Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 247, 30 July 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM 1 i m Published Every Evenin Except Sunday, luf

Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, as See) ond Claaa Mall Matter. MEMBER OF TUB ASSOCIATJCD FRE99 The Associated Praaa la exclusively entitled te the ma r republication of all news dtcpatchea credited to It of not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local .? Published herein. All rights of republication of ape1 Mel dispatches bereia are aiso reserved. Sugar Consumption An explanation for the alleged shortage of sugar is found by some analysts in the unprecedented consumption of the product. American refineries, these experts say, have been unable to

meet the demand although raw sugar is abundant. Since the United States went dry, consumption has increased 80,000 tons monthly, on returns for two weeks in July. Indulgence in sweet drinks is assigned as cause. Almost all of us will remember the days not so long ago when sugar was rationed. Then the consumption in the United States dropped from 85 to 45 pounds per capita annually. But since the armistice has been signed the citizens of the United States have gone back to the consumption of sugar with renewed vigor. Indications now are that the consumptions will exceed all previous figures. The 1919-1920 sugar season begins with a prospect of 1,108,000 short tons, made by the bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture, or about 73,500 tons more than the average of the preceding six years. The beet sugar forecast for this year is higher than the record crop of 1915-1916 by nearly 75,000 tons.

A Few Don'ts Don't work three hundred and sixty-five days a year, notwithstanding that some other trojans did that year after year in their days of struggle. Take vacations. Don't, however, let pleasure-seeking supplant success-seeking. Don't become wholly self-centered. Don't succumb to the temptation to be too

busy to have any time to be rationally sociable. Don't forget that there are no express trains to the summits of success. Don't look for any escalator to do your climbing for you. Don't depend upon others to push you along. Don't count upon any "pull" which you yourself did not create. Don't fancy that others succeeded because of mere luck and that you are where you are solely because luck did not come your way. Don't expect to hear Opportunity knocking at your door until you have trained yourself to recognize her when she comes. Don't eat more than you feel you have to. Don't oversleep. And finally: Don't forget that things are apt to go right if vc do. Forbes Magazine.

surance it furnished that, ho matter what was the expense, a price could be collected from the government that would furnish a profit. Indeed, the bigger the expense the bigger, the profit. Today

prevailing high prices and admitted shortness of production in many lines provide to a great extent the same assurance. No matter what the articles may cost the various handlers all along the line of production and distribution, there are abundant reasons for them to believe that they can extract a substantial profit from the meek consumer. This is particularly true of the staples that the people must have.

I Tie result la mat, mere are iew eviuences ui

determined efforts anywhere to lower costs and

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vnuS lO Keep uuwu me puce lu me hcai, 111 luhi. On the contrary, every statement issued by associations of various trades is a cheerful predic-

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individual, he immediately shifts the responsibility to some one ahead of him in the complicated process of production and distribution and lets it go at that. So long as he can establish to the satisfaction of the next purchaser that he paid such and such a price for the article, even though it happens to be an exorbitant price, he assumes that his right to pass the expense with a profit for himself to the next man is not open to question. This, however, does not alter the fact that such a mental attitude is inconsistent with a determined resistance to unjustified prices. In brief, it is the "cost plus" feeling.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors SCOTT I

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT JR. FOLLOWING IN FOOTSTEPS OF SPORT LOVING FATHER

vrf'h liilln.Mf" but with the

Walter Scott's education as a rom vnce-wrlter beean while he was a

child. It can be. tracod even to his oradle. for he was suns to sloan not

iniingionn oi tne exnea Stuarts. As soon

at he could understand stories, his grandmother and aunt poured Into his eager ears tales of border warfare and old Scottish ballads. He was a sickly child, and this resulted In a permanent lameness. But as a boy he so far overcame this handicap that he was always In the thick of schoolboy fights, and none of his comrades could climb better than he the steep slopes of the Castlerock. As soon as he was old enough to read, ha literally devoured books. He would not read love atorles or tales of family life. He wanted always yarns of adventure or books of history. As. boy, he waa so steeped In chronicle of feudal times. In histories of bygone days, or In account of Scottish life, that he was already equipped with his background for "Ivanhoe" and "The Talisman," "Kenllworth" and "Quentin Durwarn," "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Waverly". He loved Scotland with a passionate devotion that has seldom been equalled. He told Washington Irving that he thought he should die if he could not see the heather at least once a year. He wrote straight out of his heart the lines: 3 dead

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Scott's Childhood Home

Breathes there the man with soul

Who never to himself hath said: This Is my own, my native land

IVANHOE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT Condensation by Prof. William Fenwick Harris

That Cost Plus Feeling ThP rmhlic can helo in the stabilization of

prices by purchasing carefully and wisely and by not being stampeded by the persistent cry that prices are going still higher. A determined fight on profiteers and a boycott of foodstuffs and merchandise in which an unwarranted increase in price has taken place, as well as by searching diligently for the responsible parties, will help the situation. The Chicago News believes the public should deal firmly with the situation and not permit itself to be deceived by alleged reasons for advances : hat do not exist in fact. Its analysis follows : ThP riantrerous psychological feature of the

'cost plus" plan in letting contracts was the as-lwist watch

From War to Peace in the Automobile Industry As a single industry the automobile trade did more than its bit to help win the war. Not only did manufacturers come up to specifications in quantity and quality of delivery, but they built better than it was thought they knew how. Proof of this was given the other day when, at an auc

tion of old army cars in France, the French and the English bid higher prices for the cars than they cost the American government new. Anj army of men was employed to run these trucks j and cars on the firing line. They gained more! experience in a month of that sort of work than they could have gained in a lifetime of peace work. The rolling stock will be left abroad, but the men are coming back. They are being released daily from the military service, and are returning in large numbers to civilian life. There is no laok of work for them to do. For the fleet of American trucks now coming into use for additional transportation facilities all over the country need just such men men who have learned how to act in any emergency, who feel almost immediately the idiosyncracies of every motor, who have acquired an efficiency under shell fire that will make them leaders in their work in peace times. Col. Arthur Woods, assistant to the secretary of war, who is in charge of the re-employment work for ex-service men, announces that a number of such men are now available for private employ. The automobile industry will not lose this opportunity of obtaining men who, to their prewar ability, have added the exceptional training and experience of months on the firing line. These men will be in demand, and can be obtained through governmental and welfare employment

agencies, who will put them in touch with employ

ers who need their services.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

WHITE HOUSE NEEDS A GOAT Philadelphia Press.

It is about time to ask what has become of Colonel House. This seems to be an occasion when he ought to

be around.

"And I must lie here like a bedridden monk!" exclaimed Ivanlioe, "while the game that gives me freedom or death is played out by the hands of others! Look from the window once again, kind maiden, hut beware that you are not marked by the archers beneath. Look once more, and tell me If they yet advance to the storm." With patient courage Rebecca again took post at the lattice. "What dost thou see, Rebecca?" again demanded the wounded knight. "Nothing but the cloud of arrows flying so thick as to daze mine eyes, and to hide the bowmen who shoot them." "That cannot endure," 6aid Ivanhoe: "if they press not right on to carry the castle by pure force of arms, the arch

ery may avail but little against stono

walls and bulwarks. Look for the

knight of the Fetterlock, fair Rebecca, and see how he bears himself; for as

the leader is, so will his followers be."

"I see him not," said Rebecca. "Foul craven!" exclaimed Ivanhoe; "does he blench from the helm when the wind blows highest?" "He blenches not! He blenches not!" said Rebecca. "I see him now;

he leads a body of men close under

the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palis

ades; they hew down the barriers with

axes. His high plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach In the barriers they rush in they are thrust back! Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantii form above the press. They throng again to the breach, and the pass is disputed hand to hand, and man to man. God of Jacob! It is the meeting of two fierce tides the conflict of twio oceans moved by adverse winds'." She turned her head from the lattice as if unable longer to endure a sight so terrible. "Look forth again, Rebecca," said Ivanhoe, mistaking the cause of her retiring; "the archery must in soma degree have ceased, since they are now fighting hand to hand. Look again, there is now less danger."

Rebecca again looked forth, and al

most immediately exclaimed: "Holy prophets of the law! Front-de-Boeuf and the Black Knight fight hand to hand on the breach, amid the roar of

their followers, who watch the progress of the strife. Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He Is down he is down!" "Who Is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight," answerer Rebecca faintly; then instantly again shouted with eagreness: "But no but no! The name of the Lord of Hosts be blessed! He is on foot again, and fights as if there were twenty men's strength in his single arm! His

his appearence incognito till he shall discover how things have gone in his absence. Sir Walter prided himself on his mastery of what he called "the big bow-wow" style; no other of the Waverly novels Illustrates this power better than "Ivanhoe." One stately and stirring event follows another, all holding the reader rapt in thrills, but none quite as much a the siege of the castle of Front-de-Boeuf by Richard and his Saxon friends. Rebecca from the lattice recounting to the wounded Ivanhoe the fortunes of the battle stands out in the memory of many a reader as Sir Walter's greatest success in the grand style. And despite the heroic mould In which the characters are cast, they vet surnasa in

the hold they gain upon the reader.

ew nave closed the book without & sigh of regret that the hero had to make a choice between Rebecca and Rowena; and in our own day and country few can fail to see the likeness in many respects between Richard of the Lion Heart, and the president so lately gone. " The knights are dust.

Ana tneir good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust. In the passage at arms as Ashby appears the Mysterious Knight, whom the reader knows to be Ivanhoa. frh

from the crusade in the Holy Land; In the contests of chivalry he valiantly defeats the Norman champions, and bestows the prize of Queen of Beauty upon his youthful love, Rowena; the reader gets but a glimpse of a still more mysterious knight, whom he can only suspect to be the king. From the jousts all Journey on their several ways, but in the forest the Normans plan a lawless ambuscade and carry off to the castle of Front-de-Boeuf for motives of revenge, or passion, or greed, Ivanhoe, who had been wounded at Ashby, Rebecca, Rowena, and Isaac of York. The mysterious knight of the Fetterlock appears as the timely leader of the merry men of the greenwood, who besiege the castle, to the great disaster of the lordly brigands. After the rescue of the prisoners, all save Rebecca, there follows the joyous celebration of the forest outlaws, a happy interlude between the scenes of derring-do. The strenuous King departed for till more strenuous struggles in winning back his kingdom; Rowena and Cedric sought their home; Ivanhoe followed his chief; Brian de Bois-Guil-bert. Templar though he was and pledged to holy practices, bore off his unhappy prisoner Rebecca. But he was discovered in his wicked designs by the austere head of his order. In an assembly of Templars, however, Rebecca was condemned to death as a sorceress who had seduced from the paths of virtue an unwilling knight! Her only chance for life ilea in th

ordeal by battle. Her one chamninn

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., at helm of "Comet" during; Larchmont Yacht club regatta and view of "Comet,"

Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., is following; in th footsteps of his maritime ancestors. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman and is becoming a skilful skipper. He piloted bis yacht "Comet" in the

recent Larchmont Yacht club regatta,

sword is broken; he snatches an axe is Ivanhoe, far away though he is

SENATE SHOULD INVESTIGATE THIS Indianapolis Star. But why should London choose- anything so old-fashioned as a sword to present to Pershing? Why not a

The King of Prussia

From the Pittsburg Leader. THE world-informing statement from Berlin that the former kaiser never abdicated the throne of Prussia or renounced any claim to his rights of inheritance to its kingdom, carries weightier significance in the capital of old Germany than elsewhere. Interest in other capitals will be so faint that the junkers who are sending out this "feeler" in practical European politics will

be surprised at tne aDsence oi sensauoa rebumus

the bulletin. j Wilhelm and the junkers have been discounted by the events of the last five years. The junkers have no better standing before the world than the former kaiser, perhaps under analysis, actually less. The junkers were the real ruling element in Germany and at times included the occupant of the throne among their tactical victims. While his power was nominally supreme and his word the last in governmental policies and programs, the history of Europe is too full of instances in which monarchs have been mere puppets of powerful combinations to doubt that Wilhelm also found himself snared in the meshes of ruling-class political magic. The statement from Berlin that Wilhelm has never abdicated the Prussian throne or renounced any of his hereditary rights or privileges is not the voice of Wilhelm. but the adventurous leaders of the beaten but not defeated Junkers. And it will scare no one. Their desire for his return, even as the king of what remains of PrusFia, is no doubt stronger than that of the late monarch whose recent experiences as a world-leader haa not been of a character to spur him on to further endeavors, aowrver Dromising the remnant of the Junkers may paint th

picture of the future. The Junkers ujportjjJ,byejtolnbegun to live In the era of democracy.

powerful elements in the military clique of Prussia, manipulated the kaiser in 1913 and 1914 into obeying their wishes and making him responsible for tha result and will have no hesitation in doing something similar again. But Wilhelm has had some illuminating experiences since 1914 and is far from the plastic instrument the

junkers controlled while allowing him to believe he was J In his absence England had been un-

from a yeoman; he pushes Front-de-Boeuf with blow, on blow the giant

wuuui one naa cured of the a--r.A

received at Ashby. Brian Aa t,-0.

stoops and totters like an oak under Guilbert, by the irony of ehivairv ia

the steel of the woodman. He falls i the champion of his order and of vlrhe falls! . . . The Black Knight ' ture in distress. At the last possible approaches the postern with his huge moment Ivanhoe comes spurring into axe the thundering blows which he the lists, to a victory wMrh an

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK THAT WHICH YOU LEAVE BEHIND What you are in human worth is embodied in all that you leave behind. How beautiful are the intricate reefs of coral which reach out of the waters of the sea millions of square miles of them In the Pacific alone. Grand expressions of what microscopic little lives left behind! It Is only as we look back upon what we, or others, have done, that we really understand the sum total of what usefulness amounts to. Recently, I came across this sentence from a great philosopher's mind: "Everything great and good upon which our present existence rests, and from which it has proceeded, exists only because noble and wise men have resigned the enjoyments of life for the sake of ideas." Every tread of your feet, every movmnt of your thought, has its bearing upon what this world is going to be after you are gone. We all of us form our little niche in the magnificent unity of the cosmos. And every act of a man or woman ripples on as do the waves of the sea. mingling and inter-mingling so long as time shall be. That which you are going to leave behind should inspire everything that you do. Mind not that much of what you do seems lost. Worry not that the little kindnesses and deeds of your daily unnoticed life appear to , you to be unrecorded. Nothing of worth ever die3. It is merely transmltted. The mother is glorified by the soul which she breathes into him who becomes great. Shakespeare, Milton, Napoleon, Washington, Leonardo de Vinci, Poe and Lincoln are better known today than yesterday. And tomorrow they will still be better known. For what they left behind looms greater with the years. We are not sure as to who Homer was. But that nameless personality who wrote he Ilaid and the Odyssey is more Intimate to us than he was to those who lived with him several thousands of years ago. Even tho you only put Into each of your days some noble thought, bear in mind that what it represents is sure to make your day worth while. But leave SOMETHING behind!

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Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

Dinner Stories j

deals you may hear them above all the din and shouts of the battle. The stones and beams are hailed down on the bold champion; he regards them no more than if they were thistledown or feathers!"

"By Saint John of Acre," said Ivan-

iaws or ncuon foreordain. Hot after him comes clattering Richard ahd his train, to unfurl the royal standard as undisputed King of England. And all live happy ever after? Save only Rebecca! If Ivanhoe must wed Rowpna

every masculine reader feels that he!

hoe, raising himself joyfully on his j would gladly offer himself to her rival couch, "methought there was but one i For as Prince John cried whon ho

man in England that might do such a

deed!" Ivanhoe was right; the Black Knight of the Fetterlock was Richard Plantaganet of the Lion Heart," King of England, only just returned to his kingdom from the Holy Land, though

but few knew of his arrival as yet.

the all-wise and all-powerful. Not even his hereditaryopinions of hereditary mightiness will be 3trong enough to lure him into another such predicament. As time carries him farther from the events that tore Germany to pieces between 1914 and 1918, Wilhelm may restore some of his former opinions to their old rank but never again will he startle the world as he did five years ago. If the junkers can persuade Wilhelm that he Is still king of Prussia the world outside will pay no more attention than to any other mediocre spectacle of royal pomposity. If the Prussians permit them to restore the monarchy, that is their affair, and the rest of the world will accept their wishes. But whether Wilhelm la king of Prussia or continues 'to be an industrious wood-chopper somewhere Is all the same to the rest of the world. We have progressed beyond the point at which we shall take heed of his doings, his comings and goings and his trickery as was the case before. Wilhelm and the junkers have been accurately appraised and their ratings recorded in events which the world can never forget or Interpret otherwise than In the terms already set down. Those conditions will forever weigh against any new chicanery-the junkers or their restored monarch may attempt, so that whether he is king of Prussia or woodcutter somewhere makes little difference. The world has

der the selfish rule of the King's

younger brother John, who was planning to usurp the kingdom. The great story teller gathers his characters together at the tournament of Ashby. There come for the sports of chivalry Rowena, heiress of Saxon rulers now dispossessed by the Normans, accompanied by her sturdy uncle Cedric; Rebecca, beautiful Jewish maiden, whose fate is constantly joied with that of Ivanhoe, disinherited son of Cedric, a father who will have naught to do with a Saxon son who is willing to accept the Normans and their ways, and even to be a devout follower of Richard the King;

first saw her. "By the bald rnin f

Abraham, yonder Jewess must be the very model of perfection whose charms drove frantic the wisest king that ever lived!" Copyright. 1919. by Post Publishing Co. (The Boston Post). All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.) "Gulliver's Travels," by Dean Swift, as condensed by James B. Connolly, will be printed tomorrow.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Aqo Today

It was the hottest day of the year. Temperatures went over 100. A severe rain and wind storm occurred later In the day.

Comptroller Webster Perry barely escaped severe im'uries whpn nlaeton.

Isaac of York, Rebecca's father, wan-' ing from the celling of his office fell

Soldiers always grew tired of bean as a steady diet. Waa It not General Grant who said: "Let us have peas?" NOW THAT PEACE HAS COME Knitting will be done exclusively by

The price of food will be the price : of food. I

Somebody will remember that the tariff has been sadly neglected and our infant industries will yowl and have to be walked with. The English brickyards will have to put up barbed wire to prevent raids ty the suffragets. by the suffragettes, nies will declare their final dividend and go out of business.

The boll-weevil will regain its old place in the affection of the American

reading public. A man may be able to walk into a meat market without having the same feeling he has when he climbs into a dentist's chair, and then, again, he may not. Housekeeping may again become a vocation. LET THE WEDDING BELLS RING OUT I want to inform you and the universe that Miss Quennie Livere of Ashe street. Flushing, is engaged to marry Mr. Sidney Germs of Third avenue. New York City. Roxstone.

A politician who is a great walker was out enjoying his favorite recreation. After going a few miles he sat down to rest. "Want a lift. Mister?" asked a good-natured farmer driving that way. "Thank you." responded the politician. "I -will avail myself of your offer." mi The two rode on In silence for a

while. Presidently the farmer asked: "Professional man?" "Yes." answered the nnHMHan

was thinking of a bill he had pend

ing Derore the house. After another long pause the farmer observed: "You ain't a lawyer, or you'd be talkin'; you ain't a doctor, 'cause you ain't got a bag, and yau ain't a preacher, from the looks of you. What is your profession?" "I am a politician," was the reply. The farmer gave a snort of disgust. "Politics ain't no profession; politics is a business," said he.

TAKE TH' COST O' LIVIN FOR INSTANCE

JIM The old order changeth. Things are not as they were, and the sooner you realize it the better it will be for both. Pen.

dering Jew of vast wealth, who is

constantly the prey of the ruthless Norman nobles who would wring hla riches from him by torture and imprisonment; Robin Hood and his merry men of the forest glades not forgetting the redoutable Friar Tuck, equally adept In the ways of the clerk, the yeoman, or the roisterer. To them are added of Norman stock the redoutable Front-de-Boeuf, Brian, de BoisGuilbert, the Prior of Jorvaulx, and Prince John; Athelstane, Saxon lord, destined by Cedric for the hand of Rowena; Gurth the swine-herd, and Wamba the jester; and the mysterious Black Prince, who. like Ivanhoe, makes

on his desk.

The Dickinson Trust company was the successful bidder fr the bonds Issued by the school board to raise money for the equipment of the new high school building. Harry Ablass and James Oschelm, both employes of the Richmond Light. Heat and Power company, were overcome by gas. Dr. Hughes, pastor of the Presbyterian church, was cut about the head when he was entering his home and the wind broke the glass-In the door.

Personal in London Times. Dear Roy: "Parlor Panther" was good. We calls 'em "Sofa Snakes." C. W. Willis.

Poor marksmanship is the curse of I

Russia. A man shot at Trotzky five times the other day and never even narked his laundry.

Senator John W. Smith of Maryland recalled the following story to illustrate the "great drought of some legal arguments": Some time since a rather youthful lawyer had a case in which he wished to make a hit, and to that end he looked up authorities that took him back to the days of Julius Caesar. At the end of an hour and a half he was pained to observe whnt lo-d like inattention on the part of fh court. Apparently the judge was not appreciating the fine points ot his argument. "Your honor," said he, pausing in his pleas and turning to the bench, "I beg pardon, but are you following me?" "I have so far," answered the Judge, wearily shifting about in his chair, "but if I thought I could And my way back I would quit right here."

WILL HOLD UP FLEET

Poets never really starve to death they live and suffer. Although totally blind, Miss Gertrude Timmer, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is an expert operator of the typewriter.

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 30. The Pacific fleet, now enroute to the western coast, will not reach San Francico, August 15 as originally planned. Secretary Daniels announced, being held up for President Wilson's arrival on his speaking tour.

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