Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 155, 10 May 1920 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920.

PAGE SEVEN

PftlCE DOWNTURN IS PERMANENT, BELIEF OF BUYING EXPERTS

Five Minutes with Our Presidents

By JAMES MORGAN

XXIII THE BIRTH OF THE CONVENTION

The substantial reductions that have been made recently In the prices of all commodities by department and other stores throughout the country

has led the buying public to wonder whether or not these reductions are the forerunners ot continued reduction in the high prices that have prevailed since America entered the war. In an effort to ascertain the cause and probable extent of the downward movement, The New York Times has made inquiries among representative merchants in the wholesale and retail lines as well is among financial leaders. Their replies seem to agree that a permanent reduction movement has begun. Even those who are not yet ready to say that a general fall in prices is to be expected are unwilling to predict that presen; levels will be maintained. A majority of wholesale and retail dealers adinit that prices are too high and that t reaction must come before the public will begin free-buying. One phise of the reductions made by department stores has been the effort of middemen to discover how the plan is vorked. Dozens of wholesale pnd refol dealers confessed that they or theiragents had made purchases at flepartnent stores for comparison with their o'n prices and qualities. The "epresentative of a big London departae.nt store said he had bought from a daiartment store certain articles muh cheaper than the prices quoted bymanufacturers. Purchasing .nil li" VW York have been in

structed o get to the bottom of the . . nnfi iv rtTirHrin with

movenieii m v.w..Uv.... their ijvestigations, these resident buyers ae meeting almost daily with manufaturers and wholesale dealers seekinja solution of the puzzle.

lurplus Stock of Clothing. j In to wholesale clothing trade it is nenejilly admitted that there is a surplus o goods. By some this surplus is saidto be due to unseasonable weather mil bv others it is admitted that

thepublic has refused to pay existing prfes. A number of representatives of this prcup said reductions must be made 11 along the line, from the manufacturer to the retailer. With overstocks Plnady on hand, clothing dealers are Kaii to be canceling orders, while the mils are eager for business and Willi nf to offer price concessions. t is now predicted that fewer sales wil be made during the coming season if the reports of early Fall orders, looked by the clothiers, may be taken f fair indication, but what is lost in olume. the clothing trade hopes, will e made up in a concentration on ligher class garments. Tn the silk market it is no secret that riice reductions which already have been or soon are to be made, are to be permanent. Huge stocks of raw silks pre held in this country by Japanese interests and must be released following the break in the Japanese market, substantially lower prices than were prevailing during mid-Winter when top prices were realized for raw material. Members of this trade do not hesitat to sav that prices have heen too Inch, and that the time has

come for a readjustment on entirely

Cotton Market Waitlna.

A disposition to await developments lias marked the cotton goods market. TVere has been only gradual easing rfT :n the nrices of Drinteloths and

sheetings which have a wide variety of 1)Pps when finished. In the prices of ateens and other fabrics used by the Nothing trades the reductions have leen more marked. Belief is expressed 1n the financial district that commodity prices will continue downward because it Is believed that wholesale prices reached their peak in February, and that withm a few weeks the reaction will take a etronger hold of the retail markets. There is no statistical evidence to show a contraction in the volume of hank credits, but bankers say they are limiting accomm nidations for new apnlicants. Francis H. Sisson, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust company, predicts i gradual recession of ru ices. He says the public is curtailing its purchases, and urges that the present is a gjod time for judicious liquidation.

-TBS. m " & A v ? ' L ,v, flF'' 11) rJJp

1831-

1835-

THE FAMILIAR PORTICO OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESIDENT JAC1CSON

Jackson left the presidential chair the most popular roan who has ever sat in it, with Roosevelt the only retiring president to approach him in popularity. Since Washington and Jefferson, no other president whatever has been tempted with a real chance to prolong his power to a third election, and no other since his day. with exception of Roosevelt, has dictated or could have dictated the choice of his successor. The almost idolatrous loyalty of his followers gave point to the common saying that 50 years after his death the Democrats still were voting for Jackson.

Jackson found politics in the par-! upon

lors of the few and he left it In the. corner grocery and the crossroads postoffice, where it more properly belongs if we are to have a democracy. The new type of politician that arose

was not always more selfish or cor

rupt than the old, but it was noisier

and more open in its methods. Popu

lar government cannot be carried on in a whisper and it is always an enemy to decorum. The devotees of this passionate, self-willed idol of the people, laying plans to keep themselves in power by the prestige of Jackson's magic name after he himself should be gone, set up the first of our now too familiar political machines. A "Kitchen Cabinet," composed of the intimates of the president, was at the head of this organization, and a newspaper organ, fostered by government advertising, was its mouthpiece. Finally, it invented the National convention, with a general system of nominating conventions, for the purpose of carrying out its objects. The Constitution intended that the members of the electoral college in their wisom should choose the president, free from all outside pressure or influence. But it was preposterous that this great offite, wjlh its im

mense powers, should be left at the

WAS ADDED BY

STATE GONG CONTEST ON: VMRS. POLK ASKS ENTRIES Anyone wishing to submit a composition for the Indiana State Song cpntest, from April 1 to May 25. should send manuscripts to Mrs. Ralph Polk, Greenwood, Ind. A prize of $100 will be offered for the best art song and one of $100 for the best folk song. A prize of $25 will bo offered for the best song from a Junior club member of the National Federation of Music ciubs. All composers are invited to attend the Composers' convention, which will be held in Greenwood, June 1, 2, 3. June 3 will be Indiana Day, when the prize songs will be sung.

The Theatres

irnencan

Legion

The American Legion will inaugurate at once a system of co-operation with the federal board for vocational education with a view to obtaining as speedily as possible the admission to vocational training at government expense of all disabled men eligible to

uch training under the vocational re-

WASHINGTON

Geraldine Farrar. the Goldwyn star, will appear at the Washington Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday in her newest production entitled "The Flame of the Desert." As Lady Isabel Channing, she brings to the part all the warmth and color of her personality. Her performance ia dis-

get her to join in an effort to save her husband from a life of dissipation. Inga's appeal to her sense of righteous-

I ness brings the retort from the wife that she wants to spend the hereafter

with her friends. This is one of the many dramatic situations which go to make up the story unfolded In "The Woman Gives", which will be the attraction at the Murrette Theatre, the first half of the week. Miss Norma Talmadge has well ex

emplified the difference: between the

After you eat always use

is at the London Victory ball that i woman prepared by work to do her

T.nriv T.l rtieota Sheik Essad and snare oi me prooieius oi mann-u mr

is much attracted by him although

she thinks him an Egyptian and beneath her in caste. In reality he is a British army officer who the Bedouin tribesmen think is one of their own people. Her brother, Sir Charles Channing, is In gambling difficulties, and he is provided with a secretarial post in Cairo. ,Lady Isabel accompanies him. Aboul ey, the leader of the Eullen natives, plans a rebellion. His intentions are to take the city. To further his scheme, he succeeds in getting young Sir Charles in his power, and in

payment of a debt, the boy gives him

habilitation act, it was announced , translations of the government code

1829 Jackson chose Van Buren to succeed him.

Called first Democratic National convention. Van Buren nominated for vice president. Van Buren nominated for

president. 1836 Elected. 1837 Jackson retired. 1845 June 8. death of Jackson, aged 78.

his secretary of state, Martin

Van Buren of New York. "Matty, as the old president fondly called his political heir, was a clever politician, with ingratiating manners, and, being a widower without any women folk to complicate the situation for him, he was free to advance himself in the approval of his chief by the ready social recognition which he bestowed upon Peggy O'Neal Eaton, when she was being cruelly tossed aboat by a

tempest in a 5 o'clock teapot. At first Jackson wanted only one term for himself, when he intended to give way to his favorite. As usual, when the time came, he was in need of vindication in the form of a reelection, and he decided to give Van Buren the vice presidency as a stepping stone to the White House, four years later. The legislature of the president's own state being opposed to Van Buren, the usual method of nomination by legislature was discarded. Moreover, there was need of obtaining some semblance of a more popular selection for this rubber-stamp candidate, and the first Democratic National convention was called "fresh from the people," as Jackson said to nominate not a president, but a candidate for vice president. Four

Monday at the national headquarters

of the legion. It is estimated that about 120.000 crippled veterans are entitled to training under the law. Of this number the federal board, which has functioned for more than 20 months, has placed in training only about 26,000.

Legion officials express the hope that by the co-operative arrangement agreed upon there will be retrieved a situation which has brought the legion and the federal board Into repeated controversies in the past, and has provoked much criticism of th board and a congressional investigation of its alleged dereliction of duty and failure to fulfill obligations to the men who gave their health and strength when in battle. Officials of tho board, in accepting

the plan put forth by the legion, de

clare the combination of effort, will mean the solution of certain of the board's most difficult problems. The legion's share in the enterprise calls for the erection of an organization in each state which shall comb out the disabled men in every community, examine their cases and present them to the proper officials nf the board for admission to training. A department vocational officer will be appointed in each state and will he attached to state headquarters of the

legion. A vocational officer will be selected in all 'of t he more than 9,000 local posts of the legion.

DRY LAW DISREGARDED; WET WARDS FILLING UP NEW YORK, May 10. Alcoholic wards are filling up because of disregard of the prohibition law, Bird S. Coler, city commissioner of charities, said. He said that if conditions did rot mprove within the next month he

! would send out his inspectors "to uncover the real facts"' and aid in a more

rigid enforcement of the dry law.

ijid the one who shirks. The story re

lates how this virtue of hers proves the making of one man and the savins of another, whom "a woman who takes" has started on the road to ruin.

Kro vouw stomach s sake.)

one or two tablets eat like candy. Instantly relieves II eart burn, Bloated Gassy-Feeling. Stops indigestion, food 30urinfj, repeating, headache and the many miseries caused by Acid-Stomach E ATONIC is the best remedy, it takes the harmful acids and gases right out of the body and, of course, you get well. Tens of thousands wonderfully benefited. Guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded by your own drug gut. Cost a trifle. ' Please try it!

aDsoiute aisposai or a tew men in a secret conclave, and the electoral col- i lege never has been more than a Punch and Judy show. At first the electors were nominat-' ed and instructed by little groups of managing politicians; next the nomination of presidential candidates was made by congressional caucuses and after that by state legislatures. The Jacksonian revolution, in giving birth to nominatine- conventions hrone-ht

! the choice nearer the people.

Not that the people yet choose their presidential nominees. A machine does that, but its manipulation is tempered by the latent power of the people. Nevertheless, the introduction of the convention was followed by a distinct decline in the quality of the presidents it produced. The nomination of Lincoln seemed at last to vindicate and glorify it. Alas, the irony of that exception is that he, too, was nominated under the impression that he was a mediocrity in comparison with Seward. Jackson had hardly more than seated himself in the White House than his favor for the succession fell

CHINESE MKE BONFIRE OF JAPANESE GOODS SAN FRiN'CISCO. Cal., May 10 Chinatown discussed a huge bonfire of Friday right in which thousands of dollars' wrth of imported Japanese goods wee destroyed. Following a parade in which hundreds of Chinese participatPd, the merchants carted the Japanese goods, including silks and other fineries, from their stores to the street ad with a ceremony the torch v-as applied. No explanation of the inciden has been made known.

THE DAYTON & WESTERN TRACTION CO. Schedule of Passenger Trains Leaving Richmond, Ind., Effective April 25th, 1920. STANDARD CENTRAL TIME Eastbound: Leave 5.45 AM 6.45 8.15 9.15 10.15 11.15 12.45 PM 1.45 2.45 3.45 5.15 6.15 X7.15 8.45 x 11.00 X Car to West Alexandria car barns only. Last car leaves Dayton for Richmond at 9.00 PM.

-,

IVIiiS JT tigs Blow Black Flag up into A JIZZZZZZZZZ. m the air of closed rooms where flies "HZ. m bother. Kills every fly in ten min- 11 B3E9BEBB5SSSBS

I easy to use. Destroys many other in- II 1 sects. Ask for Black Flag in the II sealed glass bottle at drug, deVpartment, grocery and hard-iy Viware stores. Three sizes,l5c., 0c., 75c. Black FlagyAT S Baltimore, Zyr Jbpi c

years afterward another convention ratified Jackson'3 selection of Van Buren as his successor in the presidency, which was duly followed by a ratification at the polls. The last president in 70 years to see a man of his own choosing succeed him, the aged leader retired to histfarm, the Hermitage, where he enjoyed through his few remaining years, though haunted by poverty and debt, such an unbroken continuance of the people's confidence and affection as has sweetened the retirement of no other president since Jefferson.

N. Y. SPENDS $100,000,000 A MONTH ON LUXURIES NEW YORK, May 10. More than $100,000,000 a month is being spent for luxuries in Manhattan according to a statement issued by W. II. Edwards, collector of internal revenue. He based this estimate on the steady increase in the receipts from luxury taxes, declaring that what is generally termed "the orgy of spending" has not exhausted itself.

messages from England. But Aboul

Bey has not counted on the activities of the spy. Sheik Essad, whom he thinks a loyal Egyptian. At every meeting with Ess-ad, Lady Isabel- falls more desperately in love with Mm. When her brother confesses his treachery, the English woman rides to Aboul's tent to settle the forged check of Sir Charles out of her own funds. The wily Egyptian throws aside all pretense and demands the promised code. Natives seize her and to fcave his sister the boy tells Aboul that his government knows of the uprising. Essad arrives just as Lady Isabel has stabbed Aboul to save her honor. Racial barriers are removed when she learns that the sheik is one of her own countrymen. Miss Karrsr is supported by a capable cast, including her husband. Lou Tellegen. MURRAY Gladys P.rockwell, in "The Mother of His Children," the William Fox production which begins a run at the

Murray Theatre today, appears in j what, for her is a novel role. The "girl j of a thousand expressions" here por-1 trays the character of an Arabian prin- i cess and it is said that never has she played a part more admirably. William Scott, leading man for Missi Brockwell, is seen in the character of a famous sculptor whose masterpiece 1 wins the Grand Prix. This gives Frank ; Leigh, as a rival sculptor, cause for j jealousy and revenge. One of the strongest characters in the play, and one which is said to be portrayed with remarkable skill, is that of Hadji, the ' princess' slave, played by Nigel rie Brullier. The children's parts are well cast with Nancy Caswell and IhUle Jean Eaton. Golda Madden is sp'en in the character of the mother's! children. i

The new play was written by Bar-; bara LeMarr Deely and directed by Edward J. LeSaint. I MURRETTE I An interesting question is raised by j an unfaithful wife in "The Woman !

Gives," starring Norma Talmadge, as to whether religion has lost its grip through a rigid condemnation of those who have not followed its precepts. Miss Talmadge, playing the part of Inga Sonderson. goes to the wife to

.

Post!

Ha says-

whenever she ants me, tohurrYlcLck

from the

grocery store, she heads the

list with

ASTTIIES

1!

II

r, I

Theatre Beautiful

HEAR OUR PIP ORGAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA

MURRETTE THEATRE

'Where The Stars Twinkle First"

TODAY

TUESDAY

Alabama's first woman notary public was a Miss Peebles, of Birmingham, who was commissioned by the governor in 1893.

Cardinals wore miters until the council of Lyons in 1245 directed them to wear hats.

NAME "BAYER" MEANS ASPIRIN IS GENUINE Prescribed by physicians for over 1 8 years

The "Bayer Cross" marked on tablets means you are getting the genuine

"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," proved safe by millions of people. J In the Bayer package are proper di- j rections for Colds, Headache, Tooth-j ache. Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, ' Lumbago, Sciatica, Neuritis and fori

Pain generally. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost only a few cents. Druggists also sell

larger Bayer packages. Aspirin is the i

trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicyiicacid. Advertisement.

Uric Acid Treatment

75c Bottle (32 Doses) FREE

Just because you start the day wor

ried and tired, with aching head, burntng and bearing down pains in the back worn out before the day begins do not think you have to stay in that condition. Be strong and well. Get rid of the pains, stiff joints, sore muscles, rheumatic suffering, aching back or kidney trouble caused by Acids. Get more sle?p. If your rest is broken half a dozen times a night, you will appreciate the comfort and strength this treatment gives. Rheumatism, kidney and bladder

troubles, and all other ailments due to excessive acid, no matter howl chronic or stubborn, yield to The Wil- j Hams Treatment. i

Send this notice and 10 cents to pay part cost of postage, packing, etc., to the Dr. D. A. Williams Co., S 2457, P. O. Bide.. East Hampton. Conn. You will receive a 75c bottle (32 doses) free, by parcel post. No further obligation on your part. Only one free bottle to any family or address. Advertisement.

"Laxative

Tablets1

Final Clean-Up 'Suits, Coats, Dresses at the

I9 MAIN SK

RICHMOND THEATRE Between 6th and 7th on Main "Home of Clearest Pictures in Town"

Today Last Times Mme. Marguerita Sylva in "THE HONEY BEE" Also a Roaring Good Comedy

TODAY DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in "DOWN TO EARTH" Full of pep, punch, thrills and romapce. Also a side-splitting Comedy "A Roaring Love Affair" TUESDAY NORMA TALMADGE in "GOING STRAIGHT" Pipe Organ for Music

Talmadge SLS w In& SondersoiLTke Model. "THE WOMAN GIVES'" iy Owen JeltnsGrxo

Down in the Street of a Thousand Sorrows she met with an experience few living women have undergone.

BARGAIN MATINEES

moments U

Some Corned v!

The dramatic intensity of those will linger long in your memory.

Tuesday Adults 25c Children 15c

SELECT VAUDEVILLE

MURRAY BETTER COME EARLY"

HEAR OUR PIPE ORGAN CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Three New Keith Acts and Feature Photo-Play Today, Tuesday, Wednesday

(7) SIX IMPS AND A GIRL (7) Seven People in the season's most spectacular novelty act. His Satanic Majesty and Retinue come up on Earth to look, things over. Special scenery.GLADYS BROCKWELL In "THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN" a five-reel Fox production of an Artist's love and the regeneration of an Oriental Princess.

NORMAN and JEANETTE In "A Novelty Surprise" clever man and woman team offering singing, talking, dancing and finishing with flying rings and Spanish web. Special settings. JOHN'GEIGER The street Musician and his "Talking Violin" COMING THURSDAY Rawson and Clare In "YESTERDAYS"

Samuel Col dwun

GEKMPINE IMiUR FLAM of ita DESERT. t , Charles Logue" iLou Tellegen v. A Reginald Barker Production.

THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

THURSDAY SATURDAY