Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 236, 17 July 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND BUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919.

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The Fight on Influenza Health Officer Kinsey has sounded a note of warning against the recurrence of the influenza epidemic of which all of us should take cognizance even if the mercury is hovering about 90 degrees. The best cure for influenza, and other diseases for that matter, is prevention. Keep the disease from attacking you by obeying rules of right living. Illness is expensive, not so much because bills for medical treatment are incurred, but because time is lost in your vocation. The social cost of disease is infinitely greater than the bill you pay the physician for his service. If you can keep well, you are preventing the payment of doctor fees and enjoying an uninterrupted source of income. Physicians so far have been unable to solve all the problems that have attended influenza. They are not sure that it will not appear in virulent form next winter. For that reason they are one in advising the public to take precautions against its re-appearance. Guarding against colds, sanitation, internal and external, are some of the preventives. Influenza claimed 5,000 victims in Indiana last year. Richmond was not spared its quota cf deaths. Hundreds of persons in Wayne county were ill of the disease. Let the community prepare now to check the appearance of the malady. Bastille Day One of the marked manifestations of Bastile Day, France's national holiday, was the absence of the spontaneous enthusiasm which marked the celebration of the signing of the armistice on November 11. Not that France lacked appreciation of the wonderful victory, but that her people, conscious of that brilliant success, now have their minds fixed on the great problem of reconstruction. The Paris celebration in this particular partook of the same characteristic as the celebrations in American cities of the actcal signing of the peace treaty. This is a healthy manifestation. It shows that the spirit of militarism cannot survive

among free people. They fight long and hard, Avith inimitable sacrifices of blood and money, but desist when victory is won, seeing no advantage in the perpetuation of a military machine. How different our attitude from that of Germany, which would have seen in victory the crowning proof of the spirit of militarism. Free people believe in armies and navies for the protection of their countries and the resenting of insults to the national honor, but never for acquisition of territory or the domination of weaker nations. The eyes of the free people of the world today are to the front. Before them are the gigantic problems of reconstruction in almost all the spheres of human activity. To the victorious solution of these questions they are addressing themselves with the same vigor that marked their prosecution of the war. The problems of peace, in their estimation, are as great as those of war. Therein they prove themselves wise conquerors. Can This Be? So asks the Knoxville Journal and Tribune commenting on a surplus of shoes sufficient to last the army for five years which Secretary Baker is keeping locked up in the federal warehouses. The Journal and Tribune says: "The War Department," says the New York Sun, "we read, has enough shoes In storage to 'last the army fire years. Will Mr. Secretary Baker, not for economic reasons, but in fear that the present style of shoes may look old-fashioned in five years, release for immediate sale a few million pairs of those shoes at cost price?" If the statement of shoes on hand, held by the War Department, be true, It is something monstrous under present conditions to keep them on hand for use when called for. Never before in the history of the oountry has the price of shoes been anything: liko what it Is today. Even In the latter days of the Civil war a pair of shoes, bought with confederate paper money, cost little more than Is being asked and paid for shoes than at present. Reputable dealers, who know what they are talking about, say the price of shoes is going much above what it is at present. If what is said in the New York Sun, above Quoted, be true, congress should take it up. If the secretary of war does not, and see to It that some million pairs of shoes are released and put on sale at reasonable prices. This is only one of the items about which the American people are asking. What about canned goods, meats, clothing, underwear and countless other items, purchased in amounts that cost millions ? The government should come to a decision quickly about the disposition it intends to make of the surplus goods it has on hands. Obviously there is no reason why the people should pay high prices for products that are scarce because the government has them in abundance, but stored away where they do no good either to the officials or to the people who originally paid for them.

The Abounding Prosperity Upon Which the Country Has Entered

From the Manufacturers Record. FOR months the United States government urged all business men to realize that they could "sell" prosperity to the country by big bold, advertising. It urged everybody to advertise heavily; if they were already advertising, to increase their expenditures and broaden their publicity campaign; aDd if they were not advertising, to begin an aggressive campaign. Never was better business advice given, never was it more fully accepted, and never was there a greater demonstration of the wisdom of such advice. Business men everywhere commenced to advertise more freely and on broader lines. Many men who had never done much advertising saw a new light and began to advertise, while old-time advertisers made larger appropriations and gave greater heed to the almost limitless power of publicity. Tho result is everywhere in evidence. The confidence displayed by heavy advertising begat confidence. The optimism of sidvertisers created optimism, and the pessimists slunk back into their holes and pulled the holes In after them permanently buried face downward, as is the Just desert of every man who becomes a pessimist in America. Many men who at first did not see just how advertising could help their individual business, nevertheless

they, too, if broad in vision and patriotic in spirit, began to advertise, following the government's advice, and soon they felt a pride in being numbered among the business leaders who were doing their part toward bringing prosperity to the country and thus helping to destroy the seeds of Bolshevism, which fructify in poverty soils and which die in soils where prosperity is flourishing. Largely aa an outcome of this splendid work, vigorously conducted by the secretary of labor and to whom great credit is due, everyone now realizes that the country has taken the right road at the forks, and instead of traveling toward the land of poverty and anarchy. Is headed straight on the road to the land of abounding national prosperity, and this glorious change in largely due to the power of advertising, which created an air of optimism, and as a nation thinketh in its heart, so is it. The nation is now thinking in terms of publicity-created prosperity, and it realizes as never before that advertising is the gTeat power which has saved us from stagnation and unemployment, and that advertising, big, broad and intelligent advertising, will keep the nation traveling fiafely on the road of prosperity. Advertising is, therefore, as so strongly presented by !he federal government, a work of patriotism as well as of enlightened selfish business interest.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

DELAND

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MRS. MARGARET DELANO

natives say, "There groes Margaret Deland!'

born at Alleg-heny. Pennsylvania. Feb. 23, 1857. When only ltl she went to New York to stud drawing and design and later taught them. In 1880 she married Lorln Deland. famous as sometime football strategist against the enemies of Harvard. In 1SS6 appeared "Tho Old Garden." a collection of verse. It Is a characteristic title: for many j ears Mrs. Deland has each winter grown In her own house in Boston great numbers of Dutch bulbs, which she sells at an annual function to her friends and the public, for the benefit of her favorite charities. As she does all the labor herself. It is a singularly personal form of good works. Only two years later came "John Ward, Preacher." a book which won the author wide recognition. There hav been many others between that and "The Awakening of Helena riichle" in 190G, including "Old Chester Tales" In 1S98, in which she made famous her childhood home. "The Iron Woman" appeared in 1311. The people In Mrs. Deland's books are not mere pegs on which to hang the Incidents of a story: they are real human beings engaged with the problems of life as it comes to them as real as the woman who piles her boat with the red sail of a summer's day at Kennebunkport. of whom tho

THE AWAKENING OF HELENA RICHIE BY MRS. MARGARET DELAND Condensation by Miss Sara Ware Bassett

In 1906 Margaret Deland, after havlng written several other books, gave to the public the fruit of her maturer skill In "The Awakening of Helena Richie." The volume is dedicated to Lorin Deland "who has since died, and no wife could have reared a more magnificent monument to honor one dear to her than is this masterpiece which stands, and will stand, for all that Is best in creative fiction. The story la simple.

Stripped of the charm of Its setting, and the subtle delicacy of its treatment, we have a tale presenting few characters, and with no very extended scope for action. It la in Its emotional quality that its power lies; and this emotion centers about the moral conflict of the heroine, and her transition from a creature seeking mere happiness to a woman of alert conscience and aroused soul. The scene of the novel is the same

small Pennsylvania town in which Mrs. Deland has placed two previous books: "Old Chester Tales" and "Doc-

I tor Lavendar," and It is with pleasure

tnat we continue in this later work our acquaintance with several of the characters already introduced to us in these earlier writings. At the opening of the story Mrs. Richie has come to Old Chester and taken up residence m the "Stuffed Animal House," so called because its former owner was a taxidermist. She Is little known to the villagers, living an isolated existence, and shunning any intimacy with the townsfolk; nevertheless she is universally respected. There is, to be sure, an atmosphere of mystery enshrouding this beautiful stranger who is possessed of a culture and poise that place her a strata above the simply bred Inhabitants of the sleepy little settlement, but since she goes to church, is quiet and decorous, and gives herself no airs, she furnishes no cause for criticism. Her only visitor is Mr. Lloyd Prior, known to Old Chester as her brother. As the story proceeds, however, we are made aware that Prior is not her brother, but is a Philadelphia widower with one daughter whom he Idolizes;

and that he and Mrs. Richie have for thirteen years been living together

awaiting the death of Frederic, Helena's husband, whose demise will leave them free to marry. Frederic has been a dissipated man who, when

not himself, has been responsible for

the death of the Richie baby; and he is now living a dissolute life in Paris. The tragedy of the baby's death has

been the culminating factor in turn

ing his wife's hatred and contempt

for him into revulsion, and determining

her to desert him and go to Prior. To her lover she gives all the affection which the loss of her child and the destruction of her hopes have turned back into her nature. Prior, on the other hand, has loved her in th6 past, but now, after thirteen years of deferred happiness, his passion is barned out. He is tired of her.

Alice, his daughter, is growing up, and he realizes the indiscretion of the entanglement; furthermore his business demands his time; it Is less and less convenient to come to Old Chester; and he Is no longer young. He is a selfish, sensual being, with the typical masculine distaste for everything that renders him uncomfortable either in mind or body. While he is willing, in an Indolent sort of way, to continue his relation with Mrs. Richie; is even honorable enough to marry her if he must, it is obvious that he would gladly be rid of the whole affair. But to Helena Richie this incident it not an "affair." It is her life. She lores Prior with a devotion engender

ed by her lonely, heart-starved existenoe, and she looks forward to the moment when Frederic's death shall release her from her present precarious position, and allow her to confront the world with a clear name. That an ultimate marriage between them will wipe out the blot on their past she does not question. In the meantime she can only possess her soul

of patience, and make the best of her enforced seclusion. No one knows her secret. No one can know it. Therefore she feels quite secure that is, as secure as it is possible in the face of the ever-present danger of exposure. Into this fevered life of hers three important characters project themselves: Dr. Lavendar, the minister of Old Chester; Dr. William King, the village physician, and David, an orphan child whom the rector has befriended, and for whom he is desirous of finding a home. Of all Mrs. Deland's creations none, perhaps, is more beloved than Is Dr. Lavendar. Wise, benign, humorous; yet just at all times a man who is never to be turned aside from a principle by idle sentimentality. Dr. King is not unlike him in this unflinching fealty to duty snd to honor. These two persons put their heads together and decide that since Mrs. Richie leads such a solitary life and is abundantly able, she is the one to take the homeless David. The conspirators proceed with extreme caution. The child is brought to Dr. Lavender's house, and Mrs. Richie is given the opportunity to see him. He Is a quaint, winsome, appealing little fellow a decided personality, and one of the most delightful and consistent child portraits in modern fiction. His greatest attraction lies in the fact that one can never be sure what he will say next. Once, when Dr. Lavendar is telling him a story he keeps his eyes fixed so intently on the man's face that the old gentleman is much flattered. "Well, well, you are a great boy for stories, aren't you?" remarks the delighted minister. "You've talked seven minutes," said David thoughtfully, "and you haven't moved your upper Jaw once." As can be imagined the child makes instant conquest of Mrs. Richie, who insists on fitting him out with tiny garments, and brings him in triumph to the "Stuffed Animal House." Day by day the tie that binds her to David strengthens until we see this affection the dominant motif of her life. It even overshadows her love for Prior, although it is some time before she is conscious that it does so. In the meanwhile, quite by chance, the security of her miniature world is shaken to its foundations. There lives in Old Chester a youth much Mrs. Richie's junior, Sam Wright, who has drifted into the habit of calling on her, and who falls in love with her. It is the blind worship of one who has never known passion, and in an attempt to break up the boy's infatuation his doting grandfather comes to Mrs. Richie, and half in irritation accuses her of not being a good woman. The shot is a random one, but the instant the charge is made, the speaker realizes he has hit upon the truth. Helena's anger at his gibes and sarcasm is like the whirlwind. But the Lord was not in the wind. It is Sam Wright's suicide that first brings home to her the gravity of defying social responsibility. What she has hitherto regarded as a scorn for convention she now sees to be a crime against humanity. All her being is rocked with self-reproach. But the Lord was not in the earthquake. It is not until Dr. King forces her to

confess her guilt, and tells her she must give up David, that we reach the climax of the drama. Then all the wild mother instinct of the woman leaps Into being. She is a lioness fighting for her young. She will give up Prior; in fact she does give him up. But she will not part with David. She begs, bribes, prays; but Willy King's conscience will not permit him to listen to her entreaties. She must

send the child back to Dr. Lavendar, or he must acquaint the good minister with the entire story. In an effort to forestall this action Mrs. Richie herself goes to the rectory

and before she leaves it she looks into i

the face of her own soul and pronounces her doom. "The whirlwind of anger had died out; the shock of responsibility had subsided; the hiss of those flames of shame had ceased. She was in the center of all the tumults, where lies the quiet mind of God." When Dr. Lavendar asks her if she thinks herself worthy to keep the child she humbly whispers: "No." And after the fire, the still Small Voice. At last the woman's conscience is aroused, her repentance is sincere, and we have the true "Awakening of Helena Richie." How wisely Dr. Lavendar meets this crisis in the shattered life, allowing her to taste to the full the dregs of

remorse and suffering; and yet how mercifully and gently he leads her upward toward hope and a desire for restitution constitute the remainder of the story. The kind old man suggests that she make her future home in a distant city where her past will not follow her and where she may start anew, and he asks that on the morning of her departure she come to him for a package which he wishes her to take with her on her journey. The reader shares her shock of Joyous surprise when David emerges from the corner of the stage-coach crying: "I'm the package!" "Dr. Lavendar took both her hands . . . 'Helena.' he said, 'your Master came Into the world as a little child. Receive Him in your heart by faith, with thanksgiving.' " So ends the novel. To tear the skeleton of the plot from Its exquisite setting is almost a sacrilege. It Is like dragging the perfume from a flower. One must read the book to gain a true sense of its exceptional beauty and fineness. It has been successfully dramatized and the title role ably and artistically Dortraved by Marearet Anelin: there

is also an "Anglin Edition" of the story attractively Illustrated by pictures, taken from the play. Copyright. 1819, by Post Publishing Co. (Tbe Boston Post Printed by permission of, and arrangement with. Harper & Bros., authorised publishers. Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.

"Ben Hur," by General Lew Wallace, as condensed by Professor William Fenwlck Harris of Cambridge, will be printed tomorrow.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

When we began writing this column two or three years ago we took the old hammer and throw It as far as we could throw It, and we haven't had it in our hands since. There are several hundred contributors who should bear this in mind. It Is a good thing to know if one is anxious to break into this plinth. Any writer can be clever as some one else's expense. If we can be clever only by humiliating somebody else, we will be dull forever.

A contributor writes in that the latest name for lounge lizard is parlor panther. Noah Webster is getting further behind the time. Judging by present Indications In Old New York, a man under prohibition can stay sober If It Is absolutely necessary.

It Is considered fortunate In some quarters that sherry, which Is permitted, looks so much like mountain dew, which Is not. It Is said that five miles up, there Is no weather. Might be a good idea for our own prognlstlcatlng bureau to station a man permanently at that point. SHE'D BETTER BRINQ HER OWN 8ANDWICH GENERAL MAID, small famllyj no washing; no Sunday dinner; best wages.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Yesra Ago Today

Moving pictures were a part of the features in Glen Miller park. Preliminary plans for Labor Day were made at the meeting of Central Labor Council. A horse which became frightened, ran Into the crowd which was assembled at a band concert at Eighth and North E streets.

Wood block paving is growing In

popularity in the United Kingdom for

the reason that it shows longer life

under heavy automobile traffic than

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rr 1 I Dinner Stories

"Where is Mr. Flubdud lunching today?" "Well, he may be at the next cor ner or he may be a couple of bloc lea down the street." "I thought his habits were Terr regular. Can't you tell where he la lunching V "Not precisely. He lunches at 4 banana cart, but It moves around." "Henry," said his father-in-law, aa he called his daughter's spouse Into the library and locked the door, "you have lived with me now for mora than two years." "Yes, father." "In all that1 time I haven't asked you a penny for board." "No, sir," wonderingly. "In all your little family quarrels I have always taken your part." "Always, sir." "I have even paid some of your bills." "A good many, sir." "Then the small favor I am about to ask you will no doubt be gran ed?" "Most certainly, sir." "Thanks. Then I want you to tell your mother-in-law that those tickets for the supper club dance which she picked up in my room this morning must have accldently fallen out ot your pocket and we'll call it square."

An experimental plant has been bull! at Hamburg that obtains power from the rise and fall of the North Sea tides.

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