Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 195, 29 May 1919 — Page 6

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XHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGBAM - THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1919.

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Permanent Highway Improvements Speaking i of; permanent highway improvements, the' city and county officials should place the emphasis on Jperrrtanent", because an. outlay of thVpublicfunds always should entail satisfactory resulfs"and"if tnese results are not of aw enduring character, the money, broadly speaking, is wasted. This principle should be uppermost in the minds of public bodies that 'authorize the making and payment of public improvements, and particularly so of highways. A new understanding of the vital importance of highways not only from a local but also from a national standpoint . has taken possession of the national .min'd.: . Until a few years ago, we looked

upoii road making as an auxiliary of our city and county: business,' but "today we realize that, instead of being a secondary concern, it is one of the most vital items in the public administration. Highways are the arteries of trade. For a long time wVlooked Upon the railroads as the only essential means of transportation in the United States, forgetful of the fact that rail lines in the very nature of the case cannot reach every hamlet and -isolated district of our nation. Roads are the mediums that link outlying districts with the county seat'and the railroad stations. If the roads are gobd,' the markets of the world are brought nearer to a community. If they are bad, they entail increased cost of transportation to get farm products to the market and retard the growth and development of a community. ,

If highways are an advantage to the community, it follows in logical sequence that the better the road the greater the prosperity. Now a road is good not because it has been temporarily made, so, but because the improvement will be a lasting one " It is the height of folly to waste thousands of dollars, for instance, in Wayne county on the improvement of roads that in a course of five or ten yeaps must again receive attention that will cosjthousands of dollars for repairs. It is good business judgment to make an improvement of prmanent material that will

stand the ravages of

pensive one, but this easily can be answered by f

pointing to the fact that even if the initial outlay , is great," the amount of money necessary for re-j placement arid repair will be very small, so thatj In the long run the original high cost is offset by ? the small repair bills that follow. . Ten miles of j brick highway in one year are preferable toj

thirty miles of macadam that will have to be re-j paired within the course of eighteen months. An j inspection of any of the recently made macadam j highways of the county will convince anyone that j

the day is gone when this form of material can be satisfactorily used for our road system.. Permanence must be the element which our county officials must seek in authorizing new road improvements in this county. It is a short sighted policy to construct roads that are not hard-surfaced. Too often our public officials au

thorize improvements that give them argument to

show that their administration has been eager j to make improvements for the county. An ad-j ministration that orders the construction of tenj miles of brick highway has more to boast of than j an administration that constructs twenty or thirty miles, of improvements which probably will not remain in first class condition as long as they are in office.

The Doctors and the War No one can look at the war record of the physicians of Wayne county without concluding that the members of the profession did their bit grandly in the World war. Nineteen of their calling answered the summons to service. Many of them are still in foreign camps or garrisons at home. The sacrifice which they brought cannot be blinked by their most severe critics. The prac-

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS 'DAILY TALK

BEAUTIFUL THINGS There are millions of unlovely things in this world hut there are billions of beautiful things. The beautiful things shine right out from the unlovely things. , There is beauty in about everything If you will but look for it. But you will' never see It if you do not look for it. Self-evident as this fact is, there is still a mass of wholesome sense In the statement. There are many people who seem to delight in picking out all the ' unfavorable qualities of a man or woman, and throwing them right out into the light. Soon these people never are able to see any good point in anyone. But the person who always looks tor. the beautiful in life and character, rarely sees the unbeautiful. . How inspiring beautiful things are! . Beautiful characteristics about people. Beautiful pictures, beautiful streets, beautiful homes, beautiful clothes, beautiful flowers, beautiful trees how the very thought of each of these things lifts one right out of mediocrity. ' No doctor or genius ever Invented a tonic so good as Just the habit of loving beautiful things. And the time to learn to love beautiful things is NOW. , Many a man has put off acquiring this habit until added years could not grasp the fascination back of the things that earlier might have led him to appreciate beautiful things. : . It is fine and admirable for people to love beautiful clothes, beautiful works of art, beautiful music anything beautiful., . It is the beautiful taste In a man or a woman that gives to life Its serenity. ' .' It is enthusiasm for beautiful things that, rests tired bodies and discouraged minds and that lifts a person right up and which "plasters smiles of happiness all over their faces. . Beautiful things never cost too much.

How Did Children Memorize Lessons in the Olden Times?

AN ACE IN THE MAKING (By Bertha KnatvoldMellett)

(Bertha Knatvold Melletr, a maaraulne writer, Is the wife of Lowell Mellett, formerly an Indlanapolin newspaper man. He wan a war correspondent and la now in France.) When ' I reac about Eddie Rickenbacker bringing down his twenty-first German plane, there came to mind the last time I saw him. He was up be-

I for the exteTtmnranpniiB trihimo whlrh

tice which a physician builds up is the result of i had been instituted in the big dining

service and the wearing ef

fect of the 'elements. No road' should be -laid down in Wayne county that is not made with this X'rinciple in view. I The county will gain more if a short stretch of road costing $50,000 is made of brick than if many miles are constructed of ma

cadam or other material that will require con

stant repair and attention. A good example of t he value-of -permanent road construction is seen in the brick pavement of Main street . in Richmond. This pavement Vas put down many years ago, and yet it has withstood heavy traffic and constant-wear. If Wayne county a decade ago had hard-surfaced portions of the public highways with permanent material instead of macad

am, we would now have the beginning of a good hard-surfaced county highway system. The wear -which county highways will receive in the future will be much greater than in the past, for motor vehicles of all kinds are increasing in number and the loads which motor, trucks are carrying are constantly increasing in tonnage, causing heavier wear and making greater demands' on the surface of the roads. For that reason it is an absolute necessity that Wayne county at once begin' using brick or other substantial material for the construction of its highways. It is argued that a brick pavement is an ex-

years of hard work in which not only his experience and ability but also his personality plays an important part. As soon as he leaves the city, his patients are forced to seek other practitioners, and often they hesitate in breaking the new relationship between doctor and patient to resume treatments from their old "family physician." That so many of our physicians entered the service speaks high of their devotion to country and flag. It ranks with the patriotism of the boys who left the home fireside to fight for the democratization of the world. The community,

in paying a deserved tribute to the fighters of Wayne county, should not overlook the work of the men of the medical profession. No single calling was called on for so many of its number. No profession was so signally in a position to do good to the wounded fighters than the doctors. The very nature of their vocation imposed the bringing of a heavy sacrifice. That they brought it in such large numbers and with such good grace is commendable.

Dinner Stories

cabin of the St, Paul and was just beginning to register dumb and help

less anger before the British contention that his name had an enemy alien sound, and what substantial reason could he show for having come to England anyway. There were three American aces who took the St. Paul over that trip Thaw and Johnson and Prince.

America was not yet in the war, and posal or a weather report?"

of the Foreign Legion. The chevaliers of the air are the knights errant of the war, anyway. But those of the Lafayette Escadrille carried with them at that time an atmosphere of ro-

their English opposition to things un-Anglo-Saxon. I've been wondering a little these last few days if lists of his German conquests, written In his own hand, do not possibly find their way back to the position to things unAnglo-Saxon.

A child who goes to school In the quiet, orderly, and efficient presentday schools would be totally lost amid the babble and confusion of the first schools taught in Wayne county. For they were what is termed -"loud schools." Practically every lesson was memorized by repitition in a loud voice, and a school was considered ef ficient when every one of the 20 or 30 pupils was reciting at the top of his voice. Early educators argued that this

system of instruction was best, be

cause sound trained the memory and gave inspiration: children would be

trained to think among the noise and confusion of later life, and the recitation of some pupils did not distract

the o tners.

It was also argued that the method was a guarantee against idleness and

sham study. Schooling was expen

sive, and the teacher must know that

the children were studying. An early

:teacn6r would sometimes say to a

quiet pupil: "Speak up, let us hear

what you are saying."

Later the schools became partially loud and partially silent. Only the spelling lesson was , prepared aloud. The first school on the silent plan

was taught about 1820 by Maria Hol-

man, the daughter of an educated

English immigrant, at Jacksonburg.

Isaac Hiatt was the first teacher to introduce the silent plan into the part of the county where- Richmond

now stands. The loud method did jnot wholly give way until 1835 or so.

when it was wholly abandoned in favor of silent schools.

EIGHT SHIPS ARE '

READY FOB RUSSIA

(By Associated Press) PARIS, May 29. The allied council

on food supply now has eight ships

loaded with pork products and flour at Helsiagfors, Hango, Danzig and other Baltic ports, and these cargoes

could be delivered in Petrograd within seven days. Their delivery, however, will have to await joint orders from the allied powers, and these are not as yet forthcoming, pending the out

come of events in Russia.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

Somebody has written George Barr McCutcheon, the author, asking him if there really is a country in Europe named Graustark. No, there isn't, but there is a country in America named the United States, although you hear little about in the Paris dispatches.

NO! IT'S A SECRET Dear Roy: Will you please tell me what kind of a glass a wine glass is going to be after July 1 when the doctor orders medicine to be taken three times daily in a wine glass of water? CLAIRE. Summer resort poems which make "peaches'! rhyme with "beaches" will not be accepted this year.

"You are the sunshine of my life." "Oh. Jack!" "You reign alone in my heart." "Darling!" "With you at my side I could weather any storm."

excuse me. JacK, out is this a pro-

Whcre the carefully trained child

learns bad manners is a standing mys

tery to Us watchful parents. These anxious rearers of the young are often

.ieard propounding this query, but

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years -- Ago Today

Walter Marshall Clute of Chicago, George Julian Zolnay of St. Louis, and E. T. Hurley or Cincinnati, were appointed on the jury of awards for the Mary T. R. Foulke prize for the Richmond Art association exhibit. '

WRITE YOUR OWN CAPTION FOR THIS Dear Roy: The following apeared not long ago in one of the leading papers of Providence, R. I.: WANTED Fifteen girls. Apply Young & Wilde, at 10:00 A. M. I realize now that Providence may be a live one. Tommy Atkin, J. H.

What has become of the old-fashioned cookery book which always started out: "Grease the pan with plenty of fresh lard?"

Walter Runge and Ray LIchtenfels purchased the Richmond bowling alleys.

A large clas3 was initiated into the Modern Woodmen.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

THEY KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS Dallas News. If the Germans do not sign the peace treaty there

will be nothing for the allies to do but name Marshal Foch as receiver for the German Empire.

uiuuv.d auu ui6u nu'cutuio mat . ; generally witnout result. Unce in a as perceptible to the senses as the j while, however, out of the deep silence swing of rapiers. The way Ricken-1 comes an illuminatine answer.

backer watched them and sought their

society showed more than the interest of the racer on ground for the racer in the air. But whatever high and patriotic resolves were in his mind, the British examiners at the port of Lindon were

concerned with facts easier to put the ! clean

Johnny furnished one just the other

day. He had just finished a particularly toothsome dish of apple pudding which he ate to the last morsef. Then despite the fact that there was company at the table, he deliberately

picked up his saucer and licked it

IT OUGHT'A BE PROHIBITED Baltimore American. . Those who are now drinking the so-called new beer are prone to wonderment that there should be waged any fight to make it legal.

THE ANVIL CHORUS IS ON THE JOB Knoxville Journal and Tribune. It i3 said the president will come back and make himself heard on his peace negotiations. He'll have to talk mighty loud if he does.

. 'N WORSE IS ON WAY IN OHIO Houston Post. .. Bar silver has jumped to $1.19 an ounce. "Bar" everything else that had any popularity seems to be ascending in the same proportion.

The War Debt

1 development of which will create

,1,

greater degree of

From the Washington Post.

--.t ik'? fnr financing the war debt of the United I Prosperity in future years. This is work for the present,

I- qtatM are. now occupying the attention of congres- aad the people should be free to undertake it with as few

J- i ar.ri u ia armminrpd that in the near ! incumbrances

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future bills will be introduced with the purpose of establishing a definite policy respecting this subject. It is the part of wisdom to fix such a policy early in order that the

national finances may be adjusted to it and that the people may know how much they will be called upon to pay each year. There is a disposition in some quarters to pay off

as possible. Every new industry estab

lished, every new mine opened, every railroad built will add to the wealth and happiness of future generations. Those who are here now are building for those to come after. At the same time there is no desire to shirk the burdens of the present or shift them to the shoulders of others. A sinking fund must be established and ar-

the war debt at a rate which would wipe it out in 25 or 30 i rangements made at once for beginning the cancellation

years, which is a very admirable purpose if it can be i carried into effect without imposing too great a burden i

upon the people. But the payments must not te too heavy; neither must the bulk of the debt be saddled upon ruture. generations. A moderate . policy somewhere between these extremes should be adopted. Future generations- ought by right to participate in the payment of this" debt, because it was incurred in the protection of thelr interests as much if not more than in protecting the present generation from becoming vassals of the Hun. Those who come after will live in a better and'freer world because of this war, the sacrifices Df which were made by those who live in the present. They and theifchlTdren and their children's children will reap the' benefits -won by"lhe defeat of the enemy, and they should he and will be willing to pay their share of the money cost. The present generation has paid in Wood as -well as money. Consequently sentimental reaFons should not be permitted to influence Congress against arranging for war payments to extend over a long period of years. : ; There also are practical reasons why the burden of (he present day-Bhould be made as light as is consistent with eood financing. A new industrial and economic era

of the was debt. Interest payments will be about S900,-

000,000 a year. It is estimated that in addition to the bonds already sold about $8,000,000,000 will have to be floated to meet the remainder of the war obligations. After this increase in the national debt the demands of the treasury must be met from current revenues.

It is the opinion of experienced legislators that for 25 years or more it will be impossible to keep the expenses of the government below $3,000,000,000 a year, aDd some are of the belief that the national debt can be reduced at the rate of $1,000,000,000 a year. This would seem like a tremendous burden to place upon the people, scarcely warranted by the conditions. At that rate the entire war debt would be cleaned up Inside of SO years. There Is due the United States about $10,000,000,000 in loans from foreign governments. Practically all, and possibly every dollar of it, will be collectible, but since the borrowers for many year3 will be in worse financial condition that this country, no definite reliance can be placed upon income from this source, for the present. The debtor nations will have to be given time to adjust their finances. The United States must square itself for the task of paying off its own war debt, and beginning it at once. Good business Judgment, with proper consideration

finger on. and to their minds less lia

blp to change, than the air castles of j a future American ace. i "What was he going to England for?" , ! Well, Rickenbacker had heard where he could get a Sunbeam car with exceptional engine. Black mark number . one, and business of deep thought by the sleuths of the port. Wasn't it known by the suspect that all automobiles, engines and appurtenances thereto in the United Kingdom were the property of the realm, and even to look with desire on any of them was an offense in a citizen and a crime in a foreigner?

What was his real name and where was his father born? Rickenbacker, Switzerland Black marks number two and three. About that" time our own interrogation began, and we were made to feol so deeply apologetic for having come

to England that we forgot our countryman of the Sunbeam car until we were well on the boat train waiting to pull out for London. Then my husband began to check off to see who had got through and who had not. And he missed Rickenbacker. Bock he went to the boat to see what he could do. The inquisition was still going on. "Here, I am an American citizen," he began. But somebody who knew The ropes stopped him.

"If you want to help Rickenbacker and keep yourself from coming under suspicion clear out!" "But up in London our association is influential " "The less anybody tries to put any influence they have, or think they have, into effect, the better they will get along thest days. And the better

it is for those they may- attempt to help. Influence is chiefly useful in war time for suggesting questions as to how it was come by and why it is used." So with that sage advice creating a new stage of consciousness within him, my husband returned to the boat train and we started inland toward London. Rickenbacker's ordeal lasted nine days. At the end of that time he appeared, an automobile racer thoroughly chastened of all desire to acquire either any Sunbeams or Rolls Royce, any engine of whichever ilk, or any parts or patterns of such engines, cars, tops or bodies. That he wasn't chastened out of his name and his good Swiss ancestry wasn't the fault of the

British guardians of the port, I feel

sure, but that they came against something even more fundamental than

"Johnny!" exclaimed his mother, after a horrified gasp. "Who did you ever see do a thing like that?" "Dogs," replied Johnny.

OFFER IS REFUSED

LEXINGTON. Ky., May .29. Commander J. L. Ross, the Canadian turfman, has refused John E. Madden's offer of $50,000 for Sir Barton, winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Withers stakes, according to announcement at Madden's office (ere today. Madden bred Sir Barton and sold him in his two-year-old form to Mr. Ross for $15,000.

The erection of the new building for the F. & N. Lawn Mower company was begun. INTEREST SCHOOL BONDS IS INCREASED Bonds' for $42,000, bearing four and three-fourths per cent interest will be issued by the city school trustees for the purpose of purchasing sites for the new Junior high schools, II the plans of the board are adopted by the city council tonight. Originally .the bonds were intended to bear four and one-half per cent, but upon recommendation5 of the State Tax Commissioners, the rate of interest was increased owing o the difficulty that would be found in selling the bonds ata the lower, rate. - The bonds will be sold as soon as possible after the proposal is approved by the city council, and plans for the new buildings will be begun at once. . Owing to the rapidly increasing value of the proposed sites, the land will be purchased immediately although the erection of the first of new buildings on West Seventh street will be begun before next fall.

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has dawned, opening up new possibilities pf human acti- for present and future generations, should be the guide i 'VeteRSON'S OIN vity, demanding capital and energy and intelligence, the in the formulation ofrthis policy. JA bU hox (or 35 canta. Adv.

FOR ITCHING ECZEMA, OLD SORES AND PILES

"I guarantee my ointment," says Peterson of Buffalo, "to sure eczema: to stop the itching at once and any reliable druggist will cheerfully refund your money if PETERSON'S OINTMENT doesn't do everything I say it will do." William A. Carley of Franklin, N. Y., is surely a wise man. He writes: "I used PETERSON'S OINTMENT on a little boy suffering terribly with eczema. It did the work." Then there is Alex. LoutteL a brave fireman of Buffalo, who is glad to write as follows: "I had an old sore on my leg for many years. The best doctors failed. PETERSON'S OINTMENT entirely healed the sore quickly." And from over in Canada cornjs

Calling you to the woods Tand lakes of Maine, where game fish rise to the fly and guides paddle silently over still waters. Calling you to the White and Green Mountains.

with their noble outlooks, magnificent roads, e:olf.

and charming society.

Calling you to its seashore, north and south of Plymouth Rock Bar Harbor, Cape Cod, Narragansett, Martha's Vineyard, , Nantucket. New England is one joyous land of vacation pleasures and sports, sunshine and youth. THE RESORTS OF NEW YORK STATE-the Adirondack Mountains, Thousand Islands, Niagara Falls, Saratoga Springs, Lakes George and Champlain are everywhere known as outdoor playgrounds of surpassing beauty and historic interest. ON THE NEW JERSEY COAST-from Cape May to New York Bay, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove forty worldfamous beaches with every seaside attraction, and, seemingly, all the people in the world. The United States Railroad Administration invites you to travel and offers Summer Excursion fares. Your local ticket agent, or the nearest Consolidated Ticket Office, will hel n nlan vnnr trin

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