Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 99, 6 March 1919 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1919.
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Why Not Conclude the Peace Treaty at Once? The spectacle offered to the nations of the world by Congress in its closing days is a sad commentary on both the Democrats and Republicans. Neither can advance an extenuating excuse. In the long run the country, which includes every citizen of the realm, will suffer from the consequences of the act. 1 The whole world wants peace.- There is no question about this. Germany needs peace, and the quicker the terms of the peace treaty are settled, the better off all the allied nations and Germany herself will be. Every obstruction blocking the speedy execution of the treaty should be swept away. Germany will be forced to pay an enormous indemnity. The quicker she is told what this amount is, so that she ean bring order into her household and begin paying it off, the better off will be France and Belgium who have suffered most from the insane wrath of her war lords. The people of the United States are divided in their opinion on the League of Nations. Leading men in the Republican party, including even former President Taft, are staunch supporters of the Wilson plan, and conversely leading men in
the Democratic party are opposed to it. But this is no reason why terms of peace should not be dictated to Germany at once. Neither is it a reason why a few Republicans should resort to filibuster methods to "impair the efficiency of the government" and to "embarrass the finances of the country." In the last decades there has been an unhealthy disposition on the part of the chief executives of the United States to arrogate to themselves legislative and udicial authority that is not vested jn them but placed by the founders of the Republic in the hands of Congress and the Supreme Court. The senate has resented the program of President Wilson in going ahead with his League of Nations without consulting its members or taking them into his confidence. Admittedly, President Wilson has gone farther in this direction than any of his predecessors, but the world chaos may have been his actuating motive. Full suppbrt cannot be accorded him for this action, but nevertheless the transgression was nol so flagrant that the Republicans were forced as a measure of national defense to resort to a filibuster movement that will make the people pay for the action in the last accounting. Both sides should realize that the rights of the people are worthy of some consideration at least. Neither the action of the president in going ahead full speed with his own program without consulting the senate, nor the filibuster action -of the Republicans will redound to the ultimate welfare of the nation.
"... Buy Now Residents of Wayne county should be interested in the nation-wide campaign waged by the United States council of national defense to buy now articles and commodities that they need. Postponement of purchases involves a menace that is related to the general industrial and labor situation. . The Outlook analyzes the appeal as follows: "We have unemployment especially in the Northern States, according to Mr. Clarkson, because outdoor work is suspended ; workers on outdoor improvements and in normal outdoor labor have crowded into the congested cities, and arc finding difficulty in getting temporary employment. ' "To this, said he, there is added the factor of business hesitation a normal condition in any post-war readustment. To some extent prices are declining, and men hesitate to buy materials and supplies on a falling market. This of course means stopping work in some places and reducing the amount of work done in others. "Finally, the return of soldiers in .large numbers adds to the problem.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer. JUST at the point when the germ theory of disease is ' beginning to be accepted as well as understood, assertion is made that a fundamental error has been made in positing the malignant influence of bacteria and other foreign bodies. According to an eminent specialist lecturing to associates In a New York medical, academy, germs themselves do not cause disease. The seat of their operation always is in decaying tis- ' tues, man's greatest enemy. In the case of wounds and pneumonia, before which the surgical and medical profession stood helpless in the European war,; 'necrosed, or dead, tissue furnished the propagation field for destructive agents known as polypeptids, which in turn created the poison -absorbed by the human victim to his own destruction. While germs aid the process of disintegration they do not furnish the lethal agent. This comes from the decaying tissue cells. Neglect to recognize this fact caused the humiliating liiriure of surgery on the battlefields. Researchers in the
mobilization when many men are vainly seeking work. We must save them from unemployment and from what is worse, from the social consequences to them and to the country. "There must be no waste. We must still save and at the same time must tap the springs of commerce and avert the dangers from labor unrest. Hence a good rule is Mr. Clarkson's : 'Buy only what you need, but buy it now'." The Basketball Tournament The sectional basketball tournament to be held here this week will bring a large number of high school players and rooters to Richmond. The meeting has become an annual classic for this section of the state. . The youthful enthusiasm of the students and the energy they expend arouse the admiration of the adults watching the contest as it progresses to the point where the winner is chosen for the state tournament. The friendly rivalry engendered between the schools is commendable. It is noteworthy that few sore spots are made by the sectional tournaments and these wear off before the next contest is staged. v . Richmond is to be complimented on the fine spirit it has shown to the visitors in the past, and there is no reason to doubt that the forthcoming tournament will be another manifestation of this spirit of fair play and sportsmanship that commands respect and makes for friendship. After all, it is not the winning team that is the only winner. The team that plays for sport and enjoyment but takes its defeat manfully is also a victor. A defeated team that lost after the expenditure of the best it had in it, needs no pity and deserves no censure. It did its best and more could not be asked of it.
Indiana Legislature The Indiana general assembly is rapidly coming to a close. Little can be said in praise of the work of the legislature in this session. It is gratifying to note that Wayne county's senator and representative as well as its joint representative performed their work conscientiously and really tried to do their duty. A review of the session of the legislature reveals few commendable actions. In the main, it has been a blustery session of controversies while the welfare of the state was of secondary consideration. . .. '
THEN WE'RE FOR "NO BEER" Ohio State Journal. Nation-wide prohibition seems virtually assured and we'd laugh if the United States Senate would commit itself irrevocably to this position: No beer, no speeches.
HOW ABOUT THE GATE RECEIPTS - Birmingham Age-Herald. Both Mr. Willard and Mr. Dempsey say they have never hit a man with all their strength. Feverish fight fans may take this information for what it is worth.
TAKING JOY OUT OF, LIFE Los Angeles Times. If President Carranza should enforce prohibition in Mexico, the old-fashioned cry, "there is no balm in Gilead," would again come into general use. ' ' . IS DOC COOK IN THE HOUSE? Cleveland Plain Dealer. The groundhog is proving himself a bigger liar every year.
CASE OF Baltimore Sun. "Paris Gets Used Lewis was there, we
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laboratories were too remote from clinical and empirical happenings in the theater of action. Nor were physicians and surgeons behind the line in a position to reproduce in animals the pathological conditions they found in the hospitals. As a result both branches fell back on traditional theories and practices instead of making expected advances. Tests have shown that wound shock was produced by toxins manufactured by disintegrated animal tissue, the same condition applying to pneumonia. To neutralize the deadly work of the attendant, but secondary, germs it Is therefore necessary to check the necrosis of the tissue. It is interesting, and astonishing as well, to hear from this specialist's lips the declaration that despite the advances in surgery, wound and shock treatment is no more efficacious than in the days of the siege of Troy, and that surgical practice appears to have turned backward to the methods of the Napoleonic wars rather than to have advanced fla any direction. '-
"Its peculiar peril at this time is because the situation invites the activities of certain restless elements, especially the Bolshevists. As in Europe, so in America, empty stomachs and empty purses create opportunity for the Bolshevists. Their fellows, the I. W. W. agitators, seize the same occasion. "Now there is much business waiting to be done in America: Private stocks are low.. The country's means are ample. When the full flow of private buying begins, there will be, well-informed observers prophesy, business for all. But to bring it about months will be required. "And yet action is needed now! "In the ultimate analysis, trade rests upon the personal purchases of individuals. If all were to stop buying, there would be no business. In normal times it is called good business to delay buying until the market reaches bottom- But these are not normal times these days of de
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SELF-WINDERS BY GEORGE MATTHEW ADAM8
- The scientist chap tells us that every time we think a thought millions of brain cells are torn down but with the creation of every new thought or Idea, new brain cells are created. The brain winds Itself, and the working of your mind depends upon how you mind your brain. It's a wonderful feeling to go to your couch, at night, knowing that your self-machinery has been propelled by your own ever-enthusiastic self that you are a self-winder. And what strength a man has who goes to his work each morning with the feeling that he is not going to be called upon to depend upon anybody to propel his day for him. Be a self-winder. The glory about being a self-winder is this: that it's easier to wind your own personal machine, than it is to have anybody else wind it because anybody else Is almost sure to wind it too tight, too fast, too slow, or too wrong, somehow. If you are a self -winder you can smile with all impunity. If somebody else has done your winding for you, then you are terribly unsure whether or not you are going to stay wound. The work that you do you know is your own; but the work which somebody else assists in making you do, you are never sure of finally owning as a product of your thought and Initiative. Do your work with gladness; but do it with such zest, such enthusiasm and such whole earnestness that you will never be questioned as to whether you are half wound or unwound everybody knowing that you are self-wound!
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When Was Second Presbyterian Church Founded? November 17, 1892. was the date ot the starting of the Second Presbyterian church. Sunday school was held for the first time by the congregation which later grew into the Second Presbyterian church, on that date, in a room over Brooks' grocery. Two years later the present Sunday school room of the church was built, and for ten years that structure served for both church and Sunday echool. Rev. Stanley C. Hughes was the first pastor, and left the church in 1902. He was succeeded by Rev. C. O. Shirley, who served until 1907, when Rev. R. M. Dunaway became pastor. He in turn was succeeded by Dr. Thos. C. McNary, and in 1913, Rev. E. E. Davis, the present pastor, took the church. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding, four members of the twenty-one original members were still with the church, Mr. Hamilton Smith, Mrs. Anna Pond, Mrs. Kate Jessup and Mr. Oscar Portcrfield. Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON A philosopher out west says the changes in weather keep people from going crazy, but it doesn't keep a lot of them from going crazy at that. - The World's Shortest and Most Frequent Poem: , Trotsky Shotsky. You-ve all heard about the engineer who got one day off in seven years and then spent that day hanging around the roundhouse looking at the engines. Now .comes Tom Aufiero, who claims that a certain chorus girl who got an evening off from her work for the first time in five months, spent the said evening in a front seat of the theater watching her own show. Interviewing Caruso on the occasion of his birthday is the annual field day of the psychologists of journalism, and it may be said to be their favorite indoor sport. This year Enrico, who admits that he is forty-six and will never have much trouble in proving it, discoursed upoit the melancholly subject of old age. Said he, "I said to my son, when in Italy last summer, 'Rudolph, I am old. Yes, I grow old,,' but my son laughs at me. 'Papa,' he says, you have the youngness of oldness.' " There was a dense pause. The statement was incontrovertible. Then, after awhile, the great tenor breathed: "Ha! Oldness? Yes. But the people are saying that Caruso is singing bet ter than ever this year. People look at the opera bill for the night an they say, 'What, Caruso not singing? Then I will not go.- I do not say that because I am Caruso, but people do say it." And the market quotation on violets is only $2 a hundred. ,. Alice Murdock says: "A church feels rich with $145 in the bank, while a business man would see the path to the poorhouse right before his eyes. The editor of this Pillar of Protest is not adnormally proud, but is obliged to forego an invitation to a soiree next Tuesday evening. Having shaken out the old dress suit and looked it over, we are more than ever of the opinion that moths are efficient. When they get busy on a pair of trousers they never waste any time on the legs. A PLEASANT TIME WAS HAD. I see by your paper that you have published-in the new department what you call a dance at my house, and the statements made are entirely false. True, we had a few of our neighbors in to spend the evening and some pups from Duncan came, entirely with out invitation whatever, and when they came thek were given to understand that they were not wanted. Danbury (Conn.) Reflector. Our country has few idle rich. Even the column writers work a little. And now we must beat our gin mills up into breakfast food factories. Upon the day of John Barleycorn's funeral, will it be legal to pass around the bier? , ( Signs of Spring ) Despite his pessimistic remarks a few days ago, Sheriff Carr is convinced spring is here. Carr bases his conviction on a robin which has made the county jail lawn Its home for several years, and knows all the attendants. The robin arrives every year as soon as spring comes, and got in last Tuesday.
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i IN THIS PAPER TEN YEAR8 AGO TODAY The celebration of the centennial anniversary of Methodist churches in this county will be held at First M. E. church next summer, it was announced today. - Another fruitless effort to secure recruits for the navy was made today by the officer in charge in Richmond. Richmond won from Anderson poloist 4 to 3. - Portland defeated the Richmond high school basketball team, 39 to 16. An attempt to wreck a train on the Richmond division of the Pennsy railroad was made. Ties were placed across the tracks but were discovered before the train was wrecked. The men trying to wreck the train escaped. Sharon E. Jones, a Richmond hardware man, was elected president of the state association today at Indianapolis. Dinner Stor i gs The dealer in antiques was showing an old violin to a probable buyer.' "Yes," he said, "this is of historic interest; that is the identical fiddle Nero played while Rome was burning." "Oh, that Is a myth!" The dealer agreed, saying: "Yes, it is; and Myth's name was on it, but it has got worn off." With excellent intentions, Mrs. Dibbs had undertaken to deliver a course of lectures on hygiene to the children of a certain poor district. She gave, with much zest, six long lectures. At the end of the sixth and last she decided to ask a few questions in order to find out how much of her wisdom had taken root. She only asked dne, hoxever, and then gave up lecturing forever. Her question wras : "Now, why must we always be careful to keep our homes spotlessly clean?" "Because, mum, company might drop in at any moment." Old Jenkins was mad with rage. For twelve months he had taken the plate around at the local church every Sunday. Now some one else had been asked to perform the duty. "I consider I have been grossly insulted," he said to a friend. " "But," said the latter, "I don't think there is any bad feeling toward you." "I don't know about that," roared Jenkins, "but it looks 'very suspicious. The fellow they have asked to do the job has only one arm." DID HE HIT IT? "Business Man Shot at Lunch."Headline. LIFT OFF CORNS IT DOESN'T HURT Get rid of every corn and callus for few cents Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, Instantly the corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. It doesn't pain one bit. Yes, magic! t Why wait? Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, 'sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, ; or corn between the toes, and calluses, without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the much talked of ether discovery of a Cincinnati genius. Adv.'
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KILLED 15 FOEMEN WITH A PICK AXE
mi General Pershing decorating Firs Lieut. Samuel Woodfil. First Lieut. Samuel Woodfil of the Sixtieth infantry, A. E. F was deccrated by General Pershing recently for his bravery in attacking and killing fifteen Germans with a pickaxe. The photo shows General Pershing in the act of decoratin Lieutenant Woodfil. WORLD HOPE Continued From Page One. strong, supplied the one fixed basis of hope in a situation critical beyond words to describe. Willing for Concessions. In this situations it is too much to expect that either France or Great Britain, much less the little nations, will be able to differentiate between Mr. Wilson, president, and Mr. Wilson, leader of the Democratic party. It is beyond the limits of possibility to expect that they will understand our domestic and political conditions or see anything in the present political conflict at home but a menace to all their hopes for the future and a threat of repudiation by America of the many obligations which we have undertaken through the president of the United States and have, through him. clearly indicated our purpose to carry on. What opposition to the League of Nations in its present form in America means in Europe, is, therefore, unmistakable. . Technical objections arising out of danger to the Monroe Doctrine or interference with our immigration laws are unimportant to th European mind. If it is desired by America, and asked, both will be excluded from the operation of - the League of Nations. Any concession or amendment will bo made except one. No nations, big or little, will consent to the withdrawal of America from Europe willingly. If the League of Nations and the idea of the League of Nations collapses, the elements of hope will be withdrawn from the European situation and the people that have the great task of reconstruction THIN PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE PHOSPHATE Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Phosphate to Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and to Increase Strength, Vigor and Nerve Force. .Tllftfrincr fmm tits. a.1 1 - o"e mo i-uuuuraa prepara tions and treatments which are continually being advertised for the purpose of making thin people fleshy, developing arms, neck and bust, and replacing ugly hollows and angles by the soft curved lines of health and beauty, there are evidently thousands of men and women who keenly feel their excessive thinness. Thinness and weakness are usually due to starved nerves. Our bodies need more phosphate than is contained in modern foods. Physicians claim there is nothing that will supply this deficiency so well as the organic phosphate known among druggists as bttrophosphate, which is inexpensive, and is sold by Conkey Drug Co., in Richmond, and most all druggists under a guarantee of satisfaction or money back.' By feeding the nerves directly and by supplying the "body cells with the necessary phosphoric food elements, bitro-phosphate quickly produces a welcome transformation in the appearance; the increase in weight frequently being astonishing. This increase in weight also carries with it a general improvement in the health. Nervousness, sleeplessness and lacic or energy, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness, soon disappear, dull eyes become bright, and pale cheek3 glow with the bloom of perfect health. t CAUTION: Although bitro-phos-nervousness, sleeplessness and general i weakness, it should not, owing to its remarkable flesh-growing properties, be used by anyone who does not desire to put on flesh. Adv.
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to undertake may yield to despair. Sees Greatness of Mission. In sum the simple fact is that Europe has accepted Mr. Wilson as the spokesman of America. It has welcomed him as no other public man has ever been welcomed here before. He was the delegate of that America whose services were in th minds and hearts of millions of people. It has to an incredible extent, risked all its future hope upon Mr. Wilson, not as an individual, but as president ot the United State.s; and if the country repudiates what Mr. Wilson has done here for domestic or political reasons, wwhlch are wholly comprehensible to every American, the European tragedy will be stupendous. The European has known no other American view than that of President Wilson. It has accepted his view because it believed it to be the American view, and today it stands literally aghast in the presence of the possibility at least suggested by fragmentary dispatches that the real view of America is something entirely different from the president's. . 4 I have talked with many republicans who are here, all of whom see the situation clearly, substantially as I have presented it here. Without exception, they recognize the greatness of the American mission's opportunity and duty in Europe; with no dissenting voice they assert that to abandon the ' League of Nations with its European responsibilities now will be little less thai) the abandonment of those who died in Europe to establish American ideals in the world. No country could deserve the admiration America receives in Europe today and no conntry could afford to surrender that posi- -tion in the world which had been won for it by devotion and achievement, by unselfishness unparalelled in world history; and to withdraw from Europe now would be to sacrifice what seems to be the greatest opportunity for human service that has ever come to any single people.'
Physical Department By Dr. Wellamart if-
LIVER COMPLAINTS Properly, every derangement of the -liver or bilious system is a liver complaint; but the peculiar state now referred to is a CHRONIC AFFECTION, and it usually arises from torpid or congestive state of that important organ. Sometimes the bile is deficient in quantity or vitiated, or both these states prevail at the same time. Sometimes the disease is caused by an obstruction in the duct or pipe which conveys the bile from the liver into the bowels. This obstruction is very frequent and is usually caused by the pipe being clogged up by thick, tenacious slime or mucus, and sometimes by gall stones. The bile is then thrown back into the gall bladder where it is absorbed by numerous small vessels Which convey it to the Thoracic Anot v-
and from thence th hil la to the heart, and becomes mixed with the blood. The biles in this manner being diverted from its proper course and circulating in a part of the body where it was never designed by nature, produces evil and often disastrous effects upon the health of the individual for want of healthy bile to mix with the half-digested food. As a result, costiveness, or alternately, costiveness and diarrhoea, prevail; together with wind in the stomach and -bowels, and the patient is often annoyed with worms and frequently with Piles. The coarse particles of the bile thus mixed with this blood, more or less obstruct the pores of the 6kin and small blood vessels, and hence give rise to various' diseases of the skin. It becomes more or less yellow, and sometimes there is a perfect jaundice. The white of the eyes also has a green or yellow tinge. More or less bile is strained off from the blood in its passage through the kidneys, and is mix
ed with the urine. The tongue is usually coated with a white or brown scurf. There la Irritation and frequently chronic inflamation of the inner surface of the stomach and bowels. Sometimes there is a loathing of food and at other times there is a voracious appetite. There is a feeling of oppression across the stomach and chest, as if pressed down by a weight; troublesome and often frightful dreams, low spirits, languor and want of energy. To sum up in a few words, a sensation of fullness and distention across the abdomen, with tenderness on pres- - -
sure; lowness of spirits. Biliousness. 1 -Colics and Bilious Diarrhoea and dysenteries; Obstinate Costiveness, Jaundice, etc., may all originate from the same cause a deranged state of the liver. The most successful treatment Is to give the patient every night on going to bed from one to two laxcarin tablets, or enough of them to insure one evacuation from the bowels next morning. The dose ot laxcarin can be increased or diminished at pleasure, so as to produce the above effect, and their use should be continued as long as needed. Usually thrfe or four boxes of laxcarin, at the most, six, are needed.
Liaxcarin is sold ty tne Laxcartn Products Co., DepL E-94, Pittsburgh. Penna. Price per box one dollar, full treatment six boxes five dollars. Will be sent postpaid upon receipt of cash, money orders or stamps. Substitutes must be refused. Adv. ... will enjoy
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