Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 293, 26 September 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, SEPT. 26, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM v Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing Co. raCadlom Building, North Ninth and Sailor Street Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Second Cla&b Mall Matter.

MiXjorja ov thh amociatkd phess Th Aaol.td Praa Is sclustvely ntltl4 to the ee for republication of all newt dtcpatchos credited to et not otbbr.rlaa credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. A!! rljrhta of republication of spe clal dispatches herein are also reserved. In the Matter of Fool Strikes The Union, the oldest labor paper in the United States, with offices at Indianapolis, in its issue of last week gives conspicuous place on its first page to a discussion of what is calls "fool strikes". It deprecates the "fool strikes", called without cause and with no apparent chances of victory, and asks workers to be absolutely sure that a just cause for grievances exists before they disturb the operations of a plant or industry. Says the Union: i We adjure men who work with their hands to work a little more with their heads, too, and getj over the notion promoted by Socialists, I. W. W. and other enemies of society that the strike is a panacea for all the ills of industry. More money is lost to industry and lost so that it can never be recovered by fool strikes than is made by wage gains. Of course there are other things than money to be considered, but it is only in terms of cash that anything can be figured in these days. The business man reckons in terms that may be set forth on his ledger and the worker must figure in the same terms if he is to come out even when he strikeg a balance which he generally neglects to do. We are very certain that the strikes and rumors of strikes that mark the present era are chargeable rather to the stimulation of unrest by fools or Socialistic adventurers than to any sound cause. It is impossible that the wage-earners and we refer to that great body of skilled tradesmen who constitute the backbone of tradeunionism should find in the present state of unexampled prosperity in this country any sound reasons for unrest of such a character as to justify a cessation of labor. Of course there are local conditions to be treated locally, but there is no general reason for that form of dissatisfaction which might be expressed in a strike. We do not believe that that large and intelligent body of workers which stands for labor as a whole can or should be affected by influences that are either sinister or foolish. Yet the country is more or less we prefer to believe less distracted by fool strikes and an impression obtains that these fool strikes express the general sentiment of labor. We of the labor world mut disabuse the public mind of this error. Any strike that is not justified as a business proposition is a fool strike and to be reprobated as conveying the wrong impression. Writing on this subject, John P. Frey, a notably sound thinker on economics, says: "A man who would invest his money in a business before having given thorough consideration to his chances for success, would be called a fool by some, and a body of workmen who decide to strike without having given sufficient thought to their prospects for winning, might very properly be said to have gone on a fool strike." We contend that labor as a body is not to be held responsible for the fool strike. It is true that it cannot be abolished but it is also true that

the evil it does can be minimized if the fool strike is frowned upon as a business proposition by labor. And under existing conditions it should not be difficult for us to head off the fool strike. We know that we are generally prosperous; we know that the country is, by reason of that prosperity, peculiarly sensitive to any influence that may adversely affect its prosperity. It is plainly the duty of the man who works to do his full share towards stabilizing industry for there is no manner of doubt that he will be the first to suffer from any break in the general prosperity. As a business proposition it is well to avoid strikes; if one be justified it must be by the law

of business. Striking for any other reason, for reasons put forward by men who preach class warfare, must be put down now and with a strong hand or we will live to regret the weakness that permits us to listen to the temptation to indulge

in industrial conflict. The Union.

The conviction is growing upon labor leaders that the strike is a means that should be resorted to only in extreme cases and when there is positive and indisputable justification for the step. Too often the decision to strike is not the wish of old and experienced labor leaders and union men, but the rash action of young men to whom cessation of labor means little. Too often the radical element overwhelms the sober-minded and well balanced judgment of the true friends of organized labor. One of the most conspicuos features of the steel strike is the fact that American workers were not the leaders in the movement and opposed the calling of the strike. Agitators and the foreign born element, whose passions had been aroused by bolshevik and radical sentiments, took the lead. What industry needs now is stabilization. The editor of The Union truthfully says ; "It is plain-; ly the duty of the man who works to do his full share towards stabilizing industry for there is no manner of doubt that he will be the first to suffer from any break in the general prosperity." How to Preserve Loyalty The municipal employes of New York city, we read, have decided not to unionize, on account of the adverse sentiment of the mayor and the public. Thus the residents of the largest city in America will be spared the fear of being left without protection against criminals and fires in case of a disagreement over wages. This decision will be approved by the majority of the people of the land. We shall all be safer if public employes have only one master to serve the common good and the law which they have sworn to uphold. This principle is gaining headway all over the country. Police officers and firemen hold positions of public trust. They must be loyal to law and order and must be influenced in their actions by only one cause the preservation of order and the protection of the whole community. "Policemen occupy the position of sentries on the battle line between civilization and barbarism," says The Outlook in its commentary on the Boston strike. The brief reign of crime and terrorism in Boston, following the walkout of the policemen, illustrates aptly the truth of The Outlook's opinion. When the sworn defenders of order forsake their posts, manifestations of barbarianism appear as if by magic. The speed with which crooks and cutthroats who are held in check only by the determined front of civilization, will mobilize when they know that the defenders of order have deserted, intensifies the danger and make it absolutely necessary that the safety of women and children be safeguarded.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

HOMER J. The Greeks were princes of story-telling:, and Homer was their King-. Who he was and where he lived Is one of the unanswered questions of history. Seven cities and more claimed him as their s;ratest source of

pride, l lie most we can be sure of is that to us have come down two of the many poems that bear his name, tho Iliad and the Odyssey. Like the Hebrew Bible, they have become part of the heritage of universal humanity. We call them epic poems; they are rather great historical romances. Each has a story of its own; in the Iliad it Is the wrath of Achilles against King- Agamennon; in the Odyssey it is the wanderings of Odysseus on his way back from the wars at Troy. Back of them both as remoter cause is the tale of the fatal beauty of Helen. In each are Innumerable short stories, which have been store-houses of romance for writers ever since first they became known. It is one of the marvels of the Greeks that they step out of the mist of unrecorded history with a highly developed civilization, portrayed in two of the world's masterpieces of literture. The Greeks In later years wrote "lives" of Homer with great exactness and minute detail. They knew no more about the "blind bard" than do we. Indeed they were not even sure that one poet wrote both tales. But that the stories were the work of supreme genius they were as sure as have been all men since their day who have read them. Homer was the Greeks' "best sellto hear him recite; their religion, their based en him, under whose name is

Homer

er;" they thronged In thousands thought, their education were all

tola the great story of their heroes.

HOMER'S ILIAD Condensation by Professor William Fenwick Harris

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

NEWT MIGHT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY Toledo Blade. Irony is a bitter thing, and those persons who are talking of Secretary Baker as presidential timber deserve public reprimand.

THAT BREAK WAS RAW, MR. BULLITT Houston Post. We were disposed to believe Bullitt's testimony until he professed to quote what Colonel House said about something. It makes no difference what it was, Colonel House didn't say it.

The Elders of the Trojans from their seats upon the Scaean Gate looked down upon the hosts of Greeks and Trojans marshalled in the plain. For nine long years the armies had contended. Why had Agamemon brought the men of many cities to fight around the walls of Priam's Troy? What was it all about? Homer sings of the wrath of Achillea but the beginning of all the trouble goes far back of that, to the tale of a princely shepherd on a night surprised as he watched his flock upon Mount Ida. The goddesses Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite make him choose one of the world-old wishes; the judgment of Paris is for a fair face and love. To fulfil her promise Aphrodite leads him to King Menelaus' court in Sparta. Back to Troy Paris brings Queen Helen and great treasure. A hue, and cry follow throughout Greece; Menelaus calls to his help the great overlord, his brother Agamemnon, Achilles the sacker of cities, wily Odysseus, venerable and genial Nestor, and all the chivalry of the land with men and ships to make war on Troy. Others must pay for the wrong doing of Paris old King Priam of the Ashen Spear, his venerable queen Hecuba, Hector and his noble wife Andromache, his- little son Astyanax, Cassandra, and all the rest whom the toil of war involves. Other stories of the many Greek epics, now lost, bring the tale of warring years up to the tenth, where tha-Iliad begins. Hector is the leader of the Trojans; Achilles has been the great fighting force of the Greeks, though now he has withdrawn in anger to his tent because of a slight put upon his honor by King Agamemnon. The hostile hosts are advancing to the battle; a dramatic moment brings Menelaus and Paris in sight of one another. The wrath of Hector blazes out against Paris for all the evil and shame his theft of woman and wealth have brought. The gay and debonair Paris, however, can show splendid moments. "Hector, thy taunt is just. But throw not at me the lovely gifts of golden Aphrodite. The glorious gifts that the gods give are not to be flung away; no man could take them by mere willingness. But if thou doest wish me to battle and fight, make all the rest of the Trojans and Achaians sit down, and put me in the midst with warlike Menelaus to fight for Helen and all her goods, to see which shall conqiwr and prove the better man; let the rest conclude a friend.

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he handed him back to his mother, who received him smiling through her tears, and so departed to the battle with words of high cheer. There follow many scenes of varied action the Iliad is one of the great collections of short stories in the world's literature in which is given a perfect picture of the life of that lordly, society of so long ago. Tha plain people play little part, although their champion Thersites Is the first democrat mentioned in literature Mighty deeds of derring-do, high adventure, love of lords and ladies, the pranks of merry children are all proserved as it were in amber, and the sentiment for the most part Is so modern that it is almost impossible to believe that we are reading of people who lived many hundreds of years before Christ was born. f.Ut V?r a11 inPeni one dreadful rate, it is a Greek tale yet Hector prince and leader of the foe. I. tha onZV 8try- ' course he St TJlf 8trong' not lulte so great a Dion and" Teu- the Ceek cham Pion and all know that in the end aVe wrfricpH 1 W,n The great scene artistrv 1 J???, t0 ,WIth nsummate VZ tlZ- AchllIes is still sulking in hard 'pHteCt,r ,S res8ine the Grleks U ?atrocua- Achilles' dearest bis lord s armor and save his peopleAchifiL' Lway ,nd Hector 8la8 Achilles anger biases forth in all i'3 passion. What now a petty slight"' the ,w" 8Ce,ne of the ttle between mI lnsPlres the poet to all hU noblest power. They fight- Achillea of Tro'v "z01" th,riC.e ar"nd wXK the fate!, n l V?lghS in g0lden scale the fates of the two; Hector is doomed to die; inexorable destinv mav not be stayed. Achilles slays Hector' and everyheart but that of the victor U wrung with the pity of it all. And in nor eat w f h-,am c.n neither slP nor eat while his son's body lies dead win of n that was dearest to him hf SW. r!aL ransomed

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THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

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Folks who stand in one place too long, wear out the very ground that should bold them up. Change is a stimulant. It prods the mind and keeps the body subtle. There is a difference between sticking to one purpose and hanging on to but one idea. Ofttimes a single purpose need a hundred, or more, Ideas to carry it thru. The big thing is to keep linking your ideas to the main idea of life. But you must move! The broadest thinking wan is always the most widely read and traveled man. Men's different viewpoints and the world's marvelous creations stir the imagination and kill conceit. Keep moving. Stay at one job only so long as you feel growth within you. And when you feel that lethargic grip at your heart that seems to slow its hope move! There is no task more fascinating than that of the discoverer. It is such a one who breakfasts on hope and at night-time dines out with it. For his is a life of movement. The moving stream never gets stagnant. Its water is always fresh, and there is life playing within its body. And flowers smile at its passing, while song birds gather to match their music with its ripples. Move if you would experience the thrills of life. But, as you move, take whole crowds of enthusiasts along with you. No moving human ever brooded for long. For the active life is the life of Joy clear thru. Keep moving!

Indiana News Brevities

ANDERSON Because her husband demanded that ehe live with him in a tent, Mildred Baughn has filed suit for divorce.

SHELBYVILLE Russell Green, of his city has written from Russia, where he is trying to purchase lumber, that owing to the internal conditions of that country, he has been unable to find the owner of the lumber, although there is plenty of lumber to be found.

EVANSVILLE All the public gambling houses in Evansvllle were closed last night by Mayor Bosse, after the press had demanded that some action be taken in the matter. SEYMOUR Kenneth Barns, 4 years old, was killed and his mother was injured, when they were struck by an automobile near here.

Search for Lost Graves of Seven U. S, Air Heroes

FRANKLIN Arthur A. Alexander, local banker, claims that Franklin citizens have squandered enough money on "wildcat" investments in the last few years to build several new buildings. and have a lot left over, in a speech before the local rotary club.

Orchestra Organized in Starr School; 16 Players

Under the direction of Miss Edna Marlatt sixteen children of Siarr school, all under the sixth grade, met Thursday evening for the organization of the first grade school orchestra in Richmond. According to Miss Marlatt a great many of these pupils are tak ing vocational instrumental lessons in school, and this orchestra will be a direct path toward the Garfield and High school orchestra. The orchestra in its present formative has an ensemble of violins, clarinets, cornets, piano and drums.

(By Associated Press) PARIS, Sept. 26. Of the one hundred and fifty American aviators who met death in aerial combats there are cnly seven whose graves have not been located. The search for the burial places of the heroes of the air is being conducted by an army officer and a representative of the American Red Cross and thousands of kilometers have been covered in France and Germany. ' The hundred and forty-three graves have been decorated according to the rules in force In the American Expeditionary Force and photographs have been sent to the relatives of the dead. The seven remaining graves are being eought with particular care.

The flag at Camp Dix was dropped to the notes of 'The Star Spangled Banner," played in the clouds above the flagstaff by a bandmaster in an airplane.

CORftS 'TWEEN TOES? USE EASY "GETS-IT"

Any Corn or Callus Comes Off Peacefully, Gloriously. Never Fails.

Lewis Will Not Sit in President's Confab

ly

BUFFALO, N. y., Sept. 26. John I Lewis of Springfield. 111., actine nresi-

guidance of the h . dent of the United Mine Workers of

tentand sought for the bodv nf hi America, today wrote President Gompdear son. it is a scene of love ami ' fJrs of the American Federation of Pity, of chivalry and greatness of heart Labor- declining the invitation to be

mat an the years since thon ione ot the labor representatives at

with me 'p S"rpaSSed- "Be not ang ; if !, ' roclus-" Prayed Achilles tht ShaIt ,earn in Hades' house oathi h,Zl ST'"!"" "?ble Hector

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ilson s "round table" conference opening at Washington, Oct. C. Lack of confidence in the success of the conference and dissatisfaction

AND WILSON UP IN THE AIR Chicago Post. Hiram Johnson must admit at least one good point about the League of Nations; it keeps him out In the open air.

TOO BUSY TO WRITE NOTES, EH? Philadelphia Press. Six thousand dollars more have been paid Mexican bandits to ransom two Americans. This is getting to be a habit, and if it isn't broken up. President Wilson may yet hear of it and it will worry him.

What Other Editors Say

From the Cincinnati Enquirer. ' IT would peem impossible for any thoughtful person to road the recent statement that "Enrico Caruso is on his way to Mexico to give a series of concerts, which would net him $77,000," without a series of mental r-hocks. He would be astounded to learn that In a country torn by revolutions and so impoverished by misfortunes few cou'd pay such tribute to a genius; that genius of that kind could arn such astounding rewards, and particularly that there should be such an astonishing difference between the rewards bestowed upon the creators of works of art and their interpreters. It is an almost invariable law that in the realms of literature and music it is !he latter, instead of the former, who reap the financial harvest It is the man or woman who ac:s the art of the personalitywhich the author has originated, and brings it to the level of public comprehension, who becomes the idol of that public. It Is the man or woman who can sing, or play the music produced by the composer in such a way that people can perceive its intrinsic, but hidden, beauty, who receives their adulation und their gifts. Inferior as it mav be in actual merit to that highest ot all human gifts, the power co cj-eate a great work of ai-L the ability to make us understand that which would be incomprehensible to an unaided mind excites our greatest enthusiasm. All life, all truth, all beauty is a mystery which baffles our comprehension. To him who htlp? us to see a little farther into the heart of this

mystery than our personal powers permit our vision to go we feel uorselves indebted far beyond our ability to make an adequate payment. It is this wonderful gift which entitles Caruso to the adoration and emolument which the stingy may begrudge him, but which they struggle in vain to withhold.

"THE WAR OF CLASSES" From the New York Times. "The war of classes" is a frequent phrase on their lips, but In order to have a war of classes you must have classes. Commonplace as it may seem to say it, there are no classes in America. There is no upper class and no lower class. Men of the "upper" descend into the "lower", men of the "lower" rise into the "upper", and the "upper," after all, as the agitators use the word, means merely men of money, and money is obtainable by any man who has the ability and the industry to get it. The unions themselves have recognized the diference in brains; the I. W. W. and other bolsheviki propose to abolish the difltrence and the union, too and make real classes where none now 'exist. That is, they aim to divide Americans into classes that exist in continental Europe, the upper and lower classes, and, after having divided artificially and at whim, to put what they -call the upper class under the feet of what they call, the lower class. All this without an admission of the only class difference which God or nature ever reeggnized the class of those who can and the cless of those who can't.

fertile Trnyland, and the' others go back to Areos. nursa nf BtoH nmi

Achaia of fair women." So it was that the hosts eat in high expectation in the plain, and Priam and the Trojan Elders were gathered on the Seaean gate. And Priam, who bore no grudge against Helen for ail the misery her fair face had brought to him and Troy for he saw the hands of the KOds in it all called her to his side to tell him of the chiefs anio:ig whom she had once lived Then I hose Elders, who had long since seen their fighting days, paid the finest compliment a woman's beautv has ever received how many thousand years ago? as they saw Helen advancing. "No cause for anger that Trojans and well-graved Achaians for such a woman long time should suffer sorrow." Not another word! Bu those old men upon the wall have drawn for you and me a picture of The World's Desire. ' "But even so " they continued, "let her go home upon the ships and stay not as a source of sorrow to us and to our children after us. The high hopes raised of settling all the troubles by the duel of the champions were in vain. The contest was inconclusive and the truce was broken The scene changes to Troy itself In a"'nte"'al of the battle great Hecotr Ot the (j anrinc Holm v,.,,)

lltJ 1 n nail IO Tile j citadel And there he said farewell ro i Andromache, his wife, and to hu umio

boy, a picture that has never been surpassed for true tenderness although I it was so many hundred years ago. Ha ! smiled and looked upon the litle boy in silence. "Ah. Hector," sha cried, ; stay here upon the wall! Thou art to line father and mother and brother, oo as well as lord. The foe will attack thee alone!" "I know the dav i iu u m,e'" he answered, "when holy Illos shall perish, and Priam and the ;folk of Priam of the goodly Ashen ihpear. But thought of him, of mv j mother, of my brothers, does not troiijble me so much as that some warrior jof the Achaians shall rob thee of the day of freedom." He stretrhfid hi.

hand to the litle boy, who shrunk back to his nurse's breast in fear of the bronze and the horse-hair crest that nodded dreadfully from the top of tho helm. Straightway Hector took off the helm and placed it on the ground And when he had kissed his son and tossed him in his arms, he spoke in prayer ot Zeus and the rest of thu gods. "Grant, ye gods, that this son of mine prove foremost among the Trojans, a good and mighty King. And as he comes back from battle may many a man say of him 'A far better man than his father. and mav ht

i mother rejoice In heart." And then

tu Drave men ever since.

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public were among the impelling reasons for Mr. Lewis' action.

GRASS DRESSES NOW SUMMER

! COSTUME IN RUSSIAN TOWNS

PARIS, Sept. 26. People in some of the villages of southern Russia are wearing dresses made of leaves or

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H, Ju M; Wh,te cntributed 10 000 while the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends gave $15.4(57 to Earlham Col lege for her relief fund nnam Co1"

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ing cloth, says Major G. M. Towse.

who is in charge of the Red Cross activities along the sores of the Black Sea. "It is an ideal costume for summer when southern Russia has a temperature like that of the Garden of Eden,' said Major Towse, "but I shiver when I think of what will happen to those little girls when the snow begins to fly."

2 STRIKERS DEAD, 49 INJURED IN GARY CRASH

It is easy for "Gets-It" to reach "hard-to-get-at" corns, and better yet. it is easy to remove them, becaus--"Gets-It" makes them, come right of:'

Aar Corn PU Off With CcU-It.'

just like a banana peel. You can try to dig or drag out your corns with a knife, or slice them with a "bloody" razor, or use bandages and tape and wrap up your toe into a package, bur that's the "treat-'em-rough" painful, foolish way. Use 2 or 3 drops of "Gets-It" that's the peaceful, cure, common-sense way that never fails You reach the corn easily with the little glass rod in the cork of every "Gets-lt" bottle. It does not hurt tho true flesh. Try it, trot and smile! It is a blessing; never fails. "Gets-It," the only sure, guaranteed, money-back corn-remover, costs but a trifle at any drug store. M'f'd by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, 111. Sold in Richmond and recommended as the world's best com remedy by A. G. Luken & Co., Clem Thistiethwaite and Conkey Drug Co. Adv.

Pettis A. Reid announced his accent

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mayor.

GARY, Ind., Sept. 26. Althouzh

Gary has been considered a peaceable! city in the nation-wide steel strike.!

een j the walk-out here resulted today in a

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street cars, carrying strikers to and I from the American Shet and Tin Plate ! Company, where they were receivinc I

u:nr issi pay until the strike id ended.

invited to attend the Fa! Fest vaT it to,, T,e(i today in looks as if an "armv" nf ' oU of two dead and forty-nine injurec men will be weamF newspaper ' in a head-on collision between two citj

AUTO OWNERS If you intend buying a Winter Top for your car, place your order at once for early delivery, as the factories are rushed. W. A. PARKE 17 S. Tenth St. Phone 1632 Agents for Detroit Weath-er-Proof Tops, also Auto Trimmings and Repairs of all kinds.

Uililain. A. Hanning, local carpenter was seriously injured when he fell 15 , ? .a Sement floor at Garfield High school today. 6 Truck owners at New Orleans have ninety days In which to change all their steel tires to rubber

PEPTIR0N Aflreeable to the Taste, Acceptable to the Stomach, Readily Assimilated. This real Iron tonic gives vigor and tone to all the organs and functions, and establishes the conditions of health. It combines iron with nux and pepsin and other great tonics and digestives. and is invaluable for the anemic, pale, nervous and dyspeptic. It is especially recommended for Its restorative effects on the nervous and digestives systems, creating a normal appetite, perfecting nutrition, and promoting natural sleep. "Peptlron Is a great medicine. I have taken it and do not get so tired as I did. and mv anneMte is better" E P. Winkley, B 103, Oossville. N H Made by C. I. Hood Co.. Lowell. Mass. Adv.

HEADACHE--? There is something wrong, some derangement of vital organs that ought to have immediate attention. To every sufferer from headache, whatever the cause, we say

Take

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