Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 106, 14 March 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM' s ; ; , AND SUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by . Palladium Printing- Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as See . - ond Class Mall Matter.

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the Oliver P. Morton Picture , Readers of the Palladium were informed yesterday by Oran Perry, who is widely known in this county, that he proposes to place a picture of Oliver P. Morton, Wayne county's illustrious son, in the base of the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument at Indianapolis. He is asking for $75 to pay for the enlargement and framing of a photograph of Governor Morton which is in his possession. - Most citizens know that a statue of Morton stands in front of the State House. The idea of placing his picture in the base of the monument is a good one. The sum of $75 is so insignificantly small that it should be raised in this city within forty eight hours. The Palladium ha3 opened a fund for this purpose. It asks all public spirited persons to make a contribution to this cause. Oliver P. Morton is one of the great figures in Indiana's history, in fact, one of the great characters of the Civil War period with a renown that is national in extent. In the darkest hours of the Civil War it was Oliver P. Morton who stood steadfast by the side of Lincoln en

couraging him by word and deed. Our fathers answered the appeals of Morton. Thousands of them enlisted in the army and other thousands lent him support at home. The "picture will be only a small token of our appreciation and esteem. The movement which Mr. Perry has started is worthy of our support. . ...... Wider Highways The subject of road building has received much attention in the last year in all parts of the country. The enactment of a highway law by the Indiana legislature has brought the question before the minds of the Hoosiers in a very practical manner. The Christian Science Monitor calls attention to a certain phase of highway construction which should be kept in mind in the building of roads that arc travelled much and are direct links between large cities. It says editorially: Private capital, aided by state, county and

sometimes by municipal bonds, built the railways ! ' J? il. TT A 1 A-J-A mi J 1 i '

or. me unueaoiaT.es. ine ieaerai government voted -subsidies to certain of the Pacific lines. Public land grants were of immense help to railway enterprises in the sparsely settled parts of the country. The taxpayer, however, directly or indirectly, must furnish highways for motor transportation. Motor transportation is yet only

in its infancy, but even now, in the passenger branch alone, it is often overtaxing the capacity j cf the roads.' There are not enough highways; in the more populous parts of the country to keep j

up with the demands of motor traffic; or to put it in another way, the existing highways have hot sufficient capacity to accommodate that traffic. A few years ago, a road wide enough to accommodate a car going one way, with occasional opportunities for turnouts, was deemed sufficient in the remoter restions. Remoter sections

have, in recent years, grown fewer. No part of!

the country that is penetrated by good roads may now properly be termed remote. The cost of upkeep of the single-wagon-track road, a few years ago, was about all the community or county taxpayers, in the less populous regions, felt they could bear. But upon further consideration they decided that they could do more. The demands for better surfacing and for new highways, however, increased so rapidly that the states took

the building and maintenance of main highways!

largely in hand. Nearly every state in the American Union has now its state highway commission. Some of these commissions have already spent millions of dollars on road improvement; others are now spending millions. The federal government will soon have available a fund of $200,000,000 to be distributed among the several states in jiid of highway construction projects. In short, highway building has made, and is making, great progress, but this activity, too, is only in its infancy. When the expenditures now provided for shall have been exhausted, the work

of road-building in the several states will, contrary to expectations, only be fairly under way. New conditions will involve new and tremendous outlays. As the case stands, throughout large sections, even passenger car service is not wholly provided for. On the favorite runs within a radius of 150 miles of populous centers, there are times when cars are compelled to move in slow procession. The double-track roads, in the height of the season, are often utilized, even far from populous centers, to the point of congestion. Where motor trucks slip in, to say nothing of horse-drawn vehicles, blockades are inevitable. In 1899, the number of automobiles in the United States was 10,000; in 1910, the number had grown to 400,000; in 1918, it had increased to ,000,000; in 1920, it is estimated, the number will exceed 5,000,000. In figuring on highway capacity this radio of growth must be considered. Motor trucks are multiplying on the highways; within five years, either the main traveled roads will be clogged with mixed traffic or the motor trucks must, in the meantime, be provided with track room of their own. Nor will mere road construction meet the requirements of the times. The roads now in existence must, as a rule, be widened, and all new roads should be of at least twice the present standard width, in order to meet the needs ofa decade hence. The time is, apparently, near when most of the passenger and lighter freight traffic of the country will be by motor cars. Nothing is now delaying this development in transportation save improvement in road construction. The better the highways the less the strain upon pleasure cars and trucks. The time when the strain, or

friction, will be reduced to a minimum, and when

it will be as easy to move heavy loads over asphalt j as it now is to move them over steel rails is with

in measurable distance. Given the essential road quality and the essential highway capacity, the development of motor traffic to extraordinary proportions will come quickly, and in the natural course of things. Getting Back on Their Feet It is popularly believed that the European nations are bankrupt and will have a very difficult time to revise their finances so as to meet the obligations incurred by the great war. These nations owe the United States about nine and a half billion dollars. Some people believe that

they will never be able to pay it back, but this is groundless. Economists who have made a study of the industrial and commercial strength of the European nations are inclined to believe that they will be able to get back upon their feet in a- comparatively short time, perhaps faster than most of us imagine they will. The wealth of a nation does not consist solely of dollars and cents but is to be found in the spirit and will power of its people. If an able and industrious man never stayed broke, a nation need not stay in this condition. The European nations that apply skill and industry to regain their lost wealth will in a short time be" able to overcome their present financial embarras.1-ments.

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When was AntiLiquor Feeling Started Here?

The prohibition movement in Wayne county and Richmond, which ended successfully on April 1, 1918, started In the city almost the same time the selling of liquor was started. Vigorous-opposition to the opening of a tavern in Richmond in 1807 was expressed by Jeremiah Cox. one of the fathers of "Smlthville." as it was then, called, and the majority of cltlzena were Friends who opposed the liquor traffic. The saloons grew and flourished In spite of opposition, however. The damage once done, however, it was J9 years before any organized opposition was formed, but in 1825 newspapers published the "Six Sermons on Intemperance," by the Rev. Lyman Beecher of Boston, father of Henry "Ward Beecher. In 1840, a society of men calling themselves the Washingtonians was organzed, .and gave impetus to temperance movements. There was then no licensing of saloons fought for by this society. When the licensing was put into effect, the number of saloons and the amount of liquor sold, were decreased. Fountain City, instead of Richmond, however, was the most determined of the early communities against liquor. In 1830 a league of citizens, headed by Eli Coffin, not only stopped the sale of liquor but kept it out of the town for thirty years.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

Civics and World Questions Studied in Courses at St Andrew's School

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

DON'T EVERYBODY SPEAK AT ONCE Cleveland Plain Dealer. Eighteen members of the British House of Commons lost their lives in the war. Let's see have statistics been collected on the number of Congressmen we sacrificed?

JIM HAS THE PROOF Indianapolis Star. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says Senator Reed "has n great deal of confidence in the 6tupidity of hi3 constituents," and why shouldn't he after they picked him?

INQUIRING TO KNOW New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Postoffice Department has just announced the issue of a three-cent "victory" stamp. Is it Intended, by any chance, to commemorate Postmaster General Burleson's victory over efficiency?

Since the abolition of German from the curriculum of St. Andrew's school a year ago last February, great stress has been laid on the work in the departments of history, civics and English. Latin has also been presented on a larger scale. No other foreign language has been introduced in the place of German, but the civics classes have taken on new importance and interest, and cur

rent events have been introduced more intensively into the history work, according to Joseph M. Richter, principal of the school. When German was dropped from the courses offered at the school it was done from patriotic motives to do away with any pro-German interest which the teaching of it might develop. St. Andrew's school came to a definite decision in regard to this even before some public schools did, Mr. Richter says. "But we have found is so profitable to do without this language both in

our church and school," explains Mr. Richter, "that we will doubtless never again offer it. In the church very little German is now used whereas a part of the services were conducted in that language formerly. In the English department of St. Andrews High School one year is given over to a study of the sentence; one year to the paragraph; one year to grouping paragraphs and a study of the various kinds of writing such as narration, description and argumentation and one year to reading the works of great authors. During the fourth year some writing is also done by the pupils. They are required to consider what they read from the many standpoints of the work they have had in the previous three years. For instance a fourth year high school class is reading Julius Caesar. That book is read closely, a great deal of memorizing is done, and the particular style of Shakespeare is considered and literally vivisected. When the pupils have finished Julius Caesar he not only can quote many parts of it, and is able to tell the story, but

he knows through this method, to what particular ends certain words or sentences were used. In the current events work, world problems are considered from the standpoints of various papers and magazines. The pupils are following with keen interest the progress of the League of Nations. This is also very much worthwhile, as an early start in cultivating the political interest of future voters, Mr. Richter says. "So great has been the interest In the League of Nations that I have had a number of requests for debates on this subject, and it may be that we will have a little debating along this line," he remarked. There is no set examination time

for St. Andrews school, as the examination questions come out from the central convent at Oldenberg, near Brookville, Ind., and are sent out to the schools under its control af seperate times, so the grading of papers does not pile up at one time. All questions come to St. Andrew sealed, and the papers are sent to Oldenberg as soon as the examinations are over. They are graded there and the final grades returned. In this vay the method followed in public school teachers' examinations or in civil service examinations is used, taking away all possible opportunity for partiality in grading. One half hour a day extra work has been done at St. Andrews cince the influenza bans and it is thought that the work missed will be made up by early June so that commencement can be held the first or second week of that month. During the Lenten season no entertainments take place at the school, but the regular work is progressing as usual.

FOUR YEARS AGO SENATOR LODGE WAS STRONG FOR WORLD LEAGUE

Senator Lodge.

ONE of the most eloquent and convincing arguments In favor of a league of nations was made by Senator Lodge, when he delivered the honorary chancellor's address at Union college in June, 1915. He said in part: "Nations must unite as men unite in order to preserve peace and order. The great nations must be so united as to be able to say to any single country, 'You must not go to war,' and they can only say that effectively when the country desiring war knows that the force which the united nations place behind peace is irresistible. In differences between Individuals the decision of the court is final, because In the last resort the entire force of the community is behind the court decision. In differences between nations which go beyond he limited range of arbitrable questions, peace can only be maintained by putting behind it the united force of united nations determined to uphold it and prevent war."

AT THAT HE'S WELCOME TO THE JOB Dallas News. President Eboxt, of the German Republic, is still there. When his salary was set at $250,000 a year we suspected he would be hard to jar loose.

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THE HIGHBROW FOR SPINACH Louisville Courier-Journal. Speaker Gillett, will wear a full beard. If Tae came from Kansas it would be called whiskers, but he's from Massachusetts.

Will the United States Submit Bill to Germany?

A young man engaged board and lodging in an extremely devout private family. Before each meal a long grace was. said. To their horror the newcomer sat bolt upright while all the others reverently bowed their heads. When on the second day the young man evinced no disposition to unbend, the good lady of the house could endure the situation no longer. "Atheism?" she asked sharply. "No, madam," humbly responded the new boarder, "boil."

From the New York Tribune. 'T NFORMATION "Is flashed from the neighborhood of I the Hotel Crillon and f chord from Washington that the United States has no thought of handing in a Mil to Germany. On the basis of the same sort of plebiscite behind the recent oracular announcement that the American people regard it as sacrilegious to alter a word or a comma of the so-called covenant, it is said America does not want a cent from Germany. No generosity is as prodigal as that of scattering other people's money. Who has given any one authority to eay the American people wish Germany to go scot free? When have they been consulted? The newspapers have not recorded that this question lias been submitted. Not to -speak of direct war expenditures and a public debt which amounts to about $1,500 a family and which It will take a generation's sweat to pay, thousands of Americans have been injured by Germany. If the sums uve not collected from Germany they must be paid out of

money extracted from the depleted pockets of our masses. The public, if consulted and speaking in an organized way, doubtless has a right to assume burdens which should be carried elsewhere, but has any one a right fo determine such a matter without a shadow of consultation? We almost went to war to compel Great Britain to pay the Alabama claims, and what reason is there for being easier on Germany, which openly sent out submarines, than on Great Britain, whose offense was. in letting a commerce destroyer secretly dodge out of one of her ports? And if advertisement of a purpose not to put in a bill is in contempt of self-determination, it is likewise close to an insult of our allies. We imply there is something dirty and low in asking an indemnity. We intimate by cur trumpeting that we are above such meanness. Here is a Pharisaism not calculated to make us popular. Moreover, to let an unrepentant offender go free is scarcely a way to discourage future wars of aggression.

"Shame has driven many a man into the ranks," declared Lord Northcliffe, "and in this regard we have to thank the women of the nation for turning many a would-be slacker into an excellent soldier." Sometimes, however, they are overzealous or make mistakes. A case of this sort happened recently on a London bus. A young man offered a lady his seat. Imagine his surprise when she drew herself up haughtily and exclaimed: "I 'don't accept favors from slackers!" Bu he was not taken aback. Instead he regarded the lady critically, and then replied: "Madame, I was all through Gallipoli, and if we had had as much powder down there as you have on your nose results would have been different."

"Are you in favor of protection or free trade?" "It's a delicate question," replied Senator Sorghum. "There is a difference of opinion among my constituents as to which- I really favor. And I don't propose just now to break la and try to decide any disputes."

French Statement Shows Railway Material Damaged (By Associated Press') PARIS, March 14. A balance sheet drawn up from official data by the Paris Information shows the state of account on February 1 as between France and Germany for destruction and damage to railway plants. On the debit side, destroyed by the Germans: French northern railway system, 2,06 miles of track; French eastern railway system, 1,437 miles of track; bridges, aqueducts and culverts destroyed, 1,510; tunnels destroyed, 12; telegraph and telephone lines destroyed, 1,987 miles; railway buildings destroyed, 590; food depots destroyed, 165; metal tubing and pipelines destroyed, 20,000 tons. Twenty-five great machinery repairing centers have been entirely wreck

ed or seriously damaged, including J those of Lille, Doual, Arras, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Rheims and Verdun. On the credit side: 1,385 engines j

and 34,971 cars surrendered by Germany to France out of the 2,600 engines and 70,000 cars stipulated by the terms of the armistice.

Memories of Old

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY The detention hospital or "pest house," was declared unsanitary by Dr. Charles Bond, city health officer.

Everyone was excited about race for mayor.

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Four candidates entered the mayoralty race during the week.

Red Cross Notes

A New York society woman who has $6,000,000 in her own name has secured a divorce on the grounds of non-support. Seems as though most anybody-would be glad to tro through

I the motions of supporting a woman

like that. But, as somebody has said, it's a dang queer world. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PLEA The good old deacon prayed for rain. And prayed and prayed and prayed again. But still the moisture held aloof. And damped no shingle on his roof. He didn't have the system right. He prayed for rain on every night The weather bureau said 'twould pour. Next day it would be fair once more. A new scheme flitted through his head; He waited till one night he read The weather folks predicted "fair," And then the deacon offered prayer. Reversing the official dope. The deacon's prayer was full of hope. They offered "fair"; he prayed lor wet. The next day he will ne'er forget, For then they had, so it appears. The hardest shower in twenty years. To have your prayers fulfilled, in part. Just do some figgerin' 'fore you start. "Premier Ebert was guarded in his utterances," according to a cable dispatch. He was guarded by three regiments of soldiers. Explorer Storkerson is the latest appirant to North Pole exploration honors. May Storkerson's tribe increase. Report says the Parisians are beginning to see pastry for the first time since the war began in 1914. If it is any thing like some of the "French" pastry we get over here at 25 cents a throw, they will probably inquire: "Oh, war, where is thy sting; oh, peace, where Is thy victory?" Now that the new speaker of the house Is a Gillette, he will probably

keep sharpened up to the occasion. CLARIOR E TENEBRIS. If the rivers were of whisky, And we were mallard ducks. How seldom we'd get frisky, A drink were not worth shucks; For the spirit inbibitious That makes us gay and breezy. Is chanced if surreptitious. Is dulled if got too easy. Cheer up! Robert Stewart Sutcllffe. HELLUP. Why dont you suggest to the supreme council of the newly formed League of Farceurs that they amend their constitutions to compel the low contracting parties to secure and maintain at least one bedroom scene in every farce. I have run the round of farces, and I think we ought to have a bedroom scene occasionally, if only for the sake of variety. A. Thomas.

The sum of $50.91, realized from the dinner served by the women of Webster township at the Ring sale this week, was turned over to the local Red Cross chapter.

NEVER- HURT ANOTHER'S FEELINGS BY GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS A person's feelings are the most cherished and sacred of all his possessions. I once heard of a wise Western farmer who gave the advice to knock a man down if necessary, but under no circumstances to hurt his feelings! That farmer had the right idea. It is our feelings that float or flounder us. So that they should always be kept in the healthiest, happiest condition. Never hurt another's feelings. Jesus understood human nature a3 no one else ever has. When they reviled and persecuted Him and spat upon Him and crucified Him about the only recorded words from Him, were these: Father forgive them for they know not what they do." He never hurt anybody's feelings. Because, you see, He was the world's and humanity's embodiment of love. And love never hurts anything or anybody. Never hurt another's feelings. How sensitive are feelings! More delicate in their ability to absorb hurt than the finest stringed instrument to radiate sound. One's feelings should ever remain unscarred for they are the most intimate of one's possessions. As personal as one's own soul are one's feelings. Never hurt another's feelings. Then shall it come to pass that your own feelings will grow in warmth of expression and life and your health and happiness to flourish even as a "green bay tree."'

HIS DEMOTION MAY BE INVESTIGATED

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Lieut. Col. Samuel T. AnselL The Republicans threaten to investigate many acts of the Democrats when congress reconvenes this summer. One of these is the demotion by the war department of Samuel T. Ansell from brigadier general to lieutenant colonel, after Ansell had exposed the activities of, certain higher up court martial officials in the army.

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