Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 115, 27 March 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1D19.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published -Every Evening Except Sunday, by ' c: r Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post Offic.'at Richmond, Indiana, aa Se ond Class Mall Matter. ItBUOER OF TUB ASSOCIATED PKESS ' The Associated Pross la exclusively entltUd to tho use for republication of all news dlcpatchea credited to It of not otherwlae credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of apodal dispatches herein wi alio reserred. V Abandoning the Board of Works . The proposal to change the personnel of the board of works as now constituted and substitute for it members "of the city council is fraught with more danger than its supporters imagine The board of works occupies an important position in the administration of civic affairs and its dismissal on the grounds so far advanced by the men who advocate the change would be a calamity. ";- When the state legislature enacted a law making possible the appointment of a board of works it had in mind a sound principle of government, namely, that one department should always have a check in another one. The board of works, for instance, cannot initiate or pass on city appropriations. This is reserved for the members of council. On the other hand, the matter of public improvements, which is of paramount importance to every citizen, i3 within the jurisdiction of the board of" works, even if the appropriations for the work are passed by, the council. The two bodies act as checks upon each other in many other ways. ' The disposition of some councilmen to discard the board of works on the grounds of economy should receive little support from tha citizens. The watchful care which the board of works exercises over, public affairs, as well as the attention which it gives to public business, is worth many thousands of dollars to the citizens annually and offsets any economy that might be effected by turning the work over to men who will serve for nominal sum of $250 annually. If the board had been notoriously inefficient, or if the city were facing a financial crisis that involved the elimination of almost every form of expenditure,-the plea of economy might be received with some consideration. But here is a place where there is great danger of beinj "penny

wise and pound foolish." Go Ahead Wisely Roger W. Babson, a noted statistician and economist has prepared for the department of labor an article on "What Is Being Done at Washington to Help Business," which concludes as follows : . It is suggested that states and cities authorize large building projects to stimulate business and give employment to labor. That will help, but it will not be sufficient. What we need is for Washington to spend as much printer's ink in getting people to buy as it spent in getting people not to buy. The president has removed the war restrictions, disbanded the retarding boards, and has done all he can to help business. What is now needed is a willingness on the part of both labor and capital to forget the past and "saw wood." It is generally , conceded that America has made more progress than any other country. Statistics indicate that this has been largely due to three causes our natural resources, our educational system of developing individual initiative and our concentration on salesmanship and advertising. The first two factors are being talked t'.bout so much that I cannot too srongly emphasize the last. During the war period it was necessary to do little more than make products and transport them in order to dispose of them at a good, profit. Goods sold themselves. It was simply a question of getting the labor and the cars. But by the time this period had reached its height the armistice was signed. Then we were suddenly confronted with a huge manufacturing capacity and a disorganized selling and advertising machine. Supply became greater than the demand. Business has been checked not by

the lack of potential market, but by the right means to develop it. Advertising is the solution of this present national problem. The means of reaching the consumers are at hand. -At no time have the manufacturing facilities of the country been as great as they are today. At no time, has the earning power of the American people been so high. Purchasing power ex

ists. The consumption of all legitimate com

modities can be even further increased in the markets where they are now selling, and sales

can be secured where before no markets were af

forded. . Nrv products can be introduced. The public can be educated to spend intelligently and

also to save wisely through daily newspaper ad

vertising. I appeal to you, governors and mayors, that you do not let your state council of defense nor your local safety committee disband until they have spent as much energy, time and money in getting the public focused on prosperity as they spent in getting the people thinking of the war. The departments at Washington realize thai there must be a readjustment following this war. Every period of inflation is followed by a period of deflation. We are not burying our heads in the sand as blind optimists, although we had rather be blind optimists than blind pessimists. What we are fighting for is that the readjustment shall not be brought about willfully in a harmful way, but rather that we shall do what is possible to retard it so that the change will be made slowly and no one will be harmed. By so

doing we can be sure to provide a mattress for ,

both labor and capital, and at the same time we shall have the fighting chance that we can stave off trouble altogether.

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S Proper Fertilizers

W Give. "Pen"-to Garden

A limited quantity of high-grade commercial fertilizer can be used to advantage on garden soils even whera considerable supply of barnyard manures have been applied. Commercial fertilizers act quickly and can be used to s pecial advantage where it is desired to mature crops in a short period of time. The , best results can be obtained by the use of fertilizer on land that is well filled with organic matter. However, fair results may be obtained by the use of fertilizer on land that has not been manured and which is deficient in organic matter, according to

mmmmmm i .mumammmem "imi soil a second and even a third harrowing to mix the fertilizer with it thoroughly. Another method is to apply the fertilizer underneath the rows, the plan being to open the furrows.

scatter in the fertilizer, then, by means f a single-shovel plow, thoroughly mix the fertilizer with the soil in the bottom of the furrow. The surface soil is then returned and no

seeds are planted for a few days until the fertilizer becomes thoroughly incorporated with the soil. The third method of applying commercial fertilizers is to use them as top or side dressing along the rows of

Liquor Acreage Listed in the increased acreage which will be brought under cultivation in the United States this year is an item showing that 3,600,000 acres, annually devoted to growing corn, barley and rye for the manufacture of liquor will be devoted to the raising of foodstuffs. The annual average amount of corn, barley and rye used in the manufacture of liquor in the United States from 1907 to 1917 inclusive was: corn 35,533,000 bushels; barley 49,900,000 bushels, rye, 4,710,000 bushels.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

THEY'LL SURELY ROOT FOR HIM Indianapolis Star. If Elihu Root succeeds in that "wet" case a lot of people in New York will not be satisfied with anything 3hort of nominating him for president.

LIMIT TO EVEN HIS FOOLISHNESS Washington Star. Colonel Bryan has resisted all temptation to revive the old theory that there are no world troubles which free silver cannot overcome.

THE LUCKY FELLOWS Indianapolis News. Americans in Archangel who are receiving mail only two months old probably will miss such prompt service when they come home.

MADE HAY WHILE SUN SHONE Houston Post. One Chicago corporation scheduled a $20,000,000 income tax. Gee, how it must have libed, skinned and jayhawked the public during the war!

WE JUST PAY AND CUSS Pittsburg Dispatch. Americans in France are reported cheerfully paying exorbitant prices for everything. In America we omit the cheeriness.

HE BETTER STAY IN HOLLAND Brooklyn Eagle. There is one crowd in Germany anxious to try the Kaiser, and another bunch willing to try him again.

GONNO NEED LOT OF ROOM Washington Post. The magnificent new buildings no longer needed for war workers will come in handy as storage warehouses for departmental rulings on the true meaning of the league o nations.

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Some back yard and community gardens in Washington, D. C.

the specialists of the United States Department of Apriculture. The great danger in the use of commercial fertilizers is that too large quantities may be applied and cause injury to the plants. It must be borne in mind that commercial fertilizers are a very concentrated form of plant food and, therefore, should be used in moderation. Amount Needed in Garden. Market gardeners frequently use as much as 2,000. pounds of commercial fertilizer on a acre of ground. This would be at the rate of about 4 or 3 pounds to a plot of ground 10 feet in each direction or 100 square feet. Assuming that the average city or backyard garden is about 30 by 60 feet in size, 50 to 70 pounds of standard, highgrade truckers' fertilizer would be all that would be safe to apply on a garden of those dimensions. Under most conditions 50 pounds will be the maximum amount to use. Commercial fertilizers are usually put up in sacks containing 200 pounds, and a good plan would be for several gardeners to join together in buying fertilizer. Methods of Application. There are two or three methods of applying commercial fertilizers in general use. The first and most common is by scattering the fertilizer broadcast over the land after it has been plowed and harrowed, then giving the

plants during the period of growth. Nitrate of soda and fertilizer mixtures containing a considerable percentage of nitrogen are generally used for this purpose. When using fertilizer as a side dressing, care should be taken that it is not applied too near the base of the plants, but at a little distance from the row, and then it should be cultivated into the upper two or three inches of soil so that the small feeder roots of the plants will gradually reach it. Elements in Fertilizers. The three elements of plant food contaned in commercial fertilizers are phosphoric acid, nitrogen, and potash. Nitrogerjjhas the effect of stimulating the leaf growth, and phosphoric acid and potash have a tendency to increase root growth and to mature -the seeds of the plants. Root crops and potatoes require a reasonable amount of potash. Corn, beans and others of the garden crops, which are grown for their pods or seeds, want a sufficient supply of phosphoric acid, while lettuce, celery, swiss chard and others of the salad or leaf crops require plenty of nitrogen. The safest plan, however, is to apply an allround or complete fertilizer having approximate! 8 per cent phosphoric acid, 4 or 5 percent nitrogen, and 2 or 3 per cent potash on land that is to be devoted to general garden crops.

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GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY T ALK

THE MAN MOST OPPOSED " The world seems perfectly willing that those with no alms or ideas should be allowed to go on their way undisturbed. While the man most opposed is the man with the largest number of ideas and the greatest aims. ' . It has always thus been so. The only men who received medfi" during the great world war were those who went through actual neu to merit them. ' ' Opposition is like the striking of flint with tlinL It brings out the fire that starts the flame that warms the world. Only as you are opposed are you able to gather strength to go your way If you have alms and ideas you must defend them as well as espouse them. You must feed them give them meat and drink. Then no matter how strong the forces against you, you are sure to be superior In' your ability to come back and win. For the strongest man on earth is the man most opposed simply because he accumulates, under every opposition, increased strength and power. , A. Are you fighting opposition? Keep sweet. Do you feel the wearJng and tearing of the grinding force of opposition? Just never mind. Take the good that comes forget the rest.

When Did City Streets Receive Present Names?

Memories of Old

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

BEGINNING YOUNG. Harold Hill, age six years, of Wealthy street, was picked up by the police at the Orpheum theater, where it was said he was making friends with the chorus women. He was returned home. Grand Rapids (Mich.) News.

IT'S DIFFERENT WITH U. S. SENATE Baltimore American. President Wilson seems to like Paris and Pari3 reciprocates.

But it is extremely unkind, to refer to him even accidentally, as a western paper did, as ex-Speaker Chump Clark. German Navy Cut to Eleven Big Fighters. Headline. No doubt of the Jess Willard type. JAY 'EM. Dear Roy Speaking of famous per

sonalities whose names end in "n," how about this array: Al Jolson, Irving Berlin, Major General O'Ryan, George M. Cohan, Mischa Elman, Heinie Zimmerman, Samuel Shipman, Christy Mathewson, 6scar Hammerstein, Louis Mann, Jack Britton, Julia Sanderson, Otto H. Kahn. II. B. A twelve-fingered pickpocket has been arrested in New York. He probably uses the extra two fingers to ring up his receipts on the cash register.

Pioneer Newspaper Man Dies at Home in Chicago (By Associated Press CHICAGO. March 27. Frederick H. Hall, pioneer newspaper man, died at "his residence here Tuesday night. With him at the time of his death was his only child, Mrs. Gilson Gardner of Washington. Mrs. Hall died several years ago. Mr. Hall came to Chicago after the civil war, with Charles A. Dana, and for twenty-two years was city editor of the Chicago Tribune. Thereafter he became an editorial writer on the paper. Ten years ago he retired. When the civil war started he was cipher expert for Secretary of War E. M. Stanton and at the trial of Mrs. Suratt following the assassination of President Lincoln, he was a witness relating to ciphers found in her po-session.

Richmond streets did not always have the present convenient and easily remembered, if unromantic names. Before 1880 the city's streets were, like those of many cities, called after trees, prominent citizens, or anything else which struck the fancy of the city founders. Several of them had several names during their history. But In that year the city council abolished all -the romantic old names and substituted the present systemStreets north of Main have been called at one time or another: A, Broadway, Sprlnk; B. Mulberry; C, Sassafras, Short and Grant; D, Vine, Cliff, and "the street south of the Fairgrounds"; E, Noble, Division; F, Finley, North; G, Maple, Moffit; II, Sanders, Chestnut, Delaware; I, Pine, Cedar, Chestnut. Streets south of Main were known as: A, Walnut; B, Market; C, Sycamore, South Park; D, Mill, Sherman; E. Central Avenue; F, Poplar, Salter;

G, Linden; H, Branch; I Madison, Reed; J. East, and West Oakland; K, Mound. Streets running north and south

were named, in order; First, Jackson;

Second, Green; Third, Washington; Fourth, Front, Madison, Bridge; Fifth, Pearl, Monroe; Sixth, Marion,

Gaar and High; Seventh, Franklin;

Eighth, Fifth Avenue, Center; Ninth,

Boston Avenue, WTiggins; Tenth, Seventh, Newport Pike, East and West Pike; Eleventh, Eighth, Barclay,

Fountain, Mound; Twelfth, Ninth, Middleborro Pike; Thirteenth, Tenth.

The streets to the east of Thirteenth were numbered consecutively, in the same manner as Thirteenth, untl the present Twentieth was known as

Seventeenth. The present Sixteenth

street was known as Reeves Avenue, or Thirteenth street.

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Fifty applicants took the teachers examination in the county superintendent's office. The Earlham association iled suit in county court to get possession of the Country club grounds. Members of the Masonic order returned from the bi-annual meeting of t the state organization at Indianapolis. Twenty-nine candidates were given the third degree of Odd FeUowship. Four new cases of smallpox were reported.

NORTH GROVE The men who robbed the Farmers' state bank here, got approximately $4,000, the officers said.

ASSERTS RHEUMATIC IMPURITIES CANT STAY IN BODY When My Prescription Goes In, Rheumatism Goes Out Along with All Poisonous Uric Acid, Says Discoverer James H.Allen Because he was crippled with terrible rheumatism and unable to work, and because doctors failed to help him, Mr. James H. Allen of Rochester decided to help himself. Persistent study, ceaseless patience and frequent experiments convinced him that before anyone could be free from rheumatism the poisons and Impurities often called uric acid deposits, must be dissolved In the Joints, ligaments and muscles and expelled from the system. It took: some years to i?et this idea Into the form of a prescription, but perseverance finally conquered and In a very short period every pain and twingre and trace of rheumatism was forced to flee and Mr. Allen turned himself from a rheumatic wreck Into a strong, health, robust man. So pleased was he with his success that he named this wonderful medicine Allenrhu. Many others cursed with the agony of rheumatism tried It with results that were almost magical. Requests - for Allenrhu became so numerous that a decision was reached to let sufferers know of the dlscovery througrh the newspapers and now drunrgists throughout the country dispense the Allenrhu prescription, or can get It. for you on short notice. Adv.

Can Prices Come Down?

Di nn e v Stories

From the Dayton News. IS there good reason to expect a general reduction in prices of those commodities that flow through the ; principal channels of commerce? .Will the prices of food, pf clothing, of building material and ,of necessities In general come down in the immediate future? Is busi ness Justified in holding aloof while awaiting a reduction of prices for raw material and a lowering of the price of labor? Irving Fisher, 'professor of political economy at Yale University, has prepared a monograph on the subject of prices, and hia conclusions ought to be interesting to very: business riian, as well as to every laboring man in America. Professor Fisher can discover no reason for Expecting a return to pre-war prices. I "It Is interesting to observe," says the Yale economist, ftbat niany manufacturers think prices must come down, including the price of labor; but they are ready to demonstrate to you that their own prices can not come down. Almost everything they buy costs twice as much as before the war, and their labor is twice as dear. They can not pay their labor less if labor is to meet the increased cost of living." One of Professor Fisher's reasons for concluding that there is no likelihood of a return to former prices is the certainty that gold will not come back into general circulation. W'hen people have learned to leave their gold and silver In the banks and use paper money and checks Instead, they find the convenience so marked that they

never have any wi3h to return to the habit of paying with coin. With paper money and checks in general use there will be a greater tendency toward inflated prices than, would be the case if we were restricted to the use of a less convenient method of paying. Another of the reasons that are advanced in support of a probable continuance of high prices is the fact that inflation in other countries has been greater than in the United States. Prices in Europe since the war began have risen more than they have in America. The price rise has been less the farther from the seat of hostilities. It was least in Australia and New Zealand. It was next least in the United States, - Canada, and Japan. . Then came neutral Europe; then our present allies; and finally Germany and Russia. Gold tends usually to flow from high-priced countries to low-priced countries, so that untii "inflated" European prices fall gold is not likely to flow thither. Prices are no more likely to fall there than here. "Business men," says Professor Fisher, "should fate the facts. To talk reverently of 1913-14 prices is to speak a dead language today. The buyers of the country, since the armistice, have made an unexampled attack upon prices through their waiting attitude, and yet price recessions have been insignificant. The reason is that we are on a new high-price level, which will be found a stubborn reality. Business men are going to find out that the

clever man is not the man who waits, but the one who finds out the new price facts and acts accordingly.'

Some one, just for a joke, asked the new clerk in the seed store for some sweet potato seeds. The clerk hunted all through the seeds but could find no sweet potato seeds and finally appealed to the boss. The latter explained that he was being kidded and cautioned him about not letting smart Alecks put anything over on him. A few days later a lady entered the store and asked for some birdsed. "Aw, go on," grinned the clerk, "you can't kid me. Birds is hatehed from eggs."

"Dearest," he murmured as soon as they were seated in the high-priced restaurant, "you can have anything you want on the bill of fare. Shall I read it off to you?" "No," she replied hungrily, "just read it off to the waiter."

MARTIAL LAW IN SPAIN

(By Associated Press) LONDON, March 27. Constitutional guarantees have been suspended throughout Spain, according to a Central dispatch from Madrid, which also states that the government, having exhausted its efforts at conciliation has

determined to act firmly to maintain order.

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talked of ether discovery of a CincinJ ati genius. Adv.

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