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working and they have reason to hope that one

of these days we will be able to plan a picnic a week from today, serene in the assurance of the local weather man that the weather will be warm

and cloudless.' Those of us who have been wont to scoff at the weather forecaster should learn that this practice is an indication of ignorance. The weather man performs a valuable service.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

Army Discipline Investigation

The investigation of the brutal treatment alleged to have been received by American soldiers in the prison camps of France Bhould go deep

enough to fix the responsibility and to bring about adequate punishment for the officers res

ponsible.

Every American favors discipline and knows

that an army's morale depends upon its willing'

ness to obey orders. Infractions of regulations

must be punished. No one will quarrel with that

principle. But when extreme brutality governs the infliction of punishment, when harsh methods are used merely for the Joy it produces In the

heart of the men administering discipline, the

Bystem is all wrong and deserves bitter condemnation. That Is Prussianism at its worst.

Some of the testimony presented by privates

who suffered under the tortures inflicted by

"hardbofled" Smith savors of the day when sail' ors were lashed and inhumanly treated at the be

hest of "tough" captains. That such practices -actually were employed in the American army

almost staggers belief and would be discounted

if it were not for the multiplicity of the testi

mony and the universal agreement as to details

which the privates presented. Sergeants who were on duty in the "prison camps" swore that they were ordered to punish the men brutally bo as to destroy all desire to be sent back to these places of torture again. Giving the Weatherman His Due The task of the weather forecaster is no light one. And he seldom is thanked for his work. If his forecast is correct, the reader forgets it; should sudden changes disprove hi3 deductions,

he is censured or made the object of jokes and jibes. Tho forecasts of weather experts receive more attention in seaboard districts and fruit growing regions than in our own locality. Bitter experience has taught shippers and sailors that predictions of changes in temperature and of storms must not be taken in vain. They have saved thousands of dollars by listening to the warnings of these experts and no longer disregard their observations with contempt and scorn. "The Nation's Business," a magazine devoted exclusively to business affairs, speaks in the highest commendation of the weather forecasters. "The tendency to belittle the weather has enjoyed a wide vogue," say3 its editor. "In overformal social gatherings made up of people intensely uninterested in each other, there has ai

rways been one standby when all other excuses for ! conversation refused to serve. It was the weather. But these, like other popular forms of injustice,

are becoming weakened by progress, mere is a ; growing feeling that the weather ought to be , given its dues; to recognize what it really means

:to commerce today and what it has meant to his-

Jtory in the past.

"The money Baved to the United States through warnings of floods, storms and droughts

is impossible of computation. Foreknowledge of a single hurricane was responsible for keeping safely in port Vessels and cargoes worth more than $30,000,000. Three and a half millions were saved through a timely advance notice of one blizzard. Reports from a single small district in

Florida showed that warning of a freeze saved

$100,000 worth of oranges and strawberries.

".Think what could be saved if the weather

could be charted a week or ten days in advance

That is the end to which the weather experts are

Headline Readers An old-timer with failing eyesight was heard to say i "I don't read nothing in the newspapers no more except the headlines. I can guess at the rest" Perhaps it is from lack of time, or perhaps of inclination that Henry Ford contents himself with headlines only Or maybe he, too, believes that he can "guess at the rest." Mr. Ford's admission on the witness stand the other day ought not to shock us greatly, for

are we not in large degree a nation of headline readers? How many of us go through a paper thoroughly, getting the meat out of all the principal news Btories, improving our wits on the editorial page, and adding to our general store of knowledge and practical sense by analyzing what we have read? How is it with the rest of us ? Do we not often find ourselves skimming the headlines on the first page, and then jumping to the sport page for a painstaking study of the standing of the teams ? Are we not more Interested in the national league or the city league than we are in the peace league? Most of us are ready to debate the merits or demerits of the treaty, which we have not read. We know all about the iniquity of the Shantung settlement without having read the terms. The league of nations has millions of friends and enemies for mere dozens who have xead and studied the text of the covenant. We are always ready to air our views on almost any topic that comes up, no matter how loath we may be to study. Anyone who cares for a bit of self examination may be appalled if he will in a detached sort of way apply the acid of analysis to his own conversation.

If you, reader, will listen to yourself talk for

a quarter of an hour, you may check up on the

profundity of your own views and the breadth of your knowledge. If you have been a careful reader, you may not have So very much to regret.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

3

SWIFTThe rreat Sean of Et. PatrteVa.

of all ages and all lands, was bora in Hoey's Court, Dublin, November SO,

4.09 i. txm aiea ucioDer is, 1745. This most brilliant wit, genius, hater of rascality, master of irony and Invective, and true Irish patriot, was born to poverty and dependence; ho started life embittered and he ended "dying of rage like a poisoned rat in a hole," to use his own expression. His life was a failure, though he played a mighty part "Good Ood. what a genius I had when I wrote that book!" he said when he later reread the "Tale of a Tub," and the world has agreed with him. Yet failure ever tracked htm. He never re. ceived the preferment in the church which his ability would have brought another; by his political pamphlets he largely formed the public opinion of his time, yet that was the end of It for hlnj: he had the strongest attachments for two women, "Stella," to whom the famous Journal was written, and "Vanessa," but little happiness came to him. "To think of him," said Thackeray, "is like thinking of the ruins of a great empire." "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). though a satire on courts and statesmen, has survived its temporary and local purpose, and, especially In the first two parts. Is considered to be one of tho great possessions of literature.

Dean (Jonathan) Swift, 1007-1745

Their 110 Per Cent War Record -Made Possible By Faithful Collie

QULLIVER'S TRAVELS BY DEAN SWIFT Condensation by James 8. Connolly

THAT IS A SAFE BET

Omaha Bee.

Brand Whitlock is coming home from Brussels, and

may be eent to Roma. It Is euro ho will not be sent to Berlin.

NOI THIS DOESN'T REFER TO POLITICS

Baltimore American.

Pennsylvania has more blind persona than any other

state, but New Mexico has the greatest percentage.-

BUM LOT OF TEAM WORK Omaha Bee. Senator Pomerena says that United States must be on guard for the next two years, and Secretary Baker is "scrapping" the army as rapidly as he can. These Democrats should get together.

MAKE YOUR OWN COMMENT New York Telegraph. Perish the thought that Mr. Ford merely affects lack of information on certain subjects in order to convince us that he is really qualified for the senatorship.

I was of a Nottinghamshire family and educated at Cambridge. Likewise was I educated in medicine, and preferring a ship's surgeoncy to any preferment ashore, it came about that after several deep-sea voyages I found myself surgeon of that ship, the Antelope, which was wrecked in a violent storm on a coast north-west of Van Dieman's Land. Of all the ship's company I alone escaped to the land, where, in utter exhaustion, I lay down and fell asleep. I awakened to find myself bound hand and foot, and surrounded by swarms of the tiniest human creatures. They brought me food and drink and conveyed me to their capital, where the King, of a majesty a full half-inch taller than any of his subjects, came with his court to-view me. In time I learned that I was in the kingdom of the Lilliputians. By them I was kept a long time in captivity. Being ultimately satisfied of the harmlessnesa of my intent, I also adding my word of honor to do them no inJury, they released me, and set aside six professors of education to teach me their language. For my bodily sustenance they allowed me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for 1724 of their own people; for so, being exact in thir mathematics, they estimated the proportions of my bulk to theirs. Three hundred cooks and 120 waiters were named to dress my meals 200 seamstresses were apportioned to make my linen, and 300 tailors for my ouier clothing. With my wants thus attended to,

I was desirous to be of service to them. My first service was not to damage their people of their property as I walked abroad, a most likely danger when the men were of such size that I could secreate two or three of. them in one of my pockets. In walking the streets, were I to step heavily, there was danger of my shaking down buildings; or, by not having an eye below me, I could easily tread to death half a dozen of their cattle. One day the King, who was most friendly to me, came to me in great trouble. The Emperor of the neighboring kingdom of Blefuscu had threatened to lay waste the kingdom of Lilliputia. The Blefuscau navy, consisting of fifty great ships of war, was even then about to set sail; but I. by wading and swimming, reached their chief harbor where they were yet at anchor. With my pocket knife I cut the cables of their fifty ships

of war, and then, tying each ship to a piece of twine, I drew them after me to dry land, and so compelled the capitulation of Blefuscu. While this deed redounded to my glory, it also raised me up powerful enemies, one being the High Admiral of the Lilliputian navy. Had I wished

I could have crushed them and their

WHAT'S THE FARE TO PANAMA? New York World. Panama is a hot place, conducive to thirst, but with 4 per cent beer permitted by, the president the wind is tempered there to the shorn.

SURE IS "WORKING" MARVELOUSLY Chicago News. Senator Borah Is so full of kicks that one suspects him of having swallowed a raisin.

TREATED LIKE A HUN ALLY Indianapolis News. Perhaps the treaty makers did not clearly understand on which side China fought.

that they were people without a blemish In their persons, and the Brobdingnagiana course beyond description; but later reflection induces me think that the Lilliputians had blemishes proportionate to their size, the same being too tiny for me to estimate; and that possibly the Brobdingnagians appeared more vulgar than they truly were, their colossal proportions magnifying every defect In some matters these large people were a least larger-minded. Thus, in the matter of whether it was proper to break an egg on the little or big end which had almost split the Lilliputian kingdom in twain aa to that matter the Brobdingnaglans would have lost little sleep. 1 Judge this from a comment by the Brobdinena-

gian. King on a political matter which '

I spoke of in connection with my own country England. "It Is tyranny," be said, "for a government to require those who held differing opinions to change or not to change them." His Majesty was much Interested to hear of England; whereat I related at length her history, which astonished him. He protested that it seemed no more than a sequence of conspiracies, murders, revolutions, banishments, the worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, hatred, lust, malice and ambition could produce. "What a pernicious race of odious vermin to be allowed to crawl upon the earth I" he said; which injurious judgment of my noble and beloved country pained me exceedingly. Now while I had become a favorite of a great nation, it was upon such a footing at ill became the dignity of human kind. I wished to be once more with people of my own mind; also I longed for a whiff of that sea whihe looked toward my own land.

in response to my entreaties, I was taken to the sea-coast. My little nurse i Glumdalclitch being ill, I was put inj chare of a page; who left me alone on the shore- while he sought for birds' I eggs. While thus alone, the traveling

cabinet in which I lay was seized by a great bird who took if far out to sea and thn let it drop, almost at the axact moment that an English ship happened by to pick me up. Thus was I singularly rescued and brought once more safe to England. I made other voyages and had divers adventures, a most singular one being that of my rescue from a desert continent by the people of an island which flew in the air, the same being made to rise and fall by means of an immense loadstone. The people of the flying island held themselves as a superior race, for no greater reason that I could see than that they had one eye turned Inward and one turned upward. A later vayage took me to the coun

try of the Yahoos and the Houyhn-

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TwoSons Enter Army, Mother andDog Work forRed Cross and Father Goes Overseas for'Y."

A 110 per cent American family! That Is, if a fine patriotic American collie Is worth 10 per cent, and most Americans will acknowledge he la. Thl is tho. proud record of the family of Louis Goldsmith Jones, a newspaper and publication man, who served for the. last eight months with the Y. M. C. A. la France. Father, mother, two boys and the collie all enlisted in America's fight and not one of them was required to do so, The two sons of the family, then aged eighteen and nineteen, enlisted In 1917, und are still serving In the army. Sirs. Jones next enlisted in the Red Cross, and last summer Mr. Jones joined up with the T a a hut secretary and vrect to France, This vras too much for a real American dog, who was already aching for action. Upon him had fallen the responsibility of guarding the home with the three, men away, and only his presence permitted them to go. But he took more than that upon his silken shoulders, and volunteered to carry his mistress's packages to and. from the Red Cross each morning and night. Mr. Jones, while abroad, had the honor of working entirely among heroes. Immediately upon his arrival in Pnris he was ordered to

Beau Desert near Bordeaux, where the, largest convalescent camp In the world had been planned and was in the first stages of building. He put up tents here and started Lis Y. M. C. A. activities whitwork was being carried forward of his hut. The men at this camp were f A soldiers who had seen action, ? Ad been wounded, and were now convalescing to go back Into the, dght They were a long faced lot when the Y" man arrived among them, end when he first started games, about the most strenuous they could cope with was croquet. Pitching horseshoes and quoits came next, then some tennis, and some football kicking, but vejy little at tual ball playing. Those of the men who were wen enough helped with the building of the army barracks, and It was a common sight to sea a man walking with a cane and carrying a load of boards on his shoulder. Mr. Jones was assisted In the athletic wor' at different times by Russel Starker, Al Orth and Fred Hulz, ail Y. M. C. A. athletic directors. Mr. Jones has worked on the editorial staffs of the Kansas City Journal, tho Chicago Herald, and the Curtis Publishing Company, and has been the Northuistern Representative of the Pictorial Bo view.

entire kingdom under my boots, but ,., jt tn

there I was pledged word not to harm : of " dIsgusting habits, and so ' much l

mem. bo waen uy un,6 resemwled human beings that the wise they had me tried and condemned to and virtuous Houyhnhnms took me althe loss of my eyes, there was nothing , crt fft v-h vpti tr th Mirt rf mv

left me but escape. I went to Blefuscu, ! gtay with them a judgment -which I

wnere i was given a gxeau icuUu lgriewd me muclt and where they would have me stay; The Houghnhnms, who had the but I was weary of Kings and Frlnces, !fnrm. - hnr5pS hart tti most spn.

and told them that I desired nothing ( gible laws of any creature that I ever except that they would provision for Hved with Their aDnorrence of many me a boat, which I hod found drifting j of QUr buman haDift -was so deep that on the shore, and allow me to go my t j came in time to have a contempt

for my own species and wished that I,

too, were a Houyhnhnhnm and be al-

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK THE GLORY OF OPPOSITION If you want to help a man, oppose his game or cause. It is the same with your own growth. No man can grow without the dozens of secret oppositions which constantly arise with himself seeking to tear down, to thwart and to destroy everything healthy, worthy thing. There Is an Individual glory in crushing your opposition. Tho biggest fight that every man has is the one he wages against himsolr. Every one of us daily faces his ghosts and his imagined detractors. And it is only when we are big enough to smile as we face them, and to show our best mettle then, that we are able to tread on with strength and determination and success over our obstacles rough 6trewn though they may be in our path. Oh it's great fun to have opposition if you are the right sort. Only the "jelly" people who never take any exercise and whoso bodies gradually waste from lack of use, who never develop their characters and whose minds are soft from inactivity only these fear opposition. To the man who is strong in body and in brain, opposition is almost as valuable as is encouragement. In fact, it really amounts to encouragement, for to get the good out of opposition you have to harness it and drive it and guide it as you would a pair of frisky horses. Welcome opposition. Then get the glory out of it by living off it instead of letting It live off you.

way.

They stored the hoat witn tne car

What Other Editors Say

From the Indianapolis News. THE first detailed report made by the national war work council of the Y. M. C. A. shows that between Anril 26. 1917. and March 31. 1919. the organization

received the equivalent of a little more than a dollar from every man, woman and child in the United States, the total being $125,282,859, and that for the period named the association spent about $25 for every man and woman in the service, the latter statement being based on the strength of the army, navy and marine corps November 1, 1313. About 527,000,000 is available for carrying on the work during the rest of the present year. Discussion as to whether thi3 money was expended to good advantage has brought out at times some pointed criticism and some stirring defenses of the association's war work, but considering the service rendered in connection with the number of men benefitted, the report shows that the cost was not exorbitant In fact, the total cost of all welfare organizations engaged in war work is inaignlflcant in comparison with the fact that during the war this country increased its national debt from $1,208,000.000, March 31, 1917, to more than $18,000,000,000 November 1, 1918, a circumstance which has taught the country to think in terms of big figures. Tho monoy spent on war work by the Y. M. C. A. and other organizations gave the American forces the reputation of having gone to war under cleaner moral ausnlces than ever before surrounded the forces of any na

tion at any time. The effect of this on the nation may In the long run prove to be worth more than the money . Mt of the entire war. Its effect on the world has already

been felt The people of England. France, Belgium, Italy and Germany have been tremendously impressed by the clean manliness of the average American. Their impression of his country has been recast along similar lines. A billion dollars spent for propaganda could have done no more. Through these organizations the country has created prestige the value of which can be estimated only by the next two or three generations.

THE MUTINY MYTH American Legion Weekly. There was no mutiny among the American troops in ArchangeL The return of the vanguard of the expeditionary force has cleared that up. The story did not ring true at the outset Mutiny is not in the American category today. It is not a part of the American makeup, and is inconsistent with the American temperament Americans have things in their own hands in America. There are ample orderly processes for them to do as they please in directing tneir own destinies which are those of the nation. Abuse of temporary authority is certain to be overtaken by ultimate retribution. All the circumstances of American existence are different from those that breed mutiny and its multitude of alien kin. The men who served in Russia were tried as severely as any body of troops in the war. They didn't know why they were there; they didn't know what they were to do; they campaigned in a strange country where the mercury was hovering between 20 and 40 degrees below zero; they were, according to one of their officers, "pitifully underfed." But as for mutiny! "Where do you get that stuff?" indignantly Queried a doughboy of the 339th infantry.

casses of 100 oxen, 300 sheep, with lowed t0 remain Witn them; but they

cows, bulls, and as much. ready-dressed meat as 400 cooks could provide. Be

ing thus protected against famine, I set sail on the third day and was picked up by an English merchant captain, who deemed me crazy when I told him my story. Not until I had token several head of cattle from my pockets would be believe me. To my great grief, one of the ship's rats carried off one of my sheep on the way home. On reaching home I learned that my uncle John had died and left me his estate near Epping, and the same being sufficient to keep my family from want and the lust to wander being still quick within me, I set off to sea once more, this time in the Adventure, bound for Surat. On this vayage, after a great tempest, we put into a strange bay for water. Rambling on the shore. I became separated from my companions and feli into the hands of some natives of Brobdingnag, colossal men, of whom hardly one was under sixty English feet in height. I was here put on exhibition, and my fame reaching the ears of the King and Queen, they commanded my presence at court; and thither I was brought, in the charge of the daughter of one of my captors, a little girl named Glumdalclitch nine yenrs of age and small for her years, being not above thirty feet in height In the train of their Majesties, I traveled all over the kingdom, which was 6000 miles in length . by three to five thousand in breath. The capital city was 54 miles in length by 45 in breath, a wonderful city where the King's palace was seven miles around and the chief room therein 240 feet high, and broad and long in proportion. The King's stable was also a goodly building, housing 600 horses, noble creatures of a height of from 54 to 60 feet. Of the Lilliputians, I used to cay

banished me from their kingdom as one who might set up a leader of the Yahoos and so sometime give them trouble. They allowed me to build and provision a boat; and so I paddled off and in time reached England, where my wife and children were very glad to see me. Copyright, 1919, by Post Publishing Co. (The Boston Post.) All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.) "The Newcomes," by Thackeray, as condensed by Librarian Charles K. Bolton of the Boston Athenaeum, will be printed tomorrow.

Dinner Stories

A minstrel singer, visiting in the

home of local friends not long since,

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

IT WAS W. J. BRYAN Dear Roy Can you inform me who it was that said or wrote: "Lips that touch wine Shall never touch mine." Ned.

A LADY OF NOTE She was musical quite, so she made her a gown Of organdie, cleverly planned, With accordion plaits running all up and down, And fluted to beat the band. She looked truly swell and would fre

quently harp On being high-toned and all that; And of course to B natural, had to B sharp Enough to abide in A fiat Walter Pulitzer. The general opinion is that Mexico is storing up a lot of trouble for herself But then, Mexico lives on trouble.

Nobody yet has solved American

entertained the family of his host ! morale, but it is always right on the

with several songs, greatly to the de

light of three small girls of the household. After a 6ong or two the minstrel observed in theatrical parlance: "My pipes seem to be a little bit

stuffed up."

job when somebody takes the trouble to dust it off and wind it up. When the trouble starts it isn't in sight anywhere, but in the twinkling of an eye it is hitting on all 12 cylinders and eating up the mileage. After a person has morale for a

Kissing In Parks Is 0. K., Says Park Board SPRINGFIELD. 111., July 3L Is kissing in the park disorderly? No! Nor 6pooning, either. So ruled the Springfield park board. Announcement that the board intended to "stop destruction of property, stealing of flowers and disorderly conduct" was construed as a blow to love making on the park benches. Young folks became frantic. Announcement by the board was quickly made. The park board doesn't take cognizance of mere kissing or a little spooning so long as the spooning is in the proper way. "Boys and girls axe human, and the parks are big. Anyway, it would be an Impossible task. It can't be done. Our policemen make their rounds, but even a gray-Saired policeman might overlook a little kiss."

Memories of Old Days !

In This Paper Ten Year

Ago Today

E. M. Foster of this city was chosen by Charles Farber of Columbus for his nartner in th tpnnis rlnnMoa in

rr i . 11 a ' l . ... . . . : i . . . t . . M -

iiit) smaiie&i gin isu me room ana aiie ue aoesn i notice it at an, ana the tournament at Cleveland soon returned with a box which she, it seems as though he had always had!

handed to the minstrel.

"What are these?" he asked, "some throat lozenges?" "Xo," the child replied, "they're papa's pipe cleaners." "Experts claim there is a science of salesmanship and a psychological moment for closing a sale." "You bet! And the psychological moment is when you get the clerk to wait on you." , - ,

"Why don't they get this world league going?" v "A few players are holding out for

it As a' matter of fact it has always

been in tb family and is more of a hereditary condition than one of environment.

Keeping tab on the morale in this

Hundreds of dollars were lost In a severe storm which swept the city. Editors of all the newsoaners. both

daily and weekly, within a radius of

country is not a difficult Job, for there ; 40 miles of Richmond, were sent invK

are 100,000,000 American spies on the

job twenty-four hours a day. Thegreat American eye wink has come lto its own again.

Ire volume of the rocky crust of

rth, estimated at ten miles thick.

including' the mean elevation of the lamd above the sea, is 1,633,000 cubic

miles.

rations to be special guests at thev Richmond Fall Festival. Clifford A. Bradbury, graduate of the Richmond high school, the school of electrical engineering at Purdue and the Kent School of Law at Chicago, accepted a position at patent attorney and counselor of law with the Stromberg Telephone Manufacture e

Jpany, ot Rochester, N,-y, w