Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 3, 13 November 1919 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PAIXADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY. NOV. 13, 1919.

WOODEN OR STONE HOUSES? QUESTION - BOTHERS ENGLISH By MARY HENKE. TiVTnv cft 98 A million houses

will be needed la London in tbe next. fire years. The government wines plane for meeting the situation, tears them up and writes more plans. And yet the simplest way of meeting the situation, the proposed erection of wooden houses, is meeting with a protest that shows more clearly than anything else, the great British instinct for clinging to the established. Ever since officials proposed that wooden houses be utilized as an experiment, there has been Journalistic and public discussion very amusing to an American, who has taken frame houses as a matter of course all his life. Amendment in laws, which prohibit erection of wooden houses as a fire menace, would be required, but this woud be more easily accomplished than the change In public sentiment No one in London ever has had wooden houses, therefore, why start such revolutionary procedure now? Don't Use Central Heat. The central heating system, which is common in the United States and Canada, is one reason for the objection. Most Londoners have convinced themselves that a frame house demands central heat and that this would be bad for the health. People in London suffer from colds from early autumn to late spring but you can never convince them that their heating system is to blame. With one accord they insist that a grate fire which warms one side of the room and Iohvas th other cold, is much more healthful than a fire which heats j a room all over. There is a general opinion that it is healthful to be cold, so everybody shivers. The British workinsman, having shown his ability to make trouble, is also blamed for the sentiment against frame houses. The laboring man would turn up his nose if you asked him to live In a frame house, it is declared. Some supporter of the wooden house plan toured London and discovered that several great men lived In historic old houses made of wood. This news may have 6ome effect on the more conservative Londoners. The courts are busy with ejection suits resulting from house shortage. Landlords give notice, the tenants can find no place to go, and refuse to move. The court's verdict is usually favorable to the tenant. May Use Concrete. TJse of concrete blocks has been suggested in a building plan, and may be more popular, s greater durability is promised. It is estimated that the wooden houses can be built at a cost of a little more than $1,000, and concrete bouses for something over $1,250. Failure of the government to act promptly in the housing matter has been severely criticized, &s the delay has caused great congestion and inconvenience. The effect is expected to be shown In the woman's vote to be cast at the municipal elections next month, for the women, naturally, are vitally interested in the housing problem. Why there should be such a demand for houses is a puzzle. There has teen great loss of life from English centers during the war, and yet there 'Eeems to. be a greater congestion of population than ever before. One explanation of the housing problem is given in the demand of British workingmen for better homes. The men are drawing high pay and are no longer content witn tneir om noveisYoung men, who were married during the war are returning home and are eager to start housekeeping. Building lias been at a standstill for five years, and In spite of the war drain, the prewar supply of homes is far inadequate for the present demand. Friends Hold Meetings for Young Friends' Work Dr. Walter C. Woodward, editor of The American Friend, and Clarence Pickett, general secretary of the Young Friends' beard of . the Five Years Meeting, were to leave Thursday afternoon for Baltimore, Md., where they will attend Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Dr. Woodward will be absent about a week. From Baltimore, Pickett will go to Philadelphia to Join Mi3s Edith Stratton, executive secretary of the Young Friends of Philadelphia, " and Rachel D. Dubois, member of the Hicksite Young Friends' movement of Philadelphia, two other members of a Frienda' deputation which will visit eight of the leading colleges of the East to hold conferences with the Friends in the student bodies. The deputation is going in the interests cf the general Young Friends' movement. Local Presbyterians Have Campaign for Altar League The New World Movement of tho United Presbyterian churches of America is during the month of November campaigning in the interest of "The Family Altar League." Mrs. i Elmer McGraw is chairman of the committee in charge of the work in ! the Reid Memorial United Presbyterian church of this city. Committees have been organized in every congregation of the denomination in America to conduct the family religion campaign under the direc tion of Dr. J. Knox Montgomery, the i president of Muskingum college, who has established headquarters in Pittsburg. Later this month an effort will be made to enlist the young people of tJbe church definitely for religious service. 12 LOST IN SHIPWRECK. DOVER, Nov. 13. Twelve lives were lost when the French bark Colbert was run down in the English channel off Portland by the British steamer Duneric. The bark sank in two minutes. Two survivors saved by the Duneric, have been landed here. As Influenza Is an exaggerated form of Grip, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets should be taken in larger doses than Is prescribed for ordinary Grip. A good plan is not to wait until you are sick, but PREVENT IT by takins LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets In time. ,

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EARLHAM COURSES PA8S. Earlham college courses were complimented by Oscar Williams, state supervisor of teachers' training, after an inspection Wednesday. The college is preparing to install courses under the new state law which provides for normal training. . TWO BOYS HELD. Everett High and Gilbert Willett, 14 years old, of Anderson, were arrested Wednesday evening, on request of the Anderson authorities, who suspect them of the theft of bicycles. BOY 18 INJURED. William Bell. 821 Lincoln street, was slightly injured and a bicycle which he was riding was demolished when he was struck by an automobile said to have been driven by Robert Starr. DUTCH-BELGIAN SITUATION REMAINS VERY SERIOU8 OBy Associated Prut) PARIS, Nov. 13 Alarmist report of high tension and possible rupture of diplomatic relations between Belgium and Holland which have been current for the past few days in Brus sels and in diplomatic and peace con ference circles here, have their source in the Interior politics of Belgium and are fostered by the political party favoring an energetic policy toward Holland according to a member of the Belgian peace delegation In Paris. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT PLACES LIMIT ON SILVER MEXICO CITY. Nov. 13 Strict limitations upon silver exportation from Mexico were placed upon producing companies today by an order from tbe treasury department direct ing that 60 per cent of all bullion be sold to the government. In no case will the companies be allowed to export more than 50 per cent of their production. Tbe order resulted from the shortage of silver coins which because of their high silver content are being hoarded and sold for bullion. INDICTMENTS AGAINST POISONER ARE DROPPED (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Nov. 13 The 3 indictments against Jean Crones, formerly chef at tbe University club, accused of having poisoned soup served at a banquet tendered Archbishop George Mundelein in 1916, have been stricken from court records, it became known today. The 6tate reserved the right to reopen the case should Crones be captured. He has been missing since Feb. 1. 1916. More than 50 persons at the banquet became ill after eating soup in which it was charged the poison was placed. PORT OF NEW YORK IS SWAMPED BY LUXURIES (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 13. Unprecedented prosperity is indicated in statistics from the office of tbe collector of the port of New York, which show an increase in luxury imports of 125 per cent over a year ago. Duties on 27 articles on the luxury list, ranging from toys to ostrich articles, totalled $57,684,446 for the three months ending September 30. 16 SHIPS DELIVERED. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. Sixteen more ships totalling 92,675 tons were delivered to the shipping board by the Emergency Fleet corporation during the first ten days of November, it was announced today. Fourteen of the vessels are of steel and two of wood. Construction for October was 113 ships with a deadweight tonnage of 575,933, making the total construction to Nov. 10, 1,395 vessels aggregating 8,773,803 deadweight tons.

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Composition of Stars Is . Found With Spectroscope i i Chicago Journal When you read in a scientific book that the sun is made of certain substances, that the stars Aldebaran, Sirlus, Sapella, etc., are made of other substances, -you wonder bow .this can be known with such certainty; for nobody has ever been there to see. Nevertheless our knowledge of the composition of the sun and stars is almost as certain as that of the elements that go to make up our own earth.

And It is all due to the spectroscope. Isabel M. Lewis, of the United States naval observatory, tells Just how it is done. When a ray of sunshine passe through a spectroscope (which consists essentially of a glass prism or chain of prisms). It is broken up into its component parts, which arrange themselves in a rainbow, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and these colors are crossed by many fine dark lines called Frauenhofer or absorption lines. . The shortest wave lengths are In the violet and tbe longest In the red; below the red are the Infra-red rays, Invisible to the naked eye, but capable of being photographed on specially sensitized plates. An incandescent body under high pressure gives us a band of pure color unbroken by the cross lines. If, however, cooler gases are between us and the source of the continuous spectrum they absorb the light beyond Just those rays of which they themselves consist, and as a result the band of color is crossed by dark lines. Every chemical element has Its own lines in the spectrum, always in the same place. So it Is easy to identify the clement merely by observing the position of the Frauenhofer or absorption lines In the spectrum. If the Intervening gases he hotter than the source of light, the lines they make on the spectrum will be bright instead of dark, but their position will be unchanged. In the spectrum of the sun, for Instance, the Incandescent core produces the continuous band cf color, and the cooler gases of the surrounding solor atmosphere absorb from the light of the core the particular rays j of which they themselves con? 1st, and produce the dark lines that tell us they are calcium, or oxyjren, or Iron, or helium, or any of the other elements. It has been found that all the elements that exist on our planet exipt also In the sun, and enter into the composition of the stars. For the light of a distant rtar. faint as It is. can be made to furnishits spectrum. Father Schi. Italian astronomer, first classified the stars according to the elements Predominating In them, that was in 1849; since then the Harvard observatory has classified the spectra of 200,000 stars. OPERATION PERFORMED. Attorney Wilfred Jessup was called to Indianapolis Wednesday by a minor operation performed on hia daughter, Sarah Jessup. The principality of Monaco has an area of only eight square miles. 1S799 DIED in New York City alone from kidney trouble last year. Don't allow yourself to become a victim by neglecting pains and aches. Guard against this trouble by taking COLD MEDAL 9 The world's standard remedy for kidnsy, liver, bladder and oris acid troubles. Holland's national remady since 1696. All druggists, three sizes. Guaranteed, task fer the nun Cold Medal on every fees asd acc.pt no imitation 810 Main St.

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We now have a complete line of Oliver Sulky and Walking Plows In left hand style in stock. These are the last left hand plows we will be able to get as the plow factories have discontinued making them and are making right hand only. While this limited number lasts we will sell them at the right price.

14-Inch Left Hand Sulkey Plows Eight of these left. Complete with three-horse eveaers and rolling coulters. $55.00

CULTIVATORS

We have 10 eight-snorel Cultivators at 845 each. King Double Pulverizers $80 each. Complete with tongue trucks

ae Wagon Gears Complete with brakes, wide tread, while they last $100 EACH

GAS ENGINES

Stover Gas Engines are good engines. This Oas Engine for general farm use has been manufactured for more than 20 years. They are in use on tens of thousands of farms. Every farm should have Its engine.

CORN SHELLERS

If you need a Corn Sheller. here is one which will serve you for many years. The "Little Giant" Is one of the best shellers on the market. Well built and priced right. Come in and look It over. Stover Feed Mills will grind from 3 to 6 bushels per horsepower per hour of dry grains. They are built for years of wear and will give better service than any other grinder on the market. Stover Feed Grinders are easily set up and operated. No argument is needed to convince the feeder of the value of this grinder.

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