Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 276, 29 September 1920 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM RICHMOND, IND WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 39, 1920.

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The Young Men's Business Club and the Farmers The Young Men's Business Club has lost no time in getting behind a movement to enable the breeders of. pure live stock in Wayne county to obtain facilities for the holding of shows and sales'. Few of us know that Wayne, county has thousands of pure bred swine, sheep, cattle, horses and poultry. There are 100 herds of pure bred swine alone in this county this year, and the promise is held forth that this will be increased

to 200 before next year. The number of high bred horses, sheep and cattle also makes a respectable showing from the standpoint of excellence in live stock. The Wayne County Breeders' association, which is in the process of formation, believes that Wayne county can be made one of the most pretentious localities in Indiana for the breeding of high grade animals. Its rank as the home of pure bred swine in Indiana is an enviable one. Farmers are thoroughly wedded to the program of raising pure blooded swine and are rapidly beginning to see the commercial advantages of excellence in other stock. If a central location for the exhibition of blooded stock is provided, the breeders - will be greatly encouraged in their efforts. The 'enthusiastic and prompt response of the Young Men's Business Club in reply to an overture of the breeders proves that its members see the intimate relation that exists between the business interests of the farmer and those of the urban dweller. President Davis, of the Farmers' Federation, speaking before a committee that is formulating plans for a Chamber of Commerce, rightly said the other evening that a misunderstanding exists between the farmer and the city business man because neither understands the viewpoint of the other. The baneful prejudice can be dispelled quickly if the farmer and urban dweller have an opportunity to meet on a common ground to carry forward a common cause. The establishment of a center where the farmer may show the fine products of his business will bring together closely city and country. Out of the new relations that are established, out of the friendly spirit of co-operation thus

generated, out of an understanding of the probV lems of each, will develop that harmony of effort and service which will destroy prejudice and create good will. The happiness of city and country is intimately related. If the farmer cannot prosper, neither can the man in the city. Agriculture is the basic industry of the United States. One of the important stabilizing influences of this year is the bumper crop which the farmer will harvest. The city man sometimes overlooks this vast reservoir of wealth, because his outlook is clouded by the smoke of his factories and his appreciation is detracted by the din and bustle of his business centers. And conversely, the prosperity of the farmer, the possibility of labor-saving machinery, the installation of devices that bring comfort and conveniences to his home, and the financing of his

enterprises, are attributable to the genius of the inventor, the skill of the mechanic, and the financial direction of the business man and banker. The Young Men's Business Club has been given an excellent opportunity to co-operate with the farmers in promoting the welfare of the

whole county. Its members have shown commendable dispatch and judgment in boosting the movement to establish a center conforming with the needs of the farmers and dedicated to the promotion of an estimable enterprise. Let them go ahead with the vim and fervor of youth toward the realization of the first tangible enterprise that has been presented for their consideration.

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Keep the Stores Open on Armistice Day

Sentiment generally favors keeping the stores open on Armistice Day. Men who have taken an active part so far in the promotion of the city-wide celebration adduce some good arguments for their contention. They assert that the weather may be cold. Mothers with their children will assemble on Main street long before the parade gets under way. If they have no warm rooms whose shelter they may enjoy, the little ones will suffer. Should the weather be stormy, the stores will give the crowds an opportunity to find shelter. Some of the leaders of the Central Labor Council say the merchants always have been fair in permitting their clerks to view a parade, so that these workers will not be denied the privilege of seeing the procession. The merchants of Richmond have been exceedingly generous in the last year with the closing of their places of business. Sometimes we forget that when a merchant closes his store for a day or a half day, many of his expenses continue. There is no curtailment of his overhead expenses. He loses the revenue which normally he would have received. We believe that Armistice Day can be celebrated in fine style and without interfering with its success if the stores are kept open.

Reader What was the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition? The Lewis and Clark's expedition, commanded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, penetrated from the Mississippi River through territory now forming parts of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, to the Pacific Ocean." The members of the party were the first

white men to cross the continent be-1

tween the SDanlah nossessions to the

south and the British possessions to i

the north. The expedition was sent! out by President Jefferson to explore j the Louisiana territory immediately after its purchase from France. The party left the vicinity of St. Louis May 14, 1804, passed up the Missouri River, reached the mouth of the Platte on July 26, arrived at the camps of the Mandairs and Minnetarees, about sixteen hundred miles from St. Louis, late In October, wintered there and

broke up winter quarters April 7, 1805. Fourteen men were sent back to St.' Louis with collections and reports. The party reached the mouth of the Yellowstone River April 26 and one month later sighted the Rocky Mountains. The three forks of the Missouri River were discovered July 25 and named Jefferson, Madison and Galaltlri. The expedition proceeded up the Jefferson, crossed the Rocky Mountains in September, started down the Columbia River, October 16 and on November 7 came in sight of the Pacific Ocean. They wintered on the coast and started on the return Journey March 23, 1806. The party reached St. Louis September 23, having traveled a total distance of almost eightyfive hundred miles. Readers may obtain anwri to questions by wrttlnB the Palladium Questions and Answers department. All questions should be written plainly and briefly. Answers will be srlvcn briefly.

Today's Talk By George Matthew Adams

i OUTLETS. I was in a barber shop the other day, and as I sat in the chair I heard a rather alarming noise from the place where they put the towels to sterilize. But in a minute something blew off, and the noise stopped. I asked the barber what that was, and he said it was the safety valve an outlet for excess steam. The rest of the time in my chair, I rat thinking about how wonderful it was that there were outlets to take care of so many things. I sometimes think that much of the trouble of the world is caused because there are ko few people taking advantage of outlets that are right within thrir reach. Nature very wisely gave to us all mitch more energy than we ordinarily need. The idea of surplus forms an important part in the life of anything. There must always bo a reserve of some sort. But at times even this reserve becomes an evil. The man with too little money worries himself over how to keep within it, and the man with too much money worries himself over caring for it. So that outlets are both fundamental as a useful force and very necessary. But every outlet should be a healthy and a natural one. People cry when overwrought and nervous and it's a good thing. The sound of happy voices, changed scenes and laughter are the finest outlets for grief and loneliness. To keep the mind clean and the body fresh, there is nothing to compare with the "Out-of-Doors," where God walks around, looking over what He has created and arranged. If there is something very strongly wrong about you, study yourself. What you need Is to locate a few outlets.

blithely trots; he's lying on a bed of! Fall Festival. Representatives from pain, all tied in sailor's knots. The I nearly every order In the state and

doctor 6ays he's but a wreck, who

I once wild rumors chased; his arms are

wound around his neck, his legs around his waist. His neighbors seek his humble cot to say that Barnes was wrong; and people cry, "He's merely got what ho's invited long."

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By Roy K. Moulton

Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON

v THE GOSSIP I burn some joss-sticks every night, and as they burn I say, "Preserve me from the evil plight that Jinks is in this day!" For Jinks possessed the gossip's tongue, and every spiteful tale by him was far and farther flung, until the lie grew stale. With him a slander foul and grim was Bure to make a hit. and baseless rumor seemed to him lile proofs of holy writ. A man may thus traduce his friends In safety for a time, but soon or late his effort ends in carnivals of crime. Ana Jinks passed on some vicious yarns, as he was prone to do, concerning J. Adolphus Barnes, which tales were far from true. Alas, alas, my spirit shrinks from setting down this line; for J. Adolphus climbed on Jinks and skated down bis spine. This J. Adolphus is a gent of mighty bones and thews, and when he for his victim went steel spikes were in his shoes. And Jinks, to-spread his gossip vain, no longer

We have our moments of deep depression when we feel that we should temporarily abandon our tomfoolery and try to write something that will last and put us along with Ralph Waldo and Herb Spencer and the boys. Really, we are serious-minded and Inclined to be rather uppish in the literature we read. We bore into Harold Eell Wright and George Barr McCutcheon and Robert W. Chambers and the other deep ones right along. Well, acting upon the impulse which had been gnawing at our vitals for years, we sat down during the winter and dashed off a heavy tiling on "The Immutability of the Cosmos." "Dashed off" is used in a Pickwickian sense, of course. It really took two or three days. We don't suppose there was ever written a better exposition of this subject than we turned out. In technique it was perfect. It has a certain dash and zip seldom encountered in high-brow literature, and plenty of style. We groped into every phase of the subject and held it up to the pitiless light of publicity. Then we started it on its rounds. It went to every magazine in this country and England. Several editors said they would like to use it but feared it was too deep for their readers. John Siddall said he would publish it but it was so good it would make all his other writers jealous and they would quit him. We got enough rejection slips to paper a dining-room and then we packed "The Immutability of the Cosmos" tenderly in moth balls and laid it away in the cedar chest. Then, for revenge, we sat down and wrote In two hours a story about a fellow who stole a Ford, and we took that over and sold it to Bob Davis and got a check in eight minutes. All of which goes to show that remaining in one's proper station life is better than two in the bush.

particularly large delegations from those bodies in the central part of the state were expected to attend. Earlham college opened its fall term with the largest registration in its history. The Rev. Arthur Dann, of London Yearly Meeting of Friends, gave the opening address on "Character Building." The mayor and police department agreed that all public meetings should be excluded from the streets, except on special occasions. Sixth and Main streets was especially referred to as a popular place for many meetings. Friends from various parts of the United States and Canada, it was announced, would attend the annual session of the American Friends Board of Foreign Missions, which was to meet Wednesday, Oct. 5. Adoption of a mission manual was to constitute the important work of the meeting.

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Dinner Stories .

The prize for optimism is awarded to a resident of one of the rural districts of Wales. As the story goes, an old man was sitting on the roof of his house during a flood watching

the waters flow past, when a neighbor

who possessed a boat rowed across to him. "alloa, Ted," he said. "alloa, Dave," replied the other. "All your fowls washed away this morning, Ted?" "Yes, but the ducks can swim. "Apple trees and all that gone, too, eh?" "Well, they said the crops would be a failure, anyhow." "I see the water has reached above your windows now." "That's all right, Dave. Them windows needed washin' badly."

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

v J B. W. Kelly, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the Centennial Day celebration of the Fall Festival, addressed letters to the pioneers of Wayne county, asking that they assemble at a local church, where provision for their comfort and participation in the huge parade was to be made. It was believed that the Modern Woodman would be 1,500 strong on the day of their celebration during the

Masonic Calendar

. ' Wednesday, Sept. 29 WW) lodge No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting; work In Master Mason degree, at 7 o'clock. ' Thursday, Sept. 30 King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Special meeting; work in the Pest and Most Excellent Master degrees. Friday, Oct. 1 King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Work in Royal Arch degree, beginning at 7 o'clock Saturday afternoon, beginning at 1:30, work in Royal Arch degree.

MUNCIE LAWYER RESIGNS AS MEMBER OF THE BAR MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 29. Timothy S. Owen, justice of the peace, who last week was directed by Judge Murray of the superior court to file his resignation because of the filing of a complaint containing vile and vulgar language, today tendered his resignation to the court. The resignation was accepted.

By FRANK A. IRWIN. When H. D. Lawrence, of Danville, 111., addressed the workers of the Pennsy railroad, he misrepresented one of the most vital provisions of the Cummins-Esch bill. Mr. Lawrence says: "The freedom of labor is not taken away by the Cummins-Esch law." I say that it was. For proof I point to Title (3) of the act, which is devoted to "disputes of carriers and their employes and subordinate officials." It creates a labor board composed of nine members; three appointed by the president from nominees made by the carriers; three appointed in like manner from nominees made by the employes, and threa representing the public. It is made the duty of the labor board to hear and decide "any disputes involving grievances, rules or working conditions" which have not been determiu ed by any adjustment board, and to hear and determine upon the application of the president of any railroad or the chief of any labor organization, any dispute with respect to wages or salaries of employes or subordinate officials. The decision must be agreed upon by tho majority of the board, and if an agreement made by any railroad or by any organization be such that the Increase in wages or salaries therein provided for be likely to require a substantial readjustment of rates, the labor board may reverso such agreement, and before it can be effective, it must be approved by the decision of at least five of its members, one of whom shall represent the public. Heretofore labor organizations have been free to deal with railroad executives and reach such agreements as may be decided upon. That was the freedom of organized labor before the passage of the Cumins-Esch bill but now this bill so facilitates collective bargaining that no such agree ments if it raises wages so as to effect rates can become effective without the approval of at least five mem bers, one of whom must be a public representative. Suppose all the railroad officers and all the organization officers were agreed that the result of their former freedom of collective bargaining would prove beneficial to the service. They can not carry that agreement into effect unless they also convince one public representative on the board that it is essential, and if one public representative was 60 convinced the three railroad representatives by voting in opposition could thereby prevent any agreement between the railroads and the labor organizations. At a meeting of labor representa tives and members of congress in the house office building preceding the. vote, Samuel Gompers read a telegram sent out from Washington to railroad officials by Alfred P. Thorn, general counsel of the Railroad Executives' association, in which they are told that "the only difference between the anti-strike clause of the Cummins, bill and the labor provisions of tho conference report is that in the former a penalty is affixed which has to be tried by a jury, while In the latter pn injunction method will be followed, and the penalty fixed and assessed by a court in contempt proceedings and not by a jury, which he thinks is best for the railroads, as more effective, and because it would be harder to convict a union man by jury." Mr. Lawrence says "that we have no more reason to condemn Senator Harding for his failure to support the Plumb Plan than we have to condemn the American Federation of Labor for its actions." True, we have not, but the American Federation of Labcr went on record against the Transportation Act of 1920. and suggested instead "Government ownership and Democratic Operation. I am sure this solution would be Just as agreeable to the railroad workers as the Plumb Plan but the Plumb Plan would more than likely prove more agreeable to our country's majority. And finally. In answer to my question of "why did Senator Harding vote for the Cummins-Esch bill, in its original form (with the anti-strike clause) if he did not want the rights of labor molested." Mr. Lawrence stated "that he did it as a war meaa ure such as the Lever act." The funny part of it was that Senator Harding happened to be one of the 32 senators that was afraid to face the music so were absent on the day of. thi voting.

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