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THIS RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1919.

THERICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Eyry Evening Ejccept Sunday, by Palladium Printing1 Co. IfeXtoOtan Baddlng, Nortli Nlnfa and Bailor Streets. Entered -at tha Poet Office at Richmond, Indiana, a Second CUa& Mall Matter.

snsantEii of tbb assocxatkd fkess Xft Anolta P l xclnslvly entitled to the nse or republication of all ewi dlopatohea credited to It ot not therwlae credited In this paper and also the local ner publish herein. All right of republication of special dlapatohea herein are alio reeenred. ' American Goods and Foreign Markets The Guaranty Trust Company of New York in its semi-monthly review of foreign trade takes an optimistic view of the general industrial and financial situation. Its findings are presented not as a final and an authoritative judgment but as an expression of opinion which each reader may accept or reject at will. It will be noted that the review believes that the war era of wasteful consumption has ceased and that the forty million men who were directly or indirectly involved in destructive efforts are now "assets for constructive effort." This opinion is not entirely shared by many thinkers. They still believe that there is a wide gap between the amount of foodstuffs and commodities produced and their consumption by the world in one way or another. Not only the absence of men engaged in war work from their normal productive capacities, but many other factors have entered into the problem of production, so that the return of the soldiers does not of itself mean that full time production has been ushered in. The review, however, agrees with almost every thinker who has wrestled with the problem, in insisting that our only salvation is to be found in increased production. "Production is the fundamental of the problem," says the review, "and unless production is maintained and increased here and abroad, reforms will be useless, and all the attention devoted "to panaceas will be so much energy diverted from the real crux of the situation, and so much a sin against civilization." The survey is herewith appended: Accumulated evidence gathered by competent observers leaves now little room for doubt that the lowest point in the economic state of the world was passed some time back and that whatever may be the temper of the present moment, from this time forth progress must be ever more rapid toward stability and prosperity. To support this view there is, in the first place, this obvious fact: that while production may not have increased at a rate sufficient to

make the entire satisfaction of the world's needs i

a matter of less than years, yet the great waste of staple commodities, which the continued prosecution of the war involved, has been almost entirely stopped. The destruction of life, too, has ended and the men engaged directly or indirectly in such destruction are now, each of them, an asset for constructive effort. During the years that the war lasted, the world was able to feed itself and clothe itself, despite the great, proportion of its resources that were being consumed in the struggle. That toll is no longer being exacted, and has not been exacted since November 11th. The world is, therefore, richer by the amount it has saved by merely ceasing to fight. The transition from peace to war was a slow

and wasteful operation even in the countries best prepared for the struggle. The transition from war to peace, with all the re-adjustment of industry that it implies, is but little less difficult. It has, however, this advantage. That whatever progress is made is so much, positive progress, each painful step being an actual gain, each factory restored to production taking the world that much further from the edge of the precipice to which it had so nearly approached, each individual who undertakes again the task which was his during pre-war days assisting, by the extent of his effort, in the general revival. That such progress is being made cannot be doubted. To the most pessimistic observer the strides that Belgium has made must be apparent. France has passed the crisis, and is once again attacking her tremendous burdens with her old spirit. Italy, faced for a time with grave disorders, is now presenting a much more hopeful face to the world. The civilization which the world had built up before the war was a solvent civilization. With all its short-comings it had nevertheless suffi

cient surplus to extend :its power each year, to wrest a little more terr&Lory from darkness and to give its benefits to tiore millions of weaker races. For four years t bis surplus has been utilized elsewhere, and it nuay even be true that some of the stored-up energy has been expended. But, generally speaking,, the productive power of the world has not been iiaipaired. If work were to start tomorrow in eveiry factory where it was carried on previous to tliia war, the surplus would again be produced. The minds of ordin?iry rnen were so occupied during the war with the daily problems which the war brought with it thert'; they had little time for taking stock of the general world situation. The state of the ledger was of little interest. The main thing was to fubfiJl the contract. During the let-down which followed the armistice, men began to figure up the:!r status. The knowledge of the extent to which the surplus had been exhausted spread in gisidually widening circles through the world, bringing astonishment and panic to the unthinking, and causing grave concern even to wiser meruit was only a few weeks ago that this knowledge reached its widest diffusion and affected the equanimity of the .-g reatest number of people. It so happened, therefore, that the most competent observers had discounted the dangers of the situation by the time tfhat a comprehension of it had become widely spi-ead. As these trained observers reckoned up the world's resources, they invariably reached the conclusions that the productive power of the world had not been impaired; as their authce.-itative vew became more widely known and their judgment was accepted by men in positions of leadership, pessimism gradually subsided. This probably accounts for the fact that the excitement of the last week or two has had little appreciable depressing effect upon the men actually engaged in the manufacture of goods and their sale here and abroad. This is said, of course, without any attempt to belittle the seriouisness of the present situation, or to gloss over the difficulties which must be met and overcome before normality in trade relations, and particularly in foreign trade relations, may be expected. It so happens that the United States, being in a position to supply so many of the world's needs during the war, had to extend credit to the purchasers of those materials until the normal exchange relations had been entirely disrupted. To place Europe again in production, and so to continue our own prosperity requires a further extension of credit. The solvency of Europe being granted, the problem for the American banker, manufacturer and exporter

shrinks from an economic problem into one of finance ; that is, it is a question of deciding upon the terms upon which credit may be most advantageously supplied. On both sides of the Atlantic the situation is identical in this respect that settlements cannot be made until production has been resumed on the fullest possible scale. Europe cannot produce until food and raw materials, machinery, and fuel necessary to her production have been secured from the United States, the most available source of supply. Those needs cannot be supplied unless our own production is kept at the highest possible level. Production is the fundamental of the problem, and unless production is maintained and increased, here and abroad, reforms will be useless,

and all the attention devoted to panaceas will be so much energy diverted from the real crux of the situation, and so much a sin against civilization. In truth, the world has no choice. As between optimism and disaster the course is already decided.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

KNOWS BY INTUITION Chicago News. Ia fixing responsibility for that blimp disaster Senator Borah ought to be interviewed. He could probably show that President Wilson was somehow to blame.

NOT A FAIR TEST Detroit News. Judge Jayne says we all at times get tired of married life. Especially about one a. m., when the wife remembers she forgot to lock the front door.

THE DODO OF THE HOUR Toledo Blade. Burleson is molting his jobs, but the main feather i3 still intact to identify him as one of the strangest birds of the administration.

Allowance For the Poet and Patriot

From the Kansas City Times. SIR Rabindranath Tagore's letter to the viceroy of India, indicting British rule in that country, may be accepted as the sincere expression of a poet and patriot laboring under a strong conviction of obligation toward the millions of his countrymen who do not, like himself, possess a voice that can be heard. He has not been oppressed himself. He has received honors from the British government, and the knowledge that he stood in that conspicuous position when others of his countrymen may have had cause for complaint, moves him as a man of generous nature and patriotic fervor to proclaim his feeling to be with his people rather than with their governors. It was an act no criticism can deal hardly with. But for the reasons given it was an indictment that must be accepted with caution. Sir Radindranath is a poet and a seer, a man whose imagination bodies forth the forma of things unseen. He feels himself the voice of a people, the prophet of a nation. He cannot permit to pass unnoticed things which to a person in a different relation to the people of India would be matter of regret perhaps, perhaps even calling investigation and j-e-

form, but not for condemnation of a whole system of government or for a language of indictment befitting the crimes of an Alva or a Torquemada. No details and no evidence have followed the charges of oppression in the Punjab, and what we have to consider is whether, even if any part of them be true, India, would be better off independent of British rule. To that question there can be but one answer, and the British administration of more than a century and a half, if not always blameless or thoroughly enlightened, gives that answer. The imagination can hardly conceive of what India, with its hundreds of millions of people of many castes and many native governments of rajahs and nabobs would be with the British prop removed. If Sir Rabindranath's charges are supported by any evidence we may be sure there will be investigation, for British rule whatever its faults never has drawn power from oppression or cruelty .and doesn't have to. But British viceroys, while usually enlightened statesmen, are not always poets, and what might seem injustices to poets might seem to an official eye no more than the ordinary effects of government bearing upon subjects not always tractable under necessary restraint.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK SUGGESTIONS FOR OFFICE WORKERS' There never was, and never will be, a royal road to any sort of a success. And yet, in many offices, there are workers who persist in the feeling that It is "old fashioned" to follow the simple rules of business that have made all success possible. Here are a few of the more important of those things that have built every successful business and made every successful employee: v Promptness. There is not another thing more Important In the well-established office than for every worker to report promptly ready to work at the hour at which he is expected to begin. It Is not only your employers' time and money that you waste, but your own, when you arrive late to work. "The reason why I beat the Austrians," said Napoleon, "ia that they did not know the value of five minutes." Loyalty. If you do not have every part of your employer's interests at heart, there is only one decent and self-reBpecting thing for you to do and that is to get out Give all that you are, with enthusiasm, to your work. And remember that unless you have good things to say about your employer and his business say nothing. Andrew Carnegie appreciated this virtue to a great degree. Out of his loyal aides he made millionaires! Honesty. This is an expected quality. But one does not have to take money only in order to be dishonest. Many a worker, thru idleness and thotlessness and dissipation outside office hours, as truly takes money from his employer as he who takes cash from the till. The most honest worker is that one who works as tho the business belonged wholly to him. It was Lincoln's straightforward honesty, even more than his common sense and legal knowledge, that won him his law cases so often. Initiative. Initiative is finding important things to do and going ahead and doing them without being told. The gods never bestowed upon a man a quality so great. Keep doing things that you do not have to do. And keep doing every Job better than it has ever been done before. Start things be a creator! Edison, Schwab, Selfridge, Northcliffe men of initiative, whose very names spell success achieved by the work route.

Condensed Qassics of Famous Authors

MUSCOVITE LEADER IN LONDON FOR AID

Nicholas Tschakovsky. Nicholas Tschakovsky, president of the north Russian provisional frovernment, is in London to induce the British government to announce a definite policy in north Russia. He says that what he most desires is recognition of the Archangel government by one or more of the allies.

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BY ROY K. MOULTON

THE FAT MAN'S SOLILOQUY That's right, laugh, Laugh loud and long, You long, lean, lank, attenuated specimen of humanity, Who cannot cast a shadow And who shiver to death in the winter And regard us fat folks then with keenest envy. Laugh, doggone you, laugh! Have a gcod time; Crack your ribs. It's your turn now Go ahead. Give us the equine ha-ha! Laugh, doggone you, Laugh. Laugh, while you can; Chuckle, grin, giggle, Point your long bony finger at the upholstered frame And smile at this all too solid flesh. Your period of merriment is brief, Then will come the north wind, Crackling around your eylph-!ike frame, Beating a tattoo upon your spareribs; And your knees will rattle, Even as the end man's bones, And you will shiver Like unto the aspen. Then, doggone you, We'll laugh.

Pittsburg man wants a divorce because his wife gives him nothing to eat three times a day but beans. What that man really needs is not a divorce but a hired girl.

For all-around knowledge, nobody

has got anything on a telegraph oper

ator in a town of 1,200,

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HIS VACATION AL "FINISH" Slie.sat at the tiller, and he at the oars, And he looked in her virginal eyes, And wished he might float to some far-away shores With her into -Paradise. (And he heaved a couple of sighs.) And so be asked her to be his wife But in this wise he put it, you see: "Ah, will you not promise to float through life, Like this together with me?" (What a chestnut Bpeech!" thought she.) But she answered, "Oh, yes! through life like this We will paddle and drift and float!" Which shows that she wa3 a wise little miss He was doing the work, you'll note. (But she was steering the boat!)

Masonic Calendar

Friday, August 22 King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called meeting. Work in Master degreLighJ refreshment-,

Dinner Stories

It was a deathbed scene, but the director was not satisfied with the hero's acting. "Come on!" he cried. "Put more life in your dying!" "You may talk about Beanbrough," said the fat plumber, "but he surely looks on the bright side of things." "What has happened to Beanbrough?" the thin carpenter inquared. "The other day I went with him to buy a pair of shoes." "Uh, huh." "He didn't try them on at the store and when he got home he found that a nail was sticking right up through the heel of one." "Did he make a fuss about it when he took the shoe back?" "No. That's what I'm getting at." "What did he do?" "He told the clerk he supposed the nail was put there intentionally to keep the foot from sliding forward In the shoe." "I heard that your last servant was a regular thief," said neighbor Jones. "Well, I wouldn't use so harsh a word, but I will say that the only thing we could leave around him with safety was a bath."

Mem

ories of Old Days

In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

T. R. Jessup, of Richmond, addressed 8,000 persons who attended the Old Settlers picnic at Centerville. Miss Juliet Swayne and Miss Josephine Cates entertained at the Country club for Mr. Herbert Lahr and Harold Van Orman, of Evansville. In estimating the cost for the coming year for bridges repairs and improvements, the county commissioners made $25,000 the sum for bridge repairs and a new bridge, and $9,000 for the maintenance of the roads for the coming year.

New Paris, 0. Marvin Barnett has purchased the Baker property, on North Lincoln street, and will take possession soon. A number of New Paris teachers are attending the County Institute at Katon, including C. R. Coblentz, E. H. Young, Miss Sarah McGrew, Miss Ella Thompson, Miss Emma Thompson, Mrs. Harriet Wright. Miss Adah Crubaugh, Miss Irene Timmons, Miss Evelyn Northrop, Miss Ruth Zea and Miss Mary O'Dea Lloyd Swayne of near Eaton, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. George Fudge Joseph Zea left Tuesday for tho west, whero he will travel in the hope of regaining his health Mrs. Clara Leftwich and daughter, Miss Mary, of Richmond, called on Mrs. Anna Burtch Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Via of New Madison, spent-Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Via and family. Misses Helen and Merlene returned with them for a visit Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jones and family were in attendance at a family reunion held at Troy Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Whitaker entertained Sunday Mr. and. Mrs. E. R. Clark and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. John Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haseltine, of Richmond, and Leslie Sawyer Paul Mc Neill, who is salesman for a Cincinnati Funeral Supply company, spent the week-end with his wife and son Miss Helen Craig, of Dayton, has been employed by the Jefferson township board of education to teach Domestic Science in the school for the coming term Clarence Barnet, who has been making an extended visit with Ms parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Barnet, returned to his work, in New Jersey, Friday Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolford, of Arkansas, are visiting with relatives here Miss Frances Means of Kokomo, spent the week-end with New Paris friends Miss Ruth Zea, of near Urbana, is spending this week with Mr. -and Mrs. Joseph Zea and family Mr. and Mrs. Lial Withrow spent Sunday in Arcanum Claude Collins spent Sunday with friends in Dayton Misses Janice Halen, Irene

CHURCHILL

II Wlnton Churchill has been almost as versatile as his English name sake. It Is a far cry from the story of romantic adventure and the historical novel to the tale of reforming

tendencies, political, social and religious. He has an acute knowledge of wbat will interest the great public and writes a story about it In such a way that he becomes a phenomenal best-seller. He has .learned the profession of writing novels by novelwriting, and he learned t- portray people by careful study of those he wanted to use. He has acquired a power of characterization that la almost photographic. He uses this power to present people of great appeal to a large body of Americans. for they are the type known to manyl All this shows the seriousness of the man. That his political novels, for Instance, are real stories of politic Is shown by the fact that a former president of the United States and two former governors of Massachusetts have consented to retell them In shortened form for the readers of the Boston Post. Winston Churchill has written his best book, so far, in the opinion of most readers, in "Coniston"; it portrays a vital phase of American political life; it has had a potent influence in improving tho conduct nt

..... ... our Publl5 affairs. In Jethro Bass he

vnurcum ua ms ivro oira nas created his greatest character as dogs a snapshot made In Florida yet one that will probably take per-

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manent rank In American literature.

CONISTON BY WINSTON CHURCHILL Condensation by Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts

Coniston was a small village upon a shelf on a mountain side, commanding one of the gorgeous views characfer-

Whltfi. Rhea Davlsaon. Vera TUvlnr.

ton, and Messrs. Trafford Boyd, FredWrived to have an appointment be-

Burtch, and Richards and Everett

Shinkie enjoyed a weiner roast at the home of Miss Marie Fitzwater Saturday evening Mrs. W. F. Wrenn and Mrs. Emma Straights, of New Madison left Monday for an extended visit with relatives in Wisconsin.

The inventor of a new spark plug for internal combustion engines claims It shoots a ribbon of flame Instead q

a rounp, Jnreaa oi nre.

istlc of a little Commonwealth which has many a larger sister state, but

none worthier. The politics of the place was under the control of the Church party, which something more than three-quarters of a century ago held sway over many of the towns of New England. But the career of "Old Hickory" was giving a new Impulse to democracy and portended little good to any ruling class, whatever its virtues. All that was needed was a leader, and one was found in a young man named Jethro Bass, who was the son of a well-to-do tanner. Jethro inherited from his father a snug little fortune, but his education had been almost wholly neglected. He skillfully made use of the rising discontent by appeals to ambition and personal interest. It became clear that the ruling party was to be challenged at the coming town meeting, and so presumptuous a thing stirred society to its depths. The spiritual leader of the Church party was the clergyman. His lovely daughter, Cynthia, filled a large place in the eyes of Jethro, and she was drawn to him by the unmistakable signs of power apparent under his awkward exterior. They used sometime to meet by chance, and unlike as they were in point of cultivation, they were really very much in love with each other, a circumstance 'that had rather to be inferred, because Jethro was little likely to exercise the initiative and say any thing about it. Once when in Boston he bought a beautiful locket and had engraved upon it "Cynthy from Jethro," but he never mustered up the courage to pre- j sent it. When the political tempest!

was rising, Cynthia, who sympathized strongly with her father's party, decided to go to Jethro and plead with him to stop the fight. Before he knew her purpose, he broke his silence and declared his love. Perhaps if he had been given a chance for reflection and had not been so upset by his own confession, he would have granted her request, but that did not seem possible at the moment. Cynthia took his refusal as a decree of separation; 3nd she left him never to see him again, and he set out upon the career which ended in his becoming the uncrowned king of his state. The town meeting fight went on and Jethro was chosen frst selectman, the only office he ever held, and in which he continued for 36 years. Cynthia went to Boston, where she became teacher in a high school, and in the course of time married William Wetherill, the clerk who had sold Jethro the locket. She first learned about the locket from her husband and confessed to him her love for Jethro. After a few years she died, leaving a little girl who bore her name. Wetherill moved to Coniston, taking young Cynthia with him, and went to keeping the village store.

In the years that had gone by Jethro had found Coniston too small and was engaged in carrying on the government of the state. He had his lieutenants in every county and possessed such an organization that he was able to select most of the men who held the important offices and to control their actions afterward. In brief, he became the "Boss" of the state and people who desired legislation or offices found it necessary to visit him. Avarice did not seem to be the motive which controlled him. Railroads were being built, manufacturing developed, and he took pride in making himself indespensable in what was going on. When little Cynthia appeared at Coniston he at once loved her as he would have loved his own daughter. Her father was unable to meet his obligations at the bank. Jethro quietly bought the mortgage and had it assigned to himself. Cynthia used to call him Uncle Jethro and loved him as she did her father. After a time the railroad corporations decided to consolidate. Jethro, whether he feared they would become too large for the state or not, did not approve of consolidation. Thereupon they decided to overthrow him. The fight began over his home postoffice. He was known to favor an old soldier named Eph Prescott who had been badly wounded in the Wilderness, and whom he had helped in his uphill fight, as he had helped many another person. The railroad party decided to defeat Jethro's candidate in order to weaken his prestige in the state, it had the support of many men who had formerly did his bidding and of

the "congressman from the district," the usual autocrat in the distribution of offices of that class.

Jethro went to Washington and con-

there. The fact that she came from a remote country place and of an unknown family, very likely had something to do with the treatment she received in those primitive days before finishing schools had been made wholly safe for democracy. One day a paper controlled by Isaac Worthington, Uje head of the corporation party, made a savage attack upoiC Jethro as a lobbyist and a "boss.' The paper found its way into Cynthia's hands and gave her te greatest distress. She went to Jearo and asked him if the story was true. He said: "They hain't put it just as they ought to be perhaps, but that's the way I done it in the main." His manly confession caused her to love him

even more than before. She withdrew from the finishing school and went to teach in Brampton, the town in which Worthington lived. Jethro shaken by the effect on Cynthia, determined to withdraw from politics. The State was in a ferment. Wouldthe corporations be able to down Jethro? For the first time in nearly forty years Jethro did not appear at the Coniston town meeting. The enemy won by default. The news heartened the corporations everywhere. Worthington had always been an enemy of Jethro's, although he had accepted his help more than once, and while indulging in very virtuous speeches, had practiced essentially the same methods. His son. Bob, was madly in love with Cynthia, but she subordinated her own love for Bob completely to her fidelity to Jethro. Bob proposed to her and she refused. He declared that he would leave his father and earn his own living, and then claim her on account of what he had himself done. He wrote his father telling him his purpose. When tho latter received the letter he flew into a rage. Learning that Cynthia was a teacher in his own town, he called the committee together, the majority of whom he controlled, and had thf-Aa pass a vote ignominiously dismissn? her from the school. This action $r roused Jethro and he straightway took up the battle against the corporation magnate responsible for the outrage. He swooped down up on tho Capitol like an eagle. His genius for political generalship flashed out with its old time brightness. Messages went to the valley towns and to the north country. The "throne room" was open again, and although the batr tie had been apparently lost through Jethro's withdrawol, it became evident that the corporations were destined to defeat. Finally Worthington was willing to surrender and asked Jethro's terms. Jethro said, "Consent to the marriage of Cynthia and Bob." Worthington complied in some high flown letters and the marriage took place. Jethro withdrew from the fight and from politics and passed his old age near Cynthia, blessed by her love and that of her children. (With apologies to Mr. Winston Churchill). Copyright, 1919, by the Post PublishingCompany (The Boston Post). Copyright in the United Kingdom, the Do-, minions;, its colonics and dependencies, under the copyrig-ht act, by the Post,

juDiisning company. Boston, ilass., Tj S. A. All rights reserved.

Condensed from COXISTOX. by "W!n

fton Churchill, copyright. 1906. by Tha MacMillan Company. Used by permission of the author and publisher.

(Published by special arrangement

with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.)

LABOR LEADER OF ENGLAND COMING TO UNITED STATES

tween President Grant and Eph. Grant

was attracted by Eph's simplicity. They talked over the battles they had fought together with a modesty which furnished another instance that the noisiest patriots are not always the greatest. Grant appointed Eph. When the news of the victory reached home Jethro's prestige was much increased. He placed Cynthia in a finishing school in Boston. Being a young wo-

man" of high spirit she wasjiot happy

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Arthur Henderson.

Arthur Henderson, British labor leader, is coming to America, it is said, to aid in the formation of a labor party in this country