Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 121, 1 April 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM' AND SUN-TELEGRAM h ' Published- Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post OKlc 'at Richmond, Indiana, aa Se ond Class Mail Matter.

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Spring Improvements For many years Richmond held an annual spring clean-up day. The rubbish and trash accumulated in the winter was dumped in the alleys and hauled away. Clean-up day was omitted last year because of. the war. This year should be a time for a grand clean-up. Old paper, rubbish, trash which have accumulated in our homes, yards and barns should be collected and disposed of. The city authorities should set a day upon which this should be done. The co-operation of the city authorities is almost essentially necessary to the success of the project. ' . The danger of the fire hazard is reduced by removing combustible matter. The fire chief will attest to the truth of the statement and the value of removing matter in which fires originate. From the standpoint of civic beauty, the environment will be enhanced effectively if the walks are trimmed, fences repaired, houses painted, grounds beautified, shrubs and flowers planted. Richmond has an enviable position among Indiana cities for its neatness and the beauty of its streets. We should not lapse into negligence, permitting our good name to be sullied by failing to maintain this high standard. And the way to maintain it, is to clean up this spring. What the Farmers Need It is axiomatic in American business circles that the prosperity of our country depends upon the-prosperity of the farmer. The relation between business prosperity and the yield of our farms is a direct one. If the farmer prospers, the laboring men and the business men share his return. When the farmer is poor, we are all poor. From the standpoint of a farmer, certain fundamental reforms ' are called for. The deductions which Chester T. Crowell makes in a current issue of the Independent summarize the needs pf the agricultural districts of this country. There must be better rural schools, and they must prepare boys and girls for farm life instead of holding up to their youthful Imagination the soldier and the lawyer and the politician as the only great men. There must be

better supervision through governmental agency of the packing and shipping and storage of what we eat. I ask

you only to visit Commission House Row in your home town I care not where you live and I know that you will agree with me that supervision is necessary. . There must be schools to teach men how to grade their wheat and their cotton, and laws to make It a crime to order a man's produce and then not pay for it. There must be state agencies to provide warehouse facilities where a man can store his produce and borrow money on the receipt given by the manager of the warehouse. Ii Is utterly insane for billions of dollars' worth of agricultural products to be dumped on the market each year within a few weeks bo that the price is forced down, not to rise to normal again until the farmer has parted with it. That happens every year in this country and has been happening since before I was born. The farmers call it manipulation of the market, but it is not. They ought to hold that produce, but they have no place to hold it. None of this is original. Farmers have been pleading for help along these lines for decade3, but all they ever get Is free seed3 from congress and experimentsxto increase V production. , Perhaps those of us who have not made an intensive study of the problem of production and

distribution are unable to pass judgment on Mr. Crowell's views, but some of them at least seem to be fundamental and expressive of the sentiments of the farmers of this country. They are presented to our readers not as an authoritative solution of the needs of the farmer, but as a presentation of some of the, improvements for which the farmers are working. The problem is so complex and its ramifications extend in so many directions that the voice of men who are leaders in other spheres must also be heard before final judgment upon the merits or demerits of Mr, Crowell's analysis can be passed. Pending the working out of a solution, residents in rural and urban districts should carefully study the factors that enter into this problem. Justice East and West A marked difference in the punishment of offenders against the sedition law is noticeable in the East and West. On this side of the Alleghany mountains juries have inflicted severe punishment upon the men who violated the sedition law of the United States. For instance, in Kansas City Rose Pastor Stokes was convicted; in Chicago, the I. W. W. conspirators were made to pay the penalty for their crime ; Victor L. Berger and Eugene V. Debs "were sentenced to the penitentiary. In New York the editors of The Masses were tried twice without a result. Jeremiah O'Leary

hung a jury and Scott Nearing escaped, says the New York Times. The only important convictions obtained in New York were those of anarchists arraigned before Judge Clayton of the federal court, and he is a southerner. The Times believes that this discrepancy can

be explained by the fact that "the blunt common ;

sense of the West prevailed." It finds no difference in the crimes, excepting that some of the indicted persons in the East prosecuted their war against the United States in a more underhand manner than some of those convicted in the West. To those of us who live in the Middle West, it is gratifying to know that we stood firm in our opposition to the men and women who tried to strike the government in the back. We have no fault to find with the East in this respect, but nevertheless cannot refrain from expressing our own satisfaction over the rigorous manner in which the cases were handled by our western courts and juries.

pp Seeds, Early Plants for Your Food Plot

Above, sowing seed in window boxes; below, preparing soil for ealy plants in coldframe.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK .YOUR MISTAKES TELL YOU WHAT

The greatest things that men do, start with their mistakes. Fulfillment is very precious but the fight for It Is still finer in Its modulating and refining discipline. Nothing Is built from the top down. And we grow only as we fall and pick ourselves up and go forward teeth-gritted to win. Your splendid teachers are your mistakes for they tell you what to do! The man of decision is always the man of multitudinous mistakes but do not forget this he is also the man who pays less attention to his mistakes than anyone else. Because, you see, his mistakes tell him what to do and he goes ahead and does it. To elongate a mistake, to pet it, to humor it, to lead it around as you would a dog well, to do this. Is In Itself a greater mistake than the original mistake. Jump over your mistakes, walk past them, make faces at them, bury them, starve them forget them! No man or woman ever begins to create and accumulate power until a real healthy mass of mistakes start to stare them In the face and to dare them on. Mistakes are challengers. And only those who are able in courage to face their mistakes, without one single inch of backstepping or flinching, ever enter the ranks of the immortals. What ought you to do? Talk that over with your mistakes and then get busy. For as Tennyson says, "Mens rise on the stepping stones Of their dead selves To higher things."

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

SHOWS "HORSE SENSE," EH? Boston Transcript. But, of course, the real old fond friend of liquor will never take kindly to a pony that doesn't kick a little.

NOT YET NOR SOON New York Telegraph. Przem3l has been captured again, but up to this writing it has not been pronounced.

NOW, WHAT CAN THIS MEAN? New York Post. "Probably Will Be Up to Congress to Define Intoxicants." Well, Congress can do it as well as anybody.

HIS FAMILY TREE FIRST VICTIM Charleston News and Courier. The former Kaiser retains his destructive habits. Now he has taken to destroying trees.

LAST JOB WE WANT Anaconda Standard. . Why anybody should want to be President of Germany at this time is beyond us.

ONLY A MOURNFUL MEMORY Baltimore American. Perhaps the wets will have to be satisfied with this definition: Beer Is something that was, but isn't.

The Railroads-Public Ownership or Private Initiative?

I"rom The Outlook. THK belief has been asserted in these pages more than once that unless some workable and efficient form of government regulation can be discovered and put in operation the country will inevitably turn to government ownership and operation of our steam railways. There are, we believe, in the neighborhood of two hundred railway corporations in this country, each of which does a gross business of over a million dollars

new properties, would be exchanged for the old securities of the component railways. These ten new companies would be permitted to charge enough for their shipping and passenger services to justify the government in guaranteeing a return to the security-holders at a percentage rate to be agreed upon. If these rates produced in some districts a larger return than the government guaranteed, these additional profits would be divided between the government and the security holders in a proportion to be determined by congress. We should add to this proposal a suggestion to which we think M. Hines would

a year. These the government is now operating under jagree, that the profits beyond those guaranteed by the

the director-general of railroads. By the law under which the government took them over the road3 are to be operated by the director-general for twenty-one months after peace is officially established. ' The acute railway question before the country now is a threefold one. Shall the roads be immediately turned back to the private owners to be administered as they were before, uuder joint state find federal regulation; shall they be turned back In twenty-one months; or shall the period of government administration be prolonged for a sufficient length of time to establish some new system of private operation under regulation? This triple question has been met by several proposed solutions. The one which, on the whole, interests most is that of Mr. Walker D. Hines, formerly general counsel and chairman of the board of directors of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway and now director-general of railways under the government. Mr. Hines's proposal 13 tentative, and he is not committed to It in the sense that he urges Its adoption in preference to any other plan that may be devised. But we understand that he ha3 made it as a contribution which he thinks may throw tome light upon the discussion. Stated in simple terms of the layman and stripped of technical details, Mr. nines' proposal is as follows: . He would reorganize the steam railways of this country now privately owned into, say, ten new companies operated in ten regional districts. The weak and the strong railways of each district would thus be united. Thesp companies would be made federal corporations and their Becurltles. to be based upon the valuation of the

government should be divided into .not two, but three parts one for the government, one for the owners, and one for the wage-workers. ' We do not say that it would be simple either to obtain the physical value of the new companies or to persuade the states to surrender any of their present power over the railways or to induce all the present securityholders to exchange their holdings for the new securities with the government guarantee. In fact, the details necessary to carry out such a plan as Mr. Hines proposes would be complex and voluminous. If the general principles were agreed upon today, it would probably take more than twenty-one months to work them out. It is for that reason, we understand, that Mr. Hines favors the continuance of the present government operation for five years, thus giving the people and congress time to frame and put into execution the new arrangement. It is not a simple matter for the average citizen to grasp the application of all the details of this solution, but we do think that the average man of intelligence can understand the general principle at 6take. Thi3 principle, it seems to us, may be stated as follows: If the shippers, owners, and workers connected with cur railways do not get together and agree upon some plan of government regulation which shall preserve the benefits of private initiative and private profit, the inevitable result will be federal ownership and operation, for the clock cannot be turned back, and the country will never return to the old conception that the railways are to be operated by their owners as though they were individualistic private enterprises.

Proper selection of seeds with which to plant a garden is stressed by specialists of United States Department of Agriculture. It should be the aim of every home gardener this year to grow a better garden by making the most intelligent use of the available

j space, not only by employing better

methods, but by planting seeds of the highest quality. The first cost of seeds is comparatively small, but it is very important that the seeds planted be the very best obtainable. Gardeners are advised to secure the catalogs of reliable seed firms and spend a little time in going over and checking vup the seeds that will be needed for planting their gardens. Stick to the Standbys. Do not be misled by the highly colored and muchadvertised novelties, but stick to the standard, well-known and proved varieties, advise the specialists. Good seeds are scarce and none should be wasted, so figure carefully . upon the amount required and place your order early before the best stocks are exhausted. Perhaps the seeds can be bought from local dealers. If not, orders should go to a seed house in some neighboring city, so the seeds may be received in ample time. When they are received, unpack and check them to see that no part of the order has been overlooked; then store the seeds in a mouse-proof, ventilated container, such as a tinbox or glass jar. They should be kept in a moderate temperature, and where they will not freeze or be exposed to moisture. You'll Want Early Plants. Half the pleasure and profit of a garden is derived from having something to use just as early in the springtime as possible. In many cities and towns last year the local greenhouse men grew thousands of plants which were sold to home gardeners at reasonable prices. It often happens, however, that home gardeners do not have the opportunity to purchase wellgrown plants, and must start their own supply of early plants in the house or in a hotbed if they desire to have their crops mature early. Among the garden crops that may te started to advantage in this manner are to-1 matofs, early cabbage, peppers, eggplant, and lettuce; even cucumbers, melons, beets, snap beans, Lima beans and sweet corn may be started indoors by using flower pots, paper bands, or berry boxes to hold the soil. Making Seed Boxes. Where just a few tomato and cabbage plants are desired, the seeds may be sown in a cigar box or in a shallow tin pan with a few holes punched in the bottom for drainage. A good plan is to saw off about 3 inches of the bottom portion of a soap bcx, thus forming a tray. If the top has been saved, it can be nailed on the box again sawed, forming a second tray. This will leave abqut 3 inches of the middle of the box, upon which a piece of one-l'ourth-inch wire netting may be tacked to form a sieve for screening the soil used in the trays. Any shallow box that may be fitted into the windows of a living

room where there is a reasonable

amount of sunlight will answer for starting early plants. After filling the trays full of sifted soil, stroke-off even with the top and slightly firm down the soil in the trays by means of a small piece of board. Use the edge of a ruler or strip of this board to form little grooves or furrows in the soil in which to plant the seeds. These little rows should be about 2 inches apart and one-quarter inch deep. Scatter the seeds of tomatoes, early cabbage, peppers, or eggplant very thinly in the rows and cover them by sifting a small amount of soil over the entire surface. Smooth the top of the soil gently and water very lightly. Then the Growing. The box should then be placed where the temperature will remain at about 70 degrees. If conditions are kept right, the seedlings will appear in five to eight days after the seed is planted. From this time on the plants will need constant care, especially as regards watering. Because the light from a window comes from one side only, the seedlings will draw toward the glass, anry the box should be turned each day, no as to keep the plants from growing crooked. Just as! soon as the little plants are large; enough to handle, they should be-1 transplanted to other boxes and given 2 or 3 inches of space in each direction. Using Hotbeds and Coldframes. i Where the required number of plants is too great for growing in window boxes, a hotbed or coldframe may be provided. The usual method of constructing a hotbed is first to dig a shallow pit 8 to 18 inches deep, according to locality, and pack it full of fermenting stable manure. The manure, before being placed in the pit, should be turned over once or twice in a pile in order to insure even heating. It may then be packed into the hotbed puit and tramped uniformly. Standard hotbed sashes are 3 feet wide and 6 feet long, .and the size of the bed should be made to suit the number of sashes employed. A framework of boards 18 to 24 inches high at the back and about 12 inches high

J in front is placed over the manure-

filled pit to support the sash. About 3 or 4 inches of fine garden loam is spread evenly over the ma

nure and the bed allowed to Btand

four or five days to warm up before

any seed is sown. At first the temper

ature of the bed will run rather high, and it is best to delay planting the seeds in it until it begins to decline.

This can best be determined by plant

ing a cheap thermometer with the bulb about 3 inches below the surface of the soil. The temperature should fall oelow 85 degrees befor'e seeds are

planted. Muslin May Be Used. If glass-filled sashes are not available for covering the hotbed, heavy muslin may be used instead; the glass however, makes the most desirable form of covering. Care must be taken to give the bed sufficient ventilation to prevent overheating, as it is liable to heat up ver rapidly when the sun shines full upon the glass. Watering should be done during the early part of the day and the bed given enough air '50 that the plants will dry off before night time. The bed should be closed before evening, in order to conserve enough heat to carry it through the night in good condition. If the weather should turn severely cold, a covering of straw, blankets, or canvas may be thrown over the bed to protect it. A coldframe is constructed in exactly the same manner as a hotbed, with the exception that no manure is placed beneath it to supply heat. Before the plants are set in the garden, either from the hot bed or the coldframe, they should be gradually hardened to outside conditions by giving thtm more ventilation each day. Finally, remove the sashes entirely on bright days and replace them during the nights. The aim should be to produce strong, healthy plants that will make a quick start when placed in the garden.

Good Evening! By ROY K. MOULTON

THE RUBIAYAT OF SAHARA. Ah. my Beloved, All the cup that clears Today of past regrets and future fears. Tomorrow? Why tomorrow you yourself may be Taking a drink across the sea. Myself, I'm sure, will eagerly frequent Some Medico' and give him argument About it and about; but evermore With seme prescription will I pass the door. Of all the Congressmen and Sages who discussed Of Prohibition wisely, they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth they seem to shrink; For where will they get another

drink? Right into Congress through that hallowed Gate I went, where all those wise men sate, And many a knot unraveled there But not the knot of Liquor's fate. There was the Senator who could not see, The Congressman that will no longer be, Some talk awhile of leaving beer There was, and then no more for you or me. 'Tis but a momentary halt, a temporary stop, While thousands from the Waterwagon drop. And booze that once was easy to obtain Will tempt the poor abstainer not in vain. And Liquor will be sold, some false, some true And a softly whispered word will be the clew And you will find it to the Storage house And to the distiller, too. Startling movie ad from the Tiffin (O.) -'Advertiser," clipped by B. R. G.: "Baby Marie Osborn in five parts, also Eddie Polo, Lyric, Sunday."

General Coxey threatens to lead another "army" to Washington. Well, you can lead an army to Washington, but you can't find anything for it to drink. LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES. Moving into a quiet apartment and having the stork leave a new one in the fiat downstairs next day. Sitting in the park an hour trying to make up a good excuse and then finding a note from the wife to the effect that she is spending the night with her aunt in the country. "Has' your wife an income?" asked the tax collector. "Yes, indeed," replied the harassed husband. ."Forty dollars a week from me."

When Did Old South Side Span Fall Into River?

Fifty years ago there was a South Side bridge agitation which resulted in the collection of a popular fund with which was built a swinging footbridge across the Whitewater gorge at South D and Fourth street. The bridge was about four feet wide and was supported by trestlework built out from each Bide of the gorge for a little way, and swung on the cables the rest of the way. The cables were anchored to enormous iron anchors in the bank. The bridge gave good service for ten years or so, but had a fatal attraction for the town boys, who would set it swinging by the swaying of their bodies. This fascinating sport resulted in the falling of the bridge, about 1869, one evening just after a party of boys had gotten off it. "Bert" Englebert, no wdead, used to tell how he was once arrested for swinging on the bridge, and Ed Berheide used to live in the country on the West Side and come across the bridge to school.

The Forum

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Dinner -

A vegetarian whose family was out

of town went to breakfast at a restaurant and took a seat next to a stranger. The vegetarian took occasion to advertise his creed by telling the stranger that the human diet should be strictly vegetarian. "But," replied the stranger, "I seldom eat meat." "You just now ordered eggs," said the vegetarian. "An egg is practically meat, because it eventually becomes a bird." "The kind of eggs I eat never become birds," answered the stranger. "Impossible!" cried the vegetarian. "What kind of eggs do you eat?" "Principally boiled eggs," said the stranger. The recent Turkish armistice led George Cohan to say: "The Turk has well been called unspeakable. I met one once at Pera, 'I have seven wives," be told me, calmly, blowing perfumed clouds from his hooka. " 'Merciful powers," I exclaimed, 'how do you manage to pay their dressmakers' bills?' "The unspeakable Turk waver his hand: " 'I married dressmakers, son of an infidel," he said."

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Memories of Old

"Own Your Own Home Movement." This id one of the most worthy of all earthly projects. There is in the human heart an instinctive desire to own a home, and in no way can we better serve our fellowmen than to engage in a friendly reciprocity as to ways and means of securing a home, and locate those who desire to be differently situated. These are days of specialty and no man can know all about every business, but the man who is in demand today is the man who knows how to carry on one kind of business, at least to a finish, or perfectly to accomplish some kind of work. To do this one must saccrifice time and money, prepare and make himself strong for the task. We must all admit that the larger the percent of people who 'own their own homes, the better the city or country, as people will tako more interest in beautifying their homes and there will not be that feeling of being disinterested and unsettled. There is a lively interest not only in our own home, but in the kind of community in which we live.' There comes into the mind a feeling of love and pride for our town and community. The man who has nothing good to say of his home place is not worthy of the name of citizen. If the principle of doing unto others were carried out in all lines of business, it would solve all the problems of commercial life. There is no one who knows so well and has spent so much time and money to inform himself as "Own Your Home" plans as the real estate men, who are willing to give you their help in this movement. MARY NICHOLAS COX, 318 Main StreeL

IN THIS PAPER TEN YEARS AGO TODAY Twenty-six divorce cases appeared on the docket for the April term of court.

The Earlham baseball team obtained Coblenz or New Madison, who

had been offered a tryout by the v Wheeling Central League team. Memorial services for Professor W. W. Birdsall were held at Earlham college. He was a prominent Friend.

Many Richmond school teachers departed for Indianapolis to attend the state teachers' association.

Gelt Your Digestion in Shape Many ailments arc caused by stomach weakness. Faulty digestion leads to biliousness, sick headache, dizziness, sallow skin and eruptions. Maintain a healthy condition of the stomach and you will get rid of the chief cause of your sufferings. Do not neglect the laws of health. Keep stomach, liver and bowels in order by timely use of

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