Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 181, 13 May 1919 — Page 6
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1919.
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V The Prosperity of Our Farms . f The winter wheat crop as shown by the May federal report is 100.5 per cent in condition on the largest acreage ever shown. The crop is estimated at 899,915,000 bushels to which will be added to the spring crop, not all of which has as yet been planted. The guaranteed price of wheat is 2.26, so .that more than two billions will be added to our national wealth from this source alone J The hay crop is estimated at a value of one billion dollars. The value of all farm products in 1918 was estimated at 24 billions by the department of agriculture, which is more than the total of our Liberty Loan bonds. The value of the 1919 farm products will be much in excess of 1918, indicating that our wealth is constantly increasing. . The release of this agricultural wealth in all channels of business and" trade will have a stimulating effect. Reports from the department of labor issued today indicate that the price level has been stabilized, and that business men are accepting the views of some of the leading economists of this country in that particular. There also has been a gratifying increase in the number of building projects undertaken all over the United States. All of this indicates that the United States is rapidly getting on a sound af ter-the-war basis. It will be conceded that this is a healthy sign and full of assurance for all of us. "Possibly the most conspicuous feature of the business situation is found in the fact that prices have apparently been somewhat stabilized," says the federal reserve board. "Marked declines are still reported here and there in some special lines, but from nearly all districts it is reported that the uncertainty concerning prices has been mitigated and that business men now expect that existing levels of prices will be substantially maintained for some time to come." ' ' Punishment for Fish Profiteers
Although the big companies that maintain
fishing fleets or buy the yield of fishermen do' wasn,t anything left of Jt that anybody could usc"
other ships used in the industry was slightly advanced, but the ratio of this increased cost to the advance which the consumer was forced to pay was entirely out of proportion. All of us also know that the cost of meat increased considerably because the price of feed which hogs and cattle consume had mounted enormously in the
last two years, so that the feed proposition be-l
came one of the vital factors that entered into the j
increased cost of beef and pork. But no ane man, excepting the barons of the fish industry who maintained a monopoly on the
industry, willassert that it cost more money m the last two years to feed the fish of the seas than it did before the war. Fish obtain their own food.'.;''.. j The fish barons do not spend millions of dollars annually to obtain foodstuffs to dump into the Atlantic ocean for the consumption of the fish which they intend to catch during the season. Neither do they spend thousands of dollars to take care of the fish and prepare them for the market. On the contrary, fish are a gift of divine providence to the man, or the company, that lowers the net into the sea and withdraws it filled with nature's bounty. In the very nature of the case, it seems criminal for any set of men who obtain dividends from a product that in the first place coss them nothing to raise and feed should force the people to pay an exorbitant price in return for the money they have invested in the ships and equipment necessary to remove the gift from the sea and market it. It is gratifying to know that the officials of Massachusette put an end to this form of robbery, which was reprehensible not only because it was the result of a, monopoly but also because
the product did not cost these men a red cent to produce. If the fish barons had maintained gigantic fish ponds or had erected breeding places and had been put to an enormous expense in raising fish before they were brought on the market, there might have been an extenuating circumstance, but under the conditions outlined above, the unwarranted increase in the price of fish through a monopoly was culpable in the extreme.
How Did Pioneers ' Build Their Homes in the Wilderness?
There was one indispensable condition to the placing of a house in the unbroken forests of early Wayne county. It had to- be near a spring of pure water, such as are yet abundant in the county. ' Once an early settler decided where he Would build his cabin, a day was appointed when the neighborhood turned out in a body, and built the new
home as a substantial welcome to the
newcomers. Trees of uniform size ! were selected and cut, for a log for the logs of the house, and another tree usually a big oak, was cut in four-foot
lengths by a cross-cut saw, for the j
clapboard covering. The cabin went rapidly up, an expert axeman at each corner saddling and notching the logs so as to keep the chinks between them as tight as possible. The gable was made by gradually shortening the logs, after which poles were laid from end to end, and the split clapboards were laid on them exactly as shingles are laid today. Heavy poles called weight poles laid across them kept them on the roof.-',-; The wide chimney corner, defined on the outside of the house by an almost entirely independent little structure of logs built for the fireplace, was cut out, and the spaces between the logs of this fireplace were filled with clay, a layer of which several Inches thick, also plastered the interior of the fireplace. A door was made of split clapboards and was hung with wrought nails made by a blacksmith, to long vertical pieces called doorpins. Slabs split from straight-grained timber called puncheons, completed the home, and the family moved in. In most cases, the pioneers began at sun-up and the home was ready for occupancy at the end of the day. Interior furnishings consisted of bedsteads made by strong poles fastened in the walls and supported by stakes, and overlaid with clapboards, on which were placed the feather beds.
Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
BOLSHEVISM IN PRACTICE Washington Star. "I thought you had an umbrella when you left home." "I had," answered the man who was drenched. "I went to a Socialist meeting where everybody was in favor of eliminating any individual advantage. By the time they got through dividing my umbrella around there
not pay one cent for feeding fish or maintaining!
fishing grounds, the cost of fish to the consumer has increased rapidly in the last two years. -The only increased cost with which the fish companies had to contend was labor and the maintenance cost of their boats. The fish companies have taken advantage of
a situation to boost the price of fish. The prose-' New York Herald
cuting officer of the state of Massachusetts recently obtained the conviction of seventeen business men on the charge of conspiracy for raising the price of fish exorbitantly above what was fair. One of the interesting features of the charge to the jury by Judge Sanderson of the Superior Crimnial Court at Boston was that "state-wide monopoly for the purpose of obtaining exorbitant profits from the public may be really as. injurious to tho people of the state as if it extended throughout the whole country. The issue of the case in the words of the judge was an alleged agreement on the part of the defendants to exorbitantly and unreasonably enhance the price of fish and defraud the public; in short, to treat them in such an unjust and wicked way as to extort from them money which, in fairness, they ought not be compelled to pay." It is a matter of history that when the people of the United States were called on to conserve meat, the government advised an extensive use of sea, food, both as a substitute and because it was cheap. But coincident with this announcement came an increase in the price of fish of all sorts, including even the common varieties which for many years had been offered for sale at a very cheap price. It is unreasonable for the barons of the fish industry to assert that increased cost in obtaining the catch was the controlling factor in the steep advance that followed. All of us know that the labor cost did increase and that the cost of maintaining trawlers and
j ANOTHER CAUSE FOR WAR
Washington Post.
.1 It's well the dragnet treaty didn't overlook the Sultan of Okwawa's skull, as otherwise the war would have to be fought over again.
A BET. HE OVERLOOKED
Egyptian rebels are reported to be throwing vitriol.
Hon. W. Hohenzollern will gnash his teeth over thought of a detail he overlooked.
HUH! AIN'T IT WORTH DIFFERENCE? Houston Post. The cent tax on ice cream is raising something of a roar throughout the country, but a bootlegger can peel your roll to the tune of ten bucks a quart and nobody could hear you whimper with a stethoscope.
ROUGH ON POOR NEWTON D. Ohio State Journal. There seems to be a rather wide-spread and deepseated feeling against having a military president and we suppose that bars Colonel Bryan, but we don't Imagine it will affect Secretary Baker.
AND GET REAL GATE RECEIPTS New York Telegraph. Brussels wanted to be capital of the League of Na
tions. If Brussels wants something that will attract real attention why don't the Burgomaster get in communication with Tex Rickard?
The American humorists will meet In Philadelphia this vear. Orrasinnni.
ly the right thing happens in the right
iuwn. The city editor asked on of the
reporters the other day what he thought of the Italian imbrnplio. nrf
the reporter replied: "I don't know.
I never tasted any of it." A learned educator asks: "What will be the Dlace of th fat man in
history?" There is only one fat man
we are worrying over, and what his place in history will be is largely problematical. If people keep on reading columns, he may have -a place in history. If not, he may disappear as a whole disappears when one pulls his finger out of the ocean. Mihiel Mordikin, or Mike, as we call him, who know him well, is coming back to America to leap from crag to crag in the mountain goat skin. Mike used to be one of the Russian Imperial court dancers and came over here with Pavlowa and danced all over the landscape for several seasons. He was the one who invented "The Dying Swan," "The Perturbed Porcupine," and other classic dances, and was quite the rage for some time. Later he returned to Russia, and is now balletmaster in the Bolsheviki Opera House at Moscow, having ceased being an imperial court dancer about the time the imperial court was chased toward the Crimea. Mike was never much afraid ot the Bolsheviki. When he got to leaping good, the Bolsheviki could never catch him, and so, being unable to arrest and deport him, they decided to let him run the opera house dances. We don't know just what Bolsheviki skids Mike is going to show us, but we hope he won't omit that favorite Russian dance, Leon Trotzky.
THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK THE UNBENDING MIND ' -Out of Nature we secure some of our most wonderful and fascinating lessons. I love to watch trees In a storm. It thrills me to see these great children of nature bend and sway before the wind. But as soon as the storm is over they stand their own straight selves again. A man may have tremendous pressure put upon his mind and character. Outside Influences may sway you for a time yet the strong mind does not bend. But the Unbending Mind Is not the Stubborn Mind. The tree Is not stubborn to .the wind. It's adaptable. And so it Is true In the Instance ot the man whose mind may alBO he influenced, though not bent. You have a right to whatever you think whether right or wrong. If you think you are right then, to yourself, you are right, though to everyone else you may be wrong. - Thinking that I am right today may prove that I am wrong tomorrow, but I am going to stand by the guns today and be honest. I am not going to let my mind bend. A child can change my view-point and I would be grateful to the child, but I would not, for the Bake of conformity, have the greatest mind in the world bend my opinion. , A flexible mind is good, but do not cultivate a Bending Mind one that does not know how to stand straight.
Dinner Stories
HUNGARY IS SWEPT BY CONFLICTS
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Where fighting Is reported in Hungary. 1 Czecho-Slovak troopi are attacking the city of Waitzen, twenty miles northeast of Budapest. 2. The territory which is in dispute between the Hungarians and SzechcSlovaks. 3 Budapest, the Hungarian capital, which is reported in a panic because of the enemies' advances. 4 Further advances are made by the Roumanians, which are reported as having French aid. 5 Territory in dispute between Hungarians and Roumanians.
WAS PREPARED FOR THE WURST Chicago News. Germany squeals because her part calls for squeals, but perhaps Germany chuckles internally at getting off far easier than it had reason to expect.
WHY BE A PIKER! Macon Telegraph. These parlor Bolshevs are beneath notice. If we couldn't be a first string assassin and holocauster we wouldn't be one at all.
One View of Unionism
From Baltimore Sun. MR SAMUEL GOMPERS' denunciation of Bolshevism in his speech in New York the other night was an utterance that might have been expected from him. Trades unionism and Bolshevism are natural enemies. Trades unionism in the United States is very largely what Mr. Gompers has made it in this thrity years of leadership. It has been tremendously effective in improving the conditions of its members, and its effectiveness has depended upon its adherence" to a principle which is fundamentally antagonistic to fhe principle of Bolshevism. v Trades unionism stands for evolution, Bolshevism for revolution. Forty or fifty years ago a chess player by the name of Steintz invented what is known as the modern ptyle of chess play. Its chief characteristic was what he called "the accumulation of small advantages." The old chess masters staked success on bold and reckless strokes. More often thannot they came to grief. Steinitz moved prudently, cautiously, gaining a small advantage here and another there, and finally winning out through the accumulation of these trifling advantages. The Steinitz method has driven out the o'.d method among first-class nlavers. It is the style that wins.
The Federation of Labor, In the three decades during which Mr. Gompers has been its leading figure, has played the game of labor advancement in this way. It has striven to get a reduction in the hours of labor here, an increase of wages there, better working conditions in this place or that. It has resolutely put out of mind all dreams of the achievement of the millenium over-night and kept its mind always on the next step in advance. One of its earliest champions, appearing before a congressional committee a third of a century ago, was asked what were his ultimate ends. "We have no ultimate ends," he answered. "We are fighting along for immediate objects objects that can be realized in a few years." " Through its adherents to this policy trades unionism has been successful where populism and socialism and communism and anarchism and a hundred other isms have failed. By eschewing the impossible it has assured the possible. More than that, not only Mr. Gompers alone, but practically all its leaders, have become thoroughly convinced of the efficacy of evolutionary rather than revolutionary measures. That is why the labor unions of this country are its greatest bulwark against Bolshevism.
In Europe there will always be something to fret and Fiume about. COMMITTEE NAMED FOR MEMORIAL DAY
A great parade in which will appear the Ci A R Vo TI-o
j 1 nil.. "wiiu ' a I iciciauai the Spanish-American War Veterans:,
me w omen s Relief corps. Company K of the state militia, the Richmond City band, and the Boy Scouts, is planned for Memorial day, following announcement of the selection of the committee in charge. Charles W. Jordan is chairamn of the committee, Otto H. Sprong, secretary, W. H. Hansche, treasurer, L. A. Handley chairman of program committee, Scott Webb chairman of the decoration committee, George Matthews, cemetery committee, John Darnell, flower committee, A. F. Ireton marshal and head of the transportation committee. Ireton will meet Co. K at the armory Thursday evening. The parish house of the West End Presbyterian church of New York Is to be fitted out with rest rooms for men as well as women employees of the street railways for use between mns. This is in opposition to a saloon that has heretofore been popular with the men. The rest room is the outcome of the active interest taken in the conductorettes by Mrs. E. D. Prendergast, captain of the Women's P lice Reserves of the Thirty-sixth precinct. -
Great Fireworks Display To Be Feature Of Peace Celebration In England (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 13. Huge pyrotechnic displays are to be the chief feature of England's celebration of peace. In addition to chains of .bonfires on hills and heights, civic authorities throughout the country are arranging brilliant spectacles of fire works and the demand for fire works for private suburban displays is already greater than the manufacturers can supply. The police of the country, especially the London department, are strongly encouraging the fire works plan as against an aimless wandering about the streets of masses of people in holiday mood as during the armistice celebration week. The problem of crowds Is a serious one in London. To
prevent congestion of the streets it is proposed to have five or six pyrotechnic exhibitions in parks in various parts of the city making all the displays of similar interest so that people will remain in their own districts. The scheme of the committees in charge of the celebration is to produce illuminations which could be seen from long distances. The giant bon
fire flares will be accompanied by rockets and other effects. The fire works are expected to be far superior to anything previously shown in this country, the experience of the war having led to some remarkable and beautiful developments. One new kind gives out a light of a peculiar penetrating quality. It is so brilliant that when it was given a demonstration recently before a government committee, a fire brigade a mile away thought there was a bis conflagration and rushed to the scene.
Brazilian Attacks U. S. Part In War
They had chummed up in a hospital
and were discussing the virtues ot their respective wives. Presently one of them explained that his wife had been a Miss Mary Wilson. "And a fine girl, too!" he added enthusiastically, in praise of his absent spouse. "Miss Mary Wilson!" chuckled the other. "Oh!" "What, d'you know her, then?" asked the proud husband. . "I should think I do! I remember one day when we were out boating, and we came to an island where we landed! 'Now, Mary. dear. I said, either you kiss me or we both drown! " "And d-did you kiss her?" gasped the husband in jealous fury.
"Was she drowned?" asked the other slowly. The best efforts to make a home attractive sometimes fail. Recently a district visitor in the east end of London asked the wife of a notorious drinker why she did not keep her husband from the public house. "Well," she answered, Tave done my best, ma'am, but 'e will go there." "Why don't you make your home look more attractive?" "I'm sure I've tried 'ard to make it 'omelike, ma'am," was the reply. "I've took up the parlor carpet and sprinkled sawdust on the floor, and put a beer barrel in the corner. But, lor', ma'am, it ain't made a bit of differ-
(By Associated Press) RIO JANEIRO, May 13. An attack upon the United States is made by Madeiras de Albuquerque, generally considered one of the leading journal ists of Brazil in a long interview printed today In a Noite. Senor Albuquerque who has just arrived from the United States, says: "I return from the United States with much enthusiasm for England, Italy, France, Belgium, Japan and perhaps above all Mexico." He accuses the United States of "fomenting revolutions in Mexico," and says that "Brazil is considered by the United States only as a possible future colony." He adds: "The United States wants to obtain as part of the payment of the debt of
I France and England a bond for Bra
zil s debts to those powers. On the day this is realized Brazil will be sold to the United States which on the first occasion we fail to meet the interest will do to us as she has done to Central American nations." Senor Albuquerque belittles the part the United States took in the war, saying that the only American victory was the battle at St. Mihiel. which he says "was gained with English artillery and French aviation," and attacks the censorship which he remarks has prevented these and other facts from becoming known." He attacks the Monroe Doctrine and President Wilson ridiculing the president's activities in the peace congress. He concludes by saying: "The United States -incontestably is the Prussia of tomorrow."
Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Year Ago Today
Mrs. Omar Murray and Mrs. Earl Mann entertained with an elaborate reception at the home of Mrs. Murray on East Main street Many persons attended the funeral of Mrs. R. . J. Wade, wife of the pastor of First M. E. church. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. George Hill and Rev. T. N. Guild. The enrollment in the Richmond schools for April was 3,433. Charles Sudhoff died at his home here of paralysis.
BRAZILIAN VISITS ITALY
(By Associated Press) ROME, May 13. Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, president elect of Brazil, is expected to arrive here on Thursday. He will be the guest of King Victor Emmanuel at the Quirinal and will also visit Pope Benedict, gAjng first to the Brazilian embassy accredited to the Vatican.
HOW FAT FOLKS MAY BECOME THIN If you are suddenly becoming stout, or if you have been putting on flesh for years, the cause is generally the same lack of oxygen carrying power of the blood. This trouble' occurs mostly in men and women over thirty, but it may be easily treated and without any of the privations most fat people imagine necessary to reduce their weight. Simply go to your druggist and get a box of Phynola. Take five grains after each meal and at bedtime. Wonderful results should be quickly accomplished by this simple treatment. Be sure however you get the genuine Phynola. It is put up in original sealed packages, is pleasant to take and gives prompt results. Conkey Drug Co. can supply you. Adv.
Masonic Calendar
Tuesday, May 13. Richmond Lodge. No. 196, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree, commencing at 6 o'clock, N. J. Haas, W. M. Wednesday, May 14. Webb Lodge No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting. Work in M. H. degree, commencing at 4 o'clock. Supper at 6:30, Clarence W. 'Foreman, W. M. Friday, May 16. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called convocation. Work in Royal Arch degree. Light refreshments. Saturday, May 17. Loyal Chapter, No. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting; initiation of candidates.
Ford's Suit Against Chicago Tribune Heard (By Associated Press) MTV CLEMENS, Mich., May 13. One of the most noteworthy libel suits in the history of American jurisprudence, that of Henry Ford versus the Chicago Daily Tribune, for $1,000,000 was scheduled to open before Circuit Judge James G. Tucker here at 9 o'clock this morning. With most of the preliminary battles already fought and decided in Illinois and Detroit courts, it is anticipated the case will come to trial with little delay. The suit has already been in the courts two and a half years. The case is attracting such attention not only through the state, but in many parts of the country, that the courtroom has been remodeled for the
accommodation of the unusually large array of counsel, court reporters and stenographers and newspaper correspondents, some forty or more of whom are expected. Arrangements have been made for hourly transcripts of progress of the case. It was anticipated attention of the court would largely be occupied this morning with the consideration of a brief, expected from counsel for Mr, Ford, and attacking the Tribune's defense. The newspaper's counsel has maintained that the alleged libelous statements cited i nthe Ford suit were published incidental to the Tribune's fight for preparedness.
Wilson Urges Support Of Boy Scout Week tBy Associated Freest WASHINGTON, May 13 President Wilson, in a proclamation made public here today, recommended lhat the period beginning June 8 to Flag Day, June 14, be observed as Boy Scout Week, for the purpose of strengthening the work of the Boy Scouts of America. The president urged that in each community a citizens' committee be organized to co-operate in carrying out a program for "extending the Boy Scout program to a larger proportion of American boyhood."
WITH FIBERS! CORNS LIFT OUT
Freezorve Is magic! Corns and calluses lift right off Doesn't hurt a bit
FOCH GOES TO FRONT
LONDON, May 13. Marshal Foch is returning to the froDt today according to a Reuter dispatch from Paris.
GREAT FOR EMERGENCIES
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Poslam Likes Bad Oases of Fjery Eczema
When Poslam takes hold of virtulent
ana stuDborn eczema, it soothes and cools at once, putting a stop to the terrific itching. On raw parts of the skin it feels immeasureably grateful. As Poslam continues to penetrate there develops just the healing process needed. Contrast the ease of healing with the severity of the trouble, and Poslam's work seems remarkable Indeed. One ounce of Poslam is worth a pound of ointment less effic
ient. . .
Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th street, New York City. Urge your skin to become fresher, clearer, better by the daily use of Poslam Soap, medicated with Poslam. Adv.
San Cura Ointment Should Be Everv Home.
There never was known a more reliable ointment than San Cura. In most every case where it has been used it has created astonishment. It drew a needle out of the foot of the daughter of Mrs. James Hitchcock of Centreville, Pa., after the doctor had used his lance and failed. It has great healing and antiseptic value. It possesses so much healing virtue that it guaranteed by Thistlethwaite's Six Drug Stores to relieve any kind of piles eczema, tetter, salt rheuma, boils, carbuncles, ulcers, all kinds of chronic sores, chilblains nH
chapped hands, or money back.
it s a mignty handy remedy to have in the house In emergencies for bruises burns, cuts or scalds, because it re
lieves me pain and Is antiseptic and healing. It's a medicine chest in itself a little family physician that is ever in demand. 30c, 60e and $1.20 a jar at Thistleth'waite's.
BEST SKIN SOAP Is San Cura Soap, because of its great antiseptic and healing virtues. Use it regularly, and It will make the skin scft and velvety; will remove pimples and blackheads. It's the real soap for babies' tender skin, which mothers of infants should remember. 25 cents a cake at Thistlethwaite's Six Drug Stores. If your druggist does not have it lend to Thompson Medical Co., Tltusville, Pa. Adv.
A few cents buys a tiny bottle of the magic Freezone at any drug store. Apply a few drops of Freezone upon a tender, aching corn or a callus. Instantly that troublesome corn or callus stops hurting, then shortly you lift ft out, root and all, without any pain, soreness or irritation. These little bottles of Freezone contain just enough to rid the feet of every hard corn, soft corn, corn between the toes and the calluses on bottom of feet. So easy ! So simple. Why wait? No humbug! Adv.
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