Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 38, 23 December 1920 — Page 8

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THE BICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1920.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening N Except Sunday by V Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building, North Ninth and Sailor Street. Entered at the Post Office at Richmond, Indiana, ai Second-Class Mall Matter. - MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED FIlfSMS Tha Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the rw tor republication of all news dUpatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local

bws puDiisnea nerein. All rig-nta or republication ox clal dispatches herein are also reserved.

The New Duties for the Vice-President The administration of our governmental af

fairs, should benefit by the decision of President

elect Harding to enlist the services of the new vice-president. - Mr. Coolidge brings to his new tasks wide experience in legislative and executive capacities, and it would be a shame to permit this ability to lie dormant. If President-elect Harding carries out his determination to make the vice-presidency a vital factor in national affairs, the post will hereafter be sought by men of ability and acumen. . No one questions the ripe wisdom and executive judgment of Mr. Coolidge, for as governor of Massachusetts he demonstrated both his knowledge of the basic principles of our government and his ability as a forward-looking executive. Senator Harding has evidenced an unmistakable tendency to recognize the value of co-operation in administering public affairs, for the purpose of attaining results, and he will make the most of he presence of Mr. Coolidge and of the experience which he has gained in the years xof his public service. Christmas Fire Hazards The joy of Christmas day will not be im

paired by applying ordinary precautions in decorating the tree and the home. Thousands of homes had been laid in ashes, and what is of infinitely more importance, thousands of men,

women and children have been burned to death or seriously injured by fires that could have been prevented. Tragedies on Christmas day may be prevented by the use of common sense. A fire prevention society, through its secretary, has prepared the following statement, which all of us should read and take to heart:

"Christmas and its joys should not be allowed to blind men to the ordinary rules of safety for

the protection of the home and the lives of the

family. And yet at holiday time parents who

try to keep their children free from even the possibility of danger will install in the heart of their homes, where it is sure to be the center of

attraction for the little ones, the most inflam

mable thing that ever enters it the ordinary evergreen Christmas tree. While it grows more

dry and dangerous in the warm rooms they drape it with cotton for snow, tissue paper loops and tinsel for decorations, stick candles all over it, hang up. toys that every child will grab for, and

then trust to luck and Providence for safety

from a hazard that may prove as dangerous and as deadly as a rattlesnake or an open keg of gunpowder. Just to play fair and take his share of the chances pater familias often surrounds himself with pillows, puts on cotton hair and whiskers and makes himself more of a menace, than a help in case a fire should start. "And fires do start, thousands of them every holiday season. Firemen look forward to a run of Christmas tree fires just as they did to Fourth of July fires before the Sane' Fourth movement put an end to them in many places. Why not a Sane Christmas as well as a Sane Fourth? Why should the children's festival be made the means of destroying hundreds of lives and thousands of homes? Use little electric lights instead of candles asbestos instead of cotton, non-combustible decorations instead of inflammables, and then watch the tree with the utmost care, especially when the children are around it. It's better to be safe than sorry, especially with the little ones at Christmas time."

Rippling Rhymes By WALT WASON

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USELESS REGRETS , I'm old and badly on the blink; I have no brains with which to think, no teeth with which to eat; my head is bald, my ears are blind, and rheumatiz, thb compound kind, is sizzling In my feet. I often gnash my toothless jaws, and wring my hands, with ample cause, regretting past mistakes; I onco was quite a husky lad, who didn't need a liver pad. and knew no pains or aches. I didn't guard my precious health, which was a better thing than wealth, a better thing than fame; I jogged along with heedless fools and

violated all the rules, and now I m stiff and lame. I trace each ailment to its source, to conduct foolish, vain and coarse, in days when I was young; because of breaks made long ago I now have corns on every toe, a spavin on each lung. I see the young folks go their way; and turn the night time into day, where sports chase by in streams; they paint the town three shades of red when they should Bafey be in bed, and dreaming moral dreams. And when they're old they'll ray the bill; they'll look back from life's western hill, regretting conduct rong; and there wou'd be no bills to pay had they but walked the narrow way when they were young and strong.

how you put various valuea together. But to plod and plod, with no care for the selection of those values which have so much to do with the development of a rounded character, Is to darken your heart, as a home is put into shadow when the curtains are drawn. Plodding ever no time! And after Just a little while, there is no time for life has passed along for you. Take time for helping and loving. Be thrilled at the wag of a little dog's tail and glorified In spirit at the smile of a baby. For the only things we are permitted to take with us into the Beyond are those which we have hung up in our hearts here and now.

Good Evening By Roy K. Moulton

Today's Talk J By George Matthew Adams

i Some folks seem never to have time except for the thing which they do. As though to hoe beans, or run errands, or sit at a desk and figure out the increase on a dollar, was more important than to stop and talk to a human being full of life and zest. Why Is it good merely to keep plodding ever? There in nothing in this wonderful world so stimulating, so thoroughly heart warming, as to own a friend and keep step, in fact and spirit, with all that he offers of human ' companionship. " I have one or two friends who give me unusual thrills of pleasure. For they are uot always plotting ever. Tbis is the way it comes about with one of them. I call him on the phone: "Hello! That you. Bill? Engagement for lunch today?" . "Yes!" "With whom?" I ask (as though my presumption had no qualms!) "With YOU," my friend replies. Aud thus we touch the happy shorts of contentment and sit there while the waves keep the sand white and talk! The horizons of us all are hung with values some big. some little some so small that they are completely lost except when you get right up to them. And it all depends upon which values you choose to make your own, as to how great and useful you become. . . And then, too, much depends upon

"Another Drop in Meat Prices." Headline. But there's not another drop in the cellar. Some people are greatly worried over the question as to whether Mr. Harding will revive the Inaugural ball. Among those most worried are the dressmakers. Glancing about here and there In public places, and seeing the statues,

we are of the opinion that the tailors in the olden days spent most of their time in the ginmills. "He left his mother, with whom he had been dinning in the restaurant." Evemail. We had always supposed that nobody did any dinning in a restaurant except members of the orchestra. It is a question among his admirers whether Al Smith is out of politics or the politics out of him. We are in-, clined to guess that neither bet is correct. That German music sounds just the same as it did before the war. we arc now more firmly convinced than ever that it was what caused the trouble In the first place. Richmond Pearson Hobson is still around lecturing in behalf of prohibition. Some people are never satisfied. A Topeka man says: "If there Isn't any-hell, then, where has business gone?" . If the Greeks want Constantine, let 'em have him. They are welcome. Take not the sun out of Sunday. And save all the mon In Monday.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

v ' Richmond increased its population 4,098 between 1900 and 1910. The 1900 census was 18,226, while the 1910 population totalled 22,324. This was an increase of nearly 23 per cent. On the eve of the Civil war, Richmond had a population of 6,603, which was greatly decreased by the call to arms. A heavy head of hair probably saved the life of Ira May, of Indianapolis, a foreman employed at the new Second National bank building, when a large wooden black fell from the top story, adistance of at least 50 feet, and struck him on the crown of the head, knocking him flat. Although dazed as a result of the accident, the man did not suffer any serious injury, so far as the physician could ascertain.

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Answers to Questions " ........

Boy Reader Where did the saying

"Gone to Davy Jones's locker" orig

inate? "He's gone to Davy Jozies' locker," that is, he is dead, has come

down to as from the sea. Smollett

eays of this adage In his "Peregrine

Pickle"; "This same Davy Jones, ac

cording to the mythology of sailors, is the 'fiend that presides over all the spirits of evil in the deep, and is seen

in various shapes , warning

the devoted wretch of death." It is also claimed that Jones is a corruption" of Jonah, the prophet who was thrown tnto the eea "Locker" in tailor's phrase, means any receptacle

for private stores: and "duffy" is the

name for ghost or spirit among the

west Indian negroes. So it is "aid

that" the whole phrase means: "He's gone to the place of safekeeping,

where duffy Jonah was sent.". 1

Information I have several spots of

ink on a white frock which I would

rvery much like to remove. Do you

know of anything that will take them away? A remedy for such accidents

as the overturning of ink bottles or

tpilllng of ink, which is well spoken

of, is to take up all the ink you can with blotting paper or waste cloth.

Then dampen the place well vwith water and eover with common baking soda. Let it stand for two or three hours, wipe off and yon will find all traces of the ink gone. Readera Bar obtain hiwm aeatloaa by wrftlaa; the Palladium Qneattoaa aa0 Aaawera deaarlneat. All questions aboald ba written plainly and briefly. Aaawera will be alvea, briefly.

Correct English

Do not say it this way: He went IN the house. The estate was divided AMONO his two sons. The estate was divided BETWEEN his three sons. I didn't know BUT WHAT she might have heard it. I have nothing BUT THAT you gave me. Say it this way: He went INTO the house. The estate was divided BETWEEN his two sons. The estate was divided AMONG his three sons. I didn't know BUT THAT she might have heard it. I have nothing BUT WHAT you gave me. (WHAT is equivalent to THAT WHICH.)

Dinner Stories

The foot of a well proportioned woman is normally one-fourteenth of her height.

RECOMMENDED TO SCHOOL CHItnREV This Is the season when children are subject to croup, colds and coughs. Rena C. Marchard, 36 Lawrence St., Salem, Mass., writes: "I used Foley's Honey and Tar with good results. I had a very bad cold and it gave me relief at once, so I recommended It to every child that goes to school." This standard, low priced medicine loosens and clears mucus and phlegm, checks stransling coughing. makes easy breathing, soothes and heals raw. Inflamed membranes, and stops tickling in throat. ,X G. Luken & Co., 626-628 Main. Advertisement.

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A certain youthful billiard marker was recently informed by his employer that he would have to be more careful in the matter of chalk. "Can't help it, sir." replied the marker. "I know the gents wot pockets the chalk; but they're regular customers, and you wouldn't like me to offend them, would you, sir?" "Well, no", was the reply. "But you

could give them a gentle hint, you

know." The marker promised to do so and a day or two later on, observing a

player pocketing a piece of chalk, he approached the culprit and remarked:

You'll excuse me, sir, but are you

connected in any way with the milk trade?" "Well, yes," was the reply. "Wffat of it?" "I thought so," rejoined the marker, "by the amount of chalk you carry

away. My governor likes enterprise and he told me to give you a hint that if yon wanted a bucket of water now and again you could have one with Pleasure!." v , v Representative Sumner of Texas, seldom tells an old story. So when, recently, he told an exceedingly antiquated yarn, several friends who were with him were greatly surprised. One man , in the crowd, however, laughed uproariously at the old story. After the crowd has dispersed one ot Sumner's friends asked him why it was that he spun such an archaic tale. -. "I knew there was a fellow In that crowd who wanted a Job," Sumner explained, "and I could not exactly determine which one It was. Now 1 know. . It was the man who laughed.

I News of the Counties

GRATIS, O. Pupils of the school here have organized a school orchestra of 15 members. Those taking part are; Leona Houser, Verhl Zeck. Fay and Vesta Apple, Ralph Brown, Lloyd Coleman, Clark Gilmore, Robert Kline. Alice Swisher, Richard Brown, Myron Kimmel, Lloyd Lane, John Keller, O. Zimmerman, and Gladys Kline.

GREENSFORK, Ind. Mrs. Russell Grubbs and Mrs. Ed Allen attended church at Salem, Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Raymond McMullen. and Mrs. R. B. Bond spent Tuesday in Richmond.

Mr. Strode and Edgar Harlan, of

-...Elmer Stapleton, of Hollansburg. is installing wiring in the elevator at this place at this writing. LIBERTY Mr. and Mrs. Honaee LaMar and Mrs. Fred. Brookbank attended the Farmers institute which was held jointly by Liberty and Harmony townships St the Dunlapsvnie cimrch Tuesday and was featured by a larger crowd and better interest than ever before. Two speakers sent by Purdue university were present at the institute. They were M. F. Detrick who spoke in the forenoon on The Selection of seed corn for cheap grains" and Mrs. Morton Fordyke, who gave an interesting addres In the afternoon on "How to keep well and Active." County Agent Foster Campbell also gave some short talks. The following officers were elected for the coming year: President. Horace LaMar; vice chairman, D. B. Nlckles; secretary, Laura Hnsted. .x ECONOMY, Ind. Twenty-one persons in this community have signed their names to a petition for a session of the Fred V. Boardman Chautauqua next year. Dr. Roller hopes to obtain more signatures. It Is believed that the entertainment will be popular here. Miss Bessie Albertson, daughter of Mrs. L. Albertson has accepted a position as private secretary to the president of the New York Chautauqua association.

SEND SEEDS OF TREES FOR GIFT TO EUROPE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. A Christ-

cVnnerkvinerpent SaTurdlynigM ! ma ? "

witn Mr. and Mrs. Ed Allen Mrs

Mary Roller was In Richmond. Monday..,.. Mr. and Mrs. Lute Atkinson, left Wednesday for Virginia, where they will visit relatives Dixon township, Ohio, will play basketball here Saturday evening. CLARKS STATION, O. Col. BrinIey sold a number of hogs to Albert Harter, of New Madison last Friday. .... Mr. and Mrs. Carl Roes, of Greenville, spent Sunday with William Wilt and family. Ed Jefferis. of Greenville, was in this vicinity on business Friday..... William Wilt served on the petit Jury of Darke County three days last week The Clark Thresher Company husked corn for B. F. Lucas last Monday Ed Downing and Chalmer Riegle were in Greenville, Tuesday afternoon on business.

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Extra Fine Baking for Christmas TJOW excited the kiddies are with thoughts of Christmas toys and good things to eat! They expect a great treats and of course you can't disappoint them. Enterprise Flour, with its high quality will help you produce the fine baking you count on. It is milled by a special alow process from the choicest hard winter wheat. Such grain is high priced this year because it is very scarce only four per cent of the entire crop. Consequently Enterprise costs more than ordinary flour, milled from ordinary wheat. Yet Enterprise is more than worth the difference. A sack will go further. And think of the better bakingl ValierS IMerotise Flour

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to be used in reforesting the war devastated areas of France and Belgium and also certain sections of Great

Britain was shipped to those-countries today through their embassies here by the American Forestry association. The seed were of the Douglas fir collected from the west coast, a species which grows rapidly, It was said and in much demand by foresters.

FAIRVIEV THRESHERS DECUIU;. DIVIDEND HOLLANSBURG. O, Dec 23.

Stockholders of the B'alrvlew Threshers Union, south of ilollansburg, met Tuesday evening at the residence of A mo Hollinger, dec! bred a dividend of 10 per cent for the shredding season and wound up tjas evening with an oyster stew. - This union is eomroiwd of eleven farmers south of HcUinsburg, who last summer purchased a complete threshing outfit and will henceforth handle their harvests w ithout calling upon custom threshers. , N. E. Davis is president of the organ Ration. OPEN-AIR SCI POOLS. (By Associated - .Press) CLEVELAND. O.. I fee. 23.Seven of Cleveland's public . schools have been converted into o;n-alr schools, given solely over to the teaching of children who have sh rn tubercular tendencies. The stnd eits eat their meals at the schools, a s d all are specially prepared under tjie supervision of dieticians. Heavy 'woolen skirts, warm over-trousers. v. ol-llned boots and capes with hoods, , Is the regular garb of the children.

STUFFED UJ HEAD TRY THIS: Dissolve teaspoonful each of Brazilian Balm . and salt in cup warm water; snuff Bime of this up nose night and moaning or when needed. Few doses Babyi internally will help. Often acts as a isold preventive. advertisement. " 1

Get Your Kiddles Babble Books at WEISBROD'S Tonight or Tomorrow

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Holly

Wreaths

Evergreen Wreaths Cot Flowers and Blooming Plants. Our display ot plant basket arrangements will be unsurpassed. Corsages at moderate prices. The Wayne Flower

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Large Stock of Candies at Wholesale Prices Old Reliable Paint Co,

10-12 South 7th St.

We wish all our Friends and Patrons) a Meny Christmas and a Happy New; Year Richmond Tire Service

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CLEAN UP S4XE For Last-Day Shoppers ft

Candy, 20 c Per Lb. We have only a limited amount left and want none left -over, so buy early while assortment is best. PEANUTSA fresh roast every 20 minutes. 15c lb. or 3 lbs. 40c

1032 Main TRACY'S $26 Mam

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