Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 174, 5 May 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, MAY 5, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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MEMBER OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS v Th Associated Prsu Is icluelvelr entitled to ths use ror republication of all news dlcpatcbes credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of spe" clal dispatches herein are also reserved. Weather Lore "That the average person is interested in the weather cannot be denied," says the New York Sun. "In fact, it is the most talked of subject on the calendar. On arising in the morning one

usually goes to the window, glances skyward and

makes his or her own observation and in turn prediction for the day.

"Nearly aU amateur weather prophets resort to the old signs and do not depend on the barometer supplied by scientific study and produc

tion. Each has his own individual idea or notion as to the atmospheric conditions and changes. Below are some of the simple 'signs that have been put into verse and handed down through many generations and which seldom go amiss : Red in the morning the sailor's warning; Red at night the sailor's delight. . When you see a mackerel sky, Twill not be many hours dry. When the seagulls inland fly Know ye that a storm is nigh. A ring around the moon Means a storm is coming soon. When it rains before seven Twill clear before eleven. "Some other indications are: "When standing on high ground and the horizon is unobstructed from all quarters, if the sky is absolutely cloudless, look for a storm within forty-eight hours. "If it starts to rain after 7 o'clock in the morning it will continue to do so all day and very often it is the indication of a three days' rain. "When it is raining and it brightens and darkens alternately you can count on an all day rain, with a chance of clearing at sundown. "When the rain ceases and the clouds are stiU massed in heavy blankets one sure sign of clear weather is the patch of blue sky that shows through the rift large enough to make a pair of 'sailor's breeches'. "Another sign of continued rain is when the smoke from the chimney hovers low around the housetops. When it ascends straight into the air this indicates clearing weather. "A foggy morning is usually the forerunner of a clear afternoon. "A thunderstorm in winter (usually in January of February) is always followed by clear, cold weather. It is not, as many think, the breaking up of winte. "People living near the seashore say a storm is "brewing' when the air is salty, caused by the wind blowing from the east. s "A red or copper colored sun or moon indicates great heat. A silvery moon denotes clear, cool weather. "The old Indian sign of a dry month was when the ends of the new moon were nearly horizontal and one of them resembled a hook on which to hang his powder horn. "Many people troubled with rheumatism and neuralgia usually are excellent barometers and can predict changeable weather by 'f leling it in their bones'. "And the advice of the old weather sage is 'never go out during April month without being accompanied by your umbrella."

War's Effect on Play While the general effect of the war upon playgrounds is still an open question, there is no doubt that this country has been awakened, by the war, to a keener sense of the importance of

recreation centers, according to the 1918 Year Book of the Playground and Recreation Association of America just issued. The demand for opportunities to play after work hours is as widespread as it is encouraging. There has been a marked increase during the year both in the centers for evening recreation and the attendance there. , Unquestionably the fact that 35 per cent of the men in the first draft were rejected as physically unfit has made Americans realize how essential is upbuilding exercise and recreation under the guidance of trained leaders. The statistics collected after correspondence with 1700 cities indicate a healthy and steady progress in recreation work. The report of the association shows that more than 780 playgrounds were open the year round and evening recreation work was conducted in more than 700 schools of 101 cities. More than 8,000 trained men and women were engaged in directing play at recreation centers

throughout the country. For colored children alone more than 100 playgrounds were maintained. , Three hundred swimming pools, 400 public baths and 200 public bathing beaches were used by thousands of persons. The effect of the war upon playgrounds and recreation was reported by 277 cities, 172 of which give the result as unfavorable. The decrease in attendance is attributed to the fact that many of the older children were working in factories. Moreover, it was hard to get trained, competent leaders because of the number of men who went into the service of their country and of women who engaged in war work. In many cases, appropriations were cut down, playground funds were devoted to war garden activities and the playgrounds . themselves were used by war agencies. But 105 cities reported that the war so far from checking recreation work, had stimulated it. The attendance of small children increased, as did that of their elders at the evening sessions. Appropriations were enlarged and more centers established. The number of cities initiating such work was smaller than in 1917, being reduced to 20, but those cities which continued the work called for a greater number of leaders to conduct their greater activities. On the whole, the year of 1918 shows many gains. Everywhere community leaders and citizens participated in community singing, pageants and special community gatherings. Especially were they brought to xealize what recreation, directed by trained leaders, meant to the men in uniform. This realization has given momentum to the recreational movement all over the United States. The association reports that complete returns from 396 cities show that they maintained 3871

playgrounds and neighborhood centers under

paid leadership. In 281 of these cities the work was administered wholly or in part by some department of a municipality; that is, 70.9 per cent

of the total and an increase of 10 per cent over

1917. In addition to municipal activities, centers were maintained by Playground and Recreation Associations and Leagues, Civic Clubs and Associations, Improvement Clubs, Parent-Teacher's Associations and Home School Leagues, the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., Playground Committees, Social Service Leagues, Welfare and Relief Associations, Settlements, Chautauqua ' Associations, Settlements, Chautauqua Associations, Art Clubs, Athletic Leagues, Neighborhood Associations and Councils of Defense. In conclusion the Year Book fays : "The past year, in spite of the curtailment

and retrenchment, which has marked the work in certain communities, has been signalized by a spirit of progress. "Everywhere community leaders and citizens, as they have watched and taken part in community singing, pageants and in special celebrations and community gatherings and have seen what the provision of wholesome social and recreational life has meant to the men in uniform, have realized, as never before, the real significance and scope of the recreation movement. "The conservation of this newly awakened appreciation of recreation, as it has been aroused during the war, and its application to the period of reconstruction and to normal peace times, will, in no small measure, devolve upon the recreation officials and workers to whose unceasing efforts is due the progress which has thus far been attained."

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT Old Ed Oliver says the mule will be the next thing to be legislated out of existence. The people seem to be against anything that has a kick in it. Gerald K. Rudolph, managing editor

of the Buffalo "Enquirer- has donned i

the cap and bells and will sclntilate on the first page of his paper. He calls his new column the "Port Side Col-, umn" and we hasten to extend our sympathy to him in his never ending chase for the daily wheeze. Rudolph has a mean advantage over most column conductors. He is the boss, and there is no one to edit his outbursts. We sincerely trust he keeps out of jail in his new vocation. Freddie Hohenzollern says he will take 40.000 for his fur overcoat We don't blame him. y But if anybody wants to buy an overcoat we have one we will sell for f 27.50. It may have been noticed by some ol our regular readers that this column

has been rather full of wheezes lately, ! grabbed from hither and yon. The ' reason is that we have been having , the fluwhich for several days set our i

weu-known efficiency back about sixteen kilowatts. Being fat "and lazy," as Burns Mantle says, the flu struck us rather hard, but we got out in time to wear our last year's Easter hat, and take part in the parade. We were a little slow about having this fashionable ailment, but, as somebody said: "Better late than never." Benjamin Franklin Holzman tells us of ( his conception of the champion tough-luck guy of the universe a friend of his. This man paid for a $1,000 operation on his wife on Thursday and on Friday she sued bin for divorce.

Do you dine or do you Just have dinner? Much depends upon your answer, for, according to a society expert there is just as much diflerence between the elect and the outsider. Think is over well and send sealed answers to the editor of this column, who is getting up a blue book. In Brest it rains 320 days out of a posible 365 every year, which leads the Parsons 'Sun" to remark that it must strain even the thrifty French to lay up something in that locality for a rainy day.

THE GEORQE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK. . . 1 1 ii 1 1 . MY IDEA OF GOD In the first place, I have never seen Him in His One-Person. But I have seen Him in the many, and I have felt Him in my ME many, many times; , I do not ask anyone to agree with me about my God. To me, He is something more than a Spirit something more than a Superior Intelligence something more than a Father something more than a Brother something more than a Partner He is everything of the BEST of everybody. My God really exists, however. He is very much in mystery, but He Is very understandable, because every minutest flash of human feeling in the world is felt in His heart and recorded, as the slightest outside influence might be recorded on the most sensitized plate prepared by the scientist. ; My God is Divine, because everything good In you and me Is Divine. And everything that He does is inspired because everything done by Him in every one of us, I believe to be inspired. There are a great many things that I do not understand, about my God, but within that fact alone, do lie my greatest beliefs in the Tightness and the glory of the God in whom I do believe. My idea of God is not One clothed in rich coverings and adorned with magnificent gems, but rather of One simple and. beautiful and gentle and strong. My God Is no respector of persons, because all that He sees and understands is the person in whom abides a HEART. The God in whom I believe embodies the one and only requisite religion the religion of Love. And Love, being an impartial affair and very personal, must necessarily reflect the character of Him who is Love!

Dinner Stories

In his book," "From GallipoU to Begdad," "Padre" William Ewing tells ths story of a burly Irishman brought into the field hospital suffering from many wounds. "What are you?" asked the doctor. "Sure, I'm half an Irishman." "And what's the other half?" "Holes and bandages." A retired army, officer tells of an army ' examiner who had before him. a very dull candidate. The man proving, apparently, unable to make response to the most simple questions, the examiner finally grew impatient and, quite sarcastically, put this question: , "Let it be supposed that you are a captain in command of infantry. In your rear is an impassable abyss. On both sides of you there rise perpendicular, rocks of tremendous height. In front of you lies the enemy, outnumbering you ten to one. What, sir, in such an emergency, would you do?" "I think, sir,", said the aspirant for military distinction, "I would resign."

CHINA PROTESTS PEACE TABLE DECISION

German Militarism Is Broken Forever, States Hinienburg (By Ai.-i ted Press) COBLEXZ, May 5-"German militarism has been broken forever" is a statement attributed to Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, reports of whose resignation have been received here. General Groener, former head of the department of munitions and who has been the field marshal's chief of staff, is mentioned as his chiefs successor, according to news received here from Kolberg.

DEFEND RATE INCREASE

(By Associated Press) . WASHINGTON. May 5. The government yesterday filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court, defending the increase in intra state telephone rates. "

ULTIMATUM TO RUMANIANS

A Worthy Task For the Crusader

From the Kansas City Star. IF the various persons and organizations that have declared a purpose of launching a crusade against tobacco really want 'to fight to solve a big problem, and to aid in removing a dire evil, they would do well to direct their energies toward finding a suitable substitute for the saloon. When intelligent opposition came to be made against alcohol it was soon seen that the saloon was not only the poor man's club, but that alcohol took the place in the lives of its users of many comparatively innocent things in the lives 'of its non-users. And the soundest thinkers on the subject concluded that to destroy the saloon without at the same time supplying a substitute would be a blunder from which dangerous evils might result. Now the saloon is soon to go, thanks to God and the prohibitionists, but the substitute is not at hand. Several things, including tobacco shops, have been mentioned, a few have been tried to a certain extent, but none has proved its case or promises to be satisfactory. On the other band, there is evident, not only a wider upe of tobacco in all its forms, but of cheap and dangerous alcohol substitutes, andof narcotic drugs." It has not been clearly established that the use of these drugs is in the majority of cases due to the prohibition of alcohol,

but that such is often the case cannot be doubted.

Native born Americans "are the greatest drug addicts

in the world." declares the Literary Digest, basing its assertion on the report of a committee appointed by the secretary of the treasury to make a national investigation of the drug habit. This committee in its preliminary report,' while stating that the testimony thus far was inconclusive, yet gathered many facts relative to the after

effects of prohibition, and found that in extensive tracts of dry territory the use of paregorio and similar compounds containing morphine had developed to an alarming degree. " The committee further expressed the belief that the effect of prohibition upon those who are now using alcohol will be the biggest problem the country has to face after July 1. Unless the states co-operate more fully than they are now doing, the machinery for preventing those enslaved by drink from turning to drugs will be inadequate. The effect that prohibition has had on the increasing use

of drugs thus far is a question debated with much heat,

and for lack of sufficient statistics, it is an open one. The drug evil is such an insidious one, so susceptible of secret dealing because of the concentrated form of the drugs, that an army of government agents would be recuired to show to what an extent the practice has spread in dry territory.

Plans are under way by which the authorities at

Washington will seek to curb the drug evil throughout the

country. But the Washington authorities alone can no more combat and remove this evil than they can preserve law and order without the co-operation of communities throughout the Nation. If the saloon was a challenge the substitute for the saloon is a bigger challenge to any' person who would improve the social order by - constructive effort. Of course, the spread of education, rightly directed, and the gradual improvement of living conditions will do much to remove any desire for unwholesome stimulation, but these are to be the work of generations. Prohibition is effective July 1. Let all crusaders line up for a real tight, and let thinking people get busy on a proper substitute for, the saloon.

(By Associated Press) LONDON. May 5. The Russian Soviet government has sent an ultimatum to Rumania demanding" the

evacuation of Bessarabia. ,

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"Now, Lieutenant Tompkins," said the general, "you have the battalion in quarter column, facing south. How would you get it into line in the quickest possible way, facing north-east?" "Well, sir," said the lieutenant, after a moment's fruitless consideration, "do you know, that's what I've often wondered."

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Mayor-elect "V W. Zimmerman promised the people of Richmond a clean administration. Dr. S. E. Smith was chosen one ol the delegates to the National conference of Charities and Corrections.

Recent dispatches state that China has voiced a protest against the settlement arranged by the peace conference pertaining to the claims of China and Japan. Under the settlement the city of Tsingtao (1) reverts to China. Japan gains control of strategic railway (2) across Shantuns peninsula. Japan retains Kiau Chau (SXbut must give it Dack to China when China meets given conditions. Japan also retains commercial concessions given by China to Germany, including mines and port facilities at Tsingtao.

Four hundred attended the annual Commercial club banquet. Council members and the board of works went to Indianapolis, Lebanon an dother cities to see the central heating plants.

All traction between Indianapolis and Richmond stopped because of trouble at the power house.

OXFORD TO CLEAN UP

OXFORD, O.. May 5 Mayor Hughes' has - ordered the annual clean-up of the village. This will be cleaning week for residents of the north side, and next week the south side will clean up. These clean-ups occur every year, partly as a matter of sanitation and partly in order that the village may look well during the comment ?- ment season.

Sends Birthday Message To Ex-Kaiser, Belgian Gets Prison Sentence

By Associated Press) DUSSELDORF, May 5-r;ommercial councillor Underberg of Moors, Belgium, whose estate abuts the Dutch frontier, instructed his minister to cross the border and dispatch a message of birthday greeting to the former German emperor. The latter acknowledged the compliment on a postcard which -fell into the hands of the Belgian authorities. Underberg was prosecuted and sentenced to jail with a fine of a hundred francs for carrying on forbidden communication with the former emperor.

Boy Scouts To Serve As "Gleaners" In Drive

(By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 5. Boy Scouts will serve as "gleaners after the reapers," in greater New York for the last five days of the Victory loan campaign, it was announced today. In other places in the second federal reserve district, which includes New York, parts of New Jersey and Connecticut, the scouts will serve for the last seven working days May 3 to 10 at the direction oi local liberty loan committees. In addition to helping as solicitors, the services of the scouts will be made available to loan cimmittees as messengers and for distributing printed matter, incleading pambhlets or posters and for the purpose of advertising.

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