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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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snsvBBB or tub aiiociatkd mess Th AaaoeKted Preas I excluetirely ntltled to tfc (or republication of all newt dlcpe-tchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In thla paper and alao the local new published hereto. All right of republication of ape clal dispatches herein are also reserved. The Vicious Circle The common .mistake of all governments in dealing with great social upheavals is to take them too seriously or not to take them seriously enough, says the Christian Science Monitor. That is because any government is after all nothing but the quintessence of the human mind which is itself permanently unbalanced, always seeing men and circumstances out of focus with the eyes of a Zimri, So over violent, or over civil. That every man with him was God or devil. The Greeks had a saying, which has been attributed to Solon amongst others, and which may be translated, "Nothing too much." What, then, the governments of the world are facing today, if they will only recognize it, is an abstract mental condition of which the immediate inspiring cause is human selfishness. The profiteer at one extreme is intent on piling on the public everything, in his own phrase, that it will bear; on the other hand there is the mob ready, at any moment, to break out in riot, and to enrich itself with the loot of the shops. The one action takes place orderly and lawfully, the other disorderly and unlawfully. But nevertheless they both are but the extreme vibrations of the same pendulum; and .the disciplined restraint of the first, and the unreasoning passion of the second, are equally irresponsible inasmuch as they represent obedience to a mental suggestion, not less powerful because unseen. Any person who has watched carefully the mental force of the world at work must have become aware of this. Greed fattens upon greed, and even more so does injury upon injury. The only safety in either case is rigorous self-examination by the individual, in the effort to bring his thoughts and his actions into accord with Principle. One on Principle's side, slightly to adapt Wendell Phillips' saying, is a majority. It is a majority too which the thoughtful man, as he masters the phenomena of human existence, from Shantung, by way of Moscow,, Vienna. Paris, London and New York, to Vancouver, must appreciate the importance of the more he comes to understand it. After centuries of maneuvering for position,. Capital vand Labor are about closing with one another. And as they do the calm onlooker notices some things as curious as they are interesting. He notices Capital falling back on the discredited expedients of the fourteenth century, and Labor retaliating in the spirit of primitive ferocity. There is an extraordinary resemblance, that is to say, between the new vagrancy laws of Kansas and the old English Statute of Laborers, whilst the methods of the Liverpool mob, in breaking into and sacking the shops, allowing for all the picturesque exaggeration of the special correspondent, is fully in agreement with that law of precedents, which, as Junius sarcastically insists, is bred out of precedents. The bankruptcy of the human mind becomes more and more apparent every day.

The syndicalistic touch in the scheme for the

reorganization of the railroads of the United

States affords a delightful example of this. In the good old days when Capital was the wicked

giant, Selfishness, and Labor the true knight of

equality and fraternity, the Socialist state was

held up as the "Bonum summum quo tendimus omnes," as men have, for centuries, sententiously

quoted Lucretius as saying, "The highest good at which we all aim." As, however, the dints began to appear in the giant's armor, the true knight began to appear in the giant's armor, the true knight began to modify his battle cry a little, until one day it became fraternity and syndicalism. Now, to tell the truth, there is uncommonly little fraternity about 'syndicalism, or perhaps it would be fairer to say that the fra

ternity of syndicalism was distinctly limited: as

distinctly limited as the aristocrats found it during "the Terror." Socialism, that is to say, the appropriation of all the wealth of the state by the state, is one thing, but syndicalism, the appropriation of the wealth of the trade by the trade, is another thing, and that thing is capitalism in a new form. The movement, it is obvious, the individual trade claims the profits of that trade, all that has happened is that a new set of shareholders has been set up. These shareholders will be quite as intent as the old shareholders in getting the greatest possible return on their capital, that is their labor and the public will be quite as much without redress against them. It will be the old trust under a new name. That really is what the demand of the railroad men in the states, at the present moment, comes to. But the idea cannot, of course, stop there. Syndicalism would organize every trade on a similar basis. Trades, however, vary in their earning capacity. It would soon appear that some syndicates were earning much more than other syndicates, and an inevitable advance in prices would be forced, with the result that a struggle would arise amongst these syndicates in the course of which it would become rapidly apparent that the human mind, and not its manifestations, is the arch culprit, and that the shadow behind the throne of Syndicalism alike with Capitalism is selfishness. At first sght it may seem quite fair that the workers in a specific trade should own that trade, but that is not going to get rid of Capital,, for every trade will become the private property of those engaged in it. When the English breweries changed from privately owned concerns to public companies, all they did was to exchange a few great capitalists for a multitude of small ones, and so intrench capitalism more securely than ever. But these small capitalists were not drones, they were workers, for. the most part, actively engaged in other businesses and trades. There were, moreover, unquestionably far more of them than there were men employed in the trade. If then they were expropriated, in favor of the men employed in the breweries, what would occur except a decrease in the number of shareholders, and a consequent re-approachment to private ownership? All this, it need not be said,, is the purely economic aspect of the unrest, but it is inextricably interwoven with the political. Bela Kun does not have to seek safety in Vienna just because he is advocating the substitution of a liberal for an autocratic regime, but because he is endeavoring to root up the existing bases of society, and, like Lenine and Trotzky, is not the least particular if, in the course of the experiment, he reduces order to chaos, and makes the lives of human beings of as little account as they were, a few months ago,, upon the battlefield. "Contrariwise," as Tweedledum would put it, Japan's effort in Shantung is aimed not merely at the economic exploitation of the province,, but at the destruction of the republican idea which, if it survives, is bound to prove in turn destructive of the Japanese dream of the establishment of an autocratic empire in the Far East. So the human mind laces and interlaces its effete ideals, quite unconscious that it is merely beating the devil round the same old bush, whilst all the time history is being made by those who understand Principle.

Condensed Qassics of Famous Authors

ELIOT In the memoirs of Georga Eliot two books are mentioned which have a special interest, one being; the first book ahe ever read at a child, called The Linnet Life." which gave her great happlneaa. and the other. Scott s "Waverley." Her friend. Misa Slmcox's article In the Nineteenth Century Review telle of George Eliot's appetite for reading. "Somewhere about 1827 a friendly neighbor lent Waverley' to an elder alater ot

little Mary Ann Evans. It waa returned before the child had read to the end, and in her distress at the loss of the fascinating volume she began to write the story as far as she had read it for herself, beginning naturally where the story begins, with Waverley's adventures at Tullt Veolan. and continuing until the surprised elders were moved to get the book back again." It has been claimed that George Eliot's highly trained mind suppressed -the impulsive heart. She suffered from bodily ills most all her life, and but for her extraordinary mental health she could not have accomplished the amount of work that came from her brain and pen. Among the many books which she published were "Middlemarch," "Daniel Deronda," "The Spanish Gypsy." a drama, and "Ramola,". which may be called an historical novel, a story which owes its power of attraction and its vitality to its superb presentation of the character of Tito Melema, who belongs, not to any one period, but to every generation. "Daniel Deronda," in spite of Its distinction and its being so ablv written, has never been a great favorite. Some one has said that "Jane Austen despised the greater number of her characters, but George Eilot suffered with each of hers."

, She had a great accumulation of eorBe Eliot at the Be of 30 at which book knowledge, but this was opposlme she was more generally known ed in many ways to the practical life by her baptismal name of Mary Ann led among all sorts and conditions of Evans. persons, so that at times some of the ,, . spontaneity of Joy was lacking In her writings But there were those full of pathos as when she wrote of Haggle Tulliver in the "Mill on the Floss." viJhe.de?th of.,Mr- Lewes- which occurred in 1878. was also the deathblow to her artistic vitality. She later married Mr. J. W. Cross, but sha never really recovered from the shock of the loss of Mr. Lewes

RAILROAD UNIONS START BIG FIGHT J FOR NATIONALIZATION OF THE ROADS

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ADAM BEDE"

BY GEORGE ELIOT

Condensation by Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly

That last year of the eighteenth century Hayslope was a pleasant neighborhood to live In. It waa far enough away from the noise of "BoneyV battles to sleep in peace. Men chatted ot crops and rents, and listened to the gossip of women folk regarding Dinah Morris of Snowfield, Mrs. Poyser's own niece, who had turned "Methody preacher and would stand right up before men on the village green, talking to them of the comfort they could find in their friend, Jesus Christ. And. worse still, Dinah was so attractive and so gravely loving that the men, and women, too, gladly listened to her. Big Adam Bede, the carpenter, would have liked to see more of her, had he eyes for any one except old Poyser's niece, Hetty SorreL As for Hetty, she had no thought for Adam; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir of the estate, had whispered too many things in her pretty ear. It was natural enough. There, in her aunt's white dairy, rounding her dimpled arm to lift a pound of butter out of the scale, Hetty had the beauty of a fluffy kitten. Her large dark eyes had a soft roguishness, and her curly hair, pushed away under her cap, stole back in delicate rings on her forehead. Of course, the dashing capV, J a14V iA. wtn

riage, but then, as he bent over hep hlike ai1,unte,d man', and .hn.ir r.iHi,r .nn,i to f.i spiingmg to the saddle of a waiting

horse, set off at a gallop.

9 " J L) b U 0 L ?i -fax?

TIeada of railroad brotherhoods. Left to riirht: W. G. Lee of the Railway Trainmen; W. S. Carter of the Firemen and Engineraen; Warren S. Stone of the Engineers, and A. B. Garretson of the Conductors. j It is announced by the h;ads of the railway brotherhoods that they are a unit for the government ownership and joint control of the railways, andy that they will tske this question before the countiy at the next electiorZ In the meantime they demand more pay or a redaction in the cost of living.

from temporary sorrow to life-long misery, she determined to marry Adam. The big carpenter was in the seventh Heaven, Hetty fitful and depressed. For family reasons, the marriage could not be hastened, and as the months passed, she determined at any cost to seek out Arthur, whose regiment was at Windsor. Telling her uncle she was going to Snowfield to see Dinah for a little change of scene before her marriage, she started out, ignorant of the countrv. Danic-stricken

and forlorn, eager to shun every familiar face, longing only to feel again ' the protection of her lover's arms. On Arthur, meanwhile, life seemed again to smile. After rejoining his j regiment, his sharpest regrets fori Hetty began to lose their sting. Soon! he was transferred to Ireland, and there learned that by his grandfather's death he was lord of the manor. I Home he came as fast -as chaise and' post-boy could drive, home to dear old I Hayslope sleeping on a hill, where he i was to live his life, married to some : lovely lady, respected and appreciated '

ay nis tenants. A pile of letters awaited him. He opened the first, and with a violent convulsion shaking his whole frame, read the words: "Hetty Sorel is in prison for the crime of child murder."

Clutching the letter, Arthur rushed

shoulder, he was soldier enough to feel his head turn very fast. He had no

wish to harm her, you may be sure of that, for he had great pride in the Donnithorne estate, and it is pleasant for a rich young man to be liked and admided. One August evening Adam walked home through a grove of grand beeches, the glory of the estate. As carpenter and woodsman, he delighted in fine trees, and paused to look at a huge beech which stood at the turning before the grove ended in an archway of boughs. All his life he remembered that

moment, tor mere, not twenty yaras "Who?"

away, stood two figures, close, wun , ened.

clasped hands. They started. ine

That very evening; a vouns- woman

knocked at the door of the village Jail. There as about her a deep concentrated calmness which induced the Jailer to grant her request to visit the condemned cell. As the heavy door closed behind her, she hesitated before the pallet bed. "Hetty, Dinah is come to you." Slowly, very slowly. Hetty rose and was clasped in Dinah's arms. "You won't leave me, Dinah?" "No, Hetty," whispered Dinah. "I'll stay with you to the last. But Hetty,

mere ia someone eise m this cell."

whispered Hetty, fright-

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

JUST A FAINT IDEA Los Angeles Times. The Russian Bolshevik troops are said to be within TO miles of Blagovieshtchensk. Moreover, it is further reported that they are being egged on by a bunch of wild Chinamen. If the reader can imagine such a mob entering the abovementioned metropolis, he will have a faint conception of the meaning of Bolshevism.

UNSUPPRESSED BREWING Philadelphia Ledger. Nowadays there is nothing brewing but trouble.

A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY New York World. Senator Owen comes out for the peace treaty and League of Nations without interpretations or reservations. You can't end a war with a lot of side remarks.

What Other Editors Say

THE PROFITEERING MINORITY From the Indianapolis News. AS THE SITUATION is now the profiteers constitute a dominant minority in a country where the fundamental principle of government is rule by the majority. Even including the little fellows who are .taking advantage of the situation to make overcharges, Vhe proportion of profiteers to the total population is small. The vast majority of people in the United States Save nothing to sell except their skill or their strength; at is to say their labor, mentalpr physical, be they lawyers, doctors, clerks, ball players or trench diggers. There aai undoubtedly some classes of labor that are profiteering, and have been ever since the exigencies of war gave thm their first opportunity to do so; but even adding thbise to the list of profiteers leaves the total much smallei? than that of the number of people profiteered agafnst. Profiteering is an evil that feeds upon itself, and crocs gross. It began in a large way by the taking advantage of urgent war needs even before tho United Staifc3 got into the war by shrewd industrialists and baa mot only continued, but has increased, ever since; and has spread to all sorts of business transactions even f the smallest size to places where the overcharga of a nickel is. in principle. Just as much profiteering as tfhe overcharge of $1,000 is in another place. In both instances the Increased charge is not made be

cause it is necessary for an honest profit on the transaction, but because the seller is confident that he can

collect it; and collect it he does, with no other trouble than the necessity of explaining that it is on account of the high cost of everything which he is making higher. It is to the interest of every person who is satisfied with an honest profit, whether he sells commodities, skill or strength, to use all his Influence to stop the operations of the profiteers, that is, the persons who are not satisfied with an honest profit. Those operations not only make his cost of living higher, but Interfere with Lis business, both as to quality and quantity, while actually reducing his profits by making him pay more for the necessities of personal life. For a good while now the only, or least the principal, attempt to remedy the situation has been by working for an Increase of income; but as everybody's income could not be increased and if it could nothing would be accomplished this only made the situation worse for those with fixed incomes and no better for those who succeeded in increasing their Incomes. The understanding that

Uneither higher wages nor higher prices will reduce the

cost of living or even meet it may come with a shock in some cases, but it must come; and with that coming must also come an understanding by the profiteers that they are not only in the minority, but that the majority has tolerated their transactions to the limit of its patience.

girl hurried away, while Arthur Don- -m voh- hn.ir. ,i ..... . ,;

mthorne walked slowly forward. He makes no difference, Hetty, whether was flushed and excited, but reas- we live or dle We are sured himself by remembering that" ence of God. Confess the sin you have Adam was a sensible person, not likely ; committed against your Heavenlv to babble That the big sober carpen- Father. Let us kneel together. He is

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK THE IDEALIST The Idealist is the pioneer in every line of worth-while endeavor. The Idealist is not always the most Intelligent, nor has he always the best trained mind. But he always has a great heart and great faith, and so absolute Is he in his enthusiasm that he carries whole crowds his way. The Idealist may not be able to run a college or a state, or know much about classic music or history or science or literature but the path over which he treads to his goal is a straight one, very well laid out, and one with which the Idealist is thoroughly familiar. The Idealist always has one great purpose in mind to make people happier and the world a better place in which to live. Sometimes the Idealist is quite ignorant as to practical affairs. But if his faith lasts long enough, there are always those, less great in Ideals but more capable in practical ways, to take up the work, of him whose business it is to arouse. vIdeals are something to fight for, to live for and to work for. If they were something that you did not have to fight for they would be worth nothing. Nearly 2000 years ago Jesus was called an Idealist and was Called by His critics a foolish dreamer. But what He taught and stood for then is stronger today than when He personally delivered his messages. The Idealist makes history to have flesh and blood.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

"Well, Adam, said Arthur carelessly. "You've been looking at the fine old beeches, eh? I overtook pretty Hetty Sorrel as I was going ta my old lodge in the woods; so I took her to the gate, and asked for a kiss

for my pains. Good night."

There in the silence and darkness, Hetty, who through her trial had sat like a stone image, poured forth her pitiful story. "It was because I was so miserable. Dinah. I didn't know where to go. I

mea to Kin myself, and couldn't. I

Adam dared not move lest he spring .went to Windsor to find him tr. -..

on Arthur like a tiger. j gone, and I didn't know what to do I "Stop a bit," he said in a hard, per-, daredn't go home again. Then the emptory voice. I baby was born. ... I did do it, Dinah.

wnai uo you mean: miuui ibhm Durlea it In the wood thp littlp

his temper rising.

"I mean that, instead of the honorable man we've all believed you, you're a selfish scoundrel." Arthur found it bard to control himself. "Well, Adam, perhaps I have gone too far in taking notice of the pretty

little thing, and sealing a few kisses

Daoy. it cried. ... I heard it all night and I went back. And then I thought I would go home, and all of a sudden I saw a hole under a nut-tree, and it darted over me like lightning I'd lay the baby there, and cover it with grass and chips. I couldn't cover it quite up, Dinah. I thought some-

Doay a come and take care of it.

DO FISH LOVE? (Newspaper Headline). A sad and lonely Cape Cod shad Cried to a sweet and charming eel: "I love you and I'jn really sad. Because my love I can't conceal! If you know why my eyes are wet. The reason's this: You don't love me! Tonight I'll swim into a net And leave behind this frigid sea!" Norman Stuckey. SERENADE Under its dark towers the chateau is sleeping, Heavy with night dews the roses are weeping, Watch o'er the garden the soft stars are keeping, Tremulous, tender and bright.

Sweet, can you guess how my poor heart is breaking Here in the darkness where nothing is waking? Gosh! you can't think what a bad cold I'm taking Out on this damp grass at night! C. Hamilton.

No use in kicking about prices in fashionable cafes. If a man doesn't want to go in, he doesn't have to.

Motor Cars Utilized By New York Throngs (By Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug. 9. With only a few surface cars and an occaBional elevated or subway train in operation, thousands of Brooklyn residents were compelled again today to resect to buses, motor cars and trucks. Congestion at terminal points of the Long Island railroad and the Inter-boro Rapid Transit company lines to Manhattan were Jammed early with, anxious throngs when it became apparent that the third day of the strike of Brooklyn Transit employees promised little or no relief. No disorders were reported when the early crush began. The poKce it was announced were prepared for any emergency, and on the few surface cars, elevated and subway trains operated, patrolmen were on guard. The third day of the strike began with little hope of an amicable settlement. Lindley M. Garrison, receiver was firm in his determination not to treat with delegates from the Amalgamated association of street and electric railway employees.

GREAT DAY FOR BEN Mrs. Ben Ashby has the asthma so bad she can't talk. Landram Banner. Uncle Terwilliger says: "Wall, they mout Just as well prohibit the tobacco. It wouldn't prevent us buying the pre-

! sent brands of cigars and cigarets if

they did."

You're such a grave fellow you don't j Dinah, do you think God will take

understand temptations. Let's Eay no

more. The whole thing will soon be forgotten." "No, by God," said Adam, "it'll not be soon forgot as you've come in between her and me when she might have loved me. It'll not be soon forgot, as you've robbed me of happiness when I thought you my best friend. You're a coward and a scoundrel, and I despise you." The color rushed back to Arthur's face. He dealt a lightning blow which sent Adam staggering back, but the delicate-handed gentleman was no match for the workman's great strength. After a fierce struggle, Arthur fell motionless, while Adam, in sudden revulsion of feeling, knelt over him like an image of despair gazing on death. To his intense relief, Arthur gradually revived. Adam got him to his feet, supported him to the little cabin, and laid him on a couch. Then he spoke out: "I don't forget what's owing you as a gentleman, but in this thing we are man to man. Either tell meshe can never be my wife tell me you're lying when you say you haven't harmed her or else write her a letter, telling her the truth that you won't see her again." Arthur struggled, suffered, promised, and Adam half comforted, left, not knowing that there, in the waste basket, hastily, stuffed under the papers, lay a woman's silk kerchief. When Hetty read Arthur's letter, she gave way to despair. Then, by one of those convulsive motiveless actions by which the wretched leap

away tnat cry and the place in the wood, now that I've told everything?" "Let us pray, poor sinner," breathed Dinah. "Let us pray to the God of All Mercy."

Comforter and Comforted, their prayer was heard. Two days later, in the very shadow of the scaffold, Arthur Donnithorne brought a hard-won reprieve. Though spared from death, Hetty was sentenced to transportation. Dinah returned to her works of mercy lit Snowfield. In remorse and shame, Arthur Donnithorne went back to the Army, while Adam Bede, squaring his shoulders to the world, turned again to his work-bench. For him all the Joy of life seemed over, and never would he have thought of seeking it again had not his mother dropped into his heart one day the name of Dinah. Long and soberly he thought, and then he went to find her. Copyrlffht, 1919. by th Post Publishing Co. (The Boston Post) Copyright ln the United Kingdom, the Dominions, Its Colonies and dependencies, under the copyright act. by the Post Publishing Co., Boston, Mass., V. S. A. All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.) "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," by Thomas Hardy, as condensed by Miss Ruth McCall will be printed Monday. An Inventor has combined a cigar cutter with a watch for men. '

Dr. Karl Muck, former leader of the Boston Smyphony Orcheslra, will be open for engagements as soon as he Is

released from Fort Oglethorpe. The first engagement that should be forced ' upon him is to stand on a street corrtln.r "Tli Ctai. Cnanfflafl Dan.

X1C1 auu tIicLJ "'"l "t""';'1. Jjnu ner" all day on a slide trombone.

Dinner Stories

The proprietor of a grocery Btore chanced to glance out the plate glass window and saw a small boy linger, ing around a barrel of apples exhibited on the sidewalk. "Hey. there, boy!" exclaimed the grocery man. going to the door. "What, are you doing?" "Nothing," laconically answered the boy, with his eyes, still fixed on the barrel. "Nothing, eh?" doubtfully returned the man. "Aren't you trying to steal

some of those aDDles?"

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

The secretary of the Young Men's Business Club contracted for 3.000

! posters for the window display for the

fall festival. The posters were designed by Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer. James Van Dusen, a resident of the city, celebrated his 97th birthday and was in a healthy condition. Judge Henry Fox was overcome bv

the heat and taken to his home.

Java has taken leadership in the cultivation of quinine away from Peru.

Samuel Gompers was talking in Washington about his recent foreign

i tour.

Heaven deliver us," he said, "from the Bolshevist type of labor leader." Here Mr. Gompers gave a hearty laugh. "You know,' he went on. "about th3 unemployment allowance of 22 shillings a week that is given to English labor? Well, a Bolshevist labor leader at a labor demonstration one night pointed to a modest, neatly dressed young woman and hissed in my ear: "'Scab! Look at the dirty scab! If it wasn't for her sex I'd heave her out of the window. "The Bolshevik gave an indignant snort. " 'Why,' he said, 'when her munition plant shut down she said it wasn't right the dirty scab to take the 2 shilling unemployment allowance when there were plenty of good places vacant, and golblimey if she didn't go back to general housework!"

PREPARE RATE SCHEDULE.

(By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 9. Several commissioners having to do with reconstruction and other work In connection with the German delegation went to the Paris offices oj the Eastern railway today to work out with French commissioners the railroad schedules

tor the transmission of a large nam-

Der or German workmen who will be assigned to rehabilitation operations in the northern and eastern departments of France.

Butchers Support War On High Cost Of Living (By Associated Press) CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 9. After selecting New York as the 1920 meet, ing place and re-electing ail the offl cers except a few vice-presidents, the ' United Mastar Butchers of America brought their , annual convention to a close here today. Many resolutions supporting tb war on the high cost of living were j adopted.