Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 165, 24 April 1919 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919.
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM'
AND SUN-TELEGRAM
"Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. i Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post Office 'at Richmond. Indiana, as Seo ond Claas Mall Matter. MBHBEK OF TUB ASSOCIATKD PRESS The Associated Preaa ta exclusively entitled to the uae for republication of all news Ulcpatchea credited to It off not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local - news published herein. All rights of republication of ape- : cla.1 dlapatca.es herein we also roserred. Follow the Law Under this caption, Dr. W. C. Dennis, legal adviser to the Chinese government, who is well known in Richmond and a son of the late Dr. D. W. Dennis, presents in the special anniversary supplement of the Peking Leader a learned discussion of the immoral principles of Germany that lead to her inevitable downfall. "Ever since men began to think .they have differed as to the relative value of the concepts of right and expediency and as to whether the two were not after all,' broadly speaking, identical," says Dr. Dennis. "And of those who held that they were, there have been many who have argued that 'it is right because it is expedient and a smaller but growing number who have re- - lied 'it. is expedient because it is right.' "Whatever may be the abstract, philosophical and dialectical merits of this controversy, the w.orld is now in a position to report upon the actual results of a great working test of the doctrine that expediency is the measure of right, an experiment tried under the most favorable conditions, on a great scale and over a long period of time." ... - .
Dr. Dennis reviews the history of the Hohenzollern dynasty for 500 years, culminating in Wilhelm II who not only "followed in the footsteps of his predecessors and teachers but sought to better their instructions. He grafted on to Prussian medievalism, the very latest in the way of pseudo-biological utilitarianism. Germany, therefore went into the European war not only with , half a century of specific preparation in a material way but, and this is equally important for our present purpose, with a historical background of 500 years, the moral of which had been carefully, nay religiously, pointed out in every school and pulpit in Germany for fifty years. The doctrine that the state can do no wrong, the gospel of 'anything to win', stood to have a fair trial at the hands of its ablest and most convinced opponents." The gospel of expediency decreed that Germany should attack France the easiest way by going through unoffended Belgium, says -Dt Dennis. "The deliberate policy of intimidation through f rightfulness was adopted for the same reason, thereby dashing down the slowly and painfully reared edifice of the laws of war and reverting to the barbarism of Attila with scientific improvements. Expediency required another sacrifice of principle and unrestricted submarine warfare, with its murder of innocent women and children and its incidental horrors by way of the destruction of hospital shops followed. Again Germany knew that this fresh atrocity would bring America into the war and again the choice was deliberately made on a cold calculation of the chances a calculation which from a purely material point of view, as events have shown, was not unreasonable. The world knows the results. The submarine was beaten and the most crushing defeat ever inflicted upon a civilized nation was administered to Germany and her allies. The devil of expediency made the old offer of kingdoms of the earth in exchange for law violated and right destroyed, but he did not make good on his offer. Law and right were duly immolated but it did not pay. This is the lesson of Germany: It did not pay. If the world learns the lesson, it will easily be worth all the cost ; and in view of what the cost has been, more could hardly be said. "It cannot of course, be expected that the full importance of the lesson will be learned and acted on at once by all mankind, but it is believed that unless the world is to run the gravest danger of slipping back for a long way and a long time, those who control the destinies of the great nations of the world, and that now means in large part their peoples as a whole must show a real appreciation of the lesson and an honest effort to profit by it. Mistakes are as inevitable as they
are excusable; the question is whether we really mean to grasp the great opportunity which presents itself and to try to remold the world according to the principles of right as formulated into the law, or according to the dictates of supposed expediency, whether we are honestly ready to strive in the nation and in the world for 'a government of laws rather than a government of men.' For while we may fully concede not only that law is not always synonymous with right, but that there are times when right demands the revolutionary overthrow of the ordinary law, in obedience to the 'higher law' the world has generally come to acquiesce in the reasoned and eloquent conclusion of Socrates that ordinarily the principles of right demand obedience to law and the alterations of that law, if need be, by regular legal processes." Dr. Dennis applies this principle to conditions in China, arguing that the factions of that country must settle their differences upon the principles of law and not of expediency. He also says that the utmost publicity must attend the sessions of the Peace Conference in 'Paris. He concludes by saying: "This has been a people's war; it must be a people's peace, and no man may excuse himself by his insignificance from not doing his bit. For four long years for some of us, and more than a year for all of us, the call of duty whether at home or abroad has been to 'follow the flag', and many of our best and bravest have followed even to death. We
are now called to a less spectacular but no less necessary and in some ways no less difficult duty to follow the law."
SAFE !
The Victory Loan To retain its freedom, maintain its rights, its
honor, its self-respect, save for ourselves and our posterity those priceless things for which our forefathers fought and bled and died this country had to participate in the war in Europe. A gigantic array of men, supplies and transportation facilities had. to be arranged for with the utmost speed. We were all for it. Ours was a record-breaking performance. The cost was enormous. The Fourth Loan was exhausted by Dec. 10. The war was shortened a year, 200,000 American lives were saved. To finish the job and meet obligations . incurred since December 10, the fifth and last loan is necessary. Let's pay up grandly. Subscribe to the Fifth, the Victory Loan.
Foreign Trade Boom Continues
Exports and imports both showed an increase in March according to a statement issued today by the. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, department of commerce. Exports were valued at $605,000,000 as compared with $588,000,000 in February and $523,000,000 for March of the previous year. For the nine months ended with March the exports were valued at $4,991,000,000, an increase of approximately $600,000,000 over the corresponding period of the preceding year. Imports for March totaled $268,000,000 as against $235,000,000 for February of this year
and $242,000,000 for March of last year. For!
the nine months ended with March the value of merchandise imported into this country wa3 $2,201,000,000, as compared with $2,083,000',000 f or a similar period of the preceding year.
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THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK
-A-MONDAY PRAYER This is the most important week in the history of the world, God, not only to everybody but to me! So, help me to enter it aright. Put something into my "Good Morning.' this week God. that will make it stand out as a kind ot benediction, a cheer,' a pat oil the back Oh. something that will make everybody who hears it. smile and go to their ways happy. Help me to understand very clearly that all my Yesterdays have been wrapped up and stored away that their work is finished and that I must not send for a single one of them. Tell me how to handle my life today, God. Chlef'est of all. God, teach me to get up quickly whenever I slip or am tripped. Thruout all the day, lead me to the Sunny side of the street so that I may the more happy be and when at night time, I feel a little tired or discouraged, blow away the Clouds, God, and send out all the stars to shine for me so I will not be afraid ! It is for the sake of my Me-of-the-World that I am so particular about what I do and say, God not for just my own little Me. But, of course you understand. You wouldn't be God, if you didn't. Help me to walk right strait ahead, God. Help me to be an honest, sincere worker no matter what I do. Give me the right Spirit, God.- Keep my mind clean and clear. And make my heart so much "on the spuare" that folks will be mighty proud of you God, for giving me a heart! I will need to be very brave at all times, and I'll need a lot of tact and patience and will. So, give them to me in the proper proportion. God. And mak$.me obedient to the higher calls of my nature to bear In mind the origin of my Soul-heart. And now, these are just a few things that I wanted to talk to you about, God. You know me so well that I am sure you will fil in all the rest. - " ' Make this a great week for me, please! Thank you. God!
Literally hundreds of waifs have fovind protection beneath the folds of Evangeline Booth's cloak. Figuratively hundreds of thousands of children children of the desperately jxjor. flock to her day by day. As C ommander of the Salvation Army
in the United States she has thrown the cloak of her leadership about tha shoulders of the poor. The Salvation Army Home Service Fund Campaign for $13,000,000, which extends through the week id! May 19-26, will be launched and conducted in the name of the poor.
Who Remembers David Hoover, Founder of City?
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
WANT HIM TO LEND HUNS THE COIN? Dallas News. Sometimes it looks like the Paris editors are angry at Mr. Wilson for Germany's inability to pay an impossible indemnity.
WHATEVER IT IS IT IS N. G. Providence Journal. Bolshevism is said to be "not a theory but a behavior." The fact is it is both a bad theory and a worse behavior.
Richmond, as towns go in the Middle West, is comparatively an old town. She has the conservatism, and the mature dignity of age in towns, and is accustomed to think of herself as at least middle-aged, and far . beyond those upstarts of the western prairies, who date their histories from the closing years of the nineteenth century. But Richmond's history, long as it is when measured by the middle-western yardstick, is still to be contained in the span of the lives of . two men. John Lancaster, who was brought here when he was a babe in arms, in the fall of 1837, was well acquainted with David Hoover, the first settler, and
the man to whom was given the credit of settling the site of the town, and was acquainted slightly with Jeremiah Cox, another of the very early settlors. Doubtless there are other men in town who knew Hoover. David Hoover was a man in young middle life when he came to Richmond, and Lancaster recalls him as
bent with age, but showing evidences of a former stocky physique, embodying the strength which an explorer needed. So cur town is a comparative baby yet, and of course a mere infant beside those French and English towns which have in them buildings and walls and roads built by Julius Ceasar's Romans 2,000 years ago, or those towns of Syria and Asia Minor which can trace their history back six or eight thousand years. And there is lots of room and time to grow
Fountain City, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Rich and daughter Martha spent Easter Sunday with Mrs. Rich's mother, Mrs. Jane LipP, south of Lynn Mrs. Gladys Greene of near Winchester, formerly Miss Gladys Ryan of Fountain City, received very painful injuries last Monday evening while working around a cutting machine. The fore finger of her left hand was cut completely off and two other fingers on the same hand were cut half off Miss Alsie t-t-, epnt Tuesday and Wednes
day with relatives at centervuie. . . .
Says His Prescription Has Powerful Influence Over Rheumatism
Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON
"Last Wednesday night Harry Swar
tout was driving a car to Pleasant Hill," says the Pleasant Hill "Times," and about dusk just in front of the lonely White Cloud school house, he heard something hit the back curtains with a loud slap. He didn't know what it was and didn't stop to look hist sorta leaned on the accelerator
a bit. Half a mile or so and some one
put a hand gently on his shoulder a little more gas. Something was on Ms head next and the boards under
the 'foot feed' began to crack and bend. Several more miles and still Harry had not been stabbed or shot, ' nor robbed. He grew a little braver and cautiously reached for the thing,
on his head. . A small owl of the screech variety is now in captivity at the Swarthout home." The Soviet symbol: "All ye who enter here leave soap behind."
Yes. the war is over. i
j Nobody fighting now except the Bolsheviki, Lithuanians, Letts, allies in Archangel, Hungarian Soviets, Bava- ; rians, Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Ital
ians, Jugo-Slavs, Czecho-Slovaks, White Guards, Spartacans, German government armies and Mexicans. ;
Discoverer Tells Druggists Not to Take a Cent of Anyone's Money Unless Allenrhu Completely Banishes All Rheumatic Pains and Twinges.
Mr. James H. Allen suffered for years with rheumatism. Many times this terrible disease left him helpless and unable to work. He finally decided, after years of ceaseless study, that no one can be free from rheumatism until the accumulated impurities, commonly called uric acid deposits, were dissolved in the joints and muscles and expelled from the body. With this idea in mind he consulted physicians, made experiments and finally compounded a prescription that quickly and completely banished every sign and symptom of rheumatism from his system. . . He freely gave his discovery . to, others who took it, with what might be called marvelous success. After years of urging he decided to let sufferers everywhere know about his discovery through the newspapers. All druggists can supply you.--Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Holmes, north of town, are the parents of a girl, born Monday. .. .Mr. and Mrs. George Ful-f ghum and son of Fort Wayne, Ind., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wooters.
EAT LESS AND TAKE SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Take a Glass of Salts Before Breakfast If Your Back Hurts or Bladder Bothers You.
The American men and women must guard constantly against Kidney trouble, because we eat to much and all our food is rich. Our blood is filled with uric acid which the kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become sluggish; the eliminative tissues clog and the result is kidney trouble, bladder weakness and a general decline in health. When your kidneys feel like lumps of lead; your back hurts or the urine . is cloudy, full of sediment or you are obliged to seek relief two or three time during the night; if you sufier with sick headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weather is bad, get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water befor-i breakfast for a few days and your kindneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids in the urine, so it no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot injure, makes a delightful efferescent litbia-water beverage, and belongs in every home, because nobody can maker' a mistake by having a good kidney flushing any time. Adv .
NOTHING THAT A CHILD MAY , NOT DO !
, The day was spent in general con
versation appropriate and proper for I - e : 1 : .1 rt f tlia
a. lamn rcumuu aim uno children had an enjoyable time. .
Mount Ayr (Iowa) Record-News.
BUT MAYBE THEY'RE IN HURRY Detroit News. Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe might leave their war to the League of Nations for settlement.
WHY NOT SHOW 'EM THE BELL? Macon Telegraph. Max Harden says the German masses are ignorant of defeat. What more evidence do they want? A blue print?
Loan Subscriptions
From the Indianapolis News. NO MATTER how ratriotic the people are, or how keen they may be on the track of a profitable investment, they could not subscribe to the Victory loan unless they had the money. Therefore, from the insh to buy these notes one may fairly infer a condition of widely diffused prosperity. It was predicted a few days ago that within a very short time there would be an actual shortage of labor. Yet only a few months ago people were wondering how the country could ever reabsorb into its industrial life the returning soldiers. The stock market reflects the present favorable conditions. Though the trading yesterday was very largely speculative and professional, there was also such a degree of public participation as to furnish an undercurrent of confidence and stability. K Among the factors responsible for the advancing stock prices was "cumulative evidence over the week end of the country's post-war prosperity." If the two government agencies had managed to agree on the question of steel prices there would today, ko it is said, be no seriously unfavorable feature in the situation. The industrial board established a scale of prices, but Mr. Hines, director-general of the railroads, refused to pay the prices. What we have, as Mr. Gary taid yesterday, is a "misunderstanding all around be-.
tween the steel Industry, the hoard, and the railroad administration.". It certainly does seem as though these two government agencies ought to be able to work together. It is to be toped that an adjustment will soon be reached that will be reasonably satisfactory to all. Hut nevertheless, Mr. Gary is confident of the future. Even in regard to the steel industry he says that, though he would not attempt to fix a date on which it would return to normal conditions ."the date was not so important as the fact that it would return." Of the general situation he spoke thus: "The man who believes that this country "has gone into bankruptcy or has entered upon a period of depression which will end in disaster, or is going into such demoralization as will prevent future progress and prosperity, is the man who does not possess himself with facts and figures." With enormous crops promised, and such a foreign trade as the country never before saw, there really does not seem to be any reason for discouragement. There is a general agreement among those who must be supposed to know what they are talking about that the outlook is favorable for even better conditions than those which now exist v
Dinner Stories
"I wish I had a baby brother to wheel in my gocart, mamma," 6aid small Elsie. "My dolls arc always getting broke when it tips over."
Although British War Secretary Lord Milner cannot exactly be said to shine as a humorist, he can enjoy a good story against himself, J.s witness the following, which he is fond of relating. .Some years ago, fresh from his South African triumphs, he addressed an audience of undergraduates at his old university. "We must remember not merely the beauty of the individual colleges but the beauty of Oxford as a whole. And what a whole it is." "Hear! hear!" yelled the varsity men. "Yes, what a hole!" they groaned: "What a beastly hole!" Then it dawned upon Lord Milner that this was a sentiment he would rather have expressed differently.
AN OPEN LETTER The Blackburn Products Co., Dayton, Ohio: Gentlemen: I have taken 3 tubes of 3-Gram Cadomene Tablets and ' I am not nearly so nervous as I was, while I am now eating with keen. relish and have no more trouble with my stomach whatever, etc. Yours very truly, R. F. Hamilton, 22 Cottage St., Franklin, Mass. Cadomene Tablets are absolutely guaranteed the best medicine to build up the body and nerves. Druggists sell and recommend them. Adv.
Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today
The engagement of Mrs. Mary V.
Williams of Richmond and L. G. Reynolds of Dayton, was announced.
Earlham track men made only six
points in the state indoor meet, mond families was less than the aver-
lormed a club to protect game around j
Richmond.
The number of , children in Rich- j Wayne county anglers and hunter3 j
age, according to school enumerators.
The "Carmans" won the city bowling championship.
PETERSON'S OINTMENT
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Eczema, Salt Rheum and Piles.
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over America sell fiiiTtiKSON S OINT
MENT for 35 cents a large box and I ! Bay to these druggists, if anyone buys j my ointment for any of the diseases
or ailments for which I recommend it and are not benefited, give them their money back.
"I've got a safe full of thankful letters testifying to the mighty healing power of Peterson's Ointment for old and running sores, eczema, salt
rheum, ulcers, sore nipples, broken
breast, itching scalp and skin, blind,
bleeding and itching piles." John Scott, 283 Virginia street. Buf
falo, writes: "Peterson's Ointment is j
simply wonderful. It cured me of
eczema and also piles, and it did it
so quickly that I was astonished."
Adv.
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