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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919.

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The Debate on the League of Nations Not since the momentous days preceding the Civil War has the American public been so deeply interested in a debate on a question of national, in fact, of international interest as it was in the Lodge-Lowell debate. More than 50,000 applications were made for seats. They came from all parts of the country. Interest in the subject of the proposed league is growing more intense and the people want all the information they can get on this vitally important matter. It is evident from the interest in the debate between Senator Lodge and President Lowell that the league of nations is to be thoroughly tested in the forum of national discussion. The Lodge-Lowell debate was one of the first times in many years that two men of national prominence appeared in a joint discussion on an important . matter, The formation of an organization which will have for its object the enlightenment of the public on the league of nations will also be fruitful of good results in this connection. Henry Watterson, the veteran editor, will be president of this organization and George W. Pepper of Philadelphia, a leading constitutional lawyer, will be a directing supervisor. Prominent senators of both parties and nationally known publicists are

associated in the organization. It proposes to send speakers broadcast throughout the country to instruct the people on the factors involved in President Wilson's proposed league. All these manifestations should assure the people of the United States that the merits and demerits of the project will be thoroughly disclosed. Public discussion will permit the people to formulate their own judgment and ultimately to guide the senators who will officially pass upon the adoption or rejection of the league. The greatest debate in the history of the nation is imminent. Public debates have always had an appeal to the American who enjoys listening to a public speaker who is so well informed that he can adapt his arguments to the thrusts of an opponent who is on the same stage with him. Eliminating entirely all political partisanship, the appearance of Senator Watson in this city to discuss the proposed league should be hailed with acclaim by the people of Wayne county, for it will give them an opportunity to see-why some, of the ablest statesmen and thinkers of this country find objectionable features in the covenant as at present drafted. The warmest advocate of a league of nations must concur in the opinion generally held throughout the United States that this national discussion of the question will be of inestimable value. It affects too closely the liberties of millions of people and is such a radical departure from our established national policy that the adoption or rejection Of the league by the senate ought not to be the judgment of one man or of a group of men. The collective judgment of the American people should be accepted and this decision can come only after the American people have obtained full knowledge of the provisions of the covenant.

Get Off the Sucker List! Are you on the sucker list? If you are it is probably, because you are not a sucker but a patriotic citizen who has known i. T.iwtv Bond to be a srood thing.

Get-rich-quick swindles have been the great !

American sport for years. The sharpers who sell fake stocks saw their game endangered when Uncle Sam started his great Liberty Loan campaigns. ' But they are smart these gentlemen who live by their wits. ; Instead of complaining they jumped in and put themselves and all their employes to work trading their fake stuff for Liberty Bonds. If you" have a Liberty Bond or a book of War Saving Stamps you are a "prospect" for fake stock. Your name is probably on the sucker list of the oily tongued sharper because over 20 million patriots bought Liberty Bonds. You are not to blame for being on the sucker list but it is up to you to get off away off that list at your first opportunity. The American people are paying out some half a billion dollars a year to the support of worthless stock schemes. The people reap therefrom $500,000,000 worth of thin air. That is not a wild guess. It is the estimate given by the Capital Issues committee of the U. S. Treasury. And, the committee assures us that it is conservative. Moreover, the half billion represents just the cold cash that is turned in every year by otherwise level-headed Americans seeking a milk-and-honey path to quick wealth by the fake stock certificate route. It does not take into account the vast economic loss incident to broken fortunes, impaired effort of discouraged investors and to the diversion from legitimate business enterprise of new productive capital. The Capital Issues committee, charged with keeping the nation's investment dollars on a work-or-fieht basis during the war, has made a

! searching inquiry into the devious by-ways of

fraudulent stock promotion. Its conclusion is that never perhaps in the history of the country has wild-cat promotion been so flagrant from coast to coast as today.

The need for home production of perishables by means of the garden, it is believed, will continue. Because of the relatively high prices which obtain for practically all food-Btuffs, those with sufficient land and spare time should find It profitable to maintain home gardens. Experience shows that very satisfactory returns to the grower in the form of vegetable proructs, are obtained when gardening is intelligently and efficiently carried on. The necessity of transporting such products from distant points also ts obviated. The department urges those who intend to maintain home gardens to plan to meet the needs of the family rather than to produce crops for sale on the market. United States Department of Agriculture.

When Did Friends Found Earlham College?

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE OPTIMISM Omaha Bee. Josephus Daniels will study warship designs on his trip abroad, and in time may come to understand all about a navy.

NOBODY HOLDING HIM HERE Birmingham Age-Herald. If Raymond Robins would be happier among his Bolshevik friends in Russia, let him not stand on the order of his going.

USING BURLESON'S SERVICE, EH? New York Sun. It is now four months since Peace announced her intention of visiting this earth, and she is still on her way.

OUR IDEA OF DELIGHTFUL FINANCE Columbia State. The Russian Bolshevik!, having repudiated all their old debts, are now preparing to contract new ones.

The session of Indiana Yearly Meeting of 1832 was the first occasion on which a movement was made for an institution of higher learning for the Friends of Indiana. The institution, known as the Friends' Boarding school, opened in the west wing of what is now Earlham Hall on June 7, 1847. The fifteen years between the first movement and its actual founding had been filled with disappointments, but the dauntless Friends did not let anything turn them from their purpose. The school was co-educational from the very start. Bardabas Coffin Hobbs the first president of Earlham, was the moving spirit of Friends' Boarding school. Earlham itself was first chartered in 1857. It was a leader from the very start. The first chemical laboratory established for college purposes in th-3 state was at Earlham; the first collection of material for a natural history museum and the first college observatory were also here. It was the first college in the state to grant credit for manual training and domestic science.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

COULDN'T BE WORSE THAN OLD Anaconda Standard. . At worst, Germany's new regime is making a good impression in comparison with the old.

HOW DO YOU KNOW? Ohio State Journal. It would seem hardly necessary at first blush to build a four-foot board fence around that attractive but apparently misguided young New York matron, to keep her from Influencing the Jury with her ankles, but of course ankles have been pretty long lately.

ADVICE TO SOLDIERS' WIVES Serve him with a mixture of vinegar and red ink at meals for a beverage. He has been used to French wine. At formal dinner parties watch the soldier husband carefully or he will entirely neglect three or four extra forks and cling tenaciously to one throughout the repast. His soup spoon will also be employed in his pudding and coffee. Recall to his mind the amenities of polite society, such as removing the shoes and clothing before retiring. Your husband will now tidy up the house involuntarily, and he may be used as a substitute kitchen police when the maid wants a night out. To delight your husband, mention his thorough knowledge of French when the neighbors are calling. Then ask him questions to which he may appropriately reply "bowkoo" or "toot sweet," the only two words he knows. Send him on an errand any time. He will grumble but do something. Formerly he would grumble and do nothing.

The A merican Attitude ; ; i

The paper napkin was first used at a church social in Muskatine, Iowa, in 1881, and since that time has been lecognized as the most inefficient and useless substitute which has ever been thrust upon the American people. Effort to invent a nonskid paper napkin to take the place of the old slippery variety, which fails to effectively remove pumpkin pie from the face, have all failed dismally. Some church and banquet societies have substituted sheets of tin for the paper napkins, but with only partially satisfactory results.

From the Washington Post. a MERICANS are anxious to end the war, bring the

boys home, and clarify the nature and extent of

the obligations which the United States has asf umed or Is morally bound to assume toward greatlly damaged allied nations. They are now impatient with the delay In Paris. While all Americans are not agreed as to the cause of this delay, it is evident that practically all Americans are convinced that the delay Is unnecessary. The American people, through Congress, directed the president to prosecute the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary to a successful termination. The people did not direct the president to enter into political relations with Europe. They did not even dream of requesting him to assume leadership in a scheme for a league or alliance of nations. They did not even suggest a temporary working alliance with the other nations at war against the two boche empires. President Wilson, correctly Interpreting the declarations of war and their limitations, carefully refrained from committing the United States to any alliance. The United States is not now in nny alliance, and no word from the American people can be found to support the assumption that the United States will ever Join any alliance or league. The hostilities . were successfully prosecuted, and there Is nothing to indicate that the United States could not bring: the war Immediately to a successful termination, eo far as this nation is concerned, if the president cared . to obey the letter of the resolutions of Congress. He has Been fit to adopt the European view that the United States cannot withdraw from Europe; that chaos would follow If the United States should not join a league of nations, and that the successful termination of the war is dependent upon the creation of a league. He has given Europe cause to believe that the United States will Join a league nay, that the United States demands a league, and will not contribute to the rehabilitation of Europe unless the nations there join such a league as the United States thinks should be framed. Europe is shaken almost to pieces. The nations must hare the help of America or they will sink Into bolf$evism. which Is only another word for barbarism The

saving of Europe means the saving of America? Unselfish help to the allies is in reality selfish attention to

America's own interest. These black and appalling facts

nre used by advocates of the league as compelling reasons for immediate acceptance of the covenant as it has been drawn, without waiting to perfect it. The Washington Post, with great respect, holds a different view. We suggest that there is confusion between the material help which Europe needs and the political blessings which she does not want and is taking only under compulsion. What advantage Is there in pretending that France is delighted with the league of nations when every one knows better? Why keep up the empty show of Japan being ready to join a league which refuses to acknowledge the race equality of the Japanese? Americans are willing to give the stricken nations all possible assistance in food, materials, money and ships. The objection to the league of nations does not indicate In the slightest degree any desire to withdraw the helping hand from Europe. The objection is based upon the desire to remain free from Europe's politics. Americans are glad to see any people adopt American ideas or government, but it Is abhorrent to the American spirit to thrust our political system upon others. It Is still more abhorrent tc threaten rupture of friendship and withdrawal of assistance If foreign peoples do not accept American political nostrums. The implied threat against Europe, if it refuses to Join the Wilson league of nations, will surely be seized upon by opponents of President Wilson In the senate. Members of the senate will fortify their claim that this threat was employed by pointing out Mr. Wilson's failure to consult the senate regarding his plans of setting the war. Of course, if evidence should be forthcoming that European nations joined the league because they had reason to fear the stoppage of food from America, the opponents of the league will score heavily. The world does not need to experiment with political inventions in order to have peace. It is a poor time to project untried and questionable plans. Everybody knows that if the Huns are disabled and the stricken nations helped there will be early and secure peace. i

POLITE HOMICIDE Objectionable Heir Removed Painlessly and Permanently With Electricity Adv. in New York World. The papier-mache turkey seen bo often in the restaurant windows is a substitute which can hardly be differentiated from the genuine brand served on the inside. In fact, it Is in certain parts, the custom to servo these papier-mache turkeys to customers along toward the end of the turkey season and the customers have acclaimed them to be much more tasty than what they have been used to.

"Young Man a Fire Escape Thief." Headline. What does a young man do writh a fire escape after he steals It? The former crown prince has not seen his famfty in several months. So, his family has a little luck once in awhile, after all. We can't see through some of the present restaurant prices, but we can. see through most of the roast beef. WHERE CHICKEN DINNERS ARE CHEAP Roup has broken out among Atchison chickens. Chicken dinner at Union Hotel tomorrow, 50 cents. The new lunch at the old Eglinger stand. Chicken dinner, 50 cents. Atchison Globe.

"Hats were not worn by the ancients." says a news item. Probably not. It looks as though, as far as the men are concerned, all the ancient hats are being worn now.

The morning milk was delivered at the parsonage was certainly weak, and the head of the household considered it necessary v to remonstrate. "Are you aware," he remarked to the milkman,-"that we require this milk for hitherto recognised purposes?" T hope so, sir," replied the tradesman. " ' . "That's all Tight, then," returned the parson, gently; "I merely mentioned it in case you may have thought we wanted it for the font."

Socialism vs. Americanism is the Political Issue : Confronting Nation at Present, Says George Harvey

Editor of North American Review Analyzes Political Situation and Forecasts Outstanding Issue of the Next Campaign Welcomes Test Between Conservative and Radical Elements in Our National Life.

(The great political issue of the day is set forth as follows in the Nortn American Review:) There is no question whatever that Mr. Wilson could. If he would, obtain a second renomlnation without a dissenting vote, even in the face of the Democratic party's solemn pronouncement declaring it to be "the unwritten law of this Republic, established by custom .and usage of one hundred years, and sanctioned by the examples of the greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our government that no man should be eligible for a third term of the presidential office." Nor is there much doubt that he could prevent the nomination of anyone whose candidacy should be displeasing to him. Of his power to dictate the nomination of another than himself we feel far less certain. Indeed, we are disposed to think that at this point the party leaders whom he has tramrled upon would draw the line and would be able to wield sufficient influence to overcome or disintegrate the body of officeholding delegates upon whom the administration would be compelled to rely. As against Mr. McAdoo, for example, or Mr. Baker, who, as the most efficient public official the president has ever known, is his "logical" candidate, the combined forces of Speaker Clark. Mr. Bryan and the leading Southern senators would be arrayed almost surely and would prevail. Marshall Perhaps Assuming, then, that Mr. Wilson will not accept a renomlnation, either in consequence of having realized his ambjtion to become the first president of a Society of Nations or from apprehension of defeat at the polls, we may expect him to retain as much of his power as possible to the last moment by the simple method of concealing his real intention, and then meet the situation as it may exist with characteristic determination. If our previous hypotheses should prove to be correct, the outcome would be nomination of one neither personally offensive to Mr. Wilson nor objectionable to the opposing leaders, not Improbably Mr. Thomas Riley Marshall. No Republican candidates have yet been announced and none is likely to be advanced seriously during the calendar year. Here a Fabian policy is unquestionably the part of wisdom. Just as with the Wilson party, the man will make the issue, so with the Republicans the issue will produce the man. As matters now stand, the conflict would range widely around the conduct of the war, the unpreparedness for peace, government ownership, universal training, extravagance, taxation, finance, woman suffrage, enforcement of prohibition, executive autocracy, inefficiency and the like, upon all of which the Democrats would be put upon the defensive in a most embarrassing manner. The tariff will hardly play its accustomed part because of common assent that high rates are absolutely essential at the moment for both revenue and protection. The Real Issue But whether Mr. Wilson achieves his lofty international ambition or, failing that, again audaciously defies the people to repudiate his administration, he will hardly care to go to the country upon the record comprising the subjects mentioned. In any circumstances, he would reach out for a new and overwhelming issue, whose discussien would allow full play for his exceptional rhetorical and persuasive powers. But even though he should feel supremely confident of his ability to justify his domestic policies and performances, he would be unable in this Instance to restrict the test. Gradually but irresistibly the overpowering issue of the coming campaign is forming itself in perfect conformity with the president's activities abroad and his partially formulated program at home. The issue will be Socialism against Americanism. . a Mr. Wilson no longer represents or speaks for the United States, as differentiated from other nations, except in so far as doing so enables him technically to translate the voices which burn his ears from the air into the service of Humanity. He has forsaken Nationalism and espoused Internationalism. His proposed League or Association of Nations is wide as the world itself and, so far from conferring benefits upon this country, it not only violates all of the traditions of the Fathers of the Republic but, under any one of the plans yet suggested, could not fail to add greatly to our own burdens, to the enormous advantage of Germany and, In lesser degree, of England, France and Italy, as well as of the smaller states. Innovation Dangerous That so complete a reversal of the established policy, under which thus far our own country has achieved its marvelous success, would involve tremendous sacrifice and constant danger no advocate of the proposal has, to our knowledge, attempted to deny. Whether it would bear to all mankind

greater benefits than have been conferred through the free offering of a safe refuge from oppression, of personal liberty, of equal opportunities and equal citizenship In a well-ordered land may be a question. But there is no doubt that Mr. Wilson is committed irrevokat'y to his theory. Already the Socialists of Europe, in eager response to his fervent appeals, have proclaimed him their leader as opposed to their. -constituted authorities, and soon the Bolshevists of Russia will meet in a spirit of comradeship the most notable Bolshevist sympathizer of America, once driven out of the country as a teacher or false doctrines and a praCtlcer of flagrant immorality, and now officially delegated by President Wilson to act as hia personal representative at the Marmora Conference. Only Mr. Samuel Gompers, who flatly refused to attend the Socialist conference at Berne, at Mr. Wilson's request, and his more conservative lieutenants now stand in the way of the radical elements of our great labor organizations falling into line with the herds of Europe behind their accepted leader so graphically depicted by Mr. William Allen White, the colleague of the ex-Reverend George D. Herron, as the Pled Piper of the ignorant and impressionable masses. Sees Socialist Trend The extent to which Mr. Wilson will attract our own people to his standard of socialistic government, hidden within the Society of Nations, has yet to be measured. That the obsession has obtained no slight hold and is being nurtured zealously at great expense is only too apparent. Thus far the non-

partlsanshlp of the movement la evidenced by the appearance upon the stump of our former and only living former president, Mr. Taft, as the leader and chief spokesman of the aggressive propaganda now being waged unceasingly throughout the country. But such a condition cannot long maintain. The time Is rapidly approaching when the two great political organizations will be compelled to take their stands unequivocally. That the Democratic party will bow submissively, though sullenly In thousands of instances, to the mandate of Its ruler is a virtual certainty. But we have abiding faith that as soon aa the people come to understand the real import of the challenge to their Independence, their reason and their fu

ture, the Republican party, under Us present leadership, will pick up the gage of battle and etep forward quite ready and fully prepared again to save the Union, upon the Inevitable issue of Socialism Against Americanism For ourselves, we welcome the test. It must come some time; it may as well come now. And we have no question of the result. Neither next year nor ever will the American people vote to denationalize their great Republic. Neither next year nor ever will they heed the sinister and lnsidi1 . I . 1. 4 . V

uus impiorauonB oi iaise pruyueiB m toss their beloved country into a melting pot to be mashed into a pulp of' international communism. Neither next year nor ever will they yield one jot of their independence or of their sovereignty. America is no Bolshevist. Patriotism Is not dead. Let the fight begin! "Trumpeter, sound for the splendor of of God! Sound for the heights that our fathers trod When truth was truth and love was love, With a hell beneath but a heaven above; Trumpeter, rally us, rally us, rally us. On to the City of God!"

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Dinn er S tor i gs

In a small village in Ireland the mother of a soldier met the village priest, who asked her if she had had bad news. "Sure I have," she said. "Pat has been killed." "Oh, I am very sorry," said the priest. "Did you receive word from the war office?" "No," she said, "I received word from himself." he priest looked perplexed, and said, "But how is that?" "Sure," said she, "here is the letter; read it yourself." The letter said, "Dear Mother I am now in the Holy Land." Two men were on a journey on a hot summer day. "Have you anything with you, Matthias?" asked one. "Yes, a bottle of wine. What have you, Moses?" "Dried tongue." "Good! We'll divide our provisions." Matthias produced his wine and it was divided. Then he asked his fellow traveler to bring out his provisions. "I?" said Moses. "Why, yes, the dry tongue you said you had.". "I haven't got one now," was the cool reply.

"To these manifestations the president raised his hat," says a London paper, "his smiling face indicating the measure of his pleasure at th leave taking with the British public." This, cs "Punch" remarks, Is one of the things that might have been expressed differently.

Memories of Old

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY The trustees of Reid Hospital refused to allow the city to build a "pest house" on the grounds of the hospital. The council met and transacted all its business in five minutes.

Trans-Atlantic Flight

Will Be Made in May (By Associated Press1) WASHINGTON. March 20. Lieutenant Commander Bellinger has been ordered from Norfolk to Washington for work in connection with the preparation of plans for the trans-Atlantic flight to be undertaken by a big navy seaplane some time in the spring. It was said today at the navy department that no orders had been issued for the flight itself and that in all probability the plane would not start across the Alantlc until some time In May. The pilot has not been selected. Tentative plans for the flight provide for placing destroyers every few hundred miles along the route.

CONTRIBUTED VERSE

The state polo league was re-organized with Richmond in the circuit.

Ex-Kaiser's Household Gets Scare by Planes (By Associated Press) AMERONGEN, Tuesday, March IS. Considerable excitement was created at Amerongen castle, where former Emperor William is staying, when six airplanes appeared suddenly at noon from behind a bank of clouds. Thev came from the east and after encircling the castle twice, disappeared in a northerly direction. The nationality of the machines could not be distinguished owing to the overcast weather, but it is generally assumed they were Dutch.

A GROWING HEART BY GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS The greatest achievements In the world are brot about thru the agency of the Heart. If a child is in danger, a woman In need, a man to be rebuilt, it is the Heart that is given the appeal. And it is the Heart that acts. So that in this world of ours, there can really be no big man or woman without a big Heart. A Heart that was once very young and tender but which has grown to proportions of bigness and power. To a growing Heart is given peculiar leadership. Far surpassing, that of a growing brain or body. It is a treasure place. Tho with vaults secure from thieves who would break in to steal. Oh, there is nothing finer than a growing Heart especially if you own it! , Because It means giving as much and maybe more than you take. It means an understanding of the principles of life co-operation, helpfulness, an abiding interest In the whole in fact, the knowledge that Humanity is as vital to you in all its claims, as you are to it. The important thing in progress is to get millions of Hearts to growing all at once! s See how you can train youf Heart today. Every thot and act of service will do it. Every smile will help, every whistle whistled, every song sung will make your Heart a better educated Heart.

NOW THAT IT IS ALL OVER. Did you ever hike millions of miles And carry a ton on your back And blister your heels and your shoulders, too, Where the straps run down from your pack? In the rain or the snow or the mud perhaps. In the smothering heat or the cold? If you have then you know you are a buddy of. ours. And welcome into our fold. Did you ever eat with your plate In your lap. With your cup on the ground at your side; While the cooties and bugs of species untold Dance fox trots over your hide? Did you ever sleep in a tent so small That your head and your feet played tag? Then shake, old man, you're a pal of ours. For we've followed the same old flag. Did you ever stand in a front line trench With Fritzie a few feet away? With Jerries and Minnies awhistling 'round And gas coming over all day? With No Man's Land a sea of steel,, And a tempest of bursting shell? Then come in . old man, and toast your shins, For we're all just back from Hell! Private Joe Dallas. Formerly with Battery F, 50th Coast Artillery, A. E. F.

URIC ACID IN MEAT CLOGS THE KIDNEYS

Take a Glass of Salts If Your Back hurts or Bladder bothers you Drink more water. If you must have your meat every day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, cays a noted authority who tells us that meat forms uric acid which almost paralyzes the kidneys in their efforts to expel it from the blood. They become sluggish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush eff the body's urinous wa6te get four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy here; take a tablespoonful In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for geenrations to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so It no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot injure, and makes a delightful effervescent lithla-water drink. Adv.