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THE RICHMOND k ALjbADiUM AL fcUN-TEUGKAM. K1CHMO.NU. lKD.t. i-KiiJAY, OCT. 29, 1920.

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democracy and breeds autocracy.. From Rome to Russia that Is the tale. Russia, under the czars or under the Bolshevists, autocracy rules that vast domain. The United States Is so far the single exception to this general rule. Our exemption probably is due to our unique form of government. This nation Is a league of small republics held together by the ties of race, a com-

acre of ground. An acre of ground contains 43.560 sauare font r.nnso.

mon language, identical ideals of freedom, the same eco-1 quently a rainfall of one Inch -would

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The Election and America's Destiny The League of Nations is a supergovern

ment, a united States of the world. It has a

president as chief executive. Its council and assembly correspond to our senate and house of representatives. It has a flag. It has a gigantic army and navy, for it can command the use of the armies and navies of all member nations. X.ike the United States, it has a written constitution, the covenant of the League of Nations. This international state commences its existence with a democratic form of world government. Will time strengthen its democracy or iundermine it with autocracy? The United States affords a modern example ;for comparison with the League of Nations, i After the Revolutionary war, in which our 'ancestors threw off Europe's mastership over 'pur destiny, our government was a loose league of states held together by the Articles of Confederation. The central governing power proved too weak to function as a nation's government should. Consequently, after some years, our present constitution was adopted, and under it the powers of the federal government were greatly strengthened. As the years have passed, through decisions of the supreme court ,and amendments to Jthe constitution, the tendency to increase the power of the federal government and weaken that of the states has grown. Along with this has grown the tendency of some presidents to grasp more power at the expense of the senate and house. This tendency bias culminated at this very time in the arbitrary rand autocratic abuse of his wartime power by 'President Wilson. He ignored the senate as a coordinate treatymaking power with the executive, and went off to Europe alone to negotiate peace with our enemies. He claimed to speak for the American people, though, a fewt weeks before, a majority of our voters had repudiated his leadership at an election. He returned to this country, presented to the senators the interwoven peace treaty and covenant of the League of Nations, and demanded that they sign the document "without the crossing of a t or the dotting of an i" without daring to change what he had. brought before them for perfunctory approval! Is It inconceivable that after our country is ln the League of Nations the same tendency to grasp power will develop with the League's central governing body? The covenant can be amended. Is It unimaginable that through the years to come it will be so changed that the "United States will have become a republic in name only and actually will be a province of a new world empire? If our president would assume the manner of the autocrat and seek to force us into the League of Nations,

it beyond the range of possibility that some future

world president will decide that all human governing wisdom is concentrated in his brain and seed, and autocratically seize control of the world government and ttnake it hereditary in his descendants?

If history teaches anything it is that bigness kills

oomic Interests, geographical isolation from actual or j potential enemy nations, and the common sense .and devotion to republican Ideals of the great majority of our leaders and people. 5 Notice the difference between our national league and the League of Nations. The one is homogenous, one race, one language, one form of government and a common economic Interest The other is composed of all the races and nationalities of mankind, with their centuries-

old antipathies and feuds; more languages than were scattered to all points of the compass at the tower of Babel; governmental forms ranging from republics to monarchies and autocracies, and economic interests as divergent as the colors in Joseph's coat. " Our nation broke away from Europe In the Revolutionary war because European Ideals of government had been demonstrated as unfit and tyrannical for usv Then we gave the world something new and better in government, the representative system. After the end 'of the Napoleonic wars, the successful nations formed a League of Nations called the Holy Alliance. Its chief purpose seemed to be to re-subjugate the new American republics that had arisen from the ashes of the burned out Spanish empire. Article 10 of the present covenant of the League of Nations is a typical expression of that spirit Then we gave the new republics our guarantee of freedom in the form of the Monroe doctrine. The North's success at the Battle of Gettysburg nipped a plot of European nations to Intervene for the South in that titanic struggle between brothers, and prevented them from dividing our great republic into two hostile nations. Then we gave the slaves their freedom, ending a centuries-old barbarity that Europe instituted on the new continent Our nation's armies are Just home again after demonstrating on Europe's battlefield that we modern Americans can sacrifice and die that a humane and democratic civilization shall not perish.

What more can we do for the world that we may continue to fulfill our destiny before God? Join the League of Nations and abolish war, says

President Wilson. Yet his Judgment Is not infallible. Eight years ago he promised us that intangible New Freedom. Instead he has given us eight years of the most autocratic and extravagant administration of public affairs our country has ever experienced. He was reelected for a second term on the slogan "he kept us out of war" and the implied promise that he would continue to do so. Yet a few weeks after his second inauguration he called for war, for "force without stint," and we went in unprepared! No, President Wilson's judgment is not infallible, nor does he always carry out bis promises. Therefore, we are not contradicting a super-intelligence in differing with him as to the infallibility of the League of Nations to prevent war, nor as to that super-government's ultimate effect in undermining and destroying the independence of the United States if it becomes a member. Aside from the usurpation of power by the Wilson administration and its extravagances and' inefficiency in running the government," the outstanding issue in the campaign now closing is whether to. merge our destiny with Europe's in the League of Nations, or to remain out of that organization as now constituted and continue to live our national life as we always have. There is nothing shameful in our nation's past. On the contrary, it is filled with sacrifices for humanity's best interests and with examples of practical idealism that older nations might well study. There will be nothing shameful in rejecting this League of Nations that Woodrow Wilson did not have a mandate from the American people to negotiate and help construct If the Republican party cannot negotiate an agreement between the"nations more in keeping with American traditions, ideals and principles of government then It is better that the world have no league.

mean a total of 43.560 multiplied by 144, or 6,272,640 cubic inches of water. This is equivalent to 3,630 cubic feet As a cubic foot of water weighs about 64.4 pounds, the exact amount varying slightly with the density, it follows that the weight of a uniform coating of one inch of rain over one acre of surface would be 3,630 multiplied by 2.4, which eyuals 226,512 pounds, or 113 short tons. The weight of one U. S. gallon of pure water is 8,345 pounds. Consequently a rainfall of one inch over one acre of ground would mean 226,512 divided by 8.345 which equals 27,143 gallons of water to one acre. This is equivalent to 603 barrels of 45 gallons each, and would be sufficient to fill a tank or pool about 20 feet square and 9 feet deep. J- B. T. What Is the meaning of the Japanese expression "hara-kiri"? "Hari-kiri" is the Japanese way of saving that a man has committed suicide in the manner peculiar to the country by dlsembowelment The expression

literally means dlsembowelment self

administered. It may be a self Inflict

ed punishment for some disjrrace or

crime, which the suicide would avoid. Other reasons for its practice are as an expression of loyalty to a deceased

official or to avoid dishonor for military disaster. When the late Emneror

or Japan died. General Nogl, a distin

guished military hero, and his wife both committed hara kir! on the evening of the Emperor's funeral. KenAnm mar nMntn anwm to mu-Mlfona by wrlt!nr the Palladium Onesttona and 'Anavrera department. All qneatlnns should be vrrtttei plainly ami briefly. Answer frill be tTlvea briefly.

place J landed 1 was swollen up with pride, and my dome of thought expanded till my hat split up the side. And the people got the willies, poor erratic, changeful hicks, and they passed me

no more lilies, but bombarded me with bricks. If again I am an idol 111 be wiser, I allow; and no cheap, inflated pridell strip the laurels from my brow.

For the idols wouldn't tumble, they d

be cherished to the end, it they'd just

be meek and humble as adown the

world they wend.

Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton

Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON

Today's Talk By George Matthew Adams

GRAY HAIRS. Autumn is the most beautiful period I the year, because of its changing leaves. It seems as tho all the color and beauty latent from early Spring until Autumn, had been paved to celebrate the coming on of the Winter I think of gray hairs in somewhat -the same way as I am thrilled by the colorings of the leaf-falling time. Gray hairs tell more than the breaking up of youth they tell of the ripening of hearts, the mellowing of minds, and the building of immortal souls. Gray hairs tell of hands that may leach out to help for youth is the playtime when games mean so much move than the game. Gray hairs pick up the visions of the 'teens and tie them to the rays of the stars. For gray hairs see beyond. In them is the tint of prophecy. Gray hairs are wrappings for minute pictures personal battles, bodily sufferings, splendid contests in which the man or the woman won, disappointments, joys. In fact, every least phase of happiness or sorrow is soon or later recorded in the delicate linings ' of the hair when they come to be like silver. I would teach the boy or girl to honor gray hairs. For no matter how they came, they represent beauty of life at its turning. I wouldn't color gray hairs. That would be to insult the Artist Triumphant! I would have the gray hairs come one by one snd not bother or worry over them. They should be accepted in lovely grace and accorded their worth. The gray hairs of my Mother and my Father inspire me as I write. For every one was an honored one, and very beautiful. Sprinkled like snow amongst the dark and the gold, gray hairs will always be more than coronets!

THE FORUM

The opponents of Governor Cox are some of them the following: Old lime Republicans who claim all of the good attained in the nation since 1S60; forgetting that the panic of 1873 occurred under their mismanagement; that their infamous carpet-bag policy following the war Imost ruined the south; that the party engineered the Fteal of the presidency, in 1876; that the country was saved from another

panic in 1893 by the election of Cleveland. Next, the pro-German, Bolshevist element whose attitude is expressed by Vierick when he says "we must not have another Democratic president in a generation." Next, the opponents of a league who have not awakened to the fact that Hardine. the mouth-piece of the Lodge-

Cabal, says now that we will have a

league as soon as possible. Next, the munition interests who, in

spite of all the vicious misrepresenta

tions, know that the league means me

abolition of war and a consequent de

struction of their business.

Before President Wilson went to Paris, the Lodge group had agreed that they would scrap any league that he brought back, partly to gratify their personal hatred and jealousy and

nartlv to further the cnances or tie

publican victory in 1920 and this in face, of the fact that Mr. Lodge had

been one of the ardent supporters of the league idea from 1915, until that time.

Can the conscientious and open minded voter cast a ballot to further the nlans of the foregoing assorted

lot of conspirators who are sinking all

mnsiderations of patriotism in their

zeal for party supremacy? EMILY HARRISON MONROE.

Just a few words of warning to the

farmers of the community, in regara to "Hog Hoodlum," "Theiving Hunters." They cut wire fences to get themselves and their dogs through. They shoot carelesslywhere live stock is and sometimes kill them. They leave gates open, they pay no attention to a team in the corn fields or elsewhere. They kill chickens and put them in their game sacks. They often go in droves with dogs and ferrets. They kill turkeys and carry them away. They ask no questions as to the ownership of nuts or fruit. They simply seem to act without propriety,, show no regard for the owners, not even common respect. Thus by so doing bar a sportsman from going out for an outing, who would under any consideration feel very much humiliated in any misstep or accident he might have or make. He would go to the farmer and tell him as any sportsman would do. I for one concur with those farmers. I am a sportsman, I simply love to go out of an afternoon and hunt rabbits. Its pleasure galore for a sportsman and we sportsman must be barred for the misdemeanors of the hog hunter. Samuel JK. Morgan.

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THE IDOL. Once I was a public idol, for a fortnight and a day; like a bridegroom to the bridal I went on my gorgeous way, and fair maidens went before me strewing flowers along -the road, and a halo hovered o'er me when I sat In

my abode. Dut idols always stumble, being fixed with feet of clay, and for

getting to be humble, I threw public love away. On the ninth day of October roses hit me, in my walks; on the tenth the people, sober, handed me a bunch of rocka. For the wealth nf

adulation made me feel I was a kinjr

made me think in all the nation I was sure the biggest thing. And in every

It has been noted that very few convicts are breaking prison these days. Perhaps it Is too hard to make a living outside. 1 An economist is one who tells you what you should do with your money after you have done something els with it. Twenty-seven Princeton men have never kissed a girl. Then their education is far from complete. London paper says American women

rare super-shoppers. In the delicates

sen stores here they call them suppershoppers. It Is a wise man who spreads his pleasure out to cover an entire year by paying his income tax on the installment plan. In England a move is on to make insanity a cause for divorce. Some people believe that, in many cases, it is the cause for marriage. Merchants say they are selling more silk pajamas than ever before. Perhaps that is because there are more movie actors than other men. There is an exceptional woman in

Brooklyn. By her friends, one and all, she is conceded to be an exceptional housekeeper. A Michigan man, aged 103 years, works every day. It seems a pity some of the younger men cannot get into this habit. Report says the. ocean is constantly receding. Just naturally shrinking away from those modern bathing suits. When a woman spends too much fdt a hat, she Is always willing to let the result rest on her own head. I don't care who writes my nation's songs, so long as I don"t have to listen to them. There will be plenty of room in the cellar for the coal this winter.

Friday, Oct. 28, 1910, .9 of an inch of snowjfell. which was tlie heaviest In October for a number o years. George Reld, motormm of a"T. H. "L & E. freight car. and J. L Morris, conductor of a city car, 3re ioth seriously injured when the cars collided on the National road, opposite Lemon's green house, east of Gleq Miller park. No passengers were in the city car at the time of the accident.

Dinner Stories

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Bridget was one of the ft ew -type of

"domestic help". She knev all about the science of the thing. ' Ojic day Tost mistress remarked to her:

"The water you brought itor luncheon this morning tasted Bather -pe

culiar, Bridget." i The Irish maid bridled iyn

plied: "Sure, ma'am, there's wan thing about it, I know there wasn't a single germ in it, for I ran it all through the mincing machine twice." . Pearson. " The new quartermaster on the good freighter Sioux was at the wheel and waa rattled. First the ship swung madly to port, then to starboard, and then back Again. The old skipper stood her antics as long as he could, and then bunt forth. , "Say. son." he shouted, T don't mind your writing your name in the old pond, but for the love of Mike, stop going back to read it!"

The laundry business was a moneymaker for the United States Government during 1919. Laundry property to the amount of $3,315,153 was paid

1 for and a profit was made besides

she re- amounting to more than 12,000,000.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten 'Years Ago Today

Temperatures here fell to about 25 degrees above zero at day break Oct. 29, 1910. The weather was fair and the temperature climbed to 40 at noon. The wind from the northwest was very disagreeable but it slowly died down.

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Why Foreign Countries

Anxiously Watch Next

Tuesday's Election

Never before has an American election been fraught with so much meaning to the rest of the world to judge from the anxiety evident in the comment of the foreign press. In fact, this became so evident as the campaign went on that THE LITERARY DIGEST sent out an inquiry to the press abroad asking their views on our political struggle. In this week's number of "THE DIGEST" October 30 the replies to this Inquiry are printed. 1 hey range from a tone of ardent hope that whether the next President be Mr. Harding or Mr. Cox, his election will clear away the after-mists of war which have risen from the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations, through degrees of distrust and cynicism to utter dismay that the United States, which was capable and courageous enough to help win the war, seems to lack the intelligence to realize she must also help win peace. The replies that are printed represent seventeen countries in all, including England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germay, Belgium, Japan, Spain, China, Sweden, etc. Coming, as it does, practically on the eve of our Presidential election, this article will be read with great interest in America, as it reveals the world-wide anxiety over the outcome. Among other striking features in this number of "THE DIGEST" you will find A Valuable Colored Map of Czecho-Slovakia Accompanying This is a Small Sketch Map of Central Europe Showing the Location of Czecho-Slovakia 0

Issues in the British Coal Strike Probing the Haitian Scandal Hunting Booze-Outlaws ' Dark Side of Low Farm Prices London Prices Falling Down A British Plea for German Children A Letter From Herbert Hoover The Slaughter of the Innocents Bernstorff Hope in the League Our Country Districts Not Decadent Coming Back to the Earth for Building Material Next Winter's Snow The Quarrel over "Opal"

What the Boys are Reading A Formidable Educational Boom America Leading Toward World Prohibition "Degraders of the Christian Pulpit" Who Shall Vote and How? Japanese-American Trade Relations Enter The New Immigrant The Lobbies and Lobbyists that Camped in Washington "Do American Congressmen Drink?" Facts That Beat Eloquence in Salesmanship' Best of the Current Poetry Topics of the Day

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