Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 86, 19 February 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 1919.

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i u , it Seattle's Mayor Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle, did not sell his soul to. Bolshevism' when' the radical element of his city tried to convert it into a reproduction of a Russian city, with looted houses and murdered inhabitants: ' The alternatives confronting Hanson were: First, to cotton to the radicals in order that he might gain their political support at the next election; secondly, to remain true to his American instincts and the oath of his office. Hanson chose the latter. He decided that this is a nation of law abiding people, of which Seattle is an integral part, and that it is no place for men with anarchistic propensities and a desire to apply the torch and the dynamite as proof of their belief in Bolshevism. V .;, ,,.,;: Convinced that he was right, Hanson put his

convictions to the test, wondering if the, majority of Seattle's residents would stand by him. Se

attle, by espousing the cause of : the mayor,

proved that it believes in the American principle

of law and order. Citizens co-operated with him

in stamping out the insiduous attempt of Bolshevism to gain a foothold in the Western metropolis. Better conditions in all spheres of life cannot be brought about by dynamite, murder and - arson. They can only be made a reality by the application of the sound principles for which our forefathers fought in the Revolutionarywar, which they embodied in the Declaration of Independence and which they re-iterated in the Constitution of the United States. If Bolshevism succeeds in subverting the very foundations of our liberties, then all is lost. Then the sacrifice of the men at Valley Forge was made in vain, then Lexington and Bunker Hill were fought in vain, then the Constitution of the United States is a mere scrap of paper, and all of us are destined to see this fair republic disrupted and turned over to bands of anarchists and nihilists.

Conditions at Brest United States Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma who has just returned from France, where he studied the reconstruction problem of the American army, says, "Brest is not fit for cattle to live in." . The chief source of complaint about this debarkation -point is that it is inadequately equipped to handle the large number of men that make it the jumping off place for, America. . There are no quarters for the men, the camp is not well laid out for military purposes, and the sanitary conditions are far from ideal. Army authorities should remedy this condition at once. Soldiers do not complain about the hardships encountered on the field. They are entitled, however, to every, consideration upon their return home and should be surrounded with good environments at the debarkation points and should not be exposed to unnecessary hardships and the danger of disease. The people of the United States will not tolerate long conditions such as are said to exist in ;Brest. They demand an immediate change. i .. ,. Patronizing the Library. A library is a vast storehouse in which the accumulated learning, .wisdom, '..poetical expression, scientific findings, wit; humor, irony, satire and history of the human race is made accessible.

The Morrisson-Reeves Library of this city is

no exception to this definition of a library. A

great collection of books is more than an array of

volumes placed on the shelves for display. It is a storehouse from which we may draw information, enlightenment, amusement, recreation, and influences that make for our intellectual development. ' One librarian has said that a public library is a temple reared to the past, but this observation is too restricted to be acceptable, as every modern library contains works of. contemporary authors, scientists, publicists and magazines that are devoted to current events. It would be an interesting diversion to stand at the side of a clerk to note the demands that patrons make for books. Perhaps the first visitor would ask for a volume containing the philosophy of Confucius or a copy of the Koran. And then the very next patron might ask for Huckleberry Finn and other works by that inimitable humorist, Mark Twain. Julius Caesar's Commentaries or the Satires of Juvenal might be

asked for by sraie young student of the classical

languages. And then might come a minister seeking solution of some of the great social problems by reading the writings of men who know "how the other side lives".

"What have you on equal suffrage?" may be the query of one interested in this vital topic,

and someone else may want all the available books and brochures on government control of the railroads. . A young mechanic or accountant may be interested in books that deal specifically with his vocation. .And some young girl may be eager to obtain a volume of poetry, while a young boy is waiting to ask for a popular juvenile writer. And so all the day long various types pass in front of the library clerk unconsciously revealing through the books they ask for, traits of character and habits of mind and life. If a modern library is a collection of the world's best literature, it also is a confessional booth in which men and women unbeknown to themselves, register their likes and dislikes, their preferences and prejudices. Instead of calling a library a temple reared to the past, it might well be called a temple

where humanity confesses . the qualities of the soul.

President's Success Has Enormously Increased American Prestige Abroad

Wilson's Sane, Moderate and Fair Views in Peace Conference Have Commanded Respect and Confidence of Other Diplomats. - . By VICTOR McNAUGHT . PARIS, Feb. 19 (Special Correspondence) Without a doubt, the most interesting development since the close of the

" war has been the amazing increase in the power

and popularity of President Wilson, and the accompanying 'growth in the moral prestige of the American nation abroad. - When the George Washington left Hoboken early in December, the air was dark with foreboding. The newspaper press of the East was almost unanimously opposed to the president's venture. Unpleasant rumors were afloat to the effect that the elder statesmen of the Entente had no intention of giving the American peace delegation anything to say at the conference, and that America would be humiliated through the

victor McNaueht rebuff s that would be given the president, and

the failure of his plans. -

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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

FROM POETRY TO PROSE. Macon Telegraph. And another thing the bride can put down in her little book: On that morning when precious glances hurriedly at the headlines on the first page and then turns ever to the inside and buries himself in the local article

telling how much round steak and grits are selling at, the honeymoon limping painfully down the, front steps don't know where it's going, but it's on its way. - '"."''' ' A BET THAT'S IN. Houston Post. ', An Alabama Sheriff broke jugs containing nineteen gallons of corn licker, while a ai-owd of mouth-watering hill-billies stood by and watche4 .the gr6und lap up the juice. Our prediction is that the Sheriff will lose that precinct when he runs for re-election. '

HE NEEDS A VACATION TOON Ihe Indianapolis News. Eoonters of Penrose, who point out that he' has been in public life thirty-five years, do not seem to understand that that might be good reason for him to step out. .

WELL, WE WILL PASS UP ONE KIND The Indianapolis News. I . Now that the regulation is, off eggs, we suppose one can eat any kind of an egg one desires. - 1

GOOD WAY TO SETTLE IT Thrift Magazine. - . Feed'em but make 'em pay , American restaurant prices. Revenge is sweet!

BUT HE DIED A WINNER.. Cleveland Plain Dealer. v ' ' , . '.An Illinois coal miner won a $5 bet by eating twentyfive .big pickles weighing one-half pound each, at one sitting. It will hardly pay for the flowers.

Today President Wilson IB un

doubted master of the situation, and

America, in consequence, holds a po-

ition in the world g esteem that no

nation ever held before; a position

which we should prize and cherish

above any material advantage, and

which we should strive to hold. Before I began my analysis, it would perhaps be well to adopt the plan of Mark Sullivan and William Allen White, and explain that I have never voted tor President Wilson for any Office. . Why did the President's critics have occasion to revise their judgments so soon? Why was it that within a week after the arrival of the presidential party , in France, the air was cleared of all fear of any plots to elbow the United States out of any real participation in the p'eace conference? And how came ' it that the stock of our country, as a nation,' went up anether fifty points? . , '. Our Traveling Salesman.1 This is my personal view: that the president not only won by his words and bearing the respect and confidence of thoughtful peojile and the adoration of the masses; he also, to use an American colloquialism, "sold" the United States to Europe as no nation had ever been placed before the world before. In other words, the president made his country look bigger, and finer, and , more generous, and less selfish, and more willing to give disinterested service to mankind than anyone else had ever done. It. seems to me that the best way,

to account for the president s power is to remember that ' his views and plans are always sane, moderate, and fair. His vision and his grasp ot.details are remarkable. He does not leave anything out of account. He cannot be swnyed against one ally by another. Underlying his other quali

ties is the determination that the whole world must be benefited by the coming peace; that small nations as well as large shall have what is rightfully their, but no more. To France, shaken, broken and bleeding from four years of exhausting struggle, to England, tried to the utmost by the war, and to the aspiring small nations of Europe, America seems the vigorous young giant of the world. Unexhausted by the war, richer than all the : other considerable powers combined, teeming with raw materials, liberal with credit such is the America pictured before their eyes. ' . Our Liberal Gifts. America to them is the country whose people freely gave $750,000,000 for war relief work through the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Salvation Army, and Belgian relief, commissions, to say nothing of a host of other agencies. Perhaps our givings totaled a billion dollars. No other country ever contributed so much through the freewill offerings of private Individuals. . The American army in France has advertised our country well. Our men

average head and shoulders taller than those about them in French towns; they are well dressed, well fed, comfortable looking, and as a rule quiet and splendidly behaved. No soldiers ever fought more bravely; none ever scorned death more courageously. The bill recontly introduced in Congress to appropriate $100,000,000 to buy food for the starving in Europe seemed typical of America to the people overe here. While others were

figuring out Indemnities, we were planning to give more from our store. , America holds a position in he world's esteem I might almost say the world's, affections that we ought to regard as priceless. We can retain this position only If we deserve it, and

i to deserve it, we must continue In unselfishness, in practical Idealism, in willingness to renounce a policy of isolation and continue as the defender of the weak against such sundry bullies as may emerge from time to time. We Must See Clearly. So much for our position in the eyes of Europe; to make the story complete we need a word as to the view we should take of England and France. Development in the peace conference, which cannot be explained minutely in cabled reports, may be misunderstood in America if our people do not take a sane view of the sitiuation. We should remember that France is still quivering from the clutches of the Hun; that she has suffered horrors undreamed of in America, and that the German nation, twice as populace as Frnce, virtually untouched by the foot of an invader, and still truculent, lies at France's back door. France may take an extreme view of the dangers of further German aggression; she may advocate extreme measures to break the German martial spirit It may be necessary to persuade France to modify some of her demands. Of one thing Americans may be sure: President Wilson will not wish to leave France in any position but one of security. In the mean

time, those at home 6hould remember what France has suffered, and be patient in judgment if some of her iery spokesmen go a bit -far. An Encouraging Situation. One encouraging thing about the sessions of the peace conference has ben the practical unanimity of spirit of the English and American delegates. ' They have stood together on almost all points. President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George, Secretary Balfour and others of the British representatives, seem to be moved by the same considerations of common sense and far-sightedness. The hope of brotherly good-wiU between our country and Britain in the future rests upon our common fund of everyday horse sense, as well as upon ties of blood and our identical language. To the American abroad, whether soldier or civilian, America never has looked so worth while, so inspring, so desirable, as now. Every man in the army longs for the land of plenty; every man is an ardent patriot. After the leaden skies and the mud of France, the bright sunshine, the clear skies, the crisp air, and the clean streets of our home cities will seem like heaven to the returning warriors. It is a very great privilege to be an American citizen, and one of the best ways to exercise that privilege is to be a true and sincere friend to the friendly people of other lands. (The next article will tell of the famous 'Battle of Paris,? In which the American visitor does his best to hold his own against the disciples of the gay and expensive life.)

Oh Boy! Oh Joy!'

Cabled Elena? Gentrd After ChsAecsL Thierry

NEW YORK, Feb. 19. William H. Johns, of the Committee on Public Information, told yesterday, at the Hotel Commodore' of the receipt in Washington of the first official news of American victory at Chateau-Thierry. "The cablegram throughout was couched in the usual dry, unemotional army language." said Mr. Johns, "until at the end the general sending the' cable was unable to restrain his joy longer. He added four words." , "What were they?" Mr. Johns was "Oh, boy! Oh, joy!" said Mr. Johns. t - -

The Forum

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She was a four-flusher, particularly as to her" ability in various sports. "Do you golf?" he asked. ' "Oh, I love golf." she answered. "I play at least 6 holes twice a week." "And how abctat tennis?" "I won the woman's championship in our state." "An do you swim?" "The best I jever did was a halfmile straight away,"-she replied. Somewhat fatigued, he changed to literature. "And how do you like Kipling?" he asked. "I klppled an hour only yesterday," was her unblushing reply.

Russ Soviets Differ Over Allied Conference Plan

(By Associated Press) STOCKHOLM, Feb. 19. Serious differences of opinion have arisen between the Moscow Soviet headed by Premier Lenine and the Petrograd Soviets headed by Leon Trotsky over the allied proposal for a conference on the Prince's island according to a dispatch from Helsingfors.

An" Irishman was engaged at stone breaking on the roadside, but not being used to the work, did not make much progress. A friend, who chanced to pass as Pat was vigorously belabor-

National Audit Is Needed as Budget

From the New York Times. DEMOCRATS vie with Republicans in condemning the appropriations for which both are responsible. Both are responsible for deferring enactment of the tax bill beyond a date when it could be satisfactorily administered. The treasury thought the latest date was February 1. When Chairman Kitchin predicted that it could not pass before February. 10, that was thought to be the came as saying that it was about as well a3 not to pass the bill at all. The bill has now passed and on February 13. Congress has taken twice as many months to prepare the bill as It allows weeks for statements and payments under it, and after all its pains finds that the country dislikes the bill as much as its authors do. Thus Senator Penrose says that he has received "thousands" of letters showing that the sentiment of the country has changed since the country remarked what was in the bill. The country remarks that the deficit grows with the appropriations. No matter how they are increased there are about as many more billions needed as when the previous limit was fixed. "After the armistice enthusiasm subsided" considerably." That is as true outside congress ss 'inside it. There was no politics and little consideration of finance in fighting the war abroad. There is more politics and still less finance in starling the next home

campaign, with both parties now defending the treasury ss energetically as they emptied it before the tax-payers took notice. The idea of taking credit for the bill occurs to nobody. - Its very badness and bigness may be turned to use through imposing more business-like methods in the national finances. ., The president cables his approval of the budget idea which President Taft propounded, and which

has advanced not at all in the year3 since then. If anything is -needed more than a budget it i3 an audit. , At present the treasury sees that the totals are right, and compares the spending with the authorizations by law. That is not an audit worthy the name. First, because it is done by the spenders of the money. The treasury is administered by the party in power. Secondly, an audit should not be a mere addition of totals and inter

pretation of law. An audit should be both a certification of accounts and a corrector of policy. It should supply

the means of knowing whether the money-was spent well and honestly, and if bad methods are discovered, should show the correction. It Is no function of the treasury to correct the policy of congress. That is the function of the opposition party, and its audit should be above partisanship, in a constructive spirit of patriotism. The budget idea alone has penetrated congress, and the subject is attacked in the manner usual with politicians. The budget committee proposed is variously called bipartisan, unpartisan, nonpartisan, but the balance of parties runs through it. The error is as fundamental as that respecting the audit. The budget is as much the duty of the responsible majority as the audit is of the opposition. By mingling the two functions and giving representation to both parties the responsibility of either for either budget or audit is destroyed. Why not attack, the Bubject in the manner of the dollar-a-year men, who know less about politics than congress and more about accounts? Can it be assumed even that congress is the better authority on politics? If it were, how is it possible to explain a tax bill that affronts all in either party and puts both parties on the defensive before an angered country?

ing a large stone, tried to show him the right way. Taking the hammer he broke the stone withTease; , Said Pat: "Sure now, and it be aisy for ye to break the stone after I have ben softening it for the last i . ft

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When Did Friends Start East Main Street Meeting?

Capt. Anderson Dana, who has just got married at Plattsburg, i3 a grand

son of the journalist, Charles A. Dana,

and in an interview he said: "My grandfather believed' in marriage. He thought it steadied a man. I remember a story he used to tell. "It's a story about a chap who asked a man: " 'Have you ever heard anything about a machine for telling when a man is lying?' " 'Sure,' said the man. ' " 'Have you ever seen one?'said the chap. "'Seen one?' said the man. 'By gosh, I married one!' "

UNDONE. An error crept in an obituary notice last week instead of "timely loss," this should have said "untimely loss." The "un" was unintentionally omitted in setting up the word. Edgar (Wis.) News. -.- It is an interesting news note that the pugilists must have their heads shaved in future before going into the ring, this to keep the hair from getting into their eyes. . i There will be only one serious question and that will be for some of these gentlemen to know how far up to wash their faces without adopting the old method of tying a string around the head.

( Signs of Spring ) : The best sign of spring used to be when the girls put on thin waists, says Chief Gormon, but you can't tell anything by that now.

The East Main Street Congregation of Friends was organized in June, 1878, when 174 members of the Whitewater congregation, and 108 from the congregation on South Eighth street united to establish what was known as the Twelfth Street Meeting and to occupy the new quarterly meeting house. The new congregation grew rapidly in numbers and influence. It gained 70 per cent, during the next 20 years and 10 more at the thirtieth anniversary. By this, time it had become one of the largest and most influential Friends meetings in America. In 1909, one hundred members withdrew to join in establishing the new congregation at Allen Jay Memorial, west of the river. But in 1918 the main body was twice that of the original charter, despite the loss. Twenty-five ministers have served the East Main street meeting during the four decades of its life. Before 1905, they were members of the faculty or business men. In that year the first pastor was called, and since then Alfred T. Ware. Allen Jay, Truman C. Kenworthy, Milo Hinkle, and John R. Webb have served.

Moment 7 MORRIS MILL LI, v

THEN YEARS Ago Today in Richmond

The Elks Club awarded a contract to Burr and Garner for the remodeling of the Gaar residence on North Eighth street for their club house. President and Mrs. Robert L. Kelley entertained the Tourist Club at their home with a "Hoo Doo" party.

Rose Poly basketball team Earlham college team 57-37.

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Four negroes were ined and sentenced in city court for stealing chickens.. . McLeland company, wholesale fruit dealers, found a. freak Baldwin apple. The board of works purchased 1,000 feet of hose for the fire department at $1 a lineal foot.

A LITTLE SLICE OF LIFE. A dear old lady friends of ours Has taken time by the fore And has bought and laid away Forty-five gallons of whisky Against the coming drought "You never can tell," she says, "When somebody will be bitten By a snake i or 'have a tummyache. And, while I never drinfc myself Judt for an opportunity to drink, I like to have a little of it , In the house." We hardly know what we ought . To think of this little old lady, But it Is our opinion that She will never be very lonesome After the 1st of July. HIS 1919 SCENERY. The male of the species, the vain, handsome brute, who'd pose as a modish sartorial "ebaut," must list Dame Fashion, tyrannical rogue, and go to tight togs if he'd follow the vogue. This final-word mandate comes out of the East, where the tailors de luxe have been holding a feast They say

that male persons the he-men and all for curve-showing, form-fitting garments must fall; that the cool flannel clothing of summer must go because it's plebeian and comfy, you know. Its' place will be taken by . silk save the mark! fine linens, and delicate duds, light and dark. Oh, can you imagine a MAN dressed like that, and not want to fan his bazoo with a bat? To let him escape, a real guy would be loath. Shouldst kiss him or kill him inetanter, or both? E'en the businessman suit, known to fame as the sack, must cling to the waist and be split up the back. Oh, say can you vision a bluzzard like me, who's pushed down together and fat as can be, with a form-fitting tailor-made hung on his frame? I would look like a hee-haw be hailed as the same! They'd put me in "stays" so I'd took svelt and slight. By gosh, if they tried it, I'd square off and flght I'm a regular guy and I won't wear their silk any more than II give up my bitters for milk. It is all right for those of exquisite design, but a loose fitting, hand-me-down neutral for mine, it male-gender togs are the figure to show, why, half of the tribe to the jungle should go. x " HARLAN BABCOCK.

BRAZIL AN BALM For Spanish Influenza ' As the Balm is the only thing ever discovered that "kills every germ and cures pneumonia never having lost a case yet in 40 years, many people have learned this fact and send to us by scores for $1.00 bottles hence the Druggists should keep this size on band. They can always get it of Mr. Danforth, of Wilmington, or any Philadelphia or Baltimore wholesale bouse. Every retail druggist ought to have & dozen bottles at least Some retailers are buying three dozen, and ordering them by parcels post People should saturate themselves with the Balm to kill this tough germ. It saves every case. B. F. Jackson & Co., Proprietors, Arcade, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Adv. . ,

ALSACE-LORRAINE. The flag of one's country, or the personification of one's native land, are the common treasures of all mankind. Captivity and freedom, the battle lost and the battle won, are unending subjects with the sculptor, the

painter, and the poet: 'Why does the eye Watch, raised and raptured, the bright racks that rove. Heaven's free-born, frolic in the har-. vest sky? r. The wind which bloweti where it listeth, why Hath it a charm?' Why love we thus the sea, Lordless and limitless?" These manifestations of freedom foster in us the love of liberty, as the . painting which depicts a patriotic deed, or the poem whose martial cadences sound the call to arms, intensifies our love of country. The land of Washington loves the land of Lafayette. But it is upon that part 'of France lying under the shadow of the Vosges, that our thoughts dwell the longest. The wrongs of France, the unquenchable hope, the abiding faith, that one day her lost provinces would be restored, have all been expressed in that wonderful poem by Francois Coppe, entitled "The Cannon." This poem, written in 1874, tells what an old Franca cannon says to an Alsatian sentinel, who deprived of home and living under the usurper's flag, is yet thankful that he has been placed near this witness, black and sad of the defeats, but which still remains pointed towards the east, keepnig its old position as when first placed in the fort Suddenly the cannon speaks, and its . voice profound and grave, tells the soldier not to wep, to hope and be patient, that this wind which blows into its mouth, comes from the Rhine, and is like an echo from Alsace, murmuring to the cannon of how the schoolmaster closing the door,, unrolls the old map cf Frances Of the song .heard at the , tavern, and the embrace given the tricolor. The prayer of the humble child, the sigh of the maiden beside her distaff, the old parents in mourning, all this the echo brings, but deliverance will come the Germans will

be vanquished, but at what time the cannon knows not It will be too heavy and too old to follow the victorious army, but it "will be able at least, old watch dog of the Invalides, , to announce to Paris your marches intrepid with my bark triumphant." France Is not weary of creating heroes, and the simple soldier who sleeps upon the breech is perhaps an infant Turenne." , Familiar to us by copies and affiliate ing in sentiment with Coppee's poem, is the celebrated - painting by pean Jacques Henner, entitled, "She Walts,"; which typifies Alsace-Lorraine looking forward to the day of redemption.) Henner has been called "a painter of; light. The scale of his tints go from, the clear ivory to the most sombre brown, or from the Venetian red to a. green, dark and rich. The grace, the! rhythm, the nobleness of his human forms, the ease, the flow of bis paints ing cannot be likened to anything, modern." Alsatian by birth, Henner has em, bodied in this painting, his love of; country, together with the poet's and the painter's gift of prophecy. . KATE V. AUSTIN.

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