Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 193, 27 May 1919 — Page 6

PAGE SIX

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM --r-.-W AND BUN-TELEGRAM Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at toe Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, aa Se ond Class Mall Matter.

MBXDBR OF THB ASSOCIATKD PBESI The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the net) tor republication of all ntwi dlcpatches credited to it of not otherwise eredlted in this paper and also the Iocs 5iT"..?ubluhed hreJa. All rights of republication of epW eiai dispatches hareia are also reserved.

Hawker and Grieve Safe

How Shelby County Curbs Stock Promotion Schemes Financial and commercial bodies all over the United States, as well as individual bankers, are waging a bitter campaign against the dishonest stock promoter who enters a community to reap

the golden sheckles of investors who are unac

quainted with the science of buying sound stocks, bonds and other securities. The last general assembly refused to pass a blue sky law, thereby permitting crooks from surrounding states to enter our commonwealth

with their schemes of separating savings from

persons who do not know how to invest them. It is estimated that millions of dollars annually are

taken out of thi3 state in exchange for stock

certificates that are worthless. The only safe

guard we have is an enlightened public opinion that recognizes the menace and is wary enough

to turn a deaf ear to their blandishments, and we know that this foil does not exist. Shelby county has had some bitter experience with slick promoters who were able to fleece residents out of thousands of dollars. As a matter of self -protection, the farmers and business men of Shelby have appointed a committee to investigate thoroughly all claims made by promotion agents. When a salesman of securities strikes this county, he is referred to this committee wliich is made up of members of the Shelbyville Chamber of Commerce and the Farmers' Association. The promoter is called to the office of the Chamber of Commerce to explain hi3 proposition. If it is an honest investment promotion proposition, the committee gives him the privilege of trying to place his stock in the county. If not, sufficient pressure is brought to bear upon him to make it advisable to leave the county seat without delay. The Shelby county plan deserves to be adopted all over Indiana until the day when our, legislature feels itself duty-bound to pass laws that will bar these crafty salesmen out of the state. If all the counties of Indiana had protective committees similar to the one established in Shelby, the promoters of Ohio,; Illinois and Michigan would not look upon Hoosiers as fine fruit to be plucked for their dishonest and disreputable business. . . . In the meantime investors of Wayne county are urged to pay no attention to dishonest promoters of visionary schemes but to refer all their claims to their bankers and financial advisers for scrutiny. There isn't a banker in Wayne county who is not willing to give all promotion stocks a thorough examination to ascertain their worth

and to warn investors to keep their money at home, instead of sinking it into so-called mines, oil wells, tire companies, real estate propositions and scores of other swindling schemes. The amount of money that has been lost by Wayne county investors through the purchase of "gilt-edged" stocks mounts into the millions. If it were possible to make a collection of the worthless stock certificates which investors of Wayne county are. holding, the sum total paid for them would be astounding, and the varieties of the enterprises which enlisted the savings of these unlucky persons would surprise the whole community. Let us keep in mind that sound investment at home with an assured return, or money put into government bonds, war saving stamps or other high class securities, is after all the very best place to put your money.

The world rejoices in the rescue of Hawker I and Grieve, the intrepid fliers who essayed to j cross the'Atlantic in an ordinary flying machine j and without the safeguards that were thrown around the American aviators. For cold-blooded! courage no single act in the history of aviation excels the attempt. No one will discount the ef-.

fort of the American naval fliers, all will pay tribute to Hawker and Grieve and rejoice in the news that they were picked up. Even the critics who believed it foolhardy, not

brave, for the two aviators to essay a venture:

that in itself seemed to carry the doom of death, must honor Hawker and Grieve and rejoice in their safety. They accepted the challenge of the air to cross an expanse of water that might become their unmarked graves. They failed in their effort, but, as the Indianapolis Star points out, "their daring was the same as if they had reached their goal."

The Cincinnati Enquirer, in a tribute to the

American aviators, expresses sentiments that apply to Hawker and Grieve as well, and undoubtedly would have included them had news of their safety been received before the editorial was written. "In the presence of actions that found epochs one instinctively seeks for a fitting phrase to signalize the events," says the Enquirer. "Thus Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, sent as his first message the famous line: 'What hath God wrought?" "Standing in awe before the mighty, the in

describable, aye, the superhuman flight of an American air fleet across the Atlantic, the words of Byron, dedicated to the mightiness of the seas,

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK ' THE BLIND MAN The blind man's life Is largely vocal. He sees with his voice. He paints pictures with his words and then he sees them, himself. The sympathy of the hardest heart Is touched in the most beautiful fashion, at the sight of a blind man. And yet of all the people la the world, sometimes I feel that the blind man must experience something very wonderful and vital because he always seems so happy. Out of the darkness, the spirit of the blind man gives utterance. One day I met a blind man coming out of the building, in which I work and led him through the streets for blocks, and talked with him. And through all the passing throngs I took note that I saw no face so bright or so lighted as was his. A blind man has what millions of healthy-eyed people never get vision. There is a man living today in England, named Sir Arthur Pearson, who during his life time, has risen to the very top-notch as a great publisher and as a power In London journalism. At one time, he owned nearly twenty publications. But he overworked and went blind, at the age of forty-seven years. In middle-life, however, his wonderful energy and world-wide feeling walks Its way and he is now probably doing more to alleviate and Inspire the blind, than any other man In the world. When Sir Arthur Pearson went blind, he began to see, for the blind man sees for others as well as for himself. When I was in school, I remember that I used to visit the home of a blind man and read to him for hours. The big memory that I carry now from those years is this that that man always had a smile on his face and that he never complained. We who have eyes with which to see how blind we are! Let us begin to see and let us begin to do this right now. Let us not lag. Let us take five minutes at least, in which to sum up how happy we ought to be with eyes, and feet, and arms, and a straight back. And If we haven't all of these things, let us be glad for what we have and work our way happily on.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

Harry I. Miller, a former resident of Richmond, son of John F. Miller of this city, president of the Chicago and Pnctprn Tllinnia roilrnnd anrl nf

force themselves into utterance as the best trib-;the industrial club was decorated by

the Emperor of Japan for service he had rendered to the Japanese government in the improvement of the rail-

ute to the conquerors : 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin his control Stops with thy shore.! "As a barrier against man's advance the sea no longer exists, neither do its depths bring the

old terrors to his soul. Dominion over the air he has wrested from its native denizens, the birds, and from the far Azores comes the intelligence that makes him, indeed, the lord of creation. Nowhere does any boundary stop his control. Wonderful, more more wonderful, and thrice again wonderful ! What a privilege to have lived, as thousands upon thousands have lived, to behold this masterful creature man annihilate time and space with his telegraph, his telephone, his electric car, his gasoline car, his tremendous steam engine, his wireless communications, his submersible boats, and, crowning all, his airplane and dirigible balloon! "No doubt the nations of the earth will pardon the pride that the American people cannot help but feel in their representatives who have done this marvelous thing. No doubt, too, the

rest of the United States will be gracious toward the people of Ohio if they give way to exultation because it was in this state that the genius of the Wrights gave birth to the apparatus which made the world-famous flight possible. There is

glory enough in it for all whose minds and hands have worked together to develop the science of aviation and to send back to Europe the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nina of the upper deep as Europe sent the caravels of Columbus over the foaming waves to discover the shrouded western hemisphere."

roads.

Mrs. J. H. Kinsey, Mrs. Frank Land, Mrs. M. F. Johnston, Mrs. W. H. Middleton. Mrs. Mark Wilson, Mrs. Rheba Stutson, Mrs. Sarah Stutson, and Miss

Peninah Moorman, all of this city,

took part in the second annual meeting of the Sixth District Federation of clubs at Greenfield. Invitations in Latin were sent out for the Latin play to be given at Earlham college.

John M. Paxon, father of Mrs.

Charles Kolp, sheriff in Wayne county during the war, and a charter member of Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows, died here.

Dinner Stories

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

NO, JOE GANS NEVER WON THE LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FROM PETER MAHER Dear Roy A girl promises me anything I asks If I does her a favor. I delivers the goods and then asks for a kiss. She says as a lady she can't kiss me. I says as a good sport she

must come across with the osculation. Am I right or wrong? Harry Kirschenbaum. A WEIRD ERROR Krueger misjudged Riggert's high infield fly and it went for base hit. From an evening paper's account of the game between the Braves and the Dodgers. This was probably one of the worst, if not the worst, of all errors ever made in a baseball game. We have been going to ball games for years, but have never seen a misplay that could compare with this one. Just what Krueger did to that fly we don't know. He could have swatted it. But it is evident that he didn't. With one of the members of its team doing what Krueger did we can't for the life of us understand how Brooklyn managed to win the game. Louis Weslynl

Pittsburg man wants a divorce because his wife gives him nothing but beans to eat three times a day the year round. What that man needs in bis family is not a divorce, but a hired girl. Fashion journals say women will wear fewer clothes next summer than they did last summer. Some things are impossible, and this is one of them. ., ,,,

Members of the famous family of Whttla, whose son was kidnapped, motored through Richmond.

"Do you act toward your wile as you did before you married her?" "Exactly. I remember just how I used to act when I first fell In love

with her. I used to lean over the fence In front of her house and gaze at her shadow on the curtain, afraid to go in. And I act just the same way now when I get home late." The proprietor of a traveling menagerie had trained a Hon and a lamb to live together in the same cage. The unusual sight was always welL advertised beforehand and invariably proved a big draw. Presently, however, there came a time when the attraction ceased to figure in the show and the showman was asked the reason. "Had to separate them," he replied, gloomily. "Indeed. Did he turn savage, then? I thought he looked such a mild old lion." "Lion?" Interrupted the showman.

"Lion be blowed! It was the lamb. When he grew up he started butting like a battering ram. Used to knock

the poor old lion about something

snamefui.

No famous man ever smoked the cigars that were named after him.

What Were Names of First County G)mmissioners Here?

The first Wayne county commissioners, who held their first session at Salisbury in the old courthouse which is now a cornfield, were Thomas Beard, James Odell and Thomas Warman. Their terms were for one, two and three years, respectively, so that one commissioner should be elected each year. In 1824, after several men had succeeded to the office of commissioner, a change was made and a board consisting of justice of the peace from the several townships, was substituted for the board of commissioners. This continued until 182, when the commissioners' court was re-established. The first commissioners' record extant are of June 22, 1812. Thi3 was not the first meeting, and the records and date of the first are lost. The

county treasurer had to his credit the

sum of $341.54 brought forward from some earlier meeting, he reported at this meeting. Receipts into the county treasury three years later, In 1815, were as follows: For town lots, $34.68; for store license, $86.86; slaves, $20, and men of color, $15. Lands of the county were then assessed as first, second and third rate, and the taxes on that of the first rate was $23.95; second rate, $292.63; third rate, $53.34. The total income of the county that year was about $1,200, not Including fines for breaches of the peace, asBault and battery, swearing, and similar offenses. These funds were in the hands of the sheriff and clerk. In 1816, bounties for wolf scalps were $25.00.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

ALWAYS WAS HER FAVORITE COLOR Toledo Blade. Germany wasn't a good sport while winning and she isn't a good sport now. Yellow should be the predominant color in any new flag the country may adopt.

HE'S GREAT LITTLE FINISHER Detroit Free Press. For Chairman of the Committee on Unfinished Business, Marshal Foch.

The Government's Default

From the Washington Post THE House of Representatives has passed a deficiency bill appropriating $45,044,500 the bulk of which is to meet the pay allotment made by soldiers and sailors under the war risk Insurance act and to pensioners of the civil war. There are 700,000 dependents of soldiers and sailors to whom is due an aggregate of $13,170,000 on pay allotments for April and for which checks should have been mailed to the beneficiaries on May 1. But the funds of the war risk bureau are depleted and these checks had to be held. On June 1 the allotments for May, amounting to $11,505,000, will be due and on July 1 the June allotments of $9,615,000 will be payable. These checks also must be withheld unless the deficiency appropriation becomes a law in the meantime. In addition to these large sums In which' the government finds Itself In default, there are special allowances made upon review of cases aggregating $3,375,000 and back payments amounting to $1,950,C00, all of which were overdue on May 1. This makes a grand total of $33,615,000 payable to the dependents of soldiers and, sailors on July 1. and a large part of which is now in arrears. . There are 25,000 pensioners of the civil war and the Spanish-American war whose checks will be due on June 4 and who cannot be paid until this deficiency bill becomes a law. The amount due them Is $3,000,000. The bill which passed the House on Thursday Is expected to pass the Senate within a few days. Senators as well as representatives have awakened to a realization of the situation and appreciate that it demands quick action. But before the bill becomes a law and the money appropriated by it is available, the president must attach iis signature to it. This cannot be done by cable or by

proxy; it is a function which the president must perform personally. There is no information as to when the president will return to the United States, but it is assumed that he will not leave the peace conference until the German commissioners have signed the treaty. The period allowed them in which to make final answer has been extended to May 29, and it is believed that the actual signing will take place between June 12 and 16. It the bill should be sent to the president for his r-lgnature, at least twenty days would have to be allowed for the round trip, so that the bill would not become a law until toward the end of June. During the debate in the House V Republicans and Democrats attempted to fasten the blame upon the opposition party for this condition of affairs. Democrats asserted that If the Republican senators had not resorted to a filibuster in the last congress this situation would not have arisen. In reply Republicans declared that If the president bad called congress into extra session in March or April, as he was urged to do, all would now be well. A partisan can take either view he chooses. Alibis are cheap, The fact is, however, that the government has miserably defaulted in its payments to the families of the men who went out to fight the nation's battles payments which by all considerations of justice and decency should have been met on the dot, since they involved the comfort and health of the wives, children, fathers and mothers of the soldiers and sailors who left them under the sacred trusteeship of the United States government It is no exaggeration to state that 2,000,000 people are' suffering inconvenience, if not actual want, through this default What a sorry comment upon be gratitude of the nation for the sacrifices of her sons!

Toad Blocks Traffic On Street In Chicago CHICAGO, May 27. Early pedestrians on State street this morning observed a little ring of persons gaz

ing intently at something on the side-!

walk. The group included a few snop

girls, a street sweeper, two messenger boys and a gray bearded man. The ring augmented rapidly, among the late comers being a policeman. For a time they blocked traffic, but their faces all wore smiles One of the shop girls squealed. "Aw, he won't hurt you," said one of the smallest messenger boys. "I ain't afraid to touch him. See!" The little shop girl squealed again. "Don't!" ehe cried. "You'll get " "I ain't seen one of them since I was a kid on the farm," put in the gray beard. "How do you suppose he ever got down here?" "What is it?" asked a late arrival.

peering over the shoulders of the

crowd: "Well, I'll be blowed! Who'd ever thought of seeing one of them on State street! I heard of one once that had been shut up in a rock and was at least 10,000 years old." There was a sudden movement in the street crowd. The street sweeper jabbered. "Look out! There he goes!" cried the policeman. From the midst of the group hopped a big, fat, brown, warty old toad, blinking in bewilderment.

"What is the matter with your old cat? She looks disconsolate these days." "Pap hurt her feelings dreadfully. Brung home a mouse trap last week. I told him not to do it. Cats has got their feelin's same as anybody else."

Mme. Reisner-Raskolnikoff, wife of the Bolshevist Commissary for Marine on the Esthonian front a poet has been appointed commissary of the

naval general staff.

The New York police have no complaints to make of unnecessary noise at Sunday ball games, which causes the revered Boston "Transcript" to ask: "How much noise is necessary at a ball game, anyhow?

Mrs. Lucy Mustard of Idaho asks for a divorce from William Mustard, which only goes to show that people do have queer names. It proves nothing else.

The best diplomacy: your own business."

"Attend to

CATARRHAL DEAFNESS MAY BE OVERCOME If you have Catarrhal Deafness or are growing hard of hearing, or have head noises, go to your druggist and get 1 ounce of Parmint (double strength), and add to it M pint of hot water and a little granulated sugar. Take 1 tablespoonful four times a day. This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head noises. Clogged nostrils - should open, breathing become easy and the mucus 6top dropping into the throat It is easy to prepare, costs little and is pleasant to take. Anyone losing hearing or who has Catarrhal Deafness or head noises should give this prescription a trial. Adv.

HAD NOT ENJOYED A MEAL IN TWO YEARS

Everything Soured on StomachHow Mr. King Found Relief. "I suffered ten years with stomach trouble and spent lots of money for medicine, but I never found any relief until T tnm m pi! i,Hn0. Xfflllrw TTmiil

sion. Until then. I had not enjoyed a meal in two years. Everything' soured on my stomach. I have used but flva bottles and feel that I am thoroughly cured." John W. King, Rensselaer, Ind. The blessed relief from stomach torture, and the real lasting benefit which Milks Emul6lon brings, are easily within the reach of every sufferer. It is so guaranteed that it costs nothing to try. - Milks Emulsion Is a pleasant, nutritive food and a corrective medicine. It restores healthy, natural bowel action, doing away with all need of pills and physics. It promotes appetite and quickly puts the digestive organs In shape to assimilate food. As a builder of

j flesh and strength. Milks Emulsion is

strongly recommended to run-down nervous people, and it has produced amazing results In many cases of tuberculosis of the lungs. Chronic stomach trouble and constipation are promptly relieved usually in one day. This is the only solid emulsion made.

ana o paiataDie mat it is eaten with a spoon like Ice cream. A truly wonderful medicine for weak, sickly children. No matter how severe your case, you are urged to try Milks Emulsion under this guarantee Take six bottles home with you, use it according to directions.

your money will be promptly refunded. Price 60c and $1.20 per bottle. The Milks Emulsion Co.. Term Haute. Ind.

jSold and guaranteed by ThistlethI walte's 8 Drug Stores. Adv.

HANG FOOD PROFITEERS.

(By Associated Press") GENEVA, May 27. The infuriated populace of Prague erected gallows in the principal streets, whither they conducted fifty-seven food profiteers and threatened to hang them unless they took the oath that they would sell their wares at reasonable prices, says a dispatch from that city. All the alleged profiteers took the oath.

GREAT FOR EMERGENCIES

Be In

San Cura Ointment Should

Every 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 Is guaranteed by Thistlethwaite's six drug stores to relieve any kind of piles,' eczema, tetter, salt rheuma, boiles, carbuncles, ulcers, all kinds of chronic sores, chillblains, and chapped hands, or money back.

It s a mighty handy remedy to have in the house in emergencies for bruises, burns, cuts or scalds, because it relieves the pain and is antiseptic and healing. It's a medicine chest In Itself a little family physician that is ever in demand. SOc, 60c and $1.20 a jar at Thistlethwaite'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 soft and velvety; will remove pimples and blackheads. It's the real soap for babies' tender akin, which mothers of infants should remember. 25 cents a cake at Thistlethwaites six drug stores. If your druggist does not have it. Bend to Thompson Medical Co- Titusvllle. Pa. Adv.

Good bye him some

to Army Chow. Give good Home eats . and

a fragrant cup of "Bona' ' Coffee He's done his bit and done it well, and earned the right to the best we have. Along with the other good things to eat he'll appreciate a fragrant cup of

IB oha Coffee

Its fragrant aroma will tickle his nostrils and give the "homey" atmosphere. His life in the open will make keen his appreciation of its delightful flavor. His home coming is a great event. Make

it an occasion out of the ordinary. When he eats serve the best serve "Bona."

PEIRCE 3 f-g ' 1 (BONA) i BONA nr ! r ! i Juri J Tj Jl

ii iti i i i i 'i i

H 1111 I I J ti

""J'EIKCt W

unitnm,

QM.PEIRCECOL

0. W. Force Co. Coffee Roasters Lafayttlt, Jai