Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 92, 26 February 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1919.,

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM V V Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by . Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building." North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at Ihe Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Seoyrtf;i4i ; i end Class Mall Matter. , MBMDER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' " Th Aaaoclatad Praaa !a axcluafvelr ntitled to tha UM for republication of all news dlcpatchaa credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local newa published herein. All rlghta of republication of ape clal dlapatchea herein are alo reaerved.

The Anti-German Bill '!. Citizens of Indiana have been wondering why the Indiana Legislature has been pussyfooting

around .the Anti-German bill. Sentiment de mands the enactment of legislation that will pre

elude the teaching of the German language in elementary ' schools ' and will also throw proper safeguards around the teaching of this language In the high schools. The passage of the McCray bill should not have been delayed but accepted at once. ,", The nefarious influence of German propaganda was too marked during the war to permit it to find any lodgment in this country, and the quickest way to eradicate the vestige that still remains is by prohibiting the teaching of German.I '. ;- . Immigrants who have come to this country

should be Americanized at once. And the best way" to make good Americans out of the aliens is

to force -them' to learn the American language. tj ii.' '. '. - . " x i i A II

IX mey.ao not care to uecome uunu nue jinencaii

citizens, they ought to be deported to their native countries. We have had our experience with hyphenated citizens. This is an American country and the teutonic influence must perish.

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The Pay of Teachers

j general approval of an increase in the pay of school teachers - is found , not only in Indiana

struction, for the American people do not maintain the public school system for the benefit of the teachers, but for the benefit of the children who are taught by the teachers. In a discussion of an increase in pay for teachers, we sometimes become so narrow in our outlook that we confuse the real issue, believing erroneously that the teachers are benefitted and not the pupils. The welfare of this nation depends upon the children, and the correct education of these children is the fundamental motive in advocating increased remuneration for the teachers. "Teachers are now paid less for their work than any other class of workers," Dr. Claxton continues, "and the increase in their pay in the last few years has in no wise been in keeping

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the increase in the cost of living. While the cost of living has increased approximately 80 per cent food, 85 per cent; clothing, 106 per cent; drugs, 103 per cent; fuel, 53 per cent; and house furnishing goods, 75 per cent the salaries of teachers have increased only about 12 per cent. The purchasing power of the salary of the teacher in our public schools is, therefore, only about 63 per cent of what it was four years ago. "Many of the better teachers are leaving the schools and their places are taken by men and women of less native ability, less education and culture, less training and experience. Many of the places are not filled at all. As an inevitable result the character of the schools is being low

ered just at a time when it ought to be raised to a much higher standard. "Students now entering the normal schools to

prepare for teaching are not of' as good quality as they were formerly, which means that the standards of the schools must continue to fall. In some normal schools the enrollment is far less than in former years. "The only remedy is larger pay for teachers. Such a policy prospect would attract to the schools more men and women of superior ability and would hold them, working contentedly and, therefore, profitably for the children and the public welfare. Such increase in salary should carry with it an increase of not less than 25 per cent in the average length of the school term, which is now less than 160, days, "To those who are not acquainted with past conditions and who have given the matter no intelligent thought, the increase recommended may seem large, but in fact it is not. It would in most states mean a range of salaries from $1,000 to $3,000. No person who is fit to take the time and money and opportunity of the children of this great democratic republic for the purpose of

fitting them for life, for making a living, and for virtuous citizenship should be asked to work for less than $1,000 a year in any community or in any state. No one who is unworthy of this mini

mum salary is fitted to do this work and no such person should be permitted to waste the time and money of the children and to fritter away,

When Was Old Gaar Scott Co. Organized Here?

One of the past glories of Richmond Industry, the- old Gaar-Scott plant, was started In 1836 as the Spring foundry, named from large springs near the present site. Isaac E. Jones was Its originator and he used the building for a store foundry. In 1839 the business was bought by Jesse M. and Jobu Hutton, among their workmen being Jonas, Abrain and J. M. Gaar, and William G. Scott. In 1841 the first threshing machinery built in Indiana' was placed on the market by Hutton. In 1848 an Improved thresher was Invented, and In 1849 the Gaars and Scott bought out the Huttons, and organized the Arm of A. Gaar and Co. The business developed rapidly and in 1870 the Gaar-Scott company was incorporated. Threshers and traction and portable engines were manufactured. In 1911 the plant passed Into the hands of the Rumely company, and when that organization failed the plant was dismantled. In the heyday of the company'3 greatest prosperity, the payroll, was over $600,000 a year and more than 700 men were employed many of whom had been working for the .firm thirty or forty years. ;

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

where legislation is pending, but also all over the United States. Citizens have come to the conclusion that the welfare of our public school system is intimately connected with the remuneration of the educator. . . The Pittsburg Leader sums up the plea for better pay .for school teachers in this sentiment: "Good teachers are a prime requisite for good schools and good teachers cannot be secured or retained on starvation wages. The time has come when, if the people want to retain these good teachers, they must give them an adequate reward, for their, services. It is unfair, unjust, to accept 'indifferently the splendid work as a matter'of course. ; We must pay for what we are getting and quit cheating." ; - The Grand Rapids News says: "In order to maintain the schools at their highest point of efficiency in education, we must pay the teachers enough to hold them. We must hold not only the less-abled' instructors, but we must keep the best

in the service of the public, and in order to do i their opportunity for education

that, "we must ,pay the teachers compensation commensurate with their service." The. Indianapolis News says: "To attract men and women to their teaching ranks now, it will' be necessary to pay them more. Some of therri only teach seven mpnths a year; nine months service is the longest of any, and they draw, no pay during the vacation period. The ranks of; teachers must be recruited every year. They, cannot be expected to make a continual sacrifice and they should not be asked to do so. The extra , money paid school teachers will be well spent and it is to the public good that standard f for teachers shall be, kept at the highest point.'?;? w r. The bill which is pending in the Indiana legislature, it is said, will not effect the situation in Richmond, for teachers here are paid in excess of the minimum fixed in this measure. Nevertheless, the question of remuneration for the teachers demands public. attention. Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, in a statement which embodies his ideas on this matter, urges the doubling of the salaries of teachers within the next five years, and then adding 50 per cent before another 10 years, have passed, so that the minimum average salary for teachers will be $1500. Dr. Claxton insists that this increase in pay is not so much for the sake of the teachers as it is for the benefit of the children who receive in-

TEN YEARS Ago Today in Richmond

First degree conferred upon 21 candidates in Whitewater lodge. Much lamentation among Richmond baseball fans because the governor vetoed the Sunday baseball measure. The Wayne County Historical society moved from the court house to their new rooms in the MorrissonReeves library. Isaac Jenkinson read a paper. Large delegation of South Seventh street residents appeared before' the Board of Works with petitions for improvement s between E and H. streets. R. H. S. basketball team defeats Connersville team, 19-4.

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( Signs of Spring ) Only sign of spring I've seen around here is that some folks come in and spring mighty bum jokes in this office, said assistant treasurer McMahon, glaring accusingly at City Controller Balthus Bescher.

AFTER CONSULTING THE MASTER. Knoxville Journal. A spiritualist has permitted Wilhelm to confer with Ananias or at any rate Bill says he's about ready to issue a statement.

N6, IT'S JUST PLAIN FOLLY Toledo Blade. Marrying a powder puff and a lip stick isn't bigamy.

, SAME SOUTHERN EXPOSURE, TOO. Kansas City Star. That story that tight skirts were delaying trains and street cars has turned out to be a mistake. Local observers say the stylishly dressed woman today gets on a car ahead of the crowd just as quickly and willingly as fhe did last summer when skirts were short.

Moment 'MORBIJ MILL Lie

One of the worst things we have heard about prohibition Is that all the mahogany bars in the country are likely to be made over Into player pianos. By the way, what is going to become of all the temperance lecturers? Maybe they will have to go to work.

RETRIBUTION There once were two lovely young llamas Who wore their best Sunday pajamas And tore them to rags On the Andean crags And soundly were spanked by their mamas! PERCHI.

LEAVE IT TO THE CORNFEDS Lexington Herald. Now comes the sensible suggestion that there can be no reasonable objection to continuing to wear the diaphanous skirt provided "they put enough goods in it;" but the whole crux of the matter turns on what is meant by "goods." '

DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, SAME 08JECT Houston Post. Some of the Sons of Freedom in Ohio declare they will move to Canada after May 26. They needn't send any of their literature to the Texas branch of the organization. Our bunch is headed for Mexico.

"SIG" RATTLES THE SKELETON R. K. M. Not wishing to deprive Rennold Wolf of .a luncheon, or anything like that, but that "press" Joke first appeared in the "Eden Enterprise" soon after Adam and Eve announced their engagement. The original form was something like this: "May I print a kiss on your cheek?" he asked. She nodded a sweet permission. So they went to press, and I rather guess They printed a large edition. There was a movement started, early in the nineteenth century, to bar this joke from newspaper columns, along with the mother-in-law and the talkative barber. But evidently it came to nothing. Yours for palpable plagarism, SIGMUND SPAETH.

The Lamp of Leadership

From Curb News, New York. TIME whimsical inexorable passes swiftly. The little- town of Sur, on the Syrian coast, is all that remains of Tyre. The shifting sands have filled the great harbor. The crown of Tyre was worn successively during the centuries of the westward march of progress by the Phoenician stepchild, Carthage; then by Italy;. next by Hamburg and the leagued German cities of the .Baltic; -fourth by Portugal; fifth by Spain, the discoverer of Ihe New. World; sixth by Holland and seventh, until 1914, by Great Britain. f Previous to 1914 we owed England, then the richest nation on the globe, so much'money that the annual interest was 300 millibn dollars. Now England's debt to us requires her to pay us 250 million dollars a year interest. Before the war we owed about 4 billion dollars abroad. Today the situation is more than reversed the net indebtedness of Europe to the United States government and private investors in this .country is 10 billion dollars. The annual interest payments which will pour into this country on such a debt will amount to at least 600-roniion"'aollaf s. We possess one-third or more of the

total wealth of the earth. The United States is now the richest nation and the financial center of the world. Before the tvar England was the greatest ship owning country. Our shipbuilding schedules when carried through 1920 will give us twice as many ships as England. The world's cry today is for raw materials raw materials raw materials! In this connection, and now at the dawn of the greatest era in our history, every citizen of the United States should get these big facts indelibly in mind: We represent but 6 per cent of the world's population and own but 7 per cent of the world's land. But we produce 70 per cent of the world's copper, 66 per cent of the oil, 75 per cent of the corn, 60 per cent of the cotton, 33 per cent of the silver, 62 percent of the coal, 40 per cent of the iron and steel, 20 per cent of the gold, 85 per cent of the motor cars, 25' per cent of the wheat, and we operate 40 per cent of the world's railroads. Thus for three thousand years the Lamp of Leaderchip has been seized by. nation after nation, until now, wearied and outstripped, Europe hands it willingly but unasked to the young, strong, free land of the West to this, the most wonderful endowed naton of all history!

Dinn er S tor ie9

A venerable citizen of the Straddlo Ridge neighborhood entered a lunch room in Polkville, Ark., dragging after him a gander-necked, lop-eared youth. "Peach apple mince raisin apercot lemon blackb'ry and cokernut custard!" she answered with considerable rapidity. "Ptu! which?" returned the old fellow. The young lady repeated the list with still greater speed. "Please say that over ag'in, if you'd jest as liv,' " requested the ancient man. "Say, lookee here!" demanded the waitress. "Can't you understand anything?" "Oh, yes'm; I understand, aU right!" He turned to the lop-eared youth. "There now, Emmett!" he triumphantly said. "You see it's Jest as I told you; a person kin talk as -fast as he pleases without stutterin,' if he'll only take keer!"

Colds Cause Headaches and Pains Feverish Headaches and Body Pains caused from a cold are soon relieved by taking LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. There's only one "Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S signature on the box. 30c.

Critic Takes Issue Defense of the Y.

With McNaught's M. C. A. in France

Editor Palladium: I have been very much interested in the articles by Victor McNanght now appearing in the Palladium and dealing with various topics, of Interest

in connection with the war. But particularly was I interested in the one entitled "Y. M. C. A. in France," which was run on the editorial page in the issue of Tuesday, November 18. In this article Mr. McNaught gives seven different counts on which the Y. M. C. A. has been indicted by the Doughboys. - In other words, seven different things that the Y. M. C. A. has done or has not done that make the organization thoroughly unpopular with the soldier. He then follows this with a sort of defense of the "Y" presents the other side of the case, as it were. He does not, however, draw any conclusions either for or against the "Y". The reader is still left in the dark. Believes Them Misleading Further, while both hi3 arraignment

and defense of the "Y" are true to !

fact, they are both misleading. Personally I know very little about

the American Doughboy in France, but ; I do know something about the "Great i American Gob" the enlisted man of the Navy, who will try anything and

succeea; ngm anjDoay ana win, ana his activities in European waters and shore stations and I do not believe he differs materially from his land-fighting brother, the "Doughboy." Because I feel that the Y. M. C. A, as an institution is not the property of Us secretaries and directors, but rather that it belongs to all of us (nearly everyone has contributed to its support and all are to some extent influenced and affected by it) I

am taking the liberty of endeavoring' to throw a little light reflected light!

to be sure, as you will later' see into the darkness left by Mr. McNaught's article. Refers to Article. In the March Issue of the Cosmopolitan there is an article by Judge Ben. B. Lindsey, entitled the Doughboy's Religion." Everybody in the United States ought to read it. It gets at the real truth and 1 am going to quote from it a little further along in this letter. "That the Y. M. C. A. was partly guilty of the charges made against it by the Doughboys to Mr. McNaught, there is no question. Likewise there is no question but that on some counts it was entirely innocent. But even if it were guilty of all, that would not be sufficient to account for the existing animosity of the enlisted men of both the Army and Navy, and when you discover that after you have proved to the "Gob" or "Doughboy" that his criticisms are unfounded or that he has condemned the entire "Y" for the faults of a few and yet his. animosity still persists, you begin to realize that there must be something more radically wrong with the "Y" something that the Doughboy himself feels In a sort of sub-con-cious way but feels most strongly, nevertheless. What is it? In the following (quoted from Judge Lindsey) I believe you will the answer. "What was really wrong? Discovering the Truth. "The truth became apparent in .a very curious way. Some of the "Y" workers proposed that the soldiers at the "Y" meetings should be asked to answer a questionnaire in which they should give the three cardinal sins that were most abhorred by the soldier. The average answer was to be taken as a "message" from the doughboys in France to those back in America. And, of course, it was hoped that, after all the crusading that had been done against drinking, gambling, and immorality, the boys would line up solidly against those three vices.

"The result was startling. No mat-i

ter where the vote was taken, and no matter how the question was asked, the soldiers answered invariably that

to them the first great sin was cowardice, and the first great virtue was courage. "With the same unanimity, they replied that the second worst sin was selfishness and the second greatest virtue, self-sacrifice. Another Vice.! "The third vice was variously, expressed as snobbishness, big-headed-ness, boastfulness, or hypocricy. And one of the "Y" secretaries told me that when he tried to get the boys to declare against personal immorality, they just gave him the "horse-laugh." Here, then, was one fundamental cause of misunderstanding between the "Y" and men whom it was so eager to help. In the directions issued by the Association to its workers, the greatest stress was laid upon the importance of saving soldiers from sin and getting them to "accept and follow Jesus Christ." These were declared to be "fundamental objectives." They were so given in the "Manual of Camp Work" issued to secretaries and workers as late as June, 1918. And the soldiers bad no patience with such objectives. As one of them put it to me : 'Look at that bunch of roughnecks there! Not one of them has seen the inside of a church in years, but I tell you they're real Christians. They love one another, and it's the real thing in loving, for they'd lay down their lives for each other and divide their last crumb with a comrade. We get that sort of a thing at the front more than we ever had it in the churches or in the Y. M. C. A. at home. And when we're doing it and feeling it here, the less talk they give us about it the better especially when the talk comes from some of these dolled-up guys that don't know as much about it as we do.' Saw It Himself. "When I went into the trenches, I could see the thing for myself. Here was true Christianity in action, before the face of death, under circumstances that made any preaching, however eloquent, seem tawdry. "These men were practicing their fundamental virtues: Courage, selfsacrifice, and sincere humility. In a very real sense, they were saving the world. They were laying down their lives for humanity. They were loving their neighbors as themselves and better than themselves. Face to face with eternity, they were truly follow-I ing the example of Christ on the cross. They were not thinking of saving their souls. They were thinking or nothing so selfish. And when they came back from that Calvary, in which they had seen their comrades die, what patience would they have with smug exhortations and personal sins, individual sal

vation, and the self-satisfaction of superior virtue? '. "Naturally, they, had none whatever. If you preach to a man that he

muse ao ngm Decause ne win De punished if he does wrong, you are preaching a cowardly ethic. It does not matter whether you threaten him with jail or with hell-fire, you are appealing to his fear. Such appeals are never very effective, even in peace-time. I have found them a complete failure among children in our juvenile-court work, for example. And to the soldiers they were worse than puerile. They offended against the fret tenet of the Doughboy's faith that the most damnable of all sins is cowardice." In short, the religion of the "Y" was, "Save your soul." ' That of the Doughboy. "Save the other fellow's." The "Y" said, "What- shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" The Doughboy said: "What hall it profit a man to save his own soul if the whole world is to be lost?" Sincerely, JAS. W. CONNER.

Lieutenant (J. G.) U. S. N. R. F.

New National Holiday Bv Associated Prcaal CHICAGO, Feb. 26. "A Sixth of April Garden Day" as a new national holiday with the "millions of soldiers of the soil marching to the furrows of freedom" every year was advocated here today by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the National War Garden commission in a speech before the School Garden association of America in session in connection with the National Superintendents' association. "Could there be anything more Inspiring," said Mr. Pack, "than to have a day set aside in the Spring on which all of us shall get out of doors and into the sunshine for the first garden planting of the year? On the last Sunday in March we will have an extra hour of daylight which will mean millions of dollars in increased home food production. Think what it would mean every year if on the first Wednesday in April or on April 6, the day we declared war, the millions of members of the garden army marched out into the furrows of freedom in the war for food? "In the great garden army there Is the making of the better and healthier citizen the creation of a longing for a bit of land for the individual the creation of the desire for a home. With that spirit implanted in those who will come after us we will have to set this nation upon a rock that none can', nl.nl.A . 1. a mat imaHnan Ti rim o Rtr

all means let us mark this continued building for better citizenship with a national holiday as a sign to the world that the frontiers of freedom will be maintained."

CHARACTER RECONSTRUCTION

By George Matthew Adams

Every physical step that you take every movement of your arms every turn of your head every creation of thought, means change, reconstruction. What you are is a process of what you think and do. The biggest thing in life is the building of a worthy mind through rightly constructed thoughts that tell the hands and feet what to do, and which arouse the scores of human feelings within you to place you in the world, as a character! ' You can change your character. You can tear your character down, you can rebuild it! The great encouragement back of human effort is that you may always aspire to be what you want to be. And what (oiks want to be, is usually what they become. It takes the hardest substance to cut a diamond. But in the process, two of the hardest substances come together1 two strong elements contend with the other. And the strongest one survives the diamond. . - You cannot hope to grow, you cannot hope to be of moment In the world, without strong elements of opposition, of discouragement, of direst down-heartedness. Smooth-running, perfect days do not produce smooth-running, perfect characters; there must be opposition, there must be the contact with the flint-like failure, in order that your mind .and heart may be steeled to the winning of the best - Take heart, then, my friend, and take bold. It Is in you to be bigger so be bigger! . , , .