Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 91, 25 February 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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Good Times Ahead The New York Times in a careful analysis of "lactors entering' into national prosperity sees nothing but prosperity ahead. A study of its ftodingVill remove pessimism and give a fresh outlook on affairs. Says the editorial: During the last few days the security markets have been buoyant, while the commodity markers

have continued a moderate, orderly decline. The movements are logical, not contradictory. Stocks rise on the prospect of profits. Commodities fall on the prospect of lower costs. Both movements are prophetic. The saying that the wheel does not grind with the water which has passed over it applied particularly to calamity news. There is nothing alarming or depressing in the bad news of the past years of terror and destruction. That lies behind. The future must be better, not only by comparison with the war conditions, but by comparison with the best before the war. . We are not on the crest of prosperity. Rather we arei

resolved that the embargo on exports of oils and

fats should be removed, seeing that the present i

supply is 970,000,000 pounds, against 680,000,000 a year ago. In the House of Representatives there were protests last week against the embargo on cotton exports, and against requirements of licenses for trade with neutrals. At this port there is an accumulation' of $100,000,000 of goods awaiting shipping. There is in the American; market a French ,buyer for 'American coal, on account of the check to foreign mining. Our boycotters may remark that the, French buyer says .that he will take American coal only until Germany undersells. The cable reports that France is negotiating for $40,000,000 worth

of machine tools, an equal value of farmers' ma chines, and $100,000,000 of raw materials. An

other French inquiry is for 800 locomotives and 32,000 cars, additional to 27,000 to be taken over

from our army outfit.' Last week a syndicate of

American bankers arranged a credit of $50,000,

000 for Belgian bankers, all to be spent here, and

$10,000,000 forthwith. It is only Americans who are waiting for our prices to collapse. Foreign

demands are exigent and instant. It is reassuring to remark how ample is our supply of credit. Last week a statement by the French Reserve Bank showed that the supply of free gold would support a doubling of the credits of member banks. Our credit capacity is growing despite demands upon it. At the end of the

year the Federal Reserve free gold was $528,000,000. On February 1 it was $618,000,000, an increase which is notable for its contrast to a decrease, during 1918 of $197,000,000. We have

seen the time wheal our trade suffered heartblock

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AFTERMATH CLUD, OLDEST SOCIETY ID : mOIIIOND, HAS ORGANIZED Kl 1006

rising from the depth of calamity.

It is true that the world never witnessed such Jb it couJd t get currency for hand-to-

destruction or capital. ut it is aiso true mat, ,hflnd business. Onr Federal Reserve svstem now

never witnessed such increased capacity of production. The latter is more important. The destruction was temporary and has stopped, while the increase of production is as permanent as we choose to make it, under the stimulus of world wants and American capacity to supply them. The world lacks food and clothes and materials to supply every want, to a total of uncounted billions: Here only is plenty in goods and capacity of quick production. Every consideration of neighborly duty and self-interest constrains us to remove the obstacles in the way of bringing foreign buyers and our sellers together. It is hbt .practicable to assemble all the facts in support of this statement of conditions. Only the broadest outline can be filled in here. The great bank clearings attest the activity of trade. The : suggestion that the volume is in prices rather than in goods is negatived by the tonnage passing over the railways. Never was there such a valume of business, and never sounder conditions among traders, as the fewness of insolven

cies proves. The largest foreign trade of 1918

was in its last month, and the first month of 1919

registered above any other month in all time

The trade of January put the world in our debt $410,000,000, against $470,000,000 for the entire

fiscal year 1914. A Undeniably food is dear, but wages are high and give no sign of immediate fall. They need .never fall if labor will earn them. High wages and cheap living are a contradiction only seemingly. They are reconciled by quantity production, capable of immeasurable increase if labor and capital meet with open hands rather than with clenched fists. That must pass here as an assertion, but the argument in its support will be foiind in the article in The Times Sunday Magazine today by a large employer of labor, whose practice has proved it. , ' No true picture is without shadows, but the shadows only prove that there is sunshine. Liv'"ing is too high for many, even with high wages. But" the high prices have caused such accumulation of goods that it is almost a scandal. We have taken from the soil in the last year more money than we have raised in Liberty bonds, and we are almost dreading the bounty of next year's harvest. How shall we pay for it, or store it, or move it from the farms? Never was there in sight such a total of living or slaughtered food animals, although never did any people reap such profit from the sale of them. There is so much

cotton that the planters are planning to restrict production. Once we were to be ruined by Chinese cheap labor. Now t seem to think that we are cursed by . abundance. -- That is not rue because foreign needs are greater than domestic supplies. The problem of bringing them together is far from insoluble. A Produce Exchange meeting of the trade last week

has capacity of issue of $1,546,000,000 of notes, or $1,767,000,000 of deposits, which are as useful as currency, even in times of panic Yet there are those among us afraid to do business, even while those less able are taking away their trade. Last week Canada gave credits of $25,000,000 each' to France and Rumania, and is negotiating with Belgium. ' At the same time

Congress was considering stopping credits to

England until she discontinued her embargo, and rejected Secretary Glass' proposal for financing exports by loans to our allies and privately through the War Finance Corporation. These are the purposes for which banking funds shpuld be used, and not for the absorption of Treasury issues. The blockade of prosperity does not come from our men of business. The difficulties in our situation are technical only, and created if not imaginary. . . ' '

U. S. soldiers with-French "caterpillars." These doughboys are Privates Saddles, Eckelberg and Isley of headquarters troop, Eighty-eighth division. They are shown in the street of, France, wearing wooden French "caterpillars" on a muddy da3

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

IT WON'T BE THERE LONG. Kansas City Times. The Independence Examiner says that a man in Independence, noted for his interest In public affairs, demanded of Editor Southern the other day: "Where is this town of Bolsheviki, Russia, anyway. I can't find it on any of the maps."

When Was Second English Lutheran Church Founded?

The Second English Lutheran church of Richmond was organized in 1892. For several years before that, a Sunday school was conducted on the West Side from members of the St. Paul's and the First English Lutheran congregations. ' . - During the year 1892 the congregation was organized for regular worship. Leaders of the movement were Dr. J. W. Kapp and Dr. J. J. Young. Six persons were charter members. The church owns its own modern building at the corner of Pearl and Northwest third Btreets. , '

TEN YEARS 4' Ago: Today in Richmond

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PRUNES TO THE HEAD Houston Post. ' Prince Henry of Prussia says the old regime must be restored in Germany before the empire can regain its old prestige. Prince Henry is evidently consuming a far greater proportion of the prune crop than he is entitled to.

ADVANCING REFINEMENT DOWN SOUTH Birmingham Age-Herald. Alabama is climbing upward in the sisterhood of states. There is not a single solon attending the sessions oi the Legislature in Montgomery who makes the proud

boast that he doesn't wear socks.

BUT ARE THEY REALLY MEN? Macon Telegraph. Senators Lodge, Reed, ' Sherman and a few others probably don't know just how lucky they really are. Think of the police records they'd have now for picketing the White House had they been born girls.

A passenger train on the C. C. & St L. railroad was wrecked near Richmond.

Boycotters chants.

listed Richmond mer-

Fare between Richmond and cago was raised 50 cents.

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Wedding of Miss Esther Sittloh and George C. Bartel was solemnized.

( Signs of Spring J Wtyen the boys drag their chairs out on the sidewalk instead of sitting in the office, Spring is here says Fire Chief Miller.

BETTER IF THEY DID Grand Rapids Press. . Though we must say for the Bolshevists that they never make a point of no quorum in order to get a day off the way Congress often does. '

PLAYING SAFETY FIRST

Dayton News.

Ohio now has an . Anti-Cigarette League, but it isn't appointing any delegates to welcome the boys who are coming home.

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MUST BLUSH IN HIS SLEEP Columbia State. It is well for Goethe "that he still "sleens" at Weimar, but he may be having a terrible nightmare. H 'ltLJ

Bolsheviki in Clean Collars

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HE Rev. Dr. Eaton, In his recent warnings of the

, danger of Bolshevism here at home, emphasized as

the source of this danger bewhiskered Russians

more famiHar;wlth revolution than with soap and water. The recent hearing before the Senate Committee showed that this source., of danger. is heavily reinforced by the sort of educated Americans ..who were caller "parlor

Socialists" before the war but some of whom are now Bol-!

shevists for what there is In it, efther in moaey or advertising. , ; John Reed, a Socialist writer, admitted that he was employed by "the international revolutionary propaganda bureau of the Bolshevist Ministry of Foreign Affairs" at Petrograd, but he could not remember that he had eaid In a speech at Yonkers recently that "3,000,000 rifles are In the hands of 3,000,000 Russian workmen and soon 8.000,000 rifles will -be in the hands of American workmen to do the same thing that is being done in Russia." Employment bjr the Bolsheviki at Petrograd would be abundantly Justified by the incitement of armed revolt anions the workers here, and although Reed did not ad-

mit the specific language attributed to him at Yonkers he did admit that he expected to start a "bureau of information" in this country and indicated that the bureau would be supported by "some wealthy women in New York who have nothing else to do with their money." "

There is as least one old colored man in Accomac, Va., who will not be fooled' on his Liberty bonds. Our good old' Accomac county friend ot a long and honorable life told a visitor how some "shjirp boy" came 'round the "diggings" and first offered him $95 for his Second Liberty bond. Said the old man: "What foah Ah'm gwlne sell $100 of good guv'm't money for $95?" Whereupon the visitor said: "Well, Mr. Bpnne, here's going you better. Here's $102 for your First Liberty bond." - "An' what foah you gwine gib me $102 of good money foah $100 of good money?" replied the darkey.v "Man. travel on, 'fob you-all's arristed wid counterfeit money on you." "My husband is so jealous." "How absurd." "Why, isn't yours?" "Of course not." ' - t "How humiliating!" . x

. A colored recruit said he intended to take out the full limit of government insurance, $10,000. On being told by a fellow soldier that he would be foolish to pay on so much when he was likely to be shot in the trenches,

he replied: "Huh! I reckon I knows

Both Reed and his wife, Louise Bryant, defended the! whut I's doin'. You-all don't s'pose

Bolsheviki in their testimony and insisted that the things charged aganst them are untrue, especially the "national

ization" of Russian women, which Miss Bryant said was done by the anarchists. Can any reader imagine people less fitted to be intrusted With funds for propaganda, or for any other work, in this country than this pair of Bolshevists in clean ttnen? The danger from that sort of thing and from the women who foster it by contributing to its spread, if such women exist as Reed asserted, is real and is probably greater than that from uneducated but sincere zealots from Russia who may have found lodging here.' The latter sometimes develop an Alexander Berkman, but the danger, from such firebrands is less than' from a man like Reed under the pay of the present revolutionary' government of Russia.

Uncle Sam is gwine to put a $10,000 man in the first-line trenches, do you?"

"Speaking of etiquet, did you send the quarter for those" advertised instructions on 'What to do at table'?" "Yea." ' . ,". - "Ani what did you get?" . "A-sllp with one word printed on it: EAT!" . A banker who tried to give away money Is now in the observation ward at Bellevue. He is believed to be the only man of his kind and is a rare study for the alienists.

It iff difficult to spend an evening In the presence of the darling of the American stage. Mrs. Flske, without going home all excited and writing something about it. Mrs. Flske has for, lo these many years, cast a spell over the humble scribener, and this week when we saw her for the hundredth time, the spell was as potent as ever. And, after the performance, the oldtime green-room reception, with scores of good-looking young men, in evening clothes stooping to kiss the hand of the actress, and scores of beautifully gowned women paying her homage, we wondered what greater triumph any person could ask than the ever young and delightful Minnie Maddern

has achieved In the hearts of her myriad worshippers. As Mrs. Flske says of herself, she will never stop being young. She may die sometime, but she will never stop being young. Tom Daly, than whom, etc., etc., has Invited a bunch of us to Philadelphia; to hold a convention, and the follow

ing is the invitation: You guys came here in 1906, And much improved our politics. We need your sprightly presence J more amsite more than e'er before. The town will greet and treat, you gaily, ' .. . My hand upon it. T. A. Daly. ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Miss Alice Lummans, the daughter of our genial tax collector, is in Indianapolis this week and next seeing the sights. This is her first visit away

from home. Mercyvllle (Iowa) Banner. There's a Limit to Everything. Dancing: Slow Down to eight miles

an hour. Watkins (N. Y.) Sign.

According to the "Star," a force of

fifteen expert women question askers

nas arrived in Kansas City. "But.

adds the Star, "fifteen more or less can't expect to make much difference

in a city as full of 'em as this city is

"RELEASED FOR STOCK?"

J. F. McMann will speak at the As

sembly next Saturday on "The Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns." Mer

cy ville (Iowa) Banner.

The pictures -of Eociety leaders at Palm Beach have convinced us beyond the peradventure of any sort of doubt

and beyond the chance of successful contradiction that there are about as many knock-kneed ladies among the smart sets as among the duller ones who never have their pictures in the

paper. For, as Shakespeare so pathetically put it as he watched Ann Hathaway dash into the surf at Bawth long, long ago: "The pleasant ladies . Can beat all Hades And lash us to the mast; Butwhea knock-kneed wimmen Go in swimmin'. The truth comes out at last." The billiard and pool players will never demand an eight-hour day. . ISN'T THAT LIKE A SIAMESE? The natives of Siam obtain petroleum by digging pits about sixty feet deep and dipping it out with pails. Chicago Journal.

HE Aftermath, oldest of Richmonds clubs, had its origin in the society of the Orthodox Friends meeting. In 1886, Mrs. Mattie Curl Dennis organised a reading clrcle from members of this society, which met every

Tuesday afternoon at the Home of some member. The first year was given to the study of Whlttier and

the second to Longfellow.1 After this came the other American authors. English authors, principally the "Lake Poets," and some ' cf Shakespeare's plays. :' r'':.'. There were no permanent officers.

with the exception of Mrs. Dennis aa leader. A simple series of resolutions governed the society. - In 1891 the society was christened the "Tuesday Aftermath" and the membership was limited to 40. The first printed program was in 1892-93, with Russia as the study. 1893-4 and 1894-5 were devoted to French history and literature; 1895-6 and 1896-7 to Germany. - In 1897 the leader, Mrs, Dennis, died and reorganization was necessary. A constitution and by-laws with regular officers came into effect. Civics and social problems were studied in 1897-8-9. , In 1899 and 1900 Robert Louis Stevenson and Current Events were studied. -In 1900 and 1901 Household Science and George Eliot were taken up. In connection with University Extension lectures, Shakespeare and Ruskin were studied in 1901 and 1902, and in 1902 and 1903 the club studied Shakespeare, social and civic studies; in 1903-4 Spain and topics on civic improvement; 1904-5 architecture and sculpture; 1905-6 Italian painting; 1906-7, French painting;

1907-8, art and life of Spain and Netherlands; 1908-9, Germany and civic Improvement; 1909-10 modern England and civics and current topics; 1911-12, American civilization and current topis; 1912-13, Amerlan civilization In the South; 1913-14. outh America; 191415, South America. Health Culture; 1915- 16, South America and Beyond; 1916- 17, Mexica; 1917-18, Emerald Isle; 1918-19. Scotland.: Outside Of the schedule, the club has been identified with other activities. For several years the club was interested in school gardening. In other years ' it was yard cleaning. Every year the club ia active In some civic improvement or movement. The programs for each year have been preserved by Mrs. Frank Clarke, who was a charter ember of the club. The present, officers are Miss Mary A. Stubbs, president; Mrs. N. C. Heironlmus, vice-president;., secretary, Mary Allice Moorman; treasurer, Elisabeth W. Dalbey. The members of the club are Mrs. Frank Clarke, Mrs. Harry Dalbey, Mrs. T. J. Ferguson, Mrs. Effle Afton Hall, Mrs. Q. R. Hays, Mrs. N. C. Heironimus, Mrs. Gertrude Hill, Mrs. Lillian Mills Hiss, : Mrs. Samuel H. Hodgln, Mrs. Jesse Jones, Mrs- Anna E- Kv-

minski, Mrs. - Miriam McDivitt, Mrs. Peninah Moorman, Miss Mary Alice

Moorman, Mrs. S. E. Nicholson, Mrs.

A. w. Roach, Mrs. Benjamin Rush,

Airs, r rancis siepnens, miss Mary Anna Stubbs, Mrs. Thomas Tarkelson, Miss Ellen Thomas, Mrs William N. Trueblood, Mrs. Theodore Walters, Miss Emily Windle, Mrs. Charles Woodman and Mrs. Henry Wright. . The motto of the olub is "Without Haste: Without Rest" The flower is the Richmond rose.

- There were no delinquents at Chauteau Thierry'. Are you delaying the

"Your aristocratic American millionaire will often, make a .mesalliance and

marry a chorus girl or a parlor maid

But I notice that your aristocratic American millionairesses always keep

ing her Head, makes a good match. The speaker was Mme. Montessorl, the Italian educator. She continued: "On the way thither on the boat there. was a beautiful American heiress to whom b young magazine writer

from thewesf paid assiduous court But he, on account of the low rates of the magazines A was as poor as a church mouse, land so the heiress would not consumer him seriously. - "As they leaned side by side over the rail one aftlrnoon the heiress, looking out over lie rolling blue waters, sighed and ss Id : "T love the sei'jf' "The impoverish A and embittered

magazine writer ret ted with a sneer.

'I don't see why. ft, hasn't got any

Roosevelt By George. Matthew Adams.

His voice is silenced. His pen is stilled. . His ringing, resounding personality we will feel no more. But the MAN lives ! America now realizes that, in Theodore Roosevelt its elements had produced a character so unique, so compelling, so sincere, so dominating, so driving in its irresistible earnestness, that now, with Iiim gone, a lull has settled upon the millions of those whom he loved and fought for, that nothing at present, seems to recompense. Now why? In the first place, because he was real and human. He was one of the tenderest-hearted men that the world has ever produced. He loved' little children with a passion. And yet he was one of the most fearless men in all the history of time. His equal for courage among mortals, has never been surpassed. ,a - He was blunt. He was daring. But he was absolutely true. His motives were ofttimes challenged but they were never proved to be ill-conceived. '- " ;. "T He cleared his desk for work and action with the beginning of every day and no sun ever set upon a Roosevelt day with "no worthy action done." Theodore Roosevelt gave a new meaning to red blood and scrupulous cleanness of mind and purpose. . He was as astoundingly frank as he was honest. No man's opposition was ever more greatly feared, and no man's approval was more doggedly sought. We may almost say that Roosevelt was habitually inconsistently right that is, that he had vision so great and so demanding in its personal interpretation, that his. plan had to be all worked out before people could catch up with him and be convinced that his way was the way of right. Theodore Roosevelt died in' youth. We could never have imagined him as an "old" man. The trail will see him no more but it will FEEL him forever!

RETURN LOOTED TREASURE

TRENTO, Feb. 25. Thirteen wagon loads of art treasures taken from this

city during the Invasion arrived here from Austria today, being restored to the owners under the terms of the armistice. ,

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