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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND S UN-TE LE GRAM WEDNESDAY, MAR. 26, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM'

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post Office 'at Richmond, Indiana, as Second Class Mall Matter. MEIMDEII OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use) for republication of all news ulcpatchoa credited to It of not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein we alio reserved.

A Criticism or Our Export Trade Gordon Self ridge, .the famous London merchant, recently interviewed by Meyer Bloomfield

for the Saturday Evening Post says the Ameri

can business man has not shown himself very

desirous of export business. This may account for the readiness with which our competitors enter and hold foreign markets. For many years we have been unable to produce more merchandise than we could consume at home, the result being that we paid little attention to foreign trade and less to methods of acquiring it. "At the beginning of the war we sent our people to America to buy goods," says Mr. Selfaidge. "We had difficulty in getting stuff there, and only in a few very exceptional cases did we lind that our buyers were catered to by the .American manufacturing public as buyers should expect to be, and they came back feeling that any business done was as a favor to them. "The reason was that the manufacturer in America found at his own door an outlet for his stuff, which did not make export business necessary; and because it was harder to do export business and because he was not accustomed to It he preferred to continue the "local trade. Generally America is not going to become an export country as long as America is producing no more merchandise than she can easily sell at home. "When this condition changes she will look for outside sources for the distributing of it." It is surprising that American merchants, despite the many expositions on foreign trade methods that have been made by our own consular officials and foreign representatives, have been unable to acquire the tact and finesse that mark the tactics of our competitors in going after the foreign markets of the world. At no time in the history of America have foreign markets been looked upon as such necessary outlets for our industrial and commercial enterprises as. now. The rebuke of the London merchant adds nothing new to the criticism which has been made often in the past. It demonstrates that we have made little progress in this direction. The time has come when American business men must learn that foreign buyers will not accommodate themselves to our methods but must be met on their own ground and in their own way.

Belgium Invites the Tourists The fear of American tourists that foreign countries would shut the doors against them this season has been dispelled. Belgium invites tourists to visit the battlefields after June 1st. The motives back of this invitationvare not entirely mercenary but are intended to show foreigners the devastation and artocities which the Huns visited upon that land in four years. Some benefit may accrue to Belgium by having tourists see these scenes of desolation, although one wonder3 why Belgium is inviting them at a time when frantic appeals for foodstuffs are being made. The presence of any considerable number of visitors certainly will accentuate the shortage. It is not probable, however, that many tourists will care to risk the hazards of poor accommodations and food in the hotels of Belgium this year. Oil Makes Indians Wealthy Royalties during the last fiscal year actually paid to Indian tribes in Oklahoma were in excess cf $8,000,000 and for the six years preceding the Indians actually received in oil royalties $26,000,000. The total amount of oil taken from these Indian lands in Oklahoma since oil was discovered aggregates 383 million barrels. The material development of Oklahoma is reflected in the rapid progress which the Indians have made in civilization. There are in Oklahoma 37 Indian schools devoted entirely to the education of Indian children. The attendance of Ind

ians at government schools, and schools under government supervision, and those in mission schools, public and private schools, is 24,000. t The material wealth of the Indians has increased not only in Oklahoma but also in other states where the Aborigines have doubled the cultivated acreage and quadrupled the value of their cropsv and live stock. In 1918, 36, 328 Indians engaged in farming and 47,174 in stock raising, thereby adding more than $50,000,000 to the material wealth of the nation. More than one-half million acres of Indian lands are under water service and one million acres more will be added when present projects are completed. The Indian office in Washington leased for the benefit of the Indians last year 110,898 acres of coal land. This yielded the In

dian tribes more than $290,000. The Indians proved their loyalty to America in the recent war by purchasing $20,000,000 in Liberty bonds and sending 9,000 men to the army and navy. Does Education Dinimish Crime?

The Indianarjolis News, after a study of a

paper written by Dr. Paul E. Bowers of the Ind

iana state prison, concludes that lack of educa

tion is intimately related to the problem of crime

It says : Pr. Paul E. Bowers, of the Indiana state

prison, has written a paper dealing with the re

suits of a survey of 2,500 prisoners who were ex

amined in the psychopathic laboratory of the prison. Many of the deductions from the paper are of interest, but none more so than that dealing with education and crime. Dr. Bowers makes the point that 75 per cent of the prison population is composed of persons "who are without mechanical or trade skill ; who earn their means of livelihood in crudest forms of physical labor, to which they apply themselves irregularly and in a half-hearted manner. The average wage income is to be classed at the lowest wage-earning scale." Those without definite training in the business of making a living are most often found in the criminal classes. Among the 2,500 men examined, trained and skilled mechanics were extremely few. Some of the prisoners said that they followed fairs, circuses and carnivals, peddling shoe strings and pencils, cooked in camps, collected junk, acted as porters in saloons, in various capacities in race horse stables and as fake solicitors for magazines. Of those examined it was found that 432 were illiterate; 680 could barely read and write; 785 had reached the fourth grade ; 496 got as far as the eighth grade; 82 had attended high school, and 25 had been in college. Surely this tells its own story that crime decreases as education increases. In prisons throughout the country not more than 1 per cent of the prisoners have gone to college, while fully 25 per cent are wholly illiterate. A few prisoners explain that they never had an opportunity to go to school, but most of them say that through evil associates and unfortunate environment they stopped school at an early age and from then on their energies were exerted in the wrong direction. No greater argument in support of keeping boys in school until they have received sufficient training to begin the work of making a living could be furnished than the figures from Indiana's prison.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

THE CRIME OF SUBSTITUTION The Ben Davis was invented as a substitute for the apple in 1837 by a dentist at Hohokus, N. J., and named in honor of an old gentleman who was killed when one of these a"pple substitutes was thrown playfully at him during a husking bee that same year. During the Mexican war these Ben Davises were used as a substitute for ammunition when Zachary Taylor ran short of cannon balls and resulted in the defeat of Santa Ana. Thus the Ben Davis has played an important part in history. IN 1920. Night a moon a burglar grim, A safe and a stick of dynamite; Why does he toil with zest and vim, And tremble there like a soul in plight? What does he seek while good men dream, And all the world is asleep in bed Silver and gold, or -jewels that gleam Like the etars that twinkle overhead? Behold the treasure trove in sight; Oh, lucky fellow, smart and frisky; The wealth of kings is his tonight, For he has found a flask of whisky! Morris Abel Beer. HAVE YOU A CHILD BORN TODAY? If you have a child born today it will etcna, eaftantid, eoatin mayaiqm pg jaudbe EATOIN. "Astrologer," in Des Moines News.

The Germans fear they won't get justice, and somehow or other we also fear they won't. We often wonder if Julius Caesar wasn't laboring under a forty h. p. jag when he invented March and put it into his calendar. Congress voted " $200,000 000 "to make our roads better during the next three years." How much would it cost to make them better permanently?

Growing Healthy Plants for the Garden

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What happens when you treat the seed box with boiling water (lower left), and what happens when you don't (lower right) above (left) healthy roots and stems of young tomato plants grown in diseased soil which has been treated with boiling water, (right) diseased roots and stem of young tomato plants gro,wn in diseased soil and showing dark dead spots due to fungi and root-knot galls caused by eelworms.

Dinner

To be sure of obtaining healthy young plants of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cabbages, lettuce, and bo on, for transplanting to the home garden or elsewhere, treat the soil in the seed box with boiling water before planting. Most all soils commonly used for seed beds contain one "or more kinds of harmful molds or fungi and in addition, in the South, a destructive eelworm which causes a disease of many garden crops commonly called root-

, knot. Recently it has been learned by specialists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture that seed-bed soil can be ! easily freed of these plant enemies

One of our good housekeepers knows she has no ear for music, but when she is hustling around her pots and pans and scrubbing and washing out tea towels she cannot restrain humming a bit just out of her cleaning up joy. Now there is also a little neighbor hoy who plays under her window. Once, while the process of scrubbing was going on above, the little fellow looked up at the window with a face all puckered and serious, as if some question had been troubling him for quite a while. "Well. Tommy, what's the matter?" inquired the housekeeper. A long pause then, "Please ma'am, is you singing?"

Memories of Old

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY W. F. Eggemeyer was chosen exalted ruler of the Elks lodge. Rev. II. B. Taylor gave his last week day sermon at the Rhoda Temple. Deputy Auditor Test of Miami county was in the city on business. Wayne county schools closed for the summer.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

REQUIRES AN AFFIDAVIT Philadelphia Press. Ir Elihu Root is right this is a government of law and not of bureaucrats; but the way things have been going somebody may have to swear to it, or people will hardly be convinced.

IT'S CHRONIC STATE WITH CHANCE Philadelphia Record. Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University, opposes the League of Nations. Sufficient to this Day is the evil thereof. However, as Longfellow once said, "some days must be dark and dreary."

A LITTLE MERE AND A LITTLE THERE A mere day is only twenty-four hours long. But events have happened within that short period that often change the whole course of human events. Many times you may think that a day is just an ordinary day and that the big thing that you want to count in your life is not going to happen today, but on some other day. The fact is, however, that it's the little here and the little there, performed with care and accuracy, each and every day, that makes it possible for the big things in your life to happen at all. A little here and a little there is what makes the world go evenly around. One of the most fascinating things to me has always been the building of a great structure. I have watched the first digging of the dirt and then the laying of the first pieces of steel or cement or stone. And then I have seen the great structure rise hundreds of feet in the air. In Its last analysis, the greatest thing ever built, amounts to just this a little here and a little there. But it is very important that the little here and the little there Is done for a purpose. And that it has the stamp of usefulness and sincerity back of it. For only are you able to stamp your name on your work in preparation, as you are able to convince people that the results measured in compensation, are efforts honestly put forth. Its a little here and a little there after all, that counts most of all.

by this simple hot-water treatment. If they are not killed, plants grown in such soil will usually become diseased and die or else will remain stunted and sickly. It is because of the transplanting of such diseased seedlings that many of the poor crops or failures in the home garden occur. Every gardener should therefore learn how to recognize troubles of young plants and become familiar with the method here described for preventing them. Before treating the soil it should be placed in the box ready for seeding. Make a few holes in the bottom of the box for drainage. Pour on the boiling water slowly at the rate of two gallons to a box of soil one foot square and four inches deep and at once cover with a newspaper to help hold the heat for a longer time. After a few days or whenever the soil has dried out enough the seed may be planted.

Be careful that no diseased soil or

anything else which might spread the trouble gets into the box.

Young plants grown in this treated soil not only have white, sound roots,

but also have a healthy, vigorous appearance above ground. Besides this.

seeds sprout better and the plants ',

grow much faster than those planted in untreated soil. Ordinarily diseased seedlings are a lighter green color and are somewhat smaller than healthy plants and have a sickly appearance. These signs of disease on the young plants, however, may not be noticed and still the trouble may b present on the roots and develop after the plants are set in the garden. To find out if the diseases are present, always examine the roots of young plants before setting them out. If affected by molds or fungi, dark dead patches may be seen on the roots and sometimes on the lower part of the Etems. Badly diseased seedlings have their roots destroyed by the fungi or their stems killed at the surface of the ground so that they fall over. If attacked by the eel worm the roots are enlarged , or swollen and knit-like places are formed.

When was Playground Movement Started in City?

Before 1904, the playground arrangements for Richmond's children were quite simple. The consisted of such vacant lots, alleys and streets as the children were able to find. But in that year the first steps were taken to create the present system, now unfortunately In danger because of want of money In the city treasury. A committee of pubUc recreation was appointed by the Richmond Civic league, consisting of N. C. Heironimus, Henry Deuker, Dr. A. L. Bramkamp, Mrs. Henry Starr and Mrs. Walter Hutton. At first the committee tried to get the use of part of Glen Miller park. This was Impossible, so on May 7, 1904, the school board bought the present playground at Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, south of Main. The total strip was 459 by 436 feet. From the start an attempt was made to provide every kind of beneficial athletic energy. On bright spring evenings, throngs of children and their elders could be seen playing baseball, tennis, playground ball, tracq and field sports, and other athletic events all at the same time. It is impossible to estimate the good done by the grounds before the city funds ran so low that they had to be cut off the list of expenditures. Many athletes, high school and college, have heceived their first training there. Hundreds of persons, who never became famous received great benefits from them.

PISSARD IS ADVANCED

(By Associated Frwe) PARIS, Mar. 26. Major L. Pissard, general secretary of the commission for Franco-American war affairs, has been promoted to the rank of commander of the legion of honor.

6UHUUL UlKL TELLS OTHERS

How They Can Find Relief From Periodic Sufferings.

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Nashua, N. H. " I am nineteen years old and every month for two years I

had sucn pains mat I would often faint and have to leave school. I had such pain I dad not knov what to do with myself and tried so many remedies that were of no use. I read about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in the newspapers and decided to try it, and that is how I

found relief from pain and feel so much better than I use to. When I hear of any girl suffering as I did I tell them how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped me." Delina Martin, 29 Bowers St. Nashua, N.H. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful drugs, therefore is a perfectly safe remedy to give your daughter, who suffers from such painful periods as did Miss Martin. The reason bo many girls write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for advice, is because from their 40 years experience they have a 6toreof knowledge which is invariably helpful.

WHAT'LL YOU BET ON BILL? Chicago Post. If Herbert H. Asquith is to be a candidate for president of the league of nations, we beg to nominate William Jennings Bryan to rim against him.

MAY BE TIM MARSHALL'S ANSWER Los Angeles Times. Why is it that no ambitious boy in his youth hopes to see the day when he will be vice president?

China and the Peace Conference

From the Outlook. IN view of the famous twenty-one demands made upon China by Japan in 1915 and the suspicion of other and unpublished agreements and demands, the delegates at the Teace Conference have felt that all the treaties between the two countries should be published and any disputes settled openly. The Chinese National Defense League, the Chinese Democratic Committee, and the Union of Chinese Students have prepared a memorial to the Conference declaring that by the twenty-one demands, the majority of which China had been compelled to sign, Japan would control, not only economically tut also militarily, all northern China, and that if such control should continue the whole of China would be absorbed by Japan. Hence China demands the abolition of the agreements which she had been forced to conclude with Japan. The present publication of the treaties and sgreements between Japan and China indicates the immense control obtained by Japanese financiers In making loans to China for railway building. But the Chinese societies above mentioned did not stop with a reminder to Japan that China expected gentler treatment; they also gave the same reminder to all the Entente Allies. First, they told the Allies that, while the conditions

which gave rise to the existence of the right of extra-jurisdiction for foreigners in China will soon disappear, the Allies show no signs of renouncing this privilege. Such i.n immunity, the memorial recites, from the laws of the land "gives shelter to dangerous groups of foreigners, and causes ill feeling between natives and foreigners." Above all, it detracts from Chinese sovereignty. Hence, "on the principle of equal rights for every nation, and In order to promote the welfare of all inhabitants, foreign and native, China asks her allies to fix a definite date four or five years hence at which extra-jurisdiction shall terminate." China next appeals to the Allies to restore the freedom of regulating her tariffs and custom rates, the present system of foreign control also encroaching on her sovereignty. The third appeal to the Allies suggests the removal of the foreign garrisons at Peking and elsewhere. Finally, China indicates that the Allies might allow the already suspended Boxer Indemnity to be completely canceled as America has done, and as Japan has promised to do. While present security of life and property in China may not justify the granting of all these requests, the Peace Conferencewill. we feel sure, give just and gener ous treatment to that country. .

Bolsheviki Literature Found at Newcastle NEWCASTLE, Ind., March 25. Bolsheviki literature bearing the caption "The Great and Growing Fear No Work," was distributed widely about the residence section some time Monday night and police today were engaged in an investigation to try and ascertain the identity of the person or persons responsible. The pamphlet contained the text of the Russian constitution. t

Masonic Calendar

March 26. Webb Lodge No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in Entered Apprentice, commencing at 2 p. m. Supper at 6:30 p. m. March 28. King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called convocation; work in the Past and Most Excellent Masters degree.

Is Your Blood Starving

FOR WANT OF IRON ?

Iron Is Red Blood Food It Helps to Put Strength and Energy Into the Veins of Men and Roses into the Cheeks of Women. Why Nuxated Iron so Quickly Builds Up Weak, Nervous, Run-down People. Thousands of men and women are impair tig their constitutions, laying themselves open to illness and literally losing their grip on haalth, simply because their blood is thinKing out and possibly starving through laclc of iron. Lack ol iron in tha blood not only makes a man 8 physical and mental weak-, ling, nervous, irritable, easily fatigued, but it utterly robs him of tha virile force, that stamina and strength of will which are so necessary to success and power in every walk: of Ufa. It may also transform a beautiful, aweet-tsmpered woman into one who is cross, nervous and irritable. Iroa is absolutely essential to enable your blood to transform, the food you tat into muscular tissua and brain. It is through Iron in tha red coloring matter of the blood that life-sustaining oxygan enters the body. Without iron there is no strength, vitality and endurinen to combat obstacles or withstand severs strains. Contrary to general opinion, lack of iron in the blood docs not necsssarily mean yon do not have enough blood, but it means your blood is not of tho

right kind. To help make strong, keen, rea-

bloi

Who Should Take Nuxaled

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ilooded people there is nothing better than irganle iron Nuxated Iron. Unlike tha

older inorganic iron products it is easily assimilated, does not injure the teeth, make

ter what other tonics or iron remedies you have used without success, 1f you are not strong or well you owe it to yourself to make thm fnllowtna test? See how Ions' vou can

work or bow far jrou can walk witnout be

coming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of ordinary Nuxated Iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your strength again and see how much you have gained. Numbers of nervous, rundown people who were ailing all the while have increased their strength and endurance in two weeks' time while taking iron in thi proper form. Nuxated Iron is now being us?d by over three million people annually, and the manufacturers guarantee successful and entirely satisfactory results to every purchaser or they will refund your money. It is dispensed by all good druggists.

Sold, in this city by Conkey Drug Co., and Thistlethwaites Drug tores. AdT.

BUT YOU CAN'T RELY ON SPRAYS AND INHALERS.

There is no use permitting yourself to be deceived. Perhaps, like thousands of others afflicted with Catarrh, you are about ready to believe that the disease is incurable, and that you are doomed to spend the remainder of your days hawking and spitting, with no relief in sight from inflamed and stopped-up air passages that make the days miserable and the nights sleepless. Of course this all depends upon whether or not you are willing to continue the old-time, make-shift methods . of . treatment that you and many other suffers have used for years with no substantial results. If you are still content to depend upon the use of sprays, douches, inhalers, jellies and other like remedies by themselves, that are applied to the surface and cannot reach below it, then make up your mind now that your Catarrh will remain a life companion and will follow you to the grave. You must realize that the disease itself, and not its symptoms, is what you have to cure. Of course you know that when you are cured of any disease its symptoms will disappear. Catarrh manifests itself by inflammation of the delicate mem

branes of the nose and air passages, which choke up and make breathing very difficult. To get rid of these distressing effects

you must remove their cause.

The blood is laden with the Catarrh germs, which direct their attack against the tender and delicate membranes of the nose and throat. These germs cannot be reached by sprays or douches, which, of course, have no effect whatever upon the blood. S. S. S. is a purely vegetable blood remedy, made from roots and herbs direct from the forest, which combat promptly any disease germs or impurities in the blood. This great remedy has been used for more than fifty years, with most satisfactory results. It has been successfully used by those afflicted with even the severest cases of Catarrh, because it drives out from the blood the Catarrh germs, and eliminates every foreign substance from the blood. S. S. S. i3 sold by druggists everywhere. For the benefit of those afflicted with Catarrh or other blood diseases, we maintain a medical department in charge of a specialist skilled in these diseases. If you will write us fully, he will give your case careful study, and write you just wha your own individual case requires. No charge is made for this service. Address Swift Specific Co., 406 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. Adv. '