Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 125, 5 April 1919 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, APRIL '5, 1919."

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HOW COLD STORAGE FACILITIES WERE DEVELOPED BY PACKERS

y WILLIAM R. 8ANBORN. The marketing of packing bouse products hare just been reliCTed of

"kll goTernmental restrictions by the

President, and this is another step in the direction of getting back to normal. But the Lever act still remains in effect, "Prohibiting Unfair Practices and Excesalre Profits." A separate order regulating the packers in thair purchase of livestock for slangrter" still holds good. As to tho Lever act. what we have stated in precodlng chapters is a sufficient answer; for, as shown, the packers have really earned much less than the amount allowed by the Food Administration, during the past two years. Mr. Armour stated that profits dropped almost to the vanishing point, in fact, and were the lowest in 1918 of any year In all their history. Refrigerator Cars and 8torag. It is true, of course, that great size does not In Itself Insure efficiency, but as Mr. Armour comprehensively stated: "Great efficiency eventually runs to size." Nothing can be truer; the business world presents many corroborative examples. Our government has been considering the problem of taking over the packing industry In all Its Interrelated forms. No one will question that the government is great that it . has "size," but be it noted that the government has Increased the price -6t everything ft has to sell, from rev- ' nuo stamps to railway fares and from freight rates to telegraph tolls. They are constant price boosteifi at Washington, for every service they render the people. We are not criticizing the need of added revenue, but Bimply stating the facts. . These facts, if applied to political control of the packing industry well, draw your own conclusions, fellow citizens. Your judgment Is as good as our own. Back in 1863, when .Philip D. .Ar

mour first began operations in Mil-'

wauaee, mere was no remgerauon and packers did not even handle fresh meats, except In a very limited way, and in winter only. The killing, curing and packing were simply winter Jobs in those days and for years afterward. Fifty years ago, in 1868 to be exact. Armour and company had a capital Investment of $160,000. That amount of money would scarcely be missed out of the change drawer of the concern today. The firm has never paid large dividends, public opinion to the contrary. The greater part of the profits have gone into enlargement and betterments, have been reinvested to the employment of labor and In the purchase of material to the public benefit. It was not until 1374 that the first large "chill room" In the world was bulit, and this by Philip D. Armour. By this time the Armours had plants in Milwaukee, Kansas City and Chicago. Modern expansion of the packing industry dates from the first cold storage "room," and the first refrigerator car. The railways did not take kindly to the building of refrigerator cars, so tho Armours built for their own use and according to their needs, as their business expanded. What the refrigerator car la, and what it has Tdone for tKe"' meat, fresh fruit and vegetable producers, and Its effect upon supplies in city and hamlet at all seasons of the year, is a well known story of daily telling. All packers own these cars, and it would be like living in another age of the world if they went out of service they are essential to the public convenience and to the people's welfare, and this is equally true of cold stornhlA tn tk ram nf the surnlus in

season, and to provide for lean ;

months or years from their stored abundance. Ownership of Stock Yards. Government ownership of the stock

yards would mean a- lot of red tape j and a world of restrictions, which j

would add to both inconvenience and cost. Who can doubt it.' Right now under government control it takes a car of livestock twenty-tour hours lonr to reach Pittsburg from Richmond, Ind., than it has in the past twenty years but enough said "is sufficient." po what's the use. , Private initiative has made all the stock yards

of the country great enterprises for the prompt dispatch of business. Can you imagine a civil service protected government official getting up before daylight and rushing his breakfast to accommodate Tom. Dick and Harry to get their hogs over the scales at the opening of the market, in all weathers, and to lose sleep because of Inadequate facilities which a wrangling congress failed to provide. You can't, you say? well neither can we. That the packers own stock in the stock yards is a foregone conclusion and no one has a better right, in our view, nor does any one need that these facilities be keyed to the highest pitch at all times, regardless of cost. But the packers say they will be willing to sell out their stock yard interests to the government, or to any one, who will guarantee to provide equally good facilities and to keep the plants down-to-date for the transaction of business. They can all find use for the money paid them, in their own business, and would need to borrow less from year to year. As a matter of fact the packers do not own any of the big central stock yards and many persons not identified with packing house interests do own such stock, Just as the packers do. Engaged in Many Lines. A chapter might be written, instructively, as to the Interests packers have in other than strictly packing house products and resultant byproducts. This is a large theme , in Itself, deserving of sepcial consideration. And it has had that consideration on the part of men with whom they come into competition, not to the public detriment, however, as the packers explain. Their vast cold storage spaces and facilities for distribution and marketing largely explains this expansion. The problem is too wide in scope and too far-reaching in its effect to be considered here. It is not a part of our subject but it has been of benefit to a thousand communities which have benefited by the distribution of various fruits and food products in the packers' refrigerator liners, which traverse every road in the country.

TTNDIANA 1 Briefs

INDIANAPOLIS Raymond Moody and Keith Coates, 11 years did, were drowned In White river, while on a canoe trip. Another boy narrowly escaped. , MARION A Jury awarded William Spath 11,000 In his suit for alienation of his wife's affections in circuit court. Both men are well known in Huntington county, TERRE HAUTE Fred B. Smith, retired distiller, was made the victim of an unknown forger when a local bank honored a check for $1,500 which he did net draw, " " EVANSVILLE Charles J. Rauch. found guilty of the killing of Mrs. Charles Sherwood last December, was sentenced to life imprisonment. BEDFORD Harry Miller, 35, who has lived in Bedford two years and has made many friends, was arrested, charged with being a member of a gang of bank and business house robbers. A vast quantity of jewelry, stamps, etc., was found in his room. J DANVILLE Connaley Spangler. northwest of Danville, had just stored his cellar with coal, and called his wife out to help him sack some oats, when an explosion occurred which rocked the house. Pieces of the furnace were hurled through the kitchen floor, and the basement walls were thrown out of line. MTJNCIE -Dr. Willard Gleason. husband of the matron of the children's home and an assistant at the home, was arrested, charged with assault and battery on a boy inmate. The Gleasons were discovered several days ago when the board of children guardians investigated charges of cruelty.

Ohio News in Flashes

MARION A United States coast defense gun, weighing 10 tons, on which a Marion firm has been working for nearly two years, has been shipped to an eastern proving ground. NEWARK Death won in the race of August Butler, of the 342nd Field Artillery, to see his mother before she died. His mother passed away while he was speeding to her, somewhere on the sea. The long race begun In Coblenz, March 15, when he was released from duty and ordered home because of his mother's condition.

CAMP SHERMAN Discontented because they are kept in the service while others are getting out, 200 ehovelers of the quartermaster - service struck. They returned to work after telling officers of their, grievances.

SCHOOLS TO PLANT TREES

EATON, O., April 5 In order to furnish the practical in orchard culture. 100 fruit trees will be planted on a part of the grounds of the centralized school building in Monroe township, according to Superintendent L. F. Scbeiser, who conceived the plan. Effort will be made to make it the model orchard of the future for the community. It will also be a source of revenue to the schools. The school agricultural department will have supervision of the orchard. ANNUAL LODGE INSPECTION EATON, O., April 5 Degree work.

a social session and luncheon were features of the annual inspection of? Bolivar lodge. Masons, conducted j Friday night by Judge H. N. Routzohn, of Dayton, district grand master. '

New Paris, 0, Professor Charles of Earlham college visited the schools last Friday and gave an interesting talk about continuing their education A mistake was made in the number of bags filled by the Red Cross for the Belgian relief. It was sixteen instead of six. Mrs. Louis Wrade of Richmond visited her perents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bennett, recently Miss Esther Hodgin spent; Monday night with Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Wiley Miss Essie Ballenjcer, of Westville, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colvln over Sunday Harold Mitchell, of Indianapolis, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Mitchell Mrs. Ella Barnett of Indianapolis is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Thompson Mrs. Robert Boyle and daughter, of New York, are visiting Mrs. James Boyle Monday evening a party of friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Kuth the occasion being Mrs. Kuth's twentieth birthday. The evening was spent socially and supper was served the guests. Harry Fagin visited his parents over Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Joe Zea and family visited friends in Centerville, Sunday Mrs. Lester Veits spent Tuesday with friends near Savona. . . Miss Adah Crubaugh of Miami college, is spending the spring vacation at home Mr. and Mrs. Almon Hill are the parents of a new baby Mr Cha, a Korean, visited the local school Thursday and gave the pupils a very interesting talk on how he acquired his education in America. .. .Edward Derr has arrived home from overseas, having been in service a year A number of the young folks from town enjoyed an April Fool party Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Alva Marshall near Gettysburg.

ALLEGED DEStRTER HELD

MINEOLA. N. Y., April 5. William Bishop Davis, former captain in the Seventh Ohio Engineers, who is sought by military authorities here on a charge of having deserted from the army and having abandoned his wife, is confined in the Tower of London, awaiting trial on a charge of grand larceny. Nassau county officials were informed today by Scotland Yard.

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AMERICAN JAZZ DRIVES AWAY STOLID GERMAN GHOSTS IN OLD COBLENZ HALL

COBLENZ, April 5. The Feat Halle ot this city on the Rhine never saw a livelier, noisier, happier party than it did tonight when the soldiers of the Third Army gave their second weekly costume dance. More than a 1,000 men on leave in the city joined with the men stationed here in putting so much jazz into the dance that the Btolld German ghosts of the Halle early rose up their hind legs and dusted away from there. The dancers came in all kinds of costumes. Some they made themselves; some they borrowed, and many came from the wardrobes of the municipal theatre. There were Pierrots and Pierrettes, Irishmen of the Chauncey Olcott period, Brunnhildes and Kremhlldes and other German Hildas, monks, bishops, warriors bold of the days when men made love with war clubs and meat axes, clowns and just plain soldiers with no more make-up than a smile and an ambition to show the several hundred spectators that they "could shake a mean leg, even In hobnails." The prize winning dancers were Pvt. Ira Burns of Evacuation Hospital No. 2 and Baltimore, and Pvt. William McGrall of Evacuation Hospital No. 6, and Clinton, Mass. Carroll Ferguson of the 29th Engineers and Brooklyn, took the prize for the best costume. He was a fetching Pierrette. Tony Hunting and Corinne Francis of the well-known vaudeville team, Hunting and Francis, and for several months entertainers on the Y. M. C. A. circuit, helped the soldiers get into their strange clothes and to make them up for the competition. The band of the 55th Pioneer Inf. furnished the music, and the dancers simply wouldnt let the band rest until Wayland Wilcox and his assist; ants, who are running the Fest Halle for the soldiers and the Y. M. C. A., brought in real American ice cream and real American cakes. After the refreshments the band had to start again, and It was 10 oclock before the music stopped and the dancers re-luct-antly decided to call it an evening. The costume dance has now become a weekly attraction. It threatens to develop Into the best number on the nightly program. . Coblenz has been made a leave center of the bridgehead held by the Third Army

11 HEALS BABY'S RASH

On Head and Face. Terribly

Cross. Kepi Him Awake.

"Baby had a rash on his head and he scratched so that it came on

hia face. It was scaly and became inflamed and awfully sore. He was terribly cross, and it kept him awake. Finally his hair became very thin. "I 6ent for a sample of Cuticura. I afterwards

bought more, and after using two cakes of Soap and one box of Ointment he was healed." (Signed) Mrs. S. Blair, 29 E. Mitchell St., Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 15, 1918. Daily Use of Cuticura Prevents Skin Troubles It is so easy to prevent skin and scalp troubles by using Cuticura Soap for all toilet purposes, assisted by touches of Cuticura Ointment to first signs of pimples, rashes, dandruff or irritation. Bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water, dry lightly and apply Cuticura Ointment. M B. ran to test M fueln.tiag fraTanea of Cutleura Taleara on your skin. The Soap, Ointment and Talcum We. Yrywhra.

and the Y. M. C. A. is feeding without charge all men who come in on leave. Nearly . 6,000 meals . were served at noon and . at 6 o'clock today. Neuwled, a few . miles down the Rhine, has also been approved by the Army as a leave center, and the Y. M. C. A. there will care for about 500 men each day. A theatre has been taken over and an ice cream establishment and a bakery engaged to supply the wants of the men. ' ' -

Colored Church to Observe Anniversary of Educator J. H. Bentley, superintendent of the Richmond public schools, will make an address on Booker Washington, at the Sunday school services of the A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon. Sunday is the birthday anniversary ot Washington, the negro educator. It is also the anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee, the school which Washington started for colored people. Cornell Hewson, service secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will speak. The Boy Scouts have been asked to attend in order to arouse the Interest of the colored boys in the Boy Scout movement. - Special music has been arranged. The purpose of the special services in the Sunday school is to arouse interest in attendance. The pastor, Rev. J. L. Craven, and Walter Dennis, superintendent of the Sunday school, are endeavoring to create interest in the church in the 1,000 attendance drive being made in the churches in the city. An attendance contest will take place at the A. M. E. church on Sunday between the Sunday afternoon and evening services.

Cambridge City, Ind, ' i . Word was received here that Mrs. J, E.: Harr. former Cambridge City resident, who has been ill for some time. Is improved.... A number ot members of the Baptist church of RicHmond gave a surprise Tuesday night on Mr. and. Mrs. I W. Rowe, who recently moved here from Richmond i . . .Clifford Marson made a business trip to Detroit, Mlclu .Wednesday .Mrs. Mae Boden and Mr. James Dennis visited' in Indianapolis among friends and heard McCormack and Herflels while there. .Mrs. Mary Mauk has returned from a visit at Indianapolis, .". .Mrs. Pearl Van Buskiri and Fred Taylor of Buffalo, N. Y., were married Wednesday at Buffalo. Mr. Taylor is employed in government work In a hospital. , They will make their future home there. .. .Mrs. Jacob Myers and Miss Esta Young spent Wednesday in Indianapolis ... . The Baptists held prayer meeting st the home of Mrs. Aaron Shiedler, on Wednesday evening. ... .Mrs. John Starr of Richmond, visited her sister Mrs. Charles Marson, Wednesday....1

I Mr. and Mrs. Russel Cox of Rich

mond, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. M. U. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. James Horny and family of Richmond will spend Sunday with Mrs. Mary

I Mauk.... Miss Grace Kiess . is home from Indianapolis Mrs. Ella Beard j spent Tuesday and Wednesday with

Mrs. Mary tiagaman. fieoree Main, of Manchester, N. H.,

who is in his hundredth year, thinks he is the oldest Odd Fellow in the world. He joined the order March 22, 1844.

During the war the British lifeboat service saved more than 5,000 lives.

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