Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 88, 21 February 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM . - . . AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by i ;t 7 --v" Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, . North " Ninth and Sailor Streets. Enured at to Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, aa Seo ' ,, ond Class Mail Matter.

'MBXDBR Or TUB ABSOC1ATKD PRESS

"-' The Associated Pre U exclusively entitled to the use for, republication Of all new dlcpatchea credited te It of not otherwise oredlted In title paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also, reserved. Stay in School : It is a sad commentary on our life that one million children between 14 and 15 leave school for work every year. The Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor and the Child Conservation Section of the Council of National Defense are up in arms against this reckless squandering of the child power of the country through premature entrance into industry.--' . ::.. . - " ;i "It is the "children who are in school today who will see to it that their fathers and brothers who have fought and died in this war, have not fought and died in vain," said Secretary Wilson in a recent message indorsing the "back-to-school drive".. "We must keep them, in schoolVnd see

that they get there the equipment they need for the work that is before them. If we are not to

go down to defeat in the battles of peace, we must have an army of reserves who are strong in body, rwell trained in hand and mind." . . .

j The influx of boys and girls from the elementary and high schools into industry is alarming. One can hardly believe that one million children who ought to be in the school-room, there acquiring intellectual training and impulses that will bake for high ideals and noble lives, are either jforced by economic pressure or induced by love for money to interrupt their schooling. Child labor is abominable in all forms and a menace to the welfare of the country in every particular. Every child has the right to obtain at least a rudimentary education so that it will be able to cope with the problems of life. : ' It seems to us that parents are a big factor in checking this exodus of children into the industries. A firm stand by a parent will often deter the boy from throwing aside his books for the little money which he can make by working. An education is a treasure which cannot be stolen or lost. It becomes part of one's life. It stays with you to the grave. It can be acquired only once, and that is in youth, for during these plastic years the mind is receptive and the memory is fresh. Later in life the acquisition of knowledge is a laborious task and too often, alas, one is unable to obtain the schooling which easily could have obtained in youth.;

entrance into the vocation. A crippled manprovided with work for which he has been trained ceases to be a consumer and automatically becomes a producer who is a benefit to himself and to the nation. . ijtfiiiifftft

r The Danger of Running the Chances The indictment of about 500 Hoosiers by the Federal Grand Jury for importing liquor into Indiana in direct violation of the Reed law, should make some of them believe that the Federal law is not a "dead" statute, but is very much alive. Judge Anderson will have no compunctions whatsoever, in making them pay the penalty for the violation if they are found guilty. Many of these men undoubtedly have made a business of running the blockade from Illinois and Ohio into the Indiana Sahara, and part of their overhead expense will be the heavy fines the judge will affix and a vacation spent in jail. Leniency need not be expected, for the statute is plain, and the activity of the police departments of Indiana citie sis conclusive evidence' that the law will be enforced. There is only one way of breaking up liquor smuggling and that is by heavy fines and long jail sentences with emphasis on the jail sentences for the smugglers detest residence in penal institutions more than they care for the monetary loss involved in paying a fine.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

MIGHT HAVE WON THE PENNANT Kansas City Star. A lot of Hal Chase's home fan3 will be Inclined to agree with the commission which found him not guilty of betting on ball games in which he took part. A good many of the fans wish he had been betting. Maybe then he would have taken more interest in his job.

LISTENING TO STRANGE VOICES Los Angeles Times. If some workmen thought as much of their families tnd their country as they do of the words of some flamboyant itinerant agitator their families and their country would be better off to say nothing of themselves.

Salvage the Man Since Gifford Pinchot and the late Theodore Roosevelt aroused the nation to the necessity of a conservation of our natural resources, we have

begun to apply this same principle to other spheres, until today it has reached the redemption and salvaging of our man power. The Federal Board for Vocational Education estimates that about 2,000,000 men were disabled in industry in 1918 "killed, losing limbs, .suffering from occupational diseases, barred from work, and as a consequence, living in idleness." Three thousand nine hundred thirty men lost the use of a hand or an arm; 2,120 underwent amputation. Statistics show that only 2 per cent of men disabled in war are crippled as helpless

for the remainder of their life.. In industry the percent i3 lessened by half. - It has become the duty of the American nation to re-train these crippled workers in industry so that they may not fall back into the class of idle men, but become useful and productive units in our economic system. Laws ought to be enacted so that every man who is crippled in the industries will be trained at public expense for re-

GOOD TASTE OF PARISIENNES Birmingham Age-Herald. Paris girls admire Americans, but they don't like the large, shell-rimmed spectacles so many Americans wear. We don't blame them. Looking like an owl doesn't necessarily make a man wise.

SHIP IT TO THE LEGISLATURE Houston Post. Flatonia reports a head of cabbage weighing 12

pounds. If there are many vacancies in the Oklahoma Legislature this cabbage head ought to have a great

future amid congenial surroundings.

THEY'RE THE ONES WHO. WHINE Ohio State Journal.

Nothine makes a man in moderate circumstances

Bicker than to hear some sleek individual that makes $15,000 or $20,000 a year whining about his income tax.

COURTEOUS, BUT FIRM Chicago News. If China persists in spilling Japanese beans, polito Japan intimates that it will, most regretfully, knock the never-to-be-too-much-praised Celestial block off.

A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD Pittsburg Gazette-Times. ' No wonder the French want complete insurance against another attack. So would we if we lived next door to the Huns.

THEY'RE NOT FIFTY-FIFTY SPORTS Anaconda Standard. A .Bolshevik is a man who will not let you divide your last dollaw with him. He'll take it all.

ONLY DERBY WEARERS DO THIS. Chicago Post. A man will give the tight skirt as an example of the intellectual inferiority of women and then go out. and look fit himself in the mirror trying on various 'derby hats without cracking a smile.

WILL THE EUROPEAN GROUNDHOG BE AFRAID OF HIS SHADOW?

When Was Fiist Baptist Church Organized Here?

In 17S7 a Baptist church of thirteen members was organized in Richmond, E. D. Owens and Charles M. Hervey being two of its pastors, but in 1842 this church ceased to exist. During the next twenty-three years efforts were made to establish a Baptist church in the city, but it was not until 1865 that the Rev. J. S. Agen-

Great Human Interest Story Presented to Traffic "Cop" by Passing Crowds

Harry Fee, who is crossing czar at Eighth and Main streets, and Henry Westenberg, who relieves him, are lucky men, although they may not think so. For, with a good big minority of Richmond, thousands of people, passing north and south and east and west every day, the two policemen probably see more raw human nature than any two other men in Richmond. While they decree with autocratic

wave of their arms, who shall pass

bread came to work in Richmond

.. .The church was. publicly recognized aA ,, ,0i't hv to thine-

under his leadership on August 9, 186a j from wnlch Dickens or Thackeray or

and the first place of meeting was the

old No. . 3 Engine House on Pearl street, now Fifth. The young congregation bought a lot for $2,300 on a sixty-day note when there was only $125 on hand. They succeeded In paying the note and then Mrs. Heturd of Vincennes, hearing of the Richmond work through other channels, left a bequest of $400 on condition that a church building be started. "Trusting in God, we will now attempt to build a house of worship," reads the resolution by which the courageous young congregation decided to build. The building was dedicated in January, 1871. The cyclone of 1884 partly destroyed the building, but it was immediately rebuilt. The pastors have been Revs. J. P. Agenbrook, A Wilkinson, W. K. Benton, C. B. Smith. L. C. Morehouse, C. B. Allen, J. B. Thomas, J. Ward Stone, L. R. Banks, R. N. McNemer, Addison Parker, A. M. Hackleman, H. R. Smith, W. O. Stovall. P. A, Roberts and the present pastor. Rev. Shelby C. Lee. The membership is 330.

1 Signs of Spring J When the modest violet, the most lady-like harbinger of spring, bursts into full blooni, says Demas Coe, spring is surely coming.

Mark Twain or Balzao would hav made great books. An absent-minded young man in horn spectacles is bunted violently to one side by the long stern of an interurban turning majestically like a whale. He looks angrily around to see who pushed him, blushes at the grinning crowd and hurries on.. The policemen see some one cultivating a hasty peeve because a friend, absorbed, didn't speak; they break up little impromptu scandal parties in the middle of the street; they tell the young mother who meets a friend and leaves baby's cab standing in the mid? die of the car tracks that there'll be a car along and she had better move. They see a deepened blush on Mabel's face as she meets John, and might predict a wedding that's two years off yet. An elderly woman stripes limp past, followed by tne waves at the young conductor of a street car and her son waves back. Soldiers with wound and service

IT DEPENDS ON THE GIRL

Kansas City Star. What is your guess? Will it be the building material,'

business or the milinery business which will benefit from the funds now spent for booze?

The Russian People

From tho Indianapolis News. iT IS said that when the allied armies are withdrawn from Russia the Bolshevikl will wreck a terrible vengeance on tho Russian people. . There is an intimation that these, abandoned, as some eay, by the entente and America, will turn to Japan for deliverance. Many jnust have wondered why the Russian people were not able-to do something for themselves. We have been told many times that the Bolshevikl were in no sense representative, and constitute! but . a small minority of the population. . Yet the majority seems to be helpless. The Question Is being asked in Siberia. A Vladivostok dispatch'1 gives extracts from a newspaper editorial making this point. ii, The case is thus stated: i Perhaps the allies have not taken all the measures desirable from the Russian point of view, but before reproachiDg them we must in fairness ask: v. "What have the Russian cltiwns, especially, the intelligentsia, done for their own defense and for their own interests? Are the citisens ready to sacrifice even a share of-their own interests for the common cause?" With word3 they are ready to do everything, but they prove nothing by deeds. Even the- privileged class does not; participate in the city elections. Look around! , What Is going on? Cafes are Crowded 'with young men who could have served , their motherland. There Is only talk of profits.. Every one is Engaged in speculation! The majority are engaged in their own affairs andhave no time for. the common cause. The : Cflecbo-Siovaks "asked the people to subscribe to a loan of 5,000,000 r rubles. ,But the subscriptions amounted to'.only 600,000 rubles, "and all this," says the

paper, ' "for those Czecho-Slovaks thanks to whom half the Siberian intelligentsia were 6aved from the Bolshevikl." Perhaps too much should not be expected of a people whose supremacy seems to be largely in affairs connected with the theater, but the Siberian paper thinks that they might have done something to protect themselves. We quote again: At the outset of the war all women abroad gave up amusements and began to make things for the soldiers. Alas,' we have nothing similar! If we should learn that the allies really are going to leave Russia, the majority of those who now reproach them would be the first to

rush for a place on a steamship with the "one aim of run

ning away from the Bolshevikl. It" is high time for the

Russians to muster all their forces into a strong unitr

forget their party quarrels and enter upon the restoration of a single Russian people. - Whether the portrait is a true likeness or not we do not know, but the advice is certainly good. It is difficult for outsiders to do much for a people who will do nothing for themselves. There is great risk even in furnishing arms to the Russians. For it is known that much of the equipment that was supplied was sold to the Germans. As is charged, the people did not support-ven with money the Czecho-Slovaks. There has, of course, been some resistance to the Bolshevikl, and there are today governments in Russia that are opposing them. But broadly speaking, the people have shown a singular incapacity. It can not be that all the intelligentsia are profiteers and lounge lizards. Poland and Italy have been able to turn their artists to good accounts. Perhaps Russia may yet be saved by a ballet master.

Dinner Rtor ie

npEN YEARS - Ago Today in Richmond

At a certain British naval base a well known officer was slightly gun deaf and could not always follow the niceties of a conversation. Sometimes the results were distinctly amusing, and, being one of the best tempered men in the world, Lieut. Gundeaf himself appreciated the fun as, much as any one in the party. The lieutenant was invited to dinner one evening at the admiral's house, which stood in its own grounds on a hill. When he arrived his hostess, after shaking hands exclaimed: "Oh, Lieut. Gundeaf, I cannot imagine where my poor dear dog has gone. He went out all by himself this morning and I cannot find him anywhere." The lieutenant immediately replied: "He is' coming through the garden. I saw him a moment ago, and he was In mess dress.'.' -He thought she had referred to the admiral. '

iD. W; Bradley of Oakland, who has hunted illicit whisky stills in the south as an internal revenue officer, is repeating a story that he read recently in an eastern publication about the Tennessee moonshiner who was see ing his.; boy away for France in an

army contingent. , . -'. "I'm glad to see you goin. son," the old man said- "Give the Germans . You know I don't feel about the old flag as I did when I was fightin In the Confederate army." - "The' only fault I ; find with this story," says Bradley, "Is that all the moonshiners' I've known were . Union men, and if-they fought in the Civil war they; "fought with the Northern army." '. . s " " " A friend of ours calls his wife Crystal, because she is always on the watch.

The Y. M.

ball league. A swimmin; Y. M. C. A.

C. A. organized a basket-

contest was held at the

friendly and Interested glances of the crowd. Four times a day the crossing men have to be especially watchful, for then the flood of pupils from the High school swamps the corner. Among these they know Just who has developed a premature "case" so that "He" has to escort "Her" home to "Her" dinner every day, although his own home is eight blocks away and he has to hurry like the mischief to grab a bite and get back to school; who Is the bookworm and who the boy that never passes an exam. -

Elderly people from the country wait helplessly on the corner, as reluctant to venture out as you or I would be to risk life and limb at a

Chicago downtown crossing. Tiny

boys dart past the very noses of honk

ine touring cars and turn a derisive

grin on the scared driver.

Great and little, old and young, wise and foolish, all of our city eddies pass the crossing policeman once every

three or four days.

A LITTLE SLICE O' LIFE The other evening we were invited To eat dinner in a cafe With a gent friend of ours A very fine-appearing Jazbo With a soft collar n everything. 1 noticed when we went in That he Insisted upon taking The hat and coat check r For both our bats and coats. . It was a fine dinner. I . ' He ordered all be could read And talked entertainingly Of a recent trip through Egypt. Toward the end of the meal, Or at the very end of It, He excused himself To call a man up about a dog. And went to the telephone The' waiter brought the check, ? Which amounted to fourteen bones, And laid it in the middle Of the table, not caring ' , ' Which one grabbed It. My friend stayed a half hour. And I went to the phone booths And he Was not there.. Then I tried the hat checker. - He said my friend had been gone For some time. The moral of this story is: Always insist upon being the Custodian of the coat checks. Next to the man who la brave enough to go to a dance without wearing suspenders we believe the party entitled to the Croix de Guerre la the wimp who eats roasted chestnuts in the dark, THE DIFFERENCE The footpad of the good old times lurked In an ally black. And sneaked thereoutof now sad then to hit some wretch a whack But times , have changed. The ban

dit now lolls In some gilded bar. Then sallies out and holds us up in a rakish Henry car. Tennyson. J. Daft. ACCIDENTAL FRENCH An American lady In Paris wanted

some water, but could not make the maid understand she wanted ft hot. After several vain attempts, ah explained in disgust: "Sho!" . The maid brightened up suddenly, went oft and returned with a pitcher of not water.. It was not until some time afterward' that the lady learned from a friend that the girl had evidently mltsaken

Sho" tor "chaud," which Is the French

word for "hot."

When the liquor boats are established in a solid phalanx, out In the well' known Atlantic, we can see a rapid decline In the sale of automobiles and a brisk advance in the sale of motor boats. A man who owns a row boat will belong to the aristocracy, and as to the fancy swimmers, they will be giving lessons twenty-four hours a day at $10 a lesson.

WEAKNESS REMAINS LONG AFTER Influenza

Reports Show That Strength, Energy and Ambition Return Very Slowly to Grippe Patients.

' The Wayne County Teachers' association in session protested against the repeal of the text book law in the general assembly. The D. A. R. met with Mrs. I. M. Hughes. Dr. S. R. Lyons made a patriotic talk.

MAKE OLD SHOES WUKE NEW "I had Neolin Soles put on my , shoes wore these shoes every day for fifteen months, then had Neolin halfsoles put on. They are still in good condition," writes F. T. Evans, of Seattle, Washington. . This is cutting shoe bills down to the minimum through Neolin Soles. Anyone can do thi3 if he will follow Mr. Evans example,' and have his shoes . re-bottomed with Ne6lin Soles. These tough, durable soles 'cost no more than soles that give only ordinary wear. And all good repair shops have them. ' ,f : i. Neolin Soles come on new shoes, too in many styles for men, women and children.. They are created by Science to be all that soles should be comfortable and waterproof, as well as long-wearing. They are made by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, who also make Wingfoot Heels guaranteed to outwear any other heels. " t Heolin Soles

Fgoes farther tastes better -and is sold by your home town grocer: that's Golden Sun the dustless, chafiless coffee. Why then patronize mail order houses and peddlers ? Part of every dollar you epend at home goes to make better schools, roads, etc. Money sent out of town never comes back and often buys less value than you can get right at home. Not told by syndicate ttortt THEWOOLSON SPICE COMPANY Toledo Ohio

After an attack of influenza, doe ton advise that nature be assisted In Its building-up process by the use of a good tonic one that will not only put strength and endur anca into the body, but will also help to build up and strengthen the run-down cells of the brain. One of the most highly recommended remedies to put energy into both body and bffaln is Bio-feren your physician knows the form nla it Is printed below. There's Iron in Bio-feren the kind of iron that makes rod blood corpuscles and creates vigor. There . Is lecithin also; probably the best brain lnrigorator known to science. Then there Is good old reliable gen-, tlan. that brings back Tour lagging appetite. There are other Ingredients that help to promote good health, as you can see by reading this form nla, not forgetting kola, txiat great agent that puts the power of endurance into weak people. Taken altogether Bio-feren Is a splendid active tonlo that will greatly help any weak, run-down person to regain normal strength, energy, ambition and endurance. Bio-feren is sold by all reliable ' druggists and Is inexpensive. For weakness after influenza patients are advised to take two tablets after each meal and one at bed time seven a day, until health, strength and vigor are folly restored. It will not fall to help yott and If for any reason yon are dissatisfied with results your druggist is authorized to return your money upon request without any red tape . of any kind. Not to physicians Tier Is bo secret about tho formula of Bioferen, tt Is printed on every pack

age. Her It Is: Lecithin; Ob. lot am

Glycero-phosphate; Iron Pptonet,

Manganese reptonate: Ext. ivus

Vomica; Powdered Gentian; Phe

oiearsla

nolphthaleln;

K.OIO.

Ext. Nax.

Ian; Phe Capsicum,

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