Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 330, 4 December 1918 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, DEC 4, 1918
REACTION FROM
ECONOMY IS SEEN JfER U. S. People ,Who Abstained From Making Unnecessary Purchases Now Rushing to to Shops. TVv Associated PrfM.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 4. Reaction from war time economy la apparent in reports to various government agencies since the signing of the armistice. War savings committees In all rarts of the country have submitted itatements tending to show, that per oqs who abstain from buying unnecessary clothes during the war have rushed to shops within the past week or two and bought according to prewar standards. Retail businesses' report stimulation el business by peace news. In some rase, the response was Immediate, business showing a big jump within a ('ay or two after Nov. 11. This reaction seems most marked among the wealthier claes. ' Reports gathered by the Federal Reserve Board also show activity among wholesale houses to meet the demand of retailers. The wholesale business, however. Is somewhat restricted by the' desire of retail merchants to let their stocks run low, while waiting . prices to come down. Thousands " retailers Quickly arranged special rales of their stocks at lower prices, In view of the uncertainties of the fnturc course of prices. Building operations have taken a svdden start after the long enforced period of sluggishness during the war, and building materials are now beginning to flow away from former war enterprises, toward peace time building projects. Private building seems to be holding back, however. Municipalities and states have turned their thoughts to building roads and bridgs, held up during the war shortage of materials, and within the next month : fT-cials here look for a multitude of advertisements for bids for these promts. At least eight bilns of dollars must be raised In the United States next year from war bonds or war savIngs. Officials argue that floating of these loans without corresponding alng In money and materials merely drives to inflate credit ,and the practical result of this inflation is a general rise In prices.
As the sun of life sinks toward the wet Life has been jaid to consist of a constant succession of breakdowns and repairs. In old age, the former predominate. The body machine is more or less worn out. Digestion is less perfect, elimination of waste is increased in. quantity, but reduced in efficiency. IIcr.cc constipation is particularly pernicious Constipation means more than mere failure of the howcls to move icgularly and thoroughly. Jt means stagnation of ihe contents of the intestine, increased fermentation, putrefaction and germ action, the production cf irritating and poisonous substances, that are absorbed into the blood and carried all over the body, Thij is always serious in old age it is especially dangerous. Constipation cannot be cured by drugs at any rge. It V especially harmful to an aged person to use pills, salts, ind similar strong purges in order to force the bowel to act 13uv The Nujol 'I icatment for Constipation is not only safe, it is t every way efficient. . Nujol is not a drug, does not act iike any drug. Nujo helps' natuie to re-establish easy, soft, thorough bowe. evacuation as "regular as clockwork " Nu'h softens and keeps properly moist the intcstina'ovastc Nujol makes it easy for the intestinal muscles to act, and prevents them from overwork Nujoi absorbs poisons and carries them out of the body. Get Nujol from your druggist and take it according to directions WnrnilKS NUJOL' is sold only in sealed
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The Treasury now is seeking to develop means of continuing thrift propaganda throughout the next few rtars, to educate the publip to the duty of paying off Indebtedness before relaxing war time economy. In fact, ttudents of economy in the Treasury declare that unles sthe American people learn lessons of thrift which popn'rtions of England, France, Germany enC other warring nations have learned during the past four years, the cruntry will be in position during reconstruction of absorbing much more tl.an its share of the world's available block of food, materials and labor, needed for the physical rebuilding of devastated portions of Europe. Treasury agencies studying banks' conditions in industrial communities, particularly where war materials were manufactured. And that ravings and checking accounts maintained by orkmeii do not have balances proportionate to their advances in wages (iring the war. Hold Conference on Proposed Church Union (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4 More than 100 delegates representing fourteen religious denominations, assembled here today for a three day conference on church union. Prominent clergymen and laymen from all parts of the country were in attendance Denominations represented include the Northern Baptist, Congrega-. tlonal, Disciples of Christ, Society of Friends. Methodist Episcopal, Evangelical Synod of North America, Mor avian, Presbyterian Church in the United States, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed Church in the United States, Reformed Church in America, United Lutheran, United Presbyterian Church of America, and the Welsh Presbyterian. The call for the conference was Issued as the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at its meeting last May in Columbus, O. In discussing the object of the conference, Dr. W. P. Fulton of this city said today the funda mental aim was church union. "Failing in this," he. added, "some plan of federation will be tried. We will endeavor to bring about close co-operation in the fields both of home and foreign missions and in solving social problems of religious work."
ARMY OFFICERS PARDONED WASHINGTON. Dec. 4. Lieut. Cols. J. C. Vincent and George W. Mixter, army officers, named by Charles E. Hughes in a report on aircraft investigation, have been pardoned by the president. You may suffer from
EXPENSES DURING NOVEMBER MAKE NEW IIIGIIREGORD Expenditures for Month Were $1.935,248,000 Used to Pay for Munitions Output. WASHfNGTON, Dec. 4. Government exoendltures in November reached the new high record of $1,835,249,000, the Treasury Department announced today. Officials attributed these huge expenses to the fact that the government is now paying for the tremendous output of war munitions and materials reached a month or two ago. They also expect that the expense of liquidating contracts and paying lump sums to contractors will keep the monthly outlay at high figures for some time. During November, $1,550,051,000 was spent for war production and other expenses Incurred by this Government and $278,949,000 was loaned to the allies. ' Receipts from fourth liberty loan bonds reached $3,142,442,000 In November, making the total sum paid to the treasury on the fourth loan $5,439,-
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Camp Taylor Rapidly Clearing Oat Men (By Associated Press) LOUISVILLE. Ky., Dec. 4. Rapid progress , Is being made In clearing camp Zachary Taylor of soldiers on duty there, the program for this week as announced from the office of Lieut. Col. H. H. Elrath calling for the discharge of 7,000 men before Saturday night, bringing the total discharged since the signing of the armistice above 12,000. The completion of this schedule will see the field artillery central officers training school practically cleared of all those candidates for commission who have asked to be discharged, and will find a majority of the enlisted personnel of the 159th depot brigade on their way home. It was also announced that discharge of nine thousand men in the field artillery replacement depot at Camp Zachry Taylor will begin about December 16.
PARENTS OF SON Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carlander are the parents of a son, Lester, Jr., born this morning at their home here. Mr. Carlanderls secretary of the Y. M. C. A. 191,000, much more than is actually due now. Nearly a billion dollars came In No ember from sale of certificates of indebtedness.
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LAST Night some beloved friends sat with us in the living room of our home and heard the j living voice of Marie Rappold singing Bizet's "Agnus Dei.'' Don't mistake me. It was the superb voice itself that sang to us. The room thrilled with its power and sweetness and exquisite human warmth. Almost before, quiet had fallen upon the last note we were listening to Jacques Urlus singing "0 Paradeis" from Meyerbeer's Afrikanerin. Then, in swift succession, we heard Lucrezia Bori sing the delicious " 'Twas He, Perchance," from La Traviata ; we heard the marvelous voice of Alice Verlet in Verdi's "Caro Nome" ; we heard Julia Heinrich and Ciccolini sing "Home to Our Mountains," from II Trovatore ; we heard the voice of Emmy Destinn singing "Love and Music," from La Tosca ; we heard the incomparable melting-sweet tones of Elizabeth Spencer's voice in the beautiful "Voce de Donna," from Gioconda ; we heard Frederic Martin's magnificent bass in "Vision Fugitive,", from Massenet's Herodiade. All that, mind you, within the span of an hour ! The greatest singers of earth brought to us upon the wings of a modern miracle. Not mere counterfeit presentments mark that well but glorious realities. There was no illusion about it. No, it wasn't an illusion. Five years ago it would have been incredible, impossible ; but last night it was all very real. Even five years ago we should have been obliged to spend three months six months in patient, hard travel to hear those same master-artists. A fortune in seven figures could not have brought them all into our home. Yet here they were last night, and here they will be lingering from hour to hour and from day to day during the rest of our lives. The secret? A dignified mahogany cabinet standing quietly in a quiet corner. That is all our eyes may see. But, hidden from sight, is the thing done by the genius of a man whose business in life is the working of miracles Thomas A. Edison. Other musical phonographs ? Of course I've heard them. I've been listening to them for years. They have been interesting too, interesting chiefly for the faint hope they offered of what might one day be accomplished. They could play tunes, and so they were worth having for any sort of music is better than none. But when it came to falling passionately in love with what they were able to give it couldn't be done. There's the point ! We do not feel our hearts stirred with love for a mere imitation, for a mere counterfeit of reality, however clever. The plain truth is that music is a thing of infinite passion ; and great passion cannot descend to being merely clever. Between lines I've stopped long enough to listen to Arthur Middleton's singing of the noble "Bedouin Love Song." Hear that, and you'll know exactly what I mean. In every perfect tone, ringing with robust masculine ardor, sounds the voice of a magnificent lover crying his ecstasy beneath the midnight sky. That isn't the voice of a phonograph singing; it's the' voice of Life, instinct with all that goes to make Life glorioils. That's music ! Last night, when .Albert Spalding was playing the Tschaikowsky Serenade, a girl who sat at my side showed me tear-moist' eyes. "It's so sweet that it hurts!" she whispered. She was not alone in that emotion. More than once strong men, men living in the thick of sturdy things, have sat with us in this room, listening, and have betrayed, unashamed, that they felt old memories quickening or new impulses stirring under the spell. They were the better for it. That's what pure music does : It makes men better, gives to life a new dimension of goodness. ' It is no strained figure of speech to say that a very wonderful thing has happened in this wonderful time of ours that a miracle has heen wrought greater than all the rest belonging to a day of many miracles. Not since Guttenberg's time has such a service been rendered humankind. To have put into the every-day lives of the people the inexhaustible wealth of all the world's music at its supreme best. If I might have this perfect service to my credit, I'd be mighty glad to leave to other men the shabby vanities of changing the boundaries of empires and establishing dynasties. This is the true service. Here is an achievement which, instead of making life a burden harder to be borne, has broadened it, deepened it, filled it with new delight.
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FRENCH BAND WILL PLAY IN RICHMOND ON DECEMBER 12
The French band, which has been called "America's honor guests," will stop off In this city on its way to Canada, the afternoon and evening of December 12. Two concerts will be given by the organization in the Coliseum under the direction of Gabriel Pares. A matinee will be given in the afternoon to which all the school children of the city will be admitted for 25 cents. There will be no reserve seats for this performance. Adults will be admitted for 50 cents both afternoon and evening. Reserve seats for the evening performance are now on sale at Harrisons Drug Store. They will be 50 cents for children and adults. The French band toured the United States in the interests of the Fourth Liberty Loan. Through George Eggemeyer and Rutherford Jones the band was engaged sometime ago to stop in this city for a concert. The sixty-two players of the band have all seen from three to four years of service at the front in France, and wear badges of honor. Several members havo been decorated for bravery in action. All the members of the band were formerly well known French musicians, but wen, into service when their country declared war. It Is said that every man bears some
WILLIAM R. LIGHTON Author of "The Billy Fortune" and other stories
A R R I SO N ' Edison Section
When you buy a Phonograph, you buy it for the musical entertainment it affords Keep that Fact in mind.
V. S. Soldiers Quartered . in Public Edifices (By Associated Press' . . LONDON, Dec. 4. American soldiers and sailors who are here are finding difficulty in obtaining sleeping accommodations and the municipal government has offered quarters in many of , the public edifices Including the law courts and parliament buildings. The American Red Cross is providing the beds for the men. , A contingent of nearly six American sailors arrived today and is being quartered at the Law courts. .
Austrian Is Held for Double Murder (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 4. John Peres is being held today on a charge of a double murder committed at the Standard Oil plant at Whiting. Ind., yesterday. Peres, an Austrian, 26 years old resented an order of David McCloud, foreman of the parafin department and beheaded him with a large knife used for cutting parafin. John' Wins work assistant foreman, who sought to aid his superior, also was beheaded. Five special policemen were wounded before Peres was subdued. scars for wheih he has been discharged.
DUTY OF If. S. TO KEEP VOLF FROM WORLD'S DOOR
(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. "The food supplies of the world have been steadily lessening. It is the Impact of this shortage which has knocked at every door In the United States. We bold it in our power and ours alone to keep the wolf from the door of the world. This duty is wider than wtr it is as wide as humanity.' This statement of food administrator Hoover, made in May, 1917, served as a text at hundreds of meetings of women held today throughout the nation as a part of "conservation week for world relief." This appeal, food administration officials said, although made more than a year and a half ago, holds good for the present great task of world relief. Mr. Hoover, who is now in Europe making a survey of the food situation cabled a message to the National presidents of several large organisations of women asking the women of America to remain mobilized to carry on the task of food conservation until the liberated peoples of Europe are fed. In his cablegram the food administrator said: "The United States is pledged to respond to the call of hungry millions. It is the privilege of the women of this country, now as In the past, to meet this crisis." n THE NEW EDISON In Adam, $220.00. THE NEW EDISON In Sheraton, $175.00.
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