Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 12, 24 November 1919 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, NOV. 24, 1919.

PAGE ELEVEN

GENERAL PERSHING GIVES WARNING TO

AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

(The Literary Digest, Sept. 27, 1919) Sound and timely, in the opinion of the press, is General Pershing'c warning to the American Legion, as the beginning of its drive for a million members, against permitting itself to become "a political tool in the hands of political aspirants." At the same time the editors recognize the fact that the General's words refer entirely to a future possibilities, and do not Imply any partisan tendencies in the Legion's record to date. Nevertheless, notes the New York Evening Sun, the abmanition gains especial impressiveness from the fact that General Pershing himself is "the man who of all others might have reasons to expect personal preferment" as the result of any political

activities on the part of this organization of Veterans of the Great War. "It is not true Americanism for any group or class to use its corporate strength to serve it3 own ends," declares the Newark News, which is confident that the American people welcome the Legion "as a force for true Americanism," but that "they will back Pershing to the limit as he draws the line over which it may not step." Heartily Indorsing General Pershing's fnnher suggestion that this ycung organization should not oaly "keep its skirts clean and free of petty politics," but should become in patriotism that have been brought home to the American yeop'e during the ladt few years," the Philadelphia Inquirer ought to be one of tLe greatest forces for good this country has ever known"; and the New York Evening Mail, agreeing that the Legion "has a glorious mission to perform," gos on to say: , "There are unmistakable signs that the American Legion has begun its beneficent work on the lines indicated by General Pershing. We hope that it never will deviate from this inspiring course." "Organized and held together by the ' memory of a common service too big ever to let itself" be used for sordid or partisan ends, too uncompromisingly American ever to listen to false doctrines that strike at the Institutions to which the people of the United States owe their prosperity and progress," exclaims the New York Evening World, "what a power this organization can exert throughout the length and breadth of the land to keep all post-war changes safe and sane!"

The initial organization of the American League, whose potential membership embraces all the 4,800,000 Ameri

can men and women enrolled in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps during the war, took place in Paris last March. In May it held a caucus in St. Louis. Last week President Wil

son signed the bill incorporating it, and at Minneapolis, on November 10. 11 and 12, it will hold its first great convention. When it began its na

tion-wide campaign for a membership of a million, it already had 35,000 men

and women enrolled. In its first issue The Home Sector (New York), which is conducted by the former editorial council of The Stars and Stripes, has this editorial word to say to the 4,800,000 in behalf of the Legion:" "The Home Sector has no official connection with the American Legion and has but One recommendation to make regarding the Legion. That is this: Join it. If you like the way the Legion has started out, if you think it is in good hands, if you believe it Is sure to be a power for good in America you will Join it, of course. If you think it has stumbled in any

of its first steps, if you suspect that, locally or nationally, It is in the hands of an unresponsive lot, if you fear it is in danger of being misused for this or that political maneuver, then you must join it."

Through the Widow's Lorgnette

British Fear Threatened Strike of Union Miners

(By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 24 The British public is uneasy from apprehension that Great Britain, like the United States, may have to face a coal miners strike at a time when coal is a vital necessity. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain, an organization of 975,000 members, obtained a pledge from the

5,250,000 unionized laborers represented at the Trade Unions congif.A! at Glasgow in September to ' whatever action may be necessary .m compel the government" to accept miners' demands for nationalization of the industry in which they are employed. An initial attempt to win governmental approval of the project, the sending of a trades union deputation to consult with the Premier, has failed. Many persons contend that the whole matter is merely being held in abeyance until the return of the British delegation from the Washington labor conference. This delegation numbers G. H. Stuart-Bunning, C. W, Bowerman and others who are reckoned among the most skillful of British labor's strategists

BY HELEN ROWLAND (Copyright. 1919, By The Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)

Time, Tide and the Modern Woman

Wait For No Man.

"This is the first time you've let

me inside the door for a whole week,

complained the Bachelor, with bitter

reproach, as the Widow waved him Into the little rose-colored den, with its cheerful fire and gay lamps i "I feel just like 'Towser after he has

beea shut out In the cold all day, for

chewing up a slipper or stealing the roastl What have I done, anyway?"

The Widow's laugh rippled out like a chime o silver holiday bells. "There, there!" Bhe soothed, iompassionately,. "It's all over now. I HAVE been rushed!" she admitted, disposing her chiffon and brocade draperies In the big damask chair, with a flutter that sent up a bewildering fragrance of violet sachet, "but isn't that just like a man to assume that nothing but a heinous offense on HIS part could possibly make a woman want a little time to herself!" "TImel" exclaimed the Bachelor; and he took In the Widow's small and frivolous self with a glance of amused scorn; "what do You do with time?" "Oh, I use it for little odds and ends, like going Christmas shopping, and attending charity-board meetings, and committee meetings, and going to lectures and the gym, and studymg the social problems, and keeping up with half a dozen clubs. But I suppose," and her violet eyes widened challengingly, "that if I if you if we were married " "Go right on supposing," urged the Bachelor, complacently, lighting a cigarette, "I love to suppose that. If we were married ?" "You'd expect me to hang around the house, waiting for you, all day!" flung out the Widow in defiance, "and to cling, around your neck, and tell you how lonesome I was without you, and beg you to hurry back, and quiz you about where you were going, and extract a lot of promises from you, every time you tried to leave the house!" "Heaven forbldl" exclaimed the Bachelor fervently. "What ?"

Camden, 0. The Bazaar held in the high school auditorium by the ladies of the Presbyterian Church, Saturday night, was a success. The receipts from bazar and supper were $496 Walter and Lucile Gear, of Dayton, spent Sunday with their father, the Rev. I. R. Gear. ....Clayton Pryor, of Dayton, and

Miss Dorothy Pryor, who is attending school at Oxford, spent Sunday with their parents, Dr. W. M. Pryor and wife Mrs. J. W. Kenworthy returned Saturday from a visit with her sou, Charles, in Cincinnati Mr. and Mr. Yochum and daughters, Thelma and Helen spent Sunday in Middletown, Ohio Mrs. Hazel Bennett has returned from a two weeks' visit in Columbus, Ohio, with her parents Miss Ruth Freitag, who is teaching near Eaton, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. Daisy Frietag. Albert Davis and wife of Colorado, who are spending the- week with his brother, T. E. Davis, spent Sunday with Wilbur Lamm and family..'.... Mrs. Ray Simpson spent Saturday in Cincinnati T. E. Davis and brother Albert Davis were in Cincinnati Saturday... Miss Or'a Summers has been ill the rast week.... Mr. and Mrs. Freeman of Liberty, Ind., have spent the past week with their daughter, Mrs. Clarence Phares.

"Heaven forbid that I should expect it. There aren't any more nice, little clinging vines, with nothing to do but virry about a lonely fellow like me!" ' d the Bachelor regarded the upcurlsmoke from his cigarette, with a leh. "No," agreed the Widow. "The war finished them all off. And in your hearts you and every other man are secretly glad of it I Time, tide and the modern woman wait for no man! The 6lgh that a woman heaves, when she closes the front door behind a man, in these strenuous days, is not half so often a sigh of regret as a sigh of relief! " "I've noticed that." muttered the Bachelor mornfully, "and when they murmur sweetly, 'Must you go?' they mean, 'Go you must!' They even seem impatient, when you linger to hold their little hands, or take more than twenty minutes to -say 'Good night!'" "Good heavens! There's no pleasing a man either way!" and the Widow

flung up her hands with a gesture of

despair. "When we clung around your necks and tried to keep you home eve

nings, and hadn't a thought or an interest outside of you. we bored you to death, and you were continually struggling to escape from us. You even wrote long articles for the papers, urging matrimonial vacations for husbands and wives, and maintaining

that home should be made a privilege, not a prison, and that husbands should

be allowed at least two nights ot a week for their clubs, and that wives should cultivate some interests out

side the home. But now, that we have had those interests thrust upon us by the war and the economic situation, and everything now that some of us have to work, and some of us have professions, and some of us have po

sitions, and all of us have clubs, or

charities, or careers, or hen-parties, you're you're worried to death!" "I'm not worried!" protested the Bachelor. "I'm neglected; I'm lonesome; I'm hurt in the region of my aplomb! I have to go around making dates with a girl two weeks ahead, just as though she were a dentist or an oculist or a box at the opera. It takes all the heart and spontanety out of a flirtation" "Not to find her sitting aroung listening for her telephone call, every time you happen to drop in to gladden her eight?" broke in the Widow. "Of course it does, you poor, spoiled dear! But think of the mental anxiety it saves you, when you want to STOP 'gladdening her sight' or to go home

early, evenings, or to stay away altogether." "Whadye mean 'mental anxiety?" grumbled the Bachelor. "I'm tired of being just 'among those present' in a girl's life. I want somebody to brighten my life!" "Well, Bobby," and the Widow brought one small jeweled fist down emphatically into the palm of her other hand, "if it ever so happens that I am chosen to brighten your

life,' you'll have to remember that a woman must have women friends, and at least one evening off a week, for her club " "I won't hang around your neck," promised the Bachelor humbly. "And an occasional Saturday afternoon, for a tea, or bridge, or a political meeting " "I'll learn to knit," put in the Bachelor, anxiously. "I'll find Borne interests outside the home!" , "And a latch-key," finished the Widow, positively, "and you must promise never to question me when I come in late from a committee meeting " "I promise." agreed the Bachelor, "and never to telephone you during business hours, nor to go through your pockets." The Widow tucked her hands gleefully down into two ridiculous little chiffon pockets on her tea-gown. "We DO have pockets now as well as latch-keys, don't we?" she gurgled happily. "I always said, there'd never be any real equality between the sexes, until a woman has as many pockets as a man. And now, we-ve got more!" "You've got more of everything!" groaned the Bachelor. "But, I'll try

to be a sweet, devoted little husband

to you, if " "And I'll promise to be a good, kind wife to you, Bobby," cooed the Widow, joyously, "and take you to the country club with me, sometimes, and let you sit and watch me read the newspaper evenings, when I'm not too busy." "And you will give up your wild ways, and not bring your bachelor girl friends home, unexpectedly to dinner-" persisted the Bachelor. "I'll do everything, Bobby," promised the Widow, gently, "to make myself wort ' of a pure, sweet Bachelor. I'll even spend all my spare time at home, and hang aroung your neck sometimes when I feel sure it won't bore you." "Then," said the Bachelor, leaning back with a sigh of relief, "I'll consider it." "What?" "I'll consider your proposal," said the Bachelor. "A man must be sure of his heart, before he gives it into a strong woman's keeping, in these days," he added gently. WIDOW-C1SMS.

The old-fashioned marriage was aa cheerful, as simple, and as set as the

old-fasLioned chromo; .but today's marriage is as vague, uncertain, and complicated as a cubist's purple masterpiece. The difference between love and infatuation is that one says "Love me or I suffer!" the other, "Love me or I'll make you suffer!" Love is the balancing-rod which keeps us on life's trolley.

Fountain City Schedules 1 Many Basketball Games Fountain City's ambitious high school basketball team has scheduled more than 20 games with the pick of the nearby Sixth District teams, for the 1919-'20 season. Such teams as Union City, Winchester, Hagerstown, New Lisbon and Lewisville appear.

The schedule begins Nov. 26 at Fountain City with Farmland, and ends Feb. 28 with New Lisbon at Fountain City. It follows: Oct. 17, Ansonia, O., there; Nov. 7, Winchester, there; Nov. 8, Ansonia, O., here; Nov. 14, Whitewater, there;

Nov. 15, Lewisville, here; Nov. 21, Modoc, there; Nov. 26, Farmland, here; Nov. 29, Mooreland, here; Dec. 5. Eaton, O., there; Dec. 6 Ridgeville, here; Dec. 13, Whitewater, here; Dec. 19, Mooreland, there; Dec. 20, Winchester, here; Dec. 23, Union City, here; Jan. 2, Hagerstown, there; Jan. 9, Losantville, there; Jan. 10, Economy, here; Farmland, there; Lo-

santsville, here; Jan. 23. Ridgeville, there; Jan. 24, Modoc, here; Jan. 30, New Lisbon, there; Jan. 31, Centerville, there; Feb. 6, Eaton, O., here; Feb. 13, Economy, there; Feb. 14, Hagerstown, here; Feb. 21 Centerville, here; Feb. 27, Lewisville, there; Feb. 28, New Lisbon, here.

that horror of sound was borne a still more maddening gust of noise, and the earth shuddered under a hail of great projectiles, cracked' open and closed again, swallowing all. Yet not quite all. Thrusting above the ground, aligned as on that last march down the narrow way that led

to death, are the bayonets of the section. They emerge above the troubled earth by less than six Inches,

straightly held, save that one here and there Inclines ever so slightly, as though its bearer had moved convulsively before the packed earth of that upheaval held him to Immobility. It is for these men, still standing there, that their comrades of the 137th have erected the cross. The other

day Cardinal Dubois, Arch-bishop of Rouen and former bishop of Verdun, blessed it, in the presence of General Valentin, commander of the forts and the heights of the Meuse; of Monsieur Robin, mayor of Verdun, and of a delegation of the regiment.

THE POOR BIRD.

Wifey: You have not said a word

about the bird on my new hat.

Hubby: I have not seen the bill

yet. Cartoons Magazine.

THAT'S RIGHTROAST

Socrates lifted the cup. "What is this stuff?" he asked. "Hemlock."

"Oh, that's all right. I thought It was one of those substitutes for cof

fee. Cartoons Magazine., -

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Trench of the Rifles' Where Famous Regiment Died, Marked With Cross

(New York Tribune) Have you heard of the famous, the

historic Tranchee des Fusils thej Trench of the Rifles? It is at Douamont, France, and it j lies today behind a humble wooden cross. The cross has been placed oni a little plateau which once overlooked the village of Douaumont, but which ;

now SSes belnw It nnlv a ehanoleca 8

mass of splintered rock, of barbed' wire writhing as if in torment, of:

nameless litter, through which pop-j Ml

pies ana bramble are thrusting upward, j The cross looks over ground that 1 was, from February to June, 1916, the bloodiest battlefield of the war. It! has been placed on the little plateau !

ry the men of the 137th regiment of the line, because close by their comrades are still mounting guard there In the Tranchee des Fusils. At the high noon of that awful struggle, when the earth shook to the cannonade and the very sky was obscured, when the air was all levin and tempest and men moved In a

hellish horror of noise, endlessly!

mounting in a monstrous crescendo, a section of the 137th marched up to relieve guard. The men moved in Indian file along a narrow communication trench, bayonets fixed and rifles carried at the "shoulder." As they advanced out of

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Circuit Court News

Martha Bre-se filed suit for divorce, custody and alimony, against Charles E. Bree--, charging cruel and inhuman tceatr J. as the basis for her case. She asks for the custody of 4 minor children. Frank, 20; George, IS; Elizabeth. 16, ard Pearl. 12. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Herman J. Heitzman, spring fitter, Richmond, to Marie Mathews, at home, Richmond. Leander Holslnger, Janitor, Rich- ) mond, to Mary Delaney, housekeeper.

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Roy A. B. Layson, farmer, Fayette county, to Azalia Meek, at home, Wayne county. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Belle B. Buckley to Florence A. Chenoweth, a part of lot 592, Elizabeth Starr's addition, $1.

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10 bars Gloss Soap 50 6 cans Spotless Cleanser. .25 10 lb. White Karo Syrup... 1 5 lbs. White Karo Syrup.. 50 10 lbs. Dark Karo Syrup.. 90 5 lbs. Dark Karo Syrup... 45 10 lbs. Pennant Syrup .1.20 6 lbs. Pennant Syrup 60 New English Walnuts, lb. 50 6 Boxes Matches 25

We have fancy Bananas, Cranberries, Oranges, Pears and Quinces for Thanksgiving. Get your order in early or come to our store and get your share of these bargains. Prices for Tuesday and Wednesday only. (Store closed Thursday.) E. R. Berheide

8-oz. canned Prunes, 2 for.25 2 boxe Monagram Rolled Oats for 25 Golden Sun Coffee, lb 45 Sun Maid Seedless Raisins, per lb 30 Dromedary Dates, psg. ..-23 Blue Ribbon Evaporated Peaches, pkg. , 25d 10 bars Rub-No-More Nptha Soap for 75J

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