Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 29, 13 December 1920 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, DEC. 13 1920.

BUSINESS AS USUAL FARMERS CHALLENGE IN KANSAS, MOHLER . k - (By Aeclatcd Prees) TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 13. Midwest ! farmers ' are - challenging American business to "Do Business aa Usual" and to bring about an immediate readjustment of all prices, declared J. C. ' Mohler, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture in a statement Issued today. - "Figured on tho basis of,readjustment in the prices of farm crops from the wartime levels, said Mr..Mohler, "Midwest farmers have a purchasing power of more than two billion dollars represented by wheat, corn, oats, rye and potatoes of 1920 production. This does not take into consideration two billion dollars worth of livestock which probably will be marketed before March 1. tv Crops Bringing Cash. "The "valuation is based on current market prices of all commodities between i October 30 and November 30 and - the figures on production are taken from the Monthly Crop Reporter, 1920. They are official. The crops have not all been marketing but they are going to' market and the cash is going to the farm every day. "These figures are taken from sixteen Mid-Western states of the great grain belt, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana. Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Wheat at $1.55 a bushel, the average of the market price November 29, 1920, $1 less than it sold for last summer, has a total value of $509,567,150. Corn, which has shrunk in price from $1.50 to 35c, the average country price November 30, still has a total value of $772,996,000. Oats at 47 cents a bushel, the United States average farm price October 30, are worth $525,193,930; rye at $1.45 a bushel, the average U. S. farm price October 30 are worth $32,080,690 and potatoes at $1.06 a bushel the U. S. average farm price October 30, are worth $164,616,280. . The total valuation is $2,044,545.050. That total is deflated. It would have been more than twice that large six months ago. Readjustment has taken place so far as farm crops are concerned. Farmers Will Not Strike. "The farmers haven't struck. They are not going to strike. They're going ahead. They know that as a general thing more is not acquired through producing less. The food factories of America are not being closed nor are they curtailing their working foreses. "Prices of farm products have fallen. The farmer has taken his loss. He's Folvent, still has a reserve, and he's . ready to recoup by getting to work on a new basis. He's sane and he's determined to get ahead. "Today the American farmer, exponent of bold, fearless action in the face of uncertainty, is challenging business to "do business as usual."

Greens fork, Ind. GREENSFORK, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. John Mvers of Centerville, spent FriCicero Veal and family. . .Hobert Durbin moved from the Omer Oler farm day with Mr. and Mrs. Marion Myers. ....Mrs. Mary Brown called on Mrs. Charles Crump Thursday afternoon... ..Robert Myers broke his right arm while cranking a machine. Wednesday. Ruby Stanton spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Emma Davis Vinton Wilson's son has pneumonia Miss Maria Underbill will leave soon for Florida, where she will spend tho winter Mrs. Morris Harrison of Hagerstown, and Freda Benbow took dinner Friday with Mrs. Elvin Benson. ......The third number of the Lyceum I course was given at the M. E. church r Friday evening, and was well attended. The last number will be Jan. 4. I Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Baldwin of t Webster, called an Mr. and Mrs. Ed i Stanton and family . Friday afternoon. . . . .Profesor Palmer spent Thursday ; evening with Thomas Steers.

t Economy, Ind. i ECONOMY, Ind. Mr. ana" Mrs. Albert Atkinson and children, Mr. and ZMn. D. W. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Omor Olcr and Mr. and Mrs. Frank 'J Harris, of Richmond, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Harris, near Williamsburg Mrs. ;John Britton, of Peru, is the guest of ;Mr. and Mrs. Harry Downing Mrs. Carl Lundy was taken to Richmond

rnursaay morning to ueia nospitai, "where sue was operated on for appendicitis at once. Sho Is in a critical condition Mr. and Mrs. Enos Veal are expectiag to leave about the 20th ;inst. for Freeport, Long Island, to spend the holidays with their son, Jto the David Jordan farm this week. ....Several members of the Friends cjiurch atended the funeral of Mist; -Edaa .Tow nsend at Centerville Thursday morning.. .Mrs?. Claude Swaim was ?in Richmond Friday Harry Montgomery of Newcastle spent a short "time with his brother, Charles Mont--gomery. recently U. G. Manning was at Indianapolis this week to see -his hogs sold Mrs. Francis Wilson, -of Cincinnati, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Hariris, Clarence Bafnhart and family, Ellis White and family and Myrl Heavenridge spent Tuesday evening at the Jiome of Charles Philpott, it being tho flatter's birthday Mrs. Will Shriver "and niece, Leona Shriver. were shopping in Cincinnati Saturday Mr. 'and Mrs. Will Laird spent Sunday evetningat the home of Lorimer Charles. '....Several from near here attended ;the funeral of Margaret Lemon at 'Morning Sun, Friday afternoon.. .Mr. ;and Mrs. Will Cline were in Richmond Wednesday Mrs. Will Cline. Mrs. PUis White and Mrs. Frieda Kareth assisted Mrs.: Nellie Davis in cooking Jor shredders-Monday Miss Marsha McQuiston spent Monday night ytt the home of James Orr Several ran embers of the Camden Grange attended the Grange meeting here Friday evening. .... Mrs. Ed Wilson returned to her home in Cincinnati Wednesday,. .The reviyal meetings at the Ml E. church closed Wednesday evening.:.

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similar to legitimate business hava been uncovered recently. Guided by a leader the men in these rings work in groups. One group steals the machines, a second group disguises the stolen

ears and a third i$rocp disposes of the altered machines. When locks prevent the crooks frm starting the chosen car the thieves are bold enough to tow the ear away with another car.

MOUNTAINERS MEN OF HONOR GROWN 0L0 BEFORE THEIR TIME (Vonnie May Griffith, in St. Louis ' Post-Dispatch) There are at least two types of the men who are born and live their whole lives in the mountains, after the manner of their forefathers. In one type the men are tall and raw-boned, with boy-like symmetrical legs, evolved for the climbing of steep acclivities. Most of these men are all muscle, without an ounce of fat, for they are trained down by climbing where only a man can climb, and where the pack mule is unknown. But now and then you will run

across a cousin to Fatty Arbuckle in ; the "settlements" a man too stout and lazy to climb the nearest ridge, or descend to a spring of ice cold water in a "holler," although he is the direct descendant of mountaineers and has lived all his life in a mountain "settlement." Both kinds of mountaineers retain the quaint Scotch accent; and, above all. both are deeply religious, in spite of moonshine stills, feuds and bloodshed. They grow toothless and old and wrinkled 'long before the allotted three-score-and-ten, for the mountaineer has not yet learned to live in a way that would conserve his youth. He is conspicuously a man of honor and also a man of clean mind. 1 Innocent Men. "They are the most innocent men I ever met,"' declared a nurse who has grown white-haired in her profession, and who, for a number of years, has had charge of a hospital in a mountain school. "They remind me of children who have not learned the meaninig of shame; they ignore the bathrobes I place at the foot of their beds and go about as unconcerned as infants, until I am compelled to remind them of the usefulness of bathrobes in the sickroom. They have clean traits of character which other boys seem to loose as they grow to manhood." I It seemed to me that every man in the south chewed tobacco, from Kentucky to Key West; the well-dressed, educated business man as well, as the laborer, negro and beggar, though the business man did his expectoration I on the sly. The women of the "mount- j lngs" and "settlements" dip snuff,! chew and smoke. A Tennessee moun- i tain girl asked : "Do you smoke or

chew?" and when I answered with a smile and a shake of the head, exclaimed: "Why everybody does h'ar."

I came to believe, before I returned to St. Louis, that she told the truth. There are two things a mountaineer will not forget or forgive. One is a wrong done to his women folks. The other is the betrayal of the secret

hiding place of his moonshine still to j a "rivinue," by any one in whom hej has placed faith. And I found this prediction, made by one who knows i

the mountains, to be exactly true: "You need have no fear of being treated as other than a lady by any mountaineer."

WANDERING JEW IS STORY OF OLD ORIGIN

(Philadelphia Ledger.) The Wandering Jew is not mentioned in the Bible. He is "merely the principal character in a story, like Rip Van Winkle. The story is certainly of very ancient origin.. In its most commonly accepted form, it is that Jesus, weary of carrying the cross, sought to rest for a moment on the doorstep of a shoemaker named Ahasuerus. who told him to "get on, and be quick about it" , To which the Saviour replied: "I shall soon be at rest, but you will wander until I come again." Ever since then Ahasuerus has been doomed to wander over the earth; and, strange to say, he seems

to have turned up now and again, at

long intervals of time.

Dr. Paul van Eitzen, bishop of Schlesewig, met and talked with him in the year 1547. He told his story to the bishop, who described him as

very tall, barefoot, with an astonish

ingly long beard, and hair hanging

over his shoulders.

He was seen in 1575 in Madrid and again in Paris in 1604. In 1640 he turned up in Brussels an aged and

tattered man. who accepted food, but

refused to sit down and eat and in

Leipzig two years later.

The description of his appearance

is invariably the same. He tells his

story to somebody, passes on and dis appears.

The last occasion on which he was

seen was in England, nearly two cen

turies ago. Many people talked with

him, and he gave an account of the

crucifixion, speaking as an eyewitness.

He told anecdotes of the apostles.

some of whom be professed to have

personally Known. He spoke many languages, with all of which hm nam

ed equally familiar. Then, suddenly.

ne vanished, and nothtnar mora wax

heard of him.

Mrs. Carl lundy Buried at Williamsburg, Sunday WILLIAMSBURG, Ind.. Dec. 13. Funeral services for Mrs. Carl Lundy. a former resident of this place, were held here Sunday afternoon. Rev. Cloyd of the Friends church officiated. The funeral was largely attended. Mrs. Lundy had of late been a resident of Economy. Beside her husband, Mrs. Lundy is survived by a son. Jamee; a daughter., Helen; an aged father, and a number of other relatives. GERMAN SYNDICATE " PROPOSES FACTORIES

RIO DE J ANELRO, Dec. 13. A Ger

man syndicate has made a proposal to the Brazilian government to establish factories in the state of Mlnas Geraes for making automobiles, -balloons and agricultural implements, according to a cablegram to the foreign office from the Brazilian consul in Berlin. Special concessions in duties and freight rates are requested of the Brazilian government. Brazil's action on the proposal has not been made public.

INTERNATIONAL TRAIN

SERVICE IS DELAYED

SANTIAGO, Chile. Dec. 13 Diversity in railway gauges in use in the southern republics of South America is one of the. difficulties facing railway officials In this continent who are trying to facilitate international train service. In the Argentine the gauge

mainly In use is 1,435 meters; in Bra

zil a meter and in this country, 1.68. Travelers from Argentina to Chile must change trains at Mendoza, Ar

gentina, where the wide gauge ends and a meter gauge crosses the Andes

to the Chilean town of Las Andes

Here another change must be made

since virtually all the Chilean state

lines, including the Longitudinal rail

way of 1,620 miles are 1.68 gauge. If.

however, the traveler's destination is

northern Chile, be proceeds to Valpa

raiso on a wide gauge then changes

again to a meter line. If he wishes

to visit copper mines in this vicinity

he must also change at Santiago or

Rancagua.

A traveler may proceed by rail from

Buenos Aires to Bolivia but he must

change trains in Tucuman Argentina,

where the wide gauge ends. He then rides over a narrow gauge state line

to the frontier. A similar diversity

In gadges exists In connections from the River Plate countries to Brazil.

The next -time you prepare to kiss f)

a baby, why not interview the baby

as to whether he likes to be kissed?

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r INVITE ITALIAN KING ROME, Dec. 13 The King of Italy Jtias been invited to go to England next May on the occasion of the celebration of the sixth Dante centenary. A decision has not yt been taken as to whether the king or crown prince will

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UNPLEASANT JOURNEY FOR BELGIAN RULER

(By Associated Press) SALAMANCA. Spain. Dec. 13. King Albert of the Belgians had an unpleasant journey through Portugal and Spain on his return trip from Brazil. The Portuguese government placed the former royal railroad car, now allocated to the president of the republic, at his disposal. When all was ready for the start from Lisbon some one discovered that all the telegraph wires along the track to be followed to the frontier had been cut, so it was impossible to signal. A provisional system was organized and the royal passenger was sent on his way. Further inconveniences then made their appearance. The dining-car had been placed at the head of the train and all the odors from the kitchen were forcibly wafted into the king's salon. A halt was called and the dining-car shifted to the rear. After dinner, when his majesty prepared to retire, it was discovered that there was no heating apparatus on the train and, as the weather in the mountainous district was cold and the king had Just come from a hot climate, all the spare blankets on the train were requisitioned to keep his majesty warm rlnrinp'.thpjtight, . ...

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