post shipment of hosiery from America will be continued, Major General March, acting chief of staff, has advised Senator WTeeks of Massachusetts. The shipments, which Massachusetts desired to send to Bay State troops would use tonnage space needed for other supplies and therefore must be held up, General March said.

Drives Out Rheumatism

Take "Neutrone Prescription 99" and All Soreness and Stiffness Will Fade Away As If By Magic.

"Neutrone Prescription 99" for rheumatism! Nothing like it in the wide world. It is a prescription that everybody is talking about, and when one takes it, it penertates to the muscles and Joints and quickly drives out the causes of the painful trouble. Druggists are selling a whole lot of "Neutrone Prescription 99" to people who must have fre and strong muscles to support a vigorous body for work. Get "Neutrone Prescription 89" for weary, stiff and painful muscles and joints. Get it to take out the agony from those painful limbs. Use this sure relief, not only for rheumatism, but to clear up the kldaeys, make the liver work and purify the blood. A week's treatment for 50c. Large size bottle. 11.00, Conkey Drug Co., and leading druggists everywhere. Adv.

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