Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 295, 24 September 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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UEMDEtt OP THE ASSOCIATKD PIIESS The Associated Press Is xclus!vely entitled to the ' for republication of all new dlcpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In thM paper and also the local news published herein. AH rl.shta of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.

The Jewish Relief Campaign Citizens of Wayne county will have an opportunity within the next days to contribute to the Jewish Relief Campaign, which seeks to save from starvation and misery six million Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Russia, Palestine and other countries. Unless aid comes to these people at once they will perish in increasingly large nurribers. The American Jewish Relief Committee did not share in the United War Work Campaign. The Jewish Welfare Board did, but this organiza

tion ministered to the Jewish sailors and soldiers of America. The present campaign is to relieve the civilian populations of Europe, Palestine and Siberia. Its function is entirely different from

that of the Welfare Board. The Red Cross is not equipped to do this work It has no organization in Russia, Poland and Galicia; it is unable to cope with the peculiar institu

tional and racial problems that are presented; its ! officials state that the relief should come through a, Jewish organization, acquainted with the needs,

'and capable of applying methods to bring effect

ive relief.

The committee must raise thirty-five million 'dollars to keep these people from perishing. All frnoney is to be expended by the joint distribution (committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers. The cost of the campaign will toot come from the contributions that are made. One wealthy New Yorker has defrayed the entire expense. The money needed by the local committees for organizing purposes will be furjiished by him, so that the full amount of the contributions will go directly to the sufferers. The Jews themselves have given very liberally to this cause. The extent of the calamity, however, is beyond the capability of one race to cope with it. The Jews gave unstintingly to cveiy cause that was presented during the war. They did not stand back, but came to the front

with generous contributions, paying no attention to race or creed. The condition of their people in the Old World is so chaotic and replete with misery and woe that the American Jews cannot of themselves supply all the relief that is necessary. Wayne county has never turned a deaf ear to an appeal for relief. Here is a cause that is fully worthy of our benevolent instincts and our generous disposition to help those who cannot help themselves. It is an appeal to feed and clothe anen and women who are doomed to death unless a sympathetic world heeds the call. Misery and ;woe challenge the sympathy of every man, irrespective of his calling, station or race. Our city and county will do itself proud by contributing in generous measure to the cause. "If every citizen of America who has been jsomewhat directly the beneficiary of Jewish philUnthropy should now come forward and help the ;American Jewish Relief Committee," says George 'Ade, "the necessary funds would be ready tomorrow. They should come forward." The Yearly Meeting The ninety-ninth session of Indiana Yearly Meeting suggests that almost a century has pas

sed since the pioneers of this denomination set

tled in Richmond and organized their church origanization. In the lapse of almost one hundred years, the denomination has witnessed the growth of the icommunity from an outpost of civilization to a thriving city and the development of its institutions from a very humble origin to their present strength. The early history of the city is identified in

great measure with the Quaker denomination, and many of the sterling traits of the community are diretStly attributable to the staunch and rugged character of its Quaker pioneers. Richmond has welcomed the Friends attending Yearly Meeting for so many years that it seems trite and commonplace to tell them that we are glad they are with us this week. Yearly Meeting has become an institution of Richmond. Year after year for almost a century the Friends have met here to discuss the spiritual welfare of their organization and to shape their policies. Although many of us at times have had views

radically different from theirs on matters of pubic concern, none of us has questioned the sincerity of their convictions. Inconsistency cannot be charged against them. Honesty of purpose has been one of their decisive characteristics. The Housing Problem in Richmond The housing problem is a pressing one all over the United States, this city being no exception. Cessation of building during the war period, inability to obtain materials and other factors have created a positive shortage of houses that is felt everywhere. Richmond is face to face with an acute situation that can be solved only by the co-operation of citizens. Manufacturers say they can give employment to 500 more men if houses are provided for them. It is idle, they say, to try to induce workers to come to Richmond so long as you cannot promise them houses in which they may live. An increase of 500 families in Richmond is to be welcomed by every one. Promise of a new factory, which woud employ 500 men, would be hailed with the greatest acclaim and flattering inducements would be made to the owners to

bring the plant to Richmond. sut here is an identical offer. Our present industries want to expand to the extent of adding 500 workers, and yet are prevented from doing so by the lack of housing facilities. Why not accept the present situation as one that challenges as much attention as the prospect of a new industry? Why not provide the houses that will accommodate the additional workers? Why let other cities have the 500 families that might reside here? The industrial fund which was raised several years ago cannot be used for the purpose of constructing houses, otherwise part of this money would have been diverted long ago to the solu

tion of the question. Business men, factory owners and bankers have the problem under consideration now. They believe the welfare of the whole city is directly involved in meeting the housing demands. Other cities have organized stock companies to build houses. Connersville, for instance, interested hundreds of her citizens to take stock in such a company. The plan is under discussion here now. If the financial institutions of the city will offer a feasible plan for financing the project, it is believed that investors here will absorb the issue.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

HALEVY Ludovlc Hlevy, French author, was born In Paris on the first of January, 1834. His father was a clever, versatile writer of verse, prose, vaudeville and drama; his uncle, Froramtal Halevy, was for many years

associated with the opera; hence the double and early connection of Ludovlc with the Parisian stae-e. At thA

playing: in that "Foyer de la Danse" with which he was to make his readers so familiar. At IS he joined the ranks of the French Administration and occupied various posts, the last being that of secretaire redacteur to the Corps Legislatif. In that capacity he enjoyed the special favor and friendship of the famous Duke of Morny, then the president of the assembly. In the spring of 1860, being commissioned to write a play for the manager of the Varieties, Halevy aske4 the collaboration of Henri Meilhac, and the proposal was immediately accepted, thus beginning a connection which continued for more than 20 years. The joint work of the two authors had a great vogue, but Halevy is best known to more recent readers by his "IAbbe Constantin." pub-

VsCiJaleff -?J nshed soon arter the conclusion of B.kvrf 2wWWffl the Franco-Prussian war. k'iPT J iT&S 'IVl'X 8 It has heen clalrn1 that Znla harl

presented to the rublic, an almost exclusive combination of bad men and women; In '-L'Abbe Constantin" all are kind and good, and the chanKe was eagerly welcomed by the reading public. Some enthusiasts still maintain that the Abbe will rank permanently In literature with the

"v icar of Wakefield." Halevy died in Paris on the 8th of May. 1908. Among the most celebrated works of the joint authors were " La Belle Ilelene." "Barbe Bleue," ,-La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein," and "La Perlchole."

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ABBE CONSTANTIN BY LUDOVIC HALEVY Condensation by Charles E. L. Wingat

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

AND THERE YOU ARE Chicago News. Our railroads seem to resemble a certain well-known sex we cannot manage them and we cannot get along without them.

ITS A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING Toledo Blade. Well, Pat Moran has won the pennant and reason can be excused for tottering on her throne in Cincinnati.

CAN'T FOOL 'EM ALL THE TIME Providence Journal. The administration's cure-all and scare-all policy does not seem to be making much headway.

AHA! EXCUSE FOR ANOTHER TRIP! New York Telegram. Occurs that .Mr. Wilson might run over again and drive Mr. D'Annunzio out of Fiume.

IT'S HIS STORY IN A NUTSHELL Washington Post. Ludendorff could save a lot of space by simply saying', "We lost because we were a lot of swine possessed of a demon."

German Conditions

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From the Indianapolis News.

EWSPAPER and magazine correspondents are re

vising their opinions of Germany. A correspondent of the New York World went so far, recently,

as to cable that the allies had not won the war and that Germany very shortly would be as strong as ever. George Pattullo, writing in the Saturday Evening Post, after several months pent iu Germany, says: Germany is not crushed. France emerges a victor, but broken; her rival comes out vanquished, but strong. She is still a giant among the nations. Much of the talk of starvation in Germany, of the wreck of Industrial activities, of the poverty of the people, of internal disorders and the like, is now known to have been propaganda. Germany wanted the easiest peace terms possible and appeared In rags and tatters, with a hungry expression on her face until peace was signed. Then Germany went ahead, doing openly what the country had been doing secretly all along. The German people assert that they were not whipped, but merely quit fighting. It Is true, of course, that the former empire faces a great debt and that times have been hard, rut Germany was not invaded. The factories are Intact, "while In France great areas were laid waste, factories v.'ere demolished, live stock was driven away and general devastation was left In the wake of the Hunv Following the war period It is interesting to contrast conditions in four of the leading countries involved. Jfrance la hard hit and will recover slowly. There is

plenty of labor trouble in France and more danger of Bolshevism's spreading there than in Germany, where the people love order and discipline. t England's labor supply is extremely unstable. Strikes have been common, tying up great industries and seriously curtailing industry. There has been an insistent demand for shorter hours and higher pay. In this country the situation is widely known. One strike has followed another, production has been cut in many instances until prices have soared higher and higher. The cost of living problem seems as far from solution now as when the efforts to solve it began. Additional strikes are threatened, and that means still greater curtailment of the country's ability to produce things that are vitally needed. Meanwhile, Germany has buckled down to the job of becoming a world power again as soon as possible. Business Is being sought with France, England and America. German workmen do not even ask an eighthour day,' because that does not give them sufficient time to work and produce wealth for themselves and the country. In some parts of Germany the workingmen have demanded a ten-hour day. In short, Germany i3 going to produce because the economists there, and the laboring class as well, have decided this is the solution for high iving costs, and also the way to make the country prosperous. The victorious countries should realize that they will meet a very strong German competition, and govern themselves accordingly. They can not continue to cut down production ad expect to hold their own.

With a step still valiant and firm,' the old Abbe Constantin walked along the dusty road of the little village where for more than thirty years he had been the Cure. At the entrance of the Castle of Longueval he stopped and mournfully regarded the big blue posters fixed on the pillars. They announced the sale of the castle, the former home of the Cure's dear friend, the Marquise, who had recently died And the result of that auction? The great estate bought by two entire strangers! "Do you know who thew are?" asked Madame de Lavardens. "Yes, Scott is an American possessing a colossal fortune. Ten years ago Mr. Scott begged in the streets of New York, they say. They are rich parvenus who amuse themselves by throwing handfulls of gold out of the window, and who will turn up their noses at us and care nothing for our traditions or our life." Such was the story. But when Mrs. Scott and her beautiful sister arrived to take possession of the castle and called immediately upon the Abbe he learned a different tale. Religious, generous, amiable and loveable they proved. And they were certainly beautiful, particularly the younger sister, Bettina Percival. Both had the same large eyes, black, laughing and gay,

and the same hair, not red but fair, with golden shades which daintily

danced in the light of the sun. At the Cure's little home they met Jean Raymond, the son of that gallant doctor of the village, who, while advancing with the soldiers in the war of 1870, to carry on his work of mercyside by side with his dear old friend, the Abbe, had suddenly been struck by a bullet and killed on the spot. Jean, inheriting the noble traits of his father, was beloved by the whole village. But he was poor while the American sifters were immeasurably rich As acquaintances and friendships grew, very pleasing it was to the gentle, loveable old cure, to learn that his new parishioners were most anxious to extend their benefactions among the poor in the hamlet, asking him, indeed, to be their medium And it delighted him to learn that those tories about begging in the street and questionable life were mere calumnies They had. indeed, been poor until an inherited silver mine made ihcm fabulously rich. Now they had hosts of admirers Mrs. Scott because she was frankly flirtatious; and Betinna because, as she realized, the fortune hunters thirty-four of them she counted, including a French duke and a Spanish noble nought her wealth. But through it all they retained their genuine simplicity and sweetness of heart.

And when, one day. they all went over with Jean io visit the little church, and Bettina at the organ, played a reverie of Chopin, good gentle Abbe Constantin's ho-rt was filled with such joy that tears came to his eye.?.. But all this left a deep problem in Jean's mind ' Which of the two sisters is the prettier?" At first he

was convinced it was the coquettish Mrs. Scot who charmed him the more; then he would sea Bettina, smiling and blushing amid the sunlit clouds of her floating hair, and he would declare to himself, "I was mistaken, the prettier was Miss Percival." So in the confusion of his meditations, he would say, "Is it possible that I have fallen madly in love at first sight? No; one might fall in love with a woman, but not with two women at once." The days went by and Jean and Bettina were often thrown into each other's company. What resulted is best pictured in Miss Percival's own remark to her sister one day when she exclaimed: "He is the first man, positively the first, in whose eyes I have not read, 'Oh how glad I should be to marry that little body's millions'!" And then as Mrs. Scott went upstairs to kiss her sleeping children, Bettina remained long leaning on the balustrade of her balcony. One day when Jean was telling of his expectations of promotion and the probability that he would wander from garrison to garrison, finally coming back to the little house that was his father's, as an old colonel on half pay, she exclaimed: "Always quite alone?" "Why quite alone? I certainly hope not." "You Intend to marry?" "Yes, certainly." "Yet you have refused several good opportunities. Tell me why." "Because," he replied, "I think It best not to marry rather than to marry without love." She looked at him; he looked at her; and suddenly, to the great surprise of both, they found nothing more to say nothing at all. But now Jean is no longer tranquil; with impatience and at the same time

with sorrow, he sees the moment of his departure approach. Yet how can he stay and resist the temptation of Bettina's charm? As an honorable man Jean felt for Bettina's money, horror, positive horror. In Bettina's mind the sensation of love had come at the same time it had to Jean's. But while he, horrified, had cast it violently from him, she on the contrary, had yielded in all the simplicity of her perfect innocence to this flood of emotion and of tenderness. As Bettina grew more tender, Jean became more gloomy. He was not only afraid of loving; he was afraid of being loved. He felt he ought to remain away, but he could not; the temptation was too strong. He tried to avoid Bettina at receptions and even to leave without saying good-bye. "If I touch her hand," he thought, "my secret will escape me." His secret! He did not know that Bettina read his heart as an open book. When Jean descended the stairs, these words were upon ris lips: "I love you; I adore you, and that is why I will see you no more! But he did not utter them; he actually fled into the darkness. Bettina standing in the hall door.

and taking no notice of the rain ! watched him go "I know very well that he loved j me," she thought, "but now I am very j sure that I, too oh! yes! I, too "I

Meanwhile Jean hastens to his dear old friend the Cure to tell him that he is going away immediately to Paris to seek exchange into another regiment, to leave the little hamlet forever. And then in his emotion, he

confessed to the Abba that he adored Bettina. "It is a madness that has seized me," he exclaimed! "Ah, If she were only poor!" "Do you know what I think. Jean?" exclaimed his good friend. "Jean, I believe she loves you." "And I believe it, too; but that Is the very reason I must go. Her money is the great obstacle." At that moment someone knocked gently at the door. It was Bettina.

Going directly, to Jean, she cried.

"Oh, how glad I am you are here.

Then she took both his hands In hers, and addressing the cure she

said, "I have come to beg you, Monsier

le Cure, to listen to my confession.

And to herself she was saying, "I wish to be loved! I wish to love! I wish to be happy and to make him happy! And since he cannot have the courage to say it, I must have the courage for both!" "I am rich. Monsieur le Cure," she continued, aloud, "very rich, but I love money most for the good which it allows me to do. So I have the care of this money, and I have always wished that my husband should be worthy of sharing this great fortune in order that he should help me make good use of it. I thought of another

thing, too 'He who will be my husband must be someone I can love!' There is a man who has done all he

can to conceal from me that he loves me, but I do not doubt that he loves me You do love me, Jean?" "Yes," 6aid Jean, in a low voice, his eyes cast down, looking like a criminal, "I do love you." "I knew it very well, but I wanted to hear you say it. And now Jean, I say to you, "I love you!' Do not come near me yet. Before I came here, I thought I had a good stock of courage, but you see I have no longer my fine composure of a minute ago. And now Monsieur le Cure, I want you to answer me, not him. Tell me, if be loves me and feels me worthy of his love, should he not agree to be my husband?"

"Jean," said the old priest gravely, "marry her, it i3 your duty." And as Jean took Bettina in his arms, the girl continued, "You have often told me Monsieur le Cure, that Jean was almost like your own eon. Now you will have two children, that is all." A month later, Bettina, in the simplest of wedding dresses, entered the church. The old Cure said mass. Jean and Bettina knelt before him. He pronounced the Benediction. Then floated from the organ the same reverie of Chopin's which Bettina had played the first time she had entered that village church, where was to be consecrated the happiness of her life. And this time, it was Bettina who wept.

Copyright. 1919, by the Fost Publishing Company. (The Boston Post). Copyright In the United Kingdom, the Dominions. Its Colonies and dependencies, under the copyright act. by the Post Publishing Co.. Eoston. Mtis., U. S. A. All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the MoClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved.) "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," by Ibanez, as condensed by Alice G. Higgins, of the Boston Athenaeum, will be printed tomorrow.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

Local coal dealers admitted that they have formed an organization which made the prices to the Richmond consumer higher than that paid in surrounding towns. It was definitely announced by the Fall Festival Committee that 200 of the Tenth regiment would arrive h're Oct. 7. for a two-day stop, in order to participate in the Fall Festival. Local Friends were working hard in preparation for the observation of the centennial anniversary of monthly meetings established by the Friend3 Sept. 30, 1809.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK BEFORE BREAKFAST Days trot by so quickly. Almost before we realize It, their curtains are drawn like those of the playhouse where but a few hours before we laughed or cried. One by one do the days appear, and as regularly do we lead our tlred bodies into new nights. Evening with its gold-blue sun-plays; dusk with its fading, soothing half-tones; and night with its star-sparkling skies But morning with its trumpet calls and its wide, warm sun! What you are in your day is how you feel before breakfast. How great a thing to say as you sense each separate day-birth: "Thank you, God I am glad for life today!" The happiness that you breathe before breakfast is the suggested measure and tone of what your day is going to be before its close. Your smiles, your hopes, your plans, your wished-for joys, are seeds before breakfast. Therefore, plant them with heart-feel, quickly, the minute that you awake. Then you will glory in your breakfast. Then you will be sure to shake hands with yourself in the same spirit "as a strong man about to run a race." About 90 percent of everything each day depends upon what takes place in your brain and heart before breakfast. Think grandly before breakfast! Take heed to your body and groom it well for a "fight or a frolic" before breakfast. Set your sails, and oil your cups, and give your will to the fittest deeds as your eyes let hold their grasp on night. And always determine to be glad, to be thrilled, and to feel kind just before breakf- st. For it means health and greatness, tightly sure, as your day picks up its trappings and, like the Arabs with their tents, steals silently away, again. Begin to LIVE before breakfast.

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