Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 85, 18 February 1919 — Page 6
PAGE SIX THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1919.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM!
AND SUN-TELEGRAM
Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by , Palladium Printing Co. . ( Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, a Seo ond Class Mall Matter. MEMBER OK TUB ASIOCIATKD PRESS 'The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the usa for republication of all news dicpatches credited to Uor not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news, published herein... All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ! ' Another Expression on Bolshevism The Christian Science Monitor, in a very exhaustive editorial on Bolshevism in the United States, comes to the conclusion that time is here when the truth must be pounded into the heads of agitators that the United States will not tolerate doctrines that are diametrically opposed to the spirit and the purpose of the United States government. v The Monitor believes that the safety valve of the United States is loyalty of the wage-earning mass, which has steadfastly refused to be enveigled into accepting the Utopian dreams of German Socialists and the "anarchistic doctrines of Russian nihilists.'
The opinion of the Monitor follows : "An Inestimable source of, public safety- in the United
States has ever teen the loyalty, to democratic govern,ment of the preponderating majority of the wage-earning mass. Because the American workingman, as a rule, has been American first of all, e has never yet consented to be bound up with any distinctively labor political party. He has, throughout all the past, Insisted upon voting as a citizen, .not as a class citizen. He is largely a man of family, the .owner of. a home, a supporter of the public school system, a potential employer and capitalist In the past numerous efforts have been made by persons destructively Inclined, to lure him from bis allegiance to American citizenship, but without success. Speaking of the. situation in Seattle,' the Washington (District of Colurnbia) correspondent of this newspaper, the other day, After remarking that there were evidences of a rapid Increase of radicalism and a feeling of unrest closely akin to Bolshevism, if not to anarchy itself, added: The struggle at Seattle la viewed, therefore, as one between radicalism and conservatism. Organized labor, through' its recognized officials, is seeking to care for its interests in an orderly manner and to secure the best possible wages and working conditions. The radicals, howeverare for the most part single and irresponsible men who have drifted to Seattle and now are making their presence felt They have come under the Influence of the I. W. W. agitators, who have imbued them with the thought that now is the time to strike at law and order. "Unquestionably, it is an important part of the purpose of the fomentors of strife in the United States to bring about not only national but international disturbance of reconstruction plans, social and industrial as well as political, by striking at and striving to delay, undermine, and nullify the work of the Peace Conference with regard to Industrial conditions. There are, apparently, some members of Congress who, consciously or unconsciously, permit themselves to be used by those who would, if they could, repeat in the United States the performances .that have . brought desolation upon Russia. There is no danger that these mischief-makers will accomplish thrir purpose. Nevertheless, the passage in the senate, a few days ago, of two resolutions calling for an investigation of the widest scope into the activities of .any parties In the country engaged in propagating Bolshevist doctrines, and the debate resulting from their introduction, were very timely. These resolutions confer ample authority for the ascertainment of facts of immediate importance. , "What seems to be most essential is that positive action shall be taken toward dealing with those who openly and defiantly antagonize both law and public sentiment by disseminating anarchistic doctrines. Senator Borah put the matter very clearly when he said that there is no possible reason for appealing to violence or disorder in the United States, since there exists in the country a method whereby all desired changes may be brought about in an orderly and lawful way. 'The ballot,' he said, 'is in the hands of the people, and there is no occasion under any circumstances or conditions for an appeal to lawlessness, whatever the object, or the motive, or the purposes may be, or the ultimate aims to be accomplished.' "The time seems to have arrived when this truth must be ground into the consciousness of tbase who seem bent upon introducing into the United States social and political doctrines utterly at variance with and repugnant to its government and its Ideals."
ply your bread and butter, work for him; speak
well of him; stand by him and stand bythe insti
tution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you
must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage why resign your, position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But as long as you are cart of the institution, do not condemn it. If
- , you do, you are losing the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and the first high wind that comes along, you wttl be uprooted and blown away in the blizzard's track and probably you will never
know why." , Loyalty is a quality that is demanded not oniy of the soldier, but also of the civilian in all walks of life. Loyalty is the subtle influence that binds together the employer and the employe, and all other things being equal, it is the dynamic power that gives success to every venture of an institution. But loyalty is also demanded of the employer. It would be a one-sided arrangement to insist on this quality in the employe and permit the employer to play traitor to the men in his organization. When both employer and employe are loyal to each other, in every sense of the word; when the employer works to the best interests of his men, and the employe strives conscientiously to
serve his employer, then you may expect to find loyalty of a superb quality. Hubbard did not want his observation applied to the employe alone. It is just as shameful for the employer to vilify and condemn his men on the outside as it is for the employe to play traitor to the institution with wfiich he is connected. The employer should heed Hubbard's advice and if , he is dissatisfied with his men, discharge them, provided he has cogent reasons. Both the employer and the employewill find food for reflection in the observation of Hubbard.
A Form of Loyalty Elbert Hubbard in one of his sententious observations said: "If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages that sup-
Do You Want a Home on a Farm? This is the unique title of a little booklet which the secretary of the interior, with the active cooperation of the war and navy departments, is sending to the various camps of the army, navy, and marine corps throughout the country to ascertain the attitude of the men toward his plan for providing them with work and homes on reclaimed land.
The booklet is in the form of questions and answers which give a complete and concise description of the plan, and also has attached to it a post card questionnaire which the men are asked to fill out and mail to the department. Each man
interested will be asked to state his name, home address, age, occupation before enlistment,
whether he has ever worked on a farm, whether he is interested in the plan, what kind of farming
he would like to follow, whether general, live stock, truck, or fruit, and whether he would be willing to take a job in his own state or anywhere in the United States if a job on one of these proposed projects is offered to him. A tabulation of the replies will be presented to congress in connection with Secretary Lane's request for an initial appropriation of $100,000,000 to begin construction on meritorious projects throughout the United States.
Y. Jf . C. A. in France Has Done as Well As Out Army," Says Wm. Allen White
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
CAN'T EXPECT FULL PERFECTION. Columbia Record. Next thing the antis will be tackling we suppose, will be the matter of our chewing tobacco; but, doggoneit, we've just' got to retain one vice somehow or other.
THE MATERIAL IS HERE Anaconda Standard. Little early for harvesting operations, but depend upon it, at the right moment Ohio will come up smiling with a bumper crop of favorite Bons.
THEY'RE WELCOME TO THEM Chicago News. America asks nothing for itself in the way of land and is not even locking up the Philippines at night.
WHERE THEY FIRST COLLIDED Detroit News. An appropriate place for a celebration of father and son week would be the woodshed.
THE GATES OF HOPE ARE OPEN
Doughboys Have Much to Say Against Y, but Organization Has Done a Big Work and Done It Well, Investigator Finds.
By Federal Board for Vocational Training. A FORMER bell boy injured at Chateau Thierry, with practically no education and outlook for the future, has been given a short course in an automobile school by tho Federal Board for Vocational Education and placed in a large garage, where he is earning a good wage and learning the mechanism of the car. so that his earning capacity will increase. A young man of ability wounded at Belleau Wood, a member of a family of physicians, who had been trying to earn enough by occupations for which he was untrained, to put himself through medical college. Is being given one year of a medical course with tho prospect of continuing the training if it proves to be suitable. Another young man, a physician, lost both his legs In the Argonne and so could not return to general practice. He will be given graduate training so that he may carry on office practice as a specialist. One young sailor who was prepared to enter medical school lost his hearing from shell concussion, and is being given a course In Up reading to be followed by a course in bacteriology. One case, typical of many, is that of a young man with general farm experience, who is physically unable to do the heavy work of the farm, because of rheumatism Incurred In one of the cantonments, and is being trained In scientific farming, so that he can be placed as a manager with the expectation of ultimately managing a farm tt tin own. " Another who has grown up on a small farm,
asked for a course in motor engines and tractor Operation, so that he could go into partnership with his father on a' large farm suitable for tractor cultivation, as he was incapacitated by an artificial limb for general farm work. A young Greek, as the result of his service in the army has a weak heart, with some experience and ability as a salesman, is receiving a course in a commercial school, with especial emphasis upon English composition, spelling and penmanship. v , A man of thirty, whose previous occupation required the handling of logs and heavy machinery, but who had read books on engines and electricity, is being given a course in electrical station operation, because an injury due to shrapnel to his back makes heavy work impossible. A 6tone mason, with some knowledge of stationary engines, lost his left arm at Chateau Thierry, and is being given training in gas and stationary engine operation. The government will give to those handicapped men who need and desire training before going into employment, so much education, at: the expense of the federal government, as the man may need; provided, of course, that his claims are reasonable and that his previous training and the nature of his handicap are such as to make further training profitable. The great majority of the returning soldiers do not know of the generous provisions made by the government for their future welfare. By writing the Federal Board foV Vocational Education, Washington, they wiU be given all information. - ' -. " A
By VICTOR McNAUGHT. PARIS, Feb. 18. (Special Correspondence) The . inquiring stranger who . arrives in France at 6 a. m. is fully aware by noon that the Institution most unpopular with the Ameri
can army is the Y. M. C. A. Any doughboy will tell him so, and will take obvious pleasure in the telling. There is no news in this, to be sure, as everybody knows that one of the greatest of all sports during the past few weeks has been "exposing" the "Y." No doubt the people back home
have : heard and Victor McNaoght read many able defenses of the or
ganization, and statements of the great amount of work done for the
soldiers. My purpose is to set down what I have heard from privates, officers and Y workers on this side, and
what I have actually seen, with the intent to state the plain and exact
truth. . , , '-
Why Soldiers Protest. Why do the soldiers decry the Y.
M. C. A.? We may take the following as the chief reasons advanced " for their discontent:
1. Th Y failed to brins comforts
into the fighting zone-during the big drives, thoucrh it has been very active
and efficient in rest areas.
2. Y men have had a safe and easy time of "It. when they ought to have been carrying rifles in the infantry. 3. There are too many excursionitsts and sightseers In the Y, who are ready to go home as soon as they have toured the battlefields and tasted of
the excitements of life in Paris. 4. Too many preachers in the Y, and inn much nreaehine.
5. The doughboys resent the lmpll-1
cation that the Y has "saved" them from various forms of perdition. They allow with some heat that a few Y workers needed a bit of shepherd ing that they didn't get 6. Too many workers are condescending and supercilious; top many small men with inflated opinions of themselves. 7. The usual complaints about overcharging for canteen supplies, with many protests that the Y. M. C A. should give away its wares. The reader will please remember that the seven counts in this indictment were drawn up for me by soldiers met in various parts of France, and that they are set down here, not as conclusions, but for further reference and examination. Before we take up the case for final judgment, we will have a look about and 6ee how the organization is actually operted. Y. M. C. A. at Verdun One Sunday morning a party of newspaper men drove into Verdun in a military automobile, en route from the St. Mihiel region to the Argonne forest. We needed a few things to eat at midday, as we were about to enter a region swept bare of all civilian life, so we drove to the Y. M. C. A. headquarters. We found the Y in a large, bare, and partly ruined building opening into a desolate court strewn with stones, bits of broken tile and other debris. The canteen occupied a large room on the ground floor. It was crowded with men and officers, standing in a line that wound back and forth, waiting their turns at the counter. A man and a woman were working as hard as they could. I judged they had been there for hours, and that they would remain for many hours more. "Now, the reason why I like the Salvation Army better than the Y. M. C. A." came a voice at my side. I listened. One doughboy was telling another that "the Y acts as though it is doing youa favor, while the Salvation Army folks make you feel that you are doing them a favor in coming to them." I did not, personally, envy the Y workers their long, hard hours in this muddy, desolate place, where no one seemed inclined to give them any thanks for their effort. Foiling the Women. The Y. M. C. A. occupies a large
building, a convenient central location in Bordeaux, and it seems to be crowded all the time. The canteen workers p-et mti time to reflect about the
aspersions of critics, because the crit
ics keep them too busy. - The library maintained at this place is liberally patronized by the soldiers and sailors, and the lounge is a popular room, especially in the evening. One Sunday night Rube Goldberg and i tirnnnnri in to buv some soaD and
other home comforts, and we found
the place crowded. A sailor was playing on the piano, and in a moment he was acting as accompanist for a woman violinist, who performed to the evident enjoyment of the boys. Outside the wild young women of Bordeaux were literally combing the streets for
victims, but they were deprived of the opportunity of parading their charms before one large building full of Amer
icans. To end this discursive view and get down to the charges, let us take the testimony of Lieut, Stephen T. Early, of the 317th Infantry, now associated with the Stars and Stripes in Paris. In civilian life. Lieutenant Early was with the Washington staff of the Associated Press, so we' may regard him as careful and reliable in his statements and conclusions. Y in Battle Zone. "My regiment was in the Argonne fighting." he told me. "One day my
platoon was in the support' line, just a little back of the main engagement, and right alongside us there was a Y man with a stock of chocolate and clgarets, which he was giving away free to the soldiers. To my knowledge he : worked steadily for twenty-four hours without a stop. He did all that any body could possibly have done." , I talked with a ' fine, capable and sensible Y. M., C A-. secretary who has spent eighteen months in France, and who knows the situation thoroughly..:-v-v: .;' ; "It Is true, 'he told me, "that some of the Y workers should never have
come to France at all. Out of a per
sonnel of 6,500 men. headquarters has been obliged to give dishonorable discharges to 200 and send them home. These men were of the type who bad never experienced temptation, and who couldn't measure up to the situation. Some of them went wrong morally. You have heard how three workers have been locked up for embezzling money entrusted to them by doughboys about to go over the top. We have had too many ministers without executive ability. Some ministers have gone down before the lure of the girls on the Paris boulevards. Then we have had some men who used the Y as a means of getting to France to see the war, and whose interest flagged as soon as they had been around a little. We have bad small men with big heads who lacked tact and who couldn't get along with the boys. But take all these misfits together, and they have made only a small percentage of the whole. The great body of the workers are sincere, whole-hearted men who have
made real sariflces, in order that they might come. No Extortionate Prices. , "Charges of extortionate prices are no't fair. At the outset, when the army directed the Y. M. C. A. to oper- J ate the post exchanges, we charged prices that would cover cost of goods and transportation, and a margin for waste and spoilage. This caused protest. For some time the Y has charged commissary prices and stood a loss for tho rest. "On one occasion I obtained a supply of smoking tobacco which I sold at three cents a sack. The rumor
started that I charged a franc a sack, and I couldn't head it off. . . "We have given away free to the soldier more supplies than all the rest of the relief organizations . put together, with the exception of the Red Cross. "The Y. M. C. A. stands well with the high officers of the army. Our most merciless critics are the lieutenants. As for the doughboys, they do not have an easy "time of It over here In the mud, with their pay often
far in arrears, and with the malls from home slow and Irregular. The
men have their personal troubles; many a man has come to me for comfort when his girl back home married
someone else. The doughboys are per
fectly free to take out their grouch on the Y. M. C. A., and they do it The Y offers them a safety valve. It seems discouraging at times to work your head off and get. nothing but growls and sneers and looks of aversion, but I am confident that judgments will be more mellow in time." What W. A. White Says. I asked William Allen White what he thought of the work of the Y. M. C. A. "It has done as well as the army," was his comment My own opinion is that the Y. M. C. A. has been "of inestimable service to our men abroad, in spite of all mistakes. The cheerful reading and lounging rooms all over France, the $2,000,000 spent for athletic equipment, the equal amount invested in books, the ten million sheets of letter paper and envelopes given away free weekly, the constantly crowded canteens, all have given the maximum of good. The boys may speak darkly of the Y, but it is their club, just the same, and they make a world of use of it. Some day they will speak better of it (The next article in this series will
ten how the president and the Ameri
can nation are regarded abroad.)
When Was MillerKemper Company Organized Here?
The Miller-Kemper . Construction company is a comparatively young firm, having been organized in 1909. Both members of the firm were ex
perienced construction men, however, and the young firm enjoyed a large
business from the very first. , The company's policy, one which up until that time bad been used by only very much larger firms in much larger cities, the building of good building on short notice in the shortest possible time. Many of the largest and best buildings in the city are to be credited to the Miller-Kemper company.
( Signs of Spring ) Lawrence Handley says that the best sign he knows of is that hardy perennially blooming annual, the seed catalogue, and that none of these have blossomed yet.
THEN YEARS Ago Today in R ichmond
Several cases of smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria were reported to city health officer.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Shallenberg issues invitations for wedding of their daughter, Miss Lillian Agnes Shallenberg to Max J. Ford of Washington, D. C. y
Indiana Holds Tenth Place
In Number of Service Men WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Indiana sent 106,581 men to the war, accord
ing to figures compiled by the war de
partment The state ranks tenth in
the number of men In service.
Ohio ranks fouth with 200,293 men
in service. New York leads with 367,864, Pennsylvania is second with
297,891 men and Illinois is third with
251,074.
Dinner S tor ie
He emerged from the dining room
window, and slunk stealthily toward the shadows. . , "'Ullo, 1 'Enery !" remarked the shadows. "Got 'er jools?" "No," replied 'Enery. "In 'er jool case and him hevery drawer in 'er bureau."
Prof, and MrsvE. P. Trueblood were selected to act as principal and matron at Earlham College during the spring semester. Charles E. McMinn, freight car conductor on Pennsylvania injured near Ridgeville.
Charles Jordan favored slight revision in school text book law, advocating a measure permitting book manufacturing companies to charge more for primer, first reader and speller.
TANKS FOR COMMERCE LONDON, Feb. 18. The tanks are going after-civilian jobs in the army of reconstruction. The tank idea, developed in war from the American farm tractor, is not going to be abandoned in peace. Engineers are at work on designs for commercial high-speed tanks, or trucks with tank treads, and manufacture of these machines probably will keep the war tank factories running. The advantages of the caterpllIer tread, used in tanks, include less wear and tear on roads, greater mud-navigating . powers, and great hill-climbing ability, it la claimed. ' :
A WOMAN'S RBCOMMBWDATION Mrs. D. T. Tryor, Franklin Av.. Otsego, O., writes: "Nine years ago I was very much afflicted with kidney trouble. I bought different kinds of medicine, but all to no effect, until one day I bought a box of Foley Kidney Pills. I realised so great a benefit from the use of that box that I concluded myself cured of kidney trouble. I feci safe in recommending Foley Kidney Pills to any kidney sufferers." They relieve backache, sore muscles, stiff joints, rheumatio pains and bladder ailments. For sale by A. O. Luken & Co. Adv. . ,
"Lord, man, yer don't know nofink about the ways, of - wimmen. Why didn't yer look in the bath room. You'd a-found the 'ole bloomin' lot where she left em on the washbasin'!' A benevolent old gentleman was walking through the outskirts of a town, when a woman darted out into
the road, unmercifully beating a little lad.
"My good woman," exclaimed the kindly one as he seized the woman's arm to stop her, "you mustn't do that! What harm has he done?" "What! I mustn't do that? What harm has he done?" she shrieked. "If you would like to know, he has opened the hen roost and all the fowls have got away." x "Well, if that's all. It's nothing so very difficult. Chickens, you know, always come home to roost" "Yes, that's just it," said the woman gloomily. "John," anounced Mrs. Stylover, "I'm going to town tomorrow to see the new hats." ' "You forget," her husband reminded her, "that tomorrow is Sunday. The shops will be closed." "Who said any thing about shops? I'm going to church."
lien of Executive Ability . Are Greatly in Demand NEW YORK. Feb. 18. Despite the constantly Increasing - number of discharged soldiers seeking employment, positions of the "better class," paying from $5,000 to 10.000 a year, are going begging,' according to J. O. Winslow, director of the professional and special hectlon of the United States employment service. Men with executive ability, he said, are the ones In demand. This condition, Mr. WInslow said, is especially acute In the export aeld which, although flooded with applications from young men who desire to learn the business, is totally unable to fill positions calling for executive ability and export traing. Accountants, expert engineers and banking executives are In similar great demand, he added, while the coffee and sugar Importing business and the advertising field offer equally attractive opportunities for the "right men."
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JOHN BARLEYCORN, MY JO. John Barleycorn, my jo, John, When we were first acquaint. You' were a blushing flask, John, Of fifteen-cent nose paint And now your hour Is struck, John; You haven't far to go;
But here's a toast to which, you were, John Barlecorn, my jo. John Barleycorn, my jo, John, We clamb the bil together; And there were many times, John, When we made heavy weather. The hours I spent with you John, How fleetly did they go. Twill be a long and dry farewell, John Barleycorn, my jo. Rev. Harold E. Mouse, of Harperton, W. Va, has just received a signal honor in shape of the gold medal of the permanent wild life fund for distinguished services in the cause of wild life. Yet it was a mouse that made the edephant crazy. A 21-cent drop In eggs In nine days. If they keep on that way they should . be down to 60 cents a dozen in a couple of weeks. There are only two things in the world we refuse to worry about. One is the price of garlic salad In the restaurants and the other is what be-x comes of King Manuel. Before the advent of the kaiser's six sons into the limelight Manny held the undisputed boob championship of Europe. MODERN EPITAPHS. What's left of Oswald Perkins Bland Is resting in this space. He puffed a Fldr de Onion and Blew smoke into my face. 7 Luke McLuke. Here rests what was Ambrosia Jones
In what were her best clothes. She starched my hanky,, dern her bones, And it cut off my nose. Anon. Here He Lucile and Henry Brown; Their work on earth is done. They wed to prove that two could live As cheaply now as one. State Right to Conscience Still Open. Conscience In Three Reels. Write for State Rights. " Movie Ad.
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Thin, Nervous, Run-Down People Should Take Bitro-Phosphate i Remarkable Substance Discovered by Frencb Scientist Closely Resembles Natural Composition of Nerve Cells in Human Body
Creates New Flesh, Strength and Energy In Two ( Weeks' Time In Many Instances. New York Physicians and druggists all over the country have been intensely interested in reports concerning- the nerve and strength-building properties of Bltro-Phosphat. discovered by the French scientist, Pelous, and later so successfully used and Introduced to the medical world by Professor Robin, of the fcademy of Medicine. Paris.It Is said that the constituent elements of Bitro-Phosphate are the nearest In composition to the materials naturally found In the nerve cells of the human body of any known substance, and that it famishes an Immediate supply of food and energy to the nervous system as soon as It Is taken. Frederick Kolle. M. D.. Editor of New York Physicians', "Who's Who," says: "Bitro-Phosphate should be prescribed by every doctor and used in every hospital to Increase strength and nerve force and to enrich the blood." Joseph D. Harrlgan, former Visiting Specialist to North Eastern Dispensatory, says: "Let those who are nerv
ous, thin, weak, or run down, take a natural, unadulterated substance such as Bitro-Phosphate, and you will soon see some astonishing results in the increase of nerve energy, strength of body and mind and power of endurance." Those who are Inclined toward nervousness, thinness, weakness, nervous debility, sleeplessness, etc., will greatly appreciate the opportunity to secure such certain relief and aid as Is afforded by this discovery. In order that the public may always be saved from deception, it has been arranged that the laboratories ' bottling Bitro-Phosphate will sell It under no other name In this country, and nothing else should be accepted.. Very complete Information relating
xo its use in tne treatment or nervou
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age, so that It may be understood and
correctly applied by anyone. So certain is It to assist those who. are nervous to regain their health and vitality that the manufacturers guarantee to refund Its cost to any who are dissatisfied after using It It is sold by Conkey Drug Co. In , Richmond andv
most all good druggists. Adv.
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