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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919.

THERBC3M0ND PALLADIUM - AND SUN-TELEGRAM g . H 'II v, ,1111 I' Published l&'very Evening Except Sunday, by i Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Bi Aiding. North Ninth and Sailor Streets. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as Seo ond Class Mall Matter.

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Government Ownership Along comes Director General Hines to tell the country that the loss on government operation of the railroads for the first quarter of this year is $192,000,000. A very cheering piece of

news, indeed ! A further proof, as it were, of the folly of the government ownership of utilities! Postmaster General Burleson's latest exhibition of the dictatorial danger inherent in government ownership of the wires had hardly subsided before the director general of the rail lines gave U3 an additional proof of the advantages of private ownerships of big business enterprises. The New Ycfk Times, which is sympathetic with the Wilson administration, cannot refrain from passing a. scathing denunciation on the .whole program of government ownership of the means of transportation and communication, including the post of f ice system, which every business man knows thas no'system of keeping accounts that will pass muster with the auditor of

a great corporation. Referring to Che experience of Great Britain, whose post office! system took over the telegraph in the sixties, the Times says: "There has bi;en a deteriorating record for each year since, cbwn to 1919. From the second year until now there has been an unbroken failure of profit in -varying degrees. At first there was merely a fail t re to earn a profit on the payment which bouglit out the private owners. Later there was failure even to earn operating expenses. Englishmen have six-penny telegrams, it is true, but thely pay for them 'through the

nose.' The bill was recently estimated at $200,000,000 deficit, and comes to them with their taxes, not when thijy are sending the telegrams. There is a greater deficiency in service than in profit, and the record will grow worse as it grows longer." Comparing the $192,000,000 deficiency in the operation of, the railroads for the first quarter of this year with deficiencies in the government treasury in peace yeiars, the Times says: "In no year of peace did the government ever have a record of deficiency at the rate of a half billion dollars. But that Idss will be trivial compared with the loss through adding government operation of the wire services to the railway loss. It is idle to suggest that the conditions were unfavorable to government operation. , They were exceptionally favorable, as was said by Director General McAdoo when he started along the road the postmaster genesral traveled later, and as is

. apparent from the great pres3 of profitable business owing to war conditions. It is the cost side of the account which wrecks government operation, under which costs and profits are released from the requirements of the balance sheet. It is doubly untrue that inexhaustible funds can create profit. It is not true that the treasury is inexhaustible. On the contrary, government operation on the methods of anybody else than Mr. McAdoo or Mr. Hines and Mr. Burleson would not give profit or satisfaction even if the treasury funds were inexhaustible. Director General Hines gave better satisfaction as a private operator under handicap of regulation by the interstate commerce commission than he ever will as a public operator. The reason is that he esteems himself released from the obligations which compelled him to give satisfaction as a private operator. As a private operator he would blush for the sort of finance which he now practices. 'The post office was never under regulation

like the railways, and never Has kept such accounts as were required from the railways. Mr. Burteson says that the post office 'passed permanently from a deficiency to a surplus' with his fixing of postal parcel rates. How can he prove it ? Who can deny it when the post office cannot show what its costs are, having deliberately arranged so that its receipts and costs cannot be calculated? His fourth assistant says that there is a loss of $151,000,000 on the rural mail routes. How can he distinguish this loss from the loss on second-class mail zone rates, or how can he say how much of the profit on first-class rates is due to the loss on the zone rates? No postmaster general ever had his costs and profits certified on any businesslike method of accounting. No postmaster general ever will give service justifyirnr the losses hidden in muddled accounts. An

other postmaster general might fail in a less irritating manner, or might even achieve such mea

sure of success as to commit the government to the policies with which the postmaster general identified himself. That would be the worst blow of all. The country is indebted to the postmaster general for bankrupting the government operation of public utilities before he bankrupted the treasury. We are not among those who considered his administration a failure, in this respect at least. We offer our congratulations to Mr. MacKay and our condolences to Mr. Vail. We have approved of Mr. Vail's views on public regulation of private operation of utilities, and liked him better in that capacity than as a public operator without any regulation. Who shall regu

late government operation? And what a calam-.

ity it would be without regulation 1"

Memories of Old Days' In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today

Members of the Wayne County Bar association raised objection to the attendance of college girls at divorce trials In the circuit court. Eli Stubbs, prominent Quaker, died.

Earlham defeated track and field meet.

DePauw In a

Dinner Stories

"So, y'see," explained the bookie, "if the horse starts at 20 to 1 you get twenty dollars and yer own back; 10 to 1, ten dollars and yer own back. Now dy' understand?" "Oh, yes." piped Clarence, "I quite see that; but suppose the horse starts at a quarter to 1, what do I get then?" Speaking at a political meeting. Congressman Allen T. Treadway, of Massachusetts, referred to war time economy and related this little anecdote: One afternoon a man went into a restaurant and selected an Irish stew from the bill of fare. Soon the dish was placed before him, and after giving It a critical glance he removed

his coat, then his vest and then his

collar and necktie.

"What in the world are you trying

to do, mister?" demanded the wondering waiter, as the patron reached down to untie his shoes. "This isn't bedtime." "A casual glance, young man," responded the patron, "should suffice to show you that I am removing my clothes." "But but," objected the waiter, "you can't remove your clothes m here."

"I can't swim with them on," answered the patron, pointing to the stew, "and swim I must in order to reach yonder tiny island of meat."

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

People who know things, do things. Knowledge Is the basis, not only of achievement but of happiness. And the main way to get knowledge is through reading. At no time In the history of the world has knowledge been so accessible as now. For a few pennies the finest books ever written can tfe secured. Your mind Is the . boss of your body so that the bigger your boss gets and the more he knows, the greater chance will your body have. Get the habit of READING. I care not how poor a student a boy may be in Bchool. If he will early cultivate the practice of READING I will not worry about his future providing, of course, he reads the sort of books that stimulate and improve Bis mind. I should like to 6ee a great government department given over just to the distribution of literature. I should like to see greater encouragement given to every newspaper and publication, because the more people read the more intelligent they are sure to become, and no nation has ever died that stuck to intelligent Ideas. READ READ READ If you have not even the few pennies necessary with which to buy books, our public libraries are FREE. Go to them and get a book and read It. Read books on biography none are more Inspiring. Read books on history they tell and teach how grand It is to live in this wonderful age. Read good fiction. Map out a plan of reading. If you read biography, select the lives of the men and women who dominated some particular period in history. If you read history, read the history of AMERICA first. You ' will love it more than ever.

What the railroads need now is an abandonment of government ownership, more intelligent federal control and a chance to let high class private operators run the roads according to approved business methods.

For the Home Brewers and Distillers If you have been deceiving yourself into believing that you can brew beer and distill whisky at home without running counter to federal and state statutes, it will be prudence on

your part to take to heart the warning of Peter J. Kruyer, internal revenue collector for the Indianapolis district. He advises that persons who manufacture intoxicants for their private use are making themselves liable to prosecution for evasion of the internal revenue law. The Indianapolis Star has the following comment on the collector's statement: "Mr. Kruyer is of the opinion that those who sell ingredients for the manufacture of homemade liquor may be prosecuted by the federal

Good livening BY ROY K. MOULTON

"Actors on tne stage for years R' t stage fright," says a dramatic critic. But did you ever hear of a writer getting typewriter fright? Got an ord&r from a magazine editor for a story the other day about every day and up to the present nimient have the first page almost fompleted. The cost in paper alon; has been $21.45. Up to date it is the poorest job of writing we have ever done. The old ivory simply won't work. Typewriter fright is very real.

But anyway, learn to READ, no matter what its costs, thing dally it you want to GROW. READ READ READ!

Read some-

Half Of Youths Of France Gave Their Lives Daring War

Are Granted Clemency

(By Associated Press). PARIS, May 9. Captain Andre Tardieu, head of the general commission for Franco-American war matters, recently announced that he had made an investigation into the number of French soldiers killed between the age of twenty and 31. He found that 08 per cent had lost their lives. That is, that over half of France's youths has disappeared.

The Philadelphia undertakers ai'e the greatest advertisers in the world. One of them advertises in the strict cars as follows: "When You Come to Us, You Take a Step in the Right Direction." Wouldn't "flop" be better?

Nine Thousand Yankees Decorated By French

(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, May 9 The

war

department in a statement today called health on a 1 ttfntinn to (Iip tart that a rpcent condemning

(By Associated Press) I

WASHINGTON, May 9. Fifty more men convicted during the war for violation of the espionage act have been granted clemency by President Wilson on recommendation of Attorney-General Palmer in pursuance of the recently announced policy of being lenient to those who have already served a year cr more in prison, and whose sentences in the stress of war times now appear excessive. Only one complete pardon was given, according to the announcement today by the department of justice. It went to C. E. Menke, sentenced in the federal district court of northern Alabama for fifteen months' imprisonment. Perley S. Doe, son of the late chief justice Doe of the New Hampshire supreme court, convicted in Colorado where he had gone for his

charge of issuing circulars

How Did Pioneers Fashion Tools for Use on the Farms?

The modern Wayne county farmer.

1 sitting on his tractor which easily I pulls along a three-bottom plow, and

i tnreshing, -harvesting and planting by I the aid of machinery, can hardly realiize that within the span of the lives

01 two men, in Wayne, most progressive of fanning counties, tools not much better than those of the ancients were used. The first harrows used in the county after settlers came, consisted of a bundle of brush cut from a tree-top which was used to brush in the seed, or a little later, by the old fashioned triangular harrow. The plow had an iron coulter, but the moid-board was often cut out of a simple piece of curved timber. Many a plowman's legs were bruised by roots in the new ground, springing back after the plow

i bent them forward, i In harvesting, the sickle was the ! standard tool, the cradle, now as obisolete as the sickle, not even yet bej ing invented. On many an old account I book of the county appears the words: ! "To one sickle," and "To one gallon j whisky." The two were inseparable companions then. I. Grain was thrashed with a flail, I which consisted of a hickory sapling, . roasted in the fire, so that one end could be bent. Another way of mai- ! ing a flail was to take two-sticks, one

; about five feet long and the other

about two, and tie the two together. A coarse sieve, called a "riddla," about 30 inches in diameter, was used to separate the chaff and wheat. Th-?

i mixture was shaken through the "rid

dle," and a tow sheet, swung by two men, created a current of air, which carried away the light chaff, but let the grain fall straight down. Wheat was also tramped out by horses.

WILL INSTALL MINISTER

OXFORD, O., May 9. Rev. James M. Work, of this village. Moderator of the Dayton Presbytery, has called a special meeting of that boc'y on May 21, in the Westminster Presbyterian church, Dayton, for the purpose of placing in the hands of Rev. Edward W. Clippinger, D.D., a call to the pastorate of that church; also to arrange for his installation.

the war, was given a

general order frlvine- the names of 474 commutation 01 sentence 10 expire ai

I right person on the phone after call-

ling him only three times.

The Forum

(All articles for this column must not exceed 300 words. Contributors must sign their names, although the name will be withheld by the management at the request of ttra v.riter. Articles having no name attached will be thrown into the waste basket.)

From the Washington Post. 1 AS a part of the reparation due t'ua United States j from Germany tnis country is to obtain title to some of the largest of the German merchant ships which were in American ports when war was declared and which were requisitioned for use as naval auxiliaries when the United States became a belligerent. The Vaterland, now the Leviathan; the America, the Der Grosses, Kaisers and Kaiserins are reported to be included in the list. The United States government, it is said, will accept these vessels in lieu of payment of J 100,000,000 by Germany. Without more precise knowledge of the ships to be transferred to American ownership, their total tonnage and characteristics governing their cost and present condition, It is impossible to judge of their value whether they are a good buy at $100,000,000 or not. This price is at the rate of more than $1,000,000 a ship, with more than 50 per cent of them cargo vessels, seemingly, a very bteep price. But it may be said, with almost unrestricted emphasis, that such acceptance of these types of merchant vessels in lieu of money payment is a wise course for the United States government to follow. The merchant fleet built by the shipping board as a war emergency measure is entirely unbalanced and unsuited to the peaceX time needs of the country, which requires a merchant marine for the promotion of its foreign trade. Nearly all of the vessels built by the United States during the war are standardized cargo carriers, good enough ships perhaps for the purpose for which they were intended, and likewise valuable as a nucleus of a peace-time mer- " chant marine. But at merchant fleet needs to be balanced; to be composed of a proper proportion of fast liner, pas-

II John Barleycorn is to be firn-ly hog-tied, Mr. Roper, the commissioner of internal revenue, should be the man to know how to do it. A New York minister says that there aro no miracles thes riavs hnt ht In

authorities, mere seems to De SUIIlCient law mistaken. Only last week we got tin:

state and national on this subject although it

may be difficult for the authorities to reach the J families that brew a little beer now and then for i their own use. Not much whisky will be distilled' in the homes as the process requires too much j time and effort. Many are merely experimenting j

in the making of beer at home more to see what they can do in that line than to provide themselves with a beverage to remind them of the oldfashioned lager. "The federal government has been trying manv years to prevent 'moonshining' in the

southern states and is not much nearer success j J'Starbeen' -'called to than when it started. It may not succeed ati your report of the county commissiononce, in attempting to prohibit people from manu-1 SrfocS the following: factunng intoxicants in their own homes for "The question of transporting labor private use. But it is not in the habit of quitting down and back, while payin? the worktinri tVmoo whn wniilH nvra'H trrmhlp will" dn wpII fa; men for a free ride of an hour or so

1 u- u t " each way, was mentioned." Keep Wltftm tne law. , That. I suppose, refers to the work

men at the tuberculosis farm, although it is less than a half hour's ride from town. At present the workmen are not having a free ride cf an hour or so each way or either way. One workman wanted to ride home on the county's time and was told in plain language if he could get a job of that kind to go to it. We leave Richmond at 6:30 a. m., and are on the job at work at 7 a. m., same daj We work until 11:30; onehalf hour for lunch ; go to work at 12 noon, and quit at 5:25. giving us five minutes to get started home If anybody begrudges us that five minutes, I will be glad to give him a job and work him the full ten hours. The county Is paying the laborers 30 cents per hour for the time they are working. The only free ride they get is in case of tire trouble, when we are delayed in getting on the job. as has happened two or three times in the two months the job has run. That it Is not a soft snap is proven by the fact that of the eight or nine men who have started on the job only two remain to tell the stoiy. Some stayed only one day and sdme have better jobs at higher wages. Very respectfullv, (Signed.) JOEL H. MOORMAN, Bulid. Supt 122 South Sixteenth St. May 7, 1919.

officers and enlisted men of the American expeditionary forces had been awarded the Croix de Guerre, did not constitute a complete list of all Americans awarded the French decoration. Other lists of awards, it was said will be Issued from time to time as official recognition is given the awards. Advices from the French government indicate that more than 9,000 Americans have received the French war cross.

YES, I CERTAINLY GIVE PEPGEN CREDIT FOR MY STRENGTH"

once. ; Others granted clemency, with the '; district where they were convicted, j

RHEUMATISM LEAVES

HOW THIS NERVOUS WOMA! GOT WELL

YOU FOREVER

Told by Herself. Her Sin-

WHERE WORST MEETS WORST New York Post. Bolshevism has invaded Turkey. Now see which will be contaminated, the Bolshevist or the Turk.

LOOKING FOR AN ALIBI, EH? Indianapolis Star. When Vice President Marshall says "Naturally I am a Democrat" would he have us understand that it is an

1 inherited trait and he should not be blamed for it?

Mr- : ' '

JOHN PHILLIPS

Taking Over Ships !

senger vessels and fast freight carriers, as well as of tramps and the cargo ships that do most of the carrying of low-priced freight. Ships must be built to meet the requirements of special trades or special service to certain ports. The present merchant fleet of the United States was built to meet only one requirement the requirement of the war that tonnage, of whatever sort, be produced in as great quantities and in a3 little time as possible. It was not designed to place American exporters in a favorable position to market special products advantageously. The shipping board realized this, and some time ago announced its intention to make a resurvey of all ships under construction and' to change the plans of ships to be built in the future, so that they would be constructed "with special reference to suitability for special service and with particular reference to the economical cost of operation, including the motive power, cargo space and speed.' Many of the German merchant vessels, which, it is stated, are to be "paid" to the United States on the war

bill due from the Hun, are of the types so badly needed by!

the American merchant marine to give it balance and efficiency as a winner of trade. Obviously there is a great saving of precious time in getting these vessels ready made Instead of waiting for the shipping board or private shipbuilders to produce new vessels of these types. Not only are they very costly, but a long time is required for their design and construction. The statement of shipping board officials therefore that the gaining of immediate possession of these ships would advance the American merchant marine program ten years seems entirely reasonable. The promotion of foreign trade should, be greatly advanced by this action and Industry correspondingly benefited.

FRECKLES

Don't Hide Them With a Veil; Remove Them With Othine Double Strength. This preparation for the removal of freckles is usually so successful in

removing freckles and giving a clear, beautilul complexion that it is sold under guarantee to refund the money if it fails. Don't hide your freckles under a veil ; get an ounce of Othine and remove them. Even the first few applications should show a wonderful improvement, some of the lighter freckles vanishing entirely. Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine; it is this that is sold on the money-back guarantee. Adv.

John W. Phillips, 903 N. First St., Terre Haute, relates the following: "'I've been suffering with my stomach, I said to him: " 'What is the matter with you, Mr. Phillips?' my barber said to me. '"Why dont you try Pepgen?' he said to me. "I don't believe it would help me and, besides, I haven't much faith in patent medicines," I said to him. " 'Well, all I know is that so many of my customers recommended Pepgen that I got a bottle, and it did me lots of good,' he said to me, 'besides,' he added, 'I understand that Pepgen is made from the formula of one of the greatest physicians in this country.

"For more than a year I had been

suffering with my stomach," continues Mr. Phillips. "My system was greatly run down. I was tired and worn out all of the time. Often I felt just as

though I would like to go away some place and lie down and stay there until I was rested. "My work as house-wrecker, requires me to be with my men when working on a job. It was no uncom

mon thing for me to. go to work when

I should have stayed home in bed. "My appetite was poor, and I can truthfully say that I hadn't relished a single meal in months. "What my barber told me about Pepgen started me to thinking. I knew Pepgen wouldn't hurt me, even though

it didn't do me any good, so I decided ;

to try it. "I invested in a bottle and that little investment brought me fabulous returns, for today all of that tired, worn-out feeling has left my body and I feel brimful of energy. "I eat three square meals every day and relish each one of them. I not

only go to work with my men on a job, but do as much, myself, as any one of them." Try Pepgen if you have any of the following ailments: Indigestion, belching and bloating from gas, inactive liver, biliousness, dizziness, kidney trouble, rheumatism, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, nervousness, falling off in weight, offensive breath or sharp pains in any part of the body. Pepgen-may be obtained at ThUtlethwaite's drug stores or any first class drug store anywhere. Adv.

Deep Seated Uric Acid Deposits Are Dissolved and the Rheumatic Poison Start to Leave the System Within Twenty-four Hours.

Every druggist in this county is authorized to say to every rheumatic sufferer in - this vicinity that if two

i bottles of Allenrhu, the sure conquerer ! of rheumatism, does not stop all agony, i reduce swollen joints and do away i with even the slightest twinge of rheu

matic pain, he will gladly return your money without comment. Allenrhu has bpen tried and tested ' for tears, and really marvelous results have been accomplished in the most severe cases where the suffering rnd agony was intense and pireous nd where, the patient was helplpss. Allenrhu relieves at once. Immedi-, ately after you start to take it the good work begins. It searches out the : uric acid deposits, dissolves the secre- ' tions and drives rheumatic poison out of the body through the kidneys and bowels. It's marvelous how quickly it acts. Blessed relief often comes in two days, and even In cases where the suffering

j is most painful all traces disappear in j a few days. Mr. James H. Allen, the discoverer ! of Allenrhu, who for manv vears suf

fered the torments of acute rheuma

tism, desires all sufferers to know that

he does not want a Cent of anyone's money unless Allenrhu decisively 'onquers this worst of all diseases, and j he hns instructed all rtriurp-Jata tn onor. I

antee it in every instance. Adv. ' si

cerity Should Con

vince Others.

Christopher, 111. "For four years I suffered from irregularities, weakness.

nervousness, and was in a ran down condition. Two of cur best doctors failed to do me any good. I heard so much a. bout what LydiaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had done for others, I tried it and was cured. I am no longer nervous, am regrular, and in excellent

health. I believe the Compound will cure any female trouble." Mrs. Alice Heller, Christopher, 111. Nervousness is often a symptom cf weakness or some functional derangement, which may be overcome by this famous root and herb remedy, Lvdia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as thou3ando of women have found by experience. If complications exist, write Lydia E. rinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for suggestions in regard to your ailment. The result of its long experience is at vour ssrvice.

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