Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 196, 30 May 1919 — Page 6

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coming down; legislators are apprehensive of the attitude of the people when they discover their

$60,000,000 will not pay for 4,800 miles of roads. -'This is the situation in a nutshell. But we!

believe it is a small compliment to the intelligence of the voters to assume that they do not know that prices have gone up ; that thgy do not realize that building programs must conform to the new 'state of affairs, and that they will be willing to accept in lieu of 3,000 miles of good roads 4,800 miles of bad ones. "The people of the statewant roads, but good roads ; not highways which in a -few years will crumble away, setting the state back in the mud and wasting the money they have appropriated. A cheap road is no road, and no one understands this better than the man who continually uses it. Bad roads mean huge repair bills, and it is to avoid this very thing that automobilists are standing the cost of the program. "The roads should be made of the best materials and laid by efficient workmen. We could forgive the misapplication of funds, conceivably, but not the construction of highways in so haphazard a fashion that in a few years we would be back in the same old rut. . "Let Illinois roads be good ones. Prices are up. It's no good trying to avoid a fact with makeshifts. The people understand that prices are up and are not going to lay the blame of high prices

on the state officials. -The campaign for highways is not merely for temporary relief but for all time. A poor start is worse than nothing. Build good roads.'"

Delay Action on tfye Proposed Highway Improvement Petitions On June 2 the county commissioners will pass on highway improvements amounting to between $800,000 and $900,000. 5 The commissioners delayed action on the petitions once before, setting June 2 as the date for f&ial decision. Under the law, , the commissioners may again postpone action. A second postponement is in order. It will,serve the public inteiest. t In the meantime the commissioners and the citizens interested in the construction of enduring roads in Wayne county should ascertain facts regarding the materials out of which permanent roads are constructed.

To learn the facts, the arguments presented

by salesmen should be discarded. The commis

eioners should not be undar the impression left by the paid representatives of companies manufacturing highway materials. The only manner in whi-th data on permanent roads can be, obtained is b$ investigating highways" that have endured har3 wear, heavy traffic, and have been tested thoroug hly in the course of years The resistance which a road surface has given to traffic for a number of years is the only reliable test of the material which should enter into the construction of a permanent road. Salesmen adduce many arguments, practical tnd theoretical, for the material they hope to have adopted for new roads. The soundness of their arguments, however, is not to be sought in the persuasive ability of ti e salesmen, but in the actual resistance of the material after it has been. subjected for a number cf years to the wear of traffic. This is the element of the argument that must be scrutinized closely, and the conclusions can be drawn only after the commissioners have visited the highways and made first hand observations. Until such an investigation has been made, the commissioners should postpone action of the expenditure of between $800,030 and $900,000, for roads. Delay to make poss:lle a study of the best highway materials obtainable is to be commended in this instance. Haste may lead to an unwise expenditure of public f uaids and result in the building of roads that instead of being permanent will require constant repairs. Don't Cheapen the Roads Apropos of the highway sitaation in Wayne county where wide awake citizems are demanding that permanence be the guiding principle of the county commissioners in authorizing road improvements is an editorial in the Chicago Tribune sounding a warning against disposition in Illinois to make "temporary'' road improvements. The stand of the Tribune is substantially that of the public minded men of Wayne county. It deprecates any expenditure of the public funds for roads that will crumble away in a few years. It insists that if roads are built, they should be built for centuries. Says the" Tribune: "There is a movement in the legislature to

cheapen road construction. All forehanded citi- maybe he uses sign language

; I zens should vigorously protest against such an j Detroit Free Press.

unwise policy. "Apparently the basis of the cheap road suggestion is this: The voters approved a $60,000,000 bond issue to pay for the first 4,800 miles of the new road program ; the voters were assured that the money would be prudently used and that 4,800 miles of highways would be forthcoming;

since the election has come the armistice and the j

consequent industrial turbulence which completely upset the market in building materials ; prices have gone up and there is little chance of their

Loving Hands Will Pay Tribute to Hero Dead in Resting Plaves Over Sea, While People at Home Decorate Graves of Men of Former Wars

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ROAD IMPROVEf.lENT IS TO BE LIMITED There is not much possibility otY state roads being built in Wayne county this year, except the unlmproTed stretch of the National road in Cen

ter township, said lour members ot the

state highway commission. In Kicnmond Thursday night. They met seTeral men ot the county interested in good roads to talk oyer the local situation. Director Wright, Chief Engineer H. K. Bishop, Earl Crawford and John Oliphant were the members of the commission. The county commissioners, the officials of the Commercial club, three county officers, W. O. Jones. Howard Brooks and Howard Horton, and good roads committee ot the Commercial club, met the com- ' mission men. The commission is making an inspection of the Inter-county roads of the state, and went on to M uncle, Winchester and Indianapolis Friday. They said that they had money to build about 100 miles of road this year, and that they would probably try to pave the National road from Richmond to Terre Haute, without trying to do any other work this year. The Connersviile-Winchester road, which would run through Liberty and Richmond, was not discussed by the s commission, although it was said that they were here partly to Inspect the possibilities for this road.

Discouraging the Corning of Carnivals

The police authorities deprecate the coming of carnivals to Richmond, not out of a spirit of opposition to wholesome amusement but because they usually give occasion for complaints from persons who have been cheated or robbed. Among the effects of a member of the last carnival company to show here were found a number of valuables, taken, the police say, from persons who were in attendance. Carnival companies usually have a number of "attractions" offering amusement, if one may designate it as such, which are in violation of the state law. Gambling, games of chance, and unwholesome shows often are listed among the features.' ; Organizations under whose auspices carnival companies operate in the city, police believe, no longer receive a percentage f the receipts from the shows but are paid a lump sum by the carnival management, the name of the organization being used in return as an inducement to attract crowds. This opens a wide avenue for irregularities, virtually permitting the managers of the carnival to go to extremes to make money out of the venture. . Richmond has its quota of good amusement houses, which year in and out offer legitimate entertainment in return for reasonable admission prices. A patronage of these places is preferable to th advent of traveling carnival shows which demand police supervision and will take advantage of the slightest laxity to offer diversions that are in violation of the state laws.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

American women at American womens hospital at Luzancy, France, decorating graves of U. S. boys The thoughts of thousands of Americans on Memeroial Day will be far across the sea where the boys who gave their all for world freedom are lying. But there is no need to feel that the memory of these heroes will not be honored. -American organizations still doing reconstruction work in France and scores of French organizations have laid plans to decorate the American graves to show again their appreciation, not only for the sacrifice these boys have made, but for the sacrifice the mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts of the heroes made. This photo, recently received, shows how the graves have been kept up and are decorated frequently.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

WHY ASK US? I Marie W. writes in: "What magazine has the best rejection slips? I j

think the ones 'Collier's sends out are just too cute for anything. 'Life' has some good ones. My greatest ambition is to get one from 'The Century.' "

BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF LEDGER Minneapolis Tribune. ' Ohio is thinking of buying 7,000 acres of coal lands to save $400,000 a year on the state's coal bill. Is it taking its cue from what Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Burleson "saved" for Uncle Sam?

GARDEN NOTES Where you expected a fine crop of French peas you get a mess of vegetable oysters, and where you allowed only a little room for the string beans, figuring they would grow up in the air, you get a -fine crop of cucumbers, which crawl all over the ground and In through the kitchen door and wind themselves around the pipes under the sink. The cucumbers upset everything else in the garden except the watermelons. In the role of string bean the cucumber is a failure. It is customary to work in the garden hard all day Monday, that being the day upon which to start every garden. On Tuesday you work four hours. On Wednesday you work two hours and then play golf. On Thursday you work a half hour and on Friday ten minutes. On Saturday you look out of the kitchen window to see if the garden is still there and on Sunday, of course, you cannot work in the garden. Two weeks afterward the neighbors have borrowed all the tools and you cant work in the garden even if you want to. When a man makes a garden it is like playing the ukulele or putting together puzzle pictures. He has got to keep at it constantly. It is a poor armistice garden that will not yield three or four crooked radishes and a couple of sad looking green tomatoes in the course of a season.

We seem to have a feeling in our bones that we'll never travel to Europe on a blimp. Every man can tell The truth if he wants to until he goes trout fishing.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK "COULD HAVE" How often you hear the remark: "1 could have done that myself!" But, of course, the one who makes that sort of remark never does anything. Those who DO, offer no excuses, have no hiding places, care for no "pulls." They do the job, not minding what the results, and pass along. Most certainly there are scores of things that you could have done yourself before somebody else went ahead and did them had you simply gone ahead and done them. Also, those who do, never boast about what they do. What they do, does that for them. The idle days never return. Wasted hours die deader than do the dead leaves that fall at Autumn. I like that phrase about coming into Port grandly! I like to associate with the fellow who has done something of note and worth. I do not like the Could Have sort Nor do you. Each of us has within him, hidden ever so secretly, some inspiring art able to make the world a little better each single day. And that little art is to do some thing which we feel that we can do and then, thrilled at that act, go ahead to bigger things. So that we come to be the examples for those who dare only to state, "I COULD HAVE done that myself!" You never know what you can do till you db it. Then you immediately pass on to other things, still more difficult, but which may look all too impossible. Everything is impossible up to the moment when you decide that it isn't! There is work for all. And most of it can be done a reasonable part by YOU according to your will and ability.

MUSIC RECITAL AT EARLH AM SATURDAY

. The music dspartment of Earlham : college, under the direction of Miss Laura Gaston, will give a recital Saturday evening, May 31, at 8 o'clock in Lindley hall. The public is invited to attend. The program for the concert is as follows: 1 Hunting Song .. . Mendelssohn Chant flu Voyageur. . . .Paderewsk! Marie Bond 2 Nocturne ............ Leschitizky Helen Roller 3 Andante Soro Norwegian Peasant Dance Harberbier Letha Adams 4 Vocal Solo 5 Melodie Frontini Tarentella Moszkowski Lueile Loofbourrow 6 Vox Poluli . Sgambatl Lucile Johnson 7 Violin Solo ..Hilda Kirkman 8 Lies Hirondelles ....... . . . . Godard Gladys Longnecker 9 Nocturne Schutt . Elma Hemby 10 Vocal Solo 11 Etude in five four rythm Kronke To Spring Grieg Agnes McFail -

Liberty Power Company Rate Is Authorized

When Did Farmers of Wayne County Form a Society?

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Dinner St

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There's no doubt Colonel House has a good deal to j

say about what shall be done in Paris, but when does he ever say it? WOODY'LL GET HIS OWN MEDICINE Baltimore American. Lively times are coming when the Senate starts in to apply the principle of self-determination. DOES JIM THINK THAT IS NEWS? Toledo Blade. Former Senator J. Hamilton Lewis says the country wants Burleson out.

The Frying Pan and the Fire

From the Cincinnati Enquirer. AS a political system Bolshevism is so foreign to our democratic ideals as to be all but incomprehensible by us. Our opinions of it alter day by day, according to the views of the interpreter who tries to explain it to us. About its central principle that the proletariat must be the governing class, we are no longer left in doubt, but how that principle is carried out in vctual application is difficult to see. , Our latest and clearest conception of its application to a single question has been derived from a recent article by one of the innumerable people who pretend to ' speak with authority, but about whose right to do so we know absolutely nothing. This man's portrayal has, at least, the virtue of being possible to understand. The principal problem of the Bolshejiki, he declares,

was to gain the approval of the peasants, who compose

90 per cent of the. population of Russia. 5 In order to win it they gave them the right to appropriate as much of the estates of the nobles as they wanted for themselves. "Exploit the old exploiters," they commanded. "Expropriate the expropriators." The peasants took them at their word, supposing that their title would be valid. To their astonishment, however, they discovered that the government itself had seized all land3 and that their rights were only those of tenants, who were expected to raise provisions for the governing class, the proletariats! 1 . At .wc,isvni tdT UTAM tfk A DaM ftl flat

Ana ior uuesso (Jiuiiijiuua -"w - money! Finding themselves tricked and being too

The second course of the table d'hote was being served. "What is this leathery stuff?" demanded the diner. "That, sir, is filet of sole," replied the waiter. "Take it away," said the diner, "and see if you can't get me a nice tender piece from the upper part of the boot, with the buttons removed."

The Richmond Horticultural association was a real Wayne county pioneer movement For it was formed in 1858, three wears before the state association was formed, and it is believed that the state association was modelled upon the Richmond society. At the first meeting, on December A 1 CQ To -r i ts FlTim i -n or tit o a n Tkvi r t-

ed chairman and J. H. Huttori, secre- r" ext to God s book of talks and

tary. At the next meeting, J. H. Hut- Nuings, i wait each evening to read

ton was elected permanent president i your most helpful words. I am not

and John J. Conley first vice presi- ashamed to tn vmi that t

The George Mathew Adams Daily Talk co Editor, The Richmond Palladium.

soul more clearly now, having read

dent. Among the early members were T T T - . n ':m T C- V. T

.Jililll LiiiUUaSlKr. 11U21LL1 XI. 31111111. U.I

C. Ratlift, W. L. Taylor, Sylvester j m yur talks just what I have tried Johnson, Cornelius Ratliff, J. R. Sid-1 to analyze of my own self. I know dall, George Iliff, W. S. Reid, Benja-.that every good comes from God, and min Hill, D. P. Hollaway, J. M. Bulla, it is a blesslng rom God to know th

The objects of 'the associaUon s us in the right way.

shrewd to accept such pay, they withheld their crops from the market, and the governing class was face to face with want. Two plans to meet the emergency were tried. In the first place, their soldiery, the ruthless Red Guards, were sent through the country to seize the crops by force; and, in the second place, the so-called 'Committee of Poor Peasants," the scum and offscouring of the villages, were organized to spy upon the farmers and betray their hidden Btores of grain to the governmental authorities. It was a very primitive method quite in accordance with the intellectual limitations of the uneducated, in

experienced and bigoted soldiers, sailors and working I

people who had seized the reigns of power. Because of its simplicity and directness it worked. But, while it sesecured the crops, it maddened the peasants and they burst into wild remonstrance and revolt. All over the country open rebellions were organized, but of course, were suppressed by ruthless pow-er, and today, while those millions ,of ignorant farmers are helpless beneath an irresistible military tyranny, their souls are on fire with hatred of their oppressors and their scheme of government It is not to be presumed, we think, that any political institution can permanently exist over such' a volcano, however inactive It. may be at present. The conviction on the part of a hundred million such people that, in exchanging the tyranny of the Czar for . that of the Bolshevik!, they have not gained, but lost; that they have, in fact "jumped out of the frying pan into the fire." is not a good foundation on which to build a political system

"It's no good, uncle," said the ambi

tious youth. "If you won't give me more money at your place I'm going over to get a job at the new store." "Don't be silly, my lad!" admonished the old merchant. .'They've only just started. How d'you know they won't go to smash in six months? You've a job with me for life. We're firmly established and thoroughly sound financially." "Well, if they do smash, I daresay I'll get another job somewhere else." "Ah, my boy, remember the old adage, 'A rolling stone gathers no moss. " J "Moss? Moss? Who the deuce wants to gather moss? Where's the market for moss these days?"

'were given ns mutual improvement

and education of the people in agriculture, and the meetings were devoted to the discussion of leading questions affecting the growing of fruits. The work ot the society and the merit of the members soon brought Richmond into notice as a center of fruit and flower growing. For five years from 1875 to 1880, the Botani

cal Index, a national botanical magazine, was published here. On July 24, 1873, a society was organized at Cambridge City, which was called the "Union Horticultural Society of Jackson township." Joseph Vestal, Isaac L. Whitely, Silas Huddleston, B. F. Maxwell and Eli D. Sprigg were among the founders of this society.

What is known as the Zabern affair, occurred in the town of Zabern, Alsace, in November, 1913, and was the culmination of the brutal treatment of the populase by the officers and soldiers of the 99th Prussian infantry, commanded by Colonel von Reuter.

Tennis Shoes and Oxfords Up-Stairs For less New Method Colonial BIdg.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

Your

I talk on "My Idea of God" was of God

itself, and the real reason so many people do not show and feel his love ever Is because they do not take time to know him as he is. Each day I find I know God better and have given myself up to Him for He knoweth all things. A few months back I wanted to hear of a dear friend, one that had been gone several years. I knew and felt that I must get closer to God, and to pray in faith was what I did. And I know now that it Is the only true and happy way to trust always in His love. You could not write your little talks if you had not been given the power

from Him. And I do not doubt you are trying to live, to show others that it is God's love that worketh tn you. Keep on with your talks. They are priceless and above powers. Talk some time about people who pretend to be so different from what their real lives are, and what little value it is to the real price they pay. A. READER.

William Taylor.an Indianapolis lawyer, was In the city and announced his intentions of becoming a candidate in the Republican nominations for governor. Wabash college defeated Earlham college in a baseball game on Reid field. Memorial celebrations were held. The Starr Piano team defeated the Y. M. C. A. baseball team, and the Athletics defeated the Easthaven team.

To save the life of one of the 2,940 troops it was bringing here, the transport Von Steuben, formerly the German liner Kronprinz Wilhelm, was stopped in midocean the other day. While it eased over a long running sea for forty minutes its Burgeon removed the appendix of Sergeant Tony Bernham of Weiser, Idaho, of the 120th machine gun battalion

The Liberty Light Heat & Power company, which supplies power to towns around Richmond, and to may rural communities, has been authorized to charge consumers rates of 10 cents per kilowatt hour for domestic Bervice and 5 cents per . W. H. for power, by a ruling of the State Public Service commission made public Friday. The company Is granted the right to make a minimum monthly charge of $1.50 for domestic service per customer for two or more on the same transformer, and $2.00 per customer where only one customer is served. One dollar per horse power Is the minimum monthly charge for power service, and all lines more than 100 feet from a high voltage line to the consumer's house are to be paid for by the consumer. Robert Ashe, president of the company, said that these rates had been in force for several years, and the only purpose of getting them authorized by the commission was that they might be put into effect when services of the company were extended. The hearing was held May 14, and ho one appeared to protest the company's plea that the rates be allowed.

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Now is a Good Time to Drive Out Catarrh

It Way Not Be Troubling You During the Warm Weather, but It Is Still In Your Blood. Catarrh is not only a disgusting disease but is a dangerous one, and you should never let up on your efforts to get it out of your system until you have done it thoroughly. Get rid of it, whatever it costs you in trouble and money. Mild weather will aid the treatment and this Is an excellent time to thoroughly cleanse the blood of the germs of Catarrh and be forever rid of the troublesome sprays and douches that can only relieve you for the time. S. S. S. is a purely vegetable blood remedy, made from roots and herbs direct from the lorest, which combat

i promptly disease germs or impurities

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