Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 272, 24 September 1920 — Page 6

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Business Readjustments

The business interests of the country are

making those adjustments which by slow tie

grees will restore the status of normality that

cnaracterized "pre-war" conditions.

The readjustment of prices involves more

factors than the average man comprehends when

he tries to sum up the situation or pass judg

ment. Too often he dismisses the problem with

the laconic sentence, "Prices ougt to come down.1

But he does not take into consideration the

important fact that the whole process of produc

tion, transportation, distribution, credits and

taxation is involved in the fixing of prices. If these factors lumped together create an exces

sive burden, neither the manufacturer, the com-j mon carrier, nor the distributor can lower prices without causing a business depression, inimical to the worker, the business man, the banker, the consumer, the whole country. Astute business men have wrestled with the question since the armistice was signed, and developments in the last four weeks indicate that the way is being paved for a gradual and safe revision of prices. The announcement of a leading automobile company the other day and the less drastic cut by the American Wool company a few weeks ago, as well as the reduction in prices which retail stores put into effect months ago, have had a vitalizing effect in the stabilization process.

The results are being seen all over the country;

The consumer who seemingly had gone out

of the market, is buying for present needs. The wild orgy of spending which depleted stocks and

forced prices higher and highera manifestation deprecated by the merchants themselves

has ceased. .

The co-operation of the manufacturer, whole

saler and retailer to restore normality is proceed

ing in a manner that will not injure either of

them and will redound to the benefit of the pur

chaser. We see indication of this everywhere. The improvement in the credit situation is at

tributed to the attitude of these men and the

participation of the public in their program. With the resumption of buying by consumers, which is noted in all lines, it seems certain

that the danger point has been passed and that

a normal status will be reached without a finan

rial shock. Business leaders have been seeking!

this consummation for months, and, happily for all of us, we are entering the new period placidly and with the assurance of stability and soundness. Conditions all over the United States are more hopeful and optimistic now than they were in the era of unbridled extravagance. Labor

disturbances are waning, wages are good, crops are abundant, finances are sound, business is

healthy. The hysteria of yesterday has been supplanted by conservatism. We are bujring because we need commodities, not because we want to make an ostentatious show of our ability to waste money. We are accumulating savings to pay for our homes, to create capital for investment and re-investment, to pay our bills when they are due. Surely, only a pessimist would say that we are not infinitely better off than we were months ago. The general optimism in business circles, the feeling of relief after a terrific tension, the buoyancy of entering the dawn of a new day of normality, all will -make for happiness and contentment in our national life.

Answers to Questions J

v . ; BOYS We would like tq know what Article X of the league of nations Is.

It follows: "The members of the

league undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political Independence of all members of the league. In case of any such aggression, or In case of. any threat,

the council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled." READER Advise me of the law on

separation of man and wife that have ! ,

a enna or. jo years, wno is to nave the child," when the mother deserted the child and husband and has been absent four months without letting the chlld'know her address and using an interpreter, giving him letters and mailing them to her? This is a matter for the circuit court judge to decide. The court has the right to rule on the facts when 'they are presented to him and to make disposition of the child.

SUBSCRIBER. What relation would my cousin's children be to me? First cousins once removed. (2) What relation would my cousin's children be to my children? Second cousins.

Reader mar obtain answers to questions by wrtttna- the . Palladium Qnestlons and Answers department. All questions should be written plainly and briefly. Answers will be slven briefly.

The river, we mean. -Well, shortly there came Down the river the Good ship Washington Irving, Loaded with excursionists. And we could hear them laughing. And the band was playing, "I've Got My Eyes on You." Now, ot course, it may Have been only a coincidence And all that, and the boat was Away -out In midstream, but We yanked down the curtain Just the same. .

PERSONAL PREJUDICES

I don't like to drink well enough to

f pay 75 cents for a swig of embalming

nnid. I have never been able to find out why taxicabs are not built for comfort as well as speed. , ' I am not much interested in the statement that there are 40,000 bushels ot apples ready for shipment in New York state, for by the time they get to me they always cost 10 cents apiece. I don't know whether light-haired or dark-haired women make the best wives, but when I see a man with no hair at all I know he has been married to at least one ot these types.

I don't care whether women smoke

cigarettes. Just so long as they dont ask me to have one. I always wear pale blue silk pajamas when traveling, but have never

been caught in a nre or a wrec. dus -i the first time I wear an old-fashioned )

home-made nightshirt I know something will happen.

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Today's Talk By George Matthew Adams

The Doer of DifficuThings. On my way to work I pass a place where they are excavating for a new

building. I have stood and marveled at the way they get ready to mount a great skyscraper. But there was something that caught my eye this morning. It was the sign of the contractor. Here is what it said ARTHUR A. JOHNSON DIFFICULT FOUNDATIONS Here was a man whd was not merely a contractor, but one who advertised the fact that he made a specialty of the DIFFICULT thing DIFFICULT foundations. The other fellow could take the easy jobs, but he wanted the ones that were DIFFICULT! I shall watch the progress of that tuilding with great interest. And it will stand long after everyone who reads this little Talk, as well as the one who has written it, shall have become a part of the dust of the past. I would like to be known as a doer of "difficult" things, wouldn't you?

But when you come to think of it.

known, or who ever live in our minds or imaginations, are in reality the ones who did the difficult thing over and over again. Advertise for a man to fill a position and simply say that it is "easy", and you will be overwhelmed with applicants. But a6k for him who must be prepared to fill a difficult job who must work long and late and you MAY get the man ! The Everywhere cries day and night for the doer of difficult things. The

STRONG man or woman winV

that call.

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Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

More than $550 worth of expensive

French and willow hat plumes, and some fine stock of untrimmed hats,

were stolen from the millinery shop of

Mary Austin, in the Westcott hotel. It was thought that a "gentleman burglar" and an expert assistant,- thought to have been a woman "jimmied" a door at the shop at night. Edward Walsh of parts unknown,

had the crown of his derby amputated

close to tracks of the C. & O. railroacl. A lump of coal fell while the train was

passing and took some of the skin off

his face, but he 6lept on until aroused

by workmen. He was taken to the hospital.

Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton

There are records of snuff having

been used in the West Indies before

about the only ones who ever become while he slept with his head resting the introduction of tobacco to Europe.

Dinner Stories

"I couldn't sleep last night because of that lobster!" "I couldn't sleep because of a confounded cat!" "How long have you been having cat for supper?"

"Why do you insist that the farmer

is not properlyi considered? Every

body is talking about the importance

of agricultural production!

"Maybe it's something like profes

sional jealousy," replied Farmer Corn

tossel. "We go to the country fair

expectin' to have all kinds of fuss over the prize pigs and pumpkins and find

that the whole crowd has rushed off to the trottin' races and the movin'

pictures."

If we had a choice between General

Wrangel and General Humidity, we

would enlist under the banner of the former without a moment's hesitation. A LITTLE SLICE O'LIFE. This is a delicate subject, But we always feel that We should take our readers Fully into our confidence. It so happens that we live, Just at the present time, In the upper regions Of a large apartment house That overlooks the Hudson, And we are up so high That.it is not necessary To pull down the shades. There is nobody to see us Except, perhaps, somebody Over in the neighboring state Of New Jersey. Well, last night, ' We hopped joyously to our Large, new porcelain bathtub,

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Labor is torn by conflicting feelings as it prepares to vote in the approaching Presidential election, if we. may judge by the papers that claim to speak for it. It is told by Mr. Gompers that Cox is labor's true friend; it is told by Republican leaders that Harding's election will mean prosperity and the "full dinner-pail," and is assured by more radical advisers that Debs or Christensen is the only true apostle of freedom. Any one who can pool all or even a large part of the labor vote would, of course, win hands down, but how the worker will vote after all this contrary advice nobody seems to know. No one, at least, is predicting the election of Christensen or Debs, so the choice narrows down to the two journalists from Ohio. An interesting omission is the absence of any appeal to the workers to vote for this or that candidate to restore the workman's beer. Telegrams sent by THE LITERARY DIGEST to the Labor press, for light on the probable complexion of labor's vote this year, brings replies that give an impression of cross currents and confusion. However, at this stage of the campaign, it is undoubtedly the only line that the public ,can get upon the probable attitude of organized labor in the coming election. The leading article in THE DIGEST this week, September 25th, presents the subject in an interesting and comprehensive form. It will be" read with interest by hundreds of thousands of men and women. , Other illuminating articles in this number of THE DIGEST are:

Full Text of The League of Nations Covenant

This Article is Presented at This Time So That the Public May Have in Easily Accessible Form the Text of the Document That Has Been Made the Issue by the Republican and Democratic Parties.

"As Maine Goes" Will the Country Go? League Verdicts in the Primaries America and Germany as Shipmates The Timber Famine British Labor's Stand for Soviet Russia Troublesome Mesopotamia Greece in Turmoil Woman's Hand in Maine Voice of Canadian Independence To Use Niagara without Marring It A Medical Defense of Pie

Machinery Ousting "Harvest Hands'

Labor Doing Better Work

Europe's Ills Diagnosed by Anatole France Stephen Foster vs. Franz Shubert "Diplomatic Victories" of the Vatican The Lambeth Plan for Church Reunion America is Eating More Candy How Obregon Cheated Death and His Enemies Germany Very Much Alive While Austria Stagnates Glimpses of Ireland Under British Repression Movie "Extras" Whose Lives RivalScreen Romance On the Trail of the White Rhinoceros Topics of the Day Best of the Current Poetry

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