Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 182, 14 May 1919 — Page 6

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'lti K1CHM0MD PALLAJLiUitt AMJ t UXx'-TELEGKAAl WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1919.

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Invest Your Coupons "Cut your coupons and buy Baby Bonds," is the advice given holders of the Second Liberty

Loan by the Indiana War Savings Committee.-

Wednesday, May 14, is the day the government pays interest on the 4 per cent bonds of the Second Loan, and the 4 1-4 per cent bonds into which Second Loan bonds were converted. The committee's statement said: "Liberty Bond interest coupons should be clipped promptly, and promptly reinvested. Thriftless money, or. inpney "which lies idle, is of no benefit to the individual, or the community. Money should be put to work where it can earn the most in the safest way, just as the individual should be kept busy. The Government, following the Victory Loan, is now paying interest to the people at the rate of nearly a billion dollars a year. This is the money earned by the savings

of the people invested in the securities of the

government. These earnings should be put to work, and there is no better, safer place of employment for money than the War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps issued by the government. "Two semi-annual interest coupons clipped from $100 41-4 per cent bonds will more than buy a War Savings Stamp, costing $4.16 in May. In January, 1924 this War Savings Stamp will be worth $5." f

Teaching of English Language Demanded Dr. P. P. Claxton, commissioner of education, told specialists attending the conference on Americanization in Washington the other day that instruction in all private, parochial and public schools in the United States must be carried on in the English language and private and par

ochial schools must teach the same subjects taught in the public schools. . This is a step in the right direction. It will do more to Americanize our foreign born than all the resolutions past by reform congresses and discussed by sociologists. "Without a knowledge of English -none can become an American." he said. "In teaching

English to aliens there is no desire to make them give up absolutely their own language, or discourage the teaching of foreign languages." But Dr. Claxton insists that English must be the v basic language taught in the elementary schools and on this point he may rest assured of the support of the American people. The great war emphasized vividly the necessity of a people welded together in a common bond of national purpose and ideals something that is Attainable only if the people speak one language and through that medium have learned the origin of our institutions and the great principles of civil liberty upon which our republic is founded. . F. V. Thompson, superintendent of schools of Boston, Mass., took a broad view of the scope of

education when he said that education is a public matter, and should be carried on through the co

operation of the nation, the state and the com

munity. The federal government is as vitally in

terested in the education of the boy and girl who

live 15 miles from a city as is the county superintendent; for, if the children of the rural districts, for instance, receive a poor education or a misdirected schooling, the whole nation collectively suffers as a result. A broad national policy of educational endeavor is vitally necessary and as essential to the welfare of our commonwealth as is proper state, county and city supervision.

This becomes apparent when we remember

that 24.6 per cent of the young men within the

draft age were illiterate. In other words, one out of fiverv four could neither read nor write. The

draft system exposecLthe weakness of our educational system by revealing a staggering percentage of aliens and illiterates. Because the il

literates could neither read nor write, and the aliens were ignorant of our language, neither

had an opportunity to know or to appreciate American ideals of government and the sound principles of good citizenship. The war department through a mammoth school system overseas

is trying to stamp out this illiteracy. One can hardly believe that out of an army of 1250,000 young men in France on April 15, 130,000 of them were in the elementary schools where they were

being taught the rudiments of education and that more than 50,000 who had been taught the elementary branches were in divisional or secondary

schools.

There is only one cure for this evil and that is

compulsory instruction of all in the English language and other branches, including American

ideals and government. Public sentiment is thor

oughly aroused on this question and is demanding

remedial legislation. Closely related to this demand is the clamor for the elimination of all for

eign languages from our elementary schools and

the insistence that English be the basic language

taught to the plastic mind of the child.

Accept the Treaty or Quit The allies will show little patience -with the bickering tactics of the German peace delegates. The policy of the allies is, "Accept the treaty as it stands or reject it, one or the other, as there is no middle ground," says an Associated Press dispatch from Paris. The people of the allied countries take the same view. If Germany, despite her protests of a harsh and inhuman treaty, expects that the victors will be lenient she is badly mistaken, for the policy of Germany during the last four years was so at variance with all principles of civilization that she has forfeited all claims to an easy peace.

While the kaiser was still on the throne, he made several overtures to the allies in which he stated that if the allies would not accept the terms which he then laid down, Germany would exact a ter-j rible penalty in her hour of triumph. The American people still remember the threat which a German officer made to former Ambassador Gerard

in Berlin in which he said that we would be made to pay for our sympathy with the allies. Germany might j ust as well sign the peace treaty now and accept the consequences. There will be no amelioration of terms,

"DANCE, YOU GALOOTS!"

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How Did Pioneers Obtain Flour and , Other Foodstuffs?

Soldiers Insurance June 1 is the tentative date fixed for the issuance of new life insurance policies .-which sol

diers, sailors, and marines may obtain in exchange for the policies issued to them under the

war risk act. Applications are invited now in order to obviate a rush when the time arises for transfers. The bureau says it will not consider policies as having lapsed, even if after discharged, a man may have ceased payment, or has notified the bureau that he wishes to cancel his policies, until ample time has been granted for reinstatement.

The bureau will allow service men to put their

policies back in force by payment of back installments within a period of six months. Service

men of Wayne county are asked to keep this in mind and if they are willing to accept this form of insurance to take up the matter with the authorities in Washington.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

WE CAN SPARE HIM Dallas News.

Mexico appears to be about the only country that egrees with Senator Borah's estimate of the League of Nations. Maybe he could get a presidential nomination down there.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

FRANK BACON

I went to see a play, recently in New York, called "Lightnin ". It made me laugh. And there were spots where motions were made to draw out my tears. I was glad that I saw It because I came away better and happier, I am sure. Frank Bacon took the part of "Lightnin"' one of those wonderfully human, delightful character parts that make one glad that plays were invented. Bacon made me think, of dear old Joe Jefferson because you see he WAS the part he played. This paper will not mind It If I boost thsl play because It ought to be boosted and everybody ought to see It, if they get a chance. I get no money for the boost all I get Is satisfaction. But this is the big thing about "Lightnin". Frank Bacon who is a middle-aged man now with white hair has been acting for thirty years. His name has not been played up in great signs. He is a hard working and steady-thinking man. He has always been a good actor but now he is a GREAT actor. That's why I hope millions may yet have the opportunity to see him act. And Frank Bacon has been working these thirty years to bucceed! . Is it worth while to be so patient for so long to wait and wait and wait for the glory that inevitably follows work and service? Frank Bacon thinks it is, after thirty years of discouragement And so do I. For, all through that stimulating, delightful play, I kept thinking of those thirty years that Frank Bacon gave to me for a few dollars in his simple and inspiring art. If you want to tell a fine story to your boy, tell him the story of Frank Bacon. But if you have no boy, tell it to somebody's boy and keep thinking about it yourself. The most discouraging thing in the world is to be discouraged. But Frank Bacon passed right by discouragement. It flirted with him all right never fear but he did not mind. Frank Bacon is great after thirty years of work and waiting. The fine reward for toil, and bitter disappointment and privation and hunger and misunderstanding and everything' is GREATNESS. I shall not forget Frank Bacon. And I shall remember "Lightnin ".

WELL, THEY WERE AGIN SOFT PEACE St. Louis Post Dispatch. It looks as if the German delegates to the Peace Conference would go home In barrels.

Georges Clemenceau

From the New York Tribune. ' TO stout old Georges Clemenceau, he of the battered hat. of the baggy clothes, of the straggly mustache and of the countenance as seamed as the trenched landscape of Picardy. fell the honor of delivering the peace treaty to the German delegates. In a few words, but with every syllable freighted with vigor and frankness, he discharged the obligation. Open diplomacy! Here is its most distinguished practitioner! Felicitations to this rugged old hero, as homely as Lincoln and of the hickory fiber of Andrew Jackson! France has the glory of furnishing the great personal figures of the war. Joffre, planning and directing the battle of the Marne; Foch. the generalissimo, timing and carrying through the most complicated mass movement in military history; Clemenceau, the civilian, animating France with his own spirit here are three men to be

celebrated as long as human fingers hold pens and brushes. 1 Let no one begrudge France the honor, for on her was laid the greatest burden. Geography and history have assigned to France, as Clemenceau has remarked, the duty of opposing for 2,000 years a barbarism beyond - the Rhine hitherto intricable to education. Between the Alps, the river and the sea is a basin where occurred a fusion of the empiricism of the north and the idealism of the south, and Its population has been engaged in a neverceasing duel, has felt the first blows of organizations of violence. And in the last and greatest crisis Georges Clemenceau becomes the prophet of this people, inspiring

them, to sacrifice their bodies to keep their souls safe, and serving them as moral leader, also serving the world. Georges Clemenceau! Realist and idealist, the two

great elements mingled and become one la you. Clear of intellect and fiery of heart, you saw and felt major truths were never fooled by minor ones. Your feelings poured out like lava streams, but were guided. In her dark hour France called you to your great task. You believed and a man of faith made tethers believe. Hear the man himself: They are attempting a death-blow against my right to existence, against the virtue of the blood in my race, against my irrepressible need to advance through the course of ages, following the traditions and the principles of a history In which, through my fathers, I have had a part a history , which is not the least noble portion perhaps of the

deeds of the human race. They are attempting a death-blow to the most radiant of the hopes that guide men through the perilous mazes of a destiny the riddle of which is possibly in the fact that it is only what It is, but which Is the more precious to me, nevertheless, on N account of my own attempts to honor it. , As a person, as a Frenchman and as a citizen of the world Cleemnceau was filled with the wrath that stirs the righteous when facing gigantic wrong. Into him entered contempt for those who sought to excuse a cowardly men

tality and who have since sought not to forgive the sinner, but to condone the sin. - .

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

THE OLD HOME TEAM By O. O. M. The depot at Sardinia at train time in th' evening' might be compared to Broadway at theayter time thet is if ou ain't a stickler fer details. The

same old crowd is alius there. There's old Dad Splllman. who has palsy so bad he has to wear suspen

ders ana tnere s Bua Tnornuy, wno has been ex-county commissioner for nigh onto ten years. They're friendly with the baggage master. Lem Hoi-

loway, bein' jined out to the same G. A. R. Post and they git th' best seats on the baggage truck. Since the free medicin' show pitched tent in the Clendenin lot there's been a notabul fallin' off in attendance to see old No. 36 come in. One of those greatly missed Is Miss Mortense Penfield. She's been sent up for a year's term in a flnishln school by her Paw for passin' the Park Hotel so frequent. Station Agent Jimmy Prewitt has been sellin tickets to the travelln

public for eight years now and nobody yet has ever seen him smile.

Nearly the hull populace was down to the depot Satiddy night to see the opery troop, "Lights O' a Great City," come in. The troop looked like humans 'ceptln' the wimmin had yaller hair and toted lap dogs. and the men

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Linner otones

The problem of bread was among

the hardest which confronted the first

settlers of Wayne county. 110 years ago. For some time, grain was not.

grown in sufficient quantities to sup

ply bread, and a trip must be maae at least once a year to older settle

ments east of Richmond, to bring

back grain and meal. when, the

raising of grain was started, It had

to be taken to Ohio to be ground into

flour, "no mills being built here lor

several years.

Thomas Bulla, who lived four miles

south-east of Richmond, describes the troubles he had In getting bread

during the first year or so of his life here, in a sketch published in the

Richmond Palladium of March 13,

1856.

He took a grist of his first crop of

corn to Bruce's Mill, near the present site of Eaton. Ohio, only to be

told that it was unfit for flour because

of being frost-bitten. He then fed it to his cow, and went to his father-in-law in Ohio lor nine bushels of good

corn for which he was to pay when able. This and two and one-half bushels of wheat were aU his family had the. first year.

An account of the trip made the

next year by Jerry ox and his uncle.

James Morrison, r through the trackless forests of Ohio, to find a mill which could grind the grain they were

commissioned to have made into flour.

reads like a chapter of the Odyssey.

A mill at Stillwater, Ohio, to which

they took their load first, was too

busy to grind for them, and they

started for a mill of which they had

heard at New Lexington.

For the first few miles the road was: good, but they came to a "hurricane., as the-thicket ol fallen trees and underbrush left in the wake of a storm, was called, through which they had to cut their way with axes, a distance of half a mile or more. They got their corn ground, but on the way. back home struck a slough Into which their wagons sunk hubdeep. They had to unload the entire load, carry it to safety, Back by sack,, and then extricate the empty wagon. After these adventures they finally reached home, to find the settlement

much in want of the meal they brought having lived for several days on parched, partly-spoiled corn.

Some Yanks of the army of occupation in Germany were waiting In line for their pay and a German with long whiskers was looking out of a window. One of the soldiers saw him and said to him: "Come out from behind those bushes; the war Is over and we know who you are!" The oldest good story Is the one about the boy who left the farm and got a job in the city. He wrote a letter to his brother, who elected to stick-by the farm, telling of the joys of city life, in which he said: "Thursday we auto'd out to the country club, where we golfed until dark. Then we motored to the beach and Frldayed there." The brother on the farm wrote

back: "Yesterday we buggied to town and baseballed all afternoon. Then we went to Med's and pokered till morning. Today we muled out to the cornfield and geehawed until sundown. Then we suppered and then we piped for a while. After that we staircased up to our room and bedsteaded until the clock fived." Washington Informs us that food prices which started downward in March flew back upward again In April. Thanks for the information, but we knew IL

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

A movement was on foot to hold a celebration n honor of Orville and Wilbur Wright, flying machine inventors, who had arrived at their home In Dayton from Europe.

The members of the T. P. A. were the guests of the Richmond Commercial club at a smoker.

During the recent heavy rains we have been under the impression that the tailor who invented cuffs for trousers wasn't such a good friend of humanity after all. Water on the ankles, after the low-shoe season opens, is not so pleasant.

actors wore fur-lined overcoats and

the new-fangled hoot-owl glasses. Lige Jackson has bin spreading ner

vous indigestion among tourists to Sardinia, as proprietor of the Depot Cafe, ever since they turned him out of the poorhouse durin the McKinley administration for bein' so able-bodied.

A puny, skinny-lookin' soap drummer stepped Into Lige's place between trains last week and bought the last cut of Ligs well-known mince pie. It's the same pie that has bin decoratin" the winder since the Woodmen had their log-rollin' last spring. Ab Thivener came in from Columbus on No. 3 yestiddy. He's bin attendin the state fair for two days and

was able to walk home without any help. -

HAD STOMACH ILLS FOR YEARS, -QUICKLY HELPED BY PEPGEN

STRENGTH FOR YOUNG MOTHERS

How Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg.

etable Compound Restores Health and Strength.

A Simple Way To Remove Dandruff

There Is one sure way that has never failed to remove dandruff at once, and that is to dissolve it, then you destroy It entirely. To do this, just get about four ounces of plain, common liquid arvon from any drug store (this Is all you will need), apply it at night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub It .In gently with the finger tips. By morning, most If not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more application will completely

dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it, no matter how much dandruff you may have. You will find all Itching and digging of the scalp will stop instantly, and your hair will be fluffy, lustrous, glossy, silky and soft, and look and feel a hundred times better. Adv,

Lansine. Mich. "After the birth of

my child I was not able to stand on my

ieet. i was soweu I could not get up. I suffered such pains in my back I could not work or hardly take care of my baby. One of my neighbors re com-

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Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I took it and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash, and

I cot better rierht away and was soon a

new woman and could work hard, and I can recommend these remedies to other young mothers who are weak and ailing aa I was." Mrs. Ora O. Bowebs, 621 S. Hoaxner Street, Lansing; Mich. Women who are la Mrs! Bowers' condition should not continue to suffer from weakness and pain hut profit from her experience and give this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a trial. For suggestions In regard to your condition write Lydia E. Pinknam Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Theresultof their 40 years' experience is at your service.

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- R. L. MORROW

The story of R. L. Morrow, gate

guard at the Inter-State, who lives at

912 South Grant St., Muncie, is an ex

ample of what others are telling about

Pepgen. Mr. Morrow Bays: "I had

not been feeling just right for several

months.

"My stomach annoyed me a great deal. My food would sour, and hot, bitter fluids would come up Into my

throat and mouth. After eating I felt

uncomfortable as If a heavy load was in my stomach. My back ached until at times I thought I could scarcely stand it. It just took all of the life out of me, so to speak. "On a Sunday afternoon, not long

ago, I thought I would take a little

Because property owners opposed the Improvement of North Eighth street by the construction of a cement sidewalk the board of works continued action on the resolution.

Richmond artists represented at the

Muncie art association exhibit were Anna Newman, Maude Kauffman Eg-

gemeyer, N. T. Nordyke, Frank Girar-

din, W. A. Holly, Albert W. Gregg and

Elwood Morris.

mended Lydia E-j walk. I believed the exercise might

do me good. I got several blocks away

from my home when my nerves seemed to give entirely out. I got so dizzy that I grabbed hold of a gate to keep from falling. A man came from the

house and helped me inside. He gave me a dose of Pepgen. That seemed to fix me right up. I felt better in a little while and soon started for my home. "The next day I got a' bottle of Pepgen and have been taking It steadily. I feel a whole world better than I did. I do not have any more of those dizzy spells. My stomach Is in fine condition. I eat whatever I want and feel stronger In every way." If you are likewise troubled, try Pepgen. It can be obtained at Thlstlethwaite's drug " stores or from any other first class drug store anywhere.

Middletoyn Lady

Suffering for Years With

Asthma Permanently Relieved by the Inter-State Doctors. Those Master Specialists who have

their Richmond office permanently located In the Starr Building, corner of

Tenth and Main streets.

The list of testimonials in behalf of

the Interstate Doctors continues to

grow as new tests of their ability are

made. They have a reputation for skill

and honor all over this country and

could not afford to throw their repu

tation down for any one case. For this reason they will not accept a case

nor take your money, if after a thor

ough examination they have any

doubts about the ultimate results.

MrB. Davenport adds a very strong

letter to their credit, which we pub

lish herewith: Middletown, Ind.. R. F. D., No. 1. To the Suffering Public: I want to add my testimony to many others in regard to the worth of the Interstate Doctors. I have been a sufferer for years with asthma and also a hurting in the lower end of my spine caused by an old abcess. I had taken lots of treatment for, both and couldn't get one bit of relief. And at my age, 75 years, it seemed I was destined to pass the rest of my days in abject misery. But I finally found my discouragements and forebodings removed. I saw the printed testimonials of those cured by the Interstate Doctors, and I made up my mind to consult them. When I went to their office in April I really expected them to turn me down as hopeless, for I had known of a number of cases they had refused to treat But I was disappointed again." Their physician

gave me a careful, painstaking examination and told me there was relief for me beyond a doubt. He analyzed my case so plainly- and reasonable, that I could readily understand it (and that is what I like about them), and I placed myself under their care at once. I got relief in) less than two weeks, and now, June 15, I am free from any disturbances whatever, and consider myself well and as spry as when I was a girl. What I like about these doctors, they go to the bottom of a case and show the same personal interest in your case on your return trips as they do on the first. Quite different from most doctors. They are honest, gentlemanly, and show a determination to ,get a case well when they once take hold of it. I own a big farm and will gladly satisfy any enquirers concerning my experience with these great doctors. MRS. W. A. DAVENPORT. Anyone doubting the authenticity of the above letter would do well to write Mrs. Davenport. DOCTOR DUDLEY M. CULVER, The head physician of the Interstate Doctors, will be In the office eveay

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