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THE RICHMOND 'PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1919.

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liave been sold In recent weeks so that the people could indulge themselves in luxuries of one kind or another. This extravagance must be checked or a day of severe reckoning will come. It can be checked by saving and sane investment. The farmers of the country can be leaders and a most powerful influence in resorting normal peace conditions by heeding the president's words and acting upon them. The need of the nation is for alhthe people

to produce and save.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

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Silk Hats and Living Costs If the production of silk hats were to fall off

Elmost to nothing the country woolld survive and

Its citizens would not be greatly discommoded, Bays the Savings Division of the United States

treasury. There might be some embarrassment in diplomatic and high social circles but even the

diplomats and dandies would get along somehow,

But the production of necessities of life is a

different matter. 4

rresident Wilson has pointed out that we are face to face with a situation more likely to

affect the happiness and prosperity and even the life of our people than the war itself." He has declared that the primary first step to relieve the nation of the cruel burden of high prices is to increase production and that only by increasing production and by rigid economy and saving by the people, can we hope for large decreases in the cost of living. There is only one really sane method of reducing the cost of living and restoring the dollar to its normal purchasing power, and that is of as much interest to the farmer as to anyone else. His dollars will buy no more, at the present rate, than any other man's dollar. The president has given the formula. The world shortages are in the necessities of life. The labor of the world must be turned to the production of necessities, in so far as possible. And one of the first demands is for food. There must be intensive production and steady conservation. During the war, the farmers of the nation patriotically demonstrated that they could produce

more than they ever had expected to produce

from their acres. The demand for food at this time is no less vital than it was in war-times. The people showed, too, during the war, that they could live well on plain foods and a great saving was accomplished. Waste was eliminated. The people can be counted upon to heed the president's appeal. And the authority of the government is descending heavily upon food hoarders,

profiteers and others who, by wilful acts are obtaining extortionate prices from the public. But these things can do no great good unless the production of food is materially increased. And even if the production of food is increased, there must be consistent saving and wise and careful spending of money. For, if money is spent for luxuries and non-essential commodities the production of other necessities clothing, shoes, building materials and buildings, necessary machines for industry and agriculture will be retarded. Money saved and placed in government securities, is withheld from the purchase of nonessentials. Moreover, money saved, and placed

at interest, figures mightily in reducing the cost of production. If the farmer is operating on money borrowed from the bank on which he is paying interest, naturally his cost of production is higher than if he is his own banker. There need be no fear of the bogie "over-production." The world shortage is large enough to take all the food, clothing or any other necessary commodity that can be produced. Piofits to the farmer will remain and will be intensified and increased through lower prices for what the farmer buys. Business methods of accounting, intensive cultivation and other scientific methods that will increase the yield of his land will increase those profits. But the most immediate and practical profit he can have is from saving. It requires the same sort of sacrifice, for a time, that the people made during the war. The people had a prosperity, of a sort, during the war. Their money receipts were high and many bought government bonds. But many of those bonds

The White Plague Campaign American housewives in the past two years have heard much about waste and thrift. They have been urged to save the- wheats and the meats that a hungry world might be fed. These lessons in conservation will not soon be forgotten. j The post-war era, however, has (just brought to light the greatest waste of all the needless slaying of thousands of workers each year and the consequent money loss of a half billion dollars. The white plague claims 150,000 lives yearly. Over 1,200,000 men, women and children in the United States today are its victims. Eight out of every ten adults are at some time in their lives infected with the germs, but a thoroughly healthy person is able to resist their ravages unless his resistance becomes lowered when the disease is likely to develop. "Medical science has proved that tuberculosis or consumption, as it used to be called, is both preventable and curable," says Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, managing director of the National Tuberculosis Association, New York, which is sponsor for the annual sale of Red Cross Christmas seals. This organization, the leading agency in the United States for combatting the white plague, is financed chiefly by funds from the Christmas seal sale. "The prevention of tuberculosis rests largely upon the individual," continued Dr. Hatfield. "It is in this respect that the women of the country can help immediately by insisting upon proper housing conditions. The housewife can do much to ward off the disease. "The cure for tuberculosis lies in nature's own gifts of sunlight, fresh air, good food and plenty of rest in cheerful surroundings under competent medical supervision." Dr. Hatfield also made it clear that women could contribute directly to the fight against the tuberculosis by the generous use of Red Cross

seals. "They are not only messengers of hope and cheer," he concluded, but they are apostles of thrift."

COOPER

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Cooper's Autogrrppli, and a Sketch of the Author in a Characteristic Attitude.

At the agre of 17, James Fenlmore Cooper determined to enter upon a naval career in the service of his country. His apprenticeship was begun on a freighter sailing from New York to Cowes. On a stormy passage of 40 days, he endured, the vigorous hardships of life before the mast. This was followed by an even rougher period of 52 days. These adventures furnished vivid material for thrilling episodes in his sea novels. After this he served in the navy in various capacities, storing up invaluable experience to be relieved by thousands in the pages of his books. At the age of 21 he married. This fiery. Irritable and strong willed man was easily Influenced throughout his life by his wife, to whom he was deeply devoted. Through her he abandoned his ambition for a naval career. Not until he was 30. however, did he begin to write. His first novel was dull beyond belief. Nevertheless his friends urged him to try again. This time he laid the scene in his own land and wrote of patriotism, the passion of his own heart. "The Spy" appeared in 1821 and was soon so popular as to make the largest sales yet won by an American writer. Cooper had written his first novel to prove that he could invent a more interesting talo than one he had Just read. He likewise wrote his first sea story to rival Scott's "The Pirate," and to prove that the author of a sea novel should have lived on shipboard in order to know not only the ocean, but the intimate ways and workings of ships. "The Pilot" was convincing. It met with Instantaneous and brilliant success in Europe and America,

SPEAKING "FROM II IS HEART," PRINCE LAUDS WOUNDED CANADIANS FOR HEROISM IN WAR

"THE PILOT" BY JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Condensation by Alfred 8. Clark

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

HERB'S IN NO DANGER Toledo Blade. Herbert C. Hoover has asked his friends not to mention him for president. But Why? There are many prominent Americans who can tell him that being mentioned doesn't do any harm.

ONE BIRD THAT NEVER STRIKES New York World. If only Consumption would also take a day off now and then to think about it. Production might hope to catch up in the race. But that is just what Consumption never does.

INTERESTING BUT NOT FLATTERING Indianapolis News. It may be interesting to Uncle Sephus to know that he can have the solid Republican support in his effort at getting the Democratic presidential nomination.

OH, DEATH! WHERE IS THY STING? Louisville Courier-Journal. Something called a julep, but non-intoxicating, is being sold. First denatured alcohol was put on the market, uevt the denatured julep.

GIVE HIM ANOTHER DECORATION1 Birmingham Age-Herald. General Pershing treated a congressional investigating committee with a fine disregard that was refreshing. KNEW HEAT'D GET HIM Pittsburg Gazette-Times. In his message to the Mexican congress Carranza talks like he believed himself a real man.

What Other Editors Say

QUEER POLITICAL IDEAS From the Indianapolis News. THE Socialists have been having a sad time in Chicago this week. First the left and right wings clashed and now t2ie Communist party, an off-shoot of the parent organization, has organized on still more radical lines. Some of the people who helped keep members of the Communist party out of Jail by providing bonds for them have been barred from membership because they have money. One of the most radical of the new Communist regulations is a provision that no member shall receive moneyffrom rente. Interest or profits. This, of course, is a direct blow at the doctrine of thrift. Just what the members lof the party expect to do with their surplus earnings if they ever have any is an unanswered question. The accepted idea oflife In this country takes into consideration a start in tbto world with little or nothing. Boys and girl3 are encouraged to save their money and start bank accounts. As they grow older they are taught to invest their savings in? such manner that the money they have saved through rtbe practice of thrift will begin to yield them some returns. Safe plans have been devised to take care of suchninvestments. The savings account draws interest at thei bank and grows not only by the addition of deposits, but by the accumulation of interest. An investment In bdnda or stocks yields either a fixed interest return or participates In the profits. Bonds, such as municipal and government issues,

pay a fixed interest and are regarded as particularly attractive investments because of their stability. All of these investments are legitimate and to be encouraged. Aa a man saves and invests wisely he puts aside something for his old age and his children. He has not been a miser, neither has he been a spendthrift. Doubtless he has been liberal in his donations to worthy causes, but he has kept in mind the dictrine that provision must be made for his family. The alternative is the almshouse.

When the Communists strike at the practice of thrift they attempt to undermine one of the fundamental prin

ciples of American life.

On a late afternoon of a winter's day, during the American Revolution, a rakish schooner and a majestic frigate anchored well inside a little bay on the southeastern coast of England. A whaleboat drove shoreward, a young officer clambered up the steep cliffs and a few minutes later a mysterious stranger was transferred to the frigate's deck. He answered to the name of "Mr. Gray" and was said to be merely a pilot, but he was greeted with surprising deference. For no ordinary man would these vessels have ventured so near the coast of sandbars and hidden rocks. The wind was a mere ruffle of air. But the Incessant mutter of the long, slow waves foretold that a storm was brewing. Ever more fitfully and faintly blew the land breeze; the mutter of the waters grew deeper. Only here and there did a few stars twinkle between the fast gathering clouds. It was time to beat out to open sea, if It were not even now too late. Men swarmed aloft and hung upon the yards; sails fluttered out; the anchor was pulled in; the frigate gathered headway. Then the faint breeze died. The 'spread of canvas hung useless; the currents drove the ship shoreward.

With a roar the wind came suddenly from the east. White spray dashed from the bow. Yet the pilot paced the quarter deck seemingly obvious to danger. But open water was far ahead and suddenly from the forecastle came that dreaded cry, "Breakers! Breakers, dead ahead!" The

pilot shook off his trance of thought. His orders thundered forth, sailors sprang hither and thither at his bidding, the frigate swung about at his cry of "Hold on everything!" Tortuously she picked her way out through the twisting channel?, in darkness amid the howlings of the great winds. She shivered from bow to stern as a hundred men loosed the huge mainsail. The jib was torn free with a crash like a cannon's blast, but the big sail held and the frigate bowed

like a reed in the wind. White foam showed dimly upon both sides, but the pilot kept the ship, as by a miracle, within a narrow ribbon of dark water. He took the wheel himself. Time and again the frigate seemed to have reeled free from peril; time and again she plunged anew toward a welter of white water. But she drove ever on and at last she rode the great waves of the open sea. Not the storm alone had these ships dared. They were American vessels, lurking about an enemy's coast. This little bay had a peculiar '"fascination for two young lieutenants aboard, Edward Griffith and Richard Barnstable. Not far inland lived Colonel Howard, a Tory who had fled from America when the colonists revolted. With him dwelt his niece, Cecilia, Howard, beloved by Griffith, and his ward, Katherine Plowden, betrothed to Bannstable. In St. Ruth's Abbey lin

gered too, Christopher Dillon, a poor Kinsman, anxious to better his condition by wedding the wealthy Cecilia. Redcoats lent a picturesqueness to the venerable abbey, for a small garrison under Captain Boroughcliffe had been summoned by the owner. For aught that men knew, John Paul Jones himself might be aboard these ships hovering nearby. While reconnoitering the next night, "Mr. Gray" and Griffith were captured, but Borroughcliffe's drunkenness enabled them to escape. Griffith, was, however, retaken. The impetuous Barnstable, fretting offshore with his enormous coxwain. Long Tom Coffin, had been nearly cut off from his schooner by an English cutter, but he scrambled aboard safely and the drum beat to quarters. While broadsides roared and the

decks grew slippery with blood, the little fighting ships met and grappled. Before Barnstable could lead his boarders to the enemy's deck, Coffin tumbled into the sea. Shouting "Revenge Long Tom!" the lieutenant rushed with his men upon the foe. It was fighting at close quarters and the issue was in doubt when the drenched and furious coxswain emerged from the sea and "with his harpoon pinioned the English captain to his mast. In a few minutes the Americans were masters of the cutter. Cowering in that scene of bloodshed, the victors discovered the crafty Dillon, who pleaded to be sent off as a hostage, promising to return in person or to have Griffith delivered in his stead. His word of honor was trusted and he was sent away with Long Tom. He luckily overheard Dillon's treacherous

plot to entrap Barnstable's waiting

party. The resourceful old seaman gagged Borroughcliffe and drove Dillon, at the point of his harpoon, back to the waiting schooner. By this time, however, a battery on the cliff brought down the schooner's mainmast. She was driven from her coruse by heavy seas. The masts were felled and anchors dropped, but she plunged on like a bobbing cork in rapids. Barnstable would have stayed by his ship but suddenly Long Tom seized him and hurled him over the bulwarks. "God's will be done with me." cried Coffrn above the wind's roar. Dillon's lifeless body was rolled upon the shore, but Long Tom stayed with the sea to which he had

dedicated his life. Surprise succeeded surprise at the Abbey. Barnstable marched his shipwrecked mariners Into the building and they took possession, but they soon were made prisoners by the redcoats. Then the mysterious figure of the Pilot appeared at the door and behind him loomed the marines from the frigate. Colonel Howard, an unwilling

prisoner, was marched away with Cecilia and Katherine, who could not be downcast at the' triumph of their lovers. Captain Borroughcliffe was freed, as was another inmate of the Abbey, Alice Duscombe. She had recognized the Pilot in his disguise when he was first captured. They had been lovers, but she was so staunch in her love for her King and she so hated bloodshed that she had broken her troth to this "Mr. Gray" whom she addressed as John. She reminded him that did she but once call aloud his true name, the whole countryside would ring with it. What that name was Is never revealed, but there was but one sea rover who could strike stark terror into all English hearts. On board the frigate repeated conferences were held between the captain, Griffith and "Mr. Gray." Suddenly out of the fog drove a mountainous ship of the line. The drum beat aboard the frigate, sailors leaped nimbly about the deck, clearing for ac

tion, lne women were iea Deiow ana gradually order resolved itself out of the chaos of shouting men. A terrific roar filled the air as three tiers of guns blazed a broadside from the English ship. A few sails and roues were cut, but the frigate's sailing power was hardly affected. One chance ball struck the captain and hurled him to death. Griffith succeeded to the

command and he was appalled as he saw the frigate hemmed about. To the east loowed the great ship of war and far in the northeast the sails of another frigate. ' What are we to do?" cried Griffith. "Fight them! fight them!" shouted the Pilot. "Let me proclaim your name to the men," Griffith appealed. But the Pilot refused. "Should we come to a grapple," he said, "I will give forth the name as a war-cry and these English will quail before it.."

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Prince of Wales addressing Canadian heroes at Toreoto.

Dropping his every ready smile and fcoyinh manner for a fow mlntrtea. Prince of Wales "spoke from his heart1 to the wounded Canadian ecu-

diers in Toronto recently, lauding them for their bravery in tb war.

The ship of war was distanced, but 6he cut off a retreat and the frigate ahead had been re-enforced by two others. The foremost manoeuvred with the American frigate for position. Broadsides crashed and they grappled. The American guns raked her foe and left her helpless, with useless ropes dangling from shattered masts. The deck was cleared and as another enemy appeared, Griffith shouted. "Hoist

away of everything!" Fifty men flew aloft upon the spars and white canvas was spread from every mast. The frigate lunged ahead, but it could not outstrip its rival, and the halt to give battle had enabled the ship of the line to draw up. Then for a few breathless moments the Pilot leaped into command. Breakers loomed ahead but he drove the vessels straight into the shoals, into narrow passages where white foam bubbled perilously close. The enemy dared not follow, and when night fell pursuit was hopeless. Coloel Howard, fatally wounded in the battle, lived long enoueh to see

Cecilia Howard and Katherine Plowden wedded by the chaplain to their lovers. His last words were spoken to Griffith. "Perhaps I may have mistaken my duty to America but I was too old to change my politics or my religion; I I I loved the King God bless him " The frigate drove on to Holland where the Pilot landed in a small boat that dwindled into a black speck and disappeared in the setting sun. Twelve years later Cecilia sp.w her husband's face cloud as he read in the newspaper of the death of a great man. but not even then did he divulge his name. He had promised to keep it. a secret. He said only, "Our happiness might have been wrecked in the voyage of life had we not met the unknown Pilot of the German Ocean." Copyright. 1919. by the Post Publishing Company (The Boston Post). Copyright in the United Kingdom, the lominlons, its Colonies and dependencies, under the copyright ait. by the Post Publishing Company, Hoston, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the MeClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved).

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

THE FIRST PROFITEERS Way back in the first century. Old Boy Epictetus said It: "But there is a great difference be-

I tween other men s occupation and

ours . A glance at theirs will make it clear to you. All day long they do nothing but calculate, contrive, consult how to" wring their pioflt out of foodstuffs, farm-plots and the like." PROGRESS 1918. "Where are you going, my rretty maid?" "I'm going a-mi'king. eir," she said "May I go with you, my pretty maid?" "No, sir! we're not introduced!" she said. 1919. "Hey. kid. where are you blowing today?" "To tango, you boob don't you get gay!" "May I hang on while you terpsichore?" "Break in! get wise! don't ask any more! " T. Benjamin Faucett. N. L. Gaskill practices the art of gas plumbing at 2007 Atlantic avenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey. H. S. N. FINDER PLEASE HURRY LOST Left pair black trousers on Hoyt car Wednesday, between 10 and 11 o'clock. Reward. Ad in Buffalo paper.

Dinner Stories

LABOR'S RESPONSIBILITY New York Journal of Commerce. An unusual great responsibility at present rests upon the labor leaders, for to a considerable extent the future of this country lies in their hands. They must bend their efforts toward increased production if they would advance the well-being of labor. A continuance of their policy of "rule or ruin," which has seemed to be the one upon which they recently have been acting, will inevitably lead to the destruction of the welfare of all the people of this country, themselves included. On the other hand, they have 6hown during the war the ability and patriotic co-operation of which they are capable. One class cannot live alone and profit at the expense of other classes. Allmust suffer or prosper alike. Otherwise, it would not be "democratic.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

BE A MANYTIME MAN I was dining with a friend at his club. "Do you see that chap yonder?" he asked me. "Well. I knew him 20 years ago. He is the man who produced one of the greatest musical comedy hits of his day. But he hasn't done a thing worth mentioning since, tho he is bubbling with ability." The world Is filled with such "one-time" men those who let & single success kill them. I have in mind an actor who scored a tremendous success In a play that everybody was talking about many years ago. But he never rose again, after that popularity had waned. He, also, was a "onetime" man in a "one-time" job. It never pays to become satisfied. Glory is to the alert! Keep studying. Ireep thinking, keep trying. Never allow a single man to set upon an effort that isn't the best that you can do. Take the job up again in the morning. Steer clear of ever becoming a "onetime" man or woman. Hit while the Iron is hot but keep the iron hot all the time! And never allow a single effort to settle you in a "flowery bed of ease." The most thrilling thing in the world is achievement. Yet not ONE but many one after-the other. And the greatest achievement of all is to pass and to surpass yourself! Be a many-time figure in the world.

"And so you proposed to Ethel last night?" asked the young man's sister. "Yes, I did," replied her brother sadly. "And did she give you any encouragement?" "Oh, yes."

"Then have I to congratulate you?"j "No; she refused me."

"But I though you said she gave you some encouragement?" "Well." said the youth reluctantly, "she looked at me three times before she refused me!"

"TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA" A couple of men from Verona happened on Miller's Hill Saturday evening just In time to keep Mrs. Lloyd Martindale from probably being kicked to death by the Martindale mule. Both men were quite badly kicked. Lamp am (Iowa) Weekly. The profiteers will never go out on, strike.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

A young mill hand having some slight mental trouble was sent to an asylum. After he had ben there a few weeks a fellow worker visited him. "Hello, Henry!" he saked. "How are you gettin' on?" "I'm gettin' on fine," said the patient. "Glad to hear it. I suppose you'll be comin back to the mill soon?" What!" exclamed Henry, and a look of great surprise came to his face. "Do you think I'd leave a big, fine house like this and a great garden to come back to work in a mill? You must think I'm wrong in my head?"

John Oler 75 years old, one of the well known citizens of Wayne county, died at Williamsburg, after a short illness. The county council keeps down taxation by slashing city budget sufficiently to enable an ordinance to be passed making the tax rate 45 13-20 cents on each $1,000 valuation. The wedding of Miss Afton Clapp. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Clapp and W. Ramsey Poundstone, 6on of Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Poundstone was solemnized at Saint Paul's Episcopal church with the Rev. David Huntington, officiating.

The Commercial Club decides to send delegates to the annual convention of State Federated Commercial Club.

CHILD STORY WRITER DEAD

TORONTO. Ont., Sept. 8 Mrs. Francis Cowles, known as Mrs. Julia Darrow Cowles, author of stories for children, died at her home here Saturday. Mrs. Cowles, who was 57 years old, was born in Norwalk. O., and had lived in Buffalo and Minneapolis. Among her best known stories was the "Little Cousin" series.

Masonic Calendar

Monday, Sept. 8- Richmond coramandery. No. 8. K. T. Special Conclave workin Knight Templar Degree. Tuesday, Sept. 9. Richmond lodge No. 196, F. & A. Called Meeting work in Entered Apprentice Degree. Beginning 7 o'clock. N. G. Haas, "W. M. Wednesday. Sept. 10. Webb lodge. No. 24, F. & A. M. Called Meeting work in Fellow Craft Degree. Beginning 7 o'clock. Clarence W. Foreman, W. M. Friday, Sept. 12. King Solomons chapter. No. 4RA.M. Stated Conva-cation.