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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919.

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The Y. M. C. A. Campaign A campaign to raise $8,500 to cover the annual deficit of the Y. M. C. A. will be waged next week. The association has become an integral

Building and Construction Work For the purpose of acquainting the building interests of the country with the present condition of the building industry , that they may be able to analyze the situation, the division of information and education of the department of

labor sent out nearly 20,000 questionnaires to builders, architects, manufacturers, bankers, city, county and state officials throughout the United States. . . ' . The reports from Indiana show 69 private projects under way at an estimated cost of $7,919,226 and 105 public projects at an estimated cost of $12,212,798. Data obtained from about one-third of the

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A , . At , , , , . ,120,000 questionnaires showed public and private tested by the hundreds of boys and men who find; . A - . - -

recreation and social diversion there.

The sum to be raised is not so large that it will strain the benevolence of the community. The good that accrues to the city from the association cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. It is a moral force that eludes tangible appraisement. A generous response of citizens will further the work of the association and assist in putting it on a substantial basis. . 1

Private Moonsnining Many citizens of Indiana believe they may do their own distilling after the nation goes dry and make all the wHIsky .they like for personal and household use. The fact remains indisputably true that persons who make their own whisky after the nation has been declared dry, put themselves in the class of moonshiners and if detected will be prosecuted under the federal statutes. . The internal revenue bureau officials say they will carry out the provisions of the statute and that it will be highly dangerous for persons to go counter to the law. 'In this connection, the potential moonshiners might ponder with profit a report of the convictions in the Marion county criminal court on charges of violating state prohibition laws, showing that jail sentences aggregating 2,532 have been imposed and fines totalling 8,075 have been assessed in the last year. The authorities have ?hown little patience with persons who' try to

projects under way approximating a total valuation of $1,708,738,936. Of these about one-half are public, such as street paving, road construction, water works, sewers, public building and water front work with an approximate valuation of $1,249,548,835. The private projects reported a total valuation of $459,190,111. The division of informa

tion and education is compiling this data to as

certain how many projects are being held up by the high cost of materials and labor, financial difficulty, shortage of materials and other causes.

Elks Help Overcome Technicalities Disabled soldiers, sailors and marines who are held to be worthy cases, but which for one technicality or another have been declared "non-com-pensable cases" by the bureau of war risk insurance, now have a chance for retraining, according to a statement today by the federal board for vocational education, which has charge of the work. According to the law passed by congress, only the cases decided as "compensable" by the war risk insurance bureau are eligible or entitled to the free vocational retraining with $65 per month support fund, allowance for dependents, and placement in a job, if the course be for ti wage earning occupation. By means of the fund of $150,000 placed by the Elks at the disposal of the federal board, worthy cases can now be awarded training with

out reference to the technicalities which hedge about the exDenditure of government funds.

violate the Indiana law. The severity with which There are no restrictions whatever upon the use federal judges handle cases that come into their jnf the Elks fund and it is to be empioyed in any

courts ought to oe a sutiicient deterrent lor persons who believe that they can violate the federal prohibition law.

Helen Hansen, garden club member In University Place. Neb., used to ute her pony to help her in her garden. But the pony died just before the time for spring garden work last spring. . , "We thought it a great loss, as we knew that would make a lot of hoeing," wrote the girl in her story to the United States department of agriculture. "This spring 0ur garden was a little too large to hoe, and when we were through hoeing it, we would look back and see the weeds coming up again. "My brother suggested that we hitch our two-year-old heifer to she Plow. She didn't go so well at first, but after we had plowed about half a lot, the heifer understood what she had to do, and things went fine."

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

A Little Neck Calm Abroad. v The suspect is deaf and wore a gray suit. While here he bought a straw hat and a y2 collar from Baker's Clothing House. Correspondence Kansas City Star. A Cambridge woman who claimed that a man kissed her 8,300 times in twenty-two years is suing the gentleman for $10,000 damages. It will soon be so the girls will-nave to keep computing cash registers and adding machines. The kissing thing Tseems to be getting down to a science.

Plan for Finding Cost of AgriMtard Production Reported to Secretary Houston! By Farm Experts

Cost Etudies Provide Facts Needed by Agriculturists in Determining Returns of Land as Compared With Investment and Labor.

Business opportunities. Get a cigar case and soda fountain and start a drug store. It doesn't matter whether you can go any further or not. Of course, if you want to have a regular drug store, you will lay in a stock of books, calendars, seashell souviners, tireless cookers, automatic parts, golf goods, revolvers, postage stamps, toys, quick lunch, granite kitchenware, hammocks, fishing rods, gas lighters, mantel clocks and lawn, mowers. The up-to-date druggist aims to keep everything in stock except drugs. After gazing upon the national expense bill we are very thankful that we are living in an age of Democratic simplicity. What would it be if we were in an age of Republican extravagance?

Marriage and Divorce One marriage out of every nine in the United States terminates in the courts. According to a report issued by the bureau of census for the

year 1916, the divorce rate in the United States:

has increased much more rapidly than the number of marriages. The number of divorces was 112 per 100,000 population in 1916, as against 84 in 1906 and 53 in 1890. V The District of Columbia, North Carolina and New York show the lowest divorce rates and the highest rates are those for Nevada, Montana and Oregon. Women lead in the number of divorces granted to them, the percentage standing 68.9 for women and 31.1 for men. The causes for divorces and the percentages contributed by them were: desertion 36.8; cruelty 28.3; infidelity 11.5; neglect to provide 4.7; drunkenness 3.4; combinations of preceding causes 8.6; all other causes 6.7. An interesting sidelight on the divorce question is thrown by the statistics which show that in only 37.7 percent of the divorce cases were children reported; in 52.1 percent no children were reported, and in 10.2 percent the records contain no data as to children. The marriage rate is 105 per 10,000 population compared with 102 for 1906 and 91 for 1890. Wayne county for many years has had a notorious record for the large number of divorces granted, and did its share to swell the total number of divorces for the state of Indiana. No moral need be drawn from the facts which were presented in the foregoing statistics. They speak for themselves.

or all such cases as the board may deem worthy. Congress provided that the board might maintain a "gift fund" and receive, donations, anticipating that just such emergencies might arise. The wisdom of doing so is made manifest in the opening of the door of hope to men where technicalities had closed it to them.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

NOT SO BIG A FOOL AS HE LOOKS Detroit Journal. ' Manuel doesn't want to be king of Portugal again. He would rather remain in England with his bees than return to the hornets' nest.

BUT IT WOULDN'T BE EGYPT Washington Post. Former Kaiser Bill wants to go to a warmer climate. For once Ave feel like accommodating him.

IT IS TO LAUGH Charleston News and CourieV. One of the funniest things is to hear opponents of the League of Nations call Senator Borah a "statesman."

DOES LOOK THAT WAY Chicago News. The impression is getting abroad from Paris that the French do not like the Germans very well.

ANOTHER "BURNING QUESTION" Los Angeles Times. . What will become of all the white aprons that tho barkeeps used to wear?

SO JIM IS FINDING OUT Indianapolis News. No party, however, is going to let one Mann run it

ANY PADDED CELLS VACANT? Baltimore Sun. "Suffs Mad All Over." We should worry!

Easy Going Official Ways

Contributed by "Shorty" Our Office Boy. i An honest man is a liar with a good memory. All the lies they tell, about the Germans are true. To R. K. M.: Like the roses need a smeller, Like the nightshirt needs a tail, Like the old maid needs a fellow, Like the hammer needs a nail, Like the suspender needs a button, Like the oyster needs a stew, You can see that they all need some ' one But who the hell needs you? Honest; I'm so poor I couldn't buy bird seed for a cuckoo clock. "Shorty."

Eggs.

They Used to Juggle Ad in theatrical paper:

WANTED AT ONCE: Midgets Dwarfs for my juggling act. Madame C,

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America is willing to feed and clothe the world, but hopes the world will sleep at home.

We are wondering when Woodrow will be with us again for the weekend.

When Was City Municipal Light Plant Founded?

The city light plant, the most profitable possession of Richmond which is the real property of the corporation, and which made more than $3S,000 last year, was considered a wild dream in 1895. Not until 1S98 was there a real

movement to build the plant, but in t that year plans were made. The light !

plant fight was one of the features of the city's life for two years. At first the majority was against the plant, but as the older men dropped out of the council and young men came in, the fight grew more equal. In 1900, when the matter came up before council for final settlement, six voted for and six against the plant, leaving the deciding vote to the mayor. He voted to build. Construction was started in 1900 and operation was started in 1901. Although there was some trouble with machinery at first, the plant has been running every day since. z , z

ASHINGTON, D. C. March 21. Cost- of- production studies are of value to the individual farmer , and at the same time are helpful in ascertaining the economic status of farming as an industry, says the report of

the committee appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to consider a plan of organization for the office of farm managament, and outside the field of operation, and especially methods of procedure in making cost-of-production studies. The primary purpose of cost-of-production studies, says the report, are: 1. To record the details of the farm business fdr reference. 2. To give an insight into the elements and interrelations of the different farm activities. 3. To furnish Information that may enable the farmer to reduce costs, or otherwise increase profits. 4. To make possible a comparison of the profitableness of the different enterprises and combinations of enter-

j prises.

f rom tne stanapoint or tne public, cost-of-production studies provide the facts which give a basis for intelligent judgment upon the probable effects of any legislation or other public activity upon the farmer as a producer and as a citizen. Cost-of-production studies are therefore one of the means of providing the basic facts needed by legislature and price commissions in comparing the profits of competing lines of production and estimating necessary price. Men on the Committee. Men of ripe experience in various fields of agricultural research constituted the committee. They are: H. C. Taylor, agricultural economics, University of Wisconsin; Andrew Boss, Agronomy and farm management, University of Minnesota; J. A. Foord, agriculture and farm management, Massachusetts Agricultural College; J. I. Falconer, rural economics, Ohio State University; R. L. Adams, farm management, University of California; G. I. Christie, assistant secretary of Agriculture, and representatives of the bureau of crop estimates, the bureau of markets, and the office of farm management of the depart

ment of Agriculture. The committee recognizes three ways of obtaining cost data cost accounting, the survey method and the questionnaire sent by mail. The accounting method is based on complete records of all farm work and business transactions. Arrangements ,are made with farmers to keep detailed records of all operations and transactions in connection with the farm business. The work is supervised by personal visits to the farm. It is desirable, the committee says, that cost accounts be kept to obtain basic data, and cumulative results of such work become increasingly valuable. By the survey method trained investigators obtain the necessary data, some from the farmer's books, some from the books of persons to whom the farmer sells and from whom he buys, some from his bin, silo and building capacities, and some from estimates made by the farmer. One of the advantages of this system is that records are obtained from all classes of farms after the close of the farm year, so that, when desired, areas more representative of normal conditions may be chosen. The committee points out, however, that by the survey method it is sometimes difficult to determine the amount of general expense and miscellaneous labor and the proper basis for apportion ing such items to different enterprises, and that, unless the investigator is thoroughly experienced in the subject he is studying, some items of importance are likely to be omitted. Both Systems Are Reliable. Either method, the committee says, is useful and reliable when the work is carefully conducted, but preferably both should be used. The detailed ccsi accounts serve as a check on the survey work, which in its turn shows the relationship of the farms on which

cost accounts are kept to the average farm. : ' The questionnaire sent by mail can be used to advantage in securing supplementary data from large numbers

of farmers, but, In the opinion of the committee, it should cover only a limited number of cost items, and the questions should be direct and clear. The specific items to be considered in cost-of-production studies, the report continuesfi, will always depend upon the enterprise under consideration. When the survey method is used, it is essential that the list be complete enough so that no item will be omitted either by the farmer or the investigator. When the accounting method is used a classification is needed that is broad enouh to include all charges, but the cost items will be developed in the working out of the records and will vary with the enterprise. The following grouping is suggested. FARM-ENTERPRISE COSTS. Direct charges to farm-enterprise accounts: LaborMan labor (including labor of men, women and children). Animal labor. Mechanical labor (tractor and truck). Materials Crop materials: Seed. Fertilizer. Twine. x ' Sprays. Stock materials: Feed. Bedding. Cash Selling. Insurance. Taxes. Threshing. Veterinary. Breeding fees, investment

Depreciation of investment in live

stock . By Associated Press!

Interest on investment in live stock. PARIS, Wednesday, March 19. Ail Indirect Charges to Farm-enterprise Central and South American neutral

assembled under definite headings and distributed in the basis of use.) Use of Mechanical Equipment ' Labor, materials, cash, and Investment charges pertaining to mechanical equipment. V V V Use of Buildings, etc. . Labor .materials, cash and investment charges pertaining to buildings. Use of Land and - . , , ". Land Improvement - Labor, materials, ash and investment charges pertaining to land and land Improvements. Special Charges Manure, lime, breeding males, perennial crops. General Expenses Labor, materials, cash and investment charges that cannot be charged direct or assembled under the other indirect cost headings. Mexican Federal Employes To Get Fall Pay at Last By Associated Press WASHINGTON. March 21. Word has been received through official rhannels of a decree issued by Presi

dent Carranza of Mexico on March 3, enumerating which employes of the government should receive salaries in full and which employes should receive part pay In what are termed "bonds." The action was taken to stabilize or systematize the payment of federal employes, many of whom have not been paid irf full for years. It Is Baid to indicate an improvement In the financial situation and will tend to quiet many complaints that partiality was shown in the payment of salaries. According to an executive order explaining this decree, the personnel of the supreme court has been the only department of the government receiving full pay. Henceforth, it is decreed, the salaries from the justices down .to the clerks are to be cut 25 per cent.

South American States At League Conference

Accounts: (Consisting of labor, ma

terial, cash and investment costs that cannot be charged as such to nejerprise accounts, but which may be

Memories of Old

USES MAILED FIST ON THE KOREANS

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Marshal Viscount Y. Hasegawa. Marshal Hasegawa, Japanese governor general of Korea, is reported to be using the mailed fist on Koreans who are joining the movement for Korean freedom. Hundreds have been killed by Japanese machine guns and bayonets. Koreans claim that all schools and churches have been closed and that 1,000 native pastors and teachers have been arrested.

Prom the Indianapolis Star.

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T Is Interesting to hear.that Governor Goodrich would I leafing in the next office, considering the affairs of the

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1 like to have public business in the state house attended to with something of the same promptness and desire to give satisfaction that is to be found in private business circles. It is his notion that men who are elected or appointed to perform a certain definite part of the state's business should be in regular attendance at their orflces for the purpose of transacting these duties and that visitors who have need to consult them should be able to find them. The governor keeps regular office hours himself, finding plenty to do, and has some reason to believe that other state officers might also find constant occupation in looking after the work they are paid to handle. , But he is reported to have observed that his official associates do a deal of gadding, and no doubt the report is correct, for outsiders havo observed the samo thing. It Is not a new development peculiar to the present incumbents of the offices far fipra it. It is an old habit that for some mysterious reason public officers not state officers exclusivelyacquire in an incredibly short time after entering upon their duties. . . " A man who In his private business has found it both

important and possible to be at his desk within given hours and easily accessible to visitors who have need to consult him, suddenly become hard to find when the busi-

country or "swapping yarns" with a fellow official, or he may be out motoring or playing golf or may have gone to Chicago or Washingtgon or New York for a few days, unsophisticated callers being led by the persons left in charge to believe that the "chief" was called away on official business. Or as likely as not the only person in charge is a clerk or stenographer who has no information whatever to impart except the already obvious fact that everybody is out. For what the heads of a public office do all his assistants will imitate and there are times when to a won

dering stranger in search of information it appears that an official calling day is in operation and that the. proverbial gossips who hang over backyard fences "have nothing on" the office attaches who hang over corridor railings. All these easy-going fashions make for pleasant social relations among state house or court house or city hall occupants, but like the governor who somehow can not get out of the habit of work the many hurried people who come in on business and hope to get out again soon stre not impressed favorably by such fashions. For after all there is no real necessity for much visiting among public office occupants. Mere formal civility answers every purpose. Governor Goodrich will probably not succeed in

ffecting a permanent reform, for the traditions are against him, but his purpose is good. i

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IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO f

TODAY $50,000 damage was done to the F. and N. lawn mower company when fire destroyed the entire south building. The loss was covered by insurance. Upon warrants from Celina, Ohio .Howard Long was arrested, charged with getting money under false pretenses. The roof was burned off the home of Michael Smith. About $100 damage was done.

LUXEMBURG GALLS FOR PLEBISCITE

(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 21. The Luxemburg chamber of deputies passed a bill on March 18, by a vote of thirty to twenty calling for a plebiscite to decide whether the present dynasty will be maintained, a new dynasty created or a republic established, according to dispatches received here.

Shoeless he climbed the stairs, opened the door of the room, entered and closed it after him without being detected. Just as he was about to get into bed his wife, half-aroused from slumber, turned and sleepily said: "Is that you, Fido?'" The husband, telling the rest of the story, said: "For once in my life I had real presence of mind. I licked her hand.','

Pvt. Eph Johnson had never seen a larger body of water than the creek at home. The first day on his trip across Was interesting. The next day he was tired; the third day he was still more tired of the monotony of the ocean and he. refused tp look at it after the fourth day. Suddenly he wa.s called by a friend. "What do you want?" he answered dully from hi3 berth. j "Dar's a sailin ship goin' by. Come an' see a salin' ship.' , "Look a here, nigger," came the sharp retort, "I'm done sick of yoah salin' boats and whales. I'll done sail into you if you don't remember what

I told you before. Call me when you see a tree, and foah nothin' else."

DEAD DAYS ' BY GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS Some people treat a day as they would handle a bag of peanuts. It comes and they say "Well, another day!" And then they take a nibble at it, throw by the wayside a few shells and the day Is over for them. No matter how much blood you may have in your veins, if you treat a thing so precious as a day, with indifference, you have added as a terrble liability to your life a dead day! ' And, Oh, how fast the days do go into a strange Eternity. Suppose you just use, say five percent, of your stored ability and only use but ten percent of the Time of your day if you persist upon this plan no matter how long a life ,you may live, it is bound to be short indeed. V For the dead days crowd very fast and before one is aware of the fact life i3 dead! . ; I say that if this little talk could but prompt one man or woman toDAY to a realization of what a day means then how worth while it shall have been and how happy the writer for having written it. A day is a proposition and a very serious one, too. But it doesn't have to be solved it just has to be faced. So, face your day with a PLAN. And each day improve upon that plan. Eliminate the leaks of Time caused by useless talk and petty things. Attempt the Jobs that look big! And soon they do not look big at all. But, with the achievement of each of these tasks, do you, in ability and power, become bigger and bigger. Each day is a very live affair as it comes, newly born, to you. Refuse, to deaden it, as far as you are concerned.

nations with the exception of Salva

dor and Paraguay, which have reserved their decision, will participate in the conference of neutral nations on the formation of a league of nations. Suggestions for amendments to Vac covenant will probably be made, the smaller countries following their larger sisters in asking for revision of articles of the covenant which affect them. Joaquin Mendez of Guatemala, has arrived here and presented credentials as a delegate to the conference.

Home Brewed Beer Causes Great Demand for Hops r?y Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, March 21. Horn? brewed beer is becoming popular in Indiana, according to druggists who report the demand for hops and malt has increased 500 percent during ths last two months. The increased demand followed as a consequence of the federal authorities' action in removing restrictions off the quantity sales of sugar by dealers. "Every one seems to have a different formula," said G. O. Mueller, representative of a wholesale drug house. He estimated that within the past year enough hops and malt have been sold to make between 15,000 and 20,000 gallons of beer. Before the prohibition law became effective in the state, practically all hops sold to the retail trade was for the purpose of making hop tea.

WEAKNESS REMAINS LONG AFTER Influenza

Reports Show That Strength, Energy and Ambition Return Very Slowly to Grippe Patients.

After an attack of influenza, doetors advise that nature- be assisted in its building-up process by the use of a good tonic one that will not only put strength and endurance into the body, but will also help to build up and strengthen the run-down cells of the brain. One of the most highly recommended remedies to put energy into both body and brain Is Blo-feren your physician knows the formula it is printed below. There's iron in Blo-feren the kind of iron that makes red blood corpuscles and creates vigor. There is lecithin also; probably the best J brain invigorator known to science. Then there is good old reliable gentian, that brings back your lagging appetite. There are other ingredients that help to promote good health, as you can see by reading this formula, not forgetting kolo, that great agent that puts the power of endurance into weak people. Taken altogether Bio-feren Is a splendid active tonic that will greatly help any weak, run-down person to regain normal strength, energy, ambition and endurance. Bio-feren is sold by all reliable druggists and is inexpensive. For weakness after influenza patients are advised to take two tablets after each meal and one at bed time seven a day, until health, . strength and vigor are fully restored. It will not fall to help you and if for any reason you are dissatisfied with results your druggist is authorized to return your money upon request without any red tape of any kind. Note to physicians: Thar is no secret about the formula of Bloferen, It Is printed on every package. Here It Is: Lecithin: Calcium Glycerophosphate; Iron Peptonate. Manganese Peptonate; Ext. Nut! Vomica; Powdered Gentian; Phe-" TKjlphthaleln; Olearsla Capsicum.