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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAYMARCH 11, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM ' Published Ever Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing-Co. palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Mail Matter.

MEMDER OP TUB ASSOCIATED TRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news Uicpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the locsj news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Question of Personal Responsibility

A discussion has been aroused in Illinois on

the question of a boxing bill which is pending in the legislature. Waiving for a moment the factor of brutality involved in professional prize fights, a considerable portion of the residents of Illinois believe that the pending legislation really infringes upon their right to determine for themselves their own moral conduct. They assert that every man has the right to determine his own moral actions and that the influence of the church in opposing sports is weakening rather than strengthening the growth of religious bodies. I The Chicago Tribune in an impartial manner presents both sides of the contention and it might be well for all of us to study the problem in the light of the facts presented by the Tribune, which follow: Nevertheless boxing is a manly form of athletics in the opinion of most men who care at all for sports, from tho Greeks down to our own time, and not as the opponents of the boxing bill really at bottom feel an immoral exercise indulging the brutal instincts of mankind. The normal man likes to practice or at least watch athletic contests, of which boxing is ono of the most interesting forms, and, when clergymen array themselves against it. bis conclusion la that clergymen aro. against pleasure of any kind appealing to vigorous men. An element of contempt and hostility enters into his thought of religion. Besides religious guidance and Inspiraton, the clergy has an important function in the domain of morals; but it can very well lose or embarrass its influence by trying to extend the latter too far. If the churchman is always cctive in discipline and restraint not merely over actions clearly humoral, but over all pursuit of pleasure which does not square with his ideas of refinement, gentleness, and propriety, he will presently breed a resentment anions

ordinary men which will lose the church influence whera it ought to exercise it.

There is in America a strong tendency toward moral

enormous increases in the cost of railroads coupled with a startling inefficiency have proved that the government is not yet in a position to handle big undertakings in a business-like way. The business men who had dealings with the government or were associated with officials in Washington in the administration of war affairs

are utterly disgusted with the inefficient manner in which the government tried to handle affairs on a big scale. The Kansas City Star, although it admits the charge of inefficiency against the government, nevertheless believes that out of the chaos will come a better social order. Its reflection follows : A suggestion on this subject from the experience of Iiritain is set forth in the current Atlantic by a member of the British reconstruction board, Prof. J. L. Hammond. The point of his article is not only specific recommendation. It is rather the new attitude to be taken to-

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ward the industrial system, we nave oeea cuusmeuui, everything by the test of its bearing fn Industry. We must widen our test to include human welfare. A steel plant i3 established out on the plains. A city must grow around it to house the workers. The 'old idea has been to consider the housing plan as simply a part of the industry, without regard to the welfare of the families living there. The new idea must be to treat the city as a place where families are to live and children are to be brought up. That is, the industrial city should not be a collection of . shacks. It should be a collection of homes, with parks, schools and the necessary public institutions. The lumber camp was once regarded as merely a piece of machinery for producing lumber. The human needs of the workers were not taken into the account. Now we are coming to understand that the worker is en

titled to some of the gains of civilization, that he must have a home and amusements and the things that make life tolerable. This may involve smaller profits to the lumber dealer as well as higher prices to the consumer. Nevertheless the situation must be recognized. The fact is that it is recognized. Society is ready to go further than ever before to maintain standards of living. There has been an awakening on the subject which Is bound to continue on an increasing scale.

The war has emphasized fundamental democracy. Men served together in the ranks on an equality. The .same democracy is to develop more and more in civil life. Its fruits will be a fuller recognition of human rights and human values.

No one can gainsay the conclusions arrived at

One of the strongest arguments in favor of the city home vegetable garden movement is that it provides the right kind of exercise and recreation for business people whose life is spent largely indoors. A short time each day spent in the cultivation of a garden has a tendency to give the mind relaxation and the muscles healthful exercise. A hoe and a rake cost less than a golf outfit, and a nine-hole garden course can be laid in any average city back yard. The trouble with a great many American people, it is claimed, is that they have been so busy with other things that they have forgotten how to play. They rush to business in the morning and in the evening they drag their brain-fagged bodies home to seek rest in still more strenuous amusements. A well-kept garden is a playground for old and young alike, and happy is the man who spades his own back yard and plants therein a garden.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

Partisanship Over Big Human Issues One of Our National Faults; Generosity is Our Chief Virtue

(Victor McNauflht, who has been writing a series of articles for this paper on conditions in England and France, gives below his impressions of his own country and people on his return. Editor)

N AMERICAN, returning home at this time from a stay in England and France, finds himself looking at his country through new eyes. He has a different perspective, a clearer vision, after coming to understand the spirit of our crusaders overseas, and putting himself into sympathetic touch with- the people of France and England, whose lives have been affected far more by the war than have ours. The returning American, whether soldier or civilian, must feel a love of country, a pride in his nation and his flag, that he never

knew before he left. At the same time, if he is given to thinking, he must experence also a great desire that his country shall not lose the unselfish spirit of the past two years, and descend to sordid ways. How fine it is, when our liner steamed up New York bay a morning or two ago, to have our returning soldiers greeted by a small boat carrying a band, and welfare workers with cigarets, and apples, and daily newspapers to toss aboard to the doughboys! J.t was a typical American welcome, all heartiness and good fellowship. The weather was crisp and clear, and the sun shone brightly, Just as it does so much in our new world winter, in contrast to old world gloom. Let me tell you briefly what we left I and has written some very pleasant

behind us: First, an American army i-umgs auuui us. ine omer mgn

a new spirit in industrial affairs.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

IhinLTLrM3 ,t0 ITm10! the Star- That democracy has asserted itself the liberty of the individual and the individual conscience. . , , , . . .... , .... , , Disciplinary legislation is Increasing Its scope and if we j Wlth might not only as to political Conditions, but so on we shall presently be the most unf ree people in the "lso in the industrial sphere, is almost axiomatic clyilizen world. The desire for our neighbor's moral ; in the light of the developments of the last four well being Is less and less limited by a respect for his 1 years. The war is bound to bring not only politicright to determine such Questions for himself, and every j aJ ,i f t oppregsed peoples in Europe, but also

u hunttiui jj iicia muiat luuuics luit'ui upuxi v mixing mi; sanction of the law for the "protection" of others from trrors from which we are ourselves free. We are less and less willing to seek the enlightenment of our neigh-! hor's conscience and more and more ready to impose tho Judgment of our own conscience upon his will by tho, compulsion .of law. This tendency, Jn our opinion, Is inherently wrong 1

and in the end will make moral cowards of us if it does not bring about a violent reaction. As we have said, we would oppose any bill to make boxing compulsory. There are many who might be injured by Indulging in it or even witnessing boxing contests. But when clergymen oppose an intelligent effort to place this sport on a basis of regulated respectability, eo that decent men may engage In it or enjoy others who lire skillful in it, we think they are passing out of their clerical sphere and at the same time injuring their proper clerical influence, and we are quite sure many clergymen will agree with us..

MAKING GOOD ISN'T HIS SPECIALTY Fittsburg Dispatch. If Senator Sherman repeats his threat to quit the senate the country dares him to make good.

ANY OF 'EM EVER TRY IT? Detroit Journal. Man gets no time off his term In Congress for good behavior.

LIKE TO SEE ANYBODY TRY IT Boston Transcript. ' "I, am open to conviction," says the President. And then he adds, under his breath: "But the man doesn't live who could convince me."

ANY REASON GOOD ENOUGH Chicago News. Whether that horse and beefsteak from the packers had anything to do with it or not, Representative Mann Inst nut.

How War May Affect Industry One of the most conclusive facts demonstrated by the war is that government control and ownership of enterprises is a fizzle. When the government took over big business enterprises and tried to supervise the distribution of food and

raw materials generally, ardent supporters of i Washington star.

government ownership hailed the movement With j Members of congress have come to regard this city oWanrl annrobation. Now. thev said, the poun-'as a pleasant and highly interesting place to live the

try will be shown the great advantages of federal ownership and control. The war is over and almost everyone is forced to admit that whatever the government did in this respect was done badly. For instance, the

AFRAID TO GO HOME, EH?

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HAD ENOUGH OF WAR CONGRESS Boston Transcript. , What a relief it will be for the president to get back to a Peace Congress!

"The "No Beer-No-Work'gitation Must be Stopped

From the Union, published in the interest of organized lr.bor. THERE will be no beer strike this year or any other year so long as the men In Union labor retain their ..,, heads and we are quite convinced that they will do that. And we suspect that there was and is a sinister motive in the minds of the men who started the "No-Beer-No-Work" movement. Of course the great mass of the eight or nine hundred thousand individuals who are wearing the "No-Beer-No-Work" buttons are quite simply in earnest In the matter. They believe that by some 'means they will avert what they regard as an attack on

', their personal rights; thousands of them have lived in the belief that their beer Is a part of their diet, as is bread "and beef, and they are convinced that if they are deprived of their beor they will suffer. But whatever their views of sumptuary legislation these men may be assured that they will accomplish nothing in averting what they regard as the evil day by threatening to strike. To quit work as a protest against injustice is tho privilege of any and every man but to threaten to quit work because of the application of what is now the law in many states and which bids fair to become the law of the land that will get no man anywhere industrially or socially or economically. It may be that the prohibition Jaws were enacted without the consent of a great majority of the people, but If that Is true it Is the fault of tho Majority. They were not deprived of the right to examine candidates and platforms, nor were they restrained from expressing through the ballot what their attitude on prohibition was. If they neglected to vote, or voted for men for legislative place who did not represent the views of the majority the fault is with the voters. , And the remedy lies in the ballot box. So far as the,

prohibition situation is concerned, it can not be changed by puerile talk and threats of strikes. The men who promoted the beer strike talk know this. But they hoped nnd intended to promote industrial unrest, and it was not a difficult matter to induce the men to put on buttons and declare that they would resist the law. Now, these same sinister agitators point to the number of men wearing the "No-Beer-No-Work" buttons as evidence of a disturbed condition of the working population. Which is pure bunk. Any enterprising group of in

dividuals can go out in a crowd and hang pretty much?

any sort of button on almost anybody. We wear buttons in lieu of other decorations, and the more buttons the more dressed up we are. Ninety-nine per cent of

the men wearing the beer, buttons would no more think i

of quitting work because of the operation of the law of the land than they would think of throwing a monkey wrench into the machinery; the other one per cent, would strike for anything or nothing, and would toss the monkey wrench, too. The industrial problems of the American people are being worked out in an orderly and satisfactory manner. Beer is not an industrial problem, except insofar as the cessation of brewing imposes a hardship on the men in that industry. There will be no beer strike, sympathy strikes are no longer countenanced and it won't do to mix sympathy with beer. Men who neglect the ballot box as the American method of expressing their will, will not be permitted to use1 the strike as a weapon wherewith to rectify their negligence. Let us have done with nonsensical talk about a beer strike and do manfully our share towards maintaining the Industrial good will that is generally common to the country and through which we have all prospered in some degree.

HOW NOT TO BE A GREAT AUTHORESS. Have the hair bobbed and learn to swear, drink and smoke cigarets. Fill up on cant and ten varieties of new thought. Cultivate the sanitary and sartorial habits of the Bolshevik!. Be a bohemlan and a hobohemian, which is the Greenwich Village imitation. Dedicate your career to the writing of sex literature, even if you know nothing of sex or literature. Be a radical in everything except your writing. In that always imitate somebody else. Adopt a revolution attitude toward the government and at least nine of the Ten Commandments.. Spend your evenings in a red:ink boozeatorium telling what you are

i going to do.

Do not hesitate to criticise the imitation writers who are getting big money for their work. They know not the errors of their ways. Set them right. Make up your mind that every editor is a low-brow, and tell him so. Write stuff that nobody can understand not even yourself.

HE'S PROBABLY HAD A PRETTY HARD LIFE.

PERSONAL If this should : meet the eye of J. Smith, : come home, and you will : learn something to your ad- : vantage. Your wife is dead. : -Card in Kincaid (Kan.) Dispatch.

OUR PARIS ARTICLE. (By Our Own Staff Correspondent at the Peace Conference.) PARIS, March 11.. Leon Trotsky has sent word that he will not send a delegate to the peace conference. Evidently he doesn't care for any. The prime minister of Dahomey, accompanied by a retinue, has arrived here and will attend the peace conference. He has been given a seat on the roof, where he can enjoy the scenery of Versailles, and if the conference has anything for him it will send it up by a bell-hop. I gleaned some very important facts today as to the progress of the conference, said facts being as follows: David Lloyd George is here from England. He wears his hair long and is fond of mouse-colored we6kita.

Thus the news is accumulating rapidly.

,It is confidently expected that the peace conference will end its session in time for the delegates to eat their Christmas dinners somewhere, either at home or in Paris. The delegates from Albania arrived yesterday and left again last night, having received a telegram to the effect that they no longer had any country to represent. The Chinese delegation is on hand to see that the boundary lines are not made any smaller by the conference. They maintain that every time anything happens in the world somebody clips a piece off from China. This has been going on for centuries and China is so small that it now takes only eight week to cross it in a fast train. General Foch drove in from the country today. He is Btill over in Germany with the boys and says many things in that country are unsettled, particularly the bills. The Ebert government controls all of Germany except that portion which lies outside of the city of Berlin. I believe I can state upon good authority that the British Mill not sink their navy without putting up a struggle. There will probably be a few steamboats running around with guns on them even after peace is signed. It looks now as though, with careful nursing, peace will manage to pull through.

When Was Starr Piano Company Established?

that had won the admiration and gratitude of our allies by courage on the field of battle and modesty and good behavior off the field; second, an American overseas organization for relief and welfare work among the poor and suffering that had set up new standards and ideals of Americanism;

j third, a peace conf arence in Paris that

was honestly striving to sareguara au nations against greedy aggression; fourth, whole peoples that had come to trust our country and to depend upon it to help banish war. To what were we ' returning in America? To a young, vigorous, rich, and powerful country; powerful while most other nations are exhausted by debt and loss of man power, but yet with an element of curious weakness. I am going to mention later some of the good things about our country that one most appreciates after an absence, but first I am going to speak frankly of our chief national fault. Coming home, we found a furious family quarrel going on about our ears. Many of the persons who two or three years ago were anxious to have our country throw off restraints and take up arms for England, France and Belgium were now fiercely assailing the president for wishing to make any kind of alliance with those selfsame countries to preserve the world's peace. The same newspapers, the same politicians, that insisted on our going across the seas to fight, were tearing passion to tatters at the prospect of our forgetting Washington's

parting counsel. Too many of us are like the compass; that is the explanation of our weakness. The compass needle points north most of the time, but approach a railroad track or some large body of metal, and its accuracy is gone. The needle will point in almost any direction except north. Bring us near a presidential campaign, or let some partisan issue arise, and the magnetic needle of fairness becomes inaccurate. We seem to

lose our sense of proportion and our

considerations of national duty and fair play; some even lose their selfcontrol. Do not misunderstand me to say that the present issue, involving our part in the world's future welfare, is a party affair. For the Poindexters, Lodges and Shermans who wish us to follow a policy of isolation, there are the Reeds, Vardamans and Hardwicks on the Democratic side who are just as vehemently engaged in fighting anew the battle of Bunker Hill. The fact that a new campaign is brewing is the underlying cause of the dismal spectacle we have been witnessing. All the more honor, in the circumstances, to men like Taft and Burton, and to Republican newspapers

that have refused to allow their party to be committed to the policy of abandoning our allies; such newspapers as the Philadelphia Ledger and the Inquirer, the Boston Herald, and the Springfield Republican. When we drew our declaration of independence we professed a decent respect for th opinions of mankind. Now, while England and France look on Badly, some of our bests dvertised politicians make a football of the League of Nations project, on which hang the hopes of mankind. If they succeed, they will have spited Mr. Wilson and evened up some old scores; what matters it whether our country shall have lost the faith and trust and admiration of the world? Philip Gibbs, recognized as one of the greatest of the English war cor

respondents, because of qualities or heart as well as of mind, is now paying our country a visit. He likes us,

type Britons, he will not speak in cri

ticism of us, but if he-would, he could tell us how we fail to understand the international situation through lack of knowledge. We fail to realize that our nation is the strongest, and that it cannot really be endangered by lending a helping hand to all the others. I have dwelt at some length on our chief national failing, which is a disposition to sacrifice intellectual honesty in times of partisan turmoil. Now for the other side of the picture. The best thing about our country

is the big-hearted generosity of our people. Americans are quick to respond in emergencies. We may be uncharitable and wrong-headed in politics sometimes, and some of our views as to foreign relations may be based on scanty information or lack of vision, but we are at least willing to give in the same big way that we build. Befglum and France will never forget what America did through relief communions and the Red Cross. America and allied armies received and are still receiving great benefits from wtCfare organizations kept going by motney from America, Our givings ha te amounted to approximately a billion dollars. The big-hearted country that helped to save civilization surely will not condemn it to anarchy now by selfishly drawing back its hand. Our faults and. our qualities are those of a young nation. We can learn more of courtesy and toleration and clear-thinking hon.est-mindedness from our British cous-ins. They, I think, would not be haraied by learning some of our warmheaited, impulsive friendliness, and by losing some of their quiet reserve. Our two peoples are very much alike, when all is said, and the better we corne to know and understand each othr and profit by each other's quiflities, the better it will be for all. , (The next article of the series will

tell of the human qualities or ou fighting men.)

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QOOD. NEWS BY GEORGE MATTHfEW ADAMS

Nothing thrills and Inspires like good news. And yet, what a habit many have of collecting all the bad news possible and then making a regular special edition newspaper of them selves in its distribution. Every ear is ever tuned for the reception of good news. It's like unto water to a thirsty throat. What is the best news you have In your system today? Well, If it is good tell it! Tell it all day and sit up half of your night to get it out. Publish it far and wide. For good news has reaUy better legs than bad news. There is always something to make good news out of. There Is not a single healthy human abreast of the world, who has not enough good news within himself to explode a town with gladness. You with happiness In your heart and smiles upon your face you carry good news everywhere you go. You with ideas and knowledge and the appreciation of fine things, closeted for ready use within you, you are the carriers of good news and the more you express what you are, the greater you are sure to become as an influence of power everywhere you go. Good news has a marvelous effect upon the human body it will quicken the blood flow, stimulate the nerves and touch up the brain. What good news have you to tell?

GEORGIAN DELEGATE AT PEACE MEETING

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Prince Michel Soumbatoff. Prince Michel Soumbatoff is representing the republic of Georgia at the- peace conference. Georgia was formerly one of the czar's possessions in western Asia, but proclaimed its independence following: the downfall of the Russian monarchy, j

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YANEZ ENTERTAINED

SANTIAGO, Chile. March 11. Joseph H. Shea, American ambassador, gave a dinner at the embassy tonight in honor of ,Eliodoro Yanez, former minister of the interior, who will leave soon on a special piission to the United States and the entente nations of Europe.

E. F. KEARNEY DEAD.

(By Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Mo.. March 11. E. F. Kearney, president of the Wabash railroad, died here today of pneumonia.

Memories of Old

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THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

were

Club women of Richmond

much Interested in the series of lectures given by Mrs. Burton Smith of Atlanta, Ga. Only a small percentage of the pupils at Warner school were allowed to attend because of the smallpox scare. Much trouble was experienced by the mail carriers because of the smallpox.

Annual reports showed the First Presbyterian church to be in good condition both financially and from the standpoint of membership.

To the ability of George Trayser, an

Alsatian piano-maker, and the busi-!

ness judgement of James M. Starr, is to be jointly credited the founding of the Starr Piano company in 1872. Trayser was brought to Richmond in that year by Starr, and the two located a piano-making shop at North Eighth and Elm. It was not long untill Starr turned his share of the business over to Benjamin Starr, his brother, and the plant was moved to its present location, the river supplying water-power for the machinery. In 1892 Henry Gennett took control of the company, and he and his three sons have been the directing spirits of the company since that time.

THE TALE OF A VOLUNTEER CORNSTALK

"- Exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." A volunteer cornstalk without planting or cultivation or urging of other kind sprang up last spring in the garden of Margaret Schaffer, a garden club member, in Lincoln, Nebr. It was one of the springs when every American was doing his all for his country. "I heard a clear call it was for volunteers," said the cornstalk, speak ing in the story of her garden that Margaret wrote and sent to the United States Department of Agriculture at the end of the gardening season. "So I at once volunteered to grow up in Margaret's garden. "I never felt that I was welcome, for she did not give me much attention. Nevertheless, I grew to be a tall, stately cornstalk. I could overlook the whole garden. Many are the lesslons I learned. ' "There I stood, guarding all the little plant people. There were Mr. Red Beet and Mrs. Bean, and as I looked over farther I saw a Mr. Tomato. He thought he was a king over the little plant people. But I was a tall American cornstalk soldier, guarding them all. "But one day I was overheated; maybe I had the 'flu.' I was In the hospital for a few days, but I got well and was able to stand on guard again. "After I guarded a few weeks my Captain Margaret saw that I got eome arms, and then she saluted me as she did the other little plant people. "There I guarded for a month or so. Then all my little plant friends got weak. There was a famine and they died in spite of all that could be done. "However, my Captain Margaret saw that I had been a good soldier, so she gave me an honorable discharge."

A man who had been called up for medical examination had curiously defective eyesight. At times he could i see fairly well, and at others he was so blind that he had to have a friend to guide him. On the day of the examination he arrived on the arm of his friend. Several ordinary tests for the eyesight were tried in vain, and at last the doctor, growing exasperated, seized a large empty metal garbage can lid and asked: "Can you see that?" "Yes," came the reply. "Well, what is It?" "A silver half dollar." They are telling a good joke on Will Upshaw. He was up the other day, and was the interesting center of several groups of members who had heard of the "Prohibition Cyclone" of Georgia. While talking In the lobby to one of these groups of forthcoming associates. Congressman Garrett of Houston, Tex., passed, after salutations. "Did you ever hear Garrett speak?"

asked Upshaw of the members of his group. , ; ; "Yes," they all chimed in. "The most masterly address, the most beautiful, soul-stirring address I . ever heard in all my life of association with great orators, fell from the lips of that great Texan and statesman ono night at Dallas," said Upshaw. "On what subject was Garrett speaking?" queried one of the party, rather interested. "He was introducing, me," replied Upshaw. solemnly.

THIIN PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE

PHOSPHATE Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Prosphate to Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and to Increase Strength, Vigor and Nerve Force. Judging from the countless prepara--tions and treatments which are continually being advertised for the purpose of making thin people fleshy, developing arms, neckband 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 bi-tro-phosphate, 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 lack of energy, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness, soon disappear, dull eyes become bright, and pale cheeks glow with theA bloom of perfect health. . V CAUTION: Although bitro-phos phate is unsurpassed for relieving nervousness, sleeplessness and general weakness, it should not, owing to its remarkable flesh growing properties, be used by anyone who does not de sire to put on flesh. Adv.

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