Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 303, 4 October 1919 — Page 6

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TIIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCT. 4, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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England's Vital Struggle Ths railroad strike in England apparently amounts to a complete swing of the pendulum. Before the war, the pay of all English labor wa3 low, and conditions of living were not at all easy. The wealthy, leisured classes had all the best -f it, and the poor man had net much of a chance to get ahead. We have never had conditions in America that could properly be called analogous. Now it seems that the railroad men are not to be satisfied with a leasonable adjustment. Fair pay and good working conditions will not do. The workers demand terms so onerous that to yield to them would mean sacrificing the welfare of. the rest of the country, as well as turning over the mastery of the roads to the men. Already England is reduced to short rations and the hard living conditions of the war. If miners and transport workers join in the strike, England will go into a life or death struggle. Should the men succeed in doing what Germany could not do starve the English people and force them to their knees they would impose terms so drastic that the country would be seriously if not mortally crippled as a contender for foreign trade. With the costs of labor, coal, v.v.d transportation elevated to prohibitive heights, England would make a sorry competitor. Before the strike was threatened, England I:ad begun to worry. Her coal miners are much less efficient and productive than ours, and she fears that the United States may get her coal trade. Now we leam that the Germans are talking of continuing the ten-hour day, in order to swell the volume of production. Probably England's working men have no desire tQ ruin their country's trade, because in so doing they would bring disaster upon themselves. But if they try hard enough they certainly can wrest world trade leadership away from their Ovvn people and hand it to the hard-working Germans.

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Of late we have heard much of how the farmer's wife has improved her lot and how she is beginning to enjoy some of the pleasures that her sister in the city considers almost a necessity. No one begrudges her all the pleasure she can find, for without doubt her position is not the easiest one imaginable. The very nature of farm life assigns to her tasks of which the dweller in the city has no idea. All of us are glad that the telephone, automobile and many labor saving devices have enabled her to obtain pleasures which formerly were denied her, and that she no longer has to work long hours. Edith C. Johnson, in an article in the Daily Californian, makes a strong plea for betterment of her condition. Although the picture may be overdrawn, there are a number of points that are worth keeping in mind. We believe, however, that the author leaves the impression that the farmer himself does not appreciate the services his wife gives, something that does not hold true in every respect. Usually the farmer knows that his wife is a hard working woman and tries to make her lot as easy as possible by supplying her with all the labor saving devices he can purchase and by reducing her work wherever possible. The article says :

"If there is one woman in this world who deserves a fair share of the family profits that woman is the farmer's wife. No eight-hour shift in her business she works sixteen or eighteen hours. There is no time and a half for overtime in her schedule, for she has never yet begun to compute what overtime is. She earns a wage that could be termed 'living' only with respect to food. God knows she has fewer good clothes, luxuries and pleasures than any other woman we know. The stenographer going to work in her

silk dress, her pretty shoes, hat and silk stock-! ings, her well dressed hair and manicured nails j

is a queen of Sheba beside the average farmer's wife.

"The farmer's wife holds down not only one; job, but a dozen. She is wife, mother, cook, baker, laundress, housemaid, nurse, seamstress,;

poulterer, butter maker and general household economist. She is up at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning and her day seldom ends before 10 at night. "I, for one, greatly rejoice in the farmer's recent prosperity. I rejoice, not so much for the farmer, though he works hard enough for all he gets, as for the farmer's wife. I am hoping that $2 wheat will encourage the farmer to loosen his purse strings and divide generously with his wife. Heretofore, the farmer's wife was always economizing pitilessly to help swell the fund to build a new barn, buy a new piece of farm machinery or purchase a new breed of stock. "While we are trying to cure all the labor evils in America, why not concentrate a little on the injustices suffered by the farmer's wife, who never has a dollar she can call her own unless it be the butter and egg money, and sometimes not that. For the very reason that her wife love, her mother love and her sense of duty will not permit her to even think of "walking out" like the steel men, the actors, the street car men and the policemen, she ought to be receiving the greatest consideration and a fair division of the profits.

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

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William Wllkte ColUns. the eon of a landscape and portrait painter, was born in London, Jan! 8. 1824. He died September 23. 1889. After some private education at home he spent three years In Italy with his father. On his return he became a cleric with a firm of tea merchants in London, but tea was not to his taste; he studied law at the famous Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar In 1851. But he was still drifting; he was not attracted to the law, though he found his studies of great use to him in later days. The death of the elder Collins In 1847 put the son partly In the way of finding himself, for he published his father's life In two volumes the next year. He had been turning over his experiences of three years' life In Italy, and in 1S50 appeared his first novel. "Antonia. or the Fall of Rome." "Basil" was published in 1S52, and ' Hide and Seek" In 1S54. He had not attracted the attention of the public as yet. The great event of his life, however, came In 1851, whn he made the acquaintance of Charles Dickens.

THE MOONSTONE BY WILKIE COLLINS Condensation by Miss Jessie A. Parsons, Smith College Library, Nothampton, Mass.

The Broom as a Germ Carrier This is a story of a house broom. Many traditions clutter about that household adjunct. Whether it was a bunch of twigs tied to a stick with which to brush the hearthstone of a peasant's hut, or the broomcorn product of colonial days, it has served as a symbol for cleanliness. In modern times, however, we have learned a new standard of cleanliness a cleanliness which not only sweeps away the clutter in sight, but also seeks to rout the disease germs which may lurk there unknown. Tuberculosis is a menace to every home. Sunlight quickly kills the germs. But the raising of clouds of dust indoors is one means of transmitting this infection. All broom sweeping should be preceded by strewing the floor with old tea leaves or bits of wet paper. This is one means of helping to prevent the spread of the white plague, which, according to the figures of the National Tuberculosis association, claims 150,000 lives yearly. The work of the National Tuberculosis association is supported chiefly by the annual sale of the Red Cross Christmas seals. This agency, the leading one in America to combat the white plague, co-operates with the 1,000 state and local leagues and associations affiliated with it.

The amount to be raised from the seal salej this year is more than $6,500,000. This fund is j needed to carry out a nation-wide educational; preventative program. One of the policies of the j national association is to see that the money is directly applied to the benefit of the community j

in which it was obtained. YA WANT'A DEPOPULATE NATION ? Detroit Free Press. As a rival to the "See America First" slogan, France might whisper, "Visit us and get a drink."

What Other Editors Say

THE SUGAR SHORTAGE AS A LESSON From the Chicago News. CERTAIN states or districts in the middle west are practically without sugar, while the country at large must choose between a rigorous rationing system more than reminiscent of war conditions or the prospect of a sugar famine in the near future. Here in Chicago the available supply is estimated at one-half the normal, and hotels and restaurants in the central district have been asked to remove the "wasteful" sugar bowl beyond the reach of their patrons. Meantime the price of tucar to the small consumer threatens to mount to prohibitive figures. It is generally agreed that concerted action, governmental and private, is necessary to effect a fair distribution of supar throughout the country and prevent speculation and unconscionable profiteering. If appropriate measures are taken promptly one must think, there will be no real occasion to urge the president and congress to establish an embargo on sugar. We Americans realize that Europe has suffered Incomparably more privations and hardships than we have because of the recent world war and Is still far from possessing a reabonable supply of even the ordinary comforts of life. The cause of the present acute 6ugar shortage and the anticipated sugar famine Is not clear. Some say the attempted stabilisation of prices by the sugar equalization boanJ of lite has done more harm than good and that the government's control of the sugar market should, have been withdrawn early in the spring, when there was an abundance of sugar and widespread fear of a decline la th5 price. Others criticize the national administration for ks failure to extend control to the whole new sugar crop of Cuba and to interfere mere strictly than It has done with the operation of the laws of supply and demand. Yet public sentiment in this country favored relaxation and termination of government con

trol of industry and trade until the evil of profiteering assumed grave proportions and caused a reaction. Other factors, some of which could not have been foreseen, enter into the sugar situation. A protracted strike that tied up shipping all but stopped importations from Cuba. The war prohibition law has increased the demand for soft drinks and candies, in which sugar Is an important ingredient. Possibly the manufacturers of these products have larger stocks of sugar than they need. The whole situation illustrates the complexity of the problem of stabilization of prices and regulation of trade during a condition that is neither war nor peace, a condition that creates uncertainty for all legitimate business and encourages only profiteers and speculators.

TO COLLEGE From the Grand Rapids News. The war hit the colleges and universities hard, but the first year after the close of the conflict finds the young people flocking to the higher educational centers in greater numbers than over in our history. It is particularly noticeable in the reports that the number of young women going to the state jnd other Institutions is away beyond any figures in he past. The wonderful enrollment in our universities and colleges is one indication that the country is prosperous. People in all walks of life have the money to spare to afford their children the best education available. This wiU make for a better and for a more democratic nation in the years to come. We must look to those best qualified by trailing, experience und particularly by education to mide us. We must expect the college and the university graduate to take an ever more important part in our public IKe. It is well to know so many of our finest and most ambitious young men and women are drinking at the fountains of knowledge a wise people has so generously provided for public education.

Before the Mohammedan conquest, the Moon-god, in his Brahmin shrine, wore upon his forehead one of the most beautiful diamonds in creation. "Partly from its peculiar color, .partly from a superstition which represented it as partaking of the nature of the deity whom it adorned, and growing find lessening In lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, it first gained the name by which it continues to be known in India to this day the name of THE MOONSTONE." After passing from one lawless hand to another, in 1850, "after the lapse of eight centuries, the Moonstone looks forth over the walls in the sacred city where its story first began." Throughout this long period the Moonstone had been sought dilligcntly by three Brahmins and their successors. Their vigilance was, in 1848, rewarded by the sight of the resplenwas in high disfavor with the family, dent gem gleaming on the bosom of a light-hearted girl. Rachel Verinder had received the Moonstone as a legacy from an unscrupulous uncle who was in high disfavor with the family. Knowing that the Moonstone brought ill-luck, the gift was made in revenge. Although thoroughly admired at Miss Verinder's birthday dinner, the uncanny influence of the stone made itself felt in the atmosphere of the party. Two rival suitors were present both cousins of Rachel Verinder. One, Godfrey Ablewhite, persuasive in manner and eloquent as chairman of many charitable organizations, lived in the neighborhood and had hitherto gained the advantage which propinquity gave him over Franklin Blake, lately returned to England, bringing the Moonstone, after several years spent on the continent. The latter was a guest of Mrs. Verinder three weeks before the birthday, where his graclousness and congeniality to Miss Verinder made him most welcome. Hence It was not surprising that Rachel fell in love with him and refused the opportunities of Godfrey Ablewhite just before the birthday dinner. This major tension accompanied by various misunderstandings on the part of other guests ended in a dispute between the family physician and Franklin Blake over the latter'a sleeplessness, in which the doctor failed to convince him that medicine could triumph over his nerves. On hearing a drum the guests rushed to the terrace to be confronted by three Indian jugglers. At a word from one of the diners, a celebrated Indian traveler, the intruders hurriedly retreated. The surprising turn of events argued for putting the Moonstone into especially safe keeping, but Miss Rachel, with ideas of her own, insisted on placing it in an unlocked Indian cabinet in her dressing room. The company then dispersed, leaving Franklin Blake, who looked wretchedly, and Mr. Ablewhite together. After much urging Mr. Blake decided to take a brandy and water to help combat his sleeplessness. The household was startled next morning at the disappearance of the Moonstone. Franklin Blake, always alert, was instrumental in bringing the nearest police. Rachel became exceedingly angry at their intrusion, rnd was deeply offended with Franklin Blake for securing them. The chief of police succeeded in making a mess of affairs and was superseded by the famous detective, Sergeant Cuff. The chief of po!ice aroused the resentment of the servants by examining their boxes; Sergeant Cuff wished to begin with the personal effects of the family, not looking lor the Moonstone but rather for an article of clothing bearing a paint stain from the door of Rachel's boudoir. Everyone acceded but Miss Verinder, who gave a most decided refusal. The only servant suspected by the Sergeant was Rosanna Spearman who had been rescued from misfortune by Lady Verinder. She was discovered by Sergeant Cuff to have bought a quantity of plain white cloth and mado and laundered a new garment in her room when supposed to be ill with a headache. Miss Rachel's point-blank refusal to have her possessions searched and her decision to leave her home ended in her gaining her point and the dismissal of the detective, who left the Verinder home convinced that Miss Rachel had disposed of the diamond through the connivance of Rosanna Spearman in order to pay some pressing debt. Rachel and Lady Verinder spent some little time in London where Rachel was ordered by her physician to have as much gaiety as possible to counteract the depression of recent events. Franklin Blake left for the continent and Godfrey Ablewhite again resumed his attentions to Rachel. Shortly after leaving Lady Verinder's country home for London, Godfrey Ablewhite waS summoned to a strange house by an unknown per-

son, bound, gagged and searched by j a tawney-skinned individual. On the j same day, a notorious money-lender I met with a like experience in the j exact spot where Mr. Ablewhite was maltreated, only that In his case a I receipt for a valuable left at a bankI er's was removed from hi3 loose paI pers. The news of the disappearance of the Moonstotie having reached Lon- : don, an ugly suspicion began to attach itself to Godfrey Ablewhite, only j to be dissipated by the emphatic assertion of Rachel Verinder: "I know j that Godfrey Ablewhite is innocent!" Soon after this Rachel became engagi ed to Mr. Ablewhite, although she told I him her heart was elsewhere. He j seemed, however, to be quite satisfied ; with this condition until after Lady 1 Verinder's death, when he had an op- : portunity to examine her will. When '. Rachel's lawyer found this out and j communicated it to Rachel she dismissed Godfrey Ablewhite on suspectj ing him of wishing to marry her for pecuniary reasons. He accepted his

dismissal more gracefully than his father in whose house Rachel was residing after the death of her mother. Mr. Bruff, her lawyer, then made arrangements for her to live with one of her aunts. At this time Franklin Blake was quickly summoned to England by the death of his father. In his unhappiness he visited Lady Verinder's old home, where he found things sadly changed, with no one in charge except a faithful old steward. This servant told him that there was a letter waiting for him from Rosanna Spearman, which her confidant would deliver into no other hands than his. The short letter contained directions to search on the seashore for a hidden box. This box held a garment stained with a smear of paint from Miss Rachel's boudoir and had on it the name of Franklin Blake. A long letter explained that the garment had been hidden there by Rosanna Spearman on account of her love for Franklin Blake and her hopes of shielding him from discovery'. Immediately, knowing that there must be some mistake, Mr. Blake tried in vain to see Rachel in London by all fair means. His resort to a trick to accomplish this ends unfortunately, and they part in great bitterness. Rachel's words: "You villain, I saw you take the Diamond with my own eyes!" spurred him to do all in his power to prove his innocence. He returned to the country house and soon met the assistant of the family physician with whom he had disputed at the birthday dinner. DrCandy had caught a severe cold that night, which with complications, still affected him mentally and bodily. His assistant had taken in shorthand the doctor's delirous ravings, and after studying them had found out what was preying upon the doctor's mind. In the tumbler of water measured for Franklin Blako tb night of the birthday, a small quantity of laudanum had been placed. Sleep-walking results were immediately suspected and even Rachel was persuaded to have the experiment repeated under conditions as nearly as possible like those of the year before. Her aunt came with her to chaperone this strange house party, and all eagerly awaited the experiment. Franklin Blake walked in his sleep as far as the cabinet which held a mock diamond. Although he let this stone drop to the floor a? the effects of the medicine wore off, his innocence was established and the two lovers were reconciled. The time had nearly come when the money lender was to take from the banker's the valuable which he had deposited there. Detectives watched the bank and several people near the money-lender were followed on wrong suspicion. A shrewd office-boy took it upon himself to follow a large man with a dark beard. This man had taken refuge in a low-class boarding house awaiting the sailing of his steamer for Rotterdam. Franklin Blake and Sergeant Cuff hastened to this house and found the man had been murdered, presumably by an Indian. The detective, on removing the black beard and pasty complexion revealed to the onlookers the fair hair and ruddy features of Godfrey Ablewhite. Thus the Brahmin priests after patiently waiting for eight centuries were able to restore to the Moon-god his famous Moonstone. Copyright, 1919, by the Post 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., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. All rights reserved. (Published by special arrangement

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK FROM LITTLE ACORNS From the most minute particles and organisms, do the greatest things In life come. Across the minutes do we trail, but "It doth not yet appear what vrc SHALL, be!" The accumulation of our virtues stamp the quality of our goodness, whereas that which ia weak and bad In us Is always suggesting to the world wherein we have failed. And yet It is not generally understood that the strongest virtues are mostly those that have found life thru battling daily and hourly with what have been our weaknesses. "Great oaks from LITTLE acorns grow!" But the little acorns, or seeds, must be sound. And we must lay stress on the soil about each separate Beed that It Is fertile, and that it kept watered with "cups of cold water," and that the weeds and tares are kept rooted out. Great characters from little kindnesses grow. And as one works patiently toward better things, overcoming and conquering the things that disturb and lessen the strength of a triumphant life, so does growth creep on its way and become an influence and a power wherever It Is stationed. What a fine affair it is to do a noble thing just for the sake of doing it! Back of this philosophy is the essence-beauty of doing little things In the right way so that they may become GREAT. From little acorn planting to becoming men and women who stand in builded helpfulness as shelterers of the needs of others! How great are the results that arise from little acorns!

There are 118 applications of (electricity on the farm.

Memories of Old Days ! In This Paper Ten Years Ajjo Today

Word was received that soldiers of the 10th infantry, who will participate in the Fall Festival, left Fort Benjamin at Indianapolis, on their hike to Richmond. Judge Fox opened October term of court by calling probate docket.

Net receipts from the seventh annual ! Chautauqua, held August 20-29, at Glen j Miller Park, toaled $.j22.77, according '

to reports made by Secretary George L. Goodwin.

Eats One Meal Every 12 Days and Enjoys It LONDON, Sept. 22. Only one meal in 12 days is the latest fat men's fad which has been launched by M. B. Pasfield, a robust, pink-cheeked resident of The Grove, Woking. "Of course I do not keep up the fast all the year around," explains Mr. Pasfield. "But I fast in many winter months a3 I do in summer months. It is fine to fast. The first 48 hours are the hardest. But after that you simply don't want food. You have a splendid airy, light, balloony feeling. "I drink a little beer in between my 12-day dining periods and smoke good cigars. I feel stronger and better during a fast than I do when I am eating my one regular meal a day."

7W More Claimants (or Lowry's Estate GOSHEN, Ind., Oct. 4. Two more Lowrys appeared Thursday to claim the $75,000 estate left by Alfred Lowry. formerly Goshen's mayor, who died without a will and with no known legal heirs. They are Isaac D. Lowry, of La Center, Ky., and R. J. Lowry, of Winfield, Ark. Isaac D. Lowry writes Postmaster Beane saying he was "bread" in Halifax, Vo., and feels sure he was related to the former Goshen mayor.. R. J. Lowry, writing the postmaster, offers to share the estate with him, providing the "facks" are sent immediately. "You won't luse anything," and "you mite make yourself some money and help me to," the letter to the postmaster says. More than a score of persons have entered claims to the estate.

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(By Associated PreBS CLEVELAND. Oct. 4. Seymour Cox, Jr., 11 years old. Is making an airplane flight from Houston, Tex., to New York to get an education. With his mother. Mrs. S. E. J. Cox, wife of a Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold Block, Seymour arrived here yesterday. The party left later for Buffalo, from where they will fly to New York, where the lad will attend school.

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Postal Card Given Prompt Attentlo Landscape Designs a Specialty. Geo. L. VonCarlezon Landscape Architect Gardener, Park and Boulevard Construction We do sodding, grading, grass sowing, rolling, spraying and fertilizing. We plant, trim, or remove any size tree, shrubs, roses, grapevines, etc. Orders

' taken for trees, shrubs, roses and all

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Suits Dry Cleaned and Pressed

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UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION Director General of Railroads PENNSYLVANIA LINES SUNDAY, OCT. 5 EXCURSION TO CINCINNATI

H 11 Round mZlm 'trip

Including War Tax

Excursion Train leaves Richmond 4:45 and 5:05 a. m. Central Time.

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