Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 27, 12 December 1919 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1919.

W PUSSYFOOTING!" I WCtAOS DORAII

WAEinKQTON, Deo. 12 Senator William ..A3 Borah, of Idaho. Republican, gare notice in the senate today that 'party 'pnwyfootera" -would not be allowed to write the party platform for the 1110 presidential campaign. 1t they think they will," said the Idaho senator, "they are mistaken. No set of men will be permitted to . sit behind closed doors. In advance of the convention, and tell the American , voters -what the Issues are to be. -: 80 tar as the peace treaty Is concerned, that issue now is within the - jurisdiction of the American nation.

and there it will remain until it fin-

ally and everlastingly is decided in the eamsaltn of 1920. v

"It Is the puBsyfooters In both parties who are doing more to disintegrate party organisations , than any other one cause. What the party organisations need more than anything :else is moral courage. What they lack In that respect the American publio will supply for them, in their own ;way. when the time arrives.' ; Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee, last : night explained how the special committee on . policies and platforms named . by the national committee would work. He said that the committee would divide Into groups, Iwhlch would be made up according to the special fitness of the members ;to consider particular subjetcs. These -groups would concentrate on their -specialty. - -

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Daruis War; SssUe Cares

SHE'LL CHRISTEN : CITY'S SHIP WITH REAL CHAMPAGNE

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l' Miss Marlon Kinsella, daughter of ; Mayor Kinsella of Hartford. Conn, ; will christen the ship "Hartford." to : be launched at the Groton iron works ; osar New London this month. The mayor has stated that real honest to goodness champagne will be used. Th ship was named ftar the city as .' a reward for the city's record in Librty loan campaigns.

Friend "Katmck" Can't

See Baseball 'Thorns

Toronto Mail and Express

To Canadians the frenzy of Americans over their baseball teams Is difficult to understand. Would we have

thus if we happened to have a world

chamipon team in Toronto? Is it that the grapes are sour or that Canadians

en masse are different from their

American cousins, and are lacking in

that strange gift of abruptly taking

leave or tneir senses wnen a baseball crisis is approached? Can we imagine

Toronto clergymen praying for the

success of the Toronto baseball team.

as a Cincinnati clergyman prayed for the success of the Cincinnati team, or

can we imagine the owner of the

Tronto team resenting such partisan

petitions?

At any rate, we can not sneer at the

Americans as being hero worshipers

with regard to athletic prowess and . dull ad ' unemotional with regard to their citizens who have attained eminence in other walks of life. The people of Indiana, we believe, would take up arms in defense of the claim that Booth Tarkington is a greater story writer than John Galsworthy, and that James Whitcosnb Riley's "An Old

Sweetheart of Mine" will be remem

bered when Keats's "'Lines on a Grecian Urn" are f orgotten.; This, we take it is the essence of Americanism, an absolute belief in the superiority of all

American art and all American institu

tions to every other. They think Edison is the greatest authority on

electricity that ever lived; that Sergeant York was the greatest soldier

In the late war, ana that the wool-

worth building is a mighty sight more Interesting that the Pyramids. As an American writer put it not long, ago when giving a definition of the average American, he is one who thinks that , the average American is better than

the average of any other nation, in

some respects living in Canada has all

the advantages and drawbacks of

living next door to a circus. NEWLY PAINTED WINDOWS.

; To prevent newly painted windows from sticking, open and run them up and dawn two or three times a day for three or four days. Unless this is done, the windows are almost bound to stick. Always paint them as early as poslble in the day, so as to give them a chance to dry before you fas

From Answers, London. To the question, "Have our faces altered?" your reply might bo a scornful negative, but you would bo wrong. Pur faces have altered. You cannot judge of the change by looking at those with whom you come in dally contact But If you had known a set of people pretty Intimately, had been away for a few months, and then returned, you would.-with a hint of what to look for, observe the change at once. " Country folk who for two or three yean have not been, say, to London, have noticed that people literally "look different," and a medical man, who not only makes his preliminary diagnosis by studying his patients' faces, but also makes a hobby of face study, corroborates the fact of the change. Peopletown dwellers more particularly hare developed the "peering look." That came when streets were darkened. Seven people out of ten. at least; have "grown" two little vertical

lines on their foreheads, as most short sighted folk generally do. There Is, too, among civilians, a stoop forward of the shoulders. That Is the natural position one takes when moving cautiously in darkness. Four years of light restrictions has stereo, typed It In thousands. Watch a crowd today and prove itl There is, too, what the medical expert calls the "an-xlous-listening-thinklng" look. He says that 80 percent of the residents in a certain southeast seaside town a

muchly raided place during the

have it Why is only too apparent! Whan, night after night, anyone, sits anxiously listening for sirens, maroons, guns and bomb explosions, inward feelings are bound to leave their outward FPflrfrti The "thinking" lookwar and Its

risks made us think) is that curious I -expression of the eyes which arises l from the mental picturing of possibilities. It was very marked among .fighting man. . --v.: I Faces, too. are longer not because :of depressed spirits, but because ratlontng and the cutting oft of so much

and the like thinned faces down. "Refined" might be the better word, possibly. " -.:-' Mouths are grimmer and stralghter. Just as the man or woman who has a hard fight to live gets that grim.

'Straight lipped mouth, so, too, he or

; she who fights twice daily for a place

I in bus. tube or tram, gets itl Watch I the next pushing crowd and see tor

' yourself. And then look at your own i face. - :,. ,,- s .. ; The antidote? The corrective? Smiles I Smile at everything you cant . Smiling makes lines, but smile lines

cross out and cancel the other ones.

POISON FOR THE PUPS OF THE PRAIRIES According to a government report.

. more than 3,600,000 acres of . govern- ' ment land have been freed recently ; of prairie dogs by poisoning. One man ! poisoned approximately. 2,000 prairie, 1 dogs in a single day on a 820 acre I field in northern Arizona, 1641 of the j animals being counted in the open, I while the rest died in their holes.

Wl FIE WON. The race for the last word was getting hot Hubby and wife were running neck and neck. "You did!" I didn't!" "You dldl" "I did notl" The-pace was slowing. "Well," flashed hubby, "one of us two Is a very capable liar. But there is one thing which prevents me saying which one." "Modesty, I presume,"- retorted wlfie. Pittsburg Sun. THE ISLAND OF SAINT KILDA. Saint Kllda, where a wireless station was placed during the war, is the most remote of the Hebrides, the nearest land to It being Grlmlnlsh Point, North Ulst, forty, miles away. The present population is about $0 persons, who are Gaelic-speaking crofters. '

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