Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 294, 27 September 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1919.

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Everybody on tKe Job Now Now ia the time for all good Americans to get busy. This is not the time to sit down and rest. Conditions everywhere in this land show that the inaii...whg!.loyf5.hi3 country .ought to be working on his job might and main. The world needs goods in unprecedented quantity. Our own land is suffering from lack of sufficient cloth, coal, steel and the thousands of articles that enter into our household economies and our business enterprises. We cannot accomplish this by merely asserting that it must be done or ought to be done. We must set an example. Let thousands of men get the idea of increased production and we will speedily solve the problem. So long as we content ourselves with reading statistics showing how woefully our production has fallen off, no increased output v21 overcome the deficiency. Action must be the watchword. Every idle hour, every day devoted to a strike, means so many hours of productive labor wasted and irrevocably beyond recall. This is not a theo

retical statement but an actual fact that leaders of labor themselves admit. All of us are beginning to see that we are victims of the same condition, and that the only way out is by catching up with the demand for goods through increased production. The people of the old world were astonished at the way in which we wound up the war. What was the quality of our boys and our army organization that enabled us to complete the job in record time? The answer is unbounded energy. The doughboys put energy into the job. In a military sense they did what we now must do in an economic and industrial way speed up the work. Boundless push and energy that knows no rest brings results. The American spirit of energy has accomplished wonderful things in the past. If all of us will now apply this national energy to the task of the day, the production of our industries will soon enable us to overcome the deficit of goods that today causes worry and unrest.

make an effectual disturbance. The organized labor the world over that has not been striking or threatening to strike appears to be exceptional. It is fairly epidemic, and unless it subsides reaction from that also is inevitable. "Getting a more stable condition through a decrease in industrial activity and an increase in

idle hands is, a costly process that every intelli-

gent person wants to avoid, but an epidemic of strikes will finally force such a reaction."

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Developments in the last few days seem to indicate that a trend against the calling of strikes has set in. Labor leaders themselves are beginning to see that the welfare of labor is as intimately connected with continued operation of the plants as is the welfare of capital. And the public, usually the greatest sufferer from a strike, is making its opposition felt in no uncertain terms. American common sense has kept this country from many disasters in the past. It seems that it is beginning to assert itself with renewed potency in the solution of our industrial problem. American methods are sound in principle and practice. Their application to the industrial problem will bring a restoration of industrial peace, and a prosperity in which all of us will share.

HOMER II. It Is the charm of the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey that has allured readers in all ages. As the Iliad Is the first great romance of Mfh adventure, of deeds of perfect chivalry and wild fighting, of brave men -J and noble women, so the Odyssey is the first great novel of adventure

In strange parts, of miscreants thwarted and brought to Justice by the hero who In the end comes to his own and rescues the true wife who bides at home and waits the triumphant return of him who shall free her from the trials that beset her. The Greeks started the modern world going. As with Icarus they thought of the flying-man, with Agamemnon of wireless tlegraphy In the message he sent leaping across the sea from Troy to Argos in the flames upon the hill-tops, and with Odysseus of the motion-picture In the vision of al past men and women who flitted before his eyes on his trip to the lower world, so, too, they introduced us to practically every form of human expression. The prose-romance came late in their development. The novel and the short story as they knew them for centuries were embodied in the Iliad and Odyssey. Whether one poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey has been a question that has busied many thousands of minds. The perfect form in which they have come down to us proves clearly that many centuries contributed to the perfecting of the literary style in which they are written. The discussions over the "Homeric Problem" have laid the basis for literary and biblical criticism in modern scholarship.

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Homer; a Fanelfnl Sketch) Centuries Old.

HOMER'S ODYSSEY Condensation by Professor William Fenwick Harris

One of H. P. Davison's Secrets Out Do you have as sensible an attitude toward your present duties ? Or are you promising yourself that, while you1 are not now exerting yourself to the limit, you will make the world sit up and take notice some fine day by and by? Is what you are doing now calculated to fit you for and lead you to a higher place? Or do you feel that your job is not important enough to demand your maximum effort? H. P. Davison, the foremost Morgan & Company partner, once told a writer for Forbes Magazine, when he asked him how he succeeded in making such phenominal progress, that from the first day that he entered a country bank he regarded his job as the most important job in the world, to him. When he was

made bookkeeper, then keeping his books right j ?0euS2rJart o? HmSf.

became the most important job m creation. Always, too, he coached the fellow lower down how to succeed him and then sought to master the job ahead of him. But Mr. Davison didn't do the thing in hand half-heartedly, flattering himself that by and by he would have a position worthy of his utmost endeavors. He did his level best as he went along. The moral would appear to be simply thi'sj. Get on friendly terms with your station in life, fill your place to the limit of your capacity, be cheerful over it and the future will shape itself all right for you.

It is the tenth year since Troy has fallen. Though the Iliad did not go beyond the death of Hector at Achilles' hands, other stories carried on the tale through the death of Achilles, the capture of Troy by the Greeks by means of the stratagem of the wooden horse, the sacking and burning of the city, the death of Priam and his queen, the slavery of Andromache which Hector had foreseen, the slaughter of the little son he loved so dearly, the escape of Aeneas, with his aged father. After the booty had been divided, the Greek chiefs took leisurely courses to their homes. The great King Agamemnon sent his dramatic night letter, announcing to his queen at home by the light of flames leaping from hill-top across the sea that Troy had fallen; for his pains he met the dramatic death at the hand of Queen Klytalmrestra which Aeschylus has made forever famous in his great play, "Agamemnon"; the latter has in it the

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK .WEEK-END THOUGHTS Each of us owes more to other people than they will erer owe to us Every beautiful thought, every generous act, every noble feeling that we send out, has Its bearing on the unfolding goodness of the world. Even as '"the very flowers that bend and meet. In sweetening others, grow more sweet." We can never hurt others quite as much as we hurt ourselves in hurting them. When you have a thrilling impulse to do a worth while thing, do It at once. To do so, Is to build about you the atmosphere of an Inspired life. The humanest thing we do Is to make mistakes. But they never stay around long If we look them straight in the face and leaA how to walk away from them. Love is the greatest thing In the world. Therefore It Is worth while to subserve everything to gain It and to give It. There must always be sweat before there can be much sweet. Nothing is going to matter greaRly If you are kind. As some one has said, "the first hundred years are the hardest!" At night time many thing's look dofferent than they did in the morning. No don't talk back. He serves most who gives most. Giving Is always a getting process. There is a golden zone to life in which we all may breathe, and one of the ways that we may enter there is to learn how to make one smile grow where two tears once did flow. Always be glad to help.

the royal wanderer at the court of King Alcinous and Queen Arete and the tale of his adventures since leaving Calypso's isle. The King is moved and promises to help the stranger on his way. A feast is held; the court bard sings of Troy the stranger

weeps; the King presses him to tell

him story. It was a wondrous tale he had to tell the like of which was never heard before or since. Beginning with the fall of Troy, he had made his course to Thrace, to the Lotus-eaters, to the land of the Cyclops, when befell the adventure with Polyphemus, whose one eye he put out; next the trying experience with the perverse winds of Aeolus, with the Laestrygonians, and with the enchantress Circe, who turned her visitors into swine. Then came the descent to Hades, which set the fashion for Virgil and for Dante and all the others who have essayed that great adventure. The

Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and

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Reactions "For more than two years here and more than

four years in Europe the most restless and energetic part of the human race marched in lock step submitting to discipline and regimentation such as mankind, broadly speaking, had had no experience of before," says the Saturday Evening Post. "A natural reaction came. When the weight was removed the spring recoiled proportionately to the compression. Loosely speaking, nobody wanted to listen to Authority, nobody wanted to be bound by anything, everybody wanted to .-.hout, tip something over, cut loose and especially go on a strike. It was a natural reaction. Even if there had been no particular disgust with Authority, because it was helpless to save the world from an utterly stupid war and because of its muddles peace, there would still have been a good deal of the same turbulence. "It affects organized wage labor particularly because that is near the center of gravity of the human mass and is in peculiarly good position to

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

WHY LIMIT IT TO SUFFRAGE? Birmingham Age-Herald. Anti-suffragists point to Chicago as a horrible example of what will happen to a town where women are allowed to vote.

The King's brother Menelaus had bet

ter fortune; he had journeyed homeward with his erstwhile queen Helen, as if the great Troan episode had never been, and was reigning again in peace and quiet with The World's Desire by his side at Sparta, With no dread of a marauding Paris sent on the quest of beauty by Aphrodite. And so, too, the other princes had returned with varying fortunes. But not so the Great Adventurer. Troy had taken ten years to capture; ten years more still found the wily Odysseus detained in the Isle of Ogygia b the fair Calypso. Meanwhile the patient Penelope bides at home, beset by the riotous suitor who make Liberty Hall of the absent King's palace and would force the queen to wed one of them. She, ever as alert and resourceful as her wandering lord, luts off her promise till she has woven a web of which she each night unravels what she has done during the day.

This first great story of wandering

Wanted 200 Live Wires. To attend the banquet at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church, Wednesday, October 8, at 6:45 p. m. Get tickets from the president of your society. At 7:45, the biggest, best and most enthusiastic Young People's rally that Richmond has ever witnessed will be in full swing. Everybody, young and old, is invited. Dr. O. T. Deevers, a man that knows young people's work and makes his hearers want to know more about it, is expected to speak to us. Don't fail to hear him. Collect all the old clothes in your neighborhood and take them to the rally. The chilly blasts are about due,

and there are needy people that can

other adventures brought the tale up make good use of those clothes that

WHO MENTIONED "NATIONAL HONOR?" Macon Telegraph. In the matter of buying back American citizens held by Mexican bandits Uncle Sam perhaps will find that the first hundred ransoms are the hardest.

WHERE DID HE STUDY ARITHMETIC? Pittsburg Dispatch. A cynical critic writes to suggest that Mr. Wilson is against government by minority except In the league, where one vote is only equal to six.

DON'T HEAR ANY LOUD WEEPING Chicago News. General Ludendorff's post-mortem report on German imperialism reveals very clearly that nobody ought to :nourn the deceased.

What Other Editors Say

FOREIGNERS IN THE STRIKE

From the Muncie Press.

TTKXTION is being called to the fact that the

orders for the steel workers to strike were sent out in nine different languages and that the ma

jority of the strikers are foreign-born persons and largely unnaturalized. They are declared 1o be alien in speech, in thought and action. Many Americans are among them, ot course, through force of circumstances and because they do not realize the extent to which this strike may go in produc.ng want and misery and in fostering unAmericanlsm. President Wilson, very belatedly, began urging the employer and employed men to hold off their strike until the conclusion of the October conference on industrial conditions, but nevertheless he did urge this thing as for the best Interests of the nation, but the men paid no heed. Doubtless they remembered that In every controversy in which labor has been involved in recent years Mr. "Wilson merely has given, or ordered to be given, whatever wa3 asked without question, and so the strikers had the right lo suppose that some way or other he would arrange to give them what they wish in this matter, and when they discovered that be was not able to do this immediately,

they blandly forgot all the favors he had done them in the past and boldly disregarded his request for time. And so there has begun this struggle whose end none can foresee except that anybody can predict that as usual the public will suffer from it while the two factions are contending. One of the chief leaders, the head organizer of these men, is said to have been identified with the I. W. W. m both America and Europe and yesterdt y he boldly announced that he has no interest in the steel strike beyond that of an organizer, as he is not r. steel worker and will go from this piece of business to the next kind of agitation of the same kind that develops, as soon as the present strike comes to an end. , He is declared to be thoroughly un-Amerian and it Is believed that some of the loyal

to Calypso once more.

Alcinous and the Phaeacians sent Odysseus on his way to his home at Ithaca. But his old enemy Poseidon turned the ship to stone, and the wanderer reached home alone, in the guise of an old beggar-man, where he arrived as his son Telemachus was returning from his travels. Then began the thrilling tale of the

I wiles and guiles to win his own from

the suitors who had taken his place, the harbor of refuge with faithful old Eumaeus, the swine-herd, the recognition by Telemachus, the death of the true old dog Argos on sight of his long absent master, the interview with Penelope, the recognition by his old nurse who knows him by a scar upon his leg, the final great trial of strength between the old beggar-man and the suitors; they cannot even bend the famous bow of Eurytus; he, however, strings it with ease and sends an arrow singing through the holes of twelve battle-axes, set up one behind another. " At that instant the beggar-man

I throws off his disguise and with Tele-

aayenture has a much more perfect j machus and onlv two faithful followers unity than the Iliad. It centres close-, fcIays the evil suitorp, wins" back his

true wife who has waited patiently all

ly about the person of Odysseus, and

divides itself into three parts, the adventures of Telemachus in quest of 'Odysseus, the wanderings of the hero, pnd his return home, where with the few still faithful to him he makes himself his own detective, lays the scene

these long years, and hastens to greet his old father Laertes. Impossible romance I dare say. Yet one of the most human stories ever told.

lor the destruction of the villains, and i ing Company. (The Boston Post).

finally brings about the happy ending ! Copyright in the United Kingdom, the which has so constantly distressed j OI"inions; "i01,1'6,8 ,f,nd0 ?epnd!?' c ., . . . cles, under the copyright act, by the critics of the novel and the theatre PoBt Publishing- Co.. Boston, Mass.,

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folk to listen or to read.

In the first chapter, which comprises the first four "books" of the Odyssey, young Telemachus, amidst the mockery of the suitors, starts in quest of I; is father, and makes the rounds of the courts of our old friend Nestor, king ot Pylos, and of Menelaus and Helen at Sparta, where he learns the whereabouts of his father, and then starts homeward. At this moment it is at last made possible for Odysseus to start on his vn- hnmr Hut thp Rpa pvpr his

enemy, a.aain plays him false, and hej-y

cast ashore on the land of Phaeacians. There begins in the land of this fabouous folk one of the most marvelous adventures of the man of marvels. Probably the scene that remains in the minds of the great majority of readers of Greek literature as the fairest

bit of idealized beauty in it all Is the

Syndi-

"The Aeneid," by Virgil, as condensed by Professor William Fenwick Harris, will be printed Monday.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Aflo Today

Americans among the strikers are awakening to the fact that he and several other leaders like him have in their

hearts the disruption of the government and the serving j picture of the young Princess Nausi-

of their own political and financial ends rather than the benefit of the workingmen they profess to represent.

WORSE THAN FUTILE From the Kansas City Times. The revolt against giving England six votes to America's one in the assembly of the proposed League of Nations merely touches the fringe of the matter. The fundamental trouble is in trying at this stage of civilization to bind nations of all stages of culture and morals in a rigid organization.

caa. sue liaa gone down to tne river mouth with her handmaidens to wash linen; their work done, they fell to playing ball upon the shore, where Odysseus, beneath the shade of the bushes, was sleeping off the weary travail of his long swim. "Then having bathed and annointed themselves sleekly with olive oil, they took their meal by the banks of the river and waited for the clothes to dry in the bringht rays of the sun. And when

they had cheered themselves

food, maid3 and mistress alike, they began to play at ball, casting aside their veils. And for them fair-armed Nausicaa began the song. As Artemis

The last sessions of The Indiana earlv Meeting of Friends for 1909

were held at the East Main Street church. Practically all of the local merchants announced that they would have a float in the Fall Festival parade.

The formal opening of the fall and winter terms of the local Y. M. C. A. wasTreld.

you will fatten moths on. Don't forget the expert training class that will be started next month. Line up for members. A special Invitation is extended to the young people of the Lutheran churches to attend the banquet and rally. Motto For Christ and Church. Topic for September 28: "The Christian Athlete and His Training" First Cor. 9; 19-27. Hints for the Leader. Practically every part of our physical body is strengthened by use. If for any reason we remain without exercise fdr several weeks, the muscles become flabby and useless. The rules that apply to the physical, do in most cases, apply to the moral, mental and spiritual. It can then be readily seen that to be without exercise in any faculty is to put it out of working order. No chain is stronger than its weakest link. To be lacking in any point, is to invite disaster there. That is the reason a baseball player who finds

i it difiicult to hit a ball, practices bat-

j ting. It does not matter how cleverI ly he can throw, or how expert he has

become at catching, if he cannot hit a ball, he's a poor ball player. Now the question is, how can we train ourselves so as to be a Christian athlete? The answer is simple, but in fairness we must admit that the putting of the answer into practice is much harder, and determination is a necessary requirement. The lusts and questionable desires of our bodies must be beaten into submission, and their places should be substituted with Christian thought and real humility toward God. Ambition, when It is for self glory or exaltation is unworthy of ony true Christian,; it therefore, should be crushed in infancy. Pride, which preceedeth destruction, should not be allowed to steal in and inhabit your body. It means your downfall. Selfishness, which is the foot of all evil, is the most common and universal of all our weaknesses. It probably is.

and in my opinion it is, the foundation of most sins. It creeps in under such a heading as: Do Others Before They Do You. which is a damnable parody on the beautiful command; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In short, the training of the Christian athlete, is the fight waged against the weaknesses of the flesh. Is it

worth while? Is there a reward for such a struggle? Knock the dust from the cover of your old family Bible and read Matu 6; 19-34 and believe. , A Suggested Program. Three hymns of the christian life; report of the information committee, society business; a hymn sung by a male quartette, some especially vigorous hymn; Scripture reading; leader's, lemarks; prayer by the president; general participation; the pastors five minutes; sentence prayers; benediction. To think about What weakness have we overcome? How did we do It? How can we develop an all-round character? What are we training for? It you want a debater resolved that physical training Is more important than mental development. Points for purposeful prayers Thank God, first, for the opportunity of physical, mental and spiritual development; for the training that is offered in the young people's societies; for a will power that makes possible the highest development of all our faculties. Ask God First, for help in develop

ing our powers; second, to help our crippled soldiers and sailors develop their maimed bodies that they may be useful and happy citizens; third, to help us to put behind us lusts, false cmbition, pride and selfishness that we may know true humility. Next topic "Our relations to others, toward world brotherhood. Luke 10; 5-37; consecration meeting.

COLE CO. TO EXPAND.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 27. Officials of the Cole Motor Car Company, have completed plans for an enlargement of their present factory site at Washington and Davidson streets to more than twice its present size in order to accommodate a greatly increased production of passenger cars beginning with 1929.

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It won't work! It Is worse than futile to bring the United States into

an International organization where it sits with one vote, ! the archer-goddess goeth down from a

while Liberia, Bolivia, Cuba, Gautemala, Haiti, Hedjaz, I mountain, either lofty Taygetus or r , . , . . i Erymanthus, taking her sport with Panama and Siam each has one vote. It is worse thanboars and swift deer, and with her futile to attempt to form, in the council of the league, a j the wood-nymphs sport, daughters of Joint committee of nine to regulate the affairs of the ' negis-bea-ring Zeus, and Leto rejoiceth If . , , ... , j . . i in heart, and over all she holdeth head world. It is worse than futile to attempt to pledge this and and easy t0 mary 5s she

government to subject the Monroe Docnne to the vicissi-, though all be fair so was the unwed

tudes of European intervention. It is worse than futile to do these things because they would involve the country in all the quarrels of Europe and Asia, or else, would put it in the position of breaking its word and repudiating its obligations. With amendments and reservations the league can l:e made harmless for evil. But the frank and straightforward thing to do would be to reject it altogether. In the words of the senate committee on foreign relations: "The United States can serve the cause of peace best, as she has served it in the past, and do more to secure liberty and civilization throughout the world by proceedJng along the paths she has always followed and by not permitting herself to be fettered by the dictates of other nations or Immersed aid entangled in all the broils and conflicts of Europe."'

maid conspicuous among her attendants." The day's work and the sport were over; they were about to depart and leave the weary sleeper under the bushes when one last throw sent the ball spinning into the water. Instant and unanimous scream from princess and from maids! So Odysseus was introduced to Phaeacia, and the introduction proved well that the hero knew not only the

ways of men, but of maids as well. Of the many pleasing things he said to the princess to win her favor, one stands out conspicuous his comparison of her perfect youth to the young shoot of a palm-tree he had seen in Delos. Whoever has a gardener's eye knows Instantly the perfect tribute. Then followed the presentation of

Monday, Sept. 29 Richmond Comma ndery No. 8 Knight Templars. Social evening for the members and their families, 8 to 11:30 p. m. All sojourning members and their families are welcome. rr t ' . oa T : 1 .1 T ,1

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.no. i.'o r . oc j. iU., caiieu meeiing. Work in Fellow. Craft degree, N. J. Haas, W. M. Wednesday, Oct. 1 Webb Lodge No. 24 F. & A. M. called meeting. Work in Master Mason degree, beginning 3 o'clock. Supper 6:30. Clarence W. Foreman, W. M. Thursday, Oct.v2 Wayne Council No. 10, R. & S. M., stated assembly and work. Light refreshments. Friday, Oct. 3 King Solomon's chapter. No. 4, R. A. M., called convocation. Work in Royal Arch degree. Saturday, Oct. 4 Loral Chapter No. 4!) O K S. Stated meeting!

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