Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 301, 30 October 1920 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, JND., SATURDAY, OCT. 30, 1920.

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RUMANIAN POLICY OF AGRARIAN REFORM SHOWS GOOD RESULTS

Frank W. Wilson

(By Associated Press.)

JASSY, Rumania, Oct 30. Rumania's Agrarian Reform Act giving 5,000,000 acres' of state, institutional and private lands to the peasants, has been in operation a year and has brought about a degree of contentment and satisfaction among the population hereto fore unknown. For the first time in Rumania's history, the peasants have been Riven outright ownership of land. King Ferdinand was theJirst to give up a part of his large land holdings to the people. The expropriation of large private estates by the government aid not please the proprietor classes, but it has had a steadying Influence upon the temper and. spirit of the people, who now have little sympathy for boltihevist doctrines. Nearly $5 per cent of the people of Rumania are supported by agriculture and under their ownership the land during the last year has yielded, larger and better crops than ever before. Five-sixths of the population of Rumania consists of the peasantry, who combine thrift wjth industry. In fact, the peasant class constitutes the real Rumania. The whole hope of the country is bound up in it. - A large percentage of Illiteracy prevails, but the people possess many good qualities. One sees the same hand-worked cpstumes that obtained in the middlo ages, the same goodness of heart and simplicity of manner which always characterize highly stratified societies where people know their stations in life and act accordingly. Follow Ancient Customs. The bulk of the Rumanian nation still lives in dirt-floored huts made of woven branches and plastered with mud. These hovels usually are windowless and stoveless. The people sleep upon the floor or upon benches with their day clothes on, often six to ten of them in one miserable low-ceil

ed room ten feet square. In many

The 4iprnrirti appreciation of the urn ice of Frank V. Wllioo, formerly uterlntendnt of mails, has been sub milled by bia frlenda- .

I The character of a nation la deter

mined by the type of its average citizenship. Every nation's performances must be judged by that standard. Its activities measured by, that fact. And it tan rise no higherL-than to that level. For the affairs of the world are carried on by the great average. The towering over-shadowing figures In a country's life are only a manifestation of that life at it's most superlative moments. Not by its every day existence. So that when a good citizen passes away it is a mattor for regret because of his contribution to the maintenance of the

status quo of the body of hi9 or her country's citizenship. And so do the friends or Frank W. Wilson who for tho majority of the years of his life was a citiien of Richmond, feel in his passing. Mr. Wil

son, within the past two years, had been in California but was in Colorado when he died. For over many yeais Mr. Wilson acted as superintendent of. mails in the local postoftice and was a local example of the good business policy of keeping an efficient and experienced man in a public office without regard to the nut me or his polltics. The convenience and the necessities of a community are affected very directly by the manner in which the mails are handled, and the retirement of Mr. Wilson from an office which he had so long adruinlstured at the maximum of efficiency was at onco felt by the community wlihout understanding why. For he was one- of that great average who are content to play their, modest daily part without any desire or effort to bring their performances to the attention of their fellows. They go to their task as a matter of course. Do it to the best or their ability and are rewarded with the satisfaction of an honest administration of the thing assigned them. Mr. Wilson gave no conscious daily

thought to. the fact that he was help-

lodge and was a member of the council. The passing of this gentle, kindly, sweet and generous spirit is a. loss to the community that cannot be measured by words.. But his life's essence has permeated the place in which be dwelt and his memory Is like the frag

rance of a flower that fills a room after it has been taken away. "In memory only we immortal grow."

cases the poultry, pigs and cattle oc- IS this or that person in the com

Cupy the same room. While Rumanian cities have made decided progress during the last 25 years, the country, the real heart of

munity. His only desire was to administer the affairs of the superintendent of mails so that every member of the community, whom the mails affected, should be promptly and ef-

Rumania, has been practically station-if.,tlxr -.,.,. thQt ,, anA

ary The ox-drawn wooden plough the ,as accompllahed is - gratefully rehand scythe and the wheat flail used in !membered by the citizens of Richbiblical times are still to be seen inond. Modest, unassuming, and little Although producing enough wheat , known outblde his iramediate circle of to supply all Europe with bread, the ; friends and to the -members of-the Rumanian peasant does not tourr ' f,.a,ernal organizations to which he bewhite bread. His diet consists almost onged he wag one of our.fjnest types entirely of a sort of coimneal mushjof cuitUred citizenship for his inter(mamaliga). boiled so stiff that whenest in and knowledge of art and literait cools it resembles corn broad of the jture was wide and comprehensive and Southern States. This meagre food, jhe talked on all subjects well and eninsufficiently supplemented with fats, tertainingly. is accountable for the large amount of j A great 'over of nature he weflt to

pellagra in Kumania, pernaps equa.iea . the out of doors whenever opportun

nownere rise in me wonu.

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ity permitted and his feeling for every phase and mood of that which we call "nature" was deep and intimate. Mr. Wilson's devotion to his immediate family was one of his finest characteristics, his father and mother having

TOI,KDO .Tospnh Senuin. 74 wars Den tne oDject or nts loyal perrorm-

nld. was killed when an automobile, ' arce 01 parental duty and, after their p.nirl to hnvp hon t ratlin ir at a rtp!PassinS ne was equally ardent in his

of TO miles an hour, nlowed thromrh ! services to others. The majority of

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News of the Counties

HANNAH'S GREEK, Ind. Oct. 30. Charles Swafford, of this place, was pleasantly surprised by a number of friends Monday, Oct. 25, at his home. The occasion was the celebration of a birthday anniversary. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. John Dunbar and daughters, Helen and Lilah; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pritchard and daughter Bessie, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Donehue, daughter Helen, and eon Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Rome Finch and sons, Paul and Harold, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Finch and llmlirh tfr Itcutsln otkI Union Mp anrl

Mrs. Edward Huntington, daughters I Freda, and sons, William and Paul; I

Mr. and Mrs. (Jeorge Bowman and son A-ivan; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Swafford and son Max, and Ernest Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Ammerman and daughters, Clarabelle and Lucile and -son Russell, Mr. and Mm. James Swafford, Mrs. Harriet Montgomery ana Mrs. Myrtle Murdock.

BRITISH EXPANSION ENDED IN ASIA, SAYS CURZON IN ADDRESS

Capacity Crowd Hears Hill Lecture on Flowers Despite many other attractions planned for the evening a capacity audience filled the First Presbyterian church"-Friday evening when E. G. Hill gave an Illustrated lecture. Preceding E. G. Hill's lecture with stereopticon slides at tho First Presbyterian church Friday evening, a delightful musical program was given, which was arranged by Mrs. Lloyd E. Harter. Miss Marjorie Beck played two organ numbers, "Offertoire" by Batiste and "Memory's Zephyrs," by Kcmsen. "The Requiem" by Homer, and "Morning", by Oley Speaks, were sung by George Hodge. Two duets, "Venetian Boat" by Tosti and "Pensecola Pickaninny" by Keibel, sung by Mrs. F. W. Krueger and Mrrs. L. E. Harter, won much applause from the audience. Mr. Hill gave a very interesting talk and his slides were excellent. The slides were in color and of estates in England and the United States, taken under Mr. Hill's direction. Those taken in England recently, included some very beautiful ones of the Rothschild and Hatfield estate. Mr. Hill also showed some colored slides of different kinds of roses.

' (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Oct. 30. The expansion of the British Empire .in Central Asia is at dn end and rightly so, Earl Curzon, Secretary of Stats for Foreign Affairs, told the Central Asian Society

in an address last night. The function of Great Britain in the future, he adefed, was not to absorb territory there, but to give security and to arrange that theevolution to a different and higher state of things should be easy. The great bulk of Central Asia, he said, had been thrown into the vortex of European politics. The Russian Empire which Englishmen have regarded with apprehension had been, for the

moment, obliterated from the scene. China was in the throes of a military crisis, the upshot of which no one could foresee. Afghanistan had acquired something like independence. India Seething. All India was seething with agitation and trying to establish some new form of government. In Tibet, tho British had boen wHcorriod as friends. Lord Ourzon expressed tho hope that the Persian government and parliament would ratify iho Anglo-Persian agreement and that ihis would assure tho integrity and indewendenco of that country. Ho advocated setting up an Arab form of the administration in Mesopotamia and said Sir Percy Cox bad gone out to assist in carrving on that

worV. He hoped for some form of! Arabian unity which would gratify1' the ambitions of the ArSibs. i In Afghanistan there was serious j

trouble and commotion. The Secretary said he knew of no country in Central Asia, where the bolsheviki had greater hopes of causing trouble for Great Britain, yet he regarded tho interests of Afghanistan as identical with those of Britain. AX. might take years before the commotion in Asia subsided and no one should suppose that the work of Englishmen in those countries was over.

MARSHALL IS

(Continued from Page OneJ about him wise mea who will decide what his policy 1b to be. But you don't know if the wise men will be friends of the league or men who, want to scrap It. You don't believe that the nations of Eurone are going to

throw the league of nations in thej

dump heap for something that Harding is going to offer to them. Defines Doctrine. After defining the Monroe Doctrine.

Vice Prestdent Marshall, continued: "For a hundred years you have beea. living under Article 10 of the league of nations, in the form of the Monroe doctrine, which has guaranteed the peace of Central and South America against external agression. Now the Republicans trying to Bcare you by saying that your boys will have to go to

Europe to protect foreign countries. ''We must make a peace, not with Germany alone, but with the world, in order to avoid future wars." Then the Vice-President spoke humorously of what people say they would or would not have done had they been in the shoes of the President when the covenant of the league was framed. "Now," he continued, it' is impossible for any one to say what they would have -done If they were in another's place. I don't think that I would have ehten the apple at he Garden of Eden. But I don't know. I never saw Eve. I may have eaten two. Explains League. "The strong thing about the league of nations Is the Monroe doctrine. It is the knowledge that if men try to

X ring on another war they will be In danger. You need not tell me that the men that framed the covenant did it with the purpose of trampling on the grief stricken hearta of the mothers of the world. The old book of man is closed and the new book of duty, man to man. Is open. "My countrymen, I will keep on trying to persuade my country to its duty. To join the vanguard of nations that have signed the League Covenant, and to realize the millennium which has been promised us for a thousand years." Mrs. Morrison pleaded for the adoption of the league of nations, and denounced Republican leaders. "If you vote for Harding, you will

be perpetuating the most wicked oligarchy which has ever sat ; in the Senate," declared Mrs. Morrison. "It Is up to you people in Indiana to retire James Watson from the. senate. If you do that, you will break the backbone of the irreconcllables. -Headrick Speaks.

"No bandit nation such as Germany would have ravaged Belgium if she believed such countries as America and England would enter the conflict. The protection thus afforded by the force of the nations backing the League would have made it impracticable to violate a smaller country." W. D. Headrick. asked support of the league and praised Dr. McCulloch,

uemoratic nominee lor governor or

this state. -

a party of workmen watiing to board

a strrrt car. W. N. Armstrong, a machinist, was seriously injured. The automobiie kept up speed and disappeared. COLUMBUS Harry L. Davis. Republican nominee for the governorship of Ohio, issued -a statement saying that he was being subjected to personal attacks, but said that he was eatisfid to bear the brunt of the drive. BUCYRUS Mips Helen Statler. of uppor Sandusky, was chosen president of the girls' conference of the Ohio Young People's Sunday School conference, at. a meeting here. The boys elected Floyd McGuire, of Crooksviile HAMILTON A picture of James M. Cox in the window of the home of

Mrs. Frances Marshall, raised the : wralh of nor neighbor, Mrs. Maggie Daniels,-who later attacked Mrs. Marshall when the latter was washing, j The attack followed an -order from j Mrs. McDaniels to remove the picture, "or take the consequences." Mrs. Mc Daniels will be arraigned char ged with i disorderly conduct.

the employes of the postoffice receiv

ed their training under his tutelage, no detail being too insignificant for his careful attention, and he is remetnbered gratefully for this fact. An active Mason.he filled the position of Past Master of the Richmond

LIVESTOCK ECPORT IN CANADA IS INCREASING (By Associated Press) OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 30. Canada's export livestock trade has shown remarkable development in ihe last few years, according to government statistics. Live cattle exported last year exceeded 500,000 and were valued at $50,000,000, a sum equal to the combined values of live cattle exported in the five previous years. More than 90 per cent of the exported cattle went- to the United States, either as butcher cattle or stockers Rnd feeders. During the same period, Canada exported 112,709,517 pounds of rfesh and pickled beef valued at $20,937,848. The total value of cattle export, exclusive of canned meats, exceeded $70,000,000.

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